The Virgin London Marathon, one of the largest running events in the world, will see runners race toward the finish line on Sunday 22 April. First held in 1981, the London Marathon has quickly grown into an international event on par with other major marathons like Boston, New York, Chicago, and Berlin. The course, which spans 42.195 kilometers, takes runners through iconic British landmarks like Old Royal Naval College, Tower Bridge, and St Paul's Cathedral and is relatively flat and fast. The 32nd annual Virgin London Marathon is expected to attract over 46,000 ...

Joyce Contract Interiors is honored to have once again been named one of Open Plan Systems/HMU's top 10 dealers in the country. This is the 4th year in a row that Joyce Contract Interiors has achieved Gold Dealer status. "Gold Dealer status means we are one of the largest sales volume dealers in the country. This achievement gives us a larger discount, which we pass on to our clients," said Dan Joyce, the Founder of Joyce Contract Interiors. Open Plan Systems is one of the top lines of state-of-the-art remanufactured office furniture products, blending ...

From book marketing to business publicity to personal branding, you choice in hiring a PR firm can make a big difference. How can you spot a great publicity agency to bring you to your next level of success? Annie Jennings PR, NYC Public Relations Agency Says "Know Your Publicity Strategy: National publicity expert, Annie Jennings, of the National PR firm, Annie Jennings PR says "the first thing to do is to identify your goals. Know your publicity strategy. This will help you match your goals to the PR firm's strength and history of media placement success." ...

The key to a business' productivity is in the way that it uses the human resources that are available to it. Focusing on core activities that employ people's skills has become much more important as many businesses have to justify the money that they spend on every aspect of their operation and so a cost effective, labour saving alternative to the customer's first point of contact with a business that actually works can make a real difference to the profitability of even the biggest companies. Using an intelligent virtual agent to deal with these initial contacts by clients ...

Every bride is looking for that individual stylish look that reflects her own personality and yet remains fashionable. They take inspiration from fashion shows and magazines and particularly from celebrities and royalty. Bridal jewellery is chosen to complement the dress and thus depends very much on the style of dress to be worn. Many brides will opt for a wedding dress cut in traditional lines but the classic silhouette is likely to be softened by delicate jewellery pieces such finely worked fretwork chandelier earrings while vintage style brooches, worn to accent ...

Mr. Davi brings with him an outstanding range of waste industry expertise and knowledge to complement his senior executive sales and management experience. Prior to joining DRM Waste Management, Davi was Vice President of National Programs for Miner Fleet Management. He also served as Vice President of National Sales for Oakleaf Waste Management, and previously was the Western Area Team Leader for National Sales at Allied Waste Industries. Mr. Davi received his undergraduate degree from California State University, Sacramento. "Joining DRM Waste Management represents ...

Milton Collier the President of TranZcenter, LLC Leading the Way in Hiring Drivers.. The Transportation Industry has more freight than trucks! Professional truck drivers drove over 400 billion miles in 2005, a 146 percent increase in 25 years. In 2006, the trucking industry hauled 10.7 billion tons of freight, or 69 percent of total U.S. freight tonnage. In contrast, rail was the next busiest mode, moving 13.3 percent of the nation's freight tonnage. According to Mr. Milton Collier, a shortage of professional truck drivers exists in some segments of the trucking ...

Circle Line Poker launches on the Everleaf Gaming Network and intends to be the friendliest online poker room for European poker players. "Everyone at Circle Line Poker is really enthusiastic about the launch," says Michelle McKay, Manager of Circle Line Poker, "We aim to make it a great place for fun poker action and have exciting plans in the pipeline." Circle Line Poker invites players to celebrate the launch by participating in the Grand Opening EUR5,000 Freeroll on Saturday March 31st at 8pm BST (3pm ET). Other Grand Opening Poker Events ...

Bournemouth's Pavilion Theatre is set to provide the venue for a spectacular live show by legendary entertainer Sir Bruce Forsyth in April 2012.   The veteran TV presenter and beloved national icon will return to the stage for the first time in more than a decade and treat the crowd in Bournemouth to a unique blend of comedy and music on April 26th.   Sir Bruce has been working in showbusiness for more than 70 years and is a Saturday night institution for millions of Brits, thanks to hugely popular shows such as The Generation Game, The Price is Right and latterly Strictly ...

York's Fibbers concert venue will play host to a show by The Sunshine Underground as part of the band's latest UK tour next month.   The Leeds-based indie rock act will perform on April 21st 2012 at 19:30 BST, with tickets available online for GBP11.   Named after a song by The Chemical Brothers, the band was formed after its members met at university and released their debut album Raise the Alarm in 2006.   They have gained a loyal following over the years thanks to singles such as Put You in Your Place, Commercial Breakdown, We've Always Been Your Friends and Spell ...

London's Tate Modern is set to play host to the first substantial survey of the works of iconic and controversial artist Damien Hirst, commencing in April 2012.   Running from April 4th to September 9th as part of the London 2012 Festival, the exhibition will bring together more than 70 of the artist's works, offering a comprehensive review of Hirst's two-decade career.   The Bristol native came to prominence in 1988 and gained fame for pieces such as The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living - which depicts a shark suspended in formaldehyde ...

It's only two months away! Sponsors and exhibitors are gearing up to meet one-on-one with thousands of Long Island business leaders during the region's largest one-day Business to Business Trade Show. And it's not too late to join them. HIA-LI, the recognized voice for business on Long Island, will hold its 24th Annual Business Trade Show & Conference on Thursday, May 24 from 9 AM to 4 PM, at the Suffolk County Community College Sports & Exhibition Complex, Brentwood Campus. The event is hosted by HIA-LI in partnership with the Long Island Forum for Technology (LIFT) ...

Heirloom Fund Management Ltd., manager of the Heirloom Caribbean Real Estate Fund (HCREF), is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement to acquire the property known as High Hope Wiltshire in Montego Bay, Jamaica. Located only 6 miles from Montego Bay and sitting at 1,200 feet above sea level on 87 acres, the property offers spectacular views of the city and bay. The objective of this investment is to refurbish and re-open the property as a boutique hotel and spa. Approximately 50 acres of the property will be sub-divided into a gated community with ...

Researchers at UCLA and New York University have developed a method to detect sequence differences in individual DNA molecules by taking nanoscopic pictures of the molecules themselves. The work is reported in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface. Using the approach they call "Direct Molecular Recognition," the UCLA and NYU researchers used nanoparticles to turn the DNA molecules into a form of molecular braille that can be read in the scale of nanometers, or one billionth of a meter, using high-speed Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM). The leaders of the study ...

Mount Sinai School of Medicine researchers presented 86 abstracts and plenary sessions at the American College of Cardiology's (ACC) 61st Annual Scientific Session, including ground-breaking research on aggressive statin therapy, the prevalence of unrecognized cardiovascular disease symptoms in women, and morbidity associated with non-adherence to medication after stent implantation. The meeting took place March 23-27, 2012 in Chicago. Mount Sinai Researchers Show Aggressive Statin Regimen Reduces Fat Content in Coronary Blockage That Can Lead to Acute Thrombosis: Results ...

Boulder, Colo., USA – Topics in the 26 March posting of Geology include anthropogenic impacts on the Indus River into the Arabian Sea; possible electrical conductivity beneath the Yellowstone hotspot track; mountain-forming volcanoes and deadly debris flows; melting beneath the Colorado Plateau; widespread weathered glass on Mars; and a new view into Mars' global aqueous history. Highlights are provided below. Representatives of the media may obtain complimentary copies of Geology articles by contacting Christa Stratton at the address above. Abstracts for the complete ...

NEW YORK (March 27, 2012) -- A team of researchers led by scientists at Weill Cornell Medical College has designed what appears to be a powerful gene therapy strategy that can treat both beta-thalassemia disease and sickle cell anemia. They have also developed a test to predict patient response before treatment. This study's findings, published in PLoS ONE, represents a new approach to treating these related, and serious, red blood cells disorders, say the investigators. "This gene therapy technique has the potential to cure many patients, especially if we prescreen ...

Boulder, Colo., USA - Lithosphere topics include Deccan volcanism; river profiles in Eastern Papua, New Guinea; significant seismic hazard in the Camarillo fold belt, Southern California; mechanics of the San Jacinto and southern San Andreas faults; new evidence from the SAFOD core; chalcedony of the White River Group, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Colorado; and using seismic data to study the crust and upper mantle beneath the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina. Lithosphere is the newest bimonthly publication of The Geological Society of America, printing February, ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Later-stage cancers thrive by finding detours around roadblocks that cancer drugs put in their path, but a Purdue University biochemist is creating maps that will help drugmakers close more routes and develop better drugs. Kinase enzymes deliver phosphates to cell proteins in a process called phosphorylation, switching a cellular function on or off. Irregularities in phosphorylation can lead to uncontrolled cell growth and are a hallmark of cancer. Many successful cancer drugs are kinase inhibitors, which block the ability of a kinase to bind ...

During peak migration days in the early 1900s, tens of thousands of canvasback ducks could be seen floating and diving on Minnesota's Lake Christina. Since midcentury, changes to the lake have diminished this grand, iconic spectacle. Restoring it will require both top-down control of life in the lake, and bottom-up management of the surrounding landscape. So says a team of Minnesota scientists calling on extensive modern records and 200 years of history trapped in sediment, in a report released online last week in the journal Ecological Applications. "Lake Christina ...

A low pressure system that has been lingering in the western North Pacific Ocean for several days appears to be coming together today in infrared imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite. NASA's Aqua satellite passed over the low pressure area called "System 96W" on March 27 at 0547 UTC (1:47 a.m. EDT) and the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument captured an infrared and visible look at the storm. On March 27, 2012 at 0600 UTC (2 a.m. EDT), System 96W was located in the western North Pacific Ocean about 205 miles north-northwest of Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei, near ...

HOUSTON -- (March 27, 2012) -- They look like fruit, and indeed the nanoscale stars of new research at Rice University have tasty implications for medical imaging and chemical sensing. Starfruit-shaped gold nanorods synthesized by chemist Eugene Zubarev and Leonid Vigderman, a graduate student in his lab at Rice's BioScience Research Collaborative, could nourish applications that rely on surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS). The research appeared online this month in the American Chemical Society journal Langmuir. The researchers found their particles returned ...

Dr. Ed Christiansen, Colorado Springs dentist, is pleased to introduce laser dentistry technology to his patients. The use of lasers is one of the most exciting advances in modern dentistry and Dr. Christiansen is one of a relatively small number of dentists to offer this service to their patients. "I am excited that we are able to better serve our patients through the use of laser technology. Laser treatments offer many benefits over older methods and I believe that the future will see dentists everywhere using this treatment," said Dr. Christiansen, family ...

Zombie Games 365, a website that offers tons of free games featuring the new staple of horror movies, the zombie, has just today added three new games to its collection: Tomb Digger, Zombotron, and Towely Zombie Killer. The three games are all consistent with the ZombieGames365's mission, which is to always be creating fresh new original games that feature everyone's favorite horror movie monsters, zombies. Whenever you have a few minutes to spend or feel like you need to relax, Zombie Games 365 always has something new to try, and it never costs anything. This makes ...

For the first time, instrumentation aboard two NASA missions operating from complementary vantage points watched as a powerful solar storm spewed a two million-mile-per-hour stream of charged particles and interacted with the invisible magnetic field surrounding Earth, according to a paper published today in the Journal of Geophysical Research. The spacecraft, NASA's Two Wide-angle Imaging Neutral-atom Spectrometers (TWINS) and Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX), observed the impact from inside and outside the Earth's magnetosphere, respectively. The energetic neutral ...