Young surfers will be congregating in Bali this October to take part in the keenly contested Oakley World Pro Junior competition. To be held between October 3rd and 14th at Keramas Beach, the event will see six young men and two women compete for a cash prize of $75,000 (GBP45,800), one of the largest paydays available to those in this age group. Qualification for the prestigious competition has been taking place over the course of the year at leading surf venues across the world, including Australia, France, the US and Japan. The Indonesian leg of the qualifying ...

A feast of cultural activities will be commencing in South Korea next month with the launch of the 2011 Seoul Performing Arts Festival (SPAF). Beginning on September 28th, the event will involve a total of 36 performances from artists hailing from eight countries, running through to the end of October. Dance, theatre and multidisciplinary shows will be put on by companies from countries such as France, Germany, Australia, Italy and Japan as well as Korea itself, with the event representing one of the nation's leading performing arts festivals. Shows will be ...

A well-preserved fossil discovered in northeast China provides new information about the earliest ancestors of most of today's mammal species--the placental mammals. According to a paper published today in the journal Nature, the fossil represents a new milestone in mammal evolution that was reached 35 million years earlier than previously thought. It fills an important gap in the fossil record and helps to calibrate modern, DNA-based methods of dating evolution. The paper, by a team of scientists led by Carnegie Museum of Natural History paleontologist Zhe-Xi Luo, ...

Canadian punk rock act Sum 41 will be playing to audiences in Kuala Lumpur as part of their global tour in October 2011. The popular four-piece band from Ontario will perform at the Malaysian capital's National Sports Complex venue on October 8th, with the show lasting from 19:00 until 22:00 local time. Sum 41 have been a fixture of the punk scene since the release of their hugely successful debut album All Killer, No Filler in 2001, which included hit songs such as Fat Lip, In Too Deep and Motivation. They are currently touring as they continue to promote their ...

CHAMPAIGN, lll. — Researchers have engineered new sensors that fluoresce in the presence of compounds that interact with estrogen receptors in human cells. The sensors detect natural or human-made substances that alter estrogenic signaling in the body. The study appears in the journal Biotechnology and Bioengineering. Estrogen occurs naturally in the body (in the form of 17-beta-estradiol), and a variety of plants (such as soybeans), pharmaceuticals, microbial byproducts and industrial chemicals (such as bisphenol A, in plastics) are also known to activate or block ...

The Bangkok Gems and Jewelry Fair will be returning to the Thai capital next month, providing guests with an opportunity to admire some fine luxury products. Organised by the Thai Gem and Jewelry Traders Association, the fair is a twice-yearly trade event that has been held for more than two decades, showcasing the latest fashions in jewellery. The 48th edition of the show will take place at the Impact Challenger venue between September 14th and 18th, during which more than 1,200 exhibitors in 16 product categories will be able to showcase their wares. Guests ...

Today Auto Trader announced a Facebook Competition following a TV campaign for Auto Trader's New Cars portal. When asked "what makes a road trip really great?" *219 (68%) of Auto Trader Facebook Fan respondents answered "it's about the people you go with". The month-long competition follows the recent TV campaign promoting called 'The Greatest New Car Showroom in the www'. The Greatest Road Trips Facebook competition is designed to continue raising awareness of Auto Trader New Car website and increase Auto Trader's social following; After the success ...

Boston, MA – The global obesity epidemic has been escalating for decades, yet long-term prevention efforts have barely begun and are inadequate, according to a new paper from international public health experts published in the August 25, 2011 edition of the journal The Lancet. Noting that many countries lack basic population-wide data on children's weight and height, the authors call on governments around the world to launch a coordinated effort to monitor, prevent, and control obesity, and the long-term health, social and economic costs associated with it. The paper ...

A galaxy with a combination of characteristics never seen before is giving astronomers a tantalizing peek at processes they believe played key roles in the growth of galaxies and clusters of galaxies early in the history of the Universe. The galaxy, dubbed Speca by the researchers, is only the second spiral, as opposed to elliptical, galaxy known to produce large, powerful jets of subatomic particles moving at nearly the speed of light. It also is one of only two galaxies to show that such activity occurred in three separate episodes. Giant jets of superfast particles ...

Dedicated dentist in Fayetteville, Dr. Rena Brown, is offering patients a new teeth whitening promotion available at Smiles by Design. Patients can now achieve the brighter, whiter smile they have always wanted with the help of teeth whitening at a special, discounted rate. For a limited time, patients can receive $100 off of teeth whitening treatment from Dr. Rena Brown, Fayetteville dentist. This special price incentive is giving patients an opportunity to whiten their smiles at an affordable rate. Whether it is for back to school or improved self-confidence, patients ...

Hurricane Irene is a major hurricane, and NASA satellite data shows its diameter is now about one-third the length of the U.S. Atlantic coastline. Meanwhile, far in the eastern Atlantic Ocean a tenth tropical depression formed. One satellite image captured both storms and shows the tremendous difference in their size. NOAA's GOES-13 satellite saw Hurricane Irene moving through the Bahamas on August 25, 2011 at 10:02 a.m. EDT and far to the east off the African coast was newly born Tropical Depression 10. The GOES-13 image shows Irene to be almost one third of the size ...

Dr. Jonathan Eagle, Grand Rapids, MI dentist, welcomes patients to his new blog, Facebook and Twitter accounts. The new blog can be accessed via the practice's website and is updated regularly with new information. "As we move forward with our blog, we hope to promote dental awareness as a vital part of a healthy lifestyle. This is why I created the blog. My patients can visit it to find a variety of articles and topics," said Dr. Jonathan Eagle, dentist in Grand Rapids, MI. The blog was created for the practice in order for Dr. Eagle to actively contribute ...

Researchers at Rutgers University and the University of Texas at Austin have reported a discovery that could help scientists develop drugs to fight seasonal influenza epidemics caused by the common influenza B strain. Their discovery also helps explain how influenza B is limited to humans, and why it cannot be as virulent as A strains that incorporate new genes from influenza viruses that infect other species. The devastating flu pandemic of 1918, the pandemics of 1968 and 1977, and the avian influenza that emerged in the middle of the last decade were caused by influenza ...

We probably all know the situation: You hold the aces, the flop is looking well, you bet and get a few calls. The turn does not change anything. You go all-in and get a call again. Showdown. You have a great chance of winning. The river changes everything, you lose your whole bankroll due to a bad beat. The Bad Beat Guard is a tool to protect players from a bad beat, who are in an all-in situation. If you get a bad beat in an all-in situation, you get back the money you invested. The winner of the hand only gets the remainder of the pot. On the various tables the ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – A new study of stock trading during the financial crisis of 2007 to 2009 found that hedge funds sold their stocks much more aggressively than mutual funds at the first signs of poor performance. These selloffs occurred in response to falling stock values, the study found. Hedge fund investors withdrew almost three times as much of the money they invested as compared to mutual fund investors. As a result, the total returns of mutual funds were much worse during the crisis than were those of hedge funds. That means ordinary investors – who are more ...

While residents along the New Jersey and New York coasts rush to the store for batteries and bottled water, scientists at Stevens Institute of Technology are heading to the laboratory to help predict the impact of Hurricane Irene. At the Stevens Center for Maritime Systems (CMS), ocean researchers manage a large network of submerged sensors throughout the New York Harbor region, from the South Jersey shore to the eastern end of Long Island and north up the Hudson River. This Urban Ocean Observatory combines real-time and historic data with advanced understanding of ocean ...

New Webinar with Martha Stokes & Worden Tuesday, September 6, 2011 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM PDT Bollinger Bands: Beyond the Boundaries Martha Stokes, C.M.T. teaches you how to go beyond the common, ordinary uses of a popular indicator into the realm of advanced indicator analysis for Bollinger Bands. Find out how you can dramatically improve your trading results using Bollinger Bands and how these simple techniques can be used immediately in your trading. Learn how to use Bollinger Bands in brand new ways for different market conditions. Discover the subtle ...

MADISON - Globally, irrigation increases agricultural productivity by an amount roughly equivalent to the entire agricultural output of the U.S., according to a new University of Wisconsin-Madison study. That adds up to a sizeable impact on carbon uptake from the atmosphere. It also means that water shortages - already forecasted to be a big problem as the world warms - could contribute to yet more warming through a positive feedback loop. The new research quantified irrigation's contribution to global agricultural productivity for the years 1998-2002, estimating the ...

David Weinstein has spent his career dealing with healthcare issues. He's owned his own medical billing company, and he began a healthcare cooperative in 1999, well before anyone else had thought of the idea. He's been watching the healthcare reform debate in government quite closely, and he has some definite opinions about issues that could reform medical billing. David Weinstein also thinks some ideas are just bad. In his opinion, tort reform is a bad idea. Many Americans have health maintenance organization (HMO) coverage. In these plans, the member must choose a ...

Temporary staff members working in a hospital's fast-paced emergency department are twice as likely as permanent employees to be involved in medication errors that harm patients, new Johns Hopkins research suggests. Results of the research raise serious issues related to temporary nursing staff in particular because they already are a substantial and growing part of the health care workforce owing to the national nursing shortage. These fill-ins are used to plug holes in both short-term and long-term work schedules, and are seen as a cheaper alternative to permanent hires. ...

Providing access to an outpatient clinic isn't enough to keep some trauma patients who have been discharged from the hospital from returning to the emergency department (ED) for follow-up care, even for such minor needs as pain medication refills and dressing changes, according to new Johns Hopkins research. Reporting in the Annals of Emergency Medicine, the researchers say that patients with Medicaid, Medicare and those with no insurance were 60 percent more likely to seek such care in the ED. Those living in poor neighborhoods were 70 percent more likely than patients ...

The Carlsbad Department of Development (CDOD) recently attended the National Conference of State Legislators (NCSL) in San Antonio, Texas. Over 4,800 legislators from all over the United States attended the annual conference. The CDOD made positive connections related primarily to the nuclear efforts in Carlsbad and throughout Eddy County. The CDOD, which exists to develop the City of Carlsbad and Eddy County, New Mexico, works to promote and recruit existing and new industry to the area. CDOD representatives were on hand at the NCSL to promote the success of the Waste ...

Believe it or not, one thing that predicts how well a CEO's company performs is the width of his face. CEOs with wider faces, like Herb Kelleher, the former CEO of Southwest Airlines, have better-performing companies than CEOs like Dick Fuld, the long-faced final CEO of Lehman Brothers. That's the conclusion of a new study which will be published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. Elaine M. Wong at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and her colleagues study how top management teams work. But they have ...

PHILADELPHIA—Researchers from Thomas Jefferson University, among other institutions, including the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, have developed single vaccines to protect against both rabies and the Ebola virus. Successfully tested in mice, these bivalent vaccines have several advantages over other Ebola candidates that could help speed up development for use in humans and primates. It's built on the same platform as the already approved and financially viable rabies vaccine, and it protects at-risk populations against two viruses, not just one, ...

Popular money-saving offers site DiscountVouchers.co.uk this week introduces new deals which can allow consumers and shoppers make the most of their budgets at top name department stores. The website, which is home to discount deals for over 800 stores and suppliers, is this week offering deals redeemable at House of Fraser and Debenhams. Savings on garden furniture, bed linen and free delivery are all on show on the DiscountVouchers.co.uk website this week with deals redeemable at House of Fraser. Consumers who want to get themselves great value homeware can log on ...