International Folklore Festival will see artists representing the individual styles from their native countries to entertain audiences with distinct costumes and lively music. A great emphasis will be placed on the original and national dress used in the productions with performers and the designers going into great detail to achieve the exact look from the 19th century. Attendees can hear folk music in a variety of styles and there'll be individual performances along with ensembles and bands and even entire orchestras performing at the event. As well as traditional ...

Whirlwhim and Digital Media Interactive (DMI) have announced the digital release of the popularized award winning children's book series, "The Bafflegagging Blundernagging Brothers" written by Aaron Mason and Doug Warr, exclusively on iTunes, iPad & the iPhone. The Lite version, which is available for FREE download, features over sixty minutes of read-along entertainment, educational games, groundbreaking animation and narrative from Maurice LaMarche ("Pinky and the Brain", "Animaniacs", "Futurama"). The critically acclaimed novel's ...

Upstart property development firm 616 Lofts has recognized a gap between downtown Grand Rapids' growing economy and available spaces for living and business, and the firm is on a mission to close that gap. With much of the city's prime downtown real estate tied up in run down, unusable building space, 616 Lofts has seized the opportunity to rehabilitate these historic properties into unique mixed-use spaces for residential living, office space and retail. Working strictly with downtown properties, 616 Lofts aims to encourage growth in Grand Rapids' urban living, business ...

The Park West Gallery Summer Sale Collection is currently being featured online and boasts an array of fine artwork, sports memorabilia, Japanese woodcuts, animation art, and high-end designer jewelry, all of which are being offered at exciting sale prices now through August 14, 2011. Customers may also visit Park West's elegant gallery to view the Summer Collection in person and enjoy the surrounding 3 1/2 acres of luxuriant sculpture gardens. More than 300 works by some of the world's greatest artists are featured in this special collection, including old and modern ...

Online voucher codes specialist DiscountVouchers.co.uk is helping the country's diners to enjoy more eating out for their budget this June thanks to new restaurant deals. Consumers can save money at over 800 retailers through the site, which is this week home to savings at top restaurants the Gourmet Burger Kitchen, Cafe Rouge and Prezzo. Treating a loved one to a fun Italian meal this June need not be expensive thanks to new deals redeemable at Prezzo. DiscountVouchers.co.uk has announced a new Prezzo voucher which UK consumers can use to get themselves 2 main meals ...

We have the full line of Tanco parts! Tanco is recognized as the top choice for agricultural bale wrapping machines and bale shears for farmers and contractors around the world - and we offer factory-trained service. We stock parts for: D70 Tanco Round Bale Stacker D80 Tanco Square Bale Stacker 170 Tanco Bale Shear (Less Brackets) 1080A Tanco Trailer Square Wrapper 1206100 Tanco Standard Ramp 1206500 Tanco End Tip Ramp 1400 EH Tanco Full Auto Round Wrapper 1814ARC Tanco Full Auto Wrap Square Wrapper 1814LA Tanco Full Auto Square Wrapper 404EH Tanco Full ...

Hamilton Distributing, Inc. has a fully-stocked 45,000 square foot warehouse with the most popular paint and sundry items including Muralo and PPG paint, Rustoleum, 3M, Frogtape, Kleen Strip, UGL, Minwax, Wooster, E&J, Old Village, Sashco, Cabots, and many more product lines! Rollers, brushes, pails, tarps - we have it ALL! And new lines have just been added! Our shelves are full and our trucks are ready to deliver. Hamilton Distributing delivers on its own trucks, has an unbelievably low minimum order, breaks cases and has experienced customer service and ...

Hamilton Equipment, Inc., is proud to import and carry the full line of Galfre tedders and rakes - including stocking parts and expert customer service. Galfre tedders and rakes are recognized worldwide for their reliability and durability for the BEST possible forage quality. Hamilton Equipment stocks Galfre rotary tedders, carted hay rakes, rotary hay rakes, disc mowers, as well as parts. And at prices that beat the competition! For more information on Galfre rakes and tedders, call 717-733-7951 and ask for Jan in wholegoods or George in parts/service. Other ...

The Philadelphia Chamber Music Society (PCMS) is pleased to announce the 2011/2012 Piano Recital Series featuring exceptional artists from home and abroad along with two Philadelphia premieres - all at the Kimmel Center's intimate Perelman Theater. German pianist, Christian Zacharias, will leave his post at the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne to perform works by CPE Bach, Brahms, Beethoven and Schubert. Canadian Anton Kuerti will also return to the Piano Series this year with an all-Beethoven recital. Known for his "wizardry [that] defies the laws of nature," ...

Between 7th and 16th July 2011, the Jerusalem International Film Festival will be highlighting films by new and established directors from home and abroad to undercover the best new releases. Approximately 200 different films will get to appear at the festival comprising work from a variety of genres and delving into the world of documentaries and short productions. Each film will be split into a specific category such as Panorama which is based solely on international entries while another will be dedicated to Israeli features. Film buffs can check out the efforts ...

A company's online connection has never been more important than it is today. Besides conducting a large portion of business activities online, essential marketing campaigns are also on the Internet. It's important to find IT consultants in Los Angeles that make it possible for companies to stay online, and that's what can be achieved effortlessly with the help of the experts at Castellan. Search engine optimization (SEO) is arguably the most important aspect of achieving successful online marketing campaigns. There's a lot more to achieving SEO than setting up a website, ...

Spacify, Inc., a leading provider of modern furniture online has added a new Italian designer collection announced recently in Milan to their range of contemporary furniture. The collection is good news for all who have a penchant for cutting edge design at affordable price. Designer Paolo Cattelan from Cattelan Italia has decided to bring the trend to the masses. For a long time now, the designer has been producing a classic collection of artistic furniture items that have been hailed by all as being one of a kind. The Mickey Leather Dining Chair is simply a work of ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich.---Think "mass extinction" and you probably envision dinosaurs dropping dead in the long-ago past or exotic tropical creatures being wiped out when their rainforest habitats are decimated. But a major mass extinction took place right here in North America in the first half of the 20th century, when 47 species of mollusk disappeared after the watershed in which they lived was dammed. Now, a population of one of those species---a freshwater limpet last seen more than 60 years ago and presumed extinct---has been found in a tributary of the heavily dammed ...

Albuquerque, NM – Under a completely new way of providing health care, primary care clinicians in remote villages, prisons and poor urban neighborhoods who were trained to treat patients with hepatitis C achieved excellent results identical to those of specialists at a university medical center. These findings, from an evaluation of Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes), were published today online by the New England Journal of Medicine and will appear in the June 9 print edition. They demonstrate that primary care providers anywhere can be trained ...

In a recent clinical trial, non–HIV-infected individuals who used the antiretroviral drug Truvada on a daily basis cut their risk of becoming infected with HIV by 44 percent. While the findings are reason for great optimism, researchers say it is now important to understand the factors that could influence the public's willingness to use the drug in this way, known as pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP. Scientists, health authorities and policymakers are currently debating the pros and cons of PrEP in the U.S. and around the world. One significant issue is these ...

PASADENA, Calif.—For all animals, development begins with the embryo. It is here that uniform cells divide and diversify, and blueprints are laid for future structures, like skeletal and digestive systems. Although biologists have known for some time that signaling processes—messages that tell a cell to express certain genes so as to become certain parts of these structures—exist at this stage, there has not been a clear framework explanation of how it all comes together. Now, a research team at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has outlined exactly how ...

A small male bird called a golden-collared manakin performs a difficult, elaborate, physically demanding courtship dance. In new research, life scientists report that female golden-collared manakins select mates based on subtle differences in motor performance during these dances. "The male jumps like he's been shot out of a cannon," said study co-author Barney Schlinger, professor and departmental chair of integrative biology and physiology and a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UCLA. "It's exquisite. He sails like an acrobat and lands perfectly on ...

Participants in two weight-loss programs -- one involving traditional health club sessions and the other delivered online in a 3D virtual world -- lost similar amounts of weight and body fat, but the online contingent reported significantly greater gains in behaviors that could help them live healthier and leaner lives. "It's counter-intuitive, the idea of being more active in a virtual world, but the activities that they do in a virtual world can carry over into the real world," said Jeanne Johnston, assistant professor of kinesiology at Indiana University. "Through ...

Scientists have identified a new strain of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) which occurs both in human and dairy cow populations. The study, led by Dr Mark Holmes at the University of Cambridge, identified the new strain in milk from dairy cows while researching mastitis (a bacterial infection which occurs in the cows' udders). The new strain's genetic makeup differs greatly from previous strains, which means that the 'gold standard' molecular tests currently used to identify MRSA - a polymerase chain reaction technique (PCR) and slide agglutination ...

DETROIT – Emergency department physicians are frustrated and burned out from treating patients who frequent the ED for their care, according to a Henry Ford Hospital survey of physicians from across the country. The survey found that 59 percent of physicians acknowledged having less empathy for so-called frequent users than other patients, and 77 percent held bias for frequent users. Physicians defined frequent users in the survey as patients who visit the ED at least 10 times a year. Other highlights: 91 percent of physicians say frequent users pose challenges ...

An unusual signal detected by the seismic monitoring station at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute's research facility on Barro Colorado Island results from waves in Lake Gatun, the reservoir that forms the Panama Canal channel, scientists report. Understanding seismic background signals leads to improved earthquake and tsunami detection in the Caribbean region where 100 tsunamis have been reported in the past 500 years. As part of a $37.5 million U.S. presidential initiative to improve earthquake monitoring following the devastating tsunami in the Indian Ocean ...

When earthquake, tsunami, tornado or flood strike, among the most vulnerable group are the elderly. Writing in the International Journal of Emergency Management, researchers in New Zealand suggest that emergency response plans must take into account the age-related needs of adults with regards to the personal and social resources they have available. Robyn Tuohy and Christine Stephens of Massey University in Palmerston North, point out that elderly citizens are likely to experience the negative impacts of floods and other natural disasters partly because of age-related ...

Brussels - One in three women will be faced at least once in her life with cystitis, for some the start of a constantly recurring infection. Cystitis is caused by Escherichia coli bacteria which fasten on to the wall of the bladder by means of thread-like structures (pili). Han Remaut of the VIB Department for Structural Biology Brussels, Vrije Universiteit Brussel reveals for the first time the complex interactions which lead to the formation of these pili. This knowledge can be used to develop new antibiotics to treat infections of the urinary tract. Cystitis Around ...

A new study from the Journal of Traumatic Stress finds that for active-duty male soldiers in the U.S. Army who are happily married, communicating frequently with one's spouse through letters and emails during deployment may protect against the development of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms after returning home. After studying information from 193 married male Army soldiers who returned from military deployment within the past year, investigators found that more frequent spousal communication through "delayed" communication such as letters, care packages, ...

In Western societies, atherosclerosis of the arteries is one of the leading causes of death. Chronic, localized inflammation of the blood vessel wall facilitates the growth of fibrous plaques, which leads to narrowing or occlusion of the vessel, and thereby promotes heart attacks and stroke. The persistence of the inflammatory reaction is due to a loss of control over the activity of the immune system. So-called dendritic cells are known to play a central role in the adaptive immune response, functioning as activators of other classes of immune cells. Their precise contribution ...