The Avant Scenes contest in Paris offers a generation of young musicians the chance to impress audiences in the French capital. It sees two days of examinations and two lunchtime concerts take place at the city's Musee d'Orsay, with visitors invited to watch the talented youngsters at work. Guests at Paris hotels may even catch a glimpse of a future star of classical music during proceedings, as each participant shows the judges - and the audience - what they are capable of. The first series of performances will be held on Saturday November 20th 2010, with sessions ...

London hotel bookings may be set to rise as travellers can now see a new exhibition at the British Museum that showcases some of the finest artists of recent times - it is entitled Picasso to Julie Mehretu. The display features a variety of pieces from the arts space's archives, with the work available to view until April 25th 2011. As well as the two titular artists - both of whom need no introduction thanks to the power of their work - there are also drawings by Otto Dix, Anselm Kiefer, Magritte and Gerhard Richter. The quantity and quality of world-famous artwork ...

The British Supercross Championship is sure to serve up plenty of thrills and spills for fans staying at Liverpool hotels in November. Some of the finest riders in the world will be lining up to show the crowds their talents on the speedy two-wheeled machines. The action will take place on November 27th at Liverpool Echo Arena, which can be found at Kings Dock on the city's waterfront. There is certainly plenty of preparation going into the event, with 2,000 tonnes of earth needing to be brought in for the organisers to create the daredevil race track for the riders ...

There is a public health crisis in the least developed countries. It is a crisis made by humans and solvable only by humans. There is urgency for governments, businesses, NGOs and academia to collaborate in dealing with this most urgent of problems," declares Cameron Institute's new 200-page report, Pharmaceutical Access in Least Developed Countries: on-the-ground barriers and industry successes. Executive Director D. Wayne Taylor, Ph.D., F.CIM., who prepared the report, cites the recent World Health Organization's (WHO) Draft Global Plan and Strategy for Action in ...

Imagine telling your boss that the plan to re-organize your department is wrong-headed via a secured anonymous e-mail and he responds to your concern in a video message delivered to everyone in the company. Fiction? No, it's called "ChangeCasting" and a new approach to leading organizational change outlined in a book by professor Jackson Nickerson, the first in a series from the Brookings Institution Press and Olin which offers practical solutions and strategies for today's managers. In this era of YouTube, Skype, iChat and v-casts, video is everywhere. And Jackson ...

Boden may be known for its love of colour, but this season also demonstrates our fascination with sequins, beads and all things spangly. Our Sequin Spot Top will persuade you to accept a last-minute dinner invitation, even when your hot water bottle beckons. The Shimmering Spot Dress combines silk trims and sequins in a piece that will live on in your memory long after the occasions it helped you celebrate. And our women's skirts and dresses will help you distinguish yourself - and your hosts - by elevating the occasion. Wonderful textures are another key theme with ...

Fraser Yachts is pleased to announce several additions to their prestigious portfolio of luxury yachts for sale. Amongst this exclusive selection is the impressive M/Y Aquarius, which is being offered at a price of EUR67,000,000 with Dennis Fredriksen of Fraser Yachts Monaco acting as her central agent. Fraser Yachts Monaco will also be handling the sale of the ultra-modern M/Y H2ome, which is being offered at a price of EUR14,500,000, with Jan Jaap Minnema and Vasilis Fotilas acting as her central agents. Meanwhile, Jeff Partin of Fraser Yachts, Fort Lauderdale, will be ...

Tradologic has launched new and advanced trading tools. These tools allow traders to close their options and take profit, cut their losses on their options, or to rollover their option expiry to the next time period. By offering these new tools the users are able to take advantage of market volatility and their knowledge of finance markets. These tools cement TradoLogic in its position as the leading binary option provider. Trading tools Stop losses - A trader can execute this when he believes that his option is not performing as he expected and will not mature ...

Best Lawyers, the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession, has named Timothy J. Aiken as the "Milwaukee Best Lawyers Medical Malpractice Lawyer of the Year" for 2011. After more than a quarter of a century in publication, Best Lawyers is designating "Lawyers of the Year" in high-profile legal specialties in large legal communities. Only a single lawyer in each specialty in each community is being honored as the "Lawyer of the Year." Best Lawyers compiles its lists of outstanding attorneys by conducting exhaustive peer-review surveys ...

Promethean has announced that a number of schools will be given devices such as interactive whitebords and student assessment devices as part of a new reality TV series "School Pride". New school years are chock-full of optimism and opportunity. For teachers and students at seven of the schools featured in the new NBC series "School Pride", the year started off in newly remodeled classrooms outfitted with modern learning technologies from Promethean. Over the summer, Promethean joined students, teachers, community volunteers and other business leaders to renovate ...

British Airways has announced the Quick Sale, with discounts on thousands of flights, in all cabins, and hundreds of holidays available from the end of October. For just twelve days, the Quick Sale has a number of great savings available including up to 25% off flights in Economy, up to 36% off in Business class and up to 57% off First class flights. Additionally, when customers book a flight to several US cities they can bag a three night holiday from just an extra GBP50 per person. Included in the sale are flights to Boston from Heathrow that can also be turned ...

Stena Line has announced its success at the Northern Ireland Travel and Tourism Awards where the company was voted the top ferry company for a record 18th year. The 'Best Ferry Company' award was presented to Stena Line at a glittering awards ceremony at the Slieve Donard Resort in Newcastle. Northern Ireland Travel News has been organising the awards for the past 19 years and this year's ceremony was hosted by TV personality Craig Doyle with more than 450 VIPs from the local travel and tourism industry attending.  Paul Grant, Stena Line's Belfast - Stranraer ...

Hays has reported that, with a predicted 600,000 public sector workers set to enter the job market, more must be done to ensure that the private sector has a clearer understanding of their skills and experience, and public sector workers need support to make the transition. According to a Hays survey of 1,435 employees and 348 employers, 85 per cent of candidates coming from the public sector are considering seeking work in the private sector, but need professional support if they are able to find work in what remains a very challenging environment. The vast majority ...

With increasing popularity of multimedia programs DVDVideoSoft never doubts to respond to users' needs and thus prepared a new release of Free Image Convert and Resize 2.1. Free Image Convert and Resize is a compact yet powerful program for batch mode image processing. However, simple usage appears to be the main advantage of the program. It easily converts separate images as well as whole file folders containing images into different graphic formats, such as jpg, png, bmp, gif, tga. The latest version of the program also features export to pdf format. At the same ...

As the festive season approaches and shoppers gear up for their annual Christmas spending spree, it is noticeable just how much our shopping habits, particularly when it comes to Christmas gifts, have changed in a relatively short period of time. Just 10 years ago online shopping accounted for less than 1% of UK retail sales. This Christmas, however, is expected to see a growth in online sales of 16% to GBP6.4 billion*. Even as the economy continues to emerge from a significant slump the rise and rise of e-commerce shows no sign of slowing. Notonthehighstreet.com, ...

Two area dentists are redefining the phrase "put your money where your mouth is." This Halloween, trick-or-treaters can bring their excess candy to the Boulder Dental Group in Boulder and Gordon West DDS Aesthetic and General Dentistry in Lafayette and receive $1 per pound. The candy collected will be shipped to all of our brave men and women in the armed forces in the Middle East. Dr. Marc Alber and Dr. Gordon West are leading this anti-decay movement by giving away dollars and glowing electric toothbrushes in exchange for the large amounts of excess candy that most kids ...

Pan American Metals of Miami believes that investors buying physical bullion are boosting the cost of silver, a metals analyst told a commodities outlook session at the annual convention of the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada. "That is the single most important factor pushing the price up," said Jeffrey Christian, CEO of CPM Group in New York. "They are not a residual actor; they are the single most active participants in the market." Pan American Metals of Miami is in concurrence with this statement. Pan American Metals of Miami predicted the price ...

Boulder, CO, USA - Topics in the November-December 2010 GSA Bulletin include earthquake hazard assessment, tectonics, fault ruptures, paleo-earthquakes, magmatism, landslides, climate modeling, and geochronology. The issue also reports the first combined field and geochronological investigation of the Big Creek Gneiss and the first optically stimulated luminescence dating of the Bolson sand sheet, including its affect on cultural resource management at Fort Bliss. The invited review article finds a new absolute timeline for first Cambrian appearances of skeletal animals. Keywords: ...

AUDIO: Friendly conversations improve mental functioning, but competitive encounters do not. Click here for more information. ANN ARBOR, Mich.---Talking with other people in a friendly way can make it easier to solve common problems, a new University of Michigan study shows. But conversations that are competitive in tone, rather than cooperative, have no cognitive benefits. "This study shows that simply talking to other people, the way you do when you're making friends, can ...

It's a prediction often met with worry: In 20 years, there will be more Americans over 60 than under 15. Some fear that will mean an aging society with an increasing number of decrepit, impaired people and fewer youngsters to care for them while also keeping the country's productivity going. The concerns are valid, but a new Stanford study shows there's a silver lining to the graying of our nation. As we grow older, we tend to become more emotionally stable. And that translates into longer, more productive lives that offer more benefits than problems, said Laura Carstensen, ...

Every day our brains are flooded by stimulation — sounds, sights and smells. At the same time, we are constantly engaged in an inner dialogue, ruminating about the past, musing about the future. Somehow the brain filters all this input instantly, selecting some things for long- or short-term storage, discarding others and focusing in on what's most important at any given instant. How this competition is resolved across multiple sensory and cognitive regions in the brain is not known; nor is it clear how internal thoughts and attention decide what wins in this continual ...

Contrary to expectations, climate change has had a significant effect on mountain plants at low elevations, says a new study led by a UC Davis researcher. The information could guide future conservation efforts at local scales by helping decision makers anticipate biological responses to climate changes, said lead author Susan Harrison, a UC Davis professor of environmental science and policy. Harrison and scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the U.S. Geological Survey examined vegetation changes during the past 60 years in the Siskiyou Mountains ...

Montreal, October 27, 2010 – Mutations in DNA are a normal part of life. Sometimes these variations give rise to unique and beneficial traits including the creation of a new species, other times they cause devastating diseases. We are now another step closer to capturing most of the DNA mutations in humans thanks to an international study cataloging all forms of DNA variation from five populations from Europe, East Asia, South Asia, West Africa and the Americas, in the "1000 Genomes Project". Findings from the first phase of this study have been published in this week's ...

PHILADELPHIA — For the first time, researchers have found a link between long telomeres and an increased risk for colorectal cancer, according to research presented at the American Association for Cancer Research special conference on Colorectal Cancer: Biology to Therapy, held here Oct. 27-30, 2010. Telomeres are small strips of DNA that cover the ends of chromosomes — they are similar to the plastic coverings on shoelace tips. They prevent chromosome tips from fraying during cell division. If the telomeres shorten, then cells age. Shortened telomeres have been associated ...

PHILADELPHIA — Researchers are one step closer to providing a new therapy for colon cancer, after findings revealed that a small molecule focal adhesion kinase (FAK) inhibitor known as Y15 effectively blocked cell viability, promoted detachment and apoptosis, and decreased tumor growth in mice. These findings were presented at the American Association for Cancer Research special conference on Colorectal Cancer: Biology to Therapy, held Oct. 27-30, 2010. "We believe that these types of novel small molecule inhibitors may be the future direction for cancer therapy," said ...