The Opera Bastille is hosting a production of Tosca this spring that harnesses the energy and passion of the medium to tell one of the most celebrated stories in history. Written by Giacomo Puccini, the show has been seen by millions of people since premiering in Rome in 1900, but it continues to attract audiences all over the world. It will be performed on various dates between April 20th and May 18th 2011, with Iano Tamar in the title role. Massimo Giordano and Carlo Ventre will share the part of Mario Cavaradossi. In an official statement, the organisers said: ...

Adelaide's popular family entertainment festival Something on Saturday (SoS) returns for another run at the start of next month. The season features a different performance every week, offering everything from music and ballet to puppetry, circus, musical theatre and even a Bollywood dance party. SoS 2011 takes place from May 7th to September 3rd. This year's bill includes an interpretation of the Wizard of Oz, presented by the Australian Classical Youth Ballet. As part of the production, children can participate in a creative workshop that allows them to design ...

The Hall for Cornwall is set to welcome one of the biggest names in contemporary British folk music next month. Kate Rusby will perform at the Truro venue on Wednesday May 4th, giving fans a chance to hear songs from her latest studio album Make the Light. Released on Pure Records in November last year, the LP was recorded with an all-new band that includes Rusby's husband, the guitarist and banjo player Damien O'Kane. Make the Light was also the first collection of entirely self-penned songs by the artist, who announced her arrival on the folk scene in 1997 with ...

Up-and-coming singer Jamie Woon is set to perform live at the Atomic Cafe in Munich next month. The 27-year-old Londoner has been tipped for big things by a host of music industry experts since 2007, when his Wayfaring Stranger EP received a low-key release. Last year's Night Air single was equally well received by critics and Woon now looks poised to fulfil his promise with Mirrorwriting, his debut album for Polydor Records. After the LP hits the shops on Monday April 18th, Woon is due to head out on the road and will play four shows in Germany, including his ...

Perth's Scitech education and exhibition centre is opening its doors to adults at the end of the month for a one-off club night. On April 30th 2011, the venue plays host to Scitech After Dark, offering over-18s the chance to enjoy an evening of partying and fun with luminous lights. Visitors will be able to paint on the walls using torches, freeze their shadows and find their way through a maze while attempting to dodge lasers that set off an alarm. They can also take an exclusive sneak peek at Scitech's new interactive art and technology installation. Known as ...

People who are looking to get themselves the very best value for money on their summer holidays this year are able to get big money off thanks to new travel deals launched online by DiscountVouchers.co.uk this week. The popular voucher codes website is this week carrying new deals redeemable at leading holiday suppliers First Choice and Thomas Cook. The DiscountVouchers.co.uk website is updated in real-time to always offer people the very best money-saving retail codes, and this week sees the site carrying deals for saving on Thomas Cook flights and holidays. Deals to ...

The foodservice industry has lost almost $1B in value since 2006*. Although the National Restaurant Association has seen its Restaurant Performance Index (RPI)--which measures same stores and store traffic--at its highest level in three years, the NPD predicts same store restaurant traffic to increase modestly in 2011. The poor economy and unemployment, that is nearly into the double digits, has led to a number of trends that have increased pressure on foodservice operations including value menus, bundling promotions, smaller portions and Groupon. Mintel predicts that consumers ...

Award-winning search marketing company Search Laboratory Ltd is expanding rapidly and has recently moved to new larger premises. More than doubling its turnover in the last three years and recently winning a Best Employer award, this company really is a Yorkshire Rose. Search Laboratory recently moved in to a beautiful two storey, self-contained former chapel in North Leeds. The move was critical to the company's growth, with major new clients being taken on all the time, there has been an ongoing need for more staff and more space. The new property is a testament to ...

Dr. Andrew Parker has improved his patient's' ability to seek treatment through online appointment requesting. The online appointment feature was created in order to make routine appointment setting quick and convenient, as well as to increase the quality of care patients receive. Patients can access the appointment requesting feature via the practice's interactive website. Serving patients in Norwalk and Westport, along with other nearby towns, Dr. Parker makes appointment requesting a simple and convenient process. To request appointment availability, patients can ...

Determined to deliver quality dental care to informed patients, Drs. Alan Dechter and Matthew Moy, dentists in Silver Spring, MD, have created an educational blog to enhance patient knowledge. With the introduction of practice's blog, patients can now access more personalized information on valuable dental health care topics created by this dentist in Silver Spring. Dr. Dechter and Dr. Moy can now actively contribute content related to dental health care via the educational blog. Each post from the practice's blog is simultaneously synced with the dentistry's Facebook ...

Premier dentist in Montreal, Dr. John Petruccelli, has created a Facebook and Twitter account to enhance patient communication and interaction. With the introduction of these social media websites, patients can now access personalized information, as well as learn more about other patient's' experiences with Dr. Petruccelli. Patients can easily join Dr. Petruccelli's Facebook and Twitter pages by visiting the practice's website. Once the patient is in the network, they will receive instant updates from Dr. Petruccelli. In addition to updates from the practice, patients ...

Experienced dentist in Naperville, IL, Dr. Nasima Thobani, invites patients to visit Advanced Family Dental of Naperville's new, innovative website for valuable coupons and specials. By visiting the practice's newly developed website, patients can gain access to a variety of exclusive dental specials for their next visit with Dr. Thobani. The specials and coupons are provided to make receiving dental treatment more affordable and convenient for patients. New patients can receive a $49 new cash patient exam. This special includes consultation, diagnosis and fully mouth ...

Premier dentists in Houston, Katy and Memorial, Drs. Trey Thompson and Rick Hammond, announce the practice's online smile gallery to showcase previous dental work performed in their office. Patients can access the smile gallery and observe the real life before-and-after results of various procedures that they may be interested in, such as implants in Katy. With the addition of the smile gallery, patients can gain the confidence they may need to have a procedure performed by knowing that the outcome can be as rewarding as the ones displayed through the gallery. The smile ...

American Brick Company (Ambrico), providers of high quality brick products and creators of the popular E-Z thin brick system, are excited to announce a partnership with Robinson Brick. Robinson Brick offers thin brick products designed to transform the look of any wall into an authentic looking, traditional brick facade, without the need for load-bearing walls or foundations. Offering a wide range of colors and looks through its Old Brick Originals line, the thin brick offerings from Robinson Brick are sure to be a favorite in the Ambrico showroom in Warren, Michigan. ...

Large ecommerce operations have dominated the online marketplace for several years, however, companies like Niche Retail, a Magento Enterprise Partner, have been launching and operating smaller retail stores with exciting results. Acting as both developer and administrator to branded e-commerce stores, Niche Retail has given smaller businesses a chance at success in a highly competitive online marketplace. Niche Retail utilizes similar technology found in large scale platforms like GSI Commerce, a popular ecommerce solution recently acquired by Ebay, and the Magento ...

In this challenging environment, how to increase business efficiency is critical for any company. The new edition of ezPaycheck payroll software can help small businesses deal with the payroll taxes processing in a stress-free way and enables companies to focus on core activities. The latest edition is with the new Year 2011 Form 941. Other new features of ezPaycheck 2011 payroll application include Customizable Payroll Reporting Feature, Auto-fill Paycheck Data Feature, Customizable Tax and Deduction Features, Employee List Export Feature, Income tax rate updates and ...

ACE inhibitors, commonly used to control high blood pressure and heart failure in women, may be associated with an increased risk of recurrence in women who have had breast cancer, according to a study by researchers at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center. Beta blockers, used to control high blood pressure and cardiac arrhythmias, appear to have a protective effect, helping to prevent recurrence. When used together, beta blockers appear to help ameliorate the negative affect of ACE inhibitors, said Dr. Patricia Ganz, director of cancer prevention and control research ...

VIDEO: Azim F. Shariff of the University of Oregon has looked at students' beliefs in God and how those may affect academic cheating. Click here for more information. EUGENE, Ore. -- (April 20, 2011) -- Belief in God doesn't deter a person from cheating on a test, unless that God is seen as a mean, punishing one, researchers say. On the flip side, psychology researchers Azim F. Shariff at the University of Oregon and Ara Norenzayan at the University of British Columbia ...

Currently, some 20 percent of the world's industrial production is based on catalysts — molecules that can quicken the pace of chemical reactions by factors of billions. Oil, pharmaceuticals, plastics and countless other products are made by catalysts. Many are hoping to make current catalysts more efficient, resulting in less energy consumption and less pollution. Highly active and selective nanocatalysts, for example, can be used effectively in efforts to break down pollution, create hydrogen fuel cells, store hydrogen and synthesize fine chemicals. The challenge ...

Researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine have for the first time determined that the ketogenic diet, a specialized high-fat, low carbohydrate diet, may reverse impaired kidney function in people with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. They also identified a previously unreported panel of genes associated with diabetes-related kidney failure, whose expression was reversed by the diet. The findings were published in the current issue of PLoS ONE. Charles Mobbs, PhD, Professor of Neuroscience and Geriatrics and Palliative Care Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A new study in fruit flies offers a broad view of the potent and sometimes devastating molecular events that occur throughout the body as a result of methamphetamine exposure. The study, described in the journal PLoS ONE, tracks changes in the expression of genes and proteins in fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) exposed to meth. Unlike most studies of meth, which focus on the brain, the new analysis looked at molecular changes throughout the body, said University of Illinois entomology professor Barry Pittendrigh, who led the research. "One of ...

Six-year-olds who spent the most time watching television, using a computer or playing video games had narrower arteries in the back of their eyes — a marker of future cardiovascular risk, in a first-of-its-kind study reported in Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology: Journal of the American Heart Association. Australian researchers found that more sedentary behavior such as "screen time" was associated with an average narrowing of 2.3 microns in the retinal arteriolar caliber. A micron is one thousandth of a millimeter or one-25th of a thousandth of an inch. ...

The Woods Hole Research Center has released the first hectare-scale maps of canopy height, aboveground biomass, and associated carbon stock for the forests and woodlands of the conterminous United States. The multi-year project, referred to as the National Biomass and Carbon Dataset (NBCD), produced maps of these key forest attributes at an unprecedented spatial resolution of 30 m. The digital raster data set is now freely accessible from the WHRC website at www.whrc.org/nbcd. According to Dr. Josef Kellndorfer, who led the project at WHRC, "We are excited about the ...

"The three gut types can explain why the uptake of medicines and nutrients varies from person to person," says bioinformatician Jeroen Raes of the VIB and Vrije Universiteit Brussel, one of the two lead researchers in the study. "This knowledge could form the basis of personalized therapies. Treatments and doses could be determined on the basis of the gut type of the patient." Improved knowledge of the gut types could also lead to other medical applications, such as the early diagnosis of intestinal cancer, Crohn's disease and the adverse effects of obesity. Three ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich.---Melting glaciers and ice caps on Canadian Arctic islands play a much greater role in sea level rise than scientists previously thought, according to a new study led by a University of Michigan researcher. The 550,000-square-mile Canadian Arctic Archipelago contains some 30,000 islands. Between 2004 and 2009, the region lost the equivalent of three-quarters of the water in Lake Erie, the study found. Warmer-than-usual temperatures in those years caused a rapid increase in the melting of glacier ice and snow, said Alex Gardner, a research fellow in the ...