Foster Care Associates (FCA) has boosted funds for local charities after raising over one thousand pounds at a summer fun day. The leading Isle of Wight fostering agency donated almost GBP600 at the end of August to both the Barely Born Appeal at St Mary's hospital in Newport and Face 2 Face, a befriending service for parents with disabled children, delivered by Scope. The welcome donation was raised as a result of cake sales, raffles and a variety of games held at a family fun day for the agency's many foster families and looked after children. FCA provides support ...

Rocky Mountain Honda Dealers, comprised of 12 premier Honda dealerships surrounding the Denver area, is proud to announce the arrival of the new Honda Accord Sedan at each one of their stores. The 9th generation model is receiving praise from drivers and critics for its impressive upgrades and features, including an increase in horsepower (from 177 to 185) and its new mpg of 27 city and 36 highway. The 2013 Honda Accord sedan is now offered for sale at each one of the 12 dealerships, including Fisher Honda, Freedom Honda, Front Range Honda, Frontier Honda, Go Honda, ...

Because we all know that ghastly pick-up lines can scare the skeleton out of you and are mischievously laced with good ole' fashion bullshit that's meant to keep you talking - so those blood-sucking bad-boys can penetrate your sweet coffin and suck you dry! Beware and Enjoy - Rich. 1. You live around here? Probably the most classic of frightful pick-up lines from the most amateur of bad-boys with no shot at scoring. He's just trying to bait you ladies into a conversation by asking you an innocent question. No chance suckas! 2. Where are you from? Notice how these ...

Simplify360, the leading Social Media Management application for Social Business Analytics and Multichannel Engagement launches Analytics Centre of Excellence (Analytics C0E). Analytics COE is an effort by the company to educate the ecosystem - customers and partners - about Analytics best practices within Simplify360. Through this, company uncovers its Analytics Framework. The Simplify360 Analytics Framework provides the demographics, opinion, context of discussion and cross-linkage among brands. It helps brands to design their next marketing and branding strategies ...

The Pediatric Dental and Orthodontic practice of Coastal Kids Dental & Braces welcomes Dr. Jessica Clark, DDS. Dr. Jessica, a Pediatric Dentist, started seeing at Coastal Kids Dental & Braces in July 2012. "Dr. Jessica has been a great addition to our Pediatric Dental team. Her passion for working with children truly shows through her work and connections with patients and parents," comments Dr. Isabel Driggers, Founder and Owner of Coastal Kids Dental & Braces. Dr. Jessica attended Virginia Tech, where she studied Human Nutrition, Food and ...

Getting Recruited to Play College Baseball, published by Mill City Press, is intended as a practical guide for both parents and students who are interested in understanding the college baseball recruiting process. While the process can be daunting, if not downright confusing and frustrating, being a recruited athlete provides enormous benefit in gaining admission to a college, university or junior college. College athletics also offers the potential to receive substantial financial assistance in the form of scholarships and other types of grants to support a college education. At ...

El humorista irlandes Dara O'Briain presentara en Londres este otono su original show de ingenio y verborrea en Londres. Su ultimo show, el galardonado "Craic Dealer", marca el regreso de Dara a los teatros del Reino Unido despues de que su gira del 2010 tuviera un lleno completo. Y para ayudar a los fans del humorista a encontrar alojamiento tras el show esta la web LondonTown.com, que ha anunciado un amplio numero de hoteles con descuento en Londres durante octubre, muchos cercanos al Hammersmith Apollo. Dara ya cuenta con el exito de varios shows, incluidos ...

In the 1960s, the innovators responsible for missions to the moon inspired homemade space helmets and backyard bottle rockets that sent toy soldiers a bit shy of low-Earth orbit. The innovations of the International Space Station, however, provide a more direct approach to opportunities for the next generation as they watch, learn and even participate in today's missions. For more than a decade, the space station has provided hands-on educational opportunities that encourage students to go beyond passive learning, engaging them as interactive participants. The recently ...

Thermafiber has released a new light fixture protection kit for the commercial building market. FixtureShield kits are made from rigid Thermafiber mineral wool boards. The new, patented light-weight design reduces installation time, offers energy saving R-value and improved sound control. FixtureShield is UL approved and listed in several fire-rated floor/ceiling and roof/ceiling assemblies. "The new FixtureShield kits are a much better design than historical approaches," says Michael Williams, Executive Vice President. "The new kits install faster and ...

Wikilitho innovates with a new resource for the protection of buyers, collectors and artists. Most people buy and collect art because of their appreciation for aesthetically beautiful pieces, whether a painting, a sculpture or a photograph. In today's climate of big business and economic uncertainty, however, many art aficionados are becoming increasingly conscious of the monetary value of their artworks, and the investment that their collections may represent, even without their knowledge. The growing financial significance of the art world has naturally led to a dramatic ...

The latest in a continuing series of Offshore Group podcasts on topics related to manufacturing in Mexico examines the Mexican aerospace industry from a European perspective. Jean Claude Bouche, a dual Mexican and French citizen currently working to develop connections between the Mexican aerospace industry and the aerospace cluster of Toulouse, France, recently sat down to share his experiences and insights in a discussion centered on the subject of linkages between the Mexican and European aerospace industries. Throughout the approximately thirty minute-long interview, ...

A new study by New York University professor Vincent Guilamo-Ramos and colleagues from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suggests that fathers' parenting behavior influences the sexual behavior of their adolescent children. However, to date most parent-based research on adolescent sexual risk behavior has neglected the role of fathers, a missed opportunity to contribute to their adolescent children's health and well-being. While it is well-established that parenting is closely linked with a teenager's sexual health and reproductive outcomes, it is mothers ...

When it comes to physics, glass lacks transparency. No one has been able to see what's happening at the molecular level as a super-cooled liquid approaches the glass state – until now. Emory University physicists have made a movie of particle motion during this mysterious transition. Their findings, showing how the rotation of the particles becomes decoupled from their movement through space, are being published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences. "Cooling a glass from a liquid into a highly viscous state fundamentally changes the nature of ...

Researchers led by Tanya Stoyanova and Dr. Owen Witte of UCLA's Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research have determined how a protein known as Trop2 drives the growth of tumor cells in prostate and other epithelial cancers. This discovery is important because it may prove essential for creating new therapies that stop the growth of cancer, the researchers said. The study is featured on the cover of the Oct. 15 issue of the journal Genes and Development. The Trop2 protein is expressed on the surface of many types of epithelial ...

DENVER (Oct. 16, 2012) – A new study by the University of Colorado Denver reveals that today's adolescents are abusing prescription pain medications like vicodin, valium and oxycontin at a rate 40 percent higher than previous generations. That makes it the second most common form of illegal drug use in the U.S. after marijuana, according to Richard Miech, Ph.D., lead author of the study and professor of sociology at CU Denver. "Prescription drug use is the next big epidemic," Miech said. "Everyone in this field has recognized that there is a big increase in the abuse ...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Contrary to what police, politicians and the public believe about the effectiveness of California's three-strikes law, research by a University of California, Riverside criminologist has found that the get-tough-on-criminals policy voters approved in 1994 has done nothing to reduce the crime rate. In a rigorous analysis of crime in California and the nation, sociology professor Robert Nash Parker determined that crime has been decreasing at about the same rate in every state for 20 years, regardless of whether three-strikes policies are in place or ...

Arlington, Va. — A novel drug that mimics a naturally occurring molecule found in coffee and blueberries has been developed to treat radiation exposure. Charles R. Yates, Pharm.D., Ph.D., and colleagues Duane Miller, Ph.D., and Waleed Gaber, Ph.D., from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and Baylor College of Medicine, show that application of this drug, starting 24 hours after radiation exposure, increases survival in animal models by three-fold compared to placebo. Their work, which is funded through an NIH grant from the National Institute for Allergy ...

Arlington, Va. — A dissolvable oral strip has been developed to immediately relieve pain from burns caused by ingestion of hot foods and liquids, such as coffee, pizza, and soup. This research is being presented at the 2012 American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) Annual Meeting and Exposition, the world's largest pharmaceutical sciences meeting, in Chicago, Ill., on Oct. 14 – 18. Lead researcher Jason McConville, Ph.D., and colleagues from University of Texas at Austin, designed the strip for controlled delivery of a local anesthetic, benzocaine, and ...

Sumatran orangutans have undergone a substantial recent population decline, according to a new genetic study, but the same research revealed the existence of critical corridors for dispersal migrations that, if protected, can help maintain genetic diversity and aid in the species' conservation. One of two species of orangutans, the Sumatran orangutan is classified as "critically endangered" by the IUCN Red List. Once widespread on the island of Sumatra, only an estimated 6,600 individuals remain, restricted to small forest patches on the northern tip of the island. Recent ...

Sickle cell disease—the most common inherited blood disorder in the United States—causes red blood cells to distort into a crescent shape and block small blood vessels. New insights into how these abnormal cells disrupt circulation could lead to more effective treatment strategies, as revealed by a study published by Cell Press in the October 17th issue of Biophysical Journal. "Sickle cell disease entails a central mechanical component, since the circulation gets blocked," explains senior study author Frank Ferrone of Drexel University. "We now finally understand how ...

Scientists from the University of Leeds have found that the protein called prion helps our brains to absorb zinc, which is believed to be crucial to our ability to learn and the wellbeing of our memory. The findings published today (Tuesday 16 October) in Nature Communications show that prion protein regulates the amount of zinc in the brain by helping cells absorb it through channels in the cell surface. It is already known that high levels of zinc between brain cells are linked with diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. Professor Nigel Hooper from the University's ...

(Edmonton) Northern Alberta's boreal forest shows a surprising resiliency to human intrusion, but University of Alberta researchers warn the landscape has a definite breaking point. The U of A research team led by graduate student Stephen Mayor found that up to a certain point plant life in the boreal forest responded to intrusions such as roadways and farm fields by actually increasing its biodiversity. The researchers, counted plant species in sites across the whole of northern Alberta, an area larger than Germany. Then satellite and aerial photos were used to ...

Volcanic eruptions vary from common, small eruptions that have little impact on humans and the environment to rare, large-to-gigantic eruptions so massive they can threaten civilizations. While scientists don't yet fully understand the mechanisms that control whether an eruption is large or small, they do know that eruptions are driven by the rapid expansion of bubbles formed from water and other volatile substances trapped in molten rock as it rises beneath a volcano. The mechanism is much the same as that involved in shaking a bottle of a carbonated drink and then ...

Tampa, FL (Oct. 16, 2012) -- A landmark paper identifying genetic signatures that predict which patients will respond to a life-saving drug for treating congestive heart failure has been published by a research team co-led by Stephen B. Liggett, MD, of the University of South Florida. The study, drawing upon a randomized placebo-controlled trial for the beta blocker bucindolol, apprears this month in the online international journal PLoS ONE. In addition to Dr. Liggett, whose laboratory discovered and characterized the two genetic variations, Christopher O'Connor, ...

This press release is available in German. To solve the acute, global problem of securing food resources for a continuously growing population, we must work constantly to increase the sustainability and effectiveness of modern agricultural techniques. These efforts depend on new insights from plant ecology, particularly from work on native plants that grow in the primordial agricultural niche. Based on field studies on wild tobacco plants in the Great Basin Desert, Utah, USA, researchers of the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, demonstrated that ...