Voyager Travel Direct is giving away a free Red Sea holiday via its company Facebook page. The prize includes a 7 night all inclusive holiday for 2 people staying at the deluxe Siva Grand Beach Hotel. Return flights, transfers, 20kg luggage allowance and all meals and drinks are also included in the prize. The Siva Grand Beach Hotel is set in its own section of private beach overlooking the crystal waters of the Red Sea, just 8km from Hurghada Old Town. The hotel offers a range of restaurants and bars, live day and evening entertainment, a large outdoor swimming pool, ...

The National Trust has announced a Shakespearean actress, soul singing sensation, a world beating sailor and a passionate seafood champion have thrown their weight behind the charity's biggest ever coastal appeal to acquire a stretch of the White Cliffs of Dover. Dame Judi Dench, Joss Stone, Ben Ainslie and Rick Stein have joined thousands of people that have already supported the Trusts bid to raise GBP1.2 million to buy 1.35km of this much loved Kent coast. Soul singer Joss Stone, who was born in Dover, said: "I love Dover and the White Cliffs. They mean so ...

As a vast number of e cigarette online retailers are fighting their way to the top of the industry, the Firelight Fusion is one of the best kits currently available on the US market. The Fusion kit is a KR808D1 model, which is known throughout the e cigarette community as the top selling model available. "We chose the KR808D1 to be the base of our new e cigarette kit because of the known reliability of the model and its reputation among the vaping community," says Tiffany Ellis of Firelight Fusion E Cigarettes. "Our customers deserve only the best ...

Corcentric, a leading provider of Accounts Payable automation and electronic invoicing solutions today announced they will be hosting a 60-minute educational Webinar titled "Top 10 Reports and KPIs AP Should Have at Their Fingertips." This Webinar, hosted by Rob DeVincent, Corcentric's Vice President of Product Marketing, will take place on Tuesday, August 21, 2012 at 2:00 PM ET/11:00 AM PT. Studies have shown that best-in-class Accounts Payable departments are 156% more likely to measure AP performance on a monthly or more frequent basis. By creating reports ...

Marie Storey, Head of Fundraising at Wallace & Gromit's Children's Charity, said: "We are delighted to award Foresters this Golden Gromit. The Golden Gromit recognises Foresters outstanding support for Wallace & Gromit's Children's Charity and their commitment to help improve the quality of life of sick children across the UK. It is our unique way to say a BIG thank you to Foresters staff and members who have transformed the work we do and without whom we would not be where we are today." The Golden Gromit is only the second one ever awarded and it ...

For its fifth consecutive year iTunes Festival returns to Camden's most iconic music venue, the Roundhouse. Right from the get-go iTunes Festival has pulled act after act out of the bag with the Foo Fighters, Adele and even the late Amy Whinehouse taking to the famous Roundhouse stage. This year's selection surely will not disappoint either. Over 30 nights - each night of September - a different act will perform a unique live set in a personal, intimate setting. This year's acts include Usher, Ed Shearan, Emeli Sande, Deadmau5, Jack White, Plan B, Noel Gallagher's High ...

Arsetta, Inc. -- since 2003 a leading provider of web-based auction management software for charity auctions -- today announces the launch of ReadySetAuction Live. This next-generation bidding platform leverages increasingly ubiquitous personal mobile devices to bring the power, flexibility, and convenience of personalized online bidding to fundraiser auction events. With the introduction of ReadySetAuction Live, auction guests use their own smartphones and tablets to browse the auction catalog, place bids, buy fixed-price items, and donate to Fund-A-Need special appeals. ...

Stella McCartney opens her first store in Spain located in the heart of Barcelona's Paseo de Gracia and the corner of Carrer Rossello today. Constructed in 1900 the historic building, housing the designer's 5th European freestanding store, is influenced by French classicism and surrounded by the city's celebrated Art Nouveau architecture including Gaudi's La Pedrera. The new 100 square meter shop reflects an intimate, personal and architectural atmosphere using simple and natural materials contrasted with sculptural details illustrating her signature style combination of ...

From working wardrobe essentials to that signature Lipsy tracksuit, you can get next day delivery on the designer ranges when you shop before 9pm.* Key pieces from the desk till dawn collections include the Floral Print Shift Dress in black and lilac and Tie Neck Buttoned Shirt in cream with contrast black detailing and metallic buttons. Other office essentials include the Dogtooth Flat Front Trousers and Tweed Peplum Skirt which come in light brown-grey shades really versatile for wearing with a neutral blouse or lightweight jumper and classic mac. Later, for an evening ...

A new way to study the role of a critical neurotransmitter in disorders such as epilepsy, anxiety, insomnia, depression, schizophrenia, and alcohol addiction has been developed by a group of scientists led by Gong Chen, an associate professor of biology at Penn State University. The new method involves molecularly engineering a model synapse -- a structure through which a nerve cell send signals to another cell. This model synapse can precisely control a variety of receptors for the neurotransmitter called GABA, which is important in brain chemistry. The research, which ...

Most informed consent disputes involve disagreements about who said what and when, not stand-offs over whether a particular risk ought to have been disclosed. But doctors may "routinely underestimate the importance of a small set of risks that vex patients" according to international experts writing in this week's PLOS Medicine. Increasingly, doctors are expected to advise and empower patients to make rational choices by sharing information that may affect treatment decisions, including risks of adverse outcomes. However, authors from Australia and the US led by David ...

Australian doctors sometimes fail to warn patients of risks that could affect the patient's quality of life before providing treatment or surgery, a new study led by University of Melbourne researchers has shown. Published in PLoS Medicine today, the study showed that some doctors, particularly surgeons, are not explaining the risk of specific outcomes that matter most to patients. Overlooked risks that led to a legal claim or complaint included chronic pain, sexual dysfunction, visual or hearing loss, and the need for re-operation. Lead author Dr Marie Bismark from ...

Bioengineers at the University of California, San Diego have developed a method of modeling, simultaneously, an organism's metabolism and its underlying gene expression. In the emerging field of systems biology, scientists model cellular behavior in order to understand how processes such as metabolism and gene expression relate to one another and bring about certain characteristics in the larger organism. In addition to serving as a platform for investigating fundamental biological questions, this technology enables far more detailed calculations of the total cost ...

Marin County, California has one of the highest rates of breast cancer in the world, a fact that scientists know has nothing to do with the land itself but with some other, unknown factor. A new study that analyzed mouth buccal cell samples stored frozen at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) suggests what this factor may be: a genetic trait present among women within the county's predominantly white population. In an article published online this week by the Journal of the American College of Surgeons, which will appear in the November 2012 print issue, ...

At its most fundamental level, diabetes is a disease characterized by stress -- microscopic stress that causes inflammation and the loss of insulin production in the pancreas, and system-wide stress due to the loss of that blood-sugar-regulating hormone. Now, researchers led by scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) have uncovered a new key player in amplifying this stress in the earliest stages of diabetes: a molecule called thioredoxin-interacting protein (TXNIP). The molecule, they've discovered, is central to the inflammatory process that ...

The molecular missteps that disrupt brain function in the most common form of adult-onset muscular dystrophy have been revealed in a new study published by Cell Press. Myotonic dystrophy is marked by progressive muscle wasting and weakness, as well as excessive daytime sleepiness, memory problems, and mental retardation. A new mouse model reported in the August 9 issue of the journal Neuron reproduces key cognitive and behavioral symptoms of this disease and could be used to develop drug treatments, which are currently lacking. "The new animal model reproduces important ...

The Third Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-III) has issued Data Release 9 (DR9), the first public release of data from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). In this release BOSS, the largest of SDSS-III's four surveys, provides spectra for 535,995 newly observed galaxies, 102,100 quasars, and 116,474 stars, plus new information about objects in previous Sloan surveys (SDSS-I and II). "This is just the first of three data releases from BOSS," says David Schlegel of the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), an astrophysicist ...

Alexandria, VA – A team of researchers may have discovered a way to hear earthquakes. Not the noises of rattling windows and crumbling buildings, but the real sounds an earthquake makes deep underground as rock grinds and fails catastrophically. Typical seismic waves have frequencies below the audible range for humans, but the August issue of EARTH shows you where to find the voice of one seismic monster: the March 11, 2011, magnitude-9.0 Tohoku earthquake in Japan. Beyond the novelty of simply hearing an earthquake, the team found that the new technology could possibly ...

Large hotel chains are quick to adopt and adapt innovations developed in other industries, while smaller hotels make almost continual incremental changes in response to customers' needs. The UK hotel industry is alive with innovation and new ways of improving service for customers, research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) has found. The findings of a project led by Professor Gareth Shaw of Exeter University and Professor Allan Williams of Surrey University run counter to the traditional image of the hotel sector as slow to change. Official measures ...

Research has revealed that the extremely hot, dry and windy conditions on Black Saturday combined with structures in the atmosphere called 'horizontal convective rolls' -similar to streamers of wind flowing through the air - which likely affected fire behaviour. The study is the first of its kind to produce such detailed, high-resolution simulations of weather patterns on the day and provides insights for future fire management and warning systems. The work was led by Dr Todd Lane and Ms Chermelle Engel from The University of Melbourne with Prof Michael Reeder (Monash ...

Due to the lack of studies, there is currently no proof that patients with ovarian cancer can benefit from positron emission tomography (PET) alone or in combination with computed tomography (CT). As regards diagnostic accuracy, in certain cases, recurrences can be detected earlier and more accurately with PET or PET/CT than with conventional imaging techniques. This is the conclusion of the final report by the German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) in Cologne that was published on 23 May 2012. More reliable diagnosis is supposed to improve ...

A major breakthrough by scientists at Queen's University Belfast could lead to more effective treatments for throat and cervical cancer. The discovery could see the development of new therapies, which would target the non-cancerous cells surrounding a tumour, as well as treating the tumour itself. Researchers at Queen's Centre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology have found that the non-cancerous tissue, or 'stroma', surrounding cancers of the throat and cervix, plays an important role in regulating the spread of cancer cells. The discovery opens the door for the development ...

Trusting research over their guts, scientists in New Zealand and Canada examined the phenomenon Stephen Colbert, comedian and news satirist, calls "truthiness"—the feeling that something is true. In four different experiments they discovered that people believe claims are true, regardless of whether they actually are true, when a decorative photograph appears alongside the claim. The work is published online in the Springer journal, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. "We wanted to examine how the kinds of photos people see every day—the ones that decorate newspaper or TV ...

Mini-courses designed to increase creative stimulation and variety in physicians' daily routines can sharpen critical thinking skills, improve job satisfaction and encourage innovative thinking, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers who piloted a series of such courses. "For decades, career development theory has identified a stage that occurs at midlife, characterized by a desire to escape the status quo and pursue new ventures," said Kimberly Myers, Ph.D., associate professor of humanities. "It is increasingly clear that these mid-career professionals ...

New research from the University of Warwick suggests that Berlin has the best democratic space in the world, topping a list that includes London, Washington and Tokyo. The list appears in a new book, 'Democracy and Public Space: The Physical Sites of Democratic Performance' written by Dr John Parkinson, from the University of Warwick's Politics and International Studies department. Dr Parkinson carefully selected 11 capital cities and assessed how well they provide space for all kinds of democratic action. He visited Berlin, Washington, Ottawa, Canberra, Wellington, ...