Debenhams, a leading department store, has reported that, even though they are often the last people to be associated with the phrase "fashion icon", frumpy and practically dressed Grannies across the nation are now inspiring the season's latest dress code on British streets. The fashion set saw granny style cardigans, tweed mid-length skirts and flesh coloured tights walk down the catwalks of Paris, New York, London and Milan and the trends have now filtered down to the high street. The look has been embraced by fashion icons and 'now' girls Alexa Cheung, Agyness ...

Ideasbynet, business gifts and promotional products provider, has announced its plans for 2011 following recent movements in the promotional gifts market. Ideasbynet has seen significant increases in demand for fundraising promotional gifts during the second half of 2010, which have brought their number of enquires almost to the level of its business marketing products. With the prospect of Government cuts being rife throughout 2011, Ideasbynet is expecting that there will be plenty of small organisations in need of additional funding from as many avenues as possible. ...

Under the administration of president George W. Bush it was demonstrated the insensitivity and lack of respect for the working class of this nation, but with his attitude and bad administration, he continuously demonstrated that he comes from a wealthy family and he only cared about his personal agenda and forgot to take care of the nation's interests. On the other hand, President Obama, coming from modest and humble roots, should not have forgotten the undeniable necessities of the American people. He and his family, who know first hand the basic necessities of every ...

DailyLibertarian.com's recent server upgrade and its eponymous domain change, did not affect traffic as predicted. In fact, in the 12 days from the domain change to the end of January resulted in over 30,000 page views. "It is because of our readers and their continued interest which makes our hard work for the website and articles worthwhile," states Thomas Brophy, Editor of Daily Libertarian, "we want to continue to provide our readers with meaningful articles, which is why we have expanded to include a Special Report series." The 'Special Report' series will cover ...

As the travel industry rebounds from a tight economy, services provided by professional medical teams such as Rescue Nurse International are poised for progress. Insurance and travel assistance companies have begun to rely more heavily on nursing services that use commercial airlines to transport ill or injured patients home from a vacation, business trip, semester abroad and even expatriates. Colorado-based Rescue Nurse International continues to expand their footprint nationally with a network of licensed nurses coast to coast, ready to respond at a moment's notice. "Accompanying ...

Spring break gives families the perfect opportunity to relax and unwind from hectic day-to-day schedules. Cherry Valley Lodge and CoCo Key Water Resort have come up with multiple packages that are suited to meet any families needs, especially when it comes to budget. Cherry Valley Lodge encourages families to slash into spring now and book during the Early Parrot Sale, February 1-18, 2011 and receive up to 20% off. Guests can visit www.cocokeywaterresort.com or call (800) 788-8008 to book today and save on some of the spectacular packages including: Unplug & Reconnect ...

The Dallas Police Department will get some surveillance assistance monitoring Super Bowl XLV parties and activities in and around Dallas this weekend. Dallas-based TerraHawk, LLC , at the request of Dallas Police, will provide their M.U.S.T. unit, outfitted with the latest thermal and digital recording devices, to monitor and patrol various activities and parties slated for the downtown area. Designed for ease of deployment during crowd control or emergency situations, TerraHawk's M.U.S.T. (mobile utility surveillance tower) allows occupants a 360 degree view of crowds ...

Banc De Binary (www.bbinary.com) is riding high, with a company value that has nearly tripled within the past year. As the largest binary options investment house prepares to announce its new platform additions later this month we asked two analysts to weigh in on whether the company can make good on the market's enthusiastic expectations. Here's what they had to say: Greg Hopkins, Economist, WebValue Experts: "Banc De Binary has taken the online trading field past its given potential. When we sat with the company's board about a year ago, we figured it would eat away ...

In typical plasmonic devices, electromagnetic waves crowd into tiny metal structures, concentrating energy into nanoscale dimensions. Due to coupling of electronics and photonics in these metal nanostructures, plasmonic devices could be harnessed for high-speed data transmission or ultrafast detector arrays. However, studying plasmonic fields in nanoscale devices presents a real roadblock for scientists, as examining these structures inherently alters their behavior. "Whether you use a laser or a light bulb, the wavelength of light is still too large to study plasmonic ...

University of British Columbia researchers estimate that fisheries catches in the Arctic totaled 950,000 tonnes from 1950 to 2006, almost 75 times the amount reported to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) during this period. Led by Prof. Daniel Pauly, the research team from UBC's Fisheries Centre and Dept. of Earth and Ocean Sciences reconstructed fisheries catch data from various sources – including limited governmental reports and anthropological records of indigenous population activities – for FAO's Fisheries Statistical Area 18, which covers ...

In our not-so-distant evolutionary past, stress often meant imminent danger, and the risk of blood loss, so part of our body's stress response is to stock-pile blood-clotting factors. Scientists in the Molecular Medicine Partnership Unit (MMPU), a collaboration between the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, and the University of Heidelberg Medical Centre, have discovered how stressed cells boost the production of the key blood-clotting factor, thrombin. Their work, published today in Molecular Cell, shows how cancer cells may be taking ...

This week, the highly-respected US Academy of Sciences journal (PNAS) published an article describing how the first line of defence of the human immune system distinguishes between microbes and the body's own structures. The basis of this recognition mechanism has been unclear since the key protein components were discovered over 30 years ago – and has now finally been cracked by a collaboration between high-level research groups at the University of Helsinki, Finland. When a microbe has infected us, the first defence mechanism that attacks it is a protein-based marking ...

A systematic review carried out by a team at the Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry has analysed existing studies and concluded that there are benefits to mental and physical well-being from taking exercise in the natural environment. Their findings are published in the leading research journal Environmental Science and Technology today, 4th February 2011. The research team, supported by the NIHR Peninsula Collaboration in Leadership for Applied Health Research and Care (PenCLAHRC, part of the NIHR family of health and research initiatives) in collaboration with ...

In Spain it is relatively common to come across petrol stations surrounded by houses, particularly in urban areas. Researchers from the University of Murcia (UM) have studied the effects of contamination at petrol stations that is potentially harmful to health, which can be noted in buildings less than 100 metres from the service stations. "Some airborne organic compounds – such as benzene, which increases the risk of cancer – have been recorded at petrol stations at levels above the average levels for urban areas where traffic is the primary source of emission", Marta ...

The link between deficits of omega-3 poly-unsaturated fatty acids (AGPO-3) and the onset of depressive disorders is not new in the medical field. However, what has not been known until now is the brain mechanism by which diet can condition mental health to a certain extent. Research undertaken by scientists in Bordeaux (France) and at the Faculty of Medicine and Odontology of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) and published in Nature Neuroscience, provides new clues to understanding this phenomenon. The name of the research work, 'Omega-3 nutritional deficiencies ...

Physicists, led by a researcher at the University of Warwick, studying new images of clouds of material exploding from the Sun have spotted instabilities forming in that exploding cloud that are similar to those seen in clouds in Earth's atmosphere. These results could greatly assist physicists trying to understand and predict our Solar System's "weather". The researchers, led by of the Centre for Fusion Space and Astrophysics, at the University of Warwick's Department of Physics, made their discovery when examining new images of clouds of material exploding from ...

Scientists continuing to investigate a 50 year mystery have discovered another vital clue that could help pave the way for improved medicines. The results feature in a special edition of Nature celebrating the International Year of Chemistry. The findings reveal an important insight into the way carbohydrates (sugars) bond and this will influence the way drugs are designed in the future. Using specialist laser equipment from the EPSRC-funded Laser Loan Pool managed by STFC's Central Laser Facility, Professors John Simons and Ben Davis together with co-workers from the ...

This declining trend is blamed on a failure of innovative drive in the industry, failure of the UK to support basic research, failure of venture capital to invest in early stage research, or failure of the Health Service to provide smart procurement. A research centre funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) shows that radical reform of the drugs industry regulatory system must be an important part of the solution to ensure a productive and profitable pharmaceutical sector, both globally and in the UK. Researchers from the ESRC's Innogen centre have ...

DURHAM, N.H. – From an environmental perspective, Daphnia pulex -- the waterflea – is the best-studied organism on the planet. Scientists know how this species responds to pollution, predators, day and night, making it an important model for ecological and evolutionary research. Its genome, however, remained elusive, limiting understanding of how the environment and genes interact. Until now. An international team of researchers comprising the Daphnia Genomics Consortium, including four from the University of New Hampshire's Hubbard Center for Genome Studies, has described ...

Ms. K. is vision-impaired and can't get around very well any more. Still, the 80-year-old, who lives alone, has no intention whatsoever of moving to a retirement home. Most elderly people think the same way. They want to stay in their accustomed surroundings as long as possible, where they can lead an autonomous life. What many fail to realize is that they are risking their health in the process. Cardiovascular problems are more frequent among the elderly, and the risk of falling is more prevalent: one person in three above the age of 65 falls once a year; among those over ...

URBANA – A University of Illinois scientist reports that family mealtimes that contain three ingredients in the right amounts can improve the quality of life in children who have chronic asthma. "Family mealtimes, when they're done right, are linked to many benefits for children, including a reduced risk of substance abuse, eating disorders, and obesity. In this study, we've put these mealtimes under a microscope so we can see minute by minute which factors deliver these healthy outcomes," said Barbara H. Fiese, director of the U of I's Family Resiliency Center. Which ...

Rainer Kube and his working group report in the current issue of Deutsches Ärzteblatt International (Dtsch Arztebl Int 2011; 108[4]: 41-6) on new treatment strategies in patients with colon cancer. The findings of multicenter observational studies are a good basis for improvements to overall quality of patient care. Against this background, from 2000 to 2004 Kube and his coauthors collected data on over 31 000 patients in 346 German hospitals. From this data pool they extracted statements about the quality of care. They discovered, for example, that colonoscopy screening ...

Compared to people in employment, men and women who are unemployed suffer more often and longer from both physical and emotional complaints. Why the un-employed should have health problems more often is discussed by Lars E. Kroll and his coauthor in the current issue of Deutsches Ärzteblatt International (Dtsch Arztebl Int 2011; 4: 47-52), along with a report on the findings of the GEDA study. The GEDA study (Gesundheit in Deutschland Aktuell, or Current Health in Germany) was carried out in 2008-2009 by the Robert Koch Institute. The results showed that unemployed people ...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Everyone knows chocolate is critical to a happy Valentine's Day. Now scientists are one step closer to knowing what makes a heart happy the rest of the year. It's a gene called DOT1L, and if you don't have enough of the DOT1L enzyme, you could be at risk for some types of heart disease. These findings from a study led by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine appear in the Feb. 1, 2011 issue of the journal Genes and Development. The team created a special line of mice that were genetically predisposed to ...

The first stars in the universe were not as solitary as previously thought. In fact, they could have formed alongside numerous companions when the gas disks that surrounded them broke up during formation, giving birth to sibling stars in the fragments. These are the findings of studies performed with the aid of computer simulations by researchers at Heidelberg University's Centre for Astronomy together with colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching and the University of Texas at Austin (USA). The group's findings, published in Science Express, ...