Prudential has revealed the results of its Class of 2011 study, which investigates how much pension money this year's retirees will have to live off. The average person retiring this year expects to have an estimated total annual income of GBP16,559 including any private pensions and State Pension, according to figures from Prudential's Class of 2011 survey. One in five (19 per cent) of 2011's new pensioners expect to live on less than GBP10,000 a year. The Class of 2011 is marginally better off than those who retired in 2010 when the average estimated income for ...

Habitat has launched a new website for customers in the UK, Germany and France. The launch of the website also sees Habitat now offering online delivery to Germany and Republic of Ireland. The new website features a suggestion tool on product pages. This means that customers can search for a product they are interested in and the Habitat website will suggest products that go with it. This could be a product from the same range as the item the customer search for, or other similar products. This will allow customers to view and purchase matching items that they may ...

Sportpost.com has launched the new version of its website. The new site sees the addition of the Post Up button, which allows users to indicate to the community what content they 'like'. Since being released in BETA the button has already been used over a million times. The button is now available for website owners and users with sports blogs who want to encourage their audience to Post Up their content on Sportpost. Set-up under the mantra 'share your sport with the world', Sportpost.com allows sports fans to find and post content from all over the web and share ...

Bupa and the RSPB have joined forces to bring wildlife gardening to over 300 of the health and care company's care homes in 2011. Using its Homes for Wildlife project, the RSPB hopes to bring many species that are currently in decline in British gardens to Bupa care homes, from house sparrows and song thrushes to butterflies, bees and hedgehogs. Bupa and the wildlife charity hopes that as well as creating more homes for birds and other creatures, the initiative will reignite a passion for wildlife among care home residents or spark a new interest. Once the project ...

Just five months after Johnson & Johnson's subsidiary DePuy Orthopaedics recalled 93,000 defective hip implants worldwide, the FDA, as of last week, abandoned a proposal that would have required manufacturers to prove that an implanted medical device is safe before marketing it. But a San Diego woman and former California Broadcast President and TV general manager who is living in agony, says she represents thousands of patients already affected and says the FDA needs to close the loophole allowing untested medical implants to cripple people and endanger lives. She ...

OUFX Trader, creator of the Forex Mastery program, has announced the latest tool for making money in the Forex trading market: Forex Trader Pro. The Forex Trader Pro system is designed to increase the amount of money traders make in the Forex market, each and every time they trade. This latest offering from OUFX Trader is the only Forex trading system to include valuable training and priceless tools to safely increase and get the most out of every trade on the Forex market. The release of Forex Trader Pro opens up the profitable world of Forex trading to anyone ...

New York City Outward Bound, (www.nycoutwardbound.org), which has partnered with the City's Department of Education (DOE) since 2004 in its small school initiative, announced that Carl Weisbrod, Clinical Professor and Academic Chair of Global Real Estate at NYU's Schack Institute of Real Estate and a Board member since 1990, has been elected chairman of the Board. He succeeds Robert Miller, who has stepped down after four years in the post. Board member Mark Newhouse, executive vice president-newspapers, Advance Publications, has been named a vice chair. Together with longtime ...

Each track is unique and opens into a trip through different colors and harmonies. Each song, with original arrangements, stirs our emotions and appeals to our imagination. The moods offered in this album are all captivating. With the titles "Obsession" and "Cheyenne", Robert Lauri opens the doors of the mythical West: the blends of styles and convincing guitar chords give a new face to Western music. With the track "The Gun", the contrast between the moods of serenity and peace and the spirit of the rhythms of the Wild West is one of many examples of the ability ...

Salon and Spa Galleria is opening a new location in south Arlington. With one location already in Grapevine, Salon and Spa Galleria is bringing the same great hair care and skin care products and services to a new location off of 7807 S. Cooper in the Arlington and Mansfield area. "From the moment you walk through our doors, our goal is to completely satisfy your needs," owner Ron Sturgeon said, "If you're looking for hair, nail, skin and makeup services, we are confident that our goal will be met. We work hard to put together the finest team of specialists to make ...

Sooner or later we all must deal with the issues and complexities of aging and elderly care. Whether it's for us or for our loved ones, questions abound. What's the best home health care plan for an aging parent in need of daily assistance? Where are the safest and most attentive communities for those with Alzheimer's Disease? Are there trustworthy assisted living communities in the area and close to our home? What sort of hospice care is offered in the vicinity, how much will these elder care services cost, and how will we be able to afford them? ElderCareMatters.com ...

PPC Summit, a world-class producer of Internet marketing training, today announces a partnership with Brick Marketing, a leading search engine optimization service provider. Through this partnership, PPC Summit and Brick Marketing will promote PPC Summit's online training events and deliver targeted newsletter content to educate businesses on 'how-to' improve their search marketing, search engine optimization and social media results. The partnership allows both organizations to extend their reach to businesses who are interested in improving their Internet marketing ...

ARGYLEtv.com, a website which thousands use in order to watch TV online for free, is now available in 9 different languages. While offering Internet TV in over 70 different languages from around the world, ARGYLEtv.com has always been presented in English. In a move aimed at making their site more easily accessible to those who do not speak English, ARGYLEtv.com will now provide access to its site in multiple languages. ARGYLEtv.com has accomplished this by creating a family of sites which mirror the original sites' online TV programming, but whose content has been completely ...

Bulbup SAS is proud to announce the launch of TheCityCase Package - a fully customizable package featuring the Paris Museum Pass, the Paris Metro Pass, and the new Restaurants & Nightlife Pass. With a single package, customers will receive free admission to over sixty museums and monuments, including the Louvre, Versailles and Centre Pompidou, unlimited use of the Paris metro and bus system, as well as restaurant discounts and privileges. Those already familiar with the museum and metro passes will be excited to hear about the new Restaurants & Nightlife Pass for use at ...

General Services Administration (GSA) has selected AgilQuest Corporation to provide the necessary expertise, systems and resources to achieve real estate cost cutting goals, improve sustainability and enable workplace flexibility as mandated by the White House and Congress. Agencies throughout the federal government turn to GSA for proven solutions and GSA counts on AgilQuest technology and AgilQuest Workplace Services to develop the blueprint for other agencies to comply with these mandates. In June 2010, President Obama directed federal agencies to generate $8 billion ...

NEW YORK (24 January 2010)—A new study issued today by some of the world's top experts on forest governance finds fault with a spate of international accords, and helps explain their failure to stop rampant destruction of the world's most vulnerable forests. The report suggests that global efforts have too often ignored local needs, while failing to address the most fundamental challenge to global forest management—that deforestation usually is caused by economic pressures imposed from outside the forests. "Our findings suggest that disregarding the impact on forests ...

BOSTON – January 23, 2011 – Strokes are a leading cause of mortality and adult disability. Those that involve intracerebral hemorrhage (bleeding in the brain) are especially deadly, and there are no effective treatments to control such bleeding. Moreover, diabetes and hyperglycemia (high blood glucose levels) are associated with increases in bleeding during hemorrhagic stroke and worse clinical outcomes. But Joslin Diabetes Center researchers now have identified one key player that contributes to this increased bleeding, a discovery that may pave the way toward treatments ...

A new scientific discovery could have profound implications for nanoelectronic components. Researchers from the Nano-Science Center at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, in collaboration with Japanese researchers, have shown how electrons on thin tubes of graphite exhibit a unique interaction between their motion and their attached magnetic field – the so-called spin. The discovery paves the way for unprecedented control over the spin of electrons and may have a big impact on applications for spin-based nanoelectronics. The results have been published in ...

Stanford, CA— Plant biologists have discovered the last major element of the series of chemical signals that one class of plant hormones, called brassinosteroids, send from a protein on the surface of a plant cell to the cell's nucleus. Although many steps of the pathway were already known, new research from a team including Carnegie's Ying Sun and Zhiyong Wang fills in a missing gap about the mechanism through which brassinosteroids cause plant genes to be expressed. Their research, which will be published online by Nature Cell Biology on January 23, has implications for ...

It is known that teeth can protect themselves, to some extent, from attack by bacteria but that inflammation within a tooth can be damaging and, in extreme cases, lead to abscess or death of the tooth. New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Immunology shows that odontoblast cells are part of the immune system and fight to protect teeth from decay. Inside a tooth odontoblast cells sit between the enamel and pulp and produce a layer of dentin to protect the pulp from wear and infection. This research shows that, when under attack from bacteria, ...

DURHAM, N.C. – Despite what you might have heard, genetic sequencing alone is not enough to understand human disease. Researchers at Duke University Medical Center have shown that functional tests are absolutely necessary to understand the biological relevance of the results of sequencing studies as they relate to disease, using a suite of diseases known as the ciliopathies which can cause patients to have many different traits. "Right now the paradigm is to sequence a number of patients and see what may be there in terms of variants," said Nicholas Katsanis, Ph.D. "The ...

About 250 million years about 95 per cent of life was wiped out in the sea and 70 per cent on land. Researchers at the University of Calgary believe they have discovered evidence to support massive volcanic eruptions burnt significant volumes of coal, producing ash clouds that had broad impact on global oceans. "This could literally be the smoking gun that explains the latest Permian extinction," says Dr. Steve Grasby, adjunct professor in the University of Calgary's Department of Geoscience and research scientist at Natural Resources Canada. Grasby and colleagues ...

St. Louis, MO, January 24, 2011 – Asthma is one of the world's most common chronic diseases, affecting as many as 300 million people. It is estimated that by 2025 there could be an additional 100 million people with the disease. This rapid increase in asthma is most likely due to changing environmental or lifestyle factors, and over the last 15 years, changing diet has emerged as a promising contributor. Two studies published in the in the February 2011 issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association explore the possible relationship between nutrition and asthma. ...

A new study has found that tamoxifen, an anti-estrogen breast cancer medication, may reduce an individual's risk of death from lung cancer. Published early online in Cancer, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the study supports the hypothesis that there is a hormonal influence on lung cancer and that estrogen levels play a role in lung cancer patients' prognosis. Previous research suggests that menopausal hormone therapy increases women's risk of dying from lung cancer. If this is true, the use of anti-estrogens should have the opposite effect. Elisabetta ...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Can't help molding some snow into a ball and hurling it or tossing a stone as far into a lake as you can? New research from Indiana University and the University of Wyoming shows how humans, unlike any other species on Earth, readily learn to throw long distances. This research also suggests that this unique evolutionary trait is entangled with language development in a way critical to our very existence. The study, appearing online Jan. 14 in the journal "Evolution and Human Behavior," suggests that the well-established size-weight illusion, where ...

Oniqua Enterprise Analytics, the leading provider of MRO analytics software solutions for asset-intensive organizations, today announced the establishment of a new office in Africa. Located in Sandton, Johannesburg, the new operations will service South Africa and the entire sub-Saharan African region. Neil Pollock, a long-time business associate and partner of Oniqua, has been appointed Vice President and will head up the new operations. "This expansion into Africa comes on the heels of the completion of the regional rollout of BHP Billiton's global implementation ...