The National Trust has announced that one of the key sites in the history of the battle to improve access to the countryside, Kinder Scout in the Peak District, is set to get a major GBP2.5 million restoration over five years, starting in the spring of 2011. Work carried out by the National Trust, who have owned Kinder Scout since 1982, will see vast areas of the bare and degraded blanket peat landscape restored by gully-blocking, brash spreading and the planting of cotton grass, heather seed, and dwarf shrubs such as bilberry. To help with the restoration of the ...

Atlanta shredding company Shred-Green held a free shredding event on Saturday, November 6 at the Brightwater subdivision in Snellville, GA, providing free shredding services to the residents of the subdivision. This is one of several shredding events sponsored by Shred-Green in recent months. Representatives from Shred-Green were at the Brightwater subdivision for four hours, and over ten percent of the homeowners took advantage of the shredding service. The event was arranged by a resident who felt that the subdivision could benefit from this service. This turned out ...

Body Solutions, Atlanta Personal Training and Fitness Studio founded by Dan McGrath - voted Atlanta's #1 trainer by Creative Loafing earlier this month - is awarded Atlanta's best personal trainer title again, this time by Citysearch. "I'm honored Atlanta has chosen me as the city's best personal trainer for a second time. Citysearch is an incredible medium for the best of the city and the honor is one I don't take lightly. I went into this business because I enjoy seeing people succeed. When people are healthy they're confident and life is a lot more enjoyable," notes ...

British Airways has announced that it will commence non-stop daily flights to San Diego from London Heathrow as a first benefit of the official launch of the new joint business agreement with American Airlines and Iberia. The new transatlantic service to London is scheduled to begin in June 2011 and will be operated with the carrier's popular three-class Boeing 777 aircraft. Kevin Burns, British Airways regional director, Western USA and Western Canada, said: "Inaugurating non-stop flights between San Diego and London is one of the first tangible benefits of the joint ...

Nuffield Health Fitness & Wellbeing, part of the UK's largest healthcare charity is attempting to change the way people look at their health. Through its approach to keep their members motivated and educated their aim is to improve their members' overall health for the long term and in doing so help to get Britain healthier. As a result of Nuffield Health's innovative approach they are already seeing real results in member engagement and motivation. 70 per cent of customers who have had a health MOT have retained membership, versus 53 per cent of those who have not ...

Hotter Shoes has launched its biggest ever range of comfortable slippers, as part of its mission to deliver day-long comfort to today's active men and women. Designers at UK-based Hotter Comfort Concept are passionate about comfortable footwear and have created a collection of slippers with a number of comfort features including lightweight polyurethane soles, smooth internal seams and soft suede, sheepskin and leather uppers. Producing comfortable footwear for over 50 years, Hotter Comfort Concept is now the UK's biggest shoe manufacturer making 1.3 million pairs per ...

Black Friday deals are not just for retail shops anymore and the travel industry has jumped on board to offer travelers exceptional deals the day after Thanksgiving. Hacienda Tres Rios Resort has recently reveled a Black Friday Special Offer for travelers planning their 2011 vacation. The Black Friday Special Offer includes a 50% off the resort's best available rate under the Endless Luxury, all-inclusive plan. The one-of-a-kind, Endless Luxury, all-inclusive package includes unlimited food and drinks (including alcohol), taxes and tips, various recreational ...

Founded in 2003, oDesk rapidly secured its position as one of the market leaders. Total billings since launch have exceeded $196m. In the third quarter of 2010 the company reported more than 1m hours worked by its global freelance workforce in a single month (August 2010). These findings and more were reported today (22nd November 2010) in the Freelance Marketplace Review, published by WhichLance.com, the outsourcing marketplace comparison site. The report found that oDesk had secured almost 40% share of all spend across the top ten online outsourcing sites during ...

CMC Markets have launched their new charting package which is available to all demo and live users of their next generation spread betting platform. The new, powerful proprietary charting and drawing tool package has been designed to give traders access to advanced tools and powerful functionality, yet remain simple and intuitive to use. Executive Chairman of CMC Markets, Peter Cruddas, commented: "We understand that professional real-time charts are extremely important to our clients and we think that the new spread betting charts package is so powerful that traders ...

The MBNA Ireland Platinum credit card introduced earlier this year continues to provide a market leading deal to Irish card-holders despite financial uncertainty. The Platinum card comes with 10 months interest free borrowing on balance and money transfers followed by a well below average 14.9% rate (variable). Considering the rarity of 0% deals in the current market and the interest rate average of 18.6%, the offer made by the MBNA card is a seriously big deal. Speaking about the Platinum card, a Bank of America representative, of which MBNA is a subsidiary, said: "The ...

From the best-selling Complete Idiot's Guide series comes a new title teaching runners how to run more naturally by running barefoot. Co-authored by barefoot running pioneer Dr. Craig Richards and running coach Thomas Hollowell, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Barefoot Running reveals the stages to successfully transition to barefoot and minimal footwear running. "This barefoot running book does much more than tell runners they should run without shoes," says Thomas Hollowell. "Dr. Richards and I go to great lengths to outline where running shoes went wrong, why barefoot ...

The independent consumer organization, toyportfolio.com, announces the launch of their free mobile app. "Toy shopping just got a lot simpler with our easy-to-use mobile app," notes co-founder Stephanie Oppenheim. "Shoppers can take us along to the toy store or shop online. If you're shopping for kids, this takes the guesswork out of finding expert and kid-tested toys that will surely be a hit. Everyone wants to deliver that wow-wee gift and shoppers have been using us as their secret resource for years. The app now makes it that much easier to access our reviews and ...

Cruise.com, one of the Internet's largest cruise sellers, jumped into the "Black Friday" promotions with its first-ever Black Friday Cruise Sale. The sale is scheduled to begin at 8AM on Friday, November 26th. Cruise.com is offering exclusive opportunities on many cruise lines to destinations worldwide. Be among the first 35 callers and receive a 7-night Caribbean cruise for just $249. Other exclusive offers include dollars off, free air, on-board credits, 2 for 1 cruises and more. "These are by far the best deals of the year! If you are planning a cruise, this is the ...

Working out how to make the best possible use of material stocks and minimize waste has always been a time-consuming, everyday problem for industrial companies, professional contractors and hobbyists who need to cut parts according to a project's specification. Now, Optimalon Software's new and innovative 1DCutX add-in for Microsoft Excel makes it easy to optimize the cutting of linear material (such as bars, beams and pipes). Traditionally, the most obvious and widely-used cutting procedure is known as the "greedy" cutting approach and involves cutting the biggest parts ...

Frequent hemodialysis improved left ventricular mass (heart size) and self-reported physical health compared to conventional hemodialysis for kidney failure, according to the Frequent Hemodialysis Network (FHN) Daily Trial funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Results were published online Nov. 20, 2010, in the New England Journal of Medicine to coincide with a presentation at the American Society of Nephrology meeting in Denver. Six hemodialysis treatments per week improved left ventricular mass and physical health ...

Jerusalem, November 21, 2010 – Research work carried out at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem arouses a cautionary warning in the growing field of the development of stem cells as a means for future treatment of patients through replacement of diseased or damaged tissues by using the patient's own stem cells. The research indicates a possible danger of cancerous tissue development in the use of such cells. Embryonic stem cells, which are undifferentiated cells, have the potential to develop into all cell types of the adult body, and thousands of researchers all over ...

An international group of scientists, including researchers at the Medical Research Council (MRC), has discovered 30 genes that control the age at which girls reach sexual maturity. They found that many of the genes responsible for puberty also play a strong role in how the body metabolises fat, establishing new biological links between going through puberty at a young age and being at increased risk of obesity. This knowledge will help to explain why girls in some families are more likely to go through puberty at an early age, and may eventually help to prevent chronic ...

Leading scientists and marine managers have called for a greater national effort to protect vital 1000-kilometre stretches of ocean bordering the middle of Australia's eastern and western coastlines. In a major statement entitled The Coffs Harbour Subtropical Reefs Declaration, they urge increased focus and better management for reefs south of the Great Barrier Reef and WA tropical coral zone, explaining that these more southerly areas are expected to become critical refuges for northern tropical marine life under global warming. The declaration follows a workshop by ...

"We demonstrate that human age can be estimated from blood with reasonable accuracy using a simple, robust, and sensitive test assay," said Manfred Kayser of the Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam in the Netherlands. "Our method is applicable in situations where only bloodstains are available, which covers a large proportion of crime cases." The method will be especially useful in forensic cases in which age information is important to provide investigative leads for finding unknown persons, Kayser added. Existing methods for age estimation have limited use ...

A pilot trial showed that a six-month exercise training program designed to increase leg strength, leg flexibility and overall fitness may improve post-thrombotic syndrome, a frequent, chronic complication of deep vein thrombosis, states a research article in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) (pre-embargo link only) http://www.cmaj.ca/embargo/cmaj100248.pdf Chronic post-thrombotic syndrome develops in up to one half of patients with deep vein thrombosis (DVT). These patients can experience leg pain, heaviness, swelling, water retention, hyperpigmentation and ...

A new evidence-based clinical practice guideline will help doctors, healthcare providers and parents reduce the pain and distress of immunization in children, states an article in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) (pre-embargo link only) http://www.cmaj.ca/embargo/cmaj092048.pdf. Immunization injections are the most common source of physician-induced pain in childhood and are given many times to most Canadian children. Pain from vaccine injections needs to be addressed at an early age to avoid needle fears and anxiety at future procedures, and non-compliance ...

Richmond, Va. (Nov. 22, 2010) – Researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University have discovered that a gene well known for its involvement in tumor cell development, growth and metastasis also protects cancer cells from being destroyed by chemotherapy. By inhibiting the expression of this gene, doctors may have a new viable and effective approach for treating aggressive cancers such as breast, liver and prostate carcinomas, malignant gliomas and neuroblastomas that result from high expression of this cancer-promoting gene. The new study was reported the week of Nov. 22 ...

A new study reveals that muscle cells fuse together during development by poking "fingers" into each other to help break down the membranes separating them. The study appears online on November 22, 2010 in the Journal of Cell Biology(www.jcb.org). During muscle development, individual muscle cells fuse together to form long myotubes containing multiple cell nuclei. In the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, fusion occurs between two different types of muscle cell: founder cells and fusion-competent myoblasts. Using electron microscopy to analyze developing fly embryos, ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., November 22, 2010 -- Five related species of tree-dwelling snakes found in Southeast and South Asia may just be the worst nightmares of ophidiophobes (people who have abnormal fears of snakes). Not only are they snakes, but they can "fly" -- flinging themselves off their perches, flattening their bodies, and gliding from tree to tree or to the ground. To Virginia Tech biologist Jake Socha, these curious reptiles are something of a biomechanical wonder. In order to understand how they do what they do, Socha and his colleagues recently studied Chrysopelea ...

Boston, Mass. – Medulloblastomas are the most common malignant brain tumors of childhood, with 40 to 50 percent overall mortality. One of the greatest challenges in treating them is that they vary substantially from patient to patient. In the largest genomic study of human medulloblastomas to date, researchers from Children's Hospital Boston, together with collaborators, have identified six subtypes with distinct molecular "fingerprints" that will improve doctors' ability to direct and individualize treatment. The study, reported online November 22nd in the Journal of ...