The City of Stamford has agreed to pay a Norwalk woman $230,000 as the result of a 2009 case of police brutality. Atty. Antonio Ponvert III, of Koskoff, Koskoff & Bieder, today announced that the $230,000 out-of-court settlement resolves a lawsuit filed against the City of Stamford and Stamford police officer Greg Zach on behalf of a longtime Norwalk resident. According to the Complaint filed in Stamford Superior Court in June 2009, Brenda Mazariegos was attempting to enter the parking lot of her employer, The Palms Nightclub, a longtime downtown Stamford business ...

KIDS 'N' PETS Instant All-Purpose Stain & Odor Remover has been named a 2014 National Parenting Publications Awards (NAPPA) GOLD winner for its innovation, attention to quality and proven ability to eliminate both stains and odors from any water-safe surface. KIDS 'N' PETS was founded by a dad who desired a non-toxic, simple, and effective solution for tackling a variety of messes , from pet accidents to potty training mishaps, mealtime spills to wine party slips. "We are honored to receive this recognition and excited about the opportunity for more parents to learn ...

Meridian Leasing Corporation ("Meridian"), one of the largest independent lessors in the IT industry, has gone live with LeaseWave, the lease management suite provided by Odessa Technologies, Inc. ("Odessa"). The Meridian install of LeaseWave represents significant enhancements made to user experience for both front and back office personnel. "Meridian offers creative leasing structures tailored to the unique financial requirements of each of our clients. The flexibility of LeaseWave will enable us to automate our highly customized services and meet the needs of our ...

The symptoms of a gallbladder disease varies. It can be a mere discomfort or it could be intense pain felt around the lower stomach, usually after eating. In some cases, people also exhibit jaundice (the yellowing of the whites of the eyes) as well as sever nausea and fever. Gallstones are the typical cause of a gallbladder disease. These are solid stones that accumulate in the gall bladder and are made up of cholesterol, calcium deposits and bile salts. Only a doctor can properly diagnose gallbladder disease and distinguish the pain associated with it from other types ...

The term "divorce" is usually associated with being a destroyer of the family unit. Of course there are negative effects associated with divorce, but sometimes the benefits can be overlooked, especially as it pertains to children. Sometimes, divorce could be the best option long-term and provide a healthier environment in which to raise a child - one that could be even more beneficial than an environment where parents decide to stay together and work out their differences for the sake of their marriage and their kids. There are five key ways in which divorce can benefit ...

One of only two Eastern Seaboard sites to make it in the top 10 whitewater rafting rivers in the country, Ocoee River has breathtaking scenery on top of its world class rapids. Its Class III and Class IV whitewater rapids are challenging, yet offer determined first-time rafters a chance to prove their mettle. The upper Ocoee River was the site of the Whitewater Competition of the 1996 Olympics held in Atlanta. Raft One, a top Ocoee whitewater rafting company, is proud to offer their clients safe access to this majestic body of water. Take the entire family; children ...

During the summer, Tampa garage doors are notorious for leaking cooled air and creating intensely hot air that is stored up against your home. The experts at Overhead Door Tampa realize that both of these issues can create a third problem - high energy bills - and they wish to help by offering you tips on how to make your home and garage more energy efficient this summer. How to Keep Your Garage Cool One of the easiest ways to save money on your energy bills is to install an insulated garage door. Doors like this have an easier time keeping temperatures under control ...

Horizontal drilling typically plays second fiddle to hydraulic fracturing (or "fracking") when the media covers the oil and natural gas industry. However, Fossil Oil, an oil and gas investment company, believes that horizontal drilling should take the stage front and center because it is a marvel of innovation and engineering. Traditional vertical drilling limits the ability to recover the oil and gas found within a shale formation. Horizontal drilling completely changes the game by allowing the operators that would perform the vertical drill to set pipe and drill throughout ...

Miami is known for its warm sun, amazing beaches, and chic fashion. Now, Miami will also be the home of a new Body Details location in Kendall. Body Details is well known in South Florida as the home of professional permanent laser body hair removal. They use only the safest, most sophisticated state-of-the-art methods, which yield amazing permanent results. Their certified medical professionals use optimized wavelengths that are adjusted for your skin type to safely and permanently remove unwanted hair. The in-house medical research team has created a protocol of strict ...

Nothing ever seems to go wrong at the right times. In a perfect world, unexpected leaks and malfunctioning equipment would happen on a weekday afternoon when everyone is at home. Wouldn't it be nice not to hassle with problems like these in the middle of the night? Unfortunately, this is exactly the reality thousands of homeowners face every year. Thankfully, the plumbers in Pittsburgh, Stahl Plumbing, provide service 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Your Single Source for 24/7 Plumbing Service Imagine what it must be like to call a local area emergency plumber ...

Agilix Labs, Inc. announced today, at the ASU+GSV Education Innovation Summit in Scottsdale, Arizona, the availability of the Agilix Buzz application. Personalized Learning solutions built upon Agilix BuzzTM and Agilix xLiTM support a wide range of learning models - including: virtual, blended, competency and mastery-based - from individual classrooms to School District and State-Wide adoptions. Agilix BuzzTM is a flexible, modular, customizable, and scalable Personalized Learning Application designed to be branded and integrated by partners who need to deliver proven ...

An extensive review of more than 200 published academic, industry and government research reports into why consumers adopt organic product purchasing behaviors was conducted by Academics Review - a non-profit led by independent academic experts in agriculture and food sciences. This review was then supplemented with an assessment of more than 1,000 news reports, 500 website and social media account evaluations and reviews of hundreds of other marketing materials, advertisements, analyst presentations, speeches and advocacy reports generated between 1988 and 2014. Our findings ...

New private home sales is expected to rise after the drop in 1st quarter of 2014 as developers has been holding back the launches as well, especially after the implementation of the last cooling measure of Total Debt Servicing Ratio (TDSR). Those projects that are competitively priced and near to MRT are expected to stay resilient and continue to attract interest. The recent preview of Commonwealth Towers saw more than 1,500 potential buyers who attended the preview. This development is a joint venture between Hong Leong Holdings and CDL. In march 2014, there are ...

A new medical-testing device is being prepped to enter the battle against infectious disease. This instrument could improve diagnosis of certain diseases in remote areas, thanks in part to knowledge gained from a series of investigations aboard the International Space Station on the behavior of liquids. The device uses the space-tested concept of capillary flow to diagnose infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis. David Kelso, Ph.D., a researcher at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., had been working for several years to develop a simple, inexpensive ...

The fine Italian wrought iron Furnishing Collections of CIANI - EMPORIO SAN FIRENZE www.EmporioSanFirenze.com have continually satisfied the need for art and commercial production, typical of the evolution of artisan workmanship from the Florentine Renaissance to today. Each product begins with hand drawings and is then fabricated by carefully pairing various materials of art glass, bronze, pewter, marble or fine fabrics with specialty finishes of gold, rust, silver or painted color combinations. Interior and exterior collections from antique reproductions to modern design ...

Despite its potentially harmful effects in children, codeine continues to be prescribed in U.S. emergency rooms, according to new research from UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital San Francisco. As reported in the May issue of Pediatrics, solutions include changing provider prescription behaviors to promote the use of better alternatives to codeine, such as ibuprofen or hydrocodone. "Despite strong evidence against the use of codeine in children, the drug continues to be prescribed to large numbers of them each year," said Sunitha Kaiser, MD, UCSF assistant clinical professor ...

LIVERMORE, Calif.— A recent Sandia National Laboratories study offers insight into how a federal transportation security officer's thought process can influence decisions made during airport baggage screening, findings that are helping the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) improve the performance of its security officers. The TSA-funded project, led by Sandia researchers Ann Speed and Kiran Lakkaraju, focused on the impacts on threat detection when transportation security officers are asked to switch between the pre-check (indicated by TSA as TSA Pre✓) ...

PHILADELPHIA – Researchers may have identified key genes linked to why some people have a higher tolerance for pain than others, according to a study released today that will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology's 66th Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, April 26 to May 3, 2014. "Our study is quite significant because it provides an objective way to understand pain and why different individuals have different pain tolerance levels," said study author Tobore Onojjighofia, MD, MPH, with Proove Biosciences and a member of the American Academy of Neurology. "Identifying ...

NEW YORK, NY (April 20, 2014) — A team of researchers from Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC), Weill Cornell Medical College, and Brandeis University has devised a wholly new approach to the treatment of Alzheimer's disease involving the so-called retromer protein complex. Retromer plays a vital role in neurons, steering amyloid precursor protein (APP) away from a region of the cell where APP is cleaved, creating the potentially toxic byproduct amyloid-beta, which is thought to contribute to the development of Alzheimer's. Using computer-based virtual screening, ...

Stem cells – the body's master cells – demonstrate a bizarre property never before seen at a cellular level, according to a study published today from scientists at the University of Cambridge. The property – known as auxeticity – is one which may have application as wide-ranging as soundproofing, super-absorbent sponges and bulletproof vests. Most materials when stretched will contract. For example, if one pulls on an elastic band, the elastic itself will get thinner. The opposite is also true: squeeze a material and it will expand – for example, if one squeezes a tennis ...

PITTSBURGH—With gene expression analysis growing in importance for both basic researchers and medical practitioners, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Maryland have developed a new computational method that dramatically speeds up estimates of gene activity from RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) data. With the new method, dubbed Sailfish after the famously speedy fish, estimates of gene expression that previously took many hours can be completed in a few minutes, with accuracy that equals or exceeds previous methods. The researchers' report on their ...

Most drugs used to treat lung, breast and pancreatic cancers also promote drug-resistance and ultimately spur tumor growth. Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have discovered a molecule, or biomarker, called CD61 on the surface of drug-resistant tumors that appears responsible for inducing tumor metastasis by enhancing the stem cell-like properties of cancer cells. The findings, published in the April 20, 2014 online issue of Nature Cell Biology, may point to new therapeutic opportunities for reversing drug resistance in a range ...

Mothers give a newborn baby a gift of germs—germs that help to kick-start the infant's immune system. But antibiotics, used to fend off infection, may paradoxically interrupt a newborn's own immune responses, leaving already-vulnerable premature babies more susceptible to dangerous pathogens. A new animal study by neonatology researchers at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) sheds light on immunology in newborns by revealing how gut microbes play a crucial role in fostering the rapid production of infection-fighting white blood cells, called granulocytes. "At ...

BOSTON –Although doctors have long known that people with Down syndrome have a heightened risk of developing acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) during childhood, they haven't been able to explain why. Now, a team of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute investigators has uncovered a connection between the two conditions. In a study posted online today by the journal Nature Genetics, the researchers track the genetic chain of events that links a chromosomal abnormality in Down syndrome to the cellular havoc that occurs in ALL. Their findings are relevant not only to people with ...

STANFORD, Calif. — A single type of cell in the lining of the bladder is responsible for most cases of invasive bladder cancer, according to researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Their study, conducted in mice, is the first to pinpoint the normal cell type that can give rise to invasive bladder cancers. It's also the first to show that most bladder cancers and their associated precancerous lesions arise from just one cell, and explains why many human bladder cancers recur after therapy. "We've learned that, at an intermediate stage during cancer ...