As it stands, outstanding U.S. student loan debt currently exceeds $1 trillion--more than the country's collective current credit card debt. Nonetheless, potential good news may be on the horizon for students confined to their student loans. A bill, previously introduced during the last legislative session, was reintroduced earlier this year by three democratic senators that will allow private student loans to be dischargeable in a bankruptcy proceeding. Current law bans these loans from being discharged unless exceptional circumstances exist for borrowers. Student ...

Samuel Cordes, managing attorney of Samuel J. Cordes & Associates, a boutique labor and employment law firm in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, has been recognized for his excellence in law practice in Pennsylvania's 2013 edition of Super Lawyers magazine for the tenth year in a row. Super Lawyers magazine has named Cordes, as one of the top Employment Lawyers in Pennsylvania every year since 2004. This distinction is reserved for the top 5% of attorneys in Pennsylvania. He was also honored as one of the Top 100 Lawyers in Pennsylvania and one of the Top 50 Pittsburgh. He ...

Panter, Panter, & Sampedro, P.A. is pleased to introduce attorneys Grace Gomez and Joe Lackey of Gomez and Lackey, LLC as the newest members to join the Panter, Panter & Sampedro Referral Network. The Panter, Panter & Sampedro Referral Network is an established attorney referral network of over 125 lawyers with diverse backgrounds. The group's goal is to assist individuals in the community through providing qualified referrals to attorneys who can help with their specific legal needs. "It is with great pleasure that I welcome Grace Gomez and Joe Lackey ...

Kitchen Inspire, a leading seller of kitchen supplies, wishes to inform the public about the savings restaurant owners can have when they choose to use melamine dinnerware in their restaurant. Melamine dinnerware offers your restaurant incredible savings over traditional dishes. To begin with, it is significantly cheaper per piece than more traditional ceramic or porcelain dishes. That, in and of itself, provides you and your restaurant with savings, but melamine takes the saving further than that with its durability. Traditional dinnerware is notorious for its fragility. ...

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has reported that the metro Atlanta area's housing market "seems to have stabilized and made a decisive turn toward recovery," with home prices rising. It has been a long road back from the real estate crash of 2007. Now that more people are selling their homes, Premier Surfaces, an Atlanta granite company, advises sellers to make some home improvements. One great way to increase resale value is to install granite countertops in kitchens, bathrooms, fireplaces, or bars. Atlanta granite countertops bring an elegant, unique look ...

The plantation shutters supplier, Eclipse Shutters, would like to discuss the recent video made by the Window Covering Safety Council (WCSC). The video addresses the risks associated with dangling window cords. The indoor shutters providers notes that this video is a must-have for parents and caretakers, as it provides invaluable information about the safety hazards posed by cords and offers helpful tips for preventing injuries. The WCSC's mission is to educate consumers about the dangers surrounding window covering products. They have been adamant in this respect by ...

With terabytes of information readily available at the fingertips of anyone with a high speed Internet connection, it has never been easier to stay on top of the latest news on virtually any topic that interests you. Facilitation training company, Leadership Strategies, wants to keep you in the loop about the most recent exciting events happening in the company. Their newsletter is a gold mine of information about their latest training courses, news about recent partnerships as well as new facilitators available to offer facilitation skills training to your staff. They ...

Individuals naturally want to do their best to protect themselves by properly dispose of sensitive data, but many simply have no idea what data they need to destroy through shredding to avoid compromising confidential information. A Shred Ahead, an Atlanta shredding company, wishes to explain what kind of data needs to be shredded. Generally, paper documents are the first thing people think of when they think of shredding services. Obvious documents to shred include those containing social security numbers, tax information, banking information (including routing numbers ...

NIRIX Inc., a Canadian cloud computing service provider, responds to customer feedback and market research to introduce oneBackup SMB, a cloud backup solution for small and medium business. Caught In The Middle Small business is agile business. Market research sources show that small business customers are statistically more likely to adopt cloud services, but few cloud services are designed with the small business in mind. While enterprise services are over-featured and out of the budget for many SMBs, consumer-quality services can't offer the security or reliability ...

The album is produced by singer/songwriter David James and ZOOmania's Jeremy Smith, mixed by Eric Robinson (Taylor Swift, Natasha Bedingfield, Brooke Fraser) and mastered by Eric Boulanger (One Republic, Plain White Ts, Colbie Caillat), with six new songs that feature the band's signature chants, big drums and pop vocal sound. The band is kicking off the album release with a performance on June 22nd at Historic Bank of America 1011 10th Street in the heart of Sacramento, CA, followed by a multi-city tour through the summer. 10% of the proceeds from the EP release show will ...

This week's blog from Corcentric, a leading provider of Accounts Payable automation and straight through processing, discusses how concerns have shifted for AP departments, focusing on the fact that the biggest concern is improving processes and reducing errors, far more than reducing costs and making on-time payments. Corcentric digs deeper into this finding to discuss how implementing e-invoicing and workflow automation may offer an answer to these top concerns, from eliminating paper to streamlining the approval process. The blog showcases the fact that an automated ...

Lee Westwood Golf School students honored with FCWT awards. Gary Daoust awarded First Team All-American, 16-19 age division and prestigious "Player of the Year". Connor Chesky awarded Second Team All-American, 13-15 age division. Future Collegians World Tour concluded their tournament season with an awards ceremony at the historic PGA National in Palm Beach Gardens, FL. The PGA National championship course is ranked among the top 10 hardest courses played by PGA Tour professionals, thus making it exceptionally challenging tournament for youngsters in order ...

miEdge, the premiere provider of 5500 health & benefits data to insurance professionals, is pleased to announce its new partnership with Wrangle, LLC, a premiere ERISA 5500 reporting and disclosure company. As their official 5500 compliance information partner, Wrangle, LLC, will regularly contribute to the miEdge subscriber resource center. miEdge continues to expand its subscriber resource center with the addition of the miCompliance section for the latest 5500 Health & Welfare compliance rules, regulations and frequently asked questions. The subscriber resource ...

Mobile and online marketing firm Motive Interactive, specializing in user acquisition for mobile apps and online games, was presented with two prestigious awards in The 11th Annual American Business Awards in Chicago last night. Motive proudly accepted a Gold Stevie Award in the Fastest-Growing Company of the Year category and a Bronze Award in the Company of the Year Award. The American Business Awards are the nation's premier business awards program. All organizations operating in the U.S.A. are eligible to submit nominations - public and private, for-profit and non-profit, ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — An analysis by the Evidence-based Practice Center at Oregon Health & Science University has found that previously published clinical trial studies about a controversial bone growth product used in spinal surgeries overstated the product's effectiveness. The OHSU analysis found the product offered no real benefit over bone grafts traditionally used in such surgeries and also found that previous studies had underreported harms that occurred in the studies. All but one of those studies were funded by the product's manufacturer, Medtronic. The OHSU review ...

Newly published research from a University of Texas at Arlington communication team offers a groundbreaking perspective on the controversial use of unmanned aerial vehicles in journalism and mass communication, or "drone journalism." The remotely guided aircraft gained prominence in the military's hunt for suspected terrorists in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Such drones can be large, some about the size of small planes, which operate at higher altitudes and serve various functions. Domestically, much smaller drones have been used to capture photographs and video images on ...

HOUSTON -- (June 17, 2013) -- Taking a page from computer-aided drug designers, Rice University researchers have developed a computational method that chemists can use to tailor the properties of zeolites, one of the world's most-used industrial minerals. The research is available online and will be featured on the June 21 cover of the Royal Society of Chemistry's Journal of Materials Chemistry A. The method allows chemists to work backward by first considering the type of zeolite they want to make and then creating the organic template needed to produce it. The findings ...

New research from the University of Adelaide shows that weight gain and increased head size in the first month of a baby's life is linked to a higher IQ at early school age. The study was led by University of Adelaide Public Health researchers, who analysed data from more than 13,800 children who were born full-term. The results, published in the journal Pediatrics, show that babies who put on 40% of their birthweight in the first four weeks had an IQ 1.5 points higher by the time they were six years of age, compared with babies who only put on 15% of their birthweight. Those ...

Aspirin is known to lower risk for some cancers, and a new study led by a UC San Francisco scientist points to a possible explanation, with the discovery that aspirin slows the accumulation of DNA mutations in abnormal cells in at least one pre-cancerous condition. "Aspirin and other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, which are commonly available and cost-effective medications, may exert cancer-preventing effects by lowering mutation rates," said Carlo Maley, PhD, a member of the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, and an expert on how cancers evolve ...

[June 17, 2013, Rensselaer, NY] – Fibromyalgia, a painful condition affecting approximately 10 million people in the U.S., is not imaginary after all, as some doctors have believed. A discovery, published this month in PAIN MEDICINE (the journal of the American Academy of Pain Medicine), clearly now demonstrates that fibromyalgia may have a rational biological basis located in the skin. Fibromyalgia is a severely debilitating affliction characterized by widespread deep tissue pain, tenderness in the hands and feet, fatigue, sleep disorders, and cognitive decline. However, ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (JUNE 18, 2013). The effects of long-term cigarette smoking on morbidity and mortality have long been known. In a more immediate sense, smoking in the days and weeks before surgery can lead to morbidity and complications for many surgical procedures. In this review, researchers from the University of California San Francisco and Yale University examined the surgical literature and, specifically, the neurosurgical literature to characterize the impact of active smoking on neurosurgical outcomes. They found strong evidence for the association between smoking ...

Sydney: Researchers at the University of New South Wales have proposed a new way to distinguish between quantum bits that are placed only a few nanometres apart in a silicon chip, taking them a step closer to the construction of a large-scale quantum computer. Quantum bits, or qubits, are the basic building blocks of quantum computers - ultra-powerful devices that will offer enormous advantages for solving complex problems. Professor Michelle Simmons, leader of the research team, said a qubit based on the spin of an individual electron bound to a phosphorus atom within ...

Hormonal therapy for transsexual patients is safe and effective, a multicenter European study indicates. The results will be presented Saturday at The Endocrine Society's 95th Annual Meeting in San Francisco. Transsexual individuals who seek treatment may feel as though they were born the wrong gender. Surgical and hormonal therapies are available to help these people change their external characteristics to match their internal image of themselves. Hormonal therapy involves large doses of male or female sex hormones, which has led to concern about its health effects. ...

Similar genetic variations occur in both overweight newborns and obese adults, a large study finds. The results will be presented Tuesday at The Endocrine Society's 95th Annual Meeting in San Francisco. "Our data suggest that adult obesity and newborn adiposity share, in part, a common genetic background," said study lead author Reeti Chawla, MD, fellow in pediatric endocrinology at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago and the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, in Chicago, IL. "Allowing earlier identification of high-risk newborns may ...

Taking calcium and vitamin D before exercise may influence how bones adapt to exercise, according to a new study. The results will be presented on Tuesday at The Endocrine Society's 95th Annual Meeting in San Francisco. "The timing of calcium supplementation, and not just the amount of supplementation, may be an important factor in how the skeleton adapts to exercise training," said study lead author Vanessa D. Sherk, PhD, postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. "Further research, however, is needed to determine whether the ...