The San Diego area has moderate weather that lends itself to walking. Yet, anytime motorists and pedestrians share the road, accidents can occur. In a pedestrian accident serious injuries are common. Vehicle weight and any amount of speed can easily break bones and cause serious spinal cord or brain injuries. Pedestrian fatalities are unfortunately too common. The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Administration labels San Diego along with several other cities in California a 'focus city,' because at least 20 pedestrian deaths were reported last year. ...

Employees of the federal government are protected by law from discrimination on the basis of pregnancy. A federal statute called the Pregnancy Discrimination Act was passed in 1978 as an amendment to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This law established that discriminating against workers on the basis of pregnancy or childbirth in employment-related decisions constitutes illegal gender discrimination. The law also protects employees from discrimination on the basis of medical conditions related to pregnancy or childbirth. Public and private employers affected Unlike ...

The Truck Safety Coalition - a partnership between Parents Against Tired Truckers and the Citizens for Reliable and Safe Highways foundation - recently hosted its Sorrow to Strength conference in Washington, D.C. The purpose of the conference was to give truck accident survivors and their families an opportunity to discuss efforts to improve safety on our nation's highways. The TSC also helped arrange meetings between truck crash victims, lawmakers and representatives from the U.S. Department of Transportation to provide valuable insight about the challenges that people ...

An independent federal agency is urging President Obama's administration to raise limitations imposed on recipients of Supplemental Security Income benefits. The National Council on Disability (NCD) was formed in 1978 to promote the rights of individuals with disabilities by advising the White House, Congress and federal, state, local and tribunal agencies regarding disability issues such as: - Policies - Programs - Practices - Procedures The NCD also works to enhance equal opportunities for people with disabilities by accumulating and analyzing data, identifying ...

The juvenile criminal justice system has a decidedly different focus compared to its adult counterpart. When a young offender is sentenced as a juvenile, the court is not only concerned with the safety of the community, but also with concentrated efforts to rehabilitate the offender. The adult criminal justice system, on the other hand, relies on a more heavy-handed and punitive approach. For serious juvenile crimes, more and more defendants are being tried in Circuit Court as adults if they are 14 or older. This can mean far more severe punishment, as well as denied ...

A bankruptcy filing affects all aspects of your financial life, taxes included. Not only can bankruptcy possibly get rid of past tax obligations in certain circumstances, it might also have an effect on the way that future taxes are calculated. Having a cursory understanding of the interplay between tax obligations and a bankruptcy filing can put you in a better position to consider whether or not bankruptcy is right for you. Even if you have already filed for bankruptcy, you could still benefit from learning how a Chapter 7, Chapter 11 or Chapter 13 bankruptcy will affect ...

James L. Miller, who has practiced bankruptcy law in the local Milwaukee community since 1993, will be making a televised appearance on Fox 6 News on May 30, 2013 to discuss his book The Truth About Bankruptcy In Wisconsin: Your Pathway to a Brighter Future. The segment will air at 9:55 AM CDT on the Fox Focus program. The book, which acts as "a step by step guide to filing and recovering from bankruptcy," lays out the details of filing in the state of Wisconsin, while also offering advice and information. The Truth About Bankruptcy in Wisconsin recognizes ...

A DUI conviction comes with severe consequences including fines, license revocation and jail time. A 36-year-old Nevada man was recently arrested on several charges, including driving under the influence, after his car allegedly collided with two other vehicles. Police claim man left the scene and was located nearby The Las Vegas Sun reports that the man's vehicle struck two other vehicles in separate incidents, killing a passenger in the second vehicle. Henderson Police contend that the man then tried to walk away from the scene of the second accident. After crashing ...

According to the Post Gazette, although fatalities among teenage drivers increased nationally during the first six months of 2012, Pennsylvania has actually experienced a decrease in the number of such fatalities. Last year Governor Tom Corbett signed a bill into law that made it a primary offense for individuals to text while driving. With this classification as a primary offense, a police officer can pull over an individual who is texting while driving, even if there is no other reason to do so. Governor Corbett was not alone in implementing this type of regulation. ...

Financial matters are one of the main issues divorcing couples face. After marital property is divided, many individuals depend on alimony payments to help ensure financial stability after a divorce. FLORIDA COURTS CONSIDER ALIMONY PAYMENTS AFTER PROPERTY DISTRIBUTION During the divorce process, a court first divides all marital property. According to information from the Florida Bar Association, marital property includes assets and debts that were acquired during the marriage. Assets are items such as houses, cars or other personal property. Assets also include ...

Important laws may be changing as it pertains to traffic stops and drunk driving intoxication testing. According to CBS Atlanta, the Supreme Court of the United States recently ruled that police must try to obtain a search warrant from a judge before ordering a blood test to be conducted on individuals suspected of drinking and driving. In front of the U.S. Supreme Court as an appeal from the Missouri's highest state court, the case centered around a man who refused to submit a breathalyzer test to measure the alcohol level present in his body. Upon the man's refusal, ...

According to the Huffington Post, recently published statistics suggest that American drivers may be improving as a whole when it comes to safer driving. The U.S. Department of Transportation released data indicating a decrease in the amount of fatalities resulting from automobile accidents. According to this data, 32,367 deaths resulted from automobile accidents in 2011. This figure represents a decline in such casualties of 1.9 percent from 2010. California drivers may be an exception While the recent national statistics show a decrease in automobile fatalities, ...

According to The Dallas Morning News, AT&T recently released survey results regarding the prevalence of texting and driving among commuters. According to the survey, nearly half of all commuters admit to texting while behind the wheel. Not only do the participants admit to this conduct, they even admit that they are aware of the risks associated with doing such. While 49 percent of the 1,1011 commuters surveyed admit to texting while driving, 43 percent consider it a habit. Given the obvious dangers associated with texting while driving, there have been many attempts ...

Currency dealer, Antique Money, is buying treasury notes issued in 1890 and 1891. These notes were backed by silver bullion, and therefore also known as coin notes. 1890 Treasury Notes The basic design of notes from these two years is the same. However, the back of the notes is different. The 1890 series notes have bright green reverse sides with an ornate overprint. Because of that overprint, these are sometimes called ornate backs. They are more valuable than those in the 1891 series. The $20 bills in the 1890 series are particularly rare. This is the highest denomination ...

Angelica Corporation, a leading hospital linen service company, recommends buying new inventory at the start of 2013. There are major benefits to purchasing a fresh set of linens, particularly in the healthcare industry, to get a new start. For one thing, new fresh bedding is obviously much more clean than used sheets, even if the latter is thoroughly cleaned. To keep illnesses at bay and to keep patients comfortable and satisfied, Angelica Corporation advises clients to start the new year with a fresh set. Purchasing New Linens This Year If you work in the healthcare ...

Corcentric, a leading provider of Accounts Payable automation and e-invoicing, uses an infographic on its latest blog to actually show the reasons why companies turn to SaaS providers for AP and workflow automation. The Corcentric blog is a knowledge center for accounts payable professionals to explore automation best practices along with the latest trends and news in financial process automation. This week, Corcentric lets the numbers speak for themselves in this infographic based on a 2012 Aberdeen report. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then this infographic ...

From the Rainy River to the lakes of Northern Minnesota, the action unfolds as the Koochiching County sheriff, Albert Lonetree, and his FBI associate Scooter Hansen, track three fugitives. Greed and fear diminish the count from three bad guys to two, and then the real action starts. Southern Minnesota sheriff, Dave Johnson, is instrumental in decreasing the number of bank robbers and giving some welcomed theories on where to pursue the remaining two. As local authorities stay a few steps behind the fugitives, Dave Johnson and his family have more to worry about just ...

The 39th Annual Utica Sertoma Ice Cream Festival features a weekend packed with free events that are ideal for the entire family, including live music and entertainment, crafts, loads of old-fashioned games and activities, and -- of course -- locally made Velvet Ice Cream. Slated for Memorial Day weekend, May 25-27, the Utica Sertoma Ice Cream Festival takes place at Velvet Ice Cream's Ye Olde Mill State on Rt. 13, just one mile south of Utica. Parking is $5. Details on the festival are available at UticaOldFashionedIceCreamFestival.com, with Velvet Ice Cream and Ye Olde ...

Today in Atlanta, GA, Aquila Solutions, LLC announced the immediate availability of The Online eCTD Timeline Calculator, enabling customers and prospects the opportunity to have free access to high level eCTD project planning expertise online, a first in the electronic publishing arena. Joshua Boutwell, President and CEO of Aquila Solutions said, "We are pleased that our expertise in eCTD project planning and publishing is now available to everyone. We hope this timeline calculator will help sponsors plan their projects and save them time and resources." Positive ...

These days, phylogeneticists – experts who painstakingly map the complex branches of the tree of life – suffer from an embarrassment of riches. The genomics revolution has given them mountains of DNA data that they can sift through to reconstruct the evolutionary history that connects all living beings. But the unprecedented quantity has also caused a serious problem: The trees produced by a number of well-supported studies have come to contradictory conclusions. "It has become common for top-notch studies to report genealogies that strongly contradict each other in where ...

UC Irvine Health urologists and health policy experts report in a new study that two written assessments that identify existing comorbidities – the patient-reported Total Illness Burden Index for Prostate Cancer (TIBI-Cap) and the physician-reported Charlson Comorbidity Index – can successfully target prostate patients who would not benefit from biopsy to discover possible cancer. The authors say that by taking comorbidities into factor, it may not be necessary for men to have prostate biopsy. This study does not preclude the use of PSA screening, but it does set the ...

Cancún, Mexico -- A high-tech archeological exploration team of scientists and a filmmaker, who announced a year ago that they had glimpsed remnants of what might be a fabled ancient city in the Honduran rain forests, plans to speak about the team's discoveries here tomorrow (15 May) at the 2013 Meeting of the Americas, and to show previously undisclosed images of apparent archeological sites. A 7-page article in last week's The New Yorker magazine by Douglas Preston set the stage for tomorrow's discussion of the Honduras venture and other similar explorations. The article ...

Temperatures in central China are 10 to 14 degrees Fahrenheit hotter today than they were 20,000 years ago, during the last ice age, UCLA researchers report — an increase two to four times greater than many scientists previously thought. The findings, published today in the early online edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, could help researchers develop more accurate models of past climate change and better predict such changes in the future. "Previously, we could only infer temperature on land through changes in climate archives ...

DNA databases might help identify victims of crime and human trafficking, but how do we safeguard the personal privacy of innocent victims and family members? A new report online May 15 in the Cell Press journal Trends in Genetics identifies a number of key challenges to consider as experts develop such programs. Identifying victims of human trafficking remains a challenge around the world; between 12 million and 27 million individuals are currently enslaved. "If ever there is a justifiable use of DNA, it is the protection of victims of human rights violations and human ...

For patients with leukemia and other hematological malignancies, transplantation of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCT) can be a powerfully effective therapy. In addition to the desirable anti-tumor effect, transplanted cells can also attack the host tissue, resulting in graft-versus-host disease (GVHD). In this issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Arnab Ghosh and colleagues at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center found that expression of a protein that causes cell death, TRAIL, in transplanted cells was critical for an effective anti-tumor response. Immune cells ...