It may seem like an overwhelming proposition to sue the United States government for injury caused by one of its employees. Traditionally, the doctrine of sovereign immunity says that governmental bodies are immune from being privately sued, but the Federal Tort Claims Act, known as the FTCA, waives that immunity by allowing personal injury lawsuits against the federal government in certain situations. Levin v. United States In March 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Levin v. United States clarified one type of suit that is allowed against the federal government ...

North Carolina criminal defense attorney Ryan Stump recently represented a man who was accused of stealing money from his employer. The client was facing a charge of felony embezzlement. Mr. Stump, a graduate of the White Collar Criminal Defense College with an extensive background in the financial industry, was able to argue for a reduction of the financial criminal charge from a felony to a misdemeanor and avoid an active jail sentence for his client. Attorney Stump's client was accused of embezzling more than $20,000 from a church that employed him as a bookkeeper. ...

Boston-based law firm, Cushing & Dolan is pleased to announce Leo J. Cushing has been selected as a featured speaker at the upcoming REBA Annual Conference. He will presenting on the topic of Probate: Estates & Trusts. The program will discuss recent changes to Massachusetts Uniform Probate Code (MUPC) and what it means for probate practitioners. REBA's faculty will offer essential insight into the practical aspects of the MUPC as it continues to evolve. The program will place special emphasis on real estate conveyancing under the MUPC with a focus on the updates ...

Show the ones you love how much you care. Jewelry is often too much, but candies and cards don't show your feelings well enough, especially for family and friends. If you have searched high and low for the perfect gift, why not consider a gift certificate for Atlanta window tinting? Atlanta window tint company, The Tint Guy, feels that window tinting is a significant gift that tells your friends and loved ones that you genuinely care about their long term well being and pleasure. Window tinting has many different applications, all of which can improve your loved one's ...

Holiday Inn Express Simpsonville Hotel offers affordable lodging to guests attending Greenville Health System's Aloft. The annual festival will take place Memorial Day Weekend, May 24-27, 2013 at Heritage Park in Simpsonville, SC. Event activities will include: - Hot-Air Balloon Rides - Helicopter Rides - Charter Amphitheatre Concerts - Jack in the Box Corn Hole Tournament - Craft Beer Experience - Sunrift Adventure Zone - Krazy Kow 5K - Amusement Rides and more Music performances headlining the Charter Amphitheatre stage at Aloft are country artist Kip Moore, ...

The Hilton Garden Inn Atlanta Airport Hotel (North) offers nearby accommodations to vendors and guests attending The Atlanta Spring Immediate Delivery Show at AmericasMart Atlanta, May 7-9, 2013. A cash and carry out event, this show is a unique marketplace unlike any other. It connects buyers and exhibitors from around the globe. AmericasMart is a wholesale marketplace and is closed to the general public. Visitors to AmericasMart must be active members of the retail or wholesale industry and be affiliated with a business that resells product represented in our buildings. ...

King Jewelers introduces the Bridal Playground, a unique bridal experience built around couples in love, at the elegant diamond bridal salons located in Nashville, Tennessee and Aventura, Florida. At the Bridal Playground, you can browse a bit, try on our model display engagement rings and wedding bands, get in-the-know about diamonds and precious metals, enjoy refreshments, and linger as long as you like. You can even design your own ring with friends, family, or your significant other. King Jewelers offers handmade custom designs as well as the most cutting edge 3D-design ...

iGivefirst has been selected as the fundraising platform by This Time Foundation as well as by the Apl.de.ap Foundation International, a non-profit organization started by Apl.de.ap, a founding member of the international recording artists and multi Grammy-award winning group, The Black Eyed Peas. iGivefirst is proud to be supporting the This Time Foundation and the Apl.de.ap Foundation International's "Time For Hope" fundraiser gala. This prestigious event will have 300+ attendees with the guest list including famous recording artists and actors - Fergie, ...

According to a research conducted by CS Networks, a global provider of mobile security and messaging products, modern technology is facing dramatic security concerns in the approaches of two-step verification, especially the phone call-based one. Results are pointing to a serious exploit. "Your calls may be forwarded at any time without your knowledge." Recent technology developments have resulted in the merging of legacy SS7 telephone network and Internet in a bid to cut down the expenses incurred by mobile operators. There is an industry-wide adoption of ...

The proposed changes, which are to be brought before Scottish Parliament later this year, are part of the drive to reform bankruptcy laws partially due to creditor complaints about how little money is being received by them compared to the insolvency practitioners that administer the trust deeds and sequestrations. Normally, under the terms of a Trust Deed the client makes a monthly payment to an insolvency practitioner, who deducts their fees and then distributes any funds remaining to creditors as part of the Trust Deed agreement. These fees are agreed at the start ...

Times Fiber Communications, a business unit of Amphenol, today announced PowerOptX hybrid cables that combine optical and power connectivity in a single cable. Available in standard and custom configurations with high performance to support 4G wireless protocols, PowerOptX cables are significantly lighter than designs using corrugated metal shielding, allowing easier installation and less tower loading. PowerOptX cables enable cell tower operators to lower costs while ensuring the performance needed for next-generation wireless. While standard configurations offer three ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Researchers at Florida State University have developed a new metric to measure seasonal Atlantic tropical cyclone activity that focuses on the size of storms in addition to the duration and intensity, a measure that may prove important when considering a hurricane's potential for death and destruction. Just ask the survivors of Hurricane Sandy. The 2012 hurricane was only a Category 2 storm on the often referenced Saffir-Simpson scale when it became the largest hurricane on record, killing 285 people in its path in seven different countries and becoming ...

In recent years, metal nanoparticles have showed great application prospect in the field of biological imaging, cancer diagnosis and treatment due to its unique optical scattering and optical absorption properties. In many metal materials, gold nanoparticles have caused concerns in the field because of its simple preparation, easy to modify advantages. However, the poor stability in physiological fluids environment and the potential toxicity of gold nanoparticles always restricts its application in the biological field. TANG Fangqiong and her group from Laboratory of ...

Counselling and treatment with naturopathic care as well as enhanced usual care reduced the prevalence of metabolic syndrome, a risk factor for heart disease, by 17% over a year for participants in a randomized controlled trial published in CMAJ. Researchers enrolled 246 members of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers at 3 study sites (Toronto, Vancouver and Edmonton) for a year-long clinical trial to determine whether naturopathic lifestyle counselling helped to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease. Of the total sample, 207 people completed the study. The control ...

Video game and augmented-reality game players can spontaneously build virtual teams and leadership structures without special tools or guidance, according to researchers. Players in a game that mixed real and online worlds organized and operated in teams that resembled a military organization with only rudimentary online tools available and almost no military background, said Tamara Peyton, doctoral student in information sciences and technology, Penn State. "The fact that they formed teams and interacted as well as they did may mean that game designers should resist ...

New Haven, Conn. – Scientific collaborators from Yale School of Medicine and University College London (UCL) have uncovered the molecular pathway by which new arteries may form after heart attacks, strokes and other acute illnesses bypassing arteries that are blocked. Their study appears in the April 29 issue of Developmental Cell. Arteries form in utero and during development, but can also form in adults when organs become deprived of oxygen — for example, after a heart attack. The organs release a molecular signal called VEGF. Working with mice, the Yale-UCL team ...

Fertilizing with inorganic nitrogen and phosphorus definitely improves crop yields, but does it also improve the soil? The latest study to tackle this question has yielded mixed results. While 50 years of inorganic fertilization did increase soil organic carbon stocks in a long-term experiment in western Kansas, the practice seemingly failed to enhance soil aggregate stability—a key indicator of soil structural quality that helps dictate how water moves through soil and soil's resistance to erosion. The results of the research, which was carried out in continuous corn ...

2013 — A research report released today from The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) provides specific recommendations for optimizing the rear seat of passenger vehicles to better protect its most common occupants — children and adolescents. By bringing technologies already protecting front seat passengers to the rear seat and modifying the geometry of the rear seat to better fit this age group, the US could achieve important reductions in serious injury and death. Motor vehicle crashes remain the leading cause of death for children older than 4 years and resulted ...

An ultimate goal in the field of carbon nanotube research is to synthesise single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) with controlled chiralities. Twenty years after the discovery of SWNTs, scientists from Aalto University in Finland, A.M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute RAS in Russia and the Center for Electron Nanoscopy of Technical University of Denmark (DTU) have managed to control chirality in carbon nanotubes during their chemical vapor deposition synthesis. Carbon nanotube structure is defined by a pair of integers known as chiral indices (n,m), in other words, ...

Hundreds of women with breast cancer living in England's most deprived areas would have better survival rates if they were diagnosed at the same stage as those who lived in affluent areas. A new study led by the University of Leicester, working with colleagues from Public Health England and the University of Cambridge, investigated how much of a difference late-stage diagnosis had on women from deprived areas. The team calculated how many deaths would be postponed beyond 5 years from diagnosis if as many women in the more deprived areas were diagnosed at an earlier ...

University of Leicester-led research has shown that university students behave very differently when using social media as part of their academic learning. Some students happily use social networking to share information about their course with their peers, in a similar way to how they might talk to friends on Facebook. Others are much more targeted in their use of online tools – and will only log on to get the information they need, when they need it. Visitors and Residents: mapping student attitudes to academic use of social networks, published in the journal Learning, ...

ST. LOUIS – A recent Saint Louis University study revealed that Medicaid-insured children with eczema, an inflammatory skin condition that affects 20 percent children in the United States, do not have easy access to dermatologists. "This is a complex problem and a major health disparity in our country," said Elaine Siegfried, M.D., professor of pediatrics at SLU and the principal investigator of the study. "Thirty percent of all children seen in primary care offices have a skin problem. It's an everyday issue." SLU researchers found that only 19 percent of all dermatologists ...

There is a perception in some tech circles that older programmers aren't able to keep pace with rapidly changing technology, and that they are discriminated against in the software field. But a new study from North Carolina State University indicates that the knowledge and skills of programmers actually improve over time – and that older programmers know as much (or more) than their younger peers when it comes to recent software platforms. "We wanted to explore these perceptions of veteran programmers as being out of step with emerging technologies and see if we could ...

EAST LANSING, Mich. — U.S. residents who believe in the scientific consensus on global warming are more likely to support government action to curb emissions, regardless of whether they are Republican or Democrat, according to a study led by a Michigan State University sociologist. However, a political divide remains on the existence of climate change despite the fact that the vast majority of scientists believe it is real, said Aaron M. McCright, associate professor in Lyman Briggs College and the Department of Sociology. The study, in the journal Climatic Change, ...

AUGUSTA, Ga. – The tiny thymus teaches the immune system to ignore the teeming, foreign bacteria in the gut that helps you digest and absorb food, researchers say. When immune cells recognize essential gut bacteria as foreign, inflammatory bowel disease such as ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease can be the painful, debilitating result. In a study published in the journal Nature, researchers show that the regulatory T cells, or Tregs, that keep this from happening in most of us come from the tiny immune organ nestled near the heart, said Dr. Leszek Ignatowicz, immunologist ...