Senators Chuck Schumer (D - New York) and Robert Menendez (D - New Jersey) have proposed federal tax relief measures to help local residents still reeling from the massive blow struck by "Superstorm"/Hurricane Sandy in fall of 2012. The proposal The bill, known as the "Hurricane Sandy and National Disaster Tax Relief Act of 2012," introduced in early December, would provide tax breaks to homeowners, small business proprietors and good Samaritans struggling to financially recover from what just might be the costliest natural disaster in American ...

It is a high-tech world and everyone today seems to have a cellphone. Many cellphones have the capability of taking photos and video that users share with friends and family or keep for their own viewing pleasure. However, careless or reckless use of cellphones can get their owners into legal problems. A Pennsylvania man was recently convicted in a Maryland court of one count of receipt of child pornography. He received a sentence of 10 years in federal prison and will have 50 years of supervised release upon completion of his jail time. The man was accused of videotaping ...

The recent arrest of Smyrna resident Matthew N. Fabiszak for his fifth DUI has opened up a public dialogue about the issue of repeat DUI offenders. Delaware takes driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs very seriously, but that hasn't stopped this driver from getting behind the wheel intoxicated five times. He is now facing myriad charges resulting from the most recent drunk driving arrest. His case is an extreme example, but anyone convicted of DUI faces severe penalties that can have a long-term impact. Serious consequences A DUI conviction in Delaware comes ...

Jim Butler, Joel Wooten, George Fryhofer, and Leigh Martin May were chosen for inclusion in the 2013 Georgia Super Lawyers. Brandon Peak and Jeb Butler were selected for inclusion in the 2013 Georgia Rising Stars. Dating back to the initial inclusion of Jim Butler on the 2004 Georgia Super Lawyers list, the attorneys of Butler, Wooten & Fryhofer LLP have been staples of this list that recognizes outstanding lawyers throughout Georgia. The firm is pleased to announce that all five partners were again selected for inclusion on the 2013 Georgia Super Lawyers and Rising ...

The Hampton Inn & Suites Atlanta Airport Hotel (North, I-85) offers affordable lodging to guests attending Scott Antique Market Shows. The event is held at Atlanta Expo Center the second weekend of every month. Providing over 3500 exhibit booths, it is the world's largest monthly indoor antique show. At the Scott Antique Market shows visitors will find anything they can imagine, from furniture, paintings, rugs, jewelry, instruments, and much more. Upcoming spring, 2013 Atlanta show dates include: - March 7-10 - April 11-14 - May 9-12 During show weekends, ...

Rules regarding the correct placement of quotation marks differ from country to country. Regardless of the circumstance, periods and commas are always placed inside quotation marks when you follow US style. Canadian and British styles allow for exceptions to this rule. For example, when a person is talking, the punctuation at the end of the sentence is always inside the quotation marks. I.e. "I really enjoyed the three movies I saw this past weekend," Laura said. However, if using quotation marks for the title of a book or movie, for example, punctuation ...

A popular UK Gaming promotions site, LowRiskWinner.com, created back in July 2010 by two UK webmasters, is now delighted to report that they have secured yet another exclusive gaming promotion for their site visitors, courtesy of Gala Casino! Low Risk Winner is set out in an extremely friendly manner, with a strong focus on easy navigation. It has separate areas for casino, sports, live casino, games, poker and bingo. The site currently boasts three exclusive promotions for sports; however the new promotion is the first exclusive bonus for casino gamers. Galas standard ...

After last year's sponsorship of Patricia Schultz's highly successful North America and London, UK travel presentation series, Trafalgar (www.trafalgar.com), the Insider of guided vacations is thrilled to welcome back the New York Times best-selling author of 1,000 Places to See Before You Die to Canadian soil for another special speaking engagement. Due to overwhelming consumer response from the previous events, the award-winning travel company is once again sponsoring this year's free travel presentation, which will take place in Vancouver on March 7th. Trafalgar invites ...

What would cause an author to support giving away 5,000 copies of her own book through personal donations and by declining all royalty payments? These aren't just any books - they share the author's message of hope, encouragement and truth for women facing the fears of an unplanned pregnancy. These books are being offered free as an outreach effort to save lives by Elizabeth Ministry International working in conjunction with Christian author and pro-life speaker, Sheila M. Luck, and her publisher, Life Sentence Publishing. Jeannie Hannemann, Founder and Executive Director ...

Some of the research on the International Space Station focuses on meeting the needs of long-term spaceflight to destinations such as asteroids or Mars. A group of engineers at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida is developing a plant habitat with a large growth chamber to learn the effects of long-duration microgravity exposure to plants in space. Through most of Kennedy's history, the space center has focused on receiving, processing and launching vehicles developed at other centers. Design projects such as the plant habitat give people at the Florida spaceport ...

The adsorption of ions in microporous materials governs the operation of technologies as diverse as water desalination, energy storage, sensing and mechanical actuation. Until now, however, researchers attempting to improve the performance of these technologies haven't been able to directly and unambiguously identify how factors such as pore size, pore surface chemistry and electrolyte properties affect the concentration of ions in these materials as a function of the applied potential. To provide the needed information, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology ...

Accelerating a free electron with a laser has been a longtime goal of solid-state physicists. David Cline, a distinguished professor in the UCLA Department of Physics and Astronomy, and Xiaoping Ding, an assistant researcher at UCLA, have conducted research at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York and have established that an electron beam can be accelerated by a laser in free space. This has never been done before at high energies and represents a significant breakthrough, Cline said, adding that it also may have implications for fusion as a new energy source. ...

Rosemont, IL (February 27, 2013) – A groundbreaking report by an Expert Consultation of the Food and Agriculture Organization of United Nations (FAO) has recommended a new, advanced method for assessing the quality of dietary proteins. The report, "Dietary protein quality evaluation in human nutrition", recommends that the Digestible Indispensable Amino Acid Score (DIAAS) replace the Protein Digestibility Corrected Amino Acid Score (PDCAAS) as the preferred method of measuring protein quality. The report recommends that more data be developed to support full implementation, ...

HOUSTON – (Feb. 28, 2013) – The three most important factors in real estate are location, location, location, and the same might be said for mutations in the gene MECP2, said researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (NRI) at Texas Children's Hospital in a report in the journal Cell. "Where a mutation occurs can affect the severity of the symptoms of the disease," said Dr. Huda Zoghbi, professor of molecular and human genetics at BCM and director of the NRI. Zoghbi, corresponding author of the report, found the ...

The bacteria that cause acne live on everyone's skin, yet one in five people is lucky enough to develop only an occasional pimple over a lifetime. What's their secret? In a boon for teenagers everywhere, a UCLA study conducted with researchers at Washington University in St. Louis and the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute has discovered that acne bacteria contain "bad" strains associated with pimples and "good" strains that may protect the skin. The findings, published in the Feb. 28 edition of the Journal of Investigative Dermatology, could lead to a myriad ...

Much to the chagrin of parents who think their kids should spend less time playing video games and more time studying, time spent playing action video games can actually make dyslexic children read better. In fact, 12 hours of video game play did more for reading skills than is normally achieved with a year of spontaneous reading development or demanding traditional reading treatments. The evidence, appearing in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on February 28, follows from earlier work by the same team linking dyslexia to early problems with visual attention rather ...

Genetically modified (GM) crops have been a source of great controversy—particularly in Europe—but acts of vandalism and associated security costs have made scientific evidence about the health and ecological impacts of those crops hard to come by. A Swiss government-protected field site dedicated for use in GM crop studies could serve as an example to other European countries interested in pursuing crop biotechnology, according to an article published in Trends in Biotechnology, a Cell Press publication, on February 28. The protected field site will now enable research ...

A multi-institutional team led by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers has identified a molecular pathway that appears to be essential for the growth and spread of medulloblastoma, the most common malignant brain tumor in children. In their report in the Feb. 28 issue of Cell, they show that blocking this pathway – which involves interactions between tumor cells and the surrounding tissues – leads to regression of all four molecular subtypes of medulloblastoma in several mouse models. "Our finding that a pathway carrying signals from host cells to tumor cells ...

VIDEO: L-form bacteria undergoes cell division. The time scale is in minutes. Click here for more information. Four billion years ago, soon after the planet cooled enough for life to begin, primordial cells may have replicated and divided without protein machinery or cell walls, relying instead on just a flimsy lipid membrane. New research on bacteria examines exactly how these primitive cells could have evolved without such crucial structures. While the vast majority of bacteria ...

WEST CHESTER, Pa., February 28, 2013 – Animas Corporation announced today positive results from the second phase of human clinical trials of a first-generation, closed-loop insulin delivery system in development, designed to predict a rise or fall in blood glucose and correspondingly increase, decrease, suspend and resume insulin delivery. The data were presented at the Advanced Technologies & Treatments for Diabetes (ATTD) Conference in Paris, France. The feasibility study of the predictive Hypoglycemia-Hyperglycemia Minimizer (HHM) System* in development was conducted ...

An international team led by Sascha Quanz (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) has studied the disc of gas and dust that surrounds the young star HD 100546, a relatively nearby neighbour located 335 light-years from Earth. They were surprised to find what seems to be a planet in the process of being formed, still embedded in the disc of material around the young star. The candidate planet would be a gas giant similar to Jupiter. "So far, planet formation has mostly been a topic tackled by computer simulations," says Sascha Quanz. "If our discovery is indeed a forming planet, then ...

Philadelphia, Pa. (February 28, 2013) – Performed an average of a decade after initial facelift surgery, a "secondary" facelift can achieve similarly lasting results with a low complication rate, according to a paper in the March issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery®, the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS). Dr. Rod J. Rohrich and colleagues of University of Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, report their 20-year experience with secondary facelift surgery, or "rhytidectomy." The researchers conclude that, with attention ...

Philadelphia, Pa. (February 28, 2013) –For women undergoing breast reconstruction using implants, most patient-reported outcomes are similar with two different shapes of silicone gel-filled implants, reports a study in the March issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery®, the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS). Assessment of key areas of quality of life after breast reconstruction shows few significant differences with conventional round implants versus newer "shaped" implants, according to the new research, led by Dr. Sheina ...

Bethesda, MD—Women who are pregnant or using synthetic progesterone birth control injections have a conspicuous vulnerability to certain infections including malaria, Listeria, HIV, and herpes simplex virus. A new research report appearing in the March 2013 issue of the Journal of Leukocyte Biology offers strong evidence for a possible explanation: the progesterone receptor, a pregnancy hormone sensor, targets a part of the immune system responsible for protection against these and other invaders. In addition to helping explain why some women are more vulnerable to certain ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — A team of neuroengineers based at Brown University has developed a fully implantable and rechargeable wireless brain sensor capable of relaying real-time broadband signals from up to 100 neurons in freely moving subjects. Several copies of the novel low-power device, described in the Journal of Neural Engineering, have been performing well in animal models for more than year, a first in the brain-computer interface field. Brain-computer interfaces coud help people with severe paralysis control devces with their thoughts. Arto Nurmikko, ...