Having a criminal record can negatively impact your ability to get a job, obtain a loan and find housing. In Illinois, there are certain procedures that can help you clear your record or limit its exposure, though. These options are called record expungement and record sealing. Illinois record expungement Under Illinois law, when a record is expunged, it is destroyed by the arresting police department, the State Police Department and the FBI, and the court record is impounded by the Clerk of the Circuit Court. After expungement, a record does not appear on a background ...

Under Massachusetts law, a dog owner is strictly liable for any injury caused by their dog, regardless of whether the dog has ever bit anyone before or possesses any violent tendencies. Specifically, the law states that a dog owner is responsible for any "damage to either the body or property of any person," unless, of course, the person injured was trespassing or tormenting the dog at the time of the attack. This statute applies evenly to all Boston dog owners, including those who live with their dogs in apartments and other types of rental properties. However, ...

The holiday season can bring increased traffic, rushing motorists and sometimes rainy, slippery weather. But these conditions do not excuse drivers from following the rules of the road and exercising due caution. Holiday car crashes can lead to serious injury and wrongful death. Since the beginning of 2012, Illinois has seen 867 fatal motor vehicle accidents, including 177 involving unlicensed drivers, according to the Illinois Department of Transportation. According to the Daily Beast, one of the most dangerous interstates in Illinois is I-94, which saw 85 fatal accidents ...

Marketing Evolution, the leader in marketing ROI measurement and analytics, announced the acquisition of Boston-based software firm Good Carrot today. The acquisition follows years of close partnership between the two companies, and will allow Marketing Evolution to fully integrate Good Carrot's intelligent marketing software into its suite of marketing ROI management solutions. Marketing Evolution CEO Rex Briggs stated, "Good Carrot's impressive software capabilities are well-aligned with Marketing Evolution's goal of creating a truly closed-loop marketing ROI ...

Travel industry insiders Gailen David and Bobby Laurie, known to television audiences as "The Savvy Stews," will be appearing on the syndicated lifestyle program "The Better Show" as travel correspondents starting on January 30, 2013. After David and Laurie's introductory appearance on the show, their segments will be filmed on location at some of the worlds hottest destinations showcasing amazing properties, attractions, events and products. "We're excited that we'll be able to take Better Show viewers out of the studio and on the road with ...

A new guitar show will debut in the Pittsburgh market April 14, 2013. The Sonic Valley Guitar Show will feature vintage guitars, amplifiers and other used gear. The new Pittsburgh guitar show will be held at the Ramada Inn Conference Center in Greensburg, PA on April 14, 2013 from 10am to 5pm. Dealers nationwide will be selling and buying rare vintage guitars and vintage amplifiers along with affordable used gear in over 10,000 square feet of exhibit space. The guitar show is a response to the growing interest in vintage instruments and gear among collectors and investors ...

The Fullerton Technology Foundation is proud to announce the third annual wine auction fundraiser event on June 1st, 2013 at the Fullerton Arboretum. The fundraiser will support technology for the Fullerton School District, providing electronic devices such as laptops, digital cameras, iPads, digital microscopes, sound systems and interactive boards. Thanks to the support and generosity of the Sugarman Family Trust, the Foundation has raised close to $2 million dollars since they began six years ago. Both Hilda Sugarman (President of the Foundation) and her son Jason, ...

Journey through Europe and into Russia with works by Prokofiev, Bottesini, Wolf and Schubert with The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia's Bottesini - Schubert program on Sunday, January 27 and Monday, January 28. A founding resident company of The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, the Chamber Orchestra's program features Kansas City Symphony Music Director, Michael Stern, as conductor and The Philadelphia Orchestra Assistant Principal Bass, Joseph Conyers, as soloist. The January 27 2:30 p.m. and January 28 7:30 p.m. concerts will be performed in the Kimmel Center's ...

7Regal is proud to announce the release of a slot game that is going to take online casinos by storm this winter. The new online casino, which itself only launched last summer, is one of the first casinos to receive and release Marvel's Ghost Rider. Ghost Rider is a stunt motorcyclist whose head turns into a flaming skull after selling his soul to Mephisto. Ghost Rider regrets this decision and spends the rest of his life chasing ghosts and demons. Both Ghost Rider movies starred Nicholas Cage. The movies made hundreds of millions of dollars in box office receipts. ...

The British Pound hit a 16-month high against the US Dollar yesterday as markets around the world responded positively to the news that the House of Representatives had finally come to a short-term budgetary agreement and averted worries that the US economy would fall off the 'fiscal cliff', comments currency exchange experts, Currencies Direct. The first trading session of 2013 (Wednesday) saw strong gains across many of the world's major market indices, with London's FTSE 100 having risen by over two percent. Sterling reached a 16-month high of 1.6381 against ...

Everyone wants their website, emails and other business communications to be error free. Writing that contains either errors or typos is unprofessional and creates a poor first impression. Unfortunately, not everyone is an experienced proofreader. While nothing beats having a professional proofreader review your work before it is out there in the public domain, there are a few tricks you can try yourself to be reasonably sure that your work is error free. 1) Take a break Whenever possible, leave your writing for a few hours, or even a few days - then come back ...

When the going gets tough, grape seed extract gets going: A University of Colorado Cancer Center study recently published in the journal Cancer Letters shows that the more advanced are colorectal cancer cells, the more GSE inhibits their growth and survival. On the other end of the disease spectrum, GSE leaves healthy cells alone entirely. "We've known for quite a while that the bioactive compounds in grape seed extract selectively target many types of cancer cells. This study shows that many of the same mutations that allow colorectal cancer cells to metastasize and ...

With the rapid progression of molecular biology and genetics, and the subsequent emergence of many new targets, emerging targets & therapeutics provides new opportunities for the prevention and treatment of several major disease systems. The 4th Cancer Targets & Therapeutics Conference, taking place on February 25-26, 2013 in Las Vegas, NV will continue to be a premier event for translational researchers, preclinical scientists and managers, and those carrying out early phase clinical trials, working to identify and exploit advances in the field in order to deliver products ...

In 2005, President George W. Bush and American corn farmers saw corn ethanol as a promising fossil fuel substitute that would reduce both American dependence on foreign oil and greenhouse gas emissions. Accordingly, the 2005 energy bill mandated that 4 billion gallons of renewable fuel be added to the gasoline supply in 2006. That rose to 4.7 billion gallons in 2007 and 7.5 billion in 2012. Since then, life cycle assessments (LCAs) have shown that corn ethanol has modest if any effect on reducing CO2 emissions and may actually increase them, while posing a threat to natural ...

Palaeontologists who examined a new fossil found in southern California have thrown doubt on earlier claims that a "killer walrus" once existed. Geology PhD student Robert Boessenecker from New Zealand's University of Otago and co-author Morgan Churchill from the University of Wyoming have today published their paper about the fossil in the online scientific journal PLOS ONE. The paper reports that the new fossil-find, of the extinct walrus Pelagiarctos from southern California, prompts a different hypothesis to an earlier one that a "killer walrus" existed, preying ...

"Arrests of and Forced Interventions on Pregnant Women in the United States, 1973-2005: Implications for Women's Legal Status and Public Health," an article by Lynn M. Paltrow and Jeanne Flavin in the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law (volume 38, issue 2), offers a groundbreaking, in-depth look at criminal and civil cases in which a woman's pregnancy was a deciding factor leading to attempted and actual deprivations of her physical liberty. As "personhood" measures are promoted and the fortieth anniversary of Roe v. Wade approaches, this article broadens the ...

When it comes to camouflage, ground-nesting Japanese quail are experts. That's based on new evidence published online on January 17 in Current Biology that mother quail "know" the patterning of their own eggs and choose laying spots to hide them best. "Not only are the eggs camouflaged, but the birds choose to lay their eggs on a substrate that maximizes camouflage," said P. George Lovell of Abertay University and the University of St Andrews. "Furthermore, the maximization seems specific to individual birds." Karen Spencer, also of University of St Andrews and a co-author, ...

Leprosy is a bacterial disease that spreads to muscles and other tissues in the body, causing neurodegeneration and muscle weakness. A new study, published by Cell Press January 17th in the journal Cell, reveals that the bacteria responsible for leprosy spread infection by hijacking specialized cells in the adult nervous system, reprogramming them into a stem cell-like state, and converting them to muscle-like cells. These findings could lead to the development of new therapeutic strategies for combating bacterial infections and degenerative diseases as well as new tools ...

Scientists at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have made a large step towards the understanding of how human genes are regulated. In a new study, published in the journal Cell, they identified the DNA sequences that bind to over four hundred proteins that control expression of genes. This knowledge is required for understanding of how differences in genomes of individuals affect their risk to develop disease. After the human genome was sequenced in 2000, it was hoped that the knowledge of the entire sequence of human DNA could rapidly be translated to medical benefits ...

Atlanta– Jan. 17, 2013–As of 2009, the overall death rate for cancer in the United States had declined 20 percent from its peak in 1991, translating to the avoidance of approximately 1.2 million deaths from cancer, 152,900 of these in 2009 alone. These figures come from the American Cancer Society's annual Cancer Statistics report, one of the most widely-cited medical publications in the world. Each year, the American Cancer Society estimates the numbers of new cancer cases and deaths expected in the United States in the current year and compiles the most recent data ...

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have identified a molecular mechanism regulating autophagy, a fundamental stress response used by cells to help ensure their survival in adverse conditions. The findings are published online in the January 17 issue of Cell. Senior author Kun-Liang Guan, PhD, a professor of pharmacology at UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center, and colleagues report that an enzyme called AMPK, typically involved in sensing and modulating energy use in cells, also regulates autophagic enzymes. Autophagy, which derives ...

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have discovered that hard-to-reach, drug-resistant leukemia stem cells (LSCs) that overexpress multiple pro-survival protein forms are sensitive – and thus vulnerable – to a novel cancer stem cell-targeting drug currently under development. The findings, published in the January 17 online issue of Cell Stem Cell, open the possibility that diseases like chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) and some solid tumor cancers might – in combination with other therapies – be more effectively treated with this ...

Scientists have discovered that that the flu virus can essentially tell time, thereby giving scientists the ability to reset the virus' clock and combat it in more effective ways. According to researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, the flu knows how much time it has to multiply, infect other cells, and spread to another human being. If it leaves a cell too soon, the virus is too weak. If it leaves too late, the immune system has time to kill the virus. The finding provides a novel design platform for the flu vaccine and could lead to new antiviral ...

New research shows that more than 75 per cent of people with a particular version of a gene don't produce under-arm odour but use deodorant anyway. The study was based on a sample of 6,495 women who are part of the wider Children of the 90s study at the University of Bristol. The researchers found that about two per cent (117 out of 6,495) of mothers carry a rare version of a particular gene (ABCC11), which means they don't produce any under-arm odour. While about 5 per cent of people who produce an odour do not use deodorant, more than a fifth (26 out of 117) of ...

Laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding – lap banding – is a safe and effective long-term strategy for managing obesity, according to the findings of a landmark 15-year follow-up study of patients treated in Australia. The follow-up study, the longest and most comprehensive yet reported, was published in the Annals of Surgery, and found a significant number of lap band patients maintained an average weight loss of 26 kilograms for more than a decade after their procedure. Professor Paul O'Brien and colleagues from the Centre for Obesity Research and Education (CORE) ...