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Osborne Industries Adds Farrowing, Gestation Stalls to Swine Equipment Product Line

Osborne Industries Adds Farrowing, Gestation Stalls to Swine Equipment Product Line
2013-01-26
Osborne Industries, Inc. has added farrowing and gestation stalls to its growing line of swine production equipment. The introduction of this new equipment ties into Osborne's "Single Source Swine Solutions," an innovative line of swine management products, equipment and services for the global swine industry. New farrowing stalls by Osborne address the two major economic concerns in farrowing: pre-wean mortality and sow appetite. The layout of Osborne's farrowing stall provides preferred laying areas for piglets to keep warm on Osborne's Stanfield Heat Pads. ...

New Distracted Driving Laws in Illinois Take Effect in 2013

2013-01-26
As the dangers of distracted driving have become clear, states across the country have continued to strengthen the laws targeted at drivers who engage in this risky behavior. Illinois is no exception. As of January 1, 2013, two new laws governing distracted driving were implemented in Illinois. The Illinois Transportation Secretary has stated that she hopes these laws will prevent fatalities on Illinois roadways, as we have learned that distracted driving can be "as dangerous as drinking and driving." The first law enhances the prior prohibition against ...

Toyota Pays Record Fine For Safety Regulations Violation

2013-01-26
Drivers put a lot of trust in automakers when they purchase vehicles. People rely on auto manufacturers to design and produce vehicles that are safe and reliable. When car makers fail to meet their duty to make safe vehicles, auto accidents happen and people suffer injuries. As such, auto manufacturers are supposed to let consumers know when a problem exists with their products. In December 2012, a federal agency announced that Toyota Motor Corp. will pay record-high civil fines for failing to report defects in some of its vehicles. Reporting safety defects Federal ...

"Zombie Titles" Terrorizing Some Homeowners

2013-01-26
Few things are more traumatic than losing a home to foreclosure. Many people found themselves in dire financial circumstances after the economy collapsed in 2008 and were unable to make their mortgage payments. They had to deal with the heartbreak of losing their homes to foreclosure. Now in 2013 many homeowners are discovering that banks never completed the foreclosures they filed, and they still own the homes -- and a host of accompanying problems. What makes a zombie title? In many cases, when homeowners receive notice that their lenders intend to foreclose on ...

Legalization of Colorado Marijuana

2013-01-26
The 2012 election will go down in history. Not only will it be remembered for the close race between President Barack Obama and challenger Mitt Romney, it will stand out as the year two states - Colorado and Washington - passed initiatives to "decriminalize" the possession of small amounts of recreational marijuana. In 2006, a similar measure failed to pass in Colorado. But, with support from legal rights advocates and major bill proponents like Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol, a 2012 voter referendum resulted in the passage of Amendment 64. What ...

Texas Sex Offense Accusations Can Be Defended

2013-01-26
Texas law enforcement officials are proud of their accomplishments in apprehending offenders in the Texas 10 Most Wanted program, including people suspected of sex offenses. The Texas Department of Public Safety recently announced that new records were set for this program during 2012. A record year People who are wanted in Texas for an offense in any of several categories can be included in the Texas 10 Most Wanted. Records were set in 2012 for the total number of suspects who were apprehended, gang members apprehended and suspected sex offenders apprehended. A ...

Alcohol-Related Car Accidents Still a Problem in Ohio

2013-01-26
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports that in 2010 (the most recent year for which data is available), nationwide 10,228 people were killed and approximately 350,000 people injured in alcohol-related motor vehicle accidents. A staggering 31 percent of all motor vehicle accident fatalities in the United States were alcohol related. In Ohio, the story is similar. With 31 percent of fatal motor vehicle accidents in Ohio DUI-related, Ohio ranks 32nd in the nation according to MADD's ranking system. That's a 5.7 percent decrease in alcohol-related car ...

California Courts Review of Disability in Child Custody Decisions

2013-01-26
Going through a divorce is one of the most stressful events. Difficult decisions involve where a child will live and when each child will spend time with each parent. For a parent with a mental or physical disability there may be questions or fears surrounding negotiation of child custody. While many would assume that disabilities would not come up during divorce proceedings this is not always the case. As each parent seeks the strongest argument to obtain custody of a child, an impairment never questioned while the couple was together may crop up in a custody request. Unfortunately, ...

Preparing Financially for Divorce

2013-01-26
Making the decision to divorce is rarely easy. Many people are afraid of how they will make it on their own as a single person after having been part of a couple. Often people worry about what their financial circumstances will be after divorce. People considering divorce can take some steps to help prepare financially for divorce and increase their chances of financial stability after divorce. Gather documents A critical first step to making financial preparations for divorce is to gather copies of important documents, such as: - Income tax returns - Mortgages - ...

Hennepin County Jury Returns Excess Verdict Against American Family Insured

2013-01-26
On Wednesday, January 16, 2013, after a 2 day trial, a Hennepin County (Minnesota) jury returned an excess verdict in favor of a 22-year old passenger who was injured in a collision in late March 2010. The 22-year old was a passenger in a vehicle driven by Champale Carter on March 28, 2010. The young women were traveling to Willmar to visit friends. On the way there, after dark, the driver went through a t-intersection and into a holding pond. The car hit the water, the front windshield broke and water began rushing in. The young women escaped the vehicle. When they ...

Nicaragua Signs Tripartite Agreement on Minimum Wage Increases Through 2017

2013-01-26
The Government of Nicaragua, private sector representatives and labor unions recently signed a labor agreement that establishes salary increases in the free zones sector through the year 2017 with the purpose of granting further stability to employees and predictability to investors. The agreement, called the Free Zones Minimum Wage Tripartite Agreement, sets annual salary increases of eight percent for the 2014-2017 period for employees working within the country's free zones sector. Furthermore, the agreement calls for the development of mechanisms aimed at increasing ...

The Boomers Guide to Recovering Your Lost Retirement: The Bill Fisher Story by Michael Burns Receives the NABE Pinnacle Award for Best Self Help Book

2013-01-26
The Boomers Guide to Recovering Your Lost Retirement: The Bill Fisher Story by Michael Burns Receives the NABE Pinnacle Award for Best Self Help Book. The book tells the story of Bill Fisher, who at the age of 72, started from scratch investing in high-dividend stocks, municipal bonds and residential real estate and over the next 18 years was able to build a net worth of one million dollars. Bill didn't win the lottery or inherit a large sum of money. What Bill did do was continue to work at his entry level job and invest his pension money, Social Security checks and ...

The OFT Announces Measures to Combat Rogue Debt Management Credit Practices, Says IVA Company, IVAonline.co.uk

The OFT Announces Measures to Combat Rogue Debt Management Credit Practices, Says IVA Company, IVAonline.co.uk
2013-01-26
The new guidance is in response to a super-complaint made to the OFT by The Citizens Advice Bureau last March as a result of it's report Cashing In, which revealed how tens of thousands of consumers have been targeted by unscrupulous brokers and debt management companies and tricked out of large sums of money. It details rising instances of dubious practices from brokers and debt management companies, including cold calling or texting consumers offering to help them get an unsecured loan, and taking up front fees for credit brokering but not providing a service, often resulting ...

Depression-era drainage ditches emerge as sleeping threat to Cape Cod salt marshes

Depression-era drainage ditches emerge as sleeping threat to Cape Cod salt marshes
2013-01-25
Cape Cod, Massachusetts has a problem. The iconic salt marshes of the famous summer retreat are melting away at the edges, dying back from the most popular recreational areas. The erosion is a consequence of an unexpected synergy between recreational over-fishing and Great Depression-era ditches constructed by Works Progress Administration (WPA) in an effort to control mosquitoes. The cascade of ecological cause and effect is described by Tyler Coverdale and colleagues at Brown University in a paper published online this month in ESA's journal Frontiers in Ecology and the ...

Temple research may lead to new strategies against sepsis

2013-01-25
(Philadelphia, PA) – Scientists at the Center for Translational Medicine at the Temple University School of Medicine are inching closer to solving a long-standing mystery in sepsis, a complex and often life-threatening condition that affects more than 400,000 people in the U.S. every year. By blocking the activity of a protein, STIM1, in cells that line the insides of blood vessels in mice, they have halted a cascade of cellular events that culminates in the out-of-control inflammation that marks sepsis, and protected lungs from severe damage. The findings, reported ...

An important LINC in human hearing

2013-01-25
In this issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Karen Avraham and colleagues at Tel Aviv University identified a genetic mutation in two families with hereditary high frequency hearing loss. The mutated gene, which has not previously been linked to hearing loss, encodes NESP4, a protein that is expressed in the outer nuclear membrane (ONM) of the hair cells of the ear. Avraham and colleagues found that mutated NESP4 was mislocalized, disrupting a cellular complex known as the "linker of nucleoskeleton and cytoskeleton" or LINC, which maintains the position of the ...

Prostate cancer cells thrive on stress

2013-01-25
Prostate cancer patients have increased levels of stress and anxiety; however, several recent studies have found that men who take drugs that interfere with the stress hormone adrenaline have a lower incidence of prostate cancer. In this issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation George Kulik and colleagues at Wake Forest University examined the relationship between stress and cancer progression in a mouse model of prostate cancer. Kulik and colleagues found that mice that had been subjected to stress (exposed to the scent of a predator) exhibited a significantly reduced ...

JCI early table of contents for Jan. 25, 2013

2013-01-25
Prostate cancer cells thrive on stress Prostate cancer patients have increased levels of stress and anxiety; however, several recent studies have found that men who take drugs that interfere with the stress hormone adrenaline have a lower incidence of prostate cancer. In this issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation George Kulik and colleagues at Wake Forest University examined the relationship between stress and cancer progression in a mouse model of prostate cancer. Kulik and colleagues found that mice that had been subjected to stress (exposed to the scent of ...

How to predict the future of technology?

2013-01-25
The bread and butter of investing for Silicon Valley tech companies is stale. Instead, a new method of predicting the evolution of technology could save tech giants millions in research and development or developments of new products—and help analysts and venture capitalists determine which companies are on the right track. The high-tech industry has long used Moore's Law as a method to predict the growth of PC memory. Moore's Law states that the number of chips on a transistor doubles every 18 months (initially every year). A paper by Gareth James and Gerard Tellis, ...

Researchers identify new target for rheumatoid arthritis

Researchers identify new target for rheumatoid arthritis
2013-01-25
Researchers at Hospital for Special Surgery have identified a potential new target for drugs to treat patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), a protein known as IRHOM2. The finding could provide an effective and potentially less toxic alternative therapy to tumor necrosis factor-alpha blockers (TNF-blockers), the mainstay of treatment for rheumatoid arthritis, and could help patients who do not respond to this treatment. Efforts to develop drugs that hone in on this new target are underway. "This study is an elegant example of the capacity of basic science cell biologists ...

Female thin bodies like men more than women

2013-01-25
A study conducted at the University of Granada has demonstrated that men like female thinness more than women and they find female overweight more unpleasant than women. In addition, the study revealed that women who are not comfortable with their body perceive women with a "normal" body –i.e. women with a healthy weight– as a threat. Specifically, when these women see a "normal" body they experience feelings of displeasure and lack of control, since they feel they have not any control on their own body and cannot make it be as they want. This research study was conducted ...

New method identifies genes that can predict prognoses of cancer patients

2013-01-25
BOSTON – In recent years, it has been thought that select sets of genes might reveal cancer patients' prognoses. However, a study published last year examining breast cancer cases found that most of these "prognostic signatures" were no more accurate than random gene sets in determining cancer prognoses. While many saw this as a disappointment, investigators at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and the Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montréal (IRCM) saw this as an opportunity to design a new method to identify gene sets ...

Monitoring and robust induction of nephrogenic intermediate mesoderm from human iPSCs

2013-01-25
The research group led by Associate Professor Kenji Osafune and his colleague Shin-ichi Mae, both from Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA), Kyoto University in Japan, has succeeded in developing a highly efficient method of inducing human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells to differentiate into intermediate mesoderm, the precursor of kidney, gonad, and other cell lineages. This represents a major step toward realizing renal regeneration. As nearly all kidney cells are derived through differentiation from intermediate mesoderm, to realize kidney regeneration ...

Dartmouth research offers new control strategies for bipolar bark beetles

Dartmouth research offers new control strategies for bipolar bark beetles
2013-01-25
Population explosions of pine beetles, which have been decimating North American forests in recent decades, may be prevented by boosting competitor and predator beetle populations, a Dartmouth study suggests. Bark beetles are the most destructive forest pests worldwide. Management and climate change have resulted in younger, denser forests that are even more susceptible to attack. Though intensively studied for decades, until now an understanding of bark beetle population dynamics—extreme ups and downs—has remained elusive. The Dartmouth-led study, published in the ...

Gene mutation immortalizes malignant melanoma

2013-01-25
About ten percent of all cases of malignant melanoma are familial cases. The genome of affected families tells scientists a lot about how the disease develops. Prof. Dr. Rajiv Kumar of the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ) together with Prof. Dr. Dirk Schadendorf from Essen University Hospital studied a family where 14 family members were affected by malignant melanoma. The scientists analyzed the genomes of family members and found an identical mutation in the gene for telomerase, an enzyme often called 'immortality enzyme', in all ...
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