Ohio bill proposes harsh penalty for wrong-way drivers A vote on a proposed new bill that would increase penalties for wrong-way drivers was recently postponed because some legislators felt it was extreme. The provision causing controversy is one that imposes a one-year mandatory license suspension for any driver traveling more than 500 feet in the wrong direction. An additional such violation results in one year in jail. If death or serious injuries result from the wrong-way driving, the license suspension period increases to between two to 10 years. Subsequent violations ...

California bill would broaden teenage distracted driving law In California, it is currently illegal for drivers younger than 18 to use a hand-held or hands-free cellphones while behind the wheel. Also, texting while driving is prohibited for drivers of all ages. However, one lawmaker thinks that the current distracted driving laws do not go far enough, particularly for teenagers. The lawmaker, Sen. Cathleen Galgiani, believes that the current distracted driving law must be changed to keep up with emerging mobile technology. As a result, Galgiani recently proposed ...

Webbing While Driving May Be Newest Distracted Driving Threat In recent years, distracted driving has emerged as a significant threat on our nation's highways. Experts agree that the primary factor contributing to the increase in distracted driving is the widespread adoption of cell phones and Global Positioning System (GPS) devices. Indeed, although cell phone technology has made it easier for commuters to communicate with loved ones and travelers to reach their destinations, it has also fed individuals' needs to be connected at all times, even behind the wheel. Unfortunately, ...

Nursing home abuse: the shocking case of Momence Meadows We all hope for the best as our loved ones age -- that the last years of life will be an experience of grace, dignity and respect. Most people hope to keep their family members at home, but sometimes institutional care like that available in nursing homes is necessary when medical conditions become too severe for untrained relatives to handle. Federal and state laws and regulations set out specific, detailed standards for nursing home staffing, medical treatment, nutrition, safety, cleanliness and more. You ...

Supreme Court decision expands use of drug sniffing dogs The Supreme Court of the United States recently ruled that drug sniffing dogs can provide the probable cause needed to allow a police officer to conduct a search. The ruling was based on a contentious case involving a routine traffic stop and a drug sniffing dog in Florida. In its decision, the court focused on reasonableness. In order to make a ruling, the court discussed whether a reasonable person would think a search justified by a drug sniffing dog's alert could result in the finding of drugs. The answer ...

Work zones remain dangerous for construction workers There are many active road construction projects currently underway in and around Denver, and this number will only increase as the weather improves. For many motorists, this only adds to the stress of their daily commutes. However, for construction workers, the increase in projects means that their skills will be in high demand. Unfortunately, many of these workers are injured in construction accidents at these job sites. According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, 20,000 road construction workers ...

ThinkHR, the national leader in providing businesses with expert HR guidance, today announced a strategic partnership with TLNT.com, a popular HR and talent management website that publishes daily expert advice and resources on topics including talent management, recruiting, training and employee benefits. Through the partnership, ThinkHR will provide TLNT.com readers with professional answers to complex human resources question through an embedded Q&A portal powered by an in-house team of specialized HR professionals. Through this dynamic relationship, TLNT readers ...

CREAX launches a free online patent search and analysis tool which is called PatentInspiration. Since 2000, CREAX is developing software, training and services for empowering technology driven companies in their innovation projects. Over the years, CREAX has developed widely used free tools and databases such as http://www.moreinspiration.com (an innovation database), http://function.creax.com (an engineering brainstorm tool) and http://csa.creax.com (a popular creativity test). Access to existing knowledge worldwide, makes R&D faster, more cost-effective and stimulates ...

Rip Media Group a leader in corporate whiteboard animation, motion graphic animation, explainer videos and demo video, has released a new information graphic for marketing directors and entrepreneurs needing to create their corporate story. Whiteboard animations and 2D animation are the fastest growing method for communicating information about your product or service. Rip Media has created more than 150 of these marketing videos, ads, and produces feature films. "The desire to deliver a core message is the most important aspect of the video, and our clients ...

Are old prom, homecoming and tolo dresses taking up space in your closet? Elle Marie Hair Studio can help! Now through April 14th, Elle Marie is collecting dresses for distribution to various schools throughout Snohomish County. To show their appreciation, the salon is offering $10 in Elle Marie Beauty Bucks to each guest that makes a donation. "Every young lady deserves the chance to go to a formal dance and feel beautiful without having to worry about the money they might not have for the dress." says Alderwood Studio Coordinator Brooke Undseth. "If ...

With more than 42,000 advance tickets sold for the David Bowie retrospective, opening this Saturday at London's V&A Museum, records have been broken as the event has become the fastest-selling in the museum's history. 'David Bowie Is' will treat visitors to a close look at sixty flamboyant costumes worn by the pop icon, along with more than 300 other objects such as lyrics, instruments photographs and videos. Visitors travelling from outside of London to the exhibition can conveniently book accommodation through LondonTown.com, where a vast range of hotels in London ...

A Premier Inn study* has revealed six million Brits admit they sleep with their mobile phone. Research carried out by the UK's best value hotel chain, has found that one in five (20%) of the nation keep their phone in their bed, or even under their pillow, every single night, to ensure they don't miss a single text message or email. Such is the nation's obsession with their smartphone that half (50%) of the 2,000 adults questioned admit that looking at their phone is the very last thing they do in the evening, and the first thing they do when they wake. The mobile ...

America's consumers are still pinching their pennies in today's rebounding economy. Although spending has increased, many are still afraid of what is around the corner in such uncertain times. Regardless of where the blame is laid, the lack of spending has had a trickle down effect. Most companies are down sizing or closing, whole product lines are being discontinued; more people become unemployed and less people spend. Many companies are dumbfounded and are trying anything new to increase their profit share. Where most have tried, many have failed. The Carolina Group, ...

Phuket will no longer be just a beach destination for overseas tourists. Central Retail Corporation has just announced plans to open a US$332 million entertainment, shopping and convention centre on the popular Thai island. After accommodation (30%), shopping now accounts for 24% of all tourists' spending in Phuket, with the typical tourist spending US$108 per day. To many developers it therefore makes sense to modernise Phuket into more than just a sunny beach escape but into one that can satiate the growing demand for all-round holiday resort destinations. Tourist ...

The hiss of air escaping from a leaky car tire is no one's favorite sound. Even less pleasant? Hearing that hiss of escaping air 250 miles above Earth's surface while inside the pressurized confines of the International Space Station. According to Eric Madaras, an aerospace technologist at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., if an air leak were to occur aboard the station, alarms would sound, and the astronauts would locate and correct the problem according to procedures. But with only the crew's eyes and ears to go on, pinpointing the source of a leak ...

The agreement will see two of the most influential global voices in management education working closely with the GRLI, a network of forward thinking companies and business schools, to focus on an important message: that business and business schools need to work collectively to devote greater attention to developing responsible companies and leaders in the future. Mark Drewell, CEO of the GRLI said, "Over the past nine years we have learnt a great deal about catalysing change in the complex interface between management education, business and society. This move ...

When you think of knee replacement surgery, you generally envision an older adult with painful arthritis. But the procedure is also used for younger patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) whose joints have been severely damaged by the disease. Because the surgery in younger patients is relatively rare, little data exist on the longevity of knee replacements in JIA patients. An international, multi-center study led by researchers at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) has found that total knee replacements in younger patients with juvenile arthritis last at ...

Doses of medicine 100,000 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair prevent the tissue damage associated with atherosclerosis and other chronic diseases in mice. As part of a National Institutes of Health-sponsored project led by Zahi Fayad, PhD, of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, researchers found that these nanomedicines are able to home specifically to damaged tissue to repair it. This study was published online this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Inflammation is the body's natural defense mechanism against invading organisms ...

For the first time, a study has compared water quality trends in forested streams across the country that are largely undisturbed by land use or land cover changes. The study, which draws on decades' worth of data from reference streams in six U.S. states and Puerto Rico, underscores the value of long-term data in understanding the patterns and causes of water quality changes in streams and rivers. It is published in the current issue of the journal Environmental Research Letters. "Much of what we know about changes in stream water quality comes from studies where ...

BEER-SHEVA, Israel, March 20, 2013 -- Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers, in collaboration with Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., have developed a promising drug candidate to treat psoriasis. The finding was reported in a new paper published in Chemistry and Biology. Psoriasis is a chronic, non-contagious disease characterized by inflamed lesions covered with silvery-white scabs of dead skin. An auto-immune disease, psoriasis affects at least four million Americans. It is caused by the disturbance in the natural balance between pro-inflammatory signals ...

It's March 2013 – 50 years after Betty Friedan's explosive book launched feminism's "second wave," 41 after Title IX, the equal-opportunity amendment banning sex discrimination in education, was signed into law – and some exceptionally successful women are making a lot of news. Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is riding high in public opinion, winning straw polls for the 2016 presidency. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, after shrugging off maternity leave, has sparked the "Great Telecommuting Debate" with a company-wide ban on working from home. And Sheryl Sandberg, ...

Researchers have for the first time demonstrated that mechanical forces can control the depolymerization of actin, a critical protein that provides the major force-bearing structure in the cytoskeletons of cells. The research suggests that forces applied both externally and internally may play a much larger role than previously believed in regulating a range of processes inside cells. Using atomic force microscopy (AFM) force-clamp experiments, the research found that tensile force regulates the kinetics of actin dissociation by prolonging the lifetimes of bonds at low ...

DALLAS (SMU) – The Innovation Gym in SMU's Lyle School of Engineering was buzzing and clanking on a recent morning as students tested robots they built for a specific task – collecting and remediating water samples, as Lyle faculty and students have been doing by hand in refugee camps in Africa and Bangladesh. The strong work dynamic that emerged among members of the first-year design class and their embrace of the inter-disciplinary team approach used to teach it has drawn the attention of the Center For Creative Leadership, which will send a team of researchers to ...

Cognitive problems with memory and behavior experienced by individuals with schizophrenia are linked with changes in brain activity; however, it is difficult to test whether these changes are the underlying cause or consequence of these symptoms. By altering the brain activity in mice to mimic the decrease in activity seen in patients with schizophrenia, researchers reporting in the Cell Press journal Neuron on March 20 reveal that these changes in regional brain activity cause similar cognitive problems in otherwise normal mice. This direct demonstration of the link between ...

Imagine having a daylong Thanksgiving feast every day for a month, then, only pauper's rations the rest of the year. University of Washington researchers have discovered Dolly Varden, a kind of trout, eating just that way in Alaska's Chignik Lake watershed. Organs such as the stomach and intestines in the Dolly Varden doubled to quadrupled in size when eggs from spawning sockeye salmon became available each August, the researchers found. They were like vacuums sucking up the eggs and nipping at the flesh of spawned-out salmon carcasses. Then, once the pulse of eggs ...