Clark & Washington, a Tampa bankruptcy law firm, notes that even the greatest show on Earth may not always be successful, but the main man behind it knew how to rise from the ashes like a phoenix. P.T. Barnum made every situation, good and bad, work for him, and even after he declared bankruptcy; it still didn't stop the irrepressible Barnum. Barnum was a man of opportunity, in that he saw an opportunity in everything. He created the Barnum and Bailey circus, which eventually joined with Ringling Brothers to create one of the most successful traveling circuses to ...

Atlanta based orthopaedic group, OrthoAtlanta, states that custom orthotics can bring balance to your posture, improve flexibility and assist with joint motility. Atlanta orthopaedic doctors agree, keeping the body in balance is essential to healthy muscles and joints. Custom orthotics can help stabilize the body when standing or in motion. When a body is unbalanced, it can wear down knee joints, causing damage and eventual pain. Atlanta orthopaedic surgeons at OrthoAtlanta state that these injuries to knee joints may be prevented with custom orthotics. "If the ...

Naderi & Weinrieb is pleased to announce that is has expanded its team of criminal defense attorneys. Attorney Mr. Lee Zavatsky is the newest member of the firm, and will be handling a variety of felony and misdemeanor cases, including DUI. Mr. Lee Zavatsky is a criminal attorney specializing in DUI and complex cases involving DNA and scientific evidence, including narcotics and sex crimes cases. He earned his law degree from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, and his undergraduate degree in Biochemistry from the University of California, Riverside. After earning ...

As electronic cigarettes continue to rise in popularity, they have become a hot item for holiday gift-giving. Friends and family of smokers are purchasing starter kits in record numbers in hopes that their loved ones will enjoy the alternative to smoking. Following suit, many e cigarette brands are announcing sales and specials just in time for Christmas. Electronic cigarettes create nicotine-infused water vapor rather than smoke. They are ideal for the cold winter months as they are allowed inside most public places and are odorless. Even better, e-cigs don't contain ...

For bingo enthusiasts, there is great news on the virtual realm of bingo games. The leading bingo games site on the web, 123Bingoonline.com has now released three different promotions which will favor loyal members of this bingo site based on their deposit and participation. During all of the month of December players will have the chance to win $100 Amazon Gift Cards, a cash back percentage, a raffle bag filled with goodies such as beauty Products, Watches, MP3 Players, Gourmet Gift Boxes, etc. There will even be a bingo room named after one of the lucky winners of one ...

SJD Accountancy, the UK's largest accountants to contractors with over 11,000 Limited company clients, was recently announced as finalists in the UK Customer Satisfaction Awards. SJD are shortlisted in the 'Customer Commitment' category, which in 2011 they were finalists for and won. SJD Accountancy have won more awards for customer service and accountancy excellence than any other firm in their market. Past awards include; Contractor UK's 'Best Contractor Accountant' award five years running, 'Accountant of the Year' at the British Accountancy Awards, two time winners ...

Big data may not be a term often discussed outside the CIO's office today, but according to experts at ICC, a leader in business technology services with a focus on big data and application development, that will change in 2013. That's the year big data will find its way out of the data center and back rooms - typically populated by statisticians and business analysts - and into the offices of the chief financial officer (CFO), chief marketing officer (CMO) and chief sales officer (CSO) who are charged with growing revenue. Everyone will soon be busy making sense of the ...

Todd Doors, one of the UK's leading suppliers of timber doors, have taken the decision to delay the release of their eagerly anticipated new brochure - it was announced today. The brand new brochure, which was set for release in December, in time for Christmas, has now been delayed until January, allowing a more expansive range of timber doors to be printed and introduced inside the catalogue, according to a spokesperson for the company. The scheduled December release was supposed to exclusively unveil the brand new 2013 collections of internal and external doors ...

TaxResults.com is an online tax consultancy and is proud to celebrate successful outcomes for its clients. Many people find themselves in difficulty with the IRS - for a number of reasons - perhaps owing back taxes or even undergoing salary garnishment. Tax Results has been able to offer its clients solutions that can both vastly reduce their tax obligation and provide them with a reasonable payment plan. "Our goal is to provide the best customer service and results in the industry," says the VP Brad Patrick. "Our mission is to provide an aggressive response ...

A new study published by University of Chicago researchers challenges the notion that the force of an exploding star forced the formation of the solar system. In this study, published online last month in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, authors Haolan Tang and Nicolas Dauphas found the radioactive isotope iron 60 — the telltale sign of an exploding star—low in abundance and well mixed in solar system material. As cosmochemists, they look for remnants of stellar explosions in meteorites to help determine the conditions under which the solar system formed. Some ...

Harnessing the ID in glioma Gliomas are the most common form of brain tumor. They are highly aggressive and effective treatments are not currently available. The tumors contain glioma initiating cells (GICs), a population that is highly similar to neural stem cells. GICs drive tumor progression and must stay in a particular extracellular niche in order to maintain their cancer-promoting, stem cell-like characteristics. In this issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, researchers led by Antonio Iavarone at Columbia University report on the role of ID proteins in ...

Gliomas are the most common form of brain tumor. They are highly aggressive and effective treatments are not currently available. The tumors contain glioma initiating cells (GICs), a population that is highly similar to neural stem cells. GICs drive tumor progression and must stay in a particular extracellular niche in order to maintain their cancer-promoting, stem cell-like characteristics. In this issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, researchers led by Antonio Iavarone at Columbia University report on the role of ID proteins in glioma. ID proteins allow ...

Physicians in Canada should consider refusing to prescribe cognitive enhancement medications — also used to treat attention deficit disorder (ADD) — to healthy patients, states an analysis article in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). Lack of evidence for benefits and possibility of harm, limited health care resources and professional integrity of physicians are reasons why this use is not acceptable. Prescription stimulants such as methylphenidate and dextroamphetamine are often used by people for "cognitive enhancement" to increase focus, concentration and ...

New York City's limit of a maximum 16-ounce size of sugar-sweetened drinks for sale in eating establishments is a positive public health move and should be replicated in Canada, argues an editorial in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). "Because sugary drinks are the leading source of dietary calories in North America, New York City's latest measure is a rational strategy to combat obesity on a population level," writes Dr. Matthew Stanbrook, Deputy Editor, Practice, CMAJ. "The scientific case for reducing sugar consumption is stronger than ever. Recent evidence ...

Scientists from the RIKEN Advanced Science Institute in Japan and University of California Los Angeles report a new nanoscale Velcro-like device that captures and releases tumor cells that have broken away from primary tumors and are circulating in the bloodstream.This new nanotechnology could be used for cancer diagnosis and give insight into the mechanisms of how cancer spreads throughout the body. The device provides a convenient and non-invasive alternative to biopsy, the current method for diagnosis of metastatic cancer. It could enable doctors to detect tumor cells ...

Failure to launch an adequate immune response may be at the root of septic shock, according to a study published in The Journal of Experimental Medicine on December 17th. Bacterial sepsis is a potentially deadly blood infection that results in massive immune activation and inflammation. Sepsis therapies have traditionally focused on quelling this exaggerated inflammatory response. But a recent study challenged this approach by showing that patients with sepsis had abnormally low levels of an inflammatory protein called LECT2. The new study by Jiong Chen and colleagues ...

WASHINGTON -- A new study by Georgetown University Medical Center researchers reveals how a well-known tumor suppressor gene may be functioning to stop cancer cell growth. The findings, published online today in Oncogene, focus on the gene BRCA1, which is mutated in a majority of families who have hereditary breast and/or ovarian cancers, according to senior author Ronit I. Yarden, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Human Science at the School of Nursing & Health Studies. "There is a debate in the scientific community about whether BRCA1 enzymatic activity ...

Contact: Jenna DiPaolo jdipaolo@rightsandresources.org 202-412-0331 Coimbra Sirica csirica@burnesscommunications.com 301-943-3287 Burness Communications New research predicts rising trend in India's Violent Land Conflicts; 130 districts struggle Experts cite role of India as leader among land-grabbing emerging economies; ignoring rights at home, Indian multi-nationals risk same mistakes abroad NEW DELHI—(17 December 2012)—New research released today, on the eve of an international conference on land and forest rights, blames India's government agencies and ...

Even when provided with complex combinations of different wet and dry foods, cats are able to select and combine the foods in different amounts to achieve a consistent intake of protein, fat and carbohydrate, i.e. macronutrient intake. Published this month in the Journal of Comparative Physiology B, the research shows that cats regulate their macronutrient intake by altering their food selection despite differences in the macronutrient content, moisture level and texture of foods. The research was conducted by scientists from the WALTHAM® Centre for Pet Nutrition – the ...

Researchers from the University of New South Wales and Black Dog Institute in Sydney, Australia have used brain imaging technology to show that young people with a known risk of bipolar (but as yet have no signs of the condition) have clear and quantifiable differences in brain activity when compared to controls. "We found that the young people who had a parent or sibling with bipolar disorder had reduced brain responses to emotive faces, particularly a fearful face. This is an extremely promising breakthrough," says study leader UNSW Professor Philip Mitchell. "We ...

The species in question is the fruit fly Drosophila mauritiana, a close relative of the well known (and previously sequenced) Drosophila melanogaster that swarms around our fruit bowls in summer. Nolte and colleagues now present a complete genomic sequence, annotating it to indicate the various genes it contains. The information will naturally be extremely useful to all those who are working on this organism. But the present study goes much, much further. Schlötterer's group has recently developed powerful analytic methods for measuring the genetic variability of populations. ...

Oxidative stress is believed to cause a number of diseases. Up to now, it has been common practice to measure oxidative stress levels by determining the oxidation state of a small molecule called glutathione in cell extracts. Scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ) have been the first to discover that cells under stress deposit their oxidized glutathione in a cellular waste repository. This protects cells from oxidative stress – and questions the validity of the conventional measuring method. Cancer, Alzheimer's, arteriosclerosis– ...

Imagine a solid ball rolling down a slightly inclined ramp. What could be perceived as child's play is the focus of serious theoretical research by Manoj Chaudhury and Partho Goohpattader, two physicists from Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pensylvania, USA. Their study, which is about to be published in EPJ E, has one thing in common with childhood behaviour. It introduces a mischievous idea, namely studying the effect of random noise, such as vibrations, on the ball. They found it could lower the energy barrier to set the ball in motion. The authors used a ramp with ...

A protected area network should ensure the maintenance of biodiversity, but climate is changing rapidly, thereby creating further demand for the protected area network to be efficient in preserving biota. Due to climate change species ranges are expected to move polewards, which poses challenges to the protected area network. Population changes of different bird species groups according to their habitat preferences in boreal protected areas in Finland were studied on the basis of large-scale bird censuses carried out in 1981 and in 2000. Mean temperatures rose clearly ...

Washington D.C., December 17, 2012 – A study published in the December 2012 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry found that adolescents who experienced food insecurity in the past year have a higher prevalence of mental disorders than adolescents whose families have reliable access to food. Using data from the National Comorbidity Survey Replication Adolescent Supplement (NCS-A), a group of researchers led by Dr. Katie McLaughlin, of Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, examined 6,483 adolescents aged 13-17 ...