As a way of reducing auto accidents, law enforcement officials utilize checkpoints to catch drunk drivers and those that violate seat-belt laws. Now, checkpoints are being used to ensure that motorcyclists are also obeying safety laws. Specifically, motorcycle-only checkpoints are conducted to make sure a biker is wearing a helmet, holds a valid driver's license and his or her motorcycles are in safe working condition. Statistics from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration show that nearly 4,500 motorcyclists were killed while riding in the United States ...

Often, the worst part of recovering from a serious accident is not the short-term process of healing acute injuries. Instead, the real struggle comes in knowing that your life will never be the same. Many seriously-injured accident victims find themselves needing to adapt to a whole new way of life. This is especially true for accident victims whose injuries have rendered them unable to walk. Whether it is because of a spinal cord injury, amputation or other trauma, adjusting to a less-mobile lifestyle can be extremely difficult. Technology Presents Hope for Accident ...

While residential home mortgage foreclosures are taking up most of the headlines, many Americans are unaware of a significant crisis in commercial foreclosures that affect businesses in California and across the country. In fact, commercial real estate debt is close to one-third of the value of debt in residential real estate. Since the financial crisis, commercial foreclosure rates have skyrocketed and continue to remain high. As the effects of the financial crisis spilled into the general economy, businesses began to face a highly unfavorable environment, and many ...

You're at your desk when you receive a panicky phone call from a valued client asking your advice because the client has just learned that they are involved in a federal criminal investigation. Odds are that this will happen to every lawyer at least once, regardless of your practice area. You have just been handed a ticking time bomb. You know you need to refer the client to an experienced criminal attorney, but your client wants and needs answers now. What advice should you give to the client? This article will focus on several common scenarios in which a client ...

Chicago workers' compensation attorney Raul V. Rodriguez recently obtained a $136,000 settlement on behalf of an undocumented roofer who was severely injured after a fall at a local jobsite. Mr. Rodriguez is a bilingual Spanish-speaking attorney who concentrates much of his practice representing Latino-American employees who suffer workplace injuries in Illinois. The Chicago roofer represented by Mr. Rodriguez suffered severe neck, back and head injuries after a seven-foot fall from a roof. The roofer also suffered dementia and vertigo as a result of his fall but recovered ...

British Airways has announced the introduction of its award-winning, new First class service on four of its popular Caribbean routes from Gatwick this summer. Customers flying on holidays to Barbados, Bermuda, St Lucia and Port of Spain in Trinidad will be able to experience the new British Airways premium cabin. The Gatwick-based Boeing 777-200 aircraft with the new First cabin offers a 60 per cent wider seat, private wardrobes, personal electronic blinds and balanced privacy that creates an intimate experience. British Airways also recently introduced food ...

Voyager Travel Direct is giving away a free Red Sea holiday via its company Facebook page. The prize includes a 7 night all inclusive holiday for 2 people staying at the deluxe Siva Grand Beach Hotel. Return flights, transfers, 20kg luggage allowance and all meals and drinks are also included in the prize. The Siva Grand Beach Hotel is set in its own section of private beach overlooking the crystal waters of the Red Sea, just 8km from Hurghada Old Town. The hotel offers a range of restaurants and bars, live day and evening entertainment, a large outdoor swimming pool, ...

The National Trust has announced a Shakespearean actress, soul singing sensation, a world beating sailor and a passionate seafood champion have thrown their weight behind the charity's biggest ever coastal appeal to acquire a stretch of the White Cliffs of Dover. Dame Judi Dench, Joss Stone, Ben Ainslie and Rick Stein have joined thousands of people that have already supported the Trusts bid to raise GBP1.2 million to buy 1.35km of this much loved Kent coast. Soul singer Joss Stone, who was born in Dover, said: "I love Dover and the White Cliffs. They mean so ...

As a vast number of e cigarette online retailers are fighting their way to the top of the industry, the Firelight Fusion is one of the best kits currently available on the US market. The Fusion kit is a KR808D1 model, which is known throughout the e cigarette community as the top selling model available. "We chose the KR808D1 to be the base of our new e cigarette kit because of the known reliability of the model and its reputation among the vaping community," says Tiffany Ellis of Firelight Fusion E Cigarettes. "Our customers deserve only the best ...

Corcentric, a leading provider of Accounts Payable automation and electronic invoicing solutions today announced they will be hosting a 60-minute educational Webinar titled "Top 10 Reports and KPIs AP Should Have at Their Fingertips." This Webinar, hosted by Rob DeVincent, Corcentric's Vice President of Product Marketing, will take place on Tuesday, August 21, 2012 at 2:00 PM ET/11:00 AM PT. Studies have shown that best-in-class Accounts Payable departments are 156% more likely to measure AP performance on a monthly or more frequent basis. By creating reports ...

Marie Storey, Head of Fundraising at Wallace & Gromit's Children's Charity, said: "We are delighted to award Foresters this Golden Gromit. The Golden Gromit recognises Foresters outstanding support for Wallace & Gromit's Children's Charity and their commitment to help improve the quality of life of sick children across the UK. It is our unique way to say a BIG thank you to Foresters staff and members who have transformed the work we do and without whom we would not be where we are today." The Golden Gromit is only the second one ever awarded and it ...

For its fifth consecutive year iTunes Festival returns to Camden's most iconic music venue, the Roundhouse. Right from the get-go iTunes Festival has pulled act after act out of the bag with the Foo Fighters, Adele and even the late Amy Whinehouse taking to the famous Roundhouse stage. This year's selection surely will not disappoint either. Over 30 nights - each night of September - a different act will perform a unique live set in a personal, intimate setting. This year's acts include Usher, Ed Shearan, Emeli Sande, Deadmau5, Jack White, Plan B, Noel Gallagher's High ...

Arsetta, Inc. -- since 2003 a leading provider of web-based auction management software for charity auctions -- today announces the launch of ReadySetAuction Live. This next-generation bidding platform leverages increasingly ubiquitous personal mobile devices to bring the power, flexibility, and convenience of personalized online bidding to fundraiser auction events. With the introduction of ReadySetAuction Live, auction guests use their own smartphones and tablets to browse the auction catalog, place bids, buy fixed-price items, and donate to Fund-A-Need special appeals. ...

Stella McCartney opens her first store in Spain located in the heart of Barcelona's Paseo de Gracia and the corner of Carrer Rossello today. Constructed in 1900 the historic building, housing the designer's 5th European freestanding store, is influenced by French classicism and surrounded by the city's celebrated Art Nouveau architecture including Gaudi's La Pedrera. The new 100 square meter shop reflects an intimate, personal and architectural atmosphere using simple and natural materials contrasted with sculptural details illustrating her signature style combination of ...

From working wardrobe essentials to that signature Lipsy tracksuit, you can get next day delivery on the designer ranges when you shop before 9pm.* Key pieces from the desk till dawn collections include the Floral Print Shift Dress in black and lilac and Tie Neck Buttoned Shirt in cream with contrast black detailing and metallic buttons. Other office essentials include the Dogtooth Flat Front Trousers and Tweed Peplum Skirt which come in light brown-grey shades really versatile for wearing with a neutral blouse or lightweight jumper and classic mac. Later, for an evening ...

A new way to study the role of a critical neurotransmitter in disorders such as epilepsy, anxiety, insomnia, depression, schizophrenia, and alcohol addiction has been developed by a group of scientists led by Gong Chen, an associate professor of biology at Penn State University. The new method involves molecularly engineering a model synapse -- a structure through which a nerve cell send signals to another cell. This model synapse can precisely control a variety of receptors for the neurotransmitter called GABA, which is important in brain chemistry. The research, which ...

Most informed consent disputes involve disagreements about who said what and when, not stand-offs over whether a particular risk ought to have been disclosed. But doctors may "routinely underestimate the importance of a small set of risks that vex patients" according to international experts writing in this week's PLOS Medicine. Increasingly, doctors are expected to advise and empower patients to make rational choices by sharing information that may affect treatment decisions, including risks of adverse outcomes. However, authors from Australia and the US led by David ...

Australian doctors sometimes fail to warn patients of risks that could affect the patient's quality of life before providing treatment or surgery, a new study led by University of Melbourne researchers has shown. Published in PLoS Medicine today, the study showed that some doctors, particularly surgeons, are not explaining the risk of specific outcomes that matter most to patients. Overlooked risks that led to a legal claim or complaint included chronic pain, sexual dysfunction, visual or hearing loss, and the need for re-operation. Lead author Dr Marie Bismark from ...

Bioengineers at the University of California, San Diego have developed a method of modeling, simultaneously, an organism's metabolism and its underlying gene expression. In the emerging field of systems biology, scientists model cellular behavior in order to understand how processes such as metabolism and gene expression relate to one another and bring about certain characteristics in the larger organism. In addition to serving as a platform for investigating fundamental biological questions, this technology enables far more detailed calculations of the total cost ...

Marin County, California has one of the highest rates of breast cancer in the world, a fact that scientists know has nothing to do with the land itself but with some other, unknown factor. A new study that analyzed mouth buccal cell samples stored frozen at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) suggests what this factor may be: a genetic trait present among women within the county's predominantly white population. In an article published online this week by the Journal of the American College of Surgeons, which will appear in the November 2012 print issue, ...

At its most fundamental level, diabetes is a disease characterized by stress -- microscopic stress that causes inflammation and the loss of insulin production in the pancreas, and system-wide stress due to the loss of that blood-sugar-regulating hormone. Now, researchers led by scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) have uncovered a new key player in amplifying this stress in the earliest stages of diabetes: a molecule called thioredoxin-interacting protein (TXNIP). The molecule, they've discovered, is central to the inflammatory process that ...

The molecular missteps that disrupt brain function in the most common form of adult-onset muscular dystrophy have been revealed in a new study published by Cell Press. Myotonic dystrophy is marked by progressive muscle wasting and weakness, as well as excessive daytime sleepiness, memory problems, and mental retardation. A new mouse model reported in the August 9 issue of the journal Neuron reproduces key cognitive and behavioral symptoms of this disease and could be used to develop drug treatments, which are currently lacking. "The new animal model reproduces important ...

The Third Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-III) has issued Data Release 9 (DR9), the first public release of data from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). In this release BOSS, the largest of SDSS-III's four surveys, provides spectra for 535,995 newly observed galaxies, 102,100 quasars, and 116,474 stars, plus new information about objects in previous Sloan surveys (SDSS-I and II). "This is just the first of three data releases from BOSS," says David Schlegel of the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), an astrophysicist ...

Alexandria, VA – A team of researchers may have discovered a way to hear earthquakes. Not the noises of rattling windows and crumbling buildings, but the real sounds an earthquake makes deep underground as rock grinds and fails catastrophically. Typical seismic waves have frequencies below the audible range for humans, but the August issue of EARTH shows you where to find the voice of one seismic monster: the March 11, 2011, magnitude-9.0 Tohoku earthquake in Japan. Beyond the novelty of simply hearing an earthquake, the team found that the new technology could possibly ...

Large hotel chains are quick to adopt and adapt innovations developed in other industries, while smaller hotels make almost continual incremental changes in response to customers' needs. The UK hotel industry is alive with innovation and new ways of improving service for customers, research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) has found. The findings of a project led by Professor Gareth Shaw of Exeter University and Professor Allan Williams of Surrey University run counter to the traditional image of the hotel sector as slow to change. Official measures ...