A few select Attorneys are changing their online strategy, and winning over more clients because of it. The brainchild of Los Angeles personal injury lawyer, Michael P. Ehline, Esq., the Circle of Legal Trust (C.O.L.T.), has a multi tiered approach in helping lawyers of all types to reach their goal of online audience attraction and retention. First, an attorney who wants to join gets their site reviewed by their panel of experts to see if it has duplicate content, keyword stuffing, or violates Google, Bing, or Yahoo! quality guidelines. This new attorney is called ...

KingIce.com, a popular online hip hop jewelry retailer, will be holding both Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales. Traditionally, online retailers rely on Cyber Monday, the Monday following Black Friday, for an increase in sales to kick off the holiday shopping season. In a bold move, KingIce.com will offer two unique sales to attract customers on both shopping days. Camping out at big-box retailers has been a custom for many Americans the day after Thanksgiving. In recent years however, Black Friday sales have been creeping towards Black Thursday. In 2011 Retailers ...

MKA Capital Group announces the for sale listing of the Elkhorn Golf Resort property. With 463 acres of developable residential land and an operational 18-hole golf course, this property in Lyons, OR has tentative tract map plans of 15 single family houses, 46 cottage/condominiums (resort amenities included) and a hotel pad. The map has been currently approved by the board of commissioners. Along with the home sites, a scenic 18-hole golf course is next to and part of the property. Elkhorn Golf Resort is situated 30 minutes east from Salem and an hour and a half southeast ...

Despite the pressure from the Humane Society of the United States, Sheriff Lutz of Zanesville, Ohio , and many other animal rights groups, the exotic animal community from all around the Nation united and said they have had enough of the laws being pushed through to take their rights away from them in regards to owning exotic animals. On November 2, 2012, a federal suit was filed along with filing for a temporary injunction in the United States District Court For The Southern District Of Ohio, Eastern Division. (See full suit here http://www.usza.us/Downloads/Complaint_Exotic_Animal_Ban.pdf) ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Contrary to popular perception, stressors don't cause health problems -- it's people's reactions to the stressors that determine whether they will suffer health consequences, according to researchers at Penn State. "Our research shows that how you react to what happens in your life today predicts your chronic health conditions and 10 years in the future, independent of your current health and your future stress," said David Almeida, professor of human development and family studies. "For example, if you have a lot of work to do today and you are ...

Three late-breaking studies presented during the American Society of Nephrology's Annual Kidney Week provide new information on drugs being tested in patients with diabetes or kidney disease. Hans-Henrik Parving, MD (University of Copenhagen, in Denmark) and his colleagues investigated whether the drug aliskiren might improve the prognosis of patients with type 2 diabetes who are at high risk for developing heart and kidney problems. The randomized double-blind ALTITUDE trial included 8561 individuals who received aliskiren (300 mg once daily) or placebo on top of a drug ...

Highlights Some kidney donors have an increased risk of developing high blood pressure after donation. Individuals with prediabetes can safely donate kidneys without increasing their risk of developing diabetes or kidney failure. Among children with advanced kidney disease, blacks and Hispanics are less likely than whites to receive optimal care. Three studies presented during the American Society of Nephrology's Annual Kidney Week provide new information related to kidney transplantation—specifically, the post-transplant health of kidney donors and the ...

New studies support limiting daily sodium consumption to less than 1,500 milligrams, according to a new American Heart Association presidential advisory. The advisory, published in the American Heart Association's journal Circulation, is based on a thorough review of recent laboratory, animal, observational and clinical studies that reaffirm the association's 2011 advisory that limiting sodium (salt) to less than 1,500 mg per day is linked to a decreased risk of high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease, including stroke. "Our recommendation is simple in the sense ...

But unsteadiness on the feet, a tendency to fall over, and losing the ability to steer is considerably more of a problem when life is normally spent in trees or in the air. The authors from the Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency (AHVLA) reveal how they were called to a primary school in Cumbria last summer after the bodies of 12 young blackbirds were found. A further blackbird was discovered alive, but obviously "unwell." And two more dead birds were subsequently found. Foul play was suspected, especially as some of the birds had clearly been injured. ...

NEW YORK -- November 2, 2012 -- For decades, "bigger is better" has been the conventional path to efficiency in industries ranging from transportation to power generation. Food once grown on small family plots now comes overwhelmingly from factory farms. Vessels that carried 2,000 tons of cargo have been replaced by modern container ships that routinely move 150,000 tons. But now, new research shows, we are on the cusp of a radical shift from building big to building small—a change that has profound implications for both established and emerging industries. Many industry ...

The ability of fluorescence microscopy to study labeled structures like cells has now been empowered to deliver greater spatial and temporal resolutions that were not possible before, thanks to a new method developed by University of Illinois researcher Gabriel Popescu and Ru Wang from his lab. Using this method, they were able to study the critical process of cell transport dynamics at multiple spatial and temporal scales and reveal, for the first time, properties of diffusive and directed motion transport in living cells. Popescu leads the Quantitative Light Imaging ...

Income inequality has become a major topic of discussion over the last year and yet consensus on what (if anything) should be done about it seems elusive. New research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, suggests that a simple manipulation of language might be able to influence support for policies aimed at addressing income inequality. Income inequality can be described in two ways: as the rich making more than the poor, or as the poor making less than the rich. The two descriptions convey identical information, ...

Satellite imagery from Nov. 2 showed that Sandy's remnant clouds continue to linger over Canada and the northeastern U.S. The National Weather Service map for Nov. 2, 2012 showed two areas of low pressure over eastern Canada, near Quebec. That's where the remnants of Sandy are located and the storm's massive cloud cover continues to linger over a large area. That low pressure area is associated with Sandy's remnants. A visible image from NOAA's GOES-13 satellite at 1:31 p.m. EDT on Nov. 2, 2012 showed the remnant clouds from Sandy still linger over the Great Lakes east ...

Boulder, CO, USA – In response to the devastation caused last week by Hurricane Sandy, organizers of the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting technical sessions on rapid sea-level rise and its impacts have created a break-out discussion panel consisting of geoscience experts. The idea is to relate early findings and discuss how the changes caused by Hurricane Sandy to the U.S. East Coast tie into the scientific papers already scheduled for presentation. Session organizers George T. Stone of Milwaukee Area Technical College, Michael E. Mann of The Pennsylvania ...

HERSHEY, Pa. -- Extending Medicaid coverage to currently uninsured adults is likely to increase the cost of the program, according to health policy researchers, because those patients are prone to have more expensive health problems than nondisabled adults currently enrolled in Medicaid. The Affordable Care Act gives individual states the option to expand their Medicaid programs to cover many who are uninsured. A study by Penn State and Wake Forest University researchers is among the first to quantify the potential financial impact of this option. "We sought to compare ...

Richmond, Va. – (November 1, 2012) – Men with employment-contingent health insurance (ECHI) who suffer a health shock, such as a cancer diagnosis or hospitalization, are more likely to feel "locked" into remaining at work and are at greater risk for losing their insurance during this critical time as compared to men who are on their spouse's insurance plan or on private insurance plans, according to a new study by Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center. Published in the International Journal of Health Care and Economics, the study was led by Cathy J. Bradley, ...

The brain holds in mind what has just been seen by synchronizing brain waves in a working memory circuit, an animal study supported by the National Institutes of Health suggests. The more in-sync such electrical signals of neurons were in two key hubs of the circuit, the more those cells held the short-term memory of a just-seen object. Charles Gray, Ph.D., of Montana State University, Bozeman, a grantee of NIH's National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), and colleagues, report their findings Nov. 1, 2012, online, in the journal Science Express. "This work demonstrates, ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Some high mountain meadows in the Pacific Northwest are declining rapidly due to climate change, a study suggests, as reduced snowpacks, longer growing seasons and other factors allow trees to invade these unique ecosystems that once were carpeted with grasses, shrubs and wildflowers. The process appears to have been going on for decades, but was highlighted in one recent analysis of Jefferson Park, a subalpine meadow complex in the central Oregon Cascade Range, in which tree occupation rose from 8 percent in 1950 to 35 percent in 2007. The findings ...

SAN DIEGO -- A drug therapy shows promise for treating an inherited form of kidney disease called autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD), Mayo Clinic researchers say. The medication, tolvaptan, slowed the pace of kidney cyst growth over the three years of the study. The phase three clinical trial results were being presented today at the American Society of Nephrology annual meeting and published online in the New England Journal of Medicine. The multicenter study found tolvaptan demonstrated a nearly 50 percent reduction in the rate of increase in total ...

It is a fact that planning for one's demise is not a popular pastime for most people nationwide. However, if you fail to prepare your estate plan properly, it can bring serious hardships on your loved ones. Unfortunately, estate planning is an area of law where there is widespread confusion among the public. As you are considering your estate plan, it is important to be aware of some of the most common myths. Estate Planning Is Just For the Rich Many individuals think that estate planning is not needed if the estate is not big enough to be subject to estate taxes ...

Recently, a dangerous combination of factors -- distracted driving and drunk driving --caused a two-car accident in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. The woman who allegedly caused the accident was both under the influence of alcohol and distracted at the time of the crash. Reportedly, a law enforcement official who arrived at the scene detected alcohol on the motorist's breath. She agreed to a field sobriety test, which indicated she was under the influence of alcohol. While she would not state how many drinks she had consumed that evening, she told officers that she had ...

While motor vehicle accidents involving all types of vehicles can prove deadly, those involving large trucks are often the most dangerous. The severity of these accidents is generally due to the size difference between the large commercial motor vehicle and, often, the much smaller passenger car with which it collides. As a result of the seriousness of these accidents, researchers in India have begun examining truck accident crash data to identify the typical causes of these accidents. By understanding the common causes, trucking companies will be able to educate their ...

In the summer of 2011, former North Dakota Attorney General Nicholas Spaeth filed a dramatic age discrimination suit against six U.S. law schools, including Michigan State University College of Law. Spaeth alleged that the schools passed over his applications for employment, instead hiring younger, less qualified candidates as law professors in violation of the federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act, known as the ADEA. Spaeth, who is in his early 60s, has a long, distinguished legal career that includes a law degree from Stanford, a stint as a law clerk at the ...

Limited liability corporations and limited liability partnerships are useful entity types that can accomplish a variety of purposes for a business. Which entity type is appropriate for a business depends upon the type of business, the number of owners, the financial situation of the business and how the owners want to run the business. Only certain types of California businesses are allowed to form an LLP or LLC. Under California law, only professionals such as architects, attorneys or accountants can form an LLP. LLCs, on the other hand, cast a wider net and can involve ...

New commercial construction increasingly uses "green" technology such as wind turbines, fuel cells and even vegetative roofs in an attempt to lower energy costs and be more environmentally responsible. Commercial enterprises use green buildings to cultivate an image of corporate responsibility that will appeal to consumers. In addition, studies have shown that green buildings, which tend to have natural light and fresh air, can improve employee concentration and boost productivity. It is no surprise, then, that green commercial building construction is on the ...