In July 2008, the state of California banned the use of handheld electronic communication devices while driving. Some sources credit the ban with a 47 percent decline in handheld cell-phone-related deaths in California. However, the Golden State is now chipping away at its stringent law and adapting to advancing technology. A Change Is Coming In July 2012, California Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law a bill that modified the wording of the statute banning handheld mobile-phone use while driving. Though the changes were primarily focused at allowing drivers to use in-dash ...

Illinois attorneys Sean P. Murray and Melanie J. Sims of Anesi, Ozmon, Rodin, Novak & Kohen Ltd. recently negotiated the highest personal injury settlement for an individual over the age of 90 years old in Cook County. The case settled for $1,375,000 after the completion of written discovery, party depositions and preparation for physician depositions. The case arose from a slip and fall injury that occurred in a building lobby where no warning signs indicated a wet floor. On December 12, 2011, Irving Letwin slipped on a freshly mopped floor while leaving his ...

Whether handling misdemeanor matters or felony crimes, the father-and-son team work diligently to provide their clients with the best defense. A recent Los Angeles Daily Journal Article, "From the Same Cloth," which ran in July 2012, profiled the two attorneys and the dynamics that have helped them advocate so effectively for their clients' interests. According to the article, their backgrounds are critical to their success. Before establishing their criminal defense practice at Greenberg & Greenberg, both Daniel and Philip worked at the Riverside County ...

As of Thursday, Oct. 10, 170 people in 11 states have become ill, and 14 have died from a fungal meningitis outbreak linked to tainted medication used in spinal injections. As more cases continue to surface, victims are scrambling to get the care they need and to get the monetary compensation they deserve through the services of a steroid meningitis lawyer. Tainted Shots Widely Distributed, 600 Doses Administered In California As yet, no definitive cause of the fungal meningitis outbreak has been determined. However, fungal meningitis is normally a rare disease, and ...

Homeownership is a big part of the American dream for many individuals and families. But, if you are already struggling beneath a burdensome debt load, it may seem out of reach. Bankruptcy can be a workable solution to your debt problems. Even so, many consumers are apprehensive about bankruptcy, wondering how it will affect their ability to obtain a home loan in the future. Fortunately, with the right credit-building strategies, bankruptcy does not have to unduly impact your ability to get your own home. As Little As One Year After Chapter 13, Two After Chapter 7 ...

In many sex crimes cases, complex issues regarding physical evidence often require both sides to present expert testimony regarding genetic testing and other technical matters. This is true whether the case involves issues of child sex abuse, sexual assault or date rape. However, until recently, Pennsylvania was the only state in the U.S. that did not allow expert psychological testimony regarding the behavior of alleged sex assault victims. A new law that was signed by Gov. Tom Corbett last summer and took effect in August outlines the use of behavioral expert testimony ...

Jumeirah Group, the global luxury hospitality company and a member of Dubai Holding, is pleased to announce several key appointments for its Sales and Marketing team. Christian Hellot is appointed as Director of Sales & Marketing for Jumeirah Creekside Hotel, the arts and lifestyle Dubai hotel. Prior to joining Jumeirah Group, Christian worked for Intercontinental Hotels where he held the post of Regional Vice President of Sales and Marketing for their properties in Florida and in Beverly Hills. Christian began his career in Sales in 1992 with JW Marriott in Los ...

Experian has assisted The London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham in recovering almost GBP3,000-a-day for the public purse with an ongoing and highly successful programme to prevent social housing tenancy fraud in its 12,000 social homes. The local authority is working with Experian to deploy the latest fraud detection techniques in a programme that has significantly reduced the level of social housing tenancy fraud in Hammersmith & Fulham. Experian's analysis, combined with the in-depth local knowledge and expertise of its fraud investigators, has yielded savings ...

Jumeirah Group, the global luxury hotel company based in Dubai, has announced Jumeirah Hotels & Resorts and Ctrip.com International Ltd, China's leading travel service enterprise, have signed a Global Direct Connectivity Partnership Agreement in Shanghai. This is the first time a luxury hotel group from the Middle East has signed an agreement of this nature with Ctrip. This partnership further illustrates Jumeirah's commitment to the China market as it will allow Chinese travellers to directly book some of the world's most luxurious and innovative accommodations via ...

Jumeirah Restaurants LLC, the dedicated branded restaurant division within the Jumeirah Group, has announced it has signed a new licensing agreement with current franchise partners the BCF Group to take its flagship brand, the noodle house, to Turkey. The agreement was signed between Phil Broad, Managing Director of Jumeirah Restaurants LLC, and Ilke Toklu Onal, spokesperson for the BCF Group. It will see three noodle house restaurants opening across the Turkish metropolis and reinforces Jumeirah Restaurants LLC's ongoing commitment to establishing the successful United ...

Lyle and Deborah Dukes launch a timely and relevant new release, Reinvent Yourself: 21 Practical Keys to Your Personal Spiritual Makeover, that provokes readers to recognize and overcome self defeating habits, to implement new mindsets and behaviors and take on a complete transformation. "If you want to change, you have to make a change. If you want to be different, you have to do something different," says Bishop Lyle Dukes. In Reinvent Yourself, Lyle and Deborah Dukes created a "to-do list" of 21 pragmatic keys for spiritual and physical transformation. ...

Polaris Financial Technology Ltd. (POLS.BO), a leading global Financial Technology Company, today announced Jitin Goyal as President and Head of Worldwide Sales and Account Management. Prior to this role, Jitin served as a Consultant and Senior Anchor for the Strategic Outsourcing Business at Polaris. In the new role, Jitin will report into the Chairman & CEO, Arun Jain. Jitin has a rich repertoire of experience in the Financial Technology vertical. He served more than 10 years at Infosys in various senior roles across US, UK and Continental Europe including Head ...

Combined folic acid, vitamin B6 and vitamin B12 supplements had no statistically significant effect on the risk of colorectal adenoma among women who were at high risk for cardiovascular disease, according to a study published October 12 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Between 28% and 35% of the U.S. population reported to take dietary supplements containing folic acid, vitamin B6, and vitamin B12, and previous in vitro and animal studies have shown that B vitamins combat colorectal carcinogenesis, and some observational epidemiologic studies suggest ...

A new study suggests that when prescribed by physicians in routine practice and used appropriately by patients, treatment for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) could reduce blood pressure in men with hypertension. "All types of patients may benefit from this treatment, even those with other chronic medical conditions," said Bharati Prasad, MD, MS, the study's principal investigator. "It's important to now do a prospective study enrolling different types of patients with sleep apnea." The study, appearing in the Oct. 15 issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, examined ...

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – While it is well known that starfish, zebrafish and salamanders can re-grow damaged limbs, scientists understand very little about the regenerative capabilities of mammals. Now, researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center's Institute for Regenerative Medicine report on the regenerative process that enables rats to re-grow their bladders within eight weeks. In PLOS ONE, a peer-reviewed, online publication, the scientists characterize this unique model of bladder regeneration with the goal of applying what they learn to human patients. "A ...

A large-scale survey of the process for submitting research papers to scientific journals has revealed a surprising pattern: manuscripts that were turned down by one journal and published in another received significantly more citations than those that were published by the first journal to receive them. The study, led by researchers at McGill University and published by the journal Science, covered papers carried in 923 journals from the biological sciences between 2006 and 2008. The researchers generated an email to the corresponding authors of virtually all articles ...

RICHMOND, Va. (Oct. 12, 2012) – Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine researchers have identified the "keys" and "doors" of a bacterium responsible for a series of tick-transmitted diseases. These findings may point researchers toward the development of a single vaccine that protects against members of an entire family of bacteria that cause disease in humans, domestic animals and livestock. Survival for many bacteria is dependent on their ability to invade human or animal cells. And it needs to be done in a very precise fashion. Bacteria use a specific ...

Postdoctoral Research Fellow Devin Koestler is a biostatistician in the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. He develops and applies statistical methods to large volumes of data, seeking new approaches for understanding disease, cancer in particular. Koestler and his colleagues are investigating the potential use of white blood cell variation as a diagnostic, predictive, and research tool in the study of non-blood cancers. "There is promise here for a new diagnostic tool," says Koestler. "What we show here is not ready for immediate clinical utility, but I think ...

NASA measured light-to-moderate rainfall occurring throughout Typhoon Prapiroon, with just a small area of heavy rain near the storm's center is it tracks through the western North Pacific Ocean. When NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite passed over Typhoon Prapiroon on Oct. 12 at 0741 UTC (3:41 a.m. EDT), the precipitation radar instrument detected light to moderate rainfall occurring over most of the storm at a rate between .78 to 1.57 inches/20 to 40 mm per hour. The northwestern quadrant of the storm had the lightest rainfall rate. There was ...

Tropical Depression 16 formed on Oct. 11 and by 5 p.m. EDT that same day, it strengthened into Tropical Storm Patty. NASA's TRMM and Terra satellite's captured imagery on Patty's rainfall intensity and cloud heights, both of which showed strong, high thunderstorms around the center of circulation. On Oct. 11 at 11 a.m. EDT the National Hurricane Center (NHC) announced the formation of tropical depression sixteen (TD16) northeast of the Bahamas. Earlier, at 0422 UTC (12:22 a.m. EDT), the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite had a look at the disturbed weather ...

The hottest and most massive stars don't live long enough to disperse throughout the galaxy. Instead, they can be found near the clouds of gas and dust where they formed -- and where they will explode as supernovae after a few million years. They huddle in tight clusters with other young stars or in looser groupings called OB associations, a name reflecting their impressive populations of rare O- and B-type stars. One of the nearest and richest OB associations in our galaxy is Cygnus OB2, which is located about 4,700 light-years away and hosts some 3,000 hot stars, including ...

The very first tropical cyclone of the Southern Indian Ocean season has been born, and NASA's TRMM satellite captured an image of its rainfall. On Oct. 12 at 1500 UTC (11 a.m. EDT), Tropical Cyclone 01S (TC01S) was "born" about 90 nautical miles (103.6 miles/166.7 km) west-southwest of Diego Garcia, near 8.3 South latitude and 70.6 East longitude. Diego Garcia is a coral atoll located in the south central Indian Ocean and is part of the British Indian Ocean Territory. It is about 1,970 nautical miles (3,650 km) east of Tanzania, Africa. TC01S had maximum sustained winds ...

Rockville, Md. – Cigarette smoking is a well-known risk factor for a wide-range of diseases. Now, scientists have evidence that smoking may also increase the risk of age-related cataract, the leading cause of blindness and vision loss in the world. Reported in Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science (Smoking and Risk of Age-related Cataract: A Meta-analysis), the new findings are the result of a meta-analysis conducted by a team of researchers from China. "Although cataracts can be removed surgically to restore sight, many people remain blind from cataracts due ...

By force of habit we tend to assume computers are made of silicon, but there is actually no necessary connection between the machine and the material. All that an engineer needs to do to make a computer is to find a way to build logic gates — the elementary building blocks of digital computers — in whatever material is handy. So logic gates could theoretically be made of pipes of water, channels for billiard balls or even mazes for soldier crabs. By comparison Tae Seok Moon's ambition, which is to build logic gates out of genes, seems eminently practical. As a postdoctoral ...

Halcyon Software, the global leader in multiplatform systems management software, has announced the formation of a strategic partnership with pheron technologies group, the leading provider of business service management solutions to the German market. Based in Frankfurt, pheron technologies group will deploy Halcyon's technology across its direct customers and channel partner network throughout Germany and East Europe. According to Heinz Günter Meser, IT Strategy Consultant for pheron technologies group: "Partnering with Halcyon Software will enable us to extend ...