The use of child support or spousal support may be necessary to provide for children or a spouse after a marriage has ended. The courts determine the equitable amount needed for child support and issue an order as part of the divorce decree. What happens when the non-custodial spouse losses their job or suffers a significant loss of income? In New Jersey, it is important to determine if the income is permanent. Because your obligation to pay child support is created by a court order, your job loss does not automatically eliminate your obligation for making your child ...

Every day - in work and at home - Missourians use products manufactured by dozens, if not hundreds, of manufacturers. Most of the time, they simply trust that manufacturers create and design these products with sufficient expertise and skill that they will be safe to use, or if there is some danger associated with its use, that the manufacturer will provide appropriate warnings of these dangers. Unfortunately when manufacturers fail to adhere to these basic duties and produce unsafe or defective products, consumers can be severely injured, and in some cases, killed. The ...

Back in 2010, texting while driving became a primary offense in Washington State, meaning that drivers could be pulled over for reading, writing or sending text messages. Previously, texting behind the wheel had been a secondary offense; in other words, motorists could be ticketed for texting, but only if they had been pulled over for some other infraction, such as speeding. In the first year of the strengthened anti-texting law, state troopers ticketed 602 drivers for texting behind the wheel. But, despite heavy enforcement, many drivers did not seem to get the message: ...

The frailty that so often accompanies old age puts senior citizens at risk of experiencing serious, and even life-threatening, injuries. For that reason, many elderly Wisconsin residents choose to move into nursing homes. By doing so, they hope to remain safe from the hazards that come with living on their own. Unfortunately, a recent study shows that this is not always the case. According to a study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, approximately one in five patients experience a fall within the first month of being admitted. The study looked ...

In the month of November, the olive harvest is celebrated on the island of Mallorca, one of the largest producing regions in Spain. On the island, olive oil is regarded as liquid gold because of its importance to the local economy and family members, young and old, get together in their mountain orchards to painstakingly gather the precious crop. On the Northwest coast of the island, Jumeirah Port Soller Hotel & Spa lies close to areas of olive production and is only minutes away from a traditional oil press run by the farmers' cooperative market in the Soller Valley. ...

Meet Cleveland Psychics and get a free mini reading from the top psychics in Cleveland and Akron. Psychics include DJ Ownbey, Teena Angellique, Shirallah Majic, Rita Risser (Mayan Astrologer), MarieFrances Conrad, and Lori & Jai! Are you looking for something cool to do on Halloween? If you like psychics and you like Halloween this is the party for you! This is an upscale Venetian Halloween Party based on the Edgar Allen Poe Novel and is called the Mascarade of Death. Be among the hundreds of souls who'll celebrate deep into the night at a most macabre, artfully ...

In a recent study released by the Surdna Foundation, most North Americans are aware of the climatic change brought on by the extreme weather conditions now referred to as Global Warming. The sad news is, the weather is getting worse according to the study. As a result, these climatic changes have produced erratic climate behavior, which not only affects the environment but a person's skin, making it dry. So how does one solve that problem and UV light radiation? "There are countless brands on the shelf offering varying types of SPF (UV Light) protection and other ...

Corcentric, a leading provider of Accounts Payable automation and electronic invoicing solutions, today announced they will be hosting a 60-minute educational Webinar entitled "Top Five Changes Coming to Accounts Payable." This Webinar, hosted by Rob DeVincent, Corcentric's Vice President of Product Marketing, will take place on Thursday, October 25, 2012 at 2:00 PM ET/11:00 AM PT. The role of Accounts Payable is changing from a transactional back office cost center into a strategic position within the organization. This new status means that AP must now be ...

When ancestral humans walked out of Africa tens of thousands of years ago, Drosophila melanogaster fruit flies came along with them. Now the fruit flies, widely used for genetics research, are returning to Africa and establishing new populations alongside flies that never left — offering new insights into the forces that shape genetic variation. That's one of the findings from two new papers published this month by researchers at the University of California, Davis, and their colleagues that describe the genomes of almost 200 strains of the tiny flies. The work reveals ...

A Simon Fraser University physicist has helped discover that understanding how a chemical mark on our DNA affects gene expression could be as useful to scientists as fingerprints are to police at a crime scene. In a new study, Emberly and his colleagues cite proof that variable methylation, a chemical mark on our DNA, is predictive of age, gender, stress, cancer and early-life socioeconomic status within a population. The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) has just published the study online. Working with researchers at the University of British ...

Researchers at the University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System have identified a genetic signature that distinguishes patients with complicated sarcoidosis, an inflammatory lung disease that can be fatal, from patients with a more benign form of the disease. The gene signature could become the basis for a simple blood test. Their findings are reported online in the journal PLOS ONE. In sarcoidosis, tiny clumps of abnormal tissue form in organs of the body. These clusters of immune cells, called granulomas, cause inflammation. Sarcoidosis can occur in the ...

The unexpected survival of embryonic neurons transplanted into the brains of newborn mice in a series of experiments at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) raises hope for the possibility of using neuronal transplantation to treat diseases like Alzheimer's, epilepsy, Huntington's, Parkinson's and schizophrenia. The experiments, described this week in the journal Nature, were not designed to test whether embryonic neuron transplants could effectively treat any specific disease. But they provide a proof-of-principle that GABA-secreting interneurons, a type ...

White non-Hispanic construction workers are awarded higher workers' compensation settlements in Illinois than Hispanic or black construction workers with similar injuries and disabilities, according to researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health. The disparity amounted to approximately $6,000 more for white non-Hispanic claimants compared to minority workers in the same industry, says Lee Friedman, assistant professor of environmental and occupational health sciences at UIC and lead author of the study, which was published in the October ...

Scientists at University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM) have observed a decrease in the frequency of northeast trade winds and an increase in eastern trade winds over the past nearly four decades, according to a recent study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research. For example, northeast trade wind days, which occurred 291 days per year 37 years ago at the Honolulu International Airport, now only occur 210 days per year. Jessica Garza, a Meteorology Graduate Assistant at the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) at UHM; Pao-Shin Chu, Meteorology ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Few physicians recommend active surveillance for low-risk prostate cancer rather than pursuing surgery or radiation, according to a Mayo Clinic study being presented at the North Central Section of the American Urological Association's annual meeting Oct. 10 in Chicago. Mayo Clinic urologists also are discussing findings on enlarged prostates, bladder cancer and other research and will be available to provide expert comment to journalists on others' studies. Mayo studies being presented, and their embargo dates and times, include: Active Surveillance ...

Researchers from Johns Hopkins and Northwestern universities have discovered how to control the shape of nanoparticles that move DNA through the body and have shown that the shapes of these carriers may make a big difference in how well they work in treating cancer and other diseases. This study, to be published in the Oct. 12 online edition of the journal Advanced Materials, is also noteworthy because this gene therapy technique does not use a virus to carry DNA into cells. Some gene therapy efforts that rely on viruses have posed health risks. "These nanoparticles ...

New York, NY and Hyderabad (India) – A new report published today by Panthera confirms that widespread illegal hunting and the bushmeat trade occur more frequently and with greater impact on wildlife populations in the Southern and Eastern savannas of Africa than previously thought, and if unaddressed could potentially cause a 'conservation crisis.' The report challenges previously held beliefs of the impact of illegal bushmeat hunting and trade in Africa with new data from experts. While the bushmeat trade has long been recognized as a severe threat to the food resources ...

The Cuban Missile Crisis took place 50 years ago this October, when US and Soviet leaders pulled back from the very brink of nuclear war. This was the closest the world has come to nuclear war, but exactly how close has been a matter of some speculation. The conflict, itself, has been analyzed and interpreted, but the number and types of nuclear weapons that were operational have not. According to fresh analysis available today in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, published by SAGE, senior experts calculate the nature of weapons capabilities on both sides, and write ...

The potential of GMES for crisis management and environmental monitoring is highlighted in a new publication with users demonstrating the importance of Earth observation data to European regions. The joint ESA-NEREUS (Network of European Regions Using Space Technologies) publication is a collection of articles that provide insight into how the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) programme is being used in new applications and services across Europe. The articles, prepared by regional end-users, research institutes and industry providers from 17 different ...

With their excellent sensitivity and specificity, the use of these extremely efficient tests on a world-wide scale would allow us to adapt antibiotic treatments to the individual's needs and to be more successful in controlling antibiotic resistance, particularly in hospitals. These works were published in September in two international reviews: Emerging Infectious diseases and The Journal of Clinical Microbiology. These diagnostic tests will allow rapid identification of certain bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics and hence: Allow us to better adapt the treatment ...

Scientists from the University of Southampton have identified a repeating trigger for the largest explosive volcanic eruptions on Earth. The Las Cañadas volcanic caldera on Tenerife, in the Canary Islands, has generated at least eight major eruptions during the last 700,000 years. These catastrophic events have resulted in eruption columns of over 25km high and expelled widespread pyroclastic material over 130km. By comparison, even the smallest of these eruptions expelled over 25 times more material than the 2010 eruption of Eyjafjallajökull, Iceland. By analysing ...

Almost everything that happens inside a cell, including autophagy, is tightly regulated on a biochemical level. Like that, the cell makes sure that processes only take place when they are needed and that they are shut off when the need has expired. "Inside the cell, there exists a network of molecules. Between them, information is constantly being exchanged," says Schmitz, head of the research group "Systems-oriented Immunology and Inflammation Research" at HZI, who also holds a chair at the Otto von Guericke University in Magdeburg. "In a way, it looks like a big city ...

In a study published in the Journal of Neuroscience and funded by the Wellcome Trust, Newcastle University scientists reveal the interaction between the region of the brain that processes sound, the auditory cortex, and the amygdala, which is active in the processing of negative emotions when we hear unpleasant sounds. Brain imaging has shown that when we hear an unpleasant noise the amygdala modulates the response of the auditory cortex heightening activity and provoking our negative reaction. "It appears there is something very primitive kicking in," says Dr Sukhbinder ...

Kidney transplants performed in Europe are considerably more successful in the long run than those performed in the United States. While the one-year survival rate is 90% in both Europe and the United States, after five years, 77% of the donor kidneys in Europe still function, while in the United States, this rate among white Americans is only 71%. After ten years, graft survival for the two groups is 56% versus 46%, respectively. The lower survival rates compared to Europe also apply to Hispanic Americans, in whom 48% of the transplanted kidneys still function after ten ...

RUSTON, La. – Dr. Mark DeCoster, the James E. Wyche III Endowed Professor in Biomedical Engineering at Louisiana Tech University, will lead a team of Louisiana Tech neuroscientists in presenting a lecture at the Society for Neuroscience's (SfN) annual meeting, October 15 in New Orleans. The lecture titled, "Randomization of submaximal glutamate stimulus to interpret astrocyte effect on calcium dynamics," will be featured as part of Neuroscience 2012 – SfN's annual meeting that provides the world's largest forum for neuroscientists to debut research and network with colleagues ...