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IPawn.com is a new online pawnshop experience that can help you get the money you need fast without the worry of obtaining credit reports. Most of us encounter cash issues at one time or another, and for some of us our credit report is simply not up to the standards so that a traditional lender will approve a loan. Never-the less, we still need funds for that dire emergency that just won't go away. You know the emergencies; sick children, rent is overdue, school tuition needs to be paid, your utilities must be paid to avoid shut off, you need pocket money for an upcoming ...

Whilst Spain are one of the favourites to lift the trophy at the upcoming European Championships Spanish islands such as Lanzarote look set to remain red hot favourites with British holidaymakers this summer. As leading island villa rentals company Optima Villas Lanzarote unveil the latest additions to their portfolio of high quality self catering properties in order to meet demand. Despite the current economic climate Lanzarote in the Canaries looks set to maintain its popularity with British tourists this year, as an estimated 850,000 holidaymakers from the UK are ...

A new study in the journal Circulation packs a powerful one-two punch in the fight against heart failure. The leading blow: Identification of a unique alliance of proteins that plays a major role in the development of the disease. The second but equally powerful hit: Drugs that interfere with this axis already exist. Though still in its infancy, the combination is just the type of research the scientific community is looking for in its efforts to speed up the development of the next generation of treatments for the nation's biggest killers, of which heart disease is ...

A recent report released by the National Science Foundation found that graduate enrollment in science and engineering grew substantially in the past decade. Approximately 632,700 graduate students were enrolled in science, engineering and health programs in the United States as of fall 2010. This was a 30 percent increase from 493,000 students in 2000, according to the National Science Foundation's Survey of Graduate Students and Postdoctorates in Science and Engineering. The growth in first time, full-time graduate student enrollment in science, engineering, and health ...

Taylor Morrison has announced plans for Enclave at Lake Pointe, its first townhome community in the Houston area. Enclave at Lake Pointe will feature 64 detached, 3-story townhomes priced from the $470,000s. Most of the townhomes in the gated enclave will back up to historic Oyster Creek just north of Fluor's corporate office in Lake Pointe Town Center in Sugar Land, TX. Lake Point Town Center is a 190-acre, mixed-use development offering upscale shopping, fine restaurants, and health care facilities. Whole Foods, Post Oak Grille, and St. Luke's Hospital are within walking ...

New research confirms that successful pregnancies are common for female liver transplant recipients. The study appearing in the June issue of Liver Transplantation, a journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, found miscarriage risk was lower and the live birth rate higher among women following liver transplantation than in the general U.S. population. In 1978, Walcott et al. documented the first known pregnancy in a liver transplant recipient, which resulted in a successful delivery with both mother and ...

The 2-1-1 phone information and referral system could be a key partner in efforts to reduce cancer disparities affecting low-income and racial and ethnic minorities in the U.S., finds a new study by Jason Purnell, PhD, assistant professor of public health at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis. 2-1-1, a nationally designated three-digit telephone exchange like 9-1-1, is an information and referral system that serves millions of Americans living in poverty. Callers speak to an information and referral specialist who identifies their needs and provides ...

Are migrant berry pickers forced labourers? Their situation actually meets several of the criteria in international conventions on forced labour claims REMESO researcher Charles Woolfson and his colleagues, who have also criticised Swedish legislation in that it is ineffective. Berry pickers from Asia and Eastern Europe who are brought to the Swedish forests each year may be subjected to forced labour. Charles Woolfson is a researcher at REMESO – The Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society, at Linköping university. In conjunction with two colleagues, ...

CHICAGO --- Children living in urban centers have a much higher prevalence of food allergies than those living in rural areas, according to a new study, which is the first to map children's food allergies by geographical location in the United States. In particular, kids in big cities are more than twice as likely to have peanut and shellfish allergies compared to rural communities. The study will be published in the July issue of Clinical Pediatrics. "We have found for the first time that higher population density corresponds with a greater likelihood of food allergies ...

As part of its commitment to the community, Panter, Panter, & Sampedro, P.A. sponsors several scholarship awards each year. With the school year drawing to a close, they were proud to once again sponsor the South Miami Kendall Bar Association High School Scholarship Award. The recipient, Michael Castano, was awarded the $1,500 scholarship during the association's May luncheon. Selected because of his extraordinary academic achievements, his vast contributions to the community through service, as well as his drive to attend law school, Mr. Castano will be attending ...

WASHINGTON, June 7, 2012 — A new American Chemical Society (ACS) video explores materials that mimic the human skin's ability to heal scratches and cuts in the latest episode of its award-winning Bytesize Science series. The video is available at www.bytesizescience.com. The video takes viewers on a tour of the lab of Nancy Sottos, Ph.D., who has published articles on the self-healing plastics in a number of ACS peer-reviewed scientific journals. She is an engineering professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. Inspired by human skin, the plastics repair ...

Researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine developed a cancer model built in the fruit fly Drosophila, then used it to create a whole new approach to the discovery of cancer treatments. The result is an investigational compound AD80 that precisely targets multiple cancer genes. Tested in mouse models, the drug proved far more effective and less toxic than standard cancer drugs, which generally focus on a single target. This is the first time that whole-animal screening has been used in a rational, step-wise approach to polypharmacology. The study appears online in ...

Ferrer Shane, PL is proud to announce that one of its founding partners, Enrique Ferrer was selected to the 2012 Florida Rising Stars list in Super Lawyers Magazine. This recognition honors Mr. Ferrer as one of the "top up-and-coming attorneys" in Florida. Super Lawyers, according to its website, is a rating service of outstanding lawyers with a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. Super Lawyers is published in the state of Florida and throughout the U.S. to more than 13 million readers. The Super Lawyers rating process is multi-phased, ...

Health experts agree that reducing the stigma associated with adolescent mental illness is an essential step toward increasing the number of teenagers who seek the help they need. But, say researchers at Case Western Reserve in the Journal of Nursing Measurement, the relative dearth of data regarding stigma in this age group makes tackling the topic particularly tough. Not only is adolescent mental health stigma rarely studied, but even less is known about the accuracy of measures used to assess it. Explained Melissa Pinto, PhD, RN, KL2 Clinical Research Scholar and ...

Baltimore residents may recall the headlines when, in 1999, a 14-year-old youth participated in a video store robbery in which one of the other robbers shot and killed the store clerk. Four years later, another 14-year-old and an older youth beat up a middle-aged man and set his house on fire, resulting in the man's death. Both 14-year-olds are now serving life sentences without the possibility of parole. Both of their cases were recently reviewed by the U.S. Supreme Court, which will soon rule on whether sentencing young offenders to life without parole is cruel and ...

Researchers in Hawaii and the UK report that the parasitic 'Varroa' mite has caused the Deformed Wing Virus (DWV) to proliferate in honey bee colonies. This association is now thought to contribute to the world-wide spread and probable death of millions of honey bee colonies. The current monetary value of honey bees as commercial pollinators in the United States alone is estimated at about $15-$20 billion annually The research conducted in Hawaii by researchers at Sheffield University, the Marine Biological Association, FERA and University of Hawaii, and reported in the ...

Chemists at UCL have discovered a new property of flames, which allows them to control reactions at a solid surface in a flame and opens up a whole new field of chemical innovation. Published in the journal Angewandte Chemie, authors of the new study have discovered their previous understanding of how flames interact with a solid surface was mistaken. For the first time, they have demonstrated that a particular type of chemistry, called redox chemistry, can be accurately controlled at the surface. This finding has wide implications for future technology, for example ...

A controversial bill before the legislature has reignited the debate about marijuana use and the nature of its availability in communities. As written, the bill would legalize, regulate and tax the production and sale of marijuana in Massachusetts. House Bill 1371 goes beyond the bill recycled from previous sessions to legalize marijuana for medical purposes. Instead, it would allow citizens to legally grow and smoke marijuana, but would authorize the Commonwealth to tax it as it does tobacco. HB 1371 also provides for the creation of a seven-member "Cannabis Control ...

URBANA – If someone agreed to buy your home as is a year from now, you'd likely cancel the kitchen remodel. According to a study at the University of Illinois, Kentucky tobacco farmers adopted that same logic when the tobacco companies announced the buyout – also known as the Tobacco Transition Act of 2004 that ended a 66-year-old federal farm program. However, the immediate drop in productivity was followed by startling changes. Over the 10-year period of the study, the number of farms declined from just over 40,000 farms to just over 8,500 farms – but productivity increased ...

NEW YORK, June 7, 2012 – Researchers at NYU School of Medicine have made an important discovery that partially answers the long-standing question of why a mother's immune system does not reject a developing fetus as foreign tissue. "Our manuscript addresses a fundamental question in the fields of transplantation immunology and reproductive biology, namely, how do the fetus and placenta, which express antigens that are disparate from the mother, avoid being rejected by the maternal immune system during pregnancy?" explained lead investigator Adrian Erlebacher, MD, PhD, ...

On November 16, 2006, Robert Medina, a 22-year-old, active-duty marine got into an argument with his wife, left his house and started driving down the I-5 freeway. Police officers from the California Highway Patrol noticed Medina driving slowly and weaving in his own lane. What followed was a slow-speed chase involving 18 officers and 13 police cars that ended in Medina's untimely death, after police officers shot him 37 times. Medina suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and had recently come home from a tour of duty in Iraq. Post-traumatic stress disorder, ...

As landfills overflow with discarded plastics, scientists have been working to produce a biodegradable alternative that will reduce pollution. Now a Tel Aviv University researcher is giving the quest for environmentally friendly plastics an entirely new dimension — by making them tougher than ever before. Prof. Moshe Kol of TAU's School of Chemistry is developing a super-strength polypropylene — one of the world's most commonly used plastics — that has the potential to replace steel and other materials used in everyday products. This could have a long-term impact on ...

A new RAND Corporation study found an unexpected link between the reported numbers of nonfatal and fatal injuries among construction workers. The findings show that states with low fatality rates seem to report higher numbers of nonfatal injuries. Conversely, states with higher rates of fatal injuries report lower numbers of nonfatal injuries. The study compared fatal and nonfatal construction-site injury reports across all 50 states. Researchers chose to focus on the construction industry because it typically accounts for more fatal work accidents than any other ...

Developmental psychology researchers have long known that children aren't simply mini-adults – their minds and brains work in fundamentally different ways. Exploring those differences can help us understand how kids think and behave and can provide insights into how the mind and brain develop and change over time. Here is some of the latest research involving children from Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. Who is Good At This Game? Linking an Activity to a Social Category Undermines Children's Achievement Can linking an activity ...