Patrick J. Bartels, Esq. and Jennifer L. Harwood, Esq. of Keefe Bartels represented the Estate of Vincent Cook and his widow, Muriel Cook in an asbestos case filed in Middlesex County, New Jersey (The Estate of Vincent Cook v. A.W. Chesterton Company, et al. Docket No. MID-L-4659-05 AS). Mr. Cook was a member of Local 28 Boilermakers Union, and worked as a boilermaker for over 40 years before he retired in 1988. As a boilermaker, he worked at numerous job sites throughout New Jersey including PSE&G sites at Hudson, Sewaren, Mercer, and Linden, and refineries such as ...

The study of the photospheric stellar abundances of the planet-host stars is the key to understanding how protoplanets form, as well as which protoplanetary clouds evolve planets and which do not. These studies, which have important implications for models of giant planet formation and evolution, also help us to investigate the internal and atmospheric structure and composition of extrasolar planets.. Theoretical studies suggest that C/O and Mg/Si, are the most important elemental ratios in determining the mineralogy of terrestrial planets, and they can give us information ...

Boca Raton law firm, Brodie & Friedman is proud to announce the 2nd Annual emb(race) family event and fundraiser. The proceeds of the fundraiser will benefit Stand Among Friends' program for individuals with disabilities. This year's all-inclusive event will be better than ever, featuring: children's games, live music, food, prizes and much more! Brodie & Friedman continue to demonstrate their commitment to children, families and the greater Boca Raton, Florida community through sponsoring events such as emb(race). Please join Brodie & Friedman on Sunday, ...

Most of us know someone -- a family member, a friend or another Philadelphian -- who has a heart problem or has suffered a stroke. Cardiovascular disease is the No. 1 cause of death in the United States, killing roughly 2,200 people every day. February is American Heart Month, a reminder to all Americans that the battle against heart disease is winnable. Through a campaign titled "Million Hearts," the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has set the goal of preventing 1 million heart attacks and strokes by 2016. The key to this initiative is prevention ...

San Diego, Calif. – How much calcium could a hibernating woodchuck's heart cells sequester, if a hibernating woodchuck's heart cells could sequester calcium? More than enough, it turns out, to protect the animals from cardiac arrhythmias – abnormal heart rhythms such as ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation that can lead to sudden cardiac death – according to a new study of the hibernating animals that may provide insight into arrhythmia therapies. The findings will be presented at a poster session at the 56th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society (BPS), ...

Tomorrow's aircraft could contribute to their power needs by harnessing energy from the wheel rotation of their landing gear to generate electricity. They could use this to power their taxiing to and from airport buildings, reducing the need to use their jet engines. This would save on aviation fuel, cut emissions and reduce noise pollution at airports. The feasibility of this has been confirmed by a team of engineers from the University of Lincoln with funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). This forms part of the Research Councils ...

Many Pennsylvania homeowners are falling behind on mortgage payments, according to recent real estate figures released by CoreLogic. Pennsylvania's foreclosure rate was approximately 2.6 percent in November, compared with 2.35 percent for 2010. Pennsylvania 90-day mortgage delinquencies are on the rise, too, increasing from 5.46 percent to 5.76 percent over the same period. Homeowners throughout central Pennsylvania are having an especially difficult time making timely mortgage payments and avoiding foreclosure. The Harrisburg-Carlisle area suffered a 5 percent increase ...

WASHINGTON, February 23, 2012—The Council of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) unanimously issued two resolutions at its February meeting in response to the suspension of the Mexican American Studies program in the Tucson Unified School District No. 1 (TUSD). The resolutions addressed specifically the suspension of such courses and urged also the repeal of Arizona HB2281, which amended the Arizona Revised Statutes Relating to School Curriculum and led to the questioning of such courses. The action to suspend courses and teaching activities related ...

Birds in eastern North America are picking up the pace along their yearly migratory paths. The reason, according to University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers, is rising temperatures due to climate change. Using migration information collected in eBird, a citizen science program database containing 10 years' worth of observations from amateur birdwatchers, assistant professor of biology Allen Hurlbert, Ph.D., and his team in the UNC College of Arts and Sciences analyzed when 18 different species of birds arrived at various points across their migration ...

High profile drunk driving cases like those involving actress Lindsay Lohan have brought nationwide attention to a problem that has been worrying North Carolina lawmakers for years -- how do you both fairly punish drunk drivers for their actions and keep drunk drivers off the road in an effort to reduce drunk driving accidents? "Laura's Law" With the recent passage of "Laura's Law," a North Carolina statute that dramatically increases the penalties facing repeat drunk drivers, the state's legislature has shown a desire to keep repeat DWI offenders ...

University of California, Berkeley, chemists are reimagining catalysts in ways that could have a profound impact on the chemical industry as well as on the growing market for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. Catalysts are materials typically metals that speed up chemical reactions and are widely used in the synthesis of chemicals and drugs. They also are employed in automobile catalytic converters to change combustion chemicals into less-polluting emissions and in fuel cells to convert water into hydrogen. The problem with catalysts, however, is that chemical reactions ...

Few people want to consider their own mortality, so it can be difficult for some to ponder the issue of estate planning. Even so, everyone -- from the very rich to those with much more modest asset holdings -- will benefit from a comprehensive estate plan that dictates how and where their property should go after they are gone. It is never too early or too late to get started on an estate plan, but an ounce of estate planning prevention is worth way more than a pound of cure. Taking steps now by drafting a will, trust, living will or health care directive can keep your ...

America's divorce rate has maintained an average of about 50 percent for first-time marriages for several years now. There is one demographic that has seen a sharp rise in its divorce rate, though: the so-called "baby boomers." Couples over the age of 50 are now divorcing more than twice as often as they did back in the 1990s, and now one in four marital splits results in a "gray divorce." How Are Late-Life Divorces Different? Couples who have been together for 20, 30, 40 years or more are intrinsically linked in countless ways. They likely share ...

NEW YORK (February 23, 2012) – The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme (SOCP) announced today Sumatra's first ever successful sentence of an illegal orangutan owner and trader in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia. The seven-month prison sentence is only the third for Indonesia, despite orangutans being strictly protected under Indonesian law since 1924. Although there have been over 2,500 confiscations of illegally held orangutans in Indonesia since the early 1970's, the first actual prosecution of an illegal orangutan ...

A jackknifing 18-wheeler truck poses significant danger to not only the truck driver but to anyone sharing the road. It is essential for drivers to take safety measures to avoid disastrous results. It is also important for operators of passenger vehicles to take extra precautions when driving near tractor-trailers. Briefly, a semi-truck jackknifing accident occurs when a commercial truck driver loses control of the rig and the back of the trailer slides out from behind the truck forming an L or a V shape. In the process of rotating around the tractor, the trailer will ...

Boulder, CO, USA – A recent American Geosciences Institute (AGI) workforce evaluation estimates that by 2021, 150,000 to 220,000 geoscience jobs will need to be filled. The AGI report notes that at current graduation rates, most of these jobs will not be able to be filled by U.S. citizens. Citing great concern about the acute need for well-trained, well-educated geoscience graduates to fill the geoscience workforce, Geological Society of America President John Geissman is calling for colleges and universities to recognize the value of strong, adequately supported geoscience ...

A recent head-on crash on State Road 9A in Jacksonville tied up traffic for hours and sent a Duval School Board employee to the hospital in critical condition. Extremely Dangerous Hazards at the Scene of the Car and Truck Collision The accident occurred during morning rush hour when an Anheuser-Busch tractor-trailer hauling beer through a construction zone blew a tire on the St. John's Bluff Overpass. The beer truck crossed the median after the blowout, ended up in the southbound lane still traveling north and collided head-on with an oncoming school district maintenance ...

Traditionally, the marital home was the most valuable asset to be divided during a divorce. Couples would fight about who got to keep the home, or how much each party would leave with after the property was sold. The real estate crisis of 2008 left many couples upside down in their mortgages (having negative equity). Because of that, divorcees now fight about who will be left to pay off the debt. Some people believe a short sale would be appropriate. They don't care to pay for a home they no longer live in, and they want to leave a bad investment behind. Others believe ...

The debate about the potential severity of an outbreak of airborne H5N1 influenza in humans needs to move on from speculation and focus instead on how we can safely continue H5N1 research and share the results among researchers, according to a commentary to be published in mBio®, the online open-access journal of the American Society for Microbiology, on Friday, February 24. H5N1 influenza has been at the center of heated discussions in science and policy circles since the U.S. National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) asked the authors of two recent H5N1 ...

The immune system protects from infections by detecting and eliminating invading pathogens. These two strategies form the basis of conventional clinical approaches in the fight against infectious diseases. In the latest issue of the journal Science, Miguel Soares from the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (Portugal) together with Ruslan Medzhitov from Yale University School of Medicine and David Schneider from Stanford University propose that a third strategy needs to be considered: tolerance to infection, whereby the infected host protects itself from infection by reducing ...

A deadly school bus collision took the life of an 11-year-old girl and seriously injured 17 others, including both drivers. The girl who was fatally injured when a dump truck collided with the school bus in New Jersey was a triplet and her two sisters were both critically injured in the collision. It's unclear what caused the crash at the intersection of Bordentown-Chesterfield and Old York roads in Chesterfield Township. The intersection has been the site of 15 accidents since 2007. The Huffington Post reported than another minor accident occurred the day after the ...

Tragedy Strikes in an Illinois Park Last spring, a strange accident took the life of an Illinois man. Derek Posey and two coworkers were taking a break from their community service park work in a unique place: the bucket of an Illinois Department of Natural Resources construction tractor. Unbeknownst to Posey and his compatriots, disaster was about to strike. A car driven by 20-year-old Eduardo Lopez careened into the parking lot. Later found to be under the influence of cannabis and methamphetamine, Lopez slammed into the tractor containing the workers. All three ...

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) on the nanoscale and the ever-elusive quantum computer are among the advancements edging closer toward the realm of possibility, and a new study co-authored by a UC Santa Barbara researcher may give both an extra nudge. The findings appear today in Science Express, an online version of the journal Science. Ania Bleszynski Jayich, an assistant professor of physics who joined the UCSB faculty in 2010, spent a year at Harvard working on an experiment that coupled nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond to nanomechanical ...

The funeral service of 18-year-old Ramarley Graham was held at a Bronx church on Saturday, reported WNYC (2/18/2012). The Bronx teen was gunned down by police inside his home in early February. New York civil rights violation lawyer David Perecman agrees with a number of mourners that the killing appeared to be unjustified. According to the New York Daily News (2/18/2012), Graham was killed by an officer from the NYPD's narcotics unit who believed he spotted a gun in Graham's waistband and followed him to his family's apartment. Graham was shot in the bathroom after ...

Researchers at North Carolina State University have discovered the means by which a polymer known as PVDF enables capacitors to store and release large amounts of energy quickly. Their findings could lead to much more powerful and efficient electric cars. Capacitors are like batteries in that they store and release energy. However, capacitors use separated electrical charges, rather than chemical reactions, to store energy. The charged particles enable energy to be stored and released very quickly. Imagine an electric vehicle that can accelerate from zero to 60 miles ...