The Top Producers Chapter of Business Networking International (BNI) will be hosting a networking event on Tuesday, June 14, 7am at the Spartan Diner located at 1580 Broadhollow Road in Farmingdale. BNI Assistant Director Glenn Haas will be the guest speaker on the topic of Growing your Business Through Word of Mouth Marketing. Anyone interested in attending is welcome. The cost is $10 at the door to cover the cost of breakfast. Please contact Erik Wind at 516.882.6930 to RSVP or if you have any questions.BNI (Business Networking International) is a global networking ...

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Things to Consider When Contemplating Estate Planning For many people, making estate plans is an easy thing to put off. After all, it is appealing to believe there will be plenty of time down the road for that sort of thing, and it can be uncomfortable to think about one's mortality. But, none of us knows just when our time on Earth will end, and if a well-crafted estate plan is not in place, we could potentially leave tangled messes for loved ones to figure out without any guidance or instruction. In addition, getting your affairs in order can bring you peace of mind. Before ...

What Loved Ones Can Do After a Fatal Tampa Car Accident Over the Memorial Day holiday weekend, there were many car accidents and tragically, some were fatal car accidents. In one accident, a St. Petersburg motorcyclist was killed when a passing driver didn't see him. The 58-year-old truck driver crossed over into the lane where the 30-year-old motorcyclist was riding. The motorcyclist was transported to Tampa General Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. It appears that the motorcyclist tried to avoid the accident by laying his bike down, but he struck the left ...

Changes to New York Cell Phone Laws Will Impact Drivers' Records In February, recent changes to New York's cell phone traffic laws took effect. New York has had restrictions on cell phone use while driving since 2001, but now the law stipulates that chatting on a handheld device can leave a black mark on drivers' records under New York's driver violation point system. The consequences of racking up enough points are severe -- motorists who receive enough cell phone citations can lose their driving privileges. As such, it is essential for commuters to understand the changes ...

Being stranded in your car in colder weather, remote territory or the dead of night is a serious inconvenience. You can avoid letting it become a serious danger, too, by keeping a few select supplies in your car. Below is a list of items that could save the day in case of emergency: First aid kit: Without proper first aid when you or a passenger has been hurt, most of the other items on this list will not be much help. The most important thing to do after a breakdown or car accident is to make sure everyone is safe. Blanket: Even if you live in a warmer climate ...

The Klest Law Firm announced a milestone victory for sexual abuse victims this week when they received a $28,000,000 verdict in the matter of Snyder v. Kenny. The verdict represents the largest civil sexual abuse verdict in Illinois history and is among the largest in the nation. The jury verdict was returned after about two hours of deliberation. The jury awarded Snyder $7,000,000 in compensatory damages and $21,000,000 in punitive damages. Punitive damages are intended to punish a wrongdoer and deter others from similar conduct. Lawrence Snyder was 12 years ...

Malignant melanoma is a highly aggressive and notoriously chemoresistant form of cancer. In this paper, Ohanna et al. reveal that anti-melanoma drugs may, paradoxically, induce a senescence-associated secretory profile ("secretome") that can ultimately promote metastasis and contribute to melanoma relapse. While cellular senescence has been thought of as a natural mechanism to combat uncontrolled cell growth, or cancer, recent studies have shown that some cell types express a secretome during senescence that alters the tumor microenvironment and affects the cell's response ...

If Dad loves good food and you love the idea of giving everyone a day off from cooking the week of Father's Day, bring Dad to The Eatery on Beach Street for "Steak Gone Wild." Chef Don Gifford will be making steak three ways. First, a Swiss style steak stuffed with spinach roulade with sun dried tomatoes. A family favorite, Don's stuffed steak is rolled and cut into pinwheels and served with new potatoes and a fresh vegetable medley. Chef Don's Mediterranean-themed smothered steak is seasoned with fresh tomato, onion and olive oil and served with fresh okra ...

The ALPHA Collaboration, an international team of scientists working at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, has created and stored a total of 309 antihydrogen atoms, some for up to 1,000 seconds (almost 17 minutes), with an indication of much longer storage time as well. ALPHA announced in November, 2010, that they had succeeded in storing antimatter atoms for the first time ever, having captured 38 atoms of antihydrogen and storing each for a sixth of a second. In the weeks following, ALPHA continued to collect anti-atoms and hold them for longer and longer times. Scientists ...

(Embargoed) CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine have shown in an animal study that transplantation of adult stem cells enriched with a bone-regenerating hormone can help mend bone fractures that are not healing properly. The UNC study team led by Anna Spagnoli, MD, associate professor of pediatrics and biomedical engineering, demonstrated that stem cells manufactured with the regenerative hormone insulin-like growth factor (IGF-I) become bone cells and also help the cells within broken bones repair the ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Any parent knows that newborns still have a lot of neurological work to do to attain fully acute vision. In a wide variety of nascent animals, genes provide them with only a rough wiring plan and then leave it to the developing nervous system to do its own finish work. Two studies by Brown University researchers provide new evidence of a role for exposure to light in the environment as mouse pups and tadpoles organize and refine the circuitry of their vision systems. "Through a combination of light-independent and light-dependent ...

INDIANAPOLIS – Researchers at the Indiana University School of Medicine have discovered a peptide that short circuits a pathway for chronic pain. Unlike current treatments this peptide does not exhibit deleterious side effects such as reduced motor coordination, memory loss, or depression, according to an article in Nature Medicine posted online June 5, 2011. The peptide, CBD3, has been shown in mice to interfere with signals that navigate calcium channels to produce pain. Unlike other substances that block pain signals, CBD3 does not directly inhibit the influx of calcium. ...

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Using the only microscope of its kind in Australia, medical scientists have been able for the first time to see the inner workings of T-cells, the front-line troops that alert our immune system to go on the defensive against germs and other invaders in our bloodstream. The discovery overturns prevailing understanding, identifying the exact molecular 'switch' that spurs T-cells into action — a breakthrough that could lead to treatments for a range of conditions from auto-immune diseases to cancer. The findings, by researchers at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), ...

Berkeley — Trapping antihydrogen atoms at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) has become so routine that physicists are confident that they can soon begin experiments on this rare antimatter equivalent of the hydrogen atom, according to researchers at the University of California, Berkeley. "We've trapped antihydrogen atoms for as long as 1,000 seconds, which is forever" in the world of high-energy particle physics, said Joel Fajans, UC Berkeley professor of physics, faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a member of the ALPHA ...

New York — June 5, 2011 — Moisture and heat fluctuations from the land surface to the atmosphere form a critical nexus between surface hydrology and atmospheric processes, especially those relevant to rainfall. While current theory has suggested that soil moisture has had a positive impact on precipitation, there have been very few large-scale observations of this. A team of researchers from Columbia Engineering, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, and Rutgers University has now demonstrated that evaporation from the land surface is able to modify summertime rainfall ...

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Science fiction is fast approaching science fact as researchers are progressing rapidly toward "bottling" antimatter. In a paper published online today by the journal Nature Physics, the ALPHA experiment at CERN, including key Canadian contributors, reports that it has succeeded in storing antimatter atoms for over 16 minutes. While carrying around bottled antimatter like in the movie Angels and Demons remains fundamentally far-fetched, storing antimatter for long periods of time opens up new vistas for scientists struggling to understand this elusive substance. ALPHA ...

Hotel El Portal in Sedona wants to celebrate with you while you celebrate with them the eighth anniversary of this luxury inn. Stay one night at regular price and get the next consecutive night free Sunday through Thursday from June 1 through June 15 as you celebrate the anniversary of your choice. Some restrictions apply. Please call for details at 800.313.0017. Yes, the anniversary of your choice. Was it June when you got married, graduated of college, paid off your mortgage, married off your last child, won the lottery, or been awarded your imaginary Pulitzer ...

NEW YORK (June 5, 2011) — Less invasive catheter-based aortic valve replacement and open valve-replacement surgery have a similar one-year survival for patients at high risk for surgery. Results from The PARTNER (Placement of AoRTic traNscathetER valves) Trial — the world's first randomized clinical trial of a transcatheter aortic heart valve — were published today in the New England Journal of Medicine. The findings were also presented on June 5 at the Transcatheter Valve Therapies meeting in Vancouver, Canada, and on April 3 at the American College of Cardiology's 60th ...

More and more common is the situation taxpayers are finding themselves in these days whereby they haven't filed tax returns in years and Uncle Sam comes a'callin'. Sometimes, these taxpayers will try to beat the IRS to it by filing late returns before they receive the dreaded Substitute for Return (SFR) that the government will file on your behalf should you fail to file. Ernest (Frewsberg, NY) came to the Blue Tax offices with the news that he had not filed a return since 2003 and wanted to prepare and file all back returns before the IRS assessed a Substitute for ...

The rate of release of carbon into the atmosphere today is nearly 10 times as fast as during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), 55.9 million years ago, the best analog we have for current global warming, according to an international team of geologists. Rate matters and this current rapid change may not allow sufficient time for the biological environment to adjust. "We looked at the PETM because it is thought to be the best ancient analog for future climate change caused by fossil fuel burning," said Lee R. Kump, professor of geosciences, Penn State. However, ...

Planetary scientists have long wondered why Mars is only about half the size and one-tenth the mass of Earth. As next-door neighbors in the inner solar system, probably formed about the same time, why isn't Mars more like Earth and Venus in size and mass? A paper published in the journal Nature this week provides the first cohesive explanation and, by doing so, reveals an unexpected twist in the early lives of Jupiter and Saturn as well. Dr. Kevin Walsh, a research scientist at Southwest Research Institute® (SwRI®), led an international team performing simulations of ...

CHICAGO -- ASCO Abstract #CRA9015. Flaxseed provides no benefit in easing hot flashes among breast cancer patients and postmenopausal women, according to a Mayo Clinic and North Central Cancer Treatment Group (NCCTG) study. The randomized, placebo-controlled study was conducted on 188 women between October and December 2009 and found no statistically significant difference in mean hot flash scores between women taking flaxseed and those taking a placebo. Preliminary data published in 2007 by Mayo Clinic investigators suggested consuming 40 grams of crushed flaxseed daily ...