Just five hours before she was brutally stabbed to death outside her apartment on Valentine's Day, Tiana Notice had told police that her ex-boyfriend continued his harassment of her. Unfortunately, the system designed to protect domestic violence victims failed Notice. The last time her voice would be heard was in her 911 call, in which she screamed that James Carter III, the man later charged with her murder, had stabbed her. Notice had repeatedly sought help in the weeks before her death, asking police in Waterbury, Plainville and Bloomfield to enforce a restraining ...

A recent Kansas City area school bus accident left seven children and the bus driver injured. While the cause of the bus crash remains under investigation, it is known that the bus struck a guard rail, went into a ditch, struck two trees and then came to stop in a creek. The injured children and driver were taken to the hospital to be treated, but there were no serious injuries or deaths, according to the Kansas City Star. The incident illustrates a nightmarish scenario for parents of the more-than-26 million children who ride a school bus each weekday, according to ...

Dr. Max Gomez's adult son thought his father was no longer practicing medicine. He later found out Dr. Gomez was the putative medical director for several clinics, at least one of which was using his identification number for Medicare and Medicaid fraud. This was just the beginning of a financial disaster. The clinic stopped paying Dr. Gomez's condominium fees and apartment mortgage, and took out a second mortgage in Dr. Gomez's name. His apartment was foreclosed on. Not even Dr. Gomez's bank accounts were left. A woman had written out several checks to herself which ...

A wide variety of injuries can take place on private property, including the home of a neighbor, family member or friend. While people who were injured under such circumstances may be timid about seeking help with resulting medical expenses and other losses from parties they know, they should always bear in mind that the owner's insurance policy likely provides coverage for many incidents. Insurance companies offer homeowners polices to protect customers from property losses due to theft, fire, vandalism, weather and other causes. But basic policies also may cover claims ...

The Body Shop has announced its 'Create an Original' competition, offering customers the chance to join the Body Shop ranks and create their own product. The beauty business has been dominated for years by amazing men and women whose original ideas have led to the launch of fabulous products, featuring both incredible and quirky scents and enhancing the everyday lives of the public. Now customers who believe they have what it takes to join the Body Shop ranks can enter a new competition which offers a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for one individual to work with The ...

M&S Money is offering new Fixed Rate Savings options for up to three years at 3.50%. The fixed rates are available within or outside of an ISA*. One year on from the increase in ISA limits for savers aged 50 plus, many savers may have one year fixed rate accounts that are coming to maturity now. The guaranteed interest rates are available over 1, 2 and 3 years at up to 3.50% AER/gross**. This is a strictly limited offer and replaces the previous issue. 1 year term - 3.00% AER/gross**, 2.40% net 2 year term - 3.20% AER/gross**, 2.56% net 3 year term - 3.50% AER/gross**, ...

LV=, life and pensions specialist, has announced that it has added four new funds from Investec Asset Management to its insured pension fund platform. The four new fund links join LV='s existing insured offering of 119 funds. LV='s Flexible Transitions Account is able to operate as an insured pension plan and as a SIPP, and this extension follows the recent competitive re-pricing of the existing fund range. The new funds are: - Investec Emerging Markets Debt Fund* - Investec Monthly High Income Fund - Investec UK Smaller Companies Fund* - Investec Asia excluding ...

Saxo Bank, the specialist in online trading and investment, is launching a new Forex Content Sharing Program, with a suite of freshly-designed Forex widgets that bring real-time FX prices, charts and commentary, to any website or blog. The new Saxo Bank Forex widgets are 'mini web pages' that add live, continually updating FX content to a website. Seven customisable web widgets, including a Forex Quote List, Currency Converter, Forex Ticker, real-time Forex Chart, Economic Calendar, Price Alert and Market Call videos, are now available to webmasters and bloggers who ...

Macdonald Manchester Hotel & Spa recently hosted Her Royal Highness, The Princess Royal at a charity black tie dinner on the evening of Tuesday 2nd November 2010, which raised GBP41,000 for The Princess Royal Trust for Carers. 100 guests attended the event where Her Royal Highness was guest speaker. Guests were treated to a champagne reception and a 3 course dinner at the luxury 4 star hotel, followed by an auction and raffle, which included prizes such as a week's holiday at one of Macdonald Hotel's luxury Spanish resorts. The Princess Royal Trust for Carers was established ...

Board-certified plastic surgeon, Dr. John J. O'Brien Jr., of the St. Petersburg Center for Plastic Surgery in St. Petersburg, Florida, has added autologous fat grafting, a hot new trend in plastic surgery, to his extensive suite of plastic, reconstructive and cosmetic services. Autologous fat transfer, or fat grafting, is a state-of-the-art procedure which transfers a patient's own fat from an unwanted area of the body to an area where augmentation is desired. The procedure provides a gentle solution to addressing changes the face and body commonly experience as a result ...

Nine out of ten women suffer from cellulite, and labor in the seemingly-difficult chore of its removal. However, the removal of cellulite is no longer such a mystery, thanks to a groundbreaking new cellulite treatment regimen developed by Dr. Simon Ourian, medical director of Epione Medical in Beverly Hills. The treatment combines Trans-dermal Acoustic Therapy (TAT) with Dr. Ourian's distinct OptiLipo system. The result is a non-invasive cellulite treatment regimen which has helped many patients to begin changing the tide in what is for most women a lifelong battle ...

Visitors to the new-and-improved www.AIDS.org are reporting rave reviews of the new design. AIDS.org has been on the frontline of the fight against AIDS for more than 12 years. "The information continues to be relevant, factual, and current; it's just the packaging that's changed," said Alain Berrebi, Executive Director of AIDS.org. "This facelift will help us keep up with the ever-changing expectations of Internet users and make our vital content more accessible." The leading online provider of AIDS and HIV education and prevention information, AIDS.org provides more ...

The Training Doctor, LLC, an instructional design firm which specializes in workplace learning and professional development, gives back to its profession and its community on a regular basis. Twice per year the company awards a $500 scholarship to a working professional who is pursuing an advanced degree in training or organization development. They will also provide up to 20 hours of free, training-related, consulting services to a 501-3c. Recent projects have included advising on a policies and procedures manual, creating an eLearning tutorial on HIV prevention, ...

ExamplesOf.com is a major new website which provides the full spectrum of template documents for everything from resumes to love letters. This site is intended to be a much more functional thing than the very patchy, often highly repetitive and uninspired "form" sites of the past. ExamplesOf.com CEO Carmelo Zahra comments: "There was an obvious need for a much broader based example and template site dealing with multiple functional issues than the things currently on the market. Most template-type sites are single stream, like just basic spreadsheets or formula letters ...

LearnSomething, Inc., a provider of eLearning solutions to associations, has announced a new relationship with Higher Logic, a professional social networking applications provider for non-profits and associations. Their partnership will allow both companies to enhance their products in a way that will benefit customers of both companies. As a result of their collaboration, organizations utilizing LearnSomething's learning management solutions will have access to a turnkey integration to and from Higher Logic's Connected Community. Senior Vice President of Association ...

YouTube and Broadway sensation, Miranda Sings, astounds her "haters" by winning Murphy's Magic Community's "What Magic Means to You" contest for a free trip for two to Las Vegas, NV to personally meet and see world-famous magician, Criss Angel, perform live. Miranda Sings has more than 38,000 followers on her YouTube Channel, and her videos have been viewed more than 11 million times. She won the contest by a landslide with her video entry "Magic". Due to the overwhelming popularity of her magic video, Murphy's Magic Supplies, Inc. is releasing an exciting new magic ...

Amplidata announces it has opened its US headquarters in Redwood City. The office will be the home base for the US sales, product management and support teams headed by VP Business Development Craig Stevens and VP Products Paul Speciale. Amplidata's engineering teams and EMEA sales will remain in the European Headquarters in Belgium and across its offices in Germany, Egypt and India. With the opening of the US headquarters, Amplidata strengthens its position in the US market. The local sales team will target key customers with specific needs for large-scale, highly reliable ...

UC Davis researchers have found a new pathway for repairing DNA damaged by oxygen radicals. The results are published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "This new inducible pathway gives cells greater capacity to repair oxidative damage," said Peter Beal, professor of chemistry at UC Davis and senior author of the paper. As part of its inflammatory response, the body's immune system produces oxygen radicals, or reactive oxygen species, to kill bacteria, parasites or tumors. But chronic inflammation, for example in the gut, has ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Younger adult cancer patients have the most difficulty coping with the pain and emotional issues of cancer, in spite of their potentially better survival odds, according to a University of Michigan Health System study. The study, which included mostly breast and lung cancer patients, appears in the November issue of Pain Medicine, a journal of the American Academy of Pain Medicine. Adult cancer patients age 40 and under had more pain flares and more difficulty thinking quickly and logically six months after their diagnosis compared to older adults. ...

VIDEO: A UCSF-led team has discovered a neural mechanism that allows the translucent juvenile zebrafish to parse out large background patterns from its perception of visual surroundings, enabling it to see... Click here for more information. A tiny, translucent juvenile zebrafish, on the hunt for even littler prey, has offered up a big insight into how a specific circuit of nerve cells functions in the brain. The technique used to illuminate this circuitry, and the fish model ...

PHILADELPHIA — Men with history of fracture and comorbidities are at an increased risk of fracture after long-term use of androgen deprivation therapy, and initiating this therapy should be carefully considered in older men with localized prostate cancer. In addition, the longer duration of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (Gn-RH) use and history of orchiectomy (removal of the testicles to stop testosterone production, which prostate cancer needs to continue to grow) are also associated with an increased risk of fracture among men with prostate cancer. These study results ...

PHILADELPHIA — Ninety percent of children who lived in a house where an adult smoked had evidence of tobacco-related carcinogens in their urine, according to research presented at the Ninth AACR Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research Conference, held here from Nov 7-10, 2010. The average amount of tobacco metabolites in children aged one month to 10 years old was 8 percent of what is found in a smoker, said the lead researcher Janet L. Thomas, Ph.D., assistant professor of behavioral medicine at the University of Minnesota. "This finding is striking, because while ...

PHILADELPHIA — Women planning on taking hormone therapy for the treatment of menopausal symptoms should be aware of a possible increased risk for ovarian cancer, according to data presented at the Ninth Annual AACR Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research Conference, held here Nov. 7-10, 2010. "This study is consistent with previous recommendations that say if women are going to take hormones they should only take them in the short term," said Konstantinos Tsilidis, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow at the Cancer Epidemiology Unit at the University of Oxford. Tsilidis and ...

PHILADELPHIA — Women being treated for breast cancer with aromatase inhibitors may experience extremely low estrogen levels resulting in a wide variety of side effects that a typical postmenopausal woman without cancer may not experience. Data presented at the Ninth Annual AACR Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Conference, held here Nov. 7-10, 2010, showed that women assigned to take aromatase inhibitors had increases in side effects such as hot flashes, decreased appetite, fatigue, fever, breast sensitivity, etc. "Aromastase inhibitors represent one of the most major ...

PHILADELPHIA — Women who exercise for 150 minutes a week or more may see a reduced risk of endometrial cancer, despite whether or not they are overweight, according to data presented at the Ninth Annual AACR Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research Conference, held here Nov. 7-10, 2010. "This study is consistent with other studies that strongly support the association between physical activity and lower risk of endometrial cancer," said Hannah Arem, a doctoral student at Yale School of Public Health. Arem and colleagues examined data collected from a case-control study ...