Maryland Workers' Comp Case Helps Clarify When to Measure State Average Weekly Wage After being injured on the job, one worker began a legal odyssey spanning several years. The legal battle, however, was not a matter of whether or not the worker was injured -- the Workers' Compensation Commission determined that the worker was, awarding the worker total disability and permanent partial disability benefits for greater than 75 weeks but less than 250 weeks -- but rather a fight regarding when benefits should be measured. According to the Maryland Labor and Employment ...

Changes Needed to Deal with Truck Driver Fatigue Last fall, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released their official findings for the causes of a devastating trucking accident that occurred outside of Miami, Oklahoma, in June 2008. The truck accident took 10 lives and injured five others. The collision occurred when the truck driver failed to notice that traffic had come to a stop on I-44 and ran into the back of an SUV at 69 miles per hour. The semi-truck then overrode three additional vehicles, causing them to hit other cars. In its findings, the ...

Winter Roads Especially Dangerous for Colorado Drivers A car accident that killed two teenagers and seriously injured two others demonstrates the hazards of driving on snow- and ice-covered roads in Colorado. In a state known for its snowy and mountainous terrain, it is important for Denver residents and other Colorado drivers to be especially cautious when driving during winter. Tragic Auto Accident In Jefferson County, an accident involving two vehicles took the lives of two teens and injured several others. The driver of a car traveling north on Highway 93 ...

Raleigh DWI attorney Patrick Roberts of the Roberts Law Group PLLC secured a DWI dismissal for a client by listening to his client and aggressively advocating for his client's rights. The case presented a unique fact pattern that involved an injury years prior to being pulled over on suspicion of a DWI violation. In the past, the client was involved in a car accident and suffered severe injuries which subsequently required three surgeries. Those surgeries left him with lingering complications, including difficulty walking. On the night that Mr. Roberts' client was ...

Teplis Travel, a leading corporate travel agency, is helping clients save on travel costs despite recent international trends toward increased airfares and other corporate travel related expenses. Some of the factors affecting these increases in corporate travel expense include turmoil in the Middle East, additional travel processing fees, new taxes, accommodation rate hikes, and baggage charges. However, to keep client's costs low, Teplis has developed unique programs with many cost saving benefits such as offering a single global platform solution, higher online adoption ...

Bupa International has announced the launch of its free online health assessment. The assessments are part of the Bupa International's new health section on its website, which has more than 50 factsheets and a series of health theme pages which include articles and videos explaining medical issues. The online health assessment is designed to help users find the answers to any health-related questions they may have. The health assessment will ask the user a series of questions to help understand their medical and lifestyle risk factors. At the end users will receive ...

Tesco Clothing has revealed the official Climate Week (21-27 March) T-shirt, featuring an exclusive, limited edition design by the 'patron saints of print', Eley Kishimoto, in aid of the Environmental Justice Foundation. Organic, ethically made and manufactured by wind and solar power, the low carbon T-shirts will be available for men and women exclusively from Tesco clothing, Climate Week's headline partner, for only GBP10. The women's climate week T-shirt and men's climate week T-shirt will be available in time for Climate Week, in-store and online on the Tesco ...

Burton reveals its new trends for the springs/summer season 2011. The big trend this season is Burton's Army Surplus range, which carries on the military details of autumn/winter 2010 but gives it a softer reworking for the warmer months of the spring and summer season. These pieces are designed to make the transition from winter into spring with minimal effort, creating a laid back look that doesn't veer too far from the fashion rule book. The Army Surplus trend features pieces such as waffle knit and cable knit cardigans, vintage style T-shirts, camouflage prints, ...

Reliant Technology, an EMC and IBM SAN storage supplier, is offering a guarantee on all used storage purchased by end users. The warranty confirms Reliant Technology as a trusted source for quality storage upgrades for IBM storage, EMC Storage, NetAPP Storage, Brocade SAN Switches and CISCO SAN Switches. The 110 percent warranty provides SAN storage customers a combination one year warranty and money back guarantee on all used storage equipment purchased from Reliant Technology. Should a component fail within a year of purchase, it will be replaced by Reliant Technology ...

ZyLAB, a leading provider of eDiscovery and Information Management solutions, today released its 8-Point Risk Assessment guide for organizations that are evaluating whether they have "adequate procedures" in place to prevent bribery. The 8-Point guide can be used independently to reveal potential weaknesses in information management protocol, or it can be used in combination with the ZyLAB Compliance & Litigation Readiness System to identify potential "hot spots" that warrant proactive steps to foster compliance with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and the UK Bribery ...

Each month, a newsletter on the artistic work done by Robert Lauri during the past month is published on the Internet and also on several social networking sites. One of the categories includes links to music files, giving a glimpse of the richness and depth of work produced by the artist during the past month. Robert Lauri is a truly eclectic musician producing an impressive amount of unique and innovative melodies in very different genres and styles; each song is a true work of art, using colorful harmonies and arrangements. Several musical genres combine within ...

Salon and Spa Galleria launches new website to inform visitors of services offered at its salon and spa in Grapevine as well as information on studios and spaces for lease for potential tenants. The web address for the new site is www.salonandspagalleria.com and one of its unique features is that each tenant can have a personalized web page for their business. "When we reopened this salon and spa in Grapevine TX we really wanted to do it right and felt that the launch of a website would help push its success," Owner Ron Sturgeon said. "One of our goals was to help those ...

The Florida State Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (FSHCC) announces a new strategic alliance with UPS, the world's largest package delivery company and a global leader in logistics services. The two firms have teamed up to offer Florida small-to-mid-sized Hispanic businesses a suite of turnkey transportation solutions that provide reliable, affordable and easily accessible point-to-point logistics support for companies, regardless of size or industry. "UPS brings a wealth of logistics management knowledge to the table. Sharing that knowledge with the Hispanic business community ...

"VirtualEDU announced today that it will begin providing all of their 200 fully accredited high school online classes to students for a subscription price of just $49.95 per month. With critical funding shortfalls in all in states, we are concerned that rapidly increasing class sizes will severely reduce student learning," stated Executive Director Dana Delane. "We are offering a class size of one through the individualized instruction that can occur through online learning to school districts, charter schools, independent schools and parents who want to see their students ...

In contrast with past years, thousands of new forces have joined the internet game exchange market, therefore it has become more competitive in 2011. In order to rank a good score in this competition, BYGAMER draws from an impeccable blueprint to reach its target. With help of Wow Cataclysm, the virtual currency industry got a fast development at the end of last year. The demand of WoW Gold, items, CD Key, and power leveling service were higher than ever during the Christmas period. Numerous new websites were set up and attempted to take a share of this market. If you ...

Just in time for the Lenten season, Whataburger is offering customers the meat-free option of a Whatacatch fish taco and spicy tartar sauce for a limited-time. Now through May 1, fans can choose to substitute Whataburger's original tartar sauce with a spicier alternative to add a southwestern touch to their Whatacatch taco or sandwich. The Whatacatch taco includes breaded, sliced white fish filet wrapped up in a warm flour tortilla, accompanied with crisp lettuce and topped off with a choice of Whataburger's original or spicy tartar sauce. "We're happy to bring the ...

TinyVox, the free iPhone app that makes it fun and easy to tape and share audio files on social networks or email, was named a finalist in the Microsoft BizSpark Accelerator at SXSW, where early stage technology companies demo innovative new technology for influential industry judges and a live audience. The contest is sponsored by Microsoft BizSpark, The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, IBM, .CO, and Turner Broadcasting System. TinyVox is one of 40 finalists in five categories out of more than 400 applicants. "TinyVox helps SXSW attendees capture and transmit ...

The new app store for the free semYOU app computing system heralds the future of software use: a large number of ad-free, no-cost apps offering entertainment, tools, games and management are now available at www.semyou.com. The apps are based on the latest Microsoft Silverlight technology and offer all the advantages of cloud computing. Startup semYOU thus represents true competition against Google's Apps Marketplace. Applications are now available on local computers, easily, free of charge and on demand: a mail program, media player, word processing tools, games or ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. -- In the March issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, researchers report that residential treatment for tobacco dependence among heavy smokers greatly improves the odds of abstinence at six months compared with standard outpatient treatment. The study reports that 52 percent of the patients were still not smoking six months after residential treatment, compared with 26 percent in the outpatient treatment setting. "This means there is hope for patients who are tobacco dependent and feel they have exhausted every other means of trying to quit smoking," says ...

RENO, Nev. – While unemployment has been a frequent topic of discussion during the recession, underemployment and its effects have not, even though the number of underemployed workers has also increased. A study published online last week in the Journal of Management, "'I Have a Job, But…' A Review of Underemployment," by University of Nevada, Reno Assistant Professor Frances M. McKee-Ryan and University of Alabama Assistant Professor Jaron Harvey brings attention to the topic and its potentially detrimental effects to individuals, organizations and society. The study ...

Combining targeted therapies might be required for maximum anti-tumor activity when treating HER2-positive breast cancers, according to two new studies by Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC) investigators. The findings, reported in two papers in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), suggest that upregulation of the HER3 receptor limits the effectiveness of two classes of targeted therapies (HER2- and PI3 kinase-targeted therapies). Therefore targeting HER3 together with these agents should improve their clinical utility. Around 25 percent of ...

Researchers at the Sahlgrenska Academy – University of Gothenburg, Sweden - and Karolinska Institutet have carried out the first ever national study of the prevalence of overweight and obesity in schoolchildren. It reveals that one in five children in Sweden is overweight, and that there is a link between low levels of education and overweight children. Published in the online version of the journal Obesity Reviews, the study was part of a European project, the WHO European Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative, that involved 14 European countries. "There has previously ...

The artificial intelligence program "Watson" may have outsmarted human competitors on the television quiz show "Jeopardy!" recently, but it would have to go a long way to best an intelligence analyst, according to Kristan Wheaton, J.D., associate professor of intelligence studies at Mercyhurst College. On Feb. 14-16, the reigning champions of Jeopardy! – Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter – faced a formidable new competitor – a supercomputer named Watson under development by IBM for four years. Watson defeated his adversaries handily. Wheaton's graduate students recently ...

Surgeons at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center performed the first hand transplant in the western United States in an operation that began one minute before midnight on Friday, March 4, and was completed 14-and-a-half hours later, on Saturday, March 5. The transplant was performed on a 26-year-old mother from Northern California who lost her right hand in a traffic accident nearly five years ago. UCLA is only the fourth center in the nation to offer this procedure, and the first west of the Rockies. This was the 13th hand transplant surgery performed in the United States. ...

EUGENE, Ore. -- A pair of related studies on smoking cessation by researchers at the University of Oregon and other institutions have isolated the brain regions most active in controlling urges to smoke and demonstrated the effectiveness of text-messaging to measure and intervene in those urges. Both projects used the same group of test subjects -- 27 heavy smokers recruited from the American Lung Association's Freedom From Smoking program in Los Angeles. Elliot Berkman, professor of psychology at the UO, and colleagues Emily Falk at the University of Michigan and Matthew ...