Visiting Orange County CA? Check Out Current Traffic Conditions First!

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If you are going to be visiting Orange County, CA or if you live in the area you should check the local traffic conditions before heading out.  For those that have driven in Orange County, you know that the traffic can be a nightmare.  Even if there are no car accidents, traffic can still come to a stand still during peak hours.

As the population of Orange County continues to grow and because of it being an economic hub with many businesses and tourist destinations the roads are almost always jammed.  With packed freeways and busy side streets it is no wonder that many car accidents happen on a daily basis.

To check for current traffic conditions you can visit this web site:  http://www.sigalert.com/Map.asp?region=Orange+County#lat=33.69964&lon=-117.80006&z=1

Here is an image showing what type of information it provides:

orangecountytrafficconditions

 

Another great site to check for real time traffic information is the CHP traffic site here: http://cad.chp.ca.gov/Traffic.aspx

Here is an image showing the type of traffic information you can expect to find on the site:

chptrafficinformation

 

Remember, if you do find yourself involved in an accident, be sure to contact an experienced auto accident lawyer in Orange County.  A good Orange County personal injury lawyer can help ensure your legal rights are protected and that you receive the compensation you are entitled to.

Above all, drive safe when driving in Orange County, CA!

 

Current Gold Prices Rising After Reaching Lows

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Over the last couple of months Gold prices have seen a decline, but recently prices have begun to tick up.  Currently, prices are up as investors move back into the gold precious metal.  After falling from its high of over $1900 per ounce, it is good news to gold investors and those looking to sell gold jewelry that prices have begun their upward trend.

As with any investment vehicle, gold and precious metals will fluctuate because of many different reasons.  It is almost impossible to determine which direction the price may go because there is no telling what events may occur to drive the price one way or the other.

Below is an image of the current Gold price chart:

Live New York Gold Chart [Kitco Inc.]

The below chart shows how the price of Gold has been moving lower over the last 60 days:

For those looking to sell gold jewelry the first thing you should do is get a jewelry appraisal from a certified jewelry appraiser in your area.  In many cases, jewelry can be worth more than just the value of its weight in gold.  Here is a link to learn more about the benefits of jewelry appraisals.

Current Tennessee Continuing Legal Education For Attorneys

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Like other states, Tennessee has a continuing education requirement for licensed attorneys.  Below is the actual wording from the law:

Section 3. Continuing Legal Education Requirement.

3.01.  Each attorney admitted to practice law in the State of Tennessee shall attend, or complete an approved substitute for attendance, a minimum of twelve (12) actual hours of approved continuing legal education each calendar year, beginning January 1, 1987. In addition, beginning January 1, 1993, attorneys shall complete three (3) additional hours per year of approved continuing education in courses dealing with ethics and professionalism (“EP credits”). All hours of continuing legal education for each calendar year shall be earned by December 31 of that calendar year.

3.02.  Attorneys who have a permanent physical disability which makes attendance of CLE programs inordinately difficult may file a request for a substitute program in lieu of attendance and shall therein set out continuing legal education plans tailored to their specific interests and physical abilities. The Commission shall review and approve or disapprove such plans on an individual basis. Denial of any requested substitute for attendance will be accompanied by reasons for the denial of the application and suggestions how the attorney might improve his or her application for an approved substitute for attendance.

3.03.  Each attorney must actually attend fifteen (15) instructional hours of CLE per year. An instructional hour shall be determined by the Commission.

Complete Law: http://www.tsc.state.tn.us/rules/supreme-court/21

If you require the services of a Tennessee attorney for any of the reasons mentioned below, be sure to check the Tennessee Board of Professional Responsibility to ensure they have an active law license and they are current on any required continuing education requirements:

 

Current Arthritis Reports

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Mechanisms and Models in Rheumatoid Arthritis

Mechanisms and Models in Rheumatoid Arthritis

Rheumatoid arthritis is a bewilderingly complex disease involving the interactions of many, and varied, cell populations and multiple families of low and high molecular mass mediators. We are only slowly beginning to understand the mechanisms that produce the local and systematic pathology clinically recognized as rheumatoid arthritis. Increasingly, use is being made of experimental models of this disease in an effort to test hypotheses about putative pathological mechanisms and to investigate the effect of novel therapeutic agents. A major section of this book covers these experimental models in great detail from their development through to reviews of the most recent information on each model.Mechanisms and Models in Rheumatoid Arthritis brings together a group of eminent researchers from the fields of clinical rheumatology, pathology, experimental pathology, immunology, connective tissue biochemistry, microbiology, pharmacology and developmental biology to describe the current views of the cellular and humoral mechanisms that drive the pathology of rheumatoid arthritis and experimental models of rheumatoid arthritis.


Mechanisms and Models in Rheumatoid Arthritis

Bioactive Food as Dietary Interventions for Arthritis and Related Inflammatory Diseases

Bioactive Food as Dietary Interventions for Arthritis and Related Inflammatory Diseases

Focuses on the role of bioactive foods in mediating the riskof arthritis and other inflammatory tissue diseases.



Bioactive Food as Dietary Interventions for Arthritis and Related Inflammatory Diseases

Current Hypertension Reports

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Hypertension and Brain Mechanisms

Hypertension and Brain Mechanisms

Hypertension and Brain Mechanisms



Hypertension and Brain Mechanisms

Molecular Genetics of Hypertension

Molecular Genetics of Hypertension

This is a rapidly expanding research area, with most current publications existing as journal articles, or as single chapters in larger volumes. This will be one of the first books to bring all this information together into a comprehensive review volume, aimed at both researchers and clinicians.Hypertension is a condition in humans which is characterized by persistently high arterial blood pressure (over 140/90 mm Hg). Affected individuals are at risk from heart disease, stroke and kidney failure. This important disease affects a huge number of people worldwide, and therefore the study of the disease is of vital clinical importance. Hypertension is a genetically determined disease, with many other contributing factors. Research has expanded rapidly in this area, particularly over the last decade, and there are continuing advances in our understanding of the disease.



Molecular Genetics of Hypertension

Current Women’s Health Reports

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Encyclopedia of Women and Gender, Two-Volume Set

Encyclopedia of Women and Gender, Two-Volume Set

The study of gender differences began in earnest in the 1970s and has since increased dramatically to infiltrate virtually all fields of study in the social and behavioral sciences. Along the way, it was discovered that while women very often think and behave differently than do men, industrialized societies cater to masculine perspectives. The “Psychology of Women” emerged as a field of study focusing on just those areas in which women most often butted against assumed roles. And similarly, in the 1990s, the “Psychology of Men” emerged to focus on the same issues for men.The Encyclopedia of Gender covers all three areas under one cover, discussing psychological differences in personality, cognition, and behavior, as well as biologically based differences and how those differences impact behavior. Coverage includes studies of these differences in applied settings such as education, business, the home, in politics, sports competition, etc.



Encyclopedia of Women and Gender, Two-Volume Set

The Career Psychology of Women

The Career Psychology of Women

Summarizing literature from the twenty-year-old field of women’s career development, this book brings scholars and professionals up-to-date in their understanding of the factors influencing women’s career choices and career adjustment across the life span. It serves as a vital base for theoretical and empirical work in the study of women’s career development.



The Career Psychology of Women

Women and Health, 2nd Edition

Women and Health, 2nd Edition

An unparalleled and valuable compendium of data for anyone interested in women’s health.” — THE NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE



Women and Health, 2nd Edition

Current Depression Reports

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Risk Factors in Depression

Risk Factors in Depression

A complete reference on the many models of risk factors in depression.



Risk Factors in Depression

Risk Factors in Depression

Risk Factors in Depression

A complete reference on the many models of risk factors in depression.



Risk Factors in Depression

The Self in Anxiety, Stress and Depression

The Self in Anxiety, Stress and Depression

The focus of this book is on stressful experiences and emotional reactions. The common perspective is that self-related cognitions play an important role in describing and explaining the subjective experience of stress, anxiety and depression and the impact on academic performance and social interactions. The assumption of self-related cognitions as mediators in the regulation of one’s behavior has a variety of consequences for different fields of applications in psychology.


The Self in Anxiety, Stress and Depression

Men and Depression

Men and Depression

Men and Depression: Clinical and Empirical Perspectives is the only book currently available that integrates psychological theories and the latest research findings with clinical recommendations for working with men who are suffering from depression. This volume covers a wide range of topics and issues that relate to men and depression, including: assessment of male depression; statistics on depression in men; theories to explain depression in men; treating depression in men with both pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy; the interrelation of grief, loss, trauma, and depression in men; the problem of suicide and how to assess and treat suicide risk in men; and prospects for future work in this important area.This is a unique reference and practical guide that integrates and evaluates research and clinical practice relating to the diagnosis and treatment of men with depression. The volume explores why men are underdiagnosed and undertreated for mood disorders and provides the clinician with practical guidelines for conceptualizing a treatment plan for men with depression.



Men and Depression

Current Pain & Headache Reports

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Headache

Headache

This volume is part of the Handbook of Clinical Neurology series, the worlds most comprehensive source of information in neurology. Now in its third generation, the series has an unparalleled reputation for providing the latest foundational research, diagnosis, and treatment protocols essential for both basic neuroscience research and clinical neurology.



Headache

Pain and Touch

Pain and Touch

An explosion of advances in the area of tactile perception and pain led to the development of this comprehensive, state-of-the-art text on basic research and clinical practice. Equal parts psychology and neuroscience, Pain and Touch covers peripheral cutaneous tactile information processing, sensory mapping, tactile exploratory behavior, neurophysiology of nociception and nociceptors in pain research, clinical scaling methods for psychophysics of pain, and paincontrol, pathology, and therapeutics.



Pain and Touch

Chronic Pain and Brain Abnormalities

Chronic Pain and Brain Abnormalities

The only reference on the market to adequately explore long-term changes in the brain resulting from chronic pain



Chronic Pain and Brain Abnormalities

Placebo and Pain

Placebo and Pain

The definitive reference linking pain and the placebo effect, from basic science to clinical implications



Placebo and Pain

Current Infectious Diseases Report

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Global Mapping of Infectious Diseases

Global Mapping of Infectious Diseases

This special volume of Advances in Parasitology gives a comprehensive overview of the practical procedures involved in all aspects of global mapping. Coverage includes new research and new data, along with descriptions of new techniques in global mapping. With chapters written by leading experts in the field, it should be a standard for years to come.With an impact factor of 3.9, the series ranks second in the ISI Parasitology subject category.



Global Mapping of Infectious Diseases

Global Mapping of Infectious Diseases

Global Mapping of Infectious Diseases

First published in 1963, Advances in Parasitology contains comprehensive and up-to-date reviews in all areas of interest in contemporary parasitology. This volume is an outline of global environmental and global population data including scripts for predicting disease distributions and evaluating the accuracy of these mapped products. Several application chapters discuss current research topics appropriately addressed at the global scale. Topics such as tick-borne disease and the mapping of geographic and phylogenetic space; implications of global ecozonation and transportation networks on pathogen flow; and the impacts of climate change on vector-borne diseases are covered in this latest volume.



Global Mapping of Infectious Diseases

Genetics and Evolution of Infectious Diseases

Genetics and Evolution of Infectious Diseases

Genetics and Evolution of Infectious Diseases



Genetics and Evolution of Infectious Diseases

Public Health and Infectious Diseases

Public Health and Infectious Diseases

Comprehensive work bringing together chaptersthat explain reasons for the emergence, protection and treatment, and infectious disease characteristics



Public Health and Infectious Diseases

The Social Ecology of Infectious Diseases

The Social Ecology of Infectious Diseases

Social Ecology of Infectious Diseases explores how human activities enable microbes to disseminate and evolve, thereby creating favorable conditions for the diverse manifestations of communicable diseases. Today, infectious and parasitic diseases cause about one-third of deaths and are the second leading cause of morbidity and mortality. The speed that changes in human behavior can produce epidemics is well illustrated by AIDS, but this is only one of numerous microbial threats whose severity and spread are determined by human behaviors. In this book, forty experts in the fields of infectious diseases, the life sciences and public health explore how demography, geography, migration, travel, environmental change, natural disaster, sexual behavior, drug use, food production and distribution, medical technology, training and preparedness, as well as governance, human conflict and social dislocation influence current and likely future epidemics.



The Social Ecology of Infectious Diseases

Taxonomic Guide to Infectious Diseases

Taxonomic Guide to Infectious Diseases

A concise, comprehensive and affordable guide to the modern classification of the nearly 500 currently characterized infectious human diseases.



Taxonomic Guide to Infectious Diseases

Current Asthma Reports

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Asthma, 3rd Edition

Asthma, 3rd Edition

Now available in its Third Edition, Asthma: Basic Mechanisms and Clinical Management has become the reference text in asthma. This highly successful text sheds new light on the basic physiological and molecular mechanisms of asthma, how current treatments work, and how best to apply the latest knowledge to control this important disease. The Third Edition has undergone radical revision and includes several new chapters. It retains the virtues of the previous volumes by bringing together all of the recent research findings by internationally recognized experts on the causative mechanisms of asthma, including in-depth clinical aspects and therapy. The book presents an integrated approach toward the treatment of this disease with new concepts, changes in asthma management, and the development of new therapeutic agents. Asthma provides extensive references for researchers and clinicians who need to keep abreast of recent developments in this rapidly expanding field.



Asthma, 3rd Edition

Asthma and COPD

Asthma and COPD

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which encompasses both chronic bronchitis and emphysema, is one of the most common respiratory conditions of adults in the developed world. Asthma and COPD: Basic Mechanisms and Clinical Management provides a unique, authoritative comparison of asthma and COPD. Written and edited by the world’s leading experts, it is a comprehensive review of the most recent understanding of the basic mechanisms of both conditions, specifically comparing their etiology, pathogenesis, and treatments.



Asthma and COPD

Asthma and COPD, 2nd Edition

Asthma and COPD, 2nd Edition

Offers a truly translational presentation of airway diseases “ from bench to bedside “ illuminating the mechanisms, etiology, and pathogenesis of respiratory disease and then translating how these mechanisms affect patient conditions, treatment options, and effective therapies.



Asthma and COPD, 2nd Edition

Asthma and Allergic Diseases

Asthma and Allergic Diseases

This book updates the previous coverage of the mechanisms and mediators of asthma and its treatment. It presents articles by the foremost names in the field.



Asthma and Allergic Diseases

T-Lymphocyte and Inflammatory Cell Research in Asthma

T-Lymphocyte and Inflammatory Cell Research in Asthma

It is well established that asthma is an inflammatory disease of the airway mucosa and drugs like inhaled glucocorticoids are now commonly introduced early in therapy. A characteristic feature of this disease is the vast number of eosinophils in airway tissue, although many other migratory and resident inflammatory cells with the capacity to synthesize and release cytokines and putative asthma mediators are present in the inflamed mucosa. The cross-talk between lymphocytes and these cells and the role of cytokines in complex biological networks are currently areas of intense research.This volume gathers together chapters and discussions on the biology of immunocompetent and inflammatory cells, cellular interplay and communication, and on the relative importance of cells and mediators in disease.It should help contribute to further insights into the pathology of asthma and to the development of novel efficacious drugs for the treatment of asthma and related respiratory disorders.



T-Lymphocyte and Inflammatory Cell Research in Asthma