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The U.S. Small Business Administration is reminding small establishments that Feb. twenty four will be the filing due date for federal government economic damage disaster loans obtainable in Lee and Scott counties in Virginia. The SBA proclaimed a natural disaster because of severe storms, tornadoes, straight-line wind gusts as well as water damage which began on April 23, 2011.

In addition, the Small Business Administration announced recently that federal economic damage disaster loans are available to small business, small farming cooperatives, small enterprises operating in aquaculture and the majority of private non-profit organizations of all sizes situated in the counties of Dillon as well as Horry in South Carolina because of Hurricane Irene which occurred in August.

“When the Secretary of Agriculture issues a disaster declaration to help farmers recover from damages and losses to crops, the Small Business Administration issues a declaration to assist eligible entities affected by the same disaster,” declared Frank Skaggs, director of SBA’s Field Operations Center East in Atlanta.

Under this declaration, the SBA’s Economic Injury Disaster Loan program is available to suitable farm-related and nonfarm-related entities that sustained monetary losses being a direct consequence of this catastrophe. Excluding aquacultural enterprises, agricultural companies, farmers along with ranchers are not eligible to apply to SBA.

Financing for small business can be up to $2 million, with interest rates of 3 percent for non-profit organizations and 4 percent for small businesses. Terms can be up to 30 years. The SBA ascertains eligibility in line with the size of the applicant, form of endeavor along with its financial means. The agency sets loan amounts and terms based upon each candidate’s financial affliction. These SBA small business loans may be used to pay fixed debts, payroll, accounts payable, and other bills that could have been paid had the disaster not occurred. These particular small business loans are not designed to substitute missed gross sales or business earnings.

Involved in the wake of the darkest court budget cuts in California‘s history, plaintiffs’ trial lawyer Michael Alder of AlderLaw, P.C. in Beverly Hills assumed the office of president of the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles (CAALA), the nation’s largest local association of plaintiffs’ attorneys, which is made up of roughly 3,000 legal professionals.

“Consumer lawyers are vital, now more than ever, to protecting the civil rights of people who’ve been left without access to judicial relief, which is just about everyone except the super-rich,” said Alder. “Legal bills add up to astronomical sums very quickly, because litigation is such an intensive process. Without lawyers who work on a contingency fee basis, which means they risk their own money instead of the clients’ and agree not to be paid unless they win the case, even people with big incomes quickly find their resources drained when faced with the large legal bills that result from a contested matter. Consumer lawyers must be prepared to provide leadership, vision and most of all integrity.”

Alder is regarded as a steadfast advocate of plaintiffs’ couselors, otherwise known as consumer lawyers, working to raise public awareness of their importance at a time of corporate fraud and abuse. He’s been a member of CAALA for 14 years and spearheaded a city-wide billboard campaign to fund billboards that highlight the good that consumer lawyers do for society. He also is one of five founding members of the Trial Lawyers Charities, a non-profit group which gives money as well as legal assistance to people in need in Los Angeles.

Alder is currently accomplishing some of the very most cutting-edge litigation work in the state. He’s tried more than seventy lawsuits as part of his position and properly secured over $140 million in decisions and pay outs for his valued clients in the year 2011 alone. Most recently, in Dec last year he gained a nearly $33 million decision for Concept Chaser, Co., Inc. in the advertising fraud case Concept Chaser Co., Inc. v. Pentel of America Ltd.

CAALA officially installed Alder as its 2012 president on Jan. 21 at its 63rd Annual CAALA Installation & Awards Banquet at the Four Seasons Beverly Wilshire in Beverly Hills. The group also announced its new officers and Board of Governors. For more information, visit www.caala.org.

AlderLaw, P.C. is a Los Angeles criminal attorney and plaintiffs’ law firm that represents plaintiffs in personal injury, business tort and employment litigation nationwide. The firm was founded in 2000 by attorney Michael Alder, current president of the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles (CAALA) and past CAALA Trial Lawyer of the Year. Alder has tried more than 70 cases in his career, and works with a team of seven associate attorneys. AlderLaw, P.C. obtained more than $140 million in verdicts and settlements for its clients last year. For information, visit www.alderlaw.com.

Juhl Wind Inc, leading the way in Community Wind Power, has publicized the official commercial start-up and operation of the two turbine project for Gundersen Health System in Winona County, MN. The 4.95 megawatt endeavor may be the first-of-its-kind in North America to be built expressly to address the alternative energy concerns of a large regional health firm, in this case, Gundersen Health System.

“This unique wind project represents the continued activity by Juhl over the past two years and highlights our strength and diversity in the community wind energy market,” indicated Corey Juhl, Vice President of Development for Juhl Wind Inc. “We are seeing an increased demand for large commercial and industrial organization projects such as Gundersen’s as they fit extremely well within Juhl Wind’s area of expertise. This community-based project will provide significant economic benefits to the region. As one piece of their Envision program, the wind farm project will help Gundersen Health System achieve their goal of becoming 100% energy independent by 2014.”

“This is an exciting time for Gundersen and our Envision program. This community wind project we have done with Juhl Wind was about two years in the making, and we’re happy to report that the turbines are now creating energy,” noted Jeff Rich, executive director, GL Envision, LLC.

Juhl Wind is an established frontrunner in Community Based Wind Power development and supervision, focused on windmill projects throughout the United States and Canada. Juhl Wind pioneered Community-Based wind farms, developing the currently accepted financial, operational and legal structure providing local ownership of medium-to-large scale wind farms. To date, the Company has completed 21 wind farm projects and provides operations management and oversight across the portfolio of renewable resources. Juhl Wind services every aspect of wind farm development from full development and ownership, general consultation, construction management and system operations and maintenance. With its consolidation of the Valley View, Winona County and Woodstock Hills wind farms, the Company has now invested in and operates 21.7 MWs of wind power through its independent power producer subsidiary, Juhl Renewable Asset, Inc. Through its Next Generation Power Systems subsidiary, Juhl Wind also provides total sales along with service to smaller, on-site wind power and solar panel ventures in addition to the company’s bigger Community Wind Farms.

Affected individuals who have gynecologic cancer have fresh new hope with a creative technology now made available at the Seidman Cancer Center at University Hospitals Case Medical Center. A team of cancer specialists, led by Robert DeBernardo, MD, is among the first in the nation to launch a dedicated program using Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy (HIPEC) to treat ovarian, endometrial and select other cancers.

Performed swiftly following surgical procedure, HIPEC supplies heated chemotherapy through a ‘hot bath’ into the abdominal cavity, where it can penetrate diseased tissue directly. Shortly after the physician takes away all the visible cancer as feasible, a heated, a sterilized chemotherapy solution is circulated all through the mid-section by way of a technologically advanced perfusion procedure to kill the remaining cancer cells.

“This is a new and potentially revolutionary way of treating women with gynecologic cancers, which tend to be quite responsive to chemotherapy,” says Dr. DeBernardo, gynecologic oncologist at UH Case Medical Center and Assistant Professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. “Our preliminary data and experience has been overwhelmingly positive and the therapy has been well-tolerated and effective. HIPEC promises to extend lives in a meaningful way.”

HIPEC has been used for years for public health care in patients with colon, pseudomyxomas, malignant mesothelioma and appendiceal cancer, cancers that in general aren’t reactive to chemotherapy, but it’s currently seen as a promising new treatment method for gynecologic malignancy.

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