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NVR, Inc., one of the country’s greatest homebuilding and mortgage banking corporations, proclaims the grand opening of the completely new, decorated Clifton Park model home, plus savings of up to $50,000 on new single family homes at Scaleby Farm in West Chester, PA. These luxury single family homes are priced from the upper $690′s and offer wooded, 2+ acre homesites in Chester County.

Scaleby Farm is NVHomes’ newest enclave with executive-style single family places of residence in West Chester, PA, combining prime location, just seconds off scenic Route 52, with high-class, estate-style living, supplying homeowners more space, inside and outside. With sizeable homesites with a minimum of 2 acres, and sweeping views of the rolling Chester County country side, your loved ones will have plenty of room to spend time playing and entertain. The community at Scaleby Farm also is a rapid commute to the shopping, cusine and allure of downtown West Chester, while offering uncomplicated trips to points in Pennsylvania or Delaware.

The new Clifton Park model home at Scaleby Farm is astounding in size with 4 or more bedrooms and 4 or more baths with interiors starting at 4,576 square feet. The list of included features is sizable as well, with architecturally dimensional shingles and beaded siding, stone and stucco accented exteriors, 3-car side-entry garages, hardwood flooring in the foyer, gas fireplaces, optional woodstove hearths, and NVHomes’ Signature Kitchen, with granite countertops, maple Timberlake® cabinetry, stainless steel GE® appliances, hardwood flooring and our unique, European inspired range hood, hidden from view by furniture grade cabinetry.

NVHomes at Scaleby Farm are fully ENERGY STAR® Qualified, yielding monthly utility savings up to 30% more than standard homes, according to the EPA. All NVHomes also carry 10-year structural warranties and are independently inspected for quality by a third-party inspector.

NVR, Inc. operates in two business segments: homebuilding and mortgage banking. The homebuilding unit sells and builds homes under the NVHomes, Ryan Homes, Rymarc Homes and Fox Ridge Homes trade names, and operates in 27 metropolitan areas in 15 states.

There are numerous cutting edge technologies available for hair transplant surgeons today. However with a great number of technologies offered and so many hair transplant doctors professing they have perhaps the finest hair loss treatment, precisely how will a person discover what type is best? The latest chairman of the American Society of Hair Restoration Surgery (ASHRS), Dr. Marco Barusco, provides his feeling on several of the most recent and impending technological developments in this specific industry.

HypoThermosol™
Perhaps some of the most important technological advances are the ones dealing with tissue preservation. According to Dr. Barusco, once the donor hair is taken from the back of the head the clock starts ticking. “The quicker we re-attach the hair to the scalp the better the chance it will survive”, Dr. Barusco said. Traditionally, surgeons have used regular saline solution to preserve the tissue, but HypoThermosol™ has been showing to have the best composition. It is easy to work with and preliminary observations suggest that it improves hair survival and overall results.

ACell™
ACell™ is used for wound healing and hair growth. It is rich in growth factors and collagen. This technology significantly benefits the patient but given its high cost very few surgeons use this material. When a doctor uses ACell™ the donor area of the scalp heals better, leaving a smaller and thinner scar, and the transplants grow better.

Robotic Surgery
Although much buzz has been given to robotic hair transplant surgery, Dr. Barusco does not see it as a revolution but rather as another tool for hair restoration. The idea behind the robotic surgery is that a robot harvests hair automatically from the patient’s donor area. The doctor and the team still need to perform the rest of the procedure.

Stem Cell Research
Although not yet available, Dr. Barusco believes that the most important technological advance to come is the use of stem cells to “clone” hairs. This is a technology that should be available in the next few years and it is currently on phase II trials. Dr. Barusco believes that this technology will give people who previously weren’t candidates for hair transplant because they lacked enough donor hair, the opportunity to have the surgery since less hair needs to be harvested.

Dr. Marco Barusco is a hair transplant doctor with over 12 years of practical experience. Given his devotion to research along with expansion of the profession, Dr. Barusco is not only the chairman of the ASHRS but he also is a member of the Board of Trustees of the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery (AACS), a member of the Board of Directors & Examiner of the American Board of Hair Restoration Surgery, and Chief Section Editor for Hair Restoration of The American Journal of Cosmetic Surgery. Dr. Barusco also founded Tempus Hair Restoration with the goal of providing clients with education about their hair loss and state-of-the-art treatments.

MidSouth Bancorp, Inc. just divulged net income available for common shareholders of $879,000 for the last quarter of ’11, compared to net profits available for common stakeholders of $1.6 million declared for the final quarter of the year 2010. Diluted earnings for the fourth quarter of 2011 were $0.09 per common share, down from the $0.16 per common share for the fourth quarter of 2010.

C.R. “Rusty” Cloutier, President and Chief Executive Officer, commenting on fourth quarter results, remarked “In December, we completed the acquisition and systems conversion of the Beacon Federal branch in Tyler, Texas and First Louisiana National Bank in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana. As a result, the fourth quarter included $0.08 per share of merger related expenses. Excluding these non-operating expenses, we had strong operating earnings per share in the quarter of $0.17 versus $0.14 in the third quarter. We are very excited to expand our market presence in Texas and Louisiana and look forward to the positive impact of these acquisitions on our franchise and to future earnings.”

Profits paid on the Series B Preferred Stock totaled $400,000 for the 4th quarter of 2011 established on a dividend amount of 5%. In August 2011, the Company issued $32.0 million in Series B Preferred Stock to the Treasury in connection with the Small Business Lending Fund (“SBLF”). The dividend rate on the Series B Preferred Stock going forward will be between 1% and 5% based on the level of qualified small business loans. Linked-quarter net earnings available to common shareholders were impacted by the repayment of $20.0 million in Series A Preferred Stock issued to the Treasury under the Capital Purchase Plan with funds from the U.S. Treasury that were authorized by Congress under the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010.

Jones Walker is very pleased to declare that Michael W. Magner has joined the firm’s New Orleans agency of criminal law attorneys as special counsel. Mr. Magner practices in the firm’s Business & Commercial Litigation Practice Group. His experience centers on preventative and litigation services for businesses and individuals in corporate and white collar criminal law matters. He additionally represents people and organizations involving grand jury and other investigations.

Mr. Magner’s particular experience is in anti-corruption conformity and Litigation matters on both a domestic and international level. He served as a federal prosecutor in New Orleans for 20 years where he was a key member of the team that successfully prosecuted former Louisiana Governor, Edwin Edwards, following a 5 month trial. He was also the lead prosecutor in the Department of Justice‘s long term investigation and prosecution of judicial and related public corruption in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana known as “Operation Wrinkled Robe.” In recognition of his work, Mike was awarded the Department of Justice‘s highest award for Litigation, the John Marshall Award, as well as the Director’s Award for Superior Performance by a Litigative Team.

Mr. Magner stated, “Joining Jones Walker and being able to work with the Jones Walker white collar team is an exciting opportunity. Their law firm has a number of former U.S. Attorneys and Assistant U.S. Attorneys, all of whom have a stellar reputation in representing clients in the defense of government investigations and prosecutions.”

Mr. Magner has also served as a administrator of the U.S. Attorney’s Office‘s Anti-Terrorism/Crisis Response Unit, Organized Crime Strike Force, and Violent Crime Unit, and has tried over 40 jury trials to verdict, in virtually all sections of the United States District Court for the Eastern and Middle Districts of Louisiana. He specialized in long term, complex white collar investigations and trials, including export control, mail and wire fraud, government contract fraud, bribery, money laundering, police misconduct, civil rights violations, and RICO. In 2011, he served as the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Advisor to the Kenyan Anti-Corruption Commission (“KACC”) in Nairobi, Kenya, where he was embedded in the KACC’s principal headquarters for nearly two months, and provided training to KACC’s investigators, auditors, and attorneys on corruption compliance, investigative, and prosecution matters. He has also trained foreign judges and prosecutors in Central Asia and Africa and has regularly trained federal prosecutors through the Attorney General’s Advocacy Institute.

Before working together with the KACC, Mr. Magner was with the Department of Justice‘s first Counsel for Emergency Management and Crisis Response in the Office of Director, Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys in Washington, D.C. for 18 months, where he represented the DOJ at various White House level emergency exercises and planning meetings relating to the federal government’s response to major criminal events, natural disasters, and pandemics. While with DOJ, Mike was also selected as a trained evaluator of other U.S. Attorneys’ Offices throughout the country on various substantive legal areas as well as ethics and professionalism.

Mr. Magner gained his juris doctor certification from Tulane University School of Law, cum laude; and was Managing Editor of The Maritime Lawyer. His Bachelor of Arts in Political Science/International Relations was earned from The George Washington University.

In the aftermath of the greatest 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 comprised of just about 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 known as a steadfast advocate of plaintiffs’ attorneys, also called 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 enterprise which donates capital along with legal assistance to people in need throughout Los Angeles.

Alder is at the present time engaging in some of the very most cutting-edge litigation efforts in the country. He’s tried upwards of 70 litigation cases within his professional career and properly secured over $140 million in decisions and settlements for his clients in the year 2011 alone. Recently, in December 2011 he received a nearly $33 million verdict 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 valued clients in 2011. For information, visit www.alderlaw.com.

Juhl Wind Inc, leading the way in Community Wind Energy, has introduced the official industrial start-up and functioning of the two turbine project for Gundersen Health System in Winona County, MN. The 4.95 megawatt installation stands out as the first-of-its-kind in The United States to be created exclusively to handle the alternative energy concerns of a major regional health care organization, in this instance, 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,” said 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,” pronounced Jeff Rich, executive director, GL Envision, LLC.

Juhl Wind is an established innovator in Community Based Wind Power advancement and management, focused on wind energy 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 besides the company’s more substantial Community Wind turbine Farms.

Those that have gynecologic cancer have fresh new expectation with a creative technology now introduced 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.

Completed promptly following surgery, HIPEC delivers heated chemotherapy through a ‘hot bath’ into the abdominal cavity, where it can penetrate diseased tissue directly. After the surgeon takes away as much visible cancer as achievable, a heated, a sterilized chemotherapy solution is distributed within the abdominal area through a technologically sophisticated perfusion system to ruin the leftover 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, varieties of cancer that generally speaking aren’t receptive to chemotherapy, however it is now looked at as an encouraging fresh therapy for gynecologic malignancy.

The U.S. Small Business Administration announced this week that federal government economic damage catastrophe loans are offered to smaller businesses, small agricultural cooperatives, small firms active in aquaculture and most private non-profit firms of all sizes situated in the counties of Dillon along with Horry in South Carolina as a consequence of Hurricane Irene that took place in August.

“These counties are eligible because they are contiguous to one or more primary counties in North Carolina. The Small Business Administration recognizes that disasters do not usually stop at county or state lines. For that reason, counties adjacent to primary counties named in the declaration are included,” said Frank Skaggs, director of SBA’s Field Operations Center East in Atlanta.

“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,” announced Skaggs.

Under this declaration, the SBA’s Economic Injury Disaster Loan program is available to eligible farm-related in addition to nonfarm-related companies that suffered monetary losses being a direct result of this calamity. Excluding aquacultural enterprises, agricultural companies, farmers and ranchers are not eligible to apply to SBA.

Loan options 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 determines eligibility in line with the size of the candidate, form of undertaking and its financial assets. The agency identifies financial loan levels along with terms based upon each and every applicant’s fiscal condition. 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. The small business financing loan is not intended to replace lost sales or profits.

Hazelden, among the list of the planet’s premier and most honored private, nonprofit alcohol consumption and drug addiction treatment centers, announced recently that it’ll boost it’s outpatient substance addiction treatment and mental heath care treatment services to Chaska, Minnesota, in a drug rehab center that will aid grown people as well as adolescents as young as twelve.

“Addiction affects people of all ages, and Hazelden understands the growing need for outpatient treatment for busy families,” pronounced Mark G. Mishek, president and CEO of Hazelden. “In addition to expanding services for adults, Hazelden is reaching out like never before to young people. We don’t want them missing out on the good stuff of growing up: being with friends they can count on, figuring out what they’re good at and achieving their academic goals.”

Hazelden in Chaska should be able to open its business to older people on March one, and to teenagers about April one. The center is located within the third floor in the Hazeltine Gates building, 1107 Hazeltine Blvd., with easy access from Highways 212 and 41. The 5,400-square-foot alcohol treatment center features individual spaces for youths and grown ups, including a meeting spot for younger people that helps bring about peer interconnection and also kinetic learning. The north-facing glass windows open to a view of the Municipal Golf Course in Chaska.

{Yung Joc might be contemplating a legal fight following Master Mind Music Incorporated., an Atlanta-based music company, filed legal action towards the rapper and his old label Block Enterprises. Inside of the lawsuit which was filed in the United States District Court in Georgia, Master Mind Music claims that they signed the artist to a production agreement and exclusive recording contract during 2005. The Atlanta-music business has supplied an index of allegations in opposition to Block and Yung Joc including copyright infringement, break of agreement, torturous interference with contractual associations, deceitful misrepresentation, and fraud.

Donald Scarinci of Scarinci Hollenbeck announced today the official release of Scarinci Hollenbeck’s “Sports and Entertainment Law Blog,” edited by Anthony R. Caruso, the Chair of its Sports and Entertainment Law Practice Group. Caruso is nationally recognized as an attorney appearing together with clientele and as a commentator on CNBC, NBC, Fox, and other media outlets.

A law firm announced that it’s beginning a class action lawsuit which would involve stakeholders of Chemed Corporation. The objection is a result of information which appeared Nov. 16 connected with a whistleblower lawsuit alleging that Chemed cheated Medicare. Chemed’s stock fell $6.87 per share, or 11 percent, to close at $50.65 per share that day. San Diego law firm, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd, said it manually filed the litigation on account of an institutional speculator in U.S. District Court in Cincinnati.