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HERMON Fumes from a gas generator being used indoors overcame a Hermon family early Monday, leading St. Lawrence County emergency officials to emphasize safety when residents turn to alternative heating methods during power outages.
State police said Douglas Harris, 32, Anastassia Dehart, 33, and their 8-month-old daughter, Samantha Harris, suffered carbon monoxide poisoning from running the generator inside their single-wide trailer home without adequate ventilation after they lost power in the ice storm. They were treated at E.J. Noble Hospital, Gouverneur, and released, but not before the fumes knocked Mr. Harris and the baby unconscious.
Richville Volunteer Fire Department responded to the familys 547 Jonesville Road home at 12:25 a.m. Gouverneur and Hermon volunteer rescue squads also responded.
Assistant Fire Chief Corie W. Farr said the family used the gas-powered generator in a rear bedroom of the home with the door closed. Mr. Harris would get up and check on the generator, turning it off and on every few hours until they fell asleep, he said.
Everyone could barely breathe when they woke, and they got out of the house and went to the neighbors, Mr. Farr said.
The baby initially was not responsive, but started breathing again with fresh air, he said.
Mr. Harris, however, went back into the trailer to turn the generator off.
He was overcome by fumes when he opened the bedroom door, which knocked him out, Mr. Farr said. He had been inside for a little bit and had not come back out. The neighbor went in and opened a few windows and on the way through found him knocked out in the bedroom and he carried him out.
Mr. Farr said that while the unidentified neighbor acted bravely, there could have been two bodies left inside.
Wait for emergency officials to arrive; dont just run inside, Mr. Farr said. It was a brave thing he did, but in the future, break windows on the outside to start getting air.
The situation could have been avoided with proper precautions, Mr. Farr said. Primarily, keep generators out of the house.
If you are going to use a power device that runs on gas, keep it outside and away from the house, Mr. Farr said. Not only is there the possibility of carbon monoxide poisoning but the risk of fire.
St. Lawrence County Supervisor of Dispatch Operations James R. Chestnut subsequently sent out a warning.
Folks using generators, kerosene heaters and/or other similar devices must make sure there is a fresh air source to provide proper ventilation for these units, Mr. Chestnut said. There has already been one incident of carbon monoxide poisoning due to one of these units not being properly vented.
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How did they make this stove adjustable with a knob??? Its only a fancy pop can stove, but I would love to know how they regulate it without spending the 30 bucks for it....http://www.packafeather.com/stove.html
I would guess the flame is adjusted by restricting the airflow into the stove.As can be seen in this picture the flame is wide open and the center band around the stove shows the air intake holes with more depth than with the second picture with the smaller flame.Of course, I could be completely wrong.
You are completely correct. The band around the stove moves like a pipe clamp when you turn the little knob. Quite a brilliant, well thought out and made stove. Not at all complicated (as some here have implied), quite strong for a 46 gram piece, and I think it will last for years.
I wish the Caldera Cone had a stove that did this; it would be the most perfect stove system on the planet!Has anyone tried one of these inside the Caldera Cone?
Hey Guys,You have to remember one thing about the Caldera Cone. It is designed as a precision tuned SYSTEM that only works when all the pieces are used together. That is to say, if you switch the burner, the system will lose efficiency, or worse, fail. The cone creates an environment that is designed to concentrate and contain all the BTU's put out by the burner. If you use a different stove with "more power" you will end up using more fuel and will likely burn up the cone resulting in catastrophic failure. The Caldera System is designed for efficiency, not necessarily speed. Will it boil 2 cups of water in under 2 minutes? No. Will it boil 2 cups of water with less than a half ounce of fuel? Yes. The biggest thing to remember about the Caldera is that it is not a nifty cone-like pot stand with a center burner stove inside that can be switched around on a whim. It is a complete cooking unit that relies on all its components to work properly. The guys over at Trail Designs have spent far too much time tuning this system to be the most efficient thing possible. (What do you expect, they're backpacking engineers. Translation= Hopelessly perpetual tinkerers) If you remember that the Caldera is only the Caldera when you use only Caldera parts, you'll be all right. Trust the Cone.
I have used a simmer ring on a caldera stove to help with dry baking. It probably isn't as efficent as running the stove normally in order to boil water, but it does provide a longer burn using less fuel. I just took a piece of titanium windscreen, cut it to the height of the intake holes and cut to nocks on each end one on the top and one on the bottom. The nocks then fit together making a cylinder that fits over the stove. You start by resting the simmer ring on the stove, not covering the holes. Then start the stove. Once it get going. I use the spork to knock it down covering the vents. Simmer is still a little hot for dry baking but I dont need to watch the stove nearly as much.I have wondered how tinny's new blackfly would function in the low oxygen environment of the caldera cone.
Edited by JasonS on 08/09/2007 17:03:15 MDT.
I own a few Cones, and my experience is the best combination of boil time and fuel consumption comes with the Trail Designs stove. Try to boil faster with another stove and you will burn more fuel; try to be more economical by burning a slower stove and your boil time will increase, or the water will not boil at all.Since I am only boiling water for cook-in-a bag meals, the TD setup is optimized for what I do. I will not boil over alcohol without the cone.However, If you want to simmer, use a throttled stove like the one mentioned above, or a Trangia; just realize you will burn more fuel.
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BATON ROUGE -- In a compromise to try to move along the state budget bill for next fiscal year, the House of Representatives is considering an amendment allowing the commissioner of administration to choose from a list of possible cuts how to reduce the budget.
The amendment, by Reps. Cameron Henry, D-New Orleans, and Bret Geymann, R-Moss Bluff, seeks to eliminate the $268 million in one-time money that's in the budget.
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WASHINGTON -- For many who helped dedicate the new Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on Sunday, the towering granite monument is a stark reminder that the civil rights leader's dream of social and economic justice has yet to be realized.
In many ways, the ceremony was a passing of the torch to a younger generation with speeches marked by fierce rhetoric over the nation's economic disparities.
Thousands gathered at the memorial site, some as early as 5 a.m., to hear President Barack Obama, King's children and other civil rights leaders. Speaker after speaker invoked King's "I Have a Dream" speech from 1963 to challenge others to carry on his fight.
"Yes, my father had a dream. It was a dream, he said, that was deeply embedded in the American dream," said King's son Martin Luther King III. "The problem is the American dream of 50 years ago ... has turned into a nightmare for millions" who have lost their jobs and homes.
The nation has "lost its soul," he said, when it tolerates such vast economic disparities, teen bullying, and having more people of color in prison than in college.
His sister, the Rev. Bernice King, reminded the crowd that just before her father's assassination in 1968, he was mobilizing a poor people's campaign to occupy the nation's capital until the economic system changed.
She said the postponement of an earlier dedication because of Hurricane Irene that was planned on Aug. 28, the 48th anniversary of her father's "Dream" speech, may have been an act of God.
"Perhaps the postponement was a divine interruption to remind us of a King that moved us beyond the dream of racial justice to the action and work of economic justice," she said. "Perhaps God wanted us to move beyond the 'dream' into action."
Other speakers included union leaders, the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Andrew Young, the former Atlanta mayor and U.N. ambassador who was an aide to King. Young urged the crowd to vote for a president who has their interests at heart.
Actress Cicely Tyson said her contemporaries are passing the fight on to a new generation. She passed the microphone to 12-year-old Amandla Stenberg. The girl recalled learning about the civil rights movement in school and named four young girls killed in a 1963 church bombing in Birmingham, Ala.
"As Dr. King said at their funeral, 'They didn't live long lives, but they lived meaningful lives,"' Amandla said. "I plan to live a meaningful life, too."
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Art Devlin, ski jumper and longtime TV analyst, dies in Lake Placid at 81{mosimage}A memorial service will be held April 27 in Lake Placid, New York, for three-time Olympic ski jumper Art Devlin, who died of cancer. Devlin, who lived in Lake Placid all his life, died at home April 22 at the age of 81.
A promising junior ski jumper with the Lake Placid Sno Birds before the war, Devlin was commissioned in the Army Air Corps during World War II and flew 50 missions over Germany. He was discharged in 1946, the same year he won the U.S. jumping championship.
He went on to make the 1948, '52 and '56 Olympic teams; he was injured in 1948 but finished 15th in at Holmenkollen in Oslo in 1952, 21st at Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, in 1956. Devlin also was in the 1950 world championships — the jumping events were held in Lake Placid but, because of poor snow, the cross-country races and completion of nordic combined took place in Rumford, Maine — and the '54 championships.
In 1963, Devlin was elected to the U.S. National Ski Hall of Fame in Ishpeming, Michigan. He spent more than two decades as ski jumping analyst for CBS and ABC, which broadcast the Olympics as well as a variety of ski jumping events each winter.
His first wife, whom he married in 1952, died in 1989 and Devlin later remarried. He is survived by his widow and three children. The memorial service will be at 11 a.m. at St. Agnes Church in Lake Placid with private burial.


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A spokesman for the Police Federation, Steve Evans, told Today: "The sheer scale of it is huge. Police resources are stretched almost to breaking point, so if we started trying to investigate every instance of stupidity within Twitter, then we would be really pushed."
The body representing Britain's chief police officers has rejected calls for new laws to govern how the police deal with the abuse of Twitter, saying that problems may eventually be resolved by the microblogging website itself.
The intervention by the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) comes amid a debate over the policing of Twitter following a number of recent cases, including the arrest of a teenager in connection with tweets directed at Olympic diver Tom Daley and the jailing of a student for inciting racial hatred by tweeting about the footballer Fabrice Muamba.
Stuart Hyde, the chief constable of Cumbria, who speaks on e-crime for Acpo, said that it was right for police to intervene where individuals' lives were being made a misery by Twitter "trolls", but insisted that it was important for forces to take a "common sense" approach.
Asked if new laws were needed, Hyde told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "No, I think we have got quite a lot of legislation, dating back to the Malicious Communications Acts of 1998 and 2003. There is a lot there that helps us and gives us the power to do stuff.
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This exhibition is the first in the United States of the work of Adriaen Coorte (c.1660-after 1707), a remarkable still-life painter who lived in Middelburg in the Netherlands in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Celebrating the National Gallery of Art's acquisition of its first painting by him Still Life with Asparagus and Red Currants (1696), the exhibition presented some fifteen of the artist's outstanding works.
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"This is his first leave. He's been in the National Guard for a little over three years. We got married in June so, we didn't get to spend our marriage time together before he left so, we can start over!."
Spc Chris Howard's unit was stationed at 2-camps near Baghdad. It helped with detainee operations and train Iraqi corrections officers. Jackie communicated often with her husband through Skype, a software application that allows users to make voice calls over the internet. She admits that it made her want to see her husband soon:
"When you see the look on their faces when they come in, and you know that they just missed you and you know they've been gone for so long and you're like, Oh man. It's an unbearable feeling. It's hard, it is really really hard. I think it's probably the hardest in the world."
PH : "So, what's the first thing you're going to do to your husband?"
Howard : "I'm going to attack him when he gets off the bus, (laughter) I'm gonna tackle him!"
When the bus carrying the first wave of troops arrived, the crowd at the armory couldn't hold back emotions. SPC Beltran said it was home sweet home: "I can't wait to see my family."
PH : "What was the hardest part about being there?"
Beltran: "Getting used to the environment. Overall, it wasn't what I expected, I thought it was gonna be a lot worse but, it was a good deployment thankfully."
Spc Josh Barker's whole family surprised him: "It's pretty nice, I wasn't really expecting it, but yeah, it is definitely nice."
PH : "What was the big challenge when you were over there?"
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Barker : "Yeah, you don't even really think about how long you've been there, you just wake up and you know if you gotta go to work or not, because every day was different."
PH : "Now, even though you're back Josh, there is that risk I guess of going back, right?"
Barker : "Oh that's fine. I'll go, if my friends go, I'm going so, I'll go back with these guys any day."
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He did not hesitate for a moment to agree to this interview. I had the opportunity to see family albums, photos from the World War II and Pearl Harbor, his time in the Navy and all the commemoration letters, achievements, medals that he earned throughout his military career. The interview started with him making jokes about life and politics. The interview lasted almost three hours (see Appendix A & B). I noticed that at times he was vague with his answers or will stay quiet for a while before answering. It was mostly when we talked about his wife and war. I could feel him very sad thinking about the experiences he lived in war and the impact it had on his life. It was noticeable. His memories of his time in the Navy were filled with sadness and joy. He talked about his friends, the few that are still alive, the one's that passed away and their stories from Hawaii, Europe and many other places they went to.
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The new Congress has a lot before it — debt reduction; tax reform; getting a grip on medical costs; realigning our defense posture to meet new threats; and reviving the economy to meet global competition.
You would think these tasks would be enough to keep Congress working day and night. You would be wrong.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor has published the House calendar for this year, and using the word "leisurely" is to inflict an injustice on the concept of lassitude. For what comfort it's worth, no member of Congress will die from overwork this year.
The average American works just over 40 hours a week and 48 to 50 weeks a year. The House this year plans to work 33 weeks, most of them four-day weeks for a total of 122 days.
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Not since victory gardens helped World War II era Americans on the home front survive food shortages have urban gardens been as necessary and popular as they are today. With more food production in cities, the safety of the produce grown there becomes increasingly important.
As city dwellers across the country are harvesting fruits and vegetables for family consumption and planning ahead for the next planting season, geochemist Gabriel Filippelli, Ph.D., professor of earth sciences at the School of Science at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, warns that urban soil may be contaminated with lead. He advises investigating the legacy of contamination in soil before planting and eating.
"Most surface contamination in urban settings like Baltimore, Brooklyn, Detroit or Indianapolis is from harmful metals, especially lead, and tends to be found near roadways, older homes or lead smelters. Sources of contamination can be automobile exhaust, degraded paint, tire and vehicle debris, industrial emissions or other products of human technology," said Filippelli, who is an international leader in the emerging field of medical geology.
He encourages urban gardeners to study a map of their metropolitan area and determine potential soil contamination risk by proximity to busy streets, major roadways, freeways, dilapidated painted structures or older industrial facilities.
Gardens with no or low levels of lead contamination as determined by location or with test results of less than 200 parts per million (ppm) can be abundantly planted, but may benefit from high phosphate fertilizer which immobilizes metals like lead.
For gardens at medium risk based on location or soil tested at 200-500 ppm, he recommends covering the soil, planting in raised bed settings, and mulching between beds to reduce the risks of tracking lead-rich soil onto the plots or into the home.
For gardens at high lead risk or found to have lead levels of over 500 ppm, he counsels proceeding with caution as contamination could be coming from the soil below and the air above. While taller fruit plants are probably safe to consume, root vegetables and leafy greens like lettuce and kale are not, mainly because of the difficulties of cleaning this produce thoroughly before consumption.
In this setting, raised-bed planting is critical, as is ensuring mulch or ground cover between beds and extending for 10 feet around the perimeter of the garden.
The produce of all urban gardens, even those at low risk of contamination, should be washed carefully.
"Urban gardens are powerful tools for personal health and for neighborhood revitalization. These plots should be encouraged but need to be tended with special care to ensure that lead does not adhere to the food children and adults are consuming," said Filippelli.
This season, Filippelli and School of Science students are analyzing lead levels in multiple soil samples from an initial 25 urban gardens. They hope to acquire funding to test many more urban plots beginning this autumn to inform urban dwellers, policy makers and researchers.
"Environmental awareness can ensure that a garden is a healthy place to work and that food is safe to eat and share," said Filippelli who has studied lead contamination in urban soil for almost a decade.
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Celanese: 'This really is the end of an era. Celanese has been a huge part of people's lives'
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THE sight of 20,000 Celanese workers leaving the factory after another shift was once a vision to behold.
Not even Rolls-Royce, currently Derby's largest single private sector employer with 12,000 staff, could hold a candle to the size of Celanese's workforce back in the 1920s when the company was in its pomp.
Today, the Megaloughton Lane factory is a shadow of its former self.
This iconic Derby business, which had been operating for almost a century, has succumbed to global economics.
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Demolition of Spondon's landmark Celanese factory will start in June
The death of the Celanese Acetate Spondon plant, which made acetate flake used in cigarette filters, has been slow, painful and drawn out.
The first indication that the end of the plant was nigh came in April, 2010, when the factory was employing 450 – a fraction of what it had during its glory days.
Its American owner, Dallas-based Celanese Corporation, which had taken over the business in 2007, announced plans to shut the factory – a move which would reportedly save the firm £36 million a year.
Soaring UK energy prices were the brutal economics on which it based its plan.
Instead, it wanted to concentrate production in Belgium, the US and Mexico, where power costs were cheaper.
The production of acetate flake is a very energy-hungry business.
A large amount of heat and steam is used in the chemical process that turns wood pulp into acetate flake.
More steam is required in the production of cigarette filters, Celanese Acetate's core product.
But in 2010, energy prices in the UK had skyrocketed by 16.7% against an average increase of just 3.8% in the European Union.
Spondon had tried to reduce its costs by laying off staff and negotiating new contracts with suppliers of raw materials. But they were unable to save enough money on energy costs to keep the business alive.
Unions tried in vain to persuade the company's bosses to sell the business, which made 35,000 tonnes of material a year, as a going concern.
To the workers it seemed that to all intents and purposes it was not so much a "plan" to close but really a "decision" to close.
But there was to be a temporary reprieve.
The reason for the change of heart by the American owners was not because of the impassioned pleas by the unions but a natural disaster on the other side of the world.
In April last year – exactly a year after Celanese Corporation announced the closure – company bosses confirmed that the Spondon plant would remain open a little longer because of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami.
Production of acetate tow in the Far East was badly affected by tsunami damage.
Keeping the Spondon factory open was one way of making up for a potential global shortfall in supply.
Celanese itself had no factories in Japan but its competitors did. That meant there could potentially be extra demand for Celanese products.
Although it was good news that the factory would not be shutting that year, the general consensus among the workforce was that it was just putting off the inevitable.
There is a human cost to the decision that has been made in a Dallas boardroom.
For some workers at the Spondon plant, Celanese is all they have known.
Joining the company straight from school, they have spent their entire careers working at the plant.
The fact that the average length of service of employees at the Spondon factory is 23 years gives you some idea of how much of a part Celanese has played in their lives. And their average age is 47.
Ian Hawley is one of those long-servers. He has worked at Celanese for almost 25 years and is works convenor for the Unite union.
He said: "This really is the end of an era. Celanese has been a massive part of people's lives. To think that this is finally the end of almost 100 years of production is very sad.
"When I started at the business back in the 1980s there were around 10,000 people employed at the site.
"Of course, we have had more than two years to prepare for this closure but it doesn't make it any easier.
"The staff here have done everything that has been asked of them.
"Their professionalism has been outstanding.
"The management here have also fought hard to save the site but it would seem that nothing was going to stop the owners from closing Derby.
"It makes no sense because demand for the product is still strong."
JonMcNeil, 51, of Spondon, joined Celanese in 1989 as a fitter machinist.
Several members of his family worked at the business, including his grandfather, mother and father, and even his son, Joshua.
Jon said: "Four generations of my family have worked at Celanese. It's played a major part in our lives and it's incredibly sad to see it go.
"Celanese is a major part of Spondon. I don't think there's many people in this area that don't have some kind of connection to the business.
"I joined the company from the railways. Back then the company was called Courtaulds. I was 28 at the time and the site was home to thousands of workers. It was always busy and there was a real buzz about the place.
"When you work with people every day they become like extended family.
"That family is now being broken up and it's likely that we may not see each other again. I will miss them, for sure."
Jon, who was a health and safety specialist at the site, was made redundant two weeks ago. Son Joshua was also made redundant earlier in the year.
Jon said: "It has been a sad time ever since they first announced plans to close the site in 2010.
"It has dragged on and it puts a lot of pressure on you when the axe is hovering over you for that length of time.
"If truth be told, the temporary reprieve we got just prolonged the inevitable.
"It also gave some of the workers hope that the factory might be kept open in the long term but clearly that was never going to happen.
"Maybe there should have been more help from the Government to persuade Celanese to stay in Derby."
Jon considers himself one of the lucky ones. He has already found a new job working in health and safety at a firm in Stafford.
He said: "I wish the guys all the luck in the world but I believe that some of them may struggle, particularly the ones who have been there a long time.
"Working at the same place for so long kind of makes you institutionalised. We are an ageing workforce and it will be difficult for some of them to get another job."
The Moon pub, just a few hundred yards from the factory in Station Street, has been the hostelry of choice for Celanese staff at the end of the working day.
Generations of the same family have worked at Celanese and drunk together at the pub, which today is run by husband and wife Gavin and Jayne Bradshaw.
Jayne said: "In recent times the trade we got from Celanese workers has only formed a small part of our takings, so we will be OK.
"But the Celanese workers we do get come in religiously. They have become friends and we will miss them.
"We've only been at the pub a year, so it's difficult for us to imagine what it was like when Celanese was in its hey-day. I've heard that they used to send a runner from the pub down to the factory to get the orders in before the shift ended. The pints would then all be lined up on the bar waiting for the workers when they finished.
"But the spirit of Celanese will live on at the pub. Once a month, we have groups of former Celanese workers who come in to meet up and chat about the good old days.
"But it is sad that all that will be left will be their memories."


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She was born September 11, 1952, in Paragould to Huey Albert and Betty Ruth Wright Wilhite. Linda relocated to Gassville in 1975 from Corcoran, California. She married Vernis Lee Miller on June 1, 1985, in Harrison. Linda was a long time employee of Wal-Mart in Mountain Home. She was of the Baptist faith. Linda loved animals and most importantly loved spending time with her grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her father.
Survivors include her husband of 27 years, Vernis Miller of Gassville; two daughters and a son-in-law, Kelly and Brad Morris of Mountain Home and Stephanie Miller and her fiancé, Tyler Baumgardner of Gassville; her mother, Betty Wilhite of Gassville; three brothers and sisters-in-law, Hulen and Bev Wilhite of Mountain Home, Keith and Sandy Wilhite of Flippin and Farron and Angie Wilhite of Mountain Home; a sister and brother-in-law, Pam and Darrell Fears of Midway; three grandchildren, A.J. and Kiley Morris and Hayden Miller; seven nieces and nephews, Brooke Young, Lindsay Newton, Jared, Justin, Jordan, Haley and Nick Wilhite and other relatives and many friends.
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This article is one in a series developed by NASP's African American Subcommittee for school psychologists and other educators
working with culturally and linguistically diverse student populations. In this article, part one of two addressing disproportionality,
the subcommittee presents an overview of the problem of disproportionate representation of Black students in
special education. In next month's edition, part two will provide school psychologists with promising practices in addressing
disproportionality and supporting equity in schools. The authors acknowledge the support of the African American Subcommittee,
under NASP's Multicultural Affairs Committee, for their insightful discussions on the article topic, as well as for the
group's professional allegiance.
One of the most persistent and controversial
issues in education is the overrepresentation
of culturally and linguistically
diverse (CLD) students identified as disabled in
schools. The term "culturally and linguistically diverse"
is used to refer to students from racial/ethnic
minority groups and linguistic minority groups.
Throughout this paper, we compare CLD students
to their mainstream White peers, while acknowledging
the inherent limitations of any term used
to describe these groups, as they fail to capture
the vast diversity both within and between groups
(e.g., see Chandler, A'Vant, & Graves, 2008).
Even before special education was formally
codified in the Education for All Handicapped
Children Act of 1975 (P.L. 94-142, now the Individuals
with Disabilities Education Improvement
Act), students of color, as well as those from immigrant
or economically disadvantaged households,
were overrepresented in classrooms for students considered cognitively impaired (Dunn, 1968). Today, troubling
patterns of racial disparities in special education identification, placement, and outcomes
continue. In this article, we frame the problem of disproportionality for school psychologists
from a sociohistorical lens.
Disproportionality is an issue of equity and access in general and special education.
It refers to "the extent to which membership in a given … group affects the probability
of being placed in a specific disability category" (Oswald, Coutinho, Best, & Singh,
1999, p. 198). As Figure 1 shows, nationally, Black students, particularly those identified as mentally retarded or emotionally disabled, have been consistently overrepresented
for more than 3 decades. Native American students are also persistently overrepresented
in special education nationally, and while the same is not true for Latino
students, they are often overrepresented at the state and district levels where their
enrollment is highest.
Special education identification patterns vary both between and within states. For
instance, risk for Black students identified as mentally retarded is more than 14 times
that of their White peers in some states while risk is nearly equivalent in others. Not
only does disproportionality occur in special education identification, but in placement
as well. Students identified as CLD are generally less likely to spend the majority of their
time in general education and are more likely to be served in separate schools or facilities
than their White peers (Sullivan, Kozleski, & Smith, 2008). National data on Black
students are especially disconcerting because they reveal
that Black students are not only at greater risk for
identification, but also for restrictive placements and
disciplinary consequences. A valuable tool for examining
disproportionality data for racial minority students
is Data Maps, found at www.nccrest.org, where users can examine national and city
reports on identification and placement based on census data and data from the U.S.
Department of Education. Such depictions can provide a useful starting point in discussions
of disproportionality.
The disproportionality literature tends to focus on the disability categories of mental retardation,
learning disabilities, and emotional disabilities, as these are the high-incidence
disabilities and constitute over 63% of students eligible for special education (U.S. Department
of Education [USDOE], 2009). These are also widely regarded as "judgmental" categories
because of relatively vague federal and state disability definitions that necessitate
a high degree of professional judgment in making normative comparisons to determine
eligibility (Klingner et al., 2005). This has led many to question the validity of these diagnoses
as true disabilities and the likelihood of misidentification, particularly in light of the
wide variation in identification rates across states and districts. In contrast, diagnoses in
the low-incidence categories are rarely challenged because of their physical/medical bases,
and because disproportionality is not generally observed in these categories.
Disproportionality appears to be a complex phenomenon influenced by a number of factors
which differ from group to group and may vary from one context to another (Skiba et
al., 2008). The literature has examined a number of factors that may potentially contribute
to the disproportionate representation of CLD students in special education, including:
The research supporting these various contributing factors is equivocal. It is the position
of the authors that we must move beyond deficit-based explanations to consider
the sociocultural and historical factors that contribute to educational inequity and disparate
treatment and outcomes, including special education disproportionality. Most
notably, we must acknowledge that race and educational opportunity are closely linked
such that certain students experience systemic privilege over others; poverty is an
insufficient justification for the pervasive overrepresentation of CLD students, particularly
African Americans, in special education (Skiba, Poloni-Staudinger, Simmons,
Feggins-Azziz, & Chung, 2005).
The disproportionate representation of CLD students in special education is just one
element of a constellation of inequities that influence individuals' access to educational
opportunities on the basis of race. For special education, a field built upon the principle
of fairness, formed in the wake of Brown v. Board of Education, and grounded in the
rhetoric of the civil rights movement (Blanchett, 2006), disproportionality represents
a significant dilemma as it indicates systemic problems of inequity, discrimination, and
marginalization within education. Schools are social institutions in which the power
structures of the larger society are reproduced; where inequity in other institutions
(e.g., economics and healthcare) affect student characteristics, behavior, and performance;
and where disparities in a number of educational domains (e.g., resource availability,
instructional quality, discipline) produce inequitable opportunities to learn.
When children do not receive opportunities to learn, their academic achievement is
negatively affected and they are placed at risk for special education identification (Skiba
et al., 2008). Examination of a broad range of educational data makes clear that a number
of disparities in educational opportunity disadvantages students identified as CLD
and points to pervasive systemic inequity in all domains of education (Artiles & Ortiz,
2002; Brayboy, Castagno, & Maughan, 2007).
Many recognize that special education often does not lead to high-quality educational
opportunities, or even positive outcomes, despite the resources and support it provides. There is also concern because CLD students, particularly those identified
as Black, make fewer academic gains and are less likely to exit special education than
their White peers (Blanchett, 2006). In addition, overrepresented groups are disproportionately
affected by negative consequences associated with special education labeling
and placement, including stigmatization, lowered expectations, substandard
instruction, and less rigorous curriculum, as well as isolation from the educational and
social curriculum of general education. Long-term consequences include lower rates
of graduation, employment, independent living, and secondary education, as well as
lower wages and higher arrest rates compared to nondisabled peers and disabled White
peers (Affleck, Edgar, Levine, & Kortering, 1990; Losen & Wellner, 2001).
Nonetheless, the question of whether disproportionality constitutes a real problem
has been heavily debated. Some scholars have argued that because special education
eligibility results in additional services and supports, special education identification
is a benefit. Still others assert that if bias or inappropriate practices are present at any
stage in the general or special education processes that lead to labeling and placement,
disproportionality must be considered problematic (Heller, Holtzman, & Messick, 1982;
Klingner et al., 2005). Thus, to many, special education represents a "double-edged
sword" because it ensures access for children who were traditionally excluded from
public education but simultaneously serves to marginalize students from the general
education environment. Others contend that the mere presence of over- or underrepresentation
indicates that the educational needs of students are going unmet by
the educational system (Bollmer, Bethel, Garrison-Mogren, & Brauen, 2007).
Because school psychology is concerned with equal access for all children (NASP,
2009), disproportionality in special education is a cause for concern. NASP (2004)
holds that discrimination is harmful to children in that it negatively impacts well-being
and educational achievement. Review of the literature and national placement data
illustrate that some students are at risk of being misclassified, denied access to general
education, and receiving inappropriate services. Disproportionality is a complex
problem, so addressing it will entail complex solutions. While we recognize the need
for systems change to remediate pervasive inequity, we also acknowledge the power of
practitioners' everyday actions in creating opportunities and academic supports, fostering
inclusive environments, and improving the lives of children. We have a legal and
ethical duty to ensure that students are not misidentified for special education and to
ensure that all students have equitable opportunities to succeed. In Part 2 of this series
we will address promising practices for reducing disproportionality, emphasizing how
practitioners can contribute to preventing inequity in special education.
The NASP website provides numerous resources for culturally competent practice, including several specifically about the issue of disproportionality.
Equity Alliance at ASU, www.equityallianceatasu.org
National Center for Culturally Responsive Educational Systems, www.nccrest.org
National Education Association. (2007). Truth in labeling. Washington, DC: Author.
Affleck, J. Q., Edgar, E., Levine, P., & Kortering, L.
(1990). Post-school status of students classified as mildly mentally retarded, learning
disabled or non-handicapped: Does it get better
with time? Education and Training in Mental
Retardation, 25(4), 315–324.
Artiles, A. J., & Ortiz, A. (Eds.). (2002). English
language learners with special needs: Identification,
placement, and instruction. Washington,
DC: Center for Applied Linguistics.
Blanchett, W. (2006). Disproportionate representation
of African American students in
special education: Acknowledging the role of
White privilege and racism. Educational
Researcher, 35(6), 24–28.
Bollmer, J., Bethel, J., Garrison-Mogren, R., &
Brauen, M. (2007). Using the risk ratio to assess
racial/ethnic disproportionality in special
education at the school-district level. Journal
of Special Education, 41(3), 186–198.
Brayboy, B. M. J., Castagno, A. E., & Maughan, E.
(2007). Equality and justice for all? Examining
race in education scholarship. Review of
Research in Education, 31, 159–194.
Chandler, D., A'Vant, E. R., & Graves, S. L.
(2008). Effective communication with Black
families and students. Communiqué, 37, Special
Pull-out Section, 1–3.
Donovan, M. S., & Cross, C. T. (Eds.). (2002).
Minority students in special and gifted education.
Washington, DC: National Academies Press.
Dunn, L. M. (1968). Special education for the
mildly retarded: Is much of it justifiable?
Exceptional Children, 35(1), 5–22.
Heller, K. A., Holtzman, W. H., & Messick, S.
(Eds.). (1982). Placing children in special education:
A strategy for equity. Washington, DC:
National Academy Press.
Klingner, J. K., Artiles, A. J., Kozleski, E., Harry,
B., Zion, S., Tate, W., et al. (2005). Addressing
the disproportionate representation of
culturally and linguistically diverse students in
special education through culturally responsive
educational systems. Education Policy Analysis
Archives, 13(38). Retrieved December 14, 2005,
from http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v13n38
Losen, D., & Welner, K. (2001). Disabling discrimination
in our public schools: Comprehensive
legal challenges to inappropriate and
inadequate special education services for
minority students. Civil Liberties Law Review,
36(2), 407–260.
National Association of School Psychologists.
(2009). Appropriate academic supports to
meet the needs of all students. Bethesda, MD:
National Association of School Psychologists.
(2004). Racism, prejudice and discrimination.
Bethesda, MD: Author.
Oswald, D. P., Coutinho, M. J., Best, A. M., &
Singh, N. N. (1999). Ethnic representation in
special education: The influence of schoolrelated
economic and demographic variables.
The Journal of Special Education, 32(1), 194–206.
Skiba, R. J., Poloni-Staudinger, L., Simmons, A.
B., Feggins-Azziz, R., & Chung, C. (2005). Unproven
links: Can poverty explain ethnic disproportionality
in special education? Journal of
Special Education, 39(3), 130–144.
Skiba, R. J., Simmons, A. B., Ritter, S., Gibb, A.
C., Rauch, M. K., Cuadrado, J., et al. (2008).
Achieving equity in special education: History,
status, and current challenges. Exceptional
Children, 74(3), 264–288.
Sullivan, A., Kozleski, E. B., & Smith, A. (2008,
December). Deconstructing LRE: What it
means, where we are, and creating continua
of supports. Presentation at the TASH 2008,
Nashville, TN.
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annual report to Congress on the implementation
of the Individuals with Disabilities Education
Act, 2006. Washington, D.C.: Office of Special
Education Programs.
Amanda Sullivan, PhD, is the codirector of research evaluation of the Equity Alliance at ASU and
acknowledges support under grant # S004D080027 awarded by the U.S. Department of Education.
Endorsement by the U.S. Department of Education of the ideas expressed in this article should not be
inferred. Elizabeth Rose A'Vant is a practitioner and Lead School Psychologist in the Providence
(RI) Public School District. She is cochair of the NASP Multicultural Affairs Committee. John Baker,
PhD, NCSP, is a practitioner in the Prince George's County (MD) Public School System. He is chair of
the Multicultural Affairs Committee of the Maryland School Psychologists Association and an adjunct
faculty member in the school psychology program at Bowie State University. Daphne R. Chandler is
a dissertator in UW-Madison's school psychology program. She currently serves as national coordinator
of NASP's CLD Ambassadors of Recruitment Program. Scott Graves, PhD, NCSP, is an assistant
professor of school psychology at Bowling Green State University (OH). Edward McKinney is a school
psychologist from the Metro-Davidson Nashville School District in Nashville, TN. Tremaine Sayles is
a fifth year doctoral candidate at the St. John's University school psychology program. He is a school psychologist
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After sharing the honours in the one-day international series, New Zealand and West Indies will switch the gears to shortest format of the sport with the first T20 in Auckland on Saturday.
The two sides tied the five-match ODI series 2-2, with second game at Napier washing out. West Indies, who secured a thrilling two-wicket victory in series-opener at Auckland, slumped to 159-run and 58-run defeats in third and fourth one-dayers at Queensland and Nelson but bounced back strongly in fifth game to register a record-breaking 203-run victory at Hamilton.
For T20 series, both teams have summoned promising T20 campaigners. However, T20 champions West Indies are appears stronger in the presence of explosive-hitters Chris Gayle, Marlon Bravo, Kieran Powell and Andre Russell. The visitors will be led by Dwayne Bravo as regular skipper Darren Sammy was ruled out of the series with a hamstring injury.
Brendon McCullum-led Blackcaps also features gifted hard-hitters including Jesse Rider, Martin Guptill, Corey Anderson, who hit fastest ODI century off 36 deliveries in the rain-curtailed third ODI, Adam Milne and Colin Munro.
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On Saturday, September 11, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) will present a talk by artist/activist Richard Kamler.
In recognition of the third anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Kamler will discuss his visionary international initiative 'Seeing Peace, Artists Collaborate with the United Nations.' Asking what would have happened had Picasso painted Guernica before the bombs fell, Kamler and his collaborators are working with the U.N. to create an event for International Peace Day (September 21) in 2005. One artist from each of the 191 U.N.member nation will come to the table in the General Assembly and engage in a special session devoted to art and peace. An accompanying event is planned for San Francisco.
Kamler will also show slides from 3 projects from the past to contextualize 'Seeing Peace' as part of his ongoing investigations into art as an agent for social change and cultural transformation.
Since 1976 Kamler has been making public installations, sound pieces, actions, events, drawings, and public presentations addressing social and environmental issues. His work has been shown in public spaces, galleries, and museums both nationally and internationally. He has received many grants and awards; among them a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a California Arts Council Fellowship, an Artist Fellowship from George Soros Open Society Institute, a grant from the Richard C. Blum Family Foundation, Zellerbach Family Fund, and LEF Foundation. Kamler is currently the chair of the art department at the University of San Francisco.
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Founded in 1935 as the first West Coast museum devoted to modern and contemporary art, SFMOMA is currently undergoing a major expansion project that will significantly enhance gallery, education, and public spaces, enabling the museum to better showcase more of its expanded permanent collection. While the museum is temporarily closed for construction, through 2016, SFMOMA is "on the go" with an extensive array of off-site programming across the Bay Area, including collaborative and traveling museum exhibitions, major outdoor projects and commissioned installations, and new education initiatives.
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By recent events we mean to say that two very high-profile men have joined AMD's ranks: Wayne Mertsky and Charles Matar.
AMD has confirmed as much when exchanging words with Reuters.
For those unfamiliar with the names, Wayne Mertsky used to be part of Apple's A-Series chip division, and Charles Matar was an expert in embedded processors working for Qualcomm at one point.
Meretsky will be placed in the lead of AMD's software development, while Matar will become vice president of System-on-Chip Development. He will have to handle the merger of a CPU, radios, memory and other components in a single package.
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Ok, I'm having trouble trying to watch online videos, they keep breaking up & forever freezing for a couple seconds at a time, then resumming, But only to keep doing it every 10 seconds or so. I'd love to be able to watch a whole video at say U-tube or other sites like it.
I can watch video clips in windows media player just fine, but not online.
anyone have any simple answers.?
London ON.
When you watch videos online, it's called streaming video. You are at the mercy of the server sending the video. Best thing to do is hit the pause button and watch the bar at the bottom to see how much of the video has been downloaded. When it completes, it will play smoothly. Some websites are better than others at stremaing video. If there's a lot of traffic on the site, you can expect delays....
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It makes them think you're up to something...
Since you have an older computer there may not be much you can do.
I have a computer I built in 2000 I still use that has good enough components it could display any online video nicely back then, but it certainly can't now, despite my 1500kbps connection speed.
How well video displays overall depends on
the capabilities of your system and it's graphics hardware - the faster your cpu and the more ram you have, to a point of dimishing returns, the better - the higher your mboard fsb speed the better (e.g. some P3s use only a 66mhz bus speed) - onboard graphics usually don't work as well as a card in a slot does - faster graphics cards work better than slower cards.
How well video works on the web depends on many additional things.
Once it has been downloaded to your computer, video often works much better because fewer limiting factors are involved.
E.g. How well video on the web works and looks also depends on:
- how good a connection to the internet and to where the video is you have, and what it's max data data transfer rate is - you can probably improve your average and overall max internet speed somewhat by using a TCP settings tweaking utility e.g. such as the ready made optimized settings in TCPOptimizer, if you haven't already used one (default Windows TCP settings don't allow your internet speed to reach it's full potential). If you have a "lite" or slower internet connection, you're not going to get as good video as you would for a higher max speed one.
- what the streaming (data transfer rate) requirements over the internet are for that video - you can often alter default settings of whatever program is displaying the video, or choose a slower streaming rate, and get better video with fewer dropped frames (pauses, freezes, black frames, "jumps" because of missing frames) - older videos or those that require a lesser streaming rate often work better on older computers. Lower resolutions, 16 bit rather than 32 bit color, a windowed video rather than full screen, will work better.
Black and white videos often work much better than color ones.
- if your high speed internet is via a cable connection how many users are online close to you at the time - the video will work better when fewer users are using the cable internet locally.


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Green MP calls for another railway line from Brighton to London
The UK's only Green MP is calling for a second train line between Brighton and London. Caroline Lucas says the existing line is overcrowded and under too much strain. Opening up the Lewes to Uckfield route again could be one option - a proposal which has huge support. Charlotte Wilkins reports.
New train to improve reliability
A revolutionary new train which can replace old train tracks, five times faster than before, is being used on the Basingstoke to Salisbury line. The improvements should provide commuters with a more reliable service.
Bus hits bridge in Portchester
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Teenager sentenced for 'sickening' attack on train driver
A teenager has been given an eight-month detention and training order after an assault with a glass bottle left a train driver bleeding and in need of stitches.
A 17-year-old youth from Croydon appeared at Croydon Youth Court on Thursday, 15 November, where he was sentenced after pleading guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm (ABH) at an earlier hearing.
The incident, in which a train driver was struck on the head from behind with a glass beer bottle, took place at 5.12am of Saturday, 23 June at Guildford rail station.
Southeastern boss celebrates launch of the Olympic Javelin
The Managing Director of Southeastern has been talking to Our Transport Correspondent on the day the Olympic Javelin service is launched.
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All aboard for the Olympics
First Olympic train leaves late
The high-speed Javelin train service serving the Olympic Park got off to an inauspicious start when the first official train departed five minutes late today.
The Southeastern train company had designated the 7.04am from St Pancras station in London to the Park in Stratford as the beginning of the service. But the 140mph Japanese-built train did not leave Stratford until 7.09am.
High speed Olympic train departs from Kent for the first time.
The official Olympic train service will depart from Kent for the first time this morning.
Kent's high speed services are being used to take hundreds of thousands of passengers from St Pancras to the Olympic park.
But for thousands in Kent it means they will lose regular high speed services to London.
Southeastern say they'll put on extra carriages on slower trains to the capital.
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Rail passengers faced two hour delays on the Paddington mainline after a major security alert at Bristol Parkway.Services to the Thames Valley, including Reading, Swindon and Didcot were disrupted.
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2. For today's environmentally aware dog.
Keeps your dog cool in the summer and warm in the winter. Made of 20% recycled materials, this house takes advantage of the natural temperature of the Earth and provides a cocoon for your dog. It has been designed to be partially underground and is indestructible, leak-proof, UV resistant, chew-proof, and comes with a lifetime warranty. You can order it here, but you have to create an account.
3. For the dog who's a fan of minimalism — Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired abode.
4. For the do-it-yourself-er: Old TV console turned into classy dog bed.
5. A depressing apocalyptic Noah's ark-like design.
6. For your little princess. Only 1,999 Euro. Buy it here.
7. Another custom job. This would run you about two grand a month here in NYC.
8. Perhaps your pup is a Lord of the Rings fan?
"An earthen house using clay, straw and manure (horse or cow) that stays cool in summer and protects from snow, rain and harsh winds in winter." Alas, this design is sold out on etsy. But you could make it yourself, I bet.
Here you go: 10 Outrageous Luxury Doghouses.
- More than a dozen people were killed after severe storms and flooding swept through the French Riviera on Saturday evening. ›
- President Obama says the U.S. has launched a full investigation into the airstrikes that killed 19 people at a hospital in Afghanistan on Saturday. ›
- The Catholic Church fired high-ranking Vatican official Monsignor Krzysztof Charamsa. He came out as gay on Saturday. ›


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