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Oregon State Police are trying to determine what caused a semi to roll onto its side on the ramp from I-5 northbound to Kruze Way around 1:30 a.m. Wednesday.
The truck was carrying items bound for a Home Depot store. Everything had to be removed from the trailer before the truck could be lifted onto its wheels.
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Wital said
iZotope Ozone 5 and Waves plugins.
Ditto. I like to keep it simple, generally just with Ozone 5. The presets are great, especially for someone who isn't really interested in mastering and would rather just write Waves Power Pack is great, S1 and L1 are great plugins for mastering in my experience and is cheaper than Ozone!
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The problem is that Gibson Les Paul Studio Satin costs almost double than my budget… for now.
Then go for the Epiphone, they truly are great guitars and such good value. I'm sure most people would agree you can't go wrong with a Les Paul!
BSPS said
Hi there,
i'm looking for a soundtrack in the same style as the intro from Game of thrones.
Someone can recommend me a track here on audiojungle?thanks
Keep an eye out for a Gibson Les Paul Studio Satin, they have Burstbucker Pro pups and sound amazing. They're more expensive than the Epiphone but once you've changed the pickups it only works out a little bit more and is definitely worth it! There are some good deals on second hand ones if you look hard enough.
Don't overlook the simplest of functions in your DAW . For me the 'random' value in Pro Tools is a great way to humanise velocities and note start times. Logic actually has a humanise function that adjusts both of these together.
Buy some ear plugs that you can keep on you at all times, I have mine in a small case on my keys – that way i'm never without them, you'll never know when you'll need them and it will save your hearing!
Also, one of the best tips I was ever given is take your time to learn about spatial effects on busses (reverbs, delays). This can be a big time saver and also save precious processing power!
Keep them! I recently sold a track that was over a year old for the first time
You've put the time and effort in to create the track, it would seem a shame to discard it just because nobody has bought it yet.
Sorry, collection is here! http://audiojungle.net/collections/1766196-cinematic
Hi Gametitan,
This track was written with the intention of being used as a game theme: http://audiojungle.net/item/quirky-game-theme/964923
Also, I have a collection of cinematic tracks here: hope that helps!

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It is known as "Camelot," and it is believed to be among the most expensive government buildings Canada has ever built.
Next year, the analysts, hackers and linguists who form the heart of Communications Security Establishment Canada are expected to move from their crumbling old campus in Ottawa to a gleaming new, $1-billion headquarters.
It is the physical manifestation of just how far the agency has come since Sept. 11, 2001. Before those attacks, it was known as Canada's other spy agency – an organization created to crack Communist codes more than seven decades ago, but rendered rudderless after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The agency's biggest victory of the 1990s, insiders say, was its behind-the-scenes role in the seizure of a Spanish trawler during the Turbot Wars, a 1995 fishing dispute off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland.
But now, where it once focused on vacuuming up Russian radio signals from Arctic bases, its surveillance reach is global: Its leaders now speak of "mastering the Internet" from desktops in Ottawa. In 1999, it had a shrinking budget of $100-million a year and a staff of about 900. Today, CSEC (pronounced like "seasick" ever since "Canada" was appended to the CSE brand) has evolved into a different machine: a deeply complex, deep-pocketed spying juggernaut that has seen its budget balloon to almost half a billion dollars and its ranks rise to more than 2,100 staff.
Canadian taxpayers spent $300-million a year on the nation's two intelligence agencies before the attacks of Sept. 11, but the bill for spying is now coming in at more than $1-billion. That's because the Canadian Security Intelligence Service has also been bulked up into a $535-million-a-year agency, up from $180-million in 1999.
There are key differences between the agencies. CSIS's "human intelligence" spies are like stay-at-home defencemen – they work largely in Canada to generate reports about security threats to Canada. CSEC's "signals-intelligence" spies can go as far as their computers can take them and are afforded an open-ended curiosity to explore issues far beyond Canada's borders.
An increase in intelligence investment was inevitable after 9/11 – no government wanted to risk a reprise of an al-Qaeda strike. Yet Canadian spending is continuing to rise, even as the terror threat arguably fades.
That kind of arithmetic is being thrown into sharp relief by the ongoing leaks from former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, whose disclosures are spawning an unprecedented global referendum on spying. As Canada and its allies seek to bolster national security, they are raising eyebrows among defenders of personal freedom at home and risking long-term damage on the diplomatic stage.
The strains wrought by the Snowden slides are showing. This week it was reported that CSEC may have invited its closest ally, the U.S. National Security Agency, to come to Canada to spy on world leaders attending the 2010 G20 summit in Toronto.
In October, Brazil's President accused Canada of "cyberwar" after CSEC was revealed to have spied on that country's energy sector. That same month, a European Union summit was dominated by calls for U.S. President Barack Obama to explain why the NSA had been targeting the mobile phones of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French Prime Minister François Hollande.
Canadian officials won't answer questions about operations. But the opacity surrounding CSEC is high, even by the standards of Western spy agencies. Some of its key architects say the current level of secrecy is unsustainable.
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You don't have to understand the technology of modern spying to grasp the motivations behind it.
"When our Prime Minister goes abroad, no matter where he goes, what would be a boon for him to know?" said John Adams, chief of CSEC from 2005 through early 2012. "Do you think that they aren't doing this to us?"
The retired spymaster is among the agency's biggest boosters. But in an interview with The Globe and Mail, he said even he is warming up to the idea of more outside scrutiny – or what's called "review" in Ottawa parlance.
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In 1994 I was diagnosed with celiac disease, which led me to create Celiac.com in 1995. I created this site for a single purpose: To help as many people as possible with celiac disease get diagnosed so they can begin to live happy, healthy gluten-free lives. Celiac.com was the first site on the Internet dedicated solely to celiac disease. In 1998 I founded The Gluten-Free Mall, Your Special Diet Superstore!, and I am the co-author of the book Cereal Killers, and founder and publisher of Journal of Gluten Sensitivity.
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Mysterious symptoms, including muscle weakness, wasting, and poor coordination and balance may be due to an undiagnosed allergy to wheat, barley, oats or rye, according to new research which may have implications for some people with ME...A study of 53 patients with these and other unexplained neurological symptoms, found that nearly three-fifths of them had antibodies to gluten in their blood...none of the patients in the Sheffield group had been diagnosed with celiac disease but when samples of tissue were removed from their gut, more than a third showed evidence of the disease or inflammation of the middle and lower gut.


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30 November 2009
Happy Birthday Mr.Twain
Some of my favorite quotes from the Sage of the South:
"Don't let schooling interfere with your education."
"Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper."
"All generalizations are false, including this one. "
"Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured."
"In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards."
"It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand."
An interesting piece commemorating Twain's birthday may be read here at The American Thinker.
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Also: "If you don't read the newspapers, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you are misinformed."
- 30 November, 2009 15:55
- Richard G. Williams, Jr. said...
Chaps - yes, that's a good one. I'd rather not know, than know incorrectly.
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The Michigan tracks are amongst the most popular with players of Dirt 3. Quite commonly you would find that the on-line Jam Sessions containing the most competitive players would always have a heavy line up of Michigan tracks. Sometimes a playlist would ONLY contain Michigan tracks. I think it is obvious why..... these tracks are damn exciting!!
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The constant switching between asphalt and dirt road surfaces means that you can build up some pretty damn high speeds (on the asphalt portions) only to run straight into a narrowed winding twisting dirt track. Your heart pounds and your life flashes in front of your very eyes as you go from speeding at 100 mph to a sudden heavy use of brakes while navigating some multiple tricky tight corners and avoiding dangerously high mud banks. These narrowed dirt sections are a constant interruption to your momentum. The word is "intense" and these tracks will certainly push your car to the limit! Brakes and engine.
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Patient warming significantly decreases the risk of surgical site infection. Recently there have been concerns that forced air warming may interfere with unidirectional airflow, potentially posing an increased risk of infection. Our null hypothesis was that forced air and radiant warming devices do not increase the temperature and the number of particles over the surgical site when compared with no warming device. A forced air warming device was compared with a radiant warming device and no warming device as a control. The temperature and number of particles were measured over the surgical site. The theatre was prepared as for a routine lower-limb arthroplasty operation, and the same volunteer was used throughout the study.
Forced air warming resulted in a significant mean increase in the temperature (1.1°C vs 0.4°C, p < 0.0001) and number of particles (1038.2 vs 274.8, p = 0.0087) over the surgical site when compared with radiant warming, which raises concern as bacteria are known to require particles for transport.
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MITCHELL — Nebraskans with private water wells can have their drinking water tested for nitrates during the Scotts Bluff County Fair August 2 – 6.
To find out the nitrate level in the water they drink, well owners can bring a cup-size sample of water in a clean bottle to the Scotts Bluff County Health Department/Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services booth at the Scotts Bluff County Fairgrounds on Tuesday from 5 p.m.-10 p.m. and Wednesday through Saturday between 10 a.m. and 10 p.m. There is no charge for the test, and they can get the results while they wait.
Nitrates are a concern for infants under six months of age and pregnant women, as well as anyone who has a weakened immune system. High levels of nitrates interfere with the blood's ability to carry oxygen and can cause "blue baby" syndrome.
Livestock, especially cattle, are also susceptible to nitrate poisoning, resulting in lower milk production and loss of calves.
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MITCHELL — Nebraskans with private water wells can have their drinking water tested for nitrates during the Scotts Bluff County Fair August 2 – 6.
Study could help generations of type 1 diabetics
By Maunette Loeks
Staff Reporter
Like many people, one of my least favorite things to do is to have my blood drawn. Recently, though, I volunteered to do just that for a diabetes study.
One drop of blood is all it may take for some people to learn whether they may develop type 1 diabetes in the future. The Diabetes Care Center at Regional West Physicians Clinic will be participating in the research study, called Trial Net. The study screens selected relatives of people with Type I diabetes to determine if they are at risk for developing the disease. On June 23, the clinic hosted a screening fair for people willing to participate in the story sponsored by the National Institute of Health and being conducted by The Barbara Davis Center.
Patty Brisco, medical director at The Diabetes Care Center, outlined the study.
"The study looks more closely to see what we can do to prevent type I diabetes, she said. Through a simple blood test, people could learn that they are at risk for type I diabetes up to 10 years before symptoms appear.
The study looks at people with family who have been treated for diabetes.
Free screenings are offered to persons who are 20 years old or younger, with a niece, nephew, aunt, uncle, grandparent, half-sibling or cousin with Type I diabetes; persons age 45 years old and younger with a parent, sibling or child with type 1 diabetes.
Interestingly, research has shown that 95 percent of people with type 1 diabetes also test positive for three specific autoantibodies. The body's autoimmune response is to protect itself, so it develops the autoantibodies.
Not all people who exhibit symptoms of type 1 diabetes necessarily test positive for the autoantibodies. However, Brisco said, "if it acts like type 1 diabetes, talks like type 1 diabetes, but doesn't test for the autoantibodies, the treatment is still the same." For type 1 diabetics, treatment means daily injections of insulin and monitoring.
The treatment of diabetes is one of the reasons many of the people participating in the study are more than willing to bring their children, grandchildren and other young relatives and at-risk relatives in to be studied. Though the type 1 diabetes is commonly thought of as juvenile diabetes, adults also develop the diseases.
"The biggest reason that most people are participating in the study is not for themselves, but for their children," Brisco said.
In most cases, persons with type 1 diabetes also have a genetic link, with environmental factors at play in triggering the disease. Onset of type 1 diabetes can often be rapid, so the goal with pre-testing is also to prevent hospitalizations and other complications that can be associated with type 1 diabetes. It's not uncommon for a person to find out they have diabetes after they have suddenly lost weight, become dehydrated or other complications.
"With the tests, we can find out if someone is at risk for type 1 diabetes much earlier and before they start to exhibit diabetes," Brisco said. "They want to make sure that their children, or grandchildren, do not end up with the problems that they have experienced."
Just one tablespoon of blood is all that it took to help ease the mind, or start the process of awareness or treatment, for many people participating in the study.
If people participating in the study test positive for the autoantibodies, they may be eligible to enroll in clinical research studies that are looking at ways to prevent and delay type 1 antibodies. One study, conducted by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive Kidney Disorders, is examining the use of oral insulin to delay type 1 diabetes.
Also, Brisco said, the study could evolve into other studies that can help study other ways to identify at-risk persons and even other different forms of treatment.
"We spend a lot of time here at the Diabetes Center treating patients with type II diabetes," Brisco said. "This study allows us to participate in helping patients of type 1 diabetes. "
Nearly 200 TrialNet locations nationwide offer screening and research studies. For information on participating through the Diabetes Care Center, contact the center, 308-630-2100. For information on studies in other areas, perhaps for a relative or other person, visit www.DiabetesTrialNet.org. Kits are also available and can be sent out to persons not located near a testing center.
Maunette Loeks is a reporter with the Star-Herald. She can be reached at 308-632-9054 or by email at firstname.lastname@example.com.
CAPWN Minority Health Program receives continuation grant funding
By MAUNETTE LOEKS
Staff Reporter
Community Action Partnerships Minority Health Program has been focused on helping minority populations in the area for nine years now.
The program recently received word that grant funds will let the program continue to serve Panhandle patients.
The Minority Health Program will receive a two-year grant from the Office of Health Disparities and Health Equity, a division of the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services — Public Health. The $275,803 grant gives the program two more years of funding, funding operations and services through June 30, 2013.
"We did suffer some cuts in funding," Program Director Martin Vargas said, saying that funds were decreased by $80,000 over the two-year period. "I firmly believe that it is because census numbers showed a decrease in minority populations, though I feel that minorities were less likely to fill out the census because of fears of immigration policies. "
With the recent grant period, three more counties were added to the CAPWN's Minority Health Program service area. The Minority Health Program will now offer services to Deuel, Garden and Sioux counties in addition to its previous counties of Scotts Bluff, Box Butte, Morrill and Cheyenne.
Vargas said he does have concern that minority populations aren't taking advantage of the program.
"For example, I see a lot of African Americans in the area and we have hardly any African Americans in the program. We want to stress that the program isn't just targeted at Hispanics, but Native Americans, Asians, Indians and any minority population in our area. They should take advantage of the program."
Many of the minority populations experience health disparities that coupled with economic disadvantages mean they are less likely to seek preventative health care, according to studies.
The Minority Health Program provides services to aid minorities get the care that they need. The program offers screening and transportation to health appointments. Regularly, the Minority Health Program, in collaboration with Scotts Bluff County Public Health, arranges a bus trip to the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota where Native Americans can receive medications and health appointments for free.
"Being a rural area, public transportation options for our clients are limited," he said. "The inability to line up transportation can prevent clients from getting to necessary medical appointments so we provide those services. We will also provide some transportation to other appointments on a case-by-case basis."
As part of its outreach services, health screenings are offered at CAPWN Health Center and health fairs throughout the year. In the last two years, the program provided over 1,000 glucose screenings and 600 obesity screenings as part of its programs.
The program coordinates the annual Latina Red Dress event and hosted its first Red Shawl event aimed at Native American women this year.
"We have focused on obesity in our health fairs and screenings because of its link to other health conditions, such as diabetes and hypertension," Vargas said. "Cardiovascular has been a key area for our program for a few years."
A health educator and community programs help provide patients with the information they need to accept and manage their illnesses. Health education programs specifically focused on diabetic patients and chronically ill patients provide information on proper nutrition, physical activity, communicating with your provider and more. Classes are offered in English and Spanish.
"It is key for chronically-ill patients, including diabetics, to understand how their diet affects their body and their illnesses," he said. "The goal of all our programs is to prolong the onset of serious illnesses or the onset of complications. We teach them to live a healthier, happier life."
Through Minority Health, patients can also be paired with medical interpreters. The Minority Health Program offers trained medical interpreters. Patients receiving services at the CAPWN Health Center can utilize the interpreters and Vargas said the interpreters would accompany patients to referral appointments when needed.
CAPWN has been at the forefront of providing medical interpreters for patients with limited English proficiency and provided interpretation for nearly 3,000 cases over the last two years.
"It is a pretty amazing number when you think about how much the service is actively needed," Vargas said.
Some providers continue to lack adequate interpretation services, despite federal requirements for providers that accept Medicare and Medicaid to provide
"It is important for people who are bilingual to get trained as a medical interpreter," he said, saying that medical interpreting is not as easy as simply translating a language. "If NASA called me tomorrow, I do not know the terminology or how things work and could not interpret for them. We offer certified medical interpreter training to provide that need."
For more information on CAPWN Minority Health Programs at 308-635-3089.
Establishing your own wellness program
Establishing a wellness program at your company doesn't need to be a difficult task. Taking the right steps can mean success for your wellness program.
Martha Stricker, nurse manager with Scotts Bluff County Health, and Terri Allen, wellness consultant with Scotts Bluff County Health, offer advice for getting wellness initiatives started at your workplace.
- Make the case to your administration for a wellness program.
"Ask for buy-in on the senior level," Stricker said. "If you don't have that senior level backing, you aren't going to be successful."
To get that buy-in, make a case for the benefits to the business. Will the program help reduce insurance costs? Will the program help reduce absenteeism and improve productivity? Are their specific goals or needs that your company can work on, such as establishing an injury prevention program? If you need help with materials, the Wellness Council of America offers materials on its website, www.welcoa.org.
- Gather data and individualize your wellness program.
"The little hit and miss programs are great, but try to build an all–encompassing program," Stricker said.
She encourages businesses to reach out to its administration, employees and others to gather information on the needs and wants of a wellness program.
"Wellness doesn't just have to be about urging people to lose weight and get fit," Allen said. "Wellness can encompass a variety of different things, like forming polices to help employees like establishing breastfeeding, family leave, seat belt use and drug use policies."
With input from employees, you can also individualize the plan. Gathering data establishes demographics that can help you tailor your program.
"There is no need to offer free mammograms when you have a business that is mostly made up of 50-year-old males," she said.
- Form a committee.
Stricker urges businesses to form a wellness committee. Committees can keep the events going, such as hosting a health fair where people can get screenings.
They can also help encourage people to participate. At the City of Gering, Human Resources Director Carrie Havranek said, the committee is made up of one person from each department. She said the involvement helps to offer programs that will appeal to everyone, and she has an advocate for activities right in the department.
Committee members can also serve as the cheerleader of the program.
- Think of your wellness program as an investment – in your employees.
"There is no better investment than your employees," Allen said. "Most of us spend the majority of our days at work, spending more time there than we do at home. Everything is always going at such a fast pace that we forget to stop and take care of ourselves."
Wellness programs can help serve as that reminder, through regular activities, reminder newsletters and other work. Employees also notice the effort, the two women said.
"We all want to know our employers care about us on a personal level," Stricker said. "For younger generations, wellness programs are becoming more important. Wellness programs are becoming retention tools for keeping employees and for getting new employees."
- Take advantage of worksite wellness efforts near you.
Scotts Bluff County Public Health and Regional West Community Health have been partnering to offer worksite wellness programs for about ten years after receiving grant funds made available through tobacco settlement dollars. Help is available to businesses to implement their own programs. Over 100 businesses, small and large, participate in worksite wellness programs and 25 businesses participate regularly in monthly meetings that Allen hosts to provide a support network for programs.
Panhandle employers are also now able to take advantage of the newly formed Panhandle Worksite Wellness Council. The council launched this week, and will be coordinated by Jessica Davis, with the Panhandle Public Health District, and Stricker. The program will be able to provide technical assistance and guidance to businesses in the 11 counties of the Panhandle.
Stricker said that employers would be able to receive one-on-one contact, mentoring, information on programs locally.
"We are trying to bring the (state) wellness council to them," she said. "It's a way for Panhandle businesses to be more active without the expense of traveling to Grand Island or farther."
Workshops, annual trainings and other sessions will be available, Stricker said.
A panel on worksite wellness is also slated among the events at the Live Well Nebraska Tour event in Scottsbluff on Aug. 12, starting at 10:30 a.m. at Monument Mall. The event is sponsored by the Omaha World-Herald and Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Nebraska.
Participation in the Panhandle coalition will be done by a simple dues structure and information is available online at www.pphd.org/pwcc. Information is available by calling Davies at 308-487-3600 ext. 101 or Stricker at 308-630-1559.
Panhandle Prevention Coalition calls for change
The Panhandle Prevention Coalition (PPC) launched a comprehensive education campaign in May designed to teach residents about underage drinking and change behaviors that tolerate it.
The campaign, titled "Change Starts With You", will continue through January 2012. Campaign messaging will appear throughout the 11 counties of the Panhandle.
"Our mission is to protect the youth of western Nebraska," said Michelle Peters, PPC member. "Underage drinking is a problem in each of our communities and one that won't go away until people are committed to changing social norms. Through this campaign, we want people to know about the dangers and consequences to buying or providing alcohol to minors."
The grassroots campaign, led by The Panhandle Prevention Coalition, will appear on printed material, as public service announcements on the radio, in community presentations Panhandle-wide, and on social media channels like Twitter and Facebook.
The PPC is targeting parents, young adults and youth in three phases that will include different areas of educational content about Nebraska laws such as social hosting, underage drinking, the use-and-lose law, the DUI zero tolerance law and contributing to minors.
The PPC is a part of the Panhandle Partnership for Health and Human Services and is comprised of local community coalitions and a regional coalition united together by a passion and dedication to healthy and safe people across the lifespan.
PPC efforts include reducing underage drinking, binge drinking and drinking and driving in the Nebraska Panhandle. Together they:
>> Seek policy change at the local and regional levels to reduce youth access to alcohol.
>>Collaborate with law enforcement to facilitate, fund and sustain compliance checks, sobriety checks and beverage server training.
Educate and generate awareness about the dangers of substance abuse and consequences of minors in possession (MIPs) and buying/providing alcohol to minors.
PPC community partners include concerned parents, law enforcement, health care workers, public health, faith communities, social service professionals, community leaders, elected officials, educators, business owners, volunteers and citizens both locally and statewide who seek safe communities for our children and families to live and grow.
For more information or to volunteer, call 308-633-2092.
Diabetics receive blood vessels grown in lab
(AP) — For the first time, scientists have given several diabetic patients blood vessels grown in a lab from donated skin cells.
The work is a key step toward creating a supply of ready-to-use veins and arteries that could be implanted in dialysis patients, soldiers with damaged limbs, children with heart defects, people having heart bypass surgery and others.
The blood vessels are made by a California company, Cytograft Tissue Engineering Inc. Three dialysis patients in Poland have received them so far, and they are working well two to eight months later. A larger study in Europe is planned.
The research is still in the early stages, but it is considered so promising that the American Heart Association featured it Monday in the first of a new series of webcasts about cutting-edge science.
Lead poisoning in adults is down, CDC report says
ATLANTA (AP) — Federal health officials say the lead poisoning rate for U.S. adults has fallen by more than half in the last 15 years, but it remains unusually high in Pennsylvania, Missouri and Kansas.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday said that about 6 out of every 100,000 employed adults had lead poisoning in 2009, down from 14 per 100,000 in 1994.
Lead poisoning in adults is almost always due to at-work exposures. CDC officials say the decline may be tied to a reduction in the number of manufacturing jobs that involve lead, lead paint or lead dust.
The report focuses on adults who have elevated lead levels that are high enough to cause irritability and concentration problems as well as other symptoms.
Quit line calls spike after cigarette
ATLANTA (AP) — Graphic new cigarette warning labels may already be having the desired effect: Calls to a national smoker's quit line more than doubled the day they hit the media.
The warning labels won't appear on cigarettes until next year, but were unveiled to the media last week.
Calls to the national 1-800-QUIT-NOW smoking cessation line surpassed 4,800 that Tuesday and 3,200 the next day. A typical Tuesday or Wednesday in June sees about 2,000 calls.
The new labels replace the traditional small, white "Surgeon General's Warning" text strips with graphic photograph warnings that cover the entire top half of each cigarette pack.
Versions of the new labels include depictions of diseased lungs and rotting teeth and gums. They also carry the 1-800-QUIT-NOW number, which the old labels did not.
Fraternal twins with autism: Is risk in the womb?
CHICAGO (AP) — Most of the risk of autism has been blamed by experts on inherited genes. Now one of the largest studies of twins and autism shifts the focus to the womb, suggesting that the mother's age and health may play a larger role than thought.
The new research doesn't solve the mystery of what causes autism. Most scientists think faulty genes and outside factors are both at work. And since autism spectrum disorders include a wide range of conditions, from mild to severe, it's unlikely there's a single cause for all of them.
Conditions during pregnancy may trigger autism where there's a genetic vulnerability, said Dr. Gary Goldstein of the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore, who was not involved in the new research.
"We've identified lots of vulnerability genes, but not everybody who has them gets autism," Goldstein said.
The new twins study, published Monday by Archives of General Psychiatry, used rigorous methods to diagnose autism spectrum disorders, including direct observation of the children.
Using California health records, it's the largest study to do that and the first to consider a large sample of twins drawn from a general population, said lead author Dr. Joachim Hallmayer of Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif.
Children with autism can have trouble communicating and interacting socially. They may have poor eye contact and engage in repetitive behavior such as rocking or hand-flapping. One in 100 children have autism disorders, according to U.S. government estimates.
The new study included 192 sets of twins where at least one of the twins was affected with autism.
Some of the twins were identical and some were non-identical, or fraternal, twins.
The researchers used DNA testing to determine which twins were identical and which were fraternal. That was important because identical twins come from one fertilized egg and have identical genetic makeups. Fraternal twins, from two fertilized eggs, share no more genetic material than any other siblings.
The new study found, as expected, high rates of shared autism disorders for identical twins: 77 percent of male twin pairs and 50 percent for female pairs had autism in both twins.
Surprisingly, it also found fairly high rates of fraternal twins both having autism spectrum disorders: 31 percent rate for male fraternal twins and 36 percent for female fraternal twins.
Other studies have found 10 to 20 percent of younger siblings of children with autism are likely to be diagnosed themselves with the disorder.
Fraternal twins share the same womb, even though they don't share identical genes. That could be important, said Dr. John Constantino of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, who wasn't involved in the new research.
"Finding so many fraternal twin pairs in whom both twins have autism spectrum disorders is a key finding that puts a spotlight on pregnancy as a time when environmental factors might exert their effects," Constantino said.
Those factors could include stress, diet, infections, a mother's age and medications, experts said. The new study didn't try to determine what factors increase risk.
The study was funded by grants from the National Institute of Mental Health and Autism Speaks, an advocacy group.
In another study published Monday in the same journal, researchers found a higher risk of autism among children born to mothers who took antidepressants during the year before birth, particularly in the first three months of pregnancy.
It's too early to advise pregnant women against antidepressants, however. Untreated depression also can be harmful to mother and baby, said lead author Lisa Croen of the Autism Research Program at Kaiser Permanente, a large health maintenance organization in California.


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Sony Alpha DSLR-A100 review
About 2 year´s back and until today i was really interested in buying an dSLR. I was quite interested Canon 350D, but that camera alway´s seamed (to me) that there was something missing. then i ad a look at Olympus E-500 and 5D. When i finnaly decided for 5D i coulden´t find it anywhere. I got the Finepix s9500 holping it would bring me that dSLR fell. I was wrong. It´s an Excellent camera and i´m keeping it for my backup. But it lack´s wath i like most in dSLR: Speed.
Now i got the A100. And i really must say, THANK GOD I WAITED. This trully is an exepcional camera. I like it better (please don´t hit me about this) than the 30D or the D200. The answer for this is simple. Value for money.
I must agree that both those 2 cameras are better built but the A100 is really feature rich. Noise is low until ISO 800. ISO 1600 really is disapointing, but that would be about 1 % of my pictures, so i can live with it.
Also i really like the in camera IS. I just bought a 10Mpx dSLR with a 18-70 IS and 75-300 IS for 1199 €.
Where do you get that from Canon or Nikon ?
- Thing´s that i really like.
Image quality is Excellent.
The camera is really fast even with kit lenses.
DRO really work´s, you only have to know when to use it.
Simple to operate.
Fast in changing stuff because of the fn dial.
Excellent LCD Screen.
Very good viewfinder.
Wireless flash.
I really notice that it´s more sencible than advertised becasue of the shutter speed´s it give´s me in low light situation´s.
Noise at ISO 800, but not different from D200.
Noise at ISO 1600 is terrible
Jog dial´s should be softer.
My camera wouldnt detect when the flash was up. After a few tries (more like 30) it started working fine.
Kit lenses really don´t retrieve all potencial from the camera.
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RFM Corporation
RFM Corporation (PSE: RFM) is a publicly-listed company and a major player in the food and beverage industry in the Philippines, specifically in the processing and manufacture of flour, flour-based products, milk and juice drinks, canned and processed meats, ice cream, and bottled mineral water. Among its brands are Sunkist, Selecta, Swift, Vitwater and Moo. It also operates non-food businesses, which include barging services (Rizal Lighterage Corporation) and insurance brokerage (RFM Insurance Brokers, Inc.). As of January 25, 2011, RFM has a total market capitalization of P5.4 billion and share price of P1.69.
Company history and development
RFM Corporation was originally incorporated in 1967 as Republic Flour Mills, Inc. to manufacture flour in the Philippines despite wheat not being grown in the Philippines. Its founders include Salvador Araneta, Jose Conception, Sr., BJ Server, Albino SyCip, Zoilo Alberto, Leonardo Eugenio, Francisco Gamboa. The venture proved to be a success despite critics saying it was impossible.
The company eventually diversified into other businesses. In 1963, RFM began manufacturing cooking oil and margarine. Two years later, started manufacturing poultry and hog feeds. In the early 1971, RFM integrated forward into hog and poultry breeding. It entered into a licensing agreement with Peterson Industries and H & N Layers to breed day-old chicks. RFM however divested its interest in hog operations in 1994 and poultry business in 2003 way of property dividends to its shareholders.
In 1973, RFM established the Swift Foods, Inc. and entered into an exclusive licensing agreement with Swift and Company of Illinois to use the brand "Swift" for its canned meat processing business. It was in 1987 that RFM bought the rights for its exclusive use in the Philippines.
At the beginning of the 90s, RFM began a series of acquisition of local companies, and partnerships with foreign companies. It first acquired the Cosmos Bottling Corporation, the maker of Pop Cola brand, from the Wong Family in 1989. A year later, it acquired the Selecta brand from the Arce Family. In 1994, Swift, Selecta, and Cosmos conducted an initial public offering of its shares of stock through the Philippine Stock Exchange.
It also ventured into bakeshop business and food franchising with the acquisition of Rollin Pin trademark and, Dairy Queen and Little Caesar's Pizza brand. Both franchises were under the Asia Food Franchsing Corporation formed by RFM in 1996.
However, despite the massive expansion RFM is undertaking, the Asian Financial Crisis put a stop on it. With a looming bond of USD83 million, RFM was forced to sell Cosmos to San Miguel Corporation. To date, among the branded food products RFM operates are Swift processed chilled and canned meats like hotdogs, vienna sausage, and corned beef, Sunkist Juices, Selecta Milk, Fiesta Pasta Noodles, White King Hot Cake, and Butterfresh Margarine.
Joint venture with Unilever, Philippines
Unilever-RFM Ice Cream Corporation is a joint venture enterprise owned 50%-50% by RFM Corporation and Unilever Philippines Inc. It is engaged in the business of manufacturing, marketing, distributing and selling, importing and exporting of ice cream and similar food products.
Non-food businesses
In 1995, the Company incorporated RFM Properties and Holdings, Inc. to consolidate its real estate assets as well as to break into the land and housing development business. The company was later renamed Philippine Townships, Inc. In 2008, the company was again renamed to Philtown Properties, Inc.
RFM's participation in the banking sector is through its thrift bank Consumer Bank, which was sold to Philippine Bank of Communications during the Asian Financial Crisis.
Other subsidiaries
Aside from the businesses above, RFM also owns 82.98% of Rizal Lighterage Corporation, a barging company that transports food commodities like wheat, soya bean and fishmeal via barges along the Pasig River.
WS Holdings, Inc., a joint-venture between RFM and Unilever, Philippines registered in 1999 to invest in, purchase and own shares of stocks, bonds and other securities of obligations including real estate and personal property of any foreign or domestic corporation, or partnership, or association.
Corporate Social Responsibility
RFM Foundation, Inc. is the social development arm of the RFM Corporation and headed by Joey Conception, Jr. Among its notable projects are Ten Outstanding Students of the Philippines and Go Negosyo.
The Ten Outstanding Students of the Philippines desires to honor students who made excellent academic performances and their contributions to society.
Go Negosyo is the advocacy of the Philippine Center for Entrepreneurship, a non-stock, non-profit organization that advocates poverty alleviation through entrepreneurship. RFM Foundation also donated P2 million for Piso Para sa Kinabukasan headed by ABS-CBN Bayan Foundation, Inc.
Financial condition
For the first nine months of 2010, RFM Corporation posted P523.6 million in net income or 85% growth from P282.1 million for the same period last year. This income performance was attributed to the stream of successful product innovations in its branded businesses, backed by aggressive marketing campaigns. Furthermore, its assets totalled to P9.26 billion and liability only amounted to P2.5 billion.
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Even if I had all the wisdom in the universe, I'd still have to let people make their own mistakes.
Just as I share my experience here, scattering it out into the wind in the hopes that it helps someone, I find myself offering the lessons of my experience to the people I love, often unsolicited. And though I try to offer my guidance without caring if it's accepted and followed, I still become aware that sometimes my help carries hidden expectations.
I want my gestures to be given freely and without strings, and separately, I want to be clear & open about the things I want, so that my help never bears a hidden cost… and so that I give you the most freedom to choose how you respond to my desires.
Bearing in mind my limitations, my human nature, I need to remind myself often that even if I had all the wisdom in the universe, I'd still have to let people make their own mistakes. Knowledge can be transmitted, facts can be recorded, but wisdom — of wisdom, we can only trace rough outlines, point in imprecise direction and hint at its mysteries, because only experience bears the fruit of wisdom.


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S9 Ep12: Fighting for Harlem Land Rights
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This ornate 1892 stock certificate bears the name Harlem Associated Heirs Title Company. It includes a detailed map of New York's Harlem. Who are the Harlem Associated Heirs? And does this stock certificate give them a stake in Harlem real estate? This investigation takes HISTORY DETECTIVES host Gwen Wright to an often forgotten chapter of Harlem's history.


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Nation's aging population booms
Booming counties in the West and Sun Belt that attracted young families in the 1990s are beginning to experience what other parts of the nation have for years: aging.
The 55- to 64-year-old population in some fast-growing suburban counties around cities such as Denver and Atlanta more than doubled from 2000 to 2010, according to 2010 Census data out today.
The surge in older residents is in three distinct clusters, according to demographic profiles released so far on 37 states and the District of Columbia:
•Boomer magnets. Americans who flocked to thriving areas for jobs and cheaper housing when they were in their 40s now are well into their 50s or even early 60s.
INTERACTIVE:Your state and local Census numbers
STORY:30% in U.S. have never married
If they stay put in their old days, the median age will climb unless the areas continue to attract young people and families with children.
"Migration either in or out at working age is one powerful mechanism causing these changes," says Peter Morrison, a retired RAND Corp. demographer who is now a consultant.
•Exodus of young people. Counties in the Midwest and New England are showing the largest increases in median age (half younger, half older). Many are in economically depressed areas that offer few job opportunities for the young, prompting them to leave after graduation and raise their kids elsewhere.
The median age in Decatur County, in rural northwestern Kansas, jumped from 44.3 in 2000 to 51.4 in 2010.
Aging of America
Data cover 37 states and Washington. Percentage change, 2000-10
Analysis of Census data by Paul Overberg, USA TODAY
•Retirement spots. Counties in states that offer mild weather, recreation, natural beauty or a low cost of living have lured retirees and pushed up the median age.
The median age in Leelanau County, in scenic northern Michigan, rose from 42.6 to 50.3. In Colorado's Teller County, outside Colorado Springs, it jumped from 39.4 to 47.
Areas attractive to older Baby Boomers — retired or near retirement — can be spotted around Albuquerque, Las Vegas, Minneapolis, Phoenix, Seattle, in much of central Colorado and scattered across Georgia and South Carolina, Morrison says.
"Old and increasingly old counties tend to be non-metropolitan counties in both the Snow Belt and Sun Belt states," says William Frey, demographer at the Brookings Institution, a think tank. "Slower-growing, whiter states tend to show highest ages and biggest gains in median ages."
Florida still has the highest share of people over 65 (17%), but the median age dropped in the state's Pasco and Hernando counties. "Those were both previously … substantially retirement counties," says Stanley Smith, of the Bureau of Economic and Business Research at the University of Florida. "It's a surprising decline due to a spillover effect. They've become suburban counties (of St. Petersburg)."
Despite increased life expectancy and the first of 77 million Baby Boomers turning 65 this year, the nation's aging slowed the last decade, largely offset by an influx of young immigrants with higher birth rates.
When the Census releases age details on the 13 remaining states next week, the U.S. median age is expected to be below 37, an increase of about 1.5 years since 2000. The median age rose 2.5 years in the 1990s and 2.8 in the '80s.
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This cup is signed Albert which we feel is Albert Bronsillion due to the style of the beautiful roses. He has added a wonderful pink rose and bud to one of the cup using various shades of pink and white. Adding raised white enamel to the petals he gave the roses a true depth and realistic look. Around the roses he has a light green and yellow background with green leaves and brown and green stems nestled around the flowers. On the other sided of the cup is a small group of green leaves on the white background. The inside of the cup has a pinkish beige band on the upper rim with a stem of green leaves on the with background. The saucer has the same white background, green leaves and pinkish beige band. Both pieces have been trimmed in gold. Artist A. Bronsillion is a listed and featured French artist in many of the leading publications regarding collecting antique hand painted Limoges porcelain art. Other examples of his work can be found in, "Collector's Encyclopedia of Limoges Porcelain, First Edition," by Mary Frank Gaston, also in Debby DuBay's, "Living With Limoges,". There are no chips, cracks, or crazing, manufacturing anomalies do exist, the occasional tiny iron speck, dust 'bump' in the glaze, etc.
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My daughter was first sued in the womb. It was all very new then. I'd posted ultrasound scans online for friends and family. I didn't know the scans had steganographic thumbprints. A giant electronics company that made ultrasound machines acquired a speculative law firm for many tens of millions of dollars. The new legal division cut a deal with all five Big Socials to dig out contact information for anyone who'd posted pictures of their babies in-utero. It turns out the ultrasounds had no clear rights story; I didn't actually own mine. It sounds stupid now but we didn't know. The first backsuits named millions of people, and the Big Socials just caved, ripped up their privacy policies in exchange for a cut. So five months after I posted the ultrasounds, one month before my daughter was born, we received a letter (back then a paper letter) naming myself, my wife, and one or more unidentified fetal defendants in a suit. We faced, I learned, unspecified penalties for copyright violation and theft of trade secrets, and risked, it was implied, that my daughter would be born bankrupt.Nanolaw with Daughter (Thanks, Kevin!)
But for $50.00 and processing fees the ultrasound shots I'd posted (copies attached) were mine forever, as long as I didn't republish without permission.
(Image: Ultrasound Week 21 09-2, a Creative Commons Attribution (2.0) image from abbybatchelder's photostream)


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What if there is more to the estate than the 30K limit on small estates? My grandfather verbally stated something different to me just weeks prior to his passing on what to expect. Should I blindly trust his appointed administrator?
You have to ask yourself -- what motive would the personal representative (PR) have to not list some of the assets of your grandfather as probate assets? Often, this means that the bank accounts that you thought were just titled to the deceased person, were in fact jointly titled to the deceased person AND to the personal representative. If that is the case, then all those accounts now belong only to the PR. Grandfather's mind may have grwon dim near death, and he may have forgotten that he titled those accounts jointly with whomever. It could even be that he never intended or understood that the way he titled those accounts would result in the whole thing going to the joint owner at his death. But for you to prove in court that the PR twisted grandpa's arm and used "undue influence" to force or trick him into titling those accounts in joint names is a VERY difficlut and expensive thing to so. I suggest asking the PR if he or she will just tell you whether that "missing money" was actually in jointly titled accoounts with the PR. If he or she says NO, then maybe you can share any information you have with him/her so that the PR can track down any truly "missing" money. If the PR refuses to talk with you about this, you can alwayts challenge the Account (not the Inventory) filed by the PR by filing an Exception or Opposition to the Account, and then you can conduct "discovery" -- where you are permited to ask the PR questions in writing to which she must provide written answers, and also to request documents. You will need an attorney if you want to accomplish anything that way.See question
my brother informed myself and two other sisters that money is getting tight for him and he was going to take part of the 10%fee from the estate.Even though the estate is no where near being settled
There is no such thing as a standard 10% fee for anyone in a probate estate. If the personal representative wants to take a commission for his work in administering the estate, he either must have the signed consent of all legatees, or he must petition the orphans court in writing to allow him a commission. In either event, his maximum allowable commission will be slightly less than 4% of the gross Inventory assets. You may wish to hire an attormey to look into the administration of this estate for you to see if it appears that it is being administered properly.See question
A friend's mother gave him POA several years ago. She is now incapacitated to the point of being non responsive, intubated and clearly unable to communicate. There is some danger to her from the spouse. Does the POA that my friend has give him ...
It's not clear form your question whether yur frined (the son) was given a health care power of attorney or just a financial power of attorney, or both. If this lady gave anyone a health care power of attorney in an advanced helath care directive or living Will, that is th eperson who has the authority to make health care decisions. If no one was gicen this power, then the dpctors would probaly look ot the the living spous,if competent and in a non-estranged, ongoing marriage realationship. In any event, where there is no advanced health care directive, the doctors would likeley consult with both the children and the spouse, AND use their own discretion, as they are not eager to be sued or accused by anyone of having made an innappropriate or hasty end-of-life decision.See question
Where can I notarize a power of attorney?
If you are the person granting the power of attorney, I hope you had the assistance of an attorney in doing so. If so, I am sure that attorney's office can provide the requisite notarization. If you did not have an attorney draft this up for you, I strongly suggest you have an attorney review it before you sign it, to make sure it does all that you want it to do, no more, and no less. If, on the other hand, you are the attorney-in-fact ( the person to hwom the power of attorney is given) than you cannot lawfully get it notarized all by yourslef, because the notary must attest to the signature of the person granting the power of attorney having been made in the notary's presence.See question
The relative died a couple of years ago and I was not told until the money was distributed. The property was recently sold what can I do to find out if money was left for me?
If the deceased relative left a Will, and it has been probated, you can go tot Register of Wills office in the Maryland County where the deceased person lived and died, and look at the Will itslef and at all documents filed with the Register Wills about this estate. You don't say how you are related to the deceased person, but are you so out-of relationship with the other heirsof the perosn who died, that you cannot call one of them and ask what is heappening?See question
I just wnat to know if I file a QDRO TO THE COURT TO GIVE MY ex-husband part of my retirement savings. who is the defendant me or my ex-husband?
If you have a written agreement that references the "defendant" and the "plaintiff" with regard to whose duty it is the draft and submit QDROs, you need to either ask the attorney who wrote this agreement for you, or if you have signed an agreement NOT wiritten by an attorney, you should consult one right away to find out what you have really obligated yourself to do. if you are thinking of signing am agreement that includes division of retirment benefots suich as 401k, by all means protect yourself by consulting an experienec family law attorney. This is an area of law where it is easy to make mistakes on your own that can end up costing you lost of money.In any lawsuit, including for a divorce, there is a plaintiff ( the one who starts the suit with a "Complainit") and a defendant ( the one who is sued, and files and "Answer".) if neither of you has filed suit yet, then there is yet no plantiff and no defendant.See question
But was told by friends not to do so,as this will be a disadvantage to me,since more custody time will be in his favor.By him serving me papers or asking me to move is the best solution(so I'm told),but I cannot let my kids and me experience a lif...
Tom Mulinazzi gives you good information in his answer to your question. As a matter of general information and NOT legal advice, I would add emphasis to his point that a co-parent/spouse loses nothing in the way of parental rights, court favor, credibility, or property rights, by being the one who moves out of the marital home, or who is the first to file/serve custody or divorce suit papers on tghe other. Generally, it is also important to figure out where you are going to stay or live, at least for a few months, before you take the kids and move out, but I am sure you have thought about that.See question
How do I find out if he has estate to claim? How much does it coast to get this information. Were do I go to. thank you
Search on http://registers.maryland.gov/main/search.html to see if any one has opened an estate in his name. if so, the file is a public record and you can go look at the whole thing, and see what has been done. Any child of yoru father can apply to be the personal Representative if any estate has not yet been opened. if the girflrien dof 30 years holds all the informaiton and bank account reords AND she has aksed the family to "sign over" the estate, there must be something in Dad's name that would be a probate estate asset. Consult with an attorney about getting this information form the girlfriend or another source. Unless dad left his estate to the girlfriend in a valid Will , she has no right to inheort under Maryland law.See question
My grandfather's son and wife moved in to take care of my grandfather who died within 24 hours of being in the son's care. No lease was ever signed. Uncle and wife are living in the house and hasn't paid rent; doesn't want to pay taxes or mainta...
Power of attorney has nothing to do with it, now that Grandfather is dead. The Personal Representative should consult an attorney about evicting the family member now living there for free, or possibly arrange for a lease. An attorney would also help the Personal Representative to get this estate in order and bring it to closure more efficiently. That was also my suggestion here maybe 2 weeks ago.See question
Once you have served your spouse and filed your request, how long does it take to get a hearing scheduled? And how long after the hearing does it take for the final court or decree?
It all depends on the county where you file. Som counties can be 2 months before a hearing. Others only a few weeks. If both parties sign a 10 day waiver form, the court order may issue within a few days after the hearing. It is then a final order, but subject to motion to amend or appeal by either party for the next 30 days.See question


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- Robin Thicke, who is dumber than I initially thought, said his performance with Miley Cyrus at the VMAs "wasn't sexually charged at all." [Just Jared via Star ]
- Oof: there's video of that paparazzo careening into Nicole Kidman on his bicycle outside a hotel yesterday. That looks scary. [TMZ]
- Rumor has it Katie Couric might cancel her talk show and replace join "The View." [New York Daily News]
- Prince William has left the British military to focus full-time on charity work and slowing the effects of male-pattern baldness. [New York Times]
- Sara Gilbert from "Roseanne" has opened up about how her ex-boyfriend Johnny Galecki helped her realize she was a lesbian. [Daily Mail UK]
- On the fifth anniversary of author David Foster Wallace's death, here are 30 free essays and stories by him. [Open Culture]
- Jake Gyllenhaal calls gay rumors a "huge compliment." [Eonline]
- "Twilight" director Catherine Hardwicke will produce and direct a drama called "Eye Candy" for MTV about an young woman who is a tech genius. [The Wrap]
- Supermodel Gisele Bundchen joined a book club with other moms in suburban Boston, where she lives with hubby Tom Brady. [Celebitchy]
- "Teen Mom" Jenelle Evans explained her boyfriend got arrested for a DUI for weaving through traffic because the couple was rushing home to have sex. [US Weekly]
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The following questions and answers reflect preliminary guidance on areas of the Commissioner's Regulations that were amended to conform to IDEA 2004. This guidance is subject to revision based on the final federal regulations and guidance.
Child find requirements
Alternative Means of Meeting Participation
Evaluations and Reevaluations
Learning disabilities
Individualized education programs
Parent consent
Procedural safeguards notice
Due process complaint notice
Resolution session
Impartial hearings
Discipline procedures for students with disabilities
1. What steps must a school district take to fulfill its child find obligations for students with disabilities who are homeless?
At a minimum, school districts should identify the homeless shelters located in their school districts. The school district liaison for homeless youth has a role to assist homeless youth who are suspected of having a disability in coordination with the CSE.
2. If a child is living with foster parents, must the CSE or CPSE invite the foster parents or the birth or adoptive parents or both to the CSE meeting?
The party who is the parent must be invited to a meeting of the CSE. The birth or adoptive parent is always presumed to be the parent unless his or her rights have been terminated or subrogated by a judge. Even if the foster parent is not acting as the parent, the foster parent is an individual with knowledge of the student's needs and should be considered a participant in the CSE or CPSE meeting. However, school personnel should be aware of any confidentiality concerns between foster and birth and adoptive parents in determining who must or should participate in the meeting.
3. Can a representative of an agency (such as a group home or child care institution) serve as a surrogate parent for a child under the care or education of that agency?
4. When the parent and the school district agree to use alternative means of meeting participation (e.g., video conferences or conference calls), must the agreement be in writing?
It is recommended that the school district/agency document that the parent agreed to use alternative means of meeting participation for the CSE or CPSE meeting.
5. Do the amendments relating to the frequency of reevaluations affect a parent's right to obtain an independent educational evaluation (IEE) and request that the IEE be at public expense?
There have been no amendments relating to the parent's right to obtain an IEE.
6. Can a school district consolidate a CSE or CPSE meeting to review the results of the reevaluation with the annual review meeting if the annual review meeting is not scheduled to occur for several months after the reevaluation is completed?
In making a determination to consolidate a reevaluation with an annual review meeting, the CSE or CPSE must consider the proximity of the two meetings to the date when the reevaluation is completed. The CSE must conduct a timely review of the results of the reevaluation to consider necessary changes to a student's eligibility and IEP. A review of reevaluation information should not be delayed in order to consolidate it with an annual review meeting that is, for example, scheduled to occur months from the date the reevaluation is completed. The CSE could, however, decide to consolidate the meetings by conducting the annual review earlier, i.e., upon completion of the reevaluation.
7. Is a classroom-based observation a requirement for a reevaluation?
An initial evaluation requires an observation of the student in the current educational placement. The CSE and other qualified staff may determine that a classroom-based observation should be a component of the student's reevaluation.
8. Can the school district delay admitting a student with a disability who transfers from another school district outside the State or within the State while it arranges for the CSE/CPSE meeting?
No. The student must be admitted to school and provided IEP services comparable to those on the student's previous IEP, unless the school district and parent agree otherwise.
9. Have the timelines for completing a reevaluation been changed?
10. How does the 60-calendar day timeline to complete the initial evaluation and eligibility determination for a school age student affect the 60 school day timeline for IEP implementation?
The CSE must complete the initial evaluation and conduct the meeting to determine a school-age student's eligibility for special education within 60 calendar days of receipt of the parent's consent for the initial evaluation. The school district must ensure that the programs and services are provided to the student not later than 60 school days of receipt of consent for the initial evaluation, or as otherwise allowed in regulation. However, federal regulations require that the IEP of a student be implemented as soon as possible following the meeting to determine eligibility and develop the IEP for the student.
11. Does the 60-calendar day timeline to complete the initial evaluation and eligibility determination apply to preschool students?
No. State law and regulations require the CPSE to provide a recommendation to the board of education within 30 school days of the date of the receipt of consent.
12. Can a school district use more than one criterion (e.g., a response-to-intervention process and a discrepancy criteria) to determine if a student has a learning disability?
The regulations would not preclude a school district from applying more than one criterion for the determination of whether a student has a learning disability. However, school districts should consider the research basis for using discrepancy criteria in relation to particular learning disabilities. Under adoption of final federal regulations, the State will develop criteria for the determination of learning disabilities.
13. How would use of a response-to-intervention criterion affect the 60-calendar day timeline to complete the initial evaluation and eligibility determination?
Until further guidance is available based on the final federal regulations, school districts should ensure that the initial evaluations of students suspected of having a learning disability are completed within the 60 calendar-day time period. If a school uses a response to intervention criterion as part of its evaluation process, it may use the procedures in section 200.4(a) of the Commissioner's Regulations to discuss the referral with the parent to provide additional time for the determination of whether the student is responding to research-based instruction.
14. What is meant by "measurable annual goals on the IEP?"
Annual goals are statements that identify what knowledge, skills and/or behaviors a student is expected to be able to demonstrate within the period of time beginning with the time the IEP is implemented until the next scheduled review. Annual goals must be identified that meet the student's needs, as identified in the present levels of performance. To be measurable, an annual goal should describe the skill, behavior or knowledge the student will demonstrate and the extent to which it will be demonstrated. Terms such as "will improve…," "will increase…." and "will decrease…." are not specific enough to describe what it is the student is expected to be able to do in one year. To be measurable, a behavior must be observable or able to be counted.
15. If the CSE does not determine if a student is eligible to take NYSAA until the year before the State assessment period, what process should be used to determine which students must have short-term instructional objectives and benchmarks on their IEPs?
The determination of whether a student is a student eligible to take NYSAA should be based on whether the student would meet the criteria as a student with a severe disability. The determination should not be delayed until the annual review before the student is scheduled to take the State assessment. The CSE determines whether or not a student with a disability is eligible to take NYSAA based on the following criteria:
· The student has a severe cognitive disability, significant deficits in communication/language, or significant deficits in adaptive behavior;
· The student requires a highly specialized educational program that facilitates the acquisition, application, and transfer of skills across natural environments (home, school, community, and/or workplace); and
· The student requires educational support systems, such as assistive technology, personal care services, health/medical services, or behavioral intervention.
16. If the IEP includes short-term instructional objectives and benchmarks, must the IEP specify the evaluative criteria, evaluation procedures and evaluation schedules for each short-term instructional objective and benchmark as well as for the annual goals?
No. Only the annual goals require the description of how the student's progress toward the annual goals will be measured.
17. If the IEP includes short-term instructional objectives and benchmarks, can these be used to specify how the annual goal is measurable?
No. The annual goal itself must be written in measurable terms. Short-term instructional objectives and benchmarks indicate those measurable intermediate steps between the student's present level of performance and the measurable annual goal.
18. Can the school district include short-term instructional objectives and benchmarks on the IEPs of other students besides those required by regulation?
Yes. However, the school district must establish and consistently apply criteria for determining which students will have short-term instructional objectives and benchmarks included on their IEPs.
19. Can a school district determine what testing accommodations will be allowed on districtwide assessments?
Yes. Section 200.2 requires a school district to describe the guidelines for the provision of appropriate accommodations necessary to measure the academic achievement and functional performance of the student in the administration of districtwide assessments.
20. If transition services must be in effect no later than beginning with the IEP when the student is age 15, when must the CSE begin the planning process for post secondary goals and transition services?
Transition services must be identified on the IEP that is developed at the annual review before the student turns age 15 (e.g., when the student is age 14) so that services begin with the IEP that will be in effect when the student is age 15.
21. Does the requirement for "measurable post-secondary goals" replace the previous requirement for "projected post-school outcomes"?
Yes. Measurable post-secondary goals identify the student's long-term goals for living, working and learning as an adult. The IEP must also include measurable annual goals to help the student incrementally develop skills, knowledge, experiences and contacts with resources, as needed, to work toward these desired post-secondary goals.
22. What is meant by the requirement that the special education programs and services recommended on the IEP be based, to the extent practicable, on peer-reviewed research?
Consistent with the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), schools should be providing research-based instruction to all students, including students with disabilities. When making recommendations for a special education program or service, the CSE must consider, to the extent practicable, whether these services or programs meet the standard of peer-reviewed research. Consistent with NCLB's definition of scientifically-based research, peer reviewed research is intended to mean research that has been accepted by a peer-reviewed journal or approved by a panel of independent experts through a comparably rigorous, objective, and scientific review.
23. May a school district use due process procedures if the parent does not provide consent for the initial evaluation of the student?
Yes. If a parent does not provide consent for an initial evaluation, the school district may pursue the evaluation by means of a due process procedure, including mediation or an impartial hearing.
24. May the school district use due process procedures if the parent does not provide consent for the initial provision of special education services to the student?
No. If, after being informed about the student's need for special education based on the individual evaluation, a parent refuses or fails to respond to a request for the initial provision of special education services to their child, the school district may not provide the special education services and may not initiate mediation or an impartial hearing to override the parent's refusal of consent. The school district may take steps to meet with the parent to explain the needs of the student to ensure the parent is making a fully informed decision.
In the event that consent is not received because the parent failed to respond, the school district must ensure that it has taken reasonable steps to locate the parent to ensure the parent has received the request for consent and has appointed a surrogate parent, if appropriate, for the student when the birth or adoptive parent cannot be located.
25. Can a parent withdraw his or her consent for special education services after the student has been receiving services?
No. The time period for a parent's withdrawal of consent for the initial provision of services ends once the special education programs and services have been initiated (i.e., are being provided) for a school age student. A parent who wishes to discontinue special education programs and services for his or her child should request declassification through the CSE process or pursue mediation or an impartial hearing.
26. If the student is a ward of the State or a homeless youth and the parents cannot be located, can the CSE proceed with an initial evaluation without parental consent?
If a student is a ward of the State or an unaccompanied homeless youth, the school district must first determine who is legally eligible to act as the parent for purposes of special education. If appropriate, the school district must appoint a surrogate parent for a student who is a ward of the State. The surrogate parent would then be the individual who would provide consent for the initial evaluation.
27. If a school district posts the procedural safeguards notice on its web site, is that sufficient to claim that the parent has been given a copy of the notice?
No. Posting the procedural safeguards notice on the school district's web site is recommended as it would allow any parent to review the notice by viewing the district's internet web site. However, the school district must also provide a copy of the notice to the parent as required in the regulations. The parent may elect to receive the procedural safeguards notice through an electronic (e-mail) communication if the school district makes such an option available.
28. Is the school district obligated to assist the parent in completing the due process complaint notice?
The school district should provide information and assistance to the parent to ensure the parent understands how to submit the due process complaint notice. Regulations require the school district to provide parents with sources for parents to contact to obtain assistance in understanding the special education process and their rights and protections.
29. What is the difference between mediation and a resolution session?
In the mediation process, the parent and the representative from the school district meet with a trained mediator from the Community Dispute Resolution Center who will facilitate a problem-solving process between the parent and the school. In a resolution session, the school and the parent have the opportunity to resolve the problem through a meeting with school personnel, including relevant members of the CSE or CPSE as determined by the school and the parent. Both mediation and resolution session agreements are legally binding and enforceable in court.
30. Who determines what members of the CSE or CPSE would participate in a resolution session?
Consistent with proposed federal regulations, the relevant members who could be instrumental in providing information to resolve the dispute should include all such members as determined both by the parent and by the school district.
31. If a parent brings his or her attorney to a resolution session, would the attorney's fees be considered for reimbursement if the parent prevails in a subsequent impartial hearing?
32. Can a parent bring an advocate to a resolution session?
33. Must the parent notify the school district in advance if he or she plans to bring his or her attorney to the resolution session?
Yes. Since the federal law allows the school district to bring an attorney to the meeting only if the parent is bringing his or her attorney, it is expected that the parent inform the school district a reasonable period of time before the meeting when the parent intends to bring his or her attorney to a resolution session. The school district should specify this in the notice to the parent of the resolution session.
34. What happens if a parent refuses to participate in a resolution session?
Federal law requires the school district to convene a resolution session before initiating an impartial hearing. Consistent with proposed federal regulations, except where the parties have jointly agreed to waive the resolution process, or to use mediation, or resolution has not been reached within the 30-day resolution period, the failure of a parent to participate in the resolution meeting will delay the timelines for the resolution process and due process hearing until the meeting is held.
35. If the IHO determines a due process complaint notice is not sufficient, can the parent amend the notice and resubmit it?
No. If a due process complaint notice is deemed insufficient by the IHO, the party initiating the notice must submit a new due process complaint notice and the timelines recommence.
36. Must a new IHO be appointed if the parent submits a new due process complaint notice after a finding that the first notice was insufficient?
37. Must a new IHO be appointed if the first due process complaint notice was sufficient but the notice is later amended by agreement of the parties or by the IHO?
38. At a manifestation team meeting, is the burden on the parent to prove that his or her child's behavior is a manifestation of the student's disability?
No. State regulations make it clear that a team makes the determination of a manifestation. The determination must be made based upon a review of the student's IEP, any teacher observations and any relevant information provided by the parents.
39. May the CSE continue to function as the manifestation team?
Yes. The school district and parent may determine that all members of the CSE or CPSE are relevant members that must participate in the manifestation determination.
40. How have the requirements for services in an IAES been changed?
Prior to IDEA 2004, the student's current IEP had to be implemented in an IAES. IDEA 2004 requires the student to receive services to continue to participate in the general education curriculum and to progress toward meeting the goals set out in the IEP, but does not require that such services include all the recommended programs and services on the student's current IEP.


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