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Because NICHCY's website will only remain online until September 30, 2014, most of its rich content has moved to a new home, the Center for Parent Information and Resources (CPIR), where it can be kept up to date.
The new address of IDEA–the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act at the CPIR is:
November 2012
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IDEA was originally enacted by Congress in 1975 to ensure that children with disabilities have the opportunity to receive a free appropriate public education, just like other children. The law has been revised many times over the years.
The most recent amendments were passed by Congress in December 2004, with final regulations published in August 2006 (Part B for school-aged children) and in September 2011 (Part C, for babies and toddlers). So, in one sense, the law is very new, even as it has a long, detailed, and powerful history.
NICHCY's website is full of information about IDEA. We are pleased to connect you with:
- Summaries of IDEA's requirements, which shape what school systems do;
- IDEA itself—to read IDEA's exact words, you can either download a copy of the law and its regulations, or read them here online;
- Guidance on IDEA from the Office of Special Education Programs at the U.S. Department of Education;
- Legal analysis that's appeared in law journals;
- Training materials on IDEA that you can use to fully inform yourself and others; and
- 20 indicators by which the Office of Special Education Programs measures States' implementation of IDEA.
Use the links above to find the type of information you're looking for on IDEA. It's a great law! Complicated, to be sure, but well worth understanding and implementing.
Summaries of IDEA
If you're looking for summaries of what the law requires (rather than its word-for-word statute or regulations), let us point you to two other major sections of our website:
Services for babies and toddlers to the third birthday (Part C of IDEA):
Services for school-aged children, including preschoolers (Part B of IDEA):
Our A-Z Topics listing is also a handy, quick way to find summaries of specific topics within IDEA, such as evaluation of children, parent consent, and what's included in an IEP.
Exact Words of IDEA Itself
To read IDEA's verbatim language can be a big help in understanding why local practices in schools and early childhood settings are as they are. Here is the place to connect with that language. Use the links below to explore the actual words of our nation's special education law.
Get a Copy of IDEA
Does your desk need a full copy of IDEA or its implementing regulations? Here's where!
Part C of IDEA: Early Intervention for Babies and Toddlers
Under IDEA Part C, infants and toddlers with disabilities (birth-3) and their families receive early intervention services.
Part B of IDEA: Services for School-Aged Children
Children and youth (ages 3-22) receive special education and related services under Part B of IDEA. Find out all about this extremely critical part of the law.
Guidance on IDEA from the U.S. Department of Education
The Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) at the U.S. Department of Education regularly provides guidance to the field on IDEA. All are intended to clarify elements of the law and its regulations, and are an important part of understanding IDEA and how to implement it. To connect with this federal guidance, visit:
Legal Analysis in Law Journals
This section of NICHCY website is devoted to bringing you full-length articles on special education and disability law. Here, you'll find legal articles on IDEA, Section 504, state laws, and other topics.
Training Materials on IDEA
If you're a trainer or advocate who'd like to tell others about IDEA, or find materials to become fully informed yourself—including all those pesky little details—then visit NICHCY's training curriculum on IDEA 2004. It's divided into 2 parts:
Training materials for Part B (school-aged children)
Building the Legacy / Construyendo el Legado for Part B gives you 19 training modules in English and 8 in Spanish covering the major topics for school-aged children within IDEA 2004. Materials for each module include: a slideshow presentation, handouts for participants, and detailed background text, plus supplemental resources for trainers. You can use these materials to inform yourself or to train others.
Home page for Building the Legacy / Construyendo el Legado: A Training Curriculum on Part B of IDEA 2004
Training materials for Part C (Babies and toddlers to the 3rd birthday)
The U.S. Department of Education has asked NICHCY to create a training curriculum based on the final Part C regulations released in September 2011. Read all about what the full curriculum will contain, when completed. We are currently hard at work on the task. To date, the first module, the Basics of Early Intervention, is available. Other modules (hopefully) will follow soon!
OSEP's Part B Indicators
The Part B indicators are one of the ways in which States measure and report their performance in educating students with disabilities. The Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) has identified these 20 indicators to guide SEAs in their implementation of IDEA and in how they report their progress and performance to OSEP itself. This, in turn, now allows OSEP to report concrete data back to Congress and to monitor and supervise State implementation in specific areas. The indicators are:
Indicator 1: Graduation Rates |
Percent of youth with individualized education programs (IEPs) graduating from high school with a regular diploma compared to percent of all youth in the State graduating with a regular diploma.
Indicator 2: Drop out Rates |
Percent of youth with IEPs dropping out of high school compared to the percent of all youth in the State dropping out of high school.
Indicator 3: Participation and Performance on Statewide Assessments|
Participation and performance of children with disabilities on statewide assessments.
Indicator 4: Suspensions and Expulsions |
Rates of suspension and expulsion
Indicator 5: Participation/Time in General Education Settings(LRE) |
Percent of children with IEPs aged 6 through 21:
A. Removed from regular class less than 21% of the day;
B. Removed from regular class greater than 60% of the day; or
C. Served in public or private separate schools, residential placements, or homebound or hospital placements.
Indicator 6: Preschool Children in General Education Settings (Pre-School LRE) |
Percent of preschool children with IEPs who received special education and related services in settings with typically developing peers (e.g., early childhood settings, home, and part-time early childhood/part-time early childhood special education settings).
Indicator 7: Preschool Children with Improved Outcomes |
Percent of preschool children with IEPs who demonstrate improved:
A. Positive social-emotional skills (including social relationships);
B. Acquisition and use of knowledge and skills (including early language/communication and early literacy); and
C. Use of appropriate behaviors to meet their needs.
Indicator 8: Parental Involvement |
Percent of parents with a child receiving special education services who report that schools facilitated parent involvement as a means of improving services and results for children with disabilities.
Indicator 9: Disproportionate Representation in Special Education that is the Result of Inappropriate Identification|
Percent of districts with disproportionate representation of racial and ethnic groups in special education and related services that is the result of inappropriate identification.
Indicator 10: Disproportionate Representation in Specific Disability Categories |
Percent of districts with disproportionate representation of racial and ethnic groups in specific disability categories that is the result of inappropriate identification.
Indicator 11: Timeframe Between Evaluation and Identification (Child Find) |
Percent of children with parental consent to evaluate who were evaluated and eligibility determined within 60 days (or State established timeframe).
Indicator 12: Transition Between Part C and Part B |
Percent of children referred by Part C prior to age 3 and who are found eligible for Part B who have an IEP developed and implemented by their third birthdays.
Indicator 13: Post School Transition Goals in IEP |
Percent of youth aged 16 and above with an IEP that includes coordinated, measurable, annual IEP goals and transition services that will reasonably enable the child to meet the post-secondary goals.
Indicator 14: Participation in Postsecondary Settings One Year After Graduation |
Percent of youth who had IEPs, are no longer in secondary school and who have been competitively employed, enrolled in some type of postsecondary school, or both, within one year of leaving high school.
Indicator 15: Timely Correction of Noncompliance |
General supervision system (including monitoring, complaints, hearings, etc.) identifies and corrects noncompliance as soon as possible but in no case later than one year from identification.
Indicator 16: Resolution of Written Complaints |
Percent of signed written complaints with reports issued that were resolved within the 60-day timeline, including a timeline extended for exceptional circumstances with respect to a particular complaint.
Indicator 17: Due Process Timelines |
Percent of fully adjudicated due process hearing requests that were fully adjudicated within the 45-day timeline or a timeline that is properly extended by the hearing officer at the request of either party.
Indicator 18: Hearing Requests Resolved by Resolution Sessions |
Percent of hearing requests that went to resolution sessions that were resolved through resolution session settlement agreements.
Indicator 19: Mediations Resulting in Mediation Agreements |
Percent of mediations held that resulted in mediation agreements.
Indicator 20: Timeliness and Accuracy of State Reported Data |
State reported data (618 and State Performance Plan and Annual Performance Report) are timely and accurate.


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Remember that old adage "it takes half the time you were together to get over a breakup"? I do. I also think it's a pile of horse poo.
Now let me be clear here: I'm in the middle of a divorce and have absolutely no intention of dating for a good long while. I'm enjoying having some time alone, time I can spend rediscovering myself and learning who I am now. After nine years of marriage, I have a lot of rediscovering to do.
But I still don't think it's going to take me five years to date again. Even though I am a single parent.
I know the idea of dating a mom who has three wonderful bouncing babies (although they'd murder me with a pickax if I dared call them "babies" to their faces) can be off-putting to a lot of guys. I get that - kids come with an extra layer of complexity and can be a bit messy. But frankly, I consider anyone who doesn't think my kids are awesome unworthy of my time.
When I do begin to date again, I will make one thing crystal clear: my kids don't need a father. They have a wonderful father, which means that I'm not looking for a male role model for my children. I'm not looking for a "just add water" insta-family, and any man who wants one is better off looking somewhere else.
I've thought a lot about how I'd introduce a new man to my children, and I've come up with a few ground rules.
The kids won't meet anyone I'm seeing until it's actually serious because I have no desire for them to get attached to someone who doesn't plan to stick around.
I'll also not allow my guy to sleep over when I have the kids staying with me, and not just because I have a one-bedroom apartment. The time I have with my children is sacred to me and I don't want any "stranger" or new guy to get in the way of that. Plus, it makes me feel icky just thinking about it.
I'll be sure to explain my situation to a new partner early on in the relationship. I have nothing to hide and nothing to gain from pretending to be someone I'm not, and anyone who is worth my time will appreciate me as I am.
The most important thing I can do as a dating mom is to make sure my children know they're my No. 1 priority. It's what's most vital for me ... and my kids.
How have you handled dating after divorce? Any tips and tricks for a dating mom?
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I'd be more worried about explaining the breakup. Their dad is in their life forever but your new man might not be, particularly if you're so sure you don't want him to be any kind of father figure. Somehow you need to prepare them for that because they're going to bond with him in some fashion.
There isn't one. Raise your kids - they don't need you giving up the time you have w/them for some dude.
Plus, chances are greater that a 2nd marriage ends in divorce - so give them a new daddy, make another baby or two, divorce that guy, all your kids go off on various weekends to their different daddies - who probably also have other kids w/other mommies - makes for a very chaotic and unhappy household.
OR... see him at first on the weekends that you don't have the kids around. And with the wonderful world of computers and cellphones, you can still privately maintain contact with him during your 'kid time' - after they've gone to bed, for example.
Depending on the age of your children, and how you've raised them, they'll understand when you explain to them that Mommy gets some time alone with HER friends, too... that children are not the only ones who get to have friends over and have special time with their friends.
The balance to maintain, in my opinion, is to ensure that you are not depriving your children of you. If you and your husband were still together, would you sacrifice your relationship with him to give ALL of your waking time to your children? No! You'd likely have 'Date Nights' with him, you'd have your own time together after the kids are in bed, etc. Then why shouldn't a divorced mother do that? Why should she have to sacrifice her own time, give up her adult relationships? It's possible to have adult relationships and still be an excellent, available, and loving parent.
Ponychaser, the voice of reason once again :-)
Venae--once again the voice of idiocy. Are you saying a mother should never again date or have a social life until her children are grown and out of the house? Yeah, that's healthy.

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Published on Friday, September 21, 2012 - 3:25pm
Watha T. Daniel/Shaw Library extends big congratulations to Rediate Korsa, who won a Kindle Fire in our Summer Reading raffle. This year's theme was "Dream Big, READ!"
Rediate (RED-e-ate), who is nine years old, attends Adams Elementary. Her favorite subject is fractions, and she counts James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl as one of her favorite books.
Rediate has also taken a stab at knitting while visiting the library over the summer. With her Kindle Fire, she can enjoy DC Public Library's downloadable collection of books, audiobooks, video, and music to suit her interests.
She says that she will use her Kindle Fire for work and pleasure: "I like to read a lot and use the Internet when I do my homework." The library, with its free Wi-Fi and free, online Homework Help, will provide the perfect setting.
"And I like to play games," says Rediate. "Sally's Salon, Raging Thunder and Temple Run."
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Too often the nail department is the Cinderella of the salon and spa. She's outshined by her siblings—the glamorous, cutting-edge hair department, the profit-boosting color department, and the spa that envelops guests in its luxurious embrace.
Tucked into a corner, the overlooked stepsister frequently suffers from a lack of attention as she toils away churning out manis and pedis. But try introducing your Cinderella to her fairy godmother, who'll infuse her with innovative services, tempting retail lines, top-notch education and talented technicians, and your nail department promises to be the belle of the ball.
The business of nails has changed in the past decade, points out Kim Lento, a trainer for Milady. "At one time having your nails done felt like a luxury," she says. "Unfortunately, that aspect has become lost. With the competition of generic under-priced shops, the industry has become oversaturated and the cost to the industry has been detrimental."
Granted, nail departments are boosted by the scores of regular clients who view the services as a necessity, but Lento points out that often the quality of those services has been compromised due to the boom in the industry. "Clients are less willing to pay higher prices and are flocking to the lower-quality, lower-standard generic nail shops because of the perceived value."
The challenge in creating a nail business that stands apart is in exceeding your clients' expectations. "If your client leaves with the services they ordered, you have only met their expectations," says Lento. "But if they've left wanting more, you've exceeded them. If a client is going to pay $20 for a manicure and $40 for a pedicure, then the entire experience should feel like a $120 service."
Sweeten the Services
For many salons and spas, nail problems begin with the menu, which frequently lists manicures, spa manicures, pedicures and spa pedicures. While these basics may continue to be your top sellers, more tantalizing services will create a niche for your nail department.
For example, at Faces Dayspa in Hilton Head, South Carolina, Spa Manager Hope Mims invented the Ice Cream Pedicure, which includes a strawberry fizz foot soak, chocoholic sugar scrub, cooling caramel mask and vanilla whipped cream lotion. Other Faces nail services tackle particular issues, such as the Fountain of Youth Hand Treatment, which diminishes age spots and restores and softens rough, neglected hands.
Bonnie Conte, owner of Avalon Salon and Day Spa, draws on her manufacturer to help create exciting services, such as the Caribbean Therapy Manicure and Rosemary Mint Manicure and Pedicure. "We've also done a Purifying Stone Manicure," she says. "When we have something new or exciting like that, then the staff gets behind it and it quickly becomes a favorite."


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FRIDAY 18th JULY - SUNDAY 20th JULY 2014
Billy Ocean | Jimmy Somerville | 10cc
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"Rewind Scotland - The 80s Festival" in Perth, Scotland is back for its fourth year running. The festival will take place from Friday 18th July until Sunday 20th July at Scone Palace, Perth, Scotland (www.scone-palace.co.uk).
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This year's headline performances include Billy Ocean, and a rare festival appearance from American pop/soul/R&B icons Daryl Hall and John Oates (their only Scottish Festival appearance this year). As with all past Rewind Festivals, the 80s celebrations will showcase non-stop music on the main stage from the biggest 80s icons, plus plenty of audience participation and dressing up.
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Rewind Scotland will once again take place at the historic setting of Scone Palace in Perth; home of The Earls of Mansfield and the crowning palace of the Kings of Scotland.
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Back by popular demand is The Inflatable Church. This fun attraction will bring the chapel of love to Rewind this summer. Festival goers can become the star of their very own festival wedding with over 100 guests in attendance. Each ceremony comes complete with wedding outfits, barmy bridesmaids, mad mother in laws, wedding music, wedding photographs, a Big Love Wedding Certificate and even invites you to your wedding reception!
For the ultimate festival experience at Rewind this summer, When Nature Calls wristbands will be available. This will give festival goers access to posh loos, cleaned after every use with warm water hand washing facilities and mirrors, housed under a luxury stretch marquee with café and chill out zone.
Originally launched at Henley-on-Thames in 2009, Rewind The 80s Festival boasts the biggest line-up of 80s artists in the world, and in its first four years has featured iconic 80s stars including Boy George, Village People, The Human League, Gloria Gaynor, Kool & The Gang, Holly Johnson, Bananarama and many more.
During the summer of 2011, Rewind came to Scotland for the very first time and took Scottish 80s music fans by storm, while the festival in Henley-on-Thames sold out in advance for the very first time. Following festivals in South Africa in 2012, Rewind's global appeal continues to escalate with festivals in Dubai and Bangkok in 2013. This year sees the launch of Rewind North at Capesthorne Hall, Cheshire from 29th - 31st August - the very first time Rewind will come to the North of England!
Please note: for information on PA tickets for disabled ticket holders and viewing platform bookings please go to www.rewindfestival.com and click on FAQs.
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Ring Around the Sun (original 1952; edition 1953)
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Ring Around the Sun by Clifford D. Simak (1952)
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Simak is one of the most important Science Fiction writers of the early 1960's, mostly because he created novels of marvelous ideas, ones with much potential and meat on them, if you understand. But Simak didn't always create great characters and plots to go along with those ideas (like so many other science fiction novels, the ideas are more important than the story). However, Ring Around the Sun is not one of those. It is a marvelous sci-fi novel, centering around the very idea that Currie used in Everything Matters, that the Earth is only one of millions of Earths existing in multiple space-time planes. This book is mentioned in Stephen King's Hearts in Atlantis and influenced King in his Dark Tower series. It is, in my opinion, a book that should be included in the modern Western Literary Cannon, mainly because it merges literature and science in a way that most high school students could easily understand it and enjoy it.
In the story, Jay Vickers, on his way to a meeting with a Mr. Crawford, sees a shop selling Forever Light Bulbs, as well as a razor that never needs sharpening, a car that runs forever...etc... This, explains Crawford, is crippling the industries of the world, causing chaos and fear. Vickers is supposed to investigate it and expose it in articles to be published. But it's not all that simple, because the people behind the Forever Light Bulb are trying to save the world, not destroy it.
A fabulous book, one that I've read twice now. It's very rare for me to do that. The other books I've read twice include LOTR, Lord Foul's Bane by Stephen R. Donaldson, Dragonriders of Pern by McCaffrey, and Dandelion Wine by Bradbury. Simak's book easily ranks among these.
When I was younger I read just about every Simak book that I could get my hands on. Novels of his such as "Waystation" and "City" and "All Flesh Is Grass" I consider as personal favorites and genuine classics of the genre. I loved most of his stuff, although a few of his last novels didn't do much for me. And there were a few books I never did read. Ring Around the Sun was one of them. This story was written in the very early 50's and a version first appeared serialized in Galaxy Magazine from Dec 1952-Feb 1953.
When reading this I kept thinking what a great movie this would have been back in the 50's. Although the book is set in the "future" of 1977, 25 years after publication, there really isn't a thing in it to say 1977 instead of 1952.
The Cold War is approaching 30 years in the book. I've always thought Simak a good writer. This has a bit of the menacing feel of Invasion of the Body Snatchers mixed up with a slight fantasy touch and the vivid descriptions of Ray Bradbury that tend to conjur big dollops of a haunted nostalgia here and there, and maybe a touch of Phillip K. Dick.
The protaganist of the story, Jay Vickers, has always noticed a touch of strange about the world and it's relation to him. He's probably in his mid 30's, a successful writer, but also a loner. Strange things are astir in the world and he and his neighbor, Horton Flanders, an old but observent man, discuss some of it. There are a couple of other notable characters, but the story is primarily about Vickers and what he finds out about the world. It is a quick moving story with pauses here and there. In the latter half though, I think we get a bit too much exposition and mental hand-wringing which spoils some of the momentum of the story and keeps me from rating this higher. The ending is a little unsatisfactory as well.
This really has that 50's sense of paranoia underlying it and I enjoyed this story a lot. Really an above average read for me, for an older novel. This book made it onto a list of the 100 best science fiction novels written between 1949 and 1984. It has some good company on the list. https://www.worldswithoutend.com/lists_pringle_sf.asp
I came across this later edition so picked it up and read it for the first time in many, many years. I thought it was still good if a bit dated. It has all of the typical Simak elements - I'd recommend it to anyone who is fond of the author.
I came across a copy at Goodwill and decided I needed to read this (I knew I owned a couple of editions but had no memory of having read it - must have been when I was very young). It mentioned on the cover of this edition (Masters of Science Fiction) that the novel was selected by David Pringle as one of the 100 best SF novels so that prompted me to purchase - besides at $.50 It would provide me with a bit of inexpensive distraction. The book is a relatively quick read dated by many references to the Cold War. For those of you who weren't around to experience any of that (and I was a kid of the 60's so I didn't experience the McCarthy Era-version, just the tail-end) the book may seem rather strange (well, stranger than the narrative), since much of the premise comes from that era of threat/paranoia. Also the story comes from an time when men wore hats (people don't realize that before JFK most men and women wore hats than not), men wore collared shirts with ties - that post-war look you see in old movies, so hold that in your mind.
The first review provides the story details so I won't repeat - I thought the story was very fast paced, with a few improbable parts but still within what's commonly acceptable in old SF. It's also, as mentioned, pure Simak (SF blended seamlessly with Fantasy) - if you like the style of his writing you'll definitely like this book. I like how he made it all come together in the end and I also liked the dialog (seemed very 50's movie). I think this would have made a most excellent Outer Limits episode had someone cared to condense into a screenplay.
Jay Vickers, an author of some fame, is currently living in a world going through a strange industrial revolution. A company seems to be manufacturing products which are going to last forever, and this apparently has industry quite worried – if goods don't become used and break down, then they can't manufacture anything, and no one will have work. But that same company is also manufacturing artificial food, and distributing it for free to those whom do not have work. An industrialist asks Jay to investigate, and Jay says… no, actually. But he eventually goes and investigates anyway.
In some ways, it's quite pulpy SF. The characters are poorly fleshed out. It is unmistakeably made in the 1950's firmly in mind - a few gadgets have been added to take the story in the future, but the people carry the same values, the same ideas, the same tastes and prejudices as the fifties, and only what is needed plot-wise is updated. There are a lot of coincidences in this novel. I really do mean a lot. Vickers does question the occurrence of these for us, and although there is some explanation provided, I really cannot accept the inclusion of so many plot coincidences that are required to make this story work.
In other ways, the story is quite odd, in a pleasant way, and reminiscent of Philip K Dick, although Dick began his work several years after this novel. Vickers finds out that his knowledge about the world in which he lives, and what he believes he knows about himself, are quite, quite wrong, and what the world he actually lives in does make for interesting reading. Simak has his own metaphysical ideas about the world, like Dick. There's also a undercurrent of paranoia running through the book, like Dick. The inclusion of these makes the book far less about whizzy gadgets, which does help detract from the pulpy nature of the book.
It's the first Simak book that I have read, though, and if there is any fan of Simak reading this, I would be interested to know if this book is indicative of how the author wrote, and if it is, what his best book in a similar vein might be. This novel often reads like badly-written pulp-SF. Although but flashes of Dickian-style ideas do make the book more interesting, in this novel, Simak never manages to achieve what Dick does in his best works, or even his good works.
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Photographer Arnaud Pyvka Explores the Rarefied Hides Favored by Luxury Fashion Houses
Brightly colored alligator and crocodile hides supplied by Singapore's renowned tannery Heng Long International conceal the bare flesh of model Lidi Kochetkova in Arnaud Pyvka's provocative shoot. A well-kept secret among chic tastemakers, the family-run Heng Long treats the production and preparation of animal skins as an artisanal craft, supplying perfectly treated hides to the likes of Hermès, Louis Vuitton and Prada. "It's a dying skill as there are fewer and fewer artisans who are able to do it without using lacquer," observes CT Koh, who runs the 175-strong tannery. Founded after the Second World War by CT's grandfather—who learned the art while sailing between continents as a trader—Heng Long use a special Bombé finish on their skins, as well as transparent Analine dyes which don't obscure the grain and natural detail. In between studies at Central Saint Martins and the London College of Fashion, CT's youngest son Ethan recently branched out with his own bespoke accessories line Ethan K, making bags and clutches from the family's sought-after skins. Here father and son discuss scales, conservation and the best way to make a bag last.
How do you tell a crocodile from an alligator?
Ethan Koh: Crocodiles are sourced from African countries, South East Asia, Australia and Papua New Guinea. Their scales are squarer and rounder so you can see the contrast.
CT Koh: Our alligators are American, from the Mississippi river. You can tell they have bigger scales; they've got a longer body than a crocodile.
Which hides would you recommend designers use?
EK: There's a misconception that big scales or small scales are best but it's down to what you're producing. Rarer Australian salt-water crocodiles have smaller scales on their side so they look more aesthetically pleasing when you design a small clutch bag. Java lizards, a species farmed wild in Indonesia, have a beautiful natural dual tone, which you'll often find used for watches.
CT K: A large good quality handbag also requires at least two to three pieces, especially when we take care to use the center cut of the skins as the center of the bag, so a good piece of hide is functional as well as beautiful.
Where does work begin on a crocodile skin?
EK: Today the process begins with conservation.
CT K: During the 1970s trade increased but crocodiles were being exploited; so scientists and animal lovers joined in a group called the Crocodile Advisory Group, a special network that shared knowledge on sustainable farming. It means many species are no longer endangered.
What's the trick to making a bag last?
EK: Two months ago I was at the Olympia Arts & Antiques Fair and I saw a couple of beautiful jewelry boxes from Asprey made in the 1890s to 1910s. If they hadn't been tanned well, they wouldn't have lasted until today. Sometimes with crocodile bags, after a certain point, the skin actually looks even more beautiful. It depends how the user takes care. But the best trick? Don't use your bag as an umbrella.


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There are more than 5 million Americans who have been diagnosed
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"If your memory is everything that you know written in a book, then in order to have access, you have to open the book and to turn the pages," Graff said. In Alzheimer's, "this mechanism actually closes your memory book and makes the pages -- the genes -- inaccessible."
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Elizabeth Richardson went on maternity leave expecting to return to her job as controller of Weight Watchers of Palm Beach County. After all, The Family & Medical Leave Act, also known by the abbreviation "FMLA", permits those working for mid-to-large sized employers to take unpaid maternity and paternity leave, and even take time-off to care for serious medical concerns affecting themselves or immediate family members. The Pregnancy Discrimination Act, another federal law, also provides important workplace protections. More information on this law appears later in this article.
Instead of welcoming the new mother back, her employer fired her.
Although FMLA requires that certain employers reinstate workers who take leave to care for newborn children or for health reasons, organizations fail to comply with the law. When surveying 300 employers large enough to be regulated by FMLA, the University of California learned that many were ignoring the most fundamental requirements of this Federal law. Nine percent of the employers didn't guarantee job reinstatement and 20% failed to inform workers about the law.
When hearing from 275 persons in need of FMLA information, 9to5, the National Association of Working Women, learned 63% were provided with inaccurate information by their employers. The Federal government also acknowledges that large numbers of employers are violating the law. The U.S. Department of Labor reports that of the FMLA complaints it investigated, 60% involve employer violations.
FMLA Complaints By Type
Worker not reinstated 65%
Source: U.S. Dept. of Labor
When time away from work is needed to care for their own serious medical concerns or those of immediate family members, FMLA-protected workers are permitted to take up to 12-weeks of unpaid leave. Fathers and mothers are also permitted to take time-off to care for healthy newborn infants. Upon returning to work, employees must be reinstated to their positions.
Employers who normally pay for workers' health insurance benefits, fully or partly, must continue doing so on the same basis during the leave period. Workers also have the flexibility of utilizing time-off in small increments, such as taking leave every Friday afternoon to receive medical care or to assist in caring for ill family members. Employers may significantly alter job responsibilities for those workers taking incremental leave.
It is also illegal to retaliate against workers exercising leave rights. Except in unforeseeable instances, workers are required to give 30 days advance notice of leave requirements. Employers are permitted to obtain verification of medical need. High ranking executives can be excluded from FMLA benefits when their employers meet strict notification rules and demonstrate economic hardships.
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The Pregnancy Discrimination Act, provides further legal rights to all governmental employees and those private sector firms employing as few as 15 workers. It bans job bias on the basis of pregnancy, childbirth or related medical condition. The law forbids employers to treat pregnant women differently than other workers having similar abilities or inabilities to work. The law does not require employers to treat pregnant workers better than other employees.
The Pregnancy Discrimination Act provides protections even to those workers not having 12 months seniority, a threshold required for FMLA coverage. Where FMLA only permits recovery for economic damages, the Pregnancy Discrimination Act permits employees to seek money for their emotional pain and suffering and in certain circumstances, for punitive damages.
Of course, workers are always able to seek settlements prior to trial. That's what Elizabeth Richardson did in her case against Weight Watchers of Palm Beach County. Although her former employer denies violating FMLA and would not disclose any financial terms, it did agree to an out-of-court settlement.
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- I was commissioned by Cycle World Magazine to illustrate a concept rendering of what the rumored 2015 Ducati Scrambler could look like as the new model is set to be unveiled in Milan this fall. It was a collaborative effort with the staff, picking cues from the trajectory of modern Ducatis as well as keeping the stance and overall proportions of a classic scrambler. Street tires and a low slung exhaust are indicative of a more road biased machine but the flat seat, high bars, and low weight bring out the characteristics of a scrambler style motorcycle. Special thanks to the king of spy photo translation, Josiah LaColla, for his keen insights and rendering advice.
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Upcoming illustrations for Esquire Russia
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By HealthMeUp | February 7, 2013, 5:00 pm IST Health & Fitness
When you are pregnant you tend to go overboard with superstitions when it comes to diet or fitness. Expecting mothers will keep their pregnancy hush hush till the bump begins to show and people start to notice. They also believe that you need to eat more as you are eating for two. And the best myth about pregnancy is the size of the bump reveals the gender of the baby. Silly, yes but still a widely followed belief. Traditions and grandmothers tells you to do this and don't do that but science reveals that these myths or 'facts' are baseless. Dr. Sadhana Singhal, Senior Consultant for Obstetrics & Gynecology with Delhi based Sri Balaji Action Medical Institute demystifies these myths and explains the truth. These are top myths that pregnant mothers should avoid.
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This is a trailer/introduction.
Created with LS Maker, video camera, and flash.
This took a long time and a lot of effort. Hell this was made when there was still snow on the ground as you can see in the flash itself. It's just being done now.
This is episode 1 of 3. The reason it's split up into three episodes is because the file would be way too big if we would try to fit it all into one.
Please enjoy and review. Leave your youtube comments to yourself and remember that every type of movie is welcome on newgrounds. Not just flash. Remember Numa Numa right?
Sorry for the bad quality in video and also audio, but it's the only way to get such a big file to fit without being like 50 MB's.
Watch the high quality version here. (minus the space)
http://www.youtube.com/wa tch?v=wt3RJZGhys4&feature =channel_page
Like always, thanks to http://miharuforever.newg rounds.com/ for doing the flash related things. He will be coed on the submission if he wants to be. I'll talk to him about it.
It would probably help if you watched Hay Wars first just so you knew what was going on and everything even though there isn't too much of a story yet. :)
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Rated 3.5 / 5 stars March 22, 2009
it pretty good but i think it could of been a little better just try a little harder next time
Will do sir.
Thanks for the review.
Even though this was hard work.
Rated 4.5 / 5 stars March 22, 2009
good job
i liked the video a lot, but i appear to be in the minority on that. i don't mind the quality, but other than those issues, it was a really good video. i'm impressed.
Thank you for the kind words and the good review.
Rated 5 / 5 stars March 22, 2009
This is fucking amazing, I love the audio and the footage and the story.
You sir know good humor.
Thanks for the review.
Rated 2.5 / 5 stars March 22, 2009
Funny, but...
As far as content, it wasn't half bad. I actually found myself smiling a little. But as is always the issue with movies on Newgrounds, it was horribly pixelated, and the audio was far too quiet. You might want to play around with that and see if you can fix any of the problems.
Thanks for the review.
I played with the audio for months to be honest. This was the best that I could get it, but I totally understand what you mean.
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Trial addresses reliability of blood alcohol testingBy Eric Blaisdell
STAFF WRITER | February 26,2013A trial got under way Monday in a case that helped prompt the Legislature to change who oversees the machines that are used to measure blood alcohol content in drunken driving cases.
Brian N. Grenier, 52, of East Calais, is facing a felony charge the third time he has been charged with driving under the influence in Washington County criminal court in Barre. He could receive a maximum sentence of five years.
The trial started with former Washington County Sheriffs Deputy Nathan Wolfe testifying that he pulled Grenier over in May 2010 for a broken headlight.
Wolfe said he smelled alcohol coming from Greniers vehicle and that Grenier admitted he had been drinking.
Wolfe testified that Grenier told him after he was arrested, Im screwed. Grenier also tried to negotiate his way out of the drunken driving charge and talked about how embarrassing the charge would be to his family.
Grenier was taken to the Washington County Sheriffs Department in Montpelier, and a breath test was administered using a DataMaster DMT. Grenier recorded a 0.172 percent blood alcohol content, well over the legal limit to drive of 0.08. It is that machine and breath test that are really on trial in this case.
In the process of defending the case, Greniers lawyer, David Sleigh, said he discovered that the machines law enforcement around the state had been using to administer breath tests were not being properly maintained and were giving out faulty data that could have been used for wrongful convictions.
The sources for Sleighs claims were two women who worked for the Department of Health as state chemists who had submitted complaints to their supervisors that the DataMasters were not being properly maintained, sometimes purposefully. Darcy Richardson, who no longer works for the state, submitted statements for the case saying as much, and Amanda Bolduc, who is still a state chemist, testified Monday about what was happening in the lab.
Because of the revelations about people possibly being wrongfully convicted, the Legislature moved the states alcohol testing program in March 2012 from the Department of Health to the Department of Public Safety, where others could scrutinize the information the program collected and the process could be more transparent so as to keep it honest.
In court Monday, Bolduc was introduced as a witness for the state, testifying about how the DataMasters function, about the process of determining blood alcohol content, and how effective the machines are.
On cross examination, Sleigh grilled Bolduc on several topics including when the DataMasters were purchased and what issues the state ran into when first using the machines such as one releasing a puff of smoke when it was first turned on. Sleigh also asked Bolduc to talk about the opinions she had expressed during the period from February to November 2010, and where she documented her concerns about what one technician was doing or not doing.
As part of the evidence for the trial, Sleigh submitted an email Bolduc had sent to the lab director in 2010 in which she said the integrity of the program was in jeopardy. Bolduc said lab technician Steve Harnois was engaging in unethical behavior to get the machines to pass their internal testing to make sure the DataMasters were working properly before a breath test was conducted. In the email, Bolduc wrote that because of Harnois alleged behavior, she would have a hard time testifying in court as to the reliability of the test results.
In all the talk about the issues the DataMasters in Vermont have had, little was disclosed or discussed about the particular machine used by the Sheriffs Department in Montpelier in terms of whether it had been tampered with or was malfunctioning. In fact, Bolduc testified that the machine was working properly at the time it was used for Greniers breath test.
Harnois was investigated by the Department of Health and cleared of any malfeasance. He no longer works for the state.
Harnois also testified in the trial Monday Sleigh characterized him as a hostile witness and did not offer much information concerning the investigation of which he was the subject, saying he did not recall many of the answers to Sleighs questions.
The trial resumes today with Sleigh expected to call two witnesses to testify in support of the defense.
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homSyllabification: hom
Pronunciation: /hōm /
(also homa /ˈhōmə/, haoma /ˈhoumə/)
1.1The sour, milky juice of the soma plant, consumed as a sacred drink of the Parsees. See also soma2.
mid 19th century: from Persian hūm or Avestan haoma.
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