Increasingly, sex offenders are being stripped of even the slightest semblance of privacy rights. But, in Washington State, the school remains one of the last bastions of discretion for minors convicted of a sex offense. Schools Are Not Sheriff's Departments (But Some Would Like To Change That) Washington law prevents schools from disseminating a student's criminal history to parents, the public or other students. For juvenile sex crimes that result in required registration as a sex offender, school administrators are informed -- but they may only share this information ...

Actress Sharon Stone, best known for her roles in "Basic Instinct" and "Casino" is being sued by her former live-in nanny Erlinda T. Elemen for wrongful termination, harassment and failure to prevent harassment. In a complaint filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court, Elemen alleges Stone terminated her for accepting overtime pay, and repeatedly making comments during the course of her employment that equated being Filipino with being stupid. Elemen also said the actress criticized her accent and told her not to speak in front of Stone's children so ...

A national research collaboration of senior researchers, including a researcher from Moffitt Cancer Center, has found that 20 to 25 percent of "heavily pre-treated" patients with a variety of cancers who enrolled in a clinical trial had "objective and durable" responses to a treatment with BMS-936558, an antibody that specifically blocks programmed cell death 1 (PD-1). PD-1 is a key immune "checkpoint" receptor expressed by activated immune cells (T-cells) and is involved in the suppression of immunity. The clinical trial, designed to assess the anti-tumor activity and ...

An Indiana University team of researchers has conducted the most in-depth and diverse genetic analysis of the defense systems that trillions of micro-organisms in the human body use to fend off viruses. The work is among a collection of 16 research papers released today by the Human Microbiome Project Consortium, a National Institutes of Health-led effort to map the normal microbial make-up of healthy humans. Led by IU Bloomington assistant professor of informatics and computing Yuzhen Ye, the team of bioinformaticists and biologists reconstructed arrays of clusters of ...

A new report published by the AFL-CIO has determined that workplace fatalities are on the rise, despite the troubled economy in which work hours have decreased and unemployment is higher than usual. The findings should inspire review of workplace hazards and every employer's responsibility to provide a safe workplace for employees. "Death on the Job" Findings The AFL-CIO's report "Death on the Job" found that 13 workers were killed on the job every day in 2010, totaling 4,690 deaths nationwide. This workplace accident statistic does not include ...

Analysis of 2012 Tennessee motor vehicle accident fatality data has law enforcement officials worried. Since the beginning of the year, more than 330 road deaths have occurred in Tennessee, which represents an increase of 13 percent as compared to the same time last year. Law enforcement is not certain why fatality rates are so high this year, but many believe that an increase in speeding or drunken driving may be to blame. To help curb traffic deaths, state troopers have resorted to posting current fatality counts on state highways to catch the attention of drivers ...

EVANSTON, Ill. --- Unlike most whites, blacks and Hispanics tend to have neighbors from other racial groups who are disproportionately likely to be poor. This contributes importantly to the high poverty rates of the neighborhoods lived in by black and Hispanic families and to high poverty rates of schools attended by black and Hispanic children. Lincoln Quillian, professor of sociology and faculty fellow at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University, analyzed data from the 2000 census and found that the disproportionate poverty of blacks' and Hispanics' ...

Many churches are missing opportunities to involve Christian women in philanthropy, with ministry leaders too often speaking "man to man" — despite the fact that women now control more than 51 percent of personal wealth nationally, according to a 2012 national survey. While Christian women are far more generous than the average person, the report — "Directions in Women's Giving 2012" — shows that many donors feel that church and ministry leaders neglect the role women play in charitable giving, instead addressing only husbands. The report was commissioned by Women Doing ...

In its pursuit of the executives accountable for the financial meltdown of 2008, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is pursuing more negligence cases. The Commission hopes that pursuing these types of cases will make it easier to hold executives accountable than if it focused on alternatives. The Rationale The SEC claims that building a negligence case is easier and less time-consuming than building a case for investment fraud. In a negligence case, the SEC only needs to provide evidence that an executive or team of executives failed to take action that ...

For astrophysicist Bill Craig and his team, NASA's NuSTAR will open up a whole new world. In fact, NuSTAR will allow them to observe a new class of objects in space, called extreme objects, which have never been seen. The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (or NuSTAR), is the first focusing, high energy X-ray NASA satellite that will open the hard X-ray sky for sensitive study for the first time. It is scheduled for launch today (June 13) from Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands. For Livermore, the predecessor to NuSTAR was a balloon-borne instrument known as ...

A better way to improve organizations using overlooked employee talent has taken a top award from a notable management group. Marguerite Schneider, an associate professor in NJIT School of Management, is the co-author of "Leadership a Complex Adaptive System: Insights from Positive Deviance." Curt Lindberg, of Complexity Partners, Bordentown, NJ, was her co-author. The paper received the 2012 Best Paper Award from the Organization Development and Change Division of the Academy of Management. It will be presented in August at the organization's annual meeting in Boston ...

When it comes to bankruptcy, not all debts are equal; meaning that bankruptcy will treat different types of debt differently. Generally, two types of debt are considered during the bankruptcy proceeding: secured and unsecured debt. Secured debt is any debt that uses a tangible piece of real or personal property as collateral for the loan (the property is tied to the debt). Examples of secured debt include mortgages, mechanics liens and car loans. Because this type of debt is "secured" by the object the loan is for, if you default on payments the lender can, ...

The state of New York is showing a bit of flexibility with Long Island Rail Road retirees who may have filed false disability claims, allegedly in order to increase their pension payouts. The U.S. Attorney representing the Southern District of New York has given retirees until July 6, 2012, to admit wrongdoing in order to receive amnesty from potential prosecution. Meanwhile, LIRR management has stated that anyone not opting for the deal and found to have made false disability claims may be disqualified from receiving any part of their pension. An investigation began ...

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– In the not-too-distant future, scientists may be able to use DNA to grow their own specialized materials, thanks to the concept of directed evolution. UC Santa Barbara scientists have, for the first time, used genetic engineering and molecular evolution to develop the enzymatic synthesis of a semiconductor. "In the realm of human technologies it would be a new method, but it's an ancient approach in nature," said Lukmaan Bawazer, first author of the paper, "Evolutionary selection of enzymatically synthesized semiconductors from biomimetic mineralization ...

One motorcyclist was killed and nine others were injured after a crash occurred on Highway 151 north of Fond du Lac. A car apparently crossed the centerline and hit 10 motorcycles around 3 p.m. on May 31st between Gladstone Beach Road and Welling Beach Road in the Town of Taycheedah. Of the riders, all from Michigan, three were critically injured, including a rider who went into cardiac arrest while being airlifted to a local hospital. After investigating the crash, the Fond du Lac County Sheriff's Office charged the driver of the car with homicide by negligent use of ...

In an effort to make it easier for coal miners and their families to receive black lung benefits, the U.S. Department of Labor is considering proposed changes to the rules that govern the distribution of these disability benefits. What Is Black Lung Disease? Black lung disease, also known as coal worker's pneumoconiosis, occurs when coal workers breathe in dust from graphite, man-made carbon or coal for long periods of time. There is no specific treatment for the disease and it can lead to several complications, such as respiratory failure and chronic bronchitis. Since ...

WASHINGTON, June 13, 2012 — The latest episode in the American Chemical Society's (ACS') award-winning Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions podcast series describes the world's first "electrified snail," which now joins the menagerie of cockroaches, rats, rabbits and other animals previously implanted with biofuel cells that generate electricity — perhaps for future spy cameras, eavesdropping microphones and other electronics — from natural sugar in their bodies. Based on a report by Evgeny Katz, Ph.D., and colleagues in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, ...

New York personal injury lawyer David Perecman commends the recommendation by a federal panel to add 14 broad categories of cancer, including 50 specific types, to the list of ailments covered by the Zadroga Act. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health accepted the panel's recommendation, reported the New York Daily News (6/8/2012). http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/zadroga-act-cover-50-cancers-landmark-ruling-article-1.1092366#ixzz1xGWmCcI8 The original 2011 act earmarked $4.3 billion in funding for medical treatment programs for first responders ...

Montreal, June 13, 2012 – A recent international study led by researchers from McGill University and the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) examines the complex and controversial interplay of conflicts of interest between physician experts, medicine and the pharmaceutical or medical device industry. The results of the analysis, which are published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, aim to advance the management of conflicts of interest in medical guidelines. "Over the last decade governments, medical specialty societies and academia have increasingly confronted ...

A New York woman died during a kidney transplant operation she was undergoing. She had wanted to donate the organ to her younger brother, Roberto Medina, the New York Post reported (6/8/2012). http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/bronx/kidney_hope_is_dashed_again_tGenmeWqNyPzTWtry2ywzO?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Bronx Yolanda Medina died after her aorta was cut during surgery at Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx, according to the New York Post. Roberto Medina suffers from renal failure and has been on kidney dialysis since February. He never received his sister's ...

Normally, male California mice are surprisingly doting fathers, but new research published in the journal Physiological and Biochemical Zoology suggests that high anxiety can turn these good dads bad. Unlike most rodents, male and female California mice pair up for life with males providing extensive parental care, helping deliver the pups, lick them clean, and keep them warm during their first few weeks of life. Experienced fathers are so paternal that they'll even take care of pups that aren't theirs. "If we place a male California mouse in a test cage and present ...

For the first time a consortium of researchers organized by the National Institutes of Health, including a University of Colorado Boulder professor, has mapped the normal microbial makeup of healthy humans. The team made up of 200 researchers from the Human Microbiome Project Consortium, or HMP, and based at 80 research institutions, reports that while nearly everyone carries pathogens -- which are microorganisms that cause illness -- pathogens cause no disease in healthy individuals. Instead, they co-exist with their host and the rest of the human microbiome, which is ...

Healthcare fraud has been an investigative priority since the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act established a National Healthcare Fraud and Abuse Control Program to coordinate Federal, State, and Local law enforcement regarding healthcare fraud and abuse in 1996. Since that time, the federal government has recovered over $18 billion for healthcare fraud and abuse. States have also ramped up their enforcement efforts, with Texas recovering $418 million in 2010. If you are a provider currently under audit or investigation, you should retain an attorney ...

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering have developed a technique that enables metallic nanocrystals to self-assemble into larger, complex materials for next-generation antennas and lenses. The metal nanocrystals are cube-shaped and, like bricks or Tetris blocks, spontaneously organize themselves into larger-scale structures with precise orientations relative to one another. Their findings were published online June 10 in the journal Nature Nanotechnology. This research is in the new field of nanoplasmonics, where researchers ...

Once again the workers of New York are under attack. The Wall Street Journal reports that the Center for Urban Real Estate at Columbia University has issued a report challenging the minimum salary set by law for construction workers on public projects. The prevailing wage law under attack requires that trade workers on public projects be paid the same wages that union workers receive. New York is one of the most expensive states in the country to live and work and raise a family. Construction workers, painters and allied tradesman and women, recycling and general industrial ...