Idaho Kid Missing
INS History, Genealogy, and Education - Chinese Immigrant Records
Name index to persons (immigrants, INS employees, and others) within general subject categories. Refers to old Chinese Files (i.e., Entry 132) as well as general INS subject correspondence files after 1908 (Entry 9+). Some parts missing. ... [Read More]
Braille Book Review--November-December 2004, Children's Fiction
Shy and the only white kid in his fourth grade class, Keath is aneasy target for bullies. His friendship with classmate Lynda andher three-legged dog, Leftovers, helps Keath cope with visitinghis beloved, stroke-victim grandmother and stand up to his majortormentor in school. For grades 3-6. 2000. ... Although warned that keeping The Field Guide (BR 14982) about the faerie world will prove dangerous, Jared won't give itup. Then goblins kidnap Simon. Mallory and Jared have scaryadventures rescuing him--even with a magic stone to help them seeusually invisible creatures. For grades 2-4. 2003. ... [Read More]
Family Youth Services Bureau Regional Training and Technical Assistance Provider System
The Family and Youth Services Bureau’s (FYSB’s) Regional Training and Technical Assistance (T/TA) Provider system was first established by Congress as "coordinated networks" through the Juvenile Justice Amendments of 1977 (Public Law 95-115) to the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act (RHYA) of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 (Public Law 93-415). (The system currently is authorized by Part D, Section 342, of the RHYA, as amended by the Missing, Exploited, and Runaway Children Protection Act [Public Law 106-71].) Today, FYSB has cooperative agreements with regional organizations in the 10 Administration for Children and Families (ACF) Regions to provide T/TA to FYSB grantees. ... [Read More]
NIH Record - 09-10-96--NICHD's Winer Hailed as Healing Hero by Grateful Patients
This treatment, which mercifully erased many of Halla Ruth's symptoms, nevertheless had side effects, including the development of kidney stones. ... But if they are damaged by neck surgery, or by a congenital or autoimmune disorder, they can disrupt the metabolism of calcium. Doctors are clued to the condition when they notice abnormal levels of calcium, phosphorus and magnesium in patients' blood. Another clue is excess calcium in urine. Parathyroid hormone absorbs the calcium out of urine; the lack of PTH leads to excess urine calcium, which can lead to kidney stones. ... [Read More]
American Wetlands Month Celebrations | Home
Gathered beneath a tent on a small bridge, State leaders commented on the missing marsh that used to lie not far from their feet, now replaced by lapping water. ... Wisconsin WRP team (from left) Joe Van Hulle, Alison Pena, Alice Klink, Caroline Clarin, and Greg Kidd ... Messerich is deservedly proud as he gives a visitor the "grand tour," courtesy of a four-wheel-drive truck, but he is quick to say that conservation is something that he's done since he was a kid, hunting and fishing near Goose Lake, Iowa. ... [Read More]
2001 National Victim Assistance Academy - June 2001
Safe Kids/Safe Streets. Safe Kids is an innovative, five-and-one-half-year demonstration project that improves community response to child and adolescent abuse and neglect. Five sites have been funded through Safe Kids: Huntsville, Alabama; the Sault Sainte Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians in Michigan; Kansas City, Missouri; Toledo, Ohio; and Chittenden County, Vermont. The sites are working to-- ... Ident-A-Kid. Based on recommendations from the FBI and current data from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Ident-a-Kid is a proactive resource guide developed to assist parents in the creation of a collection of material that would easily identify their children were they to disappear. ... [Read More]
Hearing on the National Environmental Policy & Environmental Quality Improvement Act
VENTO. Well, I just wanted to make certain, as it were, because as you look at this, I mean, it is one thing to—it is going to take time, obviously, and energy, but if they are technically not—they can't offer the technical assistance or do the other type of work, then, obviously, what I think in those cases where you have that occur, I might say, Mr. Chairman, that maybe it is a question, then, of having the State do it, where you know most States would have that technical expertise, and then it would be a decision that they could work out between the States and local governments. But a lot of these decisions may fall on a government that does not have significant resources—that's all I'm suggesting—or the scientists on staff, and so forth, that they need. Because when I talk to the agencies that are doing this, they now claim they need Ph.D.'s and they need people with master's degrees, and so forth, to actually do the type of work that is required in some of the ... [Read More]
US Dept of State
Your Web gateway guide to keeping kids healthy and drug-free. Find out what drugs look like, how to find help, and how to talk to kids about making positive choices. ... Emergency shelters for children whose family is in turmoil. 24-hour hotlines for kids and parents. 327-KIDS (Greenwich/Stamford) ... White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) presents tip for drug abuse prevention. These new areas feature information translated in Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese and Cambodian, and is designed to help Hispanic and Asian adults communicate more effectively with their kids about the consequences and dangers of illicit drugs. ... [Read More]
Utah History To Go - The Exiled Greeks
Around every mine, mill, and smelter town in Utah, there was now a cluster of Greek families. (Real-estate clauses in many instances barred their living in the "good" sections.) The houses in these Greek Towns were three- and four-room frame ones, often painted a sky blue, the color of the Greek flag. Peddlers called out their wagonloads of butchered lamb, kid, and barrels of goat cheese. Luxuriant gardens were watered by irrigation streams, a joy to the women; in the old country they had had to walk miles over rocky goat paths to fill jugs with water. Next to the gardens were chicken coops, rabbit hutches, coal and woodsheds, and washhouses where bachelor Greeks slept on cots. In domed mud ovens bread baked and sheep pelts hung on wire fences to dry. As more children were born, lean-tos were added to the houses. ... [Read More]
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