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Report of EPAs Own Mishandling of Asbestos Highlights Hazards Workers Still Face, New York Mesothelioma Attorney Says

New York, NY (PRWEB) January 08, 2012

A recent report from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency about its own apparent mishandling of asbestos in demolition projects underscores the pervasive threat this cancer-causing material poses to Americans health, New York mesothelioma attorney Joseph W. Belluck said today.

If the governmental body charged with keeping us safe from environmental hazards can fail to protect its employees and contractors from asbestos exposure, it is frightening to consider the dangers faced by employees of less-conscientious organizations, said Belluck, a partner in Belluck & Fox, a New York personal injury firm that represents victims of asbestos exposure.

Belluck was referring to a December 14 memo from the EPAs inspector general that highlighted concerns about the use of unapproved demolition methods at EPA sites where asbestos was present.

Because inhaling asbestos fibers is known to cause lethal cancers such as mesothelioma, demolition crews are required to follow strict protocols to prevent exposure to the deadly material, Belluck said.

The EPA report indicated that unapproved asbestos-handling methods were in use at several sites, including one in Washington state and another in Kentucky. The inspector general also cited videos and photos that showed unprotected government workers and contractors present during experiments with unapproved alternative asbestos control methods in Arkansas and Texas.

Many of our clients developed mesothelioma or other asbestos-related diseases after being exposed to toxic asbestos at work decades ago, Belluck said. It is very alarming to think that workers are still facing exposure to this cancer-causing substance even at job sites that are under the control of the governments environmental watchdog.

Asbestos, which was once extensively used in a wide variety of applications, is the only known cause of mesothelioma. The disease is a rare but very aggressive form of cancer that usually affects the lining of the lungs. There is no known cure. Many victims do not develop mesothelioma until several decades after their exposure.

Because asbestos products remain in many older structures, the EPA has developed specific procedures for safer handling of asbestos during demolitions and renovations. The standards require specialists to remove asbestos-containing materials while minimizing the amount of asbestos dust produced.

Because the standards apparently were not followed at several EPA sites, according to the inspector general, the agency should notify workers and the public in the surrounding areas of the possibility that they were exposed to asbestos.

Belluck encouraged anyone who has developed an asbestos-related disease to seek qualified medical treatment. He also emphasized that it is important to consult with an experienced asbestos exposure attorney.

About Belluck & Fox

Belluck & Fox, LLP, is a nationally recognized law firm that represents individuals with asbestos and mesothelioma claims, as well as victims of crime, motorcycle crashes, lead paint and other serious injuries. The firm provides personalized and professional representation and has won over $ 400 million in compensation for clients and their families.

Partner Joseph W. Belluck is AV-rated by Martindale-Hubbell and is listed in Best Lawyers in America, New York Magazines Best Lawyers in the New York Area and in Super Lawyers. Mr. Belluck has won numerous cases involving injuries from asbestos, defective medical products, tobacco and lead paint, including a recent asbestos case that settled for more than $ 12 million.

Partner Jordan Fox is a well-known asbestos and mesothelioma attorney who has been named to the Best Lawyers in America, New York Magazines Best Lawyers in the New York Area and to Super Lawyers. On two separate occasions his verdicts were featured as the National Law Journals Largest Verdict of the Year. He recently secured verdicts of $ 32 million and more than $ 19 million on behalf of individuals who had contracted mesothelioma from asbestos exposure.

In September, Belluck & Fox, LLP, won a coveted spot on a list of America’s best law firms, which was published jointly by U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers magazine. The listing showcased 8,782 different law firms ranked in one or more of 81 major practice areas.

For more information, contact the firm at (877) 637-6843 or through the online contact form.

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CertifiedCare Explains Development In Personal Care Aide Legislation That Protects The Rapidly Increasing Elderly Population

Cleveland, Ohio (PRWEB) January 19, 2012

The demand for elder caregivers is growing rapidly as the population of the United States faces record growth in the elderly population. According to Phi Policy Works, approximately four million direct-care workers will be needed by 2016 to provide long-term services and support. CertifiedCare addresses the explosive growth, and with expansion comes regulations at the federal and state level to protect the safety and well being of this demographic.

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are three main categories for direct-care workers, each with their own specific set of duties:

Nursing Assistants/Nursing Aides Nursing Assistants work in nursing homes, assisted living environments, hospitals or some sort of community-based setting. They provide assistance with daily living activities including eating, bathing and dressing. Additionally, they perform clinical tasks like blood pressure readings.

Home Health Aides Home Health Aides are similar to Nursing Assistants in terms of services provided, however Home Health Aides usually operate out of the persons home under the supervision of a nurse or therapist. They may also help out around the house performing certain chores like laundry and preparing meals.

Personal/Home Care Aides Personal Care Aides (also referred to as Home Care Aides in some states) take care of household chores, such as laundry, cleaning, errands outside of the home that their patients are unable to complete, bathing assistance and meal preparation. Personal Care Aides also monitor the medical condition of their patients and administer medications and treatments as prescribed by the patients physician. They report the status of their client’s progress to their supervisor, who is usually a family member, home health aide, nurse or social worker.

Nursing Assistants/Aides and Home Health Aides are more medically involved, and are, therefore, required by the federal government to receive specific training and accreditation. Since Personal Care Aides, or PCAs, do not administer physically invasive therapies and do not have to work under the supervision of a nurse, there are no federal requirements in place for this job category. Certification for Personal Care Aides is imperative for the safety and well being of the elderly population, Dr. Cathleen Carr, executive director of CertifiedCare explains. It indicates a commitment to quality, a desire for career stability and development of an enduring skills set to help reduce elder abuse and neglect.

The federal government recognizes the importance of the progress of the Personal Care Aide field. In 2010, six states were awarded grants by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to create a training and credentialing program. The Personal and Home Care Aide State Training Program (PHCAST) is apart of a three-year demonstration program called the Affordable Care Act. California, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan and North Carolina received a total of $ 4.2 million for the project.

With no federal regulation in place, states are taking it upon themselves to implement certain initiatives. Legislation in California for example, requires each county in the state to create a record complete with referrals and a background check of independent care providers providing support and services under the In-Home Services (IHSS) program. A bill passed in Washington requires Home Care Aides to complete 75 hours of long-term care basic training and then pass a certification exam. The training includes core competencies and population specific competencies. Connecticut has pending legislation that if passed, would establish a Personal Care Aide Workforce Council to recruit and train Personal Care Aides.

Other states do not have their sights set solely on regulation for the Personal Care Aide/Personal Home Aide category. Rather, they are focused more on Direct Care Workers as a whole favoring the more medically intensive job categories of Nursing Assistants/Nursing Aides and Home Health Aides when setting up legislation. “This is where proposed legislation misses the mark, says Dr. Carr. It is the Personal Care Aide who can help reduce costs of care, reduce re-admissions to emergency rooms and improve the patients overall sense of well being. Not every elderly person requires a nurse to respond to every need. Most elder needs are not health related at all, rather the activities of daily living are what they need the most help with. This is where state action needs to be focused. Filling this gap in the eldercare at-home paradigm is why CertifiedCare exists.”

As William F. Benson, Former US Principal Deputy Assistant, Secretary for Aging was quoted in a CDC document, establishing and strengthening policies that support caregivers is fundamental to the nations long-term care policy. With the elderly demographic growing, the need for safe and preventative measures in at home caregiving particularly among the Personal/Home Care Aide field is an increasing concern.

CertifiedCare Explains Development in Personal Care Aide Legislation that Protects the Rapidly Increasing Elderly Population is part three of a three-part series of topics covered by CertifiedCare.

About CertifiedCare

CertifiedCare offers family caregivers and Personal Care Workers certification in the area of elder caregiving in at home and assisted living institutional environments. CertifiedCare created the first online curriculum and training program for assisted living companions that incorporate law, business, and alternative therapies, while complying with the American Medical Association (AMA) Guidelines for elder caregiving. CertifiedCare has worked with over 1,000 caregivers from all over the United States and abroad.

CertifiedCare offers three caregiver certification programs for both family caregivers and professional Personal Care Workers: Basic Caregiving, Advanced Caregiving and Alzheimers-Dementia Specialist Certification programs. For more information on CertifiedCare and their programs, visit http://www.certifiedcare.org.

About Dr. Cathleen Carr

Dr. Cathleen Carr is the founder and executive director of CertifiedCare. She is a nationally recognized Eldercare Specialist in the areas of wills, trusts, probate, elder law and holistic health and wellness.

Dr. Carr is a published author on various topics including eldercare, natural health and green living. She is a contributing author to: Examiner.com, Radientlife, Suite101.com, Alternative Health Review, National Diet Institute, BestNaturalHealthDirectory.com, Natural Medicine Ink (editor) and eHealthScience. She also is an herbalist and naturopathic practitioner, where she specializes in therapeutic herbalism and restorative vibrational therapies.

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OregonLive.com Launches New iPad App for local Oregon News, Weather, Sports and More

Portland, OR (PRWEB) December 22, 2011

OregonLive.com has launched a new iPad app, with real-time local news, sports, entertainment, business, and opinion articles, photos and classifiedspowered by The Oregonian and Hillsboro Argus.

The OregonLive.com iPad app features content from Portlands leading news and information properties including OregonLive.com, The Oregonian and Hillsboro Argus.

The free app is available in the iTunes App Store. It was developed and launched with Advance Digital and Verve Wireless.

“We’re pleased to have this new way to get the superb work of our reporters out to a wider, digital audience,” said Peter Bhatia, editor of The Oregonian. “Our readers increasingly want news the way they want it. This app offers a way to get news to the tech-savvy audience that is so prevalent here.”

The app includes a bold, photo-driven home screen that automatically arranges top stories into an attractive, dynamic layout. Articles automatically adjust to portrait or landscape orientation. Article pages feature a clean look, with adjustable text size, and saving and sharing functions through Facebook, Twitter and iMessage.

“The iPad news app gives our readers more ways to stay connected. OregonLive.com continues to provide convenient platforms to help readers get the news in the way they want it, said John Jackson, general manager of OregonLive.com.

Articles with multiple photos automatically generate photo galleries. Intuitive swiping gestures quickly move the reader from one page to another. A convenient pop-up More Articles tray shows the 20 most recent stories in a section. Articles are downloaded and stored locally in the app for fast access, even when offline.

Content on the app includes news coverage of local communities throughout Oregon, high school sports, local pro and college teams; entertainment coverage of TV, movies, music and the local arts scene; and photo galleries and obituaries. Theres also local advertising and links to classifieds listings of jobs, autos, and homes for sale and rent.

Download the OregonLive.com iPad app from the App Store here.

About OregonLive.com

OregonLive.com, a subsidiary of Advance Digital, Inc., is the leading local website for news and information throughout Oregon featuring the latest Portland news, business, sports, travel, weather, traffic, shopping and entertainment information. In addition, OregonLive.com has a comprehensive business listings directory, as well as local classified listings for jobs, homes, apartment rentals and autos. OregonLive.com is powered by The Oregonian and Hillsboro Argus.

About The Oregonian

The Oregonian is the leading newspaper in Oregon, read by a majority of adults in the Portland area. The Pulitizer-prize winning paper delivers news and entertainment every day and has been telling the story of the Northwest for 160 years. Weekly features highlighting Northwest people, events and lifestyles include Community News, A&E, FOODday, Homes, Autos, and Homes & Gardens. Subscribe at oregonlive.com/oregoniansubscribe.

About Advance Digital

Advance Digital, Inc., based in Jersey City, NJ, provides digital information and connection solutions for local consumers and businesses. The company operates 11 media properties across the U.S. that are the number one local news, information and community hubs in the markets they serve. The sites include al.com, cleveland.com, gulflive.com, NJ.com, NOLA.com, OregonLive.com, SILive.com, syracuse.com, MassLive.com, PennLive.com, and lehighvalleylive.com.

About Verve Wireless

Verve monetizes local mobile media. Our solutions help local media companies monetize their mobile inventory and enable advertisers to reach a valuable, premium audience where they live, work and play. Over 1000 local publishers use the Verve platform to manage their mobile advertising businesses and help make their sales teams more effective. In addition, we bring incremental revenue to our publishers through our relationships with national advertisers, who value the Verve networks high quality local media companies, including the mobile outlets of recognized local media brands as well as newer digital-only local and hyper-local publishers. It is a brand-safe, editorially-driven, high-quality and transparent environment with market-leading targeting, creative and reporting capabilities. Only Verve has assembled such an extensive national footprint of high quality local media. Verve is located in San Diego, CA and Washington DC. For more information, visit http://www.vervewireless.com.

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Modular Buildings Aid KIPP Charter School Development

Mansfield, TX (PRWEB) January 12, 2012

Ramtech Building Systems, Mansfield, TX has announced that the company has secured a new contract for the design, fabrication, and construction of five modular buildings for KIPP Delta Public Schools of Helena, Arkansas. The project will provide for three 8,100 square foot eight-classroom buildings, a 3,600 square foot food preparation and cafeteria facility, and a 3,600 square foot administrative office complex. The modular buildings will be delivered and installed prior to the start of the 2012-2013 academic school year at their new campus location in Blytheville, Arkansas. This will be Ramtech’s second modular school construction project for KIPP, one of the nations largest charter school providers serving more than 32,000 students at 109 schools in 20 states and the District of Columbia. The new campus location is part of a four-acre development designed by Stuck & Associates Architects of Jonesboro, Arkansas. Ramtech will provide the modular buildings as a subcontractor to Rowan Construction Services of Marianna, Arkansas the general contractor selected for the project.

According to Gary White, Ramtech’s vice president of sales and estimating, KIPP was very pleased with the project that we did for them at their San Antonio, Texas campus so they encouraged the architectural firm that they selected to work with us on the modular building designs for this job also. The announcement for the KIPP project coincides with Ramtechs preparation for the February 1, 2012 launch of their new program to promote the benefits of using modular construction for charter schools. The initiative will provide an opportunity for educators to learn about the recent innovations and practical applications in the use of temporary and permanent modular buildings when developing new schools or additions to existing campuses. To aid in this effort, Ramtech has installed a fully-finished six-classroom modular floor plan facility available for tours and viewing at their Mansfield headquarters.

The charter school movement has experienced large growth in recent years with more than 500 new charter schools opened in the 2011-2012 school year alone. According to the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, nearly 2 million students nationwide are now enrolled in charter schools compared to 46 million students in traditional K-12 public schools. KIPP, which stands for the Knowledge Is Power Program, is a national network of free, open-enrollment, college-preparatory public schools with a track record of preparing students in underserved communities for success in college and in life. Nationally, more than 95 percent of KIPP middle school students have graduated high school, and more than 85 percent of KIPP alumni have gone on to college. The new campus will be known as the Blytheville College Preparatory School and will be KIPP’s second location in their Arkansas Delta Region. The development has been planned in two phases with the first phase providing facilities for elementary and middle school students and a future expansion designated for a new high school.

All of the modular buildings for the KIPP charter school project will be built at Ramtechs Mansfield, TX manufacturing facility, part of a 20 acre development located in the southern part of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. The company has convenient access to the major transportation arteries that serve cities throughout Texas and the Southwest. Structured as a vertically integrated design-build construction company, Ramtech provides space planning, design services, manufacturing, site construction and finish-out on every project they produce. The company maintains a consistent workforce of production workers and supervisory personnel with an average of 13 years experience, many with tenures over 20 years. This experience, coupled with Ramtechs approach to modular manufacturing and construction, allows for greater control at each step in the building process resulting in significant time and money savings for their clients.

About Ramtech Building Systems

Since 1982 Mansfield, Texas-based Ramtech Building Systems has been providing innovative modular buildings for government agencies, healthcare providers, Fortune 500 companies, and educational institutions throughout the Southern United States. As a design-build construction company, Ramtech offers full in-house design, a manufacturer direct product, and complete site construction services all within a single-source solution. By emphasizing a value engineering approach, Ramtech has successfully completed over 2,500 prefabricated buildings for diverse projects of all sizes. For more information, visit the company’s website at http://www.ramtechgroup.com.

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Concurrency Consultant Matt Sims Awarded Microsoft Certified Master in Lync Server 2010 Technology

Brookfield, Wisconsin (PRWEB) December 18, 2011

Concurrency employee Matt Sims has joined a highly select group of fewer than 20 individuals in the U.S. outside Microsoft to earn the designation Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) in Microsofts Lync Server 2010 technology. Matt qualified for the elite training this November based on previous certifications and extensive experience implementing communications-server solutions at an enterprise level for clients of Brookfield-based Concurrency.

Matt Sims is the only Wisconsin-based professional who has attained the MCM Lync Server certification.

Microsoft created the MCM training program and certification to recognize its most deeply experienced employees and third-party partners. Microsoft materials describe the elite program:

“To develop these programs, [Microsoft director of advanced training Per Farnys] team analyzed customer needs, assessed job roles within IT and sought feedback from key external partners, as well as from product groups and top consultants at Microsoft. ‘We asked those who design, build and troubleshoot the most complex solutions every day, Hey, if youre going to be a master, what do you need to know and what should the curriculum look like? What we came up with was a program that delivers real-world expertise and gives participants direct access to the respective product groups it provides authoritative training and answers to their technical questions straight from the source.’”

“From the customer perspective, if there is a need for a complex implementation or upgrade, or for assessing an existing solution or identifying and resolving issues, the call to action is simple: get a Microsoft Certified Master on the job.”

Matt Sims experience as a Concurrency consultant includes implementing Microsoft-based solutions for many of the regions most successful businesses, in sectors including manufacturing, healthcare, retail, business and consumer services, utilities and more.

Said Concurrency CEO James Savage, Were incredibly proud Matt has achieved the Microsoft Certified Master certification. His work epitomizes what were about at Concurrency. We work in a competitive industry, and the way we keep a competitive edge is to hire the best of the best and eliminate barriers to open communication.

About Concurrency

Concurrency, Inc., is an information technology solution company founded 1989. Its customers are among the most successful communication, construction, financial, insurance, professional services, logistics, and manufacturing companies in the Midwest. Concurrency is the Midwests authority on the Microsoft platform. As a Gold-Certified Partner, the company deploys solutions in SharePoint & Collaboration, Application Development, Core Infrastructure, Unified Communications, CRM and Microsoft Online Services. For over twenty-two years Concurrencys consultants have helped companies in Milwaukee, Madison, and Chicago improve business efficiencies and worker productivity. Visit http://www.concurrency.com for more information.

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Displaced workers, union leaders and fair trade advocates gathered outside the Blue Heron paper mill in Oregon City to release a new study about the affect of trade-related job loss on Oregon’s high unemployment rate. 2009 was an unprecedented year in Oregon for trade-related job losses certified by the US Labor Department — more than 300% higher than usual.

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