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CENTER FOR DOMESTIC PREPAREDNESS Train at the Nation's Premier WMD Training Center. The Center for Domestic Preparedness is the United States Department of Homeland Security's only federally chartered WMD training center. The Center began operations in June of 1998 as the only all hazards training center, offering training on Chemical, Ordinance, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear weapons of mass destruction. While our training tempo has dramatically increased since then, we provide the very best in Advanced Hands-On Training for America's Responders. If you are a state or local responder, this training is completely funded by the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security at no cost to you or your jurisdiction. We fly you into Atlanta Airport, pick you up, transport you to the Center (former site of Fort McClellan), and provide all meals and lodging as well as provide you with the best in WMD training available. http://cdp.dhs.gov/

NIMS FEMA Independent Study Program: IS-700 National Incident Management System (NIMS), An Introduction By the end of FY06, federal, state, local, tribal, private sector and non-governmental first responders and disaster workers at the entry level must take FEMA's IS-700 NIMS, An introduction and ICS-100, Introduction to ICS or equivalent, including Emergency Medical Service personnel, firefighters, hospital staff, law enforcement personnel, public health personnel, public works/utility personnel, skilled support personnel, and other emergency management response, support, volunteer personnel at all levels. Additionally, first line supervisors, single resource leaders, field supervisors and other emergency management/ response personnel who need higher levels of ICS/NIMS training must take all of the above listed courses plus ICS-200, Basic or its equivalent. http://www.fema.gov/nims/

STATE BILL The current bill which was introduced by Sen. Young and co-sponsored by Sen. Maziarz is: S.6255. The former number was: S4879-A and was originally introduced in 2001. Sen. Maziarz has amended the current one to exclude Medical Examiners and deputy Medical Examiners from the basic training given the nature of their professions. The bill simply states that upon being elected to office, before you actually take office you must take a Coroner 101 course providing basic knowledge of the County Law and some information with regards to death and death scene investigation as well as some basic information about filling out death certificates properly. This basic education is something similar in format to what the Elected Justice of the Peace have to go through before taking the bench after their election. Currently and hopefully for a long time, NYSACCME is the only venue where the Coroner 101 course is available. Coroner 101

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Meconium Aspiration - can happen before, during, or after labor and delivery when a newborn inhales (or aspirates) a mixture of meconium and amniotic fluid (the fluid in which the baby floats inside the amniotic sac). Meconium is the baby's first feces, or poop, which is sticky, thick, and dark green and is typically passed in the womb during early pregnancy and again in the first few days after birth.

The inhaled meconium can partially or completely block the baby's airways. Although air can flow past the meconium trapped in the baby's airways as the baby breathes in, the meconium becomes trapped in the airways when the baby breathes out. And so, the inhaled meconium irritates the baby's airways and makes it difficult to breathe.

Livor mortis or postmortem lividity, one of the signs of death, is a settling of the blood in the lower (dependent) portion of the body, causing a purplish red discoloration of the skin: when the heart is no longer agitating the blood, heavy red blood cells sink through the serum by action of gravity. This discoloration does not occur in the areas of the body that are in contact with the ground or another object, as the capillaries are compressed.

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http://www.nysaccme.org/ DAYS WITH THE MOST CRASH DEATHS, 1986-2002 Total deaths Avg. per day July 4 2,743 161 July 3 2,534 149 December 23 2,470 145 Days to Remember August 3 2,413 142 January 1 2,411 142 Data from The Insurance August 6 2,387 140 August 4 2,365 139 CRASH DEATHS August 12 2,359 139 BY DAY OF WEEK, 1986- 2002 July 2 2,340 138 September 2 2,336 137 Day of week Avg. per day ALL DAYS 117 Sunday 132 Monday 98 Tuesday 95 Wednesday 98 Thursday 105 Friday 133 Saturday 158 Institute for Highway Safety