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  CIS: Massachusetts Statistics
Massachusetts lies between the parallels of 41 degrees 10' and 42 degrees 53' north latitude and between 69 degrees 57' and 73 degrees 30' west longitude.
Massachusetts topography varies greatly; from the rocky shores, sandy beaches and salt marshes of the coast; through rolling hills, and fertile valley to lofty wooded hills in the western part of the state.
Massachusetts soils vary widely in color and in character.
www.sec.state.ma.us /cis/cismaf/mf1c.htm   (1381 words)

  
 Regulatory Review of Adult Day Services: Final Report Section 1
Wisconsin's certification standards address adult day care programs operating in a multi-use facility that is not located in or connected to a nursing home (e.g., a residential care facility or hospital) and adult day care programs that are located in or connected to nursing homes.
Definitions of adult day services generally incorporate a statement about their purpose, thresholds for the number of people who can be served, limits on the number of hours a person may be served, and parameters for who may or may not be served.
Washington defines adult day care also in terms of the participants who may be served (i.e., those needing: (1) personal care services, (2) routine health monitoring with consultation from a registered nurse, (3) general therapeutic activities, or (4) supervision and/or protection for clients who require supervision or protection for their safety).
aspe.hhs.gov /daltcp/reports/adultday1.htm   (6497 words)

  
 Evacuation Day - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Evacuation Day refers to the date of evacuation of the British military from American cities in the American Revolutionary War.
Evacuation Day in Boston: occurred in March, 1776, still celebrated annually as a legal holiday in Suffolk County, Massachusetts.
Evacuation Day in New York: occurred on November 25, 1783, celebrated annually until World War I
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Evacuation_Day   (157 words)

  
 GROUP DAY CARE & SCHOOL AGE CHILDREN
Severe weather may be predicted over several days in advance in the case of hurricanes and winter storms or within a few hours or less for tornado and other wind, rain, or ice storms.
In the event of an emergency requiring an evacuation, the child care provider shall coordinate necessary provisions for the transportation and continued care until the children are picked up by parents or an authorized individual.
Evacuation may be ordered by public safety officials or by facility operators.
www.ci.cambridge.ma.us /~EM/daycare.htm   (2661 words)

  
 The Boston University Washington Journalism Center
She added that the staff followed Bass outside to the street corner designated as their meeting place and then went to a staff member's apartment, which they used as their "base of operations." Bass's staff learned it was safe to return to their building by way of a message from Capitol police to Bass's pager.
She said that staff members discussed the evacuation plan used by Bass's office on Sept. 11 and determined that it was effective.
Nevertheless, in light of the evacuation briefing held yesterday, Tibbetts said, some changes would be implemented." We did find some of their recommendations helpful," she said.
www.bu.edu /washjocenter/Fall2001stories/newswire_jenkins_capsafety.htm   (688 words)

  
 Attend the st patricks day, evacuation day, parade of the ancient and honorable artillery company.
Its also officially Evacuation Day, which commemorates the expulsion of British troops from South Boston by General Washington in 1776 and which is observed as the de facto legal holiday.
The day actually marks the anniversary of the re-occupation of Boston by American troops in 1776, according to noted Boston historian Thomas O'Connor.
Several days earlier, General George Washington had stationed regiments with cannons on the top of Dorchester Heights, where the British could see them from their ships docked in the Harbor.
www.ahacsite.org /stpat.htm   (210 words)

  
 Sterile Processing & Central Service Issues - The Sterilization Quality Assurance Process
In earlier days, a raw potato was sometimes placed in the sterilizer along with the load being processed and afterwards examined to see if it was cooked.
Massachusetts Bill Considering Patient Consent Law for Reprocessed SUDs Fuels Further Debate By Kris Ellis The practice of reprocessing single-use medical devices (SUDs) has been subject to increasing amounts of scrutiny and regulation in recent years.
A Day in the Life of Two Instruments in the Sterile Processing Cycle By Kathy Dix Instruments used in an operating room (OR) or procedure room lead a busy life.
www.infectioncontroltoday.com /articles/412/412_341feat4.html   (2507 words)

  
 Salem State College: Human Resources
As an employee of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are protected from personal liability as long as you are not negligent in the performance of your job.
Day division faculty and librarian personnel files are kept in the Office of the Vice President, Academic Affairs.
The personnel files for day and evening faculty of the Graduate School are kept in the office of the Dean of the Graduate School.
www.salemstate.edu /hr/HR-gen_info2.php   (1006 words)

  
 Evaluating Evacuation Day: St. Patrick's Day Might Be a Celebration of Immigration   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
This past Tuesday, Suffolk County here in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts marked a holiday apparently considered paramount to the history of the city of Boston: Evacuation Day.
Evacuation Day, as a historical event, is not of the same caliber as Patriot's Day or Bunker Hill Day.
Evacuation Day merely marks the day that the rump of the British contingency left this region to go attack other regions.
www-tech.mit.edu /V118/N14/ring.14c.html   (1110 words)

  
 Takings Clause Solution to Reparations
As early as 1770, a colonial Massachusetts Superior Court found slavery, pursuant to state common law, to be unconstitutional.
The Massachusetts court further held that the idea of slavery was inconsistent with the nation's own conduct and the Constitution.
In fact, the court called it "a mere practice," and stated that the Constitution declared all men were born free and equal, thus slavery was totally repugnant to the nation's ideologies.
academic.udayton.edu /race/02rights/repara39.htm   (6071 words)

  
 school day   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The building principal will meet all requirements for conducting fire, evacuation and lockdown drills to give students practice in moving with orderly dispatch to designated areas under emergency conditions and in lockdown procedures, and to provide the staff with practice in carrying out their assigned responsibilities for building evacuation and lockdown.
The school committee expects that proper attention will be paid to the safety of pupils on school property during the normal school day, during their participation in school sponsored extracurricular activities on school grounds, and at school functions scheduled away from school property.
It is the responsibility of the principal to arrange for adequate supervision of students on school property during the normal school day, as well as at extracurricular activities sponsored by the school district on school property, and school sponsored functions held off school property.
www.carlisle.mec.edu /general/handbook/schoolday.html   (3312 words)

  
 NewStandard: 6/17/97
Today is Bunker Hill Day, a day off for nearly 65,000 state employees and thousands of other patriots of the public payroll.
Today, Bunker Hill Day, along with Evacuation Day on March 17 marking the day in 1776 when the besieged British finally gave up Boston, is little noted except by government employees in Suffolk County.
Critics contend that Bunker Hill Day and Evacuation Day are relics of the past and that state employees should be working.
www.s-t.com /daily/06-97/06-17-97/a05sr028.htm   (715 words)

  
 Inhibitory actions of a high fibre diet on intestinal gas transit in healthy volunteers -- Gonlachanvit et al. 53 (11): ...
Evacuation was pulsatile with passage of 20.9 (2.5) boluses,
In each case, gas evacuation is pulsatile with passage of discrete boluses (arrows) after a lag period after initiation of jejunal gas perfusion during which time no gas expulsion occurs.
Figure 6  Numbers of gas evacuations during the two hours of the study (A) and calculated per 30 minutes of recording time after excluding the lag period (B) are shown for the standard diet and the diet supplemented with psyllium.
gut.bmjjournals.com /cgi/content/full/53/11/1577   (3504 words)

  
 History of St. Patrick   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
PATRICK'S DAY Although much of the life of the patron saint of Ireland is shrouded in legend, he was probably born around the year 389.
After three days at sea the traders landed, probably on the west coast of Gaul, and journeyed twenty-eight days through the desert.
In modern times St. Patrick's day has become primarily an ethnic holiday celebrating Irish heritage in much the same way as Columbus Day is a celebration of Italian ethnicity in the United States.
www.billpetro.com /HolidayHistory/hol/pat.html   (473 words)

  
 Boston Charter Day 2005
On this day in 1630, the town of Trimountaine was renamed Boston and declared the capital of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Besides the sheer size of the city - it has grown from 750 acres to 49 square miles since the founding - Boston has expanded from a small church-based sailing port to the hub of a sprawling region with a diverse array of industries and cultural institutions.
So much of the city's current shape owes itself to the jumbled pattern of streets that were established in the city's earliest days to accommodate the three hills, and to the helter-skelter way that the city fills waterways and annexed nearby communities.
www.ksg.harvard.edu /rappaport/charterday/oped_2001.htm   (1004 words)

  
 UMass Amherst : In the Loop : Weekly Bulletin : Evacuation Day is March 17
Evacuation Day will be observed as a state holiday on Thursday, March 17.
Since the campus must remain open and function as usual, employees who cannot be spared and who work on March 17 are entitled to another day off with pay in lieu of the holiday.
Employees who are not scheduled to work March 17 but whose normal work week is five or more days are also entitled to a paid day off in lieu of the holiday.
www.umass.edu /loop/weeklybulletin/articles/12118.php   (110 words)

  
 Holidays for the Calendar Year 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
An alternate day off requires the prior approval of the employee's department head in order to ensure that there are sufficient personnel in each department to process the business of the court and serve the needs of the public.
The eligibility of an employee for an alternate day off and the administration of such days off will be in accordance with the provisions of the "Holiday" Article contained in the applicable Collective Bargaining Agreements or the Personnel Policies and Procedures Manual.
Therefore, all employees of the Trial Court will receive an alternate day off with pay in lieu of January 1, 2005 to be taken in accordance with the provisions contained in the applicable Collective Bargaining Agreements or the Personnel Policies and Procedures Manual.
www.mass.gov /courts/admin/hr/holidays.html   (356 words)

  
 Massachusetts Legal Holidays
State, county, and municipal offices are closed on all of these days.
In Massachusetts certain holidays are subject to laws which restrict the type of work that may be performed as well as the kind of business and commercial activities that may remain open.
Retail establishments which operate on the summer holidays of Memorial Day, Independence Day, and Labor Day must pay time and one-half if at least eight employees are on the payroll in the week prior to the holiday.
www.sec.state.ma.us /cis/cishol/holidx.htm   (290 words)

  
 Cape Cod Media - February 2006
Hundreds of earthquakes occur every day around the world, most of them underneath the oceans, while the vast majority of instruments used to record earthquakes are on land.
Massachusetts' political leadership should be eagerly leading the charge toward a renewable energy future.
For Massachusetts homeowners and businesses, the deal would mark a sharp acceleration of a wave of utility consolidation that began soon after a 1998 state law was passed allowing utility deregulation and restructuring.
www.capecodtoday.com /blogs/index.php/headlines/2006/02   (11307 words)

  
 March 17
March 17 is the 76th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (77th in Leap years).
Patrick's Day is celebrated in New York City for the first time (at the Crown and Thistle Tavern).
Roman Empire - the second day of the Bacchanalia in honor of Bacchus
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ma/March_17.html   (539 words)

  
 Hurley v
Washington himself reportedly drew on the earlier tradition in choosing "St. Patrick" as the response to "Boston," the password used in the colonial lines on evacuation day.
Although the General Court of Massachusetts did not officially designate March 17 as Evacuation Day until 1938, the City Council of Boston had previously sponsored public celebrations of Evacuation Day, including notable commemorations on the centennial in 1876, and on the 125th anniversary in 1901, with its parade, salute, concert, and fireworks display.
When the law is applied to expressive activity in the way it was done here, its apparent object is simply to require speakers to modify the content of their expression to whatever extent beneficiaries of the law choose to alter it with messages of their own.
www.danpinello.com /Hurley.htm   (3922 words)

  
 Apex SQL Tools Blog: A belated St. Patrick's Day Greeting!
It is St. Patrick's day which all who know me understand has a special place in my heart.
In my younger days, I've pressed the flesh with Gerry Adams and Teddy Kennedy, been detained for "walking while catholic" on the mean streets of West Belfast and have looked down the business end of an Enfield.
It is celebrated in the commonwealth of Massachusetts as an official state holiday because it is "Evacuation Day"
www.apexsql.com /blog/2006/03/belated-st-patricks-day-greeting.htm   (485 words)

  
 The Harvard Crimson :: Opinion :: Unpatriotic Harvard
As the sun sets after a beautiful day, the streets are filled with people, the sound of bands and the sight of an international crowd gathered to celebrate.
Sure, Evacuation Day marks when the English left Boston for good, but something tells me that a dutiful Irish student blessed those Tories when he discovered they had left on March 17, just in time for a shamrock-laden celebration of another British Isle.
Perhaps all we need to do is ask; the officers I spoke with sounded like they had never faced the question before and had a hint in their voices that this might be an amenable change since, after all, they would be able to celebrate with their families as well.
www.thecrimson.com /printerfriendly.aspx?ref=93669   (1080 words)

  
 Mass Moments: Boston Celebrates First Evacuation Day
To commemorate the first Evacuation Day, 100,000 special medals were presented to the city's children.
The custom of parades on St. Patrick's Day was well established in Boston by the time the British Army occupied the city in the 1760s.
But it was not until 1901 that Evacuation Day became a legal holiday in Boston.
www.massmoments.org /moment.cfm?mid=83   (751 words)

  
 Mark J Lucas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Lucas attended the course at Fort Edwards, Massachusetts.
The purpose of the Air Assault Course is to train soldiers in Combat Air Assault Operations, Slingload Operations, and Rappelling.
The course familiarizes soldiers with the capabilities of Army aircraft, aircraft safety procedures, Pathfinder Operations and Aero-medical Evacuation.
www.markjlucas.com   (110 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Labor Day weekend hurricanes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
If a hurricane is going to ruin a holiday weekend, the long Labor Day weekend is the one that's most likely to be affected.
By Labor Day it was a weakening tropical storm inland near the North Carolina-Virginia border racing to the northeast.
A hurricane warning was issued for parts of Rhode Island and Massachusetts on Sunday, Sept. 1.
www.usatoday.com /weather/hurricane/history/labor-day-hurricanes.htm   (551 words)

  
 Emergency Evacuation Broadcasting and Notification AutoDialer Telephone Dialer Evacuation Plans
Emergency Evacuation notifications fail or never reach some people as evident from some of the Hurricane Katrina Stories; you can’t be everywhere and in everyplace.
AutoDialers are the modern way to evacuation any and all of your message in a one-on-one fashion using convenient east to use and understand Tools.
Large scale evacuations are aided in terrorist attacks or in man made or natural disasters.
www.opc-marketing.com /emergency_evacuation.html   (1379 words)

  
 Doctors Within Borders - CME Teaching Brief® - MedPage Today
The Charity health care system expanded by Louisiana Gov. Huey P. "Kingfish" Long in the 1930s provided free care to the poor, a progressive system in its day, but it was heavily weighted toward acute services and end-of-life care, at the expense of primary care and prevention.
The investigators found that the medical system was unprepared for wide-scale emergency services and evacuations of patients with special needs, such as those on dialysis or life support.
In the aftermath of terrorist bombings in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Massachusetts General Hospital worked with the State Department and Department of Health and Human Services to create the International Medical and Surgical Response team.
www.medpagetoday.com /PublicHealthPolicy/PublicHealth/tb/4033   (1384 words)

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