Isabella Brooke Knightly and Austin Gamez-Knightly
In Memory of my Loving Husband, William F. Knightly Jr. Murdered by ILLEGAL Palliative Care at a Nashua, NH Hospital
Friday, June 11, 2010
Austin Knightly-Before DCYF and After
Austin, Happy,Before DCYF
Austin and his sister-now separated
Austin and Aunt Candy-His Protector
Austin and Mommy's last Christmas together
Austin's last outing to Canobie Lake Park with Grammie and Grampie
Austin in his pool
Austin and Grampie at Austin's 5th birthday party
Austin on an outing to Canobie Lake Park
AFTER DCYF!
Austin playing alone at the Childrens Home
Doped up at the Childrens Home
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Skin and bones at the Childrens Home
Austin and his sister-now separated
Austin and Aunt Candy-His Protector
Austin and Mommy's last Christmas together
Austin's last outing to Canobie Lake Park with Grammie and Grampie
Austin in his pool
Austin and Grampie at Austin's 5th birthday party
Austin on an outing to Canobie Lake Park
AFTER DCYF!
Austin playing alone at the Childrens Home
Doped up at the Childrens Home
+(1)Austin+with+frowns.jpg)
Skin and bones at the Childrens Home
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Message To Family Court Victims - Read This Book!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEGnweYCadg&feature=related
Ron Paul stop VAWA and TITLE 4 funding
Ron Paul, Stop V.A.W.A. & Title IV d
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Allegany Grandparents Chasing a Family Court Master Maslow
Allegany Grandparents Chasing a Family Court Master Maslow
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Boy tries to stuff foster mom in car trunk-(Is the money worth it?)
NEW: Boy tries to stuff foster mom in car trunk
Published: Thursday, June 10, 2010
Isn't fostering other peoples stolen children great?
By LINDA GITTLEMAN
Gratiot Managing Editor
A 15-year-old runaway from North Carolina who somehow ended up in Gratiot County’s foster care system allegedly assaulted his foster mother and tried to stuff her into the trunk of the family car early Wednesday evening.
The 66-year-old New Haven Township woman was able to fight her way out and fled in fear of her life, said Michigan State Post Commander Doug Wright.
“He actually picked her up and tried to put her in the trunk,” he said.
The boy then took the car and drove off.
By checking phone records, police were able to learn that the boy apparently had called a teenage friend in Lowell. State police troopers in Ithaca contacted the Lowell police, as well as the sheriff's department and state police there to keep an eye out for the car, Wright said.
Police in Lowell spotted the car sometime between 9 and 10 p.m., he said. A pursuit took place and eventually, stop sticks were used that flattened the tires.
The boy was taken into custody, and troopers from the Ithaca post picked him up.
The boy now is in a Saginaw juvenile detention facility waiting action from Gratiot County's Juvenile Court.
How the boy ended up in Gratiot’s system is not clear.
In January, he and his brother ran away from North Carolina to the mid-Michigan area. The pair were wanted by police in North Carolina for theft of handguns. Knowing that the boys had relatives in central Michigan, police in North Carolina notified state police in Ithaca.
State troopers contacted relatives and asked them to call police if they spotted the boys.
One relative did so and told police they were seen walking in the Perrinton area.
They were found and taken into custody.
No handguns were found, Wright said then, but they had marijuana and about $380 in cash on them.
Police believe the boys had taken a bus from North Carolina to Grand Rapids and found a friend to drive them to Gratiot County. Police speculate that the guns were sold either in North Carolina or Grand Rapids so that they could buy or sell drugs.
The 15-year-old and his brother never went back to North Carolina, and Wright said it’s not known why they were placed in temporary foster care in Michigan.
Wright said the foster mother suffered bruises and is very concerned for her safety.
http://www.themorningsun.com/articles/2010/06/10/news/doc4c1150ba5769e376478182.txt
Published: Thursday, June 10, 2010
Isn't fostering other peoples stolen children great?
By LINDA GITTLEMAN
Gratiot Managing Editor
A 15-year-old runaway from North Carolina who somehow ended up in Gratiot County’s foster care system allegedly assaulted his foster mother and tried to stuff her into the trunk of the family car early Wednesday evening.
The 66-year-old New Haven Township woman was able to fight her way out and fled in fear of her life, said Michigan State Post Commander Doug Wright.
“He actually picked her up and tried to put her in the trunk,” he said.
The boy then took the car and drove off.
By checking phone records, police were able to learn that the boy apparently had called a teenage friend in Lowell. State police troopers in Ithaca contacted the Lowell police, as well as the sheriff's department and state police there to keep an eye out for the car, Wright said.
Police in Lowell spotted the car sometime between 9 and 10 p.m., he said. A pursuit took place and eventually, stop sticks were used that flattened the tires.
The boy was taken into custody, and troopers from the Ithaca post picked him up.
The boy now is in a Saginaw juvenile detention facility waiting action from Gratiot County's Juvenile Court.
How the boy ended up in Gratiot’s system is not clear.
In January, he and his brother ran away from North Carolina to the mid-Michigan area. The pair were wanted by police in North Carolina for theft of handguns. Knowing that the boys had relatives in central Michigan, police in North Carolina notified state police in Ithaca.
State troopers contacted relatives and asked them to call police if they spotted the boys.
One relative did so and told police they were seen walking in the Perrinton area.
They were found and taken into custody.
No handguns were found, Wright said then, but they had marijuana and about $380 in cash on them.
Police believe the boys had taken a bus from North Carolina to Grand Rapids and found a friend to drive them to Gratiot County. Police speculate that the guns were sold either in North Carolina or Grand Rapids so that they could buy or sell drugs.
The 15-year-old and his brother never went back to North Carolina, and Wright said it’s not known why they were placed in temporary foster care in Michigan.
Wright said the foster mother suffered bruises and is very concerned for her safety.
http://www.themorningsun.com/articles/2010/06/10/news/doc4c1150ba5769e376478182.txt
Researchers find genes related to autism
Researchers find genes related to autism
Updated 21h 1m ago | |
Q&A FROM AUTISM STUDY
A study published in Nature answers some questions about autism's genetic roots but raises many others. USA TODAY's Liz Szabo asked experts to explain.
Q: Will the study help doctors diagnose autism?
A: Yes. Within a few years, children may be able to take a blood test to predict their risk of developing autism, says coauthor Louise Gallagher of Trinity College Dublin.
Q: Will the study help to develop new drugs for autism?
A: Doctors hope so.
The study points out new genetic targets, says co-author Anthony Monaco of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics in the United Kingdom. Drug companies are likely to test drugs that are already "on the shelf" to see whether any existing chemicals might correct some of these newly discovered genetic flaws.
Creating hundreds of new autism drugs for each genetic problem wouldn't be practical, says study co-author Stephen Scherer. But he notes that many of these defects are clustered on the same communication pathways involved with how brain cells talk to each other. So researchers may be able to create a drug that targets an entire pathway, correcting defects along that line.
Q: Does the study explain why diagnoses of autism are 10 times more common today than a decade ago?
A: No, says Bryan King of Seattle Children's Hospital, who wasn't involved in the study. Autism now occurs in one in every 110 children, according to Autism Speaks.
Q: So why are autism diagnoses rising?
A: The trend could be related to an increase in premature birth, older parents and use of assisted reprodutive technologies, which increase the risk of autism. It's possible that increased awareness has led to more diagnoses even if the real rate hasn't changed that much, King says.
AUTISM AT A GLANCE
Autism is an umbrella name for a family of disorders that begin in childhood, last a lifetime and disrupt a person's social and communication skills.
Prevalence
• 1 in 110 U.S. children is diagnosed with autism. Boys are four times more likely than girls to have autism.
• 1 million to 1.5 million Americans have an autism spectrum disorder
Diagnosis
• Less than a decade ago, the disease was diagnosed at age 3 or 4. Now it is routinely diagnosed at 2.
• Symptoms range from mild to severe. Many people with autism display rigid routines and repetitive behaviors.
Treatment
• There is no single treatment for children with autism. Most respond best to structured behavioral programs.
Cost
• Lifetime cost of caring for a child with autism: $3.5 million to $5 million
• Annual U.S. cost: $90 billion
Source: Autism Society of America and Autism Speaks
HEALTH REPORTER TWEETS
By Liz Szabo, USA TODAY
Scientists have found dozens of new autism-related genes, according to a study that eventually could help doctors develop better ways to diagnose and treat the condition.
Yet the study, published online Wednesday in Nature, also suggests that the genetic roots of autism are quite complicated.
Unlike children with cystic fibrosis, whose disease is caused by defects in a single gene, people with autism may share little in common genetically, says study co-author Stephen Scherer, who compared the DNA of nearly 1,000 children with autism with nearly 1,300 children who don't have autism.
But even the most common genetic changes in his study were found in only 1% or less of patients, Scherer says. That suggests that "most individuals with autism are probably genetically quite unique," says Scherer of the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, one of 120 scientists from 11 countries working on the study, called the Autism Genome Project.
As co-author Stanley Nelson of the University of California-Los Angeles describes it: "If you had 100 kids with autism, you could have 100 different genetic causes."
Taken together, these genetic changes could explain up to 20% of cases of autism, says Hakon Hakonarson, director of Children's Hospital of Philadelphia's Center for Applied Genomics, a co-author of the study, which was funded by Autism Speaks and the National Institutes of Health.
Researchers focused on a type of genetic change called "copy number variations," places where DNA has been either inserted or deleted. Because genes include instructions for making proteins, that can lead to an overdose of a protein, an underdose, a total absence of protein or a malfunctioning one, Hakonarson says.
But much about autism remains a mystery, including the cause of the other 80% of cases, says Bryan King, an autism expert at Seattle Children's Hospital. Study authors say they need to study the genes of many more children to get more precise answers about autism's genetic roots.
But doctors may one day be able to use these findings to offer parents an early genetic test to help predict children's risk of autism, says co-author Louise Gallagher of Trinity College Dublin.
The study also could lead to new drugs, because it points out new genetic targets, says co-author Anthony Monaco of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics in the United Kingdom.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2010-06-10-autism10_st_N.htm
Updated 21h 1m ago | |
Q&A FROM AUTISM STUDY
A study published in Nature answers some questions about autism's genetic roots but raises many others. USA TODAY's Liz Szabo asked experts to explain.
Q: Will the study help doctors diagnose autism?
A: Yes. Within a few years, children may be able to take a blood test to predict their risk of developing autism, says coauthor Louise Gallagher of Trinity College Dublin.
Q: Will the study help to develop new drugs for autism?
A: Doctors hope so.
The study points out new genetic targets, says co-author Anthony Monaco of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics in the United Kingdom. Drug companies are likely to test drugs that are already "on the shelf" to see whether any existing chemicals might correct some of these newly discovered genetic flaws.
Creating hundreds of new autism drugs for each genetic problem wouldn't be practical, says study co-author Stephen Scherer. But he notes that many of these defects are clustered on the same communication pathways involved with how brain cells talk to each other. So researchers may be able to create a drug that targets an entire pathway, correcting defects along that line.
Q: Does the study explain why diagnoses of autism are 10 times more common today than a decade ago?
A: No, says Bryan King of Seattle Children's Hospital, who wasn't involved in the study. Autism now occurs in one in every 110 children, according to Autism Speaks.
Q: So why are autism diagnoses rising?
A: The trend could be related to an increase in premature birth, older parents and use of assisted reprodutive technologies, which increase the risk of autism. It's possible that increased awareness has led to more diagnoses even if the real rate hasn't changed that much, King says.
AUTISM AT A GLANCE
Autism is an umbrella name for a family of disorders that begin in childhood, last a lifetime and disrupt a person's social and communication skills.
Prevalence
• 1 in 110 U.S. children is diagnosed with autism. Boys are four times more likely than girls to have autism.
• 1 million to 1.5 million Americans have an autism spectrum disorder
Diagnosis
• Less than a decade ago, the disease was diagnosed at age 3 or 4. Now it is routinely diagnosed at 2.
• Symptoms range from mild to severe. Many people with autism display rigid routines and repetitive behaviors.
Treatment
• There is no single treatment for children with autism. Most respond best to structured behavioral programs.
Cost
• Lifetime cost of caring for a child with autism: $3.5 million to $5 million
• Annual U.S. cost: $90 billion
Source: Autism Society of America and Autism Speaks
HEALTH REPORTER TWEETS
By Liz Szabo, USA TODAY
Scientists have found dozens of new autism-related genes, according to a study that eventually could help doctors develop better ways to diagnose and treat the condition.
Yet the study, published online Wednesday in Nature, also suggests that the genetic roots of autism are quite complicated.
Unlike children with cystic fibrosis, whose disease is caused by defects in a single gene, people with autism may share little in common genetically, says study co-author Stephen Scherer, who compared the DNA of nearly 1,000 children with autism with nearly 1,300 children who don't have autism.
But even the most common genetic changes in his study were found in only 1% or less of patients, Scherer says. That suggests that "most individuals with autism are probably genetically quite unique," says Scherer of the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, one of 120 scientists from 11 countries working on the study, called the Autism Genome Project.
As co-author Stanley Nelson of the University of California-Los Angeles describes it: "If you had 100 kids with autism, you could have 100 different genetic causes."
Taken together, these genetic changes could explain up to 20% of cases of autism, says Hakon Hakonarson, director of Children's Hospital of Philadelphia's Center for Applied Genomics, a co-author of the study, which was funded by Autism Speaks and the National Institutes of Health.
Researchers focused on a type of genetic change called "copy number variations," places where DNA has been either inserted or deleted. Because genes include instructions for making proteins, that can lead to an overdose of a protein, an underdose, a total absence of protein or a malfunctioning one, Hakonarson says.
But much about autism remains a mystery, including the cause of the other 80% of cases, says Bryan King, an autism expert at Seattle Children's Hospital. Study authors say they need to study the genes of many more children to get more precise answers about autism's genetic roots.
But doctors may one day be able to use these findings to offer parents an early genetic test to help predict children's risk of autism, says co-author Louise Gallagher of Trinity College Dublin.
The study also could lead to new drugs, because it points out new genetic targets, says co-author Anthony Monaco of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics in the United Kingdom.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2010-06-10-autism10_st_N.htm
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