text:
The Solar-Log 1900 is the perfect solution for monitoring and controlling large-scale PV plants and solar power stations with a maximum plant size of 2000 kWp. The energy management system offers comprehensive reporting options. With just a few components, a wide range of extra functions can be added, e.g. confirmation of the current amount of feed-in power.
|Article number
The inverter detection and Internet registration are carried out immediately. The installation status is indicated on the LCD status display. It is possible to configure the Solar-Log® via the PC Web interface.
For plants larger than 100 kWp in Germany, remote control of the reactive power supply and power limitations are required along with a confirmation of the current amount of feed-in power. Solare Datensysteme offers a grid company specific "PM Packages."
Fit for the future with Solar-Log WEB Enerest™ – central control element for installers and service providers. The Solar-Log WEB Enerest™ is available in three different service levels and price classes to respond even better to the differing needs of individual customer groups. The M, L and XL editions make it possible to find the perfect fit for the needs of the plant owner and to offer the most optimal service. The system provides banks and investors reliable protection and professional monitoring for PV investments.
A maximum of 100 inverters, just one manufacturer per bus, maximum plant size 2000 kWp.
The interfaces can be used to connect inverters (up to two different manufacturers) and components such as the Utility Meter, Pyranometer and SCBs. The Solar-Log 1900 Standard and Solar-Log 1900 PM+ have two RS485/RS422 interfaces and one RS485 interface.


text:
- Alabama Court Records
- Alaska Court Records
- Arizona Court Records
- Arkansas Court Records
- California Court Records
- Colorado Court Records
- Connecticut Court Records
- Delaware Court Records
- District of Columbia Court Records
- Florida Court Records
- Georgia Court Records
- Hawaii Court Records
- Idaho Court Records
- Illinois Court Records
- Indiana Court Records
- Iowa Court Records
- Kansas Court Records
- Kentucky Court Records
- Louisiana Court Records
- Maine Court Records
- Maryland Court Records
- Massachusetts Court Records
- Michigan Court Records
- Minnesota Court Records
- Mississippi Court Records
- Missouri Court Records
- Montana Court Records
- Nebraska Court Records
- Nevada Court Records
- New Hampshire Court Records
- New Jersey Court Records
- New Mexico Court Records
- New York Court Records
- North Carolina Court Records
- North Dakota Court Records
- Ohio Court Records
- Oklahoma Court Records
- Oregon Court Records
- Pennsylvania Court Records
- Rhode Island Court Records
- South Carolina Court Records
- South Dakota Court Records
- Tennessee Court Records
- Texas Court Records
- Utah Court Records
- Vermont Court Records
- Virginia Court Records
- Washington Court Records
- West Virginia Court Records
- Wisconsin Court Records
- Wyoming Court Records
What are Court Records?
Every time a case is brought to a United States court, a unique court record for that case is created. These court records may detail anything from the full names (and sometimes addresses) of the plaintiffs, defendants and attorneys, to the specific US statute violation in question and, of course, a case's final judgment. From arrest records to bankruptcy records, there are as many different types of court records as there are types of court cases.
Why Search Court Records?
Searching court records allows you to privately review anyone, and to learn the final judgment on many a case. There are hundreds of reasons a person might perform a court records search, from uncovering information on a case brought against a friend or associate, to confirming that your fiance's divorce is, in fact, final. Court records are some of the most comprehensive and credible public records available, which might explain why court house records are the most widely sought-after form of public record in the United States.
In addition to detailing the specifics of a particular case, court records are a great starting source for allowing you to uncover a person's public information like: age or date of birth, alias or maiden name, public or private associations, address histories and more.
Difficulties Finding and Using Court Records
While court records are some of the most detailed and reliable sources for pubic information, they are not always the most conveniently located or organized. In fact, searching for court records can prove quite difficult if you haven't done your research.
One of the major barriers to finding court records is knowing where to look, and what information you'll need to begin your search. This confusion is due to the lack of standardization in the court record keeping systems across the courts of the United States. Courts in the US exist at four levels: federal (nationwide), state, county (or parish) and local. Records, and their systems for organization, can vary from county to county, state to state or state to federal. Every court is different and each has their record keeping systems, levels of public access and case organization.
Before you begin your search, it will be helpful to know how the court that pertains to your case of interest operates. Reviewing the basics of the United States Court System organization is an excellent place to start your research.
How We Can Help You
As a recognized and trusted online records information provider, we provide you access to a network of multiple data sources, helping you find the exact records you are looking for. Our service will search for the court record data from thousands of sources, public and private, bringing it quickly and conveniently right to your screen.
Access to public court records is your right. What you choose to do with them (within the law) is based on your individual circumstances. Here you'll find resources to help with your court house records search, from specific information about a particular district court to tips on court record search initiatives and how to make the most of court record search.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Guademy 2007 Event Report
The first Guademy event finished yesterday at the university of A Coruña, Spain. Organized by the GPUL (Grupo de Programadores y Usuarios de Linux), the Linux User Group of A Coruña, it was an event which brought together people from the GNOME and KDE camp (thus the combination of "GUADEC" and "aKademy" that forms the name of the event). Read on for a short report of the event.
The Guademy started on the 23rd of March and concluded on the 25th, and was sponsored by Trolltech and Igalia. The three days of the conference were filled with talks about KDE and GNOME as well as talks about co-operation between the projects. For a first-hand account of the talks, you can read Rafael Fernandez blog entries here and here.
After all the talks on Friday, a Queimada was organized, including the traditional chants that are sung while it's prepared. In order to "release stress", the organizers of the event set up a soccer match between KDE and GNOME developers for the Saturday afternoon. The result of the game is better left unwritten :). On Saturday night, we had a great dinner in a local restaurant, with lots of really nice food from the local area and drinks that forced many people miss the first talks on Sunday.
All the talks were recorded on video and will be published on the conference site, at guademy.org together with the slides and related information.
We would like to thank the organizers, who did a great job with the event - everyone had a great time. We hope it is the first of a long series of Guademy co-operative events!
Oh no!!!!
Are you good at soccer? Want an @kde.org email address. Please sign up for the team right now. No development skills needed!
Did somebody file a critical bug report on this yet?
By Martin at Wed, 2007/03/28 - 5:00am
From a kde guademy organizer
Next year I will work more. First I am speaking with a pair of professional football players. Second, arbiter will not be a Gnome user on next Guademy. ;)
By Juanjo Iglesias at Wed, 2007/03/28 - 5:00am
Keep on losing soccer matchs
Let's assume it: either we develop great KDE code, or we train to win a soccer match. It looks like KDE people like the former and Gnome people the latter :-)
By Pau Garcia i Quiles at Wed, 2007/03/28 - 5:00am
Re: Keep on losing soccer matchs
It comes as no surprise to me that Gnome people would prefer training for a soccer match to writing great KDE code. I'm sure KDE people would prefer to train for a soccer match if the alternative was writing great Gnome code. :)
By Henry Miller at Wed, 2007/03/28 - 5:00am
Events like these...
Events like these really excite me when I hear them! Thanks a ton GPUL, and I hope KDE & Gnome developers can continue the good will by supporting each other in the linux/desktop world!
- Vlad
By Vlad at Wed, 2007/03/28 - 5:00am
Hope this will happen soon again
This was just a really really nice experience :)) Thx to everybuddy !!
By Rafael Fernánde... at Wed, 2007/03/28 - 5:00am
There are not many international open source-related events in Galiza. I hope there are more in the near future :D
By sup at Tue, 2007/04/10 - 5:00am


text:
LONDON, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- Winter weather conditions wreaked havoc across much of Europe Friday, with travel delays, school and public office closures and deaths, officials said.
Central and Eastern Europe got the worst of the recent weather, with heavy snow and subzero temperatures that have claimed about 540 lives, The Daily Telegraph reported. Temperatures were forecast to plunge to about minus-40 F in the mountains of the Czech Republic during the weekend, the British newspaper said.
About 70,000 people in Serbia were isolated by deep snow that has inundated the Balkans, forcing the use of helicopters to fly in food supplies. About 20,000 people in Romania, where snow up to 13 feet deep prevented travel, were dealing with dwindling food supplies, as well, the Telegraph said.
In Ukraine, the worst-affected country, about 140 people have died, while more than 3,000 people have been treated at hospitals for frost bite and hypothermia.
Ukrainian officials said more than 120 ships were trapped in the Kerch Strait because the waterway froze, CNN reported.
Parts of the Danube River were frozen across Europe, interrupting transport down the river.
The death toll in Poland was at 82, the Telegraph said.
In Italy, were 40 deaths have been recorded, schools and public offices were closed Friday while crews worked to plow roadways, Italy's ANSA news agency reported.
Traveling in England was hazardous Friday, the Telegraph reported.
Road accidents were reported across the country, with at least one fatality in Wales.
Flooding, caused by water pipes that burst in the extreme cold, was also reported across the country.


text:
10 States That Spend More on Prisons Than Education
Education spending is vital to the livelihood and well-being of every state, and so is prison spending. But in some states, prisons seem to be more important, taking up more funding in state budgets than K-12 and college education spending. Often, the money for both comes out of the same general fund, so money spent on prisons is money that's taken from education, trading prisoner comfort for student education. Experts point out that this is a dangerous situation, as failing to effectively educate students may very well have those same students turning to crime later in life, putting further financial burden on the budget of state prisons, and impairing their lives. Which states are in the highly dangerous situation of spending more on prisons than education? Read on to find out.
California is often cited as the worst offender when it comes to spending more on corrections than education, and it's no wonder why: the state spent $9.6 billion on prisons in 2011, but just $5.7 billion on higher education. Overall, the state spends $8,667 for each student, but about $50,000 per inmate, per year. And in the last 30 years, California has built one new college campus, but 20 new prisons. In the high-crime neighborhoods of LA, things are especially bad. More than a billion dollars are spent each year to keep residents from high-crime neighborhoods in LA, but the LA Unified School District had a deficit of $640 million in the 2010 to 2011 school year, resulting in layoffs and larger class sizes.
Vermont has been called out for spending more on prisons than education, to the tune of $1.37 per inmate for every $1 spent on students in the state. In 2011, the state spent roughly $92 million on education, overshadowed by the $111.3 million spent on prisons. In Vermont, each inmate costs nearly $50,000 annually. The state's prison population has doubled in size over the past decade and is expected to increase three times as fast as the general resident population over the next decade.
In 2009, the School District of Philadelphia fell $147 million short of its budget after losing $160 million in state funding, but at the same time, Philly taxpayers spent almost $290 million on prisons for residents from 11 of Philadelphia's neighborhoods. The balance of money for prisons vs. education is bad in Philadelphia, but it's not great in the rest of the state, either. Prisons in Pennsylvania edged out education by a million dollars, with $2.1 billion going to corrections and $2 billion for education. It costs more than $42,000 per year to keep a Pennsylvanian inmate in prison.
For such a small state, Delaware spends quite a bit of money on its inmates: $32,967 per year, per inmate. So much so, that the expense not only matches, but exceeds what the state spends on education. In 2011, Delaware spent $212.5 in state monies for education, and $215.2 million on prisons. However, if you take away the $3.5 million spent on inmate education and training that could have been used for schoolkids and higher education, they're just about even.
Rhode Island:
Another tiny state with a huge prison budget, Rhode Island spent $172.1 million on prisons in 2010. That's over $10 million more than the state contributed to education, with $161.9 billion of Rhode Island's education budget coming from the state. The small state spends more than $49,000 for each inmate every year.
New York:
In New York State, it seems that inmates have it pretty good. The state spends a whopping average of $56,000 per year, per inmate. But students don't enjoy the same luxuries, with $40,000 less per person as their education is funded with just $16,000 per year from the state. New York has the honor of being the state that spends the least on education. On average, states spend 36% of their budget on education, but New York spends just 28%.
Michigan keeps inmate costs lower than other states, with $28,570 spent on each prisoner per year. But at the same time, students aren't getting much financial help from the state, either, with just $9,575 per year in average spending for each student. In fact, prisoners are able to take advantage of amenities like free health care, cable TV, access to a library, free sports programs, and even funding to earn a degree. Yes, you read that right: Michigan won't dish out enough money to help regular students, but they'll help foot the bill for inmates to get a college education.
Amid talks of education funding cuts, Georgia's students are already suffering financially compared to the funding that inmates get. Georgia has the fourth largest prison system in the US, and inmate spending far outstrips that of student spending. The state spends $18,000 per year to house just one inmate, but only $3,800 for K-12 students. College students are allotted $6,300, but that's still just over a third of what the state has to spend for each Georgia inmate.
In Arizona, prisons are a higher priority than education. In fact, they're a 40% higher priority. About 10 years ago, the state spent 40% more on universities than on prisons, but these days, the tables have turned: Arizona now spends 40% more on prisons than universities. How did this happen? Prison funding has gone up by 75% in the last 10 years, while university funding has declined 11%. Experts say that this spending imbalance is largely related to who's in prison, and how long they stay. All non-violent offenders in Arizona are required to serve at least 85% of their sentence. They're the only state in the country to do so, and it's a major factor in driving up prison costs.
Washington State spends a pretty generous amount on public school students, with a $1.5 billion budget and a per-student expenditure of about $6,500. But compared to what the state spends on inmates, it's just a drop in the bucket. The state spends $34,500 per year, per inmate, five times as much money on prisons than schools. Experts in the state (and nationwide) are concerned that there's a "schools to prison pipeline," with an emerging trend of lower rates of graduation and higher rates of incarceration.


text:
Just when you thought that Secaucus was a dying outlet center, Dolce & Gabbana comes to save the neighborhood. The brand's Woodbury store is under construction and New Jersey is the beneifciary of their wonderful discounted overstock.
The outlet includes Dolce & Gabbana and D&G for men and women, accessories, shoes and kids. Right now, product from the spring 2011 collection is 50% off, spring 2010 is 85% off and fall/winter 2009 is 85% off. A strapless silk chiffon eyelet dress is $660 from $4,395, black python and patent leather pumps are $112 from $750, a men's luxury fit suit is $240 from $1595 and a D&G quilted Lily bag is $535 from $1070.
Those prices deffinitly make an outting attractive. This is also the only location where you can find outleted (yes, we're making that a verb now) D&G kids merchandise. No one knows how long the Secaucus store will be open, so we're going to take advantage while we can.
Dolce & Gabbana Outlet
900 Secaucus Road
Secaucus, NJ
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Dolce & Gabbana Open Secaucus Outlet
Posted by Lila Delilah at 3:27 PM
Labels: Outlets
3 comments:
I happened to go in there the last weekend of July. Had no idea it was there. I bought a pair of nude strappy heels for $97 from $650.
- August 17, 2011 at 11:12 AM
- Jess said...
you can find outlet coupons you can print at home at our site eFactoryOutlets.com.
We would love your readers reviews and comments on or our site
- August 21, 2011 at 11:40 PM
- melike said...
hi, do u know any outlet mall near to madison new jersey? i am new in here (for 2 weeks) so i dont know anywhere. thanks...
- August 27, 2011 at 10:11 PM
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)


text:
San Mateo County elections officials have found dozens of uncounted ballots from the Nov. 6 election inside a storage vault.
Mark Church, the county's chief elections officer, tells The Palo Alto Daily News ( https://bit.ly/14ADOS0 ) that his office is investigating why the 65 ballots were misplaced.
Church said there were not nearly enough ballots to change the election results, but said an investigation is warranted because each vote is significant.
Workers found the ballots in a storage vault at the county's elections office in San Mateo.
Church says the ballots from Redwood City were in a sealed case in the vault that had been placed in a covered bin, preventing them from being seen.
Elections Manager David Tom says he suspects temporary workers put the ballots in the covered bin.
Information from: Palo Alto Daily News, https://www.paloaltodailynews.com


text: Sijun Forums :: View topic - Wacom PenTool Plug-in Log in to check your private messages Sijun Forums Forum Index >> Archive : Sep99 - Dec00 View previous topic :: View next topic Author Topic : "Wacom PenTool Plug-in" Trance-RmemberMember #Joined: 03 Nov 1999Posts: 360Location: Burnaby, BC, Canada Posted: Fri Nov 05, 1999 10:38 pm *Clear Throat"... For those of you using Wacom Tablets, the website released a Photoshop Plug-in called PenToolz... it has emboss and what? *puzzled* despeckle? Thought you ppl mite be interested... (I don't own a tablet) <-----NOT HAPPY 'BOUT THAT. http://www.wacom.co.jp/asia-pacific/product/pentools.html ------------------ Trance-R =P firstname.lastname@example.com Back to top imdakingmemberMember #Joined: 22 Oct 1999Posts: 321Location: USA Posted: Fri Nov 05, 1999 11:37 pm whoopa~ thanks trans! i wuz looking for these, i thought i would have had to fork out some more dough........ thanks! Back to top imdakingmemberMember #Joined: 22 Oct 1999Posts: 321Location: USA Posted: Fri Nov 05, 1999 11:39 pm ahh crap.... the d/l didnt work!!! ARGH! Back to top SPike.CoMmemberMember #Joined: 22 Oct 1999Posts: 194Location: Helsingborg, Sweden Posted: Sat Nov 06, 1999 6:48 am Yeah, I downloaded it a year ago, never got any good use of it. Most of the plug-ins are crap anyways. Cheers.. Back to top MuzmanmemberMember #Joined: 12 Jan 2000Posts: 675Location: Western Australia Posted: Sun Nov 07, 1999 12:14 am I got a disk load of filters with a front end with my tablet. didn't you guys? Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Sijun Forums Forum Index -> Archive : Sep99 - Dec00 All times are GMT - 8 Hours Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Digital Art----------------Digital Art DiscussionWork in ProgressGallery/Finished Work Miscellaneous----------------Random MusingsArchive : Sep99 - Dec00 You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum Powered by phpBB © 2005 phpBB Group


text:
FERPA Online Library
|MS Word (42 KB)
February 25, 2004
Ms. Amy C. Foerster
Assistant Counsel
Department of Education
333 Market Street
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17126-0333
Dear Ms. Foerster:
This is in response to your letter, dated January 15, 2004, in which you asked for guidance on the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), 20 U.S.C. § 1232g. Specifically, you state that the Federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has entered into an agreement with the Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities Research and Epidemiology (CADDRE) at the University of Pennsylvania for the purpose of performing an autism prevalence study. You further explain that, in order to conduct the study, the study sites across the country have entered into Memorandum of Understandings (MOUs) with their respective State departments of education in order to obtain access to the records of students whom school districts have identified as developmentally disabled. You ask whether such an MOU violates the requirements of FERPA. This Office administers FERPA and provides technical assistance to educational agencies and institutions to ensure compliance with the statute and regulations codified at 34 CFR Part 99.
In general, parents have the right under FERPA to inspect and review their children's education records and to seek to have them amended in certain circumstances. 34 CFR Part 99, Subparts B and C. In addition, an educational agency or institution subject to FERPA may not have a policy or practice of disclosing education records, or non-directory, personally identifiable information from education records, without the written consent of the parent or eligible student, except as provided by law. 34 CFR Part 99, Subpart D. "Education records" are defined as records that are directly related to a student and maintained by an educational agency or institution or by a party acting for the agency or institution. 34 CFR § 99.3 ("Education records"). It is our understanding that the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) obtained the records sought by CADDRE from schools and school districts pursuant to PDE's responsibility under the Individuals with Disability Education Act (IDEA) for ensuring that the Federal legal requirements of IDEA are met. As such, the information requested by CADDRE clearly falls within the definition of "education records" under FERPA.
FERPA applies to "educational agencies and institutions" that receive funds under any program administered by the Secretary of Education. 34 CFR 99.1. Most local public schools and school districts (local educational agencies, or LEAs) are subject to FERPA because they receive Department funds and meet the description of an "educational agency" or "educational institution" provided in § 99.1 of the FERPA regulations. While a State educational agency (SEA) may receive funds from the Department, as a practical matter, FERPA generally would not apply to the records of an SEA. This is because FERPA defines "education records" as information directly related to a "student," which itself is defined as excluding a person who has not been in attendance at the educational agency or institution. 20 U.S.C. § 1232g(a)(4) and (a)(6). Since students generally are not in attendance at an SEA, it follows that FERPA does not generally apply to the SEA's records. (Congress amended FERPA in § 249 of the Improving America's Schools Act of 1994 so that parents have the right to inspect and review education records maintained by an SEA, including records that an SEA creates or receives from local school districts or other sources. See 34 CFR § 99.10(a)(2).)
LEAs and their constituent schools most often disclose education records to SEAs under §§ 99.31(a)(3)(iv) and 99.35 of the FERPA regulations, which permit disclosure without written consent to "authorized representatives of … State and local educational authorities" provided the disclosure is in connection with:
- An audit or evaluation of Federal or State supported education programs; or
- Enforcement of, or compliance with, Federal legal requirements relating to such programs.
Information collected under this provision must be:
- Protected in a manner that does not permit personal identification of individuals by anyone except the officials listed in 34 CFR 99.31(a)(3); and
- Destroyed when no longer needed for the purposes for which it was disclosed.
In this case, we are aware of no exception to the written consent rule other than § 99.31(a)(3) that would permit schools and LEAs to disclose the information to PDE without written parental consent in order for PDE to perform its responsibility of ensuring that the Federal legal requirements of IDEA are met. Accordingly, information disclosed to PDE and other officials listed in 34 CFR § 99.31(a)(3) may not be redisclosed in personally identifiable form, intentionally or otherwise, to anyone other than authorized representatives of PDE and must be destroyed when no longer needed for the audit or evaluation purpose for which it was collected. It should noted be that "disclosure" not only means the transmitting or releasing of information to a third party but encompasses permitting a third party to have access to the information in any manner, including oral, written, or electronic means. 34 CFR § 99.3 ("Disclosure"). Thus, allowing a party that is not an official of the SEA to inspect and review personally identifiable information would constitute a "disclosure" of personally identifiable information under FERPA.
We are aware that some SEAs have entered into agreements with state departments of health or other entities that are grantees of CDC as part of CDC's population-based surveillance projects for children with autism and other developmental disabilities, pursuant to CDC's obligations under Section 102 of the Children's Health Act of 2000 (P.L. 106-310, October 17, 2000). In some cases, the SEA has used an MOU to designate the state health department or other entity as its "authorized representative" for purposes of meeting the requirements of §§ 99.31(a)(3)(iv) and 99.35 of the FERPA regulations, as described above.
Earlier this year, the Department issued guidance regarding whether FERPA permits a State or local educational authority, such as an SEA, to authorize or designate another State agency as its "authorized representative" in order to conduct data matching with the other entity. This memorandum was issued to all Chief State School Officers on January 30, 2003, by former Deputy Secretary William D. Hansen and is available on this Office's website (www.ed.gov/offices/OII/fpco). The Deputy Secretary's memorandum rescinded (effective April 30) previous Department guidance that relied on an expansive interpretation of the term "authorized representative" in § 99.31(a)(3) to support data matching with state labor departments and other non-educational agencies in order to meet Workforce Investment Act and other Federal reporting requirements. It grew out of concern that unlimited discretion to appoint or designate an "authorized representative" for data matching purposes essentially vitiates the specific conditions for nonconsensual disclosure under §§ 99.31(a)(3) and 99.35 and, more generally, FERPA's prohibition on disclosure without written consent. The memo explains that multiple references to "officials" in the statutory text for this exception reflect congressional concern that the "authorized representatives" of a State educational authority (or other official listed in § 99.31(a)(3)) must be under the direct control of that authority, which means an employee, appointed official, or "contractor."
"Contractor" in this sense means outsourcing or using third-parties to provide services that the State educational authority would otherwise provide for itself, in circumstances where internal disclosure would be appropriate under § 99.35 if the State educational authority were providing the service itself, and where the parties have entered into an agreement that establishes the State educational authority's direct control over the contractor with respect to the service provided by the contractor. Any contractor that obtains access to personally identifiable information from education records in these circumstances is bound by the same restrictions on redisclosure and destruction of information that apply to the State educational authority itself under § 99.35, and the State educational authority is responsible for ensuring that its contractor does not redisclose or allow any other party to have access to any personally identifiable information from education records.
In the circumstances you described, CADDRE may not serve as an "authorized representative" of PDE under § 99.31(a)(3) of the FERPA regulations because CADDRE personnel are not employees, appointed officials, or contractors under the direct control of PDE, the State educational authority. That is, PDE may not enter into an MOU or some other type of agreement with CADDRE or some other outside agency to disclose personally identifiable information from education records to CADDRE.
Some educational agencies and institutions have asked whether FERPA would permit them to disclose information to outside researchers under the "study" provision of FERPA. See 20 U.S.C. § 1232g(b)(1)(F). Under FERPA, an educational agency or institution may generally disclose personally identifiable, non-directory information, without obtaining prior written consent, to organizations conducting studies for, or on behalf of, the agency or institution, in order to:
(A) develop, validate, or administer predictive tests;
(B) administer student aid programs; or
(C) improve instruction.
34 CFR § 99.31(a)(6); 20 U.S.C. § 1232g(b)(1)(F). The agency or institution may release information under this provision only if:
(A) the study is conducted in a manner that does not permit personal identification of parents and students by individuals other than representatives of the organization; and
(B) the information is destroyed when no longer needed for the purposes for which the study was conducted.
As with the FERPA provision for disclosure of information to State and local educational authorities, discussed above, recipients of information from education records under this provision may not redisclose information in personally identifiable form except to officials of the organization conducting the study for which the information was originally disclosed.
Implicit in the "study" exception is the notion that an educational agency or institution has authorized a study. The fact that an outside entity, on its own initiative, conducts a study which may benefit an educational agency or institution, does not transform the study into one done "for or on behalf of" the educational agency or institution.
There are ways in which an educational agency or institution may participate in research such as the surveillance of children with autism and other developmental disabilities without violating FERPA. First, nothing in FERPA prohibits the PDE or an LEA or school from disclosing information in aggregate or other non-personally identifiable form. As noted earlier, FERPA specifically prevents the disclosure of personally identifiable information from education records, without the prior written consent of parents and students under § 99.30, including:
(a) the student's name;
(b) the name of the student's parent or other family member;
(c) the address of the student or student's family;
(d) a personal identifier, such as the student's social security number or student number;
(e) a list of personal characteristics that would make the student's identity easily traceable; or
(f) other information that would make the student's identity easily traceable.
In order to make sure that student-level information is not personally identifiable, in circumstances that can lead to identification of an individual, the disclosing educational agency or institution (the PDE or LEA or school) would need to remove not only name and ID number but also "personal characteristics" and "other information that would make the student's identity easily traceable," which means such factors as physical description (race, sex, appearance, etc.); date and place of birth; religion and national origin; participation in sports, clubs, and other activities; academic performance; employment; disciplinary actions or criminal proceedings, etc. "Other information that would make the student's identity easily traceable" may also be implicated in the release of small numbers of aggregated or statistical information from education records.
Second, nothing in FERPA prohibits school officials from asking parents for their consent in order to disclose personally identifiable information on students to CADDRE officials. The written consent required before an educational agency or institution may disclose personally identifiable, non-directory information from education records should:
(1) specify the records that may be disclosed;
(2) state the purpose of the disclosure; and
(3) identify the party or class of parties to whom the disclosure may be made.
34 CFR § 99.30(b); see 20 U.S.C. § 1232g(b)(2)(A).
If requested, the agency or institution must provide a parent or student with a copy of the records disclosed. 34 CFR § 99.30(c).
I trust that this adequately explains the scope and limitations of FERPA as it relates to the disclosure of personally identifiable information by the PDE, LEAs, and/or schools to CADDRE.
Should you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact this Office at the following address and telephone number:
Family Policy Compliance Office
Office of Innovation and Improvement
U.S. Department of Education
400 Maryland Avenue, S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20202-5901
(202) 260-3887
LeRoy S. Rooker
Family Policy Compliance Office
cc: Gerald Zahorchak
Deputy Secretary
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education
John J. Tommasini
Assistant Director
Bureau of Special Education


text:
The Lazy Girl's Holiday Detox
Happy Thanksgiving y'all! Hope it was filled with family, free-range turkey, and plenty of crunchy stuffing bits on top. Instead of inundating you with sales and coupon codes today, I'm going to get down to business. If you buy one thing this Black Friday or Cyber Monday, let it be this:
It's nothing to be embarrassed about.
Everybody poops. Just not always as often as they'd like. Especially after a plateful of stuffing and gravy. Or what will henceforth be a diet of cheese and champagne until January 1. If you're still squeamish about this bodily function, then focus on the beauty aspect. Clear, glowing skin is often a direct reflection of digestive health. And the fastest, most natural way to get back on, erm, track is to drink a cup of this bad boy. By tomorrow at this time you'll be right as rain.
Smooth Move tea has become somewhat of an evening ritual. A couple nights a week makes me feels like I'm doing something really good for my body instead mindlessly snacking while watching The Daily Show (pretty sure Jon Stewart would have choice words for this). Senna leaf, a traditional medicinal herb, is the move in Smooth Move. Combined with fennel, orange peel, cinnamon and ginger to prevent cramping (v. important), it tastes spicy, warm and citrusy. You can expect to receive your "gift" in 6-12 hours without any fanfare. Unless, of course, you consume more than one cup, which could result in having to excuse yourself from a meeting.
Bottoms up! And don't be sheepish about reporting back—I'm clearly not.
p.s. Smooth Move is available at Target, most grocery and drugstore store chains.


text:
First-Wind Band
Thursday, July 2, 2020 | 10:30-12:00pm
Learn new musical skills or revitalize old ones with the First-Wind Band. All you need is the desire to learn to play an instrument. Interested, but no instrument? We have several for rent. Playing music is not only fun, but is good for your mental and physical health. Ask any of the members and they'll tell you that it keeps them active and involved, and is a great way to make new friends. For more info and session prices, contact Greg Vaughn at email@example.com
Already know how to play? Check out the Second-Wind Band.
Open to all.
Location: The Center


text:
LOA: 45 ft 1 in
Beam: 14 ft 1 in
LWL: 44 ft 1 in
Maximum Draft: 6 ft 6 in
Displacement: 24251 lbs
Ballast: 6614 lbs
Dry Weight: 24251 lbs
Engine VOLVO D2 Sail drive 55 HP
Fresh Water Tanks: (137 Gallons)
Fuel Tanks: (65 Gallons)
CD player
Wind speed and direction
Fully battened mainsail
Furling genoa
Manual bilge pump
Electric bilge pump
Battery charger
Marine head
Manufacturer Provided Description
Dufour Yachts has entered into a new era. In only a couple of seasons, the yard has succeeded in acquiring the reputation of a boat builder of stylish, comfortable, seaworthy and high quality sailing yachts.
Additional Description
Teak trimmed seats, GRP sole.
Two large side lockers with lids fitted with padlock hasps.
GRP steering pedestals.
Rudder stock head under helmsman?s sole for installing the emergency tiller.
Engine lever and control panel easily to hand for the helmsman on the starboard side.
Transom open in centre with a tipping helmsman?s seat giving access to the swim/ boarding platform.
Gas cylinder locker in aft port seat.
Life raft stowage in dedicated locker under helmsman seat.
Cockpit shower in aft locker.
Folding stainless steel bathing ladder.
All joinery work is finished in prime choice Moabi mahogany, with fiddles, mouldings and framings in solid wood.
Cabin doors have a blocking system in order to keep them open where necessary.
Soles are in Moabi laminated floor boards.
Saloon cushions and mattress fabrics have removable covers.
The upper cabin linings are in Moabi wood, the bottom in cream coloured vinyl.
12V DC system.
Switchboard with circuit breakers, voltmeter, 12V outlet.
1 x 100 Ah engine battery. 1 x 200 Ah house battery.
Switch for each battery.
Longitudinal shaped galley with large Corian? worktop.
Double stainless steel sink.
Chrome plated brass mixer tap for pressurised water.
Cooker - three burner stove with oven and grill on gimbals.
Icebox with minimum capacity 100 litres.
12V electric refrigerator unit (150 litres).
Stowage boxes, with separated compartments.
Cutlery drawer and PVC stowage baskets.
Upper cabinets, one of which can house a microwave oven.
Crumb tray under sole.
Heat exchanger, anti-siphon valve.
Large capacity sea water strainer.
Control panel close to helmsman with hour meter, engine stop and tachometer.
Alternator with battery isolator.
Fuel tank gauge on electrical switchboard.
Fuel filter with water separator.
Emergency fuel shutoff handle.
Engine room ventilation blower, and two ventilation hoses.
Two-blade fixed propeller.
Access to the engine from front and both sides.
Independent engine bilge.
Quality sound proofing using high density foam.
Teak handrails on coachroof. Wooden toerail.
Self-draining chain locker with eye bolt and integrated windlass bracket, lid with locking bolt.
Stemhead fitting anchor roller.
Pulpit with wooden step and separate green/red navigation lights.
Pushpits with horseshoe buoy bracket, flag pole holder, navigation light, and opening cable gate with hook.
Stanchions with two levels of life line.
Six aluminium mooring cleats.
Single stainless steel chainplate for cap shrouds/aft lower shrouds.
Two chainplates for the backstay.
Two deck fillers, one water and one for fuel.
Mainsheet track on and adjustable traveller on coachroof.
Boom vang.
Genoa sheet tracks with piston lead blocks.
Genoa sheet turning blocks on coaming.
8 sheave deck organizers for halyard returns, mainsail sheet and reefing lines.
Stainless steel swan neck electric/electronic cable gland.
Two x three clutches on coachroof.
Two x 44.2 ST halyard winches on the roof to starboard.
Two x 53.2 ST genoa winches on coamings close to the helmsman.
Hand laminated GRP hull with Twaron reinforcements at keel area.
The NPG gelcoat (the first layer of cloth is impregnated with NPG resin) forms an optimum barrier against osmosis.
Inner moulded hull bottom, structural grid laminated to the hull.
Hull portlights in the saloon.
Deck in Balsa core sandwich, made by Infusion process.
Draft 2.20m, cast iron keel, bolt loads taken up by stainless steel backing plate.
Semi-elliptical rudder, filled with closed cell epoxy foam.
Stainless steel, solid stock.


text:
Celebrate the birth of Jesus with an army of heavenly angels, slaughtering each other in the clouds. Legion brings in the yuletide cheer, with a new comic trailer and game. Don't forget to reload after shooting granny.
We've already shown you the pages from the Legion movie comic book. Now here's the motion-comic trailer. Sadly there's no Watchmen-esque man/woman voice.
But if that's not enough God on human violence to fill your holiday lust, play the impossibly hard Legion computer game. In the game you're Paul Bettany, the mad-as-hell fallen angel. Armed with a shotgun, you must mow down the demon possessed masses and stop God from wiping out humanity's only hope, a pregnant waitress. Click on the picture to link to the site. Merry Christmas!
[Comic via Apple]]


text:
Saturday, July 25, 2020:
4-DOUBLE-ROUND, Swiss-System, Blitz Chess Tournament
(each round is two games, one White and one Black), 5 minutes per player
(Game/5, NO DELAY!), at Wyndham Orlando Resort
Entry Fee: Only $20! No checks! USCF membership is required to participate.
1st - $100 2nd - $50
1st, Rated Under 2100 - $60
1st, Rated Under 1800 - $50
1st, Rated Under 1500 (or Unrated) - $40
Prize amounts are proportioned on 20 entries, otherwise raised or lowered in proportion.
Bye OK in Round 1.
Enter AT SITE ONLY, in the TD Room, between 7:30 pm and 9:15 pm on Saturday night.
Game times: 9:30 pm, 10:00 pm, 10:30 pm and 11:00 pm.
USCF Blitz-rated (will not affect your Regular rating), but prizes and pairings are based
on the higher of your Blitz or Regular rating. CCA Minimum Ratings may be also used at Director's discretion.


text:
Why am I seeing this dialog?
Internet Explorer 8 has a new feature that keeps you in control of your search engine default, by informing you when software attempts to change your settings.
If you are using Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 or RC1, you might have seen the following dialog when installing new software:
The default search preference is the search engine Internet Explorer uses when you type a search query into the search box in the top-right corner of the main Internet Explorer window:
(Wikipedia is set as my default.)
Internet Explorer also use the default search preference when you type a question into the address bar – Try typing "How high is Mt Everest" into the address bar.
A lot of toolbars that plug into Internet Explorer modify the user's search preference in their installer program. Some ask (by way of a checkbox in their install program) if they should change it.
Some don't ask clearly, and change your setting without you noticing the change before it happens. We believe this is not a good thing – a program should never change a user's setting without their unambiguous consent.
To counteract this, some applications or toolbars install a 'search setting protector' – a small program that monitors your search default preference, and switches it back automatically to their search engine if any other program ever changes the setting. A lot of users have multiple toolbars installed – and this creates a situation where toolbar installers, toolbars and 'search setting protectors' are all fighting over your search setting – If you, or another program, ever changes the setting, you will see a variety of prompts from various 'search setting protectors', warning you about the change.
All of the squabbling between programs means that you are not in complete control of your search preference – your setting.
Starting in Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2, any toolbar that wants to change the search setting default (by setting a registry key) will trigger a 'user consent' dialog, where the requested change is explained clearly, and you are asked to approve/not approve the change. So, no program can silently change your search setting without you knowing about it.
This change in Internet Explorer does not break any existing toolbar installers or 'search setting protector' programs – they can still change the user's search setting (by changing a registry key in the user's registry) – but when Internet Explorer starts up, you will be informed of the change, and you can allow or decline the change.
There is also a new API for setting the search default. Any application can call this API, and request that the Internet Explorer Search Default be changed. A dialog box is shown (and the application requesting the change is clearly identified) and the user can allow/not allow the change.
If a 'search setting protector' program keeps asking you to change your default, you can clearly indicate your preference (and lock them out of changing your preference in the future) by checking the 'Prevent programs from suggesting changes to my default search provider' checkbox. You can still use the Manage Search Providers command in the search box dropdown to change your default search provider at any point – you should be able to set your search default to anything you want, without any programs interfering with it.
And Everest is 8,848 meters (29,029 FT) high, by the way.
Frank Olivier
Program Manager


text:
(CNN) -- The United States imposed new sanctions on Myanmar's ruling junta Thursday as its Southeast Asian neighbors urged a peaceful resolution to growing political unrest in the country.
The U.S. Treasury Department announced it is freezing the assets of 14 senior members of Myanmar's government.
The State Department is also imposing travel restrictions against the same junta leaders.
Myanmar state media said nine people have been killed in a crackdown on anti-government demonstrations, during which soldiers reportedly fired into crowds and beat Buddhist monks. A Japanese journalist was among the dead, Japan's Foreign Ministry confirmed.
"The Burmese government has got to stop thinking that this can be solved by police and military and start thinking about the need for some genuine reconciliation with the broad spectrum of political activists in the country," Christopher Hill, U.S. assistant secretary of state for East Asia, said Thursday.
President Bush also weighed in.
"The world is watching the people of Burma [now known as Myanmar] take to the streets to demand their freedom, and the American people stand in solidarity with these brave individuals," Bush said in a statement read by press secretary Dana Perino.
"I call on all nations that have influence with the regime to join us in supporting the aspirations of the Burmese people and to tell the Burmese junta to cease using force on its own people, who are peacefully expressing their desire for change," the statement said.
Myanmar was formerly known as Burma.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon dispatched envoy Ibrahim Gambari to Myanmar. The Myanmar government said Thursday that he will be welcomed.
After an informal meeting Thursday at the United Nations, the foreign ministers who make up the Association of Southeast Asian Nations urged Myanmar to stop the suppression. They called for the release of all political prisoners, including iconic activist Aung San Suu Kyi.
Suu Kyi, a 1991 Nobel Prize winner, has been under house arrest on and off for years.
"They were appalled to receive reports of automatic weapons being used and demanded the Myanmar government immediately desist from the use of violence against demonstrators," said the statement, read by ASEAN Chairman George Yeo, Singapore's foreign minister.
"They expressed their revulsion to Myanmar Foreign Minister Nyan Win over reports that the demonstrations in Myanmar are being suppressed by violent force and that there has been a number of fatalities."
Myanmar is an active member of the 10-nation association, which includes its neighbor Thailand as well as Singapore and Indonesia.
The foreign ministers "strongly urged Myanmar to exercise utmost restraint and seek a political solution," the statement continued. "They called upon Myanmar to resume its efforts at national reconciliation with all parties concerned and work toward a peaceful transition to democracy," the ASEAN statement read.
"I think Myanmar have their own position," Yeo added. "We are really gravely concerned."
Other influential nations weighed in as well.
Japan, a source of much of Myanmar's foreign aid, urged the junta not to "high-handedly resort to violence," Kyodo News Agency reported.
"We strongly expect that the situation will be resolved through dialogue," Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura said, according to Kyodo.
Prime Minister John Howard of Australia announced sanctions on Myanmar's "loathsome regime" and pushed China "to exert a positive influence on the regime," Kyodo reported.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu urged the government of Myanmar to show restraint in dealing with the protesters.
"China has paid great attention to the situation in Myanmar and we hope that all concerned parties of Myanmar show restraint and properly handle the current issue," she said Thursday, according China's Xinhua news agency. E-mail to a friend


text:
Some great car leasing Offers on all Ford vehicles, click the model range boxes below to view the great lease deals on on the Ford car range.
Avatar Vehicles has some fantastic contract hire and car leasing deals on all Ford for both business and personal customers, choose one of the many special offers we currently have on our Ford deals page.
Click on the images below to view our fantastic car leasing deals on the Ford range.
Email : email@example.com
Telephone : 0131 513 9526
Company Address :
Avatar Vehicles
Unit 3
Bankhead Steadings
South Queensferry
Avatar Vehicles are a credit broker and not a lender, we are authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Registered No : 727744
Registered in England & Wales with company number : | Data Protection No : Z2701477 | VAT No :
Registered Office : Avatar Vehicles, Unit 3, Bankhead Steadings, South Queensferry EH30 9TF
Disclaimer: All vehicle images and descriptions are for illustration and reference purposes only, all vehicle leases are subject to credit approval and subject to change at any time. E&OE.
Copyright © 2020 Avatar Vehicles, All rights reserved.
Powered by CALAS


text:
Let's look at Baltimore as a case study for the on-the-ground, scary risks of federal inaction.
The on again, off again threat of the fiscal cliff has put municipal governments in a decidedly awkward position. How should they prepare for legislation designed not to minimize pain, but rather to be too hurtful to ever enact? "It's hard to know what the impact of a law that gets described as shooting yourself in the head will be," says Kim Rueben, a senior policy analyst at the Urban Institute.
Even so, cities are doing their best to quantify the very tangible effects of proposed cuts in dollars and cents. Last week, Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake held a press conference with acting U.S. Secretary of Commerce Rebecca Blank, imploring Congress to do something. "It will hurt consumer confidence and hit discretionary spending in the retail and tourism sectors, two pillars of growth here in Baltimore," Rawlings-Blake said. "And that means it will hurt jobs in our economy."
Like other American cities, many of Baltimore's housing, education and anti-poverty programs are funded by federal grants. If Congress doesn't have an agreement by the end of the year, sequestration dictates an across-the-board 8.2 percent cut to those funds. Here's what that might mean for Baltimore:
HOUSING: Right now, Baltimore provides 10,500 units of public housing, a whopping 4.5 percent of the city's overall households. Under sequestration, the city will have 8.2 percent less money in its public housing capital coffers. This means deferring maintenance and much needed upgrades to units and getting rid of a dozen rental units for low income residents altogether.
Section 8, which helps low-income residents pay rent, is also at risk. In Baltimore, 131,160 households use these grants to pay their rent. With sequestration, the city would receive $12.5 million less, putting the vouches of 1,080 low-income households at risk.
Even Homeless Assistance Grants would be impacted. Right now, the city expects $23 million from the feds. With the cut shelters would close, particularly those for single men without children. "Permanent supportive housing" for the long-term homeless would be shuttered, pushing hundreds of families back into the overtaxed emergency shelter system. And special programs for people with disabilities would be cut.
EDUCATION: Baltimore relies on federal funding for much of its education budget -- $56 million a year in total. Though the city has not figured out exactly what would happen if sequestration passes, officials say early education programs will likely be shuttered. The city also says sequestration could lead to $1.5 million less in Community Development Block Grants. That means few job trainings and less recreational activities for low-income youth.
POVERTY: Like other cities, Baltimore funds its anti-poverty measures largely through the Community Services Block Grant program. CSBG funds help the poor pay their electricity bills; they pay for financial literacy workshops and employment trainings; and even help low income residents file their tax returns. With the proposed cuts, Baltimore would have to fire 60 employees who help run these programs. The city would close also close six community support centers.
The city would cut back on its meals on wheels program for seniors. Every day, 330 few seniors will receive a meal.
INFRASTRUCTURE: This is where things really get hairy. A lot of the city's major transportation projects are wholly reliant on federal funding. Take, for example, the plan to upgrade the tunnels that lead to the city's main train station. The tunnels haven't had a facelift in a century; the tracks are so old and rickety that trains slow 10 mph when approaching Baltimore. If the sequestration cuts were made permanent, the $600 million project to update the the tunnels would be put on ice.
OTHER STUFF: The thing that makes all of this so troubling is that direct federal funds make up only a fraction of a city's budget. Much more money comes from state governments. Maryland, for example, stands to lose $100 million if the government goes over the fiscal cliff.
And without clarity on just how the federal government will try to plug up its debt, states are struggling to create a road map for their own infrastructure efforts. Maryland, for example, is considering raising its state gas tax to pay for a major highway and transportation overhaul. The proposal would help fund a new metro line in the Baltimore suburbs; a new bus depot for the city; and additional roads easing congestion in and out of Baltimore's port areas.
But that plan is on hold. According to the Associated Press:
Democratic Gov. Martin O'Malley pushed unsuccessfully last year for a gas tax increase, and officials are keeping an eye on the possibility that Washington could raise the federal gas tax to help address the cliff. If the federal gas tax were raised, it would make it harder to go forward with a gas tax increase in Maryland.
Even in the fiscal cliff doesn't comes to pass, all this uncertainty will likely have a long-term impact. "Cities and metros are getting the picture that the federal government is not a reliable partner," says Bruce Katz, vice president at the Brookings Institution and founding Director of the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program. "The federal government is supposed to provide a safety net. But the U.S. is operating with a federal government that doesn't have clear vision."
Top image: Konstantin L /Shutterstock


text:
According to the new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, 22 percent of registered voters say Mitt Romney's selection of Paul Ryan to be his running mate makes them more likely to vote for the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.
That's compared with 23 percent who say the Ryan pick makes them less likely to vote for Romney, and 54 percent who say the new running mate doesn't affect their vote either way.
These numbers suggest the Ryan pick has had less of an impact on voters than previous running mates have had.
In 2008, 24 percent in the NBC/WSJ poll said Joe Biden made them more likely to vote for Barack Obama, versus 16 percent who said he made them less likely to vote for the Democratic ticket.
The margins for Sarah Palin in 2008 (34 percent more likely vs. 25 percent less likely), John Edwards in 2004 (28 percent vs. 7 percent), and Joe Lieberman in 2000 (20 percent vs. 7 percent) were also bigger than Ryan's.
The closest Ryan's margin comes to is Dick Cheney's in 2000 (16 percent more likely vs. 14 percent less likely).
In the poll's feeling thermometer, moreover, Ryan's favorable/unfavorable score stands at 33 percent/32 percent.
Democratic pollster Peter D. Hart, who co-conducted this survey with GOP pollster Bill McInturff, attributes Ryan's mixed numbers to today's increasingly partisan divide, with Republicans backing him, Democrats opposing him and independents fairly divided.
The full NBC/WSJ poll -- which was conducted Aug. 16-20 of 1,000 registered voters (300 reached by cell phone) -- will be released at 6:30 pm ET.


text:
The Waters of Mars scored an AI of 88.
The score was the second highest of the weekend, only beaten by Foyle's War on ITV1.
The AI - Appreciation Index - score is a measure of how much an audience enjoyed a programme. The average score for drama is 77. For any programme, a score in excess of 85 is excellent. Any score in excess of 90 is exceptional. Any programme that falls below 60 has received a poor AI.
Meanwhile, Sunday has been dubbed "Super Sunday" by the media, as the total TV audience for peak hours was the highest since January 2000.


text:
Brad Pitt Says 'Stop The Nonsense', Endorses Legalization of Marijuana
When talking to Bill Maher, Brad Pitt mentioned that, were he running for mayor of New Orleans, he would run on a platform of supporting gay marriage and legalizing marijuana. While the entire interview (embedded below, start watching at 1:20) focuses mostly on the former issue, most of the arguments Pitt cites apply equally well to legalization of marijuana.
Later in the interview, Bill Maher recounts a party he attended with Pitt, at which Pitt demonstrated his skills as 'an artist' of rolling joints.
While Brad Pitt says he has given up smoking in order to be a better parent, he seems not to have forgotten the importance of the right to smoke in peace. Kudos to him. That said, I'd like to see him put his money (and actions) where his mouth is. For Brad Pitt, garnering huge amounts of support for the cause should be a walk in the park compared to some of the other challenges he's taken on.
Georgia Representative Recommends Caning and Death Penalty for Marijuana Offenses
Georgia Representative Tommy Benton has voiced support for caning and executing marijuana offenders. When his constituents contacted him to voice their opposition, he responded by turning their names over to the local sheriff so that they 'could be on the lookout'.
In other words, he has just violated the First Amendment (freedom of speech) and the Eighth Amendment (cruel and unusual punishment) in one fell swoop.
To give you an idea of how brutal this punishment is, we have some pictures, courtesy of NORML and CORPUN. (Warning: Pictures are located after the jump due to their extremely graphic nature).
Twitter users can spread the word using the tag #TommyCane
New York Legislators Don't Understand Meaning of'Reform'
Some state senators in New York don't understand the recent reforms of the Rockefeller Drug Laws. Instead, they are referring to them as the 'Drug Dealer Protection Act'.
Of course, this is completely absurd. The reforms simply removed mandatory minimum sentences which limit judicial power. Of course, judges still have the power to sentence people to long, harsh terms in prison – they just also now have the power not to sentence them when they deem it inappropriate. It's the way most aspects the judicial process work – for some reason, some people like to think drug policy should be treated differently. (Of course, some people also think that drug possession should not be treated as a criminal issue in the first place, but that's a separate matter).
The Drug Policy Alliance has set up a very quick form through which you can let New York legislators know that the public opposes reversing these reforms. Full text of the email from gabriel sayegh appears after the jump.
Obama's 'Change' Not So Different from Bush Polices
Today, a federal judge sentenced Charles Lynch to one year and one day in prison (366 days).
Mr. Lynch legally distributed medical marijuana under state law in California. However, because he violated federal law, he was tried in a federal court. In court, he was barred from presenting the key evidence: distribution of medicinal marijuana in California is legal.
A few months ago, Attorney General Eric Holder revealed that the Obama administration would only target those who violate both federal and state law. Lynch's trial began over a year ago, and Holder did not specify the fate of those whose sentences were still pending.
If the polices have shifted, what is the point of keeping Lynch in prison? In the future, people like Mr. Lynch will never even have to stand trial, let alone be sentenced (assuming the Obama administration honors this promise). Therefore, Obama should pardon Mr. Lynch, just as Ford pardoned Nixon, relieving him from any criminal record or time in prison.
Call the White House Comment Line at (202) 456-1111 and tell Obama that you expect him to pardon Charles Lynch outright. Sample script below:
Hello. My name is ________ and I am calling because Attorney General Holder previously stated that the Obama administration would not punish individuals who distribute and use medical marijuana legally under state law. Charles Lynch was sentenced today to a year in prison for this very charge. While his arrest occured before Obama took office, I expect Obama to pardon Mr. Lynch to demonstrate his dedication to this change in policy.
(Note: While I respect NORML's request that commuting the sentence would be acceptable, I disagree. Commuting just saves Lynch the prison time, but it does not acknowledge that conviction should never have happened in the first place. Therefore, I expect nothing less than a full pardon for Mr. Lynch).
Governator Doesn't Believe Information on Marijuana is Available
In a mind-boggling political swerve, Governor Schwarzenegger of California says that he is 'open to debate' on legalizing marijuana, 'if information is available' about it and countries that have legalized it. (See video, circa 6:00 into the stream).
Ignoring the technicality that no country has legalized marijuana outright (The Netherlands technically still outlaws marijuana in theory, but it is effectively legalized in practice). Countries (and states) that have relaxed their marijuana laws have all experienced success with these policies.
It's not a matter of the data not being available. Plenty of studies from very reputable sources have analyzed the data and come to the same conclusion: relaxing marijuana laws is the way to go. It's just a matter of getting our politicians to listen.
Governator Supports Marijuana Legalization Debate
In an official press release, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has expressed support for open debate of California's marijuana policy:
QUESTION: A recent Field Poll came out showing a majority of Californians support legalizing and taxing marijuana use. Especially with the money problems the state is having, is it time for the state to start legalizing and taxing marijuana use?
GOVERNOR: No. I think that it's not time for that, but I think it's time for a debate. I think all of those ideas of creating extra revenues, I'm always for an open debate on it. And I think that we ought to study very carefully what other countries are doing that have legalized marijuana and other drugs, what affect it had on those countries, and are they happy with that decision. Or, like for instance in Austria, I've heard that they are unhappy with that and they want to roll back some of the decisions that were made in European countries. I've had dialogue with experts over there where I was born. So I think that one ought to look at all that. And it could very well be that everyone is happy with that decision and then we can look at that. And if not, we shouldn't do it. But just because of raising revenues, we have to be very careful not to make mistakes at the same time.
Coming down on the heels of Tom Ammiano's introduction of the Marijuana Control, Regulation, and Education Act (Assembly Bill 390), this begs a critical question: Does this mean that the governor supports legalizing marijuana? Allen St. Pierre , the Executive Director of NORML, appears on CNN to debate this very point with Kevin Sabet. You decide:
Mexico May Decriminalize Marijuana
On Tuesday, the Mexican Senate passed a bill that would decriminalize small amounts of marijuana, as well as of certain other drugs. Felipe Calderón, the President of Mexico, sponsored the bill, which means that he will certainly sign the bill if it passes through the lower house. The Mexican Congress already passed a similar bill in 2006; however Vicente Fox (then-President of Mexico) vetoed the measure.
This bill would send low-level drug dealing cases to state courts, making the offfenses no longer federal crimes.
If passed, this law could provide a new incentive for the federal government – or even especially state governments in California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas – to adapt local laws in order to make the drug trade from Mexico less profitable. (Hint: one way to do that would be to provide a legal market for drugs within those states!) One of those states is already ahead of the curve with Assembly Bill 390, introduced by Assemblyman Ammiano.


text:
Experience South Mountain in a whole new way, every time you visit! Our programs span all ages and so many interests, you're sure to gain enjoyment and new insights on this special mountain in a special desert.
Program Types
Adults and Older Youth – In addition to visiting our exhibit space and Dottie Gilbert Reading Room, there are great opportunities for learning through our programs, activities and classes, such as Explore the Night Sky, Field Sketching, Birding, SM 101, and our Learning Lecture series.
Kids and Family – These programs offer fun and learning for all ages through a wide range of experiences, including stories, games, classes, adventure packs, and nighttime adventures!
Schools and Groups –Your school or group from small to large can come to South Mountain for special learning enrichment! Schedule time with our education staff for a field trip or our learning 'nuggets' programs, or grab an adventure pack for self-guided observations, investigations and fun!
See the great programs available through ACNC at the Phoenix Zoo
City of Phoenix Programming
In addition to classes and activities offered through Arizona Center for Nature Conservation, South Mountain Environmental Education Center proudly hosts programs offered through the City of Phoenix Parks and Recreation Department. Check out their site for times and descriptions.
View Programs & Activities Through City of Phoenix
Silent Sunday 5:00 am
Silent Sunday
Oct 27 @ 5:00 am – 7:00 pm
Cyclists, skate boarders, wheelchair users and stroller-riding tots can now call the roads of South Mountain Park their own one…


text:
UPDATE: Due to a scheduling conflict, I will not be speaking at the upcoming meeting for the Zion Genealogical Society meeting. This event will be rescheduled for Spring 2011.
I will be presenting Social Networking: New Horizons for Genealogists at an upcoming meeting of the Zion Genealogical Society in Zion, IL on Tuesday evening, September 21, 2010 at 7:00 pm. This event is free and open to the public.
Beach Park Village Hall
11270 W. Wadsworth Road
Beach Park, IL 60087
©2010, copyright Thomas MacEntee


text:
Zombie Graphic Novel Quarantined
by z on Mar.13, 2011, under Art, Book, Comic
New Zombie Graphic Novel called Quarantined is out. Preview can bee seen here.
In a small town in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, a virus is released into the water supply, transforming people into vicious killers. The military shuts down the borders—no way in, no way out. A group of survivors trapped within the town must survive against the infected, against the odds, and against each other. Coming in May from Markosia Enterprises. Find it in the March Previews, Diamond order code: MAR11 0810.
Stuff to Chuck in your Zombie Apocalypse Bunker
by z on May.03, 2010, under Book, Clothes, Featured, Food, Humor, Video, Weapons
This list was put together with the assumption that you already have all the basic survival supplies; food, water, fire, companionship etc…
Beef cake… BEEF CAKE!!! weight gainer 4000 may be just what you're looking for when running from the dead in a zombie apocalypse. These mixes are "specially" formulated for athletes containing all the amino acids and calories needed for a active individual. meal supplements are also pretty convenient all you need is some water and a cup and you're GTG.
Before antibiotics infections were left to run their course. Streptococcus pyogenes caused half of all post-birth deaths. Staphylococcus aureus was fatal in 80 percent of infected wounds and the pneumonia bacteria was a big killer for all ages. Essentially a infected wound is a death sentence. Best thing is to gather up a small stock pile of the most common type just in case…
Your best bet is a broad spectrum antibiotic that will fight against both Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria covering the largest range of disease causing bacteria.
Survival book
You may find yourself in the need of a rabbit snare or a winter shelter. This book comes in handy for all general survival tips. You won't find any apocalyptic survival points here but its content is general enough to cross over into the zombie world.
some key points covered include.
-Food, what you can and can't eat
-Animal tracking
-Edible plants
-Trap making
-How to handle animals you've killed for food
-knot tying
-first aid
-Medicinal plants
-Dangerous/poisonous animals/insects
A great book:
SAS Survival Guide 2E (Collins Gem): For any climate, for any situation
Solar powered laptop charger
Who knows how long the internet would stay up after the collapse of modern civilization. Even with the internets down theres a good chance your books/music/entertainment are stored away on a computer. More reason to keep at least one computer running.
Check out this folding solar panel
The next generation of Solaris foldable solar technology is here. CIGS (Copper Indium Gallium diSelenide) is the most efficient thin film solar technology available. By maximizing performance while optimizing portability, it makes the Solaris 26 a great choice for compact, high output solar power.
Toilet paper
Ever try wiping your ass with magazine paper? Better yet have you used
a newspaper filled with those annoying loose ads? If you have then your bunker is already stocked with a life time supply of toilet paper. If you haven't stock your bunker with soft toilet paper to safe your ass.
Bug Out Bag
Think of this scenario: Your bunker has been breached theres undead fucks all over the place they've already eaten your girlfriend and dog and now there coming for you. You have to evac… asap, Grab your bug out bag and titanium cricket bat and run!
So what is a a bug-out bag? It is a portable kit that contains the items one would require to survive for approximatively seventy two hours when evacuating from a disaster. Basically scale down your horde of survivalist tools to fit in a backpack.
Weed, Green, Skunk, The Green ambassador, Mary Jane, and Chronic. Name it as you will, BC bud should make up the foundation in a zombie apocalypse pack.
Temporary hide your rationed snack food, hot box your bunker and use your fully charged laptop to watch old episode of Samurai Jack. The zombie apocalypse doesn't sound too bad anymore.
Germ fighting Underwear
Old Smelly underwear sucks and is a health risk. Instead of carrying around dozens of replacements or heaven forbid wash your dirty undies give these new silver woven, anti bacterial coated super trunks a try.
Unisex trunks were made from artificial fibers for comfort, with silver particles woven into the material to prevent sweating.
"It is coated to prevent bacterial infection, and we have tried to arrange the seams so that they don't chafe,"


text:
Vote for the Best KDE-Look T-Shirt Design!
We have opened a poll at kde-forum.org for the whole KDE community to vote for the new KDE-Look t-shirt. The winning shirt will be on sale at Revelinux Gear with all the proceeds going to help out with the costs of running KDE-Look. Let's show our appreciation for all the great eyecandy we get at kde-look.
The first place winner will receive the new KDE-Look t-shirt featuring their artwork AND a 7-in-1 External/Internal USB Memory Card Reader!
You will need to sign up with kde-forum with a valid email address to vote.
Voting is open to everyone until February 16th.
why pay for kde-look ?
i dont understand the purpose of paying for kdelook ... kde has so many sites but for kde-look the community has to pay money. perhaps kde-look should get a better sponsor or but the big files not on kde-look itself.
what about using sourceforge or something other ?
(btw. i understand that traffic costs money)
By chris at Thu, 2005/02/10 - 6:00am
Re: why pay for kde-look ?
You don't understand but you understand? It costs money. Period. If you can't choke up the money yourself, what are you complaining about?
They won't make much money if any on the sale of t-shirts anyway. It's just good for KDE promotion.
By ca at Thu, 2005/02/10 - 6:00am
Re: why pay for kde-look ?
we dont pay for kde-look, we pay for the t-shirt ! ;)
car and water bottle stickers please
does kde-look give any money to the kde project out of the t-shirt ?
By Mathieu Jobin at Fri, 2005/02/11 - 6:00am
Any hope for non-us?
All the good hackish t-shirts I ever find seem to be US sites. Any chance there will be UK sellers for this one? And generally, does anyone know any good UK sites for geeky t-shirts? Syswear is good but the selection is a bit limited.
By mikeyd at Thu, 2005/02/10 - 6:00am
Re: Any hope for non-us?
dito. Is there a german page without credit-card-only payment?
By anon at Thu, 2005/02/10 - 6:00am
We are working on it:)
I have been working on setting up a European shop for some time now. Hopefully it will be up in the next few weeks.
By Janet Theobroma at Thu, 2005/02/10 - 6:00am
KDE t-shirts in general?
I have been looking (although not too hard) for general KDE shirts. Any sites that have some nice shirts, preferably a site that gives something back to KDE from the sale? Normal Thinkgeek-shirts are just too common nowadays, they are no fun anymore, I need something new. :)
By chakie at Thu, 2005/02/10 - 6:00am
Re: KDE t-shirts in general?
Fabrice of kde-nl used to have kde t shirts in stock.
By ac at Fri, 2005/02/11 - 6:00am


text:
A letter from a "lost" Marilyn Monroe to mentor Lee Strasberg and one from an irritated John Lennon to Linda and Paul McCartney are among hundreds of historical objects set to be auctioned on May 30.
It is part of the second in a series of auctions intended to sell about 3,000 artifacts from an anonymous collector.
The first auction was a "blockbuster sale," with a Vincent van Gogh letter selling for $336,000 and a Thomas Jefferson letter that sold for $300,000, according a news release announcing the latest auction. The auctions are being run by Profiles in History.
The upcoming auction includes letters and manuscripts from historical figures including George Washington, Dwight D. Eisenhower and Ernest Hemingway.
One of the letters already garnering buzz is a despair-filled letter on Hotel Bel-Air stationary from Marilyn Monroe to her mentor and legendary acting coach, Lee Strasberg.
The letter began, "Dear Lee, I'm embarrassed to start this, but thank you for understanding and having changed my life. Even though you changed it I still am lost. I mean I can't get myself together."
"You once said the first time I heard you talk at the actors studio that 'There is only concentration between the actor and suiside [sic]," she wrote.
"My will is weak but I can't stand anything. I sound crazy but I think I'm going crazy," she added. "It's just that I get before a camera and my concentration and everything I'm trying to learn leaves me. Then I feel like I'm not existing in the human race at all."
Another letter on the block is an angry and sarcastic letter from John Lennon to Linda and Paul McCartney.
"I was reading your letter and wondering what middle aged cranky Beatle fan wrote it. I resisted looking at the last page to find out," Lennon wrote. He ventured a few guesses and then wrote, "What the hell – it's Linda?"
PHOTOS: Remembering John Lennon
The Lennon letterhead has a circular image of Lennon and Yoko Ono almost touching lips.
The Lennon letter is expected to fetch between $40,000 and $60,000 and the Monroe letter is expected to take in between $30,000 and $50,000.
Some of the items from the auction will be on display at Douglas Elliman's Madison Avenue Gallery from April 8-16. The online auction will take place May 30.
You Might also Like To know About:
1.Zumba Sex Scandal: Alexis Wright Pleads Guilty to 20 Counts
2.SEAL Team 6 Member Brett 'Shady' Shadle Killed, Another Injured in Freefall Training/ Navy Seal Brett killed
3.The 10 Biggest Reasons Men Resent Their Wives
4.NASA 'Super Guppy' Swallows Supersonic NASA Jets-Photos
5.Letters From a 'Lost' Marilyn Monroe, Angry John Lennon to Be Auctioned
Collected from-http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/03/letters-from-a-lost-marilyn-monroe-angry-john-lennon-to-be-auctioned/


text:
EUROSENSE is an active player in geo-information services for almost 50 years now. Started as a Belgian company in the 60s, it has nowadays expanded its working region to mainly Western and Central Europe, but can live on experiences of worldwide projects.
Both public as private customers with highly variable needs are contacting EUROSENSE to work out efficient solutions for their problems. Delivering high quality products in time and according to the specifications of the customer, is therefore the main concern of EUROSENSE
The EUROSENSE-group, existing since 1964, has nowadays wholly owned branches in Belgium (Wemmel (near Brussels), Tielt, Zeebrugge and Antwerp), The Netherlands (Breda), Germany (Rheinbach), France (Lille), Hungary (Budapest), Slovakia (Bratislava), Poland (Nadarzyn, near Warsaw), Bulgaria (Sofia), and Romania (Bucharest). The main office of the EUROSENSE-group is located in Belgium (Wemmel).
The EUROSENSE-group employs a staff of about 200 highly specialized members: engineers, geographers, topographers, hard- and software specialists, etc.
All services offered by the EUROSENSE-group are fully integrated within the group: aerial photography, aerial LIDAR (aerial laser scanning for height measurements), photo interpretation, aerial thermography, processing and interpretation of aerial and satellite images, production of photogrammetric and topographic maps, GIS- consultancy, inventory of forests and natural resources, digital orthophotography, cartography, hydrography, environmental studies, and lots of other activities. EUROSENSE offers highly accurate and technological solutions in all of these disciplines.
All production steps, from the airborne, spaceborne or seaborne data acquisition up to the finalized product, are fully integrated within the company, in order to meet the highest standards for quality, precision and reliability. EUROSENSE feels this as a requirement to guarantee that the projects are executed to the clients' most demanding specifications and desires.
Next to the available expertise within the EUROSENSE-group, EUROSENSE furthermore can appeal to partners such as esri BeLux NV and Walphot.
EUROSENSE feels very strongly about quality. The entire group works according to ISO 9001:2008 procedures and applies a quality system which is continuously improved and adapted to the latest quality needs.
International (EC, World Bank, FAO, ...) as well as national and regional governments, cities and municipalities, public and private service corporations, consultancy firms and software providers are part of EUROSENSE's clientele.
(SCe, 22/02/2012)
The Netherlands
Remote Sensing Applications


text:
What exactly is 85Kwh?
What exactly is 85Kwh?
Basically, yes. The kilowatt-hour is a unit of energy equivalent to one kilowatt of power expended for one hour of time.
It is a measure of battery capacity or total (theoretical) output. Means it could dole out 85Kw in a 1 hour (h) period or 5 Kw per hour (h) for 17 hours before depletion. In either case, 85 Kwh total.
Steven beat me to it.
Another cool way to do the math:
If your car uses up 0.309 kW for each mile driven (a reasonable number, when cruising), then an 85 kWh battery can provide 85/0.309 = 275 miles of range.
I don't belive your statement is accurate. When I range charge I can only use about 73-75kwh according to my "trip meter since last charge", even driving straight no stops. The rest is lost in vampire drain, and efficiency loss (my guess). Does anyone else have an experience of close to 85kwh used?
Dave Metcalf used 80.3 kWh on his mega 423.5 mile run last December... http://www.teslamotorsclub.com/showthread.php/12549-Dave-Metcalf-and-son...
Watts is charge flowing per second. It's a rate, not a quantity.
kwh is a quantity of electrons available.
Some fundamentals that I vaguely remember from my BS in electrical engineering...
A Watt is Joules per second, where a Joule is a unit of energy. So Watts are a rate of energy transfer . A cool way of thinking about it is that if you lifted up a small apple over the distance of 1 meter, you would have expended about one Joule of energy. Do that once per second and you are spending energy at the rate of one Watt.
So "kilowatt hour" is really just a somewhat roundabout way of describing a quantity on energy, or Joules, since a Watt is a rate of energy per time and an hour is of course a measure of time. It's kind of like saying "that town is 55 mile per hour hours away". Which of course is more easily described as 55 miles.
An 85 kilowatt hour battery is therefore the same thing as saying 85 * 1000 * 60 * 60 = 306,000,000 Joule battery. Describing the 85KWh battery as a 306 Mega Joule battery is more direct, but less relatable.
Here is a historical tidbit. It is kWh.
The W for Watts is captialized because it is the name of a person,
Mr. James Watt.
An additional tidbit is that when spelled out, units (at least metric) named after people is lowercase. e.g., watt, joule, coulomb, etc.
Sorry Brian. "units are"
This thread made me wonder... for how long could the 85kWh pack put out 1.21gW of power before running out of juice... by my calculations, about a 1/4 of one second. Is that long enough to make the flux capacitor work? :-)
1.21 gigiwatts? What was I thinking???
Not quite as cool as 1.21 gigawatts, but 306 megajoules sounds pretty neat to me. Cooler than 85kWh.
I like megajoules! ;-)
Thanks captain and David, I thought I was getting my upper/lower cases all mixed up.
@lspitzner, would like to hear if those answers were sufficient, though it seems like you already knew the answer to some degree.
Do you get what we mean when we say that a kWh is a unit of energy whereas a kW is a unit of power?
kW is the flow of water into the bathtub. kWh is the water already in there. ;)
More tidbits... My home (prior to the S) consumed about 20kWh a day on average. So my 60 could keep my home running for 3 days! That's a lot of energy storage in the S. My daily commute consumes 32kWh + vampire losses, luckily I only do that 3 times a week.
wcalvin wrote: "Watts is charge flowing per second. ... kwh is a quantity of electrons available."
That's not quite right. Charge flowing per second is current, and is measured in amps. Power, measured in watts, depends on how much current flows, but also depends on the difference in voltage between where the current flows from and where it flows to. Similarly, energy, measured in kWh, also depends on the voltage, and not just on the quantity of electrons.


text:
6 hurt in car crash outside CVS pharmacy; 4 in critical condition
Good Samaritans move car off man
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. – Six people were injured, four of them in critical condition, when a car crashed into a bus bench outside a CVS pharmacy in Miami Gardens.
According to Miami Gardens Police, one of the victims has died.
The crash happened at Northwest 199th Street and 2nd Avenue about 4:15 p.m. Tuesday.
Police believe the white Nissan Maxima was speeding and swerved around a slower moving black Nissan Altima, struck it, and then plowed through a bus stop where four people were waiting. Both cars were going eastbound on 199th Street.
Several Good Samaritans heard the crash and ran in to help. Several people freed a man who was trapped underneath the car, leaving it on its side.
"Once somebody yelled that there was a body under the car and we heard the voice of the guy that was under there, we all ran over there and we started. Everybody went kind of on three and we lifted the car up, and then we pushed it up and everybody grabbed him and pulled him from underneath the car," said Conrad Hines.
"It looked like a warzone almost because it was just bodies lying around and we couldn't really do anything in the beginning because we had to just wait for actual help to come," said Austin Hines.
Miami-Dade Fire Rescue said at least six people, including a mother and her infant, were transported. Four of the victims were listed in critical condition; one was in serious condition; and, the sixth person, the child in the Altima, had minor injuries, authorities said. Miami Gardens police said one of the victims was revived.
The mother and the infant who were in the black Nissan are expected to be okay.
Police were interviewing the driver of the white car who walked away from the crash without any injuries. No charges have been filed yet.
Copyright 2012 by Post Newsweek. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.


text:
Preparing for liftoff?
Starting your biz on a limited budget? Need to expand without spending a fortune?
Our Launch Packages give you everything you need to launch your online business, market your talents and spread the word to clients.
Choose from three affordable options that will help you start, grow or take your ideas big-time.
Click here for details.
Our Portfolio
View examples of our websites and logo designs. … MORE >