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Apparently, iTunes Replay will be rolled into an update of iTunes 8, introduced last September, and not wait until iTunes 9, which has yet to be announced.
Two advantages of the new service are obvious: First, the content wouldn't take up precious local storage space. Second, purchased content could be viewed anywhere at any time - although the report doesn't mention whether the target device would have to be "authorized" under the current iTunes five-device limitation. Nor did the report offer any details on iTunes Replay's pricing structure.
iTunes Replay may give a boost to sales of the Apple TV, the plain-vanilla version of which can hold a meager 40GB. With a two-hour HD movie consuming about 4GB, a Apple TV-using movie-lover must quickly decide which movies to archive and which to keep available on the device.
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While stock-market rallies have come and gone over the past 50 years, solid leadership at Raymond James has been more consistent. That stewardship is being celebrated by the firm nationwide – as well as in Canada and the United Kingdom—on August 16.
Tom James, son of co-founder Robert James and CEO from 1970 to 2010, says the financial and economic swings actually have given the broker-dealer the chance to shine—and grow. The down periods he refers to are those of 1973-1974, 1987-1989, 2000-2002 and 2007-2009.
"Were they the worst years for us? In some senses, yes, but they were also the best," James shared during an interview. "As we have been able to see in later years, we created discipline, business plans and a strategic approach to the business that has been successful in the long term: You get good opportunities" in bad times, he concludes.
James, now 70, was in his early-20s when he went through his first market decline. "With my background, coming out of business school, and like others of my age, I was very optimistic and looking forward to participating in the family firm, which had about $1 million to $2 million in revenue back then," he shared.
The current executive chairman of Raymond James says he largely was tapped to become CEO in 1970 because his father didn't enjoy running the firm in difficult times. "He preferred to focus on financial planning and training others to do that work," James shared.
With his father around to offer advice as needed, James put his heart and soul into the business. "In the naiveté of youth, I thought I could be successful doing [what I'd learned in business school] and found out quickly that the real world was a lot different from case studies, which are a bit sterile. You don't just have a good time in the securities business."
Once he got over that learning curve, the young CEO worked on expanding Raymond James' network and also got started doing some underwriting. "I hired an ex-Reynolds recruiter, and we built up a series of offices. I do not know why people elected to come with us," James joked. "If I'd known how tough this job was, with our resources, I'm not sure I would have done it."
When the '73-'74 decline came, some offices had to be closed, and the firm had to find jobs for a number of registered reps at other firms. Management went unpaid, and the firm needed to raise money. "You have to take actions that are tough in times like those," explained James.
"Looking back on that period and others, I'd say we learned many lessons in how to survive that served the firm well," he noted. "And some of these times were scary, like in '87 when folks were not taking orders in New York."
It's important not to be undercapitalized and not to be "at the mercy of forces outside of your control," the executive chairman says. It's also good to be a C corporation and retain earnings, he adds.
"At all times and through all growth stages, we've been well capitalized, we adopted an agency model for the business vs. engaging in any proprietary activities," James said. "We also have treated people as a major resource, and when some firms chose to leverage, we chose not to take such risk."
These methods allowed the firm to have the capital it needed to "recruit like mad" in recent years, when other firms were being "hit with the loss of their iconic images," notes James. "It's not a question of not taking on any risk, it's about taking controlled risk and not risking the viability of the company and enabling yourself to [spend] some resources … at times when others are not willing to invest."
Raymond James went public in 1983. Though it did have a small offering of stock and convertible bonds in 1985 and bond offerings in 2009 and 2011, it didn't need to raise a significant amount of capital again in the public market until the Morgan Keegan merger in 2012, he says.
Looking 50 years out, it's likely that "what we do—provide advice and counsel—will always be a valuable thing to provide to investors and consumers," James speculates. "Yet, I am attuned to change, and that could be in a form we can't imagine today. We have to be open to new opportunities and not get locked into business models and ignore what happens if we don't pay attention to disruptive approaches."
Overall, the executive chairman—like other Raymond James managers and the firm's 6,000 financial advisors—is upbeat. "As long as the evergreen values we've established are still followed, and we hire the best kind of people, there's no reason we couldn't' survive another 50," he concluded.

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1. Why would democrats/the left compromise now, after what can only be viewed as a total victory for them on the issue? The SC in effect struck down the entire deal in AZ (with only a VERY temporary stay on the one portion not struck down, until enough folks complain of being racially profiled). Combine with Obama getting away with choosing to simply not enforce (you say "prosecutorial discretion") an entire swatch of the Law.
I see no reason whatsoever for them to give an inch now. They've effectively already won.
2. What portion of your listed plan is actually a compromise or bargain for my side? I see nothing in your listed plan that I would or could support.
Yes, the RINO-Romney types, who are as open-border-friendly and pro-free-trade as G.W. Bush was, will embrace it and chortle with hand-on-chin about it not being Amnesty, not really, sure.
No my friend, the reason some of us are "on the cliff" is because we see how close we to this issue being a total and complete loss for the side of limited, controlled immigration, the rule of law, and any form of real meaningful immigration enforcement. Reform will not correct the problem, anymore than accounting tricks correct fiscal deficientcies. You plan, like most, simply corrects the issue via amnesty (generally) with a few tacked on, never going to actually be enforced, rules after the fact.
Sorry, but no deal. There can be no compromise. Either we live nder the rule of Law, in whcih case the lawbreakers cannot ever recieve benefit for having broken the law, or we live under a system of political expediency and convenience, where the value of citizenship, and the entire status as citizen, is merely up to the whims of the Federal Leviathan and it's Dictatorial headmaster.


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PEORIA, Ariz. -- After missing most of last season with a torn muscle behind his right shoulder, Mariners reliever Stephen Pryor seems optimistic he will be able to contribute to his team's efforts even as he recovers from a surgery that is rare in pitching circles.
Pryor, 24, is not yet throwing off a mound, but he is playing long toss, doing fielding drills and feeling like part of the team again after spending five months last year in the training room.
Pryor initially tore the latissimus dorsi muscle in his right shoulder off the bone, then spent three months doing rehab as the injury healed. But the reattached tendon retracted during his recovery and attached to his triceps muscle, which is why he started having issues with his triceps when he started throwing again.
An MRI test revealed the new problem. Doctors removed the tendon from the triceps and attached it in the proper place using a technique first introduced on veteran pitcher Jake Peavy when he was with the White Sox in July 2010.
Peavy missed six months and had a difficult 2011 season before becoming an All-Star in '12. He is still pitching, now with the Red Sox. Pryor and a Minor League hurler are the only pitchers who have had the same surgery since, so this is somewhat new medical ground.
That is why Pryor and the Mariners are being vague on a potential return date, despite the youngster's apparent optimism.
"I mean, I really don't know," Pryor said. "It was just kind of a freak thing. I'm the second Major Leaguer to have this surgery and come back from it, so it's kind of unknown territory. [Peavy] had a complete tear, where I had a partial tear. So there's not really a timetable on it. I'm feeling good, but I think it'd be a stretch to be ready by Opening Day obviously. But hopefully not far beyond that would be a good goal."
The hard-throwing right-hander was a big part of Seattle's bullpen plans a year ago and he threw 7 1/3 scoreless innings in seven appearances before hurting his shoulder in mid-April.
Pryor has been playing catch at 110 feet and doing some light throwing in pickoff and fielding drills, but the real test won't come until he gets on a mound and fires with full force off the incline. The Mariners proceed carefully before giving him the green light to return and he figures he'll need eventually to prove he can throw hard on back-to-back days several times before getting a chance in games.
But whether that potential return comes a month or two, or longer, into the season, the Tennessee native is intent on regaining a role on the team that drafted him the fifth round in 2010.
"I want to pick up where I left off last year," said Pryor, who has a 3-1 record and 2.97 ERA in 33 appearances since being promoted in the middle of the 2012 season. "I felt like early in the season I earned a spot in the 'pen and was able to come in in pressure situations and later in games. I'd like to have that role again. I know it's something I've got to earn, with a new coaching staff, coming off an injury. So time will tell."


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Can you explain why a penny under a glass beaker of water disappears? If you add some water to top of the penny and return it to under the beaker it is visible.
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To help this physics teacher "get it," a physics phenomenon known as the index of refraction must be explained. You may have heard the word refraction before. It sounds a lot like reflection and has to do with light; however, it is very different. Refraction is the bending of light. Have you ever tried to grab something at the bottom of a fish tank only to look at your arm from the side of the tank and have it scare you because it looks like it's broken?
If you've never tried that, you can experiment in a much less scary way. Take a straw and put it in a clear glass. Look at the straw from the side of the glass. You should see the straw appear to be in two separate parts, breaking where the water level starts. If it doesn't appear to be broken it should at least appear to be completely bent. When you pull the straw out, you can see that the straw didn't bend. This is an optical illusion created by refraction, or the bending of light.
When light travels from one density to another it bends. In the case of the straw in the water, light went from the lesser dense air to the more dense water. When light moves between these two densities it bends, which make objects, appear to bend when the object is passing between both areas of density. How much the light bends is known as the index of refraction.
Physicists have tested the index of refraction for many materials. You can see a list at http://physics.info/refraction/. If you examine this list you will find that the index of refraction of air is about 1.00 and the index of refraction of water at room temperature is 1.33, giving you a difference of .33. This means that light bends enough to make the penny appear to be invisible at certain angles.
Now, don't forget about the Pyrex beaker that the person in the video uses to hold the water. The index of refraction for Pyrex is 1.47, which is only a .14 difference from water, which is enough to make the penny appear distorted if it's under the beaker, whether or not the beaker is filled with water or not. However, it's not enough to bend the light around the penny. So, when the penny is wet in the beaker, the index of refraction goes from the air, through the beaker, through the water, through the beaker and back into water to the penny, which should bring the index of refraction almost back to its original angle (Figure 1).
The same thing happens with a dry penny under an empty beaker. The light travels through the air, through the glass, back through the air, through the base of the beaker, and then through the air before it hits the penny; therefore, making it possible for you to see the penny, by correcting any refraction that was caused by the glass (not pictured). If you change the angle from which you view the penny it changes the angle of refraction as well.
When the light travels from the air, through the beaker, into the water, back through the base of the beaker, and through the air to the penny (Figure 2), the index of refraction is too great for the viewer to be able to see the penny.
However, if the penny under the beaker is wet, the viewer will be able to once again see the penny. The light travels through the air, through the beaker, through the water, back through the beaker and through water on top of the penny to the penny (Figure 3), where the water on top of the penny minimizes the change in angle of the light, making it possible for the viewer to see the penny.
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Figure 1: Penny in the beaker (can see the penny)
Figure 3: Wet penny under the beaker (can see the penny)
Figure 2: Dry penny under the beaker (can't see the penny)
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Loss of Hossa before game hurts Blackhawks in 2-0 loss as Bruins take 2-1 lead in Cup finals
BOSTON - The Chicago Blackhawks needed all their offensive weapons against the Bruins' smothering defence and goalie Tuukka Rask. Instead, they lost one of their best before the game.
Marian Hossa was a late scratch with an upper body injury before Game 3 of the Stanley Cup finals, and the Blackhawks lost 2-0, falling behind Boston 2-1 in the best-of-seven series Monday night.
Hossa's status for Game 4 on Wednesday night was uncertain.
"We'll say day-to-day. We're hopeful he'll be ready for the next game," Chicago coach Joel Quenneville said. "It was a game-time decision after the warm-up there. That's when we made the call."
The Blackhawks had tweeted that Hossa was "out of the lineup after something apparently happened in warm-ups." But, Quenneville said, "Nothing happened during warm-up."
Hossa has three game-winning goals in this post-season and was third on the team with 15 playoff points. In his 14 NHL seasons, he scored at least 25 goals 11 times.
And he already had made a big play in this series.
With Chicago trailing 2-0 in Game 1, Hossa stole the puck from Dennis Seidenberg in the Boston end and fed Brandon Saad, who one-timed it past Rask at 3:08 of the second period. The Blackhawks rallied from a 3-1 deficit in the third period and won 4-3 in three overtimes.
Hossa's replacement appeared in his first playoff game this year.
Ben Smith was a veteran of just 20 regular-season games and seven playoff games in his three NHL seasons before being pressed into action. But he figures he played about 15 times at TD Garden with Boston College.
"I was a little surprised because you don't know what's going on, but you don't ask any questions," he said. "You get a chance, you go."
He certainly didn't expect it.
"I was here and ready to ride the bike and work out," Smith said. "They gave me the tap and said, 'Go with it.'"
Quenneville hoped Smith could provide a spark.
"Benny gives us energy," he said. "He's one of those players that offensively, defensively, he's responsible. He's been practicing hard."
But Hossa's absence removed one of the few productive players on the Blackhawks sputtering power play. They were scoreless in five opportunities in the game and in their last 20 man-advantage situations in the playoffs.
Hossa has three of their 16 power-play goals in the post-season.
"Our power play tonight was definitely not good," Quenneville said. "They box you out. They got big bodies. They blocked shots. I think we had some chances to get some pucks through the net. We didn't. Our entries weren't great. That's something you want to look at."
"It's frustrating," Chicago defenceman Duncan Keith said. "We just need to go out and play and let our skill take over."
They've had a tough time against Rask, just as the Toronto Maple Leafs, the New York Rangers and Pittsburgh Penguins did in the Bruins previous three series.
Rask has stopped 61 of 62 shots in the last two games and 120 of 125 in the series.
Bruins coach Claude Julien didn't find out his team wouldn't have to deal with Hossa until just before the game.
"I was surprised as anybody else," he said, "but, to be honest with you, there weren't any changes in our game. As I mentioned the other day when I was asked about another player, we don't make our game plan based on an individual.
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Ruth's excuse is that she ran it by a certain ADS, who said it sounded like a very bad idea and she ought not to do it. But since it wasn't a direct order, she claims she doesn't have to answer for her command decision. Look for the ADS to be dumped shortly.
The other reason to kill the investigation seems to be that it wasn't just Brust and Bea getting the free tickets via shady means. It was EIGHT different exempts who got to attend the concert gratis. Putting almost 10% of his exempt staff in the trick bag doesn't seem like anything J-Fed wants to do, seeing as how the best man at his wedding is one, Maggie Daley's buddy is another, and Shortshanks has enough scandal on his plate at the moment.
These are supposed to be the people setting examples for officers that accepting favors, gifts, or bribes is unethical and illegal. But all they're doing is demonstrating that two tiers of discipline will forever separate the lowly peons from the political overlords.
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I can answer at least part of that.slightlyobsessed wrote:That's a very good question, Black, and one I've been wondering myself for a while.
How DID the Souls get into the bodies without hands? I mean, even when it was just the vultures they were inhabiting? How did they discover the process? How did they perform the surgery without the dexterity necessary for a potentially dangerous operation?
And right before they inhabited the first human, how did they figure out the best method for implantation?
I wonder if SM is going to share the answers with us at some point.
They learned how to implant themselves in humans by experimentation. I believe Wanderer tells Jeb, maybe some others, in the cave this when someone poses the same question to her. From what I understood, they "abducted" some humans to try it out.


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Meet Jordan. Jordan just started her senior year of high school. Jordan's boyfriend Andrew started his freshman year of college at KU a couple of weeks ago. Jordan asked me to help surprise him with a photo shoot before he left!
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I've had a couple of photo shoots with part of this family before, so I was so excited when they asked me to photograph their extended family at a reunion a few weeks ago celebrating Patty's mother's 80th birthday!
They asked if we could re-create this photo taken 10 years ago...
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Most travellers overlook Sayabouri on their way to nearby Luang Prabang and Vientiane, but peaceful Sayabouri is a great place to relax and discover the natural beauty of the areas such and waterfalls, caves and forests.
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With their original school still being treated as a crime scene, the students will begin attending classes at a refurbished school in the neighboring town of Monroe on Thursday. Law enforcement officers have been guarding the new school, and by the reckoning of police, it is "the safest school in America."
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Daily News Twists Evaluation Into Cheap Shot at School of One
Last week, the New York Daily News took a careful and thoughtful evaluation of early outcomes at schools implementing New York City's School of One (an intriguing effort to rethink middle school math instruction) and twisted it into an unfair, misguided, and destructive critique. It was a textbook case of how good research can be misused and how bad reporting makes it tough to talk sensibly about efforts to rethink schooling. But for today, let's just focus on a couple of problems with what the Daily News did.
For those who aren't familiar with the School of One, it's a middle school math model that challenges conventions of the traditional teacher marching 30 kids through the familiar 180 day curriculum. Instead, all the 6th grade math teachers and students operate as a single team, and students are assigned to teachers and modes of instruction based on daily assessments and their particular learning styles. Students can pursue objectives working with teachers, online, in small groups, or whatnot, at a pace that's right for them, while allowing them to skip past the objectives they've already mastered.
Basically, the idea is to take the kind of customized school model that Ted Sizer and Deborah Meier were talking about in the 1980s, and use new assessment, organizational, and instructional tools to make it more workable. The upsides, if we figure this out, are huge: it becomes much easier to differentiate and customize instruction; learning doesn't stop when a single teacher is absent; students can skip objectives they already know; kids don't fall behind when they're absent; students can proceed through material as quickly or as slowly as is appropriate; and so on.
Anyway. The Daily News cited a new study by Rachel Cole, James Kemple, and Micha Segeritz of the Research Alliance for New York City Schools that reported that School of One had produced modest results at the three middle schools currently implementing the model as the regular in-school math program in its first year. (School of One had previously been piloted as a summer school and after-school program.) Accompanying the article, with the headline "Former NYC Chancellor Joel Klein's highly touted School of One math project dropped by 2 of 3 schools in pilot program," was an angry picture of Joel Klein and a big "F".
There are several problems with the Daily News coverage.
First, the results are based on School of One's performance for one year. I know we're eager to know "what works," but it took years or decades before folks decided that the telephone, airplanes, or the Internet truly "worked." New ways of doing things are always messy and imperfect, and require a lot of learning, tinkering, and adjusting. Bumps in the road are only untenable if one thinks New York's schools are so effective that it's unnecessary to mess with the formula. Moreover, Cole, Kemple, and Segeritz observe that "SO1 produced a mix of positive, negative and neutral results across schools and grade levels." So, a pioneering effort produces a mixed slate in its initial year, and the Daily News brands the whole thing with a big "F". (I can just see the Daily News in 1902, stamping a big "F" over a picture of Orville and Wilbur Wright and the headline, "Latest 'Airplane' Attempt Fails, Proves Air Travel Is a Dumb Idea.")
Second, the study uses grade-level assessments to evaluate the School of One program. By design, the School of One uses a competency-based model. This means that students are free to race ahead once they've mastered an objective, so sixth graders may be learning some seventh-grade content and may not have studied material on the sixth-grade exam in a year or more. The critique here illustrates how our current fascination with grade-level assessments can wedge schools and systems ever tighter into age-ordered classrooms, regardless of student need. Making precisely this point, Cole, Kemple, and Segeritz note: "When we looked within groups of similarly performing students, we found that those who were exposed to more on-grade-level skills experienced higher rates of growth on the New York State math test." (I've previously noted that the Common Core could weld schools and systems ever more tightly to a one-size notion of grade-level mastery and discourage models that encourage kids to race beyond grade-level material- this is a terrific illustration of that risk.)
Third, a bunch of the folks eagerly cheap-shotting School of One are the same people who typically celebrate the virtues of formative assessment and note the dangers of leaning too heavily on simple test-based outcomes. Cole, Kemple, and Segeritz went to great pains to point out that their year one findings "should not be interpreted as a definitive indication of the SO1's impact on student achievement. Rather, the findings are presented as initial feedback for SO1 in an effort to guide their ongoing development."
Fourth, for what it's worth, early results from the second year of SO1 implementation (2011-12) are quite promising. The school that stuck with the program (IS 228 in Brooklyn) posted student growth gains on the state assessment that were twice the average of NYC schools overall in its second year, and proficiency gains that exceeded both the city and charter school norms.
Finally, one "duh"-caliber observation: schools drop programs or close for a raft of reasons. In fact, one school that discontinued the program saw the strongest achievement gains, and the final school was shut down for a whole host of reasons having nothing to do with SO1. (In fact, the state report that led to the shutdown flagged SO1 as a strength.)
Now, let's be clear. I'm not arguing that School of One "works." I am saying that it's a terrifically interesting way to think about how to better organize teaching and learning. The three NYC pilots may or may not have done a good job of taking advantage of the opportunities the SO1 model presents. And I'm sure there'll be a big learning curve as we figure out how to organize schooling in fundamentally different ways. But, it's safe to say that the Daily News did an awful job conveying what we know about School of One thus far. And it's done a brutal disservice by suggesting that preliminary results from three pilot sites can tell us anything definitive about the potential of a wholly new way to think about how schools go about their work.


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Wednesday night I had a company dinner and so arrived home late. When I got home, my oldest boy was complaining of tummy problems and quickly dashed to the bathroom. When he came out, he was red faced and clammy with watery eyes.
In short,he looked really bad.
So we talk about how he feels and he tells me that his tummy really hurts.
And then he says "May I be excused?" and of course we say yes and he says "I have to go throw up."
Which he then does.
All night long.
It goes on until about 4am, and this is where I have to admit something.
OMG I lay there in terror, in between the vomit, hoping that he didn't sit up and puke all over me. Some moms get all barfed up and they must have Teflon skin - not me. I cannot STAND it. I mean - I'm THERE for him, wiping his mouth, giving him a drink to rinse and spit.....getting towels, giving hugs.
Oh GOD please don't puke on me.
He wanted to snuggle up and lay on me and that just kept me awake even more. I could hear every gurgle of his tummy, every moan in his sleep even better and I'm a ball of tension - don't barf on me please don't barf on me.
The next morning he bounces out of bed completely excited and off we went to school - he was feeling great and I chalked it up to something he ate. (Of course by then I'm not feeling go at all).
Of course the school called a few hours later. They had 150 kids have to go home due to vomiting and mine was one of them. The board of health showed up and they've closed the school because it's more than 10% of the school population.
All I know is - nobody barfed on me, and that is all good.
I leave you with a pic of the twins, on pajama day.
Friday, October 30, 2009
I Am Not a Teflon Mom
Posted by Gidge Uriza at 11:17 AM
Labels: gastroenteritis, school, stomach flu, vomit
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One Christmas, I was holding a 3-year-old Jeannette and she barfed all over my shoulder and back. Like a technicolor fountain of yack. It even went down my shirt and into my bra. Thankfully, it was at Barbara's house, although I'm sure Barbara was not as happy about that as I was!
- Fri Oct 30, 04:43:00 PM
- Barbara Raymond said...
Laura, didn't The Divine Miss J also drop a gigantic deuce on our family room floor right around that same time period? And if I recall correctly, you immediately went after both messes with reckless abandon & a bottle of Formula 409 - which, as far as I'm concerned, gives anyone you brought with you carte blanche to puke away. Besides... hey, it's Joey's! :)
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On January 8, 2002, President George W. Bush signed into law the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB). This new law represents his education reform plan and contains the most sweeping changes to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act since it was enacted in 1965. It changes the federal role in education by asking America's schools to describe their success in terms of what each student accomplishes. The act contains the president's four basic education reform principles.
- Stronger accountability for results
- Local control and flexibility
- Expanded options for parents
- An emphasis on effective and proven teaching methods.
In sum, this lawin partnership with parents, communities, school leadership and classroom teacherswill ensure that every child in America receives a great education and that no child is left behind.
The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 helps schools to establish safe, disciplined and drug-free educational environments that foster the development of good character and good citizenship. To assist schools in achieving this goal, the Department of Education created the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools. For more information about OSDFS and its programs, visit www.ed.gov/offices/OSDFS.
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Connecticut will move on "Real ID" license program this fall
STAMFORD -- This fall, state drivers will need to go through a new system for renewing and obtaining licenses that will require a variety of identification to obtain a new photo ID to flash as they enter airports, courthouses and other federal buildings.
The program, called CT Select ID, would start Oct. 3, and has been recognized as compliant with the security guidelines of the federal Real ID Act, Connecticut Department of Motor Vehicles spokesman William Seymour said.
The Real ID Act was enacted by Congress in 2005 in response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington to require state motor vehicle officials nationwide to create a process to check the legal immigration or citizenship status during license application or forfeit federal recognition of the documents for official purposes such as travel.
DMV customer service staff and employees of American Automobile Association branch offices who conduct renewal processing will be trained during May in how to process the license material and winnow out phony documents, Seymour said.
Eligibility and what combination of birth certificate, U.S. passport and documents showing legal presence in the country are needed to gain the license will vary from scenario to scenario, based on whether applicants are U.S. citizens, married, and a variety of other factors, Seymour said.
For instance, an unmarried male U.S. citizen applying for the license could present their birth certificate, a U.S. passport, Social Security card, and proof of residence to get the license.
A divorced female whose name is different on her driver's license than on her birth certificate would additionally need marriage licenses and divorce records to demonstrate their name change.
Foreign citizens studying or working in the U.S. would be required to show a variety of additional documents to corroborate their claims, such as an I-94 form which shows when one entered the country, and for students, various proof of enrollment from an academic institution.
A full list and discussion of the requirements can be found on the DMV's website at ct.gov/selectCTid.
Drivers who wish to avoid the more extensive check of immigration status and background information can still renew their licenses using the old renewal process which only requires providing your current license, Seymour said.
Those applicants will receive a non-compliant license that can subject them to more scrutiny at airports and elsewhere, Seymour said.
"There is nothing in the Real ID law that prevents us from continuing our current process which does not involve a check on people's legal status so all we're doing is continuing the current process," Seymour said. "We also felt some people may not need the new license to travel and we thought we should give them the option to opt out."
Foreigners with legal presence in the U.S. expected to last less than six years, including those with student and work visas, will be ineligible at the time of renewal to seek the Real ID compliant licenses and can only apply for the non-verified licenses.
Earlier this spring, the federal government granted an extension of the deadline to states to implement the new standards, which were created in direct response to recommendations of the 9/11 Commission to create more secure driver's license standards to help prevent similar attacks.
More than 20 states including Maine, Georgia, Washington, and New Hampshire have adopted legislation rejecting the requirements of the act out of a range of concerns for privacy and potential increased risk for identity theft.
Connecticut lawmakers discussed proposed legislation in 2009 to opt of Real ID, which was supported by the ACLU of Connecticut.
State Sen. Bob Duff, D-Norwalk, said that meeting the federal government's requirement to incorporate new security features was a priority to avoid having Connecticut's state-issued license being eliminated as a valid form of identification for residents for travel and other purposes.
"If you don't make your licenses compliant with the federal law they may not be accepted by the federal government and they won't be allowed to board a plane," Duff said. "The states that aren't complying are putting their residents in the crosshairs."
Seymour said immigrants without legal presence who initiate an application for the new license will have their current licenses seized when the DMV checks with federal immigration officials about their status.
Despite Connecticut's retention of the less extensive renewal process, Philip Berns, a Stamford immigration attorney, said he feared the program is likely to result in the revocation of licenses for a wide group of both illegal and legal immigrants working and living in Connecticut towns.
Berns said the Real ID concept is a flawed method of foiling terrorists from getting helpful credentials because of the ability to purchase legitimate paperwork on the black market to obtain licenses.
Foreign born passengers could still board airplanes with international passports, he said.
"You've done nothing to slow them down from getting on planes and crashing into buildings," Berns said.
Berns said revocation of licenses for illegal immigrants would result in less information on undocumented workers and a range of other problems.
"Denying driver's licenses to illegals prevents testing them on how to drive, getting their photographs and fingerprints, making sure their vehicles are registered, and getting their addresses in our databases," Berns said. "On a national security level, refusing to take photographs and fingerprints of people who are here seems to hurt us from a public safety point of view."
Maryann Handley, the retired state senator who proposed the failed 2009 state legislation to require Connecticut to opt out of the Real ID program said she had concerns about the new identification providing the potential for more wide ranging surveillance of the public.
"I was at the time very concerned about the whole concept that Real ID creates a mechanism for a type of supervision or oversight of people which we have never accepted as proper in this country," Handley said.
Staff Writer Martin B. Cassidy can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or at 203-964-2264.


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Negative reaction in European press to Klaus win
There has been a mostly negative to the result in the European press. Britain's Guardian newspaper said Mr Klaus's victory had cast doubt on the Czech Republic's membership of the European Union. Meanwhile the leading French dailies Le Figaro and Liberation both described him as a "leading Euro-sceptic." Spain's El Pais newspaper said Mr Klaus represented the antithesis of Mr Havel's humanistic ideals. Austria's Die Presse said Mr Klaus would be a pragmatic partner who would, however, refuse to compromise on issues such as the dispute over the post-war expulsion of the Sudeten Germans.
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Prymula says more measures needed ahead of special cabinet session Wednesday10/20/2020
The Czech cabinet will hold an extraordinary meeting at 8 am on Wednesday to discuss the situation surrounding the coronavirus in the country. The minister of health, Roman Prymula, said on Tuesday that further measures aimed at curbing the rapid spread of Covid-19 would need to be introduced soon. He said current restrictions were not doing enough to reduce contact among the population.
Mr. Prymula had previously announced that face masks would be required in built-up urban areas, if a distance of two metres cannot be maintained, from Wednesday.
First statue in Czech Republic of Maria Theresa unveiled in Prague10/20/2020
The first statue in the Czech Republic honouring the Habsburg ruler Maria Theresa was unveiled in the Prague 6 district on Tuesday. The local authority paid CZK 3.6 million for the monument to the Holy Roman Empress, who was sovereign of Bohemia when it was part of the Austrian empire.
The unveiling was deliberately held on October 20, the day when Maria Theresa assumed the Austrian throne in 1740.
Two charged over Old Town Square protest violence10/20/2020
Two charged over Old Town Square protest violence
Police have charged two people in connection with a demonstration in central Prague on Sunday that turned violent. The two are accused of disorderly conduct and violence against officials, a police spokesperson said on Tuesday. Some 144 people were detained during the events on the city's Old Town Square, with 14 suspected of criminal actions.
Hundreds of ultras from Czech football and ice hockey clubs had gathered to protest against the government's Covid-19 measures. After the official time limit many of them threw cobblestones and other items at riot police, injuring 25.
Reduced hours at public services leading to long queues10/20/2020
Long queues are currently forming at some public services in the Czech Republic as opening times have been reduced in response to the Covid-19 situation, Czech Television reported. Officials at some agencies have called on the public to weigh up whether they really need to visit them in person. They also recommend that people use on-line reservation systems to book specific times. However, these are frequently full for weeks in advance, Czech Television said.
On Monday police monitored queues at some agencies, following reports of altercations last week. Video footage suggests some people are not maintaining a two-metre distance while waiting in line.
Weather forecast10/20/2020
It should be overcast in the Czech Republic on Wednesday, with an average maximum temperature of 15 degrees Celsius. The cloudy and mild weather should then continue for several days.
Experts: Further suspension spells end of electronic cash register system10/20/2020
The further suspension of a system under which businesses must register transactions in real time in a state database means the project is to all intents and purposes over, the Czech News Agency reported, citing tax experts.
The lower house's Budget Committee has recommended the system be put on ice until the end of 2022, a move approved by the government last week.
The electronic cash register system had already been suspended until the end of this year to alleviate pressure on businesses hit by the coronavirus crisis.
The system was first introduced in 2016 and gradually extended over subsequent years.
Coronavirus cases rise after weekend, but below last week's record10/20/2020
Monday saw 8,076 people test positive for the COVID-19 coronavirus. While this is the highest amount of cases ever recorded on a Monday in the country, it is also 3,000 cases fewer than were recorded last Friday. Ministry of Health Statistics show that 46 people died on Monday as a result of contracting the virus.
Currently there are more than 105,000 people in the country who have COVID-19, although the majority of the infected have little or no symptoms. Experts predict that around 3 to 4 percent of this number will require hospitalisation, one fifth of which will be in serious condition.
Face mask obligation to be expanded10/20/2020
Starting Wednesday, people will have to cover their face even if they are walking in the open in municipal areas and are closer than 2 meters from each other, Health Minister Roman Prymula has announced. Furthermore, the obligation to wear a mask has also been extended to those inside any vehicle, with the exception of those who are driving alone, or only with close family members.
Speaking at a press conference on Monday evening, Health Minister Prymula also ruled out that the government is planning any discussion about entering a full lockdown this week. He highlighted that the effectiveness of the measures in place has to be given at least two weeks' time before it can be evaluated.
Deputy-head of Czech Football Association charged with corruption resigns10/19/2020
Roman Berbr announced on Monday that he will resign from his position as Deputy Chairman of the Czech Football Association. Mr. Berbr is one of 20 people that are facing charges by the Czech Police of corruption through rigging the results of football games in the lower-divisions of the Czech football league. He was arrested on Sunday.
The decision was announced after a special meeting of the Czech Football Association's executive committee which ended in the dismissal of the members of the committee of referees, including its chairman and former Czech national team coach Jozef Chovanec, who allegedly used his position to rig the selections of referees.
Tourism sector to get CZK 500 million in COVID funding10/19/2020
The government has agreed to allocate CZK 500 million in support of the tourism sector within the economy, Regional Development Minister Klára Dostálová announced on Monday. The funds will come from Ms. Dostálová's ministry and will be made available to travel agencies and guides.
Travel agencies will be able to receive CZK 500 for every cancelled trip purchased after December 1, 2019. However, it is so far unclear whether this is the amount per person, or for the whole event. Eligibility for support is also granted to those agencies that could not realise trips to spas, which had to be closed during lockdown.
Agencies focusing on domestic tourism will be eligible for CZK 50,000 in funding. This amount will also be available to guides, under the condition that they offer at least 10 hours of labour to education services administered by the state, or if they undertake a re-skilling programme.


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A new law called CSIPA could permanently change the way the Internet and the U.S. Government would interact. CISPA directly affects your online privacy. Should you be concerned?
If CISPA is passed into law, the government will gain direct and unregulated access to your personal online information.
Since the Internet's rise, the federal government has generally taken a hands-off position concerning the online activities of American citizens. But that's all subject to change with CISPA—the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act—which already cleared the U.S. House of Representatives on April 26th and is now awaiting discussion in the U.S. Senate.
What CISPA Will Allow Government Agencies to Do: CISPA will enable easier and faster cooperation between government counter-terrorism forces (such as the National Security Agency) and Internet providers – as well as social media networks and other web-related companies.
Under CISPA, outfits like the NSA will be able to review any online data generated by U.S. citizens, without following federal wiretapping guidelines (which they're currently required to do when gathering data).
Like SOPA, CISPA is hotly debated. The battle lines have been drawn. Which side are you on?
CISPA Supporters: Legislators, Movie Studios, IBM, Facebook
Their Position: They say CISPA is absolutely necessary for waging an effective war against terrorism and protecting America's intellectual property – to help stop the pirating of movies and other media.
The Motion Picture Association is a huge proponent of the bill. And so is Congressman Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), who chairs the House Intelligence Committee and authored the CISPA legislation:
"In just the last few years, criminals have stolen enough intellectual property from defense contractors that would be equivalent to 50 times the print collection of the U.S. Library of Congress," Rogers explains, "(Criminals are) literally stealing jobs and our future. We also have countries that are engaged in activities and have capabilities that have the ability to break computer networks…You can't just reboot. It means your system is literally broken. Those kinds of disruptions can be catastrophic when you think about the financial sector, or the energy sector, or our command and control elements for all our national security apparatus."
Against CISPA: The Obama Administration, Microsoft, Verizon, the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
Their Position: CISPA's opposition claims the bill will be used to create a "Big Brother" environment in which the government will be given absolutely free rein to spy on U.S. citizens, even if the need for that surveillance has not been legally established. Microsoft recently dropped support of CISPA for privacy concerns.
CISPA's wording is left intentionally broad and vague. According to the White House, CISPA "effectively treats domestic cybersecurity as an intelligence activity and thus, significantly departs from longstanding efforts to treat the Internet and cyberspace as civilian spheres," which means that the Administration thinks the federal government should stay out of online matters as much as possible.
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For their part, many communication providers already cooperate with government agencies. On various occasions, Verizon and AT&T have supplied billions of customer records to the NSA. Verizon has also freely shared its customer data with the FBI – without being ordered by a court to do so.
How Will CISPA Affect You?
If CISPA passes and cyber surveillance begins, the average Internet user would probably never know they have been monitored unless they're arrested or prosecuted. It's unclear how and to what degree CISPA's passage would affect the business of developing websites, or the creation of any other online content.
Does CISPA Have a Chance of Becoming Law?
At first glance, the answer seems doubtful. CISPA faces a rockier road ahead in the Senate than it did in the House, and even if passed by the Senate, the Obama Administration has stated its intention to veto the legislation.
Opponents of CISPA fear giving the government "Big Brother" powers, as in George Orwell's classic novel "1984."
The nature of online privacy remains an ongoing concern. Recent years have brought a widespread erosion of online privacy, whether that trust has been violated by the criminal efforts of professional hackers or through the sloppy neglect of online providers themselves, who have not always safeguarded their customers' information. It remains to be seen if America's counter-terrorism forces will take part in an even wider erosion—one designed to protect American security at the expense of online privacy.
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) A charter bus carrying home University of Alabama cheerleaders after the BCS championship game was involved in an accident that seriously injured a student who was riding in another vehicle.
Authorities said the crash happened Tuesday night in Montgomery. Police said the accident involved the cheerleaders' bus, which was carrying 31 people; a pickup truck; and a car.
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The movers will be here in a few hours.
I'm not quite sure what to do with them.
Into my pocket, maybe. For safekeeping.
I think I'll need them. A reminder of my optimism and my hope.
Both of which The Coach shattered last night.
We're over. I haven't told him yet. But we're over.