1958 National Defense Education Act, PL85-864 (graduate fellowship program and the National Defense Student Loan Program (NDSL), the precursor to the Perkins Loan Program, first Federal student aid program for low-income students)
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Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act
Carl Dewey Perkins (October 15, 1912 – August 3, 1984, a Democrat, was a politician and member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Kentucky.
Perkins, Carl Dewey (1912-1984) — also known as Carl D. Perkins — of Hindman, Knott County, Ky. Born in Hindman, Knott County, Ky., October 15, 1912. Democrat. Lawyer; member of Kentucky state house of representatives, 1940; served in the U.S. Army during World War II; U.S. Representative from Kentucky 7th District, 1949-84; died in office 1984. Member, American Legion; Freemasons. Died in Lexington, Fayette County, Ky., August 3, 1984 (age 71 years, 293 days). Interment at Perkins Cemetery, Leburn, Ky.
Relatives: Father of Carl Christopher Perkins (1954-).
http://www.nndb.com/people/288/000129898/
Perkins, Carl Christopher (b. 1954) — also known as Carl C. Perkins;
Chris Perkins — of Leburn, Knott County, Ky. Born in Washington, D.C., August 6, 1954. Democrat. Member of Kentucky state house of representatives, 1981-84; U.S. Representative from Kentucky 7th District, 1985-93; minister. Baptist; later Presbyterian. Pleaded guilty in 1994 to bank fraud in connection with the House banking scandal; he wrote overdrafts totaling about $300,000 (covered by the House bank) and made false statements to obtain loans from commercial banks; also pleaded guilty to charges of filing false statements with the Federal Election Commission and false financial disclosure reports. Sentenced to 21 months in prison. In March 2000, pleaded guilty to criminal contempt of court for lying to a federal probation officer about his income. Still living as of 2013.
http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/perkins.html
1986 Reauthorization of the Higher Education Act (added Congressional Methodology as a second federal need analysis methodology, gave financial aid administrators broad discretion through “professional judgment”, required financial need for the GSL interest subsidy, NDSL renamed Perkins Loan, created Supplemental Loan to Students (SLS) for graduate, professional and independent students, restricted PLUS loans to parent borrowers, added FFEL consolidation loans)
http://www.finaid.org/educators/history.phtml
A History of Vocational and Career Education in Ohio: 1828-2000
http://www.scribd.com/doc/85309209/A-History-of-Vocational-and-Career-Education-in-Ohio-1828-2000
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To fulfill an eligibility requirement of the Carl Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act, an assessment was conducted of the public vocational … Carl D Perkins Voc and Appl Techn Educ Act 1990
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The Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act was first authorized by the federal government in 1984 and reauthorized in 1998. Named for Carl D. Perkins, the act aims to increase the quality of technical education within the United States in order to help the economy.
On August 12, 2006 President George W Bush signed into law the reauthorization of the Act of 1998. The new law, the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Improvement Act of 2006, was passed almost unanimously by Congress in late July, 2006.
The new law includes three major areas of revision:
1) Using the term “career and technical education” instead of “vocational education”
2) Maintaining the Tech Prep program as a separate federal funding stream within the legislation
3) Maintaining state administrative funding at 5 percent of a state’s allocation
The new law also includes new requirements for “programs of study” that link academic and technical content across secondary and postsecondary education, and strengthened local accountability provisions that will ensure continuous program improvement.
The Perkins Act provides almost $1.3 billion in federal support for career and technical education programs in all 50 States, including support for integrated career pathways programs.
http://www2.ed.gov/policy/sectech/leg/perkins/index.html
http://www.clasp.org/ a national picture of infant-toddler child care policies and finds that, collectively, states could be doing far better meeting the needs of our youngest children and their families
Corilie Perkins
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‘Flash’ events hurt market liquidity for days: N.Y. Fed blog | Reuters http://ow.ly/R5K9F
Flash Boys Puts a Flashlight on Dark, Predatory HFT Trading | Dennis M. Kelleher http://ow.ly/R5Kou
The scariest reason China devalued the yuan, in one chart China employment market is showing strains http://ow.ly/R5Rnm
Ashley Madison
Notes on the Ashley-Madison dump http://ow.ly/R5SCf
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– Are you a Californian worried about state deficit? Don’t worry, Ramon Hernandez of the CA FTB is looking for solutions on @adultfriendfind
.@Sidragon1 wouldn’t have to risk prison if FAA IT guys like Billy Enos found bugs instead of searching @adultfriendfind with state property
– Military legislative fellow Matt Daack used @ashleymadison to cheat on his wife with the House email he uses to evaluate classified data.
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-John Tokarczyk of the Attorney General’s office hard at work investigating potential sex partners on @ashleymadison
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From page 46 of the “How to Hack a Jeep” manual: masscan http://ow.ly/R5T6H
Hillary Emailgate
Hillary’s Secret Email @clintonemail.com culprits reg to Eric P. @eric_hothem, Teneo holdings http://ow.ly/R5WUf Douglas J. Band http://ow.ly/R5YLy
The Spy Satellite Secrets in Hillary’s Emails http://ow.ly/R5UsP
How the FBI Took Down the Botnet Designed to Be ‘Impossible’ to Take Down | Motherboard http://ow.ly/R5V5b
Hillary Clinton will hand over to the Justice Department the private email server http://ow.ly/R5WHF
The Spy Satellite Secrets in Hillary’s Emails “TOP SECRET // SI // TK // NOFORN”
Most seriously, the inspector general assessed that Clinton’s emails included information that was highly classified—yet mislabeled as unclassified. Worse, the information in question should have been classified up to the level of “TOP SECRET//SI//TK//NOFORN,” according to the inspector general’s report. http://ow.ly/R5VPv
For 3 months Hillary Clinton’s email was unencrypted, open to spies http://ow.ly/R5W6R
BITCOIN
Bitcoin at a crossroads: Bitcoin Foundation’s Andresen and Hearn propose Bitcoin XT – New York Business Journal http://ow.ly/R6bum
Money Laundering
Sons of Indicted Swiss Financial Adviser Keep Business in the Family
London is now the global money-laundering centre for the drug trade, says crime expert http://ow.ly/R6ugD
Cryptography
bcrypt There are two kinds of cryptography in this world: cryptography that will stop your kid sister from reading your files, and cryptography that will stop major governments from reading your files. This book is about the latter. — Preface to Applied Cryptography by Bruce Schneier
China is the E-Waste Computer dump for the world
E-waste dump of the world.
Guiyu computer dump –
1. The Electronics Junkyard Dismantlers of Guiyu
- 2008 Guiyu was once a peaceful rice-growing village located in the eastern province of Guangdong, southern China – that is – until a surge of broken computers and laptops arrived from the Western World. Since then, Guiyu has been proclaimed the World’s electronic-waste capital. For around $1.50 USD, around 60,000 local workers including children risk their lives and limbs to scramble for anything of value out of your old computer. Some workers go the river bank, located just outside the village, where they make small fires to heat an extremely toxic mixture dubbed Aqua Regia. It contains 75 per cent pure Hydrochloric Acid and 25 per cent pure Nitric acid. Using the mixture, workers try to extract the small amount of gold found within a number of electronic parts such as computer chips. This method is extremely harmful both to humans and environment, as it produces sulfur dioxide and chlorine. At best, protection comes in the form of only a pair of rubber boots or a pair of gloves; but many of the workers endure a day’s labor without any protection at all.
2. Much toxic computer waste lands in Third World
- “25 Feb 2002 … (AP) — What happened to that old computer after you sold it to a … That often involves operations like the dump in Guiyu or similar ones …”
3. The Seattle Times: Nation & World: E-waste dump of the world
- “9 Apr 2006 … A worker piles discarded aluminum computer casings on the back of a motorized transport at the town of Guiyu in southern China. …”
4. Electronic waste in Guiyu – Wikipedia
- “While taping part of the story onsite at an illegal recycling dump in Guiyu, representatives of the Chinese recyclers attempted without success to …”
5. E-Waste Not How–and why–we should make sure our old cell phones, TVs and PCs get dismantled properly
- “Even though holiday sales were down at least 2% from 2007, millions of Americans awoke Christmas morning to new computers, TVs and iPhones. (I didn’t, but thanks for the pens, Mom.) Many of those gifts were replacements or upgrades, which prompts the question, What should you do with your old cell phone and other electronic equipment?
6. KILLER Digital Dumping Grounds on Earth, in Agbogbloshie, Ghana …
- “23 Jul 2009 … BIGGEST Military Computer Hacking of ALL-TIME, from a normal …. The southern Chinese city of Guiyu has been completely built around the e-waste trade. … and maybe one day put the digital dumps out of business. …” http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/ghana804/video/video_index.html
7. Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management March 2006, Volume 8, Issue 1, pp 21-33 Environmental contamination from electronic waste recycling at …
- ” dismantling electronic equipment, selling computer … roller dump site. A reservoir located in the northern part of. Guiyu, approximately 6km from the …” http://www.springerlink.com/index/G8K452X2542HK200.pdf
8. 2007 Elevated blood lead levels of children in Guiyu, an Electronic …
- “Guiyu has become a hub for illegal and unsafe computer recycling. … Dump. One of the worst polluted spots is Guiyu, China, where the levels of dioxin, …”
9. “12 Nov 2007 … “A migrant child from Henan province holds up a piece of e-trash, once a computer screen bearing a “Nokia” logo in a junk yard in Guiyu in …”
10. The WIP Contributors: E-waste: America’s Electronics Feed the …
- “26 Apr 2009 … The landscape of Guiyu, a remote town in China’s Guangdong province, … piles of unrecyclable computer waste imported from around the world in Guiyu, China. … Nigeria to this nearby informal dump sitting on a swamp. …” http://www.thewip.net/contributors/2009/04/ewaste_americas_electronics_fe.html
11. Elevated Blood Lead Levels of Children in Guiyu, an Electronic …
- “Leaching of lead from computer printed wire boards and cathode ray tubes by … Johnson T. E-waste dump of the world. 2006. [[accessed 20 July 2006]]. …”
12. FOXNews.com – Chinese Recyclers Live in Toxic E-Waste Dump …
- “Chinese Recyclers Live in Toxic E-Waste Dump, Southern city of Guiyu full of … wires to recover copper and cooking computer motherboards to release gold. …”
13. GARBAGE AND RECYCLING IN CHINA
- China produces 254 million tons of garage a year, or about a third of a kilogram per person per day—a third of the world’s annual trash and garbage output.
14. “2008 Following The Trail Of Toxic E-Waste
60 Minutes is going to take you to one of the most toxic places on Earth — a place that government officials and gangsters don’t want you to see. It’s a town in China where you can’t breathe the air or drink the water, a town where the blood of the children is laced with lead. It’s worth risking a visit because, as correspondent Scott Pelley first reported last November, much of the poison is coming out of the homes, schools and offices of America.
15. E Waste
- “Burn houses in distance and smoke where computer parts from the United States are burned. … Guiyu is one of the biggest e-waste centers of the world. … Alaba market in Lagos, Nigeria to this nearby informal dump sitting on a swamp. …”
16. The World’s Electronic Waste Dump
Guiyu, China is often referred to as the “e-waste capital of the world.” The city employs over 150,000 electronic waste dis-assemblers, recyclers, and salvage workers who toil through 16-hour days tearing apart discarded computers and other electronic devices.
17. Where computers go to die — and kill | Salon News
- “10 Apr 2006 … Top: Woman in Guiyu, China, about to smash a cathode ray tube from a … A short distance inland, the trucks dump their loads in what looks like … rivers that have become dumping grounds for discarded computer parts. …”
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/04/10/ewaste/
18. Elevated blood lead levels of children in Guiyu, an Electronic
- “RESULTS: BLLs in 165 children of Guiyu ranged from 4.40 to 32.67 ….. Leaching of lead from computer printed wire boards and cathode ray tubes by municipal solid waste “Municipal waste” redirects here. … E-waste dump of the world. …”
The USA FREEDOM Act, the President’s Review Group and the Biggest Intelligence Reform in 40 Years
The USA FREEDOM Act, the President’s Review Group and the Biggest Intelligence Reform in 40 Years
https://privacyassociation.org/news/a/the-usa-freedom-act-the-presidents-review-group-and-the-biggest-intelligence-reform-in-40-years/
Two years after the first story based on Edward Snowden’s leaks hit the press, the U.S. government enacted the USA FREEDOM Act, ending bulk collection under Section 215. As one of five members of President Obama’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technology, I applaud its passage—the biggest pro-privacy change to U.S. intelligence law since the original enactment of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in 1978.
There is a close fit between the Review Group’s work and the new law as well as multiple significant reform measures the Obama administration has already adopted without legislative change. In this era of partisan gridlock, the U.S. system of government has proved more responsive and resilient than many skeptics had predicted.
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