October 31st 2008

Orange County and Microsoft Technology Voucher Program

What is Available

Vouchers will be issued in two categories: 1) General Purpose Vouchers and 2) Software Vouchers. General Purpose Vouchers may be used to purchase specific hardware (listed below), any non-custom software for that hardware, evaluation tools, information technology (IT) services, and professional development services. IT and professional development services must be obtained from approved providers in Orange County schools. Software Vouchers may only be utilized to purchase specific categories of software (listed below) that are published or sold by any software provider. Both the General Purpose and Software

Vouchers may be applied by Orange County schools in an amount no greater than the standard academic price, or if an academic price is not available, in an amount not to exceed the normal or standard price established by the manufacturer or vendor for such software. The following list gives examples of eligible goods and services that may be purchased with one or the other category of the vouchers:

Hardware available for Orange County schools: Any new laptop, desktop, or tablet computer for any operating system platform; Peripheral devices: printers, scanners, monitors, keyboards, pointing devices (e.g., mouse, trackball, etc.); Equipment needed for networking and infrastructure (e.g., routers, servers, wireless network cards, or wireless access points); Hardware for accessing the Internet through television sets and Internet access for such hardware for students’ homes; Non-custom assistive technology devices for use by students with special needs

Software available for Orange County schools: Purchased with General Purpose Vouchers - Any non-custom software titles (any platform) that are designed for use on any qualifying hardware (see Hardware above); purchased with Software Vouchers - Specific categories of software offered by any software publisher or vendor, including: Operating system, Word processing, Spreadsheet, Presentation, Desktop relational database oriented towards single users and typically residing on a standard personal computer, Web-authoring, Productivity and/or Productivity Suite, Encyclopedia, Server, including client access licenses, Eligible software bundled with a computer purchased with the General Purpose Vouchers

IT Support Services available for Orange County schools: Services that primarily involve the maintenance of hardware procured through this Settlement and the installation and maintenance of software procured through this Settlement.

Professional Development Services available for Orange County schools: Professional development services directed solely at leadership development for school administrators in the use of education technology to improve learning at the site or district; Professional development services directed solely at general curriculum development and instructional strategies which utilize educational technology to improve instruction; Professional development services directed solely at the improvement of technology integration for any software title acquired through this Settlement; Training in the use of any hardware or software title acquired through this Settlement; Certification training for software and networking

What Schools are Eligible

Orange County Public school districts that have a state-approved technology plan may apply on behalf of their eligible schools. Orange County offices of education, direct-funded charter schools, and State Special Schools do not have to meet the state-approved technology plan requirement and can apply on their own behalf. “Eligible Schools,” as defined in the Settlement Agreement, means all public kindergarten through twelfth grade schools at which at least 40 percent of the attending students are eligible to receive free or reduced price meals through the National School Lunch Program (NSLP). “Eligible Schools” also include all public high schools in Orange County California that serve students from public elementary, middle, and junior high schools at which at least 40 percent of the attending students are eligible to receive free or reduced-price meals through the NSLP.

Stacy Andell is a staff writer for Schools K-12, providing free, in-depth reports on all U.S. public and private K-12 schools. Stacy has a nose for research and writes stimulating news and views on school issues. For more information on Orange County schools visit http://www.schoolsk-12.com/California/Orange-County/index.html

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October 31st 2008

Court Systems Need Existing Truth Technology Now

Our civilization as we know it is based upon laws. Laws that protect the innocent and punish the guilty.

In the Bible there are two kinds of ministers. The ministers of the gospel that preach God’s word to all that would hear it, and the ministers of justice that enforce the laws that God has created. In our modern world these ministers of justice are the judges, laywers and law enforcement personnel of our court system. These officers of the court spend many years of study in their chosen professions. They sacrifice money, homes and family lives to protect you and me.

The majority of these men and women are unknown and unrecognized for their contribution to our society. You and I could not go to work every day and see the human race at their worst. You and I could not patrol dark places alone, the only protection a piece of body armor. You may have always wondered how these people can do their job day after day, year after year. High stress, broken families, little pay, injury and death. The Bible says that these select individuals were personally chosen by God Himself to serve and protect us. So now you know. We owe much to these ministers of justice.

However our court systems have a major problem - they are based on 16th Century technology and 16th Century society. The system was based on the assumption that people would tell the truth when they swore on the bible. In those days, swearing on the bible meant something. As we all know, this is not how it is today. So, we need a new SYSTEM in the courts to help us to know what is the truth. These ministers of justice need the necessary tools to perform their job.

Technology now exists which can increase our chances of knowing if someone is telling the truth or not. It is time we use and develop these technologies.

Two Innocent Men Jailed for 13 Years because of a Lie

The front page of the Virginia Pilot of August 26 2001 reported an age-old story - two men who had spent nearly 13 years in jail were finally found to be innocent. They had been sent to jail for life mainly on the word of just one lying witness.

Faison worked in a construction job with his closest friend Charles Shepherd. When a local druggie named Roper asked for a job recommendation, they turned him down cold.

A cabbie was shot outside Faison’s apartment. Homicide detectives approached Roper who pointed them to a woman named Van Buren. She said she saw Faison shoot the cabbie in a holdup, with Faison as lookout. Although Van Buren had a drug problem and had TEN beers on the night of the shooting, her testimony sent Faison and Shepherd to jail for life.

Faison asked for a sentencing delay to marry his pregnant girlfriend, but this was refused He took to writing individual hand-written letters asking for help and maintaining his innocence. One of 62,000 letters reached ex NYPD detective named Michael Race. Something about the 4 page letter spoke to Race.

In his reply to Faison, Race said “I want you to read this letter while sitting down: SHE ADMITS THAT THE WHOLE STORY IS A LIE!” Van Buren admitted wrongfully identifying the pair for a $1,000 police reward, which she split with Roper. The retraction was backed up by physical evidence. The witness said Faison was standing on the driver’s side of the cab, but the driver was shot on the right side of the face (passenger’s side). Race got Roper to admit coaching Van Buren because he was bitter about the job-application snub.

Word of another suspect surfaced that month. A man named Cheston wrote to his girlfriend about “two guys that were doing time for a murder he committed.” The driver refused to hand over money to Cheston. Two fingerprints on the cab’s glass partition matched Cheston’s prints. Finally, Faison and Shepherd were released. After 13 long years.

Hypnosis can easily make people Lie or Commit Crimes

In the above case, there was a person who lied CONSCIOUSLY. Unfortunately, people who consciously lie are not the only problem.

The use of hypnosis is much more powerful and much more widespread than most people realise. If you read the excellent book “Secret, Don’t Tell - The Encyclopedia of Hypnotism” you will know this. This book took ten years to research and is VERY extensive. The site for the book is www.hypnotism.org. In the book, the author Carla Emery gives many stories, some from court proceedings, showing how people committed serious acts against their will.

Emery claims that a hypnotist can easily get 10% of the population to do anything they want, purely through hypnosis. The other 90% of the population can be hypnotised once they have been given a drug, for example in orange juice.

In opposite to what most people believe, it is relatively easy to get hypnotised people to perform unethical actions, including murder, prostitution and robbing banks through hypnosis. And if you think that you can never be hypnotized, think again! According to Carla Emery, the more intelligent a person, the more likely it is that they can be hypnotized.

The unfortunate truth is - no longer can we condemn a person on the say-so of an eyewitness, at least, not until we find methods to verify that they are consciously telling the truth and have not been hypnotised.

Government insiders reveal how the United States Government finds, chooses and creates “Sleepers”, mind-controlled, programmed zombies, also known as Manchurian Candidates

Unfortunately, it gets worse. Private citizens can cause people to lie or commit crimes through hypnosis. But in addition, the government has set programs to do just this. Read the 5 steps to creating a Manchurian Candidate, as revealed by one government insider at Operation Open Eyes at http://www.rumormillnews.com/operation.htm

It’s Time for a Positive Change in Court Systems for Identifying Truth

One technology that should NOT be used at any time is the lie dectector. See www.antipolygraph.org Read the free 176 page book “The Lie behind the lie detector”. Learn how to beat Lie Detector!

A technology that could be used in the courts to help to identify what is the truth and what is Brainwave Fingerprinting, Invented by Dr. Larry Farwell.

Brain Fingerprinting is a revolutionary new technology for investigating crimes and exonerating innocent suspects, with a record of 100% accuracy in research on FBI agents, research with US government agencies, and field applications. If we had Brainwave Fingerprinting in the courts now, many of the injustices that happen would not be. www.brainfingerprinting.com

We are now in the 21st Century. Our courts are based on technologies that are hundreds of years old. For the sake of hundreds (thousands?) of people like Faison and Shepherd, and maybe even for your own sake one day, it is time we instituted methods of identifying what is said in court is the truth and what is not.

It has only just started to be used: In Feb 2003 the Iowa Supreme Court Reversed the Harrington Murder Conviction after 24 Years. Brain Fingerprinting Supported Innocence

WHEN WILL BRAINWAVE FINGERPRINTING BE IMPLEMENTED IN ALL COURTS?

Copyright ©: Stephanie Relfe & Michael Relfe - 2002
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Stephanie Relfe was born in Sydney, Australia. She now lives in the USA with her husband and son. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from Sydney University. She is a professional Kinesiologist. http://www.relfe.com

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October 30th 2008

UAV Landing Light Technology Concept

How can we improve the fuel efficiency of our Unmanned Aerial Vehicles? One item reviewed is the need for electrical energy to run all the computer processors, flight control systems and lights. There may be a way to save some electrical energy in today’s modern military UAVs. By improving efficiency, we can have enhanced performance without sacrificing fuel usage and shorten the range of the aircraft. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles need to loiter in the battlespace for hours, in fact the longer the better, then return back to a safe base or to a flying gas station for aerial refueling.

We can save energy used for landing lights on UAVs by going to an LED Light which works off engine harmonic resonance and vibrations. I propose that the landing light be powered up using electromagnetic induction technology to charge a capacitor instead of the headlights working off the aircraft battery or electrical system.

Currently there are some nifty micro-flashlights being used which you can buy which use a similar technique and are available thanks to the Everlite Flashlight technology research lab. These smaller flashlights work by shaking them for about thirty seconds and shine for about 6 minutes and they shine quite bright since they use a very bright LED light. Here is a link to this home use flashlight:

http://www.modernoutpost.com/gear/details/ee_shakelight.html

Here is a quick movie you can watch online to see how this technology works.

http://www.modernoutpost.com/gear/movies/ee_forever.MPG

I propose we use the engine rumble and harmonic beat to light the landing light and navigation lights, when needed. If the lights get too dim from the power or engine being off as it glides dead stick into the pre-selected airport, then the system would revert back to the battery if needed. Perhaps this is a good way to save fuel? Think on this.

Lance Winslow

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