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There are legal and ethical issues surrounding the recording of conversations. The laws regarding recording phone conversations for private investigators as well as the general public vary by state. But both Federal and state statutes govern the use of electronic recording equipment (electronic recording of conversations by phone or in person). The Federal and state wiretapping laws may limit your ability to record telephone conversations. Violations of these laws not only expose you to criminal prosecution, but also civil lawsuits in many states.

Federal law allows recording phone conversations and other electronic communications with the consent of at least one party to the call. It is almost always illegal to record a conversation when you are not a party, do not have consent to record, and the conversation could not naturally be overheard. Federal law and most states also prohibit the disclosure of the contents of an illegally intercepted call or communication.

The question to ask regarding the recording of phone conversations is whether you must get consent from one or all of the parties to a phone call or conversation before recording it. State statutes can be divided into two types: “one-party consent” statutes and “two-party consent” statutes. One-party consent laws permit recording conversations by one party without informing the other parties that they are doing so. Thirty-eight states and the District of Columbia are “one-party” states. Federal law is also one-party consent, allowing you to record a phone call or conversation as long as you are a party to the conversation.

Two-party consent laws require the consent of all parties (not just two) to a conversation before it can be recorded. The 12 two-party states include: California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and Washington.

Criminal penalties are provided for in all states except Vermont. Vermont’s statutes do not address interception of communications. But Vermont’s Supreme Court ruled in 2002 that surreptitious electronic monitoring of communications in a person’s home is an unlawful invasion of privacy. In Hawaii it’s a misdemeanor for someone just to possess any material obtained through illegal surveillance.

About thirty-five states allow civil suits and penalties. For example, under California law, anyone injured by a violation of laws against disclosure of telephonic messages can recover civil damages of ,000 or three times the actual damages (whichever is greater).

All laws regarding surveillance, not just recording conversations, are important for private investigators to be aware of since they may make certain services impossible to perform. For example, if you practice in Arizona and a client wants you to catch a cheating spouse “in the act,” that may be impossible. That’s because Arizona law makes it unlawful to photograph or film a person without consent while that person is in a bedroom or is undressed or involved in sexual activity (unless the surveillance is for security purposes and notice is posted!).

Also, Federal and many state laws do not permit you to surreptitiously place a bug or recording device on a person or telephone, or in a home or office in order to secretly record a conversation between two people who have not consented.

Know the laws before performing any kind of surveillance work or you may find yourself without a license and in jail.

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Similar to others which took the privilege of web tools, state records checks in VT that are inclusive of Vermont Police Records may be obtained through the VCCRIS (Vermont Criminal Conviction Record Internet Services).  This allows citizens to purchase copies of criminal conviction records on-line from the State Crime Information Center (Public Safety Division), which is the provider of such service.  Indeed this makes it easier than physically getting them from police or sheriff’s offices or waiting in several days for the mailed-in results.

Gathered results through the government online-based search system are direct as expected from any web data search sites.  It allows users to view reports, then save or print them right after requesting the screen.  Criminal Conviction data history cost per request and it is a non-refundable charge that’s why cautiousness in entering details is imperative.

Requests of your own conviction records can be processed in two ways.  One is thru a personal appearance at the Information Center however government issued photo identification is presented otherwise requests will not be processed.  Another is mailing a completed criminal records request sheet along with the “notary” form, a self addressed stamped envelope, and check or money order made out to the Crime Information Center for .

The VCIC or VT Crime Information Center is the repository of criminal record data coming from criminal justice agencies all over the state.  It combines and validates arrests, prosecution, sentencing, and correctional information supplied by other bureaus.  Thus it comprises data that documents a person’s contact with the criminal justice system which includes data concerning identification, arrest or citation, arraignment, judicial disposition, custody and supervision.

Out of state charges, juvenile data (unless they were prosecuted in District Court as adults), expunged charges are not held in the VCIC database.  Nationwide lookups may be obtained generally through the FBI system database.  Since fingerprinting is a prerequisite, for those required by law (e.g. educational institutions) to have national screenings may locate a near Fingerprint Identification Center.

On the other hand, you can have your own records review performed in a Free Public Police Records online.  Most people find its necessity quite valuable for their varied personal or business needs.  Primarily, it has a wider scope of search compared to usual state-designed data search pages.   Get not only police criminal data results; obtain an in-depth background inspection on anybody whom you want a background unveiled.  It is quite affordable yet great value awaits you helping you to better assess somebody and arrive at cautious decisions since it doesn’t just reveal local or state-only results, it enables a nationwide search system as needed.

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Calvin Coolidge’s grandfather, Calvin Galusha Coolidge, felt so strongly that tilling the soil was “the only real, respectable way to get a living” (15), and hoping to keep Calvin from going into trade as his father John had, deeded “forty acres, called the Lime Kiln lot…. With the rest (of the farm) to my lineal descendants, thinking that as I could not sell it, and my creditors could not get it, it would be necessary for me to cultivate it.”1

….“My own wish was to keep store, as my father had done.

They all taught me to be faithful over a few things. If they had any idea that such a training might some day make me a ruler over many things, it was not disclosed to me. It was my father in later years who wished me to enter the law…” (16 –17)

Calvin evidently believed that “it takes a village to raise a child” though the saying was not coined until the second half of the twentieth century.

“The neighborhood around the Notch was made up of people of exemplary habits. ….speech was clean….lives above reproach. ….no mortgages. ….credit was good and …money in the savings bank. ….(worked from dawn until dusk). ….kept up no church organization….(so) little regular preaching (or) outward manifestation of religion through public profession, but…a people of faith and charity and good works. They cherished the teachings of the Bible and sought to live in accordance with its precepts.

The conduct of the young people was modest and respectful.” (17)

Calvin attended regular Sunday school classes superintended by his grandmother Sarah Brewer Coolidge and later by his father. He spent a lot of time with her at her farm….“she had much to do with shaping the thought of my early years. …The Puritan severity of her convictions was tempered by the sweetness of a womanly charity. There were none she ever knew that had not in some way benefited from her kindness.” (17-18)

From his mother, Victoria Moor Coolidge, he learned to love the beauty of nature. The purple sunsets, evening stars, and the colors of each season so richly displayed in the fields and on the mountainsides of Plymouth Notch, Vermont. Upon her death in March 1885 when Calvin was only twelve years old, he records in his autobiography, “The greatest grief that can come to a boy, came to me. Life was never to seem the same again.” (13)

In the early fall of 1891 just before Calvin began his freshman year at Amherst, his father married Carrie Brown, “One of the finest women of our neighborhood. I had known her all my life. I was greatly pleased to find in her all the motherly devotion that she could have given me if I had been her own son. …Loving books and music she was not only a mother to me but a teacher. For thirty years she watched over me, welcoming me when I went home, writing me when I was away, and encouraging me in all my efforts.” (52)

At the age of thirteen having mastered the basics of reading, writing, arithmetic,

and United States History at the Notch School, Calvin looked forward eagerly to

attending Black River Academy in Ludlow. He would be mostly his own master – no more farm life drudgery – no more cowhide boots.

But as he notes there were other “atmospheres more monotonous and more contaminating than anything in the physical atmosphere of country life.” (32) He would discover this later in life when it was a joy for him to return to his roots at the farm for

vacations. For now, at age thirteen, he was “perfectly certain that I was traveling out of the darkness into the light.” (33)

He relates his final thoughts written in 1929 over his “village upbringing.”

“We have much speculation over whether the city or the country is the better place to bring up boys. I am prejudiced in behalf of the country, but I should have to admit that much depends on the parents and the surrounding neighborhood. We felt the cold in the winter and had many inconveniences, but we did not mind them because we supposed they were the inevitable burdens of existence. It would be hard to imagine better surroundings for the development of a boy than those which I had. …

Country life does not always have breadth, but it has depth. It is neither artificial nor superficial, but is kept close to the realities.” (33)

Endnote

1 The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge. Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, New York, N.Y., 1929, 1989 edition, p. 15. This and subsequent quotations from the Autobiography are used with the gracious permission of the Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation, Plymouth Notch, VT.

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Copyright (c) 2008 Wes Fernley
Walk into just about any classroom and you will find one: A dark green board on the wall, lined with pieces of chalk and felt erasers. Chalkboards, also commonly known as blackboards, have long been a part of daily classroom life, but just what is the history of the chalkboard?
The earliest blackboards cannot properly be called chalkboards, as there was no chalk involved. They were simply small pieces of slate, and instead of chalk children would use another, smaller piece of slate to write on the board. Marks would be erased with a simple rag in order for the student to move onto the next problem.
In the late 18th and early 19th century, such “slateboards” were commonly used in schools in the United States and other countries. These small pieces of slate would be bound in a wooden frame to help strengthen the board and keep them from cracking. In those days paper was expensive and hard to come by, so these mini slate blackboards provided a good substitute.
At some point in time, however, these slate boards began to be used in a brand new way. A geography teacher working in Scotland is reported to have taken the slates from the students and hung them all on the wall. He then used this to make-shift blackboard to write out geography information which all the students could read at once. A revolution in blackboard usage had begun.
Adoption of this new idea came quickly. The first recorded use of this style of slate board in North America comes from 1801, when such a blackboard was in use at the United States Military Academy in West Point. Other academic military schools quickly picked up on it as well, and soon enough it began to spread throughout grammar schools.
Much of slate mining in the United States occurred in the Northeast, places such as Maine, Vermont, Pennsylvania, and a bit further to the South in Virginia. As Americans began to expand to the West, the new railroads were able to bring slate for blackboards from these states to schools across the Great Plains and prairie lands by the 1840′s. No matter where Americans went, slate followed for use in public schools.
By the 1850′s, virtually all schoolhouses included a blackboard along with their other staples: a wood burning stove and benches for the students to sit on. Still, however, our modern chalkboards were not in common usage.
As technology progressed, the old pieces of slate finally began to be replaced by chalk. The soft limestone chalk was easier to use on the boards, and easier to clean as well. The old rag erasers have been erased by new felt chalkboard erasers, which are able to absorb more of the chalk dust and keep it out of the air. The boards themselves are no longer made of slate, but instead are a steel sheet with a porcelain enamel.
In the past couple of decades, many schools are beginning to phase out use of chalkboards for whiteboards over fears of the hazardous effects of chalk dust. The principle, however, remains the same, and blackboards will continue to be used in schools for many years to come.

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Live Nation unveiled their new ticketing service on Friday (Jan. 30) with the sale of tickets for Phish’s reunion tour, and failed on their first major tryout. Phishheads flocked to the Live Nation page to secure tickets to the band’s highly anticipated reunion tour and the increased traffic caused the site to freeze, resulting in users losing tickets while in the process of purchasing-and many an angry Phish phans! A spokesman for Live Nation told http://RollingStone.com, “At the moment of the onsale, there were one million people trying to buy tickets, and that overwhelmed the system for a minute. We sold all the tickets to all the shows. At the end of the day, it was successful.” Fans of the legendary jam band are singing a different tune of the Live Nation ordeal on various message boards. Fans are still able to sell the coveted tickets so check out http://www.stubhub.com/phish-tickets for Phish tickets and other sold out concert tickets in your area.
Phish picked up where the Grateful Dead left off in terms of touring in the early ’90s and has become a veritable institution among college campuses across the country. According to Billboard Boxscore, since 1989 Phish has generated $175,541,923 in concert grosses from 5,842,789 tickets sold to 475 shows. Phish is known for launching a neo-hippie jam band movement promoted by their perpetual touring as opposed to traditional album sales, but the band abruptly broke up in 2000 and stunned fans. After making a brief comeback in the early 2000s, Phish went on an official hiatus again in 2004 and news of an official comeback has been wafting around ever since. As evidenced by the Live Nation Web snafu, Phish tickets are in high demand as the rumored reunion is now official.
Guitarist/vocalist Trey Anastasio, drummer Jon Fishman and original guitarist Jeff Holdsworth met while they were all students at the University of Vermont and answered a band flyer posted by bassist Mike Gordon. Calling themselves Phish, the guys began playing shows on-campus and added percussionist Marc Daubert to the lineup as well as an occasional vocalist called the Dude of Life and keyboardist Page McConnell. Holdsworth exited the band around the time they began selling their cassette-only release Junta at shows and eventually began performing outside of New England. In 1990 Lawn Boy was released and the band secured a record contract with Elektra. A Picture of Nectar followed in 1994 and then Rift and Hoist followed in 1994. Although still remaining a formidable live act, Phish continued to release albums into the late ’90s, such as the live double-disc A Live One in 1995 and 1996′s studio effort Billy Breathes. Phish announced their plans to take a hiatus on the heels of releasing their critically acclaimed Farmhouse in 2000. Despite Phish’s break from the road, albums from the jam band continued to be released with sporadic public appearances, such as a 2002 cameo on The Simpsons. Catch Phish on a stage near you with tickets from http://StubHub.com.

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The Syracuse Orange emerged from being something of an afterthought that was considered to be a middle of the pack Big East team to a conference champion and now a +600 betting favorite in March madness 2010 NCAA tournament odds. Syracuse did falter at the end of the season though which has scared off some of the gambling public’s money as they lost their regular season finale at Louisville and then lost their only game in the Big East tournament to the eventual runner up Georgetown. Syracuse still had an impressive college basketball betting season and are considered to be one of the favorites to make the Final Four in 2010 NCAA tournament odds.

Syracuse enters March madness odds with a record of 28-4 straight up on the season and 18-9 against the spread as favorites. The Orange did their best work on the road going 10-2 against the spread while going 14-9 as favorites and 3-0 against the spread as an underdog on the road. In winning the Big East regular season championship, the Orange had to beat out such teams as West Virginia, (Big East champions), Villanova, Pittsburgh, Marquette, Louisville, Georgetown and Notre Dame, all of whom are considered betting favorites in March madness odds to win the 2010 NCAA tournament. Bet Syracuse +600 as betting favorites in March madness odds to win the 2010 NCAA tournament with up to a $100 bonus and play in the $13,000,000 perfect bracket contest for free!

Syracuse is one of the strongest offensive teams in the land as they ranked 6th in the nation for scoring at 81.5 points per game. Forward Wesley Johnson is the man that makes the Orange go as he led the team in scoring with 16.0 points per game while also leading the team in rebounds with 8.4 per game. Syracuse has had recent wins against Villanova, Georgetown, Marquette, Notre Dame and West Virginia along with impressive non conference wins over Florida and Cal earlier this year. Jim Boeheim has done arguably the best coaching job of his career in leading Syracuse to the big dance and has a team primed for a Final Four run. Bet the Orange during March madness as favorites in 2010 NCAA tournament odds and play the $13,000,000 perfect bracket contest with up to $100 free.

Syracuse will face the Vermont Catamounts in their first round match-up on Friday, March 19th at 9:30pm EST in a game that can be seen on CBS with the Orange listed as 17.5 point favorites. Wes Johnson had 24 points and seven boards for Syracuse in their 91-85 loss to Georgetown in the Big East tournament quarterfinals at Madison Square Garden last Thursday. Georgetown cashed as 5.5-point underdogs in college basketball betting odds while the teams played OVER the 140.5-point total listed by sportsbooks. Vegas odds for the 2010 NCAA tournament have the Syracuse Orange 7-2 as a betting favorite for March madness.

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