"If it isn't certified, how do you know?" Two years ago, the issue of ice purity was unexpectedly brought into focus when a Florida seventh grader, Jasmine Roberts, made national headlines for a science project that compared the purity of water from ice machines to that from the toilets in a variety of fast-food restaurants.
"We can't even certify exactly how many weapons the Pakistanis have — which makes it difficult to sound convincing that there's nothing to worry about".
Among the recommendations is for the committee to centralize and standardize ways for sports to run background checks on the coaches they certify and how to address violations found in the checks.
But the gap between design and construction, which LEED certifies, and how some buildings actually perform led the program last week to announce that it would begin collecting information about energy use from all the buildings it certifies.
Ask potential coaches if they have any certifications (the Motorcycle Safety Foundation certifies its coaches), how many years have they ridden and how many miles, and what their teaching experience is.
The system requires third-party verification by inspectors who qualify homes as basic-, silver-, gold-, or platinum-certified, depending on how many green features they have.
The timeline to re-certify depends on how regular your income is.
Still, as Mr. Frankel said, "how we certify knowledge in science is acceptance by one's peers, and the primary way by which we do that is by publication in peer-reviewed journals.
In a 5-to-4 decision written by Justice Antonin Scalia, the court said that the proposed class of Comcast subscribers failed to meet formal legal guidelines for how to certify that evidence of wrongdoing was common to the group and that damages could be measured on a classwide, rather than an individual, basis.
