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The NCAA Title Game That Made You Very Excited for the NBA Playoffs
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The NCAA Tournament is just around the corner this weekend.
The Big East has only two teams in the Sweet Sixteen, of its original eleven.
We're two and a half hours into the NCAA Tournament.
LIU beats Robert Morris to advance to the NCAA Tournament, and Quickish's Dan Shanoff was there.
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The NCAAs are in Newark this year, and Cory Booker is very excited.
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A new non-profit organization is rallying support for legislation allowing the use of a specific type of medical marijuana. Caring 4 Florida was founded in January this year by Peyton and Holley Moseley. The not-for-profit organization is intended educate and advocate for the legalization of non-euphoric strains of cannabis for use by epilepsy patients. The Moseley's eleven year old daughter, RayAnn, has intractable epilepsy and cerebral palsy.
If gas prices are on the rise, we must be getting close to spring break.
Florida Governor Rick Scott delivers his annual State of the State address Tuesday, March 4, signaling the start of the 2014 Legislative Session. His speech will start at 10 a.m. Central Time. Again this year, Senate President Don Gaetz and House Speaker Will Weatherford have joined together on a priority agenda. "These are issues that rise above politics and we think they can get done. They must get done. We will get them done," says Gaetz, a Republican from Niceville.
Ground may be breaking soon on some long awaited commercial development at the University of West Florida.
Dr. Jim Barnett, the Interim CEO of the Business Enterprise Inc, or BEI, at the University of West Florida says the BEI Board of Difrectors approved the project at its February 17 meeting. It goes to the full UWF Board of Trustees for final approval on March 26. Barnett says that if approval is given, ground could be broken two days later. This would be the first phase of development at the University's Highway 90 and Campus Drive entrance.


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The General Assembly of 1979 designated the turtle (Terrapene carolina) as the official State Reptile for North Carolina. (Session Laws, 1979, c. 154).
§ 145-9. State reptile.
The turtle is adopted as the official State reptile of the State of North Carolina, and the eastern box turtle is designated as the emblem representing the turtles inhabiting North Carolina. (1979, c. 154, s. 1.)
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Associated Press. "Turtle wins final approval as state reptile." Wilmington Morning Star. March 17, 1979. 7-C. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=XsksAAAAIBAJ&sjid=MxMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4868%2C3697108 (accessed October 7, 2013).
Bond, Sharon. "Turtle Gets The Nod From State House." The Dispatch [Lexington, N.C.]. March 1, 1979. 12. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Y1UcAAAAIBAJ&sjid=p1EEAAAAIBAJ&pg=7138%2C6079886 (accessed October 7, 2013).
Harden, Leigh Anne. "Meet our State Reptile, the Eastern Box Turtle." North Carolina Herpetological Society. 2006. http://www.ncherps.org/state_reptile.shtml (accessed October 7, 2013).
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Yesterday afternoon was the moment of truth for U.S. Army Veteran Jeff Crawford, who, due to his medical marijuana use was in danger of losing the subsidized housing he receives through the nonprofit Volunteers of America.
Crawford was understandably nervous about the meeting, fearing that he would be separated from his wife and two sons if he didn't start passing drug tests. But Ben Perdue, a case manager with VOA that has been sympathetic to Crawford's use of marijuana to treat his stomach ulcers, migraines, and arthritis, called the whole situation, "a big misunderstanding."
In a phone call, Perdue said, "He's not going to be evicted at all. Drug screening is just to help us help people who fall off the wagon with drugs like heroin." I also spoke with Orlando Ward, executive director of external affairs for VOA in L.A., who said, "It's not an untruth in terms of our transitional housing policy [that he could be evicted], but we consider the medical needs that are there… In this case, we don't have approval from the VA [for medical marijuana use]."
Crawford says he's getting mixed signals from the Department of Veterans Affairs, too. He claims his case worker, Katie Hashimoto, initially told him that if he didn't return a clean urine analysis he could be put in Narcotics Anonymous, removed from his apartment with VOA, and separated from his family. When Crawford met with Hashimoto yesterday, he says she denied telling him he could ever face those consequences. An attempt to reach Hashimoto for comment was met with a referral to VA's public affairs office in L.A., where a public affairs specialist told me, "Marijuana is not prescribed by VA clinicians nor dispensed by VA pharmacies because to do so would be a violation of federal law."
That doesn't actually clear things up for Crawford. We do know it's not impossible for a veteran to get help from the VA while on medical marijuana. VHA Directive 2011-004 states basically that the VA will neither help a veteran get access to a drug that is still classified as Schedule I by the Controlled Substances Act nor will they deny services if done in a state where it is legal, such as California. (The VA's outdated opinions on medical marijuana is a subject that I've written about before.)
For now, it looks like Crawford is clear of the immediate danger of losing his housing, but he has been asked to submit to regular drug tests and produce notes from his doctors that recommended using medical marijuana.
As Ward said: "It's our job to be flexible and work with folks, but we have to think of the 20 other people in the program... We help over 4,000 veterans each year." Ward added that although he's heard of a few reasons why VOA might want to transition Crawford to more "appropriate housing,"—noise complaints and a difficulty coming up with rent money—they're not going to simply make "an arbitrary transition."
When I spoke with Crawford and his wife yesterday evening after the meeting they were understandably relieved to be home but remain on edge. He says that a security guard comes to his apartment once a week about noise, even when his family is asleep. In an email, Crawford wrote:
So on top of the latest scare re: my medicine, which, btw, I do not take around my kids, I have this menacing security guard who follows us with his lights out at night and always seems to be parked outside our unit... I feel the Volunteers of America are going to try to find any reason to complain about us and have us removed. I understand now why there are so many homeless veterans (Freedom Fighters). Give us a break.
This situation has gotten Crawford support from several different agencies: Americans for Safe Access, the Assistance League, California NORML, Oaksterdam University, and Veterans for Medical Marijuana Access. Hopefully they can all work together with VOA to keep Crawford and his family stable and on their feet.
]]>When Bjorn Lomborg wrote "Green Cars Have a Dirty Little Secret" for The Wall Street Journal earlier this month, he based his argument—that electric vehicles (EVs) are no better for the environment than internal combustion engine vehicles (ICEVs) due to the manufacturing process—on a 2012 study published by the Journal of Industrial Ecology (JIE). He made a convincing case, and I must admit: I was taken in.
But the convenience and even wide-spread belief of something doesn't necessarily make it true. Spurred on to seek out the truth by a very helpful Reason reader, I took a hard look at the JIE study from Hawkins et al. I wasn't the first to do this, but I hope to be one who cares more about the facts than an agenda.
As it turns out, the JIE study that Lomborg points to contains a number of problems that should raise a quizzical scientific eyebrow. In fact, Hawkins et al. were forced to issue a correction to their report in January.
In the JIE correction, EVs come out much greener than they do in Lomborg's op-ed. While Lomborg states that "unless the electric car is driven a lot, it will never get ahead environmentally," Hawkins et al. come to a different conclusion:
We find that EVs powered by the European electricity mix reduce GWP [global warming potential] by 26% to 30% relative to gasoline (originally 20% to 24%) and 17% to 21% relative to diesel (originally 10% to 14%).
Even in the original study, EVs came out ahead over an estimated lifespan of 90,000 miles, despite being loaded down with lithium-ion batteries that scientific advancements have not yet made kind to Mother Nature. Still, reducing emissions by up to 30% without necessitating any changes to our current energy consumption habits can hardly be called "never getting ahead."
And that's assuming that Hawkins et al. have actually reached a reasonable conclusion now that they have corrected their estimates of the required production inputs for a Nissan Leaf—their representative EV for the study. Instead of assuming, however, let's take a look at another study.
This UCLA report prepared for the California Air Resources Board, Lifecycle Analysis Comparison of a Battery Electric Vehicle and a Conventional Gasoline Vehicle, compares EVs (which they refer to as BEVs, or battery electric vehicles) to ICEVs (which they call CVs, or conventional gasoline vehicles). On pages 18 and 19, the authors report average expected CO2 emissions over a lifetime of 180,000 miles for an ICEV to be more than twice those expected for an EV.
In sum: both the JIE and the UCLA studies reach very similar conclusions. Hawkins et al. find EVs to be up to 30 percent cleaner than ICEVs over 90,000 miles and the UCLA study estimates 64 percent lower CO2 emissions over 180,000. (Keep in mind: this is with current battery technology as well as current energy mixes, which rely primarily on fossil fuels.)
And yet Lomborg dismisses this still-fledgling technology as doing "virtually nothing." He's right that EVs are not "zero emissions," of course. But if the chief goal of a buyer is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, they are a step in the right direction.
That having said, a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions isn't grounds for thousands of dollars in subsidies from Uncle Sam. Let the market decide if it's worth driving an electric car to be green, not the government.
UPDATE (3:00 pm): Bjorn Lomborg reached out to me via email with this response that I think is worth posting:
I do know of the correction to the Hawkins study, but it just changes the outcome about 6% (they're very explicit about it not changing much). However, the US electricity grid is also significantly more co2-intensive than the EU average, which was why I kept their estimate of 24% less emissions if driven 90,000 miles in my WSJ. It is not surprising, that if the car is driven twice that at 180,000 miles, it will emit even less.
My point with the WSJ article, however, was also to point out that if you can only drive 73 miles at a time (and likely much less, both because you want to avoid being stranded, like NYTimes reporter John Broder, and because the range declines to 55 miles in five years), it is much less likely that you will drive even 90,000 miles and certainly 180,000 miles before you change your battery and hence increase your co2 emissions again.
Moreover, if you buy a car with a longer range (just drove a fantastic Tesla with almost 300 miles range)—its batteries will obviously have emitted so much more co2 in production that it is unlikely the car will ever earn it back.
So, I don't think these points serve to undermine my argument, but rather simply show that the numbers are pretty clear. If you drive little (50,000 miles or less), you'll emit more co2. If you drive rather much (90,000 miles) you'll probably emit 76% of a gasoline car (with average US electricity), and if you drive your electric car exceptionally far (180,000 miles) you might just emit half of a gasoline car.
All that remains to think about is how far will most future purchasers of a Nissan Leaf actually drive their car. Most will buy it as their second car for short, infrequent trips.
This is an excellent point. In writing this post, I focused solely on rebutting the idea that EVs can't make up for their manufacture with lower greenhouse gas emissions over time (and miles). I stand by what I've written above—they can even with current technology. If you drive them long enough.
However, Lomborg's point that many will buy these as second cars and use them only rarely and for short trips is probably very true. If you're buying one of these cars to reduce your emissions, you better actually drive it a lot (instead of your ICEV) and hold onto it for as long as possible. Otherwise they're just a wasteful fashion statement—like pretty much every other car on the road.
]]>U.S. Army veteran Jeff Crawford and his family have been bounced around a lot over the past three years—living out of hotels and sometimes on the streets. When the Veterans Administration (VA) connected him six months ago with the L.A. chapter of Volunteers of America (a non-profit organization that helps the homeless find permanent housing, among other things), it seemed like things were finally looking up.
Even though Crawford and his wife struggled to raise the money to furnish their apartment with a working stove and a refrigerator, they were grateful for the shelter and the stability it provided for Crawford's two sons.
Sadly, Volunteers of America is preparing to rescind the brief respite it provided the Crawford family, because Jeff Crawford is a medical marijuana user.
While Crawford was initially assured by his case manager, Ben Perdue, that his use of medical marijuana (which he takes with the blessing of his VA caseworker to treat stomach ulcers, migraines, and arthritis) posed no problem, Crawford's new case manager with the L.A. chapter of Volunteers of America wants Crawford to take drug tests as a condition of his housing. As of this writing, I am waiting to hear back from an L.A. affiliate of the Volunteers of America regarding Crawford's situation. [UPDATE at 5:00 PM: I have a call scheduled with a VoA representative for Thursday morning to discuss the case.]
Under protest, Crawford took one drug test and failed when he tested positive for THC. Now he's one more failed test away from being placed in a treatment facility and separated from his family. His next scheduled visit from Volunteers of America is March 28.
"Of course it's going to hit the fan tomorrow, because I'm going to refuse," said Crawford during a phone interview.
Morgan Fox, communications manager for the Marijuana Policy Project, had a few choice words on the subject when he emailed me about Crawford's situation:
Stories like this really highlight the need for Congress to end federal marijuana prohibition. It is admirable that the VA has directed its employees not to discriminate against medical marijuana patients in states where it is permitted under law. Federal housing authorities should do the same without delay. It is unconscionable to force anyone into homelessness merely for using a medicine that works for them, especially when that medicine is legal within that state and the person in question has served their country.
It's likely that Crawford will have support when this turns into a legal battle. T.J. Thompson, a veteran and medical marijuana activist, has already begun by mobilizing Americans for Safe Access and Veterans for Medical Marijuana Access. But in the mean time, the threat of eviction and the possibility that his family will be split apart looms large. In an email, Thompson wrote,
I think it's going to turn into a legal or legislative battle, but right now I am interested in keeping his shelter, family and medicine with him—the 3 major pieces of his structure foundation. When dealing with veterans, if a piece of that support system is removed, you take a person that is typically (and statistically) more volatile than the average American citizen and send them into a whirlwind.… The organization that has offered to help him (with stipulations) is threatening to destroy more in his life than they were even helping with in the first place.
"They're supposed to be pulling you out of it, but they're just pushing you deeper," Crawford added.
All this over a medicine that he has been legally taking in the state of California since 2007. And Crawford's experience is not unusual. Cal NORML just published a new drug testing guide to inform consumers and the public about the fallacies and facts regarding drug testing.
Dale Gieringer, Ph.D., director of California NORML commented:
Cal NORML has heard many complaints from cannabis consumers, medical and otherwise, who have been unjustly denied housing, employment, medical treatment, child custody, release from parole/probation, etc., on account of abusive drug testing practices that have nothing to do with public safety or health.
In spite of it all, Crawford is trying to keep his head up—and do his best to make sure this doesn't keep happening to others. "I know I'll pull myself out of this, but it's going to take time," he says. "Fortunately, I'm being heard because I'm a veteran. But there are thousands of people out there that don't know their rights. And they get walked on. The outcome I want? That someone else doesn't have to go through this."
]]>When T.J. Thompson returned from serving in Iraq, the Veterans Administration put him on Lorazepam, a high-potency, short-acting drug used to fight anxiety, insomnia, seizures, and aggression. It didn't work. Thompson's anxiety worsened until it almost killed him. In Thompson's own words:
I took 28 [pills] and blacked out one night. I also drank an 18 pack of beer in that same night. I declared that I would never take nor have that medication in my house again.
His brush with death is, tragically, more common than you might think. U.S. military veterans are committing suicide at increasing rates—averaging 22 per day. That's 20 percent higher than in 2007.
Prescribing powerful psychotropic (mood altering) drugs like Lorazepam for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and anxiety is common practice among military doctors, but thankfully that's starting to change in response to the many negative side-effects and an almost total lack of observable positive effects.
According to Dr. Grace Jackson, a Navy psychiatrist who resigned in 2002 in protest of the "pill pushing":
Clinical studies… have shown these drugs to be no better than placebos—but far more dangerous in the treatment of PTSD.
Part of the problem with treating PTSD with high-intensity (and generally highly-addictive) pills is the tendency for veterans to self-medicate, according to Alec Dixon, a U.S. Navy veteran and the Director of Client Relations for SC Laboratories.
Veterans—whether Iraq, Afghanistan, Gulf, Korean, or Vietnam War vets—have largely self-medicated as a form of personal coping and treatment with PTSD. Often it is excessive binge consumption of alcohol alone or combined with a cocktail of other prescribed medications. Most vets and active duty military turn to alcohol from an inebriate standpoint due to the "zero-tolerance" policy on cannabis within the UCMJ and, historically, within the Veterans Administration.
But to say that the Veterans Administration (VA) is turning a blind eye to the appalling number of military suicides, however, would be unfair. To their credit, they are open to alternate ways of solving the problem. Michael Krawitz, Executive Director of Veterans for Medical Cannabis Access (VMCA) and a plaintiff in Americans for Safe Access v. Drug Enforcement Agency, admits that the VA is trying to make progress.
The Army and Veterans Administration are trying their best to deal with these issues and have gotten pretty creative: employing meditation, yoga, and even service dogs to assist vets dealing with PTSD. But they haven't yet discovered cannabis.
Should they? The VMCA has collected an impressive amount of studies that suggest that medical marijuana is a safer and more effective way to treat PTSD and anxiety. They submitted it to the State of Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (MDLRA) in an attempt to convince the Michigan Medical Marijuana Review Panel that PTSD should be a qualifying condition for patients to be prescribed medical marijuana. They have also sent in similar packets to New Mexico and Oregon.
(You can download the studies in the same format as they were submitted to the MDLRA here: Packet 1, part 1 of 3, Packet 1, part 2 of 3, Packet 1, part 3 of 3, Packet 2, Packet 3.)
Thompson has already turned from Lorazepam to marijuana after his frightening experience. He says, "I can use marijuana to help with the same [anxiety] symptoms and not worry about overdosing."
Other vets are learning the same thing—but are forced to live in constant fear of arrest because marijuana is still illegal at the federal level, even in cannabis-friendly states like Colorado. Former U.S. Navy Corpsman Jeremy Usher is one such example. He had to obtain an expensive prescription for Marinol, a synthetic version of marijuana's active ingredient, THC, to manage his PTSD symptoms while on probation for three DUIs—all of which he accrued after returning from Iraq and Afghanistan in 2003. He is a poster-boy for the self-medication that is all too common among the shell-shocked vets who don't receive effective treatment.
Admittedly, asking the DoD to turn a blind eye to recreational use of marijuana in states where it has been legalized seems a bit much. It is understandable for them to assert that soldiers and defense contractors must meet certain standards of readiness.
But this outrageously outdated stance on marijuana that the military takes—which ignores the rapidly-growing amount of scientific research which shows that medical marijuana is a cheaper, safer, and more effective means to treating PTSD—hurts our veterans. It kills them.
How many could we save by switching our treatment strategy away from psychotropic drugs and towards medical marijuana? It's worth finding out.
[Disclosure: The writer is a proud member of the U.S. Army Reserve.]
]]>The Maryland Senate voted today to "decriminalize" possession of up to ten grams of marijuana. Even a few Republicans supported the measure, which passed on a 30 to 16 vote.
GOP Sen. Nancy Jacobs, for example, said that her husband has cancer and that "if she needed or wanted to buy a small amount of marijuana for her husband, she would want to be able to do that."
Just because the law decriminalizes small amounts of pot does not mean there won't be any penalties at all for someone found with the drug. Those caught with less than ten grams of pot will still be cited and fined $100.
Still, tickets and citations pale in comparison to the tragic consequences that thousands face each and every year as we continue to wage the longest war in American history.
]]>According to a disturbingly pleasant graphic from Information is Beautiful entitled simply 20th Century Death, communism was the leading ideological cause of death between 1900 and 2000. The 94 million that perished in China, the Soviet Union, North Korea, Afghanistan, and Eastern Europe easily (and tragically) trump the 28 million that died under fascist regimes during the same period.
During the century measured, more people died as a result of communism than from homicide (58 million) and genocide (30 million) put together. The combined death tolls of WWI (37 million) and WWII (66 million) exceed communism's total by only 9 million.
It gets worse when you look at the lower right of the chart—The Natural World—which includes animals (7 million), natural disasters (24 million), and famine (101 million). Curiously, all of the world's worst famines during the 20th century were in communist countries: China (twice!), the Soviet Union, and North Korea.
Communism is a killer. And yet some still say they support the idea: According to a 2011 Rasmussen poll, 11% of Americans think that communism would better serve this country's needs than our current system.
]]>After the introduction of the mass-market hybrid in the late 1990s, mainstream America began a discussion about car exhaust that today has evolved into an all-out quest for "zero emissions" transportation. That pursuit is impossible.
As Bjorn Lomborg deftly explains in an op-ed for today's Wall Street Journal, even newfangled electric cars leave a rather substantial carbon footprint:
If a typical electric car is driven 50,000 miles over its lifetime, the huge initial emissions from its manufacture means the car will actually have put more carbon-dioxide in the atmosphere than a similar-size gasoline-powered car driven the same number of miles. Similarly, if the energy used to recharge the electric car comes mostly from coal-fired power plants, it will be responsible for the emission of almost 15 ounces of carbon-dioxide for every one of the 50,000 miles it is driven—three ounces more than a similar gas-powered car.
Not only that, but America's electric grid may not be up to the challenge of supporting just one electric plug-in vehicle per family (and most families own more than two cars). From Scientific American:
Adding a plug-in car to the grid is equal to about a third of a house, Kjaer said. And because early adopters are likely to spring up in geographic concentrations, that could mean overloaded transformers at the distribution level or plug-in cars potentially causing power outages.
At least some of the trendier models will make you look good when you stand next to them in your driveway.
Even creative solutions like the electric Honda FCX Clarity (Top Gear called it "the most important car for 100 years"), which uses a hydrogen fuel cell as a power-source, has its share of challenges to go along with its benefits.
Just because you have water vapor coming out of your tailpipe—if you even have a tailpipe—doesn't mean that you have zero emissions. It takes energy to create usable hydrogen or charge batteries, and the bulk of our energy is still generated by fossil fuels which create greenhouse gases. This means that discussions about which vehicles produce more carbon dioxide on the road ignore a big source of emissions.
In other words: pretty much all of these tax incentives for hybrid and electric cars are way too generous.
While the rest of the nation is slowly but surely relaxing its stance on marijuana, the U.S. Army is here to remind soldiers that the ultra-conservative never goes out of style with a pamphlet titled Marijuana: Stone-Cold Stupid. It's just one of many alarmist offerings from Prevention & Treatment Resource Press that is sure to make you nostalgic for your last midnight screening of Reefer Madness.
Here's a typical passage that shows the lengths the writers have gone to demonize a substance that 50 percent of Americans believe should be legal:
Marijuana's effects can be unpredictable. The effects that abusers are seeking include relaxation and giddiness. Pot smokers laugh at anything—funny or not. Many users become dizzy, have difficulty walking, and have red, bloodshot eyes. Terrible thirst—"cotton mouth"—and hunger—"the munchies"—are typical. Some people fall asleep when they use pot. Others experience anxiety or paranoia every time they use the drug.
There are also bullet lists of unsupported claims and cherry-picked factoids. For example:
- Marijuana is the most commonly abused illegal drug, but it is not as common as you might think: About 80% of young people never use it.
- Being in a room with marijuana smoke can cause a "contact high" from just breathing.
- In one study, 33% of arrested reckless drivers tested positive for marijuana.
- Possession of marijuana is illegal. Charges carry high fines and jail time.
I question that 80 percent figure in bullet one. The Organization of American States reported in 2008 that more than 102 million Americans over the age of 12 have used marijuana in their lifetime. That's 41 percent. And the study that the writers mention in bullet three failed to factor in all the reckless drivers who were clearly intoxicated by alcohol, skewing the percentage towards marijuana.
It's a good thing, however, that the pamphlet highlights the fact that marijuana is illegal. That alone is what makes marijuana more dangerous to use—by the publishers' own admission—than legal drugs like alcohol and tobacco. Marijuana's listed short term effects can't hold a candle to those of alcohol (tough to beat coma and death!), and its long term effects are no worse than what a long-time cigarette smoker can expect.
The U.S. Army spends between 19 and 33 cents on each one of these pamphlets (there are tables overflowing with them at every base), and all they do is insult the intelligence of those men and women who have chosen to serve their country.
[Disclosure: The writer is a proud member of the U.S. Army Reserves.]
]]>Alabama passed a school-choice plan last Thursday that The Foundry hails as "historic." The Cato At Liberty blog is almost as optimistic, calling the legislation "a good start" and criticizing only the fact that it may inadvertently encourage schools to waste more time "teaching to the test."
In brief, the new legislation will allow students who currently attend a "failing" school to attend a "non-failing" school via income tax credits.
Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley (R) plans to sign the bill into law today, but the Alabama Education Association (AEA) has other ideas. They are suing to block Bentley from signing the bill because:
They maintain the bill has several problems, including being so broad that a family zoned for a failing school could get the private school tax credits without even sending a child to the failing school.
The plan defines failing schools as:
…those in the bottom 10 percent on statewide reading and math assessment scores, with three consecutive D's or one F on the school grading card, or labeled 'persistently low-performing' on the state's School Improvement Grant application.
In other words, when the state-run education system that you're funding with your tax dollars fails your children for a few years running, you will be permitted to keep a portion of your money to send them to a better school.
It's nothing new for heavily-entrenched public education unions to oppose competition and innovations in teaching methods that can benefit children. The New Jersey Education Association (NJEA) devoted the first two pages of its January 2013 newsletter to bad-mouthing charters and complaining about reform movements.
Groups like the AEA and the NJEA are trying to protect their members from budget cuts and lay-offs. That's what unions were created to do, and they're remarkably good at it. But when that gets in the way of a child's education, it is up to parents and legislators to put them back in their place.
]]>According to Zambian economist Dambisa Moyo, the key to lifting millions of Africans out of poverty lies not in foreign aid but in profit-seeking investments from China. The U.S. doled out almost $50 billion in foreign aid in 2011, and research shows that a lot of it went to preserving corrupt systems that keep the majority poor and without rights.
Wolfgang Kaspar, author of a 2006 study that examined the corruption inadvertently caused by foreign aid writes:
A major cause for the rising tide of graft is foreign aid. Aid rarely reaches the poor and is rarely cost-effective. Despite assertions by well-paid foreign-aid lobbyists, unconditional foreign aid has failed. Thus, huge aid flows to Africa have only rewarded incompetent despots and kleptocratic elites, whereas absolute poverty has plummeted in India and China, countries which have received comparatively little foreign aid. In countries which derive over half their national budget from foreign aid transfers—as is now the case in many African and South Pacific countries—genuine democracy has no chance.
Moyo provides a succint explanation of the phenomenon in a 2009 article for The Wall Street Journal:
A constant stream of "free" money is a perfect way to keep an inefficient or simply bad government in power. As aid flows in, there is nothing more for the government to do -- it doesn't need to raise taxes, and as long as it pays the army, it doesn't have to take account of its disgruntled citizens. No matter that its citizens are disenfranchised (as with no taxation there can be no representation). All the government really needs to do is to court and cater to its foreign donors to stay in power.
The continued existence of these corrupt governments keeps foreign investment away, in spite of the fact that—as Moyo highlights—"the structural and fundamental structures of Africa right now are poised for a very good few decades" due to the availability of labor and a favorable debt-to-GDP ratio.
But just as outside investors offer a promise of change as the U.S. faces the very real possibility of diminished foreign aid budgets, the Chinese government might hamstring it. Last summer, China announced $20 billion in aid to Africa.
]]>When President Obama recently pushed for legislation that he hopes will curb the relentless escalation of college costs by "rewarding colleges that keep tuition down and punishing those that do not," he was met with an apt criticism:
But such an approach "does smack of price controls," a technique the public might view as intrusive, said Molly Corbett Broad, president of the American Council on Education in Washington.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) had another idea, and has been "call[ing] on institutions in his state to develop options for low-cost undergraduate degrees" since late 2011. The now-famous "$10,000 Bachelor's Degree" challenge may have started in Texas, but it has already spread to Florida and at least one online university: Excelsior College.
Joseph Rallo, president of Angelo State University in Texas, said: "The profile that we aim the degree for is the adult student who is interested in a broad degree…" Excelsior's Bachelor program is similarly wide open and relies heavily on independent study and a student's prior credits from other schools.
Cheap access to career-changing degrees seems an admirable goal—especially when taxpayers aren't asked to subsidize the endeavor.
But a cheap, generic Bachelor's may be a red herring. Liberal Arts degree holders suffer higher rates of unemployment than the national average (although Fox Business still seems pretty high on them), and the U.S. economy is lacking in recipients of degrees that are already cheaper than $10,000.
Only 10% of American workers have the sub-baccalaureate degrees needed for middle-skills jobs, compared with 24% of Canadians and 19% of Japanese, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development reports.
It's not as if an Associate's degree damns students to a lifetime of low wages. In fact, surveys show that community college students who earn an Associate of Science degree tend to earn starting salaries of about $11,000 more per year than graduates of four-year programs. The gap closes if a student attends a private four-year university, but does the price-tag (in both time and money) justify the "reward"—and are companies likely to hold a $10,000 Bachelor's degree in high enough esteem to pay commensurate wages?
The April 2013 issue of Reason Magazine will feature a host of views on how to fix our falling college education system. Pick up a copy.
]]>The New York Times' "FiveThirtyEight" blog boldly ventures that Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) might be "The Electable Conservative" for 2016. Nate Silver's write-up is not so revealing about Rubio (unless you weren't already aware that he's a conservative) but more so about the problem that plagues the Republican Party.
Aside from the fact that the GOP is little better—if at all—than the current administration when it comes to spending our money and allowing the government to get "all up in our bid-ness," the Right suffers from a pretty substantial image problem. It's just not cool to be a conservative.
And that's exactly why Rubio is The NYT's pick when it comes to electable conservatives. Although his Conservatism Score is solidly middle-of-the-pack (beating the current congressional average by only three percentage points), he's not unpopular. And that's saying something. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), for example, has a favorability rating of only 32 percent, and he was only one election away from the White House.
On top of Rubio's likability, Silver points out that "Mr. Rubio is Hispanic and is from Florida." As silly (if not discriminatory) as these qualifications would sound when interviewing for almost any other job in the world, these things actually matter when it comes to a presidential election.
Silver also touches on a couple other "ideologically similar candidates"—some of whom actually bring more to the table than a toe-the-party-line voting record and a persona that the public and media don't dislike (yet).
Some of those candidates, like Mr. Ryan, can probably offer a richer intellectual defense of conservatism, or can claim to have been better vetted. Several others, like Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, have more executive experience.
None of that is going to matter down the line. Ryan was painted as a psycho when Mitt Romney picked him as his would-be-VP. And Jindal's approval rating has been taking a nose-dive for the past three years, even in his home state.
This isn't about who has the brightest ideas or who can communicate them clearest or with integrity. Winning the presidential election is largely about viral marketing. President Obama used that to his advantage, and it's safe to say that Democrats will be employing (and improving upon) his methods for years to come. If the Republicans continue to support unmarketable candidates, they shouldn't be surprised at all when they continue to lose.
]]>As Avenue Q pointed out, the internet is for porn. Iceland is trying to change that with an outright ban on internet porn made possible by online filters like those currently used in China. The country has already banned the printing and distribution of pornography (and, recently, strip clubs) but now wants to bring the Nanny State into the 21st century.
Halla Gunnarsdottir, an adviser to the nation's interior minister, claims that:
This move is not anti-sex. It is anti-violence because young children are seeing porn and acting it out. That is where we draw the line. This material is blurring the boundaries for young people about what is right and wrong.
Clearly, Gunnarsdottir has little faith in the Icelandic family unit. She is willing to abridge the rights of everyone in her country just to give parents a boost in one aspect of multi-faceted job.
Birgitta Jonsdottir, a member of Iceland's parliament, sensibly points out that the ban has very little—if any—chance at passing, adding:
Introducing censorship without compromising freedom of expression and speech is like trying to mix oil and water: It is impossible. I know my fellow MPs can often turn strange and dangerous laws into reality, but this won't be one of them.
If, somehow, this outrageous proposition does make its way into Iceland law, history has shown us that we can expect two things: an internet uprising and the proliferation of a probably-dangerous black market economy.
Get excited, Iceland!
]]>Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) announced this morning that he will not run for a sixth term in the senate—possibly in response to the rather pugnacious maneuvering by Newark Mayor Cory Booker (D). This new (but expected) development leaves a straight path to the senate for Booker, who decided to "explore the '14 Senate race" in mid-December last year.
Booker is a self-proclaimed advocate of education reform, and not above touting the benefits of charter schools. He wrote in May 2009 for the Huffington Post:
Schools in Harlem, Newark and numerous other cities are succeeding in replicating models that are erasing the education gap evident along both racial and socioeconomic lines. In fact, the highest performing public school in all of Essex County, New Jersey—a county that has both pockets of poverty and great affluence—is a Newark charter school with a student population that is nearly entirely minority and with a significant percentage near or below the poverty line.
But does he have the guts to stand up to the powerful New Jersey Education Association (NJEA) in 2013 and beyond? The organization testified against "virtual charters" in the January 2013 issue of the Reporter, singling out two Newark schools in particular: Merit Preparatory Charter School (MPCS) and Newark Preparatory Charter School (NPCS). The union seemed especially upset that both schools are "operated by private corporations."
The schools are new—experimental even—and they're already taking fire from the unions. The NJEA filed a motion seeking a stay of the charter issued to MPCS and NPCS. Fortunately, the motion was denied.
Now the union is pushing the state legislature to shut them down. Will Booker push back? He has good reason to. As Sean Kennedy, a fellow with the Lexington Institute, pointed out in the New York Post earlier this week, blended learning is remarkably effective at eliminating the stubborn achievement gap:
In San Jose, Calif., the five Rocketship [Charter] Schools are among the highest-performing elementary schools in the state of California—though 90 percent of students qualify for free or reduced lunch.
All this while simultaneously cutting costs by up to 25 percent.
Public schools and teachers unions are against challenging the status quo. Hopefully Booker will help remove the final hurdle to their widespread implementation: a legislative evaluation and changes to the state law that allow not only for virtual charter schools but all kinds of alternatives to a floundering public education system.
]]>Sporting hair that looks completely natural to the untrained eye, a ninth grade student was nonetheless sent home from class by the vice principal of Hurricane Middle School in Utah for violating the school's dress code, which bans "extreme hairstyles and colors." She was later permitted to return, although she did nothing to change the deep auburn color of her hair.
The report is another addition to these gems from the past few weeks:
If school is supposed to prepare you for the real world, what lessons are we teaching children by acting like this? Clearly, that obeying the letter of the law is far more important than getting an education or (God forbid!) expressing yourself.
By contrast, suspending Brandon Guzda, a high school student from New York who posted an insulting comment about a teacher on Twitter, may seem like overkill—but at least has sound justification.
"I thought I could say what I want on Twitter in the luxury of my own home," Guzda said.
Sure, you can say it, but you will have to face the consequences. Word travels fast online, and once you say something it's impossible to unsay it. Employees have lost jobs for venting about their bosses via social media. Better to learn this lesson now than later.
There will always be debate over what constitutes a sufficient punishment for breaking a rule. However, most of these students weren't doing anything wrong.


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Buenos Aires, Mar 21 (Prensa Latina) The Argentine Nestor Kirchner
administration rescinded the contract of Aguas Argentinas Tuesday, the multinational Swiss-controlled group that has controlled national water since the 90s.
In announcing the resolution, Federal Planning Minister Julio de Vido emphasized to press the decision was made to defend the neediest sectors from abuses committed by the firm.
"Access to water is considered a human right that should be based in social justice," the official stressed and said the Argentine State must prioritize protecting the most defenseless from the excesses of the transnationals.
The Swiss were accused of allowing high levels of nitrate in the water, failing to invest in the sector and non-compliance with the
contract, the minister said.
Following complaints the Swiss group in control threatened to pullout of the country, to which threat Kirchner replied that the Casa Rosada would not consent to extortion.
>From now on, following approval by the Legislature, the state Aguas y Saneamientos Argentinos (AISA) will be in charge of potable water in the capital and its urban extension.
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( plural setae /-tē/)
chiefly Zoology - 1A stiff hairlike or bristlelike structure, especially in an invertebrate.More example sentences
- Each feeding leg, split into two branches, carries stiff bristles and feathery setae.
- Ice worms propel themselves using setae, extremely small bristles that protrude from the sides of their bodies.
- Inside their gill chambers are mats and hair-like setae covered in bacteria.
- 1.1 Botany (In a moss or liverwort) the stalk supporting the capsule.More example sentences
- Only the youngest sporophytes with unelongated setae were used.
- Similarly, setae may be simple stalks with single spatulate tips, or they may be sparsely or profusely branched.
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- If this is the case, setal morphology would have a greater effect on force of adhesion than surface chemistry of the seta or substrate.
- The krill then squirt the seawater sideways through their setal filters, entrapping algae in a feeding pattern much like the baleen whales.
- The width of the setal tips also varies between taxa.
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Just purchased a 2004 Focus 1.8 TDCi 5 dr Ghia, with 69000 on the clock. not much service history, decent car, needs some TLC to the body, minor scratches and good clean inside. I do intend to take it to my local garage to have a full engine service , but mean while would like to know if anyone knows of any issues or anything to look out for with the this model.
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tdci's are picky on oil changes and make sure the fuel filter has been replaced...you may notice a kangeroo effect if not.
check the turbo air hoses to make sure they are tight and secure with no splits in the bends etc.
other than that a solid model.
on a side note, im not sure if it was the mk1 or mk1.5 tdci but i hear there was an issue with some speedo clusters doing random things. apparently ford do a replacement for £90...not sure if they still do but its all over google etc.
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The only issue i have had so far is a rattle in the front area, certainly not from the engine, but possibly from one of the joints, perhaps needs a rubber replacment...
The Focus is going in for a full service Friday, so hopfully all will get sorted then.
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Zoya is an NRI who is on a vacation in India with her family. She has some goals in life and is determined to achieve them. However she comes across hindrances while realizing her goals. Marriage isn't on her mind and she has many friends..
Zoya is a vibrant and new-age girl too who walks hand in hand with changing time. She is modern but keeps it in accordance with her culture and the traditions instilled in her. She is against the stereotypes and never hesitates to question them.
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Shireen is the second wife of Ahmed Khan and mother of Ayaan, Nuzhat and Nikhat. She is a very loving person but also acts as a fool at the same time.. She carries a confused and weak character and is not at all independent in any manner.
Shireen is Dilshaad's sautan and Asad and Najma's step mother..
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Nikhat is a dark complexion girl whose dream is to become a famous Dancer. Dance is her passion, but coming from a conservative Muslim family it's not easy for her to pursue her dreams.
She is Asad ad Najma's half sister and Dilshaad's step daughter..
Nikhat is 7 years younger than Asad, 2 years younger than Ayaan and 1 year older than Nuzhat.
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Well, actually physics says the larger guy : F = m x a. force = mass times acceleration, therefore if you have a 225 lb with acceleration of 25 meters per second, he would exhibit approximately 5625 newtons of force, whereas a 250 lb with the same acceleration would produce 6250 newtons of force, so yeah the bigger guy hits harder. For those of you who don't believe this theory, nifty home experiment, tonight after a few beers, go outside and get him by a bicycle going 20 mph, hurts but you'll live, then have another beer and get him by a bus going 20 mph, we'll send flowers.
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I think a lot of these guys ala Grant are not picking up the college LB's assignments. In High School they could just let it fly and be instinctual. Here, they have assignments where they have to think, maybe too much. More of a cerebral deal at this level. I like Grant moving to a Thaddeus Gibson type DE. I do not like the talk of possibly 3 LB's doing it with our stacks and stacks of DE's.
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We dragged ourselves out of bed at 5:30. We quickly discovered that Fiona had had a bad night and didn't feel well enough to go. The GI problems were back with a vengeance. I was particularly sad for her because she enjoys history. She has read quite a bit of 20th century history including Stephen Ambrose's excellent books on WWII; books like D-Day and Band of Brothers. Fiona stayed in her room to rest during the day.
As for the rest of us, after a quick but delicious breakfast at 6:00 we were ready to roll at 6:30. We took two taxis to the boat terminal where the Sun Cruises boat to Corregidor docks. We were there by 7:00, and got checked in for the 8:00 departure. At this time of year, the monsoon season, the water can be so rough that such day trips are canceled to avoid having a boatload of nauseous passengers. Though the sky was overcast, and visibility quite limited, the water of Manila Bay was fairly calm.
It took about an hour to reach Corregidor, a polliwog-shaped island sometimes called "the rock" due to its composition and the strength of its fortifications. The boat was not too full, though there was a fairly large group of Japanese tourists present. Upon landing we split into three tour trolleys, two with English-speaking guides and one with a Japanese speaking guide. The tour groups were rather eclectic. The English-speaking contingent included a Muslim family with one woman wearing a burqa, the sack-like covering that some Muslim women wear so that the shape of their bodies will not be visible to men. Only her eyes showed. We thought at first they must have been quite a devout Muslim family. Then later we saw the father and son enjoying several San Miguel pilsners. Apparently they pick and choose in their religion as do a lot of Christians and Jews.
We landed not far from what is left of the Lorcha docks the place from where MacArthur left on the PT boat. Nearby there is a large statue of the General, pipe in hand, and right arm raised in a wave. It stands next to a rock on which a plaque is fixed bearing the inscription "I shall return." We had our photo taken in front of the statue.
The visit included the Filipino Heroes Memorial, dedicated to the men and women who fought against foreign occupiers (including for a while the USA).
We also visited the site of the Japanese cemetery where several thousand Japanese soldiers were buried (when the Americans retook the island thousands of Japanese soldiers fought to the death or committed suicide - only about 50 out of 7000 or so survived). Our guide explained to us that the Japanese involved in the creation of the memorial wanted to call it the "garden of peace", but then decorated it not only with a Buddha, but with machine guns and artillery. This was a touchy point for the Filipinos who had suffered terribly under the brutal Japanese occupation. Finally the Filipino government gave them a choice, they could keep the word "peace" in the title or they could keep the guns. Interestingly, they kept the guns. I wondered what the Japanese tourists thought as they made the visit, not only here but throughout the island.
From there we visited the Malinta tunnel, which connects the two halves of the island. The tunnel was dug as a fortification. It served as General MacArthur's HQ as well as the seat of the Philippine government for several months during the Japanese advance. There is a sound and light show that gives an idea of what happened in and around the tunnel during the combat during both the initial Japanese offensive and three years later the American offensive to retake the island.
After the tunnel we stopped at the Corregidor Hotel for a buffet lunch. Then it was on the "topside" the plateau on the head of the pollywog to see some of the big gun batteries. Most of the large artillery on the island predated WWI. It was with such outdated weapons that the US troops on the island fought the Japanese. Signs of battle were etched in the concrete fortifications around the guns. There were traces of bomb blasts and artillery hits all around the bunkers and guns. It's hard to imagine the intensity of the violence that would have left such signs. The whole experience is most impressive.
The last part of the visit was the Pacific War Memorial near Mile-Long barracks, the largest US barrack in the world at that time. The memorial is built around a sort of round alter on which is inscribed a charged and inspired text: "Sleep, my sons, your duty done, for Freedom's light has come; sleep in the silent depths of the sea or in your bed of hallowed sod; until you hear, at dawn, the low clear reveille of God." My eyes grow misty every time I see or think of that text.
We also saw the old Spanish flagpole nearby. It was originally the mast of a Spanish ship of war captured by Admiral Dewey during the battle of Manila Bay in 1898. When the American army surrendered to the Japanese the American flag was lowered on May 6, 1942. On March 2, 1945 MacArthur was back. He said "I see the old flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down." He obviously had a gift for inspiring words....
We then headed back down to the boat dock for the return trip. The sun had come out and we had a clear view of Bataan across the water as we headed back across the bay to Manila.
We were all dog tired when we reached the hotel. Fiona was feeling a little better, but still didn't want to eat. Richard Pinelli and Lyle Welty had to leave at 3:00 the next morning for their flights back to the States, so they ate early and went to bed. Marjolaine, Tatiana and I joined David Baker and Jeff Caudle for dinner in the hotel restaurant called the Champagne Room. Its ornate decoration is a throwback to the early 1900s and the glory days of the hotel. The cuisine is fine and the service exceptional. David and Jeff were traveling on to Singapore early the next day, so this was our parting meal and we deeply enjoyed the occasion. David, Jeff and I all worked in refugee camps in Thailand at the same time when we were Ambassador College students, and we've remained great friends ever since. It's always a pleasure to spend time with either of them.
Thursday night, Tatiana was sick during the night, possibly from something she ate, but if so it was aggravated by fatigue. I decided we needed to rest before continuing our journey. We had planned to go to Baguio for the Sabbath. There had been landslides because of the typhoon that went through the previous week and roads to Baguio had been cut. Though at least one was repaired and open it would have required a 7-hour road trip to get there, and then to get back again, and I felt the girls just weren't up to it. So I canceled that and decided to take the family for a few days of complete rest over the weekend. David Baker had mentioned a pleasant island a few minutes from Manila by plane. I decided to give it a try, so Friday we headed, earlier than we would have liked, to the airport, where we bought tickets to a little paradise called Boracay Island.
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