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Steven Chu is the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Humanities and Sciences and Professor of Physics and Molecular & Cellular Physiology at Stanford University. His research program encompasses atomic physics, quantum electronics, energy and energy economics, and biophysics and biomedicine that tests fundamental theories in physics, the development of methods to laser cool and trap atoms, atom interferometry, and the study of polymers and biological systems at the single molecule level. For his work developing the theory of laser cooling of atoms, he was co-recipient the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997. From January 2009 until April 2013, Dr. Chu served as the 12th U.S. Secretary of Energy, being the first scientist to hold a cabinet position. For more information on the Plenary speaker see the plenary page.
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The National Museum of Australia is a social history museum. The Museum explores the land, nation and people of Australia. It focuses on Indigenous histories and cultures, histories of European settlement and our interaction with the environment. Visit the The National Museum of Australia's website for information and details.
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I've been reading and kind of cringing through Cormac McCarthy's brilliant novel "The Road."
As you probably now, it takes place in world for which the adjective "apocalyptic" is barely adequate. Very little is left alive and nothing is ever going to grow again. A man and his son stagger through that terrible finality.
It's such a hopeless vision that the only consolation lies in the fact that it's fiction. For bats, it's sort of not a fiction. They have died and are dying at a terrifying rate. A colony of more than 3,000, here in Connecticut, is down to seven.
Because we don't really know what's causing the disease, we don't really know what to do about it. The story for turtles is a little better, but the only turtle to be federally listed as endangered does live here in Connecticut. Our shell-wearing and flying friends coming up on today's show!
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A magnificent sight of silver blue-green spruce. Rated one of the most popular evergreens. It grows well while young and matures at 50-75'; 10'-20' spread in the landscape, up to 135' and 35' spread in the wild. (zones 2-7)Pricing Information
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Hardiness Zones 2 - 7The Colorado Blue Spruce can be expected to grow in the zones shown in color in the arborday.org zone map. View Map
Type of treeEvergreens
Mature HeightThe Colorado Blue Spruce grows to be 50' - 75' feet in height.
Mature SpreadThe Colorado Blue Spruce has a spread of about 10' - 20' at full maturity.
Growth RateThis tree grows at a slow to medium growth rate. More about this.
SunThis spruce does well in full sun.
SoilThe Colorado Blue Spruce grows in acidic, drought tolerant, loamy, moist, rich, sandy, well drained, wet, wide range, clay soils.
ShapeThis spruce has columnar, pyramidal shape.
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A magnificent sight of silver blue-green spruce. Rated one of the most popular evergreens. It grows well while young and matures at 50-75'; 10-'20' spread in the landscape, up to 135' and 35' spread in the wild. (zones 2-7)
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The Colorado Blue Spruce provides food and shelter for siskins, nuthatches, and crossbills. Browsers such as deer will often eat the foliage.
The Colorado Blue Spruce tree is such a delight that nature seems to have kept it a well-guarded secret for a very long time. It was not until 1862 that this spectacular species was discovered growing in the enchanted meadows and stream sides of the high Rocky Mountains. Once found, the fame of the Blue Spruce spread quickly and today it is one of our most widely planted landscape trees. When writing in "Handbook on Conifers" in 1969, Henry Tuescher, curator emeritus of the Montreal Botanical Garden, called the Colorado Blue Spruce tree one of the five finest conifers. Tuescher gave no reasons for this honor except for the tree's exceptional beauty.
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Mayor Emanuel to ask judge to end Chicago Teachers Union strike
BY ROSALIND ROSSI, SANDRA GUY AND MITCH DUDEK Staff Reporters September 16, 2012 3:26PM
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With Chicago Teachers Union delegates voting to stay on strike at least through Tuesday, Mayor Rahm Emanuel Sunday accused the union of using children as "pawns'' and vowed to seek a court order to halt the walkout.
The announcement from Emanuel came about an hour after CTU President Karen Lewis said "a clear majority'' of delegates refused to suspend the strike until they had seen the exact contract language of the entire deal — something not expected until Tuesday.
Delegates just didn't trust Chicago Public Schools not to try to slip one over on them if they called off the first CTU strike in 25 years without more study and discussion of the offer, Lewis said.
"Please write 'trust' in big giant letters because that's what the problem is,'' Lewis said.
Emanuel responded by news release, saying: "I will not stand by while the children of Chicago are played as pawns in an internal dispute within a union. This was a strike of choice and is now a delay
of choice that is wrong for our children.''
The mayor said he was instructing the city's top lawyer — Corporation Counsel Steve Patton — to work with CPS's attorney to file a Cook County Circuit Court injunction to "immediately end this strike and get our children back in the classrooms."
He called the strike "illegal" on two grounds, claiming it is based on non-strikeable issues and is endangering the "health and safety of our children.''
Emanuel last week claimed the union walked out over non-strikeable issues — but city officials stopped short of saying they would get the courts involved. That changed Sunday night after the union voted to stay on strike.
Union officials have insisted they have a clear right to strike over teacher evaluation procedures — one of the most contentious issues in dispute.
CTU attorney Robert Bloch said teachers contend that CPS wants to put too much weight on student test scores and other factors that are beyond a teacher's control. However, he said, the union was able to ensure that 98 percent of teachers cannot be fired based solely on their students' test scores.
Under the deal revealed Sunday, CPS would create a pool of highly-rated or vetted teachers from which principals must hire candidates. That marked a win for the system in its attempt to set some minimum thresholds for hiring.
The agreement also formalizes Emanuel's signature longer day, stretching the elementary day from 5 3/4 hours to 7 hours and the high school day to mostly 7 1/2 hours.
Perhaps the biggest win for the union was the guarantee that qualified teachers would be able to follow their students to a new school if their current school is closed, consolidated or phased out.
Lewis said the fear the school board could close hundreds of schools was paramount to delegates' desire to look over the contract language carefully.
"The big elephant in the room,'' Lewis said, "is the closing of 200 schools"—a number CPS officials have denied.
"They [delegates] are extraordinarily concerned about it. It undergirds just about everything they talked about.''
One delegate agreed the group wanted "something in writing to go on….We need more than just the bullet point break down.''
"Our four percent raise that was supposed to be last year, we didn't get it because of one sentence that said if they don't have enough money in there, they don't have to give it to us,'' said the
delegate, who asked for anonymity. "How do we know that one sentence won't be in this one?"
Actually, CPS officials said that financial opt-out clause that allowed the district to cancel last school year's raise has been removed from the proposed contract, meaning promised raises would be guaranteed.
Lewis said the delegates would meet next on Tuesday, when contract language is expected to be completed and the Jewish holy period of Rosh Hashanah ends. She said union delegates wouldn't meet again until Tuesday out of respect for the holy day.
That means, Lewis conceded, schools would not reopen until Wednesday at the earliest. That would stretch the strike into at least a seventh day of missed classes. The last strike — in 1987 — cost students 19 days of school.
Like Emanuel, School Board President David Vitale blasted the union's decision not to end the strike Sunday.
"We will do whatever we can and whatever is needed to support our parents and our students. We all need to put our children first."
Some 800 union delegates who make up the union's House of Delegates gathered Sunday, with anxious parents wondering if they would vote to end the first CTU strike in 25 years.
But Lewis emerged just after 6 p.m. with the bad news — no class on Monday or Tuesday.
"They're not happy with the agreement. They'd like it to be a lot better for us than it is," Lewis said of the delegates. "No sides are ever completely happy but our members aren't happy and they want
to have the opportunity to talk to their members."
The new deal provides three years of raises — at 3, 2 and 2 percent — with the possibility of a fourth year at 3 percent, plus extra seniority bumps for more veteran teachers.
New promises also were secured to hire more social workers, counselors and nurses if money becomes available, including from tax increment financing sources. Some teachers were adamant that such support services are critical for children surrounded by violence and poverty.
Other new ground included provisions to curtail "bullying" by principals and other "abusive" administrative practices,'' efforts to guarantee students and teachers have textbooks on Day One, and an
agreement to move to one school calendar, so that all schools start on the same day.
On its website, the CTU trumpeted in a news release that it had fought off an attempt to institute merit pay, something the union called "the star of national misguided school reform policies.'' It
has been an approach pushed publicly by Emanuel.
However, both sides, in summaries of the contract, seized different issues to emphasize. Asked why the two summaries of the deal seemed so different, Lewis said, "they have a political spin machine.''
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But tight end Kellen Davis and safety Chris Conte believed the referees hurt the Bears in a 21-13 loss Sunday to the Green Bay Packers.
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Rookie Alshon Jeffery was flagged for three offensive pass-interference penalties in the second half, and Davis believed all were wrong.
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Fox rules analyst Mike Pereira backed referee Walt Anderson's crew.
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Modern Elliptic Curve Factorization, Part 2
April 27, 2010
The elliptic curve factorization algorithm is remarkably similar to Pollard's p-1 algorithm:
p-1(n, B1, B2)
ecf(n, B1, B2, C)
|q = 2
|Qx,z ∈ C // random point
|for p ∈ π(2 … B1)
|for p ∈ π(2 … B1)
a = ⌊
logp B1⌋
a = ⌊
logp B1⌋
q = qpa (
mod n)
|Q = pa ⊗C Q
g =
gcd(q, n)
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|if (1 < g < n) return g
|for p ∈ π(B1 … B2)
|for p ∈ π(B1 … B2)
q = qp (
mod n)
|Q = p ⊗C Q
g = g × Qz (
mod n)
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Lines 3 and 8 loop over the same lists of primes. Line 4 computes the same maximum exponent. Lines 6 and 7, and lines 11 and 12, compute the same greatest common divisor. And line 13 returns the same failure. The structures of the two algorithms are identical. Also, note that both algorithms use variables that retain their meaning from the first stage (lines 2 to 7) to the second stage (lines 8 to 12).
Lines 2, 5, 9 and 10 differ because p-1 is based on modular arithmetic and
ecf is based on elliptic arithmetic (note that the ⊗C operator, otimes-sub-C, indicates elliptic multiplication on curve C). The most important difference is on the first line, where
ecf has an extra argument C indicating the choice of elliptic curve. If the p-1 method fails, there is nothing to do, but if the
ecf method fails, you can try again with a different curve.
Use of Montgomery's elliptic curve parameterization from the previous exercise is a huge benefit. Lenstra's original algorithm, which is the first stage of the modern algorithm, required that we check the greatest common divisor at each step, looking for a failure of the elliptic arithmetic. With the modern algorithm, we compute the greatest common divisor only once, at the end, because Montgomery's parameterization has the property that a failure of the elliptic arithmetic propagates through the calculation. And without inversions, Montgomery's parameterization is also much faster to calculate. Brent's parameterization of the randomly-selected curve is also important, as it guarantees that the order of the curve (the number of points) will be a multiple of 12, which has various good mathematical properties that we won't enumerate here.
There is a simple coding trick that can speed up the second stage. Instead of multiplying each prime times Q, we iterate over i from B1 + 1 to B2, adding 2Q at each step; when i is prime, the current Q can be accumulated into the running solution. Again, we defer the calculation of the greatest common divisor until the end of the iteration.
Your task is to write a function that performs elliptic curve factorization. When you are finished, you are welcome to read or run a suggested solution, or to post your own solution or discuss the exercise in the comments below.
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April 27, 2010 at 8:11 PM
Two questions:
in line 6 of ecf, what is 'q'
in line 11 of ecf, is that supposed to be g = gcd(*q*,n) like in the p-1 function?
January 21, 2011 at 10:07 PM
[…] is almost similar to previous example except using Montgomery curve rather than Lenstra curve. Programmingpraxis used Montgomery curve to find the prime factorisation. I personally feel that Lenstra algorithm […]
April 10, 2014 at 11:48 AM
A solution in Python, borrowing the functions from http://programmingpraxis.com/2010/04/23/modern-elliptic-curve-factorization-part-1/#comment-1192:
from random import randrange # Recursive sieve of Eratosthenes def primegen(): yield 2; yield 3; yield 5; yield 7; yield 11; yield 13 ps = primegen() # yay recursion p = ps.next() and ps.next() q, sieve, n = p**2, {}, 13 while True: if n not in sieve: if n < q: yield n else: next, step = q + 2*p, 2*p while next in sieve: next += step sieve[next] = step p = ps.next() q = p**2 else: step = sieve.pop(n) next = n + step while next in sieve: next += step sieve[next] = step n += 2 def add(p1, p2, p0, n): # Add two points p1 and p2 given point P0 = P1-P2 modulo n x1,z1 = p1; x2,z2 = p2; x0,z0 = p0 t1, t2 = (x1-z1)*(x2+z2), (x1+z1)*(x2-z2) return (z0*pow(t1+t2,2,n) % n, x0*pow(t1-t2,2,n) % n) def double(p, A, n): # double point p on A modulo n x, z = p; An, Ad = A t1, t2 = pow(x+z,2,n), pow(x-z,2,n) t = t1 - t2 return (t1*t2*4*Ad % n, (4*Ad*t2 + t*An)*t % n) def multiply(m, p, A, n): # multiply point p by m on curve A modulo n if m == 0: return (0, 0) elif m == 1: return p else: q = double(p, A, n) if m == 2: return q b = 1 while b < m: b *= 2 b /= 4 r = p while b: if m&b: q, r = double(q, A, n), add(q, r, p, n) else: q, r = add(r, q, p, n), double(r, A, n) b /= 2 return r def ilog(x, b): # greatest integer l such that b**l <= x. # TODO: is there a faster way to compute this? Binsearch, perhaps? l = 0 while x >= b: x /= b l += 1 return l def ecm(n, B1=10, B2=20): # TODO: determine the best defaults for B1 and B2 and the best way to increment them and iters iters = 1 while True: iters *= 2 for _ in xrange(iters): seed = randrange(6, n) u, v = (seed**2 - 5) % n, 4*seed % n p = pow(u, 3, n) Q, C = (pow(v-u,3,n)*(3*u+v) % n, 4*p*v % n), (p, pow(v,3,n)) pg = primegen() p = pg.next() while p <= B1: Q, p = multiply(p**ilog(B1, p), Q, C, n), pg.next() g = gcd(Q[1], n) if 1 < g < n: return g while p <= B2: # "There is a simple coding trick that can speed up the second stage. Instead of multiplying each prime times Q, # we iterate over i from B1 + 1 to B2, adding 2Q at each step; when i is prime, the current Q can be accumulated # into the running solution. Again, we defer the calculation of the greatest common divisor until the end of the # iteration. TODO: implement this trick and compare performance." Q = multiply(p, Q, C, n) g *= Q[1] g %= n p = pg.next() g = gcd(g, n) if 1 < g < n: return g # This seed failed. Try again with a new one. # These bounds failed. Increase and try again. B1 *= 2 B2 *= 2 print ecm(20639383 * 117876683047)


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Diabetes and high blood pressure can damage the kidneys and lead to kidney disease. African Americans have a higher rate of kidney failure than any other group of people. Learn how you can take preventive measures to guard against kidney disease.
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Learn about high blood pressure and what you can do to lower it.
Learn how to prevent and control high blood pressure with helpful tips, quizzes, real life examples, and information about medications and working with your doctor.
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Research has shown that following a healthy eating plan can both reduce the risk of developing high blood pressure and lower an already elevated blood pressure. Read on to learn about the DASH diet plan.
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Being physically active is one of the most important steps you can take to prevent or control high blood pressure. Find out how you can become more physically active.
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- Run Time: 430 minutes
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- DVD Release Date: March 15, 2011
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Watch the I Shouldn't Be Alive Season 3 DVD set, and experience ten heart stopping journeys past the edge of human endurance. Ordinary people thrown into epic struggles for survival tell their own stories while drama brings these incredible experiences to life. Every film on the I Shouldn't Be Alive DVDs from season 3 has an extraordinary physical ordeal at its heart, but there's always an equally powerful emotional journey. What would you do if you suddenly had to accept that you were about to die alone? Would you lose your mind or would you fight to your last breath to defeat unimaginable odds? In the season 3 I Shouldn't Be Alive videos, survivors relive the moral dilemmas, chance events and desperate decisions that ultimately brought them home moment by moment.
Buy the I Shouldn't Be Alive Season 3 DVD set for hours of thrill and excitement in front your television, as you wonder in horror how the people on the show could possibly survive the ordeals they were put through.
Trapped In The Canyon
When extreme adventure athlete Danelle plunges 60 ft down a canyon wall onto solid rock in the remote Utah wilderness, she's trapped in the desert with horrific internal injuries. As described in the I Shouldn't Be Alive Season Three DVD set, her pelvis is smashed and there's nothing but soft tissue connecting her legs to the rest of her body. She has no way to call for help and there's no way anyone will find her by chance. Massive internal bleeding is killing her slowly, and with just her faithful canine companion Taz for support, she faces the endurance challenge of her life a battle for her own survival.
Date From Hell
Young lovers Brandon and Gina are on a romantic trip to Palm Springs. Wanting some time alone on the beautiful mountain range, they wander away from their guided tour and suddenly find themselves lost. Confident they will be found, they wait expectantly for rescue, but a series of blunders mean no one notices they're missing. When the penny drops they decide to strike out and find a path home. But a terrifying discovery in an abandoned campsite suggests that there is no way out. Will they survive with their relationship and sanity intact?
Nightmare on the Mountain
In the I Shouldn't Be Alive Season 3 DVD set episode, father and son, Dennis and Bram, are hunting elk in Montana when 18 year old Bram decides to strike out on his own. Stumbling on an elk carcass, he realizes too late, that a starving grizzly bear has already claimed it. The bear launches a horrific attack, inflicting terrible injuries. Bram survives by firing his last bullet, but bleeding and functioning only on adrenaline, he still has to get off the mountain. Incredible chance encounters save Bram's life, in a powerful story of luck and courage in one of the most punishing terrains imaginable.
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Ken, a Canadian paramedic with years of mountain experience, has a freak accident and is left crushed under his quad bike on a remote hillside for four days. In a cruel twist of fate, childhood polio left Ken with one withered leg, but it's the good one that is slowly destroyed under 1000lbs of metal. Despite exceptional preparation for his trip, all his food and gear is just out of reach and he has nothing but a pen knife and his initiative to outwit the weather and hungry coyotes. Will he be found in time?
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Will is enjoying a thrilling skydiving trip in Costa Rica with four friends when freak weather sends the plane out of control. As he jumps, he realizes the plane is only 900 ft up and he is heading into the ocean, miles away from anywhere. In the chaos, the friends are separated and Will is left floating for 24 hours in shark infested waters. Sunburn dehydrates him horribly and brings paranoid delusions, but it's the endless night that brings the worst horrors. Rescue must come soon as his mind and body can't hold on much longer.
Shattered on Impact
In the season 3 I Shouldn't Be Alive videos episode, four men dedicated to protecting wild animals in the heart of Africa are flying over a vast Zambian territory. When dense jungle restricts their view, the pilot takes the single engine plane down for a closer look. Losing control, he crashes into a remote escarpment leaving three of them severely injured. Hidden from view but exposed to the harshest of elements, their only chance of survival is for one of them to walk for help. At the mercy of the same animals they are trying to save, how long can they survive in such a hostile environment?
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Amateur Treasure Hunter Theo is searching for gold in the vast Australian Outback. On his first vacation since life saving heart surgery, he takes a wrong turn, sending him into no mans land. Lost in the wilderness, he walks further and further away from safety, and the searchers who are desperate to find him before the dingoes make their move. In temperatures in excess of 100 degrees, without food, water or his vital medication, Theo faces the biggest battle of his life, a battle to stay alive.
Blizzard of Death
The episode of the I Shouldn't Be Alive Season Three DVD set introduces Dennie and his son Spook, keen hunters who invite videographer Clay on a 'VIP' trip to Kyrgyzstan to hunt the rare Marco Polo Sheep. With twenty local guides they set off into the mountainous wilderness. Inappropriate transport quickly leaves them trapped in raging blizzards, fearing for their life. The rescue helicopter picks them up but crashes almost immediately killing a number of the Kyrgz, and badly injuring Spook. In a bizarre, true story of chance and disaster Clay hikes out into the snowy wilderness and manages to alert passing American Operatives who ultimately come to the rescue.
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Former Special Forces man Ken has travelled to the Carpathian mountains in Transylvania to go on a solo hiking expedition. The trip takes a turn for the worse when he narrowly avoids a thundering avalanche but there's another one close behind. Hurled on a torrent of raging snow Ken is swept off a ledge and lands heavily, shattering his hip and femur. Despite the excruciating pain, he manages to drag his broken body across seven miles of frozen wilderness. An epic journey of courage and perseverance in some of the most brutal circumstances imaginable.


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The major has switched from MIS (Management Information Systems) to IS (Information Systems). Throughout the site, references might be made to MIS and IS, but to avoid confusion, I will be using IS for the most part. However, no need to panic because MIS and IS are synonymous with one another.
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Why Legal Pot Is the Future
It's been exactly three weeks since Election Day, but the Obama administration still hasn't said how it will respond to ballot measures legalizing pot in Colorado and Washington.
Since the drug remains illegal under federal law, the administration could squash the states' nascent legalization movement by asking for courts to stop the implementation of the new laws, or by sending more federal agents to the states. But even though they knew the measures would be on the ballot for more than a year, "the Obama administration has stayed mum On The Other Big Thing That Happened on Nov. 6," as Reason's Mike Riggs wrote yesterday.
Meanwhile, stakes have been raised: Prosecutors in both stateshave dropped pot charges against hundreds of offenders, and legislators in Maine and Rhode Island are considering their own legalization bills.
What the administration will do remains entirely unclear, but it's clear what they should do: nothing. Give the states a wide berth and see what happens. Not only is this good policy, but it turns out be good politics, as we'll see in a minute.
But first, what might Obama do? No one knows – perhaps not even those making the decisions — and there's evidence pointing in all directions.
On one hand, the past four years do not bode well for Colorado and Washington. Obama has been, almost without a doubt, the worst president in history on marijuana reform, presiding over unprecedented crackdowns on medical marijuana dispensaries in California despite promising during the 2008 campaign to respect state laws. While it's unclear if this effort came from the White House, it could certainly have stopped it.
On the other hand, there's some good reasons for reform advocates to hold out hope. As Emily Bazelon noted in Slate, when Californians were considering a ballot measure to legalize recreational pot in 2010, Attorney General Eric Holder nipped the effort in the bud by putting out a stern statement well before Election Day. He warned that the federal government would enforce the federal ban on the law. This time around, there's been no similar statement, even though Holder was urged to make one by former drug enforcement officials. "To continue to remain silent conveys to the American public and the global community a tacit acceptance of these dangerous initiatives," a letter addressed to Holder from the nine former DEA officials read. So maybe no news is good news.
There was also Marc Ambinder's much buzzed about report in July that Obama wanted to "pivot" on marijuana enforcement in his second term. The sourcing on that report was thin, but it would fit with Obama's precedent on illegal immigration, for instance, where the administration made big turnaround with its deferred action plan after first deporting more immigrants than George W. Bush. Finally, as the Atlantic's Jordan Weissmann wrote, the federal crackdown in California may be faulty precedent because that state's law is so poorly written. Colorado and Washington learned from California's mistakes and tightened their language to make it trickier for the feds to crack down.
Since we don't know what the administration will do, perhaps the better question is what should they do? Timothy Egan made a strong case this weekend in the New York Times for the moral and policy arguments that should keep the federal government out of Colorado and Washington's prerogatives.
But there's another reason Obama should leave the states be — it's good politics. The success of the ballot measures illuminates a nascent and growing Pot Bloc that is just beginning to organize itself and could prove increasingly consequential in upcoming elections. In Colorado, a key presidential swing state, legalizing marijuana actually got more votes than Obama.
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It's Kyle Busch's world once again in NASCAR and everybody else is just sharing track space with him. Until this weekend at Kansas, of course.
Then everyone gets to see just how far Busch has really come in the last 17 months.
Busch won both the Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series races in Texas last weekend, his second sweep this season, in a huge comeback at the site of his 2011 NASCAR suspension for deliberately wrecking Ron Hornaday Jr. in a Truck Series race.
Now he carries all that momentum into Kansas, his worst track on the circuit. Busch is winless at Kansas in 11 career starts, has only two top-10 finishes and wrecked there during Chase for the Sprint Cup championship races in 2007 and 2010. He also crashed last season.
Still, Busch just picked up his first career win at Texas Motor Speedway and he wants to do the same at Kansas, where his average finish is 21st and is one of only six active tracks where he's yet to win a Cup race.
"It's not that you might not like a track or might not like a race ... it's just a matter of trying to figure it out," Busch said. "Once you kind of get it figured out or get the right situations kind of lined up, you can have a shot. I look at (Kansas) a lot like Michigan. That's a place where I struggled for a long time, but we finally were able to break through there for a win two years ago."
In years past, Busch has dreaded going to Kansas. Not this year.
A year after grabbing just one win across all three NASCAR national series, Busch is red hot again. He's got two wins in Cup and has won four of the six Nationwide races. He's also got five top-five finishes in both series.
Running well cures all driver ailments, so Busch's mood is obviously considerably better of late. But team owner Joe Gibbs said Busch's maturity has been better for quite some time.
"I think back to last year at the end of the year, Kyle probably had some of the most bitter disappointments, I think, that's happened to us in 22 years," Gibbs said. "We missed the Chase. We had Watkins Glen won, go to the last lap and get in somebody else's oil. We had some issues mechanically during the year that cost us.
"I think last year at the end of the year, Kyle really handled all of those things about as good as you could handle them. I think it showed real maturity, and I think that kind of set the course for this year."
So he heads into Kansas with an open mind and last year's race -- when he was leading before he spun on the new track surface -- fresh in his memory.
"I'm looking forward to Kansas with the roll that we're on," he said. "I thought we were running decent there last year ... so, hopefully, we have a good car like that this time around and I don't make a mistake like that. But, you know, Kansas is newly repaved. It's got a winter on it, now, so we'll see how that changes things. But I still expect it to be fast."
NO SOPHMORE SLUMP: With so many questions about a potential "sophomore slump," Courtney Force couldn't help but worry about this season.
"It was getting in my head after doing all these interviews, everyone is going, 'Going into your second year, you think you're going to have a sophomore slump?'" she said. "Wait, I didn't know about that. I hope not."
So far, so good for Force, who heads into this weekend's NHRA Four-Wide Nationals at zMAX Dragway in Concord leading the Funny Car standings. She won the season-opener at Pomona and used a runner-up finish two weeks ago in Las Vegas to move to the top of the standings.
"It's definitely a good feeling to come out and be in the points lead only the fourth race in," she said. "I'm definitely working twice as hard because I think we've got a good team, I think we have a lot of potential."
Her next challenge is at zMax with its unique four-lane configuration, which Force embraced after her first visit last season.
"I love that it's different," she said. "Although it's going to be nerve-racking because there's so much going on, so many other cars, lanes to focus on, the Christmas tree to really kind of relearn at this track."