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Addison \a-ddi-son\ as a boy's name (also used as girl's name Addison), is pronounced AD-ih-sun. It is of Old English origin, and the meaning of Addison is "son of Adam". Surname used as a given name. The surname was derived from Addie or Adie, a medieval (and occasional modern) pet form of Adam. The English poet and essayist Joseph Addison was popular and influential through the 18th century.
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California Proposes A Nexus Presumption Standard and Burdensome Notification Requirements!
A California Assembly Bill (AB 2078) has been introduced that would enact a sales tax nexus presumption standard, and burdensome notification requirements on retailers that sell into California, but are not required to collect sales tax. Sound familiar?This proposal is very similar to what Colorado recently enacted. See COLORADO for details on Colorado's new laws which took effect March 1, 2010.
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- This bill would provide a rebuttable presumption that any retailer that is part of a controlled group of corporations, and that controlled group of corporations has a component member that is a retailer engaged in business in this state, as described, is presumed to be a retailer engaged in business in this state.
- This bill would also require each retailer that is not required to collect use tax to provide notification on its retail Internet Web site or catalogue that tax is imposed on the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of the tangible personal property purchased from the retailer that is not exempt, and is required to be paid by the purchaser, as provided.
- This bill would add the following language or authority: The Sales and Use Tax Law also authorizes, in administration of the use tax, the State Board of Equalization to require the filing of reports by any person or class of persons having in his or their possession or custody information relating to sales of tangible personal property the storage, use, or other consumption of which is subject to the tax.
- This bill would require every person who sells tangible personal property the storage, use, or other consumption of which is subject to use tax, who is not registered with the board, to file with the board, on or before the last day of the calendar month following each quarterly period of three months, a report that sets forth the names and addresses of purchasers of the tangible personal property, the sales price of the property, the date of sale, and such other information as the board may require. The bill states this requirement would NOT apply to a person whose receipts from sales described above are less than one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) in the prior year, and are reasonably expected to be less than one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) in the current year.
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This bill has only been proposed and is going through the California legislative process. With that said, since Colorado recently passed laws that are very similar, I could see this bill moving forward and getting signed into law. However, we could also see lawsuits filed against Colorado's laws which may alter the California bill.
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I looked at several of the USTA sections to see what a #16 ranked player would be nationally.
SoCal 135
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The range between sections does seem extreme. With that being said, I looked up the players on tennisrecruiting and players around #500 nationally were all 3 star seniors. My son is a 3 star 8th grader and he beats mostl of the 4.5 players in my district. He would not be a ringer on the 4.5 team, but he would definitely be in the top half of the group.
A 3 star senior is not a 4.5. Not even close. 5.5 is difficult to quantify. The range of talent in that group is large. You are either a 5.0 or 5.5, hard to tell.
I think this is something the USTA needs to look closely at, these 17 year old high school seniors playing USTA Adult League Tennis (and turning 18 in the calendar year).
I'm all for competition, and I like playing young kids. My only thing is are the Sections holding on and judging kids by those Elite Player Guidelines when it's obvious that those standards don't fit (based on those rankings above)? Some could be WAY better, others could be WAY worse.
Obviously, it's pretty different where that Top 20 Section kid falls in the ability levels locally...and national ability levels? But, what are the NTRP Elite Player Guidelines for then? A kid in So Cal at No. 18 may be a solid solid 5.5 A kid in Northern or Hawaii may be a 4.5? How do you determine? Should that type of subjectivity be left up in the air?
The other question that begs to be answered is the timing of a kid accepting a scholarship offer to say...a DI school. It's really an issue of semantics as to how a 17-year-old would answer his/her self-rate question of 'are you playing college tennis?
Here's the kid sitting in front of their computer:
"Well, technically, no, I'm not playing college tennis. I just signed a letter to play at (Insert DI School), but no I'm not currently playing." What do I do? I can tell you what that unscrupulous captain's going to tell that kid.
I think it's a real slippery slope with high schoolers playing adult leagues and I think abuses can run wild at the upper levels (4.5 and 5.0), especially given that college question.
I'm all for them finding their way into the leagues as they age up. Leagues definitely need some younger blood. I just worry that the abuses of captains who really could care a lick about a kid, but just want them on their team for singles players.
Another point to ponder is many of these kids' league situations are
1) Almost all are subject to dynamic DQ's all the way through the season since they are self-raters. That puts your team in a precarious position if they strike out.
2) Leaving for college in the summer, right around the time USTA Section Championship events are ramping up.
Your 17 or 18-year old helps you get to the District or Section championships, then off to school he/she goes to play college, leaving a team high and dry. And how could you blame him/her...he/she is now going on to to college tennis, where they play for more than just a cooler and a pen.
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The temporary halt came after a defense attorney questioned whether police should have entered an apartment without a warrant and whether evidence based on that search — including defendant Sassy Bell Sunderman's statement to police — should be admitted.
The charge against Sunderman, 32, stems from a Jan. 21 fire in her West Side apartment that severely burned a man, Michael Kingery.
Sunderman fled the scene. She was arrested after she turned herself into police later that night. According to a probable cause affidavit, she told Evansville Police Department Sgt. Scott Hurt she watched Kingery making methamphetamine in her apartment and she had purchased some of the ingredients for it.
Kingery, who remains in hospital care, has not been charged.
Sunderman's public defender, Conor O'Daniel, questioned whether drug investigators should have entered the apartment without a warrant.
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Sgt. David Eads, of the Vanderburgh County Sheriff's Office, testified during the hearing Monday that before he went into the apartment he had been told the fire may have been caused by an exploding meth lab.
"This was clearly to gather evidence of criminal activity. Her statement was ill-gotten," O'Daniel said. "The thing is, a person's home is their castle. There was no indication that she would not have returned there, even despite the extensive damage."
Vanderburgh Circuit Court Magistrate Kelli Fink ruled that the search was consistent with case law and the Indiana constitution.
According to the affidavit, Sunderman told police she watched Kingery open boxes of pseudoephedrine cold pills to begin making the meth and that he sealed himself into the bathroom with duct tape to keep odors from escaping.
She told police she was sleeping on a couch when she heard a loud noise. After breaking down the bathroom door, according to the affidavit, she saw Kingery with his legs on fire. The pair went outside where Kingery tried to put out his burning clothes, she said.
Sunderman said she "freaked out" and walked away from the apartment and eventually called her mother.
Emergency responders found Kingery outside with most of his clothes burned away and screaming in pain. Police said he had burns to the majority of his body.
In opening statements Monday, O'Daniel told jurors that Sunderman did not actively participate in the meth-making and should not face charges as a result.
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However, Deputy Prosecutor Jacklyn Buente said had Sunderman not provided the place to make it, Kingery would not have been making meth that night and the explosion would not have happened.
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those who answer saying there are no cheats are misinformed. you can install a cheat program on your PSP called CWcheat which allows you to use various codes, and you can also use LionEditor along with CWcheat. In any event you need custom firmware. I cannot tell you how to do that, so google it yourself. It is well worth the risk!
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Sorry there is no cheats for Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions
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Well, you can use your standard cheat devices or save editors. However, there aren't any strange button sequences like the Konami code that you can use or anything else of that sort.
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One word answer: No
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There is no cheats unless you probably did something illegal
Why would you wanna use cheats by the way? It juices out all the fun out of the game
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No, but in the original FFT you could use glitches to cheat.
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There is. It's called CWcheat. Google it.
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Here they are:
Fftpatcher( I don't recommend to use fftpatcher)
You can find them via yandex.ru or on www.ffhacktics.com
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if you want to use cheat, use Cheat Master on FFT.
Just go search the value you want to change, and change it.
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There is no cheat for this game,pal.Just play it with ur heart.
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John Varlas' Prep Football Preview: Week 7
(10) RIDGEWAY (4-2) at HOUSTON (5-1)
Time: 7 p.m.
Storylines: With four weeks left in the regular season, District 15-AAA is up for grabs with these two teams, plus No. 11 Southwind and Germantown, all 3-0. Things will start to sort themselves out this week though, and Friday night's game figures to be very interesting. Sophomore quarterback Braxton Conard has played solidly for the Roadrunners and senior running back Orlando Johnson has been terrific, running for 1,068 yards and scoring 13 touchdowns in five games. Ridgeway leads the area in total offense per game (448.4). Houston will counter with quarterback Walker Lamberth, who ran for 222 yards and had two long touchdown runs in last week's win over Overton and a defense led by linebacker Sam Kempka and strong safety Sam Jacobs.
(2) Olive Branch (5-1) at DeSoto Central (5-1)
Time: 7 p.m.
Storylines: The Quistors face a challenge they haven't faced in quite a while: Picking themselves up following a defeat. Quarterback Sam Craft rolled his ankle in last week's loss to South Panola but should be good to go against the Jaguars, who will be looking to make a name for their young program with an upset. Nathan Vanderburg (697 yards) averages more than 10 yards per carry, and linebacker Mike McDonald (51 tackles) anchors the defense.
(4) Covington (6-0) at Brownsville Haywood (2-4)
Time: 7 p.m.
Storylines: The Chargers, ranked second in the state 4A poll behind Giles County, have won 10 of their last 11 games and should roll once again Friday night. The Tomcats have been shaky on defense, giving up 36, 49 and 35 points in three of their four defeats.
(5) CBHS (5-1) at ECS (3-3)
Time: 7 p.m.
Storylines: CBHS coach Kevin Locastro said his team had some uncharacteristic breakdowns on offense in last week's loss against MUS, something that will have to rectified Friday night. ECS quarterback Brent Rooker continues to lead the area in total offense (305.2 yards per game) and passing (246.5).
White Station (2-4) at (7) Briarcrest (7-0)
Time: 7 p.m.
Storylines: Saints coach Major Wright squares off against his former team in what should be a fine game. Briarcrest will have to play better than it did in last week's narrow 28-27 win over ECS; quarterback B.J. Nagle had a shaky first half and the Saints were often beaten physically by the smaller Eagles. White Station is coming off an impressive win over Melrose, one in which Donald Gray scored four touchdowns and Eldridge Thompson scored three.
(8) Arlington (5-2) at St. Benedict (3-2)
Time: 7 p.m.
Storylines: The post-Drew Reed era got off to a good start last week as Hunter Sheffield threw touchdown passes to Justin Boring and Omari Hampton in a 35-27 victory. The Eagles were idle last week following a 55-33 win over Jackson Central-Merry in which Auburn commitment Jordan Wilkins piled up 346 yards of total offense and scored six touchdowns.
(9) Trezevant (5-1) at Millington (4-2)
Time: 7 p.m.
Storylines: Under coach Teli White, the Bears have firmly established themselves as one of the stronger "mid-major" programs in the area. A visit to Millington on Friday night will be a tremendous challenge though. The Trojans boast a terrific offense centered around senior running back Antonio Webber, who has run for 842 yards and is averaging 9.2 yards per carry.
Germantown (4-2) at (11) Southwind (5-1)
Time: 7 p.m.
Storylines: The other two 15-AAA unbeatens tangle at Southwind. As always, the Red Devils will look to establish the run; they are fifth in the area in rushing yards per game (250.5). Southwind will counter through the air; the Jaguars rank fifth in the area in passing yards per game (181.3).
(12) Craigmont (4-2) at Raleigh-Egypt (2-4)
Time: 7 p.m.
Storylines: The Pharaohs' task Friday night? Try to find a way to contain Walter Crutchfield. The Chiefs senior running back rumbled for 223 yards and scored two touchdowns vs. Arlington last week, giving him 870 yards in five games this season. Another Craigmont weapon is Damecio Ewing, who leads the area in punt returns and has taken two back for scores.
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But he's trying to end his year reminding people he's actually a musician with an iTunes exclusive album, "Journals." Released Monday and reportedly only available as a bundle of songs for two weeks, "Journals" features 10 songs that were previously released on a weekly basis starting in October as part of his recent Music Monday series, plus five brand new tunes. »Read Full Article(11)
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It is time the French stop being so "pretentious", says French actress Sophie Marceau.
Speaking to Life! at an interview at Raffles Hotel here, she says with a small chuckle in slightly-accented English: "I really think French people and French production houses need to be a lot more humble. We should be going out there and talking about our works and our culture, but in France, people often think that just because we're French, others will naturally come to us.
"I mean, come on. We're not interesting just because we're French. We should make the first step and go out there to talk to others. It's something we have to work on."
The 46-year-old walks the talk too. She is in town to promote her new film, Happiness Never Comes Alone, which opens the Societe Generale Private Banking 2nd Rendezvous With French Cinema tonight.
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This week, I caught up with Orioles pitcher Kevin Gausman, who turned in two of the best starts of his career in his current stint with the club. We talked about performing so well against top teams, how being in the bullpen last year helped, his relationship with Caleb Joseph, superstitions, and more.
Q: You get called up last weekend and turn in your best start of your career against Oakland. How exciting was it for you to come up and pitch that well?
Josh] Donaldson, and then I ended up striking out [Brandon] Moss. It was good for me to kind of go through that.
Q: A lot of times in the past starters would begin in the bullpen early in their career. Are you glad you were able to do that last year?
KG: Yeah, definitely. I always tell people I feel like I learned how to pitch at this level coming out of the bullpen. The margin for error is so small there. When you're starting, I think you can get a little bit lackadaisical the first couple innings. It might take you a little bit to find your way through a game. But as a reliever, you've got to be ready to go once you get in there. Especially when guys are on base later in the game and you're only up one run. That's when everything's got to be the best it can be.
Q: Has this been a little bit of a tough year for you after being sick early in the year and then coming up to the majors for one start before going back down again prior to this current stint?
KG: I think the thing that kind of messed me up was getting pneumonia. That sucked and I lost weight and it kind of took me a little while to get back to where I was before. I feel like I'm just now getting back there right now and I feel good and healthy and excited for my opportunity.
Q: Was it a big confidence-builder to come up to the majors this time and not only pitch well, but to do it against one of the best teams in the league in the Athletics?
KG: Yeah, definitely. I think more than anything, like I said, is just getting deep into the game. Pitching well against a team that's playing really good baseball right now definitely gets your confidence going and gets it excited for the next team you face.
Q: Has it been nice to be up with the Orioles for longer this time and get more than just one start?
KG: Definitely. Any time you get another opportunity to go out there and pitch you feel like they have confidence in you and you get that confidence going through yourself too.
Q: How much does it help to have a catcher that is familiar with you? You've worked with Caleb Joseph in the minors and he's now caught you twice in the majors.
KG: Nick [Hundley] has never caught me so I think that definitely played into it. Me and Caleb have kind of always had a good connection. We rarely shake off each other and even down in Norfolk we worked pretty well together. It just kind of made sense and he did a great job back there. He likes to throw fastballs and I like to throw fastballs, so we just kind of keep going in and out and make it work.
Q: You've been a superstitious guy your whole baseball career. Are you still that way and do you have any new superstitions?
KG: Yeah, of course. I found out the other day that I don't like watching the game, I just kind of zone out and look around the dugout and the floor and stuff. I'm definitely superstitious, especially if I'm pitching well. Whatever I've been doing up to that point, I'll keep doing it.
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The Federal Trade Commission has penalized six companies a total of $7.7 million for calling people whose numbers are listed in the National Do Not Call registry.
The FTC says one company got consumers' phone numbers by enticing them to enter a sweepstakes and telling them their phone number was their entry number. Another called people it did not have an existing business relationship with. A third failed to transmit the required caller ID information.
Good to know the feds are looking out for your dinner hour. But you'd be surprised how many telemarketers are still allowed to call you even if you've signed up for the registry. How dare they and who are they?
Political candidates. Imagine that, politicians carved out an exemption for themselves — one that they will make full use of in the coming election year, I'm sure
Opinion pollsters — who will also be busy in 2008
Companies that you already have a business relationship with
Charities trying to raise money
It's still possible to eliminate future calls, even from these exempt groups. Many consumers make the mistake of shrieking "take me off your list," when a telemarketer interrupts them in the middle of dinner. Wrong. That request has no legal teeth.
Instead, ask to be put on their list: their do-not-call list.
In addition to honoring the national registry, telemarketers are required to keep their own list of people who have asked not to be contacted. If they call you again after you have made this request, you can sue them and collect compensation. The company could also face government fines of $10,000 or more. Keep in mind, big companies have multiple divisions. For example, if you tell the long distance department not to call you anymore, you may still receive cold calls from the cellular division.
If you are not one of the 145 million people who have listed a number on the National Do Not Call Registry, time to stop procrastinating. Just go to www.donotcall.gov
You can also call (888) 382-1222 from the number you wish to register. It takes about a month for telemarketers to start honoring your request. The legislation that created the Do Not Call registry is set to expire, but the FTC has decided it will continue to require companies to honor your request while Congress works to renew that law.
You can register a landline phone or a cell phone. But if you've received an e-mail warning you that all cell phone numbers are about to be released to telemarketers, that's just a persistent urban myth. Don't worry.
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Advertising and marketing have always been in a happy state in India. It is an emotion that combines joy and delight of consumers, thereby creating a happy environment for consumption.
Before going for a macho refrain, soft-drink Thumbs Up had embraced its tagline of 'Happy days are here again' nearly four decades back. In fact as one brand manager tells us, this evergreen emotion always works magic for a brand. "Happiness is a very positive emotion with most brands wanting to build messages around it as it is a primary emotion," says Lloyd Mathias, director Green Bean Ventures, who was head of marketing at Tata Docomo, Motorola and PepsiCo India.
Indeed it is! From Thumbs Up to Domino's Pizza with Khushiyon ki home delivery and from Khushiyon ki Planning at Max Life Insurance to Khushiyon ki chaabi for Tata Nano and Khushiyon ka khazana wali Maggi, it's khushi-ness all over. In fact, the same line—Khushiyon ki Diwali—was used in advertisements of brands like Airtel and Asus.
The recent Coca-Cola campaign with Deepika Padukone and Farhan Akhtar talks about the little moments of happiness—the entire sequence of missing the bus, chasing it and then boarding it. "It makes a lot of sense to be associated with a positive emotion. Products like beverages and food are consumed by people in a positive frame of mind," reasons Mathias. "Another commercial by Nestle, about a family adopting a girl child and how food is the ice-breaker between the adopted girl and a young boy, is a good campaign. There is a lot of joy in the food category."
Khushi, when there's gham: Although happiness is an emotion that has been used by marketers for decades, in times of a slowdown and a liquidity crunch, it is often the possible solution to keep buyers happy. Says KV 'Pops' Sridhar, Chief Creative Officer India subcontinent, Leo Burnett, "When society is depressed, it needs something which is optimistic or makes people happy. Unemployment, corruption, politicians, etc., add to this state. Therefore, brands are showing optimism and presenting a picture that not everything is going wrong. Today, it has become important for big brands to not talk about the values it has, but the values that it will bring."
According to Santosh Padhi, Chief Creative Officer and Co-founder, Taproot, happiness is an emotion that is employed by most brands. "If I want to sell something, I would rather do it in a positive way. In general, brands talk positive unless it is a category like insurance, where you need to make your point in a negative way where it gets hammered and more understood. Otherwise, life is all about positivity. Happiness is one part of it; humour is another. And then, there is hope and simply, being positive. "Happiness is, of course, not a phenomenon that works only in India. It is a global sentiment. Adds Padhi, "In China, Pepsi released a big campaign on happiness. There's a man who offers happiness to those in need, like education, shelter, umbrella and spectacles. Pepsi is running it for the past 20 years in China. So, when Coke came a few years back with 'Open Happiness' as part of a global mandate, Pepsi-China didn't stop. In a huge market like China, two competitors are 'doing' happiness."
The Coca-Cola brand launched the campaign internationally in 2009—around the time of the slowdown—and the ongoing Deepika-Farhan commercial is a part of the five-year-old activity.
Over-used concept: Says Bobby Pawar, Director and Chief Creative Officer, South Asia, Publicis Worldwide, "I think in tough times, brands want to hold out people to heart. Happiness has a gravitational point for that. But, it is such a broad concept unless you try to find true meaning in it."
Pawar believes not all advertisers are doing it right. "Happiness as a term is getting over-used. Coke has nailed it internationally. They do create happiness with their world machines. Only Coke has got it right. Rest of them are like 'whatever'."
Anand Halve, brand consultant and a veteran ad professional and Co-founder, Chlorophyll adds on to Pawar's sentiment, "Not only happiness, all emotions are being over-used. Brands have started to use this term that aapki zindagi badal jaayegi. Just look at the number of brands that use the word 'life'. Brands should aim to do beyond just the functional thing. You have to be careful about not going overboard and
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"Coke is doing really well through Coke Studio. Music makes people happy and that to me is genuine happiness. Just hanging a line at the end of an ad doesn't mean anything...agar mujhe khush karna hai toh, take me out for dinner...don't just send a voucher," says Halve.
But Mathias believes, happiness is here to stay. "It can never go out of style. It is a very basic emotion and on a typical day, one has a lot of happy moments. It is very logical for brands to show people in a happy frame-of-mind especially in ads of categories like beverages or food which are driven by the same. It is an important emotion to build your brand on."
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When the press is asked to leave a meeting, there are usually legal ramifications. The state's Open Meetings law applies, or doesn't apply, to the question about whether the press, as the eyes and ears of the public, should be allowed access to the business of a particular meeting. We believe a Las Vegas Fiesta Council meeting should be open to the public — and, therefore, the press should be able to attend — because of the enormous amount of public funds spent on the summer fiestas. But we realize it's a debatable point.
In the 1990s, another reporter and I were kicked out of a room where a union election was being held.
My much older colleague told those present, "I've been kicked out of better places."
I'm always been tempted to use that line when someone is prepared to show me the door. But surprisingly, I have managed to hold my tongue.
The volunteers at El Comedor (the Tuesday evening soup kitchen at the Senior Center) would like to thank Chairman Mike Fields and the rest of the Rough Rider Rally Committee and Joe Aragon from the Department of Health for their donation of leftover barbecue chicken, potato salad and other goodies for our Tuesday evening meal. It was delicious and enjoyed by all who came.
Was reading the article by David Giuliani "The decline in smoking," in the Optic on Aug. 2, when half way through, I started smoking.
Thumbs UP for ... A LOCAL ATTRACTION. Last week, as part of Las Vegas' Heritage Week, Fort Union Drive-in showed a free double feature, "Red Dawn" and "Convoy." Both movies are among many with scenes shot in Las Vegas.
The Meadow City is lucky to have a drive-in theater; it's one of only two in New Mexico, the other being in Carlsbad. It contributes to the quality of life of our community, as a fun place to go on summer weekends.
Legislators brag about all the money allocated for Las Vegas, N.M., every legislative session. The highest paid educational and behavioral health positions in our humble little city all take their money right back to Santa Fe, N.M., where they reside.
We, the West Las Vegas High School Class of 1960, thank the individuals who contributed to make our 50th-year reunion during the July 4 Fiestas such a success.
We thank the Bank of Las Vegas, which sponsored our reunion float in the parade and donated flag fans to cool off the spectators in the parade route.
Our thanks to Albert Goke, who provided the float frame and construction. Phil Leger loaned the group his flatbed trailer.
Thanks to Judy Ramirez who fabricated a quilt with inlaid pictures of Class of 1960 members.
The Las Vegas City Council recently gave a new two-year contract to the community's ambulance provider, Superior Ambulance.
But the city, by its own admission, hasn't closely monitored the company's performance for such details as response times. One of the reasons, Fire Chief Phil Mares said, was that Superior apparently had problems getting data from the city's police dispatchers.
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At the Des Moines Register presidential debate in December, Barack Obama was asked how voters could expect him to provide a "break from the past" when many of his top foreign policy advisers were holdovers from the Clinton Administration. Obama gracefully parried the challenge by saying he was willing to take good advice from several previous administrations, not just Bill Clinton's. But the question did reflect a common suspicion that despite all his talk about providing "change," the Obama campaign's differences with Hillary Clinton on foreign policy may be more stylistic than substantive.
It's true that a number of Obama's key advisers--like former National Security Adviser Tony Lake, former Assistant Secretary of State Susan Rice and former Navy Secretary Richard Danzig--held prominent positions under Bill Clinton. At the same time, Obama's team includes some of the most forward-thinking members of the Democratic foreign policy establishment--like Joseph Cirincione and Lawrence Korb of the Center for American Progress, the party's leading experts on nonproliferation and defense issues, respectively, along with former counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke and Carter Administration National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. Added to the mix are fresh faces who were at times critical of the Clinton Administration, like Harvard professor Samantha Power, author of "A Problem From Hell", a widely acclaimed history of US responses to genocide. These names suggest that Obama may be more open to challenging old Washington assumptions and crafting new approaches.
Hillary Clinton's camp, meanwhile, is filled with familiar faces from her husband's administration, like former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and former UN Ambassador Richard Holbrooke. Unlike Obama's advisers, the top Clintonites overwhelmingly supported the war in Iraq. From the march to war onward, Clinton and her advisers have dominated foreign policy discussions inside the Democratic Party. After largely supporting the war, they resisted calls for an exit strategy until 2005, when the situation had become unmanageably bleak. After turning against the war the Clintonites argued retroactively that Senator Clinton had voted, in Holbrooke's words, "to empower the President to avoid war."
As the nation hurtles from the January primaries to the "Super Tuesday" of February 5, top Democrats continue to develop their views on a number of foreign policy questions. How and when should America withdraw its troops from Iraq? How should we manage Iran? How should US power be deployed in the post-Bush era? How should foreign policy deal with global warming, the rise of China and India, an increasingly multipolar world and the continuing threat of nuclear proliferation? Perhaps it's too much to expect candidates to lay out a comprehensive vision for the new era in the heat of a presidential campaign. But how the campaigns address these questions today offers a window into how they'll govern tomorrow.
Hillary's campaign portrays its foreign policy team as a big tent. At the top are the troika of Albright, Holbrooke and former Clinton National Security Adviser Sandy Berger. Albright is very close to Hillary and a key confidante and surrogate. Berger is a skilled behind-the-scenes operative who keeps the troops in line. More on Holbrooke in a moment. Close behind are policy figures who also play a political role, like retired Gen. Wesley Clark and former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, who are popular with the party's antiwar base and appear on the campaign trail; Clark appears in the campaign's TV ads. (Clinton supporters who backed Bush's recent "surge" of troops in Iraq, like Kenneth Pollack and Michael O'Hanlon of the Brookings Institution, are now kept at arm's length, although Clinton does consult with Gen. Jack Keane, an architect of the troop increase.) Following the old guard are a younger crop of less hawkish experts, like Steven Simon of the Council on Foreign Relations, who co-chairs an advisory group on terrorism, and Iran specialists Ray Takeyh and Vali Nasr, who favor broad US engagement with Iran. At the center is Lee Feinstein, a former State Department official whom Clinton plucked from CFR in July and made the campaign's national security director. Feinstein wrote a controversial Foreign Affairs essay in 2004 with Princeton professor Anne-Marie Slaughter arguing that in cases of humanitarian catastrophe, "the biggest problem with the Bush preemption strategy may be that it does not go far enough." Today Feinstein says, "Unilateral action that involves force ought to be avoided at all costs," and "a clear reading of my piece is a strong rebuttal of the Bush doctrine."
Of the top Clinton Administration staffers, Albright, who's 70 and has already served in the upper echelon of government, and Berger, who became a controversial figure after smuggling classified documents from the National Archives, are unlikely to return in a Hillary Clinton administration. That leaves Holbrooke, other than Bill himself, as the most commanding member of Hillary's foreign policy cabinet-in-exile. "He's the heaviest of the heavyweights," says Peter Galbraith, Bill Clinton's former ambassador to Croatia. Galbraith worked closely with Holbrooke in the Balkans and remains a close friend as well as a Hillary supporter. Holbrooke personifies the strong feelings those in the Democratic foreign policy community harbor toward the Clintons: they respect Holbrooke's experience, accomplishments and intelligence but are dismayed at his arrogance, political opportunism and hawkish posturing. Clinton insiders speculate that if Hillary assumes the presidency, Holbrooke could very well land the Secretary of State position he's always coveted.
Like Clinton, Holbrooke seems to have been groomed for higher office. He's been described by pundits as "the raging bull of US diplomacy," "the closest thing the party has to a Kissinger," "a man driven to be a central protagonist in the shaping of the American empire." Just look at his résumé: a young foreign service officer in Vietnam under the tutelage of JFK's best and brightest; Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia in the Carter Administration (where he controversially cultivated Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos and supported Indonesia during its brutal occupation of East Timor); a successful Wall Street banker in the 1980s; the architect of the Dayton Accords, which ended the fighting in Bosnia; UN ambassador; the list goes on.
Holbrooke's brand of "muscular liberalism" has come to define Hillary. He helped shape not only Bill Clinton's but Hillary's views on the necessity of using force in Bosnia and consulted with her frequently about her vote on Iraq. "I know her well, I saw her through that period, I accept it 100 percent," he said in September. Indeed, in his last press conference as UN ambassador, Holbrooke called Saddam Hussein "a clear and present danger at all times" and said the incoming Bush Administration "will have to deal with this problem," reflecting the Clinton Administration's official policy of regime change. In the run-up to war, Holbrooke was quoted in the New York Times or Washington Post every week. He urged President Bush to go to the UN but afterward said Bush had "ample justification" to invade Iraq and wrote that antiwar demonstrators, along with the French and German governments, had "undoubtedly encouraged" Saddam. In the 2004 campaign, Holbrooke became a key foreign policy adviser to John Kerry. Like Hillary, Holbrooke took a particularly cautious tack on Iraq, telling Kerry to keep his views on the war "deliberately vague."
After the election, as figures like former Clinton Defense Secretary William Perry and Representative John Murtha turned against the war, Holbrooke refused to say how the United States should extricate itself from Iraq. "I'm not prepared to lay out a detailed policy or strategy," he said in December 2005, around the time that Clinton wrote a letter to her constituents defending her vote for the war. A year later, after events on the ground had spiraled even further out of control, Holbrooke, like Clinton, finally argued that the United States should "start to disengage from Iraq while pressing hard for a political settlement." He testified before Congress opposing Bush's troop surge and rebutted Gen. David Petraeus's presentation in support of it this past September, though he noted that, unlike Senate Democrats, he opposed using the Congressional power of the purse to end the war.
As Holbrooke found his footing on Iraq, however, he remained one of the leading hawks in Hillaryland on Iran. In 2004 he told the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, "The Iranians are an enormous threat to the United States, the stability in the region, and to the state of Israel" and claimed the European Union would "never get their act together." Holbrooke has twice spoken at rallies against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in New York, comparing him to Hitler. At a November 27 speech in Toronto, Holbrooke listed the reasons the Bush Administration would not attack Iran but called the country "the most pressing problem nation" and "the most dangerous country in the region," accusing the Iranians of exporting explosives "that are killing Americans in Iraq."
Little Holbrooke said about Iran could have prepared one for the latest National Intelligence Estimate, which found that the country had abandoned its nuclear program in 2003 as a result of diplomatic pressure. "It significantly decreases the likelihood of a military confrontation with Iran," Holbrooke told me after the NIE became public. "You have to keep all options on the table, but I thought even pre-NIE that there was no justification for a military strike." He stressed, however, that America needed to remain vigilant about Iran. "It's good news that Iran is much, much further from a nuclear weapons capability," Holbrooke said. "But that doesn't change the fact that they are still a deeply destabilizing regime--supporting Hamas, Hezbollah. And they need to be part of the solution in Iraq."
Iran is a particularly sensitive topic among Clinton supporters. Her September vote for the Senate's Kyl-Lieberman amendment, which dubbed the Iranian Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization and accused Iran of fomenting violence in Iraq, aroused a furor among establishment Democrats and grassroots activists. Peter Galbraith, who knows the region well, circulated a statement in the Senate opposing the resolution. "The reason I was so opposed to Kyl-Lieberman was because it was based on the premise that Iran was undermining US efforts in Iraq, and that's just not true," Galbraith told me. Joe Wilson said he also opposed Kyl-Lieberman, primarily because "I don't trust Lieberman or Kyl."
General Clark, who commanded NATO under Bill Clinton, quickly defended Hillary's vote, writing in New Hampshire's Manchester Union-Leader that "she is forcing the Bush administration to apply diplomatic pressure." Clark told The Nation, "The people harping and carping on the vote and comparing it to her vote on Iraq are oversimplifying the complexities of real diplomacy." In an NPR debate following the NIE release, Clinton argued, based on what her advisers said the military had told them, that because of the Kyl-Lieberman vote, "we've seen changes in their behavior." As Iran heated up as a campaign issue, Clinton's advisers welcomed the NIE with a degree of relief. "It removes this as a campaign issue for Democrats," said Lee Feinstein. He noted that Clinton, like Obama, "supports direct negotiations with Iran, now."
Even if Iran is off the table, as Feinstein hopes, Iraq is not. How many troops Clinton would remove from Iraq--and how quickly--remains a source of contention in Democratic policy circles. "We have remaining vital national security interests in Iraq," Clinton told the New York Times in March. That includes, her advisers say, fighting Al Qaeda there, preventing Iranian arms from crossing the border, protecting the Kurds and possibly training Iraqi security forces, depending on their capabilities. Clinton has pledged to start withdrawing troops in her first sixty days in office but until recently refused to specify when most of them would come home and how many would stay behind. In a policy shift, she said on December 20 that "we can bring nearly everybody home, you know, certainly within a year." Feinstein said the remaining troops would engage in a much narrower set of missions, probably entailing "special operations reinforced with air power," which he says "is far different than patrolling a civil war." Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton, who was in charge of training the Iraqi army in 2003-04 and is advising Clinton, contradicted Feinstein, predicting that such a residual force "is going to be fairly big."
Like Clinton, Obama has more than 200 foreign policy advisers. The campaigns have been dueling over who has the best bench. (Many people who have been linked with Obama are actually advising Clinton, her advisers say.) Obama's advisers tend to be younger, more progressive--having opposed the war from the start--and more likely to stress "soft power" issues like human rights, global development and the dangers of failed states.
The word Obama advisers use most often to describe Clinton is "conventional." As Brzezinski told me, "Look at her response on negotiations. It was conventional and politically convenient." He's referring to CNN's YouTube debate in July, when Obama said he'd meet with the leaders of countries like Cuba, Iran and North Korea without conditions. Clinton responded that she would not "be used for propaganda purposes" and later called Obama's statement "irresponsible and, frankly, naïve." The conventional wisdom was that Obama's answer displayed a stunning lack of presidential gravitas; Hillary dispatched her advisers to reinforce that point. But Obama unexpectedly turned the exchange to his advantage, accusing Clinton of "continuing with Bush/Cheney policies" and painting her as defender of an outdated status quo. "Her vote for the Iraq War and vote for the Kyl-Lieberman resolution are part of a go-along, conventional, momentary type of political thinking," Brzezinski says. Obama included these themes on the fifth anniversary of his 2002 speech opposing the war, assailing "the same old conventional thinking that got us into Iraq." After the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, he reiterated the point in criticizing Clinton's Iraq War vote, saying that "by going into Iraq, we got distracted from Afghanistan...we got distracted from dealing with the Al Qaeda havens that have been created in northwestern Pakistan."
Today, advisers like Tony Lake point to a number of "significant differences" between Obama and Clinton. On Iraq, Obama not only opposed the war but has said he would withdraw all combat troops within sixteen months of taking office. On Iran, Obama rejected the Kyl-Lieberman resolution (though he missed the vote while campaigning) and has proposed a broader engagement strategy to lure Iran into the community of nations. On nuclear weapons, he has not only promised to reduce US nuclear stockpiles, as has Clinton, but advocates a world free of nuclear weapons. On Cuba, Obama went to Miami and said the ban on family travel and remittances to the island nation should be lifted, a policy Clinton opposes.
Yet on many issues the differences between Obama and Clinton are more stylistic than substantive--which doesn't necessarily make them less interesting. In the eyes of his advisers, Obama signals the future and Clinton, the past. "Many of the younger former Clinton Administration officials who now support Obama feel that perhaps it is time for the baton to be passed to the next generation--Obama's generation," says Susan Rice. This sentiment is echoed by the elder Obama advisers. "I think Mrs. Clinton will take us back to the self-indulgence of the 1990s," says Brzezinski, "when the country was preoccupied by its own well-being and the leadership preoccupied with its own standing, not recognizing or taking advantage of the world as it was changing." Much of Hillary's campaign has been premised on a restoration of the Bill Clinton era; the word "restore" appears repeatedly in a recent Foreign Affairs article she wrote outlining her policy.
General Clark says it's overly simplistic to suggest that Clinton would take the country "back to the future," to borrow a phrase Bill Clinton used. "No one's proposing we go back to the 1990s," Clark says. "We need to take what we learned from the 1990s and apply it to new challenges." Indeed, in discussions with Hillary's advisers these days, the message seems to be, We're more like Obama than you think! Both candidates favor negotiating directly with Iran, leaving behind a residual force in Iraq (though Obama has said his missions would be more limited); enlarging the military by 92,000 troops; aggressively curbing global warming; and recommitting to working with multilateral institutions like the United Nations. It's not hard to imagine Clark, Feinstein or even Holbrooke serving in an Obama administration. And many Obamaites would probably work in a Hillary Clinton administration.
One point of contention is the question of experience. Clinton's campaign says Obama "would have less experience than any President since World War II," with Bill Clinton recently implying on Charlie Rose that voting for Obama would be "rolling the dice." Obama says Clinton's trips around the world as First Lady were little more than photo-ops. "I don't think being First Lady gives you any foreign policy experience," cracks former Kennedy speechwriter and Obama supporter Ted Sorensen, "except which donors sleep in the Lincoln Bedroom."
Sorensen sees parallels between the youthful vigor and idealism of Obama and JFK. If Obama is Kennedy, I asked Sorensen, who's Clinton? "She's LBJ," he responded, "particularly when it comes to the future of Iraq. Mrs. Clinton is talking about leaving combat troops in Iraq, maybe even whole divisions. That's where LBJ got into trouble in Vietnam."
The top Democrat who puts the least emphasis on foreign affairs and has the fewest number of advisers, John Edwards, has paradoxically said some of the most interesting things during the campaign. Edwards has called the "war on terror" a "bumper sticker, not a plan," and has opposed enlarging the Army, citing the "little rationale given for exactly why we need this many troops." Days before the Iowa caucuses, he more sharply distinguished his position on Iraq from those of Clinton and Obama by calling for a near-total pullout of US forces within ten months. However, in foreign policy circles Edwards's knowledge of world affairs is considered thin, and on the stump he's far more passionate about domestic issues like poverty and trade. His main foreign policy adviser, Mike Signer, was an aide to former Virginia Governor Mark Warner, and his longtime national security adviser in the Senate, Derek Chollet, is a Holbrooke protégé and a fellow at the Center for New American Security, a centrist think tank working to align Democrats closer to the military. Both are relatively hawkish; Signer wrote an essay in 2006 calling for a doctrine of "exemplarism," which he labeled "a militarily strong and morally ambitious version of American exceptionalism."
The Clintonites like to view Iraq as an isolated incident. "It is absurd to hold her or any candidate to a litmus-test standard based on a single vote under extremely complicated circumstances," Holbrooke said in a September radio interview. "She has said herself, 'If people don't like that vote, let them go elsewhere.'" To Obama, the vote for the war reflects a more fundamental reflection of poor judgment and political cowardice. Edwards, who co-sponsored the war resolution, has apologized for it and said, "I will not make that mistake again."
Hillary, though, has refused to apologize, and has often been packaged as a "quasi-Margaret Thatcher," Brzezinski said. "She is probably more assertive and willing to use force than her husband," Holbrooke said. Holbrooke acknowledges that in the wake of the Iraq disaster, it will be harder to carry out the type of humanitarian interventions that defined the Clinton Administration. In the case of Darfur, for example, none of the candidates have suggested sending US forces. "The standard will be higher," Holbrooke said. "The tests of an exit strategy will be higher. The risks will be higher." In the 1990s Holbrooke warned of "Vietnamalia syndrome," the aversion to using military power because of failures in Vietnam and Somalia, and says we cannot retreat now, either. "A swing from neoconservatism to neo-isolationism would not be a good deal."
None of the Democratic candidates, of course, are advocating "neo-isolationism." But Obama has been more willing than Clinton to redefine what it means to be "tough" and to rethink the nature of American power, suggesting that the United States act with greater humility. He told the New York Times, "For most of our history our crises have come from using force when we shouldn't, not by failing to use force."
Statements like these raise the question of what a post-Bush foreign policy should look like. The next President must decide: will the "war on terror" continue? What about the Bush doctrine of preventive war or the escalating size of the military budget? Holbrooke says, "The next President needs to scrap a lot of things from the Bush Administration, and torture, Guantánamo and pre-emptive war should be on that list." Wesley Clark, too, says the concept of a "war on terror" was a "terrible mistake," and he calls the Bush doctrine "nonsense, rubbish." On these points Obama and Edwards concur.
But there are other crucial and less frequently mentioned topics to address: how will the next administration deal with a resurgent Russia, a rising China and a Latin America that has rejected the Washington/IMF neoliberal agenda, forging closer regional ties in its place? How will the United States handle rapidly growing world demand for oil and gas as reserves approach their peak? Is it a mistake to view the world primarily through the lens of Islamic extremism? How should the United States relate to Saudi Arabia and other autocratic Gulf states, and how should the United States address the Israel-Palestine conflict? How should we promote prosperity and stability in Africa? The foreign policy advisers in each Democratic campaign are still grappling with the answers.
The disastrous Bush presidency has upended many assumptions in DC policy circles, particularly about America's place in the world. This historic shift is helping to define the race for the Democratic nomination. All the candidates have sought to separate themselves from the Bush Administration--but rejection of the Bush/Cheney approach will not be enough to formulate a strategy for the next administration. As Obama has said, "The question is, What comes next?"


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Investing in the knowledge economy is now a globally required imperative.
One way to do this is to expand higher education to increase education attainment levels in society. The expansion of higher education, however, requires two things: (1) increased investments; and (2) more efficient use of existing resources.
In developing countries like the Philippines, government is expected to fund higher education. Any expansion of higher education therefore becomes a critical issue in terms of its financial impact on developing countries which have very limited resources.
Education is the central strategy for investing in its people, alleviating poverty and building national and global competitiveness. It is also necessary for development and social transformation. Not surprisingly, the number of HEIs in the Philippines has been increasing over the past decade. From 2007 to 2010, number of higher education institutions (HEIs) increased by 10 percent from 2,034 to 2,247.
While higher education in the country is predominantly in the hands of private institutions— 88 percent of universities and colleges are privately owned—more and more public HEIs have been established in the past decade. (Public HEIs refer to state universities and colleges [SUCs], local universities and colleges [LUCs] and other government schools.)
Due to the expansion of public HEIs, data from the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) show that enrollment in private HEIs gradually declined from nearly 90 percent in 1970 to 59 percent in Academic Year 2010-2011. In that particular academic year, enrollment in private HEIs numbered 1.7 million; and in public HEIs, 1.1 million. The expansion of public HEIs was accompanied by an increase in its degree program offerings—the 18,495 programs in AY 2001-2002 increased to 32,083 in AY 2010-2011, or an increase of 73.5 percent.
The increase in number of public HEIs is an attempt to make education affordable and available to all students. For reasons both well-meaning and self-serving, national and local political leaders want to create SUCs and LUCs to bring higher education closer to their constituencies.
This expansion, while laudable, has created major problems for higher education. The creation of SUCs and LUCs, for one, has become highly politicized as the number increased rapidly over the past decade. Not surprisingly, every education commission or task force report since the late 1980s has called for a moratorium on SUC creation.
The Task Force to Study State Higher Education (1987) noted that the "creation of SUCs was obviously made without planning for an integrated system of higher education. The SUCs seem to have been established only for local or political interests." As early as 1993, the Education Commission reported an increase in SUCs from 19 in 1970 to 79 in 1990. As of 2011, there are 110 SUCs.
Clearly, Congress and the President are hesitant to impose or observe a moratorium or to even rationalize the creation of SUCs. This has been the case even if an uncontrolled increase in number of SUCs and LUCs results in the dissipation of scarce resources available for higher education. The untenable situation also reduces the share of each SUC in the higher education budget. In addition, SUCs and LUCs tend to crowd out private HEIs because many are located in regions where there is high density of private schools and lower tuition rates. Mindanao State University (MSU) in Marawi, for example, charges only P4.50 per unit. It is also interesting to note that almost 40 percent of SUCs have 4,000 or less students.
Budget for SUCs
The total budgetary allocation for public higher education—for CHED and SUCs—is actually significant in the sense that it is sometimes bigger than the expenditures of key agencies such as the Departments of Agriculture (DA), Agrarian Reform (DAR), Science and Technology (DOST) or Social Work and Development (DSWD). The decline in the percentage share of the higher education budget in the national budget in recent years, however, cannot be denied. From a high growth rate of 10.5 percent in 2002, the nominal budget for SUCs registered negative growth rates in 2005 (-3.85 percent) and 2006 (-1.2 percent). Based on the 2011 General Appropriations Act (GAA), the SUC sector got P22 billion. Of this amount, UP got P5.75 billion (or 26 percent of the total). MSU (P1.97 billion) and Polytechnic University of the Philippines (P677M) are the only SUCs that got significant funding from the national government.
As regards the budget for the SUCs' maintenance and other operating expenses (MOOE), it has increased by almost 6 percent from P2.1 billion in 2001 to P2.2 billion in 2005 even if it has fluctuated on a year-to-year basis. Capital outlay (CO) has been the most affected as there was zero allocation in 2003 and 2004, a standard allocation (P400,000) in 2006 and 2007 and then back to zero allocation in the years that followed. There was also no release in Congressional Insertions (CI) when the Aquino administration took over in July 2010. In the case of UP, it has P6.5 billion worth of unreleased CIs over the past six years.
Given the meager allocation, most of the income and trust funds of SUCs are used to supplement the limited MOOE and CO. From 2001 to 2006, the SUCs' spending for CO and MOOE constitutes almost 50 percent of their actual expenses. And while dependence on government subsidy has decreased, the resource generation efforts of SUCs created problems like the prospects of tuition and fee increases, heightened student opposition and criticisms on commercialization of education.
Policy makers have argued that SUCs have the mandate and responsibility to mobilize their own resources and must not rely on government subsidies for their operations. There are many resource mobilization options such as:
- Commercialize properties.
- Mobilize legislative support (through the Priority Development Allocation Fund or Congressional Insertion).
- Encourage more grants/projects from executive agencies/funding agencies.
- Reduce operating costs.
- Generate funds from alumni.
- Increase tuition/school fees.
But many of these options are easier said than done.
For example, commercialization of properties is not an easy task. Many SUCs are unable to commercialize their landholdings because these are not titled, are not inventoried, or are occupied by informal settlers. Some properties are covered by deeds of donation that limit commercialization of the donated property. Most SUC charters do not allow these institutions to sell their properties. For those whose land grants are located in remote areas, they obviously have little commercial value and no investor could be enticed to lease the property. It is also clear that most SUC leaders do not have the capacity or entrepreneurial skills needed to go into full-blown commercialization activities. Sadly, neither the DBM nor the CHED have capacity building programs for SUC leaders on land management and commercialization.
Rationalization as option
Of course, the rationalization of SUCs remains an option. But how can this be done? For one, Congress is reluctant to impose a moratorium on creation of SUCs as political pressure remains strong. In fact, more than 20 bills have been passed by the HOR on the creation of SUCs and these are awaiting Senate approval. Even the President is unwilling to impose a moratorium either through his state of the nation address (SONA) or any policy statements.
Fortunately, the current leadership of CHED has imposed an "unwritten moratorium" while pursuing what I refer to as the amalgamation initiative. Amalgamation proves to be a viable and a cost-effective strategy to rationalize the higher education system. What CHED does is to cut the number of HEIs by amalgamation into a regional university system (RUS) which will remove overlap and duplication of programs. This initiative allows more developed institutions to assist developing ones. It also enables HEIs to work together for greater impact and allows government funds to be strategically distributed.
This amalgamation initiative has been successful at the provincial level, as in the case of the Rizal University System. The RUS is being piloted in Region XI and an RUS bill has already been submitted to Congress. So far, there is no strong resistance from politicians. That the CHED has an incentive system increased interest from many SUCs as regards the amalgamation initiative. At present, however, there is no clear policy with regard to amalgamation for LUCs.
Increasing tuition and other fees at SUCs, on the other hand, remains a sensitive issue. The debate continues whether or not tuition should be charged, to which students and how much (if ever). Differential tuition has a long tradition in the Philippines whose experience is similar to the United States (US), Canada, Korea and Japan. While the government policy is deregulation, SUCs are reluctant to increase tuition rates due to access and equity issues, as well as political pressure. Instead of tuition, school fees are increased instead. And since tuition rates are low, SUCs actually increase inequity by providing "practically free education" even to those who can afford to pay.
Student loans have a long tradition in Australia, Canada, Austria, US and some Asian countries. From an economic perspective, loans are considered more cost-effective than grants because these must be repaid. However, loans also include costs, considering the administration and interest subsidies and the cost of non-repayment or default. Grants, on the other hand, require continuing allocation, and, even when well-targeted, provide subsidies to those who may not need them.
In the case of the Philippines, the policy is combination of loans (for private HEIs) and scholarship grants (for public HEIs). However, the government's Study Now, Pay Later and Student Financial Assistance Program have not worked as designed. At any rate, there are merit-based scholarship grants available through government agencies like the DOST and the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS). The use of PDAF for scholarships has also increased the number and amount of scholarships in SUCs.
Adapting the practice in the United Kingdom, it is actually possible to replace grants with loans through a Student Loan Program that has flexible repayment options. For example, there could be income-contingent loans where graduates repay their loans as a percentage of their income. This program could have a long repayment period and a write-off mechanism. The program could also be accompanied by "means-tested grants" for students coming from low-income families. Of course, the question remains if this could work in a country where there is a culture of avoiding debt, employment options are limited and students are considered legally and morally dependent on parents.
It is also possible to increase and strengthen the Student Assistantship Program. Student or graduate assistants could receive tuition waivers or reduction while earning money to cover living costs. Student assistantship could address human resource requirements of administrative offices or develop a teaching assistantship system. This could also develop a culture for work and reduces "dole-out" mentality regarding government subsidy to higher education. Then again, will politicians channel their PDAF to assistantship where political gains are low or invisible?
Indeed, there are options available for financing higher education. It takes, however, a high degree of political will and creativity to solve the age-old problems confronting higher education in the Philippines.
Dr. J. Prospero E. De Vera III is vice-president for public affairs of UP. This article was based on his slide presentation titled "Challenges in Financing Higher Education in the Philippines: Options for Reform" presented during the Graduate Education Summit held at the Heritage Hotel, December 10, 2011. Email him at [email protected].