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Tuesday night, the Waterford Board of Selectmen approved a resolution asking the state to not charge any of the nine municipalities involved in Southeastern Area Transit (SEAT) for clean up of a fuel spill at SEAT's campus and for the state to bring a "new management model for the provision of transit in southeastern Connecticut."
The action is a result of a 2010 oil spill at SEAT's campus in Preston where thousands of gallons of diesel fuel leaked into a brook behind the facility. SEAT has since said it is not responsible for the spill and has sued the Department of Transportation for costs associated with cleaning up the spill.
The resolution passed by the Board of Selectmen Tuesday asks for the DOT to pay the more than $500,000 cost of the cleanup instead of the cost possibly being dumped on the nine municipalities that support SEAT, which includes Waterford. In return, SEAT would drop the lawsuit and the state would develop a "new management model for the provision of transit in southeastern Connecticut," according to the resolution. The DOT supports the resolution and at least two other SEAT towns have already passed the same resolution.
First Selectman Dan Steward, along with several other town officials, have voiced concerns about SEAT's management several times recently and in March the Board of Finance briefly cut all funding to the public transit organization. Steward says this agreement will mean no cost to the municipalities for the fuel spill and SEAT's board of directors no longer charged with running public transit in Southeastern Connecticut, which he said is good on both accounts.
"We tend to be very independent down here, and right now it doesn't appear that independence is working," Steward said Tuesday, referring to SEAT.
SEAT runs the public transportation system in Southeastern Connecticut. It provides services to nine municipalities, including Waterford, East Lyme, Montville and New London, who help fund the organization.
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As mentioned, SEAT has sued the DOT after it argued it was not responsible for thousands of gallons of diesel fuel leaking out of a diesel fuel tank on SEAT property that cost the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection more than $500,000 to clean up. Rather than pay the amount, with the cost potentially going back onto the towns that support SEAT like Waterford, SEAT sued the DOT on who would pay state dollars to a state agency.
DOT agreed to drop the case and pay the entire cost if SEAT agreed to drop the lawsuit and change its management structure, something Waterford and other SEAT towns support. DOT runs public transportation directly in all other areas of the state except for eastern Connecticut, so it would make sense for the DOT to run it here as well, Steward said.
If the DOT did take it over, Waterford would possibly no longer have to pay a bill each year for public transporation, Steward said. Instead, it is possible that public transit would be run with state dollars instead of a hybrid of state and municipal dollars, he said. This year, Waterford is paying $43,924 to SEAT.
Problems with SEAT
Steward also said he would rather have the DOT run the area's public transportation than SEAT. In recent years, SEAT has had several problems with Waterford, on top of dealing with the fuel spill.
For the past few years, the Waterford Board of Finance and the Representative Town Meeting have asked SEAT to provide them with the ridership of each bus route, so the town could see if the bus routes were being run efficiently. Instead, despite several requests, SEAT just gives the town the total amount of bus routes in Waterford, which Selectman Paul Suprin called "useless."
"They just tell us how many bus rides they made, so they increase the bus rides and instead of a bus carrying four people two buses carry two people," Suprin said. "That doesn't help us."
Steward also told a story where the mayor of Montville asked SEAT to make a stop on a route a bus already drives by, as there is a demand and SEAT would make extra money off of the extra riders. SEAT voted against doing that, Steward said.
Additionally, during the March budget hearings this year SEAT could not provide the Board of Finance with the audit from the 2010-11 Fiscal Year, which should have been completed by December. SEAT said it was still in the process of completing the audit.


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Cable TV and the Internet favor the starkest of opinions, preferably compressed into a 12-second sound bite. Twitter allows 140 characters at a time. More than a bumper sticker — but not by much.
Greek choruses on left and right shout down those who stray into enemy territory. MoveOn.org can't stand Blue Dog Democrats. Rush Limbaugh & Co. have redefined Republicanism into something that Ronald Reagan might not even recognize.
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Manufacturing Group Calls on Obama Administration to Reconsider Vietnam's Participation in TPP
CONTACT: Lloyd Wood, Vice President of Public Relations
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Besides the labor report, a host of other factors demonstrate that Vietnam has not yet made the reforms needed to be worthy of further consideration for TPP participation. Vietnam's intolerance of competing political parties, lack of press freedom, state-owned enterprise-dominated economy, lack of an independent judiciary, and pervasive human rights abuses are each and of themselves reasons why Vietnam's participation in the TPP should be questioned by the Obama Administration.
A copy of yesterday's letter is both attached and pasted below.
October 9, 2012
Ambassador Ron Kirk
Office of the U.S. Trade Representative
600 17th ST NW
Washington, DC 20508
Dear Mr. Ambassador:
In light of the U.S. Department of Labor's recent designation of Vietnam as a perpetrator of abusive labor practices, the American Manufacturing Trade Action Coalition (AMTAC) urges the U.S. government to reconsider whether Vietnam is capable of meeting the baseline political and moral commitments that should be included in any Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement.
On September 26, 2012, the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB)[1] released its fourth annual report, "List of Goods Produced by Child or Forced Labor".[2] It added Vietnam to the list of countries using both child labor and forced labor in the production of garments.[3]
This report is one more piece of an ever-increasing set of evidence calling into question Vietnam's ability and willingness to serve as a reputable trading partner worthy of the preferences envisioned in any TPP.
Obviously, the U.S. textile industry strongly supports the U.S. government's position that child and forced labor should not be exploited in the production of goods. Unfortunately, Vietnam's failing grade with respect to preventing the abuse of child and forced labor is not the country's only political, economic, and moral hurdle to their good faith TPP participation. Other significant problems include
- Vietnam is one of just seven countries legally constituted as a single-party state as of 2012.[4] The others are China, Cuba, Eritrea, Laos, North Korea, and Turkmenistan.
- Reporters Without Borders annually publishes a worldwide index of countries according to their respect for press freedom.[5] Vietnam ranked 172nd of 179 countries for press freedom.
- Vietnam ranked 136th of 179 countries in the Heritage Foundation's 2012 Index of Economic Freedom.[6]
- Unlike other TPP countries, Vietnam's economy is dominated by its state-owned enterprises (SOEs). Those entities produce about 40 percent of Vietnam's Gross Domestic Product (GDP).[7]
- SOEs hold a privileged place in the Vietnamese state. With respect to Vietnam, the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) reported in its Southeast Asian Economic Outlook 2011/12:[8]
- "In addition, in accordance to market regulations and its World Trade Organisation commitments, Viet Nam needs to ensure a level playing field and effective competition for the private sector. Today, SOEs are still given high priority in resource allocation, enjoying capital raised from government bond issuance."
- The SOE issue is a long-standing problem within the Vietnamese economy. The OECD report quoted above reaffirms many of the problems uncovered by BizCLIR (Business Climate Legal & Institutional Reform), a project commissioned by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)[9] with a mission to identify and understand "constraints to business entry, operation, and growth" in developing countries. BizCLIR noted in its November 2006 assessment of Vietnam that, "…the lingering and not unsubstantial presence of SOEs continues to distort markets in several ways." [10]Vietnam's judicial system still is not independent of the Vietnamese Communist Party (VCP). The Bertelsmann Stiftung's Transformation Index (BTI) 2012 country report for Vietnam noted:[11]
- "The judiciary is clearly subject to the VCP. As Vietnam becomes increasingly integrated into international politics, its legal system has undergone some reforms. In general, however, the Vietnamese legal system does not conform to international standards. In addition, Vietnam's legal system is insufficiently transparent, and lacks consistency, stability, and efficient implementation."
- Again, the lack of an independent, transparent judiciary with respect Vietnam is not new. BizCLIR's 2006 report identified several weaknesses in Vietnam's judicial system, including:[12]
- "Transparency throughout the court process can be weak, and decisions are often poorly written and hard to obtain."
- "The courts have limited ability to enforce attendance at civil or commercial proceedings."
- "The courts have no institutional incentive to ensure that their judgments are enforced."
- "Judges do not feel that they have adequate access to or understanding of the new commercial laws. For example, judges report significant gaps in understanding of both the various sources of contract law—including not only the major general sources, but also sources pertaining to property, employment, notaries, and other issues regularly faced by businesses—and the substance of those sources."
- The January 24, 2012 U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs oversight hearing "Examining Ongoing Human Rights Abuses in Vietnam" detailed systematic suppression of minority groups, religion, free emigration and family reunification, and freedom of expression and association.[13]
- While TPP negotiations were being conducted in 2011, the Vietnamese government prosecuted 33 activists, sentencing them to 180 years in prison, for engaging in peaceful political expression. The sentences were handed down by the Vietnamese government even though it has ratified the International Covenant on Political and Civil Rights.[14]
- The Vietnamese government sentenced six more activists to prison in late September for attempting to express their views freely.[15]
- The House hearing also heard graphic testimony of human trafficking via Vietnamese government's encouragement of citizens to participate in labor export programs.[16]
Despite these glaring and unacceptable shortcomings, Vietnam has made enormous market access demands of the United States and other TPP participants. At the same time, they have been virtually unwilling to consider even minimal changes to their economic, judicial, and political systems necessary to make them a reputable preference trading partner. Their intransigence has almost single handedly brought the entire negotiation to a standstill.
We believe that the challenges confronting Vietnam in transitioning to a transparent and market driven economy, instituting reasonable foreign investment safeguards, and eliminating abusive labor practices are too great for Vietnam to digest at this point. Their refusal to negotiate in good faith is a direct result of their unwillingness to address the serious economic, political, and moral concerns listed above.
As a result, we are calling on the Obama Administration to reconsider the current path of the TPP. It has become abundantly clear that Vietnam is not a suitable candidate for this agreement. We strongly believe that Vietnam should be asked to step back from the negotiation until such time as they make marked improvement in these key areas. To make them beneficiaries of the lucrative market access benefits that will certainly be contained in the TPP would amount to a condoning of their unacceptable behavior in the various areas identified earlier.
We thank you for your careful consideration of this important request.
Auggie Tantillo
Executive Director
American Manufacturing Trade Action Coalition
[1] See: http://www.dol.gov/ILAB/programs/ocft/tvpra.htm
[2] See: http://www.dol.gov/ilab/programs/ocft/2012TVPRA.pdf
[3] The Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act directs ILAB to "monitor and combat forced labor and child labor in foreign countries." ILAB also is required to consult with other departments and agencies of the United States Government to reduce forced and child labor internationally and ensure that products made by forced labor and child labor in violation of international standards are not imported into the United States. Vietnam was not listed in the 2009, 2010, and 2011 reports not necessarily because child and/or forced labor was not occurring, but because ILAB could not find adequate information to determine that any goods should be placed on the List because very little recent research has been done.
[4] See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-party_state
[5] See: http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/press_freedom.htm
[6] See: http://www.heritage.org/index/ranking
[7] See: http://www.indexmundi.com/vietnam/economy_profile.html
[8] See page 129: http://www.oecd.org/dev/49954377.pdf
[9] See: http://www.bizclir.com/cs/about_bizclir
[10] See: http://www.bizclir.com/cs/countries/asia/vietnam/crosscutting_themes
[11] See page 9: http://www.bti-project.de/fileadmin/Inhalte/reports/2012/pdf/BTI%202012%20Vietnam.pdf
[12] See: http://www.bizclir.com/cs/countries/asia/vietnam/crosscutting_themes
[13] See: http://foreignaffairs.house.gov/hearings/view/?1395
[14] http://foreignaffairs.house.gov/112/HHRG-112-FA-WState-JSifton-20120124.pdf
[15] See: http://www.article19.org/resources.php/resource/3455/en/vietnam:-a-dark-week-for-freedom-of-expression
[16] See: http://foreignaffairs.house.gov/112/HHRG-112-FA-WState-PVu-20120124.pdf


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What's a handshake worth? British Olympic athletes warned about germs
Health experts encourage the athletes to also maintain good hand hygiene to help minimize the risk of contracting illnesses.
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HEALTH HAZARD: Tennis players James Blake and Roger Federer shake hands at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. British health officials have cautioned athletes to keep the hand shaking to a minimum. (Photo: Jamie Squire/Getty Images)
LONDON — Britain's athletes have been told of the dangers of shaking hands at this year's Olympics in case they pick up a bug that could wreck their sporting dreams.
The British Olympic Association's (BOA) chief medical officer said that "within reason," shaking hands should be off-limits, given the fact that all athletes will live and eat in close proximity at the games village — and bugs could spread like wildfire.
"Within reason if you do have to shake hands with people, so long as you understand that regular handwashing and/or also using hand foam can help reduce the risk — that would be a good point," Dr. Ian McCurdie said.
The BOA has drawn up a list of health advice for its 550-strong team of athletes and 450 support staff for the Olympic Games, which start in London on July 27, with illness identified as the greatest threat to performance along with injury.
"At an Olympic Games or any major event the performance impact of becoming ill or even feeling a little bit ill can be significant," McCurdie explained, saying that bugs could easily be picked up from anything from cutlery to door handles.
"Essentially we are talking about minimizing risk of illness and optimizing resistance. Minimizing exposure and getting bugs into the system and being more robust to manage those should that happen.
"Hand hygiene is it. It is all about hand hygiene."
At the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, where the athletes' village was hit by concerns about cleanliness, a number of swimmers picked up bugs that either affected their performance or forced them to pull out of events altogether.
Other health warnings for British athletes at the London Olympics include sleep deprivation, long working hours and the disruption of having to live in a new environment.
Athletes could also expect to feel the pressures of performing in front of a home crowd, the BOA said.
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Is Homeschooling Unconstitutional?
The question makes me, a homeschooling mom, laugh. Because every day, all of us as parents, are teaching our children--from the time they pop out of the oven until the day they die, because long after we have gone our lessons will stay with them. Should every parent be a certified nurse to deal with the needs of a newborn, should we all have associate degrees in early child development by the time our kids are 2? The truth of the matter is that if you can read and write, you can teach your child. Who taught them to speak, eat with a fork, play games, use the potty, get dressed?
Unless mentally or physically challenged, parents are every bit as qualified to teach their own child as any stranger who graduated from any teacher education program at any school. I have a teaching credential, and I can assure you it makes me no more competent than parents who homeschool without one. Let's not lose sight of who has a child's best interest at heart and who cares more for their welfare and success. That would be the parent.
I think there needs to be some sort of qualification. Unfortunately, there are some parents who homeschool who have no business doing so. You may be qualified but what about all the kids who are homeschooled and not getting a proper education because the parents are doing it for the wrong reason.
Is it possible that there are some teachers who have no business doing so?
What are the proportions compared to homeschoolers? Where should our society focus be in relation to those proportions?
What does "proper education" mean in the credentialed public schools? What are the "wrong reasons" for homeschooling?
Just some generic questions that came to mind reading the generic concerns of anonymous.
Parents have no rights when their children are at school. IF a parent wants to pick them up early they have to have approval and can be denied. If a parents religious beliefs are not allowed to be spoken at school the children are taught to keep quite even when confronted or challenged. If your child doesn't learn exactly like most of the class then the child is classified as a slower learner. As far as parents HAVING SOME SORT OF QUALIFICATION ,just because a teacher has a degree does not qualify them to teach all children better. If a parent chooses to teach, I believe they are more qualifed than any teacher out there when it comes to understanding their own childs needs. There are definately great teachers out there. I have had a few that I am very thankfull for. Thank goodness there are that few that makeup for the ones that choose to shatter and crush the children. Teachers are very influential people in your childs life. Parents need to be strongly aware of that. Not all good comes from it and no matter how much time you spend with your child in the evening or on weekends your role is secondary compared to the teacher that is with your child all through the day teaching/raising them . I in no way am trying to sound harsh ,but if how you raise your children to believe or act in any way conflicts with the school, your child is the one that will have to convert. Think about it.
Amen to this post and to Susan and Jodi's comment.
How easy people forget that the massive failure of state education CAUSED the mass exodus to homeschooling.
This isn't about academic success; this is about control. Were it about academic achievement there would be no argument as homeschooled children outperform state-educated children by an alarming margin, end of story. If teaching credentials were all it took to guarantee success then where is all the success in our state schools? That was rhetorical.
I agree with Anonymous up there. As a homeschooling mom, I am often confronted by parents who I feel should not be homeschooling.
Heck, I often see parents who have no business having kids! Maybe we should regulate them too! You need to take a test, and be certified to get pregnant and have children! And then be constantly retested to make sure you are qualified to take care of your children at what ever level they are. Recertify at age 2! Continuing education classes on how to finger paint with your kindergartener, or how to help your 4th grader with homework! Fail a test, no problem, the government will be happy to take your child from you while you receive the necessary training to successfully raise your child ;)
It's fine with me that parents home school their own kids, but up to a point. There are very few parents I know who would be able to teach their high-school aged children chemistry or calculus… these are things that should be taught by someone who has a degree in those areas. I don't see how the average person could teach an entire high-school curriculum without having any sort of degree or credentials.
Paula, I have just finished *very* successfully homeschooling our teenage son, who is now in the running for several academic scholarships due his high ACT score, grades, and extensive community service. What you may not understand is that homeschoolers have a very different approach to education from that of the schools. We teach our children how to teach themselves. Knowledge does not, in fact, reside only in the minds of teachers. Knowledge can be obtained everywhere today. One only needs the discipline to seek out information and make it one's own. My children can learn anything that they need to know, and they won't ever be dependent upon anyone else to further their educations, which will continue for the rest of their lives.
The current crackdown on homeschooling is a tactic by the teacher's unions to secure the future of their jobs. The success of homeschooling is threatening to the teacher's unions, and frankly, I think they should be concerned. They should channel their energy into making their schools better and more competitive with homeschooling, and leave homeschoolers alone. Homeschooling is working for the vast majority of those educating in this innovative way.
Jodi, are you kidding me?
People do not have to 'keep quiet' at school regarding their religious beliefs. They can talk about it all they damn want to. They can have prayer at the flag pole. They can even form clubs. What they can't do, however, is force their religion on all the other students by talking about their religion to people who didn't ask to hear about it - such as leading prayer over the intercom, at assemblies, or to everyone in the cafeteria, etc. Why? Because that infringes on the rights of those of other religions (or no religion at all) to have to listen to that.
I'm guessing you're one of those people who get offended over 'Winter Break' not being called 'Christmas Break' and people wanting 'In God We Trust' removed from money despite the fact that this country was NOT founded on Christianity and that 'In God We Trust' was added in the 1950s.
And while I have absolutely no problem with homeschooling, to insist that you're better qualified at TEACHING than someone who is specially trained to teach - that is a load of BS. Is 1-on-1 better than 1-on-30+? Yes, usually, of course. Are you going to be more attentive to your child's needs than most teachers? Most likely. Are you going to want your child to succeed more than most teachers want your child to succeed? Probably. Do those things make you better at actually TEACHING than a teacher? Highly unlikely. Again, I have absolutely no problem with homeschooling at all. Just moms whose giant boners for homeschooling cause them to insist they're better at teaching than someone who is way more qualified than them to do it. Wanting to teach your kids yourself doesn't automatically mean you're going to be any good at it.
@ Susan: Of course there are some teachers who shouldn't be teaching. Keyword SOME. All teachers have to earn degrees in teaching. They have to constantly keep up with education. By default, most teachers are better qualified to teach than your average parent.
I am so, so glad I wasn't homeschooled. Public education made me smarter than my own mother. She failed a basic math class in college. Her 'best' subject was English, yet she can't spell and hardly ever gets her homophones right. Her grammar is atrocious. When I came home from school in the sixth grade, exited about having just learned about Pangea and the Continental Drift, she told me it was BS! I can't even imagine the horror of how stupid I would have turned out had she homeschooled me.
Some parents really, really should not be teaching their kids. And my mom isn't even the worst of them.
The original intent of the state legislature was to require teacher certification in public schools to safeguard the taxpayers' funds. This type of accountability appears frequently in other government programs as well.
That's why private schools that don't use public funds do not have the same requirement. Similarly, we don't have taxpayers' funding of homeschoolers who use the private school affidavit, so there is no justification for mandatory certification of homeschool parents or testing of homeschoolers. The affidavit is enough. As a homeschool parent, I directly fund the education of my own kids. So accountability starts and ends with me, and not with the state.
Moreover, the state is taxing me to (mis)educate someone else's kids, while I spend my valuable time educating my own. The state claims to have a vested interest in the education of our children. That's what the tribunal said, but I say that my vested interest is far greater than that of the state's. Take a look at the results of public school education in California and you'll see that the "state's vested interest" looks more like a lack of interest.
On a final note, my kids are doing exceptionally well. They are several years ahead on all academic levels. Forcing them into a school would be a real injustice since they wouldn't fit in with kids 3 years their senior.
Wow - some angry moms and dads here. It works for some kids (home schooling) and not others. A parent and credited teacher can both be effective or yes, ineffective at what they do. Know your child, know his or her needs and from that figure out what sort of schooling situation works best. My kids are in a public school that embraces differences - whether they be students having gay parents, needing time off for a family vacation, varying religious practices and many other things. Find a school whether that be at home or a red brick school house that works for your kids…
And Paul - taxes are a part of life…whether they be for public schols, roadways, national parks, etc. Pay them becuase you want good things to happen in your community. The taxes people are paying in my community are going towards good things. Don't be so angry at the system, channel that anger and try to make your community a better one for your kids and other people's kids. While I'm certain your children are doing great at their studies, mine who I've mentioned are in public school are doing quite well too. Teach your kids that no matter where they come from and what life brings them they are great.
Re: Paul's "Take a look at the results of public school education in California and you'll see that the "state's vested interest" looks more like a lack of interest."
The problem with CA's schools is not a lack of interest, but a lack of a Mexican Border. In Los Angeles Unified School District more than half of the students don't speak English! How do you expect these schools to operate on an already tight budget? We need to get control of our borders and immigration policies so that we can get control back with our education system here.
I believe all homeschoolers should be held accountable for their children's grades. Kids should be tested by an outside party so that fairness is ensured, and kids who are failing should be put in school. What other profession can you just demand placement in without experience, a degree, or some sort of certification?
I was an education major for 3.5 years of college before changing direction and degrees. Having sat in on 88% of the required classes of teachers, I can say that they may be more qualified than some parents on the street, but certainly not all, as most education curriculum is really common sense.
In order to homeschool you most likely need to be a stay at home parent…or have the ability to have your days free. This most likely means that you are college-educated or married to a college-educated spouse who is able to provide for your family (and in an economy like we have today that is no small task). I would assume this means that the homeschooling parent is most likely fairly intelligent.
Back when the country was founded and all children were homeschooled the literacy rate was over 90%. Today, 1 in 5 high school graduates are unable to read their diplomas. You do the math!
There are many teachers who have no business teaching our children today. We are a homeschooling family and we love every minute of it. My son is excelling in every subject and his little sister is absorbing everything. The time we spend with our children is priceless and what we are instilling in them will care them for life. The minute they are born we are teaching them and we must not take that for granted. We choose to put our children first inside of having the big house, fast cars, expensive vacations and designer clothes because our children are so worth it.
I don't have to be happy about paying taxes when I think that they're being wasted. Approximately half of our state budget is spent on education. I pay a lot of state income tax and property taxes in addition to federal taxes. I've owned property and worked since I was young, however I had kids late in life. So, I've been subsidizing a lot of other people for a long time.
Username "foxymama" said that I should accept that taxes are a part of life and that I should want good things to happen in my community. My answer to that is that I can leave the state and take my taxes elsewhere to another community that is more tolerant of homeschoolers. Furthermore, by homeschooling my kids, I AM helping to improve the community. I'm paying all these taxes but I am not costing the public school system one single penny!
I'm not all that interested in the 'qualifications' of the teacher. The child's learning piece of it is the significant end result.
I understand that *some* teachers have problems teaching (directing a classroom). But let's do some proportional math.
Public schools have somewhat accurate enrollment stats because they use public funds/taxes. I'm seeing a 2005 figure of $64.2 million public school kids.
2005 stats say about 15% of kids were in private schools; which is not dependent on public funds/oversight and might include homeschoolers as a very small percentage.
~2%/1.5 million homeschooled in a conservative guess.
1.5 million children as compared to 64.2 mil.
Besides the many public school successes, there are dropouts, pushouts, horrific graduation rates,growing adult education centers, expanding remedial college classes that are some of the results of my tax money.
The public school piece of it was with oversight and billions in tax monies. What is the government and their credentials going to do for homeschoolers?
a., you might find homeschoolers are a little protective of their rights, (I think you used a different term), because there always seems to be some entity coming at us. Government, unions; those with a little oompphh behind what they want to do to our families.
"Qualified" - who determines exactly what qualified entails. Does a bachelors' qualify? or maybe a master's or a doctorate? If you polled 10 different people, you will get 10 different answers. Becki has it right. Why stop at qualifications for teaching? Why not have qualifications for who can parent? Really education is not what is in question. What is in question is the parents' right to educate their child. Education teaches a child to value life and those in his/her life. Education teaches respect for others, other's property and respect for God. So the real issue here is not whether a parent is qualified to teach her child but whether the parent will teach the child what the "government" or the NEA deems educational.
Do we require 100% of auto repair and maintenance to be performed by state-licensed mechanics simply because certain things would be difficult for the average person to do it himself/herself? Of course not! We're free to decide for ourselves which things we feel competent to handle on our own and which things to outsource.
The same goes for homeschooling. Simply because I don't feel confident in my abilities to teach certain things doesn't mean that I can't effectively homeschool. There are many resources available to help cover subjects I don't feel up to teaching myself- co-ops, tutors, community college courses, online classes, and so on.


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Ever since his university days, the gangling new senior partner of Lovells has been likened to John Cleese. However, on meeting him, it is immediately apparent that John Young is not Cleese's doppelgänger at all: he is Basil Fawlty incarnate, clipped moustache and all.
It is not that Young is a bounding anti-German cretin, it is more that his mannerisms are exactly those of the Fawlty Towers proprietor. But unlike Torquay's finest, Lovells' new senior partner is also an expert mountaineer. Those expansive physical gestures probably look fine in the great outdoors. In a confined space, though, they are a little offputting.
At the Lovells partnership conference just over a week ago, deputy senior partner Walter Klosterfelde took the three candidates aside after the votes were counted. Even at that stage, who would have thought that a contest between the incumbent senior partner Andrew Walker, head of corporate Hugh Nineham and dark horse Young would go the latter's way?
Well, Young for one - or so he claims. "My immediate reaction was, 'well, I've won after all', but looking back on it I felt that I had at least even chances," he claims. He goes on to insist: "I wouldn't have agreed to stand in the first place if I hadn't thought I was in with a very good chance."
The background to Young's confidence is that he was the last partner to join the election race, and while the other four contenders self-nominated, he did not put his own name forward. "At that stage, I thought that this time around people felt I was too young, so I didn't go into the self-nomination process," he reveals. So, like all good politicians, Young can claim that he was pressed into service and bowed down to his peers for the good of the community.
One of the reasons he left it so late was because at one stage he was thinking about the managing partner job. "I've had to address that issue in the last few weeks," he admits. "Partners have undoubtedly seen me as a potential managing partner of the firm as well, which is flattering, and I believe I could do the managing partner job if that was something I'd chosen." The deciding factor was that, while the managing partner role is a full-time job, as senior partner Young can also keep hold of the reins of his beloved corporate insurance practice.
It is not that difficult to see why Young's partners voted for the rank outsider. He is eccentric, true, but in a way that fits in very well with Lovells' image. He is also widely admired as a lawyer. While he has the sort of self-confidence that borders on arrogance, Young is straight as a die in a world of spin.
Obviously the other two candidates also had their weaknesses. Last week the partners debated the relative merits of all three hopefuls while they were out of the room. A fly on the wall would have seen a dramatic turnaround.
In the run-up to the election, partners said they thought the firm's managing partner, Lesley MacDonagh, was backing the incumbent Walker. According to a source at the partnership conference, "it became apparent very quickly on the day that there was almost no support for Andrew". During the debate, MacDonagh stood up and instead gave her support to Nineham.
According to the source, it then looked like things would go Nineham's way. When the partners came to vote secretly, however, they plumped for Young. Ironically, Nineham may have been perceived as just too close to the rest of Lovells' management. Certainly Young's election represents a massive anti-management vote.
MacDonagh is almost universally admired and liked at Lovells. Furthermore, she has steered the firm through an incredible period of expansion. But she and Nineham may have suffered a phenomenon well known in US political elections.
In the US, voters often choose a strongly Republican congress if there is a Democratic senate or president, or vice-versa. The theory is that they will balance each other out. Maybe this goes for MacDonagh and Young, who, to put it mildly, are very different characters.
Young himself attributes much of his appeal to the performance of his corporate insurance practice. "The fact that I've demonstrated success in my practice I'm sure contributes to people feeling that I have the authority to bring even greater successes across the whole firm," he concludes.
But why plump for corporate insurance in the first place? It is hardly the glamour end of the profession, after all. How many young lawyers dream of spending their lives with clients who have a reputation for wearing nylon suits and brown shoes?
As with many niche areas, it seems that Young just slipped into it - but he certainly made it his own. Although Herbert Smith, Clifford Chance and Freshfields also have rated practices in the sector, Young's is the acknowledged market leader.
"Demutualisation as a concept very rapidly evolved at a technical level between 1996 and 1999. During that time I led the three most high-profile deals," explains Young. He also worked on Equitable, of which he says: "I was personally very proud of that and also frankly utterly drained. I've never been nearer to a state of physical and mental collapse than I was then."
Young relates his glee at having an hour alone with German Düsseldorf corporate insurance partner Christoph Kueppers when the two happily discussed insurance without interference from anybody else. If Lovells were to sell tickets to a gig like that, there would be few takers at the firm. What the partners do understand, though, is that Young has top-level City contacts across banks and financial institutions, is technically brilliant and brings in wedges of cash. Not a bad combination.
Crucially, Young will not give up his day job: he will continue to maintain relationships with key insurance contacts and will do some high-level regulatory work. "That's my whole approach," he says. "Andrew became senior partner at a time when the senior partner was much more directly involved in management responsibilities."
Walker did little fee-earning and, across the City, from Lovells to Clifford Chance, partners are increasingly suspicious of managers who just manage. Top brass needs to prove they can still do the law bit - or at least charm the clients.
Young fits the profile here. He says one of the most important aspects of his job as senior partner will be to represent the firm with clients. Probably some of them will find him unconventional, but his stellar reputation as a lawyer will help him to sell the firm both in the City and worldwide.
When we discuss what else he will do as senior partner, he talks about "binding the partners together". On the international front, he also discusses the US, which he describes as the "ghost at every feast". In other words, Lovells faces the same issues as most firms of its size.
Interestingly, though, he explicitly refers to a less pleasant aspect of the job: dealing with underperforming partners. "We're a lockstep partnership," says Young. "We have expectations that partners perform to a certain level. There are always going to be issues with partners not coming up to scratch."
Last year Lovells reintroduced a salaried partnership, partly as a mechanism for dealing with underperforming equity partners, who can now be moved down to a salaried band. Dealing with underperformers will be considerably easier for Young, a major fee-earner and highly respected practitioner, than it was for Walker. But the question is, will he be as tough as Nineham would have been?
Young's likely plan after his four-year term is to slip back into the corporate insurance practice for his twighlight years. When his term ends, he will be 51 and, he claims, "my outdoor activities mean I want to be retired while my knees are in good working order". (I think he is talking about mountaineering here.)
While he is in the senior partner post, Young's relationship with MacDonagh will be fascinating. Some partners at the firm say they do not get along, others go so far as to say there is an active dislike on at least one side. Characterwise, they are at opposite ends of the spectrum. "We're very different, but I'm very flexible," points out Young. "I don't see that there'll be any issues going forward."
MacDonagh is certainly much better dressed. You never know, she may end up being Sybil to Young's Basil.
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Matthew Fontaine Maury In Profile Part 1
- Wednesday, August 25, 2004
"Thus saith the Lord, which maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters." (Isaiah 43:16) What are "a way in the sea" and "a path in the mighty waters"? If you were a young Matthew Fontaine Maury, you would interpret this verse as telling man about the currents in the oceans. This is exactly what Matthew thought, and he was right. In fact, using the Bible as his guide he was able to unravel the mysteries of ocean currents and make profound advances in oceanography and Naval science. Because of his work he is often called "The Pathfinder of the Seas."
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Matthew Fontaine Maury was born on January 14, 1806 in Spotsylvania County, Virginia. His grandfather, James Maury, was an Episcopal minister and teacher. Among his grandfather's pupils were Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and James Monroe, who would all become presidents of the United States, and 5 signers of the Declaration of Independence.
Matthew's family stayed in Virginia until he was about 5 years old, then moved to Franklin, Tennessee where they farmed. The county, named after his family, is called Maury County. Matthew spent his youth working on the farm, hunting and walking through the forests. When he was 12 years old he fell from a tree, some say 45 feet, injured his back and nearly bit his tongue off. The accident rendered him unable to do the hard labor required on the farm.
Young Matthew attended the elementary schools in his area but was later enrolled in the Harpeth Academy where he excelled in his studies.
Until Maury's time only a little work had been done in oceanography. The subject was new and not much was known. If he wanted to learn more he would not be able to take any courses in school, so he obtained what writings were available and taught himself. Basically he home-educated himself through college!
No Naval Academy existed when Matthew was of college age. Instead he was appointed by Congressman Sam Houston to obtain a midshipman's warrant in 1825. Instead of college, Maury was to obtain his education through active duty aboard a ship. In addition to his studies he was also tasked with the routine duties such as taking watch. He was known to write spherical geometry diagrams in chalk on the cannonballs so he could study them as he performed his watch duties. His method for studying navigation turned out to be unique as well. He found a Spanish book on navigation and, using a Spanish dictionary, learned the information contained within. Throughout his tenure aboard Navy ships he kept meticulous notes on currents, winds, atmospheric pressure and other observations useful to navigation.
When the Civil War broke out Maury was forced to take sides. Although he disagreed with slavery he felt that his duty was to side with his family and the Confederacy. Serving as the Commander of the Confederate Navy he helped secure southern ports through the development of explosive devices. These were the first underwater mines and they succeeded in sinking some 35 Federal ships. Maury's military career was to be short-lived, however.
Matthew had a penchant for upsetting people that did not agree with him, including the head of the Naval Retirement Board. Finally, Confederate President Jefferson Davis grew tired of Maury's attitudes and had him sent to Europe to get him out of the way.
In 1868 the President of the United States pardoned all former Confederates. Maury returned and finished his career as a professor of physics at the Virginia Military Institute. He died in Lexington, Virginia, on February 1, 1873.
Maury the Scientist:
Many of the scientists that have been profiled in this series had extensive academic training and degrees. Maury had no such formal training. The field of oceanography as we know it did not exist in the early 1800's. Matthew Maury was developing the scientific discipline as he went. It was Maury who was setting the stage for future generations to take up the advanced studies.
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I wish I had read my review when I was desperately looking for bismuth oxichloride free mineral make-up. If you're looking for a less toxic BE replacement that actually works, Fairy Organics isn't it, so try Meow Cosmetics instead.
Firstly, I have been using BE for 8 years. There I am a medium beige. I know how to apply it. I have shu uemura brushes. Had no problems with it on my skin until recently when my skin freaked out after wearing some crazy good but heavy Korean BB cream for 2 months. Long story short, I switched to organic everything. And not Whole Foods "organic", but crazy-dirty-hippie organic.
First I looked for Mica and Titinium Dioxide free as well. Plus, I'm an eco plastic/waste-free crazy now, so I got Rejuva, which is wonderful in it's own way, but it's basically flower infused with organic essential oils and iron oxide for color. This does not do its job.
Then, I've tried a lot of other brands, no good either.
But, since when you search "organic mineral make up" the third (and most affordable option) is fairyorganics.com well, I gave it a try.
INGREDIENTS: Mica, Titanium Dioxide, Zinc Oxide, Boron Nitride, Iron Oxides.
I ordered the Med/Med Tan sample kit, although now I know I should have gotten Light to Medium. Why? Because the difference in shade from medium beige to tan is like day and night. I don't know anyone, "ethnic" like myself or otherwise, that could possibly have skin in that shade range.
Packaging: Worst idea anyone ever had. Basically whenever you open (carefully) one of 8 tiny containers, you get mineral makeup everywhere. EVERYWHERE.
And what matters: coverage/ quality/etc. Caky, chalky, etc. I use a kolinsky brush to spot apply and hide my imperfections, then I apply 1 or 2 layers of BE on my face. Perfect coverage (unless you're tired looking/ have redness, etc, in which case you shouldn't be using mineral make up and expecting full coverage). With fairy minerals the sensitive/dry patches of my face (cheekbones, under eye) looked caky and my forehead, nose and chin where still glistening in a bad way. Both with the airbrush finish and the full coverage.
Moral of the story: their mica/titanium oxide/iron oxide ratio is off. (think maybelline level of off). This does not compete with BE quality at all. And just to add, I ordered the blush, finishing powder and warmth as well. Same as the foundation, the ratio was off so all of them looked like loose powder instead of mineral make up. To top it off, the color of the blush was a cheap reddish shade. The "warmth" could not be used as such (low content of mica, high content of pigment means it does NOT go on sheer- imagine a matte crappy bronzer). And the finishing powder looked like my grandma's chinese no brand talcum powder.
All in all, think drugstore level cosmetics, with a nice "organic" ring to it.
And what I wish I had read on other reviews: if you want cheapo, no toxics added mineral make up that does it's job at least as well as BE, you should look into Meow Cosmetics. Now- they have SO MANY SHADES, it gives you a headache (which I found bad and disturbing and distracting). But, their mica/iron oxide/titanium dioxide ratio is great. And since they have 3 formulations that actually differ in composition (sheer, medium and heavy coverage) I think this would work for you ladies complaining that one brand is either to sheer or too caky. They have their problems too (like packaging, etc) but this is the best BE replacement I've found. PS: I know their website isn't too fancy, but trust me, their mix delivers.
When I first joined MUA, I was accused of representing this product. No! I loved the pictures on their website and have been a dedicated user of this stuff for about eight years! I do put it over Clinique Stay True Ivory foundation -- my derm rec. Since that foundation left me still looking unfinished, I put the mmu foundation (in airbrush), veil, and bronzer over the Clinique liquid foundation. My skin is extremely sensitive, and this stuff works for me. I would trust anything this company makes... have not tried their other products yet. PS I used the "other" minerals for about 4 years, but found it aged me and contained an irritant for me. Switched... found this brand by accident. Happy camper and it's my HG!
UPDATE 5/25/2013: It has been about six years since I quite BE and started using FO. Have tried a few samples of other brands. Still, I'm sticking with FO. I use at least four products: LaRoche-posay nutric; then Anthelios 60 SPF cream; Clinique oil-free liquid, and, because I need a powder-type finish... faerie organics air-brush base in porcelain and veil. Then, FO bronzer. Am still a happy camper... this from a person who can hardly use a thing on my face!
Yes, I am still "lookin' good" at the end of the day! The product feels "airy" on... not suffocating (as others do); there is no smell (I get migraines from the "smellies!" The finish makes me look better... glowing, fresh and this system I use protects my skin and makes me look good... hides flaws. I apply the FO with a shorter, stiffer (medium type buki) not a huge fluffy brush... using Wayne Goss' technique for disguising pores... I kinda "jab" at my skin after applying the minerals. My pores are GONE this way!
Okay, let me start off by saying that I've tried many different types of mineral foundations, including bare minerals, everyday minerals, sheer cover, alima pure, elegant minerals, signature minerals and so many others that I forget the rest, but my favorite mineral foundation would definitely have to be from faerie organic. I had been very loyal to bare minerals for 3 years and hadn't put anything on my face other than that. I didn't have really bad acne, but I still woke up with a few noticeable bumps on my face everyday while using bare minerals, and my face was always itchy but I dealt with it, because I thought I was allergic to the brushes, which I was. After buying synthetic brushes, I noticed that the itching didn't stop. I switched to Faerie Organic after doing a lot of research, and didn't have such high expectations, but I'm glad I did. I no longer wake up with a bunch of zits on my face and there is no itching once I apply it. I was a medium beige in bare minerals and I'm a medium beige in Faerie Organic, which is great, and the makeup stays on a lot longer than Bare Minerals had. It just looks great when applied, not too powdery like sheer cover and elegant minerals did. Those were the worst in my opinion. They had great coverage, but my pores showed wayyy to much. After experimenting with all these mineral foundations, I came to the conclusion that Faerie Organic mineral makeup just looked and felt better on my skin, and it didn't irritate it in any way. I have extremely sensitive skin and I'm allergic to just about everything, but it's good to know that there's a foundation that won't damage my face. You can purchase samples at a reasonable price as well, just in case you're still a little reluctant to try them. But seriously, you won't regret it.
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I don't write a lot of reviews, but I'm taking the time to write this one because I'm very disappointed with Faerie Organic's customer service. I do, however, LOVE the product. It has wonderful coverage in both the airbrush and max coverage. The product doesn't settle into fine lines, and just gives a great, dewy finish. The problems arose when I realized that the powder in one of the samples that I *purchased* (they are not offered for free) was much lighter than the actual product I received. I believe the wrong powder was in the sample container. I emailed them repeatedly (4 times in total), and never received a single reply. I'm not able to phone during business hours due to my job, so I rely on email when I have a problem. Originally I was just going to keep the darker foundation and order a lighter one, but then I realized that they sell a white product that can be added to colors to lighten them. I asked if they would throw it in. Although I really like this product, and it's the best powder foundation I've ever used (I've tried at least 6 brands that I can think of), I won't be ordering from them again because of their lack of attention to detail and concern for customers. Since I can't give them a 0, I'll give them the lowest possible score.
This is better than bare minerals. I was looking for a good mineral makeup that didn't have the harsh ingredients on bare minerals and this was a great alternative. Has good coverage but you definetly need to put on a good moisturizer before any mineral/ powder makeup especially this one. If you don't it will crease into every line and you will like a cracked skin person. So this is the best mineral make up I have tried.
Ive used this for @ 4 years now.It the best mineral makeup out there for me,I have older dry skin and this covers great and does not stick in or on any dry patches.Or in my fine and not so fine lines,lol.I wear this everyday except acasionally I use Revlon color stay to change things up,but really I get the most positive feed back on my skin when I wear this..Love it.a large container last me close to a year too.
I bought this because I wanted a makeup that was better for my skin. I used this for about three months and it became extremely expensive for me since the coverage is so bad with this makeup, even in the fuller coverage formula, that I went through a whole jar almost every week. I bought the concealer thinking it would help so I wouldn't need to so much makeup and that didn't really help at all. I liked the mascara and the blush was ok but really, really pigmented. I wouldn't buy this makeup again though since the coverage is so bad. My skin was breaking out pretty badly when I was using this too which is why I wanted to switch to a makeup that was good for my skin, but this makeup didn't seem to help calm my skin at all I should have prob just used a liquid makeup with better coverage to cover my breakouts. I wouldn't recommend this makeup, I feel as though there's definitely better mineral makeups out there.
Didn't like it. Caked in an hour and does not control oil AT ALL. I tried using the finishing powder on top of my BB cream and it made my BB cream staying power worse. Don't like it won't buy it. I'll use it up cause I don't want to waste but probably only on days that I'm only going to go to the grocery store and need a quick cover up.
I did a lot of research on the different MMUs available, and finally decided to order samples from Everyday Minerals AND Faerie Organics. Both have great reviews and both offer a great deal on samples so that you can decide before making a major purchase. I tried Everyday Minerals(EDMs) first only because their samples arrived first in the mail. I really liked Everyday Minerals, but I have decided to go with Faerie Organics for the following reasons:
1. Although both go on the skin beautifully, only Faerie Organics(FOs) prevents my skin from becoming super shiny be the end of the day...although, to be fair, the Jojoba makeup from EDMs did a pretty good job too!
2. Cost per gram, FOs is really the best price. EDMs comes with only 4.8 g of product, while FOs comes with 9 g of product.
3. FOs caused absolutely no skin problems for me! To be fair, the EDMs semi-matte did not cause any problems either, but I found the EDMs jojoba base to be a little drying for my skin.
Overall, I HIGHLY recommend FOs! I liked the concealer, airbrush foundation and the blush samples they sent! I was not fond of the full coverage samples, but that is really just a preference issue. I like very light and sheer coverage, so the airbrush formula just suits my needs better.
UPDATE: I decided to go back to EDM Jojoba base in Alabaster. My decision was based on some skin changes after I stopped using my prescription face wash and cream. I noticed my skin becoming very oily with the FO products, so I switched back to the Jojoba (which had been a bit too drying before)...It totally helped! I still like the FO, and if you do not have the oil control problem I have then I still highly recommend the FO products.