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|June 16, 2011, 09:30 AM
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first time loading .223
do i need to seperate brass? got rem f.c. and pmc. military. do i treat fc and pmc like military brass? is blc-2 a good powder to start with? i have 300 60gr bthp hornady.
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|June 16, 2011, 09:38 AM
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Suggest you separate brass if you will be shooting for accuracy. In addition to head stamp separation you may wish to uniform the flash hole, full length or neck size depending on semi-auto or bolt action, case length uniformity, and other factors that are explained in a good reloading manual. My reloading references include Sierra, Lyman, and Lee.
For general plinking or hunting at 100 yds or so there is no reason to separate brass by head stamp.
|June 16, 2011, 07:55 PM
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For a 60 grain 223, I would suggest H-4895 it always worked well for me. Another powder would be H335 but I only use that for 55 grain or less.
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|June 16, 2011, 08:02 PM
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I started with Varget, and have stayed with Varget...
I had poor results with H335 in both our Mini-14 and Rem. 700 bolt...BUT, every rifle is different. There is no substitute for trial and error when doing load development.
It may be helpful if you post the specifics of the rifle. Make? barrel length? Twist?
Varget is temp stable (a big + here in FL), and also happens to be the top choice for the other two calibers I load ( .308 and 7.62 x 54R).
Military (5.56) brass may need the primer crimps removed prior to reloading.
|June 16, 2011, 08:06 PM
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To many variables, with no info
What is your barrel twist?
What is your barrel length?
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|June 16, 2011, 08:43 PM
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Some good suggestions here. I separate brass by head stamp only when working up a load. Once the load is worked up, I reload without regard to case.
I have found that many folks use hodgdon 335 as a great (almost as a universal) powder for the .223. I have been very happy with results from this powder. Of course, there are other suitable powders!
|June 16, 2011, 09:14 PM
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Tried H-335,Varget and others. Was told by someone.(Guy that shoots comp)
To try RL-15.Did and will never go back to H-335 or Varget again.Day and night difference in my gun. H-335 and Varget are great powders,don't get me wrong,but RL-15 kick butt on them in accuracy by a long shot.
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I second grumpa.For accuracy go through all the steps one by one. I cull my brass to 1 gn in weight. 93 and 94 gns seem to be the most common(no primer and trimmed weight)
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|June 17, 2011, 09:38 AM
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To answer your powder question - BL-C2 will work fine. Now, your gun may not like the load but its a fine start. I like H-335 myself. Consult your load manuals for specifics.
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|June 17, 2011, 12:59 PM
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H335 and Varget didn't work that well (Ok, but not great) in my Ruger Hawkeye. I finally settled on the Sierra 65 grain GK with 25.1 gr of AA2230 and CCI BR4 primers and Nosler cases. Nobody seems to talk much about AA2230, but it sure works for my Ruger. Somebody on this forum suggested the 65 grain Sierra for my 1 in 9 twist, and I owe them a beer (or 3 or 4).
|June 17, 2011, 01:22 PM
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I too have used AA2230 with good results, I just like H335 better. Another alternative that shows promise for me is TAC.
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I would weigh some samples of each headstamp sized and trimmed brass to see which ones are similar (similar weight and outer dimensions implying similar case capacity). When I did that I surprisingly found LC, PMC, Remington, and most other milsurp brass weighed I think around 90 gr, and Federal and IIRC, Fiocchi, were just over 100 gr.
I keep the 100 gr brass separate and download it by 0.5-1.0 gr depending on powder/bullet. And I keep my LC brass separate for accuracy loads. All the PMC, Rem, and milsurp gets bagged together for plinking.
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|June 17, 2011, 09:52 PM
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I always buy bulk mixed headstamp once fired brass and seperate by headstamp. I go thru the whole prepping the case stages and weigh the cases if im making some rounds for accuracy. I have used IMR-4895,W748, and Tac. Now I only use Tac. I can get higher velocities with heavier bullets, its a very clean powder, and as far as I can tell ive shot very accurately using tac.
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I only seperate a few hundred pieces of brass by head stamp for testing new loads to keep everthing the same. I use the round robin method and then after that it is prety much any brass regardless of head stamp. Though I am not competition shooting either.
I like using H-335 with 55 grain bullets, and Varget, or RL-15 for the heavier bullets. I will end up testing a few other powders just for the heck of it eventualy.
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W-748 is what we've been trying, and so far, the juries still out.
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I see you guys talking about this is a great load or that... I see you sorting brass and doing some voodoo magic on your brass, but what kind of accuracy are you getting with that load after all that extra work?
Click here for my load data
In there you will see RL10x loaded to the same FPS range of my other powders and it does rank up there, with a 40 and a 50gr bullet. I see nobody mentioned 10x only RL-15, give 10x a try and I think you will be happy. After reviewing this thread and looking at my load data, I think I'm going to do some more experimenting with it myself.
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I very distinctly remember discussing human nature with my grandmother when I was fourteen. After hearing Ray Stevens sing "Everything is Beautiful", my grandmother commented that while the song was inspirational, it was clearly misguided: the world is not "gonna find a way". I then expressed to her my belief that people were naturally good with the best intentions at heart and that maybe the world "finding a way" was not so unachievable if we tried.
I had been a Christian for only a year or two at this point and discussed many concepts such as this with my grandmother, a very intelligent woman and also a fundamentalist Christian. I remember her disagreeing with me (calmy and sagely, as always) and reminding me of humans' sinful natures and the words of the unquestionable scripture: there is none that doeth good; no, not one and there is none good but one, that is, God. And, of course, of end-times and the rapture.
This shut me down as the Bible was the word of God, and that was that. To both my grandmother and me...then. Naturally we continued our discussion, but only under the premise that the Bible was correct and that my gut feeling, though loving and compassionate, was simply wrong.
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A couple of months after my deconversion, I happened upon a video by YouTuber Patrician Atheist titled, "Are You a Secular Humanist?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SUFYwx-Hhs Extremely interested in this philosophy, I did some research...in fact, quite a bit of research. And quite a bit of personal reflection and thought regarding my findings. As I read the Humanist Manifesto III (http://www.redbankhumanists.org/PDF/HumanistManifesto_III.pdf), I recalled that talk with my grandmother, and how I had felt then and in the decade that had followed.
This philosophy felt natural to me. This worldview was one that I had held all along but could not fully adopt because of the religious indoctrination under which I had been held. This mindset didn't hold unnecessary contradictions with my own compassion and hope for my fellow humans and all of humanity or with what evidence and reality so clearly indicates.
With this philosophy, I can have my love for science, skepticism of unsubstantiated religious claims, my instinctive empathy toward humans, and my hope that perhaps....if we try...the world will find a way.
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These Mercenaries serve as the bulk of the Second Kingdom's military strength, while independent, most have strong ties to the king or one of his generals and would not betray them except in desperation or disgust. Although it is normally the leaders who have the connections, so if the leader were to die, then the rest of the group could leave or disperse.
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Led by a lordling sworn to the king, they are the most renowned infantry in all the kingdom. He is with his squire.
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The Shadowman (dersite) leader with his Lesser second in command with the dragon in the background. (he wouldn't fit in the foreground to get me a good shot)
The great axe cavalry.
The archers are led and trained by an elf from the far eastern forests.
The short axemen who are just the regular infantry.
Next, a group of Knights from the south, wielding magic imbued sickles, and assorted mercs they picked up along the way.
Their leader, the faceless one, the plume signifies he is sworn to the blue king.
Who couldn't love that face?
The elite southern troops. Wearing light armor (+1 to armor) from the south and wielding sickles imbued with lightning and poison magic, causing it to hurt like a bitch (1d6+2 damage)
Some of the sellswords picked up on the road, they wear a more visible form of the light armor and wield southern made longswords.
A company of archers that signed on to make their fortune, they wield powerful crossbows (1d6+1)
And that is all folks! I will be showing the antagonists of the world, or at least one of them, tomorrow!


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Chapter is out. That was a really good one. More focus on Momo's feelings, some information about Lala's mother at long last, and Nemesis finally introducing herself (oh and Zastin appeared for the first time in ages). My guess about her powers was surprisingly spot-on. I wonder whether Yami and Mea can do the same thing or if that ability is unique to her.
My only gripe about this chapter is that Mikan's meeting with Tearju happened off-screen. I was looking forward to it. At any rate, it's good to see Mikan is not being kept completely out of the loop anymore. They probably haven't told her about Mea, though.
Momo is fully aware of her feelings, but she conceals them from Rito in order to lead him on more efficiently. She considers the harem plan her only option to make her love succeed, either because she's not confident she can steal Rito away, or because she doesn't want to hurt her sister. Most likely the latter, I think.
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yet I guess lala's mother will play the definite part in the harem plan... like she is the kind emperor that protects peace so she is a good diplomat... she will have a 1v1 talk with rito about his feelings and what he thinks of her daughters or harem plan of momo's.... and she will make sure he accepts those girls feelings even if it looks strange to him.... even ritos mom said that "whatever rito does...he shouldnt make girls cry"... so she should be ok with rito having lots of pretty wifes.... but beign a grandmother of 10+children will be hard xD
momo is cute like hell... she wants to enjoy every sec of her time with rito alone... and I wonder if she will later on think why not have rito for herself as lala doesnt show much interest in rito.... lala is more focused on haruna (so why not change harunas gender for male so lala would be happy XD)
but sooner or later rito will hug momo just like he did with nana... and it will happen when momo will cry and be depressed...and then we will see if momo will continue harem plan or will focus on her own feelings
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I like how Momo finally admits the basis for the harem plan is her own feelings and we get to see a lot about Momo's own feelings for Rito and wanting to stay by his side for as long as possible. Also the way she wants to be hugged by Rito, a hug filled with warmth and care and compassion, something which I think she hasn't gotten since her mom left, might be one reason she is so fixiated on the harem plan
And I like how even Yami admits his trips are "skillful"
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Momo's always admited that the Harem plan was based on her own feelings It was pretty much spelled out in ch 0 when she adopted Lala harem idea as her own.
Edit: hell no. Even if that happens she finds Rito too much fun. She wants the dark beast lurking in his heart just as much as the pure boy.
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Probably the first time I skipped spoilers and I'm actually glad for it. The last few chapters felt like they've been meandering in quality for awhile now, so this is a very good chapter which pushes the story forward again and sets everything back on track. Full of content, info and new reveals, not to mention some meaningful insight on our lead heroine. And to top it off, we finally get a nice bonus silhouette of Mama Deviluke at long last. Though there's this growing suspicion I have of Nana being the one who'll take after their mother the most. In other words, a figure as flat as the Sierra Desert.
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When Rito fell on Eve, did anyone else besides hear the theme from pokémon when one finishes evolving? Anyhoo, when Momo confessed to Rito in her head, I really felt it, and I really did feel bad for her . It's making me really conflicted this chapter, I want the harem plan to continue, but I also want Momo to be more honest with herself and just go for it.
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Momo should really have more faith in Rito. Of course he would be as compassionate for her as he was for Nana. And he'll take care of the Yami situation. All she has to really worry about in regards to that is Yami kicking her out of the bed
And I loved how she slyly suggested Rito becoming the "bridge" between Yami and Tearju. Truly the best wingman a harem series could ever have.
|2012-09-05, 22:58
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I'm starting to see this series as a deconstruction of the Harem Genre. The prospective girls include at least one girl who won't share (Yui), and another who would probably be similar (Haruna). The one driving the Harem plan is only doing so because it's the only way to be with the one she loves. And instead of the normal "That's immoral" cliche from Rito, He's seriously considering how to make everyone happy.
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Great job :'D looks like it could've been just in the anime c: for advice? Maybe shade more sections of her hair? idk it really depends on what style your going for~ I like it how it is
Great draw.. I like the expression.. 5h
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Things got real for the Canton Charge on Monday.
Well, sort of.
The Charge participated in an intrasquad scrimmage at Edgewood Community Center. It was a welcomed opportunity on the fifth day of training camp.
"We've been doing drills for four days," point guard Jorge Gutierrez said. "So it's fun to go play and get used to each other,"
Play was a little sloppy at times, but the effort and intensity was high. Defense reigned supreme.
First-year head coach Steve Hetzel liked what he saw.
"The execution was good for less than a week of practice," he said. "Defensively, the communication was good. It was good to let them get up and down and watch them get tired. They needed that.
"... We've been doing a lot of drills. You don't get into real basketball shape until you start getting up and down."
Hetzel wanted to see if the techniques the Charge had worked on in practice translated to live action. He felt they did. He also was pleased to see some players who might have struggled in certain drills blossom during the scrimmage.
Hetzel and his staff must evaluate these players while at the same time installing the principles on which they want the team built. A roster that currently sits at 16 must get down to 10 by the middle of next week.
"We're focusing on certain areas defensively, and some of those things don't play to some of our guys' strengths," Hetzel said. "So to just watch them play, some players that might not have stood out in the past three or four days get to show what their strengths are.
"You try not to judge people on their weaknesses as much as their strengths. Until you put them in a position to succeed, you don't start counting them out."
According to Hetzel, two guys who made a leap Monday were rookie Re'Mon Nelson and sixth-round draft pick Alejo Rodriguez.
The 5-foot-9 Nelson, the only open-tryout player in camp, impressed with his quickness and defensive tenacity. Rodriguez, a 6-9, 240-pound forward, rebounded well and took an important charge in the second scrimmage.
"They changed the game with their energy and effort," Hetzel said. "That's what makes them stand out."
There were two scrimmages, each consisting of two 10-minute periods. The White team, coached by assistant Jordi Fernandez, won easily 39-25 behind Gutierrez and forward Kevin Jones in the first scrimmage.
During the second, the Blue team, coached by assistant James Posey, led by as many as 10 when first-round pick Bo Spencer drained consecutive 3-pointers.
The White team fought back. Nelson hit a tough pull-up jumper and was fouled with 2:01 left. He completed the 3-point play to tie the score 41-41.
White got three looks on its next possession, finishing with a 3-pointer from Zane Johnson to take the lead.
After a miss on its end, the Blue team needed some defense in the final minute to keep the game at one possession.
"Come on, Blue!" Hetzel shouted. "This is money time. Get a stop!"
They forced a missed jumper. But Rodriguez was too strong for 215-pound Michael Lee in the paint. He grabbed the offensive rebound, was fouled and made two free throws to help seal an eventual 47-41 win.
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TERRE HAUTE, IND. -- The Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology football team surpassed the 400-yard mark offensively, but the Engineers dropped a tightly-contest home opener to visiting Centre College 27-17 at Cook Stadium on Saturday night.
Heath Haden led the Centre offense with a 26-46 performance through the air for 309 yards. Harry Meisner led the ground attack with 106 rushing yards and three touchdown, and Greyson Janeway had a team-high nine receptions for 108 yards.
Senior Ryan Landwehr (Tipp City, Ohio/Tippecanoe) had one of the most prolific passing games in Rose-Hulman history to lead the offensive effort. Landwehr finished second in Fightin' Engineer history in single-game pass completions (36) and attempts (60) in a 303-yard performance that included two touchdown strikes.
Sophomore Aaron Abbott (Lebanon, Ohio) hauled in 10 passes for 47 yards and one touchdown. Sophomore Jacob Dye (Tipton) added nine receptions for a game-high 135 yards. Senior Danya Francis (Kissimmee, Fla./Celebration) led the Engineers' attack on the ground with 57 yards on 11 carries.
Defensively, sophomore Chris Sander (Baileyville, Ill.) led the Engineers with 12 tackles and also blocked an extra point. Freshman Kevin Nowak (Naperville, Ill./Central) pitched in with nine tackles, including eight solo efforts and two tackles-for-loss. Junior Josh Sonneberger (Edon, Ohio) also had nine stops and six solo efforts on the defensive line.
The Centre defense was led by Ben Leahy with 10 solo tackles. Nick Dietz provided big plays with 10 tackles, one interception, two tackles-for-loss and one forced fumble.
The Fightin' Engineers (0-2, 0-0 Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference) jumped on the scoreboard first, as Landwehr completed a 9-yard touchdown pass to Abbott that put Rose-Hulman up, 7-0, with 4:19 left in the first quarter.
Centre knotted the score on a nine-yard touchdown run by Amoh Kumengisa late in the first quarter. Senior Matt Angel (Cassville, Mo.) hit a 33-yard field goal early in the second quarter to give the Engineers a 10-7 edge.
Two one-yard touchdown runs by Meisner gave Centre a 20-10 lead midway through the second quarter. Landwehr would find senior Marcus Washington (Frankfort, Ky.) on a 11-yard touchdown pass play with 5:22 left in the first half to close the margin to 20-17.
The first half ended with Centre driving to the two-yard line in the final seconds of the opening 30 minutes. Time initially expired after a 10-yard pass to Greyson Janeway, but one second was added back to the clock. The Colonels went for a touchdown rather than the field goal, and a pass breakup from senior T.J. Chin (Morehead, Ky./Rowan County) halted the drive as time expired.
The second half was more defensive minded than the first, with both teams holding the other scoreless for the first 22 minutes. The Colonels finally captured a two-score lead with a two-yard plunge by Meisner with 8:04 left.
Rose-Hulman reached the Centre 44-yard line on its next possession, but the Colonels forced a turnover on downs and were able to pin the Engineers deep into their own territory to secure the victory.
The Fightin' Engineers return to action in the annual Homecoming game and conference opener against Defiance College next Saturday at 2 p.m.


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Aisha Densmore-Bey's Modes of Creativity Playlist
Boston-based designer Aisha Densmore-Bey is a multi-faceted creative who works in mediums from architecture and interiors to film and painting. Aisha recently wrote, produced, and directed an architectural short titled The Built Perception: Boston which explores our relationship with the built environment. In her installation "FOLD!" at Boston's center for Architecture and Design, BSA Space, she investigated the interaction of creases, pleats, curves, and computational patterns within all aspects of design. One might wonder what such an eclectic artist would listen to while contemplating the design of the physical world. Let's find out in this week's Playlist.
What do you listen to while you work? Depends on the task and the time of day. If I must really concentrate, or even study, then I need classical or jazz music, like Coltrane, Monk, or Miles. If it's my regular day-to-day work routine, then anything goes. I will dance in my seat to Parliament Funkadelic, Queen, The Stuyvesant's, and Bob Marley. If it's been a really pleasant day and I've received good news, or if a client gives me high praise, then I get up and take five-minute dance breaks.
How do you listen? If I'm in the kitchen, I usually hook my computer up to my stereo and listen through the house speakers; but, if it's just regular work, I usually listen through the speakers on my computer. Sometimes I want to feel the music and hear every nuance, and that's when I use my ear buds. I am dying to get the Beats by Dre or Bose headphones, but I fear I will never be able to go back to anything else after using them.
Do you have any favorite music websites/providers? I have 23 stations on Pandora. I used to really love Live365.com, but I haven't been on in a while. I've got to check out Spotify and see what all the fuss is about.
Does music influence your work? Music is one of the best modes of creativity, and it always informs my work. I need music just to get work done. If I sit in silence and try to work, my mind will wander. With some songs, especially if I hear it for the first time, I can almost visualize them with colors, textures, and scenes. I create a lot by feeling and emotion. Music is a big part of that equation. I would love to design a hotel room based on Tom Brock's "I Love You More and More" or a restaurant inspired by Shona Mbira Music.
Where do you find music recommendations? Who influences your musical taste? Everywhere and everyone! I hardly listen to the radio anymore so I depend on my best friends, NPR, people I know on Facebook, movie and television scores, Pandora suggestions, and Apple genius results to keep me in the loop. The Shazam app is one of the best creations on the planet, just grab and go. I also pay attention to my favorite music artists and find out what they listen to. I once heard Maxwell (whom I adore) talk about Radiohead's "In Rainbows." I play "Jigsaw Falling Into Place" every day now. Fantastic.
What song or artist best represents the work you create? I can only hope to one day be like Sade. Her work is just as ethereal as it was almost 30 years ago. Somehow she knows how to be timeless and fiercely contemporary. I saw her in concert last year. Man -- I would love to do set design like that. I believe she works with Sophie Muller, whom I believe is a genius. The best artists create work that endures, and that is a principle I am willing to devote my energy to.
Ideal place to sit and listen to your playlist: The Eames Lounge Chair and Ottoman with the Black Leather and Santos Palisander Veneer, while someone else is sitting next to them on the Ottoman. The craftsmanship of the lounge chair is amazing with materials that are great to the touch. I would hope my playlist is good enough to go from the office on Friday afternoon, to being played at a hot house party toward the end of the night.
- Exactly Like You, Nina Simone
- Jigsaw Falling Into Place, Radiohead
- Flying Overseas, Theophilus London
- Never Stop, The Brand New Heavies
- Time's a Wastin', Erykah Badu
- Limit to Your Love, James Blake
- Come Undone, Duran Duran
- Space Rider, Shaun Escoffery
- Phoenix Rise, Maxwell
- Didjital Vibrations, Jamiroquai
- You Will Rise, Sweetback
- Aisha, John Coltrane
(Images: Aisha Densmore-Bey/Ben Gebo Photography)
Republished in partnership with Lifework
By Amy Feezor


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By Bruce Stokes, Special to CNN
Editor's note: Bruce Stokes is director of global economic attitudes at the Pew Research Center. The views expressed are his own.
The forced budget cuts, known in Washington as sequestration, are now in force in the United States and $85 billion in spending cuts are in the process of being implemented, with about half of them coming out of Washington's spending on international engagement. The impact on America's capacity for global leadership will not be felt overnight. But these reductions in defense spending, anti-terrorism activities, foreign aid and the budget for the State Department will shrink the U.S. footprint around the world, with consequences for the projection of both U.S. hard and soft power.
In the wake of the sequester, the questions now heard outside the United States include "what does this say about Americans' willingness to pay for future global commitments?" "How much of this austerity is driven by Tea Party sentiments and influence?" And, most broadly, "are American fiscal rectitude and isolationism converging?"
The answers are not clear cut – in part because it's possible that the Obama administration and Congress will rejigger the terms of the spending cuts in the months ahead.
Another source of uncertainty is the conflicted views of the public itself, especially adherents of the Tea Party. Americans tend to support belt tightening in principle and oppose it when it comes to specifics, including some cuts relating to international engagement. Americans who identify with the Tea Party movement are more likely than all other Americans to support reductions in foreign aid and the budget of the U.S. State Department. But they are less likely to back trimming military spending and anti-terrorism efforts. This may be because Tea Party sympathizers are generally more hawkish than their fellow countrymen.
More from GPS: Cuts an indictment of Washington
So, from a foreign affairs perspective, the budget reductions unfolding in Washington in part reflect a desire for less American soft power, but not necessarily less U.S. hard power. Still, given the indiscriminate nature of the sequester, which operates more like a meat cleaver than a scalpel, what the world may experience is both.
About three-quarters of Americans believe that Washington should reduce the government's budget deficit through a combination of spending cuts and tax increases, with the greater share coming from belt tightening, according to a mid-February Pew Research Center survey. But 57 percent of Tea Party leaning Republicans think all deficit reduction should come from spending cuts.
In particular, Tea Party sympathizers would like to see a cut back in aspects of American soft power. More than eight-in-ten would decrease aid to the world's needy, compared with 43 percent of all other Americans who support such economizing. And 41 percent of Tea Party adherents would reduce the State Department's budget.
But U.S. hard power continues to receive Tea Partyers' backing. Only 15 percent want to cut the Pentagon's budget (compared with 27 percent of all other Americans who favor such action) and just 13 percent support reducing spending on anti-terrorism defenses.
This continued support for hard power by Tea Party adherents reflects their hawkish views. Fully 86 percent want the U.S. government to take a firm stand against Iran's ambitions to obtain nuclear weapons, compared with half of other Americans who hold such sentiments. Moreover, more than 80 percent sympathize more with Israel than with the Palestinians in their disputes. But Tea Party sympathizers draw the line on Syria. Only 29 percent favor arming anti-government groups in Syria, a position not that different from the position taken by other Americans.
The United States accounts for 41 percent of all global defense spending, according to 2011 figures from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, and 23 percent of all foreign aid. So current American cut backs will, over time, impact both global security and development. But it is clear such austerity does not necessarily reflect growing American isolationism. Even Tea Party sympathizers, who are clearly hawks on budget cutting, remain hawks on defense.
The question now, in the United States and overseas, is where exactly the cuts will fall.
The GOP like the "Chicken Littles" always saying that the "Sky is Falling", like the same ones that were the "Chicken Hawks", big talk no courage. The United States, favors creativity wherever it can be found. We're apostles of prosperity and defenders of the free exchange of ideas and when more people in more countries are free to rise, to invent, to communicate, to dissent, it's not the doom of United States leadership, its the triumph of the American way. Generations have worked hard and sacrificed much for the country to reach this point (individuals and our unions!), and with further hard work and sacrifice (along with our relentless self-doubt) the United States will rise again, we do not tire and we are coming back, no matter what the "Chicken Littles" keep saying about our nation. Never Bet Against the United States!
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|Fall 2008
|Astronomy 110L
|Mon. 7:00 — 10:00 pm
My motivation in developing this class came from my students. For years, Astronomy 110 students have said they wanted a chance to observe the night sky. This astronomy laboratory was developed to give students some practical knowledge of the stars and some `hands-on' observing experience. We assume that you are truly motivated and interested, and that you are willing to invest some time in learning the stars and the use of telescopes. These are not terribly difficult subjects, and anyone can learn something about them. Nonetheless, you will need commitment to do well in this class. Although we have asked you to buy a book, this subject can't be learned by reading a book or going to lectures. The point of this class is to see for yourself.
When studying astronomy in this way, some patience is necessary. For example, the weather may be bad when we go out to observe. Even when the weather is good, the things we are trying to see may be hard to find, indistinct, or just plain invisible; the best course of action may be to keep on looking, find something else to look at, wait until conditions improve, or try again another night. Finally, observing the universe makes new demands on your visual abilities; you must learn new ways to see, and that will take time.
I can help you in this process, but I can't work miracles. If you get frustrated, you have to motivate yourself to keep on looking — because if you don't look, you won't see anything! How you find motivation is your business. Your motivations are part of your personality, and I can't change your personality any more than I can tell you what foods to eat, what music to enjoy, or what kind of friends to make. (That's not my job, and I'm very happy that it's not!) If you understand that your motivation is your responsibility, I welcome you to this class and to the study of astronomy.
Working in pairs or groups is quite common in science labs, and this lab is no exception. Teamwork can be quite effective; it's often possible to figure things out faster if you work with another person, and some experiments are much easier with two pairs of hands. Many of the lab activities are designed for teams of two to four people.
In a real team, everybody is involved and contributes to the group effort. To insure that everybody is involved, we require you to use your own words in writing up your lab reports. This is very important — expressing yourself with your own words will help you to understand the material. It's pretty obvious when people copy from each other, and we will not give credit if people turn in identical work! On the other hand, we will give you credit if you use your own words — because that shows that you understand what you have been doing.
The point of this course is to see as much as we can. We will try to observe every night the weather seems reasonably good, and meet indoors only when bad weather rules out any kind of observation.
Unfortunately, the UH campus is not a good place for observations; there are too many lights, and Manoa is often cloudy. Therefore, we will be making field trips to observe. Most of our observing session will be in Kapiolani park. The park is a pretty good observing site, and it's easy to get there. We will also arrange several trips to darker sites where we can observe fainter stars.
Astronomy is a very safe activity. Unlike some science labs, we have little need for hazardous materials or equipment. We will be working outdoors at night, but we are a large group and there is safety in numbers. Still, people sometimes feel nervous being out at night; if you feel threatened, please let us know.
There is one safety rule which must be emphasized, even though it may not seem all that relevant to this class: NEVER LOOK AT THE SUN THROUGH ANY TELESCOPE OR BINOCULARS unless you are using a professionally-designed solar filter! It's important that the filter cover the entire aperture of the telescope or binoculars and that it is securely attached so it can't fall off by accident. The telescopes we use in this class can take all the sunlight falling on an eight-inch circle and concentrate it into a spot half an inch in diameter. That concentrated light is about 250 times brighter than normal sunlight; it can permanently destroy your vision in much less time than it takes you to blink your eye.
For legal reasons, you must sign a release form before the first field trip. This is the same legal language used on release forms for field trips in other classes at UH.
We will be observing outside at night for several hours at a time, and you should plan to dress appropriately. It can get a little cool in the evenings, and clothes which were comfortable in mid-afternoon will not keep you warm enough at night. Wear loose-fitting clothes you can move around in easily, and bring a sweater or jacket. We may have to wait out the occasional shower, so bring a poncho or umbrella.
Low blood sugar makes it harder to see faint stars; you may bring along a snack when we are observing.
Nicotine impairs your night vision, and you should avoid smoking before or during the class (or at any other time, if you want to live to see the next return of Halley's comet). If you must light up, wait until we take a break, and move well away from the telescopes and from anyone who might not like the smell of cigarette smoke.
We will provide all the key equipment for this class, including telescopes, binoculars, and other optical aids. Detailed instructions will be given in class; this is just a summary.
You will need to buy a few things for this class. These are available at the UH bookstore or your local shopping center:
Each week we will give you one or more handouts which you should read before next week's lab. These will be distributed during the lab meetings; you can also get them from the class web site. Because we can't predict the weather a week in advance, we will often provide two handouts: one for an observing project, and another for an indoor lab project. If we wind up observing, we will generally recycle the indoor project for the following week. If we have to work indoors, we may or may not be able to recycle the observing project; some observations can only be made at specific times.
Drawing astronomical objects is a good way to improve your observing skills. When you make a drawing you concentrate on what you are seeing; as a result, you will see things you might not have noticed, and remember more of what you have seen. Artistic ability can help, but the point is not to produce beautiful pictures, so don't worry if your sketches are not artistically satisfying. The main point is to make a serious effort to represent what you see on paper. If you try, you may be surprised at how much you can actually show in a drawing.
On each drawing you make, you should note the name of the object, the date and time, and the equipment you used. We will generally provide worksheets for your drawings with places to write these things down.
A second component of your work is writing up the observations and experiments you have performed. This allows you summarize your work and draw conclusions from your observations. Detailed instructions will be provided with the assignments, but in general we expect you to follow the traditional format for lab reports, which includes an introduction, a list of the equipment used, a description of your results, and a discussion of your conclusions.
Instead of a final exam, we will have a short quiz every week. The quiz may be given indoors at the start of class, or outdoors during an observing session; you should be ready for either one, since we won't know ahead of time if we will be observing or working inside. The quiz will test you on the reading assignment or on the activities of the previous weeks. You can probably do well on the quizzes without extra study, but it is important to do all the assigned reading, and a good idea to briefly review last week's work before coming to class.
Each indoor quiz will have one question requiring a short written answer. The quiz will start at 7:05 pm, and end by 7:15 pm. We will close the door when the quiz starts and ask anyone who comes late to wait outside until the quiz is over; this is to spare people taking the quiz the distraction of late arrivals. Makeup quizzes will only be given to those with a valid excuse for being late.
Outdoor quizzes will be given during observing sessions. They will test practical observing skills and familiarity with the night sky; for example, we may ask you to point to a constellation we studied the week before, or focus a telescope on a particular star.
Before setting your final grade, we will drop your two lowest quiz grades; thus you can miss two quizzes without directly affecting your final grade. This should not be taken as encouragement to skip any quizzes! If you decide to skip a quiz, you risk missing an opportunity to do well on what may turn out to be an easy question. To increase your chances of a good final grade, you should make a point of showing up in time for all quizzes!
Unlike some classes, this class is not graded on a curve. Curves predetermine the percentages of students getting As, Bs, Cs, and Ds; that seems unfair, and may discourage people from trying to do their best. You will get written comments and letter grades (including plus and minus grades, when appropriate) on your quizzes and on each report or drawing you turn in. We will provide as much feedback as possible so you will know how you are doing in this class.
Your final grade will depend on the reports, worksheets, and drawings you hand in, your quiz scores, and your attendance record. Work handed in counts for 70% of your grade, while quizzes count for the remaining 30%. If you've missed two or more labs, your final grade will be lowered by one-third of a letter for every two lab sessions you have missed without a valid excuse (for example, if your total grade was an "A-", but you missed two sessions, you would get a "B+"). Valid excuses include serious illness, family emergencies, and the like; we can make allowances for sports or cultural activities if you bring a note from your coach or instructor beforehand.
As a university student, you may be going through a time of rapid change. Perhaps you are living away from home for the first time. You have new freedoms — the freedom to decide your own hours, chose your associates, set your own priorities. With those freedoms come some new responsibilities.
Attendance is one of your responsibilities. We will take attendance each time the class meets. You can miss one lab without penalty; if you miss two or more without a valid excuse, your final grade will suffer, and you may fail the class.
Your responsibilities do not end when you come to class. I don't expect you to pay full attention every moment, but if your attention wanders then you must make an effort to focus again. I can't direct the focus of your mind — you are the only person who can do that. We will take a 15 minute break about half-way through each class; please limit social activities and discussions unrelated to astronomy to the break.
You are also responsible for handling the equipment with care. Telescopes and accessories are expensive, and we can't afford many replacements or repairs. Accidents can be forgiven, but carelessness is another matter; anyone who recklessly or deliberately damages equipment will automatically fail the course.
It is your responsibility to know and follow the rules for the labs, reports, and quizzes. These rules are designed to make sure that everyone gets full credit for their work. Someone who tries to gain credit without doing the work, or tries to prevent other people from getting credit for the work they have done, is cheating. Any action which gives someone an unfair advantage cheats everyone. Treat other students as you'd like them to treat you.
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LADY BISONS vs. ETSU OCT. 7, 2007
The game:The Lady Bisons added another chapter to their history-making season with a 1-0 win over USC Upstate Friday night in an Atlantic Sun game at the Lipscomb Soccer Complex.
The win ended a 41-game winless streak in A-Sun games. The Lady Bisons were 0-38-3 heading into the match.
Freshman Emma Scanlon scored what proved to be the game-winning goal less than a minute into the second half.
ETSU is coming off a 4-1 loss at Belmont Friday night.
On a roll:The Lady Bisons have earned points in their last two A-Sun games with a 0-0 tie at Campbell and the 1-0 win over USC Upstate.
Living history:The Lady Bisons 1-0 overtime win over Jackson State Sept. 11 was the first victory at Lipscomb for first-year coach Jon Ireland. It was the first victory for the women's soccer team since Sept. 3, 2006 when they beat Arkansas-Pine Bluff 6-0 on the road. It was the first home victory since a 2-1 defeat if Winthrop Sept. 9, 2004. And it was also the first overtime victory since overcoming Mercer 1-0 Oct. 31, 2002.
The Lady Bisons came back to beat Tennessee-Chattanooga on the road Friday night by a 1-0 score. It was the first tine since 2002 the Lady Bisons had won two games in a row. On Oct. 24 they beat Austin Peay 1-0 and then beat Mercer in overtime 1-0 on Oct. 31.
Making a Proffitt:Freshman forward Halie Proffitt assisted on the game-winning goal by Sasha Sack against Jackson State and scored the game-winner, the first of her collegiate career, at Tennessee-Chattanooga.
Proffitt leads the team in goals and assists with two each and in points with six. She also leads in shots with 29, tied for seventh best in the A-Sun, and in shots on goal with 10. She is averaging 2.64 shots per game.
Youthful look:Fifteen players on the roster are either freshmen or sophomores this season. There are seven freshmen on the roster.
Freshmen have scored all but one goal this season with Proffitt scoring two and Katie Spellman and Emma Scanlon have one each.
All assists have been by freshmen. Proffitt has two and Danielle Stewart has one.
Shelton makes saves:Goalkeeper Katie Shelton was named the Atlantic Sun Defensive Player for Sept. 10-16. She is the first Lady Bisons soccer player to win a player of the week award. She is tied for second in the A-Sun with a career-high four shutouts. She leads the league in saves with 83 and is first in saves per game with 8.30. Shelton is sixth in the conference in goals against with 1.77 allowed per game. She is also ranked seventh in the NCAA in saves per game. She won the NCAA Saves Award last season.


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Tanya Sellers wonders, "What if?"
She cried when she talked about the shooting that killed Pendleton and injured her son Lawrence.
Lawrence Sellers, 17, is going to okay after being shot in the leg alongside Pendleton at a Kenwood park on Tuesday.
He is struggling to come to terms with Pendleton's death, according to his mother.
This surveillance video obtained by ABC7 News shows several young people running after shots were fired and officers arriving at the scene.
Sellers said her son's friends returned to help Pendleton.
"These are good kids who just wanted to enjoy a break in the weather, and this happens. It makes no sense," Sellers said.
People with information about the crime must come forward, Sellers said.
"Please tell the police. This is becoming ridiculous. Chicago should be on the news for something wonderful, not the fact that we're killing children, our own children, at a very rapid rate," Sellers said.
The unidentified shooter or shooters remain at large though police have been getting tips, according to Chicago Police Department Superintendent Garry McCarthy.
"We have to run down every single one of those tips now and see which one is going to prove fruitful for us. There's nothing to report at this time," McCarthy said.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel met with the Pendleton family Wednesday evening.
"As we grieve for Hadiya, we need to work together to protect our greatest resource, the children of the City of Chicago," Emanuel said.
No one in Pendleton's group was in a gang but they may have been mistaken for rival gang members, according to police.
When Pendleton was a 6th grader at Woodson Elementary School on the South Side, she appeared in an anti-gang violence video.
"So many children out there are in gangs, and it is your job as students to say no to gangs and yes to your future," Pendleton said in the PSA.


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When Oscar nominations were announced last week, "Gravity" and "American Hustle" led the field, each winning 10. "12 Years a Slave" was right behind them with nine nominations. Then "Hustle" won the Screen Actors Guild Award for ensemble last Saturday, making it the favorite to win best picture — a distinction that lasted all of 24 hours until the Producers Guild of America gave "Gravity" and "12 Years a Slave" top honors in an unprecedented tie Sunday night. (We're still trying to fathom the odds on the exact same number of voters — in a group numbering nearly 6,000 — placing "12 Years" above "Gravity" and "Gravity" above "12 Years." Let's just say it's about as likely as the 49ers' Michael Crabtree hosting a celebratory dinner for the Seahawks' Richard Sherman.)
The guilds' wealth-spreading means that this year's best picture Oscar race is the closest since the academy expanded the category in 2009. Three films have a legitimate shot at winning, and even the results of this Saturday's Directors Guild of America contest won't really tip the scales for the winner. It's that tight.
You can make a case why each movie won't win. "Gravity" didn't receive a screenplay nomination, and only two films in the last 50 years, "The Sound of Music" and "Titanic," have won best picture without a writing nod. "12 Years a Slave," meanwhile, is favored in only two (adapted screenplay, supporting actress) of its nine races. Can a best picture winner take only three Oscars? Why, yes. It happened just last year with "Argo." "Crash" and "Rocky" also won best picture and just two other categories. "The Greatest Show on Earth" won best picture and only one other Oscar. Still, this kind of thing is the exception to the rule.
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As for "American Hustle," it, like "12 Years," isn't a heavy favorite in many of its races. Even after winning SAG's ensemble award, none of its four nominated actors — Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper — are the front-runners in their respective categories. Like "12 Years," it would likely be a best picture winner with an unusually low overall total.
So that's why the leading best picture contenders might not win. Now it's up to their studios and award consultants to make a case to voters as to why their movie should win. They have time. Balloting doesn't begin until Feb. 14 (with the ceremony set for March 2). You'd think by now most academy members would have their minds set. But in a year this close and with so many great movies on the ballot, many undoubtedly will remain open to a persuasive argument.
Here's an early snapshot of four key races:
The nominees:
"American Hustle"
"Dallas Buyers Club"
"12 Years a Slave"
And the winner is: "12 Years a Slave." While it isn't nearly as polarizing as "Wolf," many academy members feel the film's lengthy scenes of plantation brutality are heavy-handed and, as a result, will be placing the movie low on their ballots. In a preferential system, that could spell doom. But I remain inclined to believe that after a few years of rewarding entertaining movies — "Argo," "The Artist," "The King's Speech" — voters will go for a film with a little more heft and substance.
Unless: The preferential ballot makes it too difficult for an artistically uncompromising movie to win. Then it's "Gravity" or perhaps "Hustle."
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The nominees:
Alfonso Cuarón, "Gravity"
Steve McQueen, "12 Years a Slave"
Alexander Payne, "Nebraska"
David O. Russell, "American Hustle"
Martin Scorsese, "The Wolf of Wall Street"
And the winner is: Cuarón. Directing a huge commercial hit that also advanced the medium, this popular industry favorite has the edge. With choices all over the map, it feels like one of those years that picture and director will be split.
Unless: The academy goes with McQueen, making him the first black director to win this Oscar.
The nominees:
Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell, "American Hustle"
Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack, "Dallas Buyers Club"
Spike Jonze, "Her"
Bob Nelson, "Nebraska"
And the winner is: Jonze for "Her." It's tempting to go with "American Hustle" here, thinking this could be the category that voters give it something. But the screenplay is actually the movie's weakness. "Her," meanwhile, is a beautifully imagined, beguiling love story that feels relevant to the way we connect (or don't) as humans today. Its five Oscar nominations, including best picture, indicate a broad level of support, and this would be the most obvious place to salute it.
Unless: "Hustle" prevails, giving Russell his first Oscar.
The nominees:
Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke, "Before Midnight"
Billy Ray, "Captain Phillips"
Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope, "Philomena"
John Ridley, "12 Years a Slave"
Terence Winter, "The Wolf of Wall Street"
And the winner is: Ridley. For the same reasons "12 Years" might win best picture. Only here, more people will be inclined to go along with the argument.
Unless: "Before Midnight" resonates with academy members as much as it has with critics groups, who have heaped numerous prizes on the third film in this remarkable, ongoing love story.
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Does Antonin Scalia Know What's in the Affordable Care Law?
There was in a strange moment in today's severability argument at SCOTUS. Justice Antonin Scalia referred to a deal that Sen. Ben Nelson once made, to make a hypothetical point about what could take down the law.
"If we struck down nothing in this legislation but the -- what's it called, the Cornhusker kickback, okay, we find that to violate the constitutional proscription of venality, okay?" asked Scalia, talking to Paul Clement. "When we strike that down, it's clear that Congress would not have passed it without that. It was the means of getting the last necessary vote in the Senate. And you are telling us that the whole statute would fall because the Cornhusker kickback is bad. That can't be right."
The deal that Scalia was referring to -- legendary in conservative anti-Obamacare circles -- was not a classic "kickback." Nelson negotiated for indefinite, unending Medicaid funding for his state. That ended up as part of the bill that initially passed the U.S. Senate on a 60-40 vote.
Here's the rub: It's not actually part of the law. Democrats removed the Nebraska deal in the final tortured negotiations that passed the PPACA in the House. When it got to the Senate again, Democrats only needed 51 votes to pass it; Nelson, who'd gotten the bad press from the deal AND nothing to show for it, glumly voted no.
Here's another rub. In early coverage of Scalia's zinger, the fate of the "kickback" is totally left out. It might be because no one in the room pointed out the mistake. Or it might be that Scalia, and lots of other people, have internalized the conservative case against the law.


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From where I sit, a member of the local school board and head of our board's curriculum committee, I appreciate what No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top have meant for our district: forcing accountability on a school district that pushes inexorably against it. And I see the Common Core as promising us a curriculum where none has ever existed.
Sure, we have plenty to worry about when it comes to the role of the federal government in our lives. The current cover story in the Economist is about an "Over-regulated America," smothered by a wave of "red tape" that may crush the life out of America's economy. It sure seems to have already crushed much of the life out of America's public education system.
Coming at the question from a different direction, David Brooks recently suggested that the United States is just as freighted by central government as the Europe is; we just do it differently—and not so well. Our economic briar patch, says Brooks, is in the tax code.
The governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, received some well-deserved praise last week for bringing the state education department and the teachers unions together on a new teacher evaluation rubric. (See here. And here. And here and here and here and here.) As Joe Williams wrote in the Daily News:
Though there will be much grousing about how common-sensical it is to judge teachers based on how their students do on standardized tests (40 percent of the evaluation)—"it's a dark day when politicians impose an untested scheme on educators," wrote Diane Ravitch—the more fascinating part of this story is the New York City subplot.
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This is not the time for federal intervention is what they would say. But I would imagine most of our great presidents would be somewhat appalled by the barnacled bureaucracy that now counts as our public education system. I would love to hear what they had to say about these four recent stories:
Every time I see a "poverty and education" story I think of the famous line from the New Testament in which Jesus says, "The poor you will always have with you, and you can help them any time you want."
So, with education. Want a convenient scapegoat for our problems? Poverty. It's there, it's handy.
I sat through an hour meeting of our small school district's budget committee last week, most of it devoted to bemoaning our fate as a "poor district" (over 60 percent of our kids qualify for free and reduced-price lunch, the standard definition of "poor" for schools) in these recessionary times. State aid has been nearly flat and the Governor punched through a two percent local property tax cap. Woe is us. There goes sports. Not mentioned was the fact that we spend over $22,000 per student!
Diane Ravitch has been hitting the poverty gong for some time, most recently in Cleveland, where, she says, "the level of urban decay is alarming." I was just in Cleveland...
In the midst of the waiver news last week—which set many a reformer's teeth on edge—came a few events and reports that provide some interesting ringtones for the current debate over the federal role in education.
Let the dollars follow the child was the proposal from the Hoover Institution's Koret Task Force, which also makes a compelling case for the federal government's "central role" in our nation's education future. Let the feds butt out was the message delivered by Rep. John Kline, Republican chairman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, as he explained two ESEA rewrite bills at an American Enterprise event. And Unconstitional! was the Pioneer Institute's conclusion about the federal government's support of the Common Core:
I hesitate to...
I came to the world of public education late in my career, but through a golden portal, E.D. Hirsch, Jr.'s Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know, a book of such broad intellectual depth and revolutionary import that it was a national bestseller in 1987. Amazingly, more than twenty years later, very few educators have read it (see here). That's too bad. If they had, they would not make statements like the one Josh Thomases, deputy chief academic officer for New York City's Education Department, gave to the New York Times just the other day:
Wrong. The problem of literacy is that the transition from decoding skills to comprehension should happen long before middle school.
Thomases means well. And he's trying to clean up the anti-academic middle school mess that has persisted for far too long (see my Ed Next story). But...
My email crackled early the other morning, a message from a friend who monitors the Police band on his CB*:
A few minutes later, another email, from a parent:
Ah, yes, the walking school bus. An idea that seems to be sweeping the nation, conquering the obesity problem, saving gas-guzzling millions—not here. We've been discussing it for a couple of years. I was pulled aside in the bank a couple of weeks ago. "I heard you're for the walking school bus," said the woman,...
I'm not sure what was more disconcerting from the blogosphere last week:Deborah Meier's comparison of KIPP schools' "ideology" to that of Nazi Germany or Jay Mathews' hesitation in suggesting that Washington, D.C., shouldn't be a city of charter schools.
Meier writes:
Yikes. That's quite a leap.
In his Washington Post column Mathews, who wrote a book about KIPP (Work Hard, Be Nice), was describing a new report that suggested that the D.C. public school system either close 38 struggling schools...
In case you missed them, a few notable events from the last month (or so):
An amazing story from Erik Robelen at Education Week begins…
Robelen quotes Fordham's curriculum guru, Kathleen Porter-Magee, leaning toward parents:
This is certainly not the first shot fired...
In a recent New York Times column about Steve Brill's Class Warfare: Inside the Fight to Fix America's Schools, Joe Nocera, says
Wrong. Like many education establishmentarians, Nocera makes the mistake of confusing pedagogy and governance. The former—e.g. great teaching—is a hard nut to crack and Nocera is right to suggest, as does Brill, that there perhaps aren't enough great teachers in the pipeline (or in charter schools) to educate all 50 million public school students.
But there is certainly no such impediment to `scaling' charters. Every public school in America could be a charter school tomorrow if policymakers would allow it. Would that "fix" America's schools? Not necessarily. But it...


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After uncovering an ancient mystery, Lara must explore the most treacherous and remote regions of Siberia to find the secret of immortality before a ruthless organization known as Trinity. Lara must use her wits and survival skills, form new alliances, and ultimately embrace her destiny as the Tomb Raider.
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Victor Marx Makes Impact at Private Gifting Event In Honor Of Oscar Week To Benefit Melanoma Research Foundation
Feb 19, 2013, 09:25 ET
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- On Saturday February 16, 2013, Victor Marx provided information about "All Things Possible" to the celebrity guests of the pre-Oscar event produced by Suzanne DeLaurentiis and John Gentry Tennyson to benefit the Melanoma Research Foundation. Some of the celebrities indulging in the suite included: Niecy Nash, Navid Negahban, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Daphne Wayans, Shar Jackson, Kaya Jones, Sheree Fletcher, Rebecca Crews, Katie Cleary, Austin Anderson, Peggy Tanous, Golnesa "G.G." Gharachedaghi, Terence Bernie Hines, Danny Musico, among others…
Victor Marx is founder and President of "All Things Possible," a national faith-based organization that has worked with troubled youth for two decades. His presentations as a speaker nationwide both inspire and motivate listeners. He provides a unique and effective approach for character development and behavior modification by helping youth excel to become Champions in Life. Victor is a master of martial arts, a former U.S. Marine, and he has trained over 30 world and national martial art champions. Because of his own troubled youth, he has the heart to help kids of all ages succeed in life by overcoming negative influences around them.
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Its a torque wrench I think this would be a great opportunity for the various major retailers to do an exclusive. The shown set (with the red R5) for Target, Walmart could have the Blue R3 we see in the background of ANH on the Death Star, and ToyRUs could some other droid (I'm not clear on what their main color is). It wouldn't be a huge investment, just a couple repaints. I'm sure a lot of collectors would pick up all three and the grandparent/parent demographic would still buy at atleast the same rate as this set would currently sell at.
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Kathleen Mangan (27), the estranged wife of the accused former NYPD officer Gilberto Valle, tried to warn her husband's possible victims of his plans to sell them into "white slavery," the court heard.
Valle is accused of planning to kidnap, rape, kill and cannibalize his female victims. He is also accused of using his status to illegally access a law enforcement database to get information on his intended victims. If convicted he will serve a maximum sentence of life in prison.
Kimberly Sauer, a possible victim of Valle's, testified in court on Tuesday. Sauer, who knew the accused from their student days at the University of Maryland, told the court that she had received a message from Mangan warning her about Valle's designs.
She admitted that when the Facebook message arrived she had assumed Mangan's account had been hacked. When she showed a screenshot of the message to Valle and asked if there was any truth to the message he blandly said, "Not that I'm aware of," according to the New York Times.
Prosecutors told how Valle, along with his wife and baby, travelled to Maryland to visit Sauer as surveillance on his intended victim.
The cop's defense team said this brunch was merely a friendly visit.
On Monday Mangan testified against her husband and explained how she knew something was wrong when she found the strange fetish websites her husband was visiting. She then installed spyware on her husband's computer.
When she found detailed plans of abduction and cooking she informed the FBI and fled to her parent's home in Reno, Nevada, with their baby.
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She told the court, "I was going to be tied up by my feet and my throat slit, and they would have fun watching the blood gush out of me."
Valle's attorney argues that the evidence and online chats presented were just fantasies that turned his client on.
Speaking at the federal trial of Gilberto Valle, defense lawyer Julia Gatto told the court what turns his client on is "the idea of a woman -- oiled, bound, laid out on a platter with an apple in her mouth, about to be cooked."
She described Valle's online plans and chats as "his dirty little secret," NBC reports.
Gatto claims that the cop is part of a little-known Internet subculture where people with unconventional desires gather to act them out in cyberspace.
She told the court, "There are literally thousands and thousands of people doing the same thing, online, every day."
The prosecuting lawyer, Assistant US Attorney Randall Jackson, said Valle searched online for homemade recipes for chloroform to subdue victims and recipes for cooking humans.
He said, "Make no mistake.
"Officer Valle was deadly serious."
Valle's wife, crying in court, quoted emails she found from her husband where he discussed "driving a spit through their wombs over and over again."
"He kept saying the suffering was for his own enjoyment.''