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Thursday, February 28, 2013
Apple Is Deleting iCloud Emails That Have the Phrase 'Barely Legal Teen' in Them
Camera inside spiraling football provides ball's-eye view of field
Feb. 27, 2013 ? Football fans have become accustomed to viewing televised games from a dozen or more camera angles, but researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Electro-Communications (UEC) in Tokyo suggest another possible camera position: inside the ball itself.
The researchers have shown that a camera embedded in the side of a rubber-sheathed plastic foam football can record video while the ball is in flight that could give spectators a unique, ball's-eye view of the playing field. Because a football can spin at 600 rpm, the raw video is an unwatchable blur. But the researchers developed a computer algorithm that converts the raw video into a stable, wide-angle view.
Kris Kitani, a post-doctoral fellow in Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute, is aware that a football league is unlikely to approve camera-embedded footballs for regular play. Even so, the BallCam might be useful for TV, movie productions or training purposes.
One of his co-authors, UEC's Kodai Horita, a visiting graduate student last year at the Robotics Institute, will present a paper about BallCam on March 8 at the Augmented Human International Conference in Stuttgart, Germany.
Kitani said BallCam was developed as part of a larger exploration of digital sports. "We're interested in how technology can be used to enhance existing sports and how it might be used to create new sports," he explained. In some cases, athletic play may be combined with arts or entertainment; a camera-embedded ball, for instance, might be used to capture the expressions on the face of players as they play catch with it.
Other researchers have developed throwable cameras that produce static images or use multiple cameras to capture stabilized video. The BallCam system developed by Kitani and Horita, along with Hideki Sasaki and Professor Hideki Hoike of UEC, uses a single camera with a narrow field of view to generate a dynamic, wide-angle video.
When the ball is thrown in a clean spiral, the camera records a succession of frames as the ball rotates. When processing these frames, the algorithm uses the sky to determine which frames were made when the camera was looking up and which were made when it was looking down. The upward frames are discarded and the remaining, overlapping frames are stitched together with special software to create a large panorama. Similar stitching software is used by NASA to combine images from Mars rovers into large panoramas and is increasingly found in digital cameras.
The algorithm also makes corrections for some distortions in the image that twist yard lines and occur because of the speed of the ball's rotation. Further work will be necessary to eliminate all of the distortion, Kitani said, and a faster camera sensor or other techniques will be needed to reduce blurring. Multiple cameras might also be added to the football to improve the finished video.
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Samsung announces Android Wallet app for tickets and coupons, opens API to developers
If your heart bleeds Android, but your eyes occasionally wander in the direction of Apple's Passbook, good news. Samsung has announced "Wallet," a ticketing and coupon app of its own. Unveiled at the firm's Developer Day at Mobile World Congress, Wallet comes ready with an open API to encourage adoption, with some big names already onboard including Hotels.com, Booking.com, Expedia, MLB and Lufthansa. Though this isn't the only Android solution we've heard about, in keeping with the norm, the app will be connected, and location aware. As such, the app will let you know when Wallet-friendly stores and so on are nearby, as well as continually send updates to items already stored in the app, should those booking details change. The app API is still in beta at this time, but word is that Samsung is accepting early sign-ups on its approval.
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Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Judge refuses to dismiss charges in WikiLeaks case
FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) ? An Army private accused of sending classified material to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks has not been denied a speedy trial despite his lengthy pretrial confinement, and the charges against him will stand, a military judge ruled Thursday.
Attorneys for Pfc. Bradley Manning had asked the judge to dismiss all charges against the former intelligence analyst because he's been detained for two years and nine months. Defense attorney David Coombs argued that prosecutors dragged their feet and that a commander rubber-stamped their requests for delay after delay.
Prosecutors said the delays were reasonable, given the complexity of the case and the volume of classified material involved. The military judge, Col. Denise Lind, agreed with prosecutors, with a few minor exceptions. She denied the defense motion.
Manning faces 22 charges, including aiding the enemy, which carries a maximum life sentence. His court-martial is scheduled to start in June at Fort Meade, an Army base between Baltimore and Washington.
The 25-year-old Oklahoma native is accused of sending hundreds of thousands of Iraq and Afghanistan battlefield reports, State Department diplomatic cables, other classified records and two battlefield video clips to WikiLeaks in 2009 and 2010 while working as an intelligence analyst in Baghdad.
The Obama administration has said releasing the information threatened valuable military and diplomatic sources and strained America's relations with other governments. Experts say that by seeking to punish Manning, the administration is sending a strong message that such leaks will not be tolerated.
Manning supporters consider him a whistleblowing hero whose actions exposed war crimes and helped trigger the Middle Eastern pro-democracy uprisings known as the Arab Spring in late 2010. In an online chat with a confidant-turned-government informant, Manning said he leaked the material because he wanted "people to see the truth."
Under military rules, defendants must be arraigned no more than 120 days after they are charged, although exceptions can be granted for a variety of reasons, including the need to access classified material. Manning was arrested in May 2010 and was detained for 635 days before his arraignment last February. But Lind ruled that only 90 days of that time counted against the 120-day clock and that the rest of the delays were reasonable.
The case is unprecedented in its complexity, and delays were inevitable as the government worked to gain access to a trove of classified material and share it with the defense, Lind said in announcing her ruling.
Manning's supporters around the world held events Saturday to mark his 1,000 days in confinement.
Manning has offered to plead guilty to reduced charges for 10 of the 22 counts he faces. Lind was scheduled to consider on Thursday whether to accept that plea after questioning Manning under oath about his actions. If she were to accept the plea, he would face 20 years in prison on those charges.
However, Manning has not reached a plea deal with prosecutors. Even if the plea were to be accepted, prosecutors could still pursue convictions on the other charges, including aiding the enemy and several counts of theft of government property.
Manning has won few significant victories in his lengthy pretrial proceedings, which included testimony from the soldier about how he was deprived of his clothing and told to stand at attention naked while on suicide watch at the maximum-security Marine Corps brig at Quantico, Va. He has since been transferred to medium-security confinement at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
Lind ruled that Manning was illegally punished for part of the time he spent at Quantico and that 112 days should be cut from any prison sentence he receives if convicted.
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Libertarian paternalism and school lunches: Guiding healthier behavior while preserving choices
Feb. 26, 2013 ? The term 'libertarian paternalism' is a peculiar phrase because it invokes feelings about two seemingly contradictory philosophies. Yet, as a principle of the behavioral sciences, this phrase actually implies gentle guidance, without force.
Recently, the USDA passed regulations designed to make school lunches more nutritious. Schools participating in the National School Lunch Program are required to increase whole grain offerings, cap the fat of milk at 1% for white and non-fat for flavored, and ensure that students take either a fruit or a vegetable with their purchased lunch. Unfortunately, forcing behavior jeopardizes the potential to accomplish the most important goal of improving children's diets. After all, it's not nutrition until it's eaten!
Staying true to the meaning of libertarian paternalism, Cornell University researchers Andrew Hanks, David Just and Brian Wansink conducted a field study in two of high school cafeterias to test whether low- and no-cost environmental changes could lead children to take and eat healthier foods. Under the name, "Smarter Lunchrooms Makeover," they tested multiple small changes such as making fruits and vegetables more attractive, convenient, and normative, all simple applications of libertarian paternalism.
Make the Fruit More Visible
After the "makeover" was implemented, students were 13% more likely to take fruits and 23% more likely to take vegetables. These are very encouraging results, but selection is only half of the battle!
To check the consumption of the fruits and vegetables selected, Hanks, Just and Wansink recorded whether food items were completely eaten, half eaten or not eaten at all. They found that students not only took more fruits and vegetables, but actual consumption increased by 18% for fruits and by 25% for vegetables. They also found that after the makeover the percentage of kids eating a whole serving of fruit increased by 16% and by 10% for vegetables.
These small changes, based on the principle of libertarian paternalism, cost three hours of time and less than $50 to implement. Evidence from the results demonstrates that this "makeover" not only preserves choice but also can 'nudge' children toward healthier behaviors that they can carry with them into adulthood, contributing to the fight against current childhood obesity trends!
Furthermore, these simple changes could also be effective in the cafeterias of other organizations, including hospitals, companies, and retirement homes, as well as within the walls of your very own home.
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- Andrew S. Hanks, David R. Just, Brian Wansink. Smarter Lunchrooms Can Address New School Lunchroom Guidelines and Childhood Obesity. The Journal of Pediatrics, 2013; DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2012.12.031
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Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Flying Plates Learn To Catch Flying Poles In Switzerland
Imagine a plate, like a dinner plate, hovering mid-air. The technical name for this gizmo is a quadrocopter. But what it's about to do is something you might see at the circus. So in comes the man with the top hat, (me) saying "Laaadies and Gentlemen ... Hold on to your seats, Prepare to be astonished ..." Then this happens:
Let's take a pole, basically a three foot stick, and fling it at the plate.
What are the chances that we could get the plate to zoom under the pole, catch it mid-air, (remember, it's got no arms, it's a plate!) and balance it upright? Oh, and the plate isn't being guided by a person. It's got to do this itself. It has to learn this, through trial and error.
That would be one very, very, very talented plate.
And now before your very eyes, I'm going to show you one, designed by a grad student working in Switzerland, Dario Brescianini. He studies artificial intelligence at ETH Zurich's Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control, where they design clever robots. In recent years, the students there have been building these simple, dinner-plate thingies that fly. Plates with propellers.
But First, Ball-Tossing
Last year some students in Zurich taught these plates to toss a rubber ball, which was a little surprising. Then they got the plates to "catch" the ball and ricochet it back and forth; they call this mid-air "juggling." I'd call it "pingpong," but whatever you call it, it was very impressive, as you can see here ...
And then along comes Dario.
As I said, he tossed poles (with shock absorbers ? a balloon filled with flour at one end) at his robots, hoping the plates could catch, balance, then juggle these flying sticks. Impossible? No. Dario, quoted on a AI site called Robohub, said he found the problem "interesting" ...
... because it combined various areas of current research and many complex questions had to be answered: How can the pole be launched off the quadrocopter? Where should it be caught and ? more importantly ? when? What happens at impact? The biggest challenge to get the system running was the catching part.
And Now, Pole Tossing
I'll say. But, as you're about to see, he did it. Dario gave the machine physics lessons, but it took trial and error for the robots to figure out the timing. I find this totally amazing.
One more thing ? Some of you are going to say this was Photoshopped, or it's all a trick. I don't think so. Dario worked with fellow grad student Markus Hehn and Professor Raffaello D'Andrea, artificial intelligence scholars with impressive resumes. The school is well-known. If this video is a slick prank, they would have chosen a slicker narrator. Dario (if that is Dario) reads his copy like an embarrassed announcer at a funeral. He will never get a job in broadcasting, but that's no problem, because he's aces with flying poles.
Watch his plates learn to:
1. throw
2. catch
3. juggle
I can't imagine what's next.
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Pregnant mother's blood pressure may affect future health of children
Feb. 25, 2013 ? Up to 10% of all women experience some form of elevated blood pressure during pregnancy. Researchers from the Centre for Social Evolution at the Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen show that mild maternal hypertension early in pregnancy actually benefits the fetus, but that late-pregnancy hypertension has negative health consequences for the child. The study is based on more than 750,000 births in Denmark, with follow-up data on children's hospital diagnoses for up to 27 years.
'It has been known for some time now that pregnancy-induced hypertension can lead to more serious toxic conditions (preeclampsia), but it has puzzled biologists why such a medical condition that can be quite dangerous for both mother and child has not previously been removed by natural selection in our stoneage ancestors. However, evolutionary theory also emphasizes that paradoxes of this kind can be due to genetic parent-offspring conflicts, so we set out to test whether we could find statistical evidence for that type of explanation', says Professor Jacobus Boomsma, Director of the Centre for Social Evolution and coordinator of the study.
Minor increases in blood pressure gives better health
The results clearly indicate that mothers with minor increases in blood pressure in the first trimester of pregnancy have babies that enjoy generally better health than children of mothers who never get a hypertension diagnosis during pregnancy. The difference was between 10 and 40% fewer diagnoses across all disease categories during the 27 years of available follow-up data, a result that has never been documented before. However, when hypertension continues or starts later in pregnancy, this advantage shifts to a ca. 10% disadvantage in terms of an increased risk of acquiring a diagnosis in the Danish public health data bases. Child mortality during the first year of life showed the same trend. In spite of this risk being very low in Denmark, no children of mothers with early pregnancy-induced hypertension died, whereas the mortality risk of children born to mothers with hypertension late in pregnancy was above average.
Fathers genes enhances blood pressure
Parent-offspring-conflict theory maintains that father-genes in the placenta will have a tendency to 'demand' a somewhat higher level of nutrition for the fetus than serves the interests of mother-genes. It argues that father genes that somehow manage to enhance maternal blood pressure will likely be met by maternal genes compensating this challenge. Both types of genes are 50/50 represented and thus likely to find a 'negotiated' balance while creating an optimally functioning placenta. However, when the pull of paternal genes cannot quite be managed by maternal counterbalances, there is a risk of elevated blood pressure to develop and persist, leading to late occurring pregnancy complications and compromised offspring health. The results obtained are consistent with the idea that some deep fundamental conflicts lay buried in our genes right from the moment of conception. Imprinted genes are prime suspects for mediating such conflicts as they 'remember' which parent they come from.
'Molecular biologists have recently found many such genes in mice and man, and they are particularly expressed in the placenta as the theory predicts. Our study therefore suggests that further research to test whether different patterns of pregnancy-induced hypertension are indeed related to paternal or maternal imprints would be highly worthwhile', says PhD student Birgitte Hollegaard, who did the analyses together with EU Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow Sean Byars.
The authors of the study hope these results will help build bridges between their evolutionary inspired public health analyses and established clinical praxis.
'Ultimately we are not only interested in the fundamental science aspects of genome level reproductive conflicts, but also in seeing some of these findings being made more directly useful, for example by adjusting pregnancy monitoring schemes to take long term risks for offspring health into account', concludes Jacobus Boomsma.
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- Birgitte Hollegaard, Sean G. Byars, Jacob Lykke, Jacobus J. Boomsma. Parent-Offspring Conflict and the Persistence of Pregnancy-Induced Hypertension in Modern Humans. PLoS ONE, 2013; 8 (2): e56821 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056821
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Kerry pushes trans-Atlantic free trade in Germany
Feb 25 (Reuters) - Leading money winners on the 2013 PGATour on Monday (U.S. unless stated): 1. Brandt Snedeker $2,859,920 2. Matt Kuchar $1,987,000 3. Hunter Mahan $1,412,965 4. John Merrick $1,296,014 5. Phil Mickelson $1,232,760 6. Dustin Johnson $1,200,125 7. Tiger Woods $1,144,000 8. Russell Henley $1,129,080 9. Brian Gay $1,089,181 10. Charles Howell III $1,087,944 11. Jason Day $1,009,164 12. Chris Kirk $990,013 13. Steve Stricker $940,000 14. Josh Teater $870,934 15. Bill Haas $816,300 16. Jimmy Walker $812,620 17. Scott Piercy $789,592 18. Charlie Beljan $785,800 19. ...
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Monday, February 25, 2013
Easy DIY Craft: How To Create Your Own Curtains
Entry #2141, February 25, 2013
Curtains add so much to your home interiors.? They help with lighting control, steadying the temperature and a great overall finish to the room.? But how many times have we (ourselves) gone to the department store only to get there and find out that what we need are out of stock or the wrong size for our windows or unpleasing to look at.? Wouldn?t it be nice to be able to get curtains that you actually like, that are the proper size, and will last?? Here, you will learn how to create your own custom curtains to fit your specific needs.
Make your own curtains
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Supplies
1)????? Measuring Tape
2)????? Fabric
3)????? Pin Needles
4)????? Needle and Thread
- Optional- Sewing Machine (If you already have one)
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How To Create Curtains
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Directions
1)????? You want to measure the size of your windows, to help you decide on how much fabric you may need and how long you want your curtains to be.
2)????? Next, you will need to purchase the fabric for the curtains and you can go to any fabric store of your choice or even if you think it is convenient for you, you can order them online.
3)????? If you have a basic window then 7? X 9? (7 by 9 foot) of tapestry should be a good enough amount to cover it.? Measure how low you want the fabric that you purchased, then slice that fabric in half and begin to sow the hem on the edges.
- To help keep the fabric together while you sow take pin needles and pin the fabric down in a line that you will use to sow the hem.
- ?If you are covering larger windows then you will need more fabric for covering (add at least 1-2 feet to the measurements when purchasing the fabric).? But you will continue with the same process as stated above.
4)????? Hem the top of the curtain with a loop, so that the curtain will be able to easily slip through the rod.
5)????? Now, if you would like to have a double-layer reversible curtain purchase two different fabrics and sow the backs of the fabrics together.? After the fabrics have become one then treat them as such and do the steps above and there you shall have your double-sided, layered, reversible curtain.
There is nothing like upgrading your space with a change in the window treatments.? It is cost effective, saves you time and money plus these curtains will be your custom made creations.? Have fun with it and try it out!
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Twilight wins worst picture, worst actress awards at Razzies
LOS ANGELES ? The Twilight team finally has earned some love ? or loathing ? from Team Razzies.
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn ? Part 2 was picked as last year's worst picture Saturday by the Razzies, an Academy Awards spoof that hands out prizes for Hollywood's lousiest movies on the eve of the Oscars.
The finale to the blockbuster supernatural romance dominated the Razzies with seven awards, including worst actress for Kristen Stewart, supporting actor for Taylor Lautner, director for Bill Condon and worst screen couple for Lautner and child co-star Mackenzie Foy.
Adam Sandler was named worst actor for the raunchy comedy That's My Boy, his second-straight win after 2011's Jack and Jill, which swept all 10 Razzie categories a year ago. Pop singer Rihanna won worst supporting actress for the action dud "Battleship."
Twilight movies had been well represented in Razzie nominations over the years but had not won any key awards there. Razzie voters joke that as with The Lord of the Rings finale winning best picture at the Academy Awards, they were waiting for the last Twilight flick on which to heap their scorn.
"I have a pet theory, which is that the box office on Twilight films is very impressive, but my theory is that instead of 40 million individual girls going to see it, it's 8 million girls going to see it five times each. People who love those movies just adore them," said Razzies founder John Wilson. "I believe the attitude of people who really love 'Twilight' movies toward this subject is very similar to the pomposity with which the Academy Awards addresses the whole rest of the world. Our whole existence is all about making fun of pompous, so 'Twilight' really is right up our alley."
The Twilight finale also won for worst screen ensemble and worst remake, rip-off or sequel. For worst picture, it beat out Battleship, 'That's My Boy, the family flick The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure and Eddie Murphy's comedy flop A Thousand Words.
Stewart's worst-actress prize came for both Twilight and her fairy-tale update Snow White and the Huntsman.
In the five Twilight movies, Stewart stars as sullen teen Bella Swan, who falls for ageless vampire hunk Edward Cullen (worst-actor nominee Robert Pattinson) and finds herself at the centre of a love triangle with him and her childhood pal, werewolf stud Jacob Black (Lautner).
Stewart set a consistent standard of emotional stoniness throughout the Twilight movies, Wilson said.
"Acting should involve having an expression on your face, and she is blank, other than the morose kind of half-Goth thing her character does," Wilson said. "I didn't realize Snow White and Bella were soul sisters, because of the very limited range of what she can do. I think it was Dorothy Parker who said about Katharine Hepburn that she runs the 'gamut of emotions from A to B.' Kristen Stewart is so expressionless she might as well be a brick wall."
Sandler's That's My Boy, which also won the worst-screenplay Razzie, flopped at the box office and continues a gradual decline in receipts for the comic actor's movies.
"He's an enormous star who is on what I call the 'down-alator' of his career," Wilson said. "He's about to step off the same cliff Eddie Murphy stepped off about 10 years ago. Eddie Murphy has never come back, and Murphy is more talented."
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Sony Mobile Chief Says The Xperia Tablet Z?s World Tour Will Begin In Q2
Sony Mobile Communications chief Kunimasa Suzuki took the stage to deliver something of a state of the mobile union address at MWC early this morning, and took a very brief detour to talk availability for one of Sony?s most promising products. As expected, there was no mention of any new hardware during Suzuki?s address (sorry Xperia SP hopefuls), but he did confirm that the company?s Xperia Tablet Z would begin to rollout globally starting in Q2 of this year.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/lzyuNY4lV_0/
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Iran Claims Capture of Foreign Spy Drone during Military Exercise
Undated picture shows member of Iran's revolutionary guard pointing at U.S. RQ-170 unmanned spy plane as he speaks with Hajizadeh at unknown location in Iran - Reuters
Iran's Revolutionary Guard claims to have captured a "foreign spy drone" during an Iranian military drill in the south-eastern part of the country.
"A foreign spy drone was hacked outside the field of Payambar-e Azam 8 wargames on Saturday," General Hamid Sarkhelli, the spokesperson of the wargames, told reporters.
"While probing signals in the area, we spotted foreign and enemy drones which attempted to enter the area of the war game.?We were able to get one enemy drone to land," said the official, according to the IRNA agency.
It is not certain if the captured drone belongs to the US while Washington has so far not commented on the issue. Iran has seized American drones on previous occasions.
Iran has been testing its latest drones and cyber warfare units in the ongoing military drill codenamed Payambar-e-Azam 8 in Kerman province.
The Iranian army says the drills are aimed at testing the combat readiness of its forces.
"For the first time, our special modern warfare task forces are conducting specialised operations. In the other phases of the wargames, the reconnaissance as well as suicide drones, which are capable of attacking the enemies, have been used and their operational capabilities came under assessment," said Sarkhelli.
He added that Iranian cyber experts managed to tap mock-enemies' communications using their latest cyber weapons.
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Sunday, February 24, 2013
Insert Coin semifinalist: Radiator Labs wants to help you control your heat
Just about any apartment-dwelling urbanite can tell you that radiators are a bit of a necessary evil in the world of city living. What if there was a way to control the heat to individual rental units, without relying entirely on a landlord's temperature-controlling omnipotence? The Radiator Labs team has developed a device to help realize this dream. It's essentially housing that sits on-top of an individual radiator unit, controlling heat transfer to a room. Turn it off, and the insulation hampers the heat from making a room too hot. Turn it on, and the ducted fan spreads the heat out to the room.
Radiator Labs has a bit more info on its page, which you can check out in the source link below. You can also view graphical breakdown of the technology after the break.
Check out the full list of Insert Coin: New Challengers semifinalists here -- and don't forget to pick a winner!
Source: Radiator Labs
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House GOP?s VAWA proposal nixes LGBT, American Indian protections
Supporters of the Violence Against Women Act rally in Washington, DC. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
After effectively stonewalling the once bipartisan Violence Against Women Act in the last Congress, House Republicans are at it again.
On Friday, the GOP countered a Senate version of VAWA that passed through the upper chamber with bipartisan support last week with their own far less inclusive bill that continues to block protections for LGBT domestic violence victims, American Indians, and undocumented immigrants.
Coverage for gay and lesbian domestic violence victims is never mentioned in the bill. The House version essentially makes it harder for illegal immigrants who were abused to reach legal status, and makes it easier for non-American Indians who are charged with abusing American Indian women on tribal land to get their cases excused from tribal courts. It says it will expand assistance to ?adult and youth victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.?
The House bill was written to ?protect all women from acts of violence and help law enforcement prosecute offenders to the fullest extent of the law,? Eric Cantor spokeswoman Megan Whittemore, who helped craft the bill, told TPM.
The Senate bill passed last week with bipartisan support in a vote of 78-22. Every Republican and Democratic woman in the Senate voted in favor of its passage.
VAWA was first passed in 1994 but expired at the beginning of this year. Vice President Joe Biden, then the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, helped author the legislation. The bill provides funding to aid and counsel victims of domestic violence while implementing stronger penalties for their abusers. Some of its components included maintaining that a woman?s past sexual history cannot be used against her in a trial of her abuser and that women?shouldn?t?be forced to pay for their own protection or rape exam.
One of the authors of the Senate bill, Vermont Democrat Patrick Leahy,?issued a strong statement condemning the House version, saying, ?This is simply unacceptable and it further demonstrates that Republicans in the House have not heard the message sent by the American people and reflected in the Senate?s overwhelming vote earlier this month to pass the bipartisan Leahy-Crapo bill.?
Other prominent senators were also quick to blast the bill. ?It?s not a compromise, it?s an unfortunate effort to exclude specific groups of women from receiving basic protections under the law. And we cannot allow that to happen,? said VAWA advocate Patty Murray, D-Wash., in a statement. ?House Republican leadership just doesn?t get it.?
President Obama recently pleaded with Congress to pass the Violence Against Women Act in his State of the Union address, saying, ?We know our economy is stronger when our wives, mothers, and daughters can live their lives free from discrimination in the workplace, and free from the fear of domestic violence. Today, the Senate passed the Violence Against Women Act that Joe Biden originally wrote almost 20 years ago. I urge the House to do the same.?
Seventeen Republican representatives recently signed a letter to House Speaker John Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor, expressing support for a bipartisan solution to the legislation.
The Senate version includes $659 million in assistance over five years, a number actually down 17% from the last time the bill was reauthorized in 2005.
In her ?Open Letter? Saturday, MSNBC?s Melissa Harris-Perry addressed Republican Rep. John Duncan of Tennessee, who was recently quoted as saying, ?Like most men, I?m more opposed to violence against women than even violence against men because most men can handle it a little better than a lot of women can.?
Harris-Perry responded:
?Is it that lesbians and gay men can just a take punch better than straight women? Or maybe you?ve decided that Native American women are particularly good at handling intimate violence because you and the other House Republicans still refuse to support a bill that gives tribal authorities the ability to prosecute those who commit acts of violence on tribal lands. Maybe your refusal to reauthorize VAWA is actually based on a belief that when some people are abused it?s just not a big deal because they can handle it.?
The House version of the bill is scheduled to come up for a committee vote as soon as this week.
Source: http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/02/23/house-gops-vawa-proposal-nixes-lgbt-native-american-protections/
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Moms go topless to save kids' school bus
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When it comes to raising money to help overcome educational budget cuts, there are the old, reliable methods, like the silent auction or a fancy gala, and then there?s the racy route.
In Montserrat, Spain, 10 mothers are showing some serious skin in a sexy calendar being sold to raise money in the face of Spain's austerity measures. The proceeds are being used to restore a reduction in bus service for 600 elementary school students.
Some of the women are topless, some almost bottomless in the calendar that so far, has raised enough money to cover the $4,100 monthly tab for the bus, the driver and a monitor through the end of the school year in June, according to an Associated Press report.
The moms hope to sell all 3,000 of the calendars by the end of the month, and then start anew for next year.
What would you do (or take off) to raise money for your child?s school?
Source: http://www.today.com/moms/moms-go-topless-save-kids-school-bus-1C8505059
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London Fashion Week Street Style AW 2013 - Part 2
We're back with our second installment of London Fashion Week Street Style, as we tie up our LFW coverage for another season by showing you some of the stylish people we bumped into during the 5-day event.
On Sunday, our intrepid street style photographer Hannah headed to both Somerset House and the Topshop Show Space at the Tate Modern's incredible Tanks, where she snapped celebs, chic mag editors, super-stylish bloggers, crafty rock royalty and even spotted a bit of Mary Katrantzou for Current Elliott out in the wild.
Click the image above to view the full gallery, or click here to view part one.
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How to Create an International Treaty for Emerging Technologies
Emerging technologies like bioengineering, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, and geoengineering have great promise for humanity, but they also come with great peril. They could revolutionize everything from pollution control to human health?imagine a bioengineered microbe that converts CO2 into automobile-worthy liquid fuels, or nanotechnologies that target cancer cells.
But they also pose the potential to cause a global catastrophe in which millions or even billions of people die.
Effective public policy can help us enjoy the benefits while protecting against the risks. But one hallmark of these technologies is that they can be developed anywhere around the world. And so, as Grant previously wrote, an international treaty could be the most effective way to safely develop emerging technologies. Furthermore, different technologies pose many of the same policy challenges. And so, as Seth previously wrote, a streamlined approach would regulate different emerging technologies under a single governance regime.
Given the goal of establishing a new international treaty for emerging technologies, the question then becomes: How? Does one gallop to the gates of Buckingham Palace, quill and parchment in hand, and bark at the royal guard to fetch the Queen?
There are a variety of options on how to conclude a treaty on emerging technologies, and none of them are easy. Here is a quick review of some treaty-making options in case any readers feel ambitious this week.
U.N. General Assembly. The General Assembly is the U.N.?s primary policymaking body and the most common source of global treaties. Oftentimes, the General Assembly directly opens a treaty up for signature. Other times they initiate a process that leads to a treaty, such as by establishing an international conference or a subsidiary body that hashes out treaty text. However, getting to the big stage is incredibly difficult; only a country in the U.N. or certain U.N. bodies can put items on the agenda. So unless you are cozy with some heads of state, getting an emerging technologies treaty on the agenda will probably require working your way up through other U.N. bodies.
Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). ECOSOC is a major U.N. body that covers international economic, social, cultural, health, and environmental issues, so their scope certainly includes emerging technologies that will have pervasive effects on humans and the environment. ECOSOC is civil society heaven, with over 3,500 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) having some sort of consultative status. However, NGO power is limited: like the U.N. General Assembly, only a U.N. country can propose treaty text in ECOSOC. Nor is ECOSOC a treaty-making heavyweight like the General Assembly, so it might not be the best option. On the other hand, ECOSOC could create a subsidiary body that works on emerging technologies treaty text that ECOSOC later proposes to the General Assembly, although this would likely take massive political pressure to achieve.
World Health Organization (WHO). The WHO, a specialized agency of the U.N., is responsible for global health issues. The WHO already works on some emerging technology issues like genetic engineering and nanotechnology, often in conjunction with other U.N. bodies like the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization. However, only one treaty has ever been concluded under the auspices of the WHO: the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. And the scope of some emerging technologies like geoengineering and Artificial Intelligence are outside the scope of their public health mandate. Finally, the WHO has tough budget constraints right now, so they are unlikely to spearhead a major emerging technologies campaign. Therefore, the WHO is a plausible but unlikely candidate to handle a treaty on emerging technologies.
U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). UNESCO is a specialized agency in the U.N. that works extensively on emerging technologies within its mandate of social and human sciences. For example, UNESCO?s World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST) consists of 18 scholars who hash out ethical principles related to climate change, disaster prevention, nanotechnology, and other areas. A significant number of treaties have also been concluded under the auspices of UNESCO, although most relate to non-contentious issues such as education and cultural heritage, and UNESCO typically promotes ?soft? (i.e., non legally binding) law rather than legally binding treaties. Overall, UNESCO is an excellent organization to discuss the impacts of emerging technologies but is unlikely to draft an emerging technologies treaty.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The OECD, an international economic organization with 34 Member countries, strives to enhance global economic and social welfare. The OECD already works on emerging technologies like nanotechnology and bioengineering (including synthetic biology), and they have significant scientific and economic clout. However, one major limitation of the OECD is the exclusive membership?34 developed countries, compared to 193 U.N. member states?so global participation is difficult right from the get go. On the other hand, OECD is slowly increasing membership and also hosts Global Forums in areas like biotechnology and sustainable development that includes non-member countries, so they are a reasonable fallback if a more global organization is an implausible choice.
U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP). UNEP is the U.N.?s ?voice for the environment.? UNEP is well versed in initiating environmental treaties, like the Vienna Convention on the Protection of the Ozone Layer and the Basel Convention, which regulates hazardous wastes shipments. And along with the World Meteorological Organization, UNEP established the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which helped spark today?s climate change treaties and won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize (shared with Al Gore). UNEP already works on disaster risk reduction, biosafety, nanotechnology, and geoengineering, so they are familiar with most areas related to global catastrophes from emerging technologies. On the other hand, while most global catastrophes from emerging technologies have significant environmental consequences, some global catastrophic risks like a bioengineered virus and artificial intelligence seem to fall outside of UNEP?s mandate.
New international body. Perhaps the best option is to create a new international body whose mission is to explore the benefits, risks, ethics, and so forth related to emerging technologies. The body could then eventually transition into drafting a treaty. Since international organizations like UNEP and the WHO imperfectly cover global catastrophic risks from emerging technologies, a new international body would be able to include participation from several such bodies. NGOs, experts, and other stakeholders could become intimately involved, as well. This new international body could either be created by an existing international organization?for example, ECOSOC created the U.N. Forum on Forests, which aims to create a legal framework for forests?or though an international conference, like the recent Earth Summit 2012 in Rio de Janeiro.
One possible template is the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) ?the world?s first international environmental organization and now the largest global environmental network, with over 200 governments and 900 NGOs represented. The IUCN General Assembly drafted the Convention on the International Trade of Endangered Species, which was subsequently adopted at the 1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm. Likewise, an international organization with a mission to protect the planet from global catastrophes caused by emerging technologies could draft a treaty that could be opened for signature at a major gathering of heads of state.
Another example is the Strategic Approach for International Chemical Management (SAICM), a multi-stakeholder international policy framework that is co-chaired by UNEP and the WHO and which allows for broad NGO participation. And despite their focus on chemicals, SAICM has a broad mandate that includes many emerging policy issues?they recently looked at nanotechnology, for example?which even makes them a candidate to create a body that could work on an emerging technologies treaty.
Of course, creating a treaty is not easy. In addition to being a massive organizational and technical challenge, the international community suffers from a case of treaty fatigue. For example, some developing countries lack the resources to administer more treaties, while some developed countries disfavor international law or do not want to divert more money into treaty obligations. Overcoming these hurdles requires relentless campaigning, an imminent threat from emerging technologies, the occurrence of a global catastrophe (which nobody wants), or other forces that could create the requisite political will. Whatever pathway the international community decides to take, they should do so in the relatively near future so that dangerous emerging technologies do not put the planet in unnecessary peril.
This article was co-written by Grant Wilson
Source: http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/baum20130221
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Thursday, February 21, 2013
Report: Flaws in EPA drilling pollution data
WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Environmental Protection Agency's internal watchdog says limited data and unreliable estimates on air pollution from oil and natural gas production are hindering the agency's efforts to police the drilling boom.
In a report Thursday, the EPA inspector general said the data problems could obscure human health risks, generate misinformed regulations on the industry, and incorrect or ineffective ways to reduce pollution.
Under the President Barack Obama the EPA has stepped up regulation of natural gas drilling which has been booming thanks to hydraulic fracturing technology.
Oil and gas production releases toxic and cancer-causing air pollutants, smog-forming gases and methane, a potent greenhouse gas blamed for global warming.
The industry says hydraulic fracturing is safe when done properly, but environmental groups and some scientists say there hasn't been enough research.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/report-flaws-epa-drilling-pollution-data-023038345--politics.html
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UN report: Iran upgrading uranium enrichment plant
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A picture released by the Iranian government shows Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad inspecting the Natanz nuclear plant in central Iran in 2007.
By Jeff Black, Staff Writer, NBC News
In a move seen as a defiant step as world powers look to rein in Iran's nuclear program, the county has started installing sophisticated centrifuges at its main uranium enrichment plant, a U.N. nuclear report confirmed on Thursday.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said that 180 of the so-called IR-2m centrifuges and empty centrifuge casings had been hooked up at the plant near the town of Natanz, Reuters reported Thursday.?The centrifuges were not yet operating.
The advanced centrifuges are expected to accelerate Iran's ability to process more highly enriched uranium. The West and Israel are fearful that such material could be used to build an atomic weapon.
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"This is yet another provocative step by Iran and will only invite further isolation by the international community," said Tommy Vietor, spokesman for the National Security Council. "We continue to believe there is time and space for diplomacy to work, but actions like this undercut the efforts of the international community to resolve its concerns over Iran's nuclear program."
For its part, Iran claims it is only increasing its stockpiles of refined uranium for peaceful purposes ? in order to produce energy.
Still, the White House and intelligence officials had been anticipating the report and Iran itself had in fact notified the U.N. nuclear watchdog in January that it intended to take the step.
According to Reuters, the confidential report also said Iran had increased to 367 pounds the amount of?uranium refined to a purity of 20 percent. That is a level Tehran says it needs for conversion to reactor fuel. In August 2012, the U.N. watchdog group had reported that Iran had stockpiled 200 pounds of the 20-percent material.
About 530-550 pounds of uranium enriched to a level of 20 percent is required for a single nuclear weapon. That would need to be further refined to about 55 pounds of uranium enriched to a 90 percent purity level, according to the U.N. watchdog.
But the IAEA report also said Iran in December resumed converting some of its more highly enriched uranium to powder that would be used in the production of reactor fuel, Reuters reported. That was seen as an positive step in light of Western concerns.
Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren joins Morning Joe to discuss Israel's Iron Dome program, which intercepts rockets fired at Israel from Hezbollah and Hamas. Amb. Oren also discusses President Obama's upcoming trip to Israel and the latest in Syria and Iran.
Israel has warned that it might bomb Iran's nuclear sites as a last resort. In a speech to the U.N. in September, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that with a nuclear armed Iran, no one in the world would be safe.
This week, Israel's UN?Ambassador?Michael Oren told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that this summer is the "red line" beyond which Israel would not be confident Iran wasn't secretly reaching the point of no return in its nuclear progress.?
But a resumption of conversion to fuel, experts told Reuters, means the Israeli "red line" for action could be postponed.?
Next week, The Unites States, Russia and European allies are set to resume negotiations with Iran on its nuclear program. The?negotiations?will take place in Kazakhstan.
NBC News' Andrea Mitchell and Reuters contributed to this report.
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Romney to address conservative conference in March
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney will make his first public speech since the 2012 election at a noteworthy gathering of conservatives next month.
Romney plans to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington on March 15, offering his first extended remarks about national affairs and the conservative movement since losing the November election to President Barack Obama.
The former Massachusetts governor has maintained a low profile since the election, spending time at his Southern California home and rarely venturing into Washington fights over taxes, spending and Cabinet nominees. He met with supporters in Washington after the election and joined Obama for lunch at the White House but has yet to offer a public critique of Obama's second term or advice on a way forward for Republicans.
Romney's speech will come as many Republicans offer prescriptions for the party's disappointing 2012 election and look to a new generation of leaders to compete with Democrats. A Romney adviser said the CPAC speech would give Romney an opportunity to express his appreciation to friends and supporters of his campaign.
Romney has a long history at the conference, which draws some of the leading voices in the Republican party every year. He has won several CPAC straw polls and announced he was ending his 2008 presidential campaign at the conference.
Al Cardenas, the chairman of the American Conservative Union, which organizes CPAC, said they were looking forward to hearing Romney's views on the current state of affairs in the nation and around the world and "the future of the conservative movement."
Other speakers at the March 14-16 conference include: Romney's running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin; Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.
Romney's speech was first reported by the National Review.
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Wednesday, February 20, 2013
North Korea propaganda video shows Obama, troops in flames
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Sun is killing your propaganda video believed to have been posted by North Korea showing.
American troops and President Obama in flames.
Now this just days after North Korea conducted what it claims a successful nuclear test here -- parts of the new video watch -- here.
Amateur no question.
But not to be taken lightly KT McFarland -- Fox News national security analyst former deputy assistant secretary of defense during the Reagan.
Years and good morning it's my -- part of what it was set on that video is that the United States increasingly unfair bully activities.
Against North Korea a solemn warning that time is no longer on the side of the United States America should answer.
-- do you read that.
Father but they're trying to develop nuclear weapons analyst for any excuse they -- so they don't blame the United States.
But I think the scary part -- number -- -- you've got the right word amateurish we should be laughing at this right this is so amateurish and juvenile.
Young Korean leader making silly videos last week he had a music video about -- Manhattan.
The compliments.
He's -- nuclear weapon he's closer we get those closer and closer to do.
If you're not just having it but I'm mobile -- -- CIA say perhaps he has for nuclear bombs at the moment yeah we've got enough enriched uranium to probably make for a nuclear weapons what do you need for new.
You need enriched uranium -- the fuel.
You need a missile to deliberate briefed they've tested that was -- -- attest to that.
The third thing you need is a blueprint.
Which pulls it all together and that's what they're testing now.
And they dip last week so the worry is when they get nuclear weapons what then happens.
Don't think -- I wake up in the San Francisco they don't want to pick a fight with us.
A dirty fight -- what -- Seoul South Korea but south South Korea Japan will those countries decide they need to arm reed army even go nuclear.
Will North Korea sell.
Their weapons to Iran they certainly have in the past where North Korea tests a weapon is called the type the Don they sell -- to the Iranians Iranians -- -- -- call it.
Such a -- missile and then they've got the missile.
We know that the Iranians are probably of engineers in North Korea helping with the North Korean nuclear underground tests that they had last week.
So you don't just look at North Korea getting nuclear does Iran get nuclear.
Well -- let's put a fine point on this in the last two months they've tested a nuclear weapon right underground thought to be an earthquake at first later -- verified it was a nuclear test.
They also tested a multi stage rocket.
Yeah they're trying to put one on top of the other.
And join forces.
And perhaps either use that as they have weapon of propaganda.
Or -- perhaps even more nefarious than that.
Think of North -- you're absolutely right they are give you can't dismiss.
The -- incredible statements they make because they will have their hands on nuclear weapons within a short period of time.
But the big question is what are they gonna do with -- and why are they doing that.
You've said before North Korea has nothing in the world wants they don't make import they don't export anything beyond commits -- weapons.
-- the only thing they have in their starving you know I think they have to sell its weapons -- Selma.
The other thing to have -- cell is the United States because all they do is -- United States into a picture.
Can't blame the US I mean where are they as a country or where are they with propaganda without having the United States to blame and you wonder what we are doing.
To -- this or is it our duty responsibility leadership perhaps -- be Beijing.
You know what is China doing.
Well that's right and we have outsourced fat tip to China we have said look China provides 75% of North Korea's food.
Fuel oil heating fuel what the Chinese still with -- and the Chinese have not.
They may need to make a statement or to -- no North Korea shouldn't do this but -- not stopped North Korean fact we've just seen this week China's feeling so.
Emboldened that attacking and every computer in North America.
There is a statement also as the saying this from North -- as the saying goes a newborn -- knows no fear of -- tiger.
I read two things in the back -- it it's either a new leader Kim Jung on.
Or perhaps it's.
-- it's more of a statement almost as.
May be a apple -- language is say that we are the newborn poppy.
Has -- nuclear power.
That the world now has to address your -- Go either way could be the newborn puppy is the new young leader of North Korea doesn't know any fears doesn't know any bounds it could be we North Korea -- the tiger we've got the nukes.
You guys should -- us.
The problem is that this is all really heating up to -- -- in the past this is an area of the world that the Chinese have been really content to have little low boil.
They don't want it to boil over -- now threatened to board so what does China do.
That's the big question you know Beijing hasn't made a move that we know they have not made a move and that I think -- what they fear.
As much as anything is that a North Korea -- pushed too far North Korea.
If they use their leverage North Korea collapses then there are millions of North Korean refugees running across the Yellow River.
And to China causing China problems at a time when its economy is starting to slow down.
I'll tell you mentioned the issue -- out of this past week and also you know what to -- North Korea.
-- discussed -- thank you to see real soon are right.
Source: http://video.foxnews.com/v/2178265599001/north-korea-propaganda-video-shows-obama-troops-in-flames/
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Capitol Confidential ? NYSUT will file legal challenge to tax cap today
The state?s teachers union will file a legal challenge to the two-percent cap on property tax increases, contending the 2011 law ?locks in and perpetuates funding inequities between affluent and low-wealth school districts.?
?We believe very strongly in the principle that every student, no matter where they live or go to school, should have the opportunity to receive a quality public education,? said NYSUT President Dick Iannuzzi said in a statement. ?In challenging the constitutionality of the tax cap, we are fighting for that principle, just as we are fighting for the democratic principles of ?one person, one vote? and for the right of citizens, through local control of their schools, to determine for themselves how much they want to spend on their own community?s schools.?
NYSUT lawyers plan to file their suit in Supreme Court in Albany County later this morning, a union aide said. Officials there lobbied against the tax cap when it was proposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, as well as earlier iterations of the legislation backed by Republicans and Democrats alike.
Cuomo has lauded the cap, which forces school districts to win the support of 60 percent of voters if they increase the amount of their budget that comes from property taxes by more than two percent between school years. The measure also applies to municipal entities like counties and towns, but their 60 percent ?override? can come in a vote of elected officials.
NYSUT?s legal action has been long rumored, and Cuomo has said he stands by the law, which has kept tax increases in check. He also says the cap is designed to set a benchmark for budget discussions, and direct public discourse away from large tax increases and toward talk of sharing services or cutting spending.
?If you think you?re going to come to Albany to raise taxes, forget it. Stay home,? Cuomo?s top aide, Larry Schwartz, told legislators who ran against the cap.
NYSUT?s suit will challenge the law on seven grounds, including a charge that the cap prevents poorer districts from raising the resources they need to provide a sound, basic education mandated by the State Constitution. NYSUT also alleges that the 60-percent threshold should be struck down because it contradicts legal cases setting a one-man, one-vote standard of representation.
A list of NYSUT?s seven causes of action is below. I?ll update with legal papers once they?re filed:
First Cause: The state Constitution guarantees all schoolchildren the right to a sound, basic education ? the foundation of the Campaign for Fiscal Equity case. It also guarantees that school boards and voters can provide enhanced educational opportunities beyond the minimum and can address inequality through local control of spending. The tax cap unconstitutionally deprives students of that right by limiting the ability of school districts and taxpayers to address funding inequities. With its arbitrary tax cap, the state has locked in existing funding disparities between school districts by limiting the ability of districts and their taxpayers to address these inequities by exercising ?substantial local control.?
Second Cause: Funding disparities between school districts exist because of differences in assessed property value from district to district. The Court of Appeals has recognized the state Constitution guarantees the ability of voters to set the levels of taxation properly to meet the needs of their school districts ? the concept of ?substantial local control.? The Court of Appeals has held that local control is the ?only rational basis? underpinning New York?s inequitable school finance system. The tax cap unconstitutionally strips away the ability of school districts and their taxpayers to exercise local control and address funding deficiencies.
Third Cause: The right of school districts and voters to provide educational opportunity to school children is a liberty interest protected by the New York and U.S. constitutions. The tax cap infringes upon this liberty interest, and therefore denies equal protection of the law, by allowing voters in districts with greater taxable wealth to raise more revenue than those in low wealth districts.
Fourth Cause: The tax cap violates the equal protection clauses of the state and U.S. constitutions by treating school districts and school district voters unequally from local government voters and non-education funding proposals. The suit notes most towns, villages and cities are comprised of a supervisor or mayor, and four council members or trustees. Thus, the overwhelming majority of non-education local governments can exceed the tax cap with a 3-2 vote that satisfies the supermajority requirement mathematically, but in reality is nothing more than a mere simple majority. Yet, adopting a school budget exceeding the tax cap requires a 60 percent supermajority of all voters.Fifth Cause: The tax cap?s requirement of a 60 percent supermajority is undemocratic and violates the one-man, one-vote protection of both the state and federal constitutions. Under the tax cap, a voter who casts a ballot in favor of exceeding the tax cap has only two-thirds the voting power of a voter who votes against the proposal.
Sixth Cause: The tax cap violates voters? right to equal protection under the law by diminishing their voting power based on their desire to increase education funding. The 60 percent supermajority requirement classifies and treats unequally voters who support ? and would benefit from ? increased education funding. The votes of those who favor exceeding the tax cap are given two-thirds the weight of those who oppose exceeding the cap, violating equal protection under the law.
Seventh Cause: Voting is free expression protected by the state constitution and First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. When a school district proposes a cap-exceeding budget, the tax cap requires the district to include on the ballot a notice that is not neutral and is meant to discourage voters from approving a proposal to exceed the cap. In addition, the tax cap imposes adverse funding consequences where super majorities are not achieved in two votes. This ?poison pill? has a chilling effect on the free expression and voting rights of taxpayers who wish to increase school funding above the tax cap.
Here?s a copy of the complaint:
130220 Nysut Tax Cap Suit by JimmyVielkind
Source: http://blog.timesunion.com/capitol/archives/179030/nysut-will-file-legal-challenge-to-tax-cap-today/
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