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The San Diego Unified School District is facing criticism for accepting a mine-resistant ambush protected vehicle, or MRAP, from the Department of Defense.
School officials and local police say not to worry the vehicle will be used for storing teddy bears and medical supplies, not for conducting military-style operations, NPR reported.
But one school board trustee, Scott Barnett, called the decision to take the MRAP a misguided priority, and suggested it was better off with local police, NPR reported. He made the remarks in context of discussing the schools payment for the vehicle, which came in at $5,000 for shipment costs. The vehicle itself is valued at $733,000, but the school obtained it for free, NPR reported.
The Pentagon 1033 program allows the federal government to transfer castoff military equipment, including armored vehicles, night vision goggles and high-powered weapons, to local police departments around the nation leading into criticisms and concerns of a growing militarized police force. But the school districts acceptance of the MRAP has ratcheted concerns further.
A day before the school district was to take possession of the MRAP, administrators and local law enforcement held a press conference to stave off criticisms from the community.
There will be medical supplies in the vehicle, San Diego Unified School District Police Chief Ruben Littlejohn told a local news station. There will be teddy bears in the vehicle. There will be trauma kits in the vehicle in the event any student is injured and our officers are trained to give first aid and CPR.
KPBS reported that school officials plan to store $20,000 to $30,000 worth of donated medical supplies in the armored vehicle.
The school district, meanwhile, also presented artists renderings that show the MRAP could be painted white and include images of the American Red Cross.
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BAKERSFIELD, CA - A local high school is keeping the competition on the football field and stepping up to help the coach of the opposing team. Liberty took on Fresno-Central Friday night, but off the field -- the two schools came together to help a football coach who overcame cancer.
The patriots and central grizzlies have a history.
Liberty High School athletic director Tim Davis said, "Since 2010, we've met them in the playoffs won some, lost some. We had one of our biggest wins back in 2010 in playoffs."
While that competition is sure to continue -- off the field, the focus is on finding a bone marrow donor for central coach Justin Garza.
"It's bigger than the game. Football is big for tonight, but in the big picture, your health and somebody else's family and the struggles of it. It just brings that to the forefront," said Davis.
Coach Garza was diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma in 2010. He's now in remission and in need of a bone marrow transplant.
Nearly two dozen Central Valley high schools have joined in coach Garza's search, holding marrow drives, signing up an estimated one thousand people to the national registry.
Garza said, "It's, I can't even use words to describe how it makes me feel personally."
Now Liberty High is joining in the effort to find a match for coach Garza.
Davis said, "A couple of my coaches confronted me a couple weeks ago about this coach and they have known him and some of these registries they were doing to get bone marrow for Justin Garza."
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September 15th, 2014 9:50 am by TRAVIS LOLLER, Associated Press
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Four years after the Libertarian Party of Tennessee filed its first lawsuit to get on the ballot, the group is still fighting for access in a state that has some of the most restrictive rules in the country for smaller political parties.
Since 2010, the Libertarians, the Green Party of Tennessee and the Constitution Party of Tennessee have been in near-constant litigation with the state. They have won several victories, and the legislature has changed the law slightly. But the parties say the hurdles for them to get their names on the ballot are still unreasonably high.
A 2010 federal court ruling in one of the cases stated that Tennessee was one of only two states where no third parties had qualified for the ballot over the previous decade.
Individual candidates can appear on Tennessee's ballot simply by submitting a petition with 25 signatures, but they will appear as independents unless their parties have qualified to appear on the ballot as well. For a party to appear on the ballot, it must collect more than 40,000 signatures. If the party wants to stay on the ballot, one of its candidates must garner more than 80,000 votes.
A recent opinion from the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in one of the cases says the ease with which an independent candidate can get on Tennessee's ballot undermines the state's argument that too many parties could result in voter confusion.
"It is a puzzling proposition that voters should be less confused by a ballot listing numerous candidates without a party designation than by a similar ballot including party designations." The court goes on to say that a ballot with party designations "at least, contains information helpful to distinguishing among lesser-known candidates."
Donn Janes, vice-chair of the Libertarian Party of Tennessee, said he believes the major parties intentionally make it difficult for minor parties.
"Libertarians would erode some of the voter base for the Republican party," he said. "I can see why they would want to keep us off the ballot."
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Why atheists are disproportionately drawn to libertarianism is a question that many liberal atheists have trouble grasping. To believe that markets operate and exist in a state of nature is, in itself, to believe in the supernatural. The very thing atheists have spent their lives fleeing from.
According to the American Values Survey, a mere 7 percent of Americans identify as consistently libertarian. Compared to the general population, libertarians are significantly more likely to be white (94 percent), young (62 percent under 50) and male (68 percent). You know, almost identical to the demographic makeup of atheists white (95 percent), young (65 percent under 50) and male (67 percent). So theres your first clue.
Your second clue is that atheist libertarians are skeptical of government authority in the same way theyre skeptical of religion. In their mind, the state and the pope are interchangeable, which partly explains the libertarian atheists guttural gag reflex to what they perceive as government interference with the natural order of things, especially free markets.
Robert Reich says that one of the most deceptive ideas embraced by the Ayn Rand-inspired libertarian movement is that the free market is natural, and exists outside and beyond government. In other words, the free market is a constructed supernatural myth.
There is much to cover here, but a jumping-off point is the fact that corporations are a government construct, and that fact alone refutes any case for economic libertarianism. Corporations, which are designed to protect shareholders insofar as mitigating risk beyond the amount of their investment, are created and maintained only via government action. Statutes, passed by the government, allow for the creation of corporations, and anyone wishing to form one must fill out the necessary government paperwork and utilize the apparatus of the state in numerous ways. Thus, the corporate entity is by definition a government-created obstruction to the free marketplace, so the entire concept should be appalling to libertarians, says David Niose, an atheist and legal director of the American Humanist Association.
In the 18thcentury, Adam Smith, the granddaddy of American free-market capitalism, wrote his economic tome The Wealth of Nations. But his book has as much relevance to modern mega-corporation hyper-capitalism today as the Old Testament has to morality in the 21stcentury.
Reich says rules that define the playing field of todays capitalism dont exist in nature; they are human creations. Governments dont intrude on free markets; governments organize and maintain them. Markets arent free of rules; the rules define them. In reality, the free market is a bunch of rules about 1) what can be owned and traded (the genome? slaves? nuclear materials? babies? votes?); 2) on what terms (equal access to the Internet? the right to organize unions? corporate monopolies? the length of patent protections?); 3) under what conditions (poisonous drugs? unsafe foods? deceptive Ponzi schemes? uninsured derivatives? dangerous workplaces?); 4) whats private and whats public (police? roads? clean air and clean water? healthcare? good schools? parks and playgrounds?); 5) how to pay for what (taxes, user fees, individual pricing?). And so on.
Atheists are skeptics, but atheist libertarians evidently check their skepticism at the door when it comes to corporate power and the self-regulatory willingness of corporations to act in the interests of the common good. In the mind of an atheist libertarian, both religion and government is bad, but corporations are saintly. On what planet, where? Corporations exist for one purpose only: to derive maximum profit for their shareholders. The corporations legally defined mandate is to pursue, relentlessly and without exception, its own self-interest, regardless of the often harmful consequences it might cause others, writes Joel Bakan, author of The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power.
Corporations pollute, lie, steal, oppress, manipulate and deceive, all in the name of maximizing profit. Corporations have no interest for the common good. You really believe Big Tobacco wouldnt sell cigarettes to 10-year-olds if government didnt prohibit it? Do you really think Big Oil wouldnt discharge more poisons and environmentally harmful waste into the atmosphere if government regulations didnt restrict it? Do you really believe Wal-Mart wouldnt pay its workers less than the current minimum wage if the federal government didnt prohibit it? If you answered yes to any of the above, you may be an atheist libertarian in desperate need of Jesus.
That awkward pause that inevitably follows asking a libertarian how it is that unrestricted corporate power, particularly for Big Oil, helps solve our existential crisis, climate change, is always enjoyable. Corporations will harm you, or even kill you, if it is profitable to do so and they can get away with it recall the infamous case of the Ford Pinto, where in the 1970s the automaker did a cost-benefit analysis and decided not to remedy a defective gas tank design because doing so would be more expensive than simply allowing the inevitable deaths and injuries to occur and then paying the anticipated settlements, warns Niose.
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(CNN) -- Libertarian-leaning Sen. Rand Paul is the most popular Republican among the crowded list of potential presidential candidates in New Hampshire, according to a new CNN/ORC poll out Monday. The same poll finds that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has a commanding lead among potential Democratic candidates in the Granite State.
The Kentucky senator -- who has made three trips to New Hampshire, the first primary state, in recent months -- garnered 15% of support among registered Republicans and Independents likely to vote in the 2016 Republican primary.
But with a margin of error of 5 percentage points, Paul's lead is negligible. The rest of the crowd is close behind. Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and 2012 Republican vice presidential nominee Rep. Paul Ryan each obtained 10% of support. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee follow closely along with 9%.
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and 2012 Republican candidate Rick Santorum, who have not been as active on the presidential circuit, round out the pack of 12 potential candidates with 3% support.
As for the Democratic race, Clinton has a commanding lead among registered Democrats and Independents likely to vote in the 2016 Democratic primary. Clinton, who made her first trip to Iowa in more than six years over the weekend, had 60% of support in the New Hampshire poll.
New Hampshire Senate race in dead heat
Far behind Clinton are Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Vice President Joe Biden, with 11% and 8% respectively.
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A team of international scientists have found 10 genes with high levels of mutations which they believe could lead to intellectual disabilities including autism.
Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Adelaide, Dr Jozef Gecz, said the landmark study was essentially looking for patterns and genetic mutations.
"This work really maps a map of a human genome, starting from about 29,000 children with these disabilities, and about 20,000 controls," he said.
The team, including scientists from Australia, set out to find genetic mutations that lead to common intellectual disabilities, including autism and language problems.
"We look at the differences which are consistent, and of course, statistically, mathematically, significant," Professor Gecz said.
"And then the group at the University of Washington in Seattle actually interrogates a selected number of genes, in this case about 26, for next level possible mutations, to see whether there were differences."
The team found 10 genes with high levels of mutations, which they believe could lead to intellectual disabilities that present differently in each case.
"What it tells us is that these genes for autism, learning disability, and perhaps some of the psychiatric problems, or behavioural problems, are actually the same - they just may present in different individuals as an almost different disease," Professor Gecz said.
The findings could lead to better screening for learning disorders, and hopefully one day, treatment.
"That's what we're hoping for, that's really our aim in the long run," he said.
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A team of international scientists have found 10 genes with high levels of mutations which they believe could lead to intellectual disabilities including autism.
Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Adelaide, Dr Jozef Gecz, said the landmark study was essentially looking for patterns and genetic mutations.
"This work really maps a map of a human genome, starting from about 29,000 children with these disabilities, and about 20,000 controls," he said.
The team, including scientists from Australia, set out to find genetic mutations that lead to common intellectual disabilities, including autism and language problems.
"We look at the differences which are consistent, and of course, statistically, mathematically, significant," Professor Gecz said.
"And then the group at the University of Washington in Seattle actually interrogates a selected number of genes, in this case about 26, for next level possible mutations, to see whether there were differences."
The team found 10 genes with high levels of mutations, which they believe could lead to intellectual disabilities that present differently in each case.
"What it tells us is that these genes for autism, learning disability, and perhaps some of the psychiatric problems, or behavioural problems, are actually the same - they just may present in different individuals as an almost different disease," Professor Gecz said.
The findings could lead to better screening for learning disorders, and hopefully one day, treatment.
"That's what we're hoping for, that's really our aim in the long run," he said.
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