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‘There is no other medicine’: Texas father breaks law to treat self-harming autistic daughter with marijuana – Washington Post

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Mark Zartler says cannabis is the only thing that has helped his daughter, who has cerebral palsy and severe autism that causes her to self-harm. (Gillian Brockell/The Washington Post)

Kara Zartlers life began too soon.

Along with her twin sister, she was born 26 weeks early. At1 pound 12 ounces, she weighed slightly less than the healthy Keeley. Then, 10hours into life, Kara suffered a brain hemorrhage. Seventeen years later, shes lucky to be alive. But she has cerebral palsy and severe autism, which in her case causes compulsive self-injurious behavior that began with she was four years old.

Its a terrible sight to see, her father Mark Zartler told The Washington Post via telephone from his home in Richardson, Tex. She hits herself in the face repeatedly. She gets into a loop, and she cant really stop. Sometimes she can self-recover, but other times it just extends and extends and extends.

After years of trying different drugs with little luck, Zartler eventually gave Kara marijuana on the advice of a friend, even though its illegal in his home state of Texas. To his surprise, it worked. Now, years later, hes chosen to go public with his story though he risks potentially unwanted attention in hopes of changing his states laws. Currently, Senate Bill 269 is in committee. If the bill becomes law, as Mark hopes it will, Texas will be the 29th state to legalize medical marijuana, which could change Karas life.

When they began, Karas fits, which include hitting, scratching and biting herself, would last for 12 hours. Zartler, a 48-year-old software engineer, and his wife Christy, apediatric nurse practitioner,would take half-hour shifts physically restraining her, sometimes for an entire day.

I like to just get her into a bear hug,keep her arms down. Shell pinch and rip the skin on my hands, but it just doesnt hurt anymore, he said.

Her school used a modified straitjacket, but shed worm her way out of it.

She could inflict severe damage, once breaking her nose. Shes had cauliflower ears since she wassix like MMA fighters, Zartler said. She comes home from school with bleeding ears. Once, she even bit through her mothers finger, sending her to the hospital.

The family cycled through four neurologists, desperately seeking a solution. Kara was placed onRisperidone, an antipsychotic drug generally used to treat schizophrenia and bi-polar disorder. It was somewhat effective. Slowly Kara had what her parents called good hours in which she wouldnt self-harm, then good days. But it didnt stop the fits, and the medication left Kara slower, foggier. She stopped making eye contact, couldnt use the restroom on her own.

When she was about 11, a neighbor approached Zartler with an idea: Cannabis.

The drug isnt legal in Texas, not even in medicinal form save for one small caveat some people with intractable epilepsy might be eligible for low-THC cannabis, according to the Marijuana Policy Project. In all other instances, possession of the drug carries a hefty sentence, often years in prison.

But Zartler felt he was out of options.

Kara likes the beach, but its hard to get there. In the car, at that time, she would last two to three hours before going into these episodes, Zartler said. The problem with the car is you cant restrain her, and she fights back.

Before one such trip, he fed Kara part of a marijuana brownie his neighbor baked.

She made it the whole way, Zartler said. It was a tremendous success.

He was new to the drug but learned how to extract the THC into oil and bake such brownies. Slowly over several years, we introduced it to her life, he said. Eventually he began using a vaporizer, which like its namesake vaporizes the THC for quick consumption.

Now, Kara is 17. He weaned her off the high doses ofRisperidone, and noticed Kara making huge developmental strides. She began making eye contact again and can use the bathroom on her own.

Were not doing this instead of other options. Kara has had teams of doctors, and its always been this way. But theres no other medicine that relieves her fits once they start, Zartler said. There were lingering doubts for years, but I dont doubt what were doing any more.

Zartler and Christy use the medicine less than in the past, but during high-stress situations, hell still administer it. The day before speaking with The Post, in fact, Kara had a fit. Mark held her in his strong bear hug for an hour, but finally enough was a enough and he gave her a treatment.

And she had a great day, he said. And shes not a zombie. She doesnt just lay there. She just becomes normal Kara.

When their experiment began, Zartler said, We thought we were the only people in the world who were crazy enough to do this. We just werent connected with any groups I had no earthly idea anyone on earth was doing this.

But parents across the United States have been attempting to treat autism with marijuana for some time. Though research has found the drug useful in treating epilepsy, only anecdotal links have found it helpful for those with severe autism.

Writer and Fulbright scholarMarie Myung-Ok Lee, for example,wrote in The Post that cannabiscookies calmed her autistic son, who would become consumed by violent rages and bang his head, scream for hours and literally eat his shirts.

[I made my son cannabis cookies. They changed his life.]

Lee and Zartler are far from the only ones to discover such relief. But they, like many others, face potential criminal charges for administering it. Zartler cant move his aging parents and in-laws live nearby and require the Zartlers assistance. But while hes in Texas, hes in jeopardy.

This is medicine, so we travel with it. If Im driving through Texas, and I get pulled over, Zartler said, his Texan drawl trailing off before continuing. Im going to be arrested.

Added Zartler, At some point in her life, its going to be a problem.

Kara will be in high school until shes 22. At that point, she might have to go to a group home, which would help socialize her. Zartler worries about getting injured and not being able to care for her. If nothing else, Karas likely to outlive us.

Its one thing for us to break the law, but how much can we ask of her caregivers? Zartler said. I cant ask a third-party caregiver to commit felony.

No laws are ever going to change in Texas unless we can say this works, he said, so hes sharing Karas story with the world.

He knows therisks. It wouldnt surprise me if the sheriff knocks on the door of if Child Protective Services knocks on the door tomorrow. But he feels that theyre worth it.

Obviously Im doing an antagonistic thing, but I dont want to be antagonistic about it, he said. Were hoping with the attention were getting, we can influence people into doing the right thing.

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From Cook County Health and Hospitals System, Chicago, Illinois; Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, New York; American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, Bethesda, Maryland; University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York; Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island; and Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston, Florida.

Disclosures: Disclosures can be viewed at http://www.acponline.org/authors/icmje/ConflictOfInterestForms.do?msNum=M16-2673.

Requests for Single Reprints: Rami Doukky, MD, MSc, Division of Cardiology, John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County, 1901 West Harrison Street, Suite 3620, Chicago, IL 60612; e-mail, rdoukky@cookcountyhhs.org.

Current Author Addresses: Dr. Doukky: Division of Cardiology, John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County, 1901 West Harrison Street, Suite 3620, Chicago, IL 60612.

Dr. Diemer: Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University, 1025 Walnut Street, 100 College Building, Philadelphia, PA 19107.

Dr. Medina: University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, OU Physicians Building, Internal Medicine, Suite 4E, 825 NE 10th Street, Oklahoma City, OK 73104.

Dr. Winchester: University of Florida College of Medicine, 1600 SW Archer Road, Box 100277, Gainesville, FL 32610.

Dr. Murthy: University of Michigan, 1338 Cardiovascular Center, 1500 East Medical Center Drive, SPC 5873, Ann Arbor, MI 48109.

Dr. Phillips: New York University Langone Medical Center, 530 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016.

Ms. Flood, Dr. Giering, and Ms. Hearn: American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, 4340 East-West Highway, Suite 1120, Bethesda, MD 20814.

Dr. Schwartz: University of Rochester Medical Center, 601 Elmwood Avenue, Box 679-N, Rochester, NY 14642.

Dr. Russell: Rhode Island Hospital Cardiovascular Institute, 593 Eddy Street, Floor 5, Providence, RI 02903.

Dr. Wolinsky: Cleveland Clinic Florida, 2950 Cleveland Clinic Boulevard, Weston, FL 33331.

Author Contributions: Conception and design: R. Doukky, G. Diemer, A. Medina, D.E. Winchester, V.L. Murthy, R.G. Schwartz, D. Wolinsky.

Analysis and interpretation of the data: R. Doukky, A. Medina.

Drafting of the article: R. Doukky, G. Diemer, D. Winchester, V.L. Murthy, L.M. Phillips, R.G. Schwartz, R. Russell.

Critical revision of the article for important intellectual content: R. Doukky, A. Medina, D. Winchester, V.L. Murthy, L.M. Phillips, K. Flood, L. Giering, G. Hearn, R.G. Schwartz, D. Wolinsky.

Final approval of the article: R. Doukky, G. Diemer, A. Medina, D. Winchester, V.L. Murthy, L.M. Phillips, K. Flood, L. Giering, R.G. Schwartz, R. Russell, D. Wolinsky.

Administrative, technical, or logistic support: L. Giering.

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But that idea has gone up in smoke, with medical experts saying it will still be illegal for recreational use.

"Cannabis is not being legalised, it's being rescheduled from a schedule 7 drug to a schedule 6 medicine," said SA Medical Association spokesman Mzukisi Grootboom.

"Unfortunately, the general response has been that it is a drug that is going to be freely available and accessed for social use - but it's not going to be like that. You won't be able to just walk into a coffee shop and order it."

Earlier this month the Medicines Control Council said it would publish draft guidelines that would be open for public comment soon. The guidelines will include details on standardisation, the manufacturing of the medicine and where it will be available.

The IFP has been a pioneer of the move, following the introduction of the Medical Innovation Bill in 2014 by former IFP MP Mario Oriani-Ambrosini, who faced a battle with terminal cancer before his death later that year.

IFP chief whip Narend Singh said that, although there were a number of people in favour of and opposing the proposed legislation, he had encountered more who were for it.

Grootboom said the rescheduling was welcomed by Sama as it allowed access to the medicine for more research.

"When the issue was brought to parliament, we had a look at what was happening internationally in Europe and the US and there are claims that it's useful for certain interventions. There is evidence that it helps with chronic pain, nausea and vomiting."

The first roll-out of the medicine is unlikely to take place in April as planned .

"First, the guideline document on growing cannabis for medicinal use will have to be published for public comment," said the MCC's Griffith Molewa. The comments will be considered and worked into the guideline document. The MCC will publish it to be implemented."

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An artist's rendering of the under-construction Health Innovation Center at Northern Kentucky University.(Photo: Provided)

HIGHLAND HEIGHTS - In a development that could shift the medical and education landscape in Greater Cincinnati, St. Elizabeth Healthcare and the University of Kentucky announced Monday they will open a regional medical school in 2019 at Northern Kentucky University.

The affiliation is the latest UK effort to set up a network of regional medical schools that would focus on training in primary care to turn out graduates who could ease the commonwealths chronic shortage of physicians.

The four-year medical education programwill work in collaboration with the Health Innovation Center at NKU, but outgoing NKU President Geoff Mearns said the new campus won't be housed in the center.

NKU is identifying an existing location on campus that will be renovated and hopefully ready to open by summer or fall 2019, Mearns said. He anticipates the cost of the renovations will be absorbed by UK.

"There is a well-documented need to expand existing programs and create new programs to educate the next generation of healthcare professionals," Mearns said.Research shows healthcare professionals tend to stay in the regions where they train, so this partnership will help build the workforce in our region.

In size and scope, the new medical program would be dwarfed in the region by the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, with about 400 tenure-track faculty members and nearly 700 students. But the UK program will educate MDs who could go to work at St. Elizabeth hospitals in Northern Kentucky.

The new medical schoolwill provide opportunities for qualified NKU faculty to teach some first and second-year classes. There will also be a number of preferred admissions slots held for NKU undergraduate students who want to attend medical school and meet the academic requirements.

Were at capacity when it comes to educating medical students (in Lexington), UK President Eli Capilouto said. We need regional partners if we are going to tackle this stubborn problem.

The UK College of Medicine currently enrolls 547 students andplans to add about 30 students each year at NKU, according to the school's dean, Dr. Robert DiPaola.

DiPaola said about a third to halfof the students in the college are from Kentucky and up to 60 percent who do additional training come back to Kentucky.

Usingfacilities at NKU is an efficient and cost-effective way to expand the program while maintaining the quality of the curriculum, UK officials said. The campus will use the exact same curriculum and assessments as UK's Lexington campus, which will includeprimary care and subspecialties. On-site faculty will have UK College of Medicine appointments, teaching in small groups and providing simulation and standardized patient experiences with digital lectures from Lexington.

The expansionwill be part of a network UK hopes in 2018 to open at Bowling Green and expand at Morehead.Already partnering withUKfor the regional programs are Morehead State University, Western Kentucky University, St. Claire Regional Medical Center, King's Daughters Medical Center and the Medical Center at Bowling Green.

Students will pay the same annual tuition at the Highland Heights campusthat they would in Lexington, which is $37,716 for Kentucky residents and $65,861 for out of state students.

Garren Colvin, president and CEO of St. Elizabeth Healthcare, said the new program will ensurelocal students with medical school aspirations can do so in Northern Kentucky. The affiliation will allow students to have clinical experiences at St. Elizabeths healthcare help address health care concerns and changes in the industry.

We hope to educate and retain our local talent to help shape them into the medical leaders of our future, Colvin said. Together we will be able to bring students from across the commonwealth and the nation to our region to continue to strengthen the healthcare landscape in education, training, teaching and practicing.

Colvin said he hopes a majority, if not all, the graduates from this program to join its workforce to provide healthcare to patients in the area. He said the graduates coming out of the Health Innovation Center at NKU and UKs medical school would mean more jobs and better health for Northern Kentucky.

NKU is now building the $97 million Health Innovation Center on campus, with at least $8 million from St. Elizabeth. The facility is scheduled to open in 2018. NKUand St. Elizabeth officials have said the facility will one day turn out dozens more nurses, respiratory therapists, wellness experts, public health specialists and other health-care providers.

Its another aggressive UK move into Northern Kentucky, a field on which local players are on the march as well.

In spring 2015, the Christ Hospital Health Network, which has a large doctors office in Fort Wright, affiliated with UKs health system for advanced cancer care. The Markey Cancer Center in Lexington has the distinction of a National Cancer Institute designation, which means additional research funding for faculty and access to more clinical trials for patients.

The University of Cincinnati Cancer Institute, though larger than the Markey, does not yet have NCI designation, despite nearly two decades of efforts to get that recognition and the extra money to fight cancer. But in the past two years, UC officials and local titans of business such as John F. Barrett, chief executive officer of Western & Southern Financial Group, have made public commitments to get the NCI notice but obtaining it is still years away, at best.

To add to the drama, Christ Hospital and St. Elizabeth Healthcare have flung lawyers at each other over a parcel of land in Fort Mitchell where Christ Hospital wants to build an outpatient surgery center. An administrative law judge now is considering Christs argument that St. Elizabeth needs the competition and St. Elizabeths counter that Christ Hospital is coming to cherry-pick wealthier, insured patients, without which St. Elizabeth is crippled in its mission as the caregiver for all in Northern Kentucky.

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Academic medical experts will visit and critique the school at the downtown Phoenix Biomedical Campus from Sunday through Wednesday.

Dr. Kenneth Ramos says the University of Arizona medical school in downtown Phoenix has taken steps to shore up diversity recruitment for students, faculty and staff. Ramos, the interim dean, overlooks the new Biomedical Sciences Partnership Building that opened Feb. 23, 2017, in downtown Phoenix.(Photo: Tom Tingle/The Republic)

The University of Arizonas medical school in downtown Phoenix thisweek will begin its final exam in a decade-long journey to full, independent accreditation.

University officials are not expecting a breezy test.

The challengecomes in the form of a team of academic medical experts who will visit and critique the school at the Phoenix Biomedical Campus. They arrivedSunday and will stay through Wednesday.

"We would be successful beyond ourwildest imaginations if they gave us full accreditation and absolutely no citations," said Dr. Leigh Neumayer, UA's interim senior vice president for health sciences.

"We do think there will be some areas that they will want to, at a minimum, monitor."

The Phoenix school opened a decade ago as a branch campus of Tucson's UA College of Medicine to help address thestate's physician shortage. UA's Phoenix school struck out on its own in 2012 when itreceived separate "preliminary" accreditation, the first of three steps to full accreditation.

But the school's attempt at mid-tier "provisional" accreditation stalled in 2015 after the accrediting body, the Liaison Committee on Medical Education,warned that changes were needed in four areasbefore advancing the school. Two of the four findings stemmed from governance issues following Banner Health's $1.2 billion merger with the UA Health Network and a 30-year affiliation with the medical school. The Phoenix school made changes, and the Liaison Committee advanced the school to provisionalaccreditation in February 2016.

That's one reason why university officials don't anticipate a rubber-stamp review on the way to full accreditation.

To prepare for the Liaison Committee's visit, the medical school earlier hosted a mock visit froma four-member team that included a former medical school dean,an associate deanand two consultants. The review team lauded the school for its accomplishments, Neumayer said, but the review team also asked why so many Phoenix medical school officials had "interim" attached to their titles.

"That's one that worries me," saidNeumayer, who was named interim senior vice president for health sciences in December after Dr. Joe "Skip" Garcia resigned from the position. The job oversees the UA medical schools in Tucson and Phoenix and three otherhealth-related schools.

The Phoenix school also has an interim dean, Dr. Kenneth Ramos, who was named to the position last year after Dr. Stuart Flynn, the longtime Phoenix dean, and most of his leadership team resigned to takepositions at a new medical school on Fort Worth, Texas. The departures prompted the Arizona Medical Association, a 4,000-member physicians organization, to seek an independent investigation by the Arizona Board of Regents.

The regents hired Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie LLP to evaluate concerns, but after spending at least $179,653 on the work, the board determined no action was needed.

The regents have refused to make public the report, citing attorney-client privilege and work-product protections.

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A search committee identified four candidates for the dean position, but two candidates have dropped out, Neumayer said. One candidate decided she was not interested in the position, and second person chose not to pursue the position after Garcia resigned from the post.

Neumayer declined to identify the two remaining candidates. She said the timing of the new dean's hiringpartly depends on finding time to schedule a meeting with the finalists.

"The two applicants left are highly qualified,"Neumayer said. "It's a matter of me being able to meet them and what kind of (compensation) package we can put together for them."

The Liaison Committee last February also told the medical school there were three areas in which itwould continue to monitor progress: theschool's affiliation agreement with Banner Health, the sufficiency of administrative staffand program diversity.

Neumayer and Ramos said some contract language changedin the Banner Health-UA agreement to address the Liaison Committee's concerns. Those changes included appointing the deans of both the Phoenix and Tuscon medical schools to a joint Banner Health-UA academic management council.

UA and Banner Health also made it clearthat the medical school deans in Phoenix and Tucson had full authority over clinical training appointments for third- andfourth-year students at their respective campuses.

Ramos said the Phoenix school has taken steps to shore up diversity efforts in the recruitment of students, faculty and staff. For example, the medical school has launched a "pathways program" that recruits 19 students from communities such as Latinos and Native Americans that are under-represented in medicine. The idea is to prepare these students and make themmore competitive in the rigorous application process formedical schools.

The Phoenix campus also has tried tobeef up administrative staff and faculty recruiting. Last June, the Phoenix school recruitedDr. Michael Fallon, who will be paid $680,000 per yearas the first chairman of the school's department of medicine. UA pledged a five-year, $40 million package for Fallon to build the department of medicine and recruit division chiefs, according to his offer letter.

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Ramos noted that the newly opened $136 million Biomedical Science Partnership Building will provide space forthe medical school to beef up research efforts.

Despite the medical school's strides,Neumayer said, she would not be surprised if the Liaison Committee issues some type of finding. The most difficult step is achieving preliminary accreditation. All schools that have completed that first step have advanced to full accreditation, though some schools may take longer to get there.

"The point is, just because they find something significant doesn't mean you are not going to get accredited or re-accredited," she said. "Clearly you have to pay attention to the standards and the changes. I view it as a way for us to make sure our medical schools are the best they can be."

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Fresno State President Joseph Castro says he wants to see any new effort to build a public medical school in the San Joaquin Valley be a collaboration between the UC and CSU systems.

Last month, Assemblymember Joaquin Arambula introduced a bill in Sacramento that would authorize a new medical school at Fresno State. But the states master plan for higher education calls for medical schools to be the domain only of the University of California.

Speaking with Valley Public Radio, Castro says he agrees with Arambula that the valley deserves a public medical school to help address the shortage of physicians here, but

Castro: Ive expressed to him that my preference as president of Fresno State is that we would do that in collaboration with the University of California."

For years, discussion about a medical school in the valley has centered around UC Merced, but Arambulas bill doesnt mention that campus. He told Valley Public Radio last month that's due to Merceds focus on increasing enrollment and campus expansion by 2010.

Still, Castro says he sees working with the UC system as the best way to bring a local school online quickly and affordably.

Castro: The University of California has strong clinical experience and background and facilities, we could do the basic science part of it, and I think together it could be much more efficient.

UCSF-Fresno currently runs a graduate medical education program in the valley. Before becoming Fresno States President in 2013, Castro was a vice chancellor at UCSF.

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Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin announced plans to bring an undocumented medical student as a guest to President Trump's first address to a joint session of Congress Tuesday night.

Durbin is one of the most vocal defenders of Barack Obama's executive action giving legal status to millions of children of illegal immigrants who have lived in the United States for years. He said he is honored to bring Aaima Sayed, a third-year medical student at Loyola University Chicago, to Trump's speech to Congress.

The Illinois Democrat has been pressing Trump to exclude these children, known as Dreamers, from any efforts to crack down on illegal immigrants.

Durbin he hopes Aaima's presence reminds Trump "what's at stake" in the debate over whether to overturn Obama's "dreamer" executive order "the lives of more than 750,000 innocent young people and the well-being of entire communities."

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Earlier this year, Durbin reintroduced a bipartisan bill to ensure that dreamers remain protected from deportation during the Trump administration. The measure would cement Obama's executive order to provide temporary relief from deportation, as well as work authorization for young immigrants who were brought to the United States as children.

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MIAMI (CBSMiami) Liberty City is buzzing with Oscar pride after Moonlight took home three of those little gold statues.

It made me feel good, said Marva, a Liberty City resident. Im a black person and you know for a black young boy like that it made me feel good. Im proud of them.

On Monday, at MLK Restaurant, CBS4s Mike Cugno met up with rapper Luther Campbell who says he hopes the film casts a new light on their city.

Unfortunately the only thing you see is the shooting and the murders and the drive-bys, those things, said Campbell. There are some special people in Liberty City.

Now the world will get to see a different side of this area as well as a couple of emerging stars Alex Hibbert and Jaden Piner.

Those are the two Norland middle school students who were in the film.

Many people think Miami is just something that is beautiful, said Norland student Shadavia Jones. I feel like this movie showed the real Miami.

Now a community known more for its football stats has something new to hang its hats on.

We got an Oscar, said Campbell. Thats something that nobody can ever take away from us. I said in a tweet last night Im proud as hell to be from Liberty City.

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When film director Barry Jenkins and playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney took the stage to accept the best adapted screenplay Oscar for their movie, Moonlight, they let the world know where they came from.

Thank God for my mother, who proved to me through her struggles, and the struggles that Naomie Harris portrayed for all of you, that we can really be here and be somebody, McCraney said. Two boys from Liberty City up here on this stage here representing the 305.

At that moment, I was so fucking proud to also be a Liberty City native. And when Moonlight won the Academy Award for best picture, I shed tears. We are not Bal Harbour. We are not Aventura. We are not Miami Beach. We are none of those glitzy tourist traps you see on travel brochures and national TV broadcasts. But Liberty City is a proud community of hard-working, talented people just like Jenkins and McCraney.

Just a few weeks ago, Devonta Freeman, a kid from the Pork 'n' Bean projects, starred for the Atlanta Falcons in the Super Bowl. Beginning with his Pop Warner days, he fought criticism that he wasnt fast enough, big enough, or strong enough to make it to the pros. Another native, Keon Hardemon, could have been just another public defender. Instead, hes one of the youngest politicians to serve as chairman of the Miami City Commission.Briana Rollins went from starring on the Miami Northwestern High track team to winning an Olympic gold medal last year. And neighborhood football was featured last week nationally on Vice World of Sports.

Being from Liberty City taught me to fight for what I believe in, even if it means taking the battle all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Seeing Jenkins and McCraney conquer the Academy Awards, an institution that has faced valid criticism for not recognizing black films, proves that people from Liberty City can do anything they set their sights on.

It made me so happy to be from the place in Miami where the voices of the suffering often go unheard. Last night on national television, kids from Liberty City saw for themselves that their dreams can come true.

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Liberty senior guard Avery Ingle is a trailblazer.

In her final season of high school basketball, Ingle continues to set the course for the Eagles.

Ingle not only is averaging 16.5 points per game for the Eagles (11-14), but she crossed the 1,000-point barrier for her career and helped her team to its first tournament championship.

I really had two goals coming in this season, Ingle said. I wanted to win our tournament and I wanted to get to the 1,000-point mark. It's great that both were able to happen.

One accomplishment Ingle would like, though not a first for the program, would be a district win and a prolonged postseason run. That starts at 4 p.m. Tuesday when Liberty hosts Hannibal.

No matter the outcome, Liberty coach Joe Walterbach said Ingle has cemented her legacy and it goes much further than her 1,074 career points.

There are a bunch of records that she set, Walterbach said. It's more than her just being one of the first ones to play at the school. Some of the records she has set will last for years.

Ingle, who said she plans to plan college basketball, has established program records for steals (124), 3-pointers (119) and blocked shots (25).

Ingle said she feels gratitude for her school and the others who have been with her since the program's beginning guard Jordan Baumann and forwards Savannah Kruse and Kylie Seaton.

The quartet has gone from one to eight to 11 wins during their varsity tenure. The program's first season in 2013-14 was sub-varsity only.

We've been together since, literally, the first day, Ingle said. We've been through three coaches, but these girls have stayed together the whole time. We've all worked so hard to build things up. Personally, I'm excited to be able to set records. Last year was just a really good year. I think it's really good to be the first record holder because then I'm not taking records away from anybody else who worked hard to achieve them.

Ingle hit the game-winner to give Liberty its first title in its own tournament, and she recently came up with a big steal to seal a recent win over Zumwalt East.

Walterbach said Ingle and her fellow seniors have built a culture of success for the future at Liberty.

We spent some time working out every day as a group with all levels involved, Walterbach said. The younger girls get to see the things Avery and the other seniors do and know what they need to emulate. The great thing with Avery is what they may not see. She's in the gym every day, working on her shot. We opened up the gym for her so she could keep working on it on a Sunday.

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Two North Liberty City Council members have applied to be appointed as mayor following former Mayor Amy Nielsen's resignation last year.

Mayor Pro Tem Terry Donahueand council member Chris Hoffman have submitted their names for the council's consideration. Donahuehas served as acting mayor since Nielsen'sDec. 31 departurefollowing her election to the Iowa House in November.

The council is poised to make the appointment at its meeting at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at 3 Quail Creek Circle.

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The city's new mayor is expected to serve until Dec. 31, 2017, when Nielsen's current term is set to end. To serve beyond that time, the appointee would have to campaign for the city's regular November election.

In his application for the appointment, Donahue said his nine years on the North Liberty City Council and previous stint as mayor of Creston have prepared him to serve as North Liberty's mayor.

Donahue, who is retired, sits on a number of local boards and said he looks forward to being part of North Liberty's continued development.

Hoffman has been a council member since 2007 and works as a business developer for North Liberty-based Moxie Solar. His connections in government and the community make him "uniquely qualified" to serve as mayor, he said in his application.

Hoffman said during his time on the council he has abstained from votes that present a potential conflict of interest with his employment and plans to continue to abstain from such discussionsif appointed as mayor.

Community members will have 14 days after the council votes on the appointment to submit a petition demanding a special election. To call a special election, the petition needs 26 signatures from registered voters, or 15 percent of the number of votes cast in the last regular mayoral election in 2013.

According to estimates provided by the Johnson County auditor's office, a special election would cost the city about $3,500 if one polling place were opened and about $5,000 if all polling places were opened.

City Attorney Scott Peterson has said if the council chooses to appoint a seated council member as mayor, the council will be faced with the same decision and time frame as with the mayoral vacancy. Community members also can petition for a special election of a council memberbut would need to gather 70 signatures, or 15 percent of the number of votes cast for council candidates in the 2015 city election.

Reporter Stephen Gruber-Miller contributed to this story.

Reach Andy Davis at 319-887-5404 or at aldavis@press-citizen.com, and follow him on Twitter as @BylineAndyDavis.

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The National Sheriffs Association (NSA) has given Bedford County Sheriff Mike Brown a huge honor: Sheriff of the Year. Its a title he wears with pride and with a good dose of humility.

Im very fortunate, Brown said. Im not sure I deserve it. Its not me; all of this is because of the people I have working for me and have been working for me for the last 21 years. They are the ones who make it happen.

Many people in Central Virginia, including many at Liberty University, know of Sheriff Browns accomplishments. Brown has achieved a sort of local celebrity status, appearing frequently in local TV newscasts and newspapers over the years, discussing various crimes his department has worked and solved. He has also received nationwide attention for his departments efforts, many of which impressed the NSA and led to the honor. Brown had the opportunity to meet with President Donald Trump while attending an NSA conference in Washington, D.C., earlier this month.

On behalf of the Liberty University community, I am proud to congratulate Sheriff Mike Brown on being named Sheriff of the Year, said Liberty President Jerry Falwell. No one deserves this honor more than Sheriff Brown. His achievements in his decades of service in law enforcement are unprecedented. Were proud to call Sheriff Brown and his wife, Janet, our good friends.

Sheriff Brown himself is proudest of his departments work with the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force. Bedford County is home to one of 10 ICAC units in the country, which tracks and investigates illegal online activity aimed at children.

Weve had some big cases, Brown said. If Im remembered for anything, thats what I would like to be remembered for.

To raise awareness about the dangers of social media, especially for children and teens, Sheriff Brown worked on the movie Finding Faith, starring Erik Estrada and a number of Liberty students. Liberty was directly involved in the film, providing locations, housing, and equipment. Over 90 percent of those working on the film were affiliated with Liberty in some way. The movie tells the story of a teenage girl whose innocent use of social media leads to her abduction. It is based largely on real-life cases Sheriff Brown and his team have worked. The movie was backed by The Safe Surfin Foundation, which was started by Brown and supplies Internet safety education materials to students across the country at no cost to the user.

Liberty also supported Brown's department in January 2015 when it provided box lunches and transportation for law enforcement who were conducting a search on Taylor Mountain in a case involving two sisters who went missing in 1975.

Other achievements under Browns leadership include:

>The Protect the Protectors Program The Bedford County Sheriffs Office has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars to provide more than 600 ballistic vests to officers across the country.

>COPsync After being turned down on his request for more School Resource Officers, Brown set out to improve communications between schools and all officers. With the press of a button, any school can alert the five nearest deputies of trouble. A first in Virginia, this system is even faster than dialing 9-1-1.

>Cyberbullying Awareness Program In an effort to fight youth suicide, Sheriff Brown secured private donations to produce an educational DVD to raise awareness of the dangers and signs of cyberbullying.

Sheriff Brown and his wife describe themselves as lifelong friends of the university.

Our relationship with Liberty is strong, always has been, Sheriff Brown said.

In fact, Libertys founder, the late Dr. Jerry Falwell, helped the Brown family through a very dark time in their lives the death of their 17-year-old son, Matthew, in a car accident in 1997. Both parents were devastated, but Janet was struggling mightily with the loss.

For about a year, I really didnt do anything, said Dr. Janet Brown. Then I ran into Doc (Falwell) at a social function, and he told me there was a position available in his office and I should apply for it, and I did.

She got the job, then earned her degree in psychology in 2002. Next came her masters in 2004 and then teaching part time. She received her Ph.D. from Liberty in 2008 and is now an associate professor of psychology.

I dont know what wouldve happened to me, said Janet Brown. I know it was the hand of God. Once I came to work for Dr. Falwell, my life turned around.

The Browns arent sure what will come next for them. Sheriff Brown has three more years in his final term in office. His wife says she has no plans to retire.

I love what Im doing. I love my students. I love Liberty.

Sheriff Brown loves Liberty, too.

We owe so much to both Doc and Jerry (President Falwell) and to Liberty, Sheriff Brown said. We really do.

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'Moonlight'I had already prepared myself for the disappointment of La La Land beating out Moonlight for the Academy Award for best movie. I saw both movies and thought Moonlight was superior in all the ways that matter to mestrong characters, powerful storytelling, and emotional impact. But Hollywood loves itself above all things, and I was prepared for another Crash versus Brokeback Mountain train wreck.

When La La Land was initially declared the winner, I simply shrugged and started shutting everything down for the night. It was only by circumstance that I powered down my computer first and still had the television on when the mistake was revealed. It was a happy surprise to me that Moonlight won, and I just wanted to take a moment to recommend anybody who identifies as a libertarian to go so the movie if they haven't yet.

If I were to describe a movie as being about a young gay black man coming of age in an extremely poor Miami neighborhood surrounded by drug culture, violence, and bullies, it may be a natural inclination to expect something very preachy and full of "Something must be done about this!" messages.

That's not Moonlight. What makes Moonlight work is that it's almost the exact opposite. It throws the viewer into the life of young protagonist Chiron and has the confidence to let us come to terms with the combination of awfulness and hopefulness of his experiences. It's a deeply personal story informed by the real world experiences of the two men behind it.

What does this have to do with libertarianism? Government institutions are shown as failing Chiron, and there's no effort to present these systems as part of the solution. School does nothing to protect him. And when he finally acts out in frustration when the violent bullying becomes too much, he finds the criminal justice system ready to come crashing down on him.

There is no lecturing about this institutional failure. It's presented as a lived-in experience. The story of Moonlight trusts the viewer to understand its deeper meaning. It's not complicated, but it is subtle. That the time jump between teen Chiron and adult Chiron includes a prison stint is handled almost like an aside.

But the movie is far from hopeless, and it's not a tragedy. This is not Brokeback Mountain recast in an urban setting during the crack epidemic. It's challenging and at times very difficult to watch play out (particularly if you were, for disclosure's sake, a gay man who also grew up dirt poor in Florida and had a mother with drug issues), but Chiron does find a path that suggests a way toward personal happiness even as it embeds him further into a life operating through some shadowy options (I'm trying not to spoil too much).

Consider Moonlight to be the film equivalent of the personal stories Reason shares about those who have been granted mercy from harsh mandatory minimum sentences. When we look at the cruelty of the drug war, the use of police in schools, and the failures of prohibition and their disparate impact on minorities, it's easy to want throw out data and just hope that makes an impression. Moonlight attaches it all to a story and invites the audience to live through the consequences of this harsh dynamic partly created by government officials (at the demand of their constituencies) without judging them and putting them on the defensive. The movie illustrates a fight for self-determination and personal happiness in a harsh environment where authority is stacked against the protagonistsomething every libertarian should be able to identify with.

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Feb. 7: Muhammad Ali Jr., returning to the U.S. from a speaking engagement in Jamaica, is detained for two hours at Florida's Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport and questioned about his name and religious beliefs.

Feb. 22: Passengers disembarking from a domestic (San Francisco to New York) flight at JFK airport are held up by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents demanding their IDs.

Feb. 24: Jeffrey Tucker of the Foundation for Economic Education clears the usual security checks at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Airport en route to Mexico. Then, while actually boarding the plane, he and the other passengers on the flight are stopped by U.S. Marshals demanding that they submit to retinal scans.

You're probably thinking that this is the point where I'll take a break to blame Donald Trump. It isn't. It's the point where I'll take a break to remind Americans who've been voting for politicians who promise to "secure the border" and other such authoritarian nonsense that THIS is exactly what they've been voting for.

When advocating for the libertarian position on immigration ("open borders," which also happens to have been the position Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush both took in the 1980 Republican presidential primary debates), I usually prefer to stick to the moral argument. That argument, put simply, is that where peaceful people move to, settle or work is nobody's business but theirs.

But there are practical arguments against America's increasingly draconian immigration laws too. Enforcement is expensive but, fortunately, almost certain to be ineffectual (if it worked, severe economic downturn would be the result).

The most important of the practical arguments, in my opinion, is that a police state built to persecute immigrants will necessarily persecute everyone else as well.

I've spoken with friends who traveled in the old Soviet Union and eastern Europe before the Berlin Wall came down. They see near-complete similarity between those regimes and the operations of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Customs and Border Protection and Border Patrol forces.

The difference between pre-reunification East Germany and the 100-mile wide "constitution-free zone" along the U.S.-Mexico border is the flag the agencies in question salute. Recent administrations have worked to expand that zone to cover the entire country and the Trump administration seems bent on finishing the job.

The near-total police state blossoming before our eyes is the inevitable result of America's 70-year romance with the astoundingly stupid idea that it's the government's business to monitor and control who travels, lives and works where.

America had legally open borders for its first century as a nation, and nearly so for half a century after that. It wasn't until after World War II that one even needed a passport to enter or leave the United States.

Open borders worked. Freedom worked.

The subsequent seven decades of attempts at rigorous immigration control have irrefutably established that our choice is not between open borders and closed borders, but between immigration freedom or totalitarian government. And Americans' time to stop the stampede toward the latter is running short.

Thomas L. Knapp (Twitter: @thomaslknapp) is director and senior news analyst at the William Lloyd Garrison Center for Libertarian Advocacy Journalism (thegarrisoncenter.org). He lives and works in north central Florida.

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Two lawmakers urged the Foreign Ministry to take action against the UAE to end the occupation of two Iranian islands, over which Iran lost control during the Qajar Dynasty (17891925). The two islands are named Aryana (or Sir Abu Neir) and Zarkooh (or Zirco). Unfortunately, Iran had no control over these islands in recent decades, but all historic documents prove they were part of Iran in the past, Mojtaba Zolnour also told ICANA on Monday. The lawmaker said Irans restraint and patience over unfounded UAE claims on the three islands of Abu Musa, Greater Tunb and Lesser Tunb has emboldened Irans Arab neighbor to raise its voice. Definitely, Iran should stand up to the UAE aggression against Iranian islands, he said. The three Persian Gulf islands have always been part of Iran historically, the proof of which can be found in and corroborated by countless historical, legal and geographical documents. The islands were occupied by British forces in 1921, but they withdrew in 1971 and the islands were returned to Irans sovereignty, days before the end of the British protectorate and formation of the UAE. The settlement came after three years of talks between Tehran and London, which announced in 1968 that it was leaving the Persian Gulf. Under an agreement between Iran and Britain, Irans Pahlavid king in 1969 dropped Irans claims on Bahrain, another island that has been historically part of Iran. However, the UAE has repeatedly made baseless claims over the islands since the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran. In 1980, the UAE submitted its claim to the United Nations. In the 1990s, the UAE asked Iran to agree to taking the dispute to the International Court of Justice in The Hague. Iran has responded by stating that its sovereignty over the islands is not negotiable, although it has called for bilateral talks with the UAE to clear up any misunderstandings. Seyyed Hossein Naqavi Hosseini, another lawmaker, told ICANA on Sunday that the UAE move in occupying Iranian islands is totally against international law. The Foreign Ministry should react to the occupation of Iranian soil and prosecute perpetrators, he said. We can go to the international court in The Hague to defend our sovereignty over Aryana and Zarkooh.

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OSLO The Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean became the first nation on Tuesday to ratify a 2016 accord to cut the use of powerful factory-made greenhouse gases, saying the survival of the nation was at risk from climate change.

The parliament of the Marshall Islands, with a population of 53,000 vulnerable to rising sea levels caused by melting ice, approved the plan to curb use of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) that are used in refrigerants and air conditioning.

The decision is a sign of continuing action to limit global warming despite uncertainty about future U.S. climate policies under President Donald Trump. Trump has expressed doubts that man-made greenhouse gases stoke warming.

"My country will not survive without urgent action to cut emissions by every country and every sector of our economies, including HFCs," said Marshall Islands President Hilda Heine.

"This deal is good for our people, the planet, and the profits of those that follow in our footsteps," she said in a statement, which said the country was the first to ratify the HFC agreement worked out in Kigali, Rwanda, in October 2016.

The Kigali pact, agreed by almost 200 nations including the United States, will phase down the use of HFCs, which can be 10,000 times more powerful than carbon dioxide in trapping heat in the atmosphere.

It will enter into legal force on Jan. 1, 2019, assuming at least 20 nations have formally ratified by that date.

The Marshall Islands was also the first to ratify the 2015 Paris climate agreement, which seeks a radical shift from fossil fuels this century to help avert heat waves, floods, droughts and rising sea levels.

Andrew Light, of the U.S.-based World Resources Institute think-tank, said U.S. companies such as Honeywell and DuPont had already developed new chemicals that are less environmentally harmful than HFCs.

"It makes sense economically for the United States," he said of the HFC pact. Trump has not publicly expressed his opinion about the HFC agreement that was strongly favored by former U.S. President Barack Obama to limit global warming.

Last year, almost 200 nations, ranging from China and OPEC nations to Pacific island states, reaffirmed after Trump's election victory that action on climate change was an "urgent duty". The Paris Agreement has now been ratified by 132 nations.

HFCs were introduced as substitutes for chlorofluorocarbons, which were damaging the ozone layer that protects the planet from ultraviolet rays that cause skin cancer.

But scientists later found that HFCs, while better for the ozone layer, were stoking global warming.

(Reporting by Alister Doyle)

WASHINGTON President Donald Trump is seeking what he called a "historic" increase in defense spending, but ran into immediate opposition from Republicans in Congress who must approve his plan and said it was not enough to meet the military's needs.

Gregory Abel, chief executive of the energy unit of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc, was awarded $17.52 million in compensation last year, mainly in the form of a bonus, a regulatory filing shows.

BRUSSELS EU environment ministers are bracing for a tough debate on Tuesday to find a compromise on reforms to the carbon market, EU sources said, with nations split over how to balance climate ambitions with protection for energy-intensive industry.

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