Who? Jaye Richards
What? Won Student of the Month Award
Where? James Bowie High School
When? September 2015
Why? Academic Success and Involvement with the school.
How? Nominated by Student Counsel and Teachers.
Student Of The Month Story (NOT DONE YET)
Jaye Richards was nominated as Student of the Month by the student counsel at James Bowie High School for the month of September 2015 because of her academic success and involvement with the school.
"It feels great being student of the month!" Jaye said.
Jaye being nominated has affected the school in many different ways.
"This student has become an example and role model for other students of the school. It proves that if you try hard enough you can do very well!" Jayes English teacher Ms.Guillea exclaimed.
Jaye says that her accomplishment hasn't affected her social life and it seems that no one really cares that she was chosen.
"I am not treated differently, and only the other students who also wanted to be student of the month are the ones who really care" Jaye said.
Because of her accomplishment teachers are being more thorough and attentive to the student.
Jayes English Teacher said "As a teacher I do cut them less slack because they have proven to me that they are capable of doing what I ask so I try to keep challenging them and pushing them forward."
While Jaye believes that she earned student of the month, some others don't.
A member of the Student Counsel said "Personally, I do not think that this student has earned the privilege to be student of the month what so ever, the only thing that they have shown is arrogance and self pride."
Her english teacher also had a very similar view too.
"I would like to say that I am fairly proud of this student but I think they need to be more humble and thoughtful about it so they do not upset anyone." Ms.Guillea said.
Jaye plans on being student of the month again.
"I would like to be student of the month again and to do so I am going to keep doing what it is I am doing!" Jaye said
But the student counsel member harshly disagrees with Jaye.
"They never deserved to be student of the month in the first place!" exclaimed the student.
If Jaye was given the choice to choose not being student of the month she wouldn't have done it.
"No, I am very proud of my achievements and I worked for it." Jaye responded
Being student of the month has overall made her month better and she will remember this month.
"It has made my month better since I have been chosen, I will remember it forever." Jaye said.
There was something they all particularly agreed on though, none of them think students should be chosen at all as a student of the month for multiple reasons.
"In my opinion I do not believe that students should be selected because it can bring up bad situations and put the student in hard places like it has no. It would be better if instead of one person being singled out it was like an honor role where it has the top students of those categories." Ms. Guillea said
Jaye had a very similar perspective to her teachers.
"I don't feel students should be selected at all because it can cause conflict and jealousy among the students." Jaye said.
Here are the Sources for my the interview 1. Student Counsel Member 2. A teacher of the student of the month
Here are the Questions I would have for a student member of the student counsel
1. Do you think they earned student of the month?
"Personally, I do not think that this student earned the privilege to be student of the month what so ever. They only thing they have shown is arrogance and self pride, they are a teachers pet and act different around adults to please and trick them to do what it is they want them to do."
2. How were they chosen? "A handful of students were selected based on academic and athletic success, then the counsel voted who should be student of the month. I really didn't think this student would become student of the month, my hypothesis is that the student payed members of the counsel to vote for them."
3. Are you hoping they are student of the month again? "Heck no, this person is way to prideful and arrogant, they never deserved to be student of the month in the first place."
4. Have you ever been student of the month? "I have never been student of the month because I'm not the best academically compared to these students."
5. Is anyone else competing with the student? "Like I said before, their were a few others who we could have chosen but didn't for some stupid unknown reason, in fact there were a few individuals who really did deserve to be student of the month and I highly respect them."
6. Are they treated differently? "The student didn't have many friends in the first place due to their personality and the way they treat people, but because they were chosen teachers judge them more thoroughly."
For a teacher of theirs:
1. How does them being student of the month affect the school? "This student has become an example and role model for the other students of the school, It proves that if you try hard enough you can do very well in many aspects."
2. Do people expect more from them now? "As a teacher I do cut them less slack because they have proven to me they are capable of doing what I ask so I try to keep challenging them and pushing them forward."
3. Are they judged more critically? "Just by seeing how this student socially acts around other students, all I can see is their being chosen just made the individual more prideful and is not helping him make friends or for people to want to talk to them."
4. Has the student ever thanked you? "Actually no, and that frustrates me a little bit because I was one of the voters who voted for this student. The student appears to believe that they earned it by themselves and don't need my help."
5. Is their anything you personally want to say about the situation? "I would like to say that I am fairly proud of this student for earning this title, but I think they need to be more humble and thoughtful about it so they do no upset anyone."
6. Do you think students should even be selected at all as student of the months? "In my opinion I do not believe that students should be selected because it can bring up bad situations and put the student in hard places like it has now. It would be better if instead of one person being singled out it was like an honor role where it has the top students of those categories."
James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the double helix structure of DNA in 1953. They proved a fellow scientists theory wrong and received a nobel prize because of their discovery. The reason they did so much research in this topic is because they realized the understanding of the structural configuration of the gene was a a central problem in molecular biology.
Why?
This event was a big deal in the history of science and of the world for many reasons. Mainly it was that we now understood what it was that determined certain traits and how it worked. This opened many new doors and questions in molecular biology. Like whether or not we can alter DNA, well guess what, we already have. Scientists have been able to "edit" DNA structures on multiple animals and change their features. We have also successfully cloned creatures through this discovery.
Regular broadcasts begin in america.
In 1909 america started to switch to radio communication rather than other forms like the telegraph. No longer was this communication just used for military any more. Radio communication was becoming commercial, and regularly broadcasting radio stations started popping up everywhere.
Why?
Radio communication was a big deal because it changed the way everybody operated in america. We now had access to effective and fast communication all over the country. It also opened up many new jobs and new ways of entertainment. Companies started opening up broadcasting stations left and right and before you knew it, america had become a big radio itself. We gained international communication through radio technology.
First american in space.
Alan Shepard became the first american in space when on May 5th ,1961. (Alan also later went to the moon and played golf.) The Russians had beat us by about 2 months on getting the first man into space but Alan still went for it. He called it the "Ride of a lifetime" and this event was watched by many americans and sparked hope in the chance to get to the moon first.
Why?
In my opinion this one is pretty obvious, we made it to flipping space. Still today thats pretty cool to me, but back then it was even better. It also pretty brave to be the first person of your country to put yourself in a box and fall from space down to the earth. This man really has trust in his country and what they have invested into this project. Also this was very important because it was the point america really kicked into high gear and chose to go to the moon. But that time we actually got there first.
1.The Pope will be visiting the white house, addressing congress, The united nations, and Philadelphia during his six day visit.
2. The occupancy limits are that there can be no more than six unrelated guests, no more than 10 guests total, no more than 2 people per bedroom, no more than an assembly of six people outside.
3. They gave the cars software that evades emission controls, violating the clean air act.
4. Matt Cassal has been assigned as Tony Romos replacement for the time being.
5. If the new clean air rules apply it will affect Samsung and The cement company in a very large way.
School Standards
These students are very brave, they want to make a difference in a education system that is broken and unfair. They showed how they had no voice in the choice of the difficulty of their education, and are seen as numbers rather than people. This brings up a very interesting point too, why is it that we are forced to learn so much information we will never use in our life? Why are we said its okay to be different, but then based on the same standards? How is that fair? These students are trying to get that through the education boards stubborn head, its time for a change. The efforts of the students I really hope do make a difference but if we really want to fix this, then all students will have to stand up against it and help fix it. The state needs to spend money on the right things like getting better and more teachers, so we can have more direct and efficient learning experiences. I believe that the state should be forced to spend more money on educational purposes because after all, we are the future.
Here are the Sources for my the interview
1. Jaye Richards
2. Student Counsel Member
3. A teacher of the student of the month
Here are the Questions I would have for the student of the month.
1. Why are you the student of the month? "I am student of the month because of my academic success."
2. What did you do to become the student of the month? "I worked and studied hard academically."
3. How does it feel being the student of the month? "It feels great being student of the month!"
4. Do you think you earned student of the month? "Yes I believe that I earned the privilege to be student of the month"
5. How were you chosen? "I was chosen among other nominees to be student of the month."
6. Do you receive a prize as student of the month? "No I did not get a prize, only bragging rights."
7. When were you chosen? "I was chosen 2 weeks ago"
8. Are you planning on being the student of the month again? "Yes I would like to be student of the month again."
9. How are you going to do that? "Im going to keep doing what I am doing"
10. Is anyone else competing with you? "Yes there are others going for my spot."
11. Are you treated differently? "I am not treated differently and I am in a way oblivious to it."
12. Are you surprised? "Very surprised, I didn't expect to be chosen."
13. Do any of the other students care? "Only the other students who also wanted to be student of the month care."
14. How does this change your month? "It has made this month better since I have been chosen."
15. Do people expect more from you now? "Yeah, it seems as if the standards are higher."
16. Are you judged more critically? "I would guess so since more is expected of me"
17. What do your parents think of the situation? "They are very proud of me and my achievements."
18. Is it something you will remember? "Yes, I will remember this forever."
19. Would you rather have not been student of the month? "No, I am very proud of my achievements and I worked for it."
20. Do you think students should even be selected at all as student of the months? " I don't feel students should be selected at all because it can cause conflict and jealousy among the students."
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The person I would interview would have to be a student who already has to wear a uniform. Some good questions to ask, would be asking about their opinion on the uniforms and how they feel about them. Also whether they would prefer the freedom to choose what they wear.
Sources
1. Maddie
2. My Mom
3. My Dad
Questions for the individuals
1. Do you enjoy wearing a uniform?
2. Does it seem repetitive?
3. Do you feel limited?
4. Are you forced to wear it?
5. Does everybody wear the uniform?
6. Would you rather have the freedom of choice?
7. Do you think everybody in AISD should have to wear uniforms?
8. Can you alter the school uniform?
9. Do teachers have to wear a uniform/If not should they?
10. Does it make you worry less/feel more secure.
11. Do you find yourself wearing more things like your uniform when you can choose?
12. Does anything about the uniform bother you?
13. Is the uniform consistent with both genders?
14. Is their only one uniform you can wear or multiple versions?
15. Are you less distracted?
16. Is it comfortable/ or annoying?
17. Do you feel less judgmental because of the uniforms?
18. Is clothing the only thing everybody is forced have the same?
19. What is the reason your school says they make you wear uniforms for?
20. Does everybody like wearing the uniform?
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1. The republican party presidential debate was held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in Simi Valley, California.
2. The Berhnards greatest concerns are the terminals 6 a.m to midnight operating hours.
3. Uber wants to grow to the east side due to the growing demand on the east side of austin.
4. The 5 things that the new coach wants to do is, say thank you, keep the trains moving, finish the nike deal, mend fences with the Texas exes, and embrace the coaches.
5. The unique thing about the sculpture is that it changes shape while it does the rain data.
Teen's clock raises alarm:
I think that this is an interesting story and brings up some interesting points and some questions that need to be answered. First off all the question off whether this was a racial issue upon which he was judged. I believe that this was a racial issue and that he was judged unfairly based on his race and his faith. Also when they said that racial comment during the meeting and the person responding saying that was offended and then they were escorted out, thats kinda messed up. We do have the right of speech after all, they just didn't want that persons opinion to show them that the decision they made was wrong and cruel. So I believe this story should be less focused on the student but more on the school officials because they are the one who created this conflict and judged incorrectly. They are the ones who need to be getting an education, not this kid, he can already make a clock! Thats some serious skill! I do not believe that the boy should be compensated for this matter because, on his part he should have had better judgment to not bring something that could make people afraid to school, and he got to go to DC and received a lot of attention to the matter, I think that is enough praise for him.
The Medias Foul Ball
In this article a conflict occurs during a baseball game, a ball is hit and a spectator decides to catch it but stops a player in the game from catching the ball, effecting the outcome of the game. The man is pelted by things and yelled at by fans, he is then removed from the stadium.Then the news decides to post an article about this situation but gave out his name, where he works, and where he lives.
I think this one is obvious, this is ethically unacceptable, by releasing this information about him he has a very good chance of getting hurt or even killed in a extreme situation by angered fans. The news has put this mans life in danger, because they believed it was acceptable to do so.
Using The "Holocaust" Metaphor
This article is about the comparison of lots of animals being slaughter to the planned genocide of jews.
It puts pictures side to side of concentration camps and slaughter houses showing the similarities.
This is an interesting subject, because the fact that people are comparing animals too humans is almost like they are trying to make us treat animals like humans and humans like animals. The reason we slaughter animals is because we all need food, not to get rid of them like the nazis were doing to the jews, but they are a supply that we need to survive. So comparing them to the holocaust is absolutely silly and childish. This is ethically wrong and not a truthful comparison.
Publishing Drunk Driver's Photos
In this situation the publisher of a newspaper in anderson decided to start putting the pictures of people convicted of drunk driving in the county. He used it as leverage to encourage the decrease of drunk driving, he did not receive good responses from the people because the news circulates and gets around to everyone, so if your picture got published, everyone would know. And not only did he just post your picture he posted your name, where you live, when you were arrested and your blood level at the time.
This publisher has gone to far, these people don't deserve this amount of pointing out, they already had to struggle with the fact that they were driving drunk and got pulled over and possibly got in a wreck and could have killed someone. Putting all this information about them on the information is unacceptable in my opinion, this publisher needs to find another way to encourage the decrease of drunk driving, not blackmail. This is ethically wrong and not an appropriate policy for the newspaper.
1. The owner of a average home would save $14 dollars but their utility cost could go up by $60.
2. The homo neledi walked upright just like we do and had very similar feet and hands but a different shoulders and a smaller brain.
3. I think that this is super cool and quite inspiring but it does seem like it may be a little to hard for it to be done , but then again, nothing is impossible.
4. The new iphones have a higher pixel density screens, a new feature called 3d touch allowing you to do things faster, A better front and back camera, and a new ipad that comes with a stylus.
5. Ten things we thought we would have by now according to back to the future, Self tying shoes, Smart Clothing, Video conferencing, Video glasses, Dehydrated food, Automated Resteraunt servers, Flying Cameras, Games that don't use your hands, Hover-board, Flying cars
I personally think that the coolest thing truly would be the hover-board if it was as practical as it is in the movie.
154,000
First off thats quite a bit, but the question is does this guy deserve it? Well I think that the police office should not have used even close to as much brutal force as he did. But that doesn't change the fact that it happened, and this man could have looked suspicious to the police officer and maybe was actually about to do something illegal but the police officer should not take action until he knows for sure. So yes I think this guy deserves the money and actually probably really needs it and is in a desperate situation. Now if this guy had a criminal record then I do not believe that he should get the money because if he looked shady and it seemed like he was going to do something bad we probably was and its his fault he didn't get his life back together after his first crime. And from what I understand he is only getting $60,000 and his lawyer is getting the rest so that does make sense, I don't think that is too much for an assault like that. But if it were an incident where somebody died I believe that more money should be involved to help damages.
The reason we are seeing more of this in our society today is because their is a lot of conflict going on with the police force these days, they aren't trained enough to have the best judgment they can. Also they end up being sued because the person uses the law to their advantage and to get back at the police. So all in all, if everyone starts being less suspicious and police start being less nervous we will live in a safer world.
She became queen at 25 and as of Wednesday, at 89, has ruled for 23,226 days, or 63 years, seven months and two days, surpassing Queen Victoria, her great-great grandmother.
The first Queen Elizabeth gave her name to an age, as did Victoria, in an ever more powerful kingdom. But that is not going to be the legacy of this Elizabeth, who has reigned over Britain’s long transition from empire to Commonwealth, from world power to relative international insignificance.
The historian David Cannadine said Queen Elizabeth’s legacy would feature both transition and decline — the change of British society into “a much more fluid, multicultural, more secular society,” and “the downsizing of the British Empire into the British Commonwealth, the downsizing of Britain as a great power.”
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The coronation of Queen Elizabeth in Westminster Abbey on June 2, 1953.
Credit
Associated Press
For Mr. Cannadine, the queen has been “the perfect symbol for the orderly management, to the extent it’s been orderly, of domestic transformation and international decline.”
Through it all, she has managed to maintain public respect and belief in the monarchy — despite the sometimes scandalous behavior of her children and the spectacular death of Diana, the Princess of Wales — by her regal quiet.
Another historian, David Starkey, echoed Mr. McCartney’s insight into the queen. “She has made it an absolute rule to say nothing about anything,” he told the BBC.
“The other name, alongside Elizabeth the Changeless, could be Elizabeth the Silent,” he said. “And clearly it is deliberate.”
In private, as many attest, the queen can sometimes be sharp and even malicious, and a good mimic, Mr. Starkey said. But “in public utterance,” he said, “a very firm and large padlock is placed upon the royal lips.”
In this, the queen has embraced the wisdom of Walter Bagehot in “The English Constitution,” published as a book in 1867, when he said that to preserve a constitutional monarchy, “we must not let in daylight upon magic.”
The monarch should be “a visible symbol of unity,” he wrote.
And when the bright lights of the tabloids displayed the sometimes shocking, sometimes bizarre marital troubles of the first in line for the throne, Prince Charles, and those of Prince Andrew and Princess Anne, the queen kept her head down and did her sometimes tedious duty, keeping her own marriage together and deflecting criticism away from the institution.
She has also been rigorous about her responsibilities, again heeding Bagehot when he wrote that a sovereign has “three rights — the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn.” He added, “And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others.”
Her reign has included 12 British prime ministers, seven archbishops of Canterbury and seven popes. One of the prime ministers, John Major, called her “an absolute constant, that is very reassuring.”
In his memoir, Tony Blair recounted his first meeting with her as prime minister: “You are my 10th prime minister,” the queen told him. “The first was Winston. That was before you were born.”
The current prime minister, David Cameron, on Wednesday called the queen “a rock of stability in a world of constant change,” adding,“It is only right that we should celebrate her extraordinary record, as well as the grace and dignity with which she serves our country.”
Prime ministers are supposed to keep their conversations with the monarch private. But an embarrassed Mr. Cameron had to apologize to her last year after he was overheard telling the former mayor of New York, Michael R. Bloomberg, of the queen’s happiness that Scotland had voted to remain a part of the United Kingdom.
“The definition of relief is being the prime minister of the United Kingdom and ringing the queen and saying, ‘It’s all right, it’s O.K.,’ ” Mr. Cameron told Mr. Bloomberg. “That was something. She purred down the line.”
He then added, according to the BBC: “I’ve never heard someone tear up like that. It was great” — although Channel 4 decided the words were “cheer up.”
The queen spendt Wednesday in Scotland, doing her queenly duty. The Duke of Edinburgh, her husband, joined her to open the Scottish Borders Railway, and they rode on a steam train with Scotland’s first minister, Nicola Sturgeon.
There was more fuss in London, where regular business in the House of Commons was postponed for 30 minutes so that legislators could pay tribute.
A flotilla of historical vessels, leisure cruisers and passenger boats took part in a procession between Tower Bridge and the Houses of Parliament. The flotilla did not, however, include the Royal Yacht Britannia, which the queen loved but decommissioned in 1997 in response to public agitation for savings. It is now a tourist attraction in Edinburgh.
The official photograph of the queen released on Wednesday, with her “red box” full of government papers to read, was taken by Mr. McCartney’s daughter Mary, a professional photographer. The message of the photograph, of course, is that this queen is continuing to do her duty and exercise her functions, and that she has no interest in stepping down.
The monarchy and the queen are hardly without critics, and the republican movement, which regards the monarchy and its many branches as a waste of space and money, remains vocal.
Graham Smith, head of the anti-monarchist group Republic, said in a statement: “The queen has said nothing and done little that anyone can remember over 63 years in office. So instead we see commentators and cheerleaders projecting the nation’s history, changes and achievements onto the monarch.”
In reality, Mr. Smith said: “The queen has succeeded only in serving the monarchy and the status quo. It is now time for the country to look to the future and to choose a successor through free and fair elections, someone who can genuinely represent the nation.”
Polly Toynbee, a columnist for The Guardian newspaper, called the queen “the past-mistress of nothingness,” who only had to “stay alive, procreate and do nothing to upset the multitudes” to reach Wednesday’s milestone.
“Charles is now the oldest ever Prince of Wales,” she wrote. “If the queen lives as long as her mother, he’ll be 79 when/if he accedes.”
She fumed, as many have done before: “If centuries of privileged breeding and education produce dunderheads and philistines, that proves talent is genetically random, not inherited.”
“Put an end to this royal infantilizing of a nation,” she added. “Imagine how abolishing the monarchy would open all the dusty constitutional cupboards to the sunlight of reform. Let her reign as long as she lives — but let her be Elizabeth the Last.”
In his diaries, Alan Clark, one of the more indiscreet ministers to serve in her governments, described a 1991 ceremony in which he had been inducted into the Privy Council.
Queen Elizabeth was seated in a room with “indifferent pictures,” before rising from her chair and moving “regally, to initiate a painfully, grotesquely, banal conversation,” Mr. Clark wrote.
And that was 24 years ago. ARTICLE FROM NEW YORK TIMES
Proximity
I chose this article because this is a road i live very close to and is how i get to church.
Turn lanes at U.S. 290, William Cannon to open
TxDOT officials hope changes in Oak Hill reduce travel times.
By Ben Wear bwear@statesman.com
Jerry Strange, from his home atop Convict Hill in Oak Hill, has watched U.S. 290 evolve over the past 35 years from a lightly traveled rural highway to an all-day, suburban traffic nightmare.
And during the past couple of years, he’s likewise watched crews installing what Texas Department of Transportation officials hope will take a bite out of that congestion: a “continuous flow” intersection at U.S. 290 and William Cannon Drive. But Strange is skeptical about the size of that bite.
“It looks like some Aggie drew it up,” Strange, a retired mortuary owner, said of the odd collection of lanes set off by medians. “There’s nothing continuous about it.”
But when the new-style intersection opens early Wednesday, TxDOT officials believe the final stage of what has been $6.5 million of intersection improvements along U.S. 290 through Oak Hill will make a meaningful difference in traffic backups, reducing travel times through that area by 30 percent to 50 percent.
“This is not going to completely eliminate traffic congestion,” TxDOT spokeswoman Kelli Reyna cautioned. “But if you have to sit through two cycles of the light when it used to be four or five cycles, it’s a huge improvement.”
She emphasized that the department is continuing design and environmental clearance work on the so-called Oak Hill Parkway, what is likely to be the expressway through Oak Hill that TxDOT has been trying to get approved and constructed for more than 20 years. TxDOT hopes for final environmental approval next year of what has been proposed as a toll road. For now, drivers will have this “interim” change.
The U.S. 290 and William Cannon intersection, through Tuesday, was operating as a traditional confluence of two heavily traveled roads. The repeating cycle of signals included four parts: green light time for east and west travel on U.S. 290; green for left turns from U.S. 290 onto William Cannon; green for north and south on William Cannon; and yet another green for left turns from William Cannon to U.S. 290.
What TxDOT has done eliminates the time devoted to one of those parts, the left turns from U.S. 290 to William Cannon. People wishing to make those lefts, instead of lining up at the intersection in a traditional left-turn bay, instead will queue up several hundred feet before it in a separate channel controlled by a new traffic light. As long as traffic is moving east-west on U.S. 290, they will face a red light.
But when the main intersection signal goes green for north-south on William Cannon, their control lights will as well, allowing them to cross the opposing direction of U.S. 290 and then line up in a left turn bay on what most people think of as the wrong side of the street. Then, when the light goes green for east-west U.S. 290, they’ll be able to turn left without obstructing or waiting for oncoming traffic.
The net result, with one piece of the traffic signal cycle removed, is more time for the three that are left. City of Austin officials, who control the signal timing of the U.S. 290/ William Cannon light, will allot 7 percent to 10 percent more time for east-west U.S. 290 than was the case with the traditional intersection. In the afternoon, that will amount to about 10 extra seconds for westbound drivers in each 150-second cycle.
By moving more people through the intersection on a continual basis, and thus preventing or lessening traffic stack-ups, the percentage of time saved will actually be several times greater than the percentage of added green light time, officials said.
TxDOT in the past two years has opened two other continuous flow intersections, both in San Marcos, and is working on yet another at RM 1431 and Ronald Reagan Boulevard in Cedar Park.
The changes along U.S. 290 in Oak Hill have included another continuous flow left turn, from eastbound U.S. 290 to westbound Texas 71 at the Oak Hill “Y” and the replacement of a traffic light at Joe Tanner Lane with a U-turn lane in the center median. TxDOT spent an additional $4.6 million to widen U.S. 290 and add left turn lanes between the Y and RM 1826.
Contact Ben Wear at 512-445-3698.
A new left turn channel at the intersection of U.S. 290 West and William Cannon in Oak Hill in Southwest Austin is set to open Wednesday, giving motorists some hopeful traffic relief. RALPH BARRERA/ AMERICAN-STATESMAN
PROMINENCE
I chose this article because Kim Davis is
a big deal in the news currently.
Clerk who defied court order freed from jail
Kim Davis didn’t say if she will interfere with licenses.
GRAYSON, KY. — Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk who was jailed for refusing to give marriage licenses to same-sex couples, walked free Tuesday after five days, but she and her lawyer would not say whether she would abide by a court order not to interfere with the issuance of licenses by her office.
Five of her deputies in the Rowan County Clerk’s Office have been issuing marriage licenses since Friday, after telling Judge David Bunning of U.S. District Court that they would do so.
Bunning sent Davis to jail last Thursday for defying his order, but in a two-page order Tuesday, the judge said he would release her because he was satisfied that her office was “fulfilling its obligation to issue marriage licenses to all legally eligible couples.”
The order came with a stern warning: “Defendant Davis shall not interfere in any way, directly or indirectly, with the efforts of her deputy clerks to issue marriage licenses to all legally eligible couples,” and that the deputies would report to him every two weeks. “If Defendant Davis should interfere in any way with their issuance, that will be considered a violation of this order and appropriate sanctions will be considered.”
A short time later, Davis spoke briefly to a rally of cheering supporters outside the Carter County Detention Center here, where she had been held. She walked on stage to thunderous applause, the song “Eye of the Tiger” playing, her hands held aloft in triumph by her lawyer, Mathew Staver, and Mike Huckabee, the Republican presidential candidate and former Arkansas governor. She broke into tears.
“Thank you all so much; I love you all so very much,” she said after composing herself. “I just want to give God the glory. His people have rallied, and you are a strong people. Just keep on pressing. Don’t let down. Because he is here.”
Davis walked out of the detention center about 2:35 p.m., flanked by Huckabee, Staver and her husband, Joe. Reporters asked repeatedly if she would abide by Bunning’s order, and not interfere with the processing of licenses by her office, but Davis remained silent.
“She’s not going to violate her conscience,” Staver said, a possible indication that she would continue to defy the court. Last week Staver told Bunning that Davis would not abide by the resolution the judge had settled on: having her deputies issue licenses without her approval or signature.
Staver has argued that the problem is that the licenses say they are issued by the Rowan County clerk, and she, as the clerk, will not authorize them. If that wording were eliminated, he said, she would not stand in the way of granting licenses.
Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis (center) celebrates her freedom with Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee (left) and her attorney Mathew Staver at her side after being released from jail Tuesday in Grayson, Ky. Davis had been jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples. TIMOTHY D. EASLEY / ASSOCIATED PRESS
Impact
Why China Is Rattling the World
Don't know why this one copied weird but the reason i choose this post is because this situation is impacting the whole world.
Chinese Trade is a Driving Economic Force
As China’s economy slows, countries with significant exposure to raw materials, like Australia and Brazil, are facing serious headwinds. Germany exports machinery and automobiles to China, which had been a counterbalance to slow growth in Europe.
China’s 2013 trade with each country Total value of imports plus exports
Russia
Germany
Japan
United States
South Korea
Taiwan
Hong Kong
Malaysia
Brazil
Australia
$500
billion
300
100
China’s exports and imports to:
United
States
Hong
Kong
South
Korea
Japan
Taiwan
Germany
Australia
Malaysia
Brazil
Russia
EXPORTS
$368
bil.
$385
$150
$91
$41
$67
$38
$46
$36
$50
IMPORTS
153
16
162
183
157
94
98
60
54
40
TOTAL TRADE
521
401
313
274
197
162
136
106
90
89
The New York Times|Sources: China's General Administration of Customs, via CEIC data
Slumping Stocks Are Igniting Broader Fears
Despite significant intervention, the Chinese government has been unable to stop the stock slide. Global markets initially shrugged off the weakness as simply a correction in a market that had doubled in the preceding year. But the tumult is now spreading around the world, as worries grow about the health of China’s economy.
Peak
June 12
0
Change in the
Shanghai composite index
relative to the peak
June 25
The Chinese central
bank injects cash into
the financial markets.
–10
Aug. 11
China devalues
its currency.
June 27
The central bank cuts
interest rates and lets
banks lend more.
–20
July 1
Regulators allow homes
and other real assets as
collateral when borrowing
to buy stocks.
–30
July 8
–32%
–40
Aug. 25
China cuts interest
rates again.
Aug. 26
–43%
–50
July
June
Aug.
Aprill 2015
May
The New York Times|Source: Reuters
Economic Uncertainty Reigns in China
Although the government puts China’s official growth at 7 percent a year, some economists question whether the economy is slowing more quickly. Here are two alternative estimates of China’s output.
+20
%
China’s gross domestic product
Year-over-year change
+16
+12
+12
%
Official figures
Official figures
2nd qtr.
2015:
2nd qtr.
2015:
+8
+8
+7.0%
+7.0%
+4.3%
+4
+4
+3.7%
Estimates by:
Capital Economics
Estimates by:
Lombard Street
0
0
’05
’15
’05
’15
The New York Times|Sources: Reuters; Capital Economics; Lombard Street Research
Conflict
IRAN NUCLEAR TALKS, This situation is a conflict between 2 different groups of people with different opinions.
Democrats clinch Iran deal votes
Support from four more senators ensures ability to block a Republican disapproval resolution.
By Erica Werner Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The White House and Senate Democrats locked up the votes Tuesday to frustrate attempts by outraged Republicans to pass a legislative rebuke to the Iran nuclearaccord.
Four previously undeclared Senate Democrats — Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, Ron Wyden of Oregon, Gary Peters of Michigan and Maria Cantwell of Washington state
— announced their support for the international agreement in a coordinated burst. That pushed supporters to a 42-vote total, one more than necessary to block a GOP disapproval resolution with a filibuster and prevent a final vote.
“There is no better deal available now,” declared Blumenthal, one of the Senate’s Jewish Democrats, announcing his support for an accord that is strongly opposed by Israeli leaders as well as Republican senators.
Blumenthal, Wyden, Cantwell and Peters were among just a handful of undeclared senators and were all considered possible “no” votes. Coming on the first day of Congress’ fall session after a five-week summer recess, their announcements were the start to what promises to be a bitter, partisan debate on the deal aimed at curbing Iran’s nuclear program.
Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, will headline a rally on Capitol Hill on Wednesday expected to draw thousands opposed to the agreement. Others scheduled to speak include former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, conservative talk show favorites Glenn Beck and Mark Levin, and Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Tyler.
It remained uncertain Tuesday if all 42 senators now on record in favor of the Iran deal would hold together on the procedural maneuvers necessary to mount a filibuster. And the developments didn’t change the ultimate outcome, which has been clear for days: Even if the disapproval resolution should pass the House and Senate this week, President Barack Obama would veto it, and Democrats have the votes in hand to sustain his veto.
But Obama and his Democratic allies now have within reach the possibility of stopping the resolution without a veto fight, despite the unanimous opposition of the Republicans who control both the House and the Senate.
“If we have to go through the procedural charade of a veto, and a vote to sustain the veto, it will be embarrassing for this administration and this country,” said Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., who’s been involved in coordinating support for the agreement. “So I think it’s cleaner, simpler and much better for American credibility around the world if the motion to disapprove doesn’t get past the Senate.”
Republican opponents on Capitol Hill complained angrily about Democratic attempts to avoid a final vote on the disapproval resolution. The pro-Israel lobby AIPAC was also pressuring senators behind the scenes to allow a final vote even if they intend to oppose the disapproval resolution, creating uncertainty as to whether a filibuster would succeed.
“The Senate should not hide behind procedural obfuscation to shield the president or our individual views,” said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
McConnell jousted on the Senate floor with Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., over the terms of the debate as each side sought to frame the other as obstructionist.
“This agreement will stand,” Reid said.
Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee, top Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, delivered an impassioned speech that was a broadside against the Obama administration.
“We know we have no policy in the Middle East,” Corker said. The Iran deal “ends up being our de facto policy.”
On the other side, the No. 2 Senate Democrat, Dick Durbin of Illinois, said, “What the president is trying to do is something that I believe should be the starting point in every critical foreign policy decision: Use diplomacy.”
The agreement struck by Iran, the United States, China, Russia, France, Britain and Germany in July would provide Iran hundreds of billions of dollars in relief from international sanctions in exchange for a decade of constraints on the country’s nuclear program. The deal aims to keep Iran at least a year away from being able to produce enough nuclear material for a weapon.
Nearly lost in the developments, the anti-deal side picked up one surprise adherent: Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, a moderate Democrat who had widely been counted in the “yes” column after making positive comments about the deal, became the fourth Senate Democrat to oppose it. “I’ve always said if I can’t explain it back home, I can’t support it,” Manchin said.
Human Interest
I chose this article because it is a struggle happening to
a large group of people
Germany will accept 500K refugees a year
Critics question if generous policies entice migrants.
ByAnthony Faiola, Michael Birnbaum and GriffWitte Washington Post
BERLIN — A top German official said Tuesday that his country could take half a million refugees a year “for several years,” even as some critics questioned whether generous asylum policies are enticing more migrants to make the dangerous trek for Western Europe.
Vice Chancellor Sig-mar Gabriel made his pledge amid signs that the migrant flow — many from war-battered Iraq and Syria — is only escalating amid a humanitarian crisis that has sharply tested European cooperation and fundamental policies such as open borders.
A ship crammed with thousands of migrants docked in the Greek port of Piraeus near Athens. Greek authorities, meanwhile, rushed to send help to the island of Lesbos off the Turkish coast, where 20,000 migrants have been growing increasingly frustrated by the long wait in squalid conditions for a ferry to the mainland.
Further up the route traveled by the majority of migrants entering the continent, a record 7,000 Syrians reached the Greek border with Macedonia, the U.N. refugee agency reported Tuesday. Greek television broadcast chaotic scenes as migrants struggled to cross.
And on the border between Hungary and Serbia, migrants slept in an open field after clashing with police the day before. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who ousted his defense minister late Monday over a missed deadline for building a border fence, told the newspaper Magyar Idok that the government would speed up construction.
Gabriel said other European nations needed to do more to address the crisis, even as Britain and France — which had been criticized for not doing enough — pledged to take in tens of thousands of asylum seekers.
Germany — the nation taking in the lion’s share, an estimated 800,000 by year’s end — has continued to lead the way. The government pledged Monday to hire 3,000 more police officers and spend $6.7 billion more to address the crisis, including providing emergency housing for 150,000 people.
Yet even as German Chancellor Angela Merkel said her nation should be “proud” of its response, other European leaders and domestic critics blamed Germany — as well as similarly generous nations such as Sweden — for offering benefits so lucrative that they had become an incentive for asylum seekers to risk their lives over land and sea.
Germany responded to the criticism by announcing a reduction in cash handouts for asylum seekers during their initial months of processing, instead saying it would offer them more food stamps and in-kind aid.
Berlin also said it would push to have western Balkan countries such as Kosovo declared “safe” in a bid to weed out the many thousands of migrants now claiming asylum from countries not at war.
The German maneuvers reflected the complex nature of Europe’s migrant crisis, in which desperate Syrians and Iraqis are searching for sanctuary in the wealthy countries of Europe’s core along with a host of economic migrants pouring in from countries as far-flung as Pakistan and Bangladesh.
Novelty
I choose this article because it was the
one that had the most feed back in response to it
on the article
European Official Calls for Continent to Take In 160,000 Migrants
Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission, said European nations needed to take in 160,000 migrants and announced a package for legal migration, expected in early 2016.
By REUTERS on Publish DateSeptember 9, 2015. Photo by Frederick Florin/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images.Watch in Times Video »
BRUSSELS — Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European Union’s executive arm, called on the bloc on Wednesday to accept 160,000 migrants, imploring leaders not to remain indifferent in the face of one of Europe’s toughest humanitarian challenges in decades.
“Turning a blind eye to poor and helpless people, that is not Europe,” said Mr. Juncker, a former prime minister of Luxembourg. Coming against the backdrop of anti-immigrant sentiment in countries like Hungary, which is building a 110-mile fence on its border with Serbia to try to keep migrants out, Mr. Juncker appealed to Europeans in personal terms.
In his first State of the European Union speechin Strasbourg, France, he urged Europeans to remember their ancestors who sought refuge from religious persecution, war and famine, and he warned that Europe had a historical imperative not to look the other way.
“Let us be clear and honest with our often-worried citizens,” Mr. Juncker said, pointing to the root causes of the crisis. “As long as there is war in Syria and terror in Libya, the refugee crisis will not simply go away.”
Many of the migrants are believed to be fleeing war in the Middle East and Africa, and he said the sight of people sleeping in train stations and on beaches was unacceptable and must be addressed as winter approaches.
The centerpiece of Mr. Juncker’s speech to the European Parliament was his formal announcement of an emergency plan, which would be binding on a majority of member states, to spread the burden of accommodating 160,000 people, many of whom are flowing into Greece, Hungary and Italy.
Facing a migration crisis that has stoked angry passions, European leaders in June failed to agree on a vague pledge to spread even 40,000 migrants around the Continent, and it remained unclear whether a quota of 160,000 people, even if accepted, would be sufficient to accommodate a large influx of migrants to Europe. Germany alone has said it expects to receive 800,000 asylum seekers this year.
European governments have been squabbling over how to deal with asylum seekers, and Mr. Juncker’s comments matched a theme expressed by Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, who earlier in the day repeated her call for European leaders to reach a binding agreement on the distribution of them throughout the bloc.
“The bell tolls, the time has come,” Mr. Juncker said. “We have to look at the huge issues with which the European Union is now confronted” because it is “not in a good situation.”
There is “a lack of union in this European Union,” he continued.
“That has to change,” he added.
INTERNATIONAL MIGRANT CRISISBy LOCAL EYES00:29In Denmark, Migrants Aim for Sweden
Hundreds of migrants walked along a road north of Padborg, Denmark, toward Sweden on Wednesday.
By LOCAL EYES on Publish DateSeptember 9, 2015. Photo by Pedersen Rune Aarestrup/POLFOTO, via Associated Press. Watch in Times Video »
Opposition to the emergency plan arose almost immediately after Mr. Juncker ended his address. “Let’s work out what each country can do to help those fleeing for their lives,” Syed Kamall, the leader of the British Conservative Party in the European Parliament, told other lawmakers.
“But let’s be clear: Telling countries what to do, forcing a plan on them, only risks more finger-pointing,” he said. “It might make some of you feel better, but I fear it could actually make the crisis worse.”
But Mr. Juncker’s plans drew praise from a number of his political opponents, including Ulrike Lunacek, a lawmaker in the Greens bloc of the European Parliament who represents Austria. Mr. Juncker’s calls for “solidarity with refugees” and for European countries “to finally step up to the plate” were “worthy of respect,” Ms. Lunacek said.
She also praised Mr. Juncker for having called for a change to European rules to allow people who have applied for asylum to work and earn money while their applications were being processed.
Mr. Juncker used his speech to denounce the leaders of some European Union member states who have been unwelcoming to migrants, and he said that allowing more of them would help the economy, rather than damage it, by adding young workers to the bloc’s aging work force.
He highlighted efforts of countries like Jordan and Lebanon to accommodate a larger number of migrants than their richer European neighbors.
“We can build walls; we can build fences,” he said, alluding to measures Hungary has taken. “But imagine for a second if it were you, your child in your arms, the world you knew torn apart around you. There is no price you would not pay; there is no wall you would not climb.”
Mr. Juncker asked home affairs ministers of European Union member states to approve his plan to accept the 160,000 at their next meeting, on Monday.
“That’s the number that Europeans have to take in charge, and have to take in their arms,” Mr. Juncker said.
“Action is what is needed for the time being,” he continued.
There is no guarantee that ministers will accept that plan. European Union leadersfailed to agree on far more modest quotas at the summit meeting in June, and many governments must contend with the growing support of populist or anti-immigrant groups.
Countries like the Czech Republic and Hungary are likely to continue resisting any binding or permanent quotas.
But the discovery last month of more than 70 dead migrants in a truckabandoned on the side of an Austrian highway and the photograph of a young Syrian boy whose body was found on a beach in Turkey have increased the resolve of policy makers like Mr. Juncker to ensure that Europe does a better job of managing the influx.
France, which had been hostile to permanent quotas, now supports Germany on the need to share the burden of taking in asylum seekers among all European countries.
Photo
A young migrant wrapped himself in a plastic sheet as he waited to board a ferry on the Greek island of Lesbos on Wednesday.CreditPetros Giannakouris/Associated Press
The plan would require states to pay a small percentage of their gross domestic product, amounting to 0.002 percent of it, to help finance the efforts of neighboring countries if they cannot participate.
Any such temporary exemption would last 12 months and be decided “case by case,” Frans Timmermans, the first vice president of the European Commission, the bloc’s executive arm, told a news conference in Strasbourg after Mr. Juncker’s speech.
“This is not about picking and choosing because of people’s ethnicity, their religion or the color of their skin,” said Mr. Timmermans, referring to the payment option.
Only a country “in dire trouble because of a natural catastrophe or another reason and can therefore not take its fair share for a given period of time” would be eligible for the option, said Mr. Timmermans, adding that nations should not be allowed to “buy themselves out of solidarity.”
In his bid to win support from even more member states, Mr. Juncker leveled thinly veiled criticism at Hungary, where Prime Minister Viktor Orban has warned that Christian traditions in Europe are under threat from newcomers from Muslim countries.
Last week, Mr. Orban said that Hungarians “do not want a large number of Muslim people” in their country, and Mr. Juncker suggested that such an approach was completely unacceptable.
“Europe has made the mistake in the past of distinguishing between Jews, Christians, Muslims,” Mr. Juncker said. “There is no religion, no belief, no philosophy when it comes to refugees.”
Photo
Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European Commission, left, said on Wednesday that there is “a lack of union in this European Union.”CreditFrederick Florin/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
To speed up the processing of asylum applications, Mr. Juncker said the European Commission planned to propose a list of countries that are deemed safe, to which migrants originating from those countries would be sent back. He noted that the list should include candidate countries for accession to the European Union, like the western Balkans.
Mr. Juncker said that Europe should learn from its history and appeared to point a moral finger at European nations demonizing asylum seekers from Muslim countries.
He also mentioned the large number of people from Ireland, Poland and Scotland who had emigrated to the United States, suggesting that immigration was a source of cultural richness rather than an impediment.
Addressing the root causes of the migration crisis, he also proposed that the European Union create an emergency fund of 1.8 billion euros, or more than $2 billion, to help African countries.
In Germany, Ms. Merkel has repeatedly emphasized the importance of equitable contributions from all members of the European Union in addressing the migration crisis.
“The current refugee crisis cannot be handled solely at the national level,” Ms. Merkel said in a speech to Parliament on Wednesday. “It is a challenge for the European Union, for every member of the European Union.”
Ms. Merkel said that European Union member states needed to agree on a way to distribute the arrivals equitably across the bloc.
Over the past week, Ms. Merkel’s government has taken measures to help the thousands of people pouring into Germany. A package valued at €6 billion was announced on Monday, and legislative changes affecting how asylum seekers’s applications are processed and how to get them into the work force more quickly are expected to come to a vote in Parliament within a month.
“We need to change,” she said, “and it won’t help anyone to point fingers and exchange blame over who didn’t do what, but we all need to go at this so that we can help the people arriving in our country.”
