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Chris Martin of Coldplay performs onstage at Grammys in February in Los Angeles.
Vocalist Chris Martin and guitarist Jonny Buckland of British band Coldplay perform during a concert at Sentrum Scene in Oslo on Nov. 23.
Jonny Buckland, Chris Martin, Guy Garvey and others from Coldplay and Elbow pose backstage at Children In Need Rocks on Nov. 17 in Manchester, United Kingdom.
Chris Martin of Coldplay performs at Piedmont Park on Sept. 24, 2011 in Atlanta, Georgia.
Chris Martin says he tries to make music his kids would be proud of.
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College choice: California
Had 69 tackles, including 34 solo, 12 QB pressures and six sacks, including two solo. Also ran for four TDs as a RB and caught seven passes as a WR.
Coldplay's Chris Martin, left, and Australian singer John Farnham during the Sound relief concert Saturday in Sydney.
The show's proceeds benefit Australians affected by the Victorian bushfires.
Coldplay singer Chris Martin parades across the Grammy stage in a jubilant mood after the band won song of the year for Viva La Vida.
Song of the year is awarded to the composer, which in this case was all four members of the band.
Chris Martin, lead singer of Coldplay, holds a bra tossed from the crowd during his performance with the group on NBC's Today show in New York's Rockefeller Center on Friday.


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Background or "reference" sources are a great place to start your research. Reference works include bibliographies, scholarly encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, and other sources that provide overviews of topics and suggestions for further reading.
Includes the Cambridge Histories and Cambridge Companions
An extensive collection of annotated bibliographies often pointing to both primary and secondary sources.
Oxford Handbooks Online
Lengthy chapters in the Oxford Handbooks usually provide helpful overviews of topics and historiography and suggestions for further reading. Includes The Oxford Handbook of Asian American History and The Oxford Handbook of Oral History.
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History
Arranged by subfields such as 20th Century: Post-1945, 20th Century: Pre-1945, Asian American History, Late 19th-Century History, the articles here are informative with substantial discussion of the historical literature and suggestions for further reading.
Wiley Online Library
Includes A Companion to Asian American Studies, Asian American Studies After Critical Mass, A Companion to 19th-Century America, A Companion to 20th-Century America, and other potentially useful reference works in which the chapters will provide overviews of topics and suggestions for further reading.
Provides historical coverage of the United States and Canada and indexes over 2000 historical journals. This is a key resource if you are searching for historical scholarship related to your research project.
Archive Grid contains records for finding aids from over 1000 archival institutions. Start here when you are seeking to discover if there are any relevant archival collections for your research beyond Yale. The "Summary View" option is a good way to filter your search results after running a search. This is an open access resource/no login required.
Hathi Trust’s Emergency Temporary Access Service (ETAS) provides online access to in-copyright books in the Yale Library collection. Catalog records for ETAS items can be found through Quicksearch and Orbis. If you’re already using the Yale VPN, you can click on the “Log In” link at the top of any Hathi Trust page and select Yale from the drop-down menu (if you access Hathi Trust without using the VPN, you will initially receive a prompt to use Duo Multi-Factor Authentication in order to access the database first).

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With You, For You
At Bank of Hawaii, we have a clear understanding of our purpose. As a trusted partner in the success of all our stakeholders—shareholders, customers, employees and community—we rely on the timeless guidance of our vision and values to serve all of them. Constantly evaluating our performance, we take a proactive approach to adapting our service to meet our customers’ changing needs, and to providing the best workplace we can for our employees, while also bringing consistent value to our shareholders and to our community.
Offering Digital Conveniences and Exceptional Personal Connections
We know that our success depends on our ability to build strong relationships with our customers in ways that will serve them over generations. We’ve made significant investments in keeping our services convenient— whether in person in our branches, within our mobile banking app, online, or by phone or ATM—it’s a privilege to provide our customers with the options that work best for them.
Kahala Mall Kiosk
At right: BOH’s Kahala Mall Kiosk is the first of its kind and opened in October 2019 to conveniently serve the Kahala community.
Our Branch of Tomorrow network is growing. In July 2019, we celebrated the opening of our first in-store “Branch of Tomorrow” at the new Safeway store in Kahului, Maui. On Oahu, our new Iwilei Branch on Dillingham Boulevard is scheduled to open in early 2020. In October, we opened a four-teller Kahala Mall Kiosk, located between Longs Drugs and Macy’s, with extended hours seven days a week, while our new Waialae-Kahala Branch is being renovated; completion is slated for the end of 2020.
On Hawaii Island, construction has started on our new Hilo Branch, and by mid-2020, groundbreaking will kick off construction for our new West Pacific Regional headquarters and branch in Tamuning, Guam.
Our Branch of Tomorrow modernizations include energy-efficient features and provide upgraded technology, easy-deposit ATMs (with Cardless Cash) and Wi-Fi.
In August, six and-a-half years after announcing our plans to leave American Samoa, we closed our remaining operations in the territory. To help with the transition, we donated our fixed assets, including our Tafuna Branch building and BOH residence, to the American Samoa government for the purpose of starting its own bank. Territorial Bank of American Samoa opened its doors in 2016.
Modernizing Our Corporate Headquarters
The transformation of our locations also extends to our downtown Honolulu corporate headquarters, which is scheduled to be complete by the end of the first quarter of 2020. One of the most dramatic changes is to the top most 22nd floor, which has been completely renovated. Appropriately named Ka Nu‘u Ho‘oulu I Ka Ho‘olōkahi Mau, “the summit of growth and inspiration, aligned in enduring unity,” the space features sweeping views from the mountains to Honolulu Harbor, state-of-the-art technology, numerous collaborative work areas, and a welcoming space for official celebrations and gatherings.
Digital Banking Solutions for Consumer
We continue to invest in ways to provide digital banking options for our customers. In September, we embedded Zelle directly into our BOH mobile app, allowing customers to safely send and receive money within minutes to almost anyone they know with a bank account in the U.S. Transactions via Zelle can be easily sent using an email address or a U.S. mobile phone number.
In April, we launched Debit Card Controls to allow customers the flexibility to temporarily turn their debit cards on or off, control their cards by location, merchant and transaction types, and set spending limits and customizable alerts. These controls are designed to give our customers more security for their accounts and help prevent fraud.
A New BOH.com
We’ve also been proactive in improving ways for our customers to bank online. In November, we introduced a completely redesigned BOH.com. The new, mobile-friendly website works seamlessly on a smartphone, tablet or desktop, making it easier for customers to access the information they need on any device.
The redesigned site has been streamlined to be more intuitive. Some of the new features include an enhanced Branch & ATM map, a side-by-side comparison tool, and a product finder, which provides customers personalized recommendations after answering a few short questions. Additionally, we added two new functions to our e-Bankoh online banking. Customers can now open a CD online and open a Bankohana account online.
In 2019, MyBankoh credit card holders were switched to MasterCard from Visa and American Express, as Barclays took ownership of the accounts. The three cards that were converted were the Bank of Hawaii American Express Card with MyBankoh Rewards, the Bank of Hawaii Visa Signature credit card with MyBankoh Rewards, and the Bank of Hawaii Elite American Express Card with MyBankoh Rewards. The change did not affect our debit cards or our Hawaiian Airlines Bank of Hawaii World Elite MasterCard.
Call Center Upgrades
Phase 1 of cloud-based technology upgrades were made to our Call Center in 2019 to provide greater flexibility, convenience and security in communicating with customers. The enhancements route calls more efficiently and provide callers with faster access to basic topics, such as password resets and balance inquiries. Call Center agents now respond to chat inquiries via select pages on BOH.com through a new live web chat feature. Additional security to Call Center communications was implemented via one-time passcodes, which callers may receive via text or email, so that our agents can authenticate them as rightful account holders. Phase 2 of the upgrades will continue to be implemented in 2020.
Mortgage, Consumer and Dealer Indirect Lending
We understand that for many people, buying or building a home is the fulfillment of a dream, and one of the biggest financial decisions they may make. The process of applying for a mortgage became much more convenient for buyers or those homeowners looking to refinance an existing mortgage through our fully integrated online application, SimpliFi Mortgage by Bank of Hawaii. The online application gives customers the best of both worlds—personal connection to our local loan officers and the ability to use technology to apply, seamlessly upload documents, e-sign, review disclosures and more online.
We continue to take a leadership role in streamlining VA home loans and loans for Department of Hawaiian Home Lands (DHHL) lessees due to our depth of understanding of the complexities involved. We remain the only Hawaii-based lender providing DHHL loans.
Bank of Hawaii continues to be an overall leader both in home equity and residential lending. We were honored to again be named the No. 1 residential lender in Hawaii and Guam, both for the number of residential loans recorded and total dollars loaned in 2019. Local processing, underwriting and servicing of home equity, construction and mortgage loans ensure that our customers get the products and flexibility of service that best fit their needs.
We have expanded our auto lending in the West Pacific, and continue to be No. 1 in that marketplace. We continue to be the No. 2 auto lender in the state of Hawaii, and our combined auto loan and leasing portfolios grew to $825.2 million, as of November 2019. Our flexible, efficient auto loan servicing, which is handled locally, helped us to grow our dealer partnerships in 2019.
Commercial Real Estate Lending
When it comes to housing prices, Honolulu is one of the most expensive cities in the U.S. There is a limited supply of affordable housing due to high land and construction costs. Bank of Hawaii has always been committed to affordable housing solutions, and our support for Aloha United Way’s ALICE (Asset Limited Income Constrained, Employed) Report is helping us to sharpen our focus to find more ways to work with developers in an effort to help create more affordable and workforce housing across Hawaii and the Western Pacific.
In 2019, the Honolulu City Council passed Bill 7, a five-year pilot program to attract developers by allowing small lot developments to be built on lots of 20,000 sq. ft. or less, with higher density and smaller setbacks than were previously permitted. We partnered with a developer to fund the first project under Bill 7, Puuhue Apartments, in Honolulu, which is a planned four-story building that will bring 25 affordable rentals to market.
Queen Emma Tower, once a neglected building in the heart of Honolulu, will be fully renovated by Āhē Group and create 71 affordable rental units. In addition to Queen Emma Tower, the bank helped finance 22 units of affordable housing for Maui seniors at Hale Mahaolu Ewalu II, developed by Hale Mahaolu. The bank also financed 35 units of affordable family housing rentals on Kauai at Waimea Huakai, which are currently under construction by Āhē Group.
More than 300 affordable housing units started or completed construction in 2019, thanks in part to Bank of Hawaii, and almost 450 more are in the pipeline. Bank of Hawaii plans to continue developing other partnerships to finance the affordable and workplace housing needs in our community.
The Private Bank
The Private Bank at Bank of Hawaii takes a holistic approach to providing personalized wealth management services through every stage of life. In addition to basic banking, The Private Bank offers a comprehensive array of services, including customized lending; investments; insurance; financial, estate and tax planning; charitable giving; and trust services.
The Private Bank team is a trusted ally in anticipating and meeting the complex and unique needs of high-value clients. We have taken a leadership role in utilizing new technology to make these specialized services as convenient as possible, and we take a team approach to developing integrated strategies to deliver exceptional results over time.
In October, we completed renovations of the third floor of our downtown Honolulu bank building. The entire floor is designed for serving customers of The Private Bank and Trust Services Group, and includes upgraded technology and multiple meeting rooms.
As part of our International Client Banking Division, we are working toward opening a representative office in Tokyo. Our new representative will act as a liaison to network among banks, CPAs, tax advisors and other financial professionals on behalf of Bank of Hawaii.
Investment and Insurance Services
Bank of Hawaii continues to be the premiere provider of fiduciary and investment services in Hawaii and the Pacific. We remain the biggest municipal bond manager in the state of Hawaii, and manage three tax-free bonds. Our trusted team of certified financial planners (CFP) and certified financial analysts (CFA) manages almost $7 billion in assets through a wide array of advisory and brokerage services.
In 2019, we introduced our investment and insurance services in Guam, helping customers to navigate through these important aspects of their financial journey. We continue to enhance our investment and insurance capabilities with the goal of providing our clients access to comprehensive wealth management solutions to address their accumulation, protection and wealth transfer needs.
Trust, Estate and Financial Planning
The Private Bank team members create a personalized plan to help each client meet his or her immediate and long-term financial goals, offering guidance in analyzing assets and tax implications, and investment opportunities to optimize returns.
One of our specialties is creating multi-generational wealth strategies. Our dedicated relationship managers guide clients through succession planning, and business transitions or sales to help create a lasting legacy that reflects the values and priorities of one generation while engaging younger generations to carry on successfully.
One of our wealth management services includes setting up and administering nonprofit foundations and charitable trusts. Responsible for approximately 120 grant-making foundations, our Charitable Foundation Services team has been helping individuals and corporations devise the best, most effective ways to direct and manage their giving through private charitable trusts and foundations. Many of these nonprofits distribute grants, and our Charitable Foundation Services team is responsible for overseeing grant requests, review and distributions.
As the largest administrator of irrevocable trusts in the state with more than $3 billion in assets under management, Bank of Hawaii has the depth of expertise necessary to handle every aspect of our clients’ trust accounts.
Banking for Business
As the marketplace changes and develops at an increasingly rapid pace, Bank of Hawaii is positioned to assist customers meet the unique challenges of doing business in Hawaii. By providing leading-edge banking technology and sound financial advice for every size and type of business—entrepreneurs, nonprofits, family-owned businesses and global corporations, local healthcare practitioners and international businesses. Whether it’s helping a medical practice upgrade equipment, finding the best merchant services, or helping a customer apply for a Small Business Administration (SBA) loan or finance energy sustainability measures, Bank of Hawaii has innovative solutions to help small businesses grow and succeed.
Digital Banking Solutions for Business
In 2019, we began an upgrade to our digital resources for our business clients. We invested more than $1.5 million in our platforms to prepare them for continued enhancements and emerging technologies. This investment in upgrades for online Business Banking, ACH platform, Lockbox Services, Wire Monitoring and Processing and Client Access will continue into 2020. These advancements underscore our commitment to enhanced security and delivery of complex processing or reporting needs. We pride ourselves on ensuring robust finance management functions that help our business customers improve efficiencies and deliver better service to their own customers.
As digital payment options for businesses continue to rapidly evolve, we continue to scope and construct solutions to meet the needs of our customers. We launched new Merchant Service solutions that work for large and small businesses by partnering with Clover and OptBlue. The Clover point-of-sale system not only accepts swipe-card, chip-card, and contactless payments, including Apple Pay, but it also issues refunds, manages tips, applies discounts, performs closeout reporting and more. The OptBlue program allows business customers to accept American Express card payments at a more competitive rate, and offers consolidated billing and reporting via Bank of Hawaii.
We also developed new software to make it easier for our business customers to stay compliant with the evolving technical and operational payment card industry (PCI) standards they need to follow to ensure that cardholders’ credit card data remains protected.
Our commercial and corporate bankers take the time to understand our customers’ businesses—from their operations to their long-term goals. Their deep understanding of the Hawaii marketplace combined with our comprehensive products and services allow them to come up with competitive and versatile solutions for our clients. The team is highly experienced in working with many different industries and works closely with other financial services experts across the bank to help provide tailored strategies and recommendations for a broad range of needs, including real estate and construction loans, liquidity management and equipment financing.
In 2019, we continued to be the largest commercial mortgage lender in the state of Hawaii. Our team finds customized financial solutions for owners, developers and investors with multi-family, retail, industrial, office and mixed-use properties.
Bank of Hawaii’s solid captive insurance industry service and leadership continue to grow this business segment. With over 95 diverse captive clients, our Captive Insurance Services team continues to support the Hawaii domicile as we have done since the industry’s inception in 1986. Bank of Hawaii currently oversees more than $1.5 billion in investment assets and deposits for Hawaii-based captive insurance businesses.
Many local, national and international businesses turn to Bank of Hawaii for advice and tailored services to meet their captive’s banking and investment needs and objectives. We help in evaluating current risk and financing structures, as well as in developing portfolio solutions to build reserve assets. As reserve funds grow over time through premiums paid and healthy claims experiences, clients can allow for increased insurance coverage options and improved cash flow and insurance expense management.
While many large corporations have long been utilizing captives, we see good future growth potential for developing businesses and established middle market companies from a range of industries. In particular, we are seeing increased interest from Japanese companies that have been aware of the captive industry for a number of years, but were more gradual in deploying captive strategies.
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Nokia 500 is a new touch mobile powered by Symbian Anna OS. Low-priced smartphone with a powerful 1GHz processor, 3.2 inch touchscreen display with 640 x 360 pixels screen resolution of, 5 MP auto-focus camera, 2 GB Phone memory, 32 GB expandable memory, 3.5 mm audio jack, Wi-Fi, 3G Connectivity. The phone measures 111.3 x 53.8 x 14.1mm and weighs in at 93g. So Nokia 500 will be fast, light and multicolored.
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Nokia 500 is capable of 5-7 hours talk time, 450+ hours in standby mode or up to 35 hours of music playback. The mobile will be available in two colors black and white with changeable back covers. According to Nokia blog, Nokia 500 will sport different colors ( purple, azure blue, pink, coral red, orange and dark silver) in future.
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What a month! I can’t believe the dog days of summer are gone and fall has arrived in full force. Happy October to all of you! It’s that time of year for bonfires, pumpkin spice lattes, cherishing the change of colors and the cooler temps, Friday night football, and NFL Sundays! Needless to say, I really love this time of year. The above photo is actually from the park that is less than a mile from where I live. I look forward to taking my boys down there for walks and watching the leaves change color. It's so beautiful at this time of year! What do you love most about fall?
With Taming J out in the world, I was able to take a breath and revel in readers having Jackson and Jenn’s story in their hands. September was super hectic for me on the personal front, but I wouldn’t change it for a second, especially since my two favorite young men had some pretty awesome milestones. More on that later in this post!
If you haven’t grabbed your copy of Taming J yet, here’s a few reviews that will make you want to grab your copy today!
Here’s what my editor had to say about Taming J →
Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. WAY TO END THE BOOK! I AM LOSING MY MIND!!!!!!! Fantastic!!!! ~ Word Nerd Editing
Here’s what readers are saying so far about Taming J →
I loved these characters. They have a relationship between them that all of us have wished for at some point I feel like. You have a mystery. Some danger and suspense flying all over the place. But on top of all that the romance in this book is off the charts. ~ Stephanie's Book Reports
This is a well written story action packed, emotional roller coaster, with a secret society, family, friendships, danger, suspense, intrigue, second chances, deceit, secrets, witty banter, and love, which leads to an entertaining, tragic, twisted, unpredictable, and steamy addictive page turner. ~ Wendy's Book Blog
This is my first introduction to author M.M. Koenig and honestly I don't think I could've picked a better story. ~ magslouisethebookworm
HOLY HELL! There is so much going on in Taming J that my head is still spinning. Jackson & Jenn met in the past to really connect until he broke her heart, and no I won't tell you the how or why of it. It's been six years since they saw each other, and it became quickly apparent that fate was determined to get them face to face when Jenn came to New York for a big job interview. From that moment on, her life goes from zero to sixty in no time at all, but on the flip side of that chaos, she's finally being forced to confront her past head on and maybe just maybe things will work out this round. Of course in the high society/secret society world that Jackson & Jenn belong to, nothing is easy, and it seems like everyone is scheming so there are definitely outside forces determined to make sure these two never work it out. I'm telling you the twists were coming from all directions at light speed so there were many times that I didn't even get to be shocked for too long before next man up happened. The book is lengthy, and yet, I couldn't do another thing until ever last page was devoured, and that cliffhanger ending?! Oh yeah, I'm dying inside at this point so the next book cannot come quickly enough to heal me LOL! HIGHLY HIGHLY HIGHLY RECOMMEND! ~ The Power of Three Readers
It has been far too long since I've read words by this author and what a book to throw myself back in. It has me wanting to re read the ones I have read and catch up on the ones I haven't. So that says more about this book than any long review can. I will admit that the start threw me a bit, but once fate intervened and the secrets started coming to light, you couldn't tear me from the book if you tried.
With the ending the way it was I have everything crossed the next book isn't far away, I was quickly reminded how this author works. ~ Soph
Well this was different. My first by M.M.KOENIG and I'm glad I found you haha.
Let me say before you start reading, hold on to your heart and get ready for the emotional roller coaster it takes you on. I feel a wreck. It's the longest book I've read, But it was sooo worth it. Love love love Jackson and Jenn. This isn't your ordinary second chance, there is a lot in play. Fantastic story plot, so much action, drama, suspense, secrets, deception, lies, tragic, twisted, family, friends, love and hot spice. The chemistry between Jenny and Jackson felt so real. Their characters were lovable and relatable. Compliments to the author. It ends on a cliff hanger and now I can't breathe, I need it now. ~ Maz9
Go grab your copy today! https://books2read.com/TamingJHS1
If you’re new to me, I strongly suggest picking up the Secrets and Lies series prior to reading Taming J. There’s enough of a recap in Taming J for you to have an idea of what happened in the past, but reading that series will make Taming J such a richer experience for you. If you want to get through the first two books quickly, you can grab Conflicted and Complicated on audio.
You can pick up a copy of Conflicted on audio here → https://adbl.co/3PA5rUF
You can grab a Complicated on audio here → https://amzn.to/3NlqY2K
You can grab the entire box set on ebook here → https://bit.ly/3ztfZNu
On the audio front, I’m toying with the decision to switch from ACX to going wide with audiobooks. All of my ebooks are already wide so it seems like the logical direction for me to go in with getting them out on audio. I’d also like to see what Findaway or Tantor might be able to do for my books. My experience with ACX has been less than pleasant thus far so I’m inclined to jump from them and see what narrators on other platforms have to offer. Stay tuned for more info on that front in the months to come!
As I mentioned in last month’s blog, I’m no longer doing the Graceland signing. This is disappointing for me to announce, but ultimately it’s what is best for me. Without going into great detail, I had a minor procedure done at the end of July that gave me some insight to a health issue I’ve been battling, but not everything was answered. My appointment in September went okay, but there’s still a lot left to figure out. I’m working with a specialist to figure out the best course of action going forward. I don’t like disappointing readers, but my health has to become more of a priority for me now that I’m getting older.
I made a conscious decision not to pick up any signings for 2024 and likely will not pick up any for 2025. My focus remains on writing and publishing Saving Us, which I hope to do in 2024. I don’t want to say I’ll never attend a signing again, but I’m strongly leaning in that direction. I could go into a long spiel as to why, but the simplest way to put it is that it’s for my own mental well-being. My anxiety runs way too high before, during, and after those events that it’s too much to take on with everything else I’m juggling between my personal and professional life.
I mentioned this last month and will continue to do so every month so no one says they weren’t warned before they finished Taming J. There’s a warning that specifically states it is not a standalone and it is being promoted as a romantic suspense book with a cliffhanger. Saving Us is going to be a whopper of a book for me because it’s going to tie everything together across all series. It will also be the last book I write and I want to go out on a bang. I’ll likely be pickier with this book than I’ve been with the last seven for that reason alone so it’s going to take some time to get it ready for the world.
For the foreseeable future, I will no longer be doing giveaways on my author page. All social media pages will remain for book promotion and motivational messages. I check them every day and do my best to like and comment on the messages I do get over there. I’ll continue to do that going forward. I intend to continue giveaways in my reader group, M. M. Koenig’s Rockin’ Divas, but they will drastically be cut in half. I love being generous with readers, but the past year has been eye-opening for me on the financial front and it’s time to start making changes where I can. That doesn't mean I won’t ever do giveaways. They’ll continue to happen, but they’re likely only going to be for signed swag, signed paperbacks and hardcovers, or ebook copies of just my books. If you’re looking for Amazon gift cards, ebooks of your choice, or Kindles, that won’t happen very often, if ever, anymore.
On a personal note, I’ve been so lucky to be able to experience many milestones with both godchildren. It’s crazy how quickly time flies. I remember holding both of them in the hospital after they were born. It’s hard to believe that they’re graduating from high school in May. If you don’t already, take a moment to hug your loved ones a little longer and cherish every smile and laugh they give you. My godsons mean the world to me and I’m bursting with pride that I have to share just a few things about them.
My oldest godson, Isaac, was nominated to the homecoming court and was crowned king! Words cannot express how happy I am for him and so incredibly grateful to the amazing young men who are his wolf pack. He’s got an incredible group of friends and an amazing class that loves him unconditionally. It’s been a privilege to watch them grow into the fine young adults they've become. I cannot tell you how incredibly proud of Isaac I am. When he was born, the odds were stacked against him. He’s done nothing but decimate every one of them. He doesn’t let anything hold him back. He’s a constant reminder to never let anyone or anything prevent you from chasing your dreams or being exactly who you are.
I also have to take a moment to gush about my other godson, Jakob. He turned eighteen in September. It’s hard to believe he’s legally an adult who can gamble and vote, especially when it feels like yesterday that he was a toddler throwing the pigskin around in the backyard with his little brother. He’s picked up right where he left off last season in leading the state in touchdowns, passing yards and remaining in the race for the number one spot in completions. He’s led his football team to a 4-1 start in his conference and I have no doubt he’ll do everything he can to take them back to the Bank (U.S. Bank Stadium for those of non-Minnesotans reading this post). He’s got an incredible arm and is a force to be reckoned with on and off the field. I wish him and his team nothing but luck as they chase another state title.
If you’ve made it this far, thanks for coming to my Ted Talk for September. I wish you nothing but good vibes for the month of October and this fall overall. Don't forget to grab your copy of Taming J!

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Happy Mother’s Day to All Mothers.
Mothers in general are guardian angels sent on earth by the creator. Rudyard Kipling captured this in his quote as he said, “God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.”
Throughout the very beginning of our journey to earth, they have cared for us and loved us unconditionally. They went through night months of pregnancy for us and went through pain to bring us safely on earth. Their work didn’t end there. They continued to be with us, nurtured us and made sure we were always safe. We never felt afraid during the night because we knew they were always there for us whenever we feel afraid.
They never had friends or social obligations because they were always busy taking care of us and that was the most important thing for them than anything else.
They made sure our stomach was full. They were always willing to give us what they will eat even if they were hungry. They never liked seeing us hungry.
They simply loved seeing a smile on our faces and so will do everything in their power to see us smile. They will get us whatever we will ask for and spend time with us. They would rather sit and watch our favourite animation with us than watch their favourite TV show.
Their job as mothers is never done even when we grow up.
And so on this special day of theirs, all we have to say to them is: THANK YOU.
While we may never or can never repay them for all the sacrifices they made for us, we can surely say a big thank you to them and tell them how much we love and appreciate all their sacrifices.
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Vice President George Bush’s scheduled visit to a political rally Sunday in Woodland Hills will result in the closing of sections of two streets for much of the day, Los Angeles police said.
Bush, the Republican presidential candidate, and his wife, Barbara, are expected to arrive at Warner Park between 10:45 and 11 a.m. to take part in the scheduled 2-hour rally.
Police said they are preparing for up to 30,000 people to attend the rally at the park in the 5800 block of Topanga Canyon Boulevard.
Sgt. David Wheeler said police will close two streets near the park for Bush’s motorcade. He said Califa Street will be closed on the north side of the park between Owensmouth Avenue and Topanga Canyon Boulevard, and Vassar Avenue will be closed between Califa and Oxnard Street.
Wheeler said the streets will be closed at 6 a.m. and will not reopen until after the rally has concluded and the candidate has left the area. The route of Bush’s motorcade was not disclosed.
A state Department of Transportation spokesman said the Topanga Canyon Boulevard, Canoga Avenue and De Soto Avenue exit ramps from the Ventura Freeway will be open.


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Accelerating times ahead: Le Mans will have new rules for its hybrid racers for the 2020 season, essentially turning them into proper plug-in hybrids. A pit stop thus must include a rapid battery refill but also each PHEV will need to run the first kilometres after the break all-electrically. On top of that, the LMP1 competitors must cross the finish line in electric mode as well.
Ballard to take flight: Ballard subsidiary Protonex has written an order from FlyH2 Aerospace, a developer of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for commercial applications based in South Africa. It seeks to power its three UA Alpha flagships in the making with Protonex’ fuel cell propulsion system and FlyH2 gears for a 30 kilo utility aircraft with 9-hour flight endurance.
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February 20th, 2021
On Spain's transition from dictatorship to constitutional monarchy
It’s been some time since the term “transition” was fully incorporated into day-to-day usage in contemporary Spanish. It refers to the process of political change that began during the second half of the 1970s, a process which transformed Spain from the Franco dictatorship to the parliamentary monarchy that governs the country today. The term was coined in the midst of the dictatorship, as if in its invocation it could foreshadow the horizon of its disintegration. It succeeded in connoting the way in which one regime gave way to another—not a violent cut, nor a democratic breakdown in the strict sense. Instead, it was a process negotiated by the leaders who had inherited the state apparatus of the dictatorship, and the leaders of the parties of the democratic opposition. While the first aimed to assert the weight, however trivial, of an obsolete and precarious power structure, the second aimed to channel the democratic impulse of a significant section of Spanish society.
That latter section was composed of men and women who resisted through illegal parties and organized social movements (worker’s movements, neighborhood associations, student unions, and feminist groups) capable of breaking the public order and revealing, between the cracks of the regime, the new alternatives. In their day to day, they developed forms of political participation, experimentation, and cultural innovation which themselves detracted from Franco’s hold on the popular imagination. In many ways, these early experiences were much more profound than the institutional restructuring later termed the transition. From this angle, the transition can be understood as a sfumato, that is to say, not only the fading of dictatorship into democracy, but as a sum of experiential layers each contributing to its atmosphere and offering a depth that we’ve yet to fully grasp.The interviews with Felipe González, Begoña San Jose, and Héctor Maravall contained in this book capture the texture of this historical moment.
On the other side of this politically active reality stood another very diverse and wide sector of society, predisposed to the consensus they were socialized into under Francoism. They were motivated by a timid desire for change, as well as by a deep fear of its consequences. Under- standing the Spanish transition requires gaining an awareness of these inherited social habits which were highly structured by authoritarianism, and the survival of its repressive legal, bureaucratic, and media institutions. It also requires acknowledging an international framework in which any action on the margin of society was limited by the areas of political influence that defined the Cold War period.
But understanding the transition also requires capturing that organic crisis in existing relations of power, the intuitive and automatic social responses which enhanced the appeal of new cultural attitudes and expanded the scope for political action. The much cited phrase of Manuel Vázquez Montalbán—which explains the negotiations behind the changing regime as “an alignment of weaknesses”—is useful if we recognize that, in moments of crisis, any alignment of forces is unstable and fragile. Understood through its underlying estatism, “an alignment of weaknesses” is a declaration that the transition happened in the only way that it could have. It’s an argument in which the real is transformed into the rational, the rational into the optimal, and the optimal into the venerable. But we know that narratives of the past tend to perform this argumentative transposition in the opposite direction: it is from the veneration of the present that earlier events are arranged in a way that inevitably leads towards some determined destiny.

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Both of Trayvon Martin’s parents are considering running for political office, because they have not only seen enough progress made in racial justice since their son’s death but they are also fearful that President Donald Trump will erase any progress and even set the country back.
“Since Trayvon’s death, we saw how divided the country is on these issues and we saw how the country can come together,” Tracy Martin, Trayvon’s father, told Capital Download. “You have those that are for uniting the country and you have those that want to be apart. And what this new presidency does, it takes those that want to be apart and it puts them right in the position where they can say, ‘We’ll change the laws, and we’ll make it tougher.'”
“Before I was just comfortable with my average life, but now I feel like I’m just obligated to be part of the change,” his mother, Sybrina Fulton said. “The only way we can be part of the change is if we start with local government and we work our way up.”
“It could go all the way to the White House,” she said, though she admitted she would obviously start smaller, at the local levels of government.
“There’s no limitations,” Martin agreed. “I think once you embark on a journey, you don’t minimize your goal; you want to maximize your goals. So you start on the local level and then you work your way up and hopefully it will take us to a place where we can help more than just local, more than just state. National. That would be the focus.”


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St Kilda, Hirta, Village Bay, Cleit 85
- Council Western Isles
- Parish Harris
- Former Region Western Isles Islands Area
- Former District Western Isles
- Former County Inverness-shire
NF19NW 21.17 10057 99303
(NF 10059930) Lady Grange House (NAT)
OS 6"map annotated by J Mathieson (1928)
Lady Grange was imprisoned in this building in 1734 for a period of 8 years, after being abducted at the instigation of her husband and, it is thought, of Simon Lord Lovat (D Laing 1876).
Mathieson (J Mathieson 1928) states that the original house was timber-roofed, and when it fell in it was rebuilt as a 'cleit', but Williamson (K Williamson and J M Boyd 1960) considers it to be the only surviving portion of a 'black-house'. The doorway is said to be original, but the wooden lock (of a design peculiar to the island) is at Dunvegan Castle, Skye.
D Laing 1876; J Mathieson 1928; K Williamson and J M Boyd 1960.
This structure remains as illustrated, and has all the characteristics of being a cleit. It is not shown on H Sharbau's plan of the Village in 1860 (information from H Sharbaeu [Plan of St Kilda village, 1860] National Museum of Anituqities of Scotland [NMAS} Mss), and it may may on the site of Lady Grange's House, but this is not certain either.
Visited by OS (JLD) 8 August 1967.
The largest surviving cleit S of the street, Cleit 85 is popularly known as Lady Grange's House. Though it may occupy the site of the house in which she resided, it is unlikely to incorporate more than a mere vestige of that structure which in 1876 was reported as having been demolished 'a few years ago'.
The drystone walls are battered externally and are neatly corbelled inside. The building measures internally 4.67m in length by 2.01m in maximum width near the W end, where it achieves a height of about 2.44m; it is narrower and lower towards the doorway at the E end.
The doorway has an inward-sloping inner lintel supported on the S side by a single upright slab and two superincumbent courses. The existing wooden door was constructed and put in position in the late 1970s. Outside the doorway on the N side there are several paving stones and a step up to the higher ground. To the S the ground falls away steeply below the base of the outer wall and there is some revetting of the slope.
G P Stell and M Harman 1988.
A survey was carried out by the National Trust for Scotland on over 300 cleitean (singular cleit) on St Kilda. They are double-walled, drystone-built oval or rectangular structures, used primarily for storage of food and fuel resources. Many have survived well after being abandoned in 1930 when the islands were evacuated. The survey recorded their condition, construction and location.
M Taylor 2001

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The Fish and Wildlife Service today formally reversed a key Trump administration Endangered Species Act rule, erasing a regulation that made it easier to shrink critical habitat.
In a highly anticipated move that pleases environmentalists, the federal agency announced that the rescinding of the critical habitat rule will be published tomorrow in the Federal Register (E&E News PM, June 4).
“This rule will allow our biologists to ensure critical habitat designations contribute to the conservation of ESA-listed species,” Fish and Wildlife Service Director Martha Williams said in a statement, adding that “today’s action helps the Service implement the ESA in ways that support sound science and citizen participation.”
The Federal Register publication starts a 30-day countdown to the time when the rule rescission takes effect.
A public comment period on the proposal to rescind the critical habitat rule drew about 29,000 public submissions. The FWS said that roughly 28,800 were similar statements from individuals indicating their general support for rescission of the rule.
“ We are thrilled to see the Biden administration take this important step towards restoring Endangered Species Act protections,” Andrew Carter, senior conservation policy analyst for Defenders of Wildlife, said in a statement, adding that “our health and well-being depends on our nation’s rich biodiversity, and the Biden administration needs to take every possible step to shore up the law responsible for saving it.”
Under the ESA, critical habitat is considered “essential for the conservation of the species.”
Any federal agency seeking to authorize, fund or carry out an action on designated land must first consult with the FWS to ensure the action is not likely to destroy or damage a critical habitat.
The ESA further states that critical habitat is to be designated “on the basis of the best scientific data available and after taking into consideration the economic impact, the impact on national security, and any other relevant impact.”
The law allows exclusion of areas if “the benefits of such exclusion outweigh the benefits of specifying such area as part of the critical habitat,” unless the exclusion “will result in the extinction of the species concerned.”
The revoked Trump administration rule expanded the categories of “other relevant impacts” that may be considered when assessing critical habitat. These additional categories included public health and safety; community interests; and the environment, such as increased risk of wildfire (Greenwire, Dec. 17, 2020).
In January 2021, just before leaving office, the Trump administration dramatically cut by 36 percent the critical habitat for the northern spotted owl, reducing it to 6.1 million acres from 9.6 million acres (Greenwire, Jan. 14, 2021).
The FWS stated at the time that the reason was, in part, the economic impacts of the critical habitat designation. “We have reevaluated the relative impact of even a ‘relatively small’ economic loss for rural communities already faced with impacts including the initial listing of the species,” the agency said.
The American Forest Resource Council, as well as several counties in Washington, Oregon and California, among others, had all urged the FWS for more exclusions.
Today, the agency said that the Trump-era rule “limits or undermines” its role as the expert agency and “constrains the Service’s discretion, thus decreasing the agency’s ability to further the conservation of endangered and threatened species.”
In particular, the FWS challenged the Trump administration’s position that the agency would “always undertake” an analysis of excluding critical habitat “whenever a proponent of an exclusion provides credible information supporting the exclusion.”
The FWS said it also challenged the Trump administration’s policy that the agency would “always exclude” areas from a critical habitat designation whenever the benefits of exclusion outweigh the benefits of inclusion. The agency now says that those mandates were overly rigid and difficult to apply.
“Determining the benefits of exclusion and the benefits of inclusion is not always straightforward,” the agency said today, noting that “while some of these benefits of inclusion can be quantified and monetized, others may be hard to quantify or monetize but may nevertheless be significant.”
Last month, the Biden administration revoked another Trump administration rule that restricted the areas that could be considered critical habitat. The Trump regulation had limited protections to areas that could currently support species and excluded areas that were previously occupied and could be restored.
“Trump’s disastrous efforts to weaken the bedrock law protecting our nation’s wildlife from extinction are dead, and good riddance,” said Noah Greenwald, endangered species director at the Center for Biological Diversity.

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Losing the Battle and the War – Annual ISAAA “State of Play” report a fudge
Immediate release (7 Feb 2012)
Calls to: Pete Riley 07903 341 065
Today’s annual International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA) report Global status of Commercialized biotech/GM Crops once again trumpets the “success” of GM farming, but this year has to peddle fast to gloss over the problems the technology is causing.
Overall the report is little different to reports the ISAAA has released for more than a decade, pushing promises into the future and neglecting the setbacks, including the significant retreats in Europe by BASF and Monsanto in recent weeks, as well as ongoing failures to get GM rice into China or GM brinjal into India.
The ISAAA report is funded by the biotech industry.
The Executive Summary of the report makes bold claims for GM technology, including:
Biotech crops can overcome abiotic stresses (through drought and salinity tolerance) and biotic stresses (weed, pest and disease resistance) in environments made unproductive by climate change because of variations in temperature, water level leading to more damaging epidemics and infestations which preclude the growing of conventionally bred crops (for example, several countries have discontinued growing conventional cotton in some areas due to excessive losses from bollworm). (p 22)
This ignores the reality experienced on the ground by farmers growing GM crops including:
- There are no drought or saline tolerant GM crops commercialised anywhere in the world, and many question the feasibility of such crops.
- Escalating weed resistance in GM crops now affects some 21 weed species worldwide, and 13 confirmed resistant weeds covering hundreds of thousands of fields in the US. Duke and Powles note, “Most of the documented cases of evolved GR [glyphosate resistant) weeds in the past 6 years have been in GR crops.”
- Pest resistance in GM crops is also growing after Monsanto initially announced pink bollworm resistance in Indian cotton in 2010.
Other problematic issues for the ISAAA include:
- The boast of an “accumulative reduction in pesticides” (p 19) as a result of GM crops that ignores the reality of escalating chemical use as well as the growing body of scientific evidence of harm to human health and the environment caused by glyphosate, the chemical used on the majority of GM herbicide tolerant crops.
- The claim that GM crops are, “[C]onserving soil and moisture by optimizing the practice of no till through application of herbicide tolerance,” (p 19) cannot be reconciled with analysis finding, “Because glyphosate is the herbicide most often used in no-till and minimum-till systems, GR [glyphosate resistant] volunteer crop plants and glyphosate-resistant or tolerant weeds will jeopardize the sustainability of those systems.”
- Among the outright falsehoods in the report is, “Conventional breeding of potato is very expensive in time and resources, and alone, has not, and will not, result in durable resistance to late blight.” (p27) As GM Freeze has repeatedly pointed out, the Welsh-grown suite of Sarvari non-GM potatoes do just this.
- GM technology does not increase crop yields.
The ISAAA promises GM will be even better in the future, including saying:
Similarly, there are advanced biotech cotton products in the R & D pipeline with more than one herbicide tolerant gene, that provide tolerance to a broader range of herbicides, which in turn allows more effective control of weeds that develop resistance to specific herbicides. (p24)
In contrast to the first generation biotech crops that realized a significant increase in yield and production by protecting crops from losses caused by pests, weeds, and diseases, the second generation biotech crops will offer farmers additional new incentives for also improving quality of products. (p 30)
But the ISAAA has been saying this for a decade or more. In 2002 it reported:
The most compelling case for biotechnology, and more specifically GM crops, are their capability to contribute to: increasing crop productivity and thus contribute to global food, feed and fiber security; conserving biodiversity, as a land saving technology capable of higher productivity; more efficient use of external inputs and thus a more sustainable agriculture and environment; increasing stability of production to lessen suffering during famines due to abiotic and biotic stresses; to the improvement of economic and social benefits and the alleviation of abject poverty in developing countries. In 2002, coincidental with evidential confirmation that GM crops continue to deliver significant economic, environmental, and social benefits to both small and large farmers in developing and industrial countries…
It is, perhaps inconveniently, simply not borne out by the facts.
Commenting Pete Riley of GM Freeze said:
We’ve heard all the promises before from the ISAAA, but the evidence is against them.
The fact is GM undermines the very farming systems it claims to support by accelerating the spread of resistant weeds that force farmers to resort to hand weeding and trapping them on a pesticide treadmill. GM ends up costing them more in both time and money – it just doesn’t deliver on its promises.
BASF knows ‘it does not make business sense’ to pursue GM in markets where consumers know where it is, so they’ve pulled out of Europe. Even Monsanto has stopped trying to force French farmers to grow GM maize. We need to stop wasting time chasing GM pipe dreams and get on with the research we need to drive forward the genuinely sustainable farming we all need. This would be a better ‘service’ to poor and hungry people than wishing on a star.
 International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications, 7 February 2012. Global status of Commercialized biotech/GM Crops. All page references refer to this Executive Summary.
 GM Freeze press release, 11 July 2011. “BASF Pulls the Plug on New GM Crop Development in the EU”
GM Freeze press release, 25 Jan 2012. “Monsanto Bow to French Ban on GM Maize Seed in 2012”
 GM Freeze, 31 July 2008. GM and Drought Tolerance
GM Freeze, 30 July 2008. GM and Saline Tolerant Crops
 GM Freeze, 19 October 2011. Weed Resistance in RR Crops – An update
 India Today, 6 March 2010. “Bt cotton has failed admits Monsanto”
GM Freeze, 10 November 2011. Insect Resistance to Bt Toxins in GM Insect Resistant Crops
 Duke SO and Powles SB, 2008. “Glyphosate: A once-in-a-century herbicide”. Pest Management Science 64: 319-325 cited in GM Freeze and Greenpeace International, 30 June 2011. Herbicide Tolerance and GM Crops – Why the world should be ready to round up glyphosate
 Mallory-Smith C and Zapoila M, 2008. “Gene flow from glyphosate-resistant crops”. Pest Management Science 64: 428-440
 GM Freeze, 31 March 2010. A Tale of Two Spuds: The tasty alternative to GM potatoes
 GM Freeze, 31 May 2011. Plant Breeding and Crop Yields – Can we rely on GM to increase yield?
 ISAAA, 2002. Global Status of Commercialized Transgenic Crops: 2002

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The current MRF Tyres ICC Men’s ODI Player Rankings update sees significant movement as a result of some outstanding performances.
Mohammed Siraj’s rampage in Colombo, which saw him dispatch Sri Lanka for 50 runs, has propelled him to the top of the MRF Tyres ICC Men’s ODI Bowling Rankings. The Asia Cup-winning stint of 6/21 has restored him to the No.1 spot, which he held until March 2023, when he was displaced by Josh Hazlewood.
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Are Libby And Andrei Starring In 90 Day Fiancé: Happily Ever After Season 7?
Libby Potthast and Andrei Castravet aren’t exactly the most fan-favorite couple in the 90 Day Fiancé universe. However, the couple and their daughter were recently spotted being filmed by a TLC crew at a tennis court in Tampa, Florida. It looks like they will be starring in season 7 of 90 Day Fiancé: Happily Ever After?
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Libby and Andrei joined the cast of 90 Day Fiancé in 2017. They first met in Dublin and after dating for a while, Libby applied for his K-1 visa so he could move to the US. All along, Andrei has had a strained relationship with Libby’s family, particularly her father Chuck and brother Charlie. Her family believed he was marrying their relative just to get a Green Card and live a comfortable life.
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While fans enjoyed the drama for a while, most wanted TLC to drop the explosive family. The action was getting repetitive and nothing new ever seemed to come into the mix. Despite this, it looks like the Castravets and Potthasts are getting ready to return to the TLC reality show.
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Scrolling through the comments to the Instagram post, it is clear that 90 Day Fiancé fans are disappointed that TLC is once again filming the controversial couple. Among the comments, one fan wrote, “No more of them. Read the room TLC nobody asked for this.” Another exclaimed, “Noooooo… they’re coming back AGAIN?? TLC CASTING SUCKS!”
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Despite the negativity towards Andrei and Libby, they do have a fan following. Andrei has more than 300K followers on Instagram, while Libby has an even more impressive number of 700K followers. Maybe TLC is taking note of their social media following, rather than fan complaints in casting them for season 7 of 90 Day Fiancé: Happily Ever After?
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The San Francisco police department (SFPD) has 17 robots in its arsenal, but the city’s board of supervisors decided to specifically forbid it from deploying them to murder people.
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The majority of the board’s 11 members had last week voted in favor of allowing robots to be loaded with explosives and used to murder individuals.
The board also made a change stating that only senior officers would be permitted to approve the use of deadly force.
Civil rights organizations sharply criticized the initial decision to permit “killer robots,” which also brought attention to the militarization of US police forces.
Supervisors and law enforcement officers who had first backed the use of deadly force had said that the robots would murder individuals in extreme circumstances, including those involving suicide bombers or active shooters.
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'No Child Left Behind' Gets Left Behind: Washington grants waivers to dozens of states, despite the law's clear benefits.
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By Eric Smith
It has been 30 years since the landmark report "A Nation At Risk" documented the failings of America's public-school system, and the past three decades have seen much promising reform on the local, state and federal levels, in legislatures, on school boards and in classrooms. Yet today the trend lines again are moving in the wrong direction, with federal policy inviting states to back away from their duty to ensure that students receive the education they deserve.
Since 2011, the U.S. Department of Education has granted waivers to 34 states and the District of Columbia exempting them from some of the core accountability measures in the bipartisan 2001 No Child Left Behind law. Ten more states have waiver applications pending. Meanwhile, the Texas legislature is considering loosening public-school testing standards, and nine districts in California have independently moved to submit NCLB waiver requests.
No Child Left Behind was based on the idea that schools should establish measurable educational goals and be held accountable for meeting them. This is the only proven formula for improving education in this country--and NCLB has generated some amazing results, particularly in low-income minority communities. Unfortunately, opponents of the law have relied on disingenuous claims in pushing for waivers.
Myth No. 1: The federal government doesn't have a role to play in local education decisions. Teachers and local educators have primary responsibility for teaching students, but that doesn't mean that other levels of government should remain silent. When schools fail, no corner of government can abdicate responsibility.
Most American schools derive 10% or more of their budgets from the federal government, and schools have lobbied for more federal dollars even as their performance has stagnated. (The Economist magazine recently ranked America's education system a dismal 17th in the world.) NCLB allows states some flexibility to set their own standards, but it ties funding to whether they meet meaningful goals. Its simple premise is that Washington shouldn't reward schools if they fail to educate students.
Myth No. 2: Standardized tests are a poor means of measuring student learning. Of course the education system shouldn't discount the judgment of teachers and school administrators, but objective data can make educators and policy makers aware of problems that were previously ignored.
While schools had long been concerned about low achievement among minority students, only NCLB testing revealed the true depths of America's racial-achievement gaps. This was a long overdue wake-up call. Just three years after the law was signed, proficiency in reading and math among Hispanic and African-American students hit an all-time high.
Myth No. 3: NCLB unfairly holds teachers chiefly responsible for student performance. The best chance a child has to succeed academically is to be in the classroom of a skilled teacher. Student testing and accountability standards can help identify good teachers, retain them and determine best practices for helping others improve their craft.
Even marginal improvements in teacher quality can be significant. A 2012 study by three economists--Raj Chetty and John N. Friedman of Harvard and Jonah E. Rockoff of Columbia--found that if a student has just one excellent teacher for a full term between fourth grade and eighth, the student will earn $4,600 more in lifetime income.
That's one good reason why it makes sense that student achievement be tied to teacher evaluation.
Myth No. 4: The fact that so many states want waivers from NCLB shows that the law didn't work. In 2006, five years after NCLB's passage, the Department of Education determined that 43 states and Washington, D.C., had either improved academically or held steady in all categories. America's 9-year-olds have made more progress in reading skills since 2002 than they did in the 28 years before NCLB's passage.
Despite this success, schools in 16 states can now repeatedly miss their "annual measurable objectives" without any significant state intervention or consequences. This isn't a reflection of NCLB's failure but of failed political leadership in Washington.
Americans applaud setting goals. Education should be one of them, even if it means exerting pressure on entrenched bureaucracies. But only if Washington is dedicated to this goal will America really develop a school system that leaves no child behind.
Mr. Smith, a fellow in education policy at the George W. Bush Institute, was Florida's education commissioner from 2007 to 2010.
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