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Agropraxis Farm(Scotts, Michigan)A Ultra-Low Carbon input farm using Eco-Bio methods.
[ Member listing ]28 Dec · Fri 2012Holiday LullThe Holidays, snow accumulation and time with family makes this a wonderful time of the year. Everyone at our house is either on break or taking advantage of the season to do a lot less of the everyday and a lot more of the fun holiday things. The farmer in me feels like all of this free time should be put to good use. Of course there is just about nothing to do that wouldn't be better done at another time. So I catch up on sports, read last summers' magazines, and waste time on the computer. The garden plan is all set, seeds are ordered, and CSA info prepped. Not a lot to bother with. During years past I made efforts to read books on relevant topics during this lull in the season. I ordered many through Inter-Library loan and read them and made notes. I re-read important works by Coleman, Rodale,..etc.to expand understanding. I went to the Conferences to exchange ideas and make contacts. Over time I developed a set of questions that I worked on answering and I realized that so many of them were not addressed by books or conference discussions. The questions had little to do with the science of farming (agriculture) and more to do with what I call the managing variables part of farming (art). All plants need a set of basic factors to produce a crop; water, CO2, sunlight, nutrients,…The scientist will indicate so much water, and so much N-P-K and blah, blah , blah….This farmer knows that you can put all of these things together and still end up with a poor crop. What factors contribute to a fantastic crop? What can I do to make a good crop a great crop? How do I duplicate lasts years exceptional root crops with this years' conditions? Over the years you build a base of information. A crop may be spectacular and you wonder which variable or what combination of variables allowed the crop to push the limits of genetic potential? Which planting method with these conditions will favor the crop best? I know a few vegetable farmers that concern themselves with gross yield. So their questions are always about what inputs will give the greatest yield. I ask how will these methods impact product quality? Which cultivation methods favor plant growth? Is saved seed from healthy mature plants more vigorous than purchased seed? I have 4 hours of time and how do I use it to best impact the farm? Will the field composting of year old manures be a better net return than windrowing and turning? The questions keep accumulating and getting partially answered. It seems the answers are a bit more complex than I often imagine. Which of course makes sense, I'm dealing with a complex natural system that we only understand in a general manner. I've been reading some thought provoking works not necessarily farm related. One is the following by Charles Eisenstein, http://sacred-economics.com/ His work on scarcity and money are very relevant and thought provoking. There is plenty that applies to farming in this work! I also enjoyed The Rise of Rome by Everitt. Before long the season will turn and I'll be in the field. Looking to answer more questions. Farmer Pete
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16 Dec · Sun 2012Late Fall HarvestOn Friday I left school and headed to the farm for a late fall harvest. For the last several years I've kept busy during the slower season by working as a Substitute Teacher. Being a Sub isn't quite the same as being a full-time teacher. It's a fill-in role that has fewer responsibilities than teachers have. Being with the young people that are part of our communities and around teachers has been a great experience. It has built a sense of hope that an honored form of continuity is being instilled for the future. Harvest was better than I would normally do this time of year. There was plenty of Kale and Brussels Sprouts and a few root vegetables, but also nice Broccoli, Collards, Cilantro, Purple Pac Choi, Cabbages, and Leeks. I arrived in the field with almost an hour and a half of daylight and left with the sun having set and a beautiful sunset waning to twilight. The day had been mild, in the upper 40's with light winds, so I worked in comfort. A Harvest this close to the Winter Solstice has never been so nice. Certainly the mild fall has contributed with no lows below 20 degrees and no extended cold spells. Precipitation has been sparse but enough for healthy plants. It seems almost like a bonus to have a harvest like this shortly before the holidays. I only slipped on gloves in the last half hour because it was warm enough to do without till then. After a good day in school and a nice harvest I heard the news of the day. DEVASTATING! I have few words…. As a parent…as a Sub in my local schools… Later that evening my daughter asked when would our pizza be out of the oven? She was hungry, really hungry! All I could say was that I was sorry that dinner was late, I was upset about all the kids being killed… Farmer Pete.
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09 Dec · Sun 2012Harmony Acres CSAFarming at Tillers International has worked out wonderfully. As I plan for the 2013 season I'm thrilled to offer CSA. Below is some information from our CSA brochure and about what we plan for the coming season. If you have interest in becoming a member/shareholder contact me or leave a comment (email me, agropraxisfarm at gmail dot com). When thinking of a CSA name I had several things in mind. First I wanted to keep the farm and the CSA distinct. Many farms brand themselves and want to keep their marketing uniform. This CSA will be more than the typical marketing of produce that CSA seems to have become. Secondly, our relationship with Tillers International is important. Their mission to teach and support sustainable communities that teach low capital technologies is in harmony with our efforts. And lastly, our unbending recognition of nature as mentor. Being in tune with the forces and principles that guide all life is fundamental. So names were proposed and altered or dropped. Finally, in a discussion at Market a good customer used the word "Harmony". I don't remember the context but the word suddenly took meaning. I really like all of the positive images that the name conjures and we adopted the name, Harmony Acres CSA. From the CSA brochure: "Harmony Acres CSA(HACSA) was started by the Agropraxis Farm and its organic farmer Pete Robertson. The concept of CSA is to create a Community that supports the farm and benefits from a close relationship. Many CSA's have been started by farmers as part of a marketing plan, or by organizations that seek to benefit financially from starting CSA. HACSA will be established as a "True CSA" that involves its members in decision making, work and benefits of the farm. A Core Group of members will direct HACSA and provide the foundation for development and direction of the CSA. Agropraxis Farm is a continuing organic farm operation that located to Tillers International in 2012. Pete Robertson began growing for market in 2006 using over 25 years of organic gardening knowledge. With CSA experience that includes producing for a 100 member SW Michigan CSA this farm is being developed to support a growing community of consumers that value a direct relationship with a farm. " And also: "Reasons to Join: -Receive more fresh produce for your dollar -No middleman/brokers -Dollars go directly to the farmers -The freshest possible food weekly -Fewer trips to the store -Wider selection of local produce -No residual chemicals on food -Organic food with high nutrient density -Connection to the growing local foods movement -Share info, recipes, tips -Weekly newsletter (With share) -Access to your local farm! -Low carbon input farming! -Special events, dinners, day on the farm -Volunteer opportunities -Support for those maintaining our farm traditions -Keeping your dollars local! -Education of future food producers -Farm to table in under 6 hours! -Varieties that show the broad scope of foods available outside of regular food channels Farmer Pete
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02 Dec · Sun 2012Fall and the Nature of FarmingOn the farm the late fall crops are doing well. A great harvest of leeks, Brussels sprouts, rutabegas, radicchio, broccoli, and kale was done. I also I harvested a nice crop of collards. Maybe it's a Michigan thing (or a white, Michigan thing), but collards are not real common here. This was a demo crop and I honestly had never eaten them or grown them before. I never had a CSA member ask for them or had someone at market inquire. But, they seem to be really popular in some regions and referred to favorably in cooking magazines. So they went in. They were largely neglected through the summer. Some were taken to market but drew little interest. They looked super the other week so I harvested and cooked them for my first try…and was blown away! So that's what I've been missing! What flavor and texture. Even the picky-eater in the house took seconds. So simple and so good! They earned a spot on the farm for the coming years. We'll have Kale and collards for late greens from now on. I took time to read a farming magazine and ran across an appropriate description of what it's like to farm compared to typical businesses. "…the difference in magnitude and importance of the problems between managing a business unit versus managing a farm….It sort of puts those petty office problems into perspective. On a farm if you miss something, you miss it for a year….In business if you miss a deadline or something doesn't work out right…it's so easy to correct…and go on....with farming you're so much more aware of what's not in your control; whereas in business you get this warped sense of it's all in my control…In farming you do have some influence, but so much of it is nature." (Acres USA, Dec 2012 Womack pg. 55…) The lack of understanding of the challenges that farmers face gets a broad range of responses. Customers don't lose any money when a celery crop fails due to unfavorable hot, droughty conditions. They buy conventional celery with its inferior taste. Early beets may be killed by a late hard freeze and hours of work go unrewarded. Working with nature is a humbling and unpredictable experience. As the article detailed, it has a magnitude associated with its problems that few appreciate. One farming job I had was a nightmare. A "plan" was created and a farmer hired to implement the plan (me). The plan was grossly unrealistic but being a farmer and hoping that the plan makers understood a little about the difficulty of farming to a rigid plan, I took the risk of trying to fulfill the plan. In an ideal situation the plan might have had a chance. With a challenging weather year and personnel scenario the problems were insurmountable and the plan was unachievable. The business decided to try another farmer (only to experience the same outcome) and is again looking for another farmer to assume the risk. The article brought to mind the differences and failings of thinking and working with nature as though it fit into a plan. The mentality of a farmer is to keep planting and working so that short term problems are minimized and long term benefits of the work are realized. Having to work to a plan is loaded with stress and quickly results in insurmountable animosity. Only a farmer seems to sense the difficulties or understand the problems and their magnitude. Farmer Pete
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Horikawa Sightseeing Boat
The pleasure boat of "Horikawa-meguri" has come out from the Matsue castle side.
The canal which surrounds a castle round about 3.7km is rotated in 50 minutes.
This 50 minute pleasure cruise boat trip takes you around Matsue Castle. As you float along the canal you can enjoy the beautiful sights of Matsue Castle, the old Samurai Residence and Shiomi Nawate Street. You will also travel under the 16 famous bridges that span the castle moat.
The samurai residences and a castle tower can be seen from onboard.
You can go to sightseeing of a castle town, while experiencing the air of "riverside area in San-in" on this boat. The regular service runs every 15 minutes.
1 day ticket is 1200yen, but If you show your passport, there is discount.- Romantic Travel and Honeymoons
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Pleasure Boat Shinji-lake " Hakucho "
Hakocho carries out the round tour of the field of the Shinji lake calmly.
There are 6 operations in 1 day.
This 60 minute cruise on Lake Shinji leaves from two departure points. The final departure, a sunset cruise, is particularly popular .
If you watch from this boat, " Matsue-city" and "prefectural art museum", etc. you will give the fresh impression different from usually.
The Sunset cruise can appreciate the surface of a lake which increases brightness with the setting sun. It is an unparalleled view.
Reservation is required for boarding.
A charge is 1300 yen.
If you wish, how many kinds of those lunch will be prepared.
Sunset can be enjoyed eating lunch.- Sailing and Boating
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Matsue Lakeline Loop Bus
This is a bus which connects the sightseeing spot of the suburbs to a city area.
There are 29 bus stops and this is very convenient for the tour around a town of Matsue.
If you visit Matsue, you will want to go to the places certainly,such as the Matsue Shinji lake hot spring resort, the Matsue castle, Lafecadio Hearn Memorial Museum , the samurai residences and so on. These places can be traveled by foppish bus on the basis of JR " Matsue " station.
This nostalgic bus stops at the main places of interest on a 70 minute course around the city. A one-day pass gives discounted entry to sightseeing facilities. One ride on the bus is 200 yen. An all day bus ticket costs 500 yen.The ticket is sold in this.
In Buss's inside, there is also an English notation and it has become the structure [ getting on and off ] which a foreign visitor is not with trouble. Buss operate every 20 minutes from about 9:00 to about 18:00
If you purchase a ticket for one day, show at the window of the Matsue castle, Lafecadio Hearn Memorial Museum, a samurai residence, a prefectural art museum, and a Horikawa sightseeing boat, it is a discount system that use at group charge.
You can be in the full enjoyment of "the capital of water is Matsue" where history, culture and nature are harmonize.- Historical Travel
- Castles and Palaces
- Romantic Travel and Honeymoons
Getting to Matsue
Matsue Station is located along the San-in Line, so it is well connected from Yamaguchi to Tottori! You can also reach it easily from Okayama, Kurashiki, and Miyoshi.
For an economical way of getting here (particularly if you're travelling from further away), consider taking a highway bus! From eastern cities, like Tokyo, Osaka, and Kyoto, buses stop at Matsue Station prior to arriving at Izumo. If you plan to visit Matsue and Izumo, you may just want to go to Izumo and take the train to Matsue. From Osaka, it will cost about 5500 yen (one way).- Budget Travel
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Loop bus arround the city
There is loop bus every 30 min. There are two direction: left or right loop, you can select it base on your destination. The bus ticket is available in the tourist information center, outside of Matsue train station. If you buy one day ticket, you will get several discount for entrance fee of museum or other sightseeing places.
One ride costs 200 yen, but 1 day ticket costs 500 yen. -
Matsue is connected with Tokyo...
Matsue is connected with Tokyo and Osaka by JAS (Japan Air System). The airport is Izumo. Get on the bus, which then provide a nice view of the Lake Shinjiko and Tamatsukuri Hotspa Town on its way to the center of Matsue, in about 30 minutes.
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"[Ontario] has a high proportion of immigrants, many without English as a first language, yet it now has one of the world's best-performing schools systems."
There should be nothing surprising about immigrant children doing well at school. It's the *type* of immigrants a country attracts that determines how well their kids will do at school.
Canada makes it easy for skilled, educated people to immigrate. The United States makes it quite hard for skilled people to immigrate, but quite easy for family members to sponsor spouses, parents, etc. Moreover, the US maintains an enormous population of low-skilled undocumented foreign workers.
To give you a sense of scale, in 2010 the US permanently admitted 148,343 people on the basis of employment. These are folks that are valuable enough to have made it through the many hurdles in the immigration process. In that same year, the US admitted 691,003 people via "family-preference". At the same time, there's around 12M undocumented people (typically unskilled) actually in the US at the moment.
In 2010, Canada (which has population ten times smaller than the US) admitted 186,913 people on the basis of employment, and only 60,220 in the family category.
So the word "immigrant" has different connotations. In Canada, could be a scientist or an engineer. In the US, it's far more likely to apply to mean an unskilled worker.
It might make you cringe, but plenty of data shows that the kids of highly educated people will do a lot better in school than the children of less-educated ones.
OECD PISA Test Results Decriers:
Like any other test, if you do not like the results you can attack the test: Sampling Error. Insufficient Size Error. Only the Elite Students were tested Error. Cheating Error. Students were told this is Really Important or NOT Important Error. Our Underachieving/ Mentally Retarded Students were included when they should have stayed home that day Error. Jock students should be excluded since they have a kinesthetic knowledge base Error. Student had too much coffee that morning. Students had too little coffee that morning. IT was Shark Week on the Nature Channel and students underslept.
America once lead these test results in the 60'( and at that time I am sure they did not dispute the validity.) There has a been a decline since then, or else the World caught up. These are longitudinal trends that bode ill for the future. If you criticize the validity of the test results, know your position would be better if you were arguing from strength rather than complaining about bitter grapes.
These are international uniform standards of comparison for large sampled groups. They are imperfect, but the best available. The OECD has a lot of experience and even publishes Wheat harvest yields, tv average consumption and foot ware production numbers...why aren't these disputed with equal vigor?
Now instead of attacking the results, take your lumps, and work to improve the future. Hell is doing the same thing again and again and expecting a different result.
Reality is what it is. Anything else is delusions.
Excellent article, thank you!
Around the world, several decades late, but hopefully still coming, is a major revolution in education. I wrote a book about this, with ideas from almost 12 years ago, and it is still cutting edge.
Still, so many education models look at it as X input = Y output. How about a model of natural explosion? Nobody has solutions at the macro level because nobody has delineated a model. I have.
Success in the American school system should be broken down by demographics. Asian-Americans, Black Immigrants, and White students do very well. American Blacks and Hispanics perform poorly. Some groups simply value education more than others. What needs to be addressed is the cultural mindset that places little value on intellectualism. After so many millions of dollars spent on the schools, we must acknowledge that the problem lies elsewhere.
Here is the study on test scores and demographic groups
Author has forgotten China.First mentioned that it tops in call rank and then no mention of their school systems.
If we have to go ahead of country in educated we must understand their system.
Why author has restrained from that ?
Part of the Miracle of China, is their education system. Most schools have no heat, let alone air conditioning. No computers, let alone campus wide wi-fi. No athletic programs, though the rates of obesity are far lower than the West. Teachers make one-tenth the salaries of American counterparts. Electricity is spotty. Roads are dirt. Students are undernourished. Some students are barefooted. Poverty is generational.
But the OECD data shows the highest scoring students in the world live in China! In scores of Math, Science and Reading, they exceed the best of Europe and the World. This despite average per pupil spending of over 10 times less than America. Few books. Few computers. No athletic program. And no heat.
It is hard to explain their success, but it is probably a combination of many factors.
But one critical factor is the Meritocracy of Excellence. Students are ranked by their academic standing by their everyday seating. First student sits in the first row, far right. Second highest student, sits in the second chair...etc. There is a clear acknowledgement of leaders, and every student is aware and strives to move up the ranking.
In the West, students are molly-coddled to protect their self esteem. And even the worst students think they are excelling overachievers.
The Truth is Painful. Might as well know the rules and know your standing. And Work Hard to improve and excel. That is the simple recipe for China's success.
It is not particularly useful in this article to narrow the Chinese scores to the best cities and then drawing conclusions. Obviously many of the wealthier, higher class, or more educated Chinese live there. If you're going to do that they why not just select Boston (MA) or Westchester County (NY) from the USA.
School is more than just teaching students "how to" in the subjects.
School is about teaching civic responsibility, socialization, team work, knowledge, but above all that is "how to think"
Public education assumes that we have a supply of good teachers to educate an entire population. The number of good teachers is limited and only a lucky few will encounter truly inspiring teachers in their lifetime. In that sense, public education is a myth. Most true education is done by students themselves, as they are motivated by their societies or families to study hard. I had many horrible teachers at my school and I had four good teachers that I can remember of and that I respect. I learned because I wanted to, because my family valued it and because I enjoyed some subjects regardless of the teacher that was teaching it.
From Asian American perspective, US education system is fine and Asian American students actually are improving their verbal and writing performance under this system. Check following data.
Amazing, writing even suppasses every ones.
I apologize in advance if I'm restating what's already been said, but to say that China came in first is very misleading. Instead, a small, selected group of Chinese schools did better than national averages. I'm confident that a similar group of schools could be found in New York or London or Paris or almost any other major city.
I was born in China; my parents were farmers with only 3 years of education. They only know few hundred Chinese characters. My parent have 7 children, I am the 5th in the family.
We were very poor when I was young; I have to climb two hills, spent more than one hour each way to go to school. There were 60+ students in the class, spent 8 hours per day, 6 days a week and several hours of home work every day.
My parents said we need to study Engineering and Science, so every one of my brothers and sisters studied Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, etc.
We took GRE tests after we graduated from college, we got scholarships from Universities in America, everyone one of us got Ph.D., Master degrees from U.S., and successful in their careers.
When I come to graduate school in U.S. some of the courses and books in graduate school were the same as my undergraduate courses.
I have 3 sons; they all graduated from University of California at Berkeley as undergraduate, and then went on to Stanford, Harvard, and MIT for graduate schools. My kids are all productive members in society; our family never gets any assistance from government. I have been working every single day in my past 40 years to run my own computer company.
In my humble opinion, the main problem of education in U.S. is people's mindset.
Teachers care about their salary and want to do minimum work. I remember when my kids were in k-12 schools, the teachers on strike several times for more pay, but, when I went to school's office, there were lots of old ladies as administrators (bureaucrats).
Some parents sent their kids to school as free babysitters; academic achievement is low on the some parents list.
Kids want to have fun, parties, computer games, etc.... they do not like to do homework. People keep on telling me let kids be kids, enjoy life.
I live in a very expensive neighborhood and one of the very top school districts in California; my kids always come home for donations. In one of the parents/teacher conference, one of the teachers said to me why they teach my kids and can not afford a house in my multi-million dollars neighborhood, so, teachers will do minimum to get by.
Why we need teachers union? Why people do not pay attention to their own kid's education? Money will solve the education problem? Where is the motivation/incentive for the kid to learn?
What a sad joke!
What I don't understand about merit pay: is a person motivated by more money a better teacher than someone not motivated by more money?
One of the roles of a parent is a teacher, would parents be better if the government paid them more if their children did better in school? Or loved their kids more?
I understand that businesses that pay more attract talented people that are motivated specifically by pay. Perhaps mercenaries aren't the answer. Certainly people should be paid for their services. But there are many talented people out there who can and should teach, are not motivated by maximizing monetary income and who should be pursued to engage in the teaching process. Other levers besides dollars exist.
The German educational system needs to be reformed. I met a handful of Germans when I was traveling through Australia last summer, and they all complained about their government's school system. They split up the kids into two different schools before the kids are teenagers. First of all, I think the separation of the kids is a ad idea from the start. By the age of 13, the kids know what type of job they are heading towards, which is way too early to assess a child's talents. The human brain finishes developing around the age of 21. This system takes away the freedom of the kids, and decides their future before they even develop.
Although this article spends much of it's time, rightly so, harping on the importance of changing school systems throughout the world, the main issue should be quality and treatment of teachers. Public school teachers in America are paid ridiculously low salaries despite the fact that they have college degrees and that much of their work is done outside the classroom. A high school math teacher could be paid twice as much were they to go into an Engineering career, but by electing to go into teaching, forming the minds of tomorrow, their selflessness deserves much more than $35,000 a year.
Quality teachers are often hard to find in less afluent areas of society, where the already underpaid job of teaching is even less attractive because of difficulties created in a poorer school district. In order to increase the number of quality teachers, government money should be spent increasing their salaries and rewarding them for great results rather than sending the money to support unsuccessful public school initiatives. Increased salaries will attract more high quality college graduates to the field of teaching, and regular qualification exams and progress reports will ensure that teaching quality is up to par.
Once the number of quality teachers is increased through higher salaries and stricter standards, school systems will be able to more accurately gauge the success of charter schools and other alternative education experiments.
Reforming educations starts with reforming oneself (as parents, teachers and society). How do we not create "beasts of burden" of our children.... Innovation cannot rise from there...
Reforming educations starts with reforming oneself (as parents, teachers and society). How do we not create "beasts of burden" of our children.... Innovation cannot rise from there...
It took the Economist awhile to blatantly so it but I believe that the teachers are the single most important thing as far as education reform is concerned. No matter how advanced or slack a school is, it is the teachers who actually affect the students the most. I went to a Blue Ribbon School of Excellence, which honestly doesn't really mean anything, yet I had teachers who completely changed or influence my life and I had teachers who couldn't care less about whether I was actually learning or not. I'm not sure whether Bush's No Child Left Behind is effective either but as far as I know, this plan is helping the United States in focusing on under achieving students. It is very discouraging that the world's sole superpower ranks fairly low on the list of other world leaders, while we aren't making strong improvements either. Maybe this should be a bigger issue in next year's presidential election.
In America, have when been taking advantage of our education? Have we lost the passion to learn new information about the world? Would we be more inclined to learn if English wasn't our first language?
The United States places a huge emphasis on education, yet many Americans dread waking up in the mornings and going to school. Where in other countries, children are lucky to receive an education. Due to the fact that many other countries don't speak English as their first language, they go to school to learn English to overcome the modern times of English speaking countries. I think that America needs to find that passion for education again so that we can reach higher marks on the scale for performance. It isn't always that we can spend more money, but it should be what we are going to do with all that money towards the education of younger generations.
After 20 years in education teaching all grades from K- Ph D across continents; the only way to success has been "parents involvement" for lower grades and self motivation at higher. No amount of money teachers will help
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As President Obama warns us of doom and gloom, Secretary of State John F. Kerry just wrote a quarter-billion-dollar check to Muslim Brotherhood-backed Egyptian leader Mohammed Morsi ("New U.S. aid package of $250 million for Egypt fuels debate over support," Web, Monday). What kind of Washington math is this?
We either don't have money, as "Chicken Little" Obama says, or we do. Why are the president and the State Department supplying money, jet planes and tanks to Egypt, a country run by a member of the Muslim Brotherhood? It seems that Mr. Morsi doesn't believe in democracy. He is now in complete control of the Egyptian government, and his decisions are final. Mr. Morsi is the one the current administration helped into power.
I wonder what they need these long-range jets and tanks for? All I can say is, Israel, watch your back. The United States is now supplying the Muslim Brotherhood, the king of all terrorist organizations.
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The Metropolitan Planning Organization is preparing its long-range transportation plan for U.S. 41 from Palmetto to the south Sarasota County border and recently sought input from the city on what it considered its top priorities.
Commissioners unanimously voted to make transportation improvements in north Sarasota their No. 1 objective.
"We have a chance of integrating all those institutions up there," said Commissioner Terry Turner. "It can be the next big part of our economic plan."
The board made the section of U.S. 41 from University of South Florida to Orange Avenue its top priority and from Orange Avenue to Bee Ridge Road its second priority.
The city is already planning six roundabouts along the bayfront (see box page 1) as part of its connectivity plan. The MPO plan could call for four more, at the U.S. 41 intersections with the entrance to to USF, University Parkway, Myrtle Street and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Way.
However, most of the proposed improvements in the transportation plan are new or expanded sidewalks for pedestrians and bicycle lanes.
The goal of the bayfront-connectivity plan is to slow traffic by reducing lane width and widening and landscaping the medians, as well as posting slower speed-limit signs.
Vice Mayor Fredd Atkins feared that would shift a lot of traffic to U.S. 301.
"If we're going to do all these things to 41, we're going to turn that six-lane 301 into a high-speed track," he said. "We need to make sure we have a plan for safety for 301."
But City Engineer Alex DavisShaw said the roundabouts on U.S. 41 may actually invite more drivers.
"Without (stoplights) on 41, it should allow the same amount of volume and maybe even more," she said. "If we're thoughtful as to how we make these modifications, we can make it function better and not funnel off traffic."
The roundabouts at 14th Street and 10th Street are already fully funded at a total of about $5 million, and FDOT will choose a contractor in the next few weeks.
Funding for the rest of the bayfront connectivity plan will come in stages that are yet to be determined.
The rest of the MPO's long-range transportation plan will take decades to fund and build.
The city-approved bayfront connectivity plan calls for six roundabouts on U.S. 41 at the following intersections:
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• Fruitvillle Road
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- This is going too fast. Already some of the completed projects of this nature are under pressure to be removed. Let's give it a lot more time before going forward.
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- Being a person with a disability it makes it hard to decide when to go into the traffic circle. I find it much easier to have a light tell me when its safe to go. I will be avoiding these circles as much as possible.
Not every town has circles. I think you are not only putting me at a disadvantage, but visitors to our town as well.
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- The Vice Mayor is right. US 301 and Fruitville Road carry much more traffic than US 41 and they enter the heart of Sarasota. The remarks by the City Engineer are disingenuous,"if we're thoughtful as to how we make these modifications,we can make it function better and not funnel off traffic". US 41 from Myrtle St. to its connction at Mound St. with US 301 conforms to its adopted level of service. Between Myrtle St. and University Parkway US 41 does not meet it adopted level of service but that seems to be of no consequence.
Fruitville Road from Tuttle to US 301 does not meet the adopted level of service. US 41 from US 301 to the south city limits does not meet its adopted level of service. Why is the City concentrating on fixing a highway that meets its operating criteria and ignoring those that do not. As a passing note, the City Comprehansive plan is firm in its commitment to another bridge from Longboat Key to the mainland. The $100,000,000 quoted as the price for US 41 roundabouts could certainly help that cause and at the same time ameliorate the problem at Ringling Cswy and US 41.
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- These planned roundabouts are an insane waste of money. The idea of slowing traffic is equally insane. The idea should be to move as fast and as safely as possible. More accidents will occur with roundabouts and certainly more frustration. Agitated drivers become more hostile and that raises the possibility of more accidents both vehicular and pedestrian. While they're at it, why don't they add back-in parking along US 41? Oh, and let's reduce the road to one lane in each direction!
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The Houston Rockets needed a lift after learning that Yao Ming was lost for the season.
They found it against the Memphis Grizzlies, with Kevin Martin scoring 34 points to lead Houston to a 103-87 win Friday night.
It was a positive end to a day where they learned their star center would miss the rest of 2010-2011 because of a stress fracture in his left ankle.
''We have to keep going,'' Luis Scola said. ''Yao is not here and some way we have got to move on. This is our job and we have to try to win games.''
The Rockets have won seven straight overall against the Grizzlies and nine in a row over Memphis at home.
Martin scored 20 points in the first quarter alone, staking Houston to a 34-13 lead. The Grizzlies, who entered the game with a four-game winning streak, never got closer than 16 points after that.
''It was a perfect first quarter,'' Houston coach Rick Adelman said. ''Obviously we were very good. They missed a lot of shots and ... we didn't give them second shots.''
Rudy Gay and Sam Young scored 19 points each to lead the Grizzlies, but Gay was ejected for a flagrant foul with about six minutes remaining.
The Grizzlies haven't won in Houston since April 2006 and Houston's last seven wins over the Rockets have all been by at least 10 points.
''It's the same thing every time we play them,'' Memphis coach Lionel Hollins said. ''They out-quicked us, they outworked us, they out-toughed us. They made a statement to tell us that we couldn't play against them.''
''We came in here to try to make a statement that we could play with them, but they showed us that we haven't matured enough and gotten on the level that they're on with their group.''
Luis Scola added 23 points for the Rockets and Kyle Lowry, who has been filling in for injured point guard Aaron Brooks, helped out with 17 points and a career-high 18 assists.
The Rockets were up 29 at the end of the third quarter before Memphis used a 14-2 run to make it 91-74 with about seven minutes remaining, which was the closest the Grizzlies had been since the first quarter.
Shane Battier made a 3-pointer after that and then Scola made one of the free throws from Gay's flagrant foul to put Houston back ahead by more than 20 points, 95-74. Gay knocked Scola to the ground as Battier sunk the 3-pointer to draw the flagrant foul.
''That just killed whatever momentum we had,'' Hollins said of Gay's ejection.
Gay regretted the behavior that led to his ejection.
''I kind of let my anger get the best of me, and it's not characteristic of me or anybody else on this team,'' he said. ''Me, as a leader, I probably shouldn't have done that.''
Memphis started the second half strong, going on a 7-0 run that included five points by Sam Young to make it 63-40. Battier hit a 3-pointer to end that run and he and Martin had 3-pointers sandwiched around a layup by Scola later in the third quarter to push the lead to 87-58.
The Rockets led by 21 after a dominant first quarter and scored the first nine points of the second quarter behind four points by Scola to extend their lead to 43-13 about 10 minutes before halftime. The Grizzlies scored the next six points but it wasn't near enough to close the gap.
''You've got to come out and set the tone and all five guys came out and set the tone tonight,'' Martin said. ''It was the best first quarter by far on the season offensively and defensively.''
Houston was up 49-27 before outscoring Memphis 12-6 in the last 3 1/2 minutes of the first half to lead 61-33 at the half.
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Students without a doubt are more familiar with a keyboard than with a pen or pencil, especially students entering junior high and high school. Although the advancement of technology is welcomed, somewhere in our children education we must teach them to value the basics of pen to paper before learning the commands of "file. print."
Aug 27, 2009
I went to a public high school where writing skills were taught freshman year, and supposedly employed over the next three years. In reality I did barely any writing and entered college feeling underprepared. Luckily a freshman-year writing seminar did wonders, and equipped me for a college experience that culminated in the writing of a heavily scrutinized 80-page paper.
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Aug 27, 2009
Ironic that an article on writing skills contains several misspellings/typos.
Aug 27, 2009
Languages keep evolving according to the era. What is a standard? A standard is commonly accepted by a broad range of people. The smiley icons became a universal language in the world. The traditional writing skills will become obsolete when languages keep evolving. Why would I learn only one language for a certain group of people to understand, while I can learn a universal language that everyone in the world can understand? We need to keep our mind open. Changes may not be bad.
Aug 27, 2009
It's really a shame that people are now just doing like cramming sessions for the SAT to improve their bad writing. I see bad writing all over the Web every day even by Ivy League grads.
Aug 27, 2009
Tony, why don't you just notify us of the typos?
Aug 27, 2009
Bad writing in emails, in particular, is rampant. I can't help but judge people who send a poorly written email. |
Aug 27, 2009
janet I'm guilty of the bad emails, it is so easy to just use lazy punctuation and spelling online. I realize, however, that it is setting a bad example for young people. Perhaps we should create some sort of governing body over the English language like there is for French.
Sep 2, 2009
I like the point this article makes about writing education beginning young - attempting to train a 30 year old to write well is no use if he doesn't have an earlier base, I believe...
Apr 10, 2013
So true Anita, for childhood trainings are what usually remain. This remind me of the line, "Train up the child on the way he should and when he is old he will depart from it." Read more @ http://www.articlesnatch.com/Article/An-Ocean...
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My new pain management MD put me on Topamax for my daily headaches. I have tried MANY other drugs, notably Gabapentin helped some. I also have depression, but went off all my depression meds when I thought that they were contributing to my debilitating headaches. He rxed the Topamax at 25 mgm twice a day for a week, then 50 twice a day. About 45 minutes after the first dose, I became very nauseated. The next day, I was back in bed with severe depression. The next day, I cut the pill in 1/2 and took it with food, milk, Zofran, and Ginger Root. That combo helps some. Any further suggestions? My headaches have pretty much stopped for the past 4 days which is AWESOME, but the nausea is debilitating. Thanks in advance for your help!
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Hello sgc46. Philip Milk Of Magnesea, might help. Or Pepto Bismal. They're both coated and will help to not irritate your stomach. Hope that it resolves itself, yet one good thing, your headaches are just about gone and thats a plus. Best of wishes and good health,pledge
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Hi there sgc46,
I used to eat a little bite of ginger candy when I was nauseated when pregnant. Worked really well. Also have you talked to your doctor about stopping Depression meds because if you are depressed you should take something or it will get worse. Talking from experience!
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