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a new field of study offered in place of economics, as astronomy replaced astrology and chemistry replaced alchemy. Conventional economics, in which GNP can do well while people suffer, is a bit too superstitious for my renaissance upbringing. If I'm to propitiate unseen forces, it won't be inflation or "the market"; let it be theEgyptian cat goddess. At least then we'd have fewer rats. Meanwhile, believing in reason leads to a new policy, also christened geonomics. That's the proposal to share (a kind of management, the "nomics" part) the worth of Mother Earth (the "geo" part). If our economies are to work right, people need to see prices that tell the truth. Now taxes and subsidies distort prices, tricking people into squandering the planet. Using land dues and rent dividends instead lets prices be precise, guiding people to get more from less and thereby shrink their workweek. More free time ought to make us happy enough to evolve beyond economics, except when nostalgic for superstition.
a discipline that, compared to economics, is as obscure as Warren Buffett's investment strategy, compared to conventional investment theory, about which Buffett said, "You couldn't advance in a finance department in this country unless you taught that the world was flat." (The New York Times, Oct 29). The writer wondered, "But why? If it works, why don't more investors use it?" Good question. Geonomics works, too. Every place that has used it has prospered while conserving resources. Yet it remains off the radar of many wanna-be reformers. Gradually, tho', that's changing. More are becoming aware of what geonomics studies – all the money we spend on the nature we use. Geonomics (1) as an alternative worldview to the anthropocentric, sees human economies as part of the embracing ecosystem with natural feedback loops seeking balance in both systems. (2) As an alternative to worker vs. investor, it sees our need for sites and resources making those who own land into landlords. (3)As an alternative to economics, it tracks the trillions of "rent" as it drives the "housing" bubble and all other indicators. And (4) as an alternative to left or right, it suggests we not tax ourselves then subsidize our favorites but recover and share society's surplus, paying in land dues and getting back "rent" dividends, a la Alaska's oil dividend. Letting rent go to the wrong pockets wreaks havoc, while redirecting it to everyone would solve our economic ills and the ills downstream from them. People must learn to stop whining so much and feel enough self-esteem to demand a fair share of rent, society's surplus, the commonwealth.
not a panacea, but like John Muir said, "pull on any one thing, and find it connected to everything else." Recall last month's earthquake in El Salvador. We felt it and its formidable after-shocks in Nicaragua. Immediately afterwards, my host nation, one of the poorest in the Western Hemisphere, sent aid to its Central American neighbor. The Nica newspapers carried photos of the devastation. They showed that the cliff sides that crumbled had had homes built on them while the cliffs left pristine withstood the shock. Could monopoly of good, safe, flat land be pushing people to build on risky, unstable cliffs? If so, that's just one more good reason to break up land monopoly. What works to break up land monopoly, history shows, is for society to collect the annual rental value of the underlying sites and resources. That'd spur owners to use level land efficiently, so no one would be excluded, forced to resort to cliffs. To prevent another man-induced landslide is yet another reason to spread geonomics.
what you do when you see economies as part of the ecosystem, following feedback loops and storing up energy. Surplus energy – fat or profit – enables us to produce and reproduce. To recycle society's surplus, the commonwealth, geonomics would replace taxes with land dues (charged to users of sites and resources, in-cluding the EM spectrum, and extra to polluters), and replace subsidies with rent dividends to citizens (a la Alaska's oil dividend). Without taxes and subsidies to distort them, prices become precise, reflect accurately our costs and values; then, motivated by no more than the bottom line, both producers and consumers make sustainable choices. While no place uses geonomics in its entirety, some places use parts of it, most notably a shift of the property tax off buildings, onto locations. Shifting the property tax drives efficient use of land, in-fills cities, improves the housing stock, makes homes affordable, engenders jobs and investment opportunities, lowers crime, raises civic participation, etc – overall it makes cities more livable. Geonomics – a way to share the bounty of nature and society – is something we can work for locally, globally, and in between.
a scientific look at how we divvy up the work and the wealth, how some of us end up with too much or too little effort or reward. That's partly due to Ricardo's Law of Rent, showing how wasteful use of Earth cuts wages. And it's partly due to how a society's elite runs government around like water boys, dishing out subsidies and tax breaks. While geonomists look political reality right in the eye, without blinking, conventional economists flinch. When Paul Volcker, ex-chief of the Federal Reserve, moved on to a cushy professorship at Princeton cum book contract, the crush of deadlines bore down. So Volcker asked a junior associate to help with the book. The guy refused, explaining that giving serious consideration to policy would ruin his academic career. The ex-Fed chief couldn't believe it and asked the department chair if truly that were the case. That head honcho pondered the question then replied no, not if he only does it once. And economics was AKA political economy!
a scientific look at how we divvy up the work and the wealth, how some of us end up with too much or too little effort or reward. That's partly due to Ricardo's Law of Rent, showing how wasteful use of Earth cuts wages. And it's partly due to how a society's elite runs government around like water boys, dishing out subsidies and tax breaks. While geonomists look political reality right in the eye, without blinking, conventional economists flinch. When Paul Volcker, ex-chief of the Federal Reserve, moved on to a cushy professorship at Princeton cum book contract, the crush of deadlines bore down. So Volcker asked a junior associate to help with the book. The guy refused, explaining that giving serious consideration to policy would ruin his academic career. The ex-Fed chief couldn't believe it and asked the department chair if truly that were the case. That head honcho pondered the question then replied no, not if he only does it once. And economics was AKA political economy!
the study of the money we spend on the nature we use. When we pay that money to private owners, we reward both speculation and over-extraction. Robert Kiyosaki's bestseller, Rich Dad's Prophecy, says, "One of the reasons McDonald's is such a rich company is not because it sells a lot of burgers but because it owns the land at some of the best intersections in the world. The main reason Kim and I invest in such properties is to own the land at the corner of the intersection. (p 200) My real estate advisor states that the rich either made their money in real estate or hold their money in real estate." (p 141, via Greg Young) When government recovers the rents for natural advantages for everyone, it can save citizens millions. Ben Sevack, Montreal steel manufacturer, tells us (August 12) that Alberta, by leasing oil & gas fields, recovers enough revenue to be the only province in Canada to get by without a sales tax and to levy a flat provincial income tax. While running for re-election, provincial Premier Ralph Klein proposes to abolish their income tax and promises to eliminate medical insurance premiums and use resource revenue to pay for all medical expense for seniors. After all this planned tax-cutting and greater expense, they still expect a large budget surplus. Even places without oil and gas have high site values in their downtowns, and high values in their utility franchises. Recover the values of locations and privileges, displace the harmful taxes on sales, salaries, and structures, then use the revenue to fund basic government and pay residents a dividend, and you have geonomics in action.
one of many words I coined over 20 years ago: geoism, geonomics, geonomy, geocracy, etc – neologisms that later others came up with, too. CNBC once had a Geonomics Show, and Middlebury College has a Geonomics Institute. If "economy" is literally "management of the household", then geonomy is "management of the planet". The kind of management I had in mind is not what CNBC was thinking – top-down. My geonomics is not hands-on, interfering, but hands-off, organic. It'd strive to align policy with natural processes, similar to what holistic healing does in medicine, what organic farming does in agriculture. Geonomics attends to two key components: One, the crucial stuff to track is fat – or profit, especially profits without production, such as rent, or all the money we spend on the nature we use. Society's surplus is the sine qua non for growth, needed to counter death – not merely more, but sustainable development, more from less. Two, the basic process to respect is the feedback loop. These let nature maintain balance automatically and could do the same for markets, if we let them. Letting them would turn our economies, now our masters, into a geonomy, our servant, providing us with prosperity, eco-librium (to coin a term) and leisure, time off – a hostile environment for economan but a cradle for a loving and creative humanity.
more transformation than reform; it's a step ahead. Harvard economics students this year did petition to change the curriculum, in the wake of the English who caught the dissension from across The Channel. French reformers, who fault conventional economics for conjuring mathematical models of little empirical relevance and being closed to critical and reflective thought, reject this "autism" – or detachment from reality – and dub their offering "post-autistic economics". Not a bad name, but again, academics define themselves by what they're not, not by what they are, unlike geonomists. We track rent – the money we spend on the nature we use – and watch it pull all the other economic indicators in its wake. We see economies as part and parcel of the ecosystem, similarly following natural patterns and able to self-regulate more so than allowed, once we quit distorting prices. To align people and planet, we'd replace taxes and subsidies with recovering and sharing rents.
shaped by reality. In the 1980′s, the Swedish government doubled its stock transfer tax. Tax receipts, however, rose only 15%, since traders simply fled to London exchanges. Fearing a further exodus, the Swedish government quickly rescinded the tax altogether. (The New York Times, April 20) That willingness to tax anything leads us astray. Pushing us astray is that unwillingness to pay what we owe: rent for land, our common heritage. Assuming land value is up for grabs, we speculate. We cap the property tax on both land and buildings and the rate at which assessments can go up; while real market values rise quicker, assessments can never catch up. Our stewards, the Bureau of Land Management, routinely sell and lease sites below market value, often to insiders, says the Government Accounting Office. Once we grasp that rent is ours to share, we'll collect it all, rather than let it enrich a few, and quit taxing earnings, which do belong to the individual earner. That shift is geonomic policy.
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I don't think half the people defending the Mexican Govt. in this post have a freaking clue how things work in Mexico. This US citizen was arrested while following instructions from US Customs. He was arrested while declaring the weapon to Mexican Customs. He was trying to do the right thing by both countries laws. He got railroaded and half of you are too ignorant to see it.
I used to cross the Border into Baja Mexico at Algodones west of Yuma. It was a nice little Border town to visit and pick up Ky. Bourbon much cheaper than in the U.S. In recent years things have really changed in Mexico. You as an American are a Prey animal down there. Any time you cross that Border you run a high risk of being arrested or kidnapped.
Arbitrary enforcement of the law is the mark of tyranny. Citizens will always fight against it.
It blows me away that Americans will go down there in the first place. Its stupid that he would take his gun down that and create a potential problem. Both of which id never do, in that order. WITH that being said I think this is bull****, and its wrong on more levels than I can think of. Something needs to be done. That situation is such bull**** it; its enraging.
I have to question things some times my nature. But what are we doing fighting wars across the world when we have Mexico just across the creek. No one any where is doing more damage to this country than the crime ridden outlaw government in Mexico. We are flooded with their crime and their poor. The drugs are killing our young people. The illegals are supporting a socialist change to our system of rules. The most amazing country in history with one language from coast to coast is changing. Will we become Northern Mexico.

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It is mentioned in the Igeres Hagra
וכל רגע ורגע שהאדם חוסם פיו זוכה בשבילו לאור הגנוז שאין מלאך ובריה
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When there is a Zimmun, what is supposed to happen is the leader recites the entire Bentching aloud on the group's behalf and everyone else listens with the intent to fulfill their obligation and replies Amen at the relevant places.
If one is unsure of his ability to pay attention to the leader the whole time (this is common), he should recite in an ...
In the laws of Rosh Hashana The Mechaber mentions that even though a whole year one should not daven with a raised voice on Rosh Hashana it is permitted since people are davening from a Machzor and the noise wont disturb them. The source is PisKei Tosfos in Rosh HaShana. Not the Gemorah itself.
That being said the Mishna Brura says that still one should ...
The only source that I could find is Likutei Maharich volume2 - page 82 where he mentions that our Minhag is that all those who hear Havdalla say Layehudim out loud. He does not give a reason for this Minhag.
Paragraph 1 of your question quotes Rambam Hilchot Tefilla 12:11. This refers to reading the Torah as is seen from the first halocho:
Tefilah and Birkat Kohanim - Chapter Thirteen Halacha 1 Moses, our
teacher, ordained that the Jews should read the Torah publicly on the
Sabbath and on Monday and Thursday mornings, so the [people] would
never have ...
I'm "extraplocombing" (extrapolating and combining) the answers from your referenced question regarding Shacharit with Mishnah Brura 232:2. See Sha'arei Tzion #4, who points out that since Ma'ariv is reshut (not obligatory) we are not as concerned about the requirement of smichat g'ulah litfilah (loose translation - connecting the concept of redemption as ...
This a touchy issue.
First there is this publication by Tzeirei Chasidea Viznitz that speaks strongly against those who want to stop the practice of saying Pesukei Dezimro loud and writes that with the exception of the Amidah, davenning is to be loud and so it sweetens judgement:
העידו בר"ה (דף ט"ז) דצעקה הוא אחד מדברים
המבטלין רוע הגזירה, והפייט ...
The Shla (in mitzvat tefillin) wrote in the name of the Zohar (Emor) that "le-shem yichud Kudsha Brikh Hu..." should be said, as brought in the siddurim. This is agreed to by the Artzot Ha-chayim (25, Ha-me'ir La-aretz 29) and others (see, e.g., the introduction of the Shev Shematta).
In contrast, the Noda Bi-yehuda wrote (OC vol. II, 107 and YD vol. I, ...
Speaking לשון הרע which does not actually get heard can be likened to someone to desires to commit a sin but then is thwarted by someone or something. Strictly speaking, the Torah prohibits actions rather than thoughts. However, most Torah commentators (Ibn Ezra, Sforno, Malbim, Hertz) treat lusting to sin as a weaker form of commiting the sin itself. And ...
Among the many other miracles that occurred in that period, there were times when the entire nation was simultaneously able to hear Moses speaking. This is how we understand when the verse says that the entire congregation of Israel assembled and was addressed. These miracles are known as המועט המחזיק את המרובה - the small that contains the many. This means ...
The Rishonim (Rabbeinu Yehuda Ben Yakar, Rabbeinu Yonah, among others) describe these Kedushos as סיפור דברים, relating what is happening (as opposed to Kedusha D'Amida, in repetition of Shemoneh Esrei, which is our own Kedusha - where we say נקדש, let us be mekadesh). The lines between serve as explaining what is happening - they give the context to who ...
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Chris Kluwe Compares Himself to Tim Tebow; Still Missing the Point
Chris Kluwe has been in the news a lot lately, despite that fact that he didn't play in an NFL game all season. The former Minnesota Vikings punter has spoken out, saying that he was cut because of his views on gay marriage. He called out his former special teams coach Mike Priefer, Leslier Frazier and Rick Spielman. He called Priefer a bigot, and labeled Frazier and Spielman as cowards.
Kluwe doesn't just stand up for gay marriage, he stands up and yells his opinions from the rooftops. It started last year with strongly worded letters and debate challenges to politicians. Then he made his rounds on television and quickly became the athlete most closely associated with support of gay marriage.
Now after an entire season of unemployment, he's comparing himself to Tim Tebow:
"As much as we are polar opposites on the things we stand for, Tebow is the exact same way. There are backup quarterbacks in the NFL right now that Tebow is certainly better than. He could fill a role with a team. But because he brings this other stuff with him, just like I bring my other stuff with me, teams look at it like, 'We don't want it. We don't want players speaking out. We don't want players doing anything other than football.'"
I completely understand and agree somewhat with what Kluwe is saying here. He is in fact very different from Tebow in most all areas, but when it comes to NFL teams not wanting to employee him, the two are very similar. But can you really blame NFL teams for not wanting a sideshow? I don't.
Football players are paid to play football. It's as simple as that. If a player's actions off the field start to draw attention to other areas, then they're playing with fire. If you're not a superstar, teams just aren't going to put up with much. If you're going to be a distraction (on any level), you better be dang good at your job. The harsh reality for Kluwe and Tebow? They aren't great at their jobs. Kluwe was an average punter in 2012 and we all know that Tebow can't throw to save his life.
Kluwe is right. He and Tebow should both still have jobs. But if you're not great, teams aren't just going to push aside what you stand for off the field. Especially, when you're as over-the-top as Kluwe and Tebow are.
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Independent Families: 'What fun can we have in Dubai and Oman?'
Q. My husband is working in the UAE and my two sons (seven and 11) and I plan to visit him for February half term. We will stay in Dubai for a few nights then go to Oman for five days. Can you suggest things for us to see and do while we are there?
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A. Oman is a great destination for a family holiday. With a spectacular coastline, unspoilt beaches, rugged mountains and desert, the only question is how hectic you want your five days to be. Oman is a liberal and tolerant nation and it won't take much effort to experience the famous hospitality and generosity of spirit of the Omani people. With a number of first-class hotels springing up in recent years, the country has it covered: good weather, adventure, a rich cultural heritage, and should you wish to indulge, more than a spot of luxury.
After the skyscrapers and department stores of Dubai, arrival in the capital, Muscat, will make a refreshing change. Since the current sultan, Qaboos bin Said, overthrew his repressive father in 1970 and opened up the country to the outside world, the face of Oman altered dramatically. However, scratch beneath the surface, and you'll find the lingering spirit of sea-traders, fishermen, date farmers and desert Bedouins.
The narrow lanes of the souk present a vivid scene of Omani life: the scent of frankincense and sandalwood hangs in the air, Omani women sit amid piles of silver and silks. It's a souvenir-seeker's delight and a fine insight into a culture little changed over the centuries. Take some time to explore the old port at Muttrah, the hub for local fishermen, and the harbour, protected by two great 16th-century forts. Look out for the sultan's dhow, a floating palace bobbing beneath the harbour cliffs which are etched with the names of centuries of sailors celebrating their safe arrival.
At the top of most holiday wish lists is the beach. One of Muscat's top-end beach hotels is the Chedi (00 968 24 52 44 00; www.ghmhotels.com), hemmed in by the Arabian Sea and sun-scorched mountains. A suite sleeping two adults and two children costs 480 Oman rials (OMR) (£650) per night in February, including breakfast.
Surrounded by lush palm gardens, the Chedi opens on to a great swathe of sandy beach and offers plenty of activities. It's also a great base for snorkelling: the warm Arabian Sea is a haven for corals, tropical fish, and the odd reef shark. If you charter a boat for the day and find a secluded beach, there's a good chance you'll see a pod of playful dolphins. Whichever beachside hotel you choose will be able to arrange a boat and a guide.
There are also many excellent, more modest lodgings on the coast and inland, and several of the larger hotels and resorts also allow you to enjoy their facilities on a relatively inexpensive guest's day pass.
Back on solid ground, a 4x4 would enable you to head into Oman's sun-parched interior for cultural day trips. There are plenty of car rental companies in Muscat, including the Muscat Diving and Adventure Centre (00 968 24 485 663; www.holiday-in-oman. com), that can either rent you a car or organise tours, activities and day trips. Nizwa, 174km from Muscat and about an hour and a half's drive, is an ancient oasis town. Oman's capital in the sixth and seventh centuries, it sits at the foot of the Western Hajar mountains and is an excellent example of a thriving, traditional Omani town. Nearby, there's a Unesco World Heritage fort and a bustling livestock market on Thursdays and Fridays where villagers trade goats, cattle and camels.
Take some time to explore the villages tucked into the foothills of the mountains, irrigated by a falaj system invented 2,500 years ago that channels water from the nearby mountains to the homes and date plantations below. Stop for a stroll and you'll probably end up with an invitation to tea, in the form of strong coffee, halva and fat, juicy dates. A good choice would be Misfah, a pretty village about 17km from Nizwa, or nearby al-Hamra, a little town with shady date groves and terraces. Drive up Jebel Shams for a spectacular view of one of the world's deepest canyons.
It would be a shame to visit Oman and not journey into the spectacular desert-scapes of the 20,000sq km of the Wahiba Sands, once the preserve of Bedouins and immortalised by Wilfred Thesiger in Arabian Sands. Unless you or your husband have experience of desert driving it's probably best to join a tour-group, allowing you to sit back and enjoy Thesiger's "vast ocean of billowing sands".
Oman Holiday (00 968 953 02291; www.omanholiday.co.uk) organises a full day Wahiba Sands Desert Tour for OMR29 (£40) per person that takes in mountains, the desert life (including camels and Bedouin tribes) and wadis, or valleys in the comfort of a 4x4. If you want to catch the sunrise it also organises overnight tours for OMR90 (£125) per person, including camp accommodation and dinner under the stars.
On the way to the Sands you could stop off at one of the many fishing villages. A good option is Quriyat, 87km from Muscat. Ten kilometres further down Route 17 lies a great opportunity for some "wadi bashing". Head off-road and bump and wind through the villages and ravines taking in the great views before stopping off at a waterhole for a cooling dip. Head on to the dhow yards and the old port of Sur before reaching the gateway to the Wahiba Sands, al-Qabil. A good day-trip from Sur is the village of Ras al-Hadd, and the surrounding beaches used by thousands of green turtles to nest. You'll also be at the most easterly point in Arabia.
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Pesticide use in Manitoba rising despite looming ban, data shows
More chemicals being used along rural roads, school grounds and fairways
A cosmetic-pesticide ban may be looming, but Manitoba is using more chemicals to kill weeds along rural roads, in parks and school grounds and on fairways than it did two years ago.
Even though the NDP government long-ago signalled it wanted to ween the province off weed- and bug-killing chemicals, virtually no weed district, municipality or golf course used "green" products last summer.
That's according to a database created by the Free Press, which was given access to roughly 280 annual spray reports submitted to Manitoba Conservation by pesticide permit-holders. Those permit-holders include weed-control districts, towns and rural municipalities, Manitoba Hydro and MTS, rail companies, golf courses, schools and health districts. The database doesn't cover farms or private homes, but it still offers the only measurable snapshot available of the province's pesticide use.
Last summer, roughly 202,000 litres of concentrated pesticides were sprayed on publicly used land, enough to fill nearly 1,300 bathtubs with undiluted chemicals. That's up slightly from 2011.
Another 190,000 kilograms of solid weed and insect killer were deployed. That's up considerably -- 66 per cent from 2011, but some of that includes relatively harmless products such as the wood preservative used by Manitoba Hydro on power lines or the natural larviciding products the city uses to kill mosquitoes.
This spring, the province followed Ontario, Quebec and several other provinces and passed its version of a cosmetic-pesticide ban that covers homeowners' lawns and well as daycare, school and hospital grounds. The ban begins in 2015, but there will be a grace period.
Manitoba hasn't yet released the list of banned products, but it will likely echo Ontario's, which includes common active ingredients such as 2,4-D, glyphosate and mecoprop and brand names such as Par III, Tordon and Vantage as well as in Roundup.
Nearly three-quarters of all the liquid pesticides used by permit-holders last summer are ones likely to be banned next year for cosmetic use. But, it's unlikely the province will see a huge drop in what pesticide permit-holders spray.
Most of the major users are golf courses, which are exempt from the ban. Or, they are weed-control districts, tasked with controlling noxious weeds such as knapweed, purple loosestrife and leafy spurge along rural roads and ditches to keep those from wafting into farmers' fields, crowding out crops and damaging yields. Most of the work of weed-control districts will continue despite the cosmetic-spray ban.
Still, rural weed-control experts are worried about the fine print, and are waiting for more details from the province.
"There's concern over whether it will impact our ability to address new invasive species," said Kent Shewfelt, president of the Manitoba Weed Supervisors Association.
Shewfelt wonders what will happen if, for example, a particularly virulent patch of noxious weeds is spotted on a baseball field. Will the weed-control district have the ability to use the traditional chemicals to destroy the patch, even though it's in an area where the cosmetic ban applies?
Some pesticide users who would clearly be captured by the cosmetic ban, including hospitals and schools, have already begun curbing their use.
Others haven't. Last summer, the River East Transcona School Division used nearly 400 litres of herbicides banned in Ontario and recently issued a public notice this month it would again be spraying Par III to combat dandelions and glyphosate along fencelines, around playground structures and on asphalt surfaces. Much of that spraying will be outlawed next year under the province's new rules.
Most towns and RMs also haven't begun to consider how they'll deal with the cosmetic ban -- which will likely force them to stop spraying for weeds on baseball diamonds, in parks and perhaps along ditches leading into town.
Cheryl Young, chief administrative officer for the Town of Carman, said her public works staff haven't yet begun to grapple with how the cosmetic ban might affect normal summer operations. Last year, the town used about 155 litres of pesticides likely to be outlawed next summer.
Young said town councillors have already raised concerns about the impact of the cosmetic ban.
"They're worried about whether we'll be able to get as good a treatment for the same price," said Young.
That's a fair worry, and one of many that rural weed-control experts have about the looming ban.
Shewfelt, who also runs the Louise-Roblin Weed Control District, says green products such as Fiesta can be used to replace big brand-name herbicides such as Premium 3-Way. But, Premium 3-Way costs less than $50 per hectare while Fiesta costs more $1,300 and often needs to be reapplied a few times. That could have a serious impact on municipal budgets, especially smaller, rural ones.
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For weeks, Shanee Medley, age 8, trained like an Olympic gymnast for the moment that finally arrived just after 9 yesterday morning: the start of the standardized, city-wide reading examination.
By that point, she had already taken two practice tests, answered dozens of sample questions for homework and been drilled in strategies for relaxation, like taking deep breaths periodically.
As he passed out the official test booklet, her teacher, Ted Kesler, told Shanee and her 29 classmates: ''You'll all do fine. You practiced a lot. You are smart people.'' But that did little to calm the jitters Shanee had expressed over her breakfast cereal when she said, ''I'm just afraid I'm not going to pass the test and I'm not going to go to fourth grade.''
It is always a tense moment when New York's 80,000 third-grade pupils -- along with more than 300,000 other students in grades four through eight -- sit down for the reading examination, which lasts just over an hour but is a bench mark by which parents, teachers and officials judge the success of each of the city's 1,100 schools.
But this year, the stakes have been raised even higher.
Schools Chancellor Rudy Crew has said he will use the test scores, along with his sweeping new powers over the city's 32 community school districts, to hold the system accountable in ways that no previous Chancellor could have: to evaluate whether district superintendents, who now effectively report to him, should be rehired; to determine whether struggling schools need more resources, and to identify schools that might benefit from a longer day or year.
Perhaps most important, the tests will show whether the students in Mr. Kesler's classroom, as well as those in the 3,216 other third-grade classes in the city, came close to meeting the goal Dr. Crew set for them at the beginning of the year: to be able to read independently and at their grade level. Last year, fewer than half could.
''This is a day on which all eyes are on their work,'' Dr. Crew said in an interview. ''For the system, and certainly for me, this is a serious, serious moment for us to determine what our efforts have really brought us by way of results.''
No one had to tell that to Daniel Hessel, one of Shanee's classmates at Public School 75 on West 96th Street in Manhattan. Just before the examination began, Daniel brought his hands together in prayer.
But his concern was less for his school's standing than for his own: each student will receive a score from 0 to 100 that will be sent home.
''My parents tell me I shouldn't worry,'' Daniel had said earlier in the week, not long after Mr. Kesler told him he got a perfect score on the last practice test. ''Sometimes I tell them: 'That's easy for you to say. You don't have to take the test.' ''
For Daniel, one of the strongest readers and writers in Room 3-223, passage to fourth grade is virtually assured, whatever his score. But for students at the bottom of the class, a poor score will be a factor in deciding whether they repeat the grade.
The pressure leading up to yesterday's test had been mounting for nearly a year at P.S. 75 , ever since the school learned last May that only 38.3 percent of its third graders had scored at or above grade level on last year's test -- a drop of 10 percentage points from the previous year. (Grade level is the average test score achieved by a national sample of students in that grade.)
While the test was unfamiliar to teachers last year -- the Board of Education had switched from a fill-in-the-blank examination to one that required students to read passages and then answer multiple-choice questions -- the performance of third-graders city-wide actually improved. Last year, 42.5 percent scored at grade level as opposed to 34.7 percent in 1995.
The disappointing performance at P.S. 75 did not go unnoticed by parents who were contemplating sending their children to the school. As they toured the immaculate red-brick building throughout the year, they peppered school officials with questions about the scores.
''They'd say they were disappointed,'' said Pauline Brookfield, the president of the P.T.A. at the school, which for years had a reputation for luring middle-class parents back to the public school system. ''And our reading scores are low.''
The scores, coupled with the Chancellor's mandate on third-grade reading, led the school and hundreds of others across the city to step up their training of students.
Roughly once a month throughout the school year, and nearly every day for the last two weeks, teachers at P.S. 75 gave their students advice for a variety of situations: from how to sit in one place for an hour (wear comfortable clothes), to how to fill in the answers on a computerized ''bubble'' sheet (remember to skip the answer if you skip the question), to how to handle the questions (read them before reading the passage, to know what to look for).
Last month, the school even held a ''scrimmage'' test, with seating arrangements and starting time nearly identical to yesterday's.
Nonetheless, Mr. Kesler insists that he did not spend the year ''teaching the test,'' choosing instead to devote the bulk of his time to helping his students feel comfortable reading a range of literature on their own, from Beverly Cleary's Ramona Quimby series to R. L. Stine's ''Goosebumps'' books. Indeed, a reporter who had made more than two dozen unannounced visits to his classroom since September barely heard the subject of the test come up until early last month.
But Mr. Kesler says he knows the test is one of the few ways his students' performance, as well his own, his principal's and even the district superintendent's, can be measured against the rest of the city's. And since this is his class's first standardized test, he said he felt a responsibility to explain the mysteries of the examination to his students, which he did with increasing frequency in recent days.
''I take it very seriously,'' he said on Wednesday, after running through a lesson designed to help his students distinguish questions seeking facts from questions seeking opinions. ''However, I also try to give it the proper perspective.
''It's horrible,'' he added, ''that this one day of testing means so much, when there are so many other facts about their reading lives.''
In fact, his students will take three more standardized tests in the next three weeks: a city mathematics test, as well as another set of reading and math tests from the state. But it is yesterday's results, which will be tabulated by the end of May, that most interest the Chancellor, who has made literacy his top priority.
For the most part, the children of Room 3-223 said that they thought they did well yesterday and that they found the test generally easier than the practice questions they had seen.
At about 10:15, her task complete, Shanee emerged from her classroom, which had been closed to visitors.
''I think I passed, a little bit,'' said Shanee, who only recently began reading books written on the third-grade level, including those in the popular ''Little Sister'' series. ''Some of the words I didn't know, so I skipped over them.
''I feel happy,'' she added. ''I don't want to take it again.''
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Third-grade teachers throughout New York City are trying to meet Schools Chancellor Rudy Crew's goal for the school year: by summer, all third graders should be able to read at grade level. Previous articles described the efforts of Ted Kesler and his students to succeed. This is the seventh article. The series is available to computer users on The New York Times on the Web, at http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/ teach.html.
Photos: A sign on the door of Room 3-223 at P.S. 75 in Manhattan yesterday signaled the start of the city's reading examination. Before the test, Ted Kesler addressed his students. (Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times)(pg. B1); Before having her reading skills tested yesterday, Shanee Medley, a third grader at P.S. 75 in Manhattan, exercised them with a favorite book. (Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times)(pg. B3) Chart: ''A CLOSER LOOK: The Big Test'' Here is a sample question fron the reading test that third graders took yesterday. Patricia Ellen Katherine Martin had the longest name in her class. Her friends called her ''Ellie,'' but her teacher believed children should write their full names on their papers. No one else had four names that filled up the whole first line. ''First, midle, and last is enough for anyone,'' Ellie thought. ''Ed Lee is really lucky! no wonder he always finishes writing first.'' One day the teacher wrote four names on the board - Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett. ''This person wrote THE SECRET GARDEN, the book we all enjoyed so much,'' the teacher said. ''She has a long name like our Patricia Ellen.'' After that Ellie felt proud when she wrote her full name. ''Someday I might become a writer,'' she thought. She wondered what it would be like to see her name on the cover of a book. At the beginning of the story, how does Ellie feel about her name? A. curious B. unhappy C. proud D. lucky When does Ellie begin to enjoy writing her name? A. when she changes it to a shorter name B. when the teacher tells her to write it C. after Ed Lee finished writing his name D. after she learns the name of an author Why does Ellie think Ed Lee is lucky? A. He has a short name B. He wrote his name on the board C. The teacher likes his name best D. The class talked about his name Which of these of the best title or this story? A. ''Ellie Changes Her Name'' B. ''Ellie Reads a Good Book'' C. ''Ellie Learns to Like Her Name'' D. ''Ellie Meets her Favorite Writer''


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Shuffling children around like so many deck chairs on a sinking ship, the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) announced the closings as a cost-cutting move, with CPS officials arguing that money being spent to keep underutilized schools open could be better used to educate students elsewhere as the district deals with a $1 billion budget deficit.
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The Associated Press notes, "many of the schools identified for closure are in high-crime areas where gang violence contributed to a marked increase in Chicago's homicide rate last year." These schools are in "overwhelmingly black and in low-income neighborhoods."
Wait a minute. Weren't cold-hearted budget-cutting Republicans supposed to be the mortal enemies of the poor, minorities and children? How could this be happening in the heart of liberal progressivism, President Obama's hometown run by his former White House chief of staff, Mayor Rahm Emanuel?
This is not the hope and change we were promised, lament local residents, who say the planned closings smack of racism. "I don't see any Caucasians being moved, bussed or murdered in the streets as they travel along gang lines, or stand on the steps of a CPS school," said activist Wendy Matil Pearson as opponents of the school closing plans protested outside a school in Chicago's Austin neighborhood.
Such complaints and concerns are well-founded.
Recently Janay McFarlane, 18, was killed just hours after her younger sister was among a group of teens who were onstage as President Barack Obama gave a speech in Chicago on gun violence. Destini McFarlane, 14, sat just feet away as the president spoke of a similar murder of Hadiya Pendleton.
Chicago's murder rate of 15.65 per 100,000 people looks nothing like the American 4.2, the Midwest's 4.5 or Illinois' 5.6 murder rates, despite the strictest gun regulations in the country. Up to 80% of Chicago's murders and shootings are gang-related, according to police. By one estimate, the city has 68,000 gang members, four times the number of cops.
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Emanuel also opposes genuine school choice even while saying he doesn't want Chicago kids trapped in failing and dangerous schools.
He opposes giving parents a voucher allowing their children to escape such schools and the gang violence that often surrounds them.
Such are the fruits of liberal progressivism in Chicago.
Budgets are balanced on the backs of poor and minority children in a town in which gangs run rampant while its mayor puts the blame on inanimate objects called guns. Some in Chicago are calling it racism.
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February 3, 2012, 12:45 amAngelique was deeply touched by the Shen Yun performance. "Chinese culture is very rich. The show is very happy, very powerful. It's not the show, it's from the heart, [...]
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January 12, 2011, 1:26 pmOn Jan. 11, the Hult Center, a cultural cornerstone of the community, opened its doors to the internationally acclaimed Shen Yun Performing Arts.
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because it is always readonly.
Note: Assistive technologies generally will render the value ofaria-valuenow
as a percent of the range between the value ofaria-valuemin
, unlessaria-valuetext
is specified. It is best to set the values for aria-valuemin, aria-valuemax, and aria-valuenow in a manner that is appropriate for this calculation.
Note: Elements with the roleprogressbar
have an implicitaria-readonly
value oftrue
Possible effects on user agents and assistive technology
Example 1: Basic progressbar with percentage values

20 %

Example 2: Using aria-valuetext

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Working Examples:
ARIA attributes used
Related ARIA techniques
TBD: Add support information for common UA and AT product combinations