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Bickel says in the last two weeks two ag taxation bills could generate more than $900 million combined. That could mean a big difference in the budget gap. But, it would increase agriculture land values by an average of 473 percent. As Rules Get Sorted Out, Drones May Transform Agriculture Industry By Luke Runyon • Feb 16, 2015 On a breezy morning next to a cornfield in rural Weld County, Colo., Jimmy Underhill quickly assembles a black and orange drone with four spinning rotors. "This one just flies itself," he says. "It's fully autonomous." Underhill is a drone technician with Agribotix, a Colorado-based drone startup that sees farmers as its most promising market. Today he's training his fellow employees how to work the machine in the field. Politics dominates top ag and food stories of 2014 By Peggy Lowe • Dec 27, 2014 Courtesy of wikipedia Harvest Public Media was created four years ago to report on agriculture and food production in the geographic area where the majority of that takes place – the Midwest. This year, my third of counting the top ag stories of the year, I find that the issues taking center stage were set not here, but in the politics, policies and processes of Washington D.C., state legislatures or the ballot box. There's an app for everything - even in ag By Cindee Talley • Nov 24, 2014 morningagclips.com There's an ap for everything- even ag. Think of this: without ever leaving the field, a farmer can pull out his smart phone and identify insects, crop diseases, or even assess the nutrient value of manure. He can also calculate crop maturity, seed planting to attain the highest yield, and pesticide droplet size and potential pesticide drift. Immigrant children working toward careers in agriculture By Amy Mayer • Oct 20, 2014 Amy Mayer/Harvest Public Media Listen Listening... / 4:20 Hear the audio version of Amy's story In a dimly-lit lab on the Des Moines, Iowa, public schools' agricultural science campus, students in aprons, safety goggles and plastic gloves poke and probe chicken wings. About 15 girls and just one boy in this vet careers class are looking for ligaments, tendons, cartilage and other features of this animal part that teenagers more often experience cooked and covered in barbecue sauce. A 17-year old senior, with her hair pulled back in a ponytail for the dissection, high-fives her lab partner when they identify the ligament and show it to their teacher. This young woman is a chapter officer in the Des Moines FFA group and recently got elected to a district-wide leadership position. She's already earned a full scholarship to Iowa State University and aspires to be a large animal veterinarian with her own small cattle herd. Immigration reshaping the next generation of farmers By Amy Mayer • Oct 19, 2014 Amy Mayer/Harvest Public Media Bear Creek Dairy in Brooklyn, Iowa, is home to more than 1,100 cows, who provide about 100,000 pounds of milk each day. The 15-year-old farmer who works closely with the farm's calves comes from a long line of dairymen – in Europe. Five years ago, Teun Boelen's parents sold their farm in the Netherlands and bought a dairy in southeast Iowa because, as his mother explains it, there was no room for their old farm to grow. Court Dismisses Lawsuit on California Hen Cages By Frank Morris • Oct 8, 2014 Will Curran/Flickr A federal district court has upheld a California law requiring eggs sold in the state to come from hens housed in more spacious cages. Attorneys general of six states – Missouri, Nebraska, Iowa, Kentucky, Oklahoma and Alabama – sued to challenge the constitutionality of a California law requiring that all eggs sold in California be raised under standards laid out for California egg producers in a 2008 state ballot measure. Agritourism a growing opportunity on the farm By Luke Runyon • Jun 20, 2014 Luke Runyon/Harvest Public Media Farms aren't just for food any more. With the local food movement growing, more savvy farmers are putting a price tag on more than those organic tomatoes. They are instead marketing and selling the "farm experience" in the form of agritourism attractions. Cargill to stop use of gestation crates for hogs By Grant Gerlock • Jun 10, 2014 Sarah McCammon/Harvest Public Media Cargill, one of the country's largest pork producers, announced Monday that it will stop using gestation crates, the controversial narrow cages meant to house and separate sows. Cargill is joining other major meatpackers, like competitors Tyson and Smithfield Foods, in planning to move away from hog crates. Drought hammers the breadbasket By Cindee Talley • May 7, 2014 Wheat futures are up on the Chicago Board of Trade, but this year's wheat crop is getting battered by the drought. Exploring five steps to feed the world By Cindee Talley • May 7, 2014 When you think about carbon footprint, does feeding the world cross your mind? It does for John Foley. He wrote about it recently in an article published by National Geographic. "When we think about threats to the environment, we tend to picture cars and smokestacks, not dinner," Foley wrote. "But the truth is, our need for food poses one of the biggest dangers to the planet." Foley outlined five steps to feed the world. Film documents OK Panhandle ranch life By Cindee Talley • May 7, 2014 Filming is almost complete on a documentary that follows the ranching family of Jane and Bob Apple of Kenton, Oklahoma. Texas Farming Update: Panhandle Farmers do well in sorghum competition By Cindee Talley • Mar 18, 2014 mississippi-crops.com Panhandle farmers did well this year in the National Sorghum Producers competition reported Kevin Welch for the Amarillo Globe-News. Expert Worries Current Conditions Will Destroy Oklahoma's Cattle Market By Cindee Talley • Jan 19, 2014 oklahomafarmreport.com Oklahoma ranks number five in the nation when it comes to the number of cattle, but years of drought and high market prices are fueling a sell-off, and experts worry that the $4.5 billion dollar industry is in a downward spiral that will be difficult to recover from according to an article from StateImpact Oklahoma. Drought and Extreme Cold May Have Damaged Winter Crops By Cindee Talley • Jan 19, 2014 Jason Baker / Texas A&M AgriLife Research photo While timely rains have the Texas wheat crop looking much better this year, however the drought and cold may have done some damage to winter crops reported AgriLife Today. Under the microscope: Microbes can help farmers By Amy Mayer • Nov 20, 2013 Amy Mayer/Harvest Public Media Farmers and scientists have long understood that what lives beneath the soil affects how crops grow. Often, they work to fight plant diseases—warding off infectious viruses and damaging fungi, for example. But now some microbiologists are focused on how to harness the good things microbes can do, with the goal of increasing farmers' yields and diminishing their dependence on chemical inputs. Higher beef prices good for producers, may be tough on consumers By Amy Mayer • Nov 17, 2013 Amy Mayer/Harvest Public Media Once again, the prognosticators are saying beef prices are on the rise. We've seen this before—last year, the drought and high feed prices were being blamed. This time, the supply is tight and with livestock farmers looking at lower costs of production, some may keep animals on the farm to help increase their herds, rather than sending them to market. Since consumer demand typically goes up at this time of year, Lee Schulz, a livestock economist at Iowa State University, said the combination will increase the price meatpackers pay to producers. Interview with Joel Salatin: Local food evangelist By Luke Runyon • Nov 8, 2013 Creative Commons Listen Listening... / 4:14 Listen as Harvest Public Media's Luke Runyan speaks with Joe Salatin. Joel Salatin is one of the rock stars of the local food movement. He's written books, appeared in documentaries and scheduled speaking engagements nationwide. Among foodies, he's a celebrity. He's also a vocal critic of industrialized agriculture. Salatin criticizes the use of pesticides, herbicides, genetic modification in crops, and hormones and antibiotics in livestock. Science not likely to decide food issues By Amy Mayer • Nov 4, 2013 Amy Mayer/Harvest Public Media Listen Listening... / 4:07 Hot-button food issues of the day, such as the use of genetically modified organisms or the treatment of livestock, tend to pit large industries against smaller activist groups. Often, both sides will claim the science supports what they are saying. That can leave consumers, most of whom aren't scientists, in a bit of a bind. Heat, Drought Draw Farmers Back To Sorghum, The 'Camel Of Crops' By Daniel Charles • Oct 31, 2013 Much of the world is turning hotter and dryer these days, and it's opening new doors for a water-saving cereal that's been called "the camel of crops": sorghum. In an odd twist, this old-fashioned crop even seems to be catching on among consumers who are looking for "ancient grains" that have been relatively untouched by modern agriculture. Sorghum isn't nearly as famous as the big three of global agriculture: corn, rice and wheat. But maybe it should be. It's a plant for tough times, and tough places. Oklahoma Panhandle: Business is Booming, But There's No Place to Live By Cindee Talley • Oct 9, 2013 townmapsusa.com From Guymon in the Oklahoma Panhandle to Ponca City in the north of the state, significant permanent population growth and workforce housing demands are exceeding the housing supply, said Dr. Kay Decker. 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The NERDS Group designed and implemented a complete network and computer systems upgrade for a major provider of Limousine services to organizations in the Washington, DC area and the Maryland and Virginia suburbs of DC. Their clients include major corporations, government agencies, and businesses of all sizes. The fleet consists of six to ten passenger stretch limousines, Lincoln Town Cars, and fourteen passenger limousine buses. Their network consisted of several servers and about ten workstations used by dispatchers and back office staff.
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As the business grew, it was becoming difficult for the company's computer systems to keep up. The old system was a home grown DOS-based system that used an older database system. After many months of investigation, they selected a new software system that was specifically designed for the limousine service industry, but the existing network and computers did not meet the minimum requirements for the new software.
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Cleric: 'Al-Qa'eda leader told me of bomb plot'
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Last Updated: 2:52am BST 04/07/2007
A British cleric in Baghdad last night claimed that an al-Qa'eda leader warned him that "the people who cure you would kill you" months before the terrorist bomb plots in Glasgow and London.
Canon Andrew White, who runs the Iraqi capital's only Anglican parish, claimed that he met an unnamed al-Qa'eda leader on the sidelines of a religious reconciliation meeting in Amman, Jordan.
"He told me that the plans were already made and they would soon be destroying the British," Canon White said. "He said the people who cure you would kill you."
Canon White claimed that he had passed on a general warning, but not the specific words, to an official at the Foreign Office in mid-April.
The Foreign Office said last night that "the official in question does not recall the conversation".
Canon White said he did not learn the identity of the man until after the meeting, and would not disclose it now.
However, he added: "I met the Devil that day."
Following the arrests of NHS workers, hospitals have been given new guidance for carrying out police checks on overseas doctors.
The NHS Employers' Organisation said that due to the constant movement of junior doctors around the country, regular police checks were essential.
The organisation urged hospitals to carry out checks in doctors' home countries and repeat this as "good practice" every three years.
Thousands of doctors from overseas will take up the new junior posts this August.
However, the organisation also warned trusts not to target doctors because of their religion or belief.
Sian Thomas, its deputy director, said: "It is good practice for an employer to carry out a Criminal Records Bureau check - even if an applicant claims never to have lived in the UK - and a police check in that person's country of origin."
Earlier, the Department of Health had vigorously defended its procedure for vetting doctors amid concerns that one of the suspects was a locum.
Ms Thomas said she wanted to reassure the public that there were "thorough and robust checks".
But she said that the checks were designed to test "their merits to do the job they do", rather than their political or extremist affiliations. She said she did not believe that it was the health service's duty to check for such connections.
Agencies supplying locums to the health service are expected to carry out pre-employment checks on recruits before they take them on their books.
They should verify their identify, check their medical qualifications and carry out annual criminal record checks to ensure that they are suitable for temporary positions.
NHS hospital trusts should make sure that agencies have conducted all the necessary checks before the locum is permitted to work.
And you thought that gas station owner was diabolical.
However, the organisation also warned trusts not to target doctors because of their religion or belief.
Heavens, no! That would make too much sense.
one more ping.
No, really, I want that dipstick to answer me.
Many doctor appointments expected to be cancelled, and unemployment claims for doctors in Britain are expected to increase next week.
Just out of curiosity, how on earth would the NHS run background checks on these foreign doctors? They are totally unqualified to do a check that could possibly catch someone like the doctors recently arrested.
The only possible way to prevent something like this happening again would be—not to hire Muslim doctors. Or for the intelligence agencies to pick up on them by monitoring all their phone calls and meetings, etc.
But the more Muslims you have running around, the harder that will be to do. There's just not enough manpower to watch them all, especially since they are instructed not to profile or to be seen watching them.
Drain the swamp.
Foreign docs is a pet peeve of mine. Why do we import people for these high paying positions. Let's op;en more med schools and train our own.
I'm guessing this is a fake "see, we *do* police our own" testimonial.
Not sure I believe this,...but if true,...so much for the operation being a little locally conceived one...
Bilal Abdulla : Mystery man 'who hated the West's crusade'
To his hospital colleagues, Bilal Abdulla was a mystery man who seemed to lack interest in being a doctor.
His devotion to Islam always came first and he would disappear for long periods during the working day to pray or to log on to Arabic websites.
He told fellow staff nothing of his previous life in Iraq, claiming instead that he was Jordanian.
But yesterday suspicions were growing that he had direct links to Al Qaeda and had formed a terror cell inside the NHS.
Shiraz Maher, who knows the doctor well, told Sky News: "He was very angry about the West, particularly Britain and America and the invasion of Iraq.
"He saw it as the classic idea of a crusader war engineered by the West to impose Western views on an Islamic country.'
It was claimed yesterday that Abdulla was recruited by Al Qaeda in Iraq and ordered to travel to Britain.
Abdulla, who studied medicine in Baghdad, came from a family of Wahabist Muslims, an ultraconservative form of Islam that promotes Sharia law.
"The overseas-trained doctors who work in our system are very good and every day they save the lives of Queenslanders, and without them we wouldn't have a health system," Mr Beattie said.
AMA statement
The Australian Medical Association (AMA) has itself stepped in to urge people not be afraid of overseas-trained doctors.
AMA president Dr Rosanna Capolingua today defended the recruitment of internationally trained doctors to Australia, saying they were an invaluable part of the health system.
She said she understood there might be some anxiety about seeing foreign doctors following the questioning of two overseas-trained doctors in Australia over the thwarted terror attacks in London and Glasgow.
"It is a natural feeling for people to feel disturbed about what has happened and I am sure Australians, particularly ones who are just encountering an overseas-trained doctor and don't have a relationship with them, that they will feel a little anxious," Dr Capolingua told reporters in Adelaide.
"Overseas-trained doctors have been an essential part of our workforce for many years.
"I don't want patients to be frightened to see their doctor."
Well ya'll just go ahead, I'll just stick with my American doctors.
Sounds like Political Correctness to me!
CBS: Attacks An Al-Qaeda Sleeper Operation
Why physicians? The British had a fast-track entry program to get doctors into the country from abroad. Does that sound familiar? The US had a similar system for students before 9/11.
This tells us that the jihad in Iraq presents a direct threat to the West, and that it didn't begin with the invasion -- and the invasion didn't entirely stop it, either. Zarqawi had set up shop in Iraq before the Americans arrived with the complicity of the Iraqi government and ramped up his organization in the aftermath of the invasion. He had always threatened to reach outside of Iraq with AQ-Iraq, and almost a year after reaching room temperature, he almost succeeded.
This should make it official -- Iraq is a center in the war against radical Islamist terrorism.
People can debate whether it would have been so absent an American invasion honestly and with evidence to support either position, but none can escape the fact that al-Qaeda operates in Iraq and that they have used that base to attack the West at home. They failed, which gives us optimism that we can beat them both at home and in Iraq, but it doesn't negate the threat.
"The organisation urged hospitals to carry out checks in doctors' home countries and repeat this as "good practice" every three years.
However, the organisation also warned trusts not to target doctors because of their religion or belief."
The UK is just as PC as we are...and it will kill us both in the end. Fools all.
AL-Qaeda's Abu Musab al-Zarqawi may have ordered the bombers to go to Britain as a 'sleeper cell'
MI5 knew four of the bomb plotters
As many as four of the NHS terror cell suspects were already known to security services, it emerged last night.
Reports in the U.S. yesterday said key members of the NHS cell were recruited more than two years ago by terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who was killed in Iraq last year.
In an extraordinary piece of advance planning - a trademark of Al Qaeda - they were sent to Britain as 'sleepers' to await orders.
Zarqawi, who became head of Al Qaeda in Iraq and personally beheaded British hostage Kenneth Bigley, wanted men of an entirely different profile to the 'homegrown' July 7 bombers.
The reports came as investigators focused on Dr Bilal Abdulla, one of seven men and a woman under arrest. He was one of the two men who drove a blazing Jeep into an entrance of Glasgow Airport on Saturday.
Bilal Abdulla has been transferred to Paddington Green high-security prison in London as the investigation continues
The 28-year-old, the son of a leading Iraqi rheumatologist, arrived in Britain last August and took a job at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley.
In Iraq he was a member of the extreme Sunni Wahabist sect, which is aligned with Al Qaeda. Fellow medical students in Baghdad described him as 'deeply religious' with 'extreme views of Islam'.
Dr Abdulla, who was under investigation at the hospital because of his use of radical websites while on duty, lived in London for a time in 2003 before returning to Baghdad to complete his studies.
Investigators are trying to establish his contacts in London and whether he was a visitor to the Finsbury Park mosque, which has been linked to other Al Qaeda attacks.
"He told me that the plans were already made and they would soon be destroying the British," Canon White said. "He said the people who cure you would kill you."
Maybe this is why Michael Moore is pushing socialized medicine to the Islamofascist Doctors can inject their patients with deadly contagious diseases or deadly substances.
UK's new left wing and whining pussy Prime Minister Brown, doesn't want the terrorists called or labeled Muslims, and he doesn't want the power that Tony Blair had.
Our cousins across the pond on the old Sod are fading fast into the sunset of history. PCism is killing them with their socialized medicine.
If we elect the Hildebea$t or O$amo/Obamo to punish republicans in 2008, we can kiss this country good bye along with the UK and Europe.
I heard that over breakfast on Fox News this morning. Absolutely chilling, and it's something I think we should all take seriously. In a recent issue of Human Events, Jed Babbin writes that we should LISTEN to the words of our enemies. He gives some very good examples of why we should have, and how we didn't. This isn't about believing the lies they throw around when "negotiating," but it's about what they think of us, and what they want to accomplish—namely, our total subjugation, or failing that, our demise, preferably accompanied by a lot of pain.
This is looking like a big and very dangerous operation by these Islamofascist Muslim doctors.
It looks like you and I were justified to be concerned about treatment any patient got from the Muslim Islamofascists playing Doctor in the UK.
Thanks to TexKat, we can read this chilling report.
Ringleader 'Al-Qaeda sleeper'
Paul Kent
July 05, 2007 12:00am
THE alleged ringleader of the British bomb plot linked to the doctor arrested in Brisbane was a "sleeper" sent to Britain to await orders from Al-Qaeda, according to US reports.
As MI5 chiefs feared more terrorist sleeper cells were in Britain, the revelation of a possible Al-Qaeda link has thrown open the possibility that sleeper cells are also hibernating in Australia awaiting orders to kill and maim civilians.
"There are genuine concerns that the cell which was broken up in the past few days was not a one-off and that there are others out there plotting mass murder," a British security source said yesterday.
"The worrying truth is, we don't know how many are out there."
It is believed alleged ringleader Mohammed Asha, who was arrested on Sunday, was sent to Britain two years ago as part of Al-Qaeda's long-term plan to bring terror to the UK.
Fears of sleeper cells surfaced as it emerged that as many as four of the alleged terrorists arrested were known to British intelligence but were regarded as low priority.
At least one had featured in a surveillance operation, although there had been no suggestion any of the suspects were planning the failed bomb attacks in London and Glasgow.
US reports say that key members of the NHS cell were recruited two years ago by terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in an extraordinary piece of advanced planning.
Al-Zarqawi was killed in Iraq last year.
His plan was to have sleepers in place who had entirely different profiles to the "homegrown" July 7 bombers in London two years ago.
And it emerged last night that the last Anglican vicar in Baghdad, Canon Andrew White, was approached in mid-April by
an Iraqi Al-Qaeda leader
who "talked to me about how they were going to destroy British and Americans".
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BOSTON -- The Bruins answered the bell in a big way in Game 3 as they fed off the 17,565 fans at TD Garden and throttled the Canucks 8-1 to cut Vancouver's series lead to 2-1.
After watching Nathan Horton, one of their top wingers, take an open-ice hit and get carried off on a stretcher, the Bruins exploded for four goals in the second period and four more in the third. The power play went 2-for-4 and the penalty kill stifled all eight of the Canucks' power plays.
Thornton replaces Seguin, has immediate impact. Coach Claude Julien made a bold move and scratched rookie Tyler Seguin, inserting Shawn Thornton back into his spot on the energy line with Gregory Campbell and Daniel Paille. Thornton had an immediate impact, playing physical hockey on his first shift then flicking the puck into the Vancouver bench after a whistle, getting under the skin of the Canucks as they could be seeing yapping back and forth with Thornton.
Thornton then drew a hooking call on Jeff Tambellini 2:42 into the second period, which led to a Mark Recchi power-play goal at 4:22. The Bruins seemed to feed off his physical play and energy, playing by far their best game of the series. Thornton was called for a 10-minute misconduct 7:58 into the third, but his impact had been felt by then.
Horton sent to hospital after open-ice hit by Rome. Canucks forward Aaron Rome laid out Horton with a shoulder-to-head open-ice hit 5:07 into the game, leaving the Bruins winger motionless on the ice and the TD Garden crowd in stunned silence. Horton eventually moved his hands and was taken off on a stretcher to Mass General Hospital, where he was moving all his extremities and was alert, according to the team.
Thomas huge ... again. After getting some of criticism over his unorthodox style that the critics claimed led to Alex Burrows' overtime winner in Game 2, Tim Thomas once again silenced his critics. Thomas showed his Vezina Trophy form, making 40 saves and stemming the momentum of the Canucks whenever they tried to build some. He also laid a huge hit on Henrik Sedin in front of the net just more than six minutes into the third period.
Bruins' power play, Recchi connect again. The Bruins scored a power-play goal for the second straight game when Mark Recchi scored his second power-play goal in his last two games 4:22 into the second period. Michael Ryder added another power-play strike at 19:29 of the third period. It marked the second time the Bruins scored power-play goals in two straight games (Games 3 and 4 of the Eastern Conference semifinals against the Flyers). The Bruins did fail to score on the five-minute power play from the Rome hit on Horton, but were 2-for-4 on the power play as they continue to move the puck around better with crisp, quick passing and timely shots.
Depth players come up big. One of the keys to the Bruins' playoff success has been the play of their depth players, but until Game 3, only the top line had really delivered in this series. On Monday night, the rest of the forwards showed up in a big way. Recchi had two goals, Ryder had a goal and two assists, Marchand had a goal and an assist, Chris Kelly scored and Daniel Paille had a goal and an assist.
Penalty kill comes through. Marchand and Paille both scored short-handed goals and the Bruins' penalty kill continued its dominance of the Canucks' lethal power play, killing all eight Vancouver power plays.


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While the matchup may have appeared to favor the Suns — the NBA's hottest team and having had the past two days off, the Bulls — coming off their worst performance the night before in Sacramento, handed the home team (at least I think it was the home team…there were several Chicago fans in attendance) a 101-92 defeat.
The Suns, who saw their season-high tying five-game winning streak end, were frustrated into 23 fouls plus three technical fouls and 21 turnovers as the Bulls — for the second time in as many meetings — dictated the tempo of the game.
The Suns set season lows for points in the first quarter (13) and first half (33), while their final output was the fewest since the last time they faced the Bulls, a 92-87 loss in Chicago.
Goran Dragic scored a game-high 24 points. Channing Frye finished with 18.
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Chicago extended its winning streak in Phoenix to five games, sweeping the season series for the fourth time in the past six seasons.
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"We didn't come out in the beginning," head coach Jeff Hornacek said. "That's the difference of a team that really gets after it defensively and makes it tough on all the shots—are they fouls, are they good plays? Our guys have to realize that's the way they play and that's the way the game's going so you have to be stronger with it. They took us out of our stuff, but we let them do whatever they wanted."
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The Suns play their second game in as many nights, making a quick visit to Houston to battle a Rockets team they defeated earlier in the season — also on the back half of a back-to-back set — 97-88.
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Skip to comments.America's drive for acreage (Smart Growth not wanted)
Posted on 04/24/2002 5:17:09 AM PDT by Phantom Lord
America's drive for acreage
By RICK MARTINEZ
RALEIGH - The problem with "Smart Growth" is that it's almost always smart for someone else.
Given a choice, most folks want what Smart Growth denies -- a big house with a big yard and at a bargain price. If they have to drive to a former cow pasture to get their piece of the American dream, so be it.
Espousing this position has earned me the title of urban neanderthal, but it appears I'm not the only member of this new species.
The National Family Opinion organization recently conducted a survey for the National Association of Home Builders and the National Association of Realtors. It would be shortsighted to dismiss this poll as providing the industry with preordained answers: the builders and real estate agents I know will build and sell anything anywhere, so long as there's a market.
The survey, conducted in January and released Monday, never mentioned Smart Growth. It simply asked 2,000 respondents who had bought their primary residence in the past four years what they considered important in a home and community.
In nearly every instance, big, roomy and cheap homes -- the upside of urban sprawl -- generally won out over the small, crowded and expensive housing that tends to be the end result of Smart Growth polices.
When asked to rate the importance of 16 aspects of a home and its location, "houses spread out" received top billing from 62 percent of the respondents. Highway access was selected as the top community amenity by 44 percent of the respondents. When asked what single factor they would change in their present home and community, lower taxes was the top choice.
Somebody get this survey down to the General Assembly.
Density lost out big time among these homeowners. Forty seven percent said they looked for a bigger home, and 45 percent wanted a bigger lot. Only a measly 10 percent wanted a smaller house, and 9 percent a smaller lot.
The open space most of these homeowners preferred was out in the country, not in the city. Living in a less-developed area and living away from the city were deemed significant quality of life issues for 40 and 39 percent of the respondents, respectively.
The most damaging survey result for Smart Growth came when respondents were asked to select their favored housing lifestyle option. The anti-sprawl notion of a small single-family home in the city, close to work, public transportation and shopping, was the choice of only 18 percent. Ouch.
Forty percent said they wanted a smaller home in a suburb closer to the city. Forty two percent said housing utopia for them was a large single-family home in an outlying suburban area with longer distances to work, public transportation and shopping. Urban neanderthals unite!
If this consumer survey isn't enough to make our civic leaders and planners take a second look at Smart Growth, I suggest they read a sobering scholarly study by Matthew E. Kahn of Tufts University, published in the Fannie Mae Foundation journal "Housing Policy Debate" (Volume 12, Issue 1).
Kahn's article, "Does Sprawl Reduce the Black/White Housing Consumption Gap?", warns that Smart Growth has the potential to squeeze minorities out of the housing market at a time when they are making their most dramatic gains.
"Affordability is likely to decrease in the presence of more anti-sprawl legislation. Such rules reduce the supply of new housing, which in turn raise the price of homes. This article has documented that such policies will have distributional consequences by limiting progress in minority housing consumption."
In other words, Smart Growth legislation tends to jack up the price of housing, which tends to lock minorities out of housing choices.
Civic leaders and planners need to confront a chilling question -- Is resegregation an ugly, unintended consequence of Smart Growth communities? There is a growing amount of evidence that it is.
There is nothing inherently wrong with Smart Growth. Southern Village in Chapel Hill is a good example of a such development done well. But as the housing survey and Kahn's study demonstrate, Smart Growth works best for everyone when it's a free market option instead of government policy.
Rick Martinez can be reached by e-mail at email@example.com
Walter Williams has explained better than anyone I have heard why "smart growth" and other government tactics to reduce development and control where people live is a horrible idea that actually produces the opposite of its intended purpose.
It is often promoted as a way to "reduce sprawl" and provide more "affordable housing." And as we all know, the immediate and direct result of "Smart growth" policies is a drastic increase in housing expenses.
As with most things the left pushes, they give it a nice name that lures people in. How could you be against "smart growth"? And who would support "dumb growth"?
The entire worlds population could live in Texas. Broken up into families of 4, each family would get nearly and acre of land.
Stick to shrinking government and not populations.
Absolutely! Once you begin with restricting people growth, you enter into all kinds of sticky issues. Who can reproduce? Who do we eliminate? What about personal freedom to make decisions? Not only is this a slippery slope, it leads to the end of all freedom!
While the points raised in this article were good ones, it should be noted that in most parts of the U.S. a "big, roomy, and cheap" home is an oxymoron. In fact, if you do some research you'll find that people who live in suburbs are one of the most heavily-subsidized groups in the U.S. Homes can only be big and cheap if someone beside the buyer is picking up the cost of providing road and utility access, etc.
Future slums coming to your town soon! Many communities think packing in high density mixed use housing/commercial near freeways and rail transportation is going to solve their congestion problem while raising revenues. After the sheen dies away these "projects" will be filled by renters on AFDC and the merchants will have been put out of business.
The Sierra Club and the National Resource Defense Council are where the 1970's Boston racists that were viciously against minorities flocked to in order to circumvent racial integration.
This is no joke. Northeasterners are the biggest racists on the planet- they just use "environmental concern" as their cover. It's appalling, but definitely exactly what they tried to do.
They indeed coined the phrase "smart growth" and there are countless examples of the environmentalists policies on "growth" being cover for racicial discrimination by real estate agents and city planners to keep the minorotoes out of certain areas.
that's becoming harder to do in the Northeast, so the environmentalists are going crazy trying to stop growth to continue a sort of economic segregation they originally envisioned.
Don't discount this motive in the least. That is exactly why the NRDC and the Sierra Club was founded after the busing cases. It's appaling, but a insidious move.
The environmentalist donations industry is horribly racist.
ROTFL....as if city planners give a rats ass about what the people want.
You're assuming two things:
The objective of "planning" is not an improved existance for the regular people -- it is (and has always been) to get more power for the "planners".
216914 square miles, 640 acres per square mile, 168 million acres or 670 million people in families of 4 per acre. World population: 6.2 billion (40 people per acre).
Not too bad until they all get into their cars.
If this were true, the quality of life would have been deteriorating for a long time as population has continued to grow. It hasn't. Quality of life continues to improve for most.
Quality of life in countries that are poor and often refered to as "3rd world" is not low because of population. It is low because of a lack of FREEDOM. Tyranny and government oppression reduces quality of life, not population growth.
It reminds me of the idiotic "statistics" quoted by gun control advocates. A local paper in my area recently carried a huge article touting the Million Mom March. In one paragraph it cited an academic study which claimed that a gun in the home is 22% more likely to be fired at a family member than at an intruder. A couple of paragraphs later, the article quoted a local MMM leader patronizingly saying "People tend to forget that a gun in the home is 22 TIMES more likely to be used on a family member". The newspaper printed this nonsense without comment, and now there are hordes more people absolutely confident that they KNOW guns in a home are just WAY more likely to hurt a family member, and thus it makes no sense to let anybody have one. The dangerous result of this sort of rampant innumeracy is that in a recent election for State House Representative, we had no pro-gun candidate to vote for. The Republican candidate (who won) even sent out repeated mailings emphasizing how hard she would work for stricter gun control laws.
You didn't. I just made the point that I believe one thing leads to another, whether or not that is the intent.
Nonsense. It is only in the last hundred years or so that crowding has become a serious problem. And before the development of modern medicine, population growth in crowded areas was kept in check by deadly diseases. Now that phenomenon is greatly limited.
Quality of life in countries that are poor and often refered to as "3rd world" is not low because of population. It is low because of a lack of FREEDOM. Tyranny and government oppression reduces quality of life, not population growth.
It is due to both. In areas where people have little or no education and there is only a simple agrarian and scavenging economy, it's not a lack of freedom that prevents families from sowing 20 acres of land to produce a havest -- it's a lack of land that isn't already being used by somebody else. And once stuck in this predicament, these people are easy marks for socialist, communist, and other anti-freedom political movements, which all promise to take from the rich and give to the poor. All that's required for these political movements to take over the world is the continued increase in the number of poor people. Desperate people can't afford to pursue lofty ideals like freedom; they have to focus on getting fed today.
Crowding is a problem? Take some time and do some research on the % of land in America, since this is where we live, that is populated. A vast majority of the land in America is uninhabited.
And as far as modern medicine goes, it is a product of FREEDOM and our capatilist system. Not government invention and ingenuity. And the improvement in quality of life has afforded significant numbers of people the opporutnity to persue jobs and careers in the medical and research field as opposed to scrounging for todays meal. And also no small part due to our population growth. How many of the past centuries scientists and doctors would never have been born or grew old under a "zero population growth" mandate?
The doom and gloom predictions of the population growth fear mongers have ALL failed to materalize. NONE of their predictions have ever come true.
And I have a suggestion for the "zero population growth" crowd. Lead by example and off yourselves.
For a textbook example, see the San Francisco Bay Area. Twenty years of "Smart Growth" style development policies have left us with the highest housing costs in the country, and have substantially reduced the black populations of San Francisco and the Penninsula. And yet vast areas of land have been set aside as "open space" preserves.
There are two options available. Voluntary and mandatory. When the 1st doesnt work, the 2nd is implemented.
Regardless of how many habitable acres per person currently exist, we have to stop increasing sooner or later, since the acreage won't expand. Might as well stop increasing now, at least until we figure out how to get economic and political systems developed which will enable the present number of people to live decent lives. The alternative is to declare that it doesn't matter how many people starve, are tortured, sell their children into slavery and prostitution, etc., as long as we don't have to exercise any self-restraint in reproduction.
"OPEN SPACE" TAXES. Has your town taxed you yet to "preserve" open space-http---www.FreeRepublic.com-focus-news-660307-posts
"Smart Growth" is "Agenda 21"http---www.freerepublic.com-forum-a3ac76978087e.htm
Hong Kong is the densist city on the planet and has ZERO natural resources. NONE. ALL food and other neccesities are imported. Yet the quality of life there is amongst the highest on the planet and the population continues to grow.
You have fallen hook line and sinker for Paul Elrich (sp?) and his minions. They are liars and scam artists.
Probably the same thing that happened to the "coming ice age" in the '70's.
But, if the "voluntary" method fails (and who sets the standard for "success") that leaves one option to achieve the goal... Mandatory reduction or elimination of child births. And who decides who can and who can not have children, and how many?
And with your apparent philosophy you should change your handle to GovernmentKnowsBest. And not in a sarcastic tone.
You beat me to it. Reinforcement bump. We have socialized the infrastructure costs of sprawl. Take the subsidies away and the financial incentives would tend to shift toward more intensive development and redevelopment of the existing infrastructure base. There would still be 'burbs, just not as many, for those who want them and are prepared to pay the freight, while the cities would be healthier.
Here in TN, the developer and the home buyer pay the freight. You want water? Okey dokey, Smokey. That'll be $1500 hook 'em up fee. Sewer? Same story. Roads? For the most part, the developer builds them and rolls the $$ into each house. Gas? The gas company will only lay mains if enough people on each road or street sign up to pay the aggregate cost. We couldn't get natural gas here until just a few years ago, and we're right in the middle of town. Finally, six homeowners on the block signed up, and that was enough to cover laying the mains.
I'd like to see the numbers on this one. I live on 8 acres about 20 miles from a small city. I pay for maintenance of my own well and my own sewage treatment system; I live on a gravel section road whose maintenance costs amount to a grader driving down it twice a year. I pay extra for insurance because we don't have a regular fire department. My 'phone rates are substantially higher than city residents. We still pay county property tax at a rate very similar to that of city residents (who live in the same county). Almost all my neighbors live the same.
I'm not complaining; I chose to live here, love it, and knew the costs when I moved. But if we're getting subsidized services, I'd like to know how.
There's your answer. I know you don't drive all the way to work on your gravel road! If you look at the cost of building and maintaining interstate highways over a long period of time, you'll find that the road users themselves only pay about 30%-35% of the cost.
Do you carry a mortgage on your home? Do you deduct the interest on your taxes?
Like I said, let's see a citation to a real breakdown of costs.
Also: While paying less taxes is not a "subsidy" in and of itself, it sure is a subsidy when a tax deduction applies to specific people. People who own their homes can deduct their mortgage interest and local property taxes, but people who rent cannot even though they pay these costs indirectly as part of their rent.
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However, according to the study, growth in spend on the combined Yahoo/Bing has slowed, growing only by 2% YoY, down from mid-Q4 2009 when both engines showed more significant increases (47% Bing, 8% Yahoo YoY). Yahoo/Bing accounted for 17% of all U.S. retailer search spend in Q4 2010 compared with a collective 24% in the first half of Q4 2009, before the two companies' combined operations. Meanwhile Google commands 84% of retail search spend so far in Q4, up from 75% in mid-Q4 2009.
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Tuxera Inc., the market leader in interoperable file system solutions announced today that Desay SV Automotive, a leader of China's automotive electronics industry, selected Tuxera FAT and exFAT to power its high-end infotainment system on a Linux platform. Next generation solutions are shipping in the leading car brands' 2014 and 2015 models.
China's automotive market shows the fastest growth in the world with a high demand for connected cars with built-in infotainment systems. When it comes to buying a car, digital channels play an increasingly important role. The customers expect more, seeking better interfaces, added services, seamless connectivity and ease of use.
"As more features and technologies are being integrated the car manufacturers are setting even steeper performance and reliability requirements. Flash-memory friendly and fail-safe by design, Tuxera solutions are a perfect fit extending significantly the flash memory lifetime and ensuring file system consistency in every situation," commented Mr. Huang, System Engineer at Desay SV Automotive.
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The Ocean Course on Kiawah Island, which hosted the 2012 PGA Championship in August, climbed five spots in Golf Digests biennial rankings of Americas 100 Greatest Golf Courses.
The Ocean Course moved up to No. 21 in the overall rankings, and is No. 4 on the list of Americas 100 Greatest Public Courses. The Ocean Course was selected the nations toughest golf course by Golf Digest last January.
Were certainly excited to maintain (the Public ranking) with that elite group of golf courses, said Kiawah Island director of golf Brian Gerard. And were excited to move up five spots in the Top 100 courses you can play because that vote was closed prior to the PGA Championship. We think that will bode well for us in the future.
The magazines rankings will be published in the February issue. Courses are ranked by seven criteria shot value, resistance to scoring, design variety, memorability, aesthetics, conditioning and ambience.
The 100 Greatest list is dominated by private courses, so in 2003 Golf Digest began compiling a list of the top courses open to the public.
Only two South Carolina courses landed on the 100 Greatest list, the Ocean Course and Harbour Town Golf Links on Hilton Head Island. Harbour Town is No. 96 overall, up four spots from a tie for No. 100 in 2011-12, and No. 18 in the Public rankings.
Other South Carolina courses making the Public list were No. 27 May River at Palmetto Bluff in Bluffton; No. 52 The Dunes Golf and Beach Club in Myrtle Beach; No. 97 Caledonia Golf and Fish Club in Pawleys Island; and No. 98 TPC at Myrtle Beach in Murrells Inlet.
The magazine also included a second 100 ranking for the first time with eight South Carolina courses included: No. 109 Kiawah Island Clubs Cassique; No. 122 Sage Valley in Graniteville; No. 138 Long Cove Club on Hilton Head Island; No. 150 Secession Golf Club in Beaufort; No. 156 Greenville Country Clubs Chanticleer Course; No. 160 Colleton River Plantation in Blufftons Nicklaus Course; No. 178 Chechessee Creek in Okatie; and No. 179 The Dunes Golf and Beach Club. A course needed to be named on a minimum of 45 ballots to be included.
South Carolina had 30 courses in the Best in State rankings. Among the top five are the Ocean Course; Yeamans Hall Club in Hanahan, Harbour Town, Kiawah Island Clubs Cassique and Sage Valley.
Top 10 Public Courses
1. Pebble Beach, California
2. Whistling Straits, Wisconsin
3. Pacific Dunes, Oregon
4. The Ocean Course, South Carolina
5. Shadow Creek, Nevada
6. Bandon Dunes, Oregon
7. Pinehurst No. 2, North Carolina
8. Bethpage Black, New York
9. TPC Sawgrass, Florida
10. Erin Hills, Wisconsin
Top 10 Golf Courses
1. Pine Valley, New Jersey
2. Augusta National, Georgia
3. Cypress Point, California
4. Shinnecock Hills, New York
5. Oakmont, Pennsylvania
6. Merion, Pennsylvania
7. Pebble Beach, California
8. Winged Foot, New York
9. Sand Hills, Nebraska
10. Fishers Island, New York
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Ocean Course, Kiawah Island
Yeamans Hall Club, Hanahan
Harbour Town, Hilton Head Island
Kiawah Island Clubs Cassique
Sage Valley, Graniteville
May River at Palmetto Bluff, Bluffton
Kiawah Island Club River Course, Kiawah
Long Cove, Hilton Head Island
Secession, Beaufort
Golf Club at Briars Creek, Johns Island
Greenville Country Club-Chanticleer, Greenville
Colleton River-Nicklaus, Bluffton
Musgrove Mill, Clinton
Cliffs at Keowee Vineyards, Sunset
Chechessee Creek, Okatie.
The Dunes Golf and Beach Club, Myrtle Beach
Colleton River-Dye, Bluffton
Palmetto, Aiken
Haig Point-Calibogue, Daufuskie Island
Reserve at Lake Keowee, Sunset
Daniel Island Club-Ralston Creek, Charleston
Caledonia Golf and Fish Club, Pawleys Island
TPC at Myrtle Beach, Murrells Inlet
Belfair-West, Bluffton
Cliffs at Keowee Springs, Six Mile
Country Club of Charleston, Charleston
Grande Dunes-Resort, Myrtle Beach
Cliffs at Keowee Falls, Salem
Cliffs at Glassy, Landrum
True Blue, Pawleys Island