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Nothing is going to happen in this country until we the people realize that it is we who have failed the Constitution; the Constitution has not failed us. Our chances of restoring our Republic are very slim without that realization. ~Red Beckman, February 2012
Our Founders created a government that was based upon several basic principles, among them morality, honesty, integrity, truth and justice. We cannot have a just government without a moral government. Our Constitution was created for a moral people…when was the last time, if ever, that you saw a politician acting morally and in the best interests of the people? Well, we elected them.
The recent discussion and history of Obama's new Executive Order on the peacetime declaration of martial law is an illustrative example of how long we have been asleep at the wheel. As it turns out, the basic elements of this executive order began in the administration of John F. Kennedy, and every President since then has reauthorized it or added to it. Now with a clear and present danger in our White House, it takes on far more menacing meaning–as we know Obama will use it if he feels his election chances are threatened.
But realistically, we could also go back to Executive Order 1, signed by Abraham Lincoln when there arguably was no Congress–the South had walked out–declaring a permanent state of emergency which has existed since that time. Hence the gold fringe on the U.S. flag in our courthouses and many federal buildings. Each president that has come along has failed to rescind this or subsequent Executive Orders, which have gradually taken over as the means of governance–by executive fiat.
This post, which has been long in coming, delves into the aspect of our Constitution which requires the consent of the governed, and poses some reasons why and examples of our relinquishment of our responsibility to give or deny consent to the various actions of the government we created. Our failure to live up to our responsibilities has allowed untold suffering and the death of millions–of our own citizens and of the world–at the hands of unscrupulous men and women. Of course these unscrupulous people with monied roots in the 'families' and secret societies that have caused trouble for the world wasted no time in taking over key institutions–our education system, government, the courts, the churches, the media, entertainment, the sciences, and now fully the means of production–agriculture, food, medicine, water, and industry.
Have we awakened in time? Do we have the numbers? And whether we do or not, do we have a responsibility to right our Country and bring back Constitutional governance? We've never not had that responsibility!
Neither time nor the severity of the moment allows for us to sit and watch and pretend to live above it all. Not anymore. The determination of those who control this administration, and the willingness of this president to assist in their desired outcome has finally awoken us. The defeat of Barack Obama is the most important thing I can do with the time I have left. I do not say that as a boast. I do not say that to somehow elevate my own sense of importance. I say that as a man blessed to have lived in this country for many decades and in that time, the prosperity that time has given to me is worthy of many lifetimes. What I owe to this country demands I do what I can to save it. ~Wall Street Insider
A First Casualty: Our THREE Votes
We designed the system so that we would be the true masters of government, not the other way around. A dangerous servant our government has now become as it encroaches on our lives in every possible manner, replacing individual liberty with collectivism, and enacting the subversion of our individual rights through coercion. Enshrined in our Constitution, and in particular, the Bill of Rights is the principle that consent of the governed is required for the government to take any action. We have three votes, not just one as the powers would have us believe. Our election, grand jury, and petite jury votes.
As shown in the diagram below, any time the government wants to propose a rule that impacts individuals, it has to seek consent of the governed. If it wants to prosecute someone for violating one of those rules, it must bring that rule and its proposed action before a jury and a grand jury. There we get to decide if it is a valid law in the first instance, and if a person has violated that rule. Corrupt judges will suggest to a jury that they are not to decide the law, only the facts of the case. That didn't work out for Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase, now did it, where he was impeached (but not convicted) for instructing a jury that they couldn't decide on the law itself.
This failure to understand our power has had serious consequences. All you need to do is look at the prosecution of individuals under the law that never was–the unconstitutional sixteenth amendment–and the congressionally created Internal Revenu
e Service (IRS) used to 'enforce' an unconstitutional law.
The people who have been prosecuted under this unconstitutional law have been sent to jail by juries–not by government, by the people on the juries who either failed to recognize they have a right to judge the law itself or bought the judge's illegal directions that they were only to judge the facts of the trial. Using the diagram above, if IRS wants to prosecute you, they must take this to a jury, where you decide whether the law is valid and whether the individual should be prosecuted. And under the Seventh Amendment, once that jury decides you are not guilty of violating an unconstitutional law, no court of the U.S. can overrule the jury's decision, nor can any federal judge:
In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.
The true intention of the Constitution–to recognize our individual sovereignty, is no where more evident than in the Seventh Amendment. But our sovereignty and individual rights are totally ignored by the judicial system.
A grand jury should be utilized when dealing with the implementation of any agency-created law against any individual…you have a right to ask for a jury trial at all times and should never subject yourself to the whims of an individual judge. Important places to begin to use jury trials include actions taken by federal fish agencies under the Endangered Species Act, where fines for the 'take' of fish, for example, can range from $25,000 to over $75,000 per fish. When the government creates the problem, such as in the Klamath Basin, federal agents should not be allowed to trespass on individual property, 'find' a dead fish, and prosecute or jail an individual.
We the people deal with common law; the judges and attorneys deal with case law, administrative procedures, contract law, and equity…we must bring back common law courts to every jurisdiction in our country. It is time to flood the system with jury trial actions.
Some applications.
- The Arizona ballot challenge suit in Pima County requested a jury trial and is the only eligibility case to my knowledge that would be heard before a jury. Once the information on Obama's failure to qualify as a natural born citizen reaches the jury, any jury would decide he cannot be on the ballot. Can a federal court overturn that decision? I would argue no, not under the Seventh Amendment. DNC Chair Wasserman-Schultz will be sued for fraud, and that should be heard by a jury…its the only way to ensure that the democrats can't bribe or threaten a judge to rule in their favor.
- What about Oklahoma's anti-sharia statute? How can a single federal judge overturn the will of the people? Actions should be taken to bring that decision back to the local level and tried by a jury of Oklahomans. The United States government and its agents try to block our access to juries at every turn.
- What about excessive EPA regulation, or the regulation of your garden or of a farmer's market? Why are we sending individuals to jail for growing and selling tomatoes? Or producing and selling raw milk? What 'law' permits this, and what is the constitutional authority?
- What about the molesting of children by the Transportation Security Agency?
By allowing the jury system to fall, and by neglecting our responsibilities as citizens, we ourselves destroy our cultural heritage. We have given our consent to government to do what it wants. It is time to get informed, get ready, use a jury whenever you can, and find out how to get on a grand jury.
A Major Cause of Distress: We have Abandoned the Almighty
The enemies of America are now gathering. 2008 was the calling. We have abandoned the Almighty. My greatest fear is He may now have abandoned us. In our foolish neglect of the great gift of freedom that is the United States, perhaps that is exactly what is deserved. And yet, I refuse to simply accept that.~ Wall Street Insider
The relentless march of socialism, anti-Americanism, and communism has been and is at its core a march against God…as it has been since the gracing of this world with his only begotten son, Yeshua, Jesus. Yes we can talk about the 'social scientists', and Darwin; the progressives, Marx, and Stalin; the left, radical islam, and the muslim brotherhood, even the Jesuits, and chronicle their precise killing and ideological influences. What they all have in common is the absence of God; they are man-oriented; they are all satanic. By turning off our ears, shutting our eyes, glorifying our wealth or graven images, and by fearing government more than our Creator-God, we have lost the ability of discernment.
And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul Genesis 2: 7
To Whom, then, will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One. Lift up your eyes on high,and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power, not one faileth Isaiah 40: 25-26
Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God (2 Thess. 2: 3,4)
And with all the deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness (2 Thess. 2: 10-12)
And the moment of our distress has then a spiritual root; a cause, where we have lost our way and failed to discern our responsibilities to God, our Country and ourselves; being content with distractions including our arguments over 'concepts', the right versus left, the liberal versus conservative. And our delusion has caused us to believe in the false promise of security in exchange for our God-given, unalienable rights and our responsibility to safe-guard them; to believe in simple men who have no interest but their own, in a party or team rather than in the truth.
Can you imagine that the fate of our country is in the hands of one man, nine 'justices', and a handful of proud, conceited, misguided, and ungodly politicians…when we had it within our hands to withhold our consent for these atrocities committed in our name? The Wall Street Insider grasps this possible ending as he struggles with his own role in enabling 'obamacare' to bring our Country to the brink of destruction:
May God grant these nine people the wisdom to remove the oppression contained within that foul document so appropriately called "Obamacare". Never should its manifestation been allowed. Never should I and others have even remotely considered it may be of benefit to Americans struggling without health care coverage. A Trojan Horse of false idealism and we opened the gates to it and now a battle for the soul of America is underway. It is shameful how little attention I paid to it then. Such a stupid and pretentious man I was. Perhaps I still am.
It is long past time to withdraw our consent, for any of this business. No to incumbents and to 'business as usual'. No to unconstitutional laws. No to the 'justices' who deliver no justice. No to the media which lies. No to the federal reserve and the complicit congress. NO to a usurper who has taken what is not his. No to the anti-Americans who would destroy us.* They forevermore must now earn our consent.


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Open Letter to Francis Boyle, the Moral Law Professor, on the Ignored Iraqi & Afghani Victims of Imperial Mobilization
Date: January 31, 2010
Subject Re: International Criminal Court Complaint Filed Against Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Tenet, Rice, Gonzales By Prof. Francis A. Boyle
Dear Dr. Francis Boyle:
In reference to your complaint filed with the ICC against the previous errand-boys who occupied the White House, would it be rude to notice that the higher order bits of using 911 to "goosestep the herrenvolk across international frontiers" ; the subsequent "shock and awe" visitations upon largely civilian population-centers and civilian infrastructures ; the decimation of millions of Iraqis/Afghanis ; subverting of the United States into a pre-planned police-state ; fabricating crises upon crises to propose pre-planned solutions in order to systematically usurp national sovereignty as per the diabolical modus operandi set by the Council on Foreign Relations in their own documents: "In short, the 'house of world order' will have to be built from the bottom up, rather than from the top down. It will look like a great 'booming, buzzing confusion' to use William James' famous description of reality, but an end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece will accomplish much more than the old-fashioned frontal assault." – have all been overlooked to pursue the relatively lower order crimes of "extraordinary rendition" upon a few individuals with the highly dubious statement: "I doubt very seriously that the Accused would have inflicted these criminal practices upon 100 White Judeo-Christian men." ?
We only wish there was one decent 'Christian' man or woman alive in the hallways and beltways of Western academe and among the legal fraternity who might even attempt to capture the angst of the tens of millions of Iraqis/Afghanis still barely alive and who still await someone who will file legal charges against the monumental crimes that have been perpetrated upon them and their millions of murdered kin.
We fervently hope that you, Professor Francis Boyle, might be such a person. That you will file pertinent charges in the ICC, for both culpability and restitution, on behalf of the untold millions already dead in Iraq and Afghanistan, many more suffering with their entire national fabric, ancient heritage, and even their DNA despoiled in a crime so stupendous that "it is a mystery whose parallel may only be the one of Sinai when something was revealed to mankind."
For surely, it is inconceivable that you make complete obeisance to Western standards of morality by focussing on this lower order crime in the presence of un-addressed higher order monumental crimes – a morality which brazenly asserts from the highest pulpit of law in this land of the free:
"Nothing is more certain in modern society than the principle that there are no absolutes, that a name, a phrases, a standard has meaning only when associated with the considerations which give birth to nomenclature. To those who would paralyze our Government in the face of impending threat by encasing it in a semantic strait-jacket, we must reply that all concepts are relative." — Justice Vinson, U.S. Supreme Court, 1951 AD
And as you venture to focus on the higher order real monumental crimes against humanity, we hope you will not remain content by focussing merely on the errand boys. That you will see the connections between the quest for "Global Governance", fabricated crises from pandemics to global warming, the seeding of "revolutionary times" across the "global zone of percolating violence" to make "imperial mobilization" possible which otherwise is "inconceivable in normal times", and the "history's actors" who drive war-mongering policies and orchestrate wretched events from their Zion in the Middle East to their Zion in the Western capitals, not the least of which is Washington DC, in the expectation of creating the ultimate "Zion that will light up all the world".
And that, as you pursue the highest order crimes, you will not shy away from going directly for the jugular of the prime-movers behind the scenes of all the war-mongering 'errand boys' fronting for them in the Western capitals as the duly elected representatives of a duped Western peoples, including those presently occupying the White House. This was, lamentably enough, already pleaded to no avail in the following editorial when your lonely fraternal brother, Mr. Vincent Bugliosi, courageously asserted that "Murder Trumps Torture", but inexplicably failed to also simultaneously assert the legal and moral commonsense that prime-movers trump trigger-pullers: Who is more guilty of monumental war crimes – the prime-movers or trigger pullers? April 09, 2009.
Attempted prosecution of state-criminals on 'petty charges' without also prosecuting their criminal aiders and abettors who 'legalize' and propagandistically justify their brazen acts of aggression, and therefore are entirely culpable in toto for "all the evil which follows" ; staying silent on punitive as well restitutive compensation for their victims, is a legal sham that is only waiting to be torn down by some courageous people. We hope, Dr. Francis Boyle, that you might be one such precedent setting spark which ignites the moral imagination of many to follow. The world has had enough from the dispensers of victor's justice!
Thank you.
Zahir Ebrahim
In. Ref To: Bush To The Hague! The Hague Acknowledges Francis Boyle On His Filing Against Bush et al For War-Crime: Extraordinary Rendition
Additionally, in principle, Project Humanbeingsfirst.org supports all effective measures which attempt to bring the entire hierarchy of monumental criminals to fair justice. As is often the case with victor's justice however, and with those in the victor civilizations pursuing their notion of justice against the criminals in their own midst, the big picture is being silently swept aside in the "Bush To The Hague!" Campaign. That moral campaign should rightly be "Bush-Obama-Congress-Foundations-Banksters To The Hague" Campaign. And a similarly appropriate one waged in the UK and the EU.
It is not sufficient, in the view of Project Humanbeingsfirst, to pursue lower order crimes and charge the lower-order errand boys for these crimes, while staying eloquently silent on the most significant crimes and neglecting to seek restitution/compensation/punitive-damages for the most significant of its victims! While the old errand boys out of power are being pursued with vigor, a new crop of errand boys are already in-charge committing new monumental crimes without inhibition. What rational commonsense does this make? Are we to presume that morality in modernity is inversely proportional to rationality and commonsense? That millions of 'untermensch' victims are to simply remain nameless and faceless statistics to build careers and glossy prize-winning narratives on? We certainly hope not!
To put efficacy into the matter of stopping crimes against humanity before they transpire rather than lament in futility afterwards with vacuous pledges of 'never again' with Public Relations show trials and new museums, the perpetual prime-movers of wars pushing their insidious multifaceted agendas behind the turbulence of wars have to be neutered. Their enormous power and influence stemming from their infinite wealth that is legally sanctioned to them by the law makers who represent them in governance, terminated. Where is the precedent for that being set?
It wasn't even set at the Nuremberg Military Tribunals when Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, the former governor of the Reich Bank – the bankster who orchestrated the financing for Hitler's war-machine with funding from Wall Street and the City of London financiers – went scot-free! Just that tiny point of incontrovertible fact proves the truth of this open letter and demonstrates the enormous power of the prime-movers which is being swept under the rug by focussing on their errand boys. These errand boys are untouchable so long as their godfathers protect them, except when made dispensable and administered the victor's justice as at the Nuremberg Trials.
We hope this minor oversight will be rectified.
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En'de opened his eyes, in the dark of the helmet he could slowly think about Naboo. Apart from ducks and supposedly annoying natives he didn't know much about it. Although he reasoned it'd be kinda of swampish in places, the cities would be architectual masterpeices or something he'd heard. He wasn't in to buildings, or anything else for that matter. In fact, he lived in one of the apartments on the dock they'd left. With an okay view of the town below from the balcony he'd built in his spare time. He stretched himself out, watching the star lines fade from the view port.
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Structural engineer Eric Oullette has absolute faith in his designs and calculations for the load-bearing structures he builds around Canada.
That's why he volunteered to be the first person to take a spin on Canada's scariest zip line.
Oullette, 36, has designed and built a zip line that shoots across the St. John River Gorge in Grand Falls, New Brunswick. Grand Falls derives its name from the grand falls created by the St. John River plunging into a deep gorge in the heart of town.
At this time of year - with New Brunswick's heavy snow load melting – the St. John volume flowing over the falls is equivalent to 90 per cent of the flow over Niagara Falls.
But that water has to pass through a rocky gorge much narrower than the Niagara Gorge and as a result the roar of rushing water is much louder and the exploding white water leaps higher in the air.
At least on Oullette's Zip Zag you get to wear a harness, a helmut and sit in a sling for the 180-metre-long ride across the torrent. No safety harness supported evangelist Joseph Van Morrell in the spring of 1904 when he walked across the rapids on a tightrope.
The 36-year-old Van Morrell, a resident of Maine, which is a little less than two kilometres away, ventured out 10 metres over the raging waters, but then back pedaled to shore, confusing the huge crowd on the banks.
He had forgotten to calculate for the afternoon sun, which was glaring in his eyes. He walked across a vehicle bridge and started out again on the rope from the opposite bank. When he reached the middle, he did a headstand.
Today's riders mostly just hang on tight and scream.
It costs $40, but that's for a return ticket. When you reach Lovers Lane on the north shore, you disengage to hook onto a second line and zip back again following Van Morrell's route.
In April and May only groups of 15 or more can buy tickets and they pay $30/head. Oullette said he can marry you to a group if you're a couple, family or just roaming by your lonesome when you arrive at the Zip Zag launch site.
And if it's your birthday, you ride at half price. Oullette is giving his neighbours a price break too. If you're a resident of Madawaska or Victoria counties, you can ride for $30 … but not at night.
Night is popular and full price applies.
Riders need to walk about one-third of a mile on a dirt trail and climb stairs. Oullette recommends riders be relatively healthy and fit. He said a 95-year-old man was among the 5,200 riders who zipped across the river last year.
The heavier you are, the faster you'll zip. Oullette's Zip Zag has a top limit of 275 pounds and a minimum weight of 75 pounds, but very light passengers can ride over strapped to a guide.
Oullette's crew will film your venture for $25.
You don't need to zip to marvel at the spectacle of the St. John in full spring force. The Ron Turcotte Bridge carries Grand Falls' main street across the gorge.
The bridge is named after the town's most famous resident – jockey Ron Turcotte. He rode Secretariat in 1973 to the first Triple Crown win in 25 years. He was one of thoroughbred horseracing's most successful jockeys when he tumbled from his mount at Belmont Park in 1978 and was left a paraplegic.


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Hey everyone!
For those who have recently joined, and as a reminder to more veteran members, the LCC has a Flickr group where you can share pictures of your creations, and provides a nice way to easily browse all of the great MOCs that we, as a community, have built over the last year for LCC!
I do want to also remind you that you should only add ONE picture per MOC to the pool, so as not to clutter it too much. There have been a few people who are repeat offenders (hey, even I forget sometimes when bulk uploading pictures) and I hate having to choose which picture to keep, while removing the rest. It should be up to YOU, the builder, to choose which picture you want to represent your MOC, so please do yourself (and me) a favor and keep it to one picture per MOC.
There are also restricted-membership groups for each faction, I believe, for which you'll need to apply for membership. These are a really cool way to see what others in your faction have been building, at a glance. Another advantage is that you can have private "Faction-only" discussions on the message board of your group, in case you need to secretly plot faction-specific business
The links to those groups are below:
Garheim: http://www.flickr.com/groups/garheim/
Lenfald: http://www.flickr.com/groups/1896577@N24/
Loreos: http://www.flickr.com/groups/lccloreos/
Outlaws: http://www.flickr.com/groups/1953675@N21/
Great job, and as always, Keep up the Good Work!


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The No. 2 Haldane High School girls basketball team eased into the Section 1 Class C semifinals with a home win over No. 7 Yonkers Montessori, 67-13, on Wednesday.
Liz Khadabux led the Blue Devils with 15 points, while Sam Lisikatos scored 12 and Allie Monteleone added 10.
Haldane (12-5) will face No. 3 Palisade Prep on Tuesday at the Westchester County Center in White Plains.
Highland 50, Chapel Field 20 – Tianna Pittman led the Huskies with 12 points and five rebounds, as the victors improved to 8-9 on the season.
Shannon Ward (five rebounds), Sam Valentino (four assists) and Alison Rozzi (three assists) each contributed seven points toward the winning effort.
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Pine Plains 54, Rondout Valley 33 — Maria Farias had 25 points and Ashley Starzyk added 17 points as the Bombers improved to 7-11 overall with a road win.
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Highland defeated host Rhinebeck, 51-28, with Travis Marnell had a game-high 12 points.
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Braedon Bayer recorded seven points, 10 assists and five steals, while Ryan Yearwood added 10 points for Trinity-Pawling (16-6), which hosts Kent on Saturday.


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Crushed Red Potatoes with Basil
- Category: Side Dishes
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- 1 pound new potatoes
- ½ cup shaved Parmesan cheese
- ½ cup olive oil
- ¼ cup fresh basil leaves
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh chives
- 1 ½ teaspoons sea salt
- ¾ teaspoon ground black pepper
- Garnish: fresh basil
In a large saucepan, place potatoes, and cover with water. Cook over high heat until potatoes are fork tender, 15 to 20 minutes; drain. Add cheese, olive oil, basil, chives, salt and pepper. Using a wooden spoon, crush each potato until it splits. Serve immediately. Garnish with basil, if desired.
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This is fabulous news; when I wrote the File_MARC PEAR package, I ended up having to implement a linked list class in PEAR to support it.
Doubly linked lists are normal lists, but the elements also have links to both the previous and next items in the list as well. Two other structures will be added right along with it - SplStack and SplQueue.


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These muffins just look and breathe of fall. After they came out of the oven, I leaned over the pan to breathe in their spicy, pumpkin-y aroma. And then split one open while it was almost too hot to eat, just to find out if they tasted as good as they looked. They lived up to all of my pumpkin dreams.
The only thing standing between me and that dream, though, is that there is a serious shortage of canned pumpkin in stores right now. Considering that everyone is baking up a storm of pumpkin recipes, this is practically a state of emergency! Okay, maybe it's not that serious, but it is inconvenient. Fortunately, I had one large can left from last winter which I used for my pumpkin snickerdoodles and for these muffins. But I need to stock up on more, so when I was at the grocery store on Friday, I searched and searched for pumpkin, finally finding 3 lonely cans left at the back of a bottom shelf. I bought 2 and left 1 for someone else, which I thought was nice of me, although now I'm wishing I'd just bought all 3 while I had the chance, since tonight when Jamie and I shopped for groceries for the week, there was absolutely none left.
These muffins are possibly the best muffins I've ever made, and I don't think there's a thing I would change about this recipe. I used my recipe for pumpkin bread as a starting point, noted a few things I wanted to alter for a batch of muffins, and the result was, dare I say, perfection? I hesitate using that word, since I rarely think a recipe is perfect, and there's almost always something I would change about it, but really, with these, I just wouldn't.
In these muffins the pumpkin flavor is so nicely enhanced by the cinnamon, nutmeg and ginger, and I love the crunchy toasted pecans throughout. You simply have to toast the pecans. It's not an option. And of course, the streusel topping is just sweet enough with a slight crunch to give a wonderful textural balance to the soft muffins.
I ate one of these warm from the oven, and although I loved it on its own, I wouldn't argue with you if you thought a little lemon curd or cream cheese spread on a split muffin, or even a drizzle of honey, would be good. Mmm, now I want another one with some honey on it...
- 1 1/4 cups canned pumpkin puree
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 3 eggs
- 1 tablespoon vanilla
- 1 cup applesauce (no sugar added)
- 3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
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The New Narrative of Rural Education
The New Narrative of Rural Education
Remarks of U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to the Ohio Department of Education and Battelle for Kids Rural Education National Forum
Thank you, Dr. Ross, for that kind introduction and for being a great partner in reform.
I'm pleased to be here today to address the Rural Education National Forum because, too often, the challenges of rural education are neglected.
After nearly five years in Washington, I've learned that much of the public narrative surrounding education is wrong or badly exaggerated.
And so today, I want to suggest that a new, and more promising narrative about rural education is showing real results across the country--and that many of the leaders at this forum are helping to lead that quiet transformation.
Last month, a day before Congress shutdown the federal government, I gave a talk at the National Press Club in Washington.
I said that the debate over education which I hear inside the Beltway and the blogosphere doesn't begin to reflect the reality I see in classrooms and schools all across America.
When it comes to education, Washington--which so often thinks it is the center of the universe—is, instead, an alternative universe.
Some members of Congress think the federal government should have no role at all in public education. They think investments in education should be cut, not increased. And the Beltway blogosphere contains many armchair pundits who insist that our efforts to improve public education are effectively doomed to fail.
Fortunately, most people in the real world have tuned out this ideological debate. They are too busy actually getting the real work done. They're focusing on students—whether they live in Appalachia or Anaheim.
All across the country, state and local leaders are tackling complex challenges and making courageous choices to better educate children and give them a real shot at life.
States have raised standards and expectations for students, and are piloting new and better assessments to show what students know and can do.
Teachers are thinking deeply about their practice and their profession. They're rewriting curricula, drafting new lesson plans, and sharing lessons online.
Technology is expanding access to knowledge, innovation, instruction, and professional development in unprecedented ways. Technology is driving both greater equity and an increased focus on excellence.
And, in truly heroic work, many of our lowest-performing schools are implementing ambitious reforms for the first time to drive improvement and increase student success.
This outside-the-Beltway rewriting of Washington's educational narrative is also transforming rural education.
Inside the Beltway Bubble, rural education is still often treated as the poor second cousin of education reform.
Rural communities are said to be too isolated to attract top-notch teaching talent and provide a rigorous, well-rounded learning experience.
Some believe rural districts are too poor to pioneer innovation and technology. They lack the resources and the leadership pool to turn around low-performing schools. They are losing population--and the tax base necessary to drive powerful partnerships in the community.
In short, the narrative inside the Beltway and Blogosphere is that rural school districts cannot compete with their city and suburban counterparts. They cannot compete for attention, or results, or funding.
And they cannot be expected to execute ambitious, far-reaching reforms. Increased formula funding is typically prescribed as the only solution to the challenges of rural education.
Now, as is often the case with the conventional wisdom, it is half true.
The challenges facing rural and small-town districts are real and urgent. They do suffer from shrinking tax bases. Access to AP courses can be limited.
Rural districts have struggled to recruit and retain great teachers, especially in shortage areas like special education, ELL, and STEM.
It's also true that formula funding and programs like REAP are vital and necessary for rural districts.
That's one reason our administration fought for and won a $22 billion increase in Title I and IDEA funding in the Recovery Act-- and it's why the administration maintained funding for REAP during the recession.
Yet with all of that said, I absolutely reject the idea that simply more of the same is the answer to the challenges facing rural education.
I reject the idea that rural districts are too isolated to pioneer innovation and propel powerful partnerships.
I reject the narrative that says rural America cannot provide a rich and rigorous curriculum, or compete for attention or funding.
And I reject the idea that rural America cannot implement transformational reform.
Now, here is what I do believe.
I believe that geographic location should not dictate results. In America, poverty is not destiny—and neither is geography.
I believe that traditional formula funding must be supplemented with competitive funding and incentives for change--with appropriate priorities for rural areas to help ensure a level playing field.
And I believe that a balance of formula and competitive funding is necessary to drive innovation, raise the bar, and expand the capacity of rural districts to implement far-reaching reforms.
I am not going to kid you. When we proposed four years ago that rural districts and rural states could compete for Promise Neighborhood grants, i3 awards, Race to the Top grants, and school turnaround dollars, the experts in Washington told us we were wrong--or at best naive.
We heard that rural districts would never find the matching dollars to fund i3 grants.
We heard that rural districts would not win Promise Neighborhood grants because they lacked the manpower and grant writers to win awards.
We heard that rural districts would be left behind by higher college- and career-ready standards like the Common Core--and that overwhelmed teachers in rural schools wouldn't get the support and professional development needed to implement more rigorous standards.
We heard that rural districts and states with larger rural populations would not win Race to the Top awards, RTT-Early Learning Challenge grants, or RTT-District awards.
We heard that rural districts would not get their fair share of school improvement grants to turn around chronically low-performing schools.
That was four years ago. Four years later, the results are in--and they are at odds with much of the conventional narrative in Washington.
Experts were stunned when the first two states to win Race to the Top awards were Tennessee and Delaware. Numerous states with substantial rural populations went on to win RTT-Early Learning Challenge grants--and most of the 16 states that applied earlier this month for the second RTT-ELC competition have a high proportion of rural and small-town residents.
In Kentucky, the Green River Regional Educational Cooperative won a $40 million Race to the Top District award to provide personalized learning to nearly 60,000 students in in 22 rural school districts.
Nationwide, one-fifth of the schools eligible for school improvement grants were in rural communities-- and rural schools did, in fact, receive one-fifth of SIG grants.
In the first round of the $650 million i3 competition, grantees like eMINTS in Missouri and the Niswonger Foundation in Tennessee applied to the rural competitive preference, and they have spent the past three years expanding high-quality professional development for teachers and increasing access to college-credit courses for rural high school students.
In round two of i3, we created a more robust rural emphasis, and more than 20 percent of the competitive awards went to grantees with improving rural achievement as their absolute priority.
And contrary to the prevailing wisdom, every rural winner has found the matching grants they need from the private sector and non-profits.
In Kentucky, Berea College won both a Promise Neighborhood grant and an i3 grant to work in some of the most impoverished rural communities in America. Two of the counties in their Promise Neighborhood grant are the third and fourth poorest counties in the United States.
I understand that Dreama Gentry and Kevin Hall from Berea's Promise Neighborhood initiative are here today. Thank you for your commitment and vision--I look forward to hearing more about your innovative, community-based programs as you move further into implementation.
Now, beyond simply providing funding for innovation and to expand capacity, the administration has also helped propel a sea-change in college access and broadband availability in rural communities.
By eliminating subsidies for banks, we funded a landmark $40 billion expansion of the Pell Grant program, enabling the number of Pell Grant recipients to grow by 50 percent in the first term. We did this without going back to taxpayers for a nickel.
The Rural Community College Alliance has called the Pell Grant program "the single most important economic development tool for rural America"—and I agree.
In Kansas, for example, Pell Grant dollars for students nearly doubled just between 2008 and 2010, and enrollment at community colleges—especially of full-time students--shot up as well.
Nationwide, fully one-third of community college students are in rural areas, and almost two-fifths of Pell Grants award recipients attend rural community colleges.
Thanks in part to the dramatic expansion of Pell Grants, the number of students enrolled in rural community colleges increased by 267,000 students during the Administration's first term, to 3.75 million students.
That is 267,000 more people who are getting their shot at the American Dream and the opportunity to thrive in a globally competitive world.
Fortunately, the storyline of rural communities as isolated, technological backwaters is also being rewritten.
Since 2009, USDA and the Commerce Department have provided about seven billion dollars in Recovery Act funds to expand or improve broadband service in more than 7,000 schools--with more than 3,300 additional schools slated for connection or upgrading.
We know we still have a long way to go before we reach President Obama's five-year ConnectED goal of connecting 99 percent of America's students to high-speed Internet. But we are making real progress.
All told, the expansion and upgrading of broadband service under the Recovery Act will reach more than 10,000 schools with 2.5 million children in 43 states.
That expansion of broadband access is beginning to transform educational opportunity in rural America, underscoring the importance of meeting the President's ConnectED goals to ensure high-speed access throughout our rural schools.
A high-speed Internet connection can enable rural students to take online courses and gain access to cutting-edge research at universities.
It can bring AP classes and foreign language programs to small rural schools with limited resources.
And it can help teachers customize lessons for students at different learning levels by leveraging a huge variety of online curriculum and resources.
So despite the conventional wisdom and skepticism in Washington, the actual narrative of rural education is being rewritten by courageous education leaders. And, despite the very real challenges facing rural educators, I am absolutely optimistic about the future.
Why is that? I'm optimistic for two reasons.
First, rural education made important strides in the Administration's first term.
Today, high school graduation rates are higher nationwide than they have been in more than 30 years. In rural communities, the on-time high school graduation rate rose to a new high of 81 percent in 2010. Here in Ohio, 88 percent of rural high-school students graduate on time.
Nationally, the number of rural high school dropout factories—high schools that fail to keep 60 percent of a ninth grade class three years later—declined significantly during the Administration's first term, from 360 high schools in 2008 to 275 in 2011.
These are schools that actually perpetuate poverty and social failure. And 92,000 fewer students attend those rural high school dropout factories today than in 2008.
That is 92,000 students who now have a better chance of getting a good job, owning their own home, supporting a family, and contributing to their communities.
You might ask, what happened to those rural SIG schools that were supposed to be too poor, too isolated, and too lacking in human capital to turn around?
The final results aren't in yet. But first-year data suggests that student achievement is up in math at about two-thirds of SIG schools in small towns and rural areas, and reading achievement went up in about 60 percent of the schools.
Now, there is a second reason why I'm optimistic about rural education in America. And frankly, that reason is you--so many of the leaders who have gathered here today are already rewriting the Beltway narrative about the futility of rural reform.
I see Gayle Manchin here, who is the godmother of the groundbreaking Reconnecting McDowell partnership in West Virginia. When Gayle was the First Lady of West Virginia and on the state Board of Education, she reached out to my friend Randi Weingarten at the American Federation of Teachers, asking what could be done to strengthen the community and improve the schools in McDowell County.
Under Gayle and Randi's leadership, more than 100 public, private, non-profit groups, and state and local leaders have signed on to the McDowell initiative.
The partners have pledged to provide services, money, products, or expertise to attack both the in-school and out-of-school obstacles to children's success.
McDowell County is one of the poorest counties in West Virginia. Students ACT scores there rank 54th in math and science and 55th in English and reading out of West Virginia's 55 counties. Ten years ago, the State Board of Education took over McDowell's schools.
I had the privilege to hold a town hall in McDowell County with Gayle and Randi last year. The challenges there are painfully clear, but the students' commitment to getting an education and bettering their lives was inspiring.
It's still too early to say how the Reconnecting McDowell partnership will work out. But I'm encouraged by signs of progress.
In May, the state returned control of schools to the McDowell County Board of Education for the first time in a decade.
County residents have new access to broadband and wireless internet, thanks to a $10 million commitment by Shentel Communications. With funding from the Appalachian Regional Commission, Reconnecting McDowell will be distributing new laptops to middle-school children throughout the county.
At the federal level, we are supplementing those efforts with $5.8 million in SIG turnaround grants for four schools in the county.
Turning around a low-performing school, much less a district, is some of the toughest work in education. But it is also some of the meaningful and important work we will ever engage in--and we must be in this for the long-haul.
I would add that Reconnecting McDowell's innovative initiative is not alone. It has plenty of company right here today.
The Ohio Appalachian Collaborative, or OAC, is another example of groundbreaking work in rural districts—and I am glad to have the opportunity to applaud this innovative partnership between the state and Battelle for Kids.
Ohio currently has the fourth largest concentration of rural students in the country. And the problems in Ohio's Appalachian region are all too real.
Almost 60 percent of Appalachian Ohio students are exposed to less than a minimum college prep curriculum. And in five of the 22 rural districts in the OAC, not a single graduating senior—not one-- participated in an AP exam in 2009.
Contrast that with what I saw recently at TransMountain T-Stem Early College High School in El Paso, Texas, where an entire class of poor, predominantly Hispanic ninth-graders was taking a college biology class, for college credit.
In a knowledge-based, global economy, the heartbreaking reality in those districts must be challenged—it is a testament to a devastating lack of opportunity and an alarming lack of rigor. Our students deserve better.
That's why it is so exciting, and so important, to see the OAC working to transform rural education and create a culture of high expectations for 37,000 students in 22 rural districts in Ohio.
In the first year of the OAC, about two thirds of its funding came from Race to the Top and the Teacher Incentive Fund. It's truly remarkable how ambitious and comprehensive the OAC's work has been--you are creating a coordinated community of practice to assist districts.
OAC's overarching goal is to accelerate learning to produce more college- and career-ready graduates. It is using RTT funds both to support the alignment of college-ready curriculum in high school and to establish community and business partnerships to spur economic development and entrepreneurship.
And it is not only providing value-added reports for teachers, it is also providing professional development and coaching support for administrators and teachers to use the new student progress reports to improve instruction.
Battelle for Kids has even taken on the challenge of developing additional growth measures in non-tested grades and subjects, one of the most important but complex challenges facing educators today. Your leadership and efforts here can help inform the work in suburban and urban districts throughout the country—it truly has national implications.
Already, OAC districts are starting to show improvements in graduation rates and academic achievement. At the end of the first year of the program, three districts had a 100 percent graduation rate. Two districts saw math achievement jump by as much as 15 percentage points.
As many of you know, Ohio has also long been a national leader in the movement to redesign high schools. A decade ago, Ohio launched 73 redesigned high schools, and nine Early College High Schools, of which I'm a huge fan. Graduation rates in those redesigned high schools jumped by a third between 2002 and 2008.
Redesigning high schools, so they do a better job of developing both college- and career-ready skills, is important both to President Obama and me.
We want to see many more high schools develop partnerships with colleges and employers, and expand STEM education that builds the skills employers are looking for now and in the future.
Collectively, our goal should be to see every student graduate with postsecondary credits or an industry-recognized certification. Today, just a high school diploma isn't enough.
Rural and small-town schools can help lead this work. Reynoldsburg High School, in Reynoldsburg, is a beautiful case-in-point.
Reynoldsburg High's eSTEM program follows a blended learning approach. Business provides internships in medicine, airport operations, heating and cooling jobs, and engineering—to name just a few. And all 560 eSTEM students are either prepared to go to a four-year or two-year college, or to go to work with industry-recognized certificates.
Students get to do engaging, cool projects—the kind of learning that makes school relevant and fun. As part of the design engineering class, students get to work with Capitol University at a rural site, researching and observing their trap-and-release program with turtles.
Robotics students designed a better-automated solar powered trap. In fact, they did so well that seven students on the robotics team won $10,000 college scholarships.
The eSTEM program has a 100 percent on-time graduation rate. And in the first class of graduates last year, 80 percent went to their first choice of four-year colleges. The other graduates went to two-year colleges or straight into jobs--often with the employer with whom they had interned.
The consistent theme with all of these examples is that, outside the Beltway bubble, educators and school leaders are coming up with creative solutions to tough challenges.
Name any educational challenge, and somewhere outside the Beltway, people are working successfully to solve it.
Whether it is Purdue University's "STEM goes rural" program--which trains math and science teachers to serve a minimum of three years in a rural community-- or Iowa's cutting-edge approach to career and technical education, you are walking the walk.
In Iowa today, nearly 39,000 high school students are taking courses for credit at local community colleges. And here is a stunning statistic: More than half of all high school seniors in Iowa are joint enrollment students. That is transformational change, not tinkering.
In Kentucky, educators and state leaders are tackling other problems that are supposed to be just as intractable, whether it is expanding AP participation in rural districts, preparing teachers to teach to higher standards, or turning around low-performing schools.
As many of you know, Kentucky was the first state in the nation to adopt and implement the Common Core Standards.
One of its first steps was to create an electronic statewide classroom module that teachers could use to find lesson plans and pacing guides, aligned to instructional targets for the Common Core.
After just its first year of operation, the classroom module network houses 31,000 lessons plans.
The classroom module bank also enables teacher to create standards-based formative assessments, drawing on more than 11,000 test items for ELA and mathematics assessments.
The AdvanceKentucky program is addressing another historically unmet need—to provide all of Kentucky's students with rich and rigorous academic opportunities.
AdvanceKentucky's aim is to dramatically increase access to AP courses. Since 2008, the number of students taking AP exams in Kentucky is up 92 percent, with an additional 28,000 students taking AP exams.
The number of students with a score of 3 or better on AP exams has doubled—it is up 100 percent during that time. That, too, is transformational change. It is important to remember Kentucky's students aren't twice as smart as they were five years ago. They simply have a new world of opportunity open in front of them.
Finally, school leaders and educators in Kentucky are also driving dramatic improvements in low-performing schools like Eminence High School and Leslie County High School.
In 2010, Leslie County High School was ranked 224 out of 230 high schools in Kentucky in overall achievement. Only six high schools were worse in the entire state.
That year it implemented a federal turnaround grant to transform the school. Professional learning communities met on a weekly basis to provide teachers with the opportunity to review student data and decide on interventions for struggling students.
Each student has a data notebook to track their performance, and class lessons center on providing targeted instruction to students, based on their needs.
After a year of implementing its federal turnaround grant, the percent of students who were proficient in reading and math had jumped by almost 40 points from two years earlier.
Remarkably, the school has moved up to be ranked 17th out of 230 high schools statewide--the same students, same families, same socioeconomic challenges, but different expectations and very different results.
Before concluding, I want to pause for a moment to recognize the tremendous contributions of my deputy assistant secretary for rural outreach, John White.
John's appointment marked the first time that the Department has elevated rural education to the deputy assistant secretary level. John has been a tireless advocate for rural education. John, could you please stand and let folks acknowledge your outstanding public service?
So to sum up, I am optimistic about the future of rural education--despite two, urgent challenges ahead.
To succeed as a nation, and for rural communities to thrive in a globally-competitive economy, we must, first, dramatically increase college enrollment and completion.
Only about a third of young adults living in rural areas are enrolled in postsecondary education today. And as long as adults in small towns and rural areas are the least-likely people to have earned a bachelor's degree, local economic development, job creation, and entrepreneurial ventures will be under-capacity.
The other urgent challenge is to leverage emerging opportunities to connect to new resources, expertise, and commerce online.
Realizing the ConnectED vision--including the FCC's modernization of the E-rate program-- will allow millions more students and teachers to connect to the world around them.
Most of these investments will be made in rural America—and we need rural communities to voice their support, and explain the urgent need for universal, high-speed connectivity, and the benefits of being connected.
With your advocacy and the FCC's leadership, we can get this done over the next few years—it is an absolute game-changer.
In the end, I am optimistic that these challenges will be met—not overnight, but through collective commitment, creativity and courage, and community-based coalitions.
Our progress over the last four years, and the outstanding examples of innovation and capacity-building that I see here today, tells me that the narrative of rural education is being rewritten, even as we speak.
Race to the Top and other competitive grants were an invitation to the entire country to put forward its best ideas on education. And I'm pleased to report that many of those best ideas came from rural education leaders.
Collectively, you proved the skeptics wrong. Your ideas are proving their worth, transforming children's life chances, and helping create the DNA for increased achievement all across the country.
I hope that lawmakers and pundits inside the Beltway bubble who are so skeptical of the possibilities of change will come to Ohio. I hope they will come to Kentucky to see what change looks like.
I thank you for your efforts to help all our students--no matter how poor or how isolated--receive the world-class education they need and deserve. And I thank you for helping lead the nation where we need to go. I look forward to your questions.


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Randall Kennedy is the Michael R. Klein Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University and his law degree from Yale University. He attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar and is a former clerk to Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. He is the author of six books, including Race, Crime, and the Law, for which he received the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. A member of the bars of the Supreme Court of the United States and the District of Columbia, and of the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he lives in Massachusetts.


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The results indicate that vaccination with HIPRABOVIS® SOMNI/Lkt induced a significant response to anti-Lkt antibodies and antibodies to H. somni. These antibodies persisted in vaccinated animals until week 40 after vaccination. The vaccinated animals had lower scores for both for the percentage and severity of lung lesions than the non-vaccinated calf group.


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California still has high unemployment, high taxes, underfunded schools -- and little prospect for changing any of these. So it may be hard to believe that Sacramento, in this holiday season, is the happiest place in the state.
Talk to anyone in Sacramento these days, and you'll hear all kinds of optimism about the state. Why? The broad answer is that the state government, from a Sacramento perspective, seems to be doing better, and Sacramento is a government town.
To understand why Sacramento feels this way about its broken state government, here are three reasons why Sacramento is so happy -- and why the rest of us shouldn't be nearly as happy.
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3. Term limits
The Sacramento upside: California may be a fast-changing, dynamic place, but Sacramento values nothing so much as predictability and stability. The new term limits rules -- approved by voters this past June -- provide more of that. New legislators will be able to stay in one house of the legislature for their entire, 12-year careers. That means fewer contested elections and switches between the houses and local governments -- and more time for Sacramento's powerbrokers to get to know lawmakers. And that time will make it easier to control those lawmakers.
The downside for the rest of us: The term limits in place make things easier for the powerful, but they still restrict the careers of lawmakers -- and the choice of voters. Indeed, lawmakers, in the era before term limits, only really came into their own after a decade or so in office. These days, such lawmakers will be leaving just when they know enough to get big things done. We shouldn't like this, even if Sacramento does.
2. Jerry Brown, shoo-in for re-election
The Sacramento upside: Sacramento is convinced that Gov. Brown, with the passage of Prop 30, is a shoo-in for re-election in 2014. That means more predictability -- since the powers that be won't have to worry about another governor until 2018.
The downside for the rest of us: Brown has had a narrowly focused agenda that has consisted of locking in today's austerity-levels of spending, while raising taxes. He's dismissed the idea of bigger changes -- and the systemic redesign that California's broken governance and budget systems need. Of course, Sacramento likes the ideas of a Gov. Brown keeping big reform off the table.
1. A seemingly balanced budget
The Sacramento upside: the capital community rejoiced after the passage of Prop 30, and projections showing a small deficit in the next budget year, and potential surpluses after that. Sacramento has truly suffered after a decade of cuts, so even a budget that just locks in today's austerity sounds pretty good. At least things won't be going backwards.
The downside for the rest of us: Sacramento seems content to live with the current budget, even though schools, universities and health programs need more resources just to restore what they've lost over the last decade. The happiness in Sacramento should worry us -- since it means the capital is content with the weaker California they've left us.


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The hyperbole is out in force over Gov. Charlie Crist's signing of a new law that will lessen some of the state's most Draconian growth-management regulations.
And while the governor signed the bill the Legislature overwhelming approved this spring, he buys into too much of the anti-growth sentiment — which just gets the economy wrong and damages the quality of life for most people.
In fact, this is probably not the real Charlie Crist. This is the Crist running for the Republican nomination against an actual conservative, former Florida House Speaker Marco Rubio. Crist cannot be his "moderate" self — which is to say, liberal in most respects — and expect to get the nomination.
I doubt he would have signed this bill if not running for the Senate, or if he already had the Republican nomination.
Evidence, in addition to his laundry list of actions as governor to spend billions to buy out a private company to restore the Everglades and general anti-growth, pro-regulation behavior, can be found in his thinking on signing the bill.
He told reporters his hope that the law would spur economic growth in Florida outweighed his concerns that it would open the door for unfettered sprawl.
But this is exactly the wrong formulation, belying a general misunderstanding of economics. It is not an either-or option between economic growth and unregulated sprawl. (That last phrase must just make developers double over laughing.) Growth is required for our economy. Sprawl in its worst sense is not. But growth does inevitably lead to more housing, which is good.
The new law eases transportation- concurrency rules in urbanized areas. Concurrency required that roads be able to handle a development's impact before the development gets under way. That was so costly upfront it drove up prices, blocked some developments and made urban infill — a buzz phrase for smart growth — impossible in areas.
Because of this, concurrency actually encourages sprawl — it is easier to meet those requirements in rural areas than in urban areas. Thus the law, at times, worked against supporters' expressed desires.
The new bill also allows each city and county to decide if it wants to designate a large project as a Development of Regional Impact, the dreaded DRI. This onerous rule required a region-wide study of a development's impact and mitigation against the impact, adding immense costs — always passed on to the final consumer.
But the law does not get rid of DRIs, it leaves it up to the local municipality that is answerable to voters, rather than to Tallahassee bureaucrats who are unreachable. Really, why should a guy in an office in Tallahassee make such decisions for Sarasota, when our own officials can, and we can influence them. We can't vote the bum out of his Tallahassee cubicle. And throttling back on concurrency will help urban infill projects. Both are good for the economy.
The news stories, however, are filled with phrases such as "worsen overburdened roadways," "encourage reckless development," "unregulated sprawl" and "gridlock."
And that is just the reporters' verbiage.
Opponents decry the potential loss of oversight by state and regional regulators. Where do we get the idea that these all-wise bureaucrats are the better choice for making decisions that affect a community than locally elected representatives who are answerable to us?
These tweaks to the growth laws were needed and will benefit most everyone.
Rod Thomson is executive editor of the Gulf Coast Business Review. He can be reached at [email protected].


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Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series Hundreds of brilliant blue stars wreathed by warm, glowing clouds in appear in this the most detailed view of the largest stellar nursery in our local galactic neighborhood. The massive, young stellar grouping, called R136, is only a few million years old and resides in the 30 Doradus (or Tarantula) Nebula, a turbulent star-birth region in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way.
There is no known star-forming region in our galaxy as large or as prolific as 30 Doradus. Many of the diamond-like icy blue stars are among the most massive stars known. Several of them are over 100 times more massive than our Sun. These hefty stars are destined to pop off, like a string of firecrackers, as supernovas in a few million years. The image, taken in ultraviolet, visible, and red light by Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3, spans about 100 light-years.
The movement of the LMC around the Milky Way may have triggered the massive cluster's formation in several ways. The gravitational tug of the Milky Way and the companion Small Magellanic Cloud may have compressed gas in the LMC. Also, the pressure resulting from the LMC plowing through the Milky Way's halo may have compressed gas in the satellite. The cluster is a rare, nearby example of the many super star clusters that formed in the distant, early universe, when star birth and galaxy interactions were more frequent.
The LMC is located 170,000 light-years away and is a member of the Local Group of Galaxies, which also includes the Milky Way. The Hubble observations were taken Oct. 20-27, 2009. The blue color is light from the hottest, most massive stars; the green from the glow of oxygen; and the red from fluorescing hydrogen.
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