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David Berlinski's new book, One, Two, Three is on the desks of several of my colleagues this week. David Klinghoffer has read it, and offers a reflective review.
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David Berlinski's new book, One, Two, Three is on the desks of several of my colleagues this week. David Klinghoffer has read it, and offers a reflective review.
Yuri Mamchur, head of Discovery's Real Russia Project, is printed in The Daily Star in Beirut today.
The Museum of Biblical Art, located in New York, is getting increased attention and respect. It might seem unlikely, but the rich tradition of Bible-inspired art and music make for a fine thematic museum of collections and special events. The latest is "On Eagles' Wings: The King James Bible Turns 400."
Only 400? It seems as though the KJV is as rooted in our very language and mental imagery as anything could be. Regardless of your religion or lack of it, an educated person has to know the KJV.
What MOBIA, the new museum, does is enable people to think of their culture in new ways--based on the old.
Standard and Poors downgraded US credit today for the first time. So much for assertions that the S&P gets contracts from the US government and would never bite the hand that feeds it.
A downgrade was what was supposed to happen if Congress did NOT approve a debt deal. A stock market drop--which we are having--was supposed to happen also if the deal did NOT go through. The deal went through.
Maybe Standard and Poors and the market know something about the quality of the budget reduction package that the President does not; namely that it is tenuous and trivial in comparison with the size of the problem America faces.
There is a lot President Obama could do to revive the economy. Stephen Moore of the Wall Street Journal thinks the crisis in his presidency might actually force Mr. Obama to confront the need for pro-growth tax reform. As Moore points out, among the many ideas for a budget deal put forward in recent weeks was a bi-partisan proposal with such tax reform at its heart. Close business loopholes and reduce personal deductions--in other words, increase taxation of consumption--while lowering tax rates on investment--the creation of new jobs.
I see no reason rich people need a deduction on a $750,000 mortgage for a second or third home. I do consider it in the public interest that such persons be encouraged to put their money directly into investments.
Imagine if, instead of the gargantuan waste of "stimulus", the President had promoted a pro-growth investment strategy two years ago!
One of the favorite tropes of the New York Times is to find some development it deplores, then find someone who shares the scorn of the editors--and then report the reaction it sought as the news peg. This approach is on full display in a revelation of a "debate" growing over the religiosity of Gov. Rick Perry of Texas. The debate really starts with the TImes.
Perry is expected to announce a race for President this week. But instead of reporting on that, the progressive New York Times seeks to make an issue out of Perry's conservative Christian faith. They do that by looking for people to interview who don't like that faith--at least not in a candidate.
This is shooting ducks in a barrel for the Times. Perry is the kind of politician one often sees in Texas, and much of the rest of the country--and in much of American history--who wears his religion on his sleeve. In Manhattan, however, that is considered dangerous, subversive, and certainly "fundamentalist".
Do you have a sense you've seen this movie before?
One of the most intriguing political writers today is Mustafa Akyol of Turkey, a journalist and commentator in Istanbul, whose book, Islam Without Extremes: An Islamic Case for Liberty, has just been published by W. W. Norton. It is Akyol's argument that freedom in the ways recognized in the Western tradition, will be best promoted in Islamic countries if the government is in some sense Islamic rather than secularist.
He has a point, indeed, several points. Most 20th and 21st century Arab dictatorships have been secular and have feared and siuppressed Islamists--Syria, Iraq, even Egypt and Tunisia. These regimes have been ruthless, as we see now in the cities of Syria.
But we also see a different extreme in Iran, and, for that matter, in de facto daily governance in Pakistan. There Islamists cruelly attack people of other faiths and impose a tyrannous brand of Islam on their own co-religionists.
Unfortunately, Akyol's model of a best path in contemporary life is Turkey. Its government has repudiated many of the excesses of the former secular government and turned its economy, at least, toward the West. However, Turkey is also a poor model on many accounts; press censorship, for example. True freedom of religion for another.
Akyol therefore is most interested in historic examples of the kind of liberty-loving government he thinks is possible for Muslims. For these one must go back a long ways, and the record isn't clear.
On the other hand, the models of republican freedom for the American Founders were not untainted, either. Think of democratic Athens and Reublican Rome. In other words, the American Founders had to invent the system they wanted. The historic "models" were mainly points of reference.
At his strongest, Akyol holds out the hope for a brand new version of government within an Islamic context.
President Obama addressed the nation about the S & P downgrade of U.S. credit, with the Dow already down at that hour by 426 points. It continued down even as he spoke, like some horrifying approval meter used to test audience reactions at a debate. A few hours later the Dow--definitely not inspired or encouraged by the Orator in Chief--was down 635 points.
President Obama talked down to the Markets, treating them like some political crowd at a fundraiser. People who invest money in U.S. equities, including many from overseas, are not partisans, nor are they uninformed. They have been following the economic news closely. When the President, who thinks he is the model of persuasion, tried again to blame others for the economy and offered almost nothing hopeful on his own behalf, he misjudged his audience. Investors didn't like what they heard and they didn't believe him.
The one thing that might have redeemed his talk was his promise to put forward a new budget proposal. But he even stepped on that line.
I don't know how many more confidence inspiring talks by President Obama the economy can stand.
The death in England of Nancy Wake, 98, has given rise to hundreds of obituaries that chronicle the spectacular spy career of a feisty, lovely young Australian woman who saved hundreds of allied soldiers and airmen from the Nazis in World War II. Dubbed the "White Mouse" by the Gestapo, Wake's life is a brilliant saga of wartime derring-do.
Wake was charmingly feminine in style, up to the point where she went into spy action, when she could strangle a man with her bare hands.
I had never heard of Nancy Wake. Apparently, there were biographies of her, a memoir in 1985 and a TV miniseries Wake scorned for its inaccuracies. Wake was proud that she had run a network of spies herself, as well as being a spy herself.
"'For goodness sake, did the allies parachute me into France to fry eggs and bacon for the men?,' she asked. ''There wasn't an egg to be had for love nor money, and even if there had been, why would I be frying it when I had men to do that sort of thing?'"
For goodness sake, make a high quality movie of this amazing woman's life!
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A peculiar hit piece on Michelle Bachman by Ryan Lizza in The New Yorker tries a guilt by association technique: Bachman says she was influenced by certain books, so Lizza carefully examines these books for ideas or phrases that can be used to denigrate Bachman. One particularly offensive misuse of investigative journalism is to accuse Bachman of "Dominionism" because, the writer imagines, this term reflects a Christian committment that is not satisfied to express itself in Sunday church services, but wants to apply a Biblical perspective to all of life.
Get it? Bachman supposedly wants to shove the Bible down people's throats. Such an assault on the separation of church and state!
But, at least in the case of the late Francis Schaeffer, the influential Calvinist philosopher who taught for decades in Switzerland, and one of his students, the author Nancy Pearcey, the "Dominionist" label is just a made up slur. It derives from the Genesis admonition of God to man to seek "dominion" over the Earth.
Nancy Pearcey answers today in Human Events. . But I would stress the fact that the most important insight of the civil rights movement in this country (and earlier in Britain) was to apply Christian principles to the generality of public life. Who was Martin Luther King, after all?
Do atheists not also have a worldview? Do they not test their actions against it? Are they not suspicious of ideas that come from outside it?
Religious bigotry is becoming a theme on the left, and now it is entering the Presidential race. One of the most popular plays on Broadway right now is The Book of Mormon, an out and out smear of Mormons. In another time, it might just be a no-hold-barred expression of cultural satire, but today there are two Mormons running for President, Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman. Both probably expected opposition from the far right, but now it appears that a campaign of bigotry against them by secular elites can be anticipated.
Meanwhile, the national media also have looked scornfully on Texas Gov. Rick Perry's prospective because of his prominence at a prayer rally in Houston last week. Especially worthy of condemnation, it seems, is Perry's contention that one can pray for the economy, American success in Afghanistan and any number of other public subjects, in addition to personal salvation. A challenge to separation of church and state? Try telling that to Abraham Lincoln or FDR.
Here's a thought experiment: if you want to understand someone's point of view, look at it from the inside, not just the outside. How does the person think about the world? Pope John Paul II made that request of critics of the Catholic Church and it can applied more broadly. When you do that, the paranoia that the political left is trying to engender, and then exploit, starts to dissipate. Ask less about seemingly peculiar rituals or obscure doctrines of a church, for example, and more about what are that church or other body's record of accomplishments--and the same of a candidate who practices that faith.
If the New York Times is right, the main consideration for Democrats regarding the economy is what approach will help them most politically in the 2012 election--not the well being of the American people in the intervening 14 months. If the Times is wrong (including the quotations it used from people in the White House and on the Hill), then maybe the Democrats should protest this story. If the story is true, maybe the Repubicans should talk about it.
Britons are trying to understand what would cause people to riot. It hardly seems to be about police relations (that choice old political excuse everywhere) or even government budget cutbacks. All kinds of people joined in. Unlike justifiable protests in Syria, for example, these demonstrations were opportunistic and cynical.
What the Cameron government proposes to do, inter alia, is punish those convicted rioters who are on the dole by slashing their benefits. That will show them! The Government also is going to look at other programs of the state that might be leveraged to encourage lawfulness.
How about looking at the materialism of English culture that has been cut off from religious roots and is mired in consumerism? Materialism of the philosophical and scientific sort--the sort advanced by Richard Dawkins and celebrated on the BBC and the pages of British papers and magazines--is echoed in the consumerism promoted on TV and the Internet, on bus cards and billboards. If there is nothing to life but one's possessions and no morality but what one wants and can get away with, why not take a jolly good chance to loot?
Vancouver, BC recently was humiliated by burning and looting after the season's hockey championship game. Vancouver lost to Boston that night, but even if it had won, anarchists and looters were prepared for action. They gleefully took advantage.
The void is not in the law, but in the culture. The morally disabled are trying to fill the hole in their lives--with action and things. Did people riot like this 100 years ago?
If David Mamet (Wag the Dog) were to do a new satircial movie about politics, he could do worse than start his picture at the highly hyped "Iowa Straw Poll" held in Ames yesterday. The "poll" required people to pay $35 to take part; there was nothing official about it, even as an opinion survey. Many a voters' poll tax was paid by the campaigns of the candidates. How is that representative of anything? Nor was participation notable. The winner, Rep. Michelle Bachman, got a grand 4800 votes. Whooee!
There may have been more reporters and cameramen around than there were paying "voters".
Yet on the basis of this faux democratic test--five or six months before actual primary action, or even Iowa Caucus action--Gov. Tim Pawlenty dropped out of the race for President because he came in only third. And at the state fairgronds where the "poll" was staged, Rep. Bachman exploded in gratitude as if she had won the Miss Iowa beauty contest instead of a rigged, phoney carnival game.
Are people crazy? Or only the media and the political class?
By Yuri Mamchur (cross-posted at Real Russia Blog)
Coincidentally, I used to work for a foundation that sponsored the Fanagoria archeological expedition, and my friend, just like Putin, retrieved a similar vase; it's now resting at our family's dacha (country home) in the Moscow suburbs. A photo of our vase is coming, after my family back in Russia takes it and sends it over to Seattle where I am currently.... -- YM
What do Putin, Obama and Ben Affleck have in common? They are celebrities, and nothing more! Everybody knows them, but no one is too sure what exactly any of them is doing. Karl Rove's article in The Wall Street Journal "Obama's No Good, Very Bad Week" nails all the necessary points in regards to the American president. Obama talks, blames, and smiles i-n his white unbuttoned shirt. That, apparently, is not enough to curb the worst financial crisis in world's modern history.
Ben Affleck? He is a celebrity and a handsome man. But no one can really remember his most recent hit movie. To help out Russia Blog readers who are his fans -- the movie is called The Company Men, and features another now-irrelevant star, Kevin Costner. With a production budget of $15 million, the movie grossed only $4.9 million worldwide. An "ouch" moment for the film's investors -- a feeling similar to that which the Chinese government is experiencing in relationship to Obama's White House economic program.
However, in our weekend stardom marathon, Vladimir Putin takes first place with his new action movies of diving underwater and retrieving ancient Greek artifacts. By a pure coincidence, I used to work for a foundation that sponsored archeological expedition in Fanagoria--a Russian town that is the location of an ancient Greek city. The Russian government under back-then President Putin didn't want to do anything with the expedition, leaving the sponsorship to Russian private businessmen, some of whom fell out of Putin's favor... But that's a different story. Today, when Putin is prime minister, the government donates about 50 rubles (one dollar and eighty cents) per day to the income of each of the scientists and archeologists working on the site. That is, not much. However, uncomfortable facts and unwritten rules of ethics do not prevent the prime minister from going on a lavish vacation to the site he never supported. Meanwhile, Russia's ruble--backed by piles of gold, diamonds, gas, oil, and zero innovation--is slipping alongside the "evil" dollar (the ruble has lost 10% of its value next to the struggling dollar in the past several weeks).
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A few days ago (August 11), noting the death of Nancy Wake at 98, I suggested that the life of this remarkable woman would make a great movie. (A mini-series on TV was constructed more or less about her, and the fictional Charlotte Gray was inspired by her.) Well, a reader advises me that it is being made into a movie, named, appropriately, The White Mouse, the code name the Gestapo gave the Allied spy. The true story of Nancy Wake needs no embellishment, just dramatization.
The film-maker is the famous Australian, Bruce Beresford, director of a long parade of films with great stories, often with dramatic but understated didacticism. Breaker Morant, Black Robe and Driving Miss Daisy are some of them. It appears that Beresford may be producing rather than directing this one.
Shooting of the film starts next year. Wish I could be there.
Photo: Samuel Goldwyn
Though one hesitates to say something in Seattle is ever actually
finished, in the land of indecision, it appears that a decision has
finally been made. With nearly 60 percent in favor, Seattle voters told
their elected officials on Tuesday to move forward with a tunnel
replacement for the Alaskan Way Viaduct.
As The Seattle Times reports, the defeat of the effort to recall the earlier decision to build the tunnel sets into motion the final bureaucratic and regulatory approvals that will move the project forward rapidly and allow "the state Department of Transportation (DOT) to tell its tunnel contractors by Sept. 1 to move into final design and construction."
The streams of freeways that now flow across the land were built for transporation purposes, and that's about it. Like so many good ideas, the "parkway" designs of mid-20th Century suburban New York were not widely copied. Put in the concrete, plant a few trees on the sidings and move on; that has been the common modern approach. It may be changing. Public pressure and better education for planners help.
Discovery Institute's Cascadia Center has urged freeway "lids"--green, active spaces atop freeways where the road cuts make them feasible--and especially in dense urban areas where land is expensive. The "Freeway Park" in downtown Seattle is over forty years old, but its design is still advanced. Fountains provide white noise to cover the traffic sounds. Flowers bloom in profusion, thanks to the wisdom of civic planner, Jim Ellis, who realized that a privately raised fund would be needed for such purposes; otherwise, the City Council would vote to remove the flower beds as soon as the City had a financial strain--which cities have just about every year.
Discovery urged freeway lids for all new construction, because that's when funds are most available as "mitigation" expenses. Some five years ago we urged that lids be used landside for the expansion of Route 520 that branches
Fighters in the early news stories out of Libya were wearing heavy jackets; now it's T-Shirts in the searing sun. But finally Gaddaffi's fate appears more certain. Tripoli is surrounded. Government ministers and military are defecting, each undoubtedly bringing new intelligence to the insurgents and deepening fear in Gaddaffi's circle.
Think of how Bashir Assad, in Damascus, must be viewing the news of Gaddaffi's peril. When Libya's prospective liberation is realized as fact, Syrian rebels will take fresh courage and determination. More arms from Iran and goons from Hezbollah in Lebanon won't change the calculus then.
If Syria goes, how long can Hezbollah hold on in Lebanon?
Pessimism is in vogue in the West today, given the economy and the seeming intractability of the Taliban. But as the tenth anniversay of 9/11 approaches, think of all the positive changes that have taken place in the MIddle East. Even the situation of Israel may be improving, thanks to its decade-long boom and an increasing technological prowess that--among other things--is allowing the tiny dynamo to create new defenses against the Iranians as well as Hamas. Bin Laden is dead. Saddam Hussen is gone and a democratic government operates in Iraq. Gaddaffi is failling fast. The end of the duplicitous Assad family would be an excellent new development.
The fall of Gaddafi in Libya will lower price expectations for oil prices further. Libyan oil is "sweet" and accessible. Remember that when the civil war began six months ago, prices rose. What goes up, must come down.
Libya's revolution is bad news for Assad in Syria (see below), but it also is bound to be unwelcome in Venezuela, where free-spending anti-Western Hugo Chavez is wobbly, and in Iran, where the mullahs need oil money to still criticism from the masses. Less money equals less support.
In America and Europe, lower oil prices will assist economic recovery more than any government "stimulus" one can think of.
Maybe there are Canadians who knew Jack Layton, who died yesterday, and have something bad to say about him. But I rather doubt it. From this Yankee's distant viewpoint he was a gentleman of the Left who gave a fervent, yet happy, sheen to Canadian politics. The Hubert Humphrey of Canada's New Democrtatic Party, Layton was a gallant champion of labor and the disaffected. He managed in the last election to oust the Liberal Party as the nation's Loyal Opposition and did so while still suffering from cancer.
Indeed, as the campaign proceeded, Layton seemed bouoyed by the crowds, nearly throwing away his cane. He savored Parliamentary life and reveled in campaigning.
Only 61, Layton will long be honored by the Canadian Left as a heroic standard-bearer, and by everyone else as an exemplar of the worth of democratic politics. As Canada graces the free West, Layton graced Canada.
The Conservative Government of Canada should gieve, especially. They may not again have such a worthy opponent.
In the telling of the Russian Orthodox Church, freedom began 20 years ago when the attempted coup against Gorbachev was defeated and Yeltsin took over.
Ann Coulter is so funny that people fail to notice the well read public intellectual behind the laughing smile and endless blonde tresses. In this piece in Human Events she reminds us (she is not shy) that she had produced a No. 1 bestseller on the evolution topic (Godless: The church of Liberalism)--even though the New York Times, the top of whose list she graced, did not bother to review it.
She jokes of Chris Matthews, who plainly has not had a bestseller or any-seller on evolution, and yet thinks he is an expert, "The definition of hell is being condescended to by idiots. It will probably be MSNBC's Chris Matthews and Contessa Brewer sneering at you for all of eternity for not believing in evolution."
Matthews, as Coulter notes, likes to nag presidential aspirants with a have-you-stopped-beating-your-wife question on evolution. I would like to ask Matthews if he believes in asking intelligent questions and allowing guests to give a full answer before interrupting them.
Are you lazy? Well, little darlings, it may not be your fault. It is probably your parents' fault. That is the latest insight from genetic determinism--Darwinian theory applied to practically everything.
The ABA Journal is very interested in this issue. Someone may get sued. Operating principle: What can be imagined can be litigated.
Until someone figures out how to put one's ancestors in the dock, however, the only solution for the laziness gene is a big federal program funded through the next federal stimulus program--the one we get once taxes are raised.
I'd put that program together myself, but it's mid-afternoon and time for my nap.
Climate heat on Earth is mostly controlled by cosmic rays and the Sun, says a prestigious article by an international scientific team, published (reluctantly, it seems) in Nature. In other words, the shrillness on the subject of global warming that one hears from Al Gore and The New York Times, and, for that matter, the "consensus of Science", is becoming less credible and more annoying.
David Brooks of the New York Times--erstwhile conservative--last week espied great danger in the mindset of the Right: doubting global warming, evolution and Obama's birth in America. Putting all of these together was a way of stigmatizing those who, with reason, doubt global warming and/or Darwin's unguided process of evolution. The birth issue is something else altogether.
Gore might like to have polite society rule skepticism about man-made global warming out of order, but he's not succeeding. In similar fashion, misrepresenting and then assailing critics of Darwinism is bound to deteriorate as an ideological strategy.
Free speech to most of the establishment means free speech for unpopular liberal causes. The position of the left is that conservative positions--especially on cultural issues--do not deserve to be heard on their own terms. Their advocates do not get to speak on the record; they only are spoken about.
So the just-announced $100,000 settlement of a First Amendment case against the publicly-supported California Science Center in Los Angeles is an important breakthrough in establishing the right of Darwin-doubters to air their views in public museums and universities. In this instance, the controversy was over the museum's decision, under pressure, to cancel the airing of a documentary film, Darwin's Dilemma, that was to be followed by a discussion led by Dr. David Berlinski.
Denyse O'Leary reports at Uncommon Descent that the Science Center victory is one of several related and recent legal advances. (Also, see David Klinghoffer's coverage here.)
The sad thing is, most media, including some political pundits, don't bother to study the issue because they think they already understand it. They are like some scholar in the Middle Ages who thought he could understand a banned book by reading what someone who prepared the Index had to say about it.
Congratulations to Avi Davis and American Freedom Alliance that brought the suit against the California Science Center, The Rutherford Institute that financed much of the legal challenge and Bill Becker, attorney.
We all consider it safer to live in England than in Israel. But is that assumption correct? Judith Levy says "no".
Reason TV has just put up its Nick Gillespie interview of George Gilder from the recent Freedomfest in Las Vegas, and, as usual, George is entertaining and provocative.
Gilder thinks President Obama is a "hard leftist" by background who has done more damage to America's economy than a "nuclear bomb". He would take any of the Republican alternatives, but when asked who would be best, he says, "Newt Gingrich, if he weren't such a jerk."
But mainly the 21 minute program is a tour of Gilder's works over 40 years and his efforts to link supply side economics with technology futurism and social conservatism.
(Also at Freedomfest, Gilder "debated" Peter Thiel on whether the future of technology is bright or dark. See Richard Rahn's article in The Washington Times.)
See him on TV, read an article by or about him (such as economist Peter Ferrara's excellent online piece at American Spectator) or hear him speak, and one's respect for the mind and political imagination of Newt Gingrich is rekindled.
For example, the former Speaker--the man who forged a GOP House majority in 1994 that endured until 2006--has sage advice for today's Republican House Leaders: pass another jobs and growth bill now, and explain it to the public so that the strongest contrast can be drawn with the Obama Administration's cut and paste agenda of more spending, regulation and taxes. Show how past reforms--such as the welfare law passed when he was Speaker and that President Clinton signed--not only saved money, but also got poor people out of poverty and created jobs. Smart reform is the best "stimulus".
Newt, the public policy strategist, can't be beat. He is far ahead of any other candidate for President in this regard. Newt's problem, then, is not related to his ability to synthesize strategic themes; indeed, those are his greatest strengths. Unfortunately, you need more than bright ideas to get elected President.
A Slatest column by Jack Shafer demands that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton resign because of a Wikileaks report that cables "under her name" went out asking U.S. diplomats to spy on their counterparts overseas. Shafer is repeating a demand of Wikileaks' founder, Julian Assange.
Simply put, what do Slate and Jack Shafer (and Julian Assange) really know about the State Department? Are they aware that virtually every State cable not about a very specific item goes out under the Secretary of State's name? In other words, the likelihood that Hillary Clinton sees, let alone approves, any given cable of the hundreds or thousands sent daily is next to nil.
The reason for this procedure, I guess, is to make sure that whatever someone sends out from Foggy Bottom has the full force of the Department behind it. But, the custom does lead to preposterous conclusions like Shafer's. If Secretary Clinton did organize a spying expedition, the leaks would, indeed, be embarrassing. But it is highly doubtful that she would have the time, let alone the interest.
Secretary Clinton, to the surprise perhaps of former critics, has done an impressively professional job at State. Let's leave it at that. As for the news that U.S. embassies spy on other embassies, pass me my smelling salts; I'm so shocked. Next thing, we'll have foreign diplomats spying on us! You think?


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They Vote on Legislation at the ALEC Annual conference
Earlier this year, six members from the state House of Representatives attended ALEC's annual conference in
. Taxpayers paid for the trip at a cost of $15,000. San Diego
State Rep. Ryan Haynes, R-Knoxville, who attended the August trip, said lawmakers used the conference to get ideas for new legislation.
"You literally look at legislation that other states have passed or are proposing," Haynes said. "You sit around a table and discuss it, and then you vote on the legislation you think should be model legislation" for ALEC.
Blocking Living Wage Laws: With the successful preemption of local minimum wage laws in many states, ALEC has set its sights on overturning even the more limited "living wage" laws that require contractors doing business with cities or counties to pay a decent wage. When Miami-Dade passed a living wage law that extended its local wage minimums to contractors at the local airport,
enacted a law that overturned the part of the local ordinance raising the wages of airport personnel. Even more dramatically, when Atlanta passed a similar living wage law extending its coverage to its airport, the airlines got ALEC legislators to push through legislation overturning not only the living wage for airline employees but for any contractor doing business with the city of Atlanta. Declared ALEC's Earl Ehrhart, the bill's sponsor, "I've been waiting 17 years to pass some good conservative legislation" as he blocked all cities in Georgia from giving any preference to higher-wage contractors over sweatshops bidding to provide public services Florida
ALEC has even been deployed by its corporate masters to bring Congressional leaders to heel when they stray from the big oil political line. When Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, who has generally been a loyal servant of oil company interests, dared to venture a few minor criticisms of the oil companies, ALEC lined up with other conservative groups to criticize the Speaker for "pandering to polling" and betraying free market principles
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) stands as a compelling example of the political power that can result when the traditional business-oriented, single-issue organizations operate in conjunction with the multi-issue organizations of the Right. ALEC, founded in 1973 by Paul Weyrich, (also the founder of the Heritage Foundation), is a major player in state tort reform battles. ALEC develops legislation templates for tort reform laws being passed in several states.40 In a June, 2003, commentary41 Weyrich wrote:
Fortunately, we have the organization that is playing a vital role in advancing the conservative agenda where it works best -- the state and local level -- and this organization serves as our early radar system for detecting coming trends and concerns in public policy. . .
As an example of how the states can circumvent
gridlock, Parde says the votes in the U.S. Senate are just not there for substantive tort reform. But approximately a dozen states have used the model legislation developed by ALEC to provide some kind of relief from "jackpot justice," unwarranted settlements that are costly to consumers and businesses and medical practitioners. Washington
I don't care if ALEC may have written some good legislation –
I don't want ALEC writing any legislation –
This is the
– we are a democracy United States of America
Corporations should not be writing legislation!
Why is it still continuing?
If you don't' know what ALEC is – read the piece below.
ALEC –has a annual meeting that is attended by "more than 2,000 state legislators, private sector members, government representatives, and public policy experts come together for this event to confront the problems facing the 50 states" (Wiki)
ALEC – brings together private sector companies – such as Koch Industries and Walmart, for the purpose of "issues are debated by task forces of members, and policies adopted." AND "ALEC "model bills" (aka Model Legislation) are introduced in task force meetings and voted on by ALEC members at each of three national meetings. Public sector (state legislators) and private sector (companies, foundations and nonprofits) members vote on each model bill separately" (Wiki)
What this means is that private sector companies – such as(but not limited to) right wing companies such as Koch Industries, Coors Brewing, AT&T and Walmart - are writing "model legislation" that legislature members then introduce as State and Federal bills. Some examples of the "model legislation" are posted on a public web site. I'm sure in the "members only" area of the web site more controversial "model legislation" is kept, for members "eyes only", for legislative members to "copy, print and present" as bills in their State or at the Federal level.
"Our members join for the purpose of having a seat at the table. That's just what we do, that's the service we offer. The organization is supported by money from the corporate sector, and, by paying to be members, corporations are allowed the opportunity to sit down at the table and discuss the issues that they have an interest in." Dennis Bartlett, ALEC, 1997
HELL they are not only buying a seat at the ALEC table,
They are buying a hidden seat in every State legislature.
They are buying a hidden seat in the Federal government.
Someday they may buy the Oval Office.
They are writing "Model Legislation".
They are subverting democracy!
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I started using magenuggets and combustionhelper to keep track.
I ended up giving up on mastery completely for fire, i went straight haste once i hit the 45% crit number with molten armor (because of the t3/t4 hotstreak ROI for crit). When we hit 85 mastery should be the best stat for fire hands down because we'll see our dots (including ffb) ticking for 200%+ damage.
Right now, it's basically useless except on adds.
In my testing with multiple targets in fire with mastery on the SW dummies (where combustion and LB spread to 2 other dummies because they are close together) I was pulling a sustained 13.5k on the dummies alone. In Ironforge with the single dummy it was around 9.5k, but when i dumped mastery and put it in haste it went to around 10.5k.
In arcane I can pull and maintain 11.5k on dummies self buffed, indefinitely, with spikes during cd's of over 20k dps....in ICC10 I'm averaging around 15k on single target fights in arcane, and similar in fire, but have some mastery reforges going on in arcane where I sacrificed some crit. It is weird being arcane and not running OOM, ever.
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|Electron transport in nanoparticle single -electron transistors (SETs ) is a fruitful method to explore a wide range of physical phenomena at the nanometer scale . In this thesis , we investigate electron transport in SETs incorporating various nanoparticles , including gold nanoparticles in both classical and quantum regimes and Pb nanoparticle in both superconducting and normal states . SETs have been successfully fabricated by incorporating individual gold nanoparticles into the gaps between two electrodes . Although single -electron tunneling behavior is prominent , quantized energy levels cannot be resolved in these SETs due to their relatively large particle sizes . A novel method has been developed to achieve SETs incorporating gold nanoparticles whose sizes are small enough to resolve discrete quantum energy levels . The devices consist of spontaneously -formed ultrasmall gold nanoparticles linked by alkanedithiols to gold electrodes . The devices reproducibly exhibit addition energies of a few hundred meV , which enables the observation of single electron tunneling at room temperature . At low temperatures , resonant tunneling through discrete energy levels in the Au nanoparticles is observed , which is accompanied by the excitations of molecular vibrations at large bias voltage . Having explored the SETs in normal state , we have extended the experiments to superconducting single -electron transistors (SSETs ) . We first fabricated and characterized Pb superconducting electrodes with nanometer -sized separation . Our observation clearly shows that conventional Barden -Cooper -Schrieffer theory remains valid to interpret the tunneling behavior between two nanometer -spaced Pb electrodes . Furthermore , by incorporating Pb nanoparticles between the two Pb electrodes , we have fabricated SSETs and investigated the transport properties of these devices . In the superconducting state , the conductance is suppressed by a combination of the single electron tunneling effect and the absence of density of states within the superconducting gap . In the suppression regime , the tunneling spectroscopy shows current features that arise from quasiparticle tunneling caused by singularity matching . At low temperature , the features can only be observed for odd charge states in SSETs . At high temperature , the odd -even parity effect is smeared out . Upon application of a magnetic field , the superconducting state is suppressed and single -electron tunneling behavior for normal metallic nanoparticles is recovered .
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text: President of Nottingham: Obama Would Be Villain in 'Robin Hood' Tale Print article Send a Tip by John Nolte 7 Aug 2012 post a comment Here's Obama yesterday at a swank fundraiser in Connecticut. Per the usual, Obama packs more dishonesty into two minutes than one would ever think possible. Obama even misleads on the Robin Hood legend. But when you consider the state of our government-run schools, it's easy to assume you can get away with such a thing: - - TRANSCRIPT: Last week an independent non-partisan organization crunched the numbers; they went through what it would mean to add a five trillion-dollar tax cut. Just to give you a sense of perspective here -- our entire defense budget is a little over $500 billion per year, but it's less than six hundred. So you're talking about -- each year -- a tax cut that is the equivalence of our defense budget, for the next ten years. What this policy center did, they just ran the numbers. If you actually wanted to pay for that, what would that mean? And they determined that Governor Romney's plan would effectively raises taxes on middle class families with children by $2,000 -- to pay for this tax cut. Not to reduce the deficit, not to invest in things that grow our economy -- like education or roads or basic research. He'd ask the middle class to pay more in taxes so that he could give another $250,000 tax cut to people making more than $3 million a year. It's like Robin Hood in reverse -- it's Romney-hood. … They have tried to sell us this trickle-down, tax cut fairy dust before -- and guess what? It doesn't work. It didn't work then and it won't work now. It's not a plan to create jobs, it's not a plan to reduce our deficit, and it's not a plan to move our economy forward. ----- 1. This so-called non-partisan study was co-authored by a former member of Obama's economic team. The study also assumes Romney would raise taxes on the middle class and ignores how a growing economy can increase tax revenues. 2. Obama says tax cuts don't create economic growth, spending on roads and education and research do. Are you going to believe your lying eyes or our lying president? According to Obama, the Reagan years were a flop and his trillion-dollar spending binge was an epic success. 3. Robin Hood didn't rob from wealthy private citizens to give to the poor. Robin Hood robbed from the Obamas and Pelosis and the Harry Reids of his time -- he robbed from overbearing, power-hungry big government bureaucrats who over-taxed private citizens and business owners to feather their own nests and pay off Solyndra and unions their cronies. Robin Hood gave the people back money stolen from them by corrupt, greedy, selfish, statist government officials. Obama is no Robin Hood, he's the Sheriff of Nottingham --he's the reverse-Robin Hood stealing from The People to feed The Government. By the way, where are our media fact-checkers on all of this? Oh, yeah, too busy calling Romney a liar for saying a president who didn't go to Israel didn't go to Israel. Shills. Follow John Nolte on Twitter @NolteNC


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|Faculty of Science and Information TechnologySchool of Environmental and Life Sciences
Australian cities and regions are transforming and there is heated political debate about their future course. GEOG2080 examines the economic, social and cultural dynamics of cities and regions, and contemporary shifts in the theories through which we understand them. The course draws on a series of case studies of Australian and international cities, regions, industries, communities and policies to explain patterns of urban and regional growth and decline, change and continuity. Topics covered include: urban economic and socio-cultural diversity; changing urban form, sustainable urban and regional development; policy challenges for the management of urban and regional growth and decline.
This is the compulsory 2000 level course for the Human Geography and the Environment major within the Bachelor of Arts program. This course will consolidate the knowledge and skills that students have acquired in previous courses for this major.
In order to participate in this course, students must complete a compulsory zWorkplace Health and Safety requirement. Students will receive full information on this compulsory component in the course outline provided by the school.
Available in 2015
|On the successful completion of this course, students will have:
1. A grounding in the patterns and problems of urban and regional development and management
2. An understanding of the processes driving urban and regional economic, social and cultural transformation at a range of scales
3. An introductory understanding of a variety of theoretical approaches from which to investigate and evaluate urban and regional patterns, problems and processes
4. Developed of a range of skills and methods relevant to geographical enquiry and communication which are transferable to other course and employment areas. These include: critical analysis and evaluation of data sources (including policy documents and statistical measures of urban and regional development); the interpretation of field observations; and the presentation of material including report writing and essay writing.
|Patterns of urban social and cultural diversity/inequality
1 Socio-spatial patterns of advantage and disadvantage
2 Urban ethnicity: patterns and representations
3 Gender and sexuality in the city
Urban development and urban form
1 Changing city form
2 The politics of urban development
3 Urban housing and social change
Urban planning and policy
1 Constructing urban planning
2 Responding to urban change
Regional development and change
1 Non-metropolitan regions
2 Growth and decline in 'the regions'
3. Theorising regional change
Regional policy
1 Changing approaches to regional policy
2 Dealing with uneven development in regional areas
3 Sustainable regional economies and communities
Regional diversity
1 Social groups in rural places
2 Indigenous people and non-metropolitan spaces
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Today I want you to consider the subject of birth. But I don't mean physical birth. I'm referring to the symbolic birth of life goals and personal dreams. The fetal position is a medical term used to describe the positioning of the body of a prenatal fetus as it develops. In that spirit, I ask you to consider the following question: How is your life goal or long-desired personal dream positioned in your priority list and how is it developing?During pregnancy, responsible women take special care of themselves. They do this because they know that their health influences the health their developing baby. The same can be said about your life goals and dreams. In order for them to come to life and mature, great care must be taken during their development. So I ask you today to consider the current fetal position of a dream or life goal that you hold dear. Is it about to take a deep breath and come to life, or does it need more time to develop? Wishing You Great Health,Dr. John H. Sklare
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Improving Education through Collaboration (P-12)
Schools need collaboration to keep adults and students learning and to successfully implement new ideas. This 3-credit continuing education graduate course will cover the theoretical base and underlying principles and concepts related to collaboration. Effective collaboration requires that educators have the skills of relationship building, clear and positive communication, and conflict resolution. Also important is on-going review of the collaborative process. Participants in this course will learn about the components of effective collaboration as well as strategies and skills to encourage and maintain the process. Participants will have the opportunity to apply several practical tools in their educational setting. Lots of materials, activities, strategies and ideas will be shared, analyzed and evaluated to the end that students of course participants will know, understand and be able to implement these tools which will result in higher student achievement.
- How to help students better understand the theoretical base and underlying principles and concepts of the course content.
- The importance of the collaborative process for learning.
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- The necessary components of effective collaboration.
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- How to implement specific strategies for incorporating models learned into the school and classroom.
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DuFour, R., DuFour, R., Eaker, R., & Many, T. (2008). Learning by Doing. Bloomington, IN, Solution Tree.
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Over the past 3 months I have revamped my skin regime to include Make Up Artists Choice 50% Glycolic Acid Home Chemical Peel once a week. I also added the ALPHA HYDROX products: Souffle 12%, Foaming Face Wash, Toner-Astringent and Sheer Silk Moisturizer w/SPF15 and (I wrote a separate review for the Alpha Hydrox range under their Souffle product).
I've had loads of positive feedback on my skin, people say it's glowing and looking squeaky clean!
I use the glycolic every Sunday and leave it on for about 6 minutes. After washing it off, my face looks a little red for a few minutes but after that it is kah-pow glowing! I don't experience peeling but after one application I had a stubborn white head on the tip of my nose (how do you get that thing out??!!) disappear. After a glycolic application it just fell out, it was like it was pushed to the surface - I LOVE THIS STUFF and will buy it again.
I started off at 2 minutes, but went to 6 pretty much straight away as I've got pretty robust skin.
On a separate note, thanks to everyone for their reviews. I can't tell you how much I appreciate them. There are so many products out there that it can get confusing and overwhelming. Reading through the MUA reviews really helps making the right buying decision easier, that's how I found the above products. Those companies can spend millions on advertising, but I'm taking your word over theirs :)
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I started using this based on reviews I read hear and have to agree that it's a great product. The packaging is bare bones but the shipping is super fast, the customer service is great, and the product rocks. I used this for 6 weeks once a week and took a break and am back to once a week applications. This helps control my oil and cuts down on my acne. It also makes my skin amazingly soft and clear. I do notice occasional breakouts after using it the first few times as my skin purges but after it looks and feels clearer, smoother, and I notice less fine lines. It does sting a little but that is nothing a fan can't take care of. Also, make sure to apply sunscreen like they recommend as your skin will be sensitive after use. Overall, I love these peels.
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I loved this product. I agree with all of the positive comments everyone has already mentioned. I have extremely sensitive skin and whenever I change products, I break out right away. I've never tried peels before and was scared of putting chemicals on my face. But after the first peel, I could already feel my skin was smooth. Then I did my second peel yesterday, and my skin looks great. Definitely recommend to anyone who wanted tighter pores. I haven't noticed that much of a difference with getting rid of old acne scars, but will continue using...
Amazing - visible, touchable results in one use! I have used this twice already and what everyone is saying here is true - this 50% glycolic peel absolutely rocks! You do need to be prepared to have your skin start to clean itself out though, as I've had a couple of problem areas kick up with a few whiteheads.
I will definitely be repurchasing - how can you not? The price is phenomenally less than what I have paid for the same type of peel (30%) through a private dermatologist. This is something that you can easily continue with on a regular basis without damaging your purse strings.
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I love this! I wasn't able to use this because of my picking (i know..) but since I(ve been using jojoba&vit e oil my skin is pretty clear, so yesterday I first used this peel. I left it on for 2 1/2 minutes and the first 30 seconds it did feel a bit stingy. My skin was pretty pink afterwards, so again I used jojoba&vitamin e oil so my skin didn't feel dry or tight. This morning I was gloooowing, love this stuff! I'll keep on using this for sure!
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Ok so far so good! First of all, like previous reviewers have said, their shipping is so fast! You blink and it's at your front doorsteps. I ordered it on a Monday in the afternoon and it arrived on Wednesday with just regular shipping! Love that since I was so anxious to try it. Anyways, the first time I tried this, I was really scared because of the high percentage so I only did 1 minute as suggested. I felt some stinging in the areas with acne but other blemish-free areas had no stinging, maybe a slight warming sensation after 30 seconds but that's it. I washed it off after 1 minute to be on the safe side and I was a little disappointed to notice no difference. The next time, I decided to try it for a minute and a half. This time the blemishes really starting popping up. The 3rd time, blemishes were full force. It was a little embarrassing dealing with all the acne popping up, I started getting it in areas that were fine previously. Thank god it started fading pretty quickly and the 4th time really made my skin glow! The 4th time, I decided to just go for 2 1/2 minutes and that really worked for me. I haven't noticed anything with the acne marks but I'm hoping it'll lighten soon with continued use. This stuff is basically shedding the top layer of skin so acne underneath will start popping up so be prepared! It's worth it though so far. My face has started clearing up already. Last night I applied aloe vera gel afterwards and breakouts are 80% better. I had these small breakouts near my hairline that is so stubborn and does not disappear and this peel made almost all disappear. I will update later with hopefully even better results. I really hope this continues to work for me because nothing else works.
UPDATE:I've been using this for more than a month with continued great results! I think this will be a part of my weekly routine from now on. I also incorporated rosehip oil into my routine. I've been applying it every morning and night and it's been great at soothing and healing my skin, especially after a peel. It soothes and heals any irriration I have from the peel and enhances the effect. The brand I've been using is evanhealy's rosehip oil(blue version) which is a bit pricey but worth it.
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This product has literally taken 10 years off my face. My skin is so much smoother, pores are smaller and is overall smoother and softer. Like the other ladies said, it can burn a bit so you really need to know what you are doing. I would not recommend starting with this product if you have never used a peel before on your skin, especially if you have sensitive skin. However, if you are somewhat experienced, you will find that this is a quality peel and the price is also reasonable.
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I have to thank everyone here who took the time to give reviews. Because of you I purchased this glycolic peel and also the 15% glycolic serum.
I started with the 15% and was very impressed. BUT the 50% peel has been incredible. It's so rare to find products that actually make dramatic improvement. My pores are tighter, no clogged pores, clean, clear skin. I've been using this for 4 weeks and almost feel like I don't need to wear foundation. I've never left the house without it ever but I'm getting close!
It does sting, the last peel I moistened my skin with water first and that really helped. I put it on full strength on my neck, chin and nose.
This is one great product, can't wait to see the continued improvement. WISH I had discovered this 20 years ago!
UPDATE: I still love this product but found that once a week is too much and after a few weeks my skin started to look irritated. So I've cut it down to once a month or every few weeks. I have to say - whew - this stuff stings! I can only leave it on a few minutes - but the results are worth. Less is more IMO!
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ok well I do like this it does show results right away but Iv only been using for about three weeks peels only a little love that you can order sample sizes but I need faster result so I probley going to try the deep peel kit and I let you know how it go's
I have been a huge fan and follower of Paula Begoun for many years, but some of my HG products that were in her line, have been temporarily, but appears more permantly discontinued, and my skin was really getting out of hand, so I had to try something else. I had used these acids before like 3 years ago, and they were great, so i got some again, and my results are as follows. First peel, I left on for 90 seconds. Did not really notice any difference except skin was a bit softer afterwards. Day 4 I did a gentle scrub, to clear off all the dead skin. Day 5 I did peel #2, and left it on for 3 min. Noticed some brightening this time, lightened freckles. Day 9 another gentle scrub to remove as much dead skin and to prep for the next peel. Day 10 I did peel #3 and left it on for 5 minutes. Amazing difference from the first peel, and the third, and in less than 2 weeks. My skin was a little tight after the first peel, but really no other problems, no redness, no flaking. Amazing, stuff makes my skin look young, glowing, soft, healthy and SOFT. It makes my skin have a kind pf peaches and cream complextion. I also use a retinol cream overnight on the 3rd day after each peel. If my skin looks this good now, I can't wait to see what it will look after the 6th or 7th peel. Will update.
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|Most of the big names kept it to a minimum in the short-lived morning training session with just one or two runs. Then it was time to head on up through the forest one last time. Do spare a thought for all the resting owls that were disturbed over the weekend by the racing.
|Earlier in the week PB photog, Colin, said Atwill was looking so fast and loose it was 'like he wanted to go home in a box'. Luckily he went home with a silver medal instead.
|The Aussie junior Dean Lucas cleaned Val Di Sole in 3:24.6 this arvo, upgrading his Fort Bill 3rd to a 1st.
|Revelstoke local, Casey Brown, getting a bit buck wild on the second to last corner of the track. Look for Brown to be stepping onto the box sometime soon - she was just off by a hair over a half second today.
|Before the day began few would have predicted Hart in 73rd, Hill in 56th and MacDonald 26th......The three biggest fallers of the finals.
|Privateer, Pons, making the ground shake. It's a hotel instead of Guerilla Camp for the 18 year old Frenchman, however.
|6th for Gwinner at 3:16.30 and what can only have been half a tyre nobble behind Troy also on 3:16.30.
|Troy was stoked to be back on top after almost missing a full year prior to Fort Bill. He told PB he wasn't full throttle either.
|'Grig' is the boy. He scooped a +1.25 bronze in the final for which he chose to wear his green Kabuto. Must be faster through the rocks.
|Now just 5 seconds back, Emmeline's halving the gap on Rach! Pugin and Charre were then a good 7 seconds behind the French girl.
|'That's it baby, bathe the Stevemeister'. A familiar crew welcome the newcomers, Gee leading by example.
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Comprised of five pieces - two dresses, a shirt, a long skirt, and a pair of denim shorts, the collection will be available exclusively online at albertaferretti.com. Part of the proceeds will go towards People Tree, a nonprofit organisation that Emma is also involved in.
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AM radio broadcasting was created in the early 20th century and it quickly became the main entertainment source for most people in the United States. FM radio broadcasting would be created about 30 years and would slowly start to over take AM radio.
The main reason for FM radio surpassing AM radio is the enhanced quality that FM broadcasting brings. AM broadcasting is far too susceptible to things in the atmosphere affecting the quality of the audio. This simply does not happen when listening to an FM radio broadcast.
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FM radio was invented in the 1930s to improve some of the faults of AM radio. AM would get static from electrical sources, it had limited quality and would sometimes get interference from other stations. Edwin Armstrong devised a new approach to transmitting the radio signals, and FM radio was born.
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Since I live out in the "sticks," as my family loves to call it, I don't have access to DSL or cable Internet. While I had managed without the web for quite some time, my wife was finally able to convince me that we needed to get "connected." A few weeks ago, I found a great deal on satellite Internet (see satelliteinternetspecials.net/high-speed-technology.html) and, before I knew it, I had a big satellite dish sitting on my roof.
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Just as the Great Depression was turning around, the radio began to have a dramatic effect on political life in the US. Franklin D. Roosevelt had used his "fireside chats" as an avenue of communication to connect with an insecure and nervous population during the Depression and calmed fears and made the government a more reliable and steady influence. Multiple disruptive forces mad materialized in the public arena during the economic turmoil. The Communist Party, isolationists, anti-Semites and other divisive groups had worked to Read the rest of this entry »
The FCC, better known as the Federal Communications Commission is a government agency that was developed in 1934; charged with regulating various aspects of the media in radio, television and the many other facets in which society receives communication. The radio is among one of the most prevalent forms of media that the power of FCC influence can be seen in. Below is the most influential way in which the FCC effects the world of radio.
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Radio has always been a great opportunity for companies to advertise their products to consumers. While television and the internet has swooped in lately to take some of the advertising pie away from radio broadcasters, it continues to be a very lucrative medium to this day. Radio advertising was never more prominent, however, than it was in the 1940s.
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Radios have been around for over a century and have definitely made their place on the technology scene. Even with the constant development in the technological field, radios are here to stay. What most people do not stop to think about, though, is what makes radios work.
The vacuum tube found in radios is one of the most important components of a radio.
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ST. PETE BEACH — Commissioner Jim Parent told the commission he wanted to discuss what to do with the extra money in the budget. The city finds itself with extra money after a 14.7% tax hike designed to pay for a city police department. Residents voted to outsource the police department in early November, after the commission approved the final budget.
At the first meeting after the vote, Commissioner Parent asked that the clerk place an item on the agenda so the commission could discuss the extra money.
"I believe that we need to have as explicit discussion about what we will do with what now will be some unallocated funds," he said "as opposed to just letting them disappear into our disaster fund."
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