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2nd and 3rd edition of the MVA's 2009 pic nic series will take place in Old Montreal just next to the Salon de l'environnement, in the amphitheatre located behind the Bassin Bonsecours Pavillion. The MVA will also have an info table at the Salon National de l'Environnement all weekend long that you are invited to visit.
Bring your own food, your smile and your camera.
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Sun, Nov 04, 2012, 9:21 am // Paul deArmond
If you're like me, you've been dawdling along this election season, occasionally having a conversation with a friend about voting this way or that, how's this or that campaign going? I usually resort to the web or the Voters' Pamphlet to figure out which way is up on a particular ballot issue. So imagine my surprise when the Whatcom County section of the pamphlet contains not one, but two blatant stealth campaigns.
A stealth campaign is when an existing and well know political interest group uses an unknown front group name to conceal their identity and activities influencing elections.
The first example is on page 99, the Whatcom County initiative to increase the port commissioners from 3 to 5. Daren Williams, a longshoreman's union official, and Leroy Rhode, a longshoreman, (apparently without a vote of the membership) hide behind the pseudonym of "the Committee Against Proposition No. 1."
Both of them speak as representatives of the union at port meetings and are well known to the commissioners and staff, if not the general public. The filing with the auditor's office has a convenient space for title and organization which has been left blank.
The statement against passing this initiative gins up the absurd argument that more transparency and accountability at the Port of Bellingham would "shut the public out," and besides it would cost too much.
As if a little daylight wouldn't be able to cut down the waste, fraud and graft at the port.
Likewise, the port's operations and maintenance budget will ratchet up 1% a year as capped by state law, regardless of the passage or failure of this effort at reform. Private property in Whatcom County is currently taxed by the port at the rate of $0.299 per thousand.
Any tax increase beyond 1% will require a public hearing and a resolution passed by the usual rubber stamp 2-1 or 3-0 vote by the commissioners. Only excess levies go to the voters. So the argument about cost (and hence taxes) is nonsense. The cost of getting two more commissioners involved is insignificant and your port taxes are going to increase next year anyway.
Darren Williams and Leroy Rode should have known all that when they submitted the statement against this initiative. Actually, reading the entire file and emails to the auditor, there's an unshakable impression that Darren didn't write what was submitted, which raises the question as to who did.
The port has a long and sordid history of corruption, election law violations and thimble-rigging. One way to discover the skullduggery behind "The Committee Against Proposition No. 1" is to:
-pass the initiative;
-elect two tough-minded reformers to the port;
-bring in a forensic audit team and clean house.
It also would be a reasonable reform to hold the port public meetings in the evening like every other local government and taxing authority.
The Bellingham Low-Income Housing Levy has a similar situation of a publicly known and recognized interest group hiding behind a front group named "Proposition 1 - Low Income Housing Levy CON Committee." In this case, the concealed special interest group is the Whatcom County Association of Realtors with Jack Petree and David Onkels in supporting roles.
None of this will come as a surprise to local political observers. First of all, Jack's particular style of gibberish hanging on a lie is recognizable. Before I checked the records at the auditor's office, two others agreed with me that Jack had probably written it. If we hadn't been drinking beer together on Thursday night, I probably wouldn't have trapped myself into writing this screed on a deadline.
Secondly, the fact that the statement against the proposition morphs "low-income housing" into "affordable housing" is the hallmark of the developer's and realtor's political influence machine. The difference is that people live in low-income housing and "affordable housing" means tax subsidies for developers and higher housing prices.
I'll nail two of the lies right here. Lie number one is that passage of the proposition would increase rents because of the higher tax burden. As a founding member of the York Neighborhood Slumlords Association and speaking personally as an evil slumlord, this levy would force me to raise the rent by a whopping $6.66 a month if I was to pass through the entire tax increase to my wretched and impoverished tenant.
Lie #2 is snuggled inside the claim that 64% of the households in Bellingham being below median income is "a mathematical impossibility." The exact opposite is the case. First of all, any geographical region anywhere in the world that is large enough to entertain a discussion of differences in income will have a majority of incomes falling below median. The reason is very simple: there are more poor people than rich people. This fact alone guarantees that the majority of households will fall below the average of all incomes.
Does it matter that voters are being mislead by interest groups with concealed identities? Yes, simply because a lot of public policy matters are hot potatoes and end up in the voters' laps. These two propositions are unusual not because they're reformers versus vested interests, but because neither opponent has a formal campaign, only a stealth front. Part of decision is evaluating the source of information.
How are voters expected to learn the sources of information about elections? It's not just these two ballot items. The questions about stealth politics and the problems that come from not being able to find answers also apply to the robocalls, astroturfing and the rest of the huge volume of information and disinformation that comes from the commercialization of political debate.
The civics class answer is that the press is supposed to inform the public. Here's one issue where there's nothing in the commercial media. This story is an illustration of the role now being played by citizen journalists.
Public documents from the Whatcom Auditor's office. The telephone numbers and email addresses are blacked out as a courtesy. The entire files are public documents and anyone can see them for the asking. See below.
A realtor's web site showing the household income statistics for Bellingham ZIP code 98225. (Read way down the page and notice the intervals between income groups are different sizes.)
Attached Files:-> Port Con
-> Housing Con
Tip Johnson // Sun, Nov 04, 2012, 10:17 am
So, Jim Jorgensen appointed those guys? Was there a port resolution for that or did Scott Walker just tell him to? And where's the resolution appointing Petree? Who passed it? Inquiring minds want to know!
Paul deArmond // Sun, Nov 04, 2012, 1:14 pm
Yup. It's literally true to say that the ILWU (or at least their guys who are the union's political liason with the Port are working as stooges for some faction at the Port. There's also some correspondence with Williams in the file at the Auditor's office. It could be read to suggest that Williams didn't write the statement against.
However, when I asked Auditor Debbie Adelstein for a copy of the documents, she handed the file to a staffer who returned later with a copy of just the one page. So I can't provide a better answer without going back and getting the rest of both files.
Same goes with the Realtors Association resolution. It's in the file, but I was only given the one page. It is interesting that it's the Realtors' resolution and the form was amended by hand to make Petree the chair of the fake front group.
There are a lot of unanswered questions. For starters, were Port staff (and hence public funds) involved in preparing the statement for the Voter's Pamphlet? It's possible there were laws broken here, but the evidence I've seen is only suggestive. It doesn't even rise to the level of probable cause.
Jim Jorgensen is past due for retirement, but that's been painfully obvious for several months.
In the Zuanich case (the biggest fine ever for a campaign law violation at the time) the public money that was hijacked to get Zuanich reelected was never paid back to the Port.
Similarly, was Petree paid for his role in this? I doubt that even if he was paid that the amount would rise to a violation of the public disclosure laws. On the other hand, if he did get paid for his gibberish and it was enough to trigger the PDC, the Realtors got taken to the cleaners.
One solution that I suggested to Debbie Adelstein was to take all the files for the Voter's Pamphlet, make copies and put them in a three ring binder on the front counter.
Tomorrow, anybody can go down to the Auditor's office and look at the files. They are public documents and - like yours truly - they have just been lying around uselessly since August.
Jack Petree // Tue, Nov 06, 2012, 3:23 pm
Even I didn't know I was that bad. If I were a Roman I'd have to fall on a wooden stake or a silver sword to hear Paul tell the story.
Of course, Paul is wrong on a number of points so maybe you all can save the silver bullets for another day.
First, Paul, it's too bad you had to waste all that time checking "...the records at the auditor's office and fantasizing about whether I'd written the con statement regarding Proposition One or not. All you had to do was check the minutes of the Bellingham City Council to see the Council had appointed me and two others to write the thing. WOW…THAT'S PRETTY MUCH HIDING BEHIND A COMMITTEE!
Next, "...the statement…morphs "low-income housing" into "affordable housing…"
If that is "...the hallmark of the developer's and realtor's political influence machine," then you'd better talk to Tim Douglas, Doris Kent and Greg Winter. They use the terms "afford" or "affordable" at least five times in the Pro statement and the Home Fund Committee uses the term at least eight times on a single page on their website in explaining their version of what Prop. One is all about.
You point out in your "Lie One" comment that the tax would add $6.66 per month to the rent if you passed the Prop One funds through (That's an ominious number by itself). What you don't point to are the five or six additional taxes and fees either just added or in discussion ($12 per month to buy land around Lake Whatcom, the recent increase in transit taxes, and more). In my discussion, on video, before the Opportunity Council I pointed out the cumulative effect of those increases. Using your example the total could be fifty or sixty bucks a month… Maybe nothing to you but important to someone on a limited income."
Lie #2… You'd better look up median in the dictionary. Median is the point at which 1/2 of something being measured is above the line and 1/2 of something being measured is below the line. You are confusing median with average in your discussion.
I'm not even going to bother looking at your source attribution. Zip Code 98225 is only one of the three major zip codes in Bellingham (98226 and 98229) are the others (post office boxes also have a zip code) so the data you point us to is, if you described it correctly, of no use as it excludes most of Bellingham.
And that, as Paul Harvey used to say, is, "The Rest of the Story."
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The South 17 Twin Drive-In was the only multi-screen drive-in in North Carolina east of I-95. It was closed by 1980 and demolished by 1982. The site is now home to the South Gate Mobile Home Park.
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In the 1950 there Six drive-ins in this city,Didn't see a South 17.
The South 17 was probably built in the 1960s. I used to pass by it on the way to Surf City in the late 1970s and 1980-81. It was torn down by 1982. There was another drive-in theater (X-rated) nearby, with a drive-in hamburger restaurant next to it, but I couldn't find any remains of that theater or the restaurant. The South 17 Twin Drive-In advertised on local late night TV in the 1970s, WCTI-TV 12's "Will C's Red Eye Cinema", which ran drive-in-type movies on Saturday late night long before Saturday Night Live existed.
I'm amazed that of Jacksonville's drive-in theaters, only the South 17 Twin and the Cinema Drive-In are listed; apparently all the others are long forgotten. I vaguely remember the XXX drive-in theater near the South 17 Twin mentioned in my last post on this page; it may have been called the Moonlite Drive-in and was north of the South 17 Twin.
The X-rated drive-in that was just north of the South 17 Twin was most likely the Starlite Drive-In listed on Cinema Treasures' Jacksonville, NC theaters. The Starlite was most likely located on the corner of Canady Road and Blue Creek School Road (modern address – That stretch of Canady Road was the southbound lanes of Wilmington Highway when the Starlite was still standing). The Onslow County school bus garage next to the Triangle Motor Inn looks like a converted drive-in theater site, but is too close to the motel and too far north of the South 17 Twin site to have been the X-rated drive-in that I remember from years ago.
The school bus garage located at 450 Wilmington Highway was apparently built on the site of a drive-in theater, the name and dates of operation for which I do not know. The shape of the lot in aerial views strongly suggest that the site was once a drive-in. Judging from the garage buildings presently on the site (one at the entrance and the main garage in the center of the lot), the drive-in theater at 450 Wilmington Highway was demolished circa 1968-1970. The South 17 Twin may have run the 450 Wilmington Hwy. drive-in out of business and forced the Starlite to run porn movies; the South 17 ran mostly standard drive-in fare (B movies, horror films, second-run features).
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BOURBONNAIS — Brian Urlacher returned to Bears training camp. But instead of a helmet, he donned a floppy khaki hat during practice Saturday.
Urlacher was excused for personal reasons for a week, including Thursday night's preseason opener against the Denver Broncos, and he hasn't practiced since July 31. But teammates welcomed him back, with several making a point to hang out with him during downtime at practice.
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The Bears next preseason game is Saturday at Soldier Field against the Washington Redskins, and Urlacher would likely need to practice at least a couple of times in the coming days to play.
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The Bears, though, are thin at the position.
Roach is currently filling in for Urlacher but backup Dom DeCicco pulled his groin muscle and will be on the "shelf for a while," Smith said.
The Bears signed linebackers Xavier Adibi and K.C. Asiodu on Saturday, as well as defensive end Aston Whiteside. To make room for those players, the Bears waived defensive tackle Ronnie Cameron and cornerback Jeremy Ware and placed defensive end Alex Brown on the reserve/retired list.
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Dear Readers,
Today''s NDTV Ramayan and Jai Shri Krishna serial are taken in a way that appeals to the youth of our society (latest technology, up to date clothing, etc), but at the same time does not modernize the epic and still retains the age old values.
The focus of Mahabharat is the Kurkushetra War, but the focus of Ramayan is Sita Haran and Ram Ravan Yudh. Ram Ravan Yudh is not as dramatic as the Kurukshetra War, because the terms of both wars are different, and the goals were totally different as well. Shri Ram fought Ravan for Sita, and also for the honor and protection of women. The Kurukshetra War was fought for a kingdom.
And also liking one serial better than the other has to do with a preference for the epic. You prefer the Epic of Mahabharat, so naturally you will like BR Chopra''s serial better than Ramayan.
You found the special effects in Mahabharat better than in Ramayan, but I found them the same. I too watched BR Chopra''s Mahabharat, but special effects wise, I did not see anything dramatically different. The settings looked the same as RS''s Ramayan, and the bow, arrows, and special effects for the war felt the same. It all depends on how you look at it.
As much as I love BR Chopra''s Mahabharat though, it did not bring India to a standstill, and it was from the same time period (1988-1990). In fact, it was shown after Ramayan (1986-1987), so it did not even have that as a competition. BR Chopra''s Mahabharat was excellent, but I found something lacking in it unlike I felt for the Ramayan Serial.
One more thing: I personally do not prefer Modern day serials to mythos because they are all too dramatic and get incredibly unrealistic and boring at times. That''s just my personal opinion.
And the reason why retaking mythos is important is because the younger generation needs to get a chance to see them and learn morals from them as well. How many youngsters do you see going into a store and actually buying these old mythos?
Today''s NDTV Ramayan and Jai Shri Krishna serial are taken in a way that appeals to the youth of our society (latest technology, up to date clothing, etc), but at the sa...
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Whether there is one channel or 25 channels does not matter up to a point. A show has to have something in it to bring the whole nation to a standstill. I mean, there were other shows than Ramayan on Doordarshan 20 years back. By what you said, why didn''t every single show bring India to a standstill? Why only Ramayan? You may not have liked Ramayan by Dr. RS, but you''re honestly one of two people I know who did not like it. That does not make it a boring show.
And of course each shot would be lengthened (though not unnecessarily as you say). It''s a serial, not a movie. If everything was fast paced, it would not be a serial, but more of a lengthened movie. And plus, it all has to do with personal preferences. Lots of people (like me) like to see things in Mythological Shows dragged on, because my love of Ramayan makes me want to watch as much of it as possible. But then again, if you did not enjoy that, that''s your own personal opinion.
As for the bad technology, you''re talking about the late 1980s. Give it some slack. You can''t expect something from 1986 to have the special effects of today. That''s not practical. I understand that many movies made during that time period had better special effects, but you''re talking about movies vs. serials. Serials need more resources, as they are laid out on a larger span of time. Ramanand Sagar did not have much resources, yet he made a serial that brought the country to a standstill. Which means that with excellent actors and an excellent storyline, special effects are not as important. People don''t care as along as the actors and storyline are good.
I too love BR Chopra''s Mahabharat, and agree that it was excellently taken, but I find it unfair to compare Ramayan and Mahabharat, even the serials, because both are derived from completely different epics, have completely different plots. The focus of Mahabharat is the Kur...
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You need finesse and artistic vision to modernize epics which only Intellectual Theatre has been able to do so far.
Lastly, I personally would prefer to watch more modern themed shows which reflect modern issues, problems, social injustices etc. than renewed versions of our great epics.
Because the new versions can never stand up to the reputation of their predecessors.
@Lalithajanaki and Rajneesh_Kumar,
Of course I watched both shows 20 years ago when they were first telecast.
FYI, I am quite a senior member of this forum. Dont go by my ID, 25 is not my age but my birth number.
I remember those Sunday mornings very well when life would come to a standstill in the city because Mahabharata was on TV. I also remember my husband''s grandma telling me not to watch the Vanara Sena in Ramayana because I was expecting and she didnt want my child to look like a Vanara.
Anyways let me clarify a few things.
I still stand by my personal opinion that Sagar''s Ramayan was very boring. Each shot was lengthened unnecessarily by focusing on a single face for 5 minutes, dialogues were uttered at slowest speed, special effects during war scenes were ridiculous.
Chopra''s Mahabharat was much more interesting and exciting. It was more well-made with wonderful actors and better special effects. Also because MB is more dramatic epic than Ramayana.
These 2 versions of the epics were such great hits in those days because:
Firstly in those days we had only ONE TV channel, Doordarshan India, so everyone watched those epics without fail. Nowadays there are 25 channels with too much variety so no single show can make the city stand still, not even the best made epic.
FYI, I AM enjoying Sagar''s Shakuntala right now on Star One, which is also a tale from Mahabharata, actually the story of their ancestor, King Dushyant of Hastinapur. The Sagars are doing quite a good job with Shakuntala so far.
Secondly why make new TV versions of the same epic? People will always compare unfavorably to the original versions.
Ekta made a complete disaster of MB. I watched the first episode and then stopped watching. Epics cannot be modernized by Ekta or TV producers but only by intellectual Theatre. You need finesse and artistic vision to ...
wow!! well said _lalithaJanaji_ :)
I am not against other directors making mythologicals, because I really do love BR Chopra''s Mahabharat, but I''m wary of them until they prove themselves to be capable of making a good religious serial, because it seems to have become a fashion to bring modernity into religious serials, which is not acceptable.
Dear, have you even watched Ramanand Sagar''s Ramayan? You seem to have forgotten that it brought India, a whole country, to a standstill for one hour! Can any of your modern trash bring a country to a standstill? I think not! Modern rubbish has no place in ancient Indian Epics, which is the central reason why Ekta''s mockery of a show did not become successful. When it comes to Mythological Serials, the Sagars are #1 for giving us such excellent shows as Ramayan (both old and new), Shri Krishna (old and new), Sai Baba, Ma Durga, etc.
Mark my words. Any director who makes an ancient Indian Mythological Show, but tries to bring modernity into it, his/her serial will not be remembered long (if it ever becomes famous), because the beauty of our epics lies in the devotion to God and the divinity of the characters. If that is missing because of your modernization, these so called mythological serials will never become famous, let alone hold a candle to such a serial as Ramayan by Ramanand Sagar. Do you know why it went into world records, received international awards from foreign countries, and brought a country to a standstill? Because of the divinity.
@pallvi25- really ramanad sagar ramayan is boring and long-winded :-/. did you watched the show or giving ur criticism to the show which has written its name to the world record as most appreciated and watched show. your this boring show has not only recived many national and international award but also the landmark for ramanad sagar. well BR chopra mahabharat and ramanad sagar ramayan both are excellent in its own way. both has done justice to two great epic. and your new modern stories , can you explain on what basis its better to the two great epic??
Agreed with hindu4lyf..this one must be better than kekta''s mahabharta...BUT seriously no one can Create Sagar''s Mahabharta Magic Again..it was just unspeechable
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I've lived in San Francisco and San Antonio - like your nanny example above. When we moved to Texas right after the dot-com run-up to insane housing prices, it was like a breath of fresh air. Finally, we could be at a gathering for hours and no-one would mention housing prices or real estate! And the food was great - and cheap - and there was lots of outdoor opportunities, lots of friendly folks, and no racism or sexism we could see. Oh, and you could live like a king in a huge house for next to nothing! I think it's simple: Skilled folks would like to live in places with cheaper housing, but can't get jobs there, since the founders/CEO's want to live in the "happening" cities. Yep, I'm back in back in the SF Bay Area now, but there's tons of work here. And my house is 1/3 the size of the one in Texas!
maybe THE GOVERNMENT can do something to 'fix' this?
after all they are so much wiser than the rest of us.
They only waste an average of 70% of every dollar they get. for example, when you send the government $100,000 for welfare to 'help' people they give $30,000 to a family and keep $70,000.
You see how much THE GOVERNMENT cares? They have (about the equivalent of) one full-time government worker to 'help' each family on welfare! Not like chruches and private charities who would only spend $15,000 and help about 3 familes for the same money. I mean how can a government worker live on only $15,000.
Vyctory Notes says: I have a question in regards to your statement, "low skill households have been less willing to pay for the improvements in amenities." How do we know about willingness versus unwillingness? How do we know it isn't really ability versus inability? Also, the title of your piece is "Better and Better." For whom is it "better and better"? I would be interested in any information you might have about the gender, age, and ethnicity of whom you speak.
How dare you question a liberal 'economist'! They know all and see all!
The government will provide for all... once they take all of our money. Look how well it worked in all the other socialist paradises like Russia and China and East Germany and North Korea and Venezuela and Cuba and Viet Name!
What the Economist ignores is that the population growth in San Francisco is largely H1-B visas. This isn't 'American' growth, but rather corporatations calling their Bangalore minions to Silicon Valley and (more recently) San Francisco proper. Is overrunning the Bay Area with cooking cutter houses for non-U.S. citizens really the Economist's solution?
Housing supply may be constrained by things like water supply which inficates a population limit.
Please also consider effect of increase price of fuel and pensions due to aging of population. I believe those limits cause public amenities to decrease.
"I show that changes in firms' relative demands for high and low skill labor across cities, due to local productivity changes, were the underlying drivers of the differential migration patterns of high and low skill workers."
Duh! Imagine that; high skilled workers go where the jobs are! So why do the high skilled jobs exist in certain cities? Because the founders wanted to live there. Microsoft is where it is because Bill Gates was homesick and wanted to live near family, at least according to Gates.
Entrepreneurs tend to locate their new businesses near home and family. Dell is in Austin because that's where the founders lived when they started the company. As they grow, they attract skilled workers looking for jobs. In addition, they attract more start ups that provides services for them.
Larger cities have an advantage in that their greater population gives them more entrepreneurial types. All of the best jobs are at company HQ. And a lot of new businesses come from people who have relocated to HQ for the pay, then after a few years of work launch their own business.
Quote - "I worry that high housing costs deflect skilled individuals elsewhere, reducing the productivity impact of skilled clusters and potentially sowing the seeds of their demise."
Isn't that called the force of the market-place?
There is this theory that inequality isn't necessarily a problem, as long as it isn't spectacularly high, but I don't think the facts agree with that idea. For an easy example of how geographical inequality is a problem: see the rich Western countries and China. It looked initially like a brilliant idea to outsource all those low-paid jobs to China. Now we have the problem that a lot of the infrastructure in the West is crumbling (roads, bridges, sewers, etc.), and there simply isn't the money to pay for the workers that can maintain them properly, let alone upgrade them. Our economy has been sweeping under the carpet the problem that high housing prices don't allow for very low-paid workers. By the time we all figure out the distortions produced by the housing bubble, the consequences will be staring us on the face, and they will be quite ugly.
Providence RI has always been a working class city, but these days the economic development powers are trying to upscale with the creative class. More and more evidence is coming out that rising in equality in the economy harms the economy, and real estate speculation harms EVERYONE. We also get politicians offering to cut taxes on the rich and saying we want to get rid of the poor. One truly despicable politician even said we do not want that kind of people in our town. Yes, the working class is moving away from RI, but even more our homeless population is growing.
I spend much time contemplating what jobs we can create that lower skilled workers can take. In a place of massive food insecurity ( 30% of kids live in food insecure homes here) I come back to growing food. We need to take our abandoned industrial brownfields and grow food. If RI went from growing 1% of its food, to 20% of its food, it would create more jobs for people who need them than any stupid scheme the governor has. His new budget has nothing in it to end homelessness and it cuts taxes on the rich. Exactly the opposite of what is needed.
Here in scotland where i live. There is higer graduate rate than the south east in northern ireland there is also higher graduate rate. Remeber at uni in the late 90s a lecturer explaining its because there the operunity costs of doing a degree in london are different as giving up more pay and more career oppertunity. Where as in northern ireland and scotland to a lesser extent a degree can mean postponing a job in relail or call center at worst a kinda a vacation. The cost of university was lower and the lecturer and it was not long since the university system had full grants and free at point of use so postion may have been somewhat clould by this. Unlike now where university in the uk is much more expensive.
Most people i know have degrees but not graduate jobs. So to see things in respect of number graduates well would be interested to see some figures of how this relates certaining in uk.
Although some what different in scotland nothern ireland. A larger part of the economy is public sector. Some of the ways to get a higher paying job is lot to do with contections that any quanitfibly measurable skill. Although people on lower incomes may be relationship between skills. The skill frame on quanifiables is one aspect. In respect of government and quasi government what matters is knowing the right person and having the shared public views. It access to rent.
When i had my contract illegally canelled at scottish government not really a question of any skill in convetional sense. Although may be slightly less robust instutions than say in united states, where problery would have had tribuneral. Although in theory in the uk should be tribineral.
If complainedto an an american poltican about civil service he would problery not refer to them as "his people" in the same way as uk as the american governmnet is more in charge of burcrats than the uk. The share of government in economy scotland over half so government poltical influence etc as important as skill may be.
The difference between poor and better of is access to government rent. Skills are only part of this access. There also a lot of proected buiness that is similar to branch of government. Such as some larger banking buiness like RBs etc that not exactly at hight of competiveness, indeed if they were left to own devices would not even exist.
Some parts of uk southeast where government is less more small private buiness start may be more skill based but contections also.
Skills jobs, doctors, computor programmers pay better than non skilled jobs. But what would tend to happen is better paid leave skilled jobs to do non skilled "management" in subzidied government and proected organization.
Possibly a bit biased due to where live but in certainly people claiming more government money or sponsered rents not sure what the skill correlation is. Is there sure but not all.
Personally my problem in scotland in respect to rent seeking. Not really a skill a problem in conetional sense but a poltical rather than economic. With unelected people having access to funds discrimintory in my case with contract canelled this is extreme end (which in granschem of things kinda trivial things), as not so blantent often as would undermine the system but often types of different shades of favour to anti favour.
. Sure could incease skills get a job in small buiness may be. But from respect of government rents public sector problery not be the most efficent for most people. Could spent lot of money and time doing courses, but if spent that money on time on building contection then may be more efficent kinda ovious may be.
As the states bloats and more buiness is through government contections. Then part of americans poors problem as is united kingdowm relate to poltical and access to favour. Not exactly true and favour more come through conection in broader poltical sense. But still in some direction. Part of the skill economic story in scotland is after the fact in area uncompetive pratices government rent and favour. Like the scottish tram projects 9 miles of track billon pound project.
Another project that friends keep meation is the west coast rail project another billon plus project and how a civil servant did not calaculate interest. Something a child could and the inference that consipacey? May be but also a relection of a system based on conection, favour around even those who allocate the contract so would not assume consiparecy.
To a certain extent when being unemployed and been sent to unemployed outsourced training schemes there is a story of skills and things which is part true. Part of backdrop the people are poor unemployed because lazy stupid or unskilled is better for stablitly if can be sold than to say well bit of luck, contection influence and access government sponered rent they may be some laxy stupid and unskilled part but also problery more other part. As get culustering contections cultural.
To see the poor
Quite rubbish lack of sleep not making point was meaning and kinda wrong. What mean if lack of skill is one part. In large buiness public private. Even if people start doing measurable skilled jobs like computors programmer or accounant. They end up doing an "unskilled" (less measurably skilled job) if keep getting premoted. Access to the unskilled jobs in" also. In government and larger buiness would think lower conection between "quanificable skill" so just measuring poors quanifiable skills or lack of may not give full picture.
In the uk wonder how much adverse effect nibism and greenbelt have had on productivity.
The governments twin approach to transfer wealth to existsing house owners by maniplation of the market.
The planning system restricting supply, and the maniplation of interest rates to try support a bubble at the expensive of other parts of economy.
The transfer payments from existsing house owners through planning and interest rate maniplation, a kinda rent on the rest of society.
Both Boston and San Francisco were far more interesting cities in the '70s than they've become since. Boston, the one I know better, was dominated by its universities and hospitals. Genteel poverty was both possible and respected. And culture was kept free or nearly so by old Brahmin money, that did its best to be invisible.
Boston was destroyed by boring, vulgar nouveaux riches who are quintessentially suburban - not a genuine urban bone in their bodies.
Don't ignore the effects of Bayh-Dole in wrecking the best cities in America.
According to TE, the most competitive (and presumably productive) cities in the US are, in this order: NYC, Wash DC, Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, LA, Houston, Dallas, Seattle, Philly, and Atlanta.
Some of these are dense and expensive (NYC, Boston and SF), and others not so much (Houston, Dallas, Atlanta).
Typically, dense cities mean productive cities, and therefore expensive cities. However, it doesn't necessarily mean that there are no low-wage workers there.
From what I've seen, low-wage workers can be found in all of the cities above, and they also have their fair share of ethnic restaurants.
So, I'm having a bit of trouble with the article by Ms. Diamond. Not to say it's wrong. I'm just having trouble with it.
NY, Boston and SF are surrounded on several sides (SF for example three) by water, limiting expansion. Houston, Dallas and Atlanta have (level) land going out in all directions, and so have no physical limits to expansion - a constant "pressure relief valve" on housing prices. Demographics is destiny, but for cities, it's also geography.
As stated by Whippersnapper and others on this site, low housing costs is one of the reasons for the Texas economy being as strong as it is.
That is, the weather is so horrible - hot and/or muggy, in particular - that relative housing cost has to be lowered below threshold in order to get people to actually move there.
I see a problem with this - driving out the low skill people (such as your San Fran nanny, who would live in Oakland) has a big downside... no matter how high skill a city becomes, it still needs a lot of low skill workers. Someone has to pick up the garbage, tend to the sewer system, sweep up in offices and schools, etc. By pricing these people out of a city, the quality of life will suffer - ask anyone who's lived through a garbage worker strike how important these low skill workers are to a city's smooth running. This is also why I think Ayn Rand and her acolytes are really dumb (the makers can't make without the "takers" to do the actual labor).
After getting an idea about what people are calling a divergence and also reading your post I have to say a few things , when you talk about the number of skillful people that has increased then right after this there is a point that you have surely missed. Due to an increasing number of people who are off course highly skilled we are losing their chances of getting jobs because the industry I don't think is rising with the same level as compared to the population and number of skilled people , so first of all there should be right kind of industries or jobs who can get these skilled people engaged and than is the next step towards prosperity.Thanks , I myself deal in 1099 sales
If you are talking about bums, I might agree. They indeed drive other people away and by their very presence REDUCE the quality of life for everyone. But they are not really low skilled workers because they aren't really workers at all. So I don't think that is what you mean.
But if you are suggesting that high housing costs by themselves lead to high amenity levels, it would seem that you also imply that low skilled workers actually diminish amenity levels by their very presence. That is not a position my experience with life thus far would support. As I see it, the existence of San Francisco's Mission District and the lower skill WORKING community that (at least used to) live and work there is considered an ATTRACTION to the high skilled individuals who consider moving to the Bay Area. That is why techies working in the suburbs prefer to reverse commute and live in the urban core. They LIKE the amenities low skill communities offer.
So high housing costs hurt in several ways:
1 - They drive away low skill workers, who are then forced to live in low amenity areas, and who then experience an arbitrary loss in quality of life (assuming amenities are largely not zero sum assets).
2 - When the low skill workers leave, they take their cultural assets with them, REDUCING the amenity levels for the high skill people who remain.
3 - This also increases the cost of living for the high skill people who remain.
So your last paragraph sounds flat out wrong. The ideal social and economic architecture includes varied but plentiful, dense housing for all, so that low and high skilled workers can live and work in close proximity and collaboratively create through network effects high levels of cultural amenities for all to enjoy.
Software engineers demand pupusas. Who will make their pupusas when all the Latinos have gone to Texas? And who will improve the schools and parks for the Latinos when there are no software engineers around paying high taxes?
No, RA, NIMBYism and other arbitrary restrictions on housing supply REDUCE symbiosis, efficiency and the network wealth effects that are the very reasons cities exist at all. Your "hard core of concentrated, well-remunerated human capital" is indeed a desirable thing, but the amenities that attract them and that they help create are ENHANCED by the presence of other productive individuals, who can and should be accommodated by dense affordable housing within that same urban matrix.
Hmm, so your argument seems to reduce to:
"We (the high-skilled class) should pay the bill for all of their schooling, welfare programs, section 8, food stamps, head start, juvenile justice system, jail, courts, prison system, parks, daycare centers, free clinics, public hospitals, university scholarships, and in return, they will give us...
...mariachi and cheap chalupas."
Am I reading that right?
"A very interesting result, which has given me a lot to think about."
Is that acceptable under TE Style-Guide :)
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The Oviedo Police Department said Janet Mate Palastak Gault, 88, was found around 2:30 a.m. asleep inside the room, which was described by police as a "locked, vacant room."
A search had been launched for Gault, who has Alzheimer's and walks with a cane.
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TravelPod Member ReviewsBella Vista Motel Franz Josef Glacier
Franz Josef was a small village with several accommodation choices. We settled on The Bella Vista mainly because it could accommodate the five us by booking two adjacent rooms. We found the rooms to be quite spacious and each had a kitchenette. The beds were comfortable and the views of Franz Josef Glacier were spectacular. The price, at $360 NZ, was reasonable relative to other places in the area with similar amenities. Take a look at this place if you find yourself in the south Westland of New Zealand - www.bellavistafranzjosef.co.nz/
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There was nothing fancy about Bella Vista Hotel, but it met our needs, close to restaurants, very comfortable. I would recommend staying there, and if ever in that area, I would stay there again. Generally a basic, nice, clean hotel without bells and whistles.
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