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Now back to the porn. A touch more Al Parker, and some more big dicks.
Now back to the porn. A touch more Al Parker, and some more big dicks.
Hope this will provide a bit of a boost in your quest.
Here's to a sucksessful Hunt!
Keep smilin'!!
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Grrr, some hot stuff. Thanks for posting!
Beautiful photo.
And now for some more Harry Bush artwork.
This has always been one of my favourite sketches:
Harry Bush, part 3.
Harry Bush straggler, and final bit of vintage artwork.
I Have just recently heard about and got into OLD RELIABLE!! Please could anybody out there who has some of these images please post some more. Here are the ones I have. I will upload some other VINTAGE porn soon!
Ask and ye shall receive.
TLA Video Old Reliable Bijou releases.
The Old Reliable Fund
[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Speeding-Reliable-Photos-David-Hurles/dp/1931160392/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1259002851&sr=8-1"]Speeding: The Old Reliable Photos of David Hurles[/ame]
Old reliable part 2
Old reliable part 3
Old Reliable part 4
Last but not least
Who do you think were the top three pornstars/porn producers of the "vintage" era? My choices are Al Parker, Joe Gage, and Jack Wrangler. Though I have a particular affinity for Al Parker.
Some google searches are fruitful...
Finishing out the Al Parker Pics
Al Parker was a beauty.....
He had a raw sexuality about him!
The Three Musketeers... Bashful, Chrisglass, and Ronboy!
^That and he had a great set of balls on him. Forget the monster that is his dick. I'll have his balls, thank you very much.
A few books (19) on our love of the vintage male nude. Most of the links will be to amazon. Some of these books are even on my wishlist, though not my public one.
Mostly Pictoral:
The Big Penis BookThis can also be found at Amazon.
[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Hard-Boys-Harry-Bush/dp/1931160538/ref=wl_it_dp_o?ie=UTF8&coliid=I2ZDE0KBQG214N&colid =2TSQ0KDQ2GOOE"]Hard Boys[/ame]
[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Whos-Pretty-Boy-Then-Pictures/dp/1852425946/ref=wl_it_dp_o?ie=UTF8&coliid=I1BF06JO5YY02D&colid =2TSQ0KDQ2GOOE"]Who's a pretty boy then?[/ame]
[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Penis-Book-Joseph-Cohen/dp/0767917537/ref=wl_it_dp_o?ie=UTF8&coliid=I7IMDG5B0HCVJ&colid= 2TSQ0KDQ2GOOE"]The Penis Book[/ame] Not to be confused with "The Big Penis Book," above.
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Uncovered: Rare Vintage Male Nudes
Lust Unearthed
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Bob's World: The Life and Boys of A.M.G's Bob Mizer
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For those interested in a historical overview, Taschen (25th year anniversary special edition) of [ame="http://www.amazon.com/Male-Nude-Taschen-25/dp/3822841056/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1259048427&sr=8-1"]Male Nudes[/ame] is now available. It has artwork by Pierre&Gilles on the cover, but inside photography of the male nude from the beginning of photography to the present are shown in this thick coffee glossy edition.
5 more pictures before bedtime. (1:45 am here)
Thanks for sharing...some pics bring back some good memories
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Oh Kathleen....
I know there are nights when I have power, when I could put on something and walk in somewhere, and if there is a man who doesn't look at me, it's because he's gay.-Kathleen Turner
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And in the "DO NOT WANT" category, we have.....
Ok, I don't want to seem obsessed with Al Parker, but I keep finding blogs/websites with pictures of him that I don't have.
Just three more of Al Parker (......for now)
awesome thread! i too am pretty young, but LOVE the old shots. sometimes the new stuff is almost too...real, lol.
sex in mags was always meant to be glamorized and vague and mysterious. Now it seems more cheap and dirty and oversized.
PS. i like the al parker shots a lot! what awesome hair and beard...and THEN we travel down south, lmao
Happy thanksgiving eve everybody. I'll probably be too busy cooking to post any pictures tomorrow, so here they cum at you today.
Some more pre-thanksgiving treats
As they say in small English town when weighing the mayor to see if he's become fat off the taxes "Vintage Porn....And some More."
agaymale, loved the Old Reliable pics. I am a big fan of that site, whose owner David Hurlesi is unfortunately recovering from a massive stroke. Thought you might like to know that two of the guys in post 62 (first and third) are serving lengthy prison sentences right now.
I have some more, but they aren't labeled as Old Reliable. The ones I posted that were specifically labeled as old reliable pix were only found after doing a specific search for them at the request of Jaiye69. I hope he enjoyed them.
Pic 2 may not be vintage, but come on the face is Cary Grant's.
wondering if I'll ever get past the As and Bs in my collection.
Wonderful Bruno pics.
He's one of my porn deities - his images never lose their potency.
Great pictures - have fun cooking.
Well I lucked out. Since I'm only making thanksgiving for two today, and for a crowd on Sunday (strange happenings I know), I can post a few pictures this morning. and maybe much later tonight.
Just a few more this morning...
He looked like something that had gotten loose from Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.-The generally silent Harpo Marx
Well I hope everyone who likes Thanksgiving had a good Thanksgiving. Hell even if you don't, I hope you had a good one.
Bring on the meat....in drawn, completely covered up form.
This time with not drawn, for the most part, uncovered sausages.
Last of the few thanksgiving pix for tonight.
Qu'est-ce qu'un saucisson à queue. Puis-je le goût?
I lucked out and found another Harry Bush drawing. Guess which one...lol.
I hope some more guys will read and post to this thread, including pictures. I just hope it is stuff I don't already have....
I am that....
5 more for this afternoon=20 pix
I love this thread! Even though i'm only 19, vintage porn has always been so hot to me. I just love the raw masculinity of the guys you see in these pics.

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Howdy! So, we've got a pair of old lamps we need to get rid of, and we think they're worth a bit of money but don't know enough about them to be sure. Anyone with lamp knowledge, can you help us identify and figure out what to sell them for? Many thanks in advance! |
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1950s ... if it works and IF your area like them, maybe $5-500 . Depends on who made it. Look for maker's marks and repost back Call it MCM on craigslist and see what happens. |
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We need to install a threshold in the doorway to our bedroom to cover an interuption in the floating floors that we are installing. I think I would prefer a wide and flat threshold that is as deep as the entire door jamb and stop to cover the expansion joints rather than using T-moulding. Is this done and would it look okay? We are going for an old house look and none of the thresholds I've seen look quite right, so maybe we'll make our own. Is this a bad idea? |
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A wide threshold will look fine. The only decision is whether to use a beveled oak or a "hollywood" marble threshold. The latter has a double bevel and transitions equally from both directions....AKA a "Handicapped" threshold. |
Regardless of what saddle you choose there should still be an expansion gap left between the floating floor and the saddle. How are you going to cover that space without a transition trim? Use a square edge reducer (end cap) that would butt up to the saddle while still leaving the expansion underneath. |
Thanks for the suggestions,Lazarus and Jerry. I was able to see some old houses this weekend and I think I'll be okay with the standard beveled 4" threshold with a section of wood underneath, which basically would function like a super wide T-moulding. It looks a little lopsided being centered under the door itself but apparently that's how it's done and has been done for a long time. Now that I've seen it I think it looks reasonably acceptable. But I also like the idea of using an appropriate board that is the width of the door frame with the reducer trim for the expansion areas on either side of the saddle. That would satisfy my desire for symmetry relative to the door frame. Luckily, I have a little bit of time to think about both of these ideas. Thanks again! |
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Almost every home product advertisement you can think of features a woman acting out a pretty stereotypical domestic role; you'd think all we spend our time doing was wiping counters and asking our rambunctious husbands and sons to take their shoes off. In the wake of the recent Super Bowl ad frenzy, comes this amazing parody video advertising a product called "Swiffle." Bringing awareness to important subjects like reproductive rights, rape culture, wage inequality, and general sexism, the fake product and its hilarious tagline "Inequality Sucks" is a welcome reminder that condescending and sexist ads are as damaging as they are ludicrous.
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Makes about 12
- 3/4 cup chilled buttermilk
- 3/4 cup thinly sliced trimmed ramps (bulbs, stems, and green tops)
- 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 6 tablespoons (3/4 stick) chilled unsalted butter, cut into pieces
- 1 large egg, beaten to blend (for glaze)
- 1/2 teaspoon coriander seeds, cracked
Preheat oven to 425°F. Mix buttermilk and ramps in small bowl. Mix flour, baking powder, salt, and pepper in processor. Add chilled butter to processor; using on/off turns, cut in butter until fine meal forms. Transfer flour mixture to medium bowl. Add buttermilk mixture; stir until dough forms. Turn dough out onto lightly floured work surface and press out to 7-inch round, about 1/2 inch thick. Using 2-inch-diameter biscuit cutter dipped in flour, cut out rounds. Gather dough scraps; press out to 1/2-inch thickness and cut out additional rounds. Transfer dough rounds to baking sheet. Brush biscuit tops with some of egg glaze. Sprinkle with cracked coriander seeds. Bake biscuits until golden brown, about 20 minutes. Cool on rack. Serve slightly warm or at room temperature.
my notes
- Calories123
- Carbohydrates13 g (4%)
- Fat6 g (10%)
- Protein3 g (6%)
- Saturated Fat4 g (19%)
- Sodium230 mg (10%)
- Polyunsaturated Fat0 g
- Fiber1 g (3%)
- Monounsaturated Fat2 g
- Cholesterol31 mg (10%)
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type: Bread
main ingredients: Buttermilk, Coriander, Green Onion/Scallion
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tell me which one is better ah?
tell me which one is better ah?
Rock, of course.
Rock, but I do like some rap.
i think rap has some good beats im just sick of rap only talking about nothing else but pimps, hoes, bitches etc etc
Gah that depends on my mood. I cant really choose, though Im not a big big fan of either anyway.
I like some rap. Like Missy rap. Ya know?
I vote for Rock though. ^_^
I am a very open person...When I am by myself I tend to "bump" rap...I am very much into Bay Area rap and its artist since I live on FILMORE street San Francisco...BUT I do appreciate rock very much...Its not that I don't like it, its just not my preferance, if I'm haning out with rockers I am more than happy to listin to their music...
Rock. Loud, Obnoxious,Snotty,Annoying,Big Hair,Spandex and Platforms ROCK!!!
It just goes to show you, No Matter Where You Go, There You Are...
rock of course. "call me when you're sober" good video, and the man is fucking hot. don't you think so?
do u like gothic?
No contest. Rap is crap without the c.
I like both but Rock over rap.
ROCK duh (It said "this message is too short" so now it's not)
Though I do love me some rock every now and then, I have to go with Rap all the way!!! For those of you who don't like rap based on what's on radio right now (all the "bitches" and "ho's" and "grillz") PLEASE take a listen to rappers like Mos Def, Common and The Roots. Guys like that show how rap can be an art form, unlike most of the fools who come out with all this ghetto stuff.
One rapper I absolutly Love...I accually got to meet him in Hollywood as a youth...Tupac Shakur...If you understand where he comes from, hes not just rapping about useless crap like killing people, drugs, and hoes...He does occasionally rap about them, but he focuses on stuff like racism, brutality, police abuse, and other political stuff like that...his message was that all of this needs to end for us to live as a society...He was not an angel or anything, but he spoke the truth...his rap was infact [B]poetry with a beat[B]...RIP Tupac, Always got love for you.
Listen to songs such as "Only God can Judge Me"..."Dear Mama"...and especcially "Ghetto Gospel"...these are very inspirational songs...and FYI..His first song was about Gun control and how it needs to be taken more seriously because his friend was shot by accident, playing with guns.
Tupac was amazing!! You're so lucky you got to meet him!! If only he was still alive; he would kick all these rappers' asses now.
If Tupac were alive he'd just get himself shot again.
I prefer Hip Hop by a wide margin, but, IMO, mainstream rock has actually gotten better recently(within the last 3 years) while mainstream rap has slipped a bit. In any case, IMO, both genres are broad enough that a comparison is all but meaningless.
R O C K for sure
as in...
metal, indie, rock, emo, punk, etc........
or what =s
as for rap.
i think the underground rap scene is much more better than the mtv trash on tv which only shows useless lyrics about pimps n hoes.
Rap does not appeal to me AT ALL.
Interesting that corporate media strongly promotes mainly rappers that glorify violence and sexism -- but maybe not all that surprising.
I've haven't been into rap that much lately, it's gotten really old (I mean, when you hear rappers on McDonald commercials you pretty much can tell that it's no longer a cutting edge genre in general), but it's probably the most popular genre for people under thirty nowadays. I asked a friend who's really into it about why he would listen to lyrics that promote violence and hatred so much and he told me it just makes him feel good, that he doesn't think about the words, he feels them. So there you are.
And don't forget how homophobic rap can be. I'm sure there are rappers out there who might be queer-friendly, but the corporate media sure as hell's not promoting them.
In the meantime I'll stick with queercore!
Definitely rock, though I find a few rap songs here and there to be enjoyable.
R-o-c-k R-o-c-k R-o-c-k!!!!!!!
I like both, but for sheer enjoyment, rock. Rap's getting too generic.
Bend me, break me, anyway you need me
as long as I want you baby, it's alright.
For now rap. You have appreciate it for what it is and find it to get the non-homophobic cream of the crop. Besides, I live in an area where even the gay guys like Beenie Man's music.
None of the "rock" I listen to (Indie, Punk) is really rock, anyway.
My marriage can't be used to kill a whole high school full of kids. Register your freaking guns. - Jasun
Electronica lolololol
(´ω`) Dissolve your inner chicken. Voices that say "ah, yes".
Being part of the Hip hop industry, Im obviously into that a LOT..
But i do love my death/pure fucking hard metal
..There's Things I Haven't Told You.. I Go Out Late At Night..
And If I Was To Tell You.. You'd See My Different Side..
Rap ofcourse and love them rappers too.
Rock and pop mixed together!
I like a lot of rock, but metal and industrial the most, like Danzig, Ministry, and White Zombie.
I like some rap, like Esham, Natas, Doctor Octagon, and Deadlee. I like a bit of all types of things. Country like David Allan Coe and blues like Screamin Jay Hawkins. Every genre has something I could like, probably,if I just dig a little bit.
Rock. But I like some rap. Neither are my favourite type of music.
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Will Seattle's parks initiative make us happier?
On August 5th, Seattle voters will decide on Proposition One, a measure that would change how we fund and maintain our city park system. Until now, voters have been asked to approve levies for our parks every six years – a cause they have consistently supported. Proposition One would replace the levy system with a new Metropolitan Parks Board composed of city councilmembers. That board would have the power to raise property taxes to a maximum of $75 per $100,000 dollars of home valuation, an increase of perhaps $150 per year for an average family — or, to put it in different terms, the cost of about a latte per week.
Proponents say the money would allow expansion of the park system, especially to underserved neighborhoods, and a chance to make up the city's $278 million backlog of park maintenance needs. The City Council would oversee the Metro Park system. So far, the arguments seem to boil down to "This will mean more parks!" (Yes) or "You can't trust the city council not to sell the system out to developers!" (No).
But what if we evaluated a proposal like this as they do in Bhutan, a tiny Himalayan country known for its commitment to "Gross National Happiness" rather than Gross Domestic Product? Bhutan's 24-member Gross National Happiness Commission evaluates policy ideas using a 26-question screening tool based on nine domains of life found by scientists to correlate highly with happiness. The domains include:
- Material wellbeing (equity, security, sufficiency, etc.)
- Health (clean air, water, diet, exercise…)
- Mental health (purpose, connection, manageable stress…)
- Community Vitality (social connection and support…)
- Education (access, quality, results…)
- Arts, Culture and Recreation (access, quality…)
- Time Balance (leisure, work-time, stress…)
- Government (participation, transparency, corruption…)
- Environment (air, water quality, access to nature…)
A scale of one to four is used to answer the questions:
- Likely to make things worse in the domain…
- Don't know the results....
- Won't make things worse; may make them better..
- Will make things better in the domain…
The final score must average 3 or above for the Gross National Happiness Commission to recommend approval by Bhutan's parliament.
Four years ago, Karma Tshiteem, Bhutan's Commissioner of Happiness (a cabinet-level post), visited Seattle, where he explained to a Green Festival audience that Bhutan had decided not to join the World Trade Organization after the proposal scored, on average, less than two.
I have used an abbreviated version of the tool — only ten questions — in workshops with several U.S. communities to show how such a tool might improve political discussion in the U.S. and reduce political polarization.
In Columbia, South Carolina, we discussed a proposal to publicly fund a professional baseball stadium. It failed the test, but not by much. In Muncie, Indiana, the proposal was for free higher education; it barely passed.
In Burlington, Vermont, the proposal was to ban fracking for natural gas. I took a vote of the group before the discussion — it was a unanimous Yes. But using the process, the proposal to ban fracking barely failed, leading to a new proposal to ban new fracking and phase out existing practices over time so as not to suddenly increase unemployment, a definite cause of unhappiness.
The Vermont participants were surprised to see the kinds of disagreements they had. I pointed out that all gave the measure a 1 (the lowest score) for Material Wellbeing, believing it would reduce jobs, but a 4 (the highest) for environment. In our current fracking dialogue, jobs vs. environment makes up the entire debate and things become totally polarized. Assessing several other domains led to a far more nuanced conversation, one where liberals and conservatives could actually find some common ground.
The groups I worked with believed such discussions would improve decision-making, not only in government, but in businesses and non-profits. A journalism professor at Indiana's Ball State University also suggested that reporters and newspapers use such a tool to evaluate policy proposals.
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Posted Wed, Jul 30, 7:26 a.m.
You know what would make me happy? Being taxed less so I can work less and spend more time with my kids. But yes, we have so much to learn from a nation run by a monarchy with a per capita income of $2,420.
Poverty, after all, is much more photogenic.
Posted Wed, Jul 30, 7:49 a.m.
By the way, the Bhutan scale is a classic example of how g*d d*amn out of touch college educated, upper middle class white liberals are with the day to day problems of working class families in this country.
Posted Wed, Jul 30, 7:54 a.m.
This is a very useful tool - a "happiness" study. However, like any study, its value depends more on the questions than the answers. In fact, as pointed out by Graaf, in the Burlington case reading the questions brought up more discussions and issues that hadn't been understood across the table.
Another way to look at it is this: in the sample set of questions at the top of the article, there's only one that deals directly with the economy. Let's say that question wasn't asked. Then there would be no way to relate the economic effect to a score. Alternatively, let's say there were three questions related to economy. That might be enough to make economy the driving factor in the score. So, choosing the right questions is important.
I think I fall in the "distruct the council" group. It was interesting to see that Graff rated that question with a 2 but still came up with a high score for the overall set. I wonder if he used the exact set of questions printed in this article.
Posted Wed, Jul 30, 7:56 a.m.
"This month, at the Phinney Neighborhood Center, I facilitated while seven people used the tool to discuss the proposal. I split them into three groups "
Was this a Portlandia skit?
Posted Wed, Jul 30, 8:40 a.m.
"resultant health, recreation, time balance, community and environmental benefits." I have to wonder where those increases will come from when I will be working even more than I do now (full time) to pay for it? I am definitely in the distrust the council group. They have a terrible track record on spending in ways that I think are important; for example stadia, Bertha, Brenda, palatial city hall and offices buildings, Carrasco's rich salary, the highly paid consultants that amount to political patronage jobs...you get the idea.
I am quite sure that this is about building the new waterfront park as a nice front yard for the condos to come, as well as to remove the pesky voices of the taxpayers from all decision making so that the council members can tend to their future employers' wants and needs. I voted NO the day the ballot came and it went out in the next day's mail.
I do agree with pragmatic that, as with statistics, the questions asked and how they are interpreted are important considerations when rating the utility of results from this model.
Posted Thu, Jul 31, 1:09 p.m.
Yes mspat I imagine the condo owners and tourists will feel 'happy' in their new disney-esque waterfront park. The rest of us are already fairly disturbed by the last 20 years of 'improvements' and don't go there anymore.
Posted Thu, Jul 31, 10:14 p.m.
I could not agree more! You know who will be happier? I am sure the exploding homeless population in Seattle will love it as they no longer only get drunk and cause problems in downtown parks. They will now enjoy all of the improvements to the parks on Beacon and the CD as well. Yes they will see those increases in "time balance" while the rest of us are working to pay for it and we will avoid the parks on our days off because its hard to explain to a 3 year old how to avoid the needles on the way down the slide. Its backyard only for mine.
Posted Wed, Jul 30, 11:13 a.m.
It isn't the questions, but how people are biased in their answers to them... If a bunch of people are afraid that the City Council will sell off Parks, we have a problem. Prop 1 doesn't propose to sell off or transfer ownership of any Parks facilities or properties. And if future City Councils want to do such things -- which they could propose right now without an MPD -- they would have to go through a transparent, public process to do so -- just like they would have to do right now without an MPD.
Posted Thu, Jul 31, 1:02 p.m.
incorrect... they do not have to go thru any public process.... they are not a city entity.... they are given power and authority by the state to do anything that in their minds is of benefit to the parks system or brings in revenue for the Parks. There are NO binding rules attached to how they operate or make decisions.... read RC@ 35.61.130... it is right there in black and white.
Posted Thu, Jul 31, 8:21 a.m.
Very interesting analysis. I wonder how the more negative group would have rated the initiative if they new that the City Council will not have any additional authority to sell parks. In fact, the Park District will own no Seattle parks and the. Council ordinance that is a companion to the ballot initiatives makes it clear that the City Charter and City law will continue to govern how parks are managed. Initiative 42, adopted by the Council two decades ago does not allow for the sell of parkland, period. Nothing changes. While you're correct that their is a trust issue, there is also an integrity issue with the opponents of Prop 1. They continue to misstate the tax impact and the assertion that Prop 1 could result in "our parks being privatized or sold." Would you trust the opponents to influence your vote when they continue to misstate such crucial facts?
Posted Thu, Jul 31, 10:35 a.m.
I am sorry Simon, that you find my story so easy to dismiss, but it would be helpful at least to get your facts straight while doing so. Bhutan is not run by a monarchy, but is a parliamentary democracy with greater public participation than our own, and while it is still very poor, per capita income is nearly double the figure you state. But that aside, why is it that you think we have nothing to learn from others, even if they are poor? Why the arrogance that underlies your comments? We have much to learn from many people and countries regardless of their incomes, and Bhutan's happiness scale and policy tool have been attracting worldwide attention. Far from being irrelevant to the American working class' day to day problems, the Bhutan scale addresses the fact that deprivation is not merely monetary, and that the "working class" also suffers from many other issues--poor health, overwork, lack of connection, environmental pollution, lack of government accountability, depression, anxiety, less access to education, etc. These are precisely the deprivations that Bhutan also considers and measures. Paying less taxes is not the key to working less--indeed all the countries where people work the fewest hours (and are also the happiest) are high-tax countries--the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, etc. Higher taxes provide many services and amenities at far lower cost than does the market, thus allowing people to cut back on work. Here, the Dutch Working Hours Adjustment Act is instructive. It has allowed the Dutch to work the shortest hours in the world while ranking # in children's wellbeing and in parental and female life satisfaction. Cutting taxes is not the way to shorten work. And as for splitting seven people into three groups, it is a technique that allows each more time to express themselves before coming back into the larger group. I find it very useful. But I'm sure these explanations will not satisfy you since your response is merly one of smug dismissal. I hope you will give a bit more thought to future responses to article.
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sorry, missed a number. I meant to say that the Netherlands ranks #1 in children's wellbeing, parental and female satisfaction.
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So, John, am I reading this correctly? 2/3 of those participants did not feel they would be happier if Prop 1 passed?
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four out of seven were opposed initially. I'm not certain what the feelings were after the final discussion.
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How on earth could you divide 7 people into 3 groups? And just what does a total of 7 people prove? Ye gods, this whole thing is ridiculous.
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This seems a promising way for looking at things and understanding underlying issues. As others have mentioned the very small group size you used reduces the significance of the outcome.
One other problem is in how one frames or limits the alternatives.
For instance an alternative MPD with an independent Board of Directors and perhaps a lower taxing limit might score very well, better than proposition 1 or the levy system.
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Raising a standard against happiness is never going to be popular, but here goes.
The mountain kingdom of Bhutan has got a lot of mileage out of its practice, first adopted in 1972, of using a broad "Gross National Happiness" (GNH) measure of its people's welfare rather than a narrow measure like income.
According to the many people who have fallen in love with the idea – the UN went as far as declaring March 20 the "International Day Of Happiness" – a holistic approach to welfare reflects more accurately the many dimensions of wellbeing in the human condition. The philosophy has been urged upon rich and developing economies alike as the proper goal of government policy.
Unfortunately for its international enthusiasts, its originators are losing faith. Tshering Tobgay, elected with a thumping majority last year in only the country's second parliamentary election, has distanced his government from the concept. "If the government of the day were to spend a disproportionate amount of time talking about GNH rather than delivering basic services, then it is a distraction," he said. "Rather than talking about happiness, we want to work on reducing the obstacles to happiness". His campaign promised more practical advances including a motorised rototiller for every village and a utility vehicle for each district.
This is a welcome development for two reasons. One, Bhutan's GNH, defined from the top by an autocratic monarch, was a deeply illiberal means of legitimising undemocratic rule and failed utterly to prevent grotesque abuses of human rights. Two, it has distracted from much more constructive and democratic ideas of running countries in the interests of their citizens' wider wellbeing.
Mr Tobgay's disillusionment underlines the obvious problems with trying simultaneously to hit a bunch of vaguely-defined targets (for which see also the Millennium Development Goals and their successors) – but even more so of allowing authorities to decree what they consider the happiness of their citizens to be.
The GNH is assessed by asking survey respondents about a variety of indicators, from more conventional issues like health and education to more nebulous concepts like emotional fulfilment and perceived national ecological sustainability. It is noticeable that the haziest ones seem to do better: the highest-scoring indicator is "Values", denoting that Bhutanese tend to concur that murder, stealing, lying, creating disharmony in relationships and sexual misconduct are a bad thing. Good for them, but, on the other hand, less than half of respondents are happy with their literacy, employment opportunities, government services and schooling.
Such outcomes are hardly surprising: the autocratic monarchy that ruled Bhutan until the first free elections in 2008 substantially failed to deliver better lives for most of its duration. Literacy is still only around 50 per cent, and only around half of children attend secondary school. Most Bhutanese are still subsistence or other small-scale farmers, unemployment is rife and suicide rates are alarmingly high. Corruption in government is believed to be widespread.
Moreover, GNH has proved no guarantee of individual human rights. Taking it at face value, you would never know that Bhutan has for decades been carrying out a brutal ethnic cleansing policy against the country's Nepali-speaking minority. Once around a sixth of the population, a "Bhutanisation" campaign that began in the 1980s resulted in tens of thousands of Nepalis being expelled from the country. Their houses were seized or burned down and people deported for speaking Nepali, refusing to eat beef (Nepalis are generally Hindu while ethnic Bhutanese are Buddhist) or declining to wear traditional dress. The displaced are still living in refugee camps in Nepal, or have been resettled in the US or elsewhere: none has been allowed to return.
GNH defines and imposes a unitary set of values that does not protect diversity or individual rights, or at least addresses them only in ways that can be defined and controlled by the government. It is a communitarian view of the world distinctly reminiscent of Hu Jintao's ideal of a "harmonious society", a concept frequently cited by the Chinese government when clamping down on free speech and dissent. It should give GNH's foreign supporters a long pause for thought that as soon as Bhutanese voters had a choice after decades of dictatorship, they threw out its backers and brought in its critics.
The international attention given to GNH is doubly irritating because it has managed to distract attention away from more transparent and participative attempts to measure wellbeing, coordinated among others by the OECD. Several governments have made serious attempts to work out what makes their citizens happy by the novel procedure of asking them, not defining it on their behalf.
The best way of finding out what makes people happy is watching what they do, or what they spend their money on. It's notable, for example, that the perennial surveys of the world's most liveable cities, which always seem to end up recommending Copenhagen and scorning London, are generally at odds with where internationally mobile people actually choose to live. The criteria of the survey's designers are evidently not the same as those of real people actually making decisions.
Of course, not every expression of wellbeing can be judged or delivered by the free market. Services like universal healthcare do not function well in the private sector, and there are negative growth externalities like pollution, noise and traffic which require a wider measure of welfare. Still, the guiding principle is that concepts of wellbeing need to be expressed through the market where possibly and democratic choice where necessary, not imposed by technocrats – and particularly not used by autocratic governments to suppress individual choice.
As for the future of GNH in Bhutan, Mr Tobgay seems to have exactly the right idea. He wants the king (now happily reduced to the role of a constitutional monarch) to proselytise for it in an abstract way, much as Queen Elizabeth II is sent abroad to chunter vaguely about Britain's enduring values while the UK government gets on with running the country according to what its voters want.
Poor farmers need more motorised rototillers to work their land and fewer autocratic monarchs commanding them to be happy in a manner decreed by the state. Measures of wellbeing need to be debated and tested rather than dreamt up and imposed. Bhutan's "Gross National Happiness" has attracted praise from gullible foreigners, but at home it has acted as a cover for serious failures of governance and severe abuses of human rights. Its demotion is entirely to be welcomed.
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The Government has given the go ahead for thirteen new Studio Schools to open in 2014, backed by local and national employers and industry leaders, including the National Space Centre, Barclays, Talk Talk, National Nuclear Laboratory and the National Trust. Find out more here
Visual effects are responsible for making the unbelievable believable and bringing films like Avatar and Lord of the Rings to life. Escape Studio's VFX careers guide helps explain the art and science behind the craft, the career prospects and what part you could play in the industry's ever evolving future. Find out more here.
As the name Careers World suggests, we cover everything possible to do with careers. Whether you want to start earning qualifications and money with an Apprenticeship, het a taste of the working world with employer funded study, carry on learning at sixth form or college, or go to university, this magazine and website will help you make the right choice for your future.
This book, website and app contains everything you need to decide whether an Apprenticeship is right for you, and more importantly, what Apprenticeship is right for you! We are going to tell you about all the Apprenticeships there are, and tell you about the job roles and modules they involve. So let's get started. Follow the link and find outWhat Apprenticeshipyou want to do....
The Artsmark is a national award that accredits quality arts education. It is Arts Council England's flagship programme to enable schools, further education colleges and youth justice settings to audit, celebrate and develop high quality arts education. It is a key driver in their aim to ensure every child and young person has the opportunity to experience the richness of the arts.
Careersbox is a free online library of careers related film, news and information. As the preferred digital new media partner's for the Institute of Career Guidance, the largest careers body in the UK, Careersbox aim is to deliver the right information at the right time to careers advisers and job seekers. Check out our case study films show real people doing real jobs, giving viewers insight into careers across all sectors and helping them to find the right career. If you have a film you would like to see made, have any feedback on the site or would like more informaton, simply contact us at: Careersbox The Old Depot 31c Clifton Road Cambridge CB1 7EB T: 01223 240 099 E: firstname.lastname@example.com or visit CareersINFO.co.uk
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