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(CNN) – It's a song that's been recorded by hundreds of artists. It's been a favorite in TV competition shows and been used as a healing anthem in times of tragedy. And just recently, after the tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut, 'Hallelujah' emerged again.
The popularity of 'Hallelujah' was hardly foreshadowed when it was written and first recorded by Leonard Cohen in 1984. The song was on an album Cohen's record company decided not to release.
A decade would pass before it was embraced by another artist, and its true introduction began.
Author Alan Light writes about the song's journey from obscurity to what he calls now a "modern standard".
[1:20] "There are now countless ways that people first encounter this song and so there isn't one fixed version that everything gets compared to because people enter it through all of these many different uses and these many different versions. And it allows it to be a lot more flexible and a lot more malleable then a song where everybody starts from hearing the same version and everything gets compared to that."
Alan Light's new book is The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, and the Unlikely Ascent of "Hallelujah"
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I have always loved the song and it is consrtructed ironically as a hymn, but it consistantly amazes me that people see it as an inspirational spiritual piece. Quite the opposite. As with many of Cohen's poems and songs, it is about loss and human frailty in the face of "God's grace"A man falls passionately in love ," her beauty overthrew me" he gives himself up to love "she tied me to a kitchen chair" "she cut my hair". They make deep and intimate love " everytime I moved in you" it was hallelujah or rapture, God's grace, love as it could and should be. Then as they sadly and often do with humans things go wrong , it falls apart, and the love becomes "a funeral march" "a cold and broken hallelujah" the next thing to do is get out of town quickly. Hurt her before she hurts you. It is inconceivable to me that they could play this song as atribute to murdered 5 and 6 year olds when the punch line is "there may be a god above but the only thing I've learned from love is how to shoot somebody who outdrew ya". It is a beautiful song, but it is a song of human failure and loss of innosence. – to make it a spiritual hymn shows how superficially we view our worldand a woeful lack of understanding. Almost as bad as suggesting we arm all our elementary schools as a consequence of gun violence.
Whatever the lyrics are this song does have a feel of a spiritual hymn, similarly to Amazing Grace.
I love them both.
The musical parts of these songs that separate them from an ordinary pop song.
America The Beautiful, or Hallelujah cannot be compared or put in the same category as "Stairway to Heaven".
BEST SONG EVER! Will have it played at my funeral. That being said, has nothing to do with G-d or anything vaguely spiritual, unless of course you consider sexual relationships or relationships in general to be of a spiritual nature.
Yes I do. Two spirits become one spirit and temple.
"Hallelujah" is a great song - but, in my opinion (and Leonard's, incidentally), "If It Be Your Will," which closes the album, is the strongest of the set, and probably the best song he has ever written.
I saw Cohen a couple of weeks ago. No matter what you think 'Hallelujah' is about go and see the concert if you have a chance.
The saddest part of this whole song and it's history is now it is a cliche.
Leonard Cohen has been one of my favorite song writers since I first heard 'Suzanne' nearly 50 years ago.
His lyrics are fused with reverence and with dark magic, purity and sexuality, and enough ambiguity to allow people to find their own meaning.
Does anyone know what Hallelujah means?
Hallelujah, also spelled halleluiah, halleluyah, and the Greek and Latin form alleluia are transliterations of the Hebrew word הַלְּלוּיָהּ (Modern halleluya, Tiberian halləlûyāh) meaning "Praise ye Yah" or "Praise Jah, you people".[1][2][3] The last syllable is from the first two letters of the name of God, YHWH (also transcribed JHVH).[4] "Praise Jah" is therefore a shortened form of "Praise Yahweh"[5][6][7] or, in another transliteration of the name, "Praise Jehovah".
I guess you live in a country that blocks Google.
Such a thorough and helpful response, right up until the snarky last line. Why was it necessary?
Simply means – Praise God in The Highest!
Great job have not seem or plan to see the movie. But she is correct. I means to praise Jehovah. The Creator of this Universe. Psalms 83:18
"Hallelujah" literally means "Praise you Jah" (a shortened form of Jehovah or Yahweh)
Hallelujah means Praise Jah or Jehovah! Only Jehovah's Witnesses are truely doing this today! Psalms 83:18, Matt 24:14
Please everyone read the lyrics. This is NOT a religious song. It's a song about a breakup. Where they get a religious message out of this is anyones guess.
Yeah, that's idotic to imply it is a song about anything religious. That's like saying a porn is religious because an actor says "Oh God" while doing a guy...
I never paid too much attention to the lyrics but I always assumed it was a song about the song itself, considering that line that describes the chord progression of the song. But again, I never really paid that much attention to it, having only heard it in the movie "Shrek".
I remember, oh about 30 years ago, when "Born in the U.S.A." became a Reagan Conservative National Anthem. It was that great showman, P. T. Barnum who once said, "You Will Never Go Broke Underestimating the Intelligence of the American Public:.
Well, I just did what you asked and read the lyrics, and to say it's not religious is idiotic. It's about King David composing a song using a "mystery chord", and if it's a love song at all, it's about David's fascination with Bathsheba, as is evident by the line about him seeing her bathe on the roof of her home. The song may not be religious from beginning to end but the majority of it is.
Has nothing to do with religion it simply means what it is. It means "Praise Yahweh ,Jehovah." I do not know the context of the movie.
It will not be the first or last that people do things without having a full knowledge of the background or caring of the back ground. A perfect example is December 25. What is the origin of that?
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Like all good Leonard Cohen songs, there's elements of both. It's a bittersweet break-up song told with the imagery of David and Bathsheba, and of Samson and Delilah. It's a hymn of praise – though, since it's Cohen, a tired and almost defeated sort of praise. It's finding beauty in heartbreak and the sacred in the profane and drawing strength from the knowledge that life is pain. It's accepting defeat and yet holding on to irrational hope.
Cohen himself seemed to anticipate the reactions to the ambiguity in the song:
"They said I took the name in vain; I don't even know the name
But if I did, well really – what's it to ya?
There's a blaze of light in every word
It doesn't matter which you heard
The holy or the broken hallelujah"
I find thinking of this song as a "hymn" about as silly as thinking of Bruce Springsteen's Born in the USA as a "patriotic" song and playing it on July 4th. Just goes to show, most people don't listen to (or understand) lyrics.
Totally agree with you! It's kind of scary that the actual meaning of a song (or any piece of media for that matter) is so misinterpreted.
The song was also made popular in the the geek-universe when it appeared in the Watchmen movie during an intimate scene between the coupling of two heroes. Great and appropriate healing song, in the midst of a violent era. Hopefully, it will serve as a theme of transition into a new awakened age of reason and enlightment.
Jehovah god, please bless us into the unification of a new world order so that we may happily transform it into the paradise You intended it to be.
...In the name of your son Jesus. Amen!
Excellent !!! Mike we are ready for that and most of all the glorification of the most important personage in the UNIVERSE.
JEHOVAH! Psalms 83:18
Praise the Lord!
Yet another incredible Cohen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGorjBVag0I
I hope the song is an opening through which people explore more of Leonard Cohen's work. I suspect his musical genius will shine for centuries beyond many of his peers. My personal favorite is "The Future."
Also 'Waiting For A Miracle' is another favorite of mine.
Or course, it's art, so anyone can make anything of this song. But if you look at the complete, original, lyrics by Cohen, I think people might rethink what this song is about. It's funny how throwing a few biblical references into a song makes it so acceptable to people who otherwise wouldn't give it a second glance, or might even get offended by it. (I have to agree with those who say Shrek is what made it what it is today–it just goes to show what a good hook can do.)
You're absolutely right about people needing to take another look at the lyrics. I'm frankly amazed at how people seem to miss the song's sexual content. It felt a little creepy when people (e.g., "The Voice") were singing it in honor of the Sandy Hook shooting victims.
Don't get me wrong: I'm not offended by the lyrics at all. I just think that people would apply the song to different situations if they really listened to the whole thing, and not just the chorus.
It's about a breakup and the healing process, so I can see how it would be appropriate in a time of healing. But to imply it is the least bit religious is ridiculous.
Kate Voegele has the best version of hallelujah, in my opinion.
oh no no no ......Jeff Buckley.....by a long shot!
Both are wonderful versions however listen to k.d. lang's version from the 2010 Olympics and you will be blown away with her vocals!
Leonard Cohen was asked to sing this song at the 2010 Olympics and declined, suggesting that kd Lang do it. It's chillingly excellent and Cohen knows he can't hold a note like Lang. You Tube it. It's worth a listen or two.
so because a commercial starring Lebron James becomes "popular" now its cool to enjoy. that commercial is the only reason this article was written. understand that. the songs been around for a while. what bugs me is that a commercial now serves as inspiration for a journalist.
It's not just the commercial. The song has appeared in many contexts. There's the Sandy Hook victims, as well as the victims of Hurricane Sandy, among others.
The fact that this song is up for such debate, is an indicator that it has transcended to the heights of other great works of art. Whether Jeff Buckley or any other artist made beautiful music of it, one also has to ask why did they choose this song? Why did Buckley choose to pour his soul into this rendition? The words to this song come from the soul, and things that come from the soul will never be depicted by the intellect to the level the intellect obtains closure. Leonard Cohen, was a writer, a philosopher, and spent a significant amount of time in spiritual retreat. The intellect has a difficult time traversing the world of the spirit, which maintains a sacred place for all artists and people, thus the connection, which cannot be quantified, but felt.
Well said. I find your perspective enlightening. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and point of view.
Beautifully expressed. I have seen Leonard Cohen in concert twice now, most recently this past November and he is truly a transcendent artist. This song is his greatest gift and will live forever.
The rise of Hallelujah is awesome! It means Praise God in the Highest! I was so moved by Josh Krajic performance on The X Factor finals last December 2011 that I re-wrote the entire song and have posted it on You Tube. Thanks to soulful Josh Krajic and now a angelic Carly Rose, (from X Factor: Season 2) my version of this song I re-titled "My Broken Hallelujah" has skyrocketed on You Tube...mostly with international audience, I am not sure why, but I am grateful to share my story with others. I hope and pray someday if my song doesn't become a hit that it helps others struggling with thoughts of suicide, that have addictions and feel all hope is lost. Now this, there is a God that is alive and really cares for you and me no matter how down and out you are or feel. I've been there. I feel your pain and your frustration. After I re-wrote this song, using the same chords and melody now almost a yr later. I come full circle realizing what was really going on here and what I was really doing. Acknowledging and fulfilling God's Word that every knee shall bow, (our spirits/will our broken). Every tongue confess to the glory of God the Father, that Jesus Christ, (Anointed Saviour) is both Lord, (ruler) and Master. Philippians 2:10-11 Praise God, Praise God in The Highest!
John Cale has the best version I have heard.
Complete disagreement. Jeff Buckley's cover of this song may be the best of cover of any song ever.
Ya no. kd Lang 2010 Olympic version is haunting. It's the best. Hands down.
This article needs to credit Shrek for the rise in popularity of this song.
I agree, but if you take the time to" listen" to the article on the link provided, it references Shrek and even plays a clip from the movie. It also talks about KD Langs version, which is the best version I have heard (her live version at the winter olympics)
This song is good, but I prefer Uncle Demon by Tommy Lee.
Songs are often times poetry and like many poems and most art in general for that matter, it is infused with metaphor and personal meaning by the artist. It isn't meant to be taken literally, but rather felt and interpreted by each listener. It will mean different things to different people. I enjoy this song for the feelings in it which I can relate to.
Douchebags: read the bible and understand what this song is about. Leonard infuses his lyrics with biblical references (e.g. Who By Fire). Education goes a long way... But if you're ignorant, rhymes and the rendition with the best tune is all that matters.
Beatrice is , as you can tell by her mouth, a world class bible thumpin' shithog.
Thank you! Most insightful. Who would sustain an identity crisis when there are kind souls like you to guide one's journey.
Thanks for your opinion, anonymous pious douchehole. You know what opinions are like? As if you know the meaning of the song and no one else does.
Obviously you've never read the book you enjoy thumping people with, or you would never have used the word 'douchebags'. Gandhi said it best.
The Lord reminds us that some use the Word of God as cloak or a dagger intending to harm/hurt us rather than to help uplift, encourage and esteem others better than ourselves. And that God is such a great and merciful God that he has winked in times of our ignorance. For HIS desire is that not one sheep would be lost and that all would come to the full acknowledge and truth that Jesus Christ is both Lord and Master to the Glory of God The Father! Glory! Glory to God in The Highest! Praise God in The Highest! Hallelujah!
I'm not religious, but I'm tolerant of those who are. And I think your response was very well put.
Check into John Cale's version from 1991.
Rise of the Trolls. If you think it's "not very deep," then by all means, go ahead and write something deeper... as you fall into obscurity.
An anguished cry from a broken world sang in rythm is no less a cry and no less anguished..
We may deny our spirtuality but it seems it will not leave anyway..
Well said and so true.
@gurney Slade, are you quoting, or is that your own words. Either way, it's beautiful.
I agree that KD Lang's version is one of the best things I've ever heard.
Beautiful music, and I mean that, but a song appreciated by idiots the world over. Sheesh, the thing is sung following the Sandy Hook massacre and is sung by a 13 year old on X-Factor as if it has deep spiritual meaning.
It always makes me think of "The Emporer's New Clothes" story, where everyone saw and marveled at something that wasn't there because they thought not doing so would prove them to be fools. In this case, people get all stirred up and emotional about a significance that isn't there.
Look up the lyrics. Really, look 'em up. A cross between some mildly pornographic lines about making love to a woman and mixed references to the Biblical David and Sampson.
But, hey, it has the word "Hallelujah" in it a bunch of times sung over swelling music, so it must be deep, right?
Ed – you don't think that idiots are entitled to enjoy good music or is that the restricted domain of music-snobs?
Beautiful music, and I mean that, but a song appreciated by idiots the world over.
I agree with you 100%! I like the song – and not by Mr Cohen. I was playing the dance version by France Joli today which she does a great job and I was thinking of how stupid people are when it comes to this song, I actually saw it as part of someone's Christmas record. What a woman bathing on the roof in the moonlight and being tied to a kitchen chair have to do with Christmas is beyond me. But then again people still play I Will Always Love You at weddings – I guess to get a jump on the divorce.
Ed you cannot listen to Cohen with your mind,when he is talking to your soul.
You missed the point altogether,it is not simple to get mind. But least ways you did go look it up.
LIsten to him again ,close your eyes ,let go of preconcived ideals and ideas.... maybe then it will come through.
The soul? Wow, you are deep, talkin' about magic and all.
The fact that this song is up for such debate, is an indicator that it has transcended to the heights of other great works of art. Whether Jeff Buckley or any other artist made beautiful music of it, one also has to ask why did they choose this song? Why did Buckley choose to pour his soul into this rendition? The words to this song come from the soul, and things that come from the soul will never be depicted by the intellect to the level the intellect obtains closure. Leonard Cohen, was a writer, a philosopher, and spent a significant amount of time in spiritual retreat. The intellect has a difficult time traversing the world of the spirit, which maintains a sacred place for all artists and people, thus the connection, which cannot be quantified, but felt.
Perhaps my re-written version might convince you otherwise. I was on the point of suicide when I re-wrote this song, struggling with my own addictions. Right when I was ready to take my own life, in a cold, dark and lonely hell my spirit broke before God...finally crying out to the Lord please help me overcome my addictions. Perhaps and if you care after listening to this version that you can find on You Tube titled "My Broken Hallelujah" you might have a different perspective and appreciation for the meaning of Hallelujah. Highest Praise to God. That God's Word will come to pass that ...every knee shall bow, (self will/pride of man be broke) and every tongue, (the most unruly and most wicked part of anatomy, beside the heart) shall confess to the glory of God the Father that Jesus Christ, (anointed saviour) is both Lord (ruler) and Master. Praise God! Praise God in The Highest! Phillppians 2:10-11
I really enjoy Leonard Cohens music, but this song was a weird choice to use for the Sandy Hook tribute due to the deeply sexual lyrics. "There was a time when I moved in you, and the holy dove was moving too and every breath we drew was Hallelujah." Is the most vivid and poetic way I've heard someone say "we used to make love." I'm not sure if they kept this line in on the Voice, but probably not the best thing to sing about in reference to children.
They used a shortened version of the song that left out those lyrics. I agree, though. It was a weird, almost creepy, choice.
You're missing the point of the song. It's not a "cross" between some mildly pornographic lines and some Bible verses. It's a song that *melds* the sexual and the spiritual.
I think it has been very badly applied to the Sandy Hook victims (and other memorials), but that doesn't mean it's some crappy, shallow song.
KD Lang's renedition @ the Vancouver Olympics Opening Ceremony was outstanding. This song/hymn touches the soul in a manner that it is impossible to articulate.
Totally agree!
Hallelujah means Praise Jah or Jehovah! Only Jehovah's Witnesses are doing this today! Psalms 83:18
Steve they are not alone. More and more regardless of their affiliation or denomination or lack there of...are coming to acknowledge and understand... through the Lord's Holy Spirit ...that Hallelujah does mean Praise God in the Highest!
Jehovah or more precisely that... I AM that I AM, (The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob) has become your(our) strength, your(our) song has now become your(our) salvation...through Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour. Reference Matthew 1:21-23 as well as Psalms 118:14 and Isaiah(God delivers) 12:2.
Actually Jehovah's Witnesses stand alone in their worship of Jehovah God. No other faith comes close to fulfilling Jesus command to go and make disciples! Matt 24:14, Matt 28:19-20
No, man, the words are like really deep. I mean, I can't really put it into words and stuff, but It's like we're all, like connected and holy and like even if you're not into God and stuff, it's OK because ...has anybody seen my bong?
It's okay. Go back to sleep. Adults are talking.
Jeff Buckley did an amazing cover of it. Many musicians know and love Jeff Buckley so often reintroduce it to the mainstream. It's as simple as that. Every cover I've heard of it is based off of the Jeff Buckley interpretation.
Exactly. Funny, though, that the songwriter is not known for singing it. Kind of like Whitney Houston is known for Dolly Pardon's I Will Always Love You.
Not sure why this song was appropriate to the Newtown shooting. To me, it's a song between two lovers, and one of the verses even sounds like it refers to lovemaking. And "another artist" is the late Jeff Buckley whom Leonard Cohen should bow down to and sing hallelujah because of Buckley's amazing rendition of Cohen's composition, which enabled the song to be so popular.
I agree with you. It is a love song about a couple that breaks up, it is NOT a spiritual song!
I would argue that it's both a song about a breakup *and* a spiritual song. It's just not a *religious* song. That's the difference. It's a painful song about having faith in another person, and then watching it all fall apart when love goes wrong.
At yet Buckley's version is a rehash of the Velvet Underground's John Cale's version. WE GET IT...the song goes poignantly with the now forever young and attractive Jeff Buckley and his untimely death from drowning (which certainly gives his version a provenance I'm sure all the others are glade to let him have). Buckley's sad story and tender hearted female fans still swooning over him aside, the song and the lyrics were written by a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame'r Cohen who is considered to be one of the greatest poets and songwriters and was so prior to Mr. Buckley ever being born. Cohen is also one of the nicest and most gracious people in the music business and of course he would never say anything bad about anyone, but he is more than tired of talking about this song and needs to bow down to no one who may be so inclined to rerecord it.
Because "hallelujah" means, Praise you Lord.
Buckley was a fine player and did a great job with the song, but so silly to suggest that Cohen, with achievements that Buckley could never had dreamt of, would 'bow' to the boy. Buckley was smart to choose the song and lucky Cohen made it available.
I think it's kind of silly to make it a competition. 🙂 Cohen wrote the song, and performed it first, but Buckley did the definitive version. Is that debatable? Sure, I suppose. But I don't think you'll find a lot of people who would argue with it. Buckley's version made the Rolling Stone list of Top 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
Cohen wrote it, though. It exists because of him. Kind of hard to take that away from him. 🙂
Religeous or secular the songe touches a place in us that stirs the soul.
"Praise the Lord" is not, cannot, be secular.
Outstanding song, well performed, and the lyrics are beautiful and meaningful, although it does take 1 / 8th of a brain to know what the lyrics mean.
great tune, but the lyrics suck.
did you fall and hit your head?
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Flashback: Helicopter Crash in Afghanistan Reportedly Kills Members of SEAL Team 6
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A Navy SEAL from the elite SEAL TEAM 6 was killed and another SEAL injured Thursday night during a parachute training accident in Marana, Arizona, the military said. Details of the accident are not immediately available.
One SEAL was pronounced dead on arrival at the University of Arizona Hospital. The second remains hospitalized in stable condition.
Members of SEAL TEAM 6 carried out the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden. All SEAL teams receive extensive parachute training, which is often required for hostage rescue or anti-terrorist operations.
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1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Physiocratic School
PHYSIOCRATIC SCHOOL, the name given to a group of French economists and philosophers. The heads of the school were François Quesnay (q.v.) and Jean Claude Marie Vincent, sieur de Gournay (1712–1759). The principles of the school had been put forward in 1755 by R. Cantillon, a French merchant of Irish extraction (Essai sur la nature du commerce en général). whose biography W. S. Jevons has elucidated, and whom he regards as the true founder of political economy; but it was in the hands of Quesnay and Gournay that they acquired a systematic form, and became the creed of a united group of thinkers and practical men, bent on carrying them into action. The members of the group called themselves les economises, but it is more convenient, because unambiguous, to designate them by the name physiocrats (Gr. φύσις, nature, and κρατεῖν, to rule), invented by P. S. Dupont de Nemours (1730-1817), who was one of their number. In this name, intended to express the fundamental idea of the school, much more is implied than the subjection of the phenomena of the social, and in particular the economic, world to fixed relations of coexistence and succession. This is the positive doctrine which lies at the bottom of all true science. But the law of nature referred to in the title of the sect was something quite different. The theological dogma which represented all the movements of the universe as directed by divine wisdom and benevolence to the production of the greatest possible sum of happiness had been transformed in the hands of the metaphysicians into the conception of a jus naturae, a harmonious and beneficial code established by the favourite entity of these thinkers, nature, antecedent to human institu- tions, and furnishing the model to which they should be made to conform.
The general political doctrine is as follows: Society is composed of a number of individuals, all having the same natural rights. If all do not possess (as some members of the negative school maintained) equal capacities, each can at least best understand his own interest, and is led by nature to follow it. The social union is really a contract between these individuals, the object of which is the limitation of the natural freedom of each just so far as it is inconsistent with the rights of the others. Government, though necessary, is a necessary evil; and the governing power appointed by consent should be limited to the amount of interference absolutely required to secure the fulfilment of the contract. In the economic sphere this implies the right of the individual to such natural enjoyments as he can acquire by his labour. That labour, therefore, should be undisturbed and unfettered, and its fruits should be guaranteed to the possessor; in other words, property should be sacred. Each citizen must be allowed to make the most of his labour; and therefore freedom of exchange should be ensured, and competition in the market should be unrestricted, no monopolies or privileges being permitted to exist.
The physiocrats then proceed with the economic analysis as follows: Only those labours are truly "productive" which add to the quantity of raw materials available for the purposes of man; and the real annual addition to the wealth of the community consists of the excess of the mass of agricultural products (including, of course, metals) over their cost of production. On the amount of this produit net depends the well-being of the community and the possibility of its advance in civilization. The manufacturer merely gives a new form to the materials extracted from the earth; the higher value of the object, after it has passed through his hands, only represents the quantity of provisions and other materials used and consumed in its elaboration. Commerce does nothing more than transfer the wealth already existing from one hand to another; what the trading classes gain thereby is acquired at the cost of the nation, and it is desirable that its amount should be as small as possible. The occupations of the manufacturer and merchant, as well as the liberal professions, and every kind of personal service, are "useful" indeed, but they are "sterile," drawing their income, not from any fund which they themselves create, but from the superfluous earnings of the agriculturist. The revenue of the state, which must be derived altogether from this net product, ought to be raised in the most direct and simplest way — namely, by a single impost of the nature of a land tax.
The special doctrine relating to the exclusive productiveness of agriculture arose out of a confusion between "value" on the one hand and "matter and energy" on the other. A. Smith and others have shown that the attempt to fix the character of "sterility" on manufactures and commerce was founded in error. And the proposal of a single impdt territorial falls to the ground with the doctrine on which it was based. But such influence as the school exerted depended little, if at all, on these peculiar tenets, which indeed some of its members did not hold. The effective result of its teaching was mainly destructive. It continued in a more systematic form the efforts in favour of the freedom of industry already begun in England and France. It was to be expected that the reformers should, in the spirit of the negative philosophy, exaggerate the vices of established systems; and there can be no doubt that they condemned too absolutely the economic action of the state, both in principle and in its historic manifestations, and pushed the laissez-faire doctrine beyond its just limits. But this was a necessary incident of their connexion with the revolutionary movement, of which they really formed one wing. In the course of that movement, the primitive social contract, the sovereignty of the people and other dogmas now seen to be untenable, were habitually invoked in the region of politics proper, and had a transitory utility as ready and effective instruments of warfare. And so also in the economic sphere the doctrines of natural rights of buying and selling, of the sufficiency of enlightened selfishness as a guide in mutual dealings, of the certainty that each member of the society will understand and follow his true interests, and of the coincidence of those interests with the public welfare, though they will not bear a dispassionate examination, were temporarily useful as convenient and serviceable weapons for the overthrow of the established order.
These conclusions as to the revolutionary tendencies of the school are not at all affected by the fact that the form of government preferred by Quesnay and some of his chief followers was what they called a legal despotism, which should embrace within itself both the legislative and the executive function. The reason for this preference was that an enlightened central power could more promptly and efficaciously introduce the policy they advocated than an assembly representing divergent opinions and fettered by constitutional checks and limitations. Turgot used the absolute power of the Crown to carry into effect some of his measures for the liberation of industry, though he ultimately failed because unsustained by the requisite force of character in Louis XVI. But what the physiocratic idea with respect to the normal method of government was appears from Quesnay's advice to the dauphin, that when he became king he should "do nothing, but let the laws rule," the laws having been, of course, first brought into conformity with the jus naturae. The partiality of the school for agriculture was in harmony with the sentiment in favour of "nature" and primitive simplicity which then showed itself in so many forms in France, especially in combination with the revolutionary spirit, and of which Rousseau was the most eloquent exponent. The members of the physiocratic group were undoubtedly men of thorough uprightness, and inspired with a sincere desire for the public good, especially for the material and moral elevation of the working classes. Quesnay was physician to Louis XV., and resided in the palace at Versailles; but in the midst of that corrupt court he maintained his integrity, and spoke with manly frankness what he believed to be the truth. And never did any statesman devote himself with greater singleness of purpose or more earnest endeavour to the service of his country than Turgot, who was the principal practical representative of the school.
The physiocratic school never obtained much direct popular influence, even in its native country, though it strongly attracted many of the more gifted and earnest minds. Its members, writing on dry subjects in an austere and often heavy style, did not find acceptance with a public which demanded before all things charm of manner in those who addressed it. The physiocratic tenets, which were in fact partly erroneous, were regarded by many as chimerical, and were ridiculed in the contemporary literature; as, for example, the impôt unique by Voltaire in his L'Homme aux quarante écus, which was directed in particular against P. P. Mercier-Larivière (1720-1794). It was justly objected to the group that they were too absolute in their view of things; they supposed, as Smith remarks in speaking of Quesnay, that the body politic could thrive only under one precise régime — that, namely, which they recommended — and thought their doctrines universally and immediately applicable in practice. They did not, as theorists, sufficiently take into account national diversities or different stages in social development; nor did they, as politicians, adequately estimate the impediments which ignorance, prejudice and interested opposition present to enlightened statesmanship.
The physiocratic system, after guiding in some degree the policy of the Constituent Assembly, and awakening a few echoes here and there in foreign countries, soon ceased to exist as a living power; but the good elements it comprised were not lost to mankind, being incorporated into the more complete construction of Adam Smith.


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As the Senate Banking Committee gears up to grill Securities and Exchange Commission Chairwoman Mary Schapiro on Thursday on the agency's controversial proposed reforms to money-market funds, Robert Plaze, deputy director of the SEC's Division of Investment Management, defended on Tuesday the need to move ahead with a money-market fund revamp.
"We are working hard to develop proposals that would address the weaknesses in money-market funds and make sure they are around for a long time," Plaze told mutual fund directors at their annual policy conference in Washington. Money-market fund reform "is one of the areas of unfinished businesses" leftover from the 2008 financial crisis, he said.
In comments to reporters after his remarks, Plaze said that "there is a still a contagion risk in money-market funds," and that the funds' "exposure to Europe is something to worry about."
The SEC has proposed three areas of reform: shifting to a floating net asset value (NAV), establishing capital buffers and imposing redemption restrictions.
Ray Schoen, an analyst with Washington Analysis, says he sees the SEC likely issuing a money-market fund proposal this summer "that is far less onerous for money funds than originally feared (likely focusing on capital buffers)." However, he adds, "we see it as unlikely that the SEC will be able to form a consensus on a final rule anytime soon."
Instead, Schoen says, "we see the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) as eventually establishing new regulations and requirements for money funds as part of the nonbank SIFI regime," referring to systemically important financial institutions.
Plaze also said that once the SEC is done fulfilling its requirements under the Dodd-Frank Act, which should be within the next year, the agency will move to reforms of mutual fund marketing and distribution fees under Rule 12b-1.
While the SEC visited such reforms a few years ago, any new reforms would have to consider the fact that mutual funds now have a new competitor, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), he said.


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Smith, Laura L.
Depression For Dummies
Unfortunately, such naïve armchair psychology rarely works for someone suffering from the very real plight of depression. All it does is seek to trivialize depression and characterize depressed people as "whiners" who have nothing better to do than to "complain about their lives." But the truth is, depression is a very real problem. In fact, the World Health Organization estimates that, on any given day, 121 million people worldwide suffer from depression. And depression rates continue to increase – for example, kids exhibit depression at nearly ten times the rate of previous generations. Theories abound as to why depression rates are increasing, but regardless of the cause, this scourge continues to rob its victims of happiness, joy, and the capacity to give and receive love.
So why Depression For Dummies, when there's already a glut of self-help books on the market peddling so-called cures and remedies for depression? Because this book satisfies the need for a straight-talking, no-nonsense resource on depression. The only agenda of Depression For Dummies is to present you with the facts on depression and explain the options for dealing with it. Rest assured, this is no infomercial in a yellow and black cover.
Here's just a sampling of what you'll find in Depression For Dummies:
- Demystifying the types of depression
- Discovering what goes on in the body of a depressed person
- Detecting and diagnosing depression
- Seeking help through therapy and medication
- Modifying depressed behavior and solving life's headaches
- Dealing with depression resulting from grief and relationship issues
- Cutting through the hype of alternative treatments for depression
- Moving beyond depression: Avoiding relapses and pursuing a happy life
- Top Ten lists on getting rid of a your bad mood and helping your kids and other family members out of depression
So, whatever your level of depression – whether you suffer from occasional bouts or you find yourself seriously debilitated by depression – Depression For Dummies can give you the insight and tools you need to once again find enjoyment and happiness in life. All it takes is one step.
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- Smith, Laura L.
- Elliott, Charles H.
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- 2003
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- en
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- 1
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- 384 pages
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- Psychology
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- Ebook
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- 9781118068915
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Administration pushes anti-waste effort, savings
The Obama administration says it is saving taxpayers billions of dollars in improper payments to vendors and contractors, the result of a concerted attempt to reduce errors and instances of fraud in outside expenditures. To better coordinate the effort among executive agencies, it is launching a new online tool to cut waste.
The administration planned to announce Thursday that agencies have already exceeded President Barack Obama's goal, set in 2010, of recovering $2 billion in overpayments to contractors by the end of September. The administration has already reported that the government reduced its rate of improper payments in 2010 and 2011, potentially saving $20 billion over the period.
The announcement comes amid a growing scandal over spending at the General Services Administration, the agency in charge of the federal government's buildings and supplies. The agency's inspector general reported this month that the GSA spent about $823,000 for a 2010 conference at a Las Vegas resort.
The administration is drawing attention to its fight on waste as Republicans and the party's likely presidential nominee, Mitt Romney, increasingly cast Obama as a tax-and-spend liberal who has expanded the government.
An administration official provided information on the improper payments effort on condition of anonymity to discuss the program ahead of its announcement.
The official said the administration was able to surpass its savings goal for the current fiscal year with the help of Medicare and Medicaid audits that have lowered excess payments in the health programs.
In his budget plan earlier this year, Obama set a goal of saving $102 billion over the next 10 years by cutting down payment errors and by improving collection of outstanding debts. To help with that effort, the Treasury Department is creating a "Do Not Pay" online site to help match various government databases and keep better track of expenditures.
The technology, officials say, would help target improper pension payments to deceased retirees or payments to contractors who have been barred from doing business with the government.


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KITCHEN Farming
From the glass germinator to the vertical vegetable garden: planting and harvesting in the kitchen is constantly taking on new forms. First came urban gardening and now a new lifestyle trend is unfolding.
What we normally find in private kitchens in the city are at the most shoots grown in a special glass, which need to be regularly watered, shaken and emptied out. Chives, mint and basil also grow in pots on the windowsill or worktop but when kept indoors, these mass-produced herbs can become quite straggly. Now, however, a new trend called 'kitchen farming' is emerging.
Didn't the kitchen recently become the new status symbol and heart of a modern home environment and joie de vivre? The all-round room for cooking, enjoyment and well-being? And now it's supposed to make room for the garden too? That sounds like fake news or downright nonsense. Far from it! Anyone who googles 'kitchen farming' will see countless tips and examples – and a photo gallery: Plant bags hanging on kitchen walls, together with their contents; greenery in pots, lined up on shelves or swinging from the ceiling; collapsible frames known as 'vertical gardens', in which edible plants are grown on special sponges; and even images of additional furnishings which kitchen manufacturers (such as Next125) offer for planting. Modern design for the cultivation of vegetables and the like in the room in which they are prepared and consumed. The renowned German designer Werner Aisslinger brought this vision to life a few years ago in a villa in Berlin. His futuristic kitchen was a greenhouse-like biotope. Not only was food cooked there, but it was also planted, grown and harvested. Edible mushrooms grew on recycled coffee grounds and the pièce de résistance in the room was an aquarium full of fish. Their excrement provided fertiliser for a vegetable patch connected to the water circuit that was filled with all kinds of lettuces, herbs and vegetables. Sustainability, resource conservation, waste prevention, recycling and upcycling are what give Aisslinger his design ideas. He doesn't see the kitchen of the future as a 'design spaceship', but as a biological alchemy chamber: 'Rooms change as lifestyle habits evolve. Kitchen farming is the counterproject to a kitchen in which the appliances should communicate with each other.'
Knowledge of aquaponics and hydroculture makes his vision possible – procedures which link fish breeding and edible plant cultivation techniques by means of hydroculture. Farming in water instead of in the ground is actually an age-old practice. The floating gardens of the Aztecs or in Thailand are just a couple of examples. If you want to see exactly how aquaculture works, look it up on the Internet! There just isn't room to explain it in this article. The question remains as to why on earth urban dwellers should want to create a garden in their kitchen when the local supermarket offers everything they need to satisfy their appetite and whims. It can't just be the increasingly widespread nutritionally-aware vegetarian and vegan lifestyle. The limbic system is probably to blame. There's something archaic about harvesting what you've planted yourself. A primal instinct. The brain stem hasn't forgotten that we were once hunters and above all gatherers – even though today that has less to do with the search for food. But that's an entirely different matter. Of course, the idea of self-sufficiency in the city isn't entirely utopian. For over a decade it has been the root of a widespread trend – urban gardening: An inner-city Bohemian society farms inner-city waste land such as the Prinzessinnengärten in Berlin-Kreuzberg, some upon request and others as if they were a guerilla army on a mission. More and more tomato plants and even strawberries can be seen springing up on balconies alongside herbs. Many take on an allotment with like-minded people – the petit bourgeois mentality is a thing of the past. In this respect, kitchen farming has a chance of becoming the next lifestyle trend.
Photos: Studio Aisslinger / Mirjam Fuscella & Daniele Manduzio, Neofarms
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Armchair historians — and actual ones — have always enjoyed ranking American presidents, recasting Mount Rushmore, debating who was greatest of them all. There are the perennial favorites —Washington, Lincoln, FDR — and the eternally scorned: James Buchanan, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce. Then there are those who voters abused but history redeemed: Herbert Hoover was hung in effigy, his motorcades pelted with rotten fruit, as he left office in the midst of the depression in 1933; yet twenty years later, after his epic humanitarian missions leading post-war disaster relief, he ranked among the most admired men in in America. Harry Truman had a 22% approval rating his last year in office, yet is now exalted for his common sense and steady hand during the dangerous birth of the atomic age.
Among those least inclined to judge and rank the presidents are the presidents themselves. They know the deep and often damaging toll the job takes on all those who hold it, successful or not: the toll on health, on family, on any kind of normalcy. A few weeks after his reelection in 2004, I asked George W. Bush whether he thought more or less highly of his predecessors, now that he'd been in the job a while.
"Of my predecessors? Very interesting," he replied, and then, without hesitation, "More highly of them all."
Why? Because "I've got a much better appreciation of what they've been through."
Bill Clinton says much the same. "There's just a general sympathy," Clinton told Michael Duffy and me, when we interviewed him for our book The Presidents Club, and as if to prove it, he launched into an astonishingly detailed exploration of Franklin Pierce's presidency, the impact of his son's tragic death, the challenge of dealing with his party's inherently untenable coalition: "I've thought he had a really admirable life and if he'd had a chance to serve at a different time, he might've been different. And you know, I've always been fascinated by all this," Clinton told us, and pointed to the long wall of presidential biographies and memoirs and collections of letters in his office. "I read a really interesting biography of Rutherford Hayes when I was president."
The President's Club: The Inside Story of the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity
One president who was especially reluctant to judge his brethren was John F. Kennedy. Once, when asked by Arthur Schlesinger Sr. to participate in a poll of historians that would rank past presidents, Kennedy's reaction was ferocious: he threw the poll across the room.
"No one," Kennedy told historian David Herbert Donald early in 1962, "has a right to grade a President — not even poor James Buchanan — who has not sat in his chair, examined the mail and information that came across his desk, and learned why he made decisions."
On Presidents Day—and as we re-imagine, through Sanna Dullaway's eye-opening colorizations, some of the figures who have occupied that august, lonely office — it is worth remembering what a democracy asks of the men and women who lead it. That does not mean we suspend judgment: voting is the ultimate ranking of presidential performance. But on a day we celebrate the presidency, we are celebrating service and sacrifice as much as success.
Nancy Gibbs is TIME's managing editor. The Presidents Club, Gibbs' latest book (co-authored with Washington Bureau Chief Michael Duffy), is available through Amazon.
Sanna Dullaway is a photo editor based in Sweden. TIME previously featured Dullaway's colorizations of Abraham Lincoln.


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Check out the inside of the back end of the newly revealed Chevy HHR Panel SS custom concept. How bad of a case of the red-ass does this SuperSport have with all of that hot red leather? Yeah, that's right — that's all red leather covering the interior of the cargo bay from the waistline up. Because this HHR SS is for show, for go and for hauling. Or as one PR person for Chevy claimed, "if the HHR Panel Van is for the small businessman, the HHR Panel SS is for the sporty small businessman." Or at least it's for the small businessman with a flair for Moulin Rouge. We'll have more later we're sure. For now, hit the jump for the press release.
At the 2007 SEMA Show, Chevrolet revealed the HHR Panel SS - a customized vision that previews a forthcoming production model differing only slightly from the stylized SEMA concept. The Panel SS fuses the production HHR SS's turbocharged powertrain and race track-bred suspension with the unique HHR Panel body style.
"It was natural that our designers and engineers brought up the 'what if' question when it came to the HHR SS and the HHR Panel," said Ed Peper, Chevrolet general manager. "They were given the nod to pursue it and we think the result is fun and exciting; it amplifies the very best attributes that have made the HHR so popular with customers."
The HHR Panel SS concept combines production components with custom details. And while the concept vehicle will be shown at events around the country, the HHR Panel SS limited-edition production model will be offered at Chevy dealers starting in the 2009 model year.
The underpinnings and powertain of the HHR Panel SS concept include the production turbocharged and intercooled 2.0L Ecotec engine that produces 260 horsepower (194 kW), unique exterior styling and an SS-specific interior. The exterior details include production SS front and rear fascias, rocker panels, a modified SS front grille and an SS rear spoiler. It also features polished metal body side trim and 20-inch wheels that are unique to the concept vehicle, while a "suede" paint scheme has a satin appearance that recalls classic hot rods.
Inside, SS-embroidered sport seats - with suede-like Ultra Lux inserts - a new gauge cluster with 140-mph speedometer, an A-pillar boost gauge and a new, driver-oriented steering wheel support the vehicle's performance capability. The cargo area - there is no rear seat - has been customized with billet aluminum tie-downs, floor strips and load brackets.
Underneath, a tuned suspension based on the production SS's FE5 Sport suspension enables sharp ride and handling, but was modified slightly for the SEMA concept vehicle to accommodate the larger-than-production 20-inch wheels and tires. The FE5 suspension was developed and tuned at Germany's famed Nürburgring racing circuit and includes specific stabilizer bars, spring rates and damper tuning - all designed to complement the turbocharged powertrain. Along with its high-performance attributes, the HHR SS is equipped with a host of safety and convenience features, including the StabiliTrak vehicle stability control system and four-wheel disc brakes with ABS.
Vehicle highlights:
* HHR Panel SS
* 2.0L Ecotec turbocharged and intercooled DOHC engine with 260 horsepower
* Electronically controlled automatic transmission
* HHR SS FE5 Sport suspension with modifications to accommodate concept 20-inch wheels and tires
* Enhanced brake system
* Production HHR Panel body with production and modified HHR SS exterior panels
* Satin paint finish
* Polished metal exterior trim
* Modified HHR SS interior, including SS-embroidered seats, specific gauges and A-pillar boost gauge
* Customized cargo area with billet tie-downs, rub strips and load brackets
* GM Accessories Personal Audio Link
Chevrolet is one of America's best-known and best-selling automotive brands. With the largest dealer network in the United States, Chevy is the leader in full-size trucks and the leader in sales of vehicles priced $35,000 and above. Chevrolet delivers more-than-expected value in every vehicle category, offering cars and trucks priced from $9,995 to $83,175. Chevy delivers expressive design, spirited performance, great value and good fuel economy. Chevrolet offers more vehicles rated at 30 mpg than any other manufacturer. More information on Chevrolet can be found at www.chevrolet.com.
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With all the buzz about ebook readers, it is time for teachers to explore ways to incorporate epublishing into their student writing assignments. There are several applications available that allow students and teachers to create remarkable, user-friendly ebooks that can be published on the web, printed, shared, or saved and stored locally.
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If you are an iPad user consider downloading Book Creator by Red Jumper Studio. This app costs $6.99 but is well worth it. It is easy to use and the resulting ebook is polished and professional.
We learned about an excellent example of epublishing in the classroom at the NYS TESOL Conference. ESL students in Amityville worked with education consultant Annette Shideler to create a book entitled Surviving in Amityville. A guide written by middle school English language learners for all English language learners.
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Kiteboarding Scenario #7 - Got A Kite Off EBAY, READY TO GO, Self-Teaching, To Death
Kiteboarding Scenarios #7 ** – Got A Kite Off EBAY, READY TO GO! or Self-Teaching … To Death
EBAY and online sales have brought good and some bad. Inexpensive kites free of warnings or compulsion for proper pro training to all takers falls into the bad category.
- Imagine, a young guy playing around with a full sized traction kite in high gusty winds directly upwind from some buildings in a narrow coastal valley with lots of gusts and lulls. Experienced kiters wouldn't set up there but this fellow was just flying a kite, so no harm, right? A gust came up dragged him towards and into the buildings at speed. It was a very dangerous experience in a very adverse location guised by the apparent ease of kiteboarding that he failed to survive.
- Or, how about a guy who tried pro instruction very briefly but blew it off and decided to teach himself how to kite. Launch conditions were very challenging with lots of rock, dead onshore winds and congested conditions right down to the waterline. Because of these adverse conditions the guy gets dragged inland three times into all sorts of stuff, once coming close to hitting a wall and suffering injury and treatment in the process. Never touched his quick release but went along for the ride because … of lack of awareness? He just flies his full sized kite on land, directly upwind of all sorts of obstacles and bystanders with no intention of trying to get out into the water in the near term. He never took the risks seriously despite getting put in the hospital once. The last time was just that, the last time.
- Or how about another athletic young woman, physically adept, self-taught and out on here EBAY special kit. Despite all this physical prowess she wasn't tuned into quick releases or what good they might do if you use them. No one bothered to explain them or perhaps she just go up and riding too fast to pay attention or care. Kiting is easy, right? Just add some strong gusty onshore winds and things go south pronto. That is exactly what they did and she was very luck to survive the experience.
- What have you seen at your local launch? I saw a few dussies this weekend. Tried talking with them related some of these "scenarios" but didn't really hit much recognition or acceptance. "Not me" or normal denial is incredibly powerful more so than common sense at times.
None of these folks bothered with adequate quality pro lessons. We make the sport look so easy after all. It is just a big toy kite and water is soft, what's the harm or difficulty? People often just don't get it, at all.
Also, just how effective is the emphasis to take adequate lessons out there in the industry and media? Is this simple fact promoted as much as it should be? Is there an overwhelming awareness out there like in the case of SCUBA diving or hang gliding? I would say no there isn't. Do people demand through stupidity and indifference to lose the option for independent choice or is the only way to deal with this through mandatory certification? I sure hope no because I don't see much near term hope for mandatory anything for this sport. Who is going to mandate this over large geographic areas?
How about the guys that put this stuff up for sale on EBAY, do they do their bit to try to promote proper pro training or do they just go for the quick sale and damn the consequences? Some people won't be receptive but we owe it to preserving our access and the odd newbie's and bystander's health to trying to communicate the need for proper training.
Launches are becoming more crowded and more guys without much of an idea area becoming more common. What is the solution? I am not sure, what do you think?
** Kiteboarding Scenarios were first posted online in 2002. They consist of plausible kiting incidents and accidents that haven't occurred but may or may not have been inspired by real events. They are stories of likely events conveniently packaged with useful object lessons worth considering. The last one was posted in 2004, looks like it is time for another.
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There have been fatalities and severe injuries under different circumstances involving new kiters that happened to have bought gear off EBAY making this Kiteboarding Scenario worth talking over.
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you can buy scuba tanks, hang gliders, guns and cars off ebay as you can most anything.
They are all equally dangerous in the wrong hands as well.
Common with these is some form of certification to be allowed to use these items tho' not to be able to buy and sell
You don't direct ostriches, you herd them
True but people expect to have training (today, not always though) before using tanks, cars and hang gliders. In all of these cases with a lesser extent with cars, insurance companies forced training requirements with some industry support. Insurance companies don't seem to play much of a role in our sport yet. How to more effectively build awareness? It would be good to see more initiatives coming from the Industry, hint.
Guns are more complicated and I am glad we aren't trying to reform that area, kiting is a tall enough order.
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I think we do a great job in our area with self policing those that don't have a clue.
Isn't that what it will always come down to, no matter what the Industry does?
All three of these "hypothetical scenarios" happened in thinly populated areas, at least with other kiters. If all kiters responded with the effectiveness at your Desoto launches this issue might be lessened. Still, the clueless may experiment on their own away from other kiters but not necessarily bystanders. Broader awareness across the board would help in addition to tuning up sensitivity at the launches. Near as I can tell, the industry as a whole has done little to effectively promote proper training. Finding "proper training" can be another challenge but that is beyond this thread.
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By now you probably have a pretty good idea of what is in Lord Carter's "Digital Britain" Report. There's the government drawing back from a clampdown on internet piracy, the switching off of FM radio, preserving the BBC licence fee – and instituting a 50p a month stealth tax to provide megacorps such as Vodafone and BT with "seed capital".
But what do the experts think? Over the last two weeks, Westminster Forums have hosted two seminars to look at some of the bigger issues raised by what Lord Carter did – and didn't – say in his report.
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Patrick Barwise, professor of marketing and management at the London Business School, was unimpressed by government obsession with "fat pipes". He argued that the barriers for the 40 per cent of the UK population not yet on the internet were not financial, and would not be satisfied by access to games or streaming. They would probably be happy with much slower speed basic services, if they were relevant to them.
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Also raised were issues around the cost and practicality of open reach for all: whether individuals in the wilds of Scotland should be entitled to the same level of service as everyone else – and if so, who should pay for the high incremental cost of delivering it.
A constant theme to many contributions was funding. Carolyn McCall, chief executive of Guardian Media Group, was just one of several speakers to highlight the issues created by an ever-widening pool of content on the web, and the problems of finding a business model that would allow the funding of quality output.
Local news was widely recognised to be in crisis, and one way to prop it up would be through some form of central government funding. As similar arguments were hinted at in a number of presentations, this appears to be a paradox that the industry has not yet fully articulated.
The explosion of free content on the web is a good, democratic thing: however, to the extent that it undermines traditional media, these will increasingly rely on a mixture of levies, fees and special subsidies from government to keep them going, with all the dangers such arrangements pose for subtle state shaping of the media message.
Democracy by one means could be the death (or at least, severe truncation) of democratic expression by another.
Several speakers called on the government to review its stance on product placement in shows, as a means to stem losses sustained as advertising moved away from traditional channels and onto the internet. The hope was expressed that the replacement of Andy Burnham by Ben Bradshaw at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport would allow this issue to be re-opened.
A somewhat specialised spat broke out between Google and a number of panel members, who took exception to its role as an "online aggregator". According to Carolyn McCall, Google indexes her group's content and sells advertising around it, so making it increasingly difficult to make any return from that content. This was denied by Luc Delany from Google, who claimed that Google does not sell advertising on their news service.
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