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For many organizations, a safety program is the cost of doing business—essential for maintaining the welfare of workers, avoiding compliance penalties and controlling insurance costs—but often not a strategic priority. With increasing competitive pressure, economic volatility and stakeholder expectations, a passive and reactive approach to workplace safety simply can't deliver enough value throughout your organization—or to your bottom line. "Good enough" isn't, anymore.
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Eternal Sunset — Watch Sunsets All Over the World, from Your Desk
When we were little, we hated going to bed more than anything.
Sweet slumber is a much more appreciated commodity nowadays, but we still find ourselves wishing there were more hours in each day. If only we could race across the skies in a private 767, outrunning the sunset and never seeing darkness.
Well, we've found the next best thing.
Eternal Sunset is a website that tracks 250 webcams across 49 countries. At any given time, the sun's setting somewhere, and Eternal Sunset will show it to you.
It won't add hours to your day (quite the contrary) but if you've always dreamed of seeing the perfect sunset in Napoli, Egypt, or from atop Mount Fuji, park yourself in front of your 'puter and watch that fiery globe fall. Over and over again.
p.s. If it's as beautiful in your neck of the woods as it is here, do yourself a favor and go out and shoot this weekend. Here's a list of photo projects to get you going!
p.p.s. Amit's in the midst of a move. Apologies in advance if it take a bit longer than normal to get back to you!

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I just wanted t throw this out to the masses… You guys rule! I don't even know who most of "you guys" are, but this website has been getting some pretty decent traffic of late. Decent enough that I can easily justify regular postings. So I guess this is a bit of a vanity moment. […]


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Don't Judge a Book by Its Cover
by abaffledlook
The book by Charles Barber titled "Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry is Medicating a Nation" isn't antipsychiatry. Most of it isn't about psychiatrists. It's about the pharmaceutical companies targeting people through television ads to ask their general practitioners for antidepressants. The first half of the book explores how pharmaceutical companies target both the public through direct advertising and use data mining to market antidepressants to doctors. The second half of the book suggests how cognitive behavioral therapy can be more appropriate for the mildly depressed or people without mental illnesses that have trouble with a temporary situation in their lives. Barber, who worked for ten years with homeless people with severe mental illnesses, claims the people who need the most help are getting left behind because they are a much smaller market compared to people who have trouble adjusting to a temporary, but difficult life situation. Therapy can work as well or better for the "worried well" and mildly depressed. He states that psychotropic medication is absolutely necessary for serious mental illnesses such as major depression, bipolar disorder or schizophrenia. Barber discloses in this NPR interview that he has obsessive compulsive disorder and takes Prozac. It's been a while since I've read this book, but this interview on altertnet.org sums it up nicely.
I really wish that Barber had named his book something else because it's much more nuanced than the title suggests. I guess he wanted to grab readers' attention. That's unfortunate because an interview of him on YouTube gets lumped with antipsychiatry videos.


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Reaching Out – Maturing
The late 1980s also proved worthy for Marshall University outside the classroom. Athletic programs were quickly developing as powerhouses in the Southern Conference. Plans were underway for a new football stadium to replace the aging Fairfield Stadium. Land was purchased east of the university boundaries along 20th Street.


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text: On September 15, 1950, during the Korean War (1950-53), U.S. Marines force made a surprise amphibious landing at the strategic port of Inchon, on the west coast of Korea, about 100 miles south of the 38th parallel and 25 miles from Seoul. The location had been criticized as too risky, but United Nations (U.N.) Supreme Commander Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964) insisted on carrying out the bold landing. Afterward, the American-led U.N. force was able to break North Korean supply lines and push inland to recapture Seoul, the South Korean capital that had fallen to the Communists in June.The landing at Inchon changed the course of the war; however, the conflict later settled into a long, bloody stalemate that did not end until a July 1953 armistice.


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When J K Rowling wrote these words: 'Harry had never even imagined such a strange and splendid place. It was lit by thousands and thousands of candles which were floating in mid-air over four long tables… The hundreds of faces staring at them looked like pale lanterns in the flickering candlelight. Dotted here and there among the students, the ghosts shone misty silver' the Great Hall at Hogwarts was forever seared on our minds. Because when an author really nails a setting, their world becomes alive to us, as if our own world is just an echo or a photograph of the real thing. A truly brilliant setting stays with us even after we've finished reading: the trees are still whispering in our ears and the mountains are towering in our minds. So how do authors do it?
How to create a brilliant setting
You remember SLIP from the Writing Skills section? Well, this is the 'I' of the storm. Imagery. A range of similes, metaphors and personification can help to create a really dramatic atmosphere. Make sure the imagery you use fits with the atmosphere though. If you are creating a terrifying forest, you could say: 'the branches coiled around me like splintered hands' but you absolutely definitely completely could NOT say: 'the branches coiled around me like tons of spaghetti.' Ummmm, no… The imagery you use must enhance your atmosphere.
Compares one thing with another thing of a different kind (often using the words 'like' or 'as'). Example: 'At its foot, guarded by a solitary yew tree, was a cavern of darkness like a silent scream' (Wolf Brother, by Michelle Paver)
Compares one thing with another thing of a different kind (without using the words 'like' or 'as'). Example: 'My sentences will be a clutch, a collection, a pattern, a swarm, a shoal, a mosaic' (My Name Is Mina, David Almond)
Giving human characteristics to non-living things or ideas. Example: 'wind rushed down the hill and into his room, billowing the curtains' (A Monster Calls, Patrick Ness)
Moontruggy Imagery Task
Visit the National Geographic website (Click Here). On the right hand side of the page there are links for different categories of photos: animals, nature and weather, landscapes, people and culture, travel, underwater etc. Click on nature, weather or landscape and for each photograph you like, write a simile, metaphor or personification to describe it.
What can the character see, hear, smell, touch or even taste? How does our character react to his or her surroundings? Harry Potter didn't just blast his way through Diagon Alley with his eyes shut – he listened to the owls at Eeylops Owl Emporium, he spoke with the goblins in Gringotts, he felt the cold air sting his eyes on the way to the vault, and he held the wands in Ollivanders. Imagine you are right there in your imagined setting: how do you feel? Here's an example of a writer using the senses to bring the setting alive: 'Cold air burned Torak's throat as he tore through a willow thicket towards the river… The silence beat at his ears' (Wolf Brother by Michelle Paver)
Moontruggy Senses Task
Imagine you are standing on an enormous sheet of arctic ice. You are surrounded by snowy mountains, frozen waterfalls and icicle-fringed caves. Perhaps it is starting to snow or maybe the blizzard is roaring around you already. Write the opening paragraph of a story set in the arctic using the senses to enhance your atmosphere. What can you see? Curling lips of ice, a lone polar bear, ice caverns… What can you hear? The groaning of faraway glaciers… What can you touch? The snow, the icicles… What can you taste? The coldness biting at your tongue… What can you smell? A chill that has swallowed all smells… Here is an opening line to get you started: I took a step out onto the ice and shuddered.
One of moontrug's favourite quotes is: 'Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass' (Anton Chekhov). Don't bang on about the surroundings – the moon, the stars, the sea, the trees – as if they're a check list of things you have to wade through and describe. Spend time on each thing and write about it as if it's the first time you've ever set eyes on it. Rather than saying: 'The wind was blowing around us' try 'The wind tore Jack's name from my lips.' Rather than saying: 'It was raining hard' try 'The rain hammered down onto the tin roof like thousands of marbles dropping onto a tray.'
Moontruggy Show Not Tell Task
Make these dull sentences more interesting using the Show Not Tell idea:
– It was snowing
– Jack was angry
– I could hear footsteps in the distance
– Tessa was upset by the news
– The boy was swimming fast
There is an amazing book called the Descriptosaurus which lists thousands and thousands of brilliant descriptions – for forests, mountains, caves, seas, rivers. You name it – they've written about it. Click here to buy it on Amazon.
The best settings from children's books
From haunted graveyards to magical streets, from moonlit seas to desert islands, moontrug has selected some of the best settings authors have created over the years. Pick your favourite one, study the techniques the writer uses to bring it to life and then have a go at creating your own setting. Think IMAGERY, SENSES and SHOW NOT TELL. And if you want some feedback from moontrug on your invented setting, send it in an email to: email@example.com.
Desert island
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
'The shore was fledged with palm trees. These stood or leaned or reclined against the light and their green feathers were a hundred feet up in the air. The ground beneath them was a bank covered with coarse grass, torn everywhere by the upheavals of fallen trees, scattered with decaying coco-nuts and palm saplings. Behind this was the darkness of the forest proper and the open space of the scar. Ralph stood, one hand against a grey trunk, and screwed up his eyes against the shimmering water. Out there, perhaps a mile away, the white surf flinked on a coral reef, and beyond that the open sea was dark blue. Within the irregular arc of coral the lagoon was still as a mountain lake – blue of all shades and shadowy green and purple. The beach between the palm terrace and the water was a thin bow-stave, endless apparently, for to Ralph's left the perspectives of palm and beach and water drew to a point at infinity; and always, almost visible, was the heat.'
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Frightening landscape and house
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
'Our wagonette had topped a rise and in front of us rose the huge expanse of the moor, mottled with gnarled and craggy cairns and tors. The cold wind swept down from it and set us shivering. Somewhere there, on that desolate plain, was lurking this fiendish man, hiding in a burrow like a wild beast, his heart full of malignancy against the whole race which had cast him out. It needed but this to complete the grim suggestiveness of the barren waste, the chilling wind, and the darkling sky… A few minutes later we had reached the lodge gates, a maze of fantastic tracery in wrought iron, with weather-bitten pillars on either side, blotched with lichens, and surmounted by the boars' heads of the Baskervilles. The lodge was a ruin of black granite and bared ribs of rafters… Through the gateway we passed into the avenue, where the wheels were again hushed amid the leaves, and the old trees shot their branches in a sombre tunnel over our heads. Baskerville shuddered as he looked up the long, dark drive to where the house glimmered like a ghost at the farther end.'
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The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
'The fog was thinner as you approached the top of the hill. The half-moon shone, not as bright as day, not by any means, but enough to see the graveyard, enough for that. Look. You could see the abandoned funeral chapel, iron doors padlocked, ivy on the sides of the spire, a small tree growing out of the guttering at roof level. You could see stones and tombs and vaults and memorial plaques. You could see the occasional dash or scuttle of a vole or a weasel as it slipped out of the undergrowth and across the path. You could have seen these things, in the moonlight, if you had been there that night. You might not have seen a pale, plump woman, who walked the path near the front gates, and if you had seen her, with a second, more careful glance you would have realised that she was only moonlight, mist and shadow.'
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Enchanted forest
The 13 Curses by Michelle Harrison
'As midnight approached in Hangman's Wood two girls fled through the forest, desperately searching for a way out. Every pounding step through the suffocating darkness brought the witching hour closer, and with it, a moment's fusion as the human world and the fairy realm intersected… On and on they ran, threading through the trees and over the carpet of leaves and roots that was the forest floor. In the air above, fey creatures glided and swooped; waiting for the moment when the girl would be surrendered to them. Within the gnarly barks of the trees they passed, faces stirred and called out to them… The vines crawling over Tanya slowed… then shifted their direction, edging towards the other girl. She felt the cool damp of the dark leaves against her skin as the branches crept over her… Humming began in her ears, a low swarm that eventually gave way to murmuring voices. She felt herself being tugged at by the vines that covered her, pulling her this way and that, like a cat toying with a spider. The voices became clearer; the curious comments of fey creatures as they awaited the new arrival into their world. Then the foliage drew back as swiftly as it had advanced, leaving her huddled on the ground central to a crowd of fairy onlookers. They watched with glittering eyes; some merely curious and other with more intent; young and ancient, beautiful and hideous.'
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Wolf Brother by Michelle Paver
'The fog stole up on them like a thief in the night. When Torak crawled stiffly from his sleeping-sack, the valley below had disappeared. The Breath of the World Spirit had swallowed it whole… The fog was so thick they couldn't see Wolf five paces ahead. It was the kind that the clans call the smoke-frost: an icy breath that descends from the High Mountains at the start of winter, blackening berries and sending small creatures scuttling for their burrows. Wolf led them along an auroch trail that wound north up the side of the valley: a chilly climb through frost-brittle bracken. The fog muffled sounds and made distances hard to judge. Trees loomed with alarming suddenness… Twice, Torak thought he saw a figure in the undergrowth, but when he ran to look, he found nothing.'
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Magical street
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J K Rowling
'The brick he touched quivered – it wriggled – in the middle, a small hole appeared – it grew wider and wider – a second later they were facing an archway large enough even for Hagrid, an archway on to a cobbled street which twisted and turned out of sight… There were shops selling robes, shops selling telescopes and strange silver instruments Harry had never see before, windows stacked with barrels of bat spleens and eels' eyes, tottering piles of spell books, quills and rolls of parchment, potion bottles, globes of the moon… Now they were facing a second pair of doors, silver this time… A pair of goblins bowed them through the silver doors and they were in a vast marble hall. About a hundred more goblins were sitting on high stools behind a long counter, scribbling in large ledgers, weighing coins in brass scales, examining precious stones through eyeglasses.'
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My Name is Mina by David Almond
'She took a deep breath, and steeled herself, and headed down into the earth. She kept stumbling on the rubble, stretching out to steady herself on the damp walls. She kept expecting her voice to be called out but there was nothing. 'My name is Mina,' she kept on whispering, and her words echoed back to her… There was a dull roaring sound from far away. She stopped and listened. Maybe it was water, or could it be the yelling and groaning of the dead? Something brushed against her leg. She leapt away and screamed in horror and locked down and it was a black cat, weaving its way around her legs… And then there was a ditch, crossing the route of the tunnels. By the frail light of the dangling bulb, she saw the stream rushing through the ditch. Mina caught her breath. She stroked the cat. This must be the river that Orpheus had to corss, the rover between the world of the living and the dead. Suddenly, the cat drew back. There was a growling, and on the other side of the stream, two eyes had begun to shine.'
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House in the city
'The night breathed through the apartment like a dark animal. The ticking of a clock. The groan of a floorboard as he slipped out of his room. All was drowned by its silence. But Jacob loved the night. He felt it on his skin like a promise. Like a cloak woven from freedom and danger. Outside the stars were paled by the glaring lights of the city, and the large apartment stale with his mother's sorrow. She did not wake as Jacob stole into her room, even when he carefully opened the drawer of her bedside table. The key lay right next to the pills that let her sleep. Its cool metal nestled in his hand as he stepped back out into the dark corridor.'
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Fairy Underworld
'Holly rolled off her futon and stumbled into the shower. That was one advantage of living near the earth's core – the water was always hot. No natural light, of course, but that was a small price to pay for privacy. Underground. The last human-free zone. There was nothing like coming home after a long day on the job, switching off your shield and sinking into a bubbling slime pool. Bliss… With the moon already rising on the surface, there was no time for a proper breakfast. Holly grabbed the remains of a nettle smoothie from the cooler and drank it in the tunnels. As usual there was chaos in the main thoroughfare. Airborne sprites jammed the avenue like stones in a bottle. The gnomes weren't helping either, lumbering along with their big swinging behinds blocking two lanes. Swear toads infested every damp patch, cursing like sailors. That particular breed began as a joke but had multiplied into an epidemic. Someone lost their wand over that one… The LEP station doors were crammed with protesters. The goblin/turf war had flared up again and every morning hordes of angry parents showed up demanding the release of their innocent offspring. Holly snorted. If there actually was an innocent goblin, Holly Short had yet to meet him. They were clogging up the cells now, howling gang chants and hurling fireballs at each other.'
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Chocolate factory
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
'They were looking upon a lovely valley. There were green meadows on either side of the valley, and along the bottom of it there flowed a great brown river. What is more, there was a tremendous waterfall halfway along the river – a steep cliff over which the water curled and rolled in a solid sheet, and then went crashing down into a boiling churning whirlpool of froth and spray. Below the waterfall (and this was the most astonishing sight of all), a whole mass of enormous glass pipes were dangling down into the river from somewhere high up in the ceiling! They really were enormous, those pipes. There must have been a dozen of them at least, and they were sucking up the brownish muddy water from the river and carrying it away to goodness knows where. And because they were made of glass, you could see the liquid flowing and bubbling along inside them, and above the noise of the waterfall, you could hear the never-ending suck-suck-sucking sound of the pipes as they did their work. Graceful trees and bushes were growing along the riverbanks – weeping willows and alders and tall clumps of rhododendrons with their pink and red and mauve blossoms. In the meadows there were thousands of buttercups. 'There!' cried Mr Wonka, dancing up and down and pointing his gold-topped cane at the great brown river. 'It's all chocolate!'
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Magical world
The Chronicles of Narnia by C S Lewis
'It is as hard to explain how this sunlit land was different from the old Narnia as it would be to tell you how the fruits of that country taste. Perhaps you will get some idea of it if you think like this. You may have been in a room in which there was a window that looked out on a lovely bay of the sea or a green valley that wound away among mountains. And in the wall of that room opposite to the window there may have been a looking-glass. And as you turned away from the window you suddenly caught sight of that sea or that valley, all over again, in the looking glass. And the sea in the mirror, or the valley in the mirror, were in one sense just the same as the real ones: yet at the same time they were somehow different – deeper, more wonderful, more like places in a story: in a story you have never heard but very much want to know. The difference between the old Narnia and the new Narnia was like that. The new one was a deeper country: every rock and flower and blade of grass looked as if it meant more.'
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Entering a new world
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C S Lewis
'Looking into the inside, she saw several coats hanging up – mostly long fur coats. There was nothing Lucy liked so much as the smell and feel of fur. She immediately stepped into the wardrobe and got in among the coats and rubbed her face against them, leaving the door open, of course, because she knew that it is very foolish to shut oneself into any wardrobe. Soon she went further in and found that there was a second row of coats hanging up behind the first one. It was almost quite dark in there and she kept her arms stretched out in front of her so as not to bump her face into the back of the wardrobe. She took a step further in – then two or three steps always expecting to feel woodwork against the tips of her fingers. But she could not feel it… Then she noticed that there was something crunching under her feet… But instead of feeling the hard, smooth wood of the floor of the wardrobe, she felt something soft and powdery and extremely cold. "This is very queer," she said, and went on a step or two further. Next moment she found that what was rubbing against her face and hands was no longer soft fur but something hard and rough and even prickly… And then she saw that there was a light ahead of her; not a few inches away where the back of the wardrobe ought to have been, but a long way off. Something cold and soft was falling on her. A moment later she found that she was standing in the middle of a wood at night-time with snow under her feet and snowflakes falling through the air. Lucy felt a little frightened, but she felt very inquisitive and excited as well. She looked back over her shoulder and there, between the dark tree trunks; she could still see the open doorway of the wardrobe and even catch a glimpse of the empty room from which she had set out…It seemed to be still daylight there… She began to walk forward, crunch-crunch over the snow and through the wood towards the other light. In about ten minutes she reached it and found it was a lamp-post. As she stood looking at it, wondering why there was a lamp-post in the middle of a wood and wondering what to do next, she heard a pitter patter of feet coming towards her. And soon after that a very strange person stepped out from among the trees into the light of the lamp-post.
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Secret garden
Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce
'He drew the bolt and, very slowly, to make no sound, turned the door-knob. Hurry! whispered the house; and the grandfather clock at the heart of it beat an anxious tick, tick. Tom opened the door wide and let in the moonlight. It flooded in, as bright as daylight – the white daylight that comes before the full rising of the sun. The illumination was perfect, but Tom did not at once turn to see what it showed him of the clock-face. Instead he took a step forward on to the doorstep. He was staring, at first in surprise, then with indignation, at what he saw outside. That they should have deceived him – lied to him – like this! They had said, 'It's not worth your while going out at the back, Tom.' So carelessly they had described it: 'A sort of back-yard, very poky, with rubbish bins. Really, there's nothing to see.' Nothing … Only this: a great lawn where flower-beds bloomed; a towering fir-tree, and thick, beetlebrowed yews that humped their shapes down two sides of the lawn; on the third side, to the right, a greenhouse almost the size of a real house; from each corner of the lawn, a path that twisted away to some other depths of garden, with other trees.
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Sinister lands
The Two Towers by J R R Tolkien
'Dead grasses and rotting reeds loomed up in the mists like ragged shadows of long-forgotten summers. As the day wore on the light increased a little, and the mists lifted, growing thinner and more transparent. Far above the rot and vapours of the world the Sun was riding high and golden now in a serene country with floors of dazzling foam, but only a passing ghost of her could they see below, bleared, pale, giving no colour and no warmth.'
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Goblin Tower
'In the lands of the west, where men are few and some of the old magic lingers still, there stands the ancient fortress of Clovenstone. A wide wall rings it, tumbled now and overgrown with weeds. The trees and waters of the wild have crept inside and made their home again among its steep, deserted streets and crumbling buildings At its heart a crag rises, Meneth Eskern, most westerly of the Bonehill Mountains, and on the summit stands a black Keep, tall as the sky, with sheer walls and horns of stone. Around this dark tower, like a stone crown on the crag's brow, there runs a lofty inner wall, guarded by severn lesser towers. All are in ruins now, the men who raised them long since gone. Crows caw about their sagging roofs, and gargoyles lurk in their ivy like lice in beggars' beards.'
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Lord of the Flies by William Golding
'Along the shoreward edge of the shallows the advancing clearness was full of strange, moonbeam-bodied creatures with fiery eyes. Here and there a larger pebble clung to its own air and was covered with a coat of pearls. The tide swelled in over the rain-pitted sand and smoothed everything with a layer of silver. Now it touched the first of the stains that seeped from the broken body and the creatures made a moving patch of light as they gathered at the edge. The water rose further and dressed Simon's coarse hair with brightness. The line of his cheek silvered and the turn of his shoulder became sculptured marble.'
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Marshland by the sea
The Snow Goose by Paul Gallico
'The Great Marsh lies on the Essex coast between the village of Chelmbury and the ancient Saxon oyster-fishing hamlet of Wickaeldroth. It is one of the last of the wild places of England, a low, far-reaching expanse of grass and reeds and half-submerged meadowlands ending in the great saltings and mud flats and tidal pools near the restless sea. Tidal creeks and estuaries and the crooked, meandering arms of many little rivers whose mouths lap at the edge of the ocean cut through the sodden land that seems to rise and fall and breathe with the recurrence of the daily tides. It is desolate, utterly lonely, and made lonelier by the calls and cries of the wildfowl that make their homes in the marshlands and saltings – the wildgeese and the gulls, the teal and widgeon, the redshanks and curlews that pick their way through the tidal pools. Of human habitants there are none, and none are seen, with the occasional exception of a wild-fowler or native oysterfishermen, who still ply a trade already ancient when the Normans came to Hastings. Greys and blues and soft greens are the colours, for when the skies are dark in the long winters, the many waters of the beaches and marshes reflect the cold and sombre colour. But sometimes, with sunrise and sunset, sky and land are aflame with red and golden fire. Hard by one of the winding arms of the little River Aelder runs the embankment of an old sea wall, smooth and solid, without a break, a bulwark to the land against the encroaching sea. Deep into a salting some three miles from the English Channel it runs, and there turns north. At that corner its face is gouged, broken and shattered. It has been breached, and at the breach the hungry sea has already entered and taken for its own the land, the wall, and all that stood there. At low water the blackened and ruptured stones of the ruins of an abandoned lighthouse show above the surface, with here and there, like buoy markers, the top of a sagging fence-post. Once this lighthouse abutted on the sea and was a beacon on the Essex coast. Time shifted land and water, and its usefulness came to an end.'
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Being businessworthy is to apply your business energy ethically and responsibly with the purpose of creating economic value, as well as value for society.
The concept of being businessworthy can serve as a communicating metaphor to business people. It is linked to the concept of creditworthiness, as understood by every businessperson: being Worthy the Business of your relationships, your customers and suppliers, your co-workers, and the communities you act within. Thus, it is a relevant concept of conduct in a modern business environment.
An increasingly adversarial relationship between business and society led to the emergence of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), as companies saw a need to deliver evidence of their desire to conduct business responsibly. Experience has shown, however, that CSR falls short of the goal for a variety of reasons: it is rarely proactive, instead often reactive and as a result seen to be apologizing for transgressions; and it is rarely strategic and long-term, instead seen as scattershot and random. In both instances, CSR may actually work to the detriment of the business seeking to draw benefits from it. Efforts are often seen by a skeptical society as band-aids to serious problems, and leading business thinkers point to the paradox that CSR has opened up businesses for more criticism, not less. Terms such as 'whitewash' and 'greenwash' are frequently used to characterize CSR efforts, and often with justification.
We are now in a situation where business has come to see society as hampering its growth through excessive regulation; and society tends to see business as prospering at the expense of the wider community. It is important to explore how one can rebuild the trust that has been lost between business and society.
In a reknowned article in the Harvard Business Review, Professor Michael E. Porter is critical of businesses that wonder why society has come to believe companies are prospering at the expense of the wider community: "A big part of the problem lies with companies themselves, which remain trapped in an outdated approach to value creation that has emerged over the past few decades. They continue to view value creation narrowly, optimizing short-term financial performance in a bubble while missing the most important customer needs and ignoring the broader influences that determine their longer-term success. How else could companies overlook the wellbeing of their customers, the depletion of natural resources vital to their businesses, the viability of key suppliers, or the economic distress of communities in which they produce and sell? How else could companies think that simply shifting activities to locations with ever lower wages was a sustainable «solution» to competitive challenges?" (1)
The Business for Peace Foundation was established upon the conviction that the world needs to be made aware of the transformative and positive change that business can create. Meanwhile, it is convinced of the gainful nature of a higher form of capitalism, and we seek to create global awareness among all stakeholders of this better way of doing business.
The Foundation finds inspiration in a dictum of the business philosopher Adam Smith, who declared that "Markets could not flourish without a strong underlying moral culture, animated by empathy and fellow-feeling, by our ability to understand our common bond as human beings and to recognize the needs of others." When the Foundation coined the term businessworthy, it was from a desire to redefine modern business practice through Smith's moral sentiment as to what makes markets flourish.
The Business for Peace Foundation names Honourees who are living proof that it is possible to marry solid business performance with higher purposes, as a counter to those who claim that "the business of business is business." Mr. Anders Dahlvig of Sweden, who was a 2009 Honouree, and at the time CEO of IKEA, described the motivational strength found in good trust when he accepted his award: "Companies such as IKEA, whose purpose and vision have a social ambition, that goes beyond the traditional objectives of maximising shareholder wealth, have an advantage. I believe that most people want a purpose and a meaning with what they do for a living. If this purpose contributes to doing good work for others, it is a tremendous motivator."
Capitalism stands at the threshold of an evolution, where many factors are calling for a reexamination of the principles hereto followed. "The moment for an expanded view of value creation has come," writes Professor Porter. "A host of factors, such as the growing social awareness of the employees and citizens and the increased scarcity of natural resources, will drive unprecedented opportunities to create shared value."
(1) Creating Shared Value – How to reinvent capitalism – and unleash a wave of innovation and growth, by Michael E. Porter and Mark R. Kramer, Harvard Business Review, Jan-Feb 2011. [article preview]
* Rebuilding the trust proposition_BfPF, by Per L. Saxegaard, Business for Peace Foundation. [PDF file]
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Editing images with Paint Shop Pro and a great way to edit text or HTML
|Jul 20, 2005
|Michael E, Callahan
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- Paint Shop Pro
- Version: 9.0
- System Requirements: Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP
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- Download Paint Shop Pro NOW!
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Paint Shop Pro, by Corel Corporation won the People's Choice Awards in the Best Graphics Program or Utility category. This is a program I've used since it first came out back in the early 1990's. It's won both the People's Choice Awards and the Shareware Industry Awards multiple times, and with good reason. Over the years the program has changed quite a bit and it's gotten better and better. You can create graphics for your Web pages and Paint Shop Pro gives you lots of tools to make those graphics as fancy as you want. For most people, this is the only graphics editor or paint program you're ever going to need. Create banners, borders and lots more. In this day and age of digital photos, you can also use the program to enhance your pictures. Lighten them, change the contrast, resize them and much more!
Paint Shop Pro is perfect for both home and business use. And it's also relatively easy-to-use and comes with really excellent help. You can use it to convert graphics files from one format to another -- either one-at-a-time or in batches. It's lightning fast too. If you want to get creative Paint Shop Pro comes with over 75 special effects you can apply to your graphics and pictures. It can also do screen captures, let you fiddle with colors, layers, and even put borders and frames around your pictures.
Paint Shop Pro, by Corel Corporation, is a totally impressive graphics program. And I could have dedicated pages talking about all the things you can do with it -- both great and small. It's wonderful for creating images from scratch as well as modifying existing graphics. You can use it to improve your digital pictures, convert your graphics between different formats, and create graphics for the Web. It's one of those programs that everyone should have on their computer and it's easy to see why so many users, like you, voted for it. Take the time to check it out for yourself.
- NoteTab Pro
- Version: 4.9x
- System Requirements: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
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- Download NoteTab Pro NOW!
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NoteTab Pro, by Fookes Software won the People's Choice Awards in the Best Application category. Here is another program that's a multiple winner -- it's won both the People's Choice Awards and Shareware Industry Awards several times. If you use it, it's easy to see why it's a favorite among users and computer professionals. The program is extremely easy-to-use and very intuitive, and it's simply loaded with features and functions. All the text I write is written in this excellent program, including these picks.
NoteTab Pro gives you all the tools you need to do a great job. It can load large files, do HTML code, spell check what you write, gives you a thesaurus to find new words and more. You can create bookmarks, change cases, create powerful clips, and its tabbed interface lets you have multiple documents open at one time. Right now I have 10 open and they are all accessible with just a mouse click. On top of all that, it has a powerful search function so you can find things, replace text and more. So, if you are looking for a powerful text and HTML editor, this is the best you're going to find! And don't just take my word for it -- it's the choice of software developers and users alike! Well done!
- Macro Express
- Version: 3.5b
- System Requirements: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003
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Macro Express, by Insight Software Solutions, Inc. won the People's Choice Award in the Best Vertical Market Program or Utility. This is a powerful and full-featured macro utility that really takes the repetition out of your day. For those who don't know, a macro is generally a recording of keystrokes that can then be played over and over again. Macros can be used to eliminate repetitive text entry from your life by inserting text that you use often, or e-mail signatures or addresses, and more.
You can also use Macro Express to launch programs, connect to network drives, change basic Windows settings, and so much more. You can assign hotkeys so you can initiate a complex series of actions with just one key. The real beauty of it is that once you record an action you don't ever have to manually do that action again. Macro Express can make you more productive and more efficient. Its easy to see why users like you gave it so many votes this year. You owe it to yourself to take a look. You may just find you can simplify your life.
- Mozilla Firefox
- Version: 1.0.4
- System Requirements: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
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- Download Mozilla Firefox NOW!
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Mozilla Firefox, by The Mozilla Foundation won the People's Choice Awards in the Best Web Enhancement category. This FREE browser is taking the Internet by storm and I can see why users like you voted for it. When it comes to Web browsers, there are a number you can choose from. If you use Windows you have a browser that comes with it, or you can elect to use an alternative. Many people like Mozilla Firefox. For the performance conscious the program is just about perfect. Why? Because it gives you exactly what you need and it's really fast!
Mozilla Firefox is loaded with all the features anyone needs for browsing the Web. It imports your bookmarks from Internet Explorer and makes it easy for you use them. One feature I thought was really cool is the ability to create your own toolbars. Yep, that's right -- just drag and drop. It also support things like AI Roboform by Siber Systems which is great for filling out forms on-line. It also has a full range of configurable options -- like saving passwords, keeping your history, and even viewing source that's color coded! How cool is that? Very!
Mozilla Firefox blocks pop-ups and is very secure. It even shows you when you're on a secure site by changing the address bar color. What I really like is that it's fast. It does everything you'd need it too, plus it has some nice extras. It's a lean, mean browsing machine. It's got built-in Google search and it's an RSS news reader. Check it out for yourself.
- AceReader
- Version: 2.1
- System Requirements: Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP
- Get more info
- Download AceReader NOW!
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AceReader, by StepWare, won the People's Choice Award in the Best Educational Program or Game category. It's an excellent program that can be used by anyone -- children and adults! The program will help you to improve not only your reading speed, but also your comprehension - and that's important. It doesn't do any good to read faster if you can't remember what you've read. AceReader Pro gives you the tools to assess what your reading level is now. Then it provides you with tests and drills to help you improve your reading skills. Reading is so very important that nearly everyone can benefit! And the material is good for grades 1 through 12 as well as adults!
AceReader Pro keeps track of the tests you do and graphs them for you. That means you can easily see where you started and where you are now. Its an excellent way to keep track of your progress. And, not only can it help with the way you read regular material, but it also helps you to read better while online! That can be important if you're doing a lot of online reading! Very slick! Another feature that I like about AceReader Pro is that it's very configurable. You can determine your own hotkeys, pick your own font, select a background color that's right for you and lots more. There are also a number of options and settings that you can configure so the program works the way you want it to. If all this weren't enough, you can even create your own customized drills to work with. Excellent!!
AceReader Pro, by StepWare, Inc., is highly configurable, assesses where you are, and helps you to get where you'd like to be as a reader. It is easy to see why users voted for it, and it's won before! Check it out for yourself.
Spyware Doctor, by PC Tools Pty. Ltd. won the People's Choice Award for the Most Votes on Tucows award. That's right, it received more votes than any other program here on Tucows. It's a neat utility that you can use to find and eliminate spyware. Spyware, by definition, consists of a wide range of adware, trojans, activity trackers and more. The problem with spyware is that it isn't detected by your anti-virus software because it's not a virus, but it can be used to track your movements across the Internet, monitor your preferences on various sites and even monitor your keystrokes. Personally, I don't tend to be paranoid, but at the same time I'd prefer to be asked for information and not have it stolen without my knowledge. That's where a program like Spyware Doctor comes in. It can find and remove any spyware on your system.
The full version of Spyware Doctor has a module called OnGuard that monitors your computer full-time and watches for spyware as it appears on your computer. Where do you get spyware? As an example, just think about your Temporary Internet Files. I've talked with many users who didn't even know that their browser stored files from the Web sites they visit. Theoretically at least, the files in your Internet cache are harmless, designed primarily to make pages load faster. So, if those files are there, how hard do you think it is to drop a tracking cookie on your computer? Not hard at all! That's not the only way to pick up so-called spyware, either. Regardless of the source Spyware Doctor finds it and removes it and keeps it off your computer. Slick! Once again, it is easy to see why so many of you voted for it in this years SIAF People's Choice Awards voting. Check it out for yourself.
No Quick Picks this week because of the Dr. File Finder's Picks Roundup! I'll have more Quick Picks for you in a couple of weeks. Stay tuned ...lots of great programs out there.
Well, that brings us to a close for this week. I hope you enjoyed this Dr. File Finder's Picks Roundup! of SIAF People's Choice Awards winners. ALL of them are excellent products and you owe it to yourself to check them out. I'll be back next week with a continuation of the roundup when I look at some of the Shareware Industry Awards winners. I hope you'll join me then. Until then, have a great week, a wonderful weekend and happy downloading.
Michael E. Callahan, known around the world by the trademarked name Dr. File Finder, is regarded as the world's leading expert on shareware. Dr. File Finder works with software programs and developers full-time, and in the average year he evaluates 10,000 programs. Since 1982 he has evaluated over 250,000 software and hardware products. Mr. Callahan began evaluating software online in 1982 and no one has been at it longer. He currently works doing online PR and marketing for software companies, and is the Senior Content Producer for Butterscotch.Com.


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We're causing a mass extinction now. Can we prevent the next one?
You've heard how humanity is currently causing a new mass extinction rivaling, in rate and numbers of species lost, the other five such events that have occurred since the Cambrian explosion 530 million years ago filled our planet with complex life.
But we're not the first kind of life to radically change the environment. For example, 2.5 billion years ago, cyanobacteria began flooding Earth's atmosphere with poisonous oxygen. The rise of oxygen triggered extinctions and a climate catastrophe, destroying a methane greenhouse and plunging Earth into a global deep-freeze. All because cyanobacteria figured out how to exploit solar energy — using photosynthesis to grow and releasing oxygen as a byproduct.
Today we humans see ourselves behaving in a similar way, and it seems deeply irresponsible. In theory, we, unlike microbes, have awareness of our actions and thus bear responsibility for them. But do we have awareness or control of ourselves as global actors? Sometimes it seems as though on a planetary scale we are watching ourselves from afar, unable to control our actions, as in a nightmare when you can't stop yourself from doing something bad.
Yet I think we are awakening. The world is being knitted together electronically. Slowly we are developing more of a global view of ourselves and of the need to act collectively with some sense of intentionality and responsibility. This does not require any higher moral sense, only an enlightened sense of self-interest and self-preservation.
We may be in for a rough century, but hopefully we'll get through it with an eventually stabilized population and by developing a new global energy system that does not wreck the natural systems upon which we depend. Then it may be time for payback. What can humanity do for Earth that would possibly help atone for the damage we are now doing?
We could build a planetary defense system. Sooner or later another huge asteroid or comet will be on course to strike Earth, but as long as our descendants are on the case, our biosphere never need suffer another mass-extinction-causing impact. Maybe this could be some kind of long-term compensation to the biosphere.
We could potentially intervene against harmful climate swings, even perhaps prevent future ice ages. Another ice age would be much more extreme than the climate changes we are facing now. We don't want to try to live through that, and, if we get our act together, we'll never have to. And we would save a lot of other species in the process.
If we last that long then we will have become a new kind of entity on the planet: self-aware world-changers with the sense to work with the planet, not against it. In the distant future, our successors may even be able to help defeat another threat to the biosphere: the eventual runaway greenhouse that will envelop Earth as the Sun heats up in its later years. Given billions of years of engineering prowess, we may be able to solve this problem and help Earth's biosphere outlive the Sun. Someday we may be the best thing to ever have happened to life on Earth.
But first we need to get through this century.
This Cosmic Relief column first appeared in print in the January 2015 issue of Sky & Telescope.


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The state-of-the-art funicular railway connecting Innsbruck with its hilly suburb of Hungerburg was opened in 2007. This futuristic cable railway is the work of British Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid, ... Read more
Swarovski Crystal Worlds
Themed around one of Austria's best-known exports, Swarovski Crystal Worlds (Swarovski Kristallwelten) is a dazzling attraction devoted to sparkling crystals. Twinkling exhibitions created by ... Read more
Alpenzoo Innsbruck
Innsbruck's innovative zoo lies along the sunny slopes of the Hungerburg plateau to the north of the city and is the only zoo in the world to feature animals indigenous to the Tyrol region – so if ... Read more
On the outskirts of Innsbruck, the slopes at Bergisel have been the home of Tyrolean ski jumping competitions since 1927. To celebrate this, British Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid designed a towering ... Read more
Goldenes Dachl
Innsbruck's iconic Goldenes Dachl (Golden Roof) is found on Herzog-Friedrich-Strasse, the main square in Innsbruck's charming Gothic and Baroque Altstadt (Old Town). The three-story, gold-topped ... Read more
Although still standing on the site of the original medieval castle, which was in place by 1463, today's majestic Imperial Habsburg Palace has undergone several transformations over the centuries, ... Read more
Innsbruck's regal Gothic Hofkirche (Court Church) forms part of a complex with the Hofburg Imperial Palace in the Altstadt (Old Town). It was constructed by the Habsburg Emperor Ferdinand I in 1563 ... Read more
Named for the much-revered Empress Maria Theresa by then sovereign of pretty much all of Europe, she is the only female Habsburg ruler and the last of the line when she died in 1780. ... Read more
Schloss Ambras
The 16th-century Renaissance castle of Ambras perches in the foothills of the Alps just south of Innsbruck. Once the home of Archduke Ferdinand II, the majestic Renaissance building houses ... Read more
Found on Herzof-Friedrich-Strasse opposite the Goldenes Dachl (Golden Roof), Innsbruck's Stadtturm (City Tower) was built in 1450; it reaches 167 feet (51 meters) in height and was built on to the ... Read more
Tiroler Landesmuseum
The Tyrolean Cultural Museum was founded in 1823 and consists of a group of museums set up to showcase Tyrolean culture; it includes the Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum, the Zeughaus (Armory), ... Read more


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Artist: Garth Brooks
Album: Ropin' The Wind
Hey, all the neighbors lights
Came on last night
Just like they do every time
We have a little fight
It's gettin' to the point
We can't get along
We're always fighting about things
That should be dead and gone.
We bury the hatchet
But leave the handle stickin' out
We're always diggin' up things
We should forget about
When it comes to forgettin'
Baby, there ain't no doubt
We bury the hatchet
But leave the handle sticking out.
Well, I was kissing on Cindy
Hey, that I won't deny
But that's a long time ago
I let a dead dog lie
But if you want to cut deep
How 'bout you and ol' Joe
I caught you down at the creek
Just ten years ago.
Hey, we got enough on each other
To wage a full scale war
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What we were fightin' for
We bury the hatchet
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Skip to comments.The generation gap at Harvard ( students far more conservative than faculty)
Posted on 03/23/2006 10:06:04 AM PST by SirLinksalot
The generation gap at Harvard
Posted: March 23, 2006 1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com
There is a generation gap at Harvard University. The students are far more conservative than the faculty. The aging radical professors haven't enough to do, so they nitpicked their president's words and pressured his resignation. The students are dismayed.
President Larry Summers' resignation last month followed a "lack of confidence" vote by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. In a poll released March 13 by the Harvard Crimson, 66 percent of surveyed Harvard students claimed to "disapprove of the way that members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences have handled their relationship" with President Summers. Only 15 percent agree with the faculty's handling of grievances.
The faculty is dominated by left-wing '60s radicals, all of them aging despite their former fantasies. It is perhaps from the realization that the sands of time are sinking and a new generation is rising on campus at odds with the values of the '60s that makes the Faculty of Arts and Sciences so desperate. Because they know their days are numbered and that their establishment is uncertain, they sought their president's ouster. Even left-wing Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz calls it an "academic coup d'état by the die-hard left of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences."
Summers pushed aggressively for progress in science and technology programs, and he developed friendly teaching relationships with students.
Summers also conflicted with noted African-American Studies professor Cornel West, for which West left Harvard. Summers expressed his strong support for the ROTC program, which had been excluded from the campus for decades. For appearing to align opponents of Israel with anti-Semitism, Summers was accused of hampering dialogue. And when Summers dared suggest that differences between men and women cause a disproportionate representation of the sexes in the sciences, the faculty panicked and reckoned upon the advance of Armageddon. Professors met several times and decided to assert their no-confidence vote.
Now, the students of Harvard have no confidence in their left-wing professors.
One editorial in the Crimson headlined, "No Confidence in 'No Confidence.'" Despite that the FAS is one of nine faculties at Harvard, its radicalism is loud, and it must be held accountable, the editorial urged. "As much as discontented Faculty members may lack confidence in Summers, we would modestly submit that, at this point in time, we lack confidence in them."
After Summers' resignation, Pieropaolo Barbieri wrote in the Crimson that "there is a world beyond FAS." Summers should not have resigned, Barbieri said. "Unlike the Faculty's foggy qualms, Summers' achievements keep materializing on campus and in students' lives."
Another Crimson editorial stated, "Whatever satisfaction was today enjoyed by the elements of unrest in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, it is unrepresentative of the sobering sense of emptiness that now pervades Cambridge's streets. Harvard's loss is real." The Crimson staff registered their agreement with Summers' vision, a vision that was perceived as a threat by "too many of today's entrenched interests" on the faculty.
The day Summers resigned, students repaired in mass to Harvard Yard where they joined in unison, "Five More Years!"
When Summers first spoke publicly about his resignation, undergraduate students flocked to Massachusetts Hall. Summers didn't know whether they were there to cheer or boo him, but when he began shaking their hands it was clear which side they took. They shook his hand warmly. As the Crimson editorial said, "Students believe in Summers' vision."
It is more than a passive belief; it is a belief of action that runs against almost every revolutionary stronghold of the aging professoriate. As Ruth Wisse writes in the Wall Street Journal, "Student response to the ouster suggests another long-term outcome. Although the activists of yesteryear may have found a temporary stronghold in the universities, a new generation of students has had its fill of radicalism. Sobered by the heavy financial burdens most of their families have to bear for their schooling, they want an education solid enough to warrant the investment. Chastened by the fallout of the sexual revolution and the breakdown of the family, they are wary of human experiments that destabilize society even further. Alert to the war that is being waged against America, they feel responsible for its defense even when they may not agree with the policies of the current administration.
"If the students I have come to know at Harvard are at all representative, a new moral seriousness prevails on campus, one that has yet to affect the faculty members because it does not yet know how to marshal its powers."
Here is hope. Even at Harvard, bastion of the left, there is a revolution underway. Not since the professors had their revolution 40 years ago has there been anything like it. Only this time, there is a return to that little word on the Harvard logo that is its motto: "Veritas." By the generation most counted upon to finally reject truth, truth is welcomed, if yet undiscovered. And even if Larry Summers will no longer preside at Harvard, his legacy is just getting under way.
Powerful dictators of the Left (Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Castro) seemed to presage an inevitable march toward Totalitarianism. The media was seduced. The academics were seduced. The entertainment industry was seduced.
But in the end, after almost 100 years of "progressivism", what did the Left have to show for their work? Any strong economies? The USSR? Cuba? I don't think so.
Any breakthrough ideas? Chomsky? Derrida? Foucault? I don't think so.
Any political solution to tenacious problems like Terrorism? Nope.
The swing of the pendulum away from the Left is a foregone conclusion. Their long period of "unrealized potential" is testimony to their complete lack of potential.
All the success stories belong to the Right. Smart kids at Harvard can see it.
But the radical left faculty will remain self-replicating by giving tenure only to young nutjobs. These elite shcools won't change until they're hit with seriously declining admissions and reduced donations, which will force the boards of trustees to act. I won't hold my breath.
This is how history happens.
Forty years ago, the young overthrew the entrenched and remade society in its image -- and now they are the old and entrenched, and want to ensure their own permanence at the top of the pecking order. History, evolution, progress -- doesn't happen that way, with the entrenched few allowed to ensure their own survival at the expense of the greater society's.
A great part of the quandary of these times is that with the union seniority system, a lot of the venerable institutions only have the leaders of the past who are now merely clinging on to life and their glorious past -- and the new and the young, the vital engine of society, is largely shut out. Meanwhile, as time moves on, the entrenched become older and more enfeebled, more cut off from the youthful because they are more threatened each day -- and cannot compete with the new. So it is just a matter of time before there is the first breach and then all the institutions that defined a previous era begin to fall -- more likely evaporate.
The most visible are the media, schools, universities. With the newspapers, readership and now advertising is falling with no relief in sight. So there is a shrinking or at least stagnate pool and seniority rules require that they keep those who are paid the highest, do the least, and are the most incompetent. In many of these union jobs, although 10 people are hired to perform a job -- one guy does all the work while the other 9 "supervise" in some "administrative" or titular capacity.
The emerging alternatives are the bloggers, the electronic forums, all the creative energy not just doing it for the money but because they just want to -- indicative of their passion and talent for doing so, because that's what they were meant to do. They're an unstoppable force. That's the first arena for this cultural change that is well underway and already a foregone conclusion -- because in a war or revolution, you cannot lock out the talent and energy on the outside, and not expect that they will not beat down their doors and blow away whatever resistance can still be mustered.
The schools and universities are much more institutionalized and because they are much more protected enclaves, have even less survival skills to compete in a free and open market that does not ensure their government protected monopoly. Most of these people were not there on the leading edge bringing about the revolution forty years ago -- but were quick to move in once they recognized that the old no longer existed. They were merely opportunists.
So in the next revolution, they cannot recognize all the signposts of how fundamental change comes about -- and will repeat the mistakes of the previous revolution.
We already see it happening at the University of Hawaii -- where a very vocal, demanding minority (liberal studies) wants to rule the university and impose their own interests on the others, who are going about their business doing research or teaching classes. But the radical, leftist fringe wants to impose their political correctness on all the others. Its not the first wave but the last gasp -- of the 60s revolution; thats how far theyre behind -- one generation. The next revolution is not simply a repeat of the last revolution. It is something entirely new. So these self-appointed leaders, are not the leading edge of the next revolution but the tail end of the last, soon to be obsolete revolution. And thats why such people hope that history always repeats itself -- because they are fully prepared and in position, to be the new leaders in the last revolution.
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You are right - the far Left is self replicating in Universities. However, we can not treat this problem as we have the media bias by withdrawing from the consumer base. The internet and radio made it possible to REPLACE the media party. We can not do the same with our great Universities. We have to take them and expunge the left with a plan. Horowitz has the plan.
How could they not be? The students could be out-and-out Bolsheviks and would still be to the right of that faculty.
Harvard is awash in money, more than it knows how to spend. This money funds a vast realm of liberal projects. Liberal academics recruit and bring on board like-minded liberals to help spend this legacy. Dissenting viewpoints are not sought; in fact, most Harvard professors are barely aware that there ARE dissenting viewpoints. I seriously doubt that the direction of Harvard will change significantly in our lifetimes. Remember, in the 2004 election, Kerry got 84 percent of the vote in Cambridge, about 7 points higher than he managed even in Boston. It will be a long struggle to turn this place around.
Time to agitate to abolish tenure. It's time to bring back accountability to the faculty.
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A business that is getting serious about its social media marketing presence can't operate like an average user. You need to go beyond the standard app and start using tools that will help you monitor your brand on a local, national, and global scale.
Being able to gather greater information, and sort through conversations from across the social web is going to help you better understand what you do well, and what needs to be worked. Since the social web is made of so many different platforms you may need to choose more than one of the social media monitoring tools listed below.
What your social media monitoring tools should listen to
You can't just sign up for a monitoring tool, sit back, and press a magic button that says "Ok, do social media marketing now." You will still need to work, and you will will still need to input data. Here are a few key areas to focus on:
- Your brand name mentions - both direct account mentions, and indirect mentions
- Feedback from customers
- Conversations about competitors
- Potential sales leads
- Industry news
- Keywords for your business
- Hashtags in your industry
- Trending content
Keep the above points in mind and your social media marketing efforts will be much more focused, and have demonstrable ROI no matter which tool below you use.
20 social media monitoring tools
1. Talkwalker
A tool trusted by some of the biggest companies in the world (Nike, Volkswagen, McDonalds, Starbucks, adidas) with powerful global listening coverage, analytics that allow you to dig deep into your audience data, and key data analytics tools.
2. Curalate
Focuses on image heavy social platforms (Instagram being the main focus) and works to help you best use the user generated content out there. The tool's ability to curate images from social websites across the social web for you to use to push social proof and sales is remarkable.
3. Trackur
A 'do it all' tool that will help you track tweets, blog stats, website stats, and a variety of social networks. It all comes together to give you general reports on your social media, and online, marketing efforts.
4. Collective Intellect
This Oracle platform will help you capture a wide variety of conversation every day. You're then free to join in and interact, or record for future marketing efforts.
5. Hootsuite
This just may be the most multi-purpose of all the tools listed. You can track nearly every social platform, plus WordPress blog activity. Conversation, hashtag, and keyword searches are organized in columns for real-time marketing at its best. Their click analytics can prove invaluable to properly planning your next move by knowing which links are getting clicks.
6. Crimson Hexagon
The basic premise of the tool is that it helps you listen in on social conversations. The specifics of it is that they use their Forsight Platform, Brightview Algorithm, and Affinities Analysis to properly interpret and collate these conversations. Yes, this is an advanced level tool for those with high data needs.
7. Topsy
A Twitter centered social tool for basic listening. You can search for keywords, hashtags, links, photos, and video. Not a long-term tool, but it can work as you try to determine what tool you actually want to use, or while testing your Twitter account.
The worlds first social media content analysis company (founded 1984) knows a thing or two about the online conversation business. This is an elite level service that combines computer driven data gathering with highly specialized human data analysts. This is not a 'do it yourself' solution as much of the data gathering is done by their team. They send this information to you via a dashboard you're able to access at any time for social media planning.
9. Media Vantage
A social media monitoring and conversation tracking tool that specializes in real-time marketing. This is combined with mentions in traditional marketing avenues via search engine monitoring to give you a complete view of a specific campaign both online and offline.
10. Meltwater
World beating social media monitoring from one of the leading online PR firms in the world. Their globe spanning company, with branches in many major markets, can help you gain keen insight into your social relevance.
11. Ice Rocket
The free tool from Meltwater that lets you search the web, blogs, Twitter, and Facebook for brand mentions, or for any keyword you choose. You can use it to track brand sentiment across every online forum, or you can use it to find interesting new content and the people who are sharing it.
12. Mention
A useful tool meant specifically for real-time social media marketing. It functions via an app on your Android smartphone or iPhone by sending you alerts when your brand is mentioned. This can be great for a solo-entrepreneur who wants to get in on conversations as they happen.
13. Social Marketing Cloud
A tool designed to help you manage customer conversations across all social channels. It can also help you with email marketing, B2B marketing automation, and digital advertising.
14. Pinterest Web Analytics
This is Pinterest's own, and recently updated, free analytics tool. Their new dashboard is highly visual, offering you insights at a glance. Work down further into the data using their tools and see your understanding of this exciting platform grow.
15. Tweetdeck
Twitter's own scheduling and monitoring tool. You can schedule tweets in advanced, monitor keywords and hashtags, and divide your data into separate streams. It won't help you with anything but Twitter; it is best for those with a dedicated Twitter manager who only wants to focus on the tweeting at hand.
16. Klout
A free tool whose best use isn't to check in on and inflate your own ego with how influential you are. It's best use is to see how else is influential in your industry, and seeing if you can swing them to your content and message. In short; it helps you find popular social users so that you can influence them.
17. Buffer
Another tool similar to Tweetdeck and Hootsuite, but with a handy browser add-on that makes sharing, and scheduling, exciting content easier. It can also auto-schedule your tweets for the best time in the day. All you have to do is keep your queue full of content you think will resonate well with your audience. Need content help? Here's a guide to popular content ideas that you can almost always share.
18. NetBase
This tool has an interesting focus on determining the emotions, or sentiment, behind your social mentions. Tracking this alongside purchase decisions makes it a unique chance to watch social conversations and sales side-by-side.
Combines your Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube accounts and shows you real-time conversations about your business. Their email and text alerts for shifts in sentiment can truly help those without a big PR team behind them.
20. Market Me Suite
Another one-stop platform for managing more than one social channel. It's great for those who need to get organized, and give differing priorities to conversations happening online.
For those who are visual learners, here's an infograhic from RazorSocial that will serve as your reference guide to understanding which tool is suitable for you.
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Use social media monitoring tools
Every social platform is a huge conversation taking place across the world 24 hours a day. Keeping track of what's going on, and what's being said about your brand, is impossible without a few tools. Take some time to consider what you need to focus on with your brand:
- mentions
- sharing content
- tracking conversations
- competitor analysis
And choose the right tool from the list above.
By harnessing the right social media monitoring tools, you can start working towards your maximum potential for your social marketing efforts. You will have the knowledge to tailor your next campaigns properly after listening to what others have to say about you, your business and your content.
Author's Bio:
Matthew is the social media writer for the Devumi Social Marketing blog. You can find him there every single Friday with cutting edge ideas for your online audience, or you can check out the Devumi Gorilla on Twitter for updates all day.


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Forced marriage crime ruled out by ministers
Ministers have ruled out creating a forced marriage crime, despite pressure from MPs to do so.
In an interview for the BBC's Asian Network, Home Office minister Lynne Featherstone said that it was not on the government's agenda.
The Home Affairs committee has called for an offence to complement court orders to protect potential victims.
In opposition, Prime Minister David Cameron said he would consider criminalising forced marriage.
Earlier this year, the Home Affairs committee urged the government to create a new crime, saying that there needed to be a criminal sanction to help prevent people breaching forced marriage protection orders.
The court orders, created in 2007, are the government's key legal tool to protect potential victims.
The injunctions are used to forbid families from actions such as taking people abroad for marriage, seizing passports or intimidating victims.
If someone breaches an order they can be jailed for up to two years.
Almost 300 protection orders have been made since their introduction - but the MPs argued that it was not clear whether the legislation was "wholly effective" in protecting individuals.
"The lack of a criminal sanction also sends a message, and currently that is a weaker message than we believe is needed," the MPs said in their report.
Speaking to the Asian Network, Ms Featherstone said: "In terms of criminalisation, that's not on the government's agenda.
"Yes there have been calls for it from a couple of quarters, but not overall and our judgement at this moment in time that would not be helpful.
"We are much more keen on protection, raising awareness and making sure that everyone who may be subjected to a forced marriage knows that they can be protected.
"It's very important, perhaps the most important thing, to get protection in place for those who may fall victim to forced marriage and that protection cannot be out in place if people don't come forward."
During opposition, David Cameron said a future Conservative government would consider criminalising forced marriage if the current legislation does not work.
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Adam Milstein's altruism developed from a basic perception: that Israeli residents dwelling within the United States should have been enabled to comprehend their way of life as Israeli-Americans. Along these lines and different issues confronting the Jewish and also Israeli-American community, Adam, and Gila, his significant other founded the Adam & Gila Milstein Foundation. The association does numerous things. It supports programs that assist learners and young professionals in linking with Israel state and comprehensively comprehend their Jewish identity. Adam additionally helped to establish Israel-American Council. His endeavors have been praised in his mother country, Israel, as well as in the United States, where he has been based. To date, the Israeli-American Council is among the quickest developing Jewish associations in the USA, as indicated by Forbes.
Through the Adam & Gila Milstein Family Foundation, several grants have been distributed to numerous organizations. This incorporates pro-Israel campus groups that operate fellowship programs with the target of assisting learners study, network and reinforce their support for pro-Israel advocacy. The association likewise gives support to the pro-Israel movement "Students Supporting Israel". The movement was commenced by grassroots learners and has grown easily over the years. Also, they have held different rallies across the USA to booster the Israel legitimacy recognition which is undermined by the BDS development.
In the year 2015, Adam, Sheldon Adelson and Haim Shaban planned a first-of-its-kind occasion: "The Maccabee Campus Summit." They united many different associations to talk about how to harness support and conquer defeat hate groups that spread anti-Semitism and lies demonizing Israel, the Jewish nation on college institutions within the USA. This is among the several purposes why Adam, in the year 2016, was among the linked one hundred individuals who positively changed the lives of Jews in the United States.
Adam is exceptionally delicate to the battles that his folks, precursors, and kindred Jews have encountered all through history, particularly the abuse faced by Jews around the globe before the formation of the State of Israel. He perceives that disdain of Jews today frequently reflects the counter Semitism of Nazi Germany, which prompted the Holocaust and the killing of six million Jews notwithstanding North Africa and the Middle East where most Jews were murdered, mistreated and forced into poverty.
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Salazar signs Cape Wind lease
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Cape Wind Associates, LLC have signed the first lease for commercial wind energy development on the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf (OCS).
"This is the beginning of a new era for our Nation in offshore energy production," Secretary Salazar said in a speech to the American Wind Energy Association in Atlantic City, N.J, where he signed the lease earlier this week.
"This crucial milestone opens a new chapter of clean electricity production and a new source of jobs for our nation," said Jim Gordon, President of Cape Wind.
The lease authorizes Cape Wind to constructa 130 turbine offshore wind farm on Horseshoe Shoal in Nantucket Sound, and to operate the facility for a period of 25 years.
"The signing of this lease sends an important market signal to the offshore wind industry that the United States is ready to move forward and that Cape Wind will be the first of many offshore wind projects in this country," Gordon said.
"We're ready to roll up our sleeves and get to work building America's first offshore wind farm that will create hundreds of jobs, increase our energy independence and promote a healthier and more hopeful energy future," Gordon said.
"This important day for our region and our nation would not have arrived without the continuous support of the Governor and Legislature, a strong majority of the public across Massachusetts including Cape Cod and the Islands, the leading environmental organizations in the region and nation, organized labor, health and trade organizations, and Clean Power Now which has mobilized local grassroots public support," Gordon added.
Denise Bode, AWEA CEO, who was on-stage with Secretary Salazar for the signing of the lease, said:
"This is a great moment, a major milestone, in getting the offshore segment of the U.S. wind industry off the ground and in the water. Cape Wind has been a leader in the offshore wind power movement for years, and so it is appropriate that this historic moment take place right here at AWEA's first-ever North American Offshore Wind Conference & Exhibition--just a short walk from the Atlantic Ocean, where thousands of megawatts of wind energy are waiting to be tapped.
"Over 1,600 people from around the world witnessed the signing, some of them from countries that have taken the lead away from the United States in developing wind energy.
"The Cape Wind lease represents progress toward taking that lead back for America, and keeping not only construction jobs, but also wind manufacturing jobs, right here at home instead of having to watch them go to China and Europe."
Last month the U.S. Department of Energy unveiled a draft plan that calls for the United States to install 54,000 megawatts of offshore wind power capacity by the year 2030, which would require more than 100 Cape Wind-sized projects.