Is Our Addiction to Saving Money Destroying the Real America? (36)
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Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Paul Michael, Senior Writer for Wise Bread. As a young boy growing up in a gray, rainy seaside town in England, I had a fascination for America; maybe even a love affair. America was the land of opportunity, sure. But it was also vastly different and eccentric (in a good way) from state to state. So when I came to the U.S. around seven years ago, I ...
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Brett Stewart said:
What is more American than nostalgia? America has changed, but that doesn’t automatically mean it is bad.America’s economy has evolved along with technology. Wishing for those happy times when most stores were Mom and Pop is also wishing for a time when most people could afford one car only, when long distance phone calls were a luxury, and when foreign grown foods, like pineapple, were almost unattainable. Technology has given us great gains in efficiency. Big chain stores allow traditionally poor people to have products that were impossible to afford in the Mom and Pop days. Take away the chain stores, and you take away some family’s means to buy furniture and supplies for their home. But maybe they would be better living on a farm, growing their own food (just don’t use pesticides!), and unable to afford those Mom and Pop hotels this post so desperately romanticizes.It amazes me to see how many people want those old days back, but don’t realize that the culture they want was only for a small middle class. Today, the middle class is huge, and for some reason it thinks it can have it both ways. A large middle class cannot support a Mom and Pop store economy, because Mom and Pop prices are too high. Take away chains and you take away the middle class that wouldn’t afford it.I think Mom and Pop stores are great, but only if they can make the extra money worth it. I’ll pay for personal service when I need it, but when I am buying a coke at the corner, do I really need to worry about whether or not it’s from a chain? I don’t think so.Think about this. Walmart is actually the biggest Mom and Pop store around. The Walton family still more or less runs the business, after it was started in a little town in Arkansas. If you want Mom and Pop, there is it.
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bddemir said:
My lonely but beautiful country, Turkey suffers from the same loss of taste as time goes by slowly. Surrounded by (mainly foreign) corporate owned businesses, nothing is like as it was used to be. Giving up on local and family owned equates to giving up on our souls...
http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/tips-portrait-photography/ (6)
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Yesterday I shared 10 Ways to take Stunning Portrait Photography. We covered everything from altering your perspective as a photographer, to experimenting with lighting, to shooting candidly. Today I want to continue on the same train of thought with 10 more tips for adding a little spice to your portraits. 11. Frame Your Subject Framing is a [...]
Make your own manga avatar (1)
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I have been seeing these for the past few days on Twitter, and now I know why. Everyone has FaceYourManga fever! FaceYourManga allows you to create a very customizable “manga-esk” avatar for you to use on all your online profiles. There are quite a few options colors and positions to choose from. I can definitely see this become a very used service once the word spreads. Here’s my attempt at me to the left. But ...
An Introduction to Architectural Photography (14)
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I am a professional architectural photographer working out of Denver, Colorado. I have photographed over 4500 homes and buildings, and I can claim Colorado’s highest producing Real Estate agents as dedicated customers. Photographing homes and buildings presents a unique set of challenges for a shooter. There are any number of variables that affect each project, [...]
An Introduction to Architectural Photography (5)
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I am a professional architectural photographer working out of Denver, Colorado. I have photographed over 4500 homes and buildings, and I can claim Colorado’s highest producing Real Estate agents as dedicated customers. Photographing homes and buildings presents a unique set of challenges for a shooter. There are any number of variables that affect each project, [...]
Cancer expert warns employees on cell phones (1)
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The head of a prominent cancer research institute issued an unprecedented warning to his faculty and staff Wednesday: Limit cell phone use because of the possible risk of cancer.
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Deege said:
Crap science blasted across the media world to scare people. I can't believe CNN publishes this crap.
The most telling sentence in this non-story is:
""Really at the heart of my concern is that we shouldn't wait for a definitive study to come out but err on the side of being safe rather than sorry later," Herberman said."
Wow. We don't need science, stop because I said so.
Teenage Air Traffic Controllers? (1)
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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) recently announced that it would award $100,000 bonuses to people willing to take jobs as air traffic controllers, in an effort to lure workers to understaffed control centers in New York. The FAA has targeted people as young as 18 in their search for new air traffic controllers by recruiting at high schools and on youth-friendly websites such as MySpace and Craigslist. While training can take at least a year ...
Teenage Air Traffic Controllers? (1)
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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) recently announced that it would award $100,000 bonuses to people willing to take jobs as air traffic controllers, in an effort to lure workers to understaffed control centers in New York. The FAA has targeted people as young as 18 in their search for new air traffic controllers by recruiting at high schools and on youth-friendly websites such as MySpace and Craigslist. While training can take at least a year ...
"Consensus" on Man-Made Warming Shattering (4)
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Physics & Society, The journal of the American Physical Society, has published "Climate Sensitivity Revisited," a debate. "There is a considerable presence within the scientific community of people who do not agree with the IPCC conclusion that anthropogenic CO2 emissions are very probably likely to be primarily responsible for the global warming that has occurred since the Industrial Revolution," the paper notes. "Global mean surface temperature has not risen since 1998 and may have fallen ...
