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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization
5 Lucrative Jobs That Don’t Require a College Degree
Get with the times, think for yourself, and realize: you don’t have to go to college to be successful.
5 Lucrative Jobs That Don’t Require a College Degree
Get with the times, think for yourself, and realize: you don’t have to go to college to be successful.
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from The Heritage Foundation
[Information from this site may be unreliable.]
UN’s Solution to Climate Change: End Capitalism
What will it take to keep the planet habitable? According to some eco-warriors, all that’s necessary is to end capitalism—the one economic system that has lifted billions from poverty and suffering.
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The Miracle that Is the Smartphone
When it was released in 1983, DynaTac was the world’s first handheld mobile phone. It weighed two pounds, took 10 hours to charge and offered 30 minutes of talk time. In 1984, the phone cost $3,995. That’s $10,277 in 2018 US dollars. As late as 1990, mobile phones were so expensive that only 2 per cent of Americans could afford them. In 2017, there were 225 million smartphones in the United States alone. Globally, the number of smartphone users is forecast to grow from 2.1 billion in 2016 to around 2.5 billion in 2019. Over time, mobile phones became smaller and cheaper. They also became much more powerful and useful. Today, a Nigerian coal miner in South Africa can use a phone app to send money to his mother in Lagos. A Congolese fisherman can be warned about approaching inclement weather. A Maasai herdsman can find out the price of milk in Nairobi. All of humanity’s knowledge, which took millennia to accumulate, can be accessed easily and instantaneously — via a smartphone.
UN’s Solution to Climate Change: End Capitalism
What will it take to keep the planet habitable? According to some eco-warriors, all that’s necessary is to end capitalism—the one economic system that has lifted billions from poverty and suffering.
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from HumanProgress.org Education Website
The Miracle that Is the Smartphone
When it was released in 1983, DynaTac was the world’s first handheld mobile phone. It weighed two pounds, took 10 hours to charge and offered 30 minutes of talk time. In 1984, the phone cost $3,995. That’s $10,277 in 2018 US dollars. As late as 1990, mobile phones were so expensive that only 2 per cent of Americans could afford them. In 2017, there were 225 million smartphones in the United States alone. Globally, the number of smartphone users is forecast to grow from 2.1 billion in 2016 to around 2.5 billion in 2019. Over time, mobile phones became smaller and cheaper. They also became much more powerful and useful. Today, a Nigerian coal miner in South Africa can use a phone app to send money to his mother in Lagos. A Congolese fisherman can be warned about approaching inclement weather. A Maasai herdsman can find out the price of milk in Nairobi. All of humanity’s knowledge, which took millennia to accumulate, can be accessed easily and instantaneously — via a smartphone.
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from The Inlander
Media/News Company in Spokane, WA
Open Doors shelter hopes to move to larger location in old Cassano's Grocery building
With a lot of hard work needed, and money still to be raised (to the tune of about $100,000 total for the move), Family Promise of Spokane hopes to move its Open Doors family shelter to the Cassano's Grocery building on Mission Avenue by December. Currently, Open Doors, the only 24/7 emergency shelter in the city for homeless families, has to turn away families with children every night at its location in the Perry Neighborhood. While the city contracts with the shelter for 50 people per night, the shelter has pushed that up to about 65 at times. But there's still more need, says Steve Allen, executive director of Family Promise of Spokane. "We're turning away kids every night," Allen says. In the new space at Cassano's, they envision serving about 80 people per night, with beds that can be rolled out and placed where aisles of canned goods and sauces currently stand in the store.
Media/News Company in Spokane, WA
Open Doors shelter hopes to move to larger location in old Cassano's Grocery building
With a lot of hard work needed, and money still to be raised (to the tune of about $100,000 total for the move), Family Promise of Spokane hopes to move its Open Doors family shelter to the Cassano's Grocery building on Mission Avenue by December. Currently, Open Doors, the only 24/7 emergency shelter in the city for homeless families, has to turn away families with children every night at its location in the Perry Neighborhood. While the city contracts with the shelter for 50 people per night, the shelter has pushed that up to about 65 at times. But there's still more need, says Steve Allen, executive director of Family Promise of Spokane. "We're turning away kids every night," Allen says. In the new space at Cassano's, they envision serving about 80 people per night, with beds that can be rolled out and placed where aisles of canned goods and sauces currently stand in the store.
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from Journal of the Civil War Era
With the 2018 midterm elections approaching, the role of money in politics once again looms large in American political discourse. For many, shadowy super PACs, mega-donors, and dark money stand in stark contrast to the sanctity of the individual voter. Political actors recognize and deploy this, with politicians going to great lengths to avoid seeming beholden to monied interests.[1] This, however, is not a new issue in American politics. Fears of wealth’s influence resonated in the nineteenth century as well, as electoral combatants used accusations of purchased influence to attack their opponents’ legitimacy. Even as the Civil War loomed, such rhetoric helped shape the terms of debates over the Union’s future. We see this with particular clarity in Virginia, as Virginians wrestled with secession during the secession winter. Much as opponents of slavery had long accused the “Slave Power” of wielding undemocratic political influence, those combating secession summoned fears of slave money (particularly that spent in the political arena by slave traders) to undercut disunion’s democratic legitimacy and to bolster the Union.
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from Laudable Practice Blog
'AND TAKE THIS HOLY SACRAMENT TO YOUR COMFORT': THE HEART OF THE 1662 RITE
In recent times I have been reflecting on my affection for the 1662 Order for the Administration of Holy Communion. Not in terms of an analysis of its doctrinal and liturgical aspects, nor even in terms of the rhythms of its language. Each of these, of course, has deep significance. In eucharistic doctrine deeply catholic, robustly reformed, the 1662 rite has great richness. Regarding its language, Alison Milbank has well summarised its strength: "One reason why people hold to the BCP is that it is rhythmic, written for speech. As a priest I have only presided using it for the last three years at a rate of about once a month and already I know it off by heart" (from an unpublished paper by Alison Milbank, 'Common as Muck: Why we need Common Worship'). It was composed to be remembered, inviting us to inhabit its rhythms, shaping and forming us in prayer.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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