Citizens are coming out

and demand from their representatives while one finds it ... fun and ... enjoyable when on serious issues demanding answers and explanations - they are re-named ...mob.

“People have gotten fired up and all that, but I think that’s what makes town halls fun,” said Perriello, a freshman who is among the most vulnerable Democrats in 2010. “I think that most of the time when we get out there, it’s a good chance for people to vent and offer their thoughts. It’s been good. I enjoy it, and people have a chance to speak their mind,” he said."

2009 CUNY Murray Kempton Award

"New Media Business Challenge - $1,000 Prize

CUNY Undergraduate and Graduate Student Competition:
Design a hard-headed plan to launch a profit-making business

Old journalistic media - newspapers, broadcast TV and the like - are hurting. They're stuck with lumbering 19th and 20th century production and business models in a fast-moving, digitized 21st century world.

New Media - electronic means of mass communication including the Internet, mobile devices, text-messaging, electronic games, blogs and podcasting - have democratized and revolutionized journalism. Look no further than the phone-recorded images of protests in post-election Iran that stunned the world - and the Iranian government - this June.

But with journalistic tools in everyone's hands and everyone expecting to get news for free, the craft of journalism -- which historically has been sustained through economically viable newspapers and broadcast media -- is under assault. How can journalists earn a living? How can the organizations that employ them survive?

Here's the $1,000 challenge for CUNY undergraduate and graduate students in any discipline, a special competition that's part of the 2009 CUNY Murray Kempton Awards for Journalism:

Can you devise a business plan for a profitable New Media organization that can deliver quality journalism, pay salaries and support an ongoing news-gathering organization? Your business model cannot rely upon foundation support and must be self-sustaining through revenues it generates.

Your proposal can be for a journalistic enterprise large or small. It can have a general or a sharply focused mission. The goal is not to devise a plan to save an Old Media company.

THE BUSINESS PLAN MUST INCLUDE STANDARD FEATURES (if you're not a business major, do some research to see what they are). Among other components, it should:

• Include a vision statement.
• Consider the competitive business environment of which your business will be a part.
• Explain the niche your business will fill in this environment.
• Describe and analyze your business prospects.
• Outline the economic viability of your business venture.
• Assess your cash start-up requirements and your cash flow for the first year of operation. At what point will your business break even?
• Specify what kind of staff you'll need, how you'll hire them and what kinds of salaries you'll pay. (Reporters and editors have to earn enough to eat, feed and house themselves, besides having a bit of fun now and then.)
• Sketch out marketing and expansion plans.

JUDGING will be by a panel of professional journalists and business experts who are familiar with New Media.

DEADLINE: 5 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009."

This is how the system exploits the people - only a sample

Artdish

http://artdishcom.yourwebhosting.com/post/2009/06/Vermeer2c-Rembrandt-and-the-Dutch-Golden-Age-at-the-Vancouver-Art-Gallery.aspx

The East Village I once knew

is gone. part of my inquiries on herbs Angelica's herb store at 9 street. I worked there to learn about herbs and essence oils beginning of 90ies. Chantall and Paul, Hui, Carlee Pone ee, Chris, Angela and so many other wonderful people. it used to be a meaningful meeting place.

the expertise of the people owning and running the store made it so famous. whoever had been there knows what i am talking about.

Walter Kronkite

November 4, 1916 – July 17, 2009

'That's the way it is'

Hundertwasserhaus

Friedrich Stowasser, Artist, Architect, Painter,
In the Mouldiness manifesto he claimed for the first time the "Window Right": "A person in a rented apartment must be able to lean out of his window and scrape off the masonry within arm's reach. And he must be allowed to take a long brush and paint everything outside within arm's reach. So that it will be visible from afar to everyone in the street that someone lives there who is different from the imprisoned, enslaved, standardised man who lives next door."

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Protect the Children

the symbols of pedophiles from Hamomilaki site

http://hamomilaki.blogspot.com/2009/06/simbolos-da-pedofilia.html