A Republic Turning On Itself: Educational Components Pt 3of 6

Budget issues mixed with ever evolving, and  shifting values, has the future of education now mired in conflict, union chaos and disenfranchisement of our youth. The current social and political climate in the United States allows without protest nixing school budgets and programs. This allows the concurrent trend  toward disrupting and permanently altering the vision, use, and type of public education benefit in which most Americans out of high school are familiar with. As we progress with that high school diploma or GED, we must begin to appreciate the value of education thus far in application our life.


For what you hold as truth and knowledge; parenting, wanting, growing, and hopefully ascending, if maturing toward the need for more education and knowledge of a thing,  task, compulsion or and dominions to do that, equates to a living existence.


Using what one knows to build oneself and advance toward an individual goal in life is due greatly to knowledge. It  is this very American type realm, in its the possibilities and attitude which starts in our ethic of an educated and informed citizen. Our system has public education built in public policy and bound by tax code. Simply, we, me you, us, and all of them pay for public education whether we attend them or not. Those who do attend and or send their children to public schools all agree that there must be standards. Yet most school districts and constituents quibble into abstract over what standards matter. As  our daily budgetary and social realities adjudicate, we see a political and social trend toward dismantling core, practices, and components of the local public elementary through collegiate systems.

 The obvious is to affect the view of the relevance, worth and need for public education's value to the student, teacher, administrator, parent, politician and voter. 

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A Republic Turning On Itself Pt 2 of 6

A living standard declining into a realization that it is becoming financially and emotionally harder to maintain resolve and positive outlook, while the examples of a political, class war duplicity rages; government waste and excess abound. Now, everyday we tune into our life, local or national news or information source, and then toggle our emotions into the belief of the "trending" moment. Then you return to work, if working, and find that you are as expendable as good ideas. And, it may be the employers condition of ideas to eventually reduce, remove or reassign your job. At some point, even the most insular employee will have a job or career threatened or eliminated. In today's time, which is all that matters to most of us, we seek and need certain stability to exist on par. If individuals drop below that threshold, then something else tends to suffer or go amiss. These are basic socio-economic facts of life and the point is to reconnect your thinking to your daily toils and joys. In this we all realize that our daily lives all connect to the shared human condition to which individual and societal growth is the by product of its own objective. Your condition of living is the only variable that separates you from anyone else. The degree to which each individual lives and enjoys living, defines how you feel about the conditions of your life. So material goods, money, hope and dreams are relative to how you feel about your knowledge of things; and, outlook and perception of chances of reaching and growing these life goals and achievements.

In the U.S.A., we have gotten to the root cause of the challenges we face growing forward. All sytems of living, from social, religious, political, to education sectors and more are at developmental and bugetary odds with the public they only exist for.  In our system of governance, it is most important to never forget that our democracy is a republic with a market capital economy. We are not purley democratic  or capitalist. Compansion is built into all public, social and civic policies. Historically, this nation has made economic advances by shifting social and civic processies. A womens right to vote, labor laws or abolishment of slavery are examples of this righting toward American advances.

The "American Dream" only exist, because it possible to work find employment and enterprise necessary to execute capital to obtain such an entitiled notion.

A Republic Turning On Itself Part 1 of 6

Have you read  Animal Farm? When I taught and tutored teenagers, it was a must read for my class. The book is a very insightful story about how things crafted with great intention go bad. It reflects the development of a system of order and society. This literature gives fundamental clues to "human" nature under the simile of an animated, and intelligible animal farm. It shows the rise and decline of civil arrangement's of consent or coercion and de facto agreements due to governance; routine and order. Ultimately the book is the path reflected through story of what happens when people and society implode under unsustainable governance and poor living science.

Poor living science is nothing less than society failing. Failing consistently over time to address, redress and contain basic civil elements that affect the quality of life for its population. State plus individual economic growth, historical psychology, politics, human rights and the idea of the "right to more" are basic civil elements for most societies. Now in our society, we Americans are in the throws of civil rebellion. Most Americans as do most people have a fundamental believe in their individual "right to more". Whether it be an individual belief or a belief in your tribe's, clan's, or government's "right to more", it is fundamental part of how we are as modern humans. Here in the U.S.A., our seemingly out of sync political and socio-economic realities with three budget and morale draining wars; has gotten us in gridlock due to unsustainable governance and poor living sciences. This combined with collusion (or appearance of) for whatever reason with big businesses, especially media, entertainment, commodities, and energy sectors have put most aware and politically active Americans on quiet and active alert.

Having studied as much history as most of you, it is obvious that the current economic crisis and rising unemployment are not disconnected to the democrat (liberal)  vs republican (conservative) view of funding and shaping our mere realty. The two party system of living, which most of us participate, is out of bounds with the daily views of their constituency. Further, the media stronghold on information corrupts potential knowledge acquisition. If you are bombarded and targeted with skewed, biased, slanted, inconsistent, and intentionally vague "news", you will eventually believe almost anything. Or, at least; call into question your own intuition and historical sense of realness. Simply, you cant trust most of what you here or read. Then, you may as well not trust yourself. Your system of living is in part due to a system of information which funds a view of reality. We grow because we know to. But growing at a decling, negative rate, is really what the crux of the issue is!

Decling standand of living is the issue affecting most Americans.

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Building Your Twitter Account Pt 3

In just seven days the @bluenational account grew by 500 followers. For me that is less than average. The week previous, I grew by about 1000. However I was losing about 25 each night after gaining about 200. Expanding beyond Twiends and using the " Who to Follow" list to grow your account has helped create a more balance group of supporters. I have fewer unfollowers on average. Twiends is still very important, but it should never be the sole way to grow an account. The simple and effective use of refferal from other tweets has worked to add loyalty to my base. Often Twiends followers fall into two categories; over aggressive marketers/ spam or  random non interested followers who have a high unfollow rate. Many Twiend users don't even know you can change your setting to lower the rate of unfollowers. The setting can also offer more or less seeds; target different countries, and change your interest to attract more focused followers. But aside from Twiends, I use Tweepi.com to further refine those I choose to follow or unfollow. This site takes you deeper into target marketing for the followers who best suit your needs. In my case, I will always follow way less people because I rely on certain types of news/ info related follow backs. I prefer tweets from every corner of the globe. This allows me to plug you in faster with relevant, humorous, political and news worthy tweets. Ultimately as @bluenational expands, we will see a growing fan base that is both loyal and interactive.

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Street Vending

In Los Angeles as well as major cities around the nation, street vending without the proper business permits is illegal. It should remain illegal and the city authorities should make efforts to curtail, monitor and or eliminate this activity. It is unfair to local tax paying businesses to allow non taxpaying vendors to set up and proliferate outside or near legal enterprises. Food vendors are unsafe since they don't go through L.A. County Health Department licensing. In my opinion, cultural and ethnic communities that support illegal vendors contribute to the decline of the American economy. The foregone tax revenue that cities and counties need to provide services to its citizens is often leached from the very communities that are most needy. Essential to proper growth in every neighborhood is economic planning. Vendors now see their activities as a way to make quick undetectable cash. Many of the vendors in my local community are illegal residence that are organized by various master enterprises. These vendors work tirelessly and are often exploited. Many of them employ children that would normally be in school. This violates child labor laws that are in place to protect children.

Having owned business in the past, it should be the intent of every vendor or business to grow and establish them for greater success. This is a learned task which is part of the American ethos and work ethic. If these values are not continually uplifted and communicated, constant economic decline will continue in every neighborhood that allows vendors to proliferate. Many citizens see only the convenience of having someone service them local or on their street.They have not realized the connection to crime, food born illnesses, terrorism and public safety.  Los Angeles Wave Community Newspaper article by Kevin Herrera got it right. We must rethink street vending as a society and take into view how we want the future growth of our city to look.

 

Originally Written   5/2005                                                                                         by Marty Smith

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aspect of sustainable architecture. The designs offered for sale here use
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School Milk Facts

Nutrition Facts
Serving Size 1 school milk carton (1/2 pint)
Amount Per Serving
Calories from Fat 71 Calories 146
% Daily Values*
Total Fat 7.93g		12%
	Saturated Fat 4.551g	23%
	Polyunsaturated Fat 0.476g
	Monounsaturated Fat 1.981g
Cholesterol 24mg		8%
Sodium 98mg		4%
Potassium 349mg
Total Carbohydrate 11.03g		4%
	Dietary Fiber 0g	0%
	Sugars 12.83g
Protein 7.86g
Vitamin A 0% Vitamin C 0%
Calcium 28% Iron 0%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs. Nutrition Values are based on USDA Nutrient Database SR18

Note:
Includes: 3.5% or 3.8% fat milk; leche fresca

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Public Education in Los Angeles Pt 1

A simple look at the LAUSD may reveal key issues that greatly affect the quality, scope, and depth of individual learning. Overcrowding in the classroom and general populations on most urban campuses has achieved its maximums. The increasing immigrant base mixed with existing social, financial hardships for average working Americans, fuels the dearth of opportunity for essential parental development and consensus toward child rearing. Simply put, there does not seem to be enough time in an average parent’s day to give quality behavioral instruction and basic educational guidance to their children. With so many people in Los Angeles, where literacy rates rate around 40% for the total population, most parents barely have a proper base in or understanding of core a curriculum. Most classrooms begin at an educational deficit due to these facts. Having taught for over ten years in the classroom and other educational programs, I would say that the expectations on the average teacher is overwhelming and prone to failure.

Originally Written 4/2006                                                                                         by Marty Smith

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What Do You Think About Community Organizing?

Community organizing is a very important tool for social change and betterment.  The founding of this nation began as an organized protest against the throne of England. Over the centuries of our development and progress in the United States, our nation has benefited as a result of significant responses to conditions, policies and laws that did not reflect democratic ideals expressed in the bill of rights and U.S. constitution. It is because of organized reactions to individual cases, legal challenges, and outrage over social and economic conditions which fuel positive, applicable outcomes for societal betterment.

In modern times we have seen major demonstrations and organized protest over civil rights issues, sexual liberation, equal rights for women, immigrant’s rights, the environment, etc. Many of these organized communities or special interest followed longstanding tactics developed during the slave abolitionist movement, women’s suffrage movement, labor protection of the industrial ages, and 20^th century African American civil rights movement. The methods used are tried and tested. They are often over applied to every group protests and organized effort around any issue. In my opinion, many of the current trends toward social change are cluttered and confused. Following the traditions of their movements may not be the best thing to clarify and identify the importance of that movement. For instance, utilizing and adopting the same tactics, similar rhetoric, and political jockeying of the Black Civil rights movement for gay rights and transgender issues may not be the best approach to promoting this specific issue. The way  in which this issue is often represented by the media and special interest, tend to devalue the importance. Rather than garnering more support for the issue, the public and those most affected by the issue seem overburdened by it and its presentation by those in the movement reflect a watered down view.

Ultimately, all organizing efforts reflect the organic synthesis of the democratic process and the ideals of the republic. Community organizing is the fundamental model for social change. It’s positive or negative affect of the organized effort must be analyzed in the totality of historical context. Not all organized community efforts reflect the greater needs of our democracy. In time, we will see what was true, right and or just for all.

Originally Written 5/2006

What Is G.I.S.?

G.I.S. means Geographical Information Systems. These are databases which allow the user to capture, display, analyze and display special relationships. G.I.S. uses digitized current and historical data to produce mapping systems. Each layer of the map quantifies composite information such as census or land use data. This allows G.I.S. to become a tool to view very complex and overlapping information to get a “big picture” of the cumulative effects of planning decisions, growth management, and use of land. Common

G.I.S. databases allows designers, developers and government agencies to develop concurrent integrated models through mapping. These maps can be static or in real time. The data can be view in three dimensions. A G.I.S. database also has geospatial referencing which enables the user to become a “doer” by querying the database. By asking questions of the database, the user can build their own information systems with specific attributes and feature that satisfy the query.

G.I.S. is a very powerful tool which will have major impact on  society. Combined with other technologies such as tracking devices, cameras or global positioning systems, G.I.S. will have global consequences which I hope will be used to better the human condition.

Currently G.I.S. is being employed by citizen councils all over the United States to create balanced and equitable congressional redistricting.

For more information visit: http://www.esri.com/redistricting

Pt. 2 --------- Getting Out of Twitter Jail

After building my account with the help of Twiends and TrueTwit, I found my self in Twitter Jail. The Twitter policy is when you reach 2001 Follows and your Followers are not over 2001; then they suspend your ability to follow others. I then used the verified account manager (TrueTwit) to identify Bots, inactives and spam. I slowly began to unfollow then follow more people. In time I unfollowed just enough people to grow more followers on Twiends. This was all done for free. Eventually I gained a great service in Tweepi! Their systems allow very clear review of your account and you willl be able to "flush" unfollowers and those with poor ratios and stats. Yes, that's right comprehensive stats on every one on Twitter which allow you to analize your account. If you send, them a shout out, they will get you out of Twitter Jail before your account reaches 2001 followers. I allow about a week before I unfollow non followers. It makes very little sense to continue to follow Tweets, that you dont need or support your efforts.

Growing A Twitter Acount Pt. 1

In  late January 2011 I decided to get back on Twitter after about a six month break. I was not concerned with followers at that time because the 30 or so people who were following me did not tweet that often. I really used the account as a sounding board for my quips and rants in the moment. Then I went to WorkSource to find employment and they had a policy of  No Twitter, Facebook, or MySpace access. Because I work in the film / entertainment industry, I get most of my leads through social networks. Also every major employer and job referral service uses Facebook or Twitter. So to me, the policy was foolish and subject.  I started to research jobs on Twitter and found that there was a wealth of access and information about everything that was not being communicated to the public.

Then one morning while listing to @kpcc, there was a clip about the South by Southwest music festival in Austin, TX. It ended the clip  with the link to the festival on Twitter. I got on Twitter linked in, and began following everybody with any thing to say about the festival.. I connected to some good tweets and followed many. Most of the younger tweeters were talking about getting followers born in the late 80's and 90's. Many of these accounts had 10000 plus followers and I had less than fifty. But, when I read the tweets, they were rather immature and disconnected to real things going on in the world. In fact I even challenged one of the tweeter on his lack of substance.

Another morning on @kpcc, Larry had a segment on effective use of social media in the new real economic realities. The speaker said that most people (me included) were still stuck in the 90's as if this social media thing was going away. The speaker ranted about growing a following particularly, if you have a small project, art, crafts, service, or skill. He said you could do all of this for free and get sponsorship. As a former music promoter and skilled artist, everything clicked and I followed his instructions.  He suggested unsing Twiends and a verified account manager.

My First Bluenational Blog

This is the first step toward the development of the Bluethinktank and Bluenational brand of content and ideas. Thanks to a follower on my Twitter account, I followed his links to http://www.http//www.onlineworkindia.co.in/how-to-create-a-blog-to-earn-money.html and set this in motion. After following the simple instructions, I was then at a loss for something to blog. So I went and bought some incense from another follower and he suggested I just keep it real! Now I am creating this blog for all to see how really easy it is to publish your own content; and for free!