#usdollar #money #euro #economy
The American dollar is in bad need of a makeover. Thanks to the Dollar ReDe$ign Project, we may now have some options.
Organized by creative strategy consultant Richard Smith, the Dollar ReDe$ign Project is soliciting ideas for the dollar bill of the future. "Our great 'rival', the Euro, looks so spanky in comparison it seems the only clear way to revive this global recession is to rebrand and redesign," the project notes on its website.
Source: Huffy Puffy Post
The worst publicity stunt of the year? Putting President Obama on a dollar bill is simply ridiculous
British graphic design firm Dowling Duncan has come up with a series of controversial ideas for the Dollar Redesign Project, an open competition run by New York designer Richard Smith (and not associated with the US government). According to their ambitious PR spiel: “we want to rebrand the US Dollar, rebuild financial confidence and revive our failing economy.”
The new garish multicolour notes conceived by the firm bear a striking stylistic resemblance to the Euro, and remove America’s Founding Fathers altogether. The company has proposed replacing George Washington with Barack Obama on the new dollar bill, and Benjamin Franklin with Franklin D. Roosevelt on the $100 dollar note.
For a start, Barack Obama has an approval rating in the US that is in freefall, and is swiftly becoming one the most unpopular presidents in modern American history. He isn’t doing much better across the Atlantic either, where his reputation has taken a significant hit over his relentless bashing of BP. Domestically, Obama’s stock has fallen so dramatically in recent months that even his own party increasingly views him as an electoral liability.
Linking the image of Obama to rebuilding financial confidence and reviving the US economy would be regarded as simply ludicrous by most Americans. After all, it is the Obama administration’s big government vision and reckless spending that is threatening economic growth, job creation and a recovery in the housing market, as well as saddling the United States with a staggering debt that threatens to end its status as the world’s only superpower.
And as for using the look and feel of the Euro as an inspiration for a redesigned dollar (as though we need a redesign anyway) – that’s just as foolhardy. The doomed European single currency is hardly the best role model for a hypothetical US dollar revamp as Greece goes up in flames while much of the rest of Europe looks nervously over its shoulders. The dollar will probably be around for centuries, while the Euro might not even survive the next decade.
Source: Telegraph (UK)
We don’t need a “spanky” garish monopoly money design. We don’t need to emulate the Euro. We don’t need to totally eliminate the founding fathers from our currency.
Our mainly Judeo–Christian founding fathers designed a government system that has made us one of the greatest countries in the world. We must not run from that fact. It is not a sin that our country is one of the greatest in the world.
If you want to make our money more colorful, I like the idea of making the main image on the back more photorealistic but leave the dignified greenback front alone including the founding fathers. I like the current redesign of the front of our money.
Of course, the socialistic Obama regime doesn’t think our country to be one of the greatest countries in the world.
#NOW #KFC #coeds #advertising #college
KFC wants folks to watch its backside.
Or, more precisely, the backsides of female college students it's recruiting to promote its hot new bunless Double Down sandwiches.
Women on college campuses are being paid $500 each to hand out coupons while wearing fitted sweatpants with "Double Down" in large letters across their rear ends.
The nation's largest women's group doesn't like it one bit. "It's so obnoxious to once again be using women's bodies to sell fundamentally unhealthy products," says Terry O'Neill, president of the National Organization for Women. What's more, she says, KFC has forgotten something important: Women make more than half the decisions about what to eat for dinner.
But KFC marketing chief John Cywinski says it's an effective way to catch the attention of young men — KFC's key customers and the biggest fans of Double Down.
Source: USA Today
NAG’s Terry O'Neill is being disingenuous since women’s bodies are used to sell a ton of products including “green” products.
#renewable #green #globalwarming #CFLs #lightbulbs
The last major GE factory making ordinary incandescent light bulbs in the United States is closing this month, marking a small, sad exit for a product and company that can trace their roots to Thomas Alva Edison's innovations in the 1870s.
The remaining 200 workers at the plant here will lose their jobs. "Now what're we going to do?" said Toby Savolainen, 49, who like many others worked for decades at the factory, making bulbs now deemed wasteful.
Source: Washington Post
Brandy Bridges heard the claims of government officials, environmentalists and retailers like Wal-Mart all pushing the idea of replacing incandescent light bulbs with energy-saving and money-saving compact fluorescent lamps.
So, last month, the Prospect, Maine, resident went out and bought two dozen CFLs and began installing them in her home. One broke. A month later, her daughter's bedroom remains sealed off with plastic like the site of a hazardous materials accident, while Bridges works on a way to pay off a $2,000 estimate by a company specializing in environmentally sound cleanups of the mercury inside the bulb.
Source: WorldNetDaily
UK experts have warned that CFL bulbs can trigger migraines, dizziness and loss of focus, as well as increased pain for those with lupus and can cause people with epilepsy to experience symptoms similar to the early stages of a fit.
CFL's operate at high frequency using an electronic switching ballast to chop up the 120 volts -- that's how they are able to use less energy when compared to an old-style incandescent bulb. A typical operating frequency for an electronic ballast would be in the region of 20kHz to 100kHz, a frequency range known to produce adverse effects on one's health.
Professor Magda Havas, one of the world's leading researchers on the biological effects of EMF, has written:
Compact fluorescent lights (CFL) produce radio wave frequencies. These frequencies radiate directly from the bulbs and [also] go on the electrical wiring in the home or school causing poor power quality or dirty electricity. The closer you sit to the bulb the greater your exposure. Because the high frequencies travel along the wire, you can be exposed in other rooms of your home as well as [in] the room that contains the CFL.
Source: Green Earth LED
Unlike incandescent bulbs, which generate light by running a current through a metal filament, CFLs have hundreds of electrical components. The more parts in a system, the greater the opportunities for of one of them to fail, says Conan O'Rourke, technical director at the Lighting Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. In a bulb that burns out early, the electronic components may have been inferior in quality or poorly installed, or the bulbs might have been physically damaged in some way during transport from China, where most are manufactured.
The electrical components also complicate the end of life for the CFL. When dying a timely (or untimely) death, a CFL's components may not get the message that the bulb is no longer working, and it continues to let electricity flow through the plastic base to the nonworking bulb. This creates a puff of smoke and an acrid smell as well as a charred blackening that appears at the bulb's base. This pyrotechnic display may also be spurred by a dried-out electrolytic capacitor--the "weakest link" in a CFL, according to O'Rourke. Still, for a large number of situations, the CFL is the best, brightest, most efficient bulb for the job. You just have to know what that job is, what CFL to look for and a few handy tips to make the most of your bulb.
CFLs do not fare well when flicked on and off repeatedly, so they'll last much longer if turned on for several hours--instead of minutes--at a time. "The more continuous the use of a bulb, the longer it'll burn because the most damage to the components is done during starts," says Russ Leslie, associate director of the Lighting Research Center. Accordingly, CFLs are recommended for use in living rooms and bedrooms where the light will stay on for the evening, rather than in closets, where a quick burst of light is the norm. Choose incandescent bulbs in areas where lights are used for short amounts of time.
Source: Popular Mechanics
Is the lifecycle of CFLs “greener” than the lifecycle of the incandescent bulb?
Is the mining of the material for the hundreds of electrical components of CFLs “greener” than the mining of the material for the components of the incandescent bulb?
Is the transportation of the material for the hundreds of electrical components of CFLs “greener” than the transportation of the material for the components of the incandescent bulb?
Is the manufacture of the hundreds of electrical components and then the manufacture of the CFL bulbs with “greener” than the manufacture of incandescent bulb?
Isn’t the energy “cost” of the manufacture of each electrical components about the same as energy “cost” of the manufacture of the complete incandescent bulb?
For a broken bulb, is the Hazmat team for the disposal of a broken CFL bulb “greener” than the broom and dustpan for the disposal of a broken incandescent bulb?
Is the disposal of an unbroken CFL bulb “greener” than the disposal of an unbroken incandescent bulb?
And I have had many CFL bulbs last less than a year.
And I usually am not eco-friendly since I throw the mercury filled CFL bulb in the regular garbage. Is it “greener” doing that than driving a single CFL bulb to the proper disposal site?
Most CFL bulbs are coming from China. How green is that?
And 200 people lost their jobs and many of them most likely won’t get a full time job the rest of their lives.
Since the CFLs interfere with AM radio reception, is this a way for liberals to deal with talk radio?
Note: H. R. 6144 was just submitted and the way I read governmentese it repeals the ban on regular light bulbs.
To repeal certain amendments to the Energy Policy and Conservation Act with respect to lighting energy efficiency. This Act may be cited as the `Better Use of Light Bulbs Act'.
Or does it?
#renewable #green #globalwarming
Lars Piloe and his team of archaeologists race against the clock to collect ancient artifacts exposed from the rapidly melting ice in northern Europe's highest mountains.
Hunting sticks, bows and arrows, and a 3,400-year-old leather shoe are some of the discoveries thawing out in Norway's Jotunheimen mountains. In one area, the Juvfonna ice field, 600 artifacts have turned up simultaneously, making the job very difficult for Piloe and his team, as feathers, wool, and leather can turn to dust within days if not collected and stored in a freezer.
According to Reuters, most international climate experts agree that glaciers diminishing from the Andes to the Alps is a result of man-made global warming.
Source: Huffy Puffy Post
If the ancient artifacts are under the glacier, doesn’t that mean the area was warmer 3,400 years ago? And was that warming man-made? Doesn’t it prove the climate goes in natural cycles of warm and cold periods?
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