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Summer's here.

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  US boosts 'game-changer' solar technology in bid for global market share

We own the economy and we want to make sure that we continue that pace of recovery.

Remove barriers to building a first class workforce so that the United States can compete in the global marketplace and lead the way in technological development and growth.

Promote lower energy prices through increased domestic production. Encourage all forms of energy production.

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 I understand how they get there. You exhaust your minds with this stuff. It's not real shocking or surprising how people end up at the John School.

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Cyclical economy job listings

May 13 - Substance abuse clinic hiring - (Rochester/Clarkston) general labor

May 12 - Substance abuse hiring full time - (Clarkston/Rochester Hills) healthcare

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There were, on average, 21.6 million people watching one of the three network evening newscasts in 2010, according to the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism. That's a good number, but it's 28.9 million fewer than watched in 1980. That drop is bad enough on its own, but consider the larger pool: There were 80 million more people in the United States in 2010 than in 1980.

In 2010, the only medium that saw audience growth was online. Everything else, from local TV news to cable to newspapers saw declines, some of them fairly steep. Cable TV audiences were down by more than 13 percent.

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Dear Shin Kong Mall management,

This past week the Burger King on level B1 that has been in the process of opening for the last six months lamentably made its debut.  I write today representing the collected apparel vendors which share this space.  

I am not sure you realize how smelly Burger Kings can be and I worry that as their equipment degrades over time the pervasive smell of cooked beef, which is already starting to coat B1, will worsen. Our free standing apparel kiosks have had little to no trouble coexisting with the array of eateries on B1 since the original construction of the mall. Burger King, in just the short time it has been open, has easily eclipsed the combined damage of all other food and beverage establishments in terms of distracting/offensive odors. In short, it is very smelly.  

We fear the reputation of our mall is at stake as we do not want to be branded the “smelly beef mall.” Already our shops are seeing returns from customers complaining of a distinct odor attached to their clothing. One especially distraught complainant broke into tears when recounting how two teenagers on the subway had laughed at her, suggesting in a particularly mortifying and crude manner that she had either purchased her pullover hoodie at Shin Kong Mall or was, herself, the source of the odor.

We would appreciate your immediate action and would hope you could at least close Burger King temporarily while a proper venting system is installed. I have included a floor plan to illustrate the spreading problem (http://www.vofa.ca/node/70).

I look forward to your prompt reply.

Frances Connor

It’s all good in the Hoodie apparel

Kiosk space B1-A

[phone] 

[email protected]

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... advertising aimed at people in a particular spot — a potentially huge business that is just getting off the ground.

Oh for a future where the flowers sell their smell to me, delivered to my doorstep as potpourri by the time I return home. I look forward to browsing through warbles of local wild birds so as to pick out the perfect ringtone. If the direction and strength of the breeze which blew my hair so can be pinpointed I will purchase it as an app for my programmable fan. And with your ability to triangulate and algoritheorize you must know how much vitamin D I absorbed from the sun ... might I buy a dosage or two in case I don’t make it out of the house in the next few days? Thank you in advance satellite guardian angel, your investment in what I like accentuates my life.

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On a simplistic level this commercial features varyingly attractive and/or hip twenty-somethings blowing stuff up and consuming media at the same time - a smorgasbord of modern fun. Under extreme conditions the trio of consumers must finish their downloads prior to a rocket destroying the mobile hotspot they are feeding on. As the ad plays out the trio scarcely have time to notice they are waiting before they are gleefully basking in the glow of acquisition, waiting is fun even. On its face this advertisement, corny and specious as it may be, purports to sell 4g telephone service but truly this is a cloaked warning of the fall of society on the whole. Not only is it a warning but in just 30 seconds the fall is sketched out completely.

The true narrative unfolds thusly:  

Ruling elite displayed with nuclear armory (:01).

Foreign elements are seen arming the ruling elites’ rockets (:04).

The modern world is oblivious, their attention happily ensnared by tablets and smart phones as well as the challenge of acquiring as much media as they can within a limited time (:08).

Behind the public’s back the ruling elite conspires with foreign elements to launch an attack using weapons supplied by the very same ruling elite. (:12)

Public celebrates meager gains even as major losses are sustained (:18).

Ruling elite stokes culture of acquisition with competitive overtones (“What’d get?!”) and as the public turns to a cycle of pointless comparison goes to cover up evidence (:24).

  Obviously this can only be a message from the future, cleverly disguised in the form of insipidly annoying advertising to pull the wool over the time-censors eyes. Bearing in mind the infinite possibility the future holds we can only assume that there have been time travelers who returned with warnings from scarred possibilities only to be ignored and cast to the fringe of society. Fortunately the more savvy are trying to steer society through subtle sculpting. Whether they will be successful in crafting a less dystopian existence remains to be seen - as always, the future waits.

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