THANK YOU! Firefighters!!

Photos shot while wandering around Downtown Seattle, Washington in Spring 2009.

Jaime and I try to head up to Seattle each Spring, to attend two wonderful festivals happening there. THe first is the Northwest Folklife Festival, a huge festival of music and dance from around the world http://www.nwfolklife.org/ The second, is the Seattle International Film Festival http://www.siff.net Since we can't afford to tour the world, it is a way to take the tour in our imagination, supplemented with Seattle's wonderful mix of ethnic restaurants!

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Reading an interesting article in Rolling Stone Magazine, about global warming and the upcoming United Nations summit on climate change in Copenhagen, which starts in early December, by Naomi Klein http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/30841581/climate_rage

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PBS, a public broadcasting network in the US, has announced that they are cancelling the show "NOW" which is one of the more informative programs they have. Bill Moyers, who also has a great show on that network as well, has also announced that he will be retiring soon. One can only guess, that new 'reality tv' shows will be coming our way. How many shows do we need sending comfortable Americans from the safety of their condos, to live in the bush of Africa, and whine about it?

If you are bored, "NOW" has some excellent online archives that you might enjoy: http://www.pbs.org/now/

Bill Moyer's programming is also available on the web, at http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/index-flash.html

Like podcasts to listen to on your mp3 player? check http://feeds.pbs.org/pbs/moyers/journal-audio



Something interesting to note about Public Broadcasting:

"As European public broadcasting systems tend to dominate their national marketplaces, radio and television broadcasting in the US was incubated (in the first half of the 20th century), and eventually dominated, mainly through the private sector, with a heavy emphasis on program sponsorships being sold to businesses attempting to promote their products and services to a mass audience; in many cases (especially in US broadcasting's earliest decades) these sponsors had near-total control over the content they paid for, resulting in most programs, such as situation comedies, soap operas and popular sporting events, only being geared to the perceived tastes and attitudes of the widest possible audience. Therefore, US public broadcasting is, and has always been, a niche service that provides programming considered less attractive to corporate advertisers, and as a result, not found elsewhere on the system; this includes cultural and educational programs, documentaries, public affairs and political affairs shows."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_broadcasting

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