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[OUR VOICE: POLITICS ALBURY-WODONGA] WEEKLY DISPATCH: Getting to Know the Neighbourhood ”” Understanding ...: South Korea, like its neighbour Japan, is pursuing a policy of strategic hedging to navigate between the United States, its security guarantor, and China, its economic lifeblood.  For South Korea, hedging is prudent because it forestalls Seoul being caught in a compromising position between its security relationship with the US and its growing economic interdependence with China.  Normally states will select economic and security policies that are compatible and mutually reinforcing, however, in this period of power transition in East Asia, that choice is not open to Seoul.  In contrast to Japan, South Korea’s strategic outlook continues to be shaped by its cold war with the DPRK.  The two parties technically remain at war, since no official peace treaty was signed after the armistice agreement of 1953 to end the Korean War.  As the country with the most to lose from war with North Korea, with fraternal ties across the DMZ, and as the state most likely to be responsible for reconstructing a North Korean failed state, it should come as no surprise that South Korea has been the regional state most committed to engaging with Pyongyang.  Also, in contrast to Japan, South Korea is not engaged in vigorous strategic competition with China, which gives Seoul greater flexibility in its own hedging strategy, swinging between Beijing and Washington.

[protein wisdom] Why can't we just arrest the Tea Partiers? - exercises in 'social ...: They probably haven’t ever attended a meeting of a Kiwanis Club or Rotary Club, or lived for at least a year in a small town (college doesn’t count) or in an urban neighborhood in which most of their neighbors did not have college degrees (gentrifying neighborhoods don’t count). They are unlikely to have spent at least a year with a family income less than twice the poverty line (graduate school doesn’t count) or to have a close friend who is an evangelical Christian.

[Understanding Social Science] Towards a research agenda on Governance, Citizenship and Social ...: (2004) The glass menagerie of urban governance and social cohesion: concepts and stakes/concepts as stakes (Debates and Developments) in International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 28 2), 449-465.

[The Campaign Company's Blog] The Big Society: understanding its back-story to take practical ...: Fundamentally for social entrepreneurship to succeed it needs the development of social enterprises to send the message that it is a highly valued social activity that the whole community should be proud of. Developing a strong local social enterprise, absolutely identified as that local authority’s social enterprise to support and develop others would visibly demonstrate a behaviour that will match all the words a local authority will publicly express on this subject in the coming months.

[Local By Social] Local by Social online conference: Citizen and council strand: Carl Whistlecraft and his colleague Steven Tuck of Kirklees Council  have been leading a series councillor social media surgeries in Yorkshire and the North East. This open session will be a discussion about how councillors are using social media, how they can help each other to do it more effectively and how officers can work with and support them.

[sudesca.org] The Importance of Children's Participation in Environmental Issues ...: This evidence is supported by findings of the Institute for Research on Environment and Sustainability (IRES, 2008) at Newcastle University which suggests that environmental awareness and participation by children are more effective in schools where environmental policies are well developed and that children from such schools are more likely to apply their knowledge in the local environment within their neighbourhoods. Conversely, the same research revealed that children taught by teachers with inadequate understanding of environmental issues show little interest in their environment.

[Shaping Youth] Shaping Youth » Kids & Voting: The Ultimate Show-n-Tell: 4.) Togetherville and Heart Your School are inextricably entwined, so what  better way to launch a new site than to have authority figures lead the marketing in voter-driven virality, and educate with media literacy on social media to boot?

[Political Pundits] Old wine in a new bottle - who really benefits from the Big ...:  A less inflammatory mission statement is given by the Big Society Network as, “The Big Society Network is an organisation being set up by frustrated citizens for frustrated citizens, to share ideas and help everyone achieve change in their local area”. Indeed, it is very commendable that the Big Society wishes to produce powered individuals, strong neighbourhood groups, and greater community participation, but everyone knows that this is re-inventing the wheel. Such activities have been going on for decades, and did not necessitate the Big Society.

[Politics and Culture] Review: Discipline and liberty. Television and governance.: Palmer takes a holistic approach and situates the changes in television documentary and the rise of reality TV in what he calls a ‘changed discursive formation’: a complex of political and cultural changes that have affected the relationships between media, state authorities, and citizens, as well as our conceptions of citizenship and morality, of surveillance and liberty. He shows how the aforementioned panoptic, governmental, ideological characteristics of reality TV became interwoven with the characteristics of neoliberal, post-welfare societies.

[Homegevity Real Estate Blog] The Value of Corporate Citizenship in Today's Economy: Fifty percent of consumers would pay more for products from brands that support causes, according to the 2010 IAB Social Media Marketplace survey. In addition to attracting new business today, corporate charity helps to secure future .

[The Express Tribune BlogThe Express Tribune Blog] Women in fear: Rape cases soar across Pakistan - The Express ...: I ask the same questions you have and mostly without gettin any proper/satisfying answer.i have no idea why women feel the need to put sons before daughters or think highly of sons only(im not sayin all of them do but most of the ppl in our society do exactly that).but I also know it wont take just women to change a man’s thinking-level.. yes a mother could and should try to teach her son how to be around women and how to be respectful but what about the mothers who are openly being abused by their husbands/families and what about their kids who have seen it all throughout their lives..seen how the father cares more about the son thn daughters…gives all the freedom to son’s and not daughters…dont you think the kids can already comeup to their own conclusions abt women in tht case?cuz thats what keeps on happenin within our society…

[Social Spaces] Social Spaces » Blog Archive » MAD Faculty participates in The ...: RCA is located at Kensington in London where has the best life expectancy in the UK, 82.4 years, 10 years more than many other areas of the city!)This year our focus is to re-think the design implications of our ageing population by working with our successful ”˜ageing well’

[Occidental Dissent] Occidental Dissent » Blog Archive » Live Thread: 2010 Midterm ...: You will far more than make up for that nice-sounding salary in terms of inability to afford a house, find a White spouse, afford a safe neighborhood for your children even should you be lucky enough to find a White spouse, or save money after having paid so dearly for the privilege of not having to live in a crime-infested neighborhood of the servants of and drug dealers to the white liberal trust-fund babies.

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