Musings
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What was a niche discussion twenty-two years ago, goes mainstream. Moral Panic.
A moral panic is a widespread fear, most often an irrational one, that someone or something is a threat to the values, safety, and interests of a community or society at large. Typically, a moral panic is perpetuated by news media, fueled by politicians, and often results in the passage of new laws or policies that target the source of the panic. In this way, moral panic can foster increased social control. Ashely Crossman’s definition of moral panic Jeff Jarvis quoted above definition in his Atlantic essay: Platforms Are Not…
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#ThrowbackThursday Early years.
I found this on an old NFN web page about its volunteers. Here is what I wrote in December 2002 After 10 years in Restaurant Management in Germany I not only changed my profession but also the country I live in and came to Naples in August 1998. Christian, my hubby, was relocated by his company. Rumors say due to inclement weather. After buying a convertible in the first week and moving in to the new place, I joined the Naples Free-Net in September. Fascinated by the Internet and doing…
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Quote: Gertrude Stein in Picasso
Spaniards and Americans are not like Europeans, they are not like Orientals, theya have something in common, that they do not need religion or mysticism not to belive in reality as all the world knows it, not even when they see it. In fact reality for them is not real and that is why there are skyscrapers and American literature and Spanish paintings and literature. Page 18, Picasseo by Gertrude Stein, Dover Publications, Inc. New York, originally published: London: B.T. Bartsford, 1938. ISBN 978-0-486-24715-1 And, as a comment from the…
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Naples Real Estate Market 1998 – 2010
Over the last few months we have seen a new development being started along Livingston Road. Yesterday we saw actually houses being built. We don’t know if that is actually a contracted house or a socalled SpecHouse the developer started for showing and as a sales office. It seems they also started to build the obligatory Club house. That the good news. On Glenn Ginsburg’s Real Estate News I found above graphics. It displays the Annual Media Sold Price for Single Family Homes in Naples between 1998 to 2010. From the…