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Importing Products or Exporting Jobs
By Mike Curtis, M.A.
Henry George School (NYC, USA)
What do you think? Is the U.S. exporting jobs to China? In 2010, Americans bought $292 billion worth of products from China, and the Chinese only bought $55 billion worth of products from the U.S. That is $237 billion worth of difference from China alone.
Does free trade, restricted trade, or no trade most help the American Worker?
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Dev Sanskriti Vishwavidayalaya: A Trend Setter
Dr. Mamta Bhatnagar,
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, Faculty, Dept. of Indian Culture and Tourism Management, Dev Sanksriti Vishwavidayalaya (DSVV), Haridwar, India
Introduction
The World today is in the middle of an accelerating globalization process, to which tourism industry is closely related. In everyday language, tourism can be described as leisure time used for traveling and seeking desired experiences. Travel is clearly governed by the motive to escape, to pause and get some rest from an increasingly stressful life, and to see something new.
Today, travel and tourism is one of the world’s largest industries, responsible for more than 10 % of the global GDP. This industry is one of the biggest global employers with more than 250 million jobs depending directly or indirectly on tourism. 65% of those jobs are in developing countries.
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Joao Raposo, Portugal,
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1. Summary
In the present period of human history many of us feel deep questions arising about the world around us, about the perception of reality and about the understanding of humanity as we also see transformations taking place outside and inside. These feelings vary in our diversity, but in a general way we are questioning how the human species is transforming reality. Human capacities have been explored to a point where we become worried about its use: On the one hand it is clear that if modern civilization continues with the destruction of life supporting ecosystems the human species may perish; but on the other hand our power and intelligence give us great hope and enthusiasm for the future. We find ourselves in a dilemma: How to use our power and intelligence in a sustainable manner? It feels as if the human species, in its survival instinct, is searching for ways to prevent becoming obsolete and we wonder how to evolve further. The rising of ecological and sustainable awareness seems to come from that organic need of humans to create solutions for its evolution and survival. We need to continuously improve such awareness in ways to achieve positive transformations for our evolution as species.
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By
John M. Toothman, PhD
External Scholar, IOU Foundation
A sense of urgency is building about the malaise that hangs over society like a dark cloud of air pollution. A dismal struggle awaits any citizen of the world whose culture and social environment becomes increasingly dangerous, decaying, and hopeless. Cultural pollution is no less threatening than air pollution. Both deny healthy survival and ultimately threaten one’s very existence.
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1. Introduction
In the context of Human Rights, we see all over the world that women do not have the same rights as men. I am certainly not a so called feminist, but I have observed suppression of women in so many places on earth that I think that a university such as the Intercultural Open University Foundation has a task.
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Edited by Roxanne Toothman, M.S
Introduction
Humanity repeatedly confronts the global economic and environmental conflicts of our times. For the future world, new strategies must be developed. Around 500 B.C., a transition of philosophy occurred along the Silk Road in China, India, and Southern Europe. It is my impression that at the moment--some 2,500 years later--humanity, again, is facing the need for fundamental global changes.
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Acharya Antarang Sai (Anand Yogi)
Yog the Love of Life
D-6,1-1, Varuna CHS,Sector-6,
Nerul, Navi Mumbai-400706, India.
Tel:+91-22-56143264,9324671976,9869241743
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Nitya’nandam Paramsukhdam’
Kevalam Anandamurtim’
Vishwa’titam’ Gagana Sadrsham’
Tattvamasya’di Laks’anam’
Ekam’ Nityam’ Vimalmachalam’
Sarvadhiisa’ks’iibhutam’
Bha’va’tiitam’ Trigun’arahitam’
Sadgurum Tvam’ Nama’myaham
- Guru Gita
I convey my divine salutation to all beings present here in whose self-within is that infinite Universe, the Brahma or the Supreme Consciousness who is
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By Cynthia Jackson, PhD, IOU Foundation
Key Note Presentation, Florida Memorial University Faculty Senate Conference
I was asked to talk about the “tension” between and among teaching, research, and scholarship. I am passionate about today’s topic. I consider it one concern in higher education that needs to be visited on a regular basis, given the rapid changing environment of producing and disseminating knowledge. I am going to share my thoughts and experiences, and will disclose parts of my journey in coming to where I am on what I consider to be a perceived tension between and among teaching, research and scholarship. What some see as tension, I see as natural shifts in scholarship.
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"Ten Indians approached us wearing long white cotton robes which reached to their feet. They had long hair so matted with blood that it would be impossible to part or even comb unless it were cut. These Indians were priests...and they brought before us large containers of incense full of a resin which they called copal. With clay braziers full of burning embers they began to smudge us thoroughly with incense." |
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Edited by Roxanne Toothman, M.S.
We can learn more about leadership and change management in a few mornings than reading any number of books and articles.
To reach this, we settled on a very simple--to our mind, almost simplistic--way to begin the discussion. We can compare the performance of IOUF with that of other national and international universities by reading their annual reports. The comparison is as follows:
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- Dr. Galina Ermolina, Russia
Many people understand today that we as humanity actually have come to a crucial point in our development. Imagine for a moment, please: a spaceship with a crew from some highly developed planet arrives on Earth. They are aware of many secrets of Nature and use some kind of energy unknown to the inhabitants of Earth; the most amazing thing about them is however not their technology of the highest level, but the high moral standards according to which they live. In order to get information about the people of the planet Earth, firstly they decided to scan Earth’s mass-media; TV-programs, radio, etc. What kind of picture of the human race would they get?! A race of liars, criminals, people without spiritual values. That is exactly what mass-media show and impose on us today. They fill the atmosphere with hatred and violence, but I am sure we are not as bad as they depict us. All over the planet there are many sparks of light-bearers, and the participants of this respected conference belong to those who try to make a difference.
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By Mike Curtis, M. A., Henry George School of Social Science
Welcome to the urban dilemma: why our cities can't sustain themselves--and how they could.
Why shifting the source of revenue from confiscatory taxes to a charge that is based on the value of benefits received becomes an incentive to create the maximum number of jobs and dwellings that are economically desirable within every community.
Why shifting taxes from income and wages, sales, and the value of buildings to the rental value of land creates the incentives to rebuild our cities and promote an orderly development of the suburbs and rural areas--one that will make the most efficient use of our roads, sewers, and everything else that governments provide.
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