In 2011, the Finish Tourist Board ran a campaign that used silence as a marketing ‘product’. They sort to entice people to visit Finland and experience the beauty of this silent land. They released a series of photographs of single figures in the nature and used the slogan “Silence, Please”. A tag line was added by Simon Anholt, an international country branding consultant, “No talking, but action.”
The Georgia ‘campus carry’ bill would allow students 21 and over to carry concealed weapons on campus with a permit, except in certain specified locations.
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CS Thachenkary had been a business professor for 33 years at Georgia State University and headed up several faculty senate committees. But this year, a bill he predicted would pass hastened his decision to retire.
“I met with my dean back in September and gave him advance notice,” he said. “I told him: ‘This gun bill is going to raise its ugly head – and I don’t want to be among the first casualties.’”
The bill to allow guns on college campuses did pass, and now awaits the signature or veto of Georgia’s governor, Nathan Deal.
HB 859, similar to a bill recently passed in Texas […]
American Federation of Teachers representatives walk by some missing ceiling tiles while touring Osborn high school in Detroit in January.
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Detroit public schools’ students are experiencing “serious and permanent” damage from Michigan governor Rick Snyder’s appointment of multiple emergency managers to run the district, according to an expansive federal lawsuit filed on Thursday.
The lawsuit, which aims to cover more than 58,000 students, said Michigan’s emergency manager law allows for Snyder to appoint an unelected individual to “rule by decree” over the school system.
“Michigan’s emergency manager law and related practices were used to compromise and damage the quality of education received by DPS students with lifelong consequences in the name of financial urgency,” according to the 110-page complaint.
The case comes amid a tumultuous period for Snyder, who was named on Wednesday in […]
