Not all citizens seek to extract a '`'free lunch' from government by demanding more services at the same time that they eschew taxes. It is possible to gather the insights of an representative and informed citizenry in sophisticated and reliable form. Citizen Participation in Resource Allocation explores the means to obtaining informed insight from

Citizen Participation In Resource Allocation

Business & Money

Robbins, Mark

Simonsen, William

Economics

Routledge

Not all citizens seek to extract a ‘free lunch' from government by demanding more services at the same time that they eschew taxes. It is possible to gather the insights of an representative and informed citizenry in sophisticated and reliable form. Citizen Participation in Resource Allocation explores the means to obtaining informed insight from citizens in ways that can aid decision-makers who seek to understand the preferences of the public as a whole –not just from its most vocal critics. Simonsen and Robbins present a description and analysis of several specific participation efforts from throughout the United States. They also examine more generally the idea of participation mechanisms, the objectives they seek to achieve and the roots of their contributions to governance. The authors look at the ways in which participatory efforts have evolved to shape and be shaped by the changing needs of the nation. Then they turn their attention to an analysis of findings from Eugene Decisions, an innovative participation mechanism combining forums and surveys created in an attempt to allow citizens to propose solutions to an ongoing budget deficit. Citizen Participation in Resource Allocation exposes the contemporary glut of participation projects to the scrutiny of objective questioning and analysis. What makes citizen participation efforts useful? How has citizen participation evolved in the life of public administration? Which participation processes are best poised to provide a clear view of the budget balancing preferences of informed citizens? How do citizens respond to questions about their specific solutions to a government's budget crisis?The authors, researchers at the University of Oregon and the University of Georgia, combine their efforts to present a lively and concise look at the traditions of participation and its practical use for resource allocation decisions.

Citizen Participation In Resource Allocation (Urban Policy Challenges)

Perseus

Not all citizens seek to extract a ‘free lunch' from government by demanding more services at the same time that they eschew taxes. It is possible to gather the insights of an representative and informed citizenry in sophisticated and reliable form. Citizen Participation in Resource Allocation explores the means to obtaining informed insight from citizens in ways that can aid decision-makers who seek to understand the preferences of the public as a whole –not just from its most vocal critics.Simonsen and Robbins present a description and analysis of several specific participation efforts from throughout the United States. They also examine more generally the idea of participation mechanisms, the objectives they seek to achieve and the roots of their contributions to governance. The authors look at the ways in which participatory efforts have evolved to shape and be shaped by the changing needs of the nation. Then they turn their attention to an analysis of findings from Eugene Decisions, an innovative participation mechanism combining forums and surveys created in an attempt to allow citizens to propose solutions to an ongoing budget deficit. Citizen Participation in Resource Allocation exposes the contemporary glut of participation projects to the scrutiny of objective questioning and analysis. What makes citizen participation efforts useful? How has citizen participation evolved in the life of public administration? Which participation processes are best poised to provide a clear view of the budget balancing preferences of informed citizens? How do citizens respond to questions about their specific solutions to a government's budget crisis?The authors, researchers at the University of Oregon and the University of Georgia, combine their efforts to present a lively and concise look at the traditions of participation and its practical use for resource allocation decisions.

Citizen Participation In Resource Allocation (Urban Policy Challanges)

Politics & Social Sciences

Simonsen, Bill

Politics & Government

Westview Press

This volume explores an innovative project designed and built by the New York Architectural Collaborative, LOT/EK. Mixer is a steel cement mixer transformed through advanced technological equipment into a 21st century media cocoon.

Mixer Installation and Assembly Manual: Lot/Ek Architecture

Science & Math

Technology

Edizioni Pr

"And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?"                                                                                                          Exodus 2:11 The Bible has many stories of prophets and heroes that did not know their role in God's plan until the moment that he needed them. Every story in the Bible deals with God's plan across time. It  is sometimes demonstrated  by the life of a single man or at times by the passages of a people through history. Moses' life was such a story.   His mother's plan of placing the infant Moses in an ark on the river to avoid the Egyptian threat to kill all male Hebrew  babies led to his rescue by Pharaoh's daughter. His youth was explained simply in the scripture: "And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son."  We can only imagine the lavish life a prince of the court must have enjoyed. This beginning was crushed when Moses, as a young man, lost his temper and killed an Egyptian overseer of the Hebrew slaves. His life was over as he knew it when he fled to Midian to escape Pharaoh's wrath. To end your life as a sheepherder after such a promising start can only be understood by someone who has actually followed a herd of the fragrant creatures. Dust and dung. The point is that God eventually called on Moses from a burning bush to return to Egypt and rescue the Israelites, his people. Moses was uniquely positioned to fulfill this role. Having been a son of the court he was surely known by whomever was still there. At the very least this gave him a path for an audience in the Pharaoh's court  that no other  accused murderer might have. No guard at the gate remembering the man would dare to act out violently without checking with his commanders first. Moses' entire life was planned by God to give him a special handiness even if he couldn't recognize it himself. He doubted it enough to question God himself about the choice. That is serious doubt in the face of evidence as clear as a burning bush. The story of Moses is one that I have always enjoyed for the idea that our trek through life may be paved by the Lord so that we choose paths that lead us towards his goals. What would that look like today?    Bluelip came to life in pondering this question. Collecting a number of books about the African-American experience in early Texas history and traveling the state regularly I came across some people of West Texas  whose ancestors were Buffalo Soldiers and American Indian: the Bluelip. The parallel nature of these lives to the story of Moses intrigued me: children of slaves accepted into important and trusted service of the masters. What if a prophet of the Lord were chosen from this history? Could a story be told of prophets whose path was planned across generations coming to fruition in today's highly technological society? Could the ripening of these lives be because God's plan would be demonstrated using our technology?   God can number the hairs of our head, part the Red Sea, or bend the flight of a raindrop in it's course at our pleading. He works in his own time, his strength enabling us to further his goals. Bluelip is an effort to shine his light into the shadow of today's world.

Bluelip

Religion & Spirituality

1ST WORLD LIBRARY

Filled by a joyous ride across West Texas history, intrigue, cowboys, and robots, this screenplay presents a future bright but fearful in its birth. Almost reality defined using today’s technology, Christia is called into the role of a prophet for a new age … an age of justice or … "And Moses said unto God, 'Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?'" Exodus 2:11 A brilliant, young African-American student of computer science at the University of Texas, Christia is uneasy in her life. A successful husband, and a broad brave history of struggle dating back to the Buffalo Soldiers, yet her bright future is drawn back to the cowboy roots of her family in West Texas, another desert in the history of prophets. Menacing police and societal roles threaten her as she attempts to crystallize her dreams of transitions to our future of robotic surplus.

Christia: A Screenplay

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

1st World Library Incorporated

Cursive Handwriting Workbook: Writing Practice Exercises to Easily Learn Alphabet Letters, Connecting Letters, Words and Sentences

Arts & Photography

Drawing

Independently published

This is the black &amp; white version of this book. Photos inside and all content is identical to the color edition except they are in b &amp; w to make the book more affordable. These stories in this second book of The Chesapeake are written by folks who have lived a combined total of nearly two centuries in the region. Experts on fishing, story telling, sailing, building boats and yachts as a well as a Naval aviator who won WWII single-handedly, there are also yarns about floating islands and tips on living from the Country Philosopher. Also included are a few from a fellow who graduated from Georgetown University during the Great Depression and, while operating his own farm near Point Lookout, began the first cooperative effort with watermen and farms in the Chesapeake region. The authentic is mixed with the possible and drizzled with the improbable. Join Fred McCoy, Jack Rue, Mark Robbins, Mel Brokenshire, Vi Englund, Rich Johnson, Stephen Gore Uhler, Joey Greenwell, Pepper Langley, Alan Brylawski and other great writers of The Chesapeake to explore the land of the flask, the fiddle and the dark roasted possum! Learn the art of lucky fishing!

The Chesapeake: Legends, Yarns & Barnacles:: A Collection of Short Stories from the pages of The Chesapeake, Book 2

Literature & Fiction

Jarboe, Larry

ROSSIGNOL, KEN

Langley, Pepper

Rue, Jack

Englund, Vi

McCoy, Fred & Beth

Brylawsky, Alan

Uhler, Stephen G.

Brokenshire, Mel

United States

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

THE CHESAPEAKE: Six books in the series --Tales & Scales; Legends, Yarns, & Barnacles; Oyster Buyboats, Ships & Steamed Crabs; A Man Born to Hang Can't Drown; Country Cornpone Cornucopia; and Tidewater Sagas provides the shared memories of those who lived life to the fullest in the Chesapeake region.This group of assembled scribes, poets and storytellers aspires to one goal and one goal only; to entertain the reader. Perfect for fans of Readers Digest, this eclectic collection of short stories revolve in and out of the Chesapeake tidewater region at the whim and fancy of the writers. Welcome aboard the third volume of THE CHESAPEAKE - This book, THE CHESAPEAKE: Oyster Buyboats, Ships & Steamed Crabs, spans the decades of the lives of our writers and the times of the Chesapeake Tidewater region from 1900 to the present time. A first-person account of Chesapeake Bay bounty being harvested and provided to the national market is related by Capt. Joe Lore of Solomon's Island, along with an interview with his father, Capt. J. C. Lore Sr. from fifty years earlier. Pepper Langley relished his days of establishing his own business after his high school commencement speaker told him he had a gold mine in his back yard. The story telling of Vi Englund is superb as she wrote vivid descriptions of going to sea. Get lost in the middle of roaring Atlantic storms in her ship's galley and appreciate the majesty of the sea. Mark Robbins provides entertaining tales of sailing and Cap'n Larry Jarboe cannot be beat when it comes to knowing where the fish are hanging out and how to get them on your hook. The Country Philosopher, Stephen Gore Uhler got an elbow from another philosopher, Amos Arthur Holmes but Steve wins overall for truthfulness, not a trait he learned from Jack Rue. Between Jack Rue and Fred McCoy, old tales are here for a new generation of tale-learners eager to find digital news of days of old. Some of the old gold mines of The Solomon's Islander and The Chesapeake have been reopened and we found Tony Marconi and Lenny Rudow hiding back in the caverns, grinning and eager to share their news and views with the world. The Bill Burton State Park at Cambridge, to the Cape Charles harbor shown on the cover, unite both shores of the Chesapeake to bring you, the reader, who may or may not dabble in U-Boat fantasies and time-warps, a complete view of the Tidewater region. The Tidewater area contributed to the birth of Rock and Roll with the infamous home-grown talent of Link Wray and Greg Laxton makes sure Link's place in history is secure. No part of the Chesapeake lore could be complete without more Letters from Point Lookout Hotel, and while Alan Brylawski is now ninety-six, he refuses to join the Dead Poets Society. Alan tells you how to fix fried hard-crabs in great detail. The Chesapeake region was important to the preparation for launching the successful offensives in both theatres of WWII and John Peterson explains that effort. Gail Whitney is a fervent chicken-necker and she shares her best tips with all for a basket full of crabs. Detailed follow-ups of the Pirate Poachers of the Bay are revealed by weak enforcement of Natural Resources laws. How these poachers get away with robbing the bounty of the Bay is disturbing and outrageous. Read what one prosecutor says should be done to get the outlaws behind jail bars and off of oyster bars in sanctuaries. Thanks for joining us on the Chesapeake. --- Ken Rossignol

THE CHESAPEAKE: Oyster Buyboats, Ships & Steamed Crabs - short stories, fish tales: A Collection of Short Stories from the pages of The Chesapeake

Lore, Capt. Joe

McCoy, Frederick

Uhler, Stephen Gore

Holmes, Amos Arthur

Humor & Satire

Shows and describes more than 800 species, and provides information on distribution, characteristics, and behavior

Birds of the World (Eyewitness Handbooks)

HARRISON, COLIN

Greensmith, Alan

Nature & Ecology

DK Pub.

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