Public policy is the principled guide to action taken by the administrative executive branches of the state with regard to a class of issues, in a manner consistent with law and institutional customs. There has recently been a movement for greater use of evidence in guiding policy decisions. Proponents of evidence-based policy argue that high quality scientific evidence, rather than tradition, intuition, or political ideology, should guide policy decisions.
Politics is a set of activities associated with the governance of a country or an area. It involves making decisions that apply to group of members.
Futurism was an artistic and social movement that originated in Italy in the early 20th century. It emphasised speed, technology, youth, violence, and objects such as the car, the airplane, and the industrial city. Its key figures were the Italians Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà, Gino Severini, Giacomo Balla, and Luigi Russolo. It glorified modernity and aimed to liberate Italy from the weight of its past. Cubism contributed to the formation of Italian Futurism's artistic style. Important Futurist works included Marinetti's Manifesto of Futurism, Boccioni's sculpture Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, Balla's painting Abstract Speed + Sound, and Russolo's The Art of Noises.
Arth has published Democracy and the Common Wealth, which discusses the flaws in the American political system and proposes solutions; as well as The Labors of Hercules. He also founded LOGOS, a public policy wiki, a model for governance based on facts and reason instead of ideology and politics.[1][3]
Democracy and the Common Wealth: Breaking the Stranglehold of the Special Interests is a 2010 book by urban designer, policy analyst and artist Michael E. Arth. Arth attempts to expose what he calls the "dirty secrets" of America's electoral system, and provides a list of solutions that he believes will result in a "truly representative democracy." This democracy would be led by effective, trustworthy leaders, who would be elected by a majority, and who would not have to spend their time raising campaign funds, or catering to paid lobbyists.
The 2010 Florida gubernatorial election took place on November 2, 2010. Republican-turned-Independent incumbent Governor Charlie Crist chose not to run for a second term. He instead ran (unsuccessfully) for the Senate seat vacated by Mel Martínez. This resulted in an open race for Governor of Florida in which Republican Rick Scott narrowly defeated Democrat Alex Sink.
The 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries and caucuses will be a series of electoral contests organized by the Democratic Party to select the approximately 3,769 pledged delegates to the Democratic National Convention. Those delegates shall, by pledged votes, elect the Democratic nominee for president of the United States in the 2020 U.S. presidential election. The elections are scheduled to take place from February to June 2020 in all fifty U.S. states, the District of Columbia, five U.S. territories, and Democrats Abroad.
The 2020 United States presidential election, scheduled for Tuesday, November 3, 2020, will be the 59th quadrennial U.S. presidential election. Voters will select presidential electors who in turn on December 14, 2020, will either elect a new president and vice president or re-elect the incumbents. If no candidate receives the minimum 270 electoral votes needed to win the election, the United States House of Representatives will select the president from three candidates that received the most electoral votes, and the United States Senate will select the vice president from the candidates that received the two highest totals. The series of presidential primary elections and caucuses is likely to be held during the first six months of 2020. This nominating process is also an indirect election, where voters cast ballots selecting a slate of delegates to a political party's nominating convention, who then in turn elect their party's presidential nominee and his or her vice presidential running mate.
Early life
According to his website, Arth was born on a United States Air Force base in England, where his father was serving as a noncommissioned officer. The eldest of seven children, he was raised Catholic in New Mexico and Texas, mostly Texas. He attended St. Ann's Catholic School in Midland, Texas, but has considered himself a secular humanist since age 17. All his professional interests can be traced back to his childhood hobbies.[5]
Art
Michael E. Arth in 1983
As an artist, Michael E. Arth has worked in a wide range of media. In 1970, at age 17, he did watercolor portraits at Six Flags Over Texas, and worked as a street artist doing pastel portraits and architectural renderings while going to college. At age 19 he apprenticed to illustrator Don Ivan Punchatz at SketchPad Studio in Arlington, TX. At 21, while living in Austin, Texas, he did rock concert posters for the Armadillo World Headquarters. In 1974, he changed his focus to fine art and had early success doing original prints like etchings, serigraphs, and lithographs, as well as paintings and photography. He started an art publishing company, Linnaea Graphics, to handle sales of his work.[6] During the 1970s and 1980s, reproductions of his work were sold internationally, and he earned enough from royalties to live and travel abroad for several years. His etchings can be seen in the 1983 film Betrayal, and in period pictures like Will Ferrell'sSemi-Pro, set in 1976, and in Season 1: Episode 6 of the Netflix series Stranger Things, set in 1983.[5]
Six Flags Over Texas is a 212-acre theme park located in Arlington, Texas, east of Fort Worth and about 15 miles (24 km) west of Dallas. It was the first Six Flags Theme Park, but because of later acquisitions it is not the oldest park of the Six Flags chain. The park opened on August 5, 1961, following just a year of construction and an initial investment of US$10 million by real estate developer Angus G. Wynne, Jr.
Don Ivan Punchatz was a science fiction and fantasy artist who drew illustrations for numerous books and publications, including magazines such as Heavy Metal, National Geographic, Playboy, and Time. He illustrated album covers, and provided the cover art for session guitarist Steve Hunter's debut solo album, Swept Away. Characterized as a "skilled hyperrealist with a penchant for the fantastic and absurd" and "elegantly weird," he produced cover art for books by Harlan Ellison, Isaac Asimov and others.
Arlington is a city in the U.S. state of Texas, located in Tarrant County. It is part of the Mid-Cities region of the Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington metropolitan area, approximately 12 miles (19 km) east of downtown Fort Worth and 20 miles (32 km) west of downtown Dallas.
Arth lived and worked in Paris from 1978 to 1981, pulling his etchings at Joëlle Serve's Atelier 63 in Montparnasse. In the early years his work often included exotic botanical themes, but his subject matter and style ranged as widely as his choice of medium. A large format book of his work, Michael E. Arth: Introspective 1972-1982, was published in 1983.[6] He began teaching himself architecture in the mid-1980s, but also briefly worked in the animation business—mostly as a background artist—in Los Angeles for Marvel and Filmation 1986-1988.[7] He fully shifted focus over the same period to architecture, urban design, and construction, which he considers to be “human scale, livable sculpture,” but he continues to do fine art, as well as architectural drawings and photography. In recent years, in connection with his writing, he is working extensively with digital art.[5]
Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of 105 square kilometres and an official estimated population of 2,140,526 residents as of 1 January 2019. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of Europe's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, fashion, science, and the arts. The City of Paris is the centre and seat of government of the Île-de-France, or Paris Region, which has an estimated official 2019 population of 12,213,364, or about 18 percent of the population of France. The Paris Region had a GDP of €709 billion in 2017. According to the Economist Intelligence Unit Worldwide Cost of Living Survey in 2018, Paris was the second most expensive city in the world, after Singapore, and ahead of Zürich, Hong Kong, Oslo and Geneva. Another source ranked Paris as most expensive, on a par with Singapore and Hong Kong, in 2018.
Montparnasse is an area of Paris, France, on the left bank of the river Seine, centered at the crossroads of the Boulevard du Montparnasse and the Rue de Rennes, between the Rue de Rennes and boulevard Raspail. Montparnasse has been part of Paris since 1669.
Marvel Productions Ltd., later known as New World Animation Ltd., was the television and film studio subsidiary of the Marvel Entertainment Group, based in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. It later became a subsidiary of New World Entertainment and eventually of News Corporation.
Printmaking
Michael E. Arth drawing on a lithographic stone, 1974
Michael E. Arth in front of a Bleeker Street gallery in New York City that exhibited his etchings, 1976.
"Tropical Fig Tree" etching, by Michael E. Arth, on an Associated American Artists poster.
Michael E. Arth, "Agaves at Laguna Gloria," (1975)
Michael E. Arth "Strangler figs and palms" etching,1975
Michael E. Arth, "Mojave" etching and aquatint,1976.
Michael E. Arth, "Mt. Tamalpais," etching and aquatint, 1981
Michael E. Arth, detail of his etching, "Mt. Tamalpais," 1981
Michael E. Arth "Washingtonia Robusta" Serigraph, 1982
Painting
Michael E. Arth "Nebula Sunset" acrylic painting, 34" x 46", 1974
Michael E. Arth: "Moscow Metro," oil painting, 1980
"Electric Flower (1985) acrylic painting by Michael E. Arth
Beach Palms (1986) by Michael E. Arth
Drawing
Michael E. Arth drawing a pastel portrait in Copenhagen,1973
Michael E. Arth-New Riders of the Purple Sage poster 1974-lo rez
Michael E. Arth: ”Cowboy Motorcycle," pencil drawing, 1980
Michael E. Arth: Topographical Landscape drawing
Photography
Michael E. Arth: Chinese workers in Changchun, Manchuria stop to stare, 1979.
Michael E. Arth: Jilin, Manchuria, China, December 1978
This was followed by two other feature documentaries in 2012. Gov'nor: A Man on a Bicycle, With no Money, Takes on the Fat Cats, Special Interests (and His Wife) to Run for Governor of Florida is about his run for governor.[8][9] This film has been re-edited into The Politics of Michael E. Arth.[3]Out of the Woods: Life and Death in Dirty Dave's Homeless Camp follows the life and death struggles of homeless people living in a camp in the woods for four years. Arth directed, shot and edited Out of the Woods by himself.[8][10]
End the War on Drugs is a 2019 feature documentary that calls for an end to drug prohibition, which Arth sees as an echo of the earlier alcohol prohibition.[11]
At least two more films are forthcoming, Midwives, and The Labors of Hercules: Modern Solutions to 12 Herculean Problems. Midwives follow Arth's two midwife sisters, one of whom was apprenticing under the other. The Labors of Hercules will compare the mythological labors of Hercules to 12 modern problems and offer solutions.[8]
Building Design and Construction
Arth designed, built, and landscaped a small number of private residences in Southern California from 1986 to 2000, most notably "Casa de Lila," a seven-story Spanish style villa integrated into a mountain ridge in the Hollywood Hills.[12][13][14] He also designed two houses and a cul-de-sac out of an abandoned stretch of the famous Mulholland Highway directly under the Hollywood Sign. He built one of the houses himself with help from a few laborers over a period of 15 months in 1988 and 1989.[5][15]
Casa de Lila, Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, with Pacific Ocean
Michael E. Arth's Hollywood Hills building projects
Hollywood Cove Evolution 1986-1992
El Cielito Springs, Santa Barbara, Before and After
Urban design and town planning
In 1999, Arth founded a more pedestrian and ecology-oriented version of New urbanism called New pedestrianism.[16] His new approach calls for very compact new towns and neighborhoods where tree-shaded, pedestrian and bike lanes are in front of all residences and businesses, with tree-lined automobile streets at the rear. While the pedestrian lane idea is not entirely original (examples of rear loading garages with front sidewalks that replace streets were built in Venice, California, as early as 1905), his fervent emphasis on New Pedestrianism as a panacea to address aesthetics, quality of life issues, ecology, and safety makes his work distinctive.
Arth asserts that living in what he calls a pedestrian village, coupled with a compact, mixed-use neighborhood or village center, will ameliorate a wide range of problems related to urban living. Having such a development built near a downtown area or newly created village center reduces the amount of travel time that would normally be spent in an automobile, thus increasing the physical activity of the homeowner and saving energy. In more densely built new towns or developments, he claims that this new form of housing would greatly reduce the dependency on the automobile and the resulting village-like towns would vastly increase both aesthetics and quality of life. He also promotes the creation of similar pedestrian amenities that can be retrofitted to existing towns. Arth develops projects that follow the principles of New pedestrianism.[17]
New Pedestrianism compared to New Urbanism and suburban design
New Pedestrianism Street Plan by Michael E. Arth
Example of New Pedestrianism: Palmetto Springs pedestrian village, showing streets in rear and pedestrian lanes in front
New Pedestrianism "Design for Two Harbors Pedestrian Village" Michael E. Arth 1999
New Pedestrianism: Overview of Proposed Capital City in D.C. where DOT and HUD could relocate. By Michael E. Arth
The Garden District
In 2000, while working on a book and documentary, The Labors of Hercules: Modern Solutions to 12 Herculean Problems,[18] Arth found a small slum in DeLand, Florida, where he could try out some of his ideas. Subsequently, he purchased 33 dilapidated homes and businesses, which he restored over a seven-year period. Running out the drug dealers and rebuilding the inner-city slum into a mixed-use, mixed-race, mixed-income neighborhood won him the support of the community and a number of awards. He changed the name of "Crack Town" to Downtown DeLand's Historic Garden District. Arth enhanced the existing infrastructure by planting trees and by building pedestrian lanes, gardens, courtyards, and bike facilities in the district.[19][5]
Phoenix Court in 2001, before rehabilitation, when it was part of “Cracktown.”
Phoenix Court after rehabilitation as an example of New Pedestrianism.
Michael E. Arth: Before-and-after of one the renovated houses in Downtown DeLand's Garden District
Michael E. Arth: Before-and-after of slum dwellings in what was "Cracktown" in Downtown DeLand, Florida.
Solution to homelessness
In 2007 Arth proposed a national solution for homelessness that would involve building nearly car-free pedestrian villages in place of what he terms "the current band-aid approach to the problem."[20] A prototype, Tiger Bay Village, was proposed for near Daytona Beach, and the ground was broken on a scaled down version of his plan in 2017.
Tiger Bay Village: a car-free, holistic, transformational campus of services for the homeless proposed by Michael E. Arth 2007-2016
He claims that a holistic, transformational campus of services would be superior for treating the psychological as well as physical needs of homeless adults, and would cost less than the current approach. It would also provide a lower cost alternative to jail, and provide a half-way station for those getting out of prison. It could also provide a community for those in drug treatment and the non-violent mentally ill who are either incarcerated or living on the street. Work opportunities, including construction and maintenance of the villages, as well as the creation of work force agencies would help make the villages financially and socially viable.[21][22][23] An extensive website explains the village concept in detail.[24][25][26]
New Urban Cowboy: Toward a New Pedestrianism, a feature-length documentary, was released in April 2008. The film chronicles Arth's cross-country odyssey from Santa Barbara to DeLand, Florida to rebuild a drug slum known as “Cracktown,” “The Bottom,” “Dead End,” and “Dead-End Road.” Within a year Cracktown had become Downtown DeLand's Historic Garden District. In the film, Arth tells the story of the transformation but also his philosophy behind New Pedestrianism. The end of the film ends with a vision for the future that presaged his entry into politics as a policy analyst and citizen reformer.[27][28]
Democracy and the Common Wealth: Breaking the Stranglehold of the Special Interests is a wide-ranging, 480 page book published in 2010 that exposes what Arth calls the “dirty secrets” of America's electoral system. Arth proposes solutions to fix the electoral system, and then gives a long list of solutions to failed policies that could result from having a truly representative democracy led by effective, trustworthy leaders, who would be elected by a majority, and who would not have to spend their time raising campaign funds, or catering to paid lobbyists. The book also tells the story of the first year of Florida's 2010 gubernatorial race. In the main text, and in the postscript, Arth writes about how he became an independent candidate for governor after being “frozen out” of the "undemocratic" Florida Democratic Party for not having millions of dollars, and for suggesting that campaigns be about issues instead of money.[1]
The first sixteen chapters are about how to break up the oligarchy and make "a more perfect union" that creates what Abraham Lincoln called a government "of the people, by the people, and for the people." To do this would require trading the winner-takes-all voting system for ranked choice voting in single member elections, and replacing single-member congressional districts for multi-member congressional districts, which would use proportional representation and a form of ranked choice voting called single transferable voting. It would also require doing away with private campaign financing, paid lobbyists, and most campaign advertising; and replacing influence-buying and propaganda with highly regulated public campaign financing that would cost a tiny fraction of what is spent now. "Pre-voting," by the electorate, with publicly financed micro-payments during the campaign, would determine both placement and ranking on the ballot in order to simplify the process and get voters more involved in thinking about the issues.
The Labors of Hercules
Michael E. Arth "The Labors of Hercules" 7. Economics: Capture of the Cretan BullMichael E. Arth "The Labors of Hercules" Labor X: Health Care: Capture of the Red Oxen of Geryon
In 1994, Arth began writing The Labors of Hercules: Modern Solutions to 12 Herculean Problems, which he states has turned into his own Herculean task. He also began filming a documentary with the same title during a trip around the world in 1997 and 1998. Finally in 2019, after completing the illustrations, he began shooting the documentary. The book and the documentary are organized into twelve herculean political problems in need of solutions:[18]
Labor I. Politics: Capture of the Nemean Lion.
Labor II. Overpopulation: Defeat of the Hydra.
Labor III. Inequality: Capture of Artemis’ Hind.
Labor IV. Drug Prohibition: Capture of the Erymanthian Boar.
Labor V. The Environment: The cleaning of the Augean Stables.
Labor VI. Justice: Defeat of the Stymphalian Birds.
Labor VII. Economics: Capture of the Cretan Bull.
Labor VIII. Energy: Taming the man-eating Mares of Diomedes.
Labor IX. Sexism: Seizing the Belt of Hippolyta.
Labor X. Health Care: Capture of the Red Cattle of Geryon.
Labor XI. Religion: Return of the Golden Apples.
Labor XII. Artificial Intelligence: Capture of Cerberus.
Futurism
LOGOS: Public policy wiki
LOGOS, A Model for Global Governance
LOGOS, which refers to LOGOSwiki.org and UNICEwiki.org, is the name of a not-for-profit, open source, public-policy wiki and aid to governance that Arth has been developing theoretically since 2008, and as a proof of concept since 2015. LOGOSwiki.org will utilize non-anonymous policy analysts as editors, while a companion site, UNICEwiki.org is being developed for anonymous editing by anyone. Artificial intelligence will allow for extremely advanced data processing and analysis that will organize nearly limitless data into evidential and rational policy recommendations.[29][30][31][1] Eventually, LOGOS will be able to take on any appearance and interact with any person in their own language. According to Arth:
Public policy in our 'post-truth era' is being cruelly distorted by politics and ideology… We need compassionate, evidence-based policy, and the only way to do that is with reason backed by real world data. This could be accomplished with public policy wikis, augmented by artificial intelligence. LOGOS could develop fair, efficient, and decisive supranational governance by organizing nearly limitless data into clear, easily understood guidelines to public policy. A critical aspect of this is to counter widespread misinformation, ‘fake news,’ ‘alternative facts,’ conspiracy theories, dogma, factionalism and propaganda, with facts and reason. Justice is impossible without the unfettered dissemination of accurate information presented succinctly in proper context, otherwise we are vulnerable to the breakdown of democratic institutions by those using emotional appeals to exploit prejudice and ignorance.[32]
Self-driving vehicles
He writes that the use of shared, electric, driverless cars, combined with the increased use of virtual reality for work, travel, and pleasure, could reduce the world's 1.5 billion cars to half a billion within a few decades. Arth believes it should be the aim of public policy for various environmental, safety, and economic reasons.[33]
Overpopulation and the environment
Arth believes that the carrying capacity of the Earth could be sustained primarily through population control, economic reform, New Pedestrianism, switching to renewable fuels, and replacing the vast majority of the world's vehicles with shared, self-driving, electric vehicles. Self-driving cars would solve the last mile problem with public transportation. In an academic paper addressing overpopulation in the least developed countries he stresses the role the rich countries must play in addressing environmental issues, including climate change. Arth advocates both reducing consumption and fertility. He cites a study showing that having one less child is the biggest contribution any single person can make to reducing one's carbon footprint, and that quickly achieving a birth rate in the poor countries comparable to the global North is the fastest path out of poverty for the poor. This goal is already being met in most of the developing countries, with women having an average of a little over one child each, discounting immigration.[34]
The Eco Initiative
The Eco-Initiative is a plan to solve overpopulation, environmental degradation and poverty. Arth is concerned that most human-related problems, especially poverty and climate change, are severely impacted by the 220,000 people being added to the planet every day. In 2015 the United Nations projected that, in this century, Africa would quadruple in population and that Asia would add another billion, while the developed countries would maintain zero or negative population growth.[35] He proposed anti-natalist incentives as well as a "marketable birth-license plan" or birth credits that would protect both individual choice and the rights held in common to allow people to have as many children as they want, while still establishing sustainable population levels in all countries.[36] More recently, he has emphasized direct incentives over birth credits in high-fertility countries where extreme poverty also needs to be addressed.[34][37]
His Eco-Initiative calls for a newly-created pan-African currency, the “eco,” which would be guaranteed by a basket of rich countries with their own currencies. The eco would be managed by the guarantor countries and have currency controls until the 55 African countries reach economic stability. The eco would be spent into existence by a newly created African Central Bank and be used to create full employment, incentivize family planning, and create an alternative-energy-based economy. Under this plan, excess production of solar panels would go to citizens in other countries at little or no cost. Eco-villages like the proposed Kisima Kaya would be built as administrative, health, and economic hubs with solar manufacturing plants on the periphery. [34]
"Starving Indian in Benares, India," Photograph by Michael E. Arth, 1979.
Kibera slum, Nairobi, by Michael E. Arth
Poor African boy in pink dress Kibera slum, Nairobi, Kenya by Michael E. Arth
Eco-Initiative + New Pedestrianism: Kisima Kaya a Pedestrian Village in Kenya.
Arth began running for Florida governor as a Democrat in June 2009. At the 2009 Democratic Conference, held in October, Arth was prohibited from speaking, his material was confiscated, and his exhibition table was given to someone else. After his material was returned, he was assigned a table in an empty room to keep delegates from meeting him.[38][39][40][1][bettersourceneeded] Believing that reform would have to come from outside the two-party system, Arth reluctantly switched to independent status for this election cycle.[4][1][5]
Campaign message
His campaign emphasized the importance of radical transparency and better representation through voting rights reform. He criticized the private campaign financing system which he says elects fundraisers in the place of good leaders and marginalizes the issues. He wanted to do away with the winner-take-all voting scheme and replace it with Instant Runoff Voting and Proportional Representation. He called the War on Drugs "a war on the poor," and pointed out that Florida's incarceration is eight times higher than Canada's. He pointed out that Florida prisons are growing faster than any other state because of de-institutionalization of the mentally disabled, drug prohibition, and minimum sentencing laws.[5][41]
"Biking Mike"
In late November 2009, the Orlando Sentinel reported that Arth would be taking his grassroots campaign on the road, and touring the state by bicycle beginning in Spring 2010. This was a nod to former Florida governor, Lawton Chiles, who walked the state of Florida in 1970 in successful pursuit of a U.S. Senate Seat. Regarding this trip, from Key West to Pensacola, he said, "There are always creative ways to get around the power elite, for justice and democracy to persist."[42] Arth ran as an Independent politician to stay in the race and continue to bring difficult issues out in the open.[41] Despite the potential spoiler effect, the Orlando Weekly Editorial Board still endorsed Arth for governor, stating:
Yes, we know: Arth has neither money nor experience, and the book "How to Build a Robot Army" is on his coffee table. But keep this in mind: The guy pretty much single-handedly converted a DeLand drug slum into a legitimate neighborhood within the span of a year. His ideas are actually his own, and not only that, they're good ideas. Given that Alex Sink left us underwhelmed, and that Rick Scott is, well, Rick Scott, we're giving ourselves permission to follow our hearts on this one.[43]
Results
Republican candidate Rick Scott won the gubernatorial race after spending $73 million of his personal fortune, which had been obtained under highly controversial circumstances.[44][45][46][47][48][49] As a result of switching from Democrat to Independent, and spending almost no money, Arth came in fifth place, receiving 18,644 votes.[50][9][3]
2020 U.S. presidential campaign
Arth filed to run as a Democrat in the 2020 presidential election on May 18, 2018.[2] In an interview and on his campaign website, Arth stated that he is a "reality-based" candidate who wants a social democracy that allows capitalism to “work for everyone.”[51]
Other than an extensive campaign website, he hardly campaigned at all the first year because he was at the University of London, studying for a master's degree in global politics. He admitted in a radio interview that he thought it was better to be learning more about the job than “dialing-for-dollars.”[51] This late start put him at an initial disadvantage in the lineup, debates, and campaign financing. After returning from London in the summer of 2019, he released press releases on various issues and began more actively campaigning, beginning with an interview on idobi Radio.[51][5]
On November 4, 2019, he suspended his campaign and endorsed Elizabeth Warren.[52]
DeLand is a city in the U.S. state of Florida. It is the county seat of Volusia County. The city sits approximately 34 miles (55 km) north of the central business district of Orlando, and approximately 23 miles (37 km) west of the central business district of Daytona Beach. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, the city had a population of 27,031. It is a part of the Deltona–Daytona Beach–Ormond Beach metropolitan area, which was home to 590,289 people as of the 2010 census.
New Urbanism is an urban design movement which promotes environmentally friendly habits by creating walkable neighborhoods containing a wide range of housing and job types. It arose in the United States in the early 1980s, and has gradually influenced many aspects of real estate development, urban planning, and municipal land-use strategies.
Hercules is a 1997 American animated musical fantasy comedy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation for Walt Disney Pictures. The 35th Disney animated feature film and the eighth animated film produced during the Disney Renaissance, the film was directed by Ron Clements and John Musker. The film is loosely based on the legendary hero Heracles, the son of Zeus, in Greek mythology.
The 1950 United States Senate elections occurred in the middle of Harry S. Truman's second term as President. As with most 20th-century second-term mid-terms, the party out of the Presidency made significant gains. The Republican opposition made a net gain of five seats, taking advantage of the Democratic administration's declining popularity during the Cold War and the aftermath of the Recession of 1949. The Democrats held a narrow 49 to 47 seat majority after the election. This became the first time since 1932 that the Senate Majority Leader lost his seat and the only instance where the majority leader lost his seat while his party retained the majority.
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Out of the Woods: Life and Death in Dirty Dave's Homeless Camp is a 2012 feature documentary film by Michael E. Arth. It follows the life and death struggles of homeless people living in a camp in the woods for four years. Arth single-handely directed, shot and edited Out of the Woods after meeting one of the subjects, Dean "Dino the Dinosaur" Bieber, in a former drug slum Arth had rebuilt and turned into "The Garden District" in DeLand some years before. The backstory of Out of the Woods is told in Arth's previous documentary, New Urban Cowboy: Toward a New Pedestrianism.
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The Jamaican political conflict is a long standing feud between right-wing and left-wing elements in the country, often exploding into violence. The Jamaican Labor Party and the People's National Party have fought for control of the island for years and the rivalry has encouraged urban warfare in Kingston. Each side believes the other to be controlled by foreign elements, the JLP is said to be backed by the American Central Intelligence Agency and the PNP is said to been backed by the Soviet Union and Fidel Castro.
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1 2 3 4 5 6 Arth, Michael E., Democracy and the Common Wealth: Breaking the Stranglehold of the Special Interests, Golden Apples Media, 2010, ISBN978-0-912467-12-2.
1 2 Catron, Derek, "DeLand Man Enters Race for Governor," Daytona Beach News-Journal, June 15, 2010 "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-07-01. Retrieved 2010-07-13.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
↑ Arth, Michael E., UNICE, a Consciousness Research Abstract published in the "Journal of Consciousness Studies" for the April 8–12, 2008 conference, "Toward a Science of Consciousness," p. 151.
↑ Scottie Campbell, "Eight It Up: Eight Questions with someone interesting."
1 2 Jeff Gore “Reality Check: Gubernatorial candidate thought he could play politics by his own rules. He's learning it's not so easy,” Orlando Weekly, Vol. 26,No.42, 10-20-10.
↑ Ludmilla Lelis "Michael E. Arth: Dark Horse Candidate for Governor Has Eye on Reform," Orlando Sentinel. 11-24-09.
↑ Jeff Gore, Billy Manes and Erin Sullivan, Happytown Editorial Board Endorsements Orlando Weekly, Vol.26, no.43,10-27-10.
↑ Scott Powers, “It's official: Rick Scott is the all-time big spender.” Orlando Sentinel, February 2, 2011
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