September 30, 2010 by Walter Schneider.

From wattsupwiththat.com

wayne says:

September 30, 2010 at 10:04 am

Son of a gun, Congress can’t seem to run the country but at least they turned down the volume on the TV before fleeing D.C. … I’m so impressed! They were sure to highlighted how extemely hard it is to do such a feat and should be re-elected to continue their…. ;-(

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/ap/politics/2010/Sep/30/senate_votes_to_turn_down_volume_on_tv_commercials.html

REPLY: OH man, this has been a sore point with me for years being in TV, a post is coming on this. – Anthony

It certainly would be a great thing if Canada were to follow the example of the U.S.

The excessive sound volume of the TV commercials is one of the reasons why I no longer watch TV.

The major reason is that the quality of the programs shown on TV has become so poor that when I watch TV at all, it is only to help me fall asleep within a minute or so after I begin watch a program.

I have discussed this with others and found that many of the people I spoke to about that also stopped watching TV for similar reasons.  After all, there is only so much of a continuous onslaught of propaganda anyone can take before being forced to tune out.  Misrepresentation, inanities, predictability of dialogue, in short, Propaganda of the worst kind.  In general, TV programs have become nothing but a vehicle for indoctrination through never-ending, mind-numbing propaganda.

The worst programs for the inundation with propaganda through TV are the news programs.  Those consist of political and commercial propaganda in equal proportions, even to the point were irritating, basal background “music” during the news is now the major part of an exceedingly irritating assault on the senses.

I cannot and will not take it anymore.  Too much is too much!

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September 30, 2010 by Walter Schneider.

The following message was sent today to the Fort Air Partnership (and a pertinent portion of it to The Weather Network):

Hello Fort Air Partnership,

Just now I came back to your website to look for the current conditions in Bruderheim, after I had been trying in vain to find them before on some of your web pages.

Some of the problems I encountered some time ago still persist.  It appears that your website does not cater very well to the FireFox web browser.  A substantial portion of Internet users employs FireFox.  You should have your web-designer address that.

It has been a while since the Bruderheim monitoring site had been set up.  You should have your web designer add a menu option for Bruderheim (Site #49) on the following web pages:

• http://www.fortair.org/historical_data.php
• http://www.fortair.org/historical_data.php#Anchor-49575
• http://www.fortair.org/historical_data.php#Anchor-47857

The addition of something like the following line is required in your source code for the station list:

<a href=“airquality_data.asp”>Site 49: Bruderheim</a><br>

A suggestion for your relationship with The Weather Network

The Weather Network derives its current temperature values for Bruderheim, Lamont, Chipman and Saint Michael from the weather station at Elk Island National Park.

Perhaps it would be a good idea to inform the Weather Network of the fact that a temperature display for Bruderheim should more appropriately be derived from local measurements that are being taken at your site #49 in Bruderheim.

Something similar should be done for Fort Saskatchewan.  Surely you can do better in cooperation with the Weather Network.

The current temperature values that are being displayed by The Weather Network for Fort Saskatchewan are being measured at Oliver.  Could one consider that to be more than a bit odd, perhaps in need of a cure? (See Note to the uninitiated)

The suggested improvements would increase the credibility of the Weather Network, while at the same time they could elevate the visibility of your website.

Regards,

Walter Schneider
http://folc.ca

Cc: Some Bruderheim, Lamont and Saint Michael residents; Lamont Leader; The Weather Network

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Note to the uninitiated: Although the weather station at Oliver is located within the boundaries of the City of Edmonton, it is located on the site of an agricultural research facility, quite some distance removed from the city of Fort Saskatchewan.  The closest neighbour to the agricultural research facility is a mental health hospital just across the road from the agricultural research facility.

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