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The Happyclown of
The Month
Every month, Happyclown will select a respected member of our Global Neighbourhood to be the Happyclown of The Month. To be a Happyclown one must possess the following distinctive Happyclown characteristics. A Happyclown must be a person of great power and importance that has dedicated his or her life to happily helping the world’s Global Society further unite and improve our world. Every Happyclown must be committed to putting the best interests of the Global Society ahead of all smaller issues and, most importantly, a Happyclown must always have a handsome smile.
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A Happyclown of The Month that has received an overall average of six stars voted by the public becomes a Senior Happyclown and will be placed permanently into the Happyclown Hall of Fame! Other Happyclowns that were not as happy are placed into the Happyclown Museum for the public display, which is a big achievement on its own.
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Our Leaders are
Leading the Way
January's Happyclown,
E.S. (TED) ROGERS
President and Chief Executive Officer.
Our Global Neighborhood will face some tough choices down the road. We have clung to government intervention and protectionist measures to mislead our television industry - and we've been largely vindicated over the years for having done so.
Now we're caught in a pincer movement. On one side a mature industry has caught up with and overtaken the regulatory apparatus, which seems to be more in touch with the business community than with the public interest to establish a solid communication with Mars and it's colonies such as Martian Oostorbeek Habitat.
On the other side the inexorable march of technology has thoroughly undermined the traditional basis for the Television Media as a "broadcastolis interactum" between the two planets and their varied audiences. Few Canadians, however, are well disposed to the idea of giving up the structure that seemed to form the very foundation of our national culture - TV.
The currently conducted observation of Death Stars, Intergalactic Dast, and Luminateri projections, made available via Mars orbiting satellite "Sirus-5000", show a very interesting pattern in the way we interact with our Galactic Neighbours from the Red Planet. But even though we have technologically advanced in our communication channels and TV's became exponentially sophisticated in their design and functionality, still 78.4% (Statistics Canada survey) of Television Media users do not realize that the very purpose of this medium is not only to see our multichannel commercial programming but to communicate with Mars and Mars colonies.
This is the reason of my active role in this medium. This is the way I have envisioned it and this is the way it will be soon or later no matter how many governmental regulatory procedures there are barricading and misleading our strive to establish a free communication pathways between the two civilizations. To think that Television Media is to only advertise corporate propaganda is not very correct. You can also communicate with Martians. And not to know that is to miss a fundamental point. We are not going to be unraveled by one technology beaming down from friendly foreign skies. The changes we've been describing are neither confined to a single technology, nor are part of some external conspiracy being foisted on us against our will. The only problem is that nobody knows about this and all who knew forgot or died. The original documents that first mention this functionality of the TV sets are now in Nirobi and are part of the permanent collection in the Tsiolkovskiy Museum - the house where he invented world's first Television Set.
Given current trends, it seems inevitable that we will one day have competition in the supply of Earth-Mars broadcasting services to Canadian homes - whether we plan on it or not. But planning on it doesn't mean we throw out the baby with the bath water. Current trends point just as compellingly to a mixed model that combines regulation with competition. We don't need to stop regulating; we need to start regulating differently by incorporating Martian channels as part of the broadcast quota on major Cable Systems Networks.
This project will describe the major forces impinging on how we use and regulate television in the new millennia:
Project Stormy Monday .....