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Local Foods Resource Mapping Project: 2016 North Carolina Interim Report
In the Fall of 2015, USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) piloted a research project to provide a comprehensive picture of the local food system in six states (Alaska, Arkansas, Arizona, Kentucky, Mississippi, and North Carolina). This 2-step research project, called the Local Foods Resource Mapping Project, is intended to identify gaps in the local food system infrastructure. The information gathered through this project will be used for purposes of:
· Market research
· Economic and business development
· Creating linkages between businesses
· Policy development
· Curriculum development
In North Carolina the first part of the project consisted of a three hour focus group held in five locations across the state in the early Fall of 2016. A written summary of the feedback gathered from the focus groups provides valuable insight on the state of the local food system in the Southeast, Sandhills, Triangle, Piedmont Triad, and Foothills regions of the state.
A second part of the project is currently underway. Producers, processors, institutional buyers, economic developers, educators, local governments, and other participants in the regional food systems in the counties listed below are being asked to complete an online questionnaire that will further inform this research on the state of the local food system in North Carolina.
Counties participating in this study include:
Alamance, Anson, Bladen, Brunswick, Buncombe, Burke, Cabarrus, Carteret, Caswell, Catawba, Chatham, Cleveland, Columbus, Craven, Cumberland, Davidson, Davie, Duplin, Durham, Edgecombe, Forsyth, Franklin, Granville, Greene, Guilford, Halifax, Harnett, Haywood, Henderson, Hoke, Jackson, Johnston, Jones, Lee, Lenoir, Lincoln, Madison, McDowell, Montgomery, Moore, Nash, New Hanover, Onslow, Orange, Pender, Person, Pitt, Polk, Randolph, Richmond, Robeson, Rockingham, Rutherford, Sampson, Scotland, Stanly, Stokes, Surry, Union, Vance, Wake, Warren, Wayne, Wilson, Yadkin, and Yancey.
This research is being conducted by Community and Rural Development at NC State Cooperative Extension.


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Mating Ritual
Sego, Luke Sweeney
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Mating Ritual is an independent Alt-Pop duo based in Los Angeles, California. Previously known as Pacific Air, Ryan Marshall Lawhon founded Mating Ritual in 2014 when his brother Taylor decided to go back to school. Initially a solo project, Ryan became increasingly more collaborative leading up to the debut album, 2017's How You Gonna Stop It?, where the brothers realized they missed creating music as a duo and immediately began work on Mating Ritual's sophomore album, the post punk leaning, critically acclaimed Light Myself On Fire.
As part of a one time joke that's becoming reality, the brothers jumped ahead of schedule on their 5 albums in 5 years plan, finishing a third LP only months after LMOF. Named after their least favorite hashtag, Hot Content refines the sounds and ideas created on the first two albums, fusing the pop sensibilities of the debut with the more artistic impulses of their sophomore. Hot Content was released on May 10, 2019 through Ryan's own label, Smooth Jaws, and quickly notched over 7m streams, adds at Alternative radio, and garnered laudatory press. Setting the stage for Mating Ritual's first headline North American tour (Fall, 2019). Mating Ritual are gearing up to release their fourth Album in May, 2020.
"U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.!" Not what one would expect to hear chanted vehemently from the members of an indie rock band in 2019… But Sego seems to get off on doing things one wouldn't expect from an LA indie band today. Being proficient at their instruments instead of relying on computer tracks to play their new album Sego Sucks live, recording said album in a church in far away Canada in the winter, thus committing to the deliberate notion of an album more than an amalgamation of 'laptop studio' singles. And yes, chanting "USA, USA, USA" as the main reprise of a reflective tune about entitlement culture. One must ask why? Why take it there? Or one may not ask and instead bounce and bop their way through each energetic turn, just happy to have their blood pump a little faster than the "everything chill all the time" pace that we've all become accustomed to.
And therein lies the trick of Sego. It's a gosh-damn choose your own adventure story of music for adrenaline huffers and introspective socio-philosophical types alike. Not that the two are mutually exclusive.
I would say Sego hails from Utah, but when does anyone say that someone 'hails' from anywhere other than in gratuitous band bios, ya know? Sego is not only aware that their Utah upbringing is different from most Angeleno transplants, but they exhibit a sense of pride in the perspective it has given them. Perhaps this is why singer Spencer Petersen finds ways to separate himself from the status quo. Like using a flip-phone still. And recording interludes with one of the many tape machines he has stock-piled in his studio. Sego Sucks is the cathartic result of a person like Spencer sorting his way through a natural resistance to being smothered by Modernism.
Sonically, the 10-track LP is woven with the changes of becoming a four piece band. Originally Spencer Petersen and Thomas Carroll, the band added members Alyssa Davey on bass and Brandon McBride on guitars and keys in 2018. The sound became more focused, but the raucous spirit that has kept people sweating since the beginning is just as tangible and, dare I say, primal as ever. The extensive touring they've done throughout North America, Europe, and the UK has also shown to be a strong influence. There's heat, there's resistance, there's intelligence. Did Sego fool us and write a modern day punk album that could be played on the radio?
To go to a Sego show is to be standing amongst very different people having very different experiences. To your left is someone intently staring at Spencer digging through his many acid-tongued references trying to decipher his cryptic slant on absolutism. Behind you is a gear-nut scratching their heads trying to understand what far corner of the brain one can write such dissonantly triumphant guitar parts. In front of you is someone falling in love with Tom, Brandon or Alyssa depending on who the light falls upon in any given moment… or perhaps all 4 at the same time, the way it was always intended to happen when a band is really a band. But perhaps most common is the person to your right, who is dripping in sweat, dancing with their eyes closed and losing themselves completely in an anoetic experience particular to when music is being played live. And loud.
While only on their sophomore album, Sego exhibits the kind of maturity in songwriting and pride in a live performance that makes for the band that your cool older brother worships and turns you on to the second your frontal lobe develops enough to spark your curiosity in taste.
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Leverburgh's new lifeboat RNLB Stella and Humfrey Berkeley was called to St Kilda on Thursday afternoon (January 17th) after Stornoway Coastguard answered a call for assistance from the passenger vessel Enchanted Isle at 2.22pm.
The Sea Harris crew had been dropping passengers at Village Bay on the main island of Hirta when they experience a problem with the vessel's electronic throttle and were unable to re-start the engine.
Leverbugh's RNLI crew launched at 2.50pm and tackled a challenging sea swell to arrive in Village Bay two hours later.
The Lifeboat took the casualty vessel, with two crew aboard, under tow and began the long journey back to Leverburgh, arriving safely back in Harris at 11.40pm after nine hours at sea.
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WRC-TV Washington reported on its website: "New statistics from the NTSB show just how big of a problem distracted driving in work zones really is in the Washington region." A new survey released "by Transurban-Fluor, in partnership with AAA Mid-Atlantic, shows that 40 percent of drivers in work zones use their cell phones." NTSB Chairman Deborah Hersman commented, "NTSB issued a recommendation last December recommending to states that they ban talking or texting on the phone while behind a wheel, except for emergency situations."
The Washington Post reported, "With miles of highway construction underway in Northern Virginia, the region's police officers say work-zone accidents have increased dramatically because drivers are using mobile devices to talk or text." A new survey by AAA and Transurban "of 409 police officers who patrol Northern Virginia's roadways, found that cellphone use was to blame in one in three work-zone accidents." Approximately "80 percent said banning cellphone use behind the wheel would dramatically reduce road accidents." The article also notes last year's recommended ban on all cellphone use while driving from the NTSB.
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The GE601 Graphic Equalizer covers six carefully selected frequency bands (100 Hz, 200 Hz, 400 Hz, 800 Hz, 1.6 KHz, and 3.2 KHz) over a five octave range with 12 dB of cut/boost per band. The GE601 also offers a master output Level control with 12 dB of cut/boost. With careful use of these controls, the GE601 can be used to fine tune your sound in a variety of extremely useful ways, a few of which are detailed below.
Pickup Simulator (humbucker to single coil) By cutting 200 Hz, 400 Hz, and 800 Hz and then boosting 100 Hz and 1.6 KHz, the GE601 allows a humbucker to simulate the sharp sound of a single coil.
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TV Series I Watch
What's better than movies? TV series of course. Other than being exciting and fun to watch (because of the story plot and so on), TV series are also great because the stories are ongoing. Some are going until season 10 or 12. That's a lot of series isn't?
So here is a list of some of the TV series that I watch.
Note: I'm not gonna explain much about the series. Sorry. :3
1. Supernatural
Seasons: 12 (on going)
IMDb Ratings: 8.6/10
My favorite character: Crowley
Why him? He's not bad ass but he is witty. And I like that.
2. The Big Bang Theory
Seasons: 9 (on going)
IMDb Ratings: 8.4/10
3. The Walking Dead
Seasons: 7 (on going)
IMDb Ratings: 8.6/10
4. Haikyuu
Seasons: 3 (on going)
IMDb Ratings: -
5. House MD
Seasons: 8 (ended)
IMDb Ratings: 8.8/10
6. Marvel and DC Superhero Series
7. Stranger Things
Seasons: 1 (on going)
IMDb Ratings: 9/10
8. Silicon Valley
Seasons: 3 (on going)
IMDb Ratings: 8.5/10
Others that worth mentioning:
1. Narcos
2. The Last Man On Earth
3. Sherlock Holmes
4. One Punch Man
5. Rick and Morty
6. Mr. Robot
So, there you go. What's your list of TV series? Do share on the comment section below.
Thanks for reading! :)
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I only watch haikyuu lol.ReplyDelete
next time maybe you can describe what these shows aboutReplies
I know I should have. Sorry for not doing so. :)Delete
dah lama tak tgk tv. hostel xde tv :(ReplyDeleteReplies
No worries. Nanti cuti boleh tengok. All of these series, saya tengok online je. Or download. :)Delete


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Frostburg updates will be posted below:
May 18, 2020 -
City operations are resumed. City Hall lobby is open and transactions can occur through the teller window. Meetings may continue to be conducted in a virtual format. Playgrounds are open.
April 13, 2020-
VIRTUAL COUNCIL MEETING - STREAMED VIA FACEBOOK LIVE - The Mayor and City Council will meet for their Council Meeting on Thursday, April 16 at 3 pm. The Mayor, Council, and senior staff, will meet virtually, and the meeting will be streamed via Facebook Live. All items on the Council Meeting Agenda were discussed last Thursday during the work session, which was also streamed live, here on Facebook. Comments regarding any specific action, or general comments, should be submitted to firstname.lastname@example.com by 12:00 noon on Thursday, April 16, to be made part of the public record for the meeting. Comments in writing, video, and sound files will be accepted. If a comment is specific to a specific agenda item, please indicate such so it can be introduced into the record prior to a vote of the Mayor and Council.The agenda is available online, here: https://frostburgcity.civicweb.net/Portal/MeetingInformation.aspx?Org=Cal&Id=60
April 7, 2020-
The Mayor and City Council will meet virtually for their Work Session, this Thursday, April 9, at 3 pm. The meeting will be streamed live via Facebook Live. In order to facilitate public comment for Council Meeting, next Thursday, April 16, each item on the Council Meeting agenda will be discussed at the Work Session. Public comments in writing, or other digital formats, will be received at email@example.com. These comments will be read into the record, or otherwise presented at the Council meeting, either before a vote if pertaining to a particular item, or at the end of the meeting during the general Public Comment period. The Council Meeting will be live streamed as well. The agenda for this week's Work Session is available online: https://frostburgcity.civicweb.net/Portal/MeetingInformation.aspx?Org=Cal&Id=83Thank you for your understanding as we work to keep the essential functions and projects of City government moving forward - including facilitating online meetings in a virtual environment. Feel free to message us if you have any questions.
April 2, 2020 -
CANCELLED - APRIL YARD WASTE COLLECTIONThe City of Frostburg's Yard Waste Collection for the month of April has been cancelled. We will post updates regarding May's yard waste collection and Bulk Pick-Up closer to those dates. Garbage service will continue to be provided as normal as it is an essential service.
March 30, 2020 -
Governor Hogan has issued a Stay-At-Home Executive Order for all Maryland residents effective at 8 PM this evening. This order does not affect the use of the City's public parks. Residents are still permitted to access the parks for recreational purposes but must comply with the social distancing guidelines issued by the Governor. Groups of ten or more may be subject to fines/arrests. Today's portion of the executive order concerning "Essential Activities" is listed as follows:b. As used herein, "Essential Activities" means:v. Engaging in outdoor exercise activities, such as walking, hiking, running, or biking, but only in compliance with paragraph III below and applicable social distancing guidance published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ("CDC") and the Maryland Department of Health ("MDH");III. Gatherings Large Than 10 Persons Prohibited.a. Social, community, spiritual, religious, recreational, leisure, and sporting gatherings and events ("large gatherings and events") of more than 10 people are hereby prohibited at all locations and venues, including but not limited to parades,festivals, conventions, and fundraisers.b. Planned large gatherings and events must be canceled or postponed until after termination of the state of emergency and the proclamation of the catastrophic health emergency has been rescinded.For your safety and the safety of others, we also discourage any outdoor activities that involve persons outside of your household. Please be safe, enjoy your time outdoors responsibly, and comply with the guidelines issued. Thank you for your cooperation.
March 25, 2020-
Allegany County has launched a resource page in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. If you are needing assistance OR looking to help - visit: https://resources.inallegany.org/ . It also provides links to trusted resources for accurate and local information.
March 22, 2020-
Frostburg City Hall will be closed, effective Monday, March 23. The City will continue to provide all essential services and City Hall staff will be working remotely and be available to assist you via Facebook messenger, email, and phone. Message us, or please visit https://www.frostburgcity.org/explore/city_staff_directory and email the appropriate staff person. If a matter requires urgent attention (e.g. sewer back-up or water leak), please call the Frostburg Police Department at 301-689-3000. We will reopen City Hall as soon as it seems prudent to do so.In an effort to continue to support the small businesses in Frostburg and facilitate quick pick-up service, parking meters will not be enforced until further notice.
March 21, 2020-
To comply with Governor Hogan's recommendation regarding gatherings of groups of 10 or more people, the City is suspending all activities/events scheduled in the City's indoor facilities and pavilions until further notice. The City's playgrounds are closed until further notice as well.We encourage you to use our outdoor facilities while keeping in mind the recommendation of doing so in groups of 10 or less. Take a walk with your significant other. Walk your dog. Go for a bike ride. Take the kids fishing. Play catch with your child. Or, just get a little outdoor alone time. If you are visiting an outdoor facility, please avoid gathering in groups and maintain an appropriate distance from other individuals that may be using in the facility.Play it safe and stay healthy. Thank you for your cooperation!
March 17, 2020 -
NOTICE: Please do not flush anything other than toilet paper. Alternatives to toilet paper should never be flushed. They can clog the plumbing within your home, the sewer line in your yard, or the sewer line maintained by the City. Please save yourself the trouble, mess, and expense, and do the same for the City workers, and refrain from flushing wipes, paper towels, etc.
Frostburg Mayor and Council Meeting - Modified & Public Hearing CancelledThe Mayor and City Council will meet on Thursday, March 19 at a special time and location - 4 pm at Frostburg City Hall, 59 E. Main Street. The public will not be able to attend the meeting in person, but will be able to watch the meeting via Facebook Live, in compliance with the Maryland Open Meetings Act.The Public Hearing that was scheduled for Thursday in regards to amendments to the City Code related to water and sewer has been CANCELLED. It will be rescheduled for a future Council Meeting.The Mayor and Council have a business meeting once a month. The items to be considered will be considered under a consent agenda and were all discussed during the Work Session on Thursday, March 12. This will allow the City to carry on with business as best as possible during the next 30 days. In order to accommodate the public not being able to attend the meeting in person, any comments for the meeting may be emailed to the City Administrator at firstname.lastname@example.com by 2:00 pm on Thursday, March 19 for consideration by the Mayor and Council.
March 16, 2020 -
The City of Frostburg is implementing measures to ensure residents have police protection, water, sewer, and garbage services during this public health emergency. The City will work with other local government agencies to provide and/or receive support as needed. Residents are encouraged to pay their bills online at https://wipp.edmundsassoc.com/Wipp/?wippid=FRST or by mail. The Governor's Executive Order today mandates that all restaurants and bars no longer have dine-in services effective at 5 pm, but many Frostburg restaurants and small businesses will remain open and offer curb-side pick-up. The Mayor has authorized businesses to designate a curb-side pick-up space in front of their business for convenience. Updates on Frostburg businesses can be found by following FrostburgFirst.Also, certain City events will be cancelled or altered to meet the requirements set forth by the Governor. The Easter Egg Hunt is cancelled. The Arbor Day celebration is cancelled. Other updates will be posted here as they are available. And a reminder: if you do not have toilet paper at your home and need to use alternatives, please do not dispose of the 'alternative' in the toilet. Your home's plumbing system and the sanitary sewer system are not designed to handle products that are not designated "safe for plumbing". These clogs could result in sanitary sewer back-ups in your home and/ or clog the City's sewer lines. If you have any questions regarding city government, please feel free to message us, email email@example.com, or call 301-689-6000.


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401 8871 Lansdowne Road, Richmond Listing #: R2476180
Centrally located in the heart of Richmond. Centre Point is mere steps away from shopping, transit, restaurants, recreation and Kwantlen University. This desirable unit features functional layout, like-new laminate flooring throughout and a spacious flex that could double as a second bedroom/ children's room. West facing with no building in the front, and some trees acting as a beautiful natural-looking privacy screen. Enjoy a variety of amenities (outdoor pool, hot tub, sauna, gym, bike room and guest room), at an incredibly low strata fee. Parking and locker included with this home. Move-in condition, perfect for 1st time buyers and small familes!
Taxes (2020): $1,138.85
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TV actor, Farnaz Shetty, is looking forward to her Hindi film debut, Battalion 609, which will release this Friday. "I am playing a very fun-loving rustic character called Bjjli, paired opposite Sparsh Sharma (Fugly fame).
The film also stars fellow TV actor, Shoaib Ibrahim. "He has become quite famous these days, especially with wifey Dipika reaching the Bigg Boss finale."
Ask whether this army film will have a chance especially when it is pitted against surgical strike flick, Uri, and she says, "Well, both our films are as different as chalk and cheese. While ours is a positive film, which also has India-Pakistan cricket thrown in, the latter is a darker film. All said and done, nothing can be said for sure, as it would all boil to what the audience will like in the coming weekend."
Besides Battalion 609, Farnaz has two more Hindi films up her sleeve. "The first film is ready, and Interestingly, my cameo appearance in the second was extended after seeing my performance. I can reveal details about both only after getting the green signal from the makers."
Apart from Hindi films, Farnaz who began her lead TV career with Waaris, is also waiting for her maiden south film to release. "I really enjoyed my stint with this love story, but it was hard work having to mug up the Telegu lines for the lip sync to go well. To be honest, I have a small role in Battalion 609 as my romantic track here is just one part of this army drama; while this regional flick shot in Kashmir totally revolves around me."
Ask her about the popular notion that south flicks are over-the-top and she replies, "Well, it depends on project to project; even Singham was loud."
Ask her about her &TV show, Siddhivinayak, now coming to end, and she says, "I really enjoyed working with this Prashant Bhatt production, for they kept the buzz about the show alive. The biggest challenge was to enter someone else's shoes (Neha Saxena), but I am glad I walked the talk."
"I think we are bowing out at the right time with very good ratings, rather than waiting for them to falter."
Looking ahead, she says, "I would now want to take a few months break to further polish my skills. I will take a call on future projects post that. I am game for juicy projects per se; medium is secondary."
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Tipperary troubadours The 2 Johnnies release Christmas single to aid children's hospital
Christmas fun and antics in the new single from the 2 Johnnies.
The 2 Johnnies are thrilled to announce the release of their latest single, 'Hometown Christmas', available for 99c on iTunes and Spotify from Thursday, 14th December.
Back with a boom, the Tipperary natives are delighted to say that all proceeds of the Christmas-themed track will be going to Temple Street Children's Hospital.
Fun, festive, and all for a good cause; 'Hometown Christmas' pays tribute to the typical Irish Christmas of overindulging on Roses, enthralled in Glenroe after attending 'midnight' mass at 9pm.
With the Late Late Toy Show and the three wise men thrown in for good measure, The 2 Johnnies have hilariously captured the essence of an Irish Christmas.
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Job Title: Social Emotional Learning Coordinator
Supervisor: Principal K1-8
Hours: 0.625 FTE (days/times as determined with supervisor)
Description: The Student and Family Coordinator at Codman Academy Charter Public School supports all programming and systems related to the non-academic growth of students and families at Codman Academy. By working closely with the Principals, Deans of Culture, and Social Worker, as well as partners (e.g. Wediko, Codman Square Health Center, EL Education) and families, the Coordinator supports and enhances the consistency and growth of a supportive culture and community at Codman Academy.
Responsibilities include (but not limited to):
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- Summer PD and once per trimester
- Perform weekly "consistency checks" / "community & culture observations" to ensure consistent implementation and execution of PBIS systems and norms
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Mindfulness and Trauma-Informed Instruction Coaching
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- serve as support for EL partnership: teacher consultation, family engagement, staff education
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Pretty obvious question, seeking the understanding for all of us. Does this site encompass all Science Fiction and Fantasy work including Games, Art, Short Stories etc...? What kind of Science Fiction is not permitted? Is their no outer limits to what can be posted here?
Yes I do think I'm clever, even when the other side of me knows I'm not.
The other thing I should ask is, fantasy can sometimes be a bread of historical fiction as well. Dow we include those kinds of fantasy works? My questions would like a nice answer, Smile.
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Tourism in Mozambique, particularly from South Africa, is on the increase as is small-scale foreign direct investment. The Ministry of Tourism is supported by the IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, through the Mozambique Tourism Anchor Investment Program. The Ministry of Tourism is responsible for the tourism sector and its implementation partner is the National Tourism Institute (INATUR). It is constantly seeking opportunities for additional growth in the sector, and one such area that has been identified for development is ecotourism: three Maputo Elephant Reserve concessions have been demarcated for this purpose. Other conservation projects, notably community projects, are also in place. Active holidays are popular; some of the principal attractions are turtle, dolphin and whale watching, bird watching, hunting, quad biking and sea kayaking. Cultural and historical tourism including ancient rock paintings and historical railways are other attractions. There is much scope and interest in investment in Mozambique's tourism industry, particularly in conservation projects such as voluntourism and ecotourism.
In 2011 investment in the travel and tourism industry was MZN3.2bn, constituting 5.9% of total investment. This was expected to rise by 5.4% in 2012, and then continue to rise by 1.8% over the following ten years, reaching MZN4.1bn by 2022.


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8 pool parties to hit during Winter Music Conference
Miami Ok, so you didn't get tickets to Ultra, and you're not gonna get to hang with any of these girls. So what? It's still Winter Music Conference, which means all the DJs you've ever heard of (and all the ridiculously hot girls that go with them) are still going to be partying poolside this weekend. So here're eight pool parties you're not gonna want to miss...
Thursday, March 27th: Danny Tenaglia is back in Miami, and he'll join electronic legend Carl Cox poolside for Carl's party at the Raleigh from noon-10pm. Great pool chairs still available Continue Reading
Thursday, March 27th: Armin Van Buuren's A State of Trance goes poolside at the Surfcomber, where he'll be joined by Jochen Miller, Aly & Fila, and more from noon-11pm. $75 gets you in!
Thursday, March 27th: LIV gets into the pool party act at the Fontainebleau when Nicky Romero and Protocol Recordings present "Miami Reboot," with Nervo, R3hab, Hard Rock Sofa, John Dahlback, and more from 2-11pm. WIN FREE TICKETS HERE
Friday, March 28th: The rooftop pool at The Gale is this year's spot for the Red Bull Guest House, where today's 2-8pm lineup is headlined by the guy who inspired Miley Cyrus's haircut, aka Skrillex.
Friday, March 28th: Chuckie -- the DJ, not the homicidal doll or Jon Gruden -- headlines a lineup with Gareth Emery, Bassjackers, and more at the Shelborne from noon-10pm. Tickets are here
Friday, March 28th: Take a break from the big-room insanity and sip some free Olmeca Tequila and Absolut Vodka Punch from 2-3pm under a shady tree poolside at the Broken Shaker with DJ Mark Fanciulli.
Saturday, March 29th: Technically, no, it's not a POOL party, but it is a party on the Miami River where Ibiza legend DJ Bruno is spinning at Seasalt and Pepper starting at 11pm and again on Sunday at noon.
Saturday, March 29th: Mad Decent's taking over The Gale rooftop pool, where Zeds Dead, Riff Raff, and Grandtheft will be joined by Waka Flocka and Trinidad James. There'll also be a special surprise DJ set, which they promise will NOT be Tobago James. The pool parties the rest of the year are pretty sick, too. Here're our top five...


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Anyway, I know mortgages are not my speciality, but the fading, like the fairy dust it was, of the substantive part of the promise was remarkable.
First it seemed homeowners were going to be really, really helped with a six month – something or other with the banks holding fire on giving defaulters a hard time. Though I was never clear if it was a moratorium, a halt to rude phone calls, or just a six month delay before the repossession papers get served – any way eight banks said they'd do it.
That's our curate's egg of owned, part owned, and almost owned banks. Nationalised, as any self respecting linguist might say!
Then it seemed that homeowners at risk of having problems on their payments were going to be really helped by some long arrangement to give them breathings space. And that turns out ot be a mouse's squeak of a 'part'-deferral of interest payments for up to two years.
Which might be fine for those with interest only payment policies, but may be a tiny sum for many others.
And then it seems only one in ten would be helped at all by the final proposals…
Smoke and mirrors anyone?
Still it has all successfully hidden the laws for totally random stop and prove identity to be given to the police. And that one about lie detector tests for benefit claimants.
Er… will that be some miracle test that is reliable that we have never heard about, and will the identity proof turn out to be only these dodgy identity cards that Gordon loves so much?
Ah well, you don't want to know about that anyway. But make sure you read the small print if you feel you would like some of this help with your mortgage.
Unless you want billions, in which case Gordon will mortgage you and I and several generations of our dependents, I suspect this tuppenny-halfp'ny aid on mortgages will come with chains…
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Don't Work Alone
I have come to a rather startling conclusion, an epiphany, if you will: Its way more fun to work together for the greater good, than to fly solo for personal benefit. It's called collective influence.
Incredible, large scale TV production.
I recently had the honour of producing a televised concert event for a large organization – three nights presenting eighteen musical acts and a cadre of comedians, often scheduled as tightly as every fifteen minutes. And the bands represented everything from a four-piece combo to an eighty-member choir.
Needless to say, it was a logistical challenge, especially for an economy-mode staff stretched thin as a fourth-quarter budget. (Our Stage Manager deserves a Medal of Honour – and a long vacation.)
Most of the acts were courteous and understanding, but a surprising number turned out to be what you might euphemistically call difficult, behaving as if the entire night was planned around their performance alone. They were demanding, inflexible and uncooperative. One singer refused to go on until he was served a cup of coffee. Never mind that we were trying to juggle scores of performers and create a seamless show for a huge live audience. Copping a 'tude, we used to call it. Attitude. A bad one!
Now here is the story.
But here's the corollary – the acts who behaved the most professionally backstage also happened to be the best and most popular on-stage. Those who were the most uncooperative and demanding turned out to be mediocre performers at best. I'm convinced that there's no accident in that.
The pros were a delight to work with. They showed up to the afternoon sound-check on-time and prepared, and arrived early for the performance according to our instructions. They looked for ways to be helpful, knowing full well that they were a part of the whole. Cooperative was the key word for them. And because of that, their portion of the show ran smoothly, and they ended up looking good. Give and it shall be given unto you. It's true – when you help others, you help yourself. When you help others you influence spreads.
But there's more to this than just producing a show. All groups gathered into a larger body tend to behave as if their needs were pre-eminent, whether it's schools at a spelling bee, or divisions in a company.
I work in all forms of television, communication, marketing and media, and believe me, each department on a TV crew can act as if they were the only ones on the set – the wardrobe department must have priority; the camera department is indispensable; the art department needs immediate attention and so on.
The same is true for any gathering of groups. Take Congress, for instance, where the needs (or wants) of a single district or state can hold up the needs of the entire nation. They call it gridlock. I call it being selfish.
We need to act together for the greater good, not just for personal benefit. When we act together our influence is larger.
You have to possess a truly outstanding talent or ability to justify an attitude. But by and large, the ones with the talent seldom have an attitude. Only the wannabes. And their only interest is in hiding their insecurities behind a wall of bluster and self-importance.
We all need to be mindful of those around us regardless of what we do we are always part of a larger group. It has been famously suggested that we need to think globally and to act locally. Well, that truly applies to each of us whether our globe is our home, our show, our denomination or our nation. We are all in this together.
Consider each other, first. Walk the walk, not just talk the talk. Our actions speak must speak louder than words as surely as faith without works is dead. Acting together spreads your influence further.


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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COLLECTIONS-368?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ] Matt Benson resolved COLLECTIONS-368. ------------------------------------- Resolution: Invalid +1 to Simone's comment, works for me > New method in ListUtils to create Lists populated with var-args elements > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: COLLECTIONS-368 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COLLECTIONS-368 > Project: Commons Collections > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: List > Reporter: Henrik Segesten > Priority: Minor > Attachments: addcreatelist.patch > > > Sometimes it is very useful to be able to create new and populate List objects in the same way that can be done with arrays by using the braces initialisation. My patch is an implementation of this for ListUtils with corresponding unit tests. Hoping for inclusion as soon as possible. Any comments are welcome. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
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Mike and Cody both appear to be saying that: "In order to be deserving of a prompt, a given answer must apply to all clues". Cody goes further to argue that this is a fundamental rule of prompting. This is simply not the case.
Here is the second line of a tossup on Swann's Way from ACF Nationals 2013:
This tossup includes a prompt instruction on In Search of Lost Time until mentioned. However, according to the doctrine that Mike and Cody are suggesting, such a prompt is not allowable, because the specificity of several earlier clues means that they are not true (as written) for In Search of Lost Time as a whole, but only for Swann's Way specifically. For example, the events described in the second sentence do not take place in the "final pages" of In Search of Lost Time as whole; they take place in the "final pages" of the first volume, which is only a little bit of the way through the work, and therefore make sense only when applied to the first volume.This novel discusses the nature of sadism after its narrator spies on a young girl who is goaded by her lesbian lover to spit on a photograph of her dead father. In its final pages, its narrator wistfully contemplates the changes that have taken place in the Bois de Boulogne. The central character of its longest section falls in love with a woman because of her resemblance to Botticelli's painting of Zipporah, and then becomes consumed with jealousy over her. This novel introduces its narrator's love interest Gilberte, as well as the "little clan" of the Verdurins. It begins with an "overture" about its narrator's wish for his mother to kiss him good night, and focuses on a man who becomes infatuated with the courtesan Odette. Its narrator recalls his childhood in Combray after tasting a tea-soaked madeleine. For 10 points, name this novel by Marcel Proust, the first volume of In Search of Lost Time.
Other similar cases crop up regularly. Here are the first two sentences from a tossup on Haydn's London Symphonies from ACF Regionals 2010
Let us leave aside the fact that the writer/editor of this question doesn't understand what a chord is. What happens if someone buzzes in on the second sentence and says "Symphonies by Haydn"? According to Mike and Cody, they must be negged rather than prompted, because the first sentence is only correct for the first of the London Symphonies (No. 93) and not the first of Haydn's Symphonies overall (No. 1), since the latter possesses no such bassoon fart effect.The first one of these works features a bassoon chord meant to imitate a fart. Another one quotes from the Croatian folk song "a little girl treads on a brook" in the final movement and gets its name from the opening timpani rhythm.
It seems to me that such refusals to prompt would be ridiculous and fundamentally lacking in player empathy. It should be a fundamental tenet of "prompt theory" that a player should not be expected to know the referents of the earlier clues in the tossup that he did not buzz on; if he'd known those clues, he would have buzzed earlier!
If it were the case that the Plumbers were a subset of CREEP, Marshall's decision to err on the side of caution, and say the superset, expecting a prompt if the subset were the answer, would be an entirely reasonable one, even if the earlier clues were not strictly correct for CREEP due to their specificity. In fact, it would be exactly the kind of expectation that modern "prompt theory" should be designed to foster, for so long as it decides not to use "anti-prompt" as a mechanism. When confronted with a clue that could refer to a superset or subset, cautious players will always default to giving the superset in hopes of being prompted.
The only sensible rebuttal to the protests lodged by Marshall, Chris Ray, etc. is one that draws upon Matt Weiner's rationale: that while those players should have been prompted if the Plumbers were a subset of CREEP, that "if" is simply denied by the historical facts. Their strategy backfired because the thing they thought was a superset is not a superset at all; it is merely an associated thing, and associated things do not deserve prompts.
Any other rationale for denying this protest demands that players should know the referents of the clues they didn't buzz on, which is a preposterously non-empathetic position to take towards players, and is not consonant with the purpose of prompts.


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Super Wario & Kirby Maker is a spin off of the Super Mario Maker Series and features Wario and Kirby as the prominent series' that players can create levels for. Although Wario and Kirby have their own styles and very different gameplay, the player can actually have either go through a Wario or Kirby styled stage. The game is somewhat of a spiritual successor to Super Mario Maker Phi and features many of the same features though level creation has been entirely redone for Wario and Kirby. It is seen as a budget title akin to Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer.
After Super Mario Maker Phi, a variety of "Maker" games were in consideration to be made as a budget title: Super Wario Maker or a Kirby Maker, among things like a Zelda Maker. Super Wario Maker and Kirby Maker were both separately considered, however Toroko couldn't see them committing fully to either one. The idea to combine them was however, something the company could commit to and began work on the game.
The game wasn't heard of again until about ten months later, where multiple details were divulged. The game would only have two styles: "Wario" and "Kirby", but each style would encompass the features and elements of three games in total. This was a contradiction of what had been said earlier, in that the game was going to have six styles. As revealed later, trying to do six different styles that encompassed the series of Wario and Kirby without breaking the seamless level creation mechanic turned out to be somewhat of a headache to do.
The game's notorious lengthy and silent development cycle was a subject of several opinion pieces in the gaming media, with many opinion pieces calling Toroko out for basically "smoke and mirrors" tactics, speculating that the game was originally announced to boost stocks after a rather disastrous quarter for the company. Reception has been more positive since the game was revealed to still be in development.
Pre-title Screen Animations
Every day a different animation plays before the game boots up the title screen. It swaps between Wario and Kirby for each day.
Title Screen
There are a total of six playable characters, three from Wario and Kirby's series respectively. Any of the characters can go into any level. All Mystery Mushrooms work with all characters.
Game Styles
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|Contains elements from Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3, Wario Land 2, and Wario Land 3.
|Contains elements from Kirby's Dream Land, Kirby's Dream Land 2, and Kirby's Adventure.
Course Styles
Course Elements
Level Elements
Important notes about Power-Ups: While they can be used by anyone, they have different effects depending on the users. Wario and Waluigi share the transformations/hats that come from the power-ups, while Ashley upgrades her spells. Kirby obtains a copy ability where as King Dedede and Meta Knight only heal from these power-ups.
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Star Tools
In the course editor, you can use these tools to assist in level building. These tools replace the cursor while being used.
Game Modes
In addition to the Course Maker, Super Wario & Kirby Maker features seven game modes: 10 Lives Challenge, 100 Lives Challenge, Horostar Adventure, Course World, Course Races, Creation Community, and WarioWare: Kirby Gourmet Deluxe.
10 Lives Challenge
100 Lives Challenge
Horostar Adventure
Course World
Course Races
Creation Community
WarioWare: Kirby Gourmet Deluxe
Power Cards
These cards act somewhat similarly to the Custom Cards from Super Mario Maker Phi, except they give the player a starting power-up to use during The 100 Lives challenge run. The player can hold up to three Power Cards, although each comes at the cost of a 1-Up collection slot. Use three cards, the player can no longer gain 1-Ups during 100 Lives Challenge runs.
Base Game
All Costume Pot costumes in Super Wario & Kirby Maker.
- Super Wario & Kirby Maker was made because the Wario stuff was going to be added into Super Mario Maker Phi, but would have felt too out of place. Kirby's stuff was added to give flavor to what would have been just a Wario maker, which Toroko wasn't too interested in developing as a stand alone concept as well as their similarities.
- The game comes out in 2017, the 25th anniversary of both Kirby and Wario.


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Aetna, Cigna and Tufts Health are reportedly launching value-based agreements with providers to cut health costs and boost beneficiaries' quality of care, according to a Health Payer Intelligence report.
The payers are taking part in collaborative agreements with providers through the formation of accountable care organizations and other value-based deals to deliver a high-quality health care experience.
"While most would agree that our current health care system needs to evolve, it's not easy to find health systems who are willing to shift their focus and make a meaningful investment towards this formation," Christopher Ciano, president of Aetna's Florida operations, said.
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Our wannabe dictator and his wall
Manhattan: Voicer Carmel Harrigan blames the federal government shutdown on the Democrats when it is Trump who has caused it. Although he's been President for two years, Trump still doesn't have a clue as to how our government
Unilaterally demanding $5 billion for a wall (one which most people believe is not the solution to our illegal immigration problem) and threatening to shut down the federal government if he doesn't get it is extortion and extremely petulant, childish behavior. Apparently, it's either Trump's way or the highway. If he doesn't get what he wants, the government shuts down and it is the Democrats' fault. Is this how we operate now? Besides, what happened to Trump's campaign promise that Mexico would pay for it? Chana Schwartz
Driven over the edge
Staten Island: The Op-Ed by Javier H. Valdes and Deborah Axt ("What Gov. Cuomo owes immigrants," Dec. 31) basically demanded that those people who now live in New York after having violated the immigration laws of this country (the so-called "undocumented") should be rewarded for their crimes with driver's licenses, in-state tuition
Poor and poorer
Camp Hill, Ala.: As Errol Louis advocates, the state Legislature must abolish the practice of suspending driver's licenses for unpaid fees or fines, especially when the defendant's inability to pay is verified (" 'Cruel and counterproductive,' " column, Jan. 1). A 2016 case, Stinnie v. Holcomb, prohibits punishing a person because of their poverty. Lady Justice's indispensable symbol in New York: her cash register. Marc D. Greenwood
Turn the page
Manhattan: I happen to enjoy the Daily News. Voicer Frank Barnet's remarks that "the editors and reporters get up in the morning and start searching for any negative report they can print about Trump" made me laugh. If this is what he thinks, I feel very sorry for him. All anyone has to do is turn on any news in the morning, and they find out what is happening, and frequently it's about Donald Trump. Turn on your TV or radio, or pick up any newspaper. Pick up the New York Times or the Post if you don't like the Daily News. Gary C. Marshall
Real news
Manhattan: To Voicer Frank Barnet: You say you stopped reading the Daily News due to negative articles about Trump. Well, sir, The News is only reporting the ugly reality.
Listen up, Andrew
Danbury, Conn.: If Gov. Cuomo is thinking about running for President in 2020, he must learn how to speak. It is impossible to listen to him deliver a speech. He yells and then yells some more. He should go back to listen to how his father spoke. Listen to the rhythm and cadence of Mario Cuomo's sentences and how he was forceful without yelling. Andrew Cuomo could even try listening to Obama for his style. Cuomo is a definite no until he learns how to communicate from the big stage. Rich
No thanks, Cardinal
Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y.: I take offense at the sanctimonious drivel from Timothy Cardinal Dolan ("Speed aid to abuse survivors," Dec. 31). Hypocrisy is easy: All you need to do is tell people what they want to hear. Dolan's expertise in that arena is unquestioned. Sometime after arriving in New York, he visited one of the only parishes in the U.S. to have back-to-back pastors removed for clergy abuse, Holy Name of Mary in Croton-on-Hudson. His purpose was to rededicate a new altar. Did he reach out to any of the victims or their families from this parish? No! So much for his crocodile tears about speeding aid to victims. Though the Compensation Review Board, which Dolan affirms has paid out over $200 million, sounds great, its sole purpose was to take victims out of the pool of potential lawsuits should the Child Victims Act be passed with a backward-looking window. It has nothing to do with helping victims of clergy abuse. It is all about one thing: saving money. Every victim they pay is one less they will have to face in court if the Legislature opens a window for survivors. The board was strictly a business decision to save the church money and that makes Dolan a hypocrite of the first order by professing his concern for survivors. Vinnie Nauheimer
Fools' paradise
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Victoria (Tori) Barrett is the Membership Director at the IEC. She joined the team in August of 2015. Some of her responsibilities include recruiting contractor and associate members, assisting current members with anything they may need, as well as planning events and keeping all systems up to date. She has seen success in manufacturing the company's new website, along with the informational electrician magazine, The Dispatch. She was also bestowed the Girl Scout Gold Award for her troop back in the day.
Tori was born and raised in Kingwood, Texas. Prior to working at the IEC, she was employed at Minute Maid Park as the Suites and Catering Sales Manager for seven and a half years. She attended the University of Houston and is actively involved in the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 8790 organization.
Some of Tori's interests include traveling, snow skiing, golfing, scuba diving and just relaxing by the beach with a glass of wine or two.
Tori and her husband Nick welcomed their son, Henry to the family in 2019. They also love their "furbabies" 3 dogs - Toby, Annie and Watson and one cat, Oliver.


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SAN ANTONIO – It's time to treat yourself. Not only have you made it to Friday, you've also made it through a very hot week, even by Texas standards.
It all began on Sunday, when San Antonio hit 103 degrees, a new record for July 22. Then, on Monday, the mercury rose to 105 degrees. That was another record-breaking day.
On Tuesday, San Antonio saw its third triple-digit day in a row. The high temperature was 102 degrees. The bright side? That wasn't a record for the day. (Little victories.)
By Wednesday and Thursday, we had a genuine cooldown! OK, not really. But; high temperatures were kept below 100 degrees both days.
We'll also finish the week Friday afternoon below 100 degrees. Your forecast high for Friday is 98 degrees, under mostly sunny skies.
THIS WEEKEND: There won't be a lot of noticeable changes to the weather this weekend. It'll still be hot, and there won't be any rain around. However, you may notice a few, subtle changes.
Our days will begin with a little more cloud cover than what we've seen this week. It won't be completely cloudy, but there will be more fair-weather clouds out there to start the day. Part of the reason for this will be an increase in moisture in the mornings. You may have noticed that it didn't feel as muggy both Thursday and Friday mornings. It sort of felt nice! That's because our dew point temperatures were in the 60s, while our air temperatures were in the 70s. This difference was enough to make it feel drier and "cooler" for the past couple of mornings. (I use the word cooler very loosely.) This weekend, our dew points will be back in the 70s in the mornings, making it feel a little more humid, and contributing to some cloud cover.
Speaking of dew points, they'll also stay a little higher each afternoon this weekend. That'll keep our air temperatures from reading in the triple digits, but it'll also add in a little bit of a heat index. That means our feels-like temperatures may read in the low 100s for a few hours each afternoon.
Humidity will steadily climb through Monday, ahead of an approaching frontal boundary.
YAY, A FRONT: Yes, it's true! A frontal boundary will arrive early next week. However, before you break out the pumpkin spice stuff, it's still too early for this front to bring us any cooler weather.
However, it will deliver a shot of some slightly drier air, which will help cut down humidity a touch. More importantly, it'll throw us some rain chances. Woohoo!
As the front itself dips into South Texas on Tuesday, showers and thunderstorms will be possible. Coverage-wise, there is a 30% chance of thundershowers Tuesday.
Now, when could you see rain on Tuesday? Plan on showers being possible late Monday night through Tuesday evening in and around San Antonio. However, your KSAT 12 meteorologists will be updating and adjusting the forecast as specific timing confidence grows. So, keep checking in over the weekend.
There will even be a 30% chance of rain lingering into Wednesday, as the frontal boundary moves south.
Hold up... Any severe weather? The severe weather threat looks low. Some storms may produce heavy rain, frequent lightning, and very small hail - especially on Tuesday afternoon. No large hail or widespread, damaging winds are expected.
AFTER THIS NOT-SO-COOL FRONT: The front won't drop our temperatures, but it will affect our humidity levels. Dew points will take a nice tumble Wednesday through the end of the week, making it not feel so muggy outside. So, even though highs will still be in the upper 90s, it'll be more of a dry heat... Meh.
In case you're wondering, fall begins eight weeks from Sunday, July 29. (We can't wait, either.)


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By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures
As population growth booms and slows, the only constant is panic
The United States appears to be facing a possible population crisis. Statistics from the National Institutes for Health show that the U.S. birthrate has declined to the extent that it cannot sustain the current population level. Conventional wisdom suggests that countries experiencing population decline – largely industrialized nations – face serious problems. Yet in the latter half of the 20th century, we feared the threat of an exploding population. There are some subjects for which any outcome appears dangerous: a growing population because it outstrips resources and a declining population because it threatens to slow the economy. Are warnings of a new crisis valid?
In 1968, Stanford University biologist Paul Ehrlich argued that by the 1970s, the world's population would outstrip its resources, leading to hundreds of millions of deaths from starvation – including tens of millions in the U.S. Other researchers suggested the catastrophe was less imminent but agreed that population growth, paired with resource stagnation, would inevitably lead to an apocalyptic scenario. The perceived danger posed by population growth became utterly mainstream thinking. But it was based on two key errors. First, the population growth curve did not materialize as anticipated, as the global population grew at a lesser rate because of slowing growth in advanced industrial countries. Second, the assumption that resource production had peaked and had no further room to grow proved incorrect. Considering these fears, it seems ironic that the recent news of population decline should be greeted with such dread.
As I have written elsewhere, population decline is closely related to the movement of people from rural to urban areas, and that movement coincides with industrialization. In preindustrial agricultural societies, children were a valuable, productive asset – even a six-year-old child could carry out essential household tasks. The global population surged, in part from necessity, as families needed more productive hands, and boosted by advances in medicine that reduced perinatal and infant mortality. The industrialization of society changed things. Children, in an advanced industrial society, attend school into their late teens or 20s, constantly consuming wealth and rarely producing it. Parents in urban areas like London or San Francisco find they can satisfy their emotional needs with only one child. They do not the need eight or nine children to work as field hands, as in previous centuries; further, outside the least developed countries, having eight children would be economically catastrophic.
Children, of course, are born not only of microeconomics but also of lust. The development of hormonal contraceptives in the 1960s coincided with – and mitigated – the panic around population explosion. If a couple has less than two children, the birth rate will decline. Add this to the Industrial Revolution and to declining real prices of energy and other resources, and Ehrlich's models collapse.
Just about everyone believed in the population explosion that Ehrlich and his ilk predicted – making today's scenario most unexpected. But is it a problem? The emerging economic model of the advanced industrial world is as different from the industrial era as the latter was from the agricultural. Industrialism depended on populations large enough to staff the factories at the heart of the economic model. Workers on production lines required only limited training, and a relatively small cadre of highly skilled technicians and managers designed and oversaw the operation.
The extension of industrialism is a technological society. Both are based on the contrivance of machines to facilitate production. But technology takes industrial production to new levels, radically reducing the number of workers needed. In the transition to the technological economy, a great deal of U.S. industrial capacity shifted overseas to countries with large, trainable populations. U.S. industrialism was left in tatters. What has emerged is the production of wealth based on information, which is now the driving force in American production. The workforce required for this production is much smaller and needs much higher levels of education than the workforce that staffed the production lines of the 1920s.
If that's the case, a declining population does not pose a problem – as long as the available workforce is appropriately trained. Per capita gross domestic product could still grow in spite of a contracted work force. Indeed, if total GDP fell more slowly than population, per capita GDP would still rise. If the two fell in tandem, per capita GDP would remain the same.
This model assumes that per capita productivity will rise as the total workforce contracts, which in turn assumes major technological inputs. However, as I argued last week, the microchip-driven economic surge has matured, and therefore a new core technology must emerge. My article was uncertain about what this technology would be, and many readers wrote in to argue for biotech. That would allow people to live longer – an effect that would seem to reverse the population decline we're currently seeing. At this point I have no opinion on that prediction, but it would seem to complicate demographic modeling.
The human race has endured many predictions of the apocalypse, and I was particularly jaded to apocalyptic visions in the era of population explosion. By understanding why the initial population explosion took place, and why population growth is now slowing around the world and even reversing in some advanced industrial countries, we can get a sense of why population decline may not pose a problem, but simply creates a new social and productive model.
I do have to admit a sense of amusement seeing the apocalypse then turn into the apocalypse now. It's not so much that humankind dodges a bullet, but that the seers see bullets in too many places. As a professional seer, I write these words with humility.
* George Friedman is a Hungarian-born U.S. geopolitical forecaster, and strategist on international affairs. He is the founder and chairman of Geopolitical Futures, a new online publication that analyzes and forecasts the course of global events.


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Valentine's Day at Swing
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Celebrate Valentine's Day at Swing; enjoy drinks, cocktails and fall in love to the most romantic songs ever written in our intimate club. Marianne McGregor & Uri Stav Scottish Jazz Awards Rising Star 2019 Marianne McGregor is joined by leading guitarist Uri Stav; presenting an evening of classic love songs. Melisa Kelly The sensational soul and blues singer of Melisa Kelly and the Smokin' Crows continues the romantic theme taking star struck lovers into the early hours.