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Civilization's megatrends are about to change everything, for real this time.
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Updated 7/26/2017
When I was a kid, "the future" meant "The Year 2000." We would refer to "The Year 2000" as THE line of demarcation bisecting what was the past and the glorious future to come. Y2K is now quite a ways in the rear view mirror. On the integer timeline I'm now farther away from "The Year 2000" than I was for most of my pre-school years when I developed a fetish for the future. Flying cars. Space colonies. Lifelike androids. It was all coming, in "The Year 2000."
Yeah so that didn't happen. The turn of the millennium came and went and the World Wide Web didn't even melt down. But with many of the Isaac Asimovian visions aside, it is something to consider the degree in which segments of technology have advanced in a short period of time. Gary Butler, a friend of mine and CEO of IoT company Camgian, gave a great TEDx talk about this a few years ago. Gary noted - humorously and accurately - that flying cars and clunky humanoid-ish robot housemaids not withstanding - most all of the "future" advancements depicted in The Jetsons had actually come to pass in our own time.
Epiphany Alert
As insanely fast as technology and societal systems have progressed over the last two decades, little fundamental disruption has actually occurred.
What??? Heresy!!! We have an entire valley of silicon making billions of dollars based on disruption!!! Burn him!!!
Hold on there, e-mob. A TON of disruption has occurred within existing systems. And by this I mean products, services, and technologies have been developed that have radically changed the way in which we operate within our established constructs. These legacy "systems" I'll identify as communication, occupation, transportation, commerce, and medicine. Without getting into the weeds on all of these, I'll point out a few of the major disrupters that have occurred. At a foundational level, there is the development and proliferation of access to a relatively fast global network - the internet. On the back of this, communications have become near instantaneous and information has become mobile. Occupations are now less centralized with the availability of more productivity tools. Transportation and commerce systems have been a bit less disrupted. We still depend on planes, trains, and automobiles which in turn depend mostly on the century-old usage of fossil fuels. Transportation advances have revolved around increased efficiency and access, the same of which is true (in different ways) for commerce. You still negotiate a contract as "fee for services." You are better able to access and spend your earnings, but the system is still basically the same. Major advancements have been made in medicine, but these are technological and technical, not fundamental. We continue to "practice" medicine and medical research on a global scale, retrofitting subsequent advancements to prevention and treatment at the acute level.
Progress? For sure. Disruption? Yeah, in a way. But if the disruption we have created could be metaphor for evolution, we have only observed short-necked giraffes evolving into long-necked ones. We haven't yet witnessed a giraffe evolve into a new species. I contend that this evolutionary disruption is right around the proverbial corner.
You can't get the Megatrend Genie back in the bottle
Not that we would want to. Well, there are those who benefit from the status quo who wouldn't mind the genie just chilling in his velvet-lined magic lamp. But it's a bit too late, and now it's time to adapt or die. (I wrote a piece about this recently specific to ad agencies, posted on the MWB blog.) We're staring down the barrel of real disruption in the areas of economics, energy, automation, and medicine. I'll explain why, how, and pontificate on some surprising and unexpected effects.
I want to tackle the automation megatrend first, because it is a, if not the, major catalyst driving disruption in economics. There's no need to go into a lengthy explanation of "automation" and it's impact on the economy here. (If you're interested in background, here's a related piece I wrote on 21st century workforce. Or just Google 'automation and jobs.').
"I do believe that by 2045 machines will be able to do if not any work that humans can do, then, at least, a very significant fraction of the work that humans can do." - Dr. Moshe Vardi
Numerous futurists, economists, and computer scientists have contributed to the commentary and analysis regarding automation. The seminal piece on this to date is probably Martin Ford's Rise of the Robots. Experts have a range of predictions about the impact of automation, from the utopian Keynesian vision that humans will have more time to pursue enrichment activities, to the more Matrix-ish fear of submitting to our new robot overlords, to a human-machine synthesis in which we become a bit like The Borg. Notably no less than Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk have had public disagreements on this subject. For what it's worth, I don't foresee becoming enslaved - or a Duracell - for machines; or becoming a cyborg in the traditional sci-fi sense. I also harbor no illusions that robotic laborers means we'll end up spending our days painting and composing to freestyle urban poetry. To deal in facts and draw a conclusion from such, here is what I think we can safely say: robots, software, and artificial intelligence are going to replace many careers and a sh*t-ton of jobs. This isn't a prediction, it is an observation. It began with dumb-robots in the 1980's on manufacturing lines and accelerates into the "skilled" and "white collar" worlds as AI becomes ever more sophisticated. Yes, will still need humans to originate the code that runs the machines, but the machines themselves will be able to replicate and adjust more efficiently downstream than can fleshy developers. It has kind of become my cane-shaking mantra, but I'll say it again: If your job - regardless of pay scale, field, educational degree prerequisite, etc. - depends on strict adherence to a set of rules, then it will be automated. In some cases this means individuals jobs and in others it will likely effect entire career fields.
Dr. Moshe Vardi, Director of the Ken Kennedy Institute of Information Technology, gave a presentation at the i4J (Innovation for Jobs Ecosystem) Summit in 2013 in which he posed the question - "If machines are capable of doing almost any work humans can do, what will humans do?" Certainly a thought-provoking poke at one of our most archetypal fears: being meaningless. Again, the ramifications of this can be conjectured-upon all day long, but the fact that it is happening is indisputable.
In the American manufacturing world, there has been a pronounced trend toward "re-shoring." Factories and manufacturing facilities are coming back to physically locate within the United States. Recent rumors have Apple building three new plants in the U.S., and their Taiwan supplier Foxconn is reportedly looking to build here as well. The fact is, the value of manufactured goods is at an all time high. Yet even with these pronounced trends, employment in manufacturing is at a low and trending downward. There are still a good number of manufacturing jobs to be had in the U.S., but even as factories come back or open up, the quantity of jobs that once accompanied such activity is way down. The quantity of human jobs, should I say. A plant which a quarter century ago may have employed 2,500 people can now be operated at greater efficiency and volume with perhaps fewer than 250 air-breathers.
The most prized human jobs of the future will be those that find value in deviating from the status quo. That's why I believe that design associated jobs will be the hot commodity in the near to medium term. These types of jobs aren't just what we think of as traditional "artsy" ones. Machines can paint a picture or write a book. These types of jobs put into practice the idea by which Sir Ken Robinson defines "creativity": Something Original that Has Value.
Since the first Industrial Revolution, the human economy related workforce has largely been operated at a matter of scale. "Boutique" industries are nice but very few people became wealthy through them. The real economic engines that drove first national then global GDP was that of mass production. In order for this mass production to occur, we needed mass population to operate it. Moving forward...not so much. This is the major disruption that automation causes: the value of human capital shifts from labor, to creativity...from hard work, to innovative origination. It will ultimately make us better as a civilization, but it will be a painful transition.
All of the disrupted topics discussed here are inter-related, but perhaps no two more than automation (workforce) and economics (makin' those dollar bills, yo). There have really been two big innovations in the financial system throughout our history, and some would argue that they are really one in the same. The first would be the development of representative currency - you can carry around coins and paper money rather than gold bars and goats. The second is the development of banking and credit systems. Other than the fact that technologies have given us more access to our money and protection over it, the underlying system of accumulating wealth hasn't changed that much since Roman times. Back then, free men were paid a wage in exchange for labor/service that they were then able to spend in turn on goods and services. Opportunistic Romans may have recognized a chance to help back some enterprise - say - a business that was involved in making purple dye. So you could work, spend, and invest in the Empire of the Caesars (assuming of course that your weren't enslaved and ended up as Fancy Feast for a Coliseum Lion). The same paradigm holds true today in all industrialized economies and among most if not all of the developing world.
Then our friend Automation enters the fray and cuts out part of the equation for a good many people. What if there just aren't enough jobs? We now bemoan so many families living paycheck-to-paycheck, but think about what happens when there are less paychecks? That takes a big bite of our the "spend" component of our current economic equation (which unfortunately drives our economy NOW) as well as makes the "invest" component (which I WISH was driving our economy) much smaller and more closely held. We need only to look to Feudalism (God bless 'em) to understand that less investment capital in the hands of fewer people means radically less innovation. This dynamic was only broken in the 14th century by the ravages of Black Plague... and I for one don't want to have to go down that road again.
So here's where the upside of economic disruption is involved: Universal Basic Income.
What???? That's some commie crap!!! Capitalistic heresy!!!! Burn him....again!!!
Yes I'll admit that my admiration of classical liberalism and free trade gave me an immediate aversion to the thought of someone getting a paycheck just for breathing. I don't like the "participation" trophies in Little League. Being compensated just for existing is coddling to the Nth degree! And I though just that until I actually started looking into suggested programs and their relative cost versus real impact. Admittedly I came to Universal Basic Income (UBI) as a feasible and perhaps even desirable disruption not by way of philosophy. My consideration came from the realization of the impact of automation. A friend of mine put it best - "We're going to have to do something." If necessity is the mother of invention, then in this instance automation is the mother of necessity.
"We shall again take for granted the availability of a system of public relief which provides a uniform minimum for all instances of proved need, so that no member of the community need be in want of food or shelter." - Friedrich Hayek
Last week I held a Twitter chat about UBI. It was an honor to have Basic Income guru Scott Santens participate. You know Scott is legit because he has a blue check by his Twitter profile pic. Seriously, Mr. Santens is one of the staunchest advocates for UBI today and has a mountain of knowledge to support it's implementation. Here's a great interview Scott gave with Futurism on the topic, if you're interested in getting into the weeds on avenues of implementation. To the neo-McCarthyists who knee-jerk against UBI as admittedly I once did, let me point out that free market icon Milton Friedman supported the idea as a "negative income tax," and libertarian-minded Friedrich Hayek advocated for and saw "guaranteed income" as an inevitability.
The finer points of Basic Income? There are various proposals. probably the most workable would be the elimination of most entitlement programs, save Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid. Each citizen is appropriated XX% above the poverty line as a basic income. Sure there are inflationary concerns, but Mr. Santens advocates for a UBI that is net neutral, which means the entire amount of money circulating is neither decreased or increased substantially. This, therefore, cannot create system-wide inflation. Also consider that all recipients of UBI won't spend it equally. Those in economically-challenged situations will use it for necessities, while those who don't "need" it will use it for added commerce or, hopefully, as investment capital. Eventually the investment capital will multiply and further spur innovation which in turn snowballs into economic development. And hopefully this economic development will drive economic improvement (which is NOT the same thing) for society. UBI isn't a free lunch, it's a fair system and a level playing field through which treasury revenue is distributed to ALL. And UBI appears to be the most feasible off-set to the wave of automation that is inevitable. With seismic disruption coming to the workforce, we need real disruption equally as significant - if not more so - in economics and commerce.
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Energy is one of the areas of impending disruption that is also related to economics - both in terms of spending required to acquire energy and income generated from producing it. It also happens to be the area in which I believe there may be the most cohesive public sentiment. The environment movement would like to think that disruption in energy disruption is being driven by the realization to cut green house gas emissions. Pragmatics would point to geopolitical forces driving the need for a new form of energy. The truth is, the impending disruption is more about meeting future needs than either of these two aspects.
Whether or not you believe global warming is man-made, we all generally agree that if there was a more economically efficient system that didn't involve putting gook in the air, it would be preferable. And I think we all generally agree that if there was a more economically efficient system that used a fuel source that was readily available and virtually sustainable, such would be preferable as well. The problem to date has been most of our "alternative" energy solutions (with the exception of nuclear somewhat) have been expensive and unable to be evenly geographically distributed.
Before delving into the specific types of new energy production that is the disruption, let's rightfully identify the drivers of the disruption. I stated earlier that the real driver was being able to meet anticipated future needs. There was a renewed movement about a decade or so ago - when oil prices had spiked - to "conserve energy." You may remember the three days during the 2008 presidential election when "under-inflated tires" dominated the news cycle. Energy conservation is a nice thought, but the fact is you don't conserve your way into growth. The other hard fact is that energy is the component that drives growth. Kinetic, potential, electric, chemical, nuclear whatever, you need energy to power anything.
So we've been prodding along still driven largely by fossil fuels. Environmentalists will applaud that fact that coal as a fuel source (and industry) is practically gone. New technology has also allowed for more efficient extraction techniques for oil and natural gas which has resulted in near unprecedented price stability. This fact, environmentalists bemoan. It doesn't bother me as much because I understand that it is impossible for fossil fuel to produce the kind of power that we'll need in the near future, so it is inevitable that a new energy production paradigm is created. Simply put, fossil just doesn't "pack the punch" that we'll need to power the future. Here's where the real disruption enters.
And I see three real contenders in this energy race. Things like hydroelectric, wind farms, liquified natural gas, etc., are nice ideas and may be some small piece of the puzzle, but the fact is they aren't reliable enough or efficient enough to be "the answer." The three energy production mechanisms that will disrupt our current system are solar, nuclear, and CO2.
Wait...CO2??? Isn't that what everyone is railing about having too much of??? Now you are suggesting that we build an energy economy based on it?!? Burn him yet again, this time with what's left of coal stores!!!
Ok so I'll tackle the CO2 explanation first. I'll state upfront that this is probably the least plausible long-term solution (because it means utilizing CO2 admissions, which we will eventually drastically curtail), but it may be the most viable short-term. In a moment worthy of the discovery of penicillin, scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory accidentally discovered a way to convert CO2 into ethanol. And, as the title of that article rightly points out, it is cheap, efficient, and scalable. This is certainly a GAMECHANGER for the time being. However, the process also requires that there be CO2 to work with. This means that we can capture the excess CO2 that we're emitting, but when those levels fall below a certain threshold (which I believe will happen more rapidly than anyone realizes) we're faced either manufacturing more CO2 to work with, or abandoning the method. Creating more CO2 specifically to convert to fuel... allow me to interject an allegory here.
I'm from the Southeastern United States. Several decades ago we were having an issue with soil erosion in certain areas. The solution was to bring in a vine-like plant called kudzu to help keep the soil in place. And it worked. The problem was that kudzu literally grows like a week. It is all over the place here now, and has caused a host of other problems. Cutting CO2 emissions to a level that we must emit more CO2 just to create fuel seems like a kudzu solution, to me.
So even with this amazing and useful discovery, I don't see a way in which CO2 conversion solves the energy demands long term. Let's turn to nuclear. I've been an advocate of nuclear power for some time. It's not technically sustainable, but it is damn close. It also scares the hell out of some people. With the track record taken as a whole, nuclear is actually one of the safest, most regulated industries on the planet. That being said, disasters do happen and when they occur in nuclear, they can be of nuclear proportions.
But safety concerns aside (I believe nuclear is safe), nuclear is expensive. The construction, maintenance, and operation of a nuclear facility takes a tremendous amount of capital. "New nuclear," as newly constructed nuclear plants are known, also take quite a bit of time to build. To meet future energy demands, we would have to make a great deal of time and investment in "new nuclear." While this would likely pay off in the long run, I'm not sure corporations or society has the short-term stomach for the undertaking.
But nuclear proponents take heart! Here's where a disruption within a potential disruption comes into play. Wrapped up in the semi-mystical ethos of String Theory, quantum mechanics, wormholes and the like, is the notion that one day we can uncover a single unifying equation of the universe...a Theory of Everything. Within this theory, we will be able to understand - thus manipulate - now mysterious phenomenon like magnetic reconnection. I pick magnetic reconnection not because it's especially sexy (I mean, we're taking warping the space-time continuum here), but because it is a key factor in containing nuclear fusion. Yes, nuclear fusion, that ultimate goal of near perpetual energy that, were we actually able to accomplish on a decent scale, would likely evaporate a large portion of the planet. Highly efficient. Scalable? Not so much...
We have made some strides toward reproducing nuclear fusion in a usable capacity, at least theoretically. But the problem of containment persisted, perhaps until now. Researchers at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (say that five times fast) believe they have unlocked the mystery of magnetic reconnection, which if true would put us within realistic striking distance of earth-centered nuclear fusion energy production. GAMECHANGER.
The harnessing of nuclear fusion production would be one of, if not THE, most important technological development for mankind. Available energy on that kind of scale could power the world at little cost, and power spacecraft to destinations currently far from our reach. Fewer and fewer of the earth's resources would be monopolized for energy production, freeing these for potential advancements in other areas.
Of course even with exciting breakthroughs, fusion power generation is still very much theoretical. We can celebrate our moves closer to a fusion production disruption, but we really can't bank on a set timetable for breaking the code. I will happen, but will it be sooner, or later?
Which brings us to the third potential energy disruption trend that will and is happening - extraterrestrial fusion harvesting - more recognizable by it's pedestrian moniker: solar.
The sun is a giant energy production factory operating by means of fusion. We don't have to figure out to get the facility up and going, it's been operating at peak efficiency for a couple of billion years, and has a couple billion left before being decommissioned in a super nova. The problem is we face with solar isn't one of production, but rather of being able to efficiently harvest.
It is very easy to veer off into technically feasible but still unworkable science fiction here (e.g. Dyson Spheres, Starkiller Bases, etc.). For those types of engineering feats to take place, we would have to experience quite a number of other seismic disruptions from now until their realization. (I mean, we can't enough energy to build a Dyson Sphere right now without actually having a Dyson Sphere to generate it. #Paradox #InsertIndignantNerdScoffLaugh ) For the looming disruption, we will remain in the realm of Earth-based solar collection.
The problem with solar has always been two-fold: cost, and storage. Collection systems are expensive (and inefficient) to build relative to your energy return. There also hasn't been a viable solution for energy storage. As I write this, it has been cloudy here for three days. Even in the Sunbelt solar has been used more as a release valve to take some pressure off the legacy electrical grids, rather than an independent and steady source of power generation.
Regarding cost, it was only a matter of time before technology made the investment footprint of solar smaller and smaller. Solyndra was the poster child for jumping the gun on new tech. We've come a long way since then.
See the charts above. Or better yet, just let me sum up. The cost of both utility-scale solar installations (top) and independent residential size installations (bottom) is falling at an accelerating pace. Remember the first mainframe computer was like a bazillion dollars and the size of a house? Seems Moore's Law applies to solar capacity, too. So if scientific evolution is taking care of things on the cost side of the equation, what about that storage side? That takes innovation.
Enter the real-life Tony Stark.
Elon Musk founded a solar company - SolarCity - and recently engineered the purchase of SolarCity by another of his co-founded ventures, Tesla. I have said for sometime that Tesla isn't a car company. Tesla is an energy company that sells a product line (which happens to be automobiles) that helps fund it's battery and energy storage developments. And I'm far from the only one to reach this conclusion. Without getting into the strategy or the science, it is supposed that the ultimate goal of the Tesla/SolarCity merger is to unify collection and battery storage technologies in a way that can efficiently and reliably store collected solar power and subsequently transfer the power to a grid without significant loss. If this is successful - and we believe that by having actual facilities in production already we are closer to this solution vis a vis fusion production - we will have achieved true sustainable energy collection at a cost comparable to or less than existing production methodologies. It is going to happen. The implications of this are far reaching and difficult to foresee. It's likely that we continue to maintain some sort of expansive "grid" structure, but also much more energy collection and processing happens at a local level (i.e. homes and blocks rather than cities and regions).
The ultimate disruptive megatrend in energy (regardless of the form it takes) is that we are moving rapidly away from a fossil-based energy regime.
I'll begin this section by noting I am specifically addressing "medicine" rather than "healthcare" in more global sense. I believe the most socially disruptive innovations within the healthcare world are going to come soonest from the design and administration of treatments. Specifically, I believe this disruption is going to be the implementation, in earnest, of personalized medicine.
"In the past we have somewhat personalized treatment based on a general set of criteria - age, weight, etc. We have now arrived at a time in which we can delve much deeper than a demographic level. Advancements in pharmacogenomics allow us to design one specific treatment for one specific person, which will prove imminently more effective for positive outcomes versus our traditional global approach." - Dr. Jamie Mask, CreativePharmacist
The mapping of the human genome is an under-appreciated accomplishment outside of biotech circles. Unlocking the secret of what makes us, us, on the most elemental level was the tipping point in this wave of disruption of which we are already in the midst. DNA sequencing has rapidly progressed from something only affordable by the 1%, to retail ancestry companies offering mail-order DNA analysis. The societal benefits don't stop at shockingly discovering that you're one-quarter Scotch-Irish rather than the Irish-Scotch that you thought you were all along. The real benefit, as underscored by Dr. Jamie Mask, Clinical Pharmacist with Creative Pharmacist (yes, and my wife), is that treatments can now be optimized to work specifically for you, rather than mass produced to work "as best they can for most." A small but growing number of businesses are aggressively occupying the space to partner with pharma companies to create these personalized medicines.
Another related innovation in this area is more effective, organic, and less invasive ways to deliver treatments. Biological medicinal delivery is now a reality. This will ultimately meant that we can use biological agents to precisely target and deliver treatment without major risk of reaction. Chemotherapy for cancer patients will soon seem barbaric and highly inefficient.
Biological-based 3-D printing is also makes waiting on donor lists a thing of the past. We can print a new pancreas specifically designed for a patient based on their own genomics. We can 3-D print an organic mesh that can more effectively heal broken bones. The revolution in biological 3-D printing will likely make many of the situations we now consider DEFCON 5 on the health scale much more akin to strapping on a bandage.
And it's not just about personalizing what you put in your bodies. It's about what we are able to put on, and around us. Wearables may now just track how many steps we take, but technology is already allowing them to read genomics and process other important signals at the local level. Why is this important? At a cellular level, the body can give otherwise undetectable signals that a certain health event is likely or imminent. Imagine knowing a few hours in advance that you are about to have a heart attack or a stroke. This can and will save countless lives.
The disruption in medicine will meant that we are actually making good on a promise that all healthcare providers want to fulfill - actually treating the specific person, based on that specific person.
You mentioned some surprising effects of these disruptions?
So if these are the four megatrends of fundamental disruption that are upon us, what are some of the effects and consequences? Some might predict that with medical advancements we will experience major population growth. I don't see this. Living better, longer doesn't mean that there will be more people. In fact, it just might mean the opposite. Population growth has been tied to labor expansion. People had kids to help on the farm. We needed "manpower" to operate factories and machinery. The automation megatrend throws a wrench into this equation. We will not need as much manpower, and therefore not as much "man." We are already seeing decisions by families to put off having children until later. Most of the world's developed economies are also right at or below the population maintenance rate. These kinds of things are always a bit cyclic, but I think given the other megatrends we're experiencing, the growth rate of human population will continue to slow.
The one surprising conclusion that I keep reaching is that all of these megatrends will push back into an age when populations are clustered around villages rather than densely populated urban areas. Yes, I understand that urban renewal and downtown developments are all the rage right now, but aren't these pockets within metropolitan areas really just good-sized villages within the confines of an incorporated city boundary.
Basic Income, access to rapid communications, and "off grid" or "mini-grid" energy solutions will enable more decentralized lifestyle communities to develop. Rather than the traditional drivers of urban civilization development - access to resources for the whoe and proximately to work for individuals - I believe that more social aspects will drive population shifts. We're already seeing this to some degree with population growth in Colorado and the US Pacific Northwest.
Funny to think that all this "disruptive development" might push back into "village life." They'll be really, really nice villages, though. (And hopefully have flying cars.)


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God Wills It
Re your editorial "Two Peoples, One State" (11/15): You do not know what you are saying and whom you are confronting. You are confronting the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, who himself set the borders of Israel. In fact, Israel is the only nation on earth whose borders have been set by God himself. And consequently, the Jewish people have a right to build anywhere within the borders set by the omnipotent God of Israel.
God is the nation-builder of Israel. Why not pick on one of the many Muslim states—or even the United States, which was supposedly founded on Christian principles but displaced the native Americans? Why not examine the Vatican state, founded definitely on one religion? I will tell you why: because it is spiritual. Israel is the apple of God's eye and the Catholic Church hates that fact.
Susan Smith-Jones
Coqville, Ore.
A Tough Call
After reading your commentary "Two People, One State" (11/15), I can see it is not an easy call. Israel is a secular state. But Avigdor Lieberman, Israel's foreign minister, and others have called for a dominantly Jewish state—if not religious, then ethnic. I suppose that is following the orthodox rabbinic definition of a Jew.
Although that is counter to modern thinking about inclusive states, it is not irrational, considering that most of the Arab states are purely Muslim religious polities and that the most important among them do not admit Jews or Christians as citizens at all, e.g., Egypt and Saudi Arabia. According to Iran's Web site, it accepts Jews as citizens, but its official pronouncements must be taken with a grain of salt. The Muslim states surrounding Israel are permeated by 60 years or more of anti-Jewish and anti-Israel propaganda and education.
The prime issue is another question altogether: a single-state solution will ultimately swamp the Jewish portion of its citizens, whether by religion or ethnic dissent. That threatens the security of a Jewish homeland. If you do not go for that, you accept a two-state solution, as Ariel Sharon and Ehud Olmert ultimately did.
The security wall is ugly, but it has been effective in reducing terror attacks in Israel. Keep it and a strong Israeli Defense Force until the lions finally lie down with the lambs. In 2010 Fatah was not very productive in moving toward a two-state solution, but Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition government has also found niggling ways to obstruct every move toward it.
Act positively is my recommendation to Israel. If it leads to a good solution, wonderful. If Fatah obstructs, let the onus be clearly on it.
Robert V. Garvin
Sarasota, Fla.
Misguided Compassion
I am touched by the compassion of the commentary "Two People, One State," by Raymond A. Schroth, S.J. (11/15), which seeks an end to the more than century-old enmity between the inhabitants of Palestine, now Israel. It is especially touching in light of the terror being aimed at Christians in Iraq and the possible exile of an important community that has lived there nearly as long as the Iraqi Jews, who were exiled from Iraq not so long ago.
The Middle East is a rough territory. Our human instinct to seek betterment also makes us vulnerable to delusion…a natural desire for wish fulfillment. It is about as good as it gets in Israel for the Jews and also the Arabs.
Being a second-class citizen in Israel is far better than being a Palestinian almost everywhere else in the Middle East. And it is getting better because in a democratic state many Israelis are in the vanguard of protecting Arab rights. It is also getting better in the West Bank or Judea and Samaria. Economic growth is raising the standard of living and security to resist Hamas, financed by Iran.
Israel is a unique achievement and a moral force. How odd that you recognize this achievement with your left hand and toss it away with your right. You are willing to bet the ranch—a spiritually inspired, secular democracy in Israel—by expanding it into a state where Palestinians would be in the majority. It is poignant when a responsible and compassionate thinker acts foolishly. Foolishness cannot achieve tikkun olam—the duty to perfect the world.
George Rosenbaum
Chicago, Ill.
Float, Not Swim
"Two Peoples, One State" (11/15) is beyond utopian. Palestinians have spent the past 100 years devising ever more creative ways to kill or expel the "hated" Jews. Hence, the Israeli and Palestinian life-saving security barrier—not "wall"—"segregated" roads and similar security measures. Being "gifted" and "energetic" could not save German Jewry. A dystopian one-state solution would lead inexorably to a final solution.
Jews share both peoplehood and religion. For the most part, early Zionists did not seek to reclaim their historic homeland on biblical grounds. It was to serve as a place of refuge for a persecuted people. Given the current alarming rise in anti-Semitism worldwide, the rationale retains its resonance.
Despite the article's heart-warming ending, where the author tells of meeting two young men while swimming in the Dead Sea who considered Jews and Arabs "brothers," one can only float, not "swim" in the Dead Sea. Similarly, the Arab-Israel conflict, for the foreseeable future, can at best only be managed, not solved.
Richard D. Wilkins
Syracuse, N.Y.
The Crux of the Matter
Re "Two Peoples, One State" (11/15): Let's get to the crux of the matter. Christ called his followers to radical forgiveness. Laughing off the virtue of loving your friends, he said true human evolution lies in finding out how to love your enemies. St. Paul demanded that the first Christians embrace a universalism—a catholicism—that goes beyond tribal differences. Therefore the Catholic view of Israel is by nature one that says: Forgive each other and find a way to share this thing you both value so much. Is that too naïve? Yes, maybe so. But it is what it is. Take it or leave it. As to the question many posters on America's Web site asked—why Israel should be held to a higher standard than what we would expect of violent, radical Islamists—I think that question answers itself.
Peter Reichard
New Orleans, La.
Bishop Backs Gays
I was glad to see your editorial "Bullying, a Deadly Sin" (11/8). I live in the diocese that includes Cleveland, Ohio. My daughter is a lesbian. We have been in a parents' support group for 10 years. We asked high school counselors and administrators what could have helped the experience of the gay teen population.
My daughter replied to that question that she had felt lonely and ashamed, sure that friends, teachers or family would hate her. She hated herself and thought God hated her. She said, "It would have helped to have one counselor have a sign letting me know it was safe to talk." One young person said, "Since the expectation in a Catholic high school is that heterosexual as well as homosexual students are not sexually active, the sex issue does not come into play. We as kids needed to know we would be loved and respected."
Our bishop and the secretary of family ministry are all involved in making a pamphlet "Always Our Children." Four years ago four sets of parents talked in our schools about the needs of gay children. And school handbooks stressed that discrimination and bullying would not be tolerated. It was also good to have the bishop's support.
Ann Hoenigman
Gates Mills, Ohio
Don't Trust Big Oil
Your Current Comment "Deepwater Clean-Up" (11/15) reminds me that after 20 years and huge promises from Exxon, oil still appears, raising its ugly black goo on the beaches and bays of Alaska. All of the Gulf of Mexico and surrounding countries will live with goo balls and ugly liquids for decades to come. Additionally, most of Exxon's promises for financial assistance to native Alaskan villages came out, after years of court fights, to zero. Many of the natives have passed away, having received nothing for lost lands, livelihoods and communities and having suffered damage to the environment. Let's see how BP and Haliburton wiggle out of their responsibility to the people of the Gulf.
Will Atkinson
Anchorage, Alaska
Enemies Can Be Friends
There is no question that Raymond A. Schroth, S.J., in "Kill Zone" (11/8) is correct in his analysis of what war does to soldiers. But the last sentence quoted from Spec. Adam C. Winfield, that the platoon didn't care, does not universally apply. When I was in Vietnam with the 101st Airborne on patrol with a very sensitive (and Catholic) captain, we had captured two members of the Viet Cong in the early days of the war. He secured them, treated them respectfully, gave them our food and our cigarettes. Since they were Catholics, they wanted to attend my Mass in the morning, which they did. They sang like canaries. They warned us of the turn in the river where the enemy was preparing an ambush. As we discovered later, they really saved our lives. So kindness and respect paid off that day even on the battlefield, and I am alive to tell about it.
That captain was killed six months later. May God grant him the kindness that he showed to the enemy on that memorable day.
Peter J. Riga
Houston, Tex.


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AFLP analysis of African cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) germplasm resistant to the cassava mosaic disease (CMD)
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Amplified fragment length polymophism was assessed in 20 land races and nine elite lines of cassava from Africa, resistant and susceptible to the cassava mosaic disease (CMD). Eleven accessions from a representative core collection from Latin America, previously studied by AFLPs, were included as a reference. AFLP data from all accessions was analyzed by both the unweighted pair group mean average (UPGMA) and multiple cluster analysis (MCA) methods of analysis. Genetic differentiation between clusters and the coefficient of genetic differentiation was also calculated. Results reveal a genetic divergence between African and Latin American accessions, although some overlap was found between them. African land races resistant to CMD, were also found to be genetically differentiated from susceptible land races and from resistant elite lines. AFLP analysis identified a considerable number of duplicates in the African accessions, suggesting a sizeable percentage of redundancy. A unique AFLP fragment, found in a relatively high frequency in African accessions, but absent in the Latin American accessions, was found to be associated with branching pattern by QTL mapping in an F1 progeny derived from African and Latin American parents. The likely source and the utility of the unique AFLP fragment in understanding the processes of genetic divergence in Africa is discussed.
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text: Technology Changes Things By Jonah Goldberg for National Review March 25, 2005 "Progress," G.K. Chesterton proclaimed, "is the mother of problems." Whatever side you come down on regarding the tragic case of Terri Schiavo, this is an important observation to keep in mind. Not too long ago I wrote a column about how technology changes the ideological landscape. To illustrate the point, I mentioned the attempt by a Maine politician to pass a law that would bar aborting fetuses that tested positive for the "gay gene." The effort was a lark, of course. But I thought taking it seriously, in a hypothetical way, would illuminate some of the ways in which technology can transform our ideological categories. Many, many readers from across the country disagreed. "I don't know about you, Mr. Goldberg, but I try to be consistent in my principles, no matter how the circumstances change," was the general response from most of the dissenters. This kind of objection is well intended but fundamentally flawed, as the Schiavo case makes clear. It is now likely that Ms. Schiavo will starve to death. While I think there are major problems with Congress's intrusion into this case, I also think her death is certainly tragic, and the Florida courts probably got this one wrong. But we would not be having this debate if medical science had not advanced beyond where it was, say, 100 years ago. Ms. Schiavo would have died before the argument was born. http://www.nationalreview.com/goldberg/goldberg.asp


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The Randall's Island Park Alliance, Inc. (RIPA) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that works with the City of New York and local communities to provide an innovative and exciting destination through a wide range of sports venues, cultural events and environmental exploration. As the dedicated steward of Randall's Island Park, the Alliance sustains, maintains, develops and programs the Park to support the wellbeing of all New Yorkers.
The Randall's Island Park Alliance was founded in 1992 as a public-private partnership to work on behalf of Randall's Island Park, located in the East River, separated from Manhattan by the river's main channel. Between the Island and the Bronx flows the Bronx Kill, while the famous rapids of Hell's Gate separate the Park from Astoria, Queens. The Island was once two separate land masses, Randall's Island and Wards Island, which for hundreds for years were used not as a public park but as a location for a range of public facilities including a boys' home, a hospital, and a home for Civil War veterans. Today, Randall's Island Park is New York's premier recreational destination.
RIPA maintains, sustains, and programs the Park under two primary guiding principles: we provide opportunities for people to be active and experience the outdoors; and we believe that world class facilities should be available to everyone, regardless of their means.
In addition to sporting facilities, the Island is also home to a sprawling event site that, along with Icahn Stadium, hosts a number of special events every year. Located between Icahn Stadium and the Harlem River, the event site has hosted notable concerts, art fairs, and cultural festivals, including the Governor's Ball, the Electric Zoo Festival, and the Frieze Art Fair.
RIPA has focused not only on developing the Park's facilities but also on restoring the Island's natural resources. In spring 2008, RIPA completed a $5 million restoration of the Island's Little Hell Gate Inlet salt marsh and freshwater wetland; today, the sites improve water quality as well as provide precious wildlife habitat. The Park also features a 3,000-square-foot Urban Farm, created in conjunction with GrowNYC, which serves as a space for environmental and nutritional education for schools and groups. This Urban Farm grows a wide variety of produce in over 20 vegetable beds made solely from recycled and composted materials.
Randall's Island Park attracts 1.7 million visitors to the Island per year, many of whom are local children who participate in our free youth programming. In conjunction with the Department of Education, the Public Schools Athletic League, and the CHAMPS program, we offer year-round daytime and afterschool youth athletic programs in tennis, soccer, golf, dance and rugby. During the summer, our free six-week summer camp program serves over 1,500 children from 25 community-based organizations from neighboring Harlem and the Bronx. In addition, each year our Waterfront Stewardship programming provides opportunities for over 2,500 NYC public school students to visit, study, and volunteer.
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I got some good knitting (and relaxing) time in this weekend. I did not make it to Cocoa Village or the beach, but maybe next weekend I will. The beaches were too dangerous anyways. The hubby was working all day on Monday while I ran errands for him. Imagine me with my list wandering Home Depot. Luckily I found everything he needed with no problems. We also made it over to Bill and Jennifer's new condo (My Boss's Parents) for a little lounging by the pool and dinner. It was just a couple of people that I work with so it was a lot of fun. I brought over some cheesecake for dessert. I've never made cheesecake before and it turned out great! I used this recipe from Kraft Food & Family Magazine. It was so easy!
**I am still working on getting the lighting right for photo's. They will look better soon!**
As I mentioned, I got some knitting done. I have been working exclusively on the Freesia Sock because I just haven't felt like working on anything else. I will probably switch my main project after the first sock is done. I am almost to the heel now. The colors are swirling nicely around my foot now. I think I will try the Gusset and Slip Stitch heel from Knitty's Widdershins pattern that Wendy used. It looks very nice.
Well I guess I should get back to work now. I sure am glad I brought the leftovers into the office! Yum!
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- G. Ben Martin, M. Ghiorso and F. Spera (2012), Transport properties and equation of state of 1-bar eutectic melt in the system CaAl2Si2O8-CaMgSi2O6 by molecular dynamics simulation, American Mineralogist, Vol. 97, p.1155-1164.
- G. Ben Martin, M. Ghiorso F. Spera and D. Nevins (2009), Structure, thermodynamic and transport properties of molten Mg2SiO4: Molecular dynamics simulations and model EOS, American Mineralogist, Vol 94, p 693-703.
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"My name is Alice and I'll be your server."
We exchanged glances, amused by the ancient woman who would be waiting on us this lunch. I know we each surreptitiously checked her out. She stood no taller than 4'8". Her face was deeply wrinkled, Sharpei's have fewer wrinkles, I thought. Her grey hair was pulled into a bun that had once been neat and now showed signs of a long day. Giving her our drink orders, we turned our attention to the massive menu.
Alice returned in a few moments our drinks in hand, barely able to withstand the weight of the soda and coffee. Shaking, she placed the cups onto the table. Relieved to have succeeded at that task, she pulled out her order pad and a pen, ready for our orders. We each spoke loudly, not wanting to cause her any issues. Task completed, she shuffled off to place our order.
We spoke about her quietly. "How old do you think she is?" "At least eighty." "I truly hope she's working because she wants to, not because she has to."
When our orders arrived, she carried them over on trembling hands, my soup spilling as much on the table as there was in the bowl. My companion needed ketchup, but decided he didn't want to make her schlep back and forth to bring it to the table. Alice beamed at us, checking to make sure all was okay. We watched her shuffle off to her next table, amazed at her calmness.
As we finished, Alice returned, check in hand. Placing it on the table, she wished us a happy holiday and showed us the turkey picture she drew for us. It was a beautiful turkey on a platter, complete with rising steam.
Leaving a generous tip, we left the diner, but she stayed with me. Please let her be working because she wants to, not because she has to.
There's something heartbreaking about our elderly poor. Those who worked hard all their lives, only to have their life savings flushed down the toilets of bad investments, pensions reduced or gone thanks to corporate bullshit, or just a lack of savings. Medical costs not covered by Medicare spiral upwards, as the donut hole sucks at their social security payments. Taxes, utilities, and food costs go up, as the ability to shop around for better prices becomes more challenging.
But they exist. In growing numbers. Thanks to programs like Meals on Wheels, they are not as visible as the children living in poverty. Thanks to the recent economic turndowns, retirement funds are generating significantly less, requiring real changes in lifestyles. Some, like Alice, have to keep working. These men and women have done nothing wrong but age. For those who planned for their retirement, unexpected expenses may have happened. Others may have invested poorly. Others just barely made ends meet before they were laid off. Now, at an age when they should be able to relax and enjoy the fruits of their labor, they worry and stress about food and housing costs.
Hunger affects people from all walks of life, at all ages. You can do something to help change it. Raise your voice, open your wallet, and work towards helping those in need.
By: Lauren J. Walter November 13, 2008
This blog is part of BAH – Bloggers Against Hunger. Please check out some of the other pieces and make an effort to do something to help.
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Our football match prediction:
Freiburg impressed in the 2015/2016 2. Bundesliga campaign and they totally deserved to secure promotion to the German top flight. The newcomers, though, failed to impress against Hertha in their opener, with the team suffering a 2-1 loss to the capital club in Berlin. However, it is well known that Freiburg struggle on the travels, but they are certainly capable of making life difficult for Borussia M'gladbach in their first home game of the season. M'gladbach recorded a 2-1 win over Bayer Leverkusen in the round 1 derby and they want to give fans yet another reason for celebration before they kick off their Champions League campaign with a game against Manchester City. Nonetheless, die Fohlen are not regarded as good travellers and we predict that Freiburg are capable of picking up one point from Saturday's football match. A man to watch in the away side will be Raffael, who is eager to open his goal-scoring account.
Highlighted Player (Mensur Mujdza):
Mensur Mujdza is a product of Zagreb's youth school. Mujzda continued playing for the capital club at senior level and he made 136 league appearances for the Whites. In June, 2009 he signed a contract with Freiburg and he has been playing for the Bundesliga outfit ever since. Mujdza became the vice-captain of the team for the 2015/2016 season. He was born on 28 March, 1984 in the capital of Croatia and, as a result, he played for Croatia U20 and U21 teams in the past. Nonetheless, seeing that his family is from Doboj, Bosnia he decided to play for Bosnian national team at senior level. Mujdza made his Bosnia debut against Qatar on 10 August, 2010. He started the match, but he did not score on his debut for the national team. The Bosnia international is a right back, but he is capable of playing as a right winger as well. Mujdza's contract with Freiburg expires on 30 June, 2017.
Highlighted Team (Borussia Monchengl.):
Borussia Monchengladbach is a German football club founded in 1900 in West Germany. The club is currently playing in the highest German football divison: The Bundesliga. The club from Northrine westfalia hosts it's home games in the Borussia-Park stadium. The Borussia Park stadium is one of the biggest stadiums in Germany and holds a capacity of 55 000 spectators.The club colors of Borussia Monchengladbach are black and white. The most known nickname for Borussia Monchengladbach is Die Fohlen which literally means the foals. Borussia Monchengladbach is one of the most succesfull clubs in Germany holding the German title for 5 times. The DFB Pokal 3 times and the UEFA cup 2 times.The are a lot of world class players with a Borussia Monchengladbach history such as: Thorgan Hazard, Effenberg, ter Stegen, BIerhoff, Matthaus, Heynckes, Reus and Elber.


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Licensee Tort Liability and Regulatory Overreachingby Gary D. Bachman, Van Ness, Feldman, Sutcliffe and Curtis, United States,
John J. Buchovecky, Van Ness, Feldman, Sutcliffe and Curtis, United States,
Document Type: Proceeding Paper
Part of: Waterpower '89
Certain of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (FERC) regulations and licensing requirements effectively preempt the states' authority to determine liability. This happens in three ways: (1) by FERC setting regulatory standards that are so stringent as to amount to strict liability; (2) by FERC unnecessarily expanding its sphere of regulation; and (3) by FERC implementing its regulations in a manner which directly conflicts with state tort law. Alleviating this potential for conflict requires greater recognition by FERC of the burden excessively high regulatory standards can place on licensees. In addition, it may be appropriate for states to consider a licensee's compliance with federal regulation to constitute a defense to liability in certain instances.
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HedgeCo News - International hedge fund advisory firm, Rothstein Kass, released a survey report "A Call to Action" on key trends impacting the fund of funds sector. Findings suggest that the hedge fund industry expects intense competition for investment capital as firms work to enhance transparency.
Nearly half of survey respondents indicated that they anticipate increased competition from single-manager vehicles, and over 45 percent expect greater competition from institutional investors replicating fund of funds. As the sector confronts this challenge, 60 percent of fund of funds are providing greater transparency to investors in response to market conditions.
"The growth of the fund of funds sector was propelled by its ability to offer portfolio diversification, superior results consistent with specific risk profiles and to some extent, peace of mind. Though investor resolve was shaken by market events and high-profile incidents of malfeasance, the fund of funds industry was sustained by an institutional investment community that recognized that the fundamental benefits were unchanged by short-term market volatility," said Howard Altman, Co-CEO and Co-Managing Principal of Rothstein Kass.
"As they seek to raise new capital, however, fund of funds managers are finding that institutional investors are placing a greater emphasis on due diligence processes. By continuing to act institutional themselves, fund of funds can provide a window into their operating environment to restore investor confidence and effectively compete with single manager vehicles and fund of funds replication strategies that are more aggressively pursuing institutional assets."
Results were based on online and telephone interviews with 103 fund of fund managers and executives representing a total of 93 companies and 294 funds.
Rothstein Kass commissioned market research firm Infosurv to conduct the research to gain insight into the trends shaping the fund of funds space and the outlook for the future. 34 percent of participants' underlying funds reported assets under management under $50 million, with 36 percent reporting assets under management between $50 and $150 million. 19 percent of survey respondents indicated assets under management between $150 and $500 million, with the balance, 11 percent reporting assets under management over $500 million. Survey participation included but was not limited to Rothstein Kass clients.
Notable findings include:
-- 60 percent of respondents indicated that they are providing increased
transparency in response to market conditions
-- 58 percent of survey participants would consider lowering fees in
exchange for longer investment lock-up periods
-- 34 percent of fund of funds are providing increased liquidity in
response to market conditions
-- 47 percent of respondents suggested that of existing service
providers, they would be most likely to review or change their fund
administrator relationship this year
-- 25 percent of participants indicated that they would be most likely to
review or change their custodian, with 28 percent most likely to
review or change their auditor or legal counsel
"The institutional investment community's trust in the alternative investment sector has not been shattered, but it's fair to say it has been rattled. As they work to thoroughly address the market-driven demand for greater transparency, for many fund of funds, the dynamics of the relationship have changed," said Jeff Kollin, a Director in the Financial Services practice of the Rothstein Kass Business Advisory Services Group. "Fund of fund managers also understand that they will be judged, to a greater extent, on the quality of professional relationships. As a result alignment with reputable third-parties has become a key differentiator in the marketing of these investment vehicles."


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text: RivieraBride15 127 Posted September 8, 2015 So, I have gone back and forth on whether or not to post a "planning thread". Everyone's seems so elaborate compared to what mine would be, but then I feel silly when fellow brides ask to see what I have planned so far and I have nothing. So, I am going for it lol How we met: Yep, at a bar. One of my friends and I had made plans to go and see this singer who was performing for his last time before moving out of town. Little did I know that my friend had met Chris (my now fiancée) previously and had also told him to come out for the night. Chris had been sick and totally didn't feel up to going out but decided to anyways. He walked in that night and I spotted him instantly. I have always had a thing for guys in ball caps and I think that's what caught my attention. Long story short, our friend ended up introducing us and we talked the whole night, to the point I started to lose my voice since I was trying to talk over all the music. We grabbed a bite to eat afterwards and then said our goodbyes…never thinking I would hear from him again. But thanks to facebook, we connected and stayed in touch that way for a while. Two weeks after we met that night, I was heading to Mexico (keep that in mind) with some girlfriends. I was excited to go away, but bumming because I had just met this guy and now I wouldn't be able to see him for a week….the thought killed me. But we made it work…chatted NON-STOP through fb and made plans for me to stop by his house as soon as I got off the plane. And that's how our relationship started. Engagement: Now back to Mexico again. About a year and a half into our relationship, we decided to go to Mexico – to the resort I had gone to with my girlfriends. One of the days that we were sitting out on the beach, a wedding was going on. We looked at each other and just knew…this is what we wanted for our wedding. So, we talked about how we would just have it be the two of us and keep it nice and quiet. But I also made it clear, I still wanted the "asking" to be a surprise. Couple months after coming home from our trip, we booked our wedding day for 10/27/15…seemed so far away at this point. 5 months after we set our date we were vacationing in St. Thomas. We were on the beach, and I was so excited about these huge birds that were dive bombing the water to catch fish, that I didn't even realize he was attempting to ask me to marry him. Once, I figured out what was going on…I ended up crying and saying yes. Even knowing that it was coming, I still ended up in tears with all of the romantic and sweet things he had to say. Our Wedding: When starting to plan, we decided that there were others that we had to have there with us. So we had planned on having about 15 of us. Unfortunately, I lost my younger brother back in February and that changed a whole lot of things. My Dad is not attending, as he says he doesn't have the money, we offered to pay but he refused to take it. My mom is going and she will be walking me down the aisle now…and honestly I couldn't be any more ok with this. My mom and I were at my brother's side until he took his last breathe, and our relationship over these past 6 months has really grown. Others are unable to come for other reasons also, so that leaves us with about 7 total. Chris' brother also passed away about 4 years ago, so we decided to not do a bridal party since we don't have our best men to be there. I made a frame to have at the table up front with their pictures and a little poem, we know they will be with us in spirit. Our wedding is being held at 2pm on the beach followed by a cocktail hour with a Mirachi band. I'm still waiting on the hotel to give me more planning options so we can decide on the rest. 7 weeks from today and I will be Mrs. Minich. I couldn't be any happier about this. The Dress: I went to David's Bridal with a list of destination dresses I wanted to try, but there was this one that I wanted to try on last, because I liked it the most in pictures. I didn't want to fall in love with the first dress without giving other dresses a try. Needless to say, the last dress I tried on was my dress and fit me perfectly, minus needing a hem. I knew I wanted to lose some weight I had gained from losing my brother, so this was now my goal. Back in July, I went f or my first fitting (after losing almost 30lbs) and the dress needed a lot of work. This Sunday I go back for my next fitting, I can't wait to get pictures of it now to compare it to what it looked like when I first bought it. To think I was worried about not having enough to say. I am going to post pictures later when I get home, to go along with some of what I had posted. But at least this is a start…right? Have to say, you ladies have been so helpful with any questions I had…you guys keep me sane! Pics to come soon! 8 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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We left the chapel with our handcart in tow at around 4:00pm on Friday. We pulled the carts about 11 miles the first day. We stopped along the way and watched different scenes from pioneer stories. Just as the sun was setting we reached the place where we had a Women's Pull. The men left us girls and hiked to the top of the hill where the watched us pull our carts up the steepest hill in all of the Moapa Valley!
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International policy-making processes related to biodiversity affect the policy environment in which BioTrade initiatives operate. Guidance is often required by member states on how to effectively incorporate international policies into their national policies, strategies and legal frameworks. On various occasions, the Secretariats and Parties of various international processes call upon the UNCTAD BioTrade Initiative for consultation and further cooperation.
The BioTrade Initiative makes contributions to relevant meetings, participates in expert groups, conducts and collects best practices, and develops joint technical assistance programmes. These efforts provide guidance on using trade as a positive measure for biodiversity conservation and sustainable use.
UNCTAD is the task-manager on trade and environment in the UN system. The BioTrade Initiative provides inputs on trade and biodiversity related issues to the CSD. During the World Summit on Sustainable Development, for example, UNCTAD launched three international (type-II) partnerships in support of BioTrade: the Andean-Amazonian Investor Forum, the Andean BioTrade Programme, and the BioTrade Facilitation Programme.
The BioTrade Initiative seeks to support the implementation of the CBD and works in line with its objectives. It responds to the trade-related aspects of Article 10 on sustainable use, article 11 on incentive measures, Article 15 on access to genetic resources, and Article 8(j) on traditional knowledge.
The Secretariats of the CBD and UNCTAD signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate on the economics of biodiversity. Specific objectives of this cooperation include institutional cooperation, exchange of information and experience, and joint action for conservation and sustainable development.
The experience of the BioTrade Initiative, particularly through the National BioTrade Programmes, is of great relevance to the Parties to the CBD. In particular, the experience on trade as an incentive for the incorporation of conservation and sustainable use criteria into private sector initiatives is being analysed and discussed in light of the CBD objectives. In September 2011, UNCTAD became part of the Heads of Agencies Task Force for the implementation and achievement of the 2020 Aichi Targets. For more information, please click here.
CITES attaches increasing importance to the need of economic incentives to encourage the conservation or sustainable use of wild fauna and flora, as well as to complement the regulatory systems that govern the use of CITES-listed species.
Cooperation between the UNCTAD BioTrade Initiative and the CITES Secretariat aims to address, in an integrated way, biological, social, economic and policy-normative aspects of international trade in wild fauna and flora. Particular attention is paid to the role that economic incentives play in the sustainable resource management. Programmes may be developed that contribute to the sustainable use of commercially exploited species listed in the CITES appendices and to an equitable distribution of benefits among the local communities that have a direct link to these species and their habitats.
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In light of the experience of the UNCTAD BioTrade Initiative, a MoU was signed with Ramsar. One early result of this cooperation is a pilot project on sustainable trade promotion of products and services from wetlands conducted by the National BioTrade Programme of Ecuador.
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The Brown Eyed Girls released their teaser for the Japanese version of Sign in 2010, and now they're back with the full MV.
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The girls will continue their Japanese promotions and they're also set to comeback as a group in Korea this month. Miryo is set to have solo activities this year too.
They've got a lot of things going for them. Are you looking forward to their comeback?


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By Karen Sack, International Ocean Conservation Director, Pew Environment Group
The deep sea is an extreme and unforgiving environment, so it may be surprising to learn that it is home to an estimated 10 million distinct species, rivaling the biodiversity of some of the world's richest tropical rainforests.
This dark region begins around 200 meters (218 yards) below the surface of the ocean, where most light cannot penetrate, and ends at the bottom of the ocean, at an average depth of nearly 4.3 kilometers (2.6 miles). Coral reefs up to 8,500 years in age, sharks and fish unchanged since the age of the dinosaurs, and many organisms that have yet to be documented by science thrive in these depths.
But for all the wonders of the deep, these ecosystems are under serious threat. This is especially true for those that are found in the international waters of the high seas, beyond any country's national jurisdiction. Recent advances in technology, including stronger engines, bigger nets, advanced navigational tools and fish-finding electronics, have enabled fishing vessels to travel further and cast their nets deeper than ever before, scouring the deep sea's undiscovered mountain peaks, canyons and seabed. As a result, fleets roam the high seas of the world's oceans, destroying seascapes that have taken millennia to form in search of a few types of fish to sell at restaurants across Europe, Japan and North America. But deep-sea fishing is expensive, and in many instances, taxpayer money in the form of subsidies props up this industry.
To truly convey what's at stake in these unique deep-sea ecosystems, the Pew Environment Group recently put together a short video featuring many visually-stunning images of deep-sea life, as well as the barren aftermath left by high-seas bottom trawlers that have dragged their heavy nets and weights across the ocean floor. Scientists attest that this fishing method is the single most destructive fishing activity currently occurring on the high seas.
Since 2004, the international community, through the United Nations (U.N.) General Assembly, has called on fishing countries and regional fisheries management organizations (RFMOs) to urgently act to protect deep-sea life. Beginning in 2006, U.N. resolutions that outlined a plan to safeguard this fragile biodiversity passed. Many governments supported an outright moratorium on high-seas bottom trawling, but countries operating deep-sea vessels instead promised to take action to make fisheries more sustainable and protect vulnerable marine ecosystems. Ultimately, they agreed to conduct a formal assessment after a few years to determine how well the resolutions had been implemented.
From September 15-16, the United Nations held a workshop as part of its formal review of deep-sea conservation. It was there that fishing countries and RFMOs highlighted the steps they had taken to comply with the resolutions. At the U.N. meeting, nongovernmental organizations pointed out the significant gaps in the resolutions' implementation, particularly in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. World-renowned scientists also maintained that urgent action was still needed to protect these vulnerable ecosystems. Perhaps, the lone bright spot in the assessment was recognition of the successful adoption of several measures to safeguard one of the harshest ocean areas in the world—Antarctica's Southern Ocean.
Hopefully, the U.N. delegates listened closely to the scientists who made their concerns clear: the cumulative impacts of continued bottom fishing on these incredibly sensitive deep-sea systems are having devastating effects.
The U.N. will meet again on November 11 to decide on next steps and work towards shaping another deep-sea conservation resolution to submit to the General Assembly. In the meantime, the clock is ticking for high-seas fishing countries to fully comply with measures to which they have already agreed. While discussions on how to safeguard these vulnerable marine ecosystems have been going on for nearly ten years, action is needed to protect the deep sea now.
David Braun is director of outreach with the digital and social media team illuminating the National Geographic Society's explorer, science, and education programs.
He edits National Geographic Voices, hosting a global discussion on issues resonating with the Society's mission and major initiatives. Contributors include grantees and Society partners, as well as universities, foundations, interest groups, and individuals dedicated to a sustainable world. More than 50,000 readers have participated in 10,000 conversations.
Braun also directs the Society side of the Fulbright-National Geographic Digital Storytelling Fellowship.


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Florence thought her life was going to get better when she left the orphanage for her family's ancestral home. She would have a younger cousin, James, to play with and her great aunt and uncle could look after her. However, her other cousin and ghost, Sophia, has a murderous plan for her cousin and brother. Not knowing who to turn to in her new surroundings, Florence must try to resist Sophia, but can she? Whether read or listened to, the Ghost of Crutchfield Hall is a great ghost story worthy of any camp fire storytelling.
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Has Anybody Here Seen My Old Friend John Series
Contributed by Thomas Swope on Mar 25, 2012 (message contributor)
Summary: A study of the Gospel of Mark 6: 14 – 20
Mark 6: 14 – 20
Has Anybody Here Seen My Old Friend John
14 Now King Herod heard of Him, for His name had become well known. And he said, "John the Baptist is risen from the dead, and therefore these powers are at work in him." 15 Others said, "It is Elijah." And others said, "It is the Prophet, or like one of the prophets." 16 But when Herod heard, he said, "This is John, whom I beheaded; he has been raised from the dead!" 17 For Herod himself had sent and laid hold of John, and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife; for he had married her. 18 Because John had said to Herod, "It is not lawful for you to have your brother's wife." 19 Therefore Herodias held it against him and wanted to kill him, but she could not; 20 for Herod feared John, knowing that he was a just and holy man, and he protected him. And when he heard him, he did many things, and heard him gladly. 21 Then an opportune day came when Herod on his birthday gave a feast for his nobles, the high officers, and the chief men of Galilee. 22 And when Herodias' daughter herself came in and danced, and pleased Herod and those who sat with him, the king said to the girl, "Ask me whatever you want, and I will give it to you." 23 He also swore to her, "Whatever you ask me, I will give you, up to half my kingdom." 24 So she went out and said to her mother, "What shall I ask?" And she said, "The head of John the Baptist!" 25 Immediately she came in with haste to the king and asked, saying, "I want you to give me at once the head of John the Baptist on a platter." 26 And the king was exceedingly sorry; yet, because of the oaths and because of those who sat with him, he did not want to refuse her. 27 Immediately the king sent an executioner and commanded his head to be brought. And he went and beheaded him in prison, 28 brought his head on a platter, and gave it to the girl; and the girl gave it to her mother. 29 When his disciples heard of it, they came and took away his corpse and laid it in a tomb.
In the Gospels of Matthew and Luke we find their reports on this same situation. So, let us see what they have to say.
Luke 9: 7 – 9, "7 Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was done by Him; and he was perplexed, because it was said by some that John had risen from the dead, 8 and by some that Elijah had appeared, and by others that one of the old prophets had risen again. 9 Herod said, "John I have beheaded, but who is this of whom I hear such things?" So he sought to see Him.
Matthew 14:1-12, "14 At that time Herod the tetrarch heard the report about Jesus 2 and said to his servants, "This is John the Baptist; he is risen from the dead, and therefore these powers are at work in him." 3 For Herod had laid hold of John and bound him, and put him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife. 4 Because John had said to him, "It is not lawful for you to have her." 5 And although he wanted to put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet. 6 But when Herod's birthday was celebrated, the daughter of Herodias danced before them and pleased Herod. 7 Therefore he promised with an oath to give her whatever she might ask. 8 So she, having been prompted by her mother, said, "Give me John the Baptist's head here on a platter." 9 And the king was sorry; nevertheless, because of the oaths and because of those who sat with him, he commanded it to be given to her. 10 So he sent and had John beheaded in prison. 11 And his head was brought on a platter and given to the girl, and she brought it to her mother. 12 Then his disciples came and took away the body and buried it, and went and told Jesus.
By most historians findings the Gospel of Matthew was written before Mark and Luke penned their Gospels. You will notice here that Luke only gives a brief explanation regarding the arrest and execution of John the Baptist. Don't forget he did not know John personally like the others so years after this event he does not give this the attention as Matthew and Peter.
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Islamic thought has experienced much advancement since the time of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him); with the emergence of new schools of thoughts such as the Mu'tazila, the bewildering world of Sufism, etc. At the same time, a Muslim is inclined to ask the question: Was it true advancement? After all, knowledge as it were, was complete with the Holy Qur'an. Why search for more? – The answer is provided by the Qur'an; as Allah says to the Prophet of Islam, "Say: O Lord! Give me more knowledge! (Surah 20)"
The Prophet Muhammad had said, "Seek knowledge even if you must go to China." Hence, the scientists and scholars of Islam left no stone unturned to seek greater knowledge about the heavens and the earth. The ordinary believers who may not spend as much time with knowledge as do the saints, scientists, and scholars; were left to answer the essential question for themselves: Who is more correct – the scientist, the scholar, or the saint? Also in Islam there are various schools of thought teaching dissimilar albeit similar modes of the five daily prayers, e.g. Hanafi, Shafi, etc. To add to the variety of practices from which to choose, the modern-day cosmopolitan youth is confronted by a host of global religions, some of which remind him about truth that is intrinsic to the soul.
Allah says in the Qur'an: "Those who believe and those who are Jews, Christians and Sabeans, [in fact] anyone who believes in God and the Last Day, and acts honorably will receive their earnings from their Lord: no fear will lie upon them nor need they feel saddened" (Surah 2). The Qur'an insists on belief in oneness of God. And so, all saints, scholars and scientists of Islam in addition to the ordinary believers have one belief in common: Belief in One God, Allah Supreme, Lord of the universe. This is the heart of Islam. Belief in Muhammad as the prophet of Islam, and beliefs in the Day of Judgment as well as the unseen world of angels are also essential.


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I would like to share one of the things that always brighten up my day no matter what and Sunday feels like a good day for for brighten up, not only my, but also someone's else day!
Like Mr Billy Joel said once ''I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.''
And I couldn't agree more. So let's share some good music!
Today I heard that Lou Reed passed away... What a better way to honor the memory of a music legend than to remember is work. Live forever Lou!
I just leave this here,