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Studies Reveal Powerful Links Between Economic Development, Technology and Geopolitical Cooperation to Reduce Climate Change
Reuben Kline, PhD
Stony Brook, N.Y., October 17, 2018 –The Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a new report that calls for urgent action on climate change, including an immediate and sharp increase in investment in uncertain but potentially revolutionary technologies such as carbon capture and storage, and increased international cooperation on climate change mitigation. Stony Brook University researchers are also tackling the topic and trying to determine key links between economic development, technology, politics and human decision making in the context of climate change. Their research published in two peer-reviewed journals helps shed light on many of the complex problems addressed in the IPCC report.
Both studies were recently highlighted in the Nature Publishing Group's Research Digest. One study addresses people's willingness to invest in risky but potentially highly effective technologies to mitigate climate change. Details of their findings are published in Nature Climate Change. The second study investigates challenges to international cooperation on climate change. This study is published in Nature Human Behaviour.
In the Nature Climate Change paper, to gauge people's behavior regarding climate change mitigation – something that ultimately affects corporate and governmental decision making regarding the issue – political science researchers at Stony Brook University used an economic game called the "climate change game" as a method to determine people's preferences for certain, but low-yield investments in mitigation or risky but potentially high-yield investments. They discovered that players typically invested in high-risk high-reward technologies if such investment was necessary to mitigate the negative effect of climate change, as the new IPCC report argues is necessary.
The research involved four experiments, some online and some in the laboratory, with nearly 2,000 people from the United States participating. The players, working in 4-person groups, each start with a pot of real money that is their own. As the game starts, there is a built-in 90 percent chance they will lose all of their money, representing climate disaster. But players can choose to spend money to prevent disaster, either through a high-risk, high-reward investment or a no-risk, low-reward investment. The researchers experimentally manipulated the "climate mitigation threshold" – the difficulty of preventing disaster. In the experiments, larger mitigation thresholds meant more money was required to prevent disaster
"We found that by using this economic game most people will invest in high-risk, high-reward technologies to mitigate climate change when other options would not be sufficient for mitigation," summarized Talbot M. Andrews, lead author and a graduate student in the Department of Political Science and member of the Center for Behavioral Political Economy.
In the game setting, commonly used technologies such as wind and solar power created certain but relatively small reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. Yet other not so common technologies, such as carbon sequestration devices, had larger upsides.
These experiments consistently showed that when the mitigation threshold they faced was low, players preferred no-risk, low-reward investment. But when the mitigation threshold they faced was high, players preferred risky investments, even though these investments had the possibility of complete failure.
According to the IPCC report, increased international cooperation is urgently needed if humanity has any chance of avoiding the worst consequences of climate change.
In the Nature Human Behavior paper, an international team of political and behavioral scientists, led by Reuben Kline, PhD, Associate Professor of Political Science at Stony Brook University, developed an experiment to simulate two key features of the global economy—that economic growth results in an increased threat of climate change and that the benefits of growth have not historically been distributed equally. Overall, they discovered that unequal levels of economic development, i.e. a world of 'haves' and 'have-nots,' reduces cooperation to prevent climate change, making a climate disaster more likely.
They used a variation on the climate change game, again with real money at stake, involving participants in the United States and China. The researchers started by allowing players to earn money through simulated economic development – but making clear to players that greater development means greater costs of simulated climate mitigation later. Importantly, during economic development some players were assigned as 'haves' and allowed a long period of development and others as 'have-nots' and given a much shorter period to earn money. The researchers then tracked whether players would voluntarily curb climate change inducing economic growth and/or pay to directly mitigate climate change. Unfortunately, their results showed that differentiation into 'haves' and 'have-nots' hurt the possibility of players working together successfully to prevent disastrous climate change.
"Our main finding was that economic status differences reduced the ability of players to agree and cooperate to prevent climate change. This experimental simulation may help explain why it is difficult to have international agreements between developed and undeveloped countries on policies affecting climate change mitigation," said Professor Kline, also Director of the Center for Behavioral Political Economy. "Even if they agree in principle that more economically developed countries should pay more because they are both more wealthy and more responsible for the problem, merely introducing the idea of differentiating their obligations introduces a point of contention over exactly how to do so and on what basis." A key ethical principle in international negotiations called common but differentiated responsibilities (CDR), recognizes this causal link between historical economic development and the creation of dangerous climate change. CDR calls on wealthy countries—the 'haves'—to "take the lead" in combating climate change. By randomly assigning some individuals to be haves and others to be have-nots, and then comparing them to a control group with equal levels, the researchers were able to test whether participants' decisions were guided by something akin to the CDR principle. Kline and colleagues explain that in the experiment those with high levels and multiple resources were indeed willing to forgo additional wealth to reduce the severity of climate change or prevent it. However, despite the high economic development individuals taking the lead and indeed sacrificing more, when compared to the equal control conditions, the overall effect of inequality on economic development is negative, because have-nots pursue greater economic development opportunities and at the same time are more reluctant to directly pay for preventing climate change.
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Shy, retiring, a bit of a stay-at-home – and most definitely not a party animal. Sound like Big Brother housemate and zany This Morning presenter Alison Hammond to you? No, me neither! But these are the words that the lady herself uses to describe life when she is off-screen.
On-screen it's a different story of course, as no challenge, interview, or daredevil stunt is too mad for the effervescent Brummie. She's carved out her own niche on This Morning alongside Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby, presenting some of the craziest live broadcasts and getting the most natural reactions from Hollywood's normally difficult-to-interview guests. Alison's natural 'take me the way you find me' approach is hard to resist, even for A-listers.
"This is who I am," she explains. "I am a private person in real life but very outward going when I have an audience. I've been living with myself this way now for 43 years so I'm not going to change now." Alison's roots in Birmingham are hugely important – while other famous names from the city have moved away in search of success, she has stayed firmly in the place she loves.
Despite becoming hugely popular with Strictly's audience, Alison is clear about the opportunity that really changed her life. "Big Brother turned my life upside down," she says. She appeared on the show's third series, becoming the second housemate to be evicted. But even so, her personality made a big impression and she went on to appear in a host of TV programmes, including Celebrity Fit Club, Stars In Their Eyes, Ready Steady Cook, Loose Women, I'm a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! and Celebrity Masterchef.
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ProQuest Celebrates Successful completion of Summer of Service
In June of 2009, the Executive Director of the American Library Association (ALA) reached out to the library community asking them to get involved in a national volunteer initiative called the "Summer of Service" that would run from June 22 to September 11, 2009. ProQuest responded by initiating the Library Volunteer Program, which organized volunteer efforts to support Washtenaw County libraries and community groups. Thirty-six volunteers stepped up to help – logging more than 200 hours of service. ProQuest will celebrate the success of the program with a reception on October 8th.
"Helping to build stronger, healthier, and more compassionate communities is part of our business model and the culture of our company," said Elliot Forsyth, senior vice president of human resources for ProQuest. "It has been amazing and gratifying to all of us to see how much ProQuest employees give back to our community, and see the significant positive impact they're making right where we work and live."
The ProQuest Library Volunteer Program included 5 projects, and an Educational Materials Drive benefiting the Ann Arbor District Library, Ypsilanti District Library, and the United Way's Community Action Network. At Ann Arbor District Library, ProQuest staff added tags to the library's catalog, tackling categories of award winning books on the library wish list and also adding tags for material of personal interest to the volunteers. These tags supplement traditional library cataloging, providing alternative, user-generated ways to find library material. In addition, volunteers edited digitized Meeting Minutes for use on the library's website, which hosts Minutes from 1891 through 1930. Volunteers also spent a day at the downtown branch of the Ann Arbor District Library creating an inventory of duplicate titles in the Washtenaw Library for the Blind and Physically Disabled collection of audio books on cassette. The library plans to "weed" (discard) the duplicates. Once the inventory list was created, it was posted to a federal website, where other libraries could view it and request the items for their own collection before they are discarded.
Due to the large number of circulating items during the summer, the Ypsilanti District Library needed some help getting items back on the shelves. After a group training session, volunteers helped to shelve items organize the stacks. Volunteers also helped to dust bookshelves at the library.
In partnership with the United Way and the Ann Arbor Community Action Network (CAN), ProQuest hosted an educational materials donations drive. With ProQuest's help, CAN was able to meet their goal of outfitting 80 low-income K-12 students with school supplies prior to the start of classes. The books collected will be given to children who visit one of the CAN centers to help them build a home library of reading materials and encourage reading as a fun activity. The children's games, puzzles, and craft items went to the Perry Nursery School. The volunteers agreed that the program was as rewarding for them as it was for the recipients of the donated items. Karen Kaltz, ProQuest Editorial Operations Manager and coordinator of the educational materials donations drive, said, "The generosity of the ProQuest family was extremely gratifying and I was very proud to accept the thanks of these organizations for everyone who donated. Thank you very much to everyone who participated in this project. You made a real difference in our community."
ProQuest will celebrate the program's success with a reception on Thursday, October 8 at 3:15 at their Ann Arbor headquarters. Special guests include Ann Arbor District Library Associate Director for IT and Production, Eli Neiburger, and Ypsilanti District Library Community Relations Coordinator, Donna DeButts.
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Chiropractic Patient Writes Book on Experience - I Stand Amazed
There is probably no better advocate for chiropractic care than a patient whose life has been changed by it. Geri Carlson is just such an individual who was so moved by her life changing experience, that she decided to write about it. Her book, "I Stand Amazed: How Chiropractic Saved My Life" chronicles her journey from desperation to amazement.
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Based out of our Yamaha Artist Services Facility in Los Angeles (YASLA), Yamaha Guitars designer & luthier Pat Campolattano is the man behind many of our custom models, as well as the go-to guy for artist modifications.
"YASLA is all about tying together unparalleled Artist support with R&D to make better instruments. It doesn't matter if it's a repair, a modification, or a custom build, we are like on call doctors that will turn it around at a really fast pace. We aren't a production facility, we are just here to provide support to our artists, and to use the knowledge we gain from doing all this work to improve the guitars we develop. Everything here is a one off, and totally custom to the project, so it gets a level of detail and precision that is not very common from a company the size of Yamaha."
The latest of Pat's experiments, custom Revstars built as a research and development project, caused quite a stir at the NAMM show, so we thought this would be great opportunity to get nerdy with some specs and details on these models.
I just like to do interesting combinations to get new sounds, and make the instrument feel really comfortable for the player so when someone picks it up, it feels like they have owned the guitar for years already.
This guitar is something I have always wanted to do, I think Korina sounds amazing, and the amber tinted look is super old school. I really love the '59 Explorer and V styles that were all Korina, so I wanted to have some of that mojo, but add my own twist with all the rosewood/tortoise parts and custom inlays. I decided on a 3 pickup version of the RS502T because people were always chatting about it around the shop and I love the old 3 pickup set necks from the 50's-60's being the most deluxe version you could get, so it has some sort of luxury feel.
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For Sudan refugees, a long hot wait for world action
Secretary of State Powell Thursday called the Darfur situation 'genocide' and urged the UN to take action.
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Past the Arabs meandering over the fields on horseback and the burned huts overrun with vines, across the muddy rivers and beyond the checkpoints with their snoozy officials and signs in French he can't read, Ahmed Abu Bakr wakes up in his makeshift refugee camp and starts another day of waiting.
"Every day I listen," says Ahmed, who walked for four days without stopping when he left his home in Masterie, Sudan, six months ago and headed to neighboring Chad. "I listen to London."
He is talking about the BBC's Arabic language service that he tunes in to every day at 5 a.m., on the small transistor radio he keeps hidden beneath the folds of his long white robe. "They will tell me what the political situation is and when I can go home."
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Across the border in Sudan, dawn is breaking and Amira Mohammad al-Sheikh's baby Omima is quietly reaching for her mother's breast. Mother and child share a mat, together with Samia and Arafa, Omima's sisters. The empty mat adjoining belongs to Omima's father Adam Abdul Rahman, but tonight he is with his other wife and children, in a different part of the camp. Samia and Arafa's father is dead, killed, says their mother, by Arabs who took over their village of Umduek and chased them away eight months ago.
Amira has no breast milk, but she pulls Omima to her anyway. This is the sixth time the 7-month-old has awoken overnight, hungry, to feed, says Amira, and each time it's the same. She will give her crushed biscuits and water later. The muezzin, who lives next door, is calling out for prayer, using a ram's horn as his microphone. In a few moments, Amira will prostrate herself on a mat outside and pray, she says, for good things to come her way.
Of the 1.4 million refugees, 1.2 million like Amira are in about 150 camps for internally displaced people in western Sudan. Some are extensions of existing villages; some have popped out of nowhere. Some contain a few hundred people, others have tens of thousands. Some are established, with mud walls surrounding the straw huts and little garden plots with planted vegetables and some are new, with families crowded under white plastic sheeting. In the bigger ones, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) provide everything from water and food to health services and playgroups for the children. In some of the more remote, inaccessible or small camps, often there is nothing at all: just people crouching on the ground, shooing away the flies.
The latest UN humanitarian situation report said food is being provided to 62 percent of the conflict affected population, that 53 percent had received shelter and nonfood items like pots and blankets, 36 percent had access to clean water. The report further noted that there are about 500 international staff and approximately 3,690 national staff currently working in the Darfur operations.
After eight months in existence, Amira's camp, called Ardamata, in West Darfur, has an air of permanence. Fences made of thorn-tree branches separate neighbor's compounds, and a small market thrives on its outskirts. There is a school put up by UNICEF, a clinic run by the NGO Medair, and afterschool programs and women's groups led by Save the Children-USA, another NGO.
The UN's World Food Program (WFP) was busy last week orchestrating their third food distribution in as many months here: yellow split peas, sorghum, wheat, and vegetable oil - 2,100 calories worth per person per day - all trucked in from a warehouse in nearby Genaina. It's handed out by staff from Save the Children, who check registration cards. Further away, near the Kirinding and el Hujaj camps, where the roads have been washed away by the rains, the WFP drops food from planes to the astonishment of the people below.
While the UN has been instrumental in bringing aid to the refugees, it has only made halting efforts to stop the violence, which Powell said Thursday is ongoing. The UN set Aug. 30 as a deadline to get the Sudanese government to disarm the Janjaweed and bring them to justice, but so far the international community has not levied any sanctions. Thursday, Powell upped the ante.
"The US will propose that the next UN Security Council resolution on Sudan request a UN investigation into all violations of international humanitarian law and human rights law that have occurred in Darfur, with a view to ensuring accountability," he said.
The State Department said in a report released Thursday that the 1,136 interviews by US officials with Darfur refugees revealed a "consistent and widespread pattern of atrocities committed against non-Arab villagers." He said the evidence corroborates the specific intent of perpetrators to destroy a "group in whole or part" - using language from the 1948 genocide text.
Meanwhile, it's time for families of four to collect their food in Ardamata and it's Amira's turn to stand in line. But the sun is scorching and her baby, bundled onto her back, is wailing, so she decides to wait here. Her father Adam goes instead. When his place in line comes, Amira says, he will send word and she will go over with her card and cut the line, even if this means squabbling with others.
The hours pass and there is no word from him. Amira sits on her mat with some neighbors and pulls ticks from her daughter Samia's head. Meanwhile, her other daughter, Arafa, heads off to the Save the Children compound for school and to play with friends.
There are days, she explains, when she and the other women leave the camp to collect grass and wood outside. On four occasions they have been beaten by the Janjaweed out there, she says, demonstrating how the men smacked her on her back, even though Omima was tied there. Nevertheless, they go. She needs the wood to make a fire for cooking, and the grass she sells as animal feed at the local market or in Genaina. On a good day, she might make 100 Sudanese dinars, about 40 cents. She uses it, she says, for household needs - salt and some onions. She is saving up for a new ax.
At 4 p.m., Adam wanders over. The line was too long, and he has been told to return the next day, he says. He will stay with Amira tonight as she gets up to prepare his dinner: porridge. Arafa is home from her playgroup and school now and shows her family her notebook filled with symbols neither adult can understand. "Today was fun," she says. "We played volleyball." Amira and Adam look puzzled and get up to wash their feet and pray.
Back across the border in Chad, to conserve batteries Ahmed only turns his radio on every hour for the top of the news. If the Janjaweed have been defeated, he explains, it will make the top of the program.
"I listen at 4 in the afternoon - maybe I shall be told to go home then," he says. "And then I listen at 5 - that might be the time to go." So far he has heard a lot about Iraq, but the news he is straining for remains allusive. "Perhaps at 6," he says, cheerily. "Perhaps then."
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In the summer of 2012, we created a Garden of Memories at the Chapel of Transfiguration for those who would like to bury their cremains on the grounds of this unique sacred place. Facing the Grand Teton and framed by aspen trees, the Garden of Memories will forever honor those who love this place.
Instead of scattering the ashes, they are buried. The names and dates of the deceased will be inscribed on a plaque mounted on a large stone in the Garden.
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To establish contracts quickly, the Air Force is considering various methods including working with accelerators like the Catalyst Campus for Technology & Innovation in Colorado Springs, Colorado, awarding Small Business Innovative Research funding or forging cooperative agreements known as Other Transaction Authority.
Dreher and Grady did not discuss the type of satellite weather data the Air Force is evaluating. However, presentations at the AMS conference revealed the role Global Navigation Satellite System radio occultation soundings could play in space weather monitoring and forecasting.
In September, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded a total of more than $8 million to GeoOptics, PlanetiQ and Spire to provide GPS radio occultation data from current or planned constellations. In addition to providing atmospheric temperature and moisture data for numerical weather prediction models, radio occultation soundings can reveal ionospheric electron density and energetic particles that can affect space, airborne and ground-based systems.


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The Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies series is a collection of studies on empires in world history and on the societies and cultures which emerged from colonialism. It includes both transnational, comparative and connective studies, and studies which address where particular regions or nations participate in global phenomena. While in the past the series focused on the British Empire and Commonwealth, in its current incarnation there is no imperial system, period of human history or part of the world which lies outside of its compass. While we particularly welcome the first monographs of young researchers, we also seek major studies by more senior scholars, and welcome collections of essays with a strong thematic focus. The series includes work on politics, economics, culture, literature, science, art, medicine, and war. Our aim is to collect the most exciting new scholarship on world history with an imperial theme.
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Kentucky Christian Will Celebrate 100th at Homecoming (Plus News Briefs)
Published on : September 4, 2019
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Kentucky Christian University will celebrate its 100-year anniversary during its Fall Homecoming Sept. 27-29. Friday highlights will include soccer matches, a banquet featuring speaker Ernie Perry, and two performances by 64 to Grayson. On Saturday there will be a tailgate and a football game. And Sunday morning worship is set for 10 a.m. Go to kcc.edu to register.
The school was cofounded in 1919 by J. W. Lusby and J. O. Snodgrass. The cofounder's son, J. Lowell Lusby, served as president for 40 years. His book about the school's founding and history, For the Good of the Cause, is out of print but has been scanned by the Young Library and can be downloaded here. Lowell Lusby's surviving daughters, Nan Lusby Griffith and Sylvia Lusby Giese, will speak at the library at 1 p.m. Friday as part of the weekend's events.
By the way, the Fall Homecoming's theme is also "For the Good of the Cause"; J. W. Lusby inserted that phrase into a classified advertisement seeking a partner in the school venture that was published in Christian Standard on Sept. 7, 1918.
William Jessup University is celebrating its 80th anniversary this school year and its 15th year at its campus in Rocklin, Calif. The university was founded in 1939 as San Jose Bible College with just 14 students. Its name changed in 1989 to San Jose Christian College and in 2004 to William Jessup University—the same year the campus moved to Rocklin. Roseville Today reports enrollment has grown from 436 students in 2004 to 1,745 students today.
First Christian Church of Lamar (Mo.) recently hosted a home-cooked meal for scores of carnival workers in town for the Lamar Free Fair. It's a tradition that goes back more than a decade.
"We want to be good hosts. We want to be hospitable," lead minister Dru Ashwell said in explaining the origins of the meal to local media. "[We thought,] What's one thing we could do to let those who are coming to our town know that they are cared for? So we thought we'd serve a meal."
Milligan College has selected five ministry leaders to serve as the first coaches for its new Ministry Leadership Program.
The leaders—Rick Rusaw, Melissa Sandel, Mike and Jodi Hickerson, and Austin Gohn—will teach courses at Milligan and host students in their ministry contexts. The program is designed to expose students to hands-on ministry experiences and different ministry contexts.
"The ministers selected to launch this part of our ministry program are overflowing with a love for the church and for students," program director Ron Kastens said. "Hearing from people in the midst of ministry—the joys and struggles—will be an immeasurable benefit to all of our students preparing for ministry."
Rusaw, former pastor of LifeBridge Christian Church in Longmont, Colo., now leads the new Spire Network. Sandel is director of ministries with West Side Christian Church in Springfield, Ill. The Hickersons lead Mission Church in Ventura, Calif. Gohn serves as young adult minister at Bellevue Christian Church in Pittsburgh.
Greenford (Ohio) Christian Church will be the site of a memorial honoring veterans of the five branches of the U.S. military—courtesy of a local Eagle Scout project. According to the Salem News, Brogan Fisher will coordinate and engineer the memorial as his Eagle Scout project, which is being funded by a local Elks Lodge. The memorial will have a stone platform surrounding a flagpole and mounted with five plaques representing the military branches.
The Hills Church in Evansville, Ind., will be opening a second campus at Branchville Correctional Facility this weekend. Brian Janiga will serve as campus pastor. "The most important people to us at The Hills Church are those not here yet," lead pastor Patrick Garcia said in the Courier & Press. "We will always leverage our resources, influence, and time to introduce as many people to Jesus in the shortest amount of time."
The Tender Mercies Diaper Ministry at First Christian Church, West Plains, Mo., will be distributing diapers Saturday. The ministry's mission is to "help support families in our community by showing compassion, interest and love through the distribution of diapers to those in need."
Southeast Christian Church's La Grange Campus was the site last week of special training to help people spot victims of human trafficking. WDRB said training was hosted by The Samaritan Women and educated dozens of medical professionals about the signs that someone is a victim of sex trafficking.
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On Monday, June 19th, Sargent Construction Academy started their second season and things are off to a great start. This year, 15 recent high school graduates joined us from around the state of Maine and started work as full time employees at Sargent Corporation. Over the next six weeks, they will learn about OSHA and MSHA, practice proper daily inspection and heavy equipment operation, demonstrate some general surveying techniques, and begin developing underground utility installation skills. They will also complete projects around our maintenance shop, at a nearby nonprofit, and for the training grounds we use behind our classroom. It is exciting to watch them continue to learn and develop skills as they grow professionally and begin careers in the construction industry. WELCOME ABOARD, CLASS OF 2017!


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Films from the Future
The Technology and Morality of Sci-Fi Movies (Westworld Philosophy, for Readers of ColdFusion Presents New Thinking)
By Andrew Maynard
Hard Science Fiction Films that Predict the Future
"As the breakneck advance of technology takes us into a world that is both exciting and menacing, sci-fi films give us an inkling of what is to come, and what we should avoid." —Seth Shostak, senior astronomer at the SETI Institute, and host of Big Picture Science
#1 Best Seller in Nanotechnology and Computers & Technology
Dr. Andrew Maynard, physicist and leading expert on socially responsible development of emerging and converging technologies, examines science fiction movies and brings them to life.
Advances in science and technology are radically changing our world. Films from the Future is an essential guide to navigating a future dominated by complex and powerful new technologies. The jump from room-filling processors to pocket-size super computers is just the beginning. Artificial intelligence, gene manipulation, cloning, and inter-planet travel are all ideas that seemed like fairy tales but a few years ago. And now their possibility is very much here. But are we ready to handle these advances? As Maynard explains, "Viewed in the right way―and with a good dose of critical thinking―science fiction movies can help us think about and prepare for the social consequences of technologies we don't yet have, but that are coming faster than we imagine."
Films from the Future looks at twelve movies that take readers on a journey through the worlds of biological and genetic manipulation, human enhancement, cyber technologies, and nanotechnology. Gain a broader understanding of the complex relationship between science and society. The movies include old and new, and the familiar and unfamiliar, to provide a unique, entertaining, and ultimately transformative take on the power and responsibilities of emerging technologies.
If you have read books such as The Book of Why, The Science of Interstellar, or The Future of Humanity, you will love Films from the Future.
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Future Rising
Analyzing the Future
A Compelling Vision of the Future
"Maynard has written a thoughtful and thought-provoking response to the moment we're in, chronicling how we got here, where we're going, and what role we have in that journey" ―Ramona Pringle, Director of Creative Innovation Studio and Associate Professor, Ryerson University
#1 New Release in Science & Math and Physics of Time
Human beings can―and do―change the future. Humanity has gained the ability not only to imagine the future, but to design and engineer it. At times entertaining, and at others profound, Future Rising provides an original perspective on our relationship with the future.
We have a responsibility to change the future for the better. As a species, we have become talented architects of our future. And yet, we so often struggle to come to terms with what this means. As innovation and rapidly shifting norms and expectations drive our world at breakneck speed, we sometimes need to find a still, quiet place to pause and think. Future Rising sets out to create such a quiet place, where we can take advantage of our species' knowledge of world history, and the importance of science to piece together a positive future.
To create a good future, rediscover the past. Our relationship with the future is inextricably intertwined with where we've come from, who we are, and what we aspire to. Written to be easy to pick up and hard to put down, Future Rising starts at the beginning of all things with the Big Bang and traces a pathway along the emergence of intelligent life, through what makes humans uniquely capable of imagining and creating different futures.
In a series of sixty short reflections, Future Rising will take you on a journey into:
What "the future" actually is
How it molds and guides our lives
How we can use the history of the world to change our future
If you enjoy nonfiction science and history books like Life 3.0, The Future of Humanity, or Superintelligence, then you'll love Future Rising.
A Little Book of Thank Yous
By Addie Johnson
A Thankful Heart is a Happy Heart
Saying "thanks" has no downside. Write it, message it, shout it from the rooftops—it's good for the one who hears it and better for the one who says it.
Discover the power of words and the wonder of kindness. Express gratitude, receive abundance. Saying thanks can improve outlooks, open new vistas, and help us get along better with ourselves and others. Author Addie Johnson offers us gratitude thoughts to grab on the run or to sit with and ponder. She describes thank you messages and moments of soaring gratefulness and sets out to teach herself—and her readers—how to say thank you.
A Little Book of Thank Yous is a small book with a great big heart. We all have things to be grateful for. From Winston Churchill to Barack Obama, from Shakespeare to Virginia Woolf to Meister Eckhart, Johnson draws on people from all walks of life—all of them saying "Thank you."
In this book, discover:
Words of gratitude from historic figures and everyday people
Mini-meditations on being grateful
Thank you letter examples for almost any occasion
Readers of inspirational books like I Really Needed This Today, I've Been Thinking, or The World According to Mister Rogers will love A Little Book of Thank Yous.
Women of Interest
By Alicia Alvrez
Funny and Feminist Trivia
Women of Interest is a humorous compendium of little known facts about the history, fame, fortunes, fashions, and fictions of the female species–enough to impress your mother and your boss, win arguments with your boyfriends and husbands, and generally know more about your fabulous female self.
One of the most fascinating trivia books for women. Did you know that women outnumber men by five to one in shoplifting convictions? Or that researchers at Northwestern University found that men change their minds two to three times more than women? Women of Interest spans history, crosses cultures, ranges from the silly to the salacious to the truly useful and back again. Designed to delight the feminist in you, this outrageously funny book is organized into ten trivia-filled chapters covering all sorts of humorous histories and fun facts. Ideal for trivia games for adults or feminist gifts, now women really can know everything.
Feminist, funny gifts for women. It's time to challenge that know-it-all girlfriend, or grab the ultimate bathroom reader for your feminist BFF. Whether you're searching for feminist books or trivia books, Women of Interest makes a wonderful addition to trivia games and bookshelves alike. Inside, you'll learn that:
Diamonds didn't become a girl's best friend until the thirteenth century. Before that, they were for men only.
Zazel, a woman, was the first human cannonball. She launched into the air through a giant spring inside a cannon.
Marilyn Monroe was the very first Artichoke Queen in the artichoke capital of the world.
If you enjoy comedy books, trivia books for adults, or funny gifts for her─and enjoyed titles such as What If, 399 Games Puzzles & Trivia Challenges, Uncle John's Truth Trivia and the Pursuit of Factiness, The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets, or Thank You for Being a Friend: A Golden Girls Trivia Book─then you'll love Women of Interest.
Your Story, Well Told!
By Corey Rosen
So, You've Got a Story to Sell
"Corey Rosen's book is a great resource. I know I will return to it again and again for ideas, inspiration, and entertainment." ―Samantha Harris, cohost of Dancing with the Stars and Entertainment Tonight and author of Your Healthiest Healthy
Learn how to tell a good story with Your Story, Well Told! Jam-packed with some of the best storytelling strategies, this manual gives creatives the confidence bump they need to make the sale, land the client, propose a toast, or impress their date.
The following is (not) a work of fiction. We've all got stories to tell─but how do you make your story the best story? In Your Story, Well Told! Moth veteran and master teacher, Corey Rosen, inspires you to get on stage and tell your story. Using the best storytelling techniques from improvisational theatre, Rosen designs an accessible guide for all ages and skill levels. Crafted to help ordinary people tell extraordinary stories, this laugh out loud handbook covers everything from how to tell a good story to going off script.
Spontaneous stories to tell. The best storytelling uses improvisation to enthrall, entertain, and keep audiences on edge. Laugh along with tales of performance triumphs (and disasters) and explore ways to tell your story with confidence and spontaneity. From brainstorming and development to performance and memorization techniques, you'll learn how to tell a good story with:
A variety of structures and editing approaches that bring out your best story
Broadly-tested improv exercises to stimulate creativity without feeling foolish
Quick and easy lessons on building stories to tell
Resources for putting on a showcase to tell your story
If you're ready to sell the story straight or enjoyed books like Stories That Stick, Long Story Short, or Storyworthy, then you'll love Your Story, Well Told!
Prayers for New Beginnings
By Becca Anderson
Becca's Prayers
Daily Inspirational Prayers for Self-Reflection and Gratitude
Prayers for New Beginnings is a spiritual guidebook for changing your life featuring meditations, affirmations, prayers, and blessings for each day of the year.
Pray every day. In her latest gem, bestselling author Becca Anderson offers inspirational words for each day of the year to those exploring new horizons or rebooting their directions in life. Undeniably, Prayers for New Beginnings is a must-have for those seeking both guidance and companionship as they move in new, positive directions.
Find a new spiritual way. Having the ability to draw inward and speculate is a fundamental skill if one wishes to grow and achieve an unlimited number of goals. If you are looking for a change in your life or seeking a new path with a vision of starting afresh, Prayers for New Beginnings just might be the perfect book for you.
Join Becca Anderson, a woman's studies scholar and the author of the bestselling The Book of Awesome Women, as she shares daily meditations, affirmations, prayers, and blessings. Anderson draws from a diverse pool of religions, practices, and spiritualties to bring you the perfect message for each day of the year. Anderson helps you use prayer as a powerful instrument in self-reflection and gratitude.
Among the many other benefits of prayer, this book will help you:
Gain clarity into your purpose in life
Maintain hope about the future
Develop a better sense of self
Build mental energy and momentum
Improve your attitude and mindset
If you enjoyed spiritual guidebooks like Live in Grace, Walk in Love, Unshakeable, or Prayers for Difficult Times Women's Edition, then Prayers for New Beginnings will help bring a greater sense of peace, inner peace, and peace of mind.
Hey! It's Your Day
By June Cotner
Affirmations, Quotes, and Proverbs for Positive Thinking
Ready to change your life today? How about this minute? Best-selling anthologist June Cotner returns with Hey, It's Your Day, a life-long collection of her favorite quotes to start the day and delight any friend, relative, or literary aficionado.
Inspiration at your fingertips in minutes. June Cotner has been gathering her favorite quotes for more than two decades. Now, she shares these specially curated words of wisdom to guide readers on their personal journeys of positive thinking. Featuring an eclectic selection of figures like Edward Abbey, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and Oprah Winfrey, this positive thinking book captivates readers with fresh, insightful, and engaging motivational quotes. Inside, they may even discover a new book, mantra, or role model.
For fans of motivational books with a quotable twist. In the tradition of quotation-packed inspirational books from authors like Hoda Kotb, I Really Needed This Today, Hey, It's Your Day understands that daily affirmations, meditation, and positive thinking go a long way. Whether in need of a daily boost or brushing up on quote trivia, open Hey, It's Your Day and find positive affirmations and inspirational quotes in every page. Packed with nearly fifty topics─like love, family, choices, growth, happiness, creativity, and success─you'll find uplifting quotes to start the day like:
"This was love: a string of coincidences that gathered significance and became miracles." ─ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
"Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor." ─ Rumi
"No one likes crying, but tears water our souls." ─ Xue Xinran
If you're looking for graduation gifts, literary gifts, or personal development books─and enjoyed titles like A Year of Positive Thinking, Whatever You Are Be a Good One, or Greatest Inspirational Quotes─then, Hey, It's Your Day is packed with inviting quotes to start the day!
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I don't have any cute photos of my daughter's chubby face smeared with frosting from her first birthday party. Already pregnant with my son, I'd become a child nutrition zealot in response to my double dose of motherhood.
Instead of wrecking a big sugary cake, my bald beauty reduced a naked square of homemade carrot cake to a hill of crumbs. In accordance with her obnoxiously wholesome diet, the kid probably nibbled on some organic barley and kale first. The guests looked perplexed.
My daughter still downs garbanzos by the bowl. But she also helps me bake the snickerdoodles she shares with her classmates as a birthday treat. I've mastered topping my crowd-pleasing cupcakes with chocolate ganache. And after I sneak flaxseed, ground nuts, and spelt flour into our pancake batter, my son adds his favorite ingredient: chocolate chips.
The kids now expect a daily treat, preferably a chocolate one.
But chocolate is "not a food group," as even Hershey's CEO John P. Bilbrey puts it. I asked my daughter, a third-grader, what she thinks.
She agreed with Bilbrey, yet observed that chocolate contains milk. And dairy products are a real food group. Perhaps that gives chocolate an edge over emptier calories, she suggested — casually adding that chocolate pudding is mostly milk.
It turns out that a cup of chocolate chips or chocolate pudding provides the same 30 percent of the calcium a small child needs as a cup of low-fat milk.
Of course, consuming normal portions of those treats gives you a pretty small calcium boost for a lot of extra calories. The pudding yields three and a half times the 100 calories of the milk, while the chips deliver nine times as many.
I'm enough of an amateur nutritionist to know Americans eat too much sugar. So why did I relent?
Partly, it was all that talk about how sitting down together for dinner — or whatever meal they can swing — improves every aspect of a family's well-being.
We try. But my husband works several nights a week, the kids' activities rip holes in our schedule, and when we do get a chance to eat dinner together, it's rarely relaxing.
Dessert is different, especially when chocolate is on the table. No matter how grumpy my kids are before their first sweet bite, it renders them instantly cheerful. A magical family dynamic strikes.
Suddenly, my son's reflecting on what he learned at school about the Jamestown settlers. Or my daughter's talking about something that happened at recess. They stop fighting and start relishing each other's company. They turn back into the best friends I'd hoped they be when they were born less than 16 months apart.
With Valentine's Day coming up, I'm bracing for our sweet equilibrium to derail for a few days. When my children eat too many treats, the sugar rush backfires.
Yet as long as a serving of chocolate a day helps keep my kids on speaking terms with each other and their parents, I'll consider it an honorary food group.


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This past Saturday, November 16th, Louisiana went back to the polls to decide the next Governor. While the jungle primary field was crowded, the general election came down to the incumbent Democrat John Bel Edwards and the Republican, Eddie Rispone. Much like the primary, the general election saw a great deal of spending from many different groups, including national outside groups. In total, $19.2M was spent on the general election, with $10M coming from Republican advertisers and $9.2M from Democratic advertisers.
GOP Advertisers
Like the jungle primary election, there were a multitude of Republican advertisers who spent big through Election Day. Eddie Rispone kept up his spending pace throughout the general election, spending $4.8M in total, with $4.5M on broadcast and $500K on cable. The Rispone Campaign was also active in a coordinated buy with the Republican Party of Louisiana where they spent $731K. Rispone's campaign was bolstered by national outside group spending, too. After the primary election, President Trump's Super PAC, the Make Louisiana Great Again PAC, entered the fray by spending $770K in total. RGA Right Direction PAC, another national outside group, continued their heavy spending from the primary by spending $3.5M in the general, $3.2M of which was spent on broadcast. Truth in Politics, a group that also spent in the primary, spent $48K during the general. Causeway Connections PAC and Louisiana Federation for Children Action Fund were both new advertisers during the general and spent $90K and $116K respectively.
DEM advertisers
Democratic advertisers were active in the general, but there were far fewer than on the Republican team. John Bel Edwards' campaign spent $4.1M total in the general with $3.2M on broadcast and $545K on cable. Like Rispone, Bel Edwards was bolstered by outside group spending. Gumbo PAC, a Pro-Bel Edwards Super PAC, spent $4.6M, $3.8M on broadcast and $800K on cable. The only other Democratic advertiser to spend in the general was Restore Our Coast PAC, which pushed an Anti-Rispone message and spent a total of $417K.
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Madbouly follows-up on updates of establishing Tanzania's Stiegler's Gorge dam - Daily News Egypt
Egypt Madbouly follows-up on updates of establishing Tanzania's Stiegler's Gorge dam
Madbouly follows-up on updates of establishing Tanzania's Stiegler's Gorge dam
Arab Contractors, Sewedy Electric, form alliance which won constructing project deal
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Prime Minister, Minister of Housing, Utilities and Urban Communities Mostafa Madbouly discussed the updates of establishing the project of the Tanzanian dam -Stiegler's Gorge, with representatives of the Arab Contractors – Osman Ahmed Osman & Co, and Sewedy Electric.
The two Egyptian companies form an alliance which won the deal of constructing the Tanzanian massive project.
During the meeting which was held on Friday, Madbouly said that the meeting comes in view of his keenness on following the updates of the project frequently. He stressed that President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi is very interested in the project.
The Tanzanian government has allocated $307m for the construction of the 2,100MW Stiegler's Gorge hydroelectric plant with expected reservoir length of 100km, covering an area of about 1,350 skm, representing more than 40% of the country's proposed fiscal year (FY) 2018-19 budget.
Stiegler's Gorge dam is east Africa's largest hydropower dam, located along the Rufiji river in the heart of one of Africa's largest remaining wild areas – the Selous Game Reserve. The dam is expected to provide power for the country's emerging industries, with plans to export its surplus to other east African countries.
Working on constructions of the dam will be launched on January and is expected to take three years to finalise the constructions, to be inaugurated in 2022.
According to a statement from the cabinet's spokesperson Nader Saad, the representatives of the alliance told the prime minister that they have started surveying and studying the topography of the location of the dam.
They also began establishing the housing area of the employees on the project whose number is expected to reach 5,000. Madbouly stressed the importance of insurance for all employees.
On 12 December, Madbouly, and Tanzanian President John Joseph Magufuli signed the contract to establish the project, with Madbouly representing President Al-Sisi during the signing.
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'Fallen in Love', The Tower of London
Ploy Radford
The story of the rise and fall of Anne Boleyn is one that has been retold countless times. No doubt, because it has all the ingredients for a salacious tale – royalty, romance, betrayal, political machinations and, let us not forget, the seedier mutterings of incest. This notoriety means it is key, though, for an author to find a new angle, so that their rendition of the story stands out.
Philippa Gregory has already famously run with the idea of telling Anne Boleyn's story from the vantage point of her sister Mary. Joanna Carrick and the Red Rose Chain Theatre Company has instead gone with the interplay between Anne and her brother George, with whom Anne was accused of committing incest.
Atmospherically staged in the banqueting suite of the Tower of London, where Boleyn brother and sister met their fate, Fallen in Love allows Anne's history to unfold through interactions between herself and her beloved brother George.
There are no other characters in this play, intimately set on and around a bed surrounded by the small audience. The decision to keep the set simple and focused around the bed – which plays bed, dancefloor and executioner's stage – fantastically highlights the closeted atmosphere of a court life that, particularly for women, revolved around what was done or discussed in the bedchamber.
The constant presence of the bed also kept the audience on edge to see which way Carrick would interpret the rumours that Anne and George had an incestuous relationship (and I won't spoil it for you).
Emma Connell and Scott Ellis inhabited the characters of Anne and George beautifully and really gripped the attention of the audience, showcasing a sensitive acting range that captured the subtleties of Anne and George's relationship.
The script itself is not bad, allowing Anne and George to spark alive occasionally for the audience. Carrick is to be commended for the way she also allows other historical figures to come alive through George and Anne's retellings.
However, it felt like sometimes the scenes didn't change smoothly and the scripting was a bit predictable. There was no new side really to the Anne Boleyn story that emerged and occasionally time that could have been spent building character depth further was sacrificed to get all the historical facts about Anne Boleyn's story out there.
Tudor buffs may be left feeling a little disappointed, but this quaint play is still worth seeing if you love your court intrigues and are a newcomer to Tudor history. Also, the chance to experience the Tower of London after visiting hours is definitely not something to be passed up.
Fallen in Love is being performed on June 8-9, 13-16 at:
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Tickets are available through Red Rose Chain Theatre Company (0844 800 3371) or online.
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After studying a degree in Classics, graduation brought Ploy back to the modern world with a nasty bump. Ploy then decided her future lay in media and now works as a journalist. When not throwing toga parties, she likes to explore London and write. Follow her musings at http://ployradford.wordpress.com/


We mainly use Bicom bioresonance with allergies and all kinds of injuries but also with eye diseases, for example. It is also ideal for offering protection from ticks. For this, we store the therapy information on what is known as a Bicom chip which is then attached to the animal's collar.
Bicom treatment has also proved effective in surgical aftercare. This treatment is also particularly helpful for patients who do not tolerate anesthetic well. The Bicom has a ready-made aftercare program for such cases. It helps animals regain their health quicker and speeds up the healing process.
Last week a dog owner came to my practice with Emma, her two-year-old Basset hound. The dog was suffering from a severely inflamed eye. Her eyes were discharging, swollen and encrusted. The inner eyelid was protruding and very red. This was obviously caused by severe itching as the animal scratched continually. You could tell by looking at her what a poor state of health she was in. I learned that Emma had had problems with her eyes from birth due to her droopy eyelids, a factor which is probably characteristic of the breed.
The owner explained that she had already tried all the usual conventional medical drugs such as cortisone preparations and antibiotics, for example. Since she herself was a naturopath, she had also tried every possible homeopathic remedy. Unfortunately, nothing had helped.
Then she heard about bioresonance from colleagues and came to my practice. I examined Emma and then treated her with various Bicom programs. These included "wound healing", "allergy therapy for unknown allergens", "conjunctivitis", "elimination of scar interference" and "toxin elimination".
We even wondered whether the scheduled second session was still necessary but decided to treat the animal once more.
It was lovely to see how Emma's behavior had also changed. She had stopped scratching her eye, was lively and happy and had begun playing again.
Beaming, the owner handed back the eye drops I had given her after the first session for use in an emergency with the words: "I didn't need these!" She was very enthusiastic and told everyone in the waiting room her story.
I can heartily recommend this form of therapy to colleagues. It was a good decision to integrate the Bicom device into my practice.
It obviously offers far better opportunities for helping patients than conventional medicine and it is a healthier form of therapy without any harmful factors for my patients.


Van Gia – Cua Van is situated at Hung Thang Commune, Halong City, 20km away from the tourist boat wharf, the fishing village lies in a calm bay surrounded by mountain. Cua Van Village has a population of 733 in 176 households. They mainly earn their livelihood by fishing.
There are 4 fishing villages in the World Heritage site: Ba Hang, Cua Van, Vong Vieng and Cap La with a total of 287 households and 1,283 people of which Cua Van is the largest. This is a habitat that has maintained both a tangible and intangible marine culture.
Visiting the village, tourists have a chance to experience the villagers' daily life as well as the traditional culture and customs of the fishermen, who live in the World Heritage Area of Halong Bay.
The village boasts a training establishment for their children. Over an area of 150m2 lies four classrooms and one small room for teachers. They are the first floating classrooms in H? Long. At present, Cua Van has 7 classes, mainly in grade 1 and grade 2. The youngest pupil is 8, while the oldest one is 17.


Ann Linnea has written this month's Circle Tale, which shares the success stories of two women who participated in circles organized by Catherine Place in Tacoma, Washington last fall.
Sometimes a good idea turns out even better than you expect. That is the sentiment of Judy Mladineo, associate director of Catherine Place, when she reflects on the success of the WE-CAN Women's Circles. Catherine Place, founded by the Tacoma Dominican Community in 2000, is located in the heart of Tacoma, Washington. Its goal is to provide an oasis for women from all walks of life. In the fall of 2008, with funding from the Tacoma Fund for Women and Girls (under the auspices of the Tacoma Community Foundation), Catherine Place organized the facilitation of WE-CAN circles for women living in "stress or poverty."
Women were selected for the project by social service providers as having enough stability in their lives to show up for seven consecutive weeks and a desire to move beyond their current circumstances. WE-CAN Circles were an experiment for both the Fund for Women and Girls, and Catherine Place. The Fund wanted to know: How many women would enroll in schooling as a result of the investment of the grant? Catherine Place wanted to know: How would the circle experience provide peer support as a foundation for making a sustained shift from their current circumstances toward enough stability to encourage education? The project was professionally evaluated and by the time the circles ended, one-fourth to one-third of the women had taken steps towards more education - whether enrollment in college, high school GED program, English as a Second Language, food handler's license, or other.
At the project's beginning, Christina Baldwin and I offered two days of circle host training for sixteen women leaders from agencies ranging from Goodwill and the YWCA to the Tacoma Urban League and several transitional housing programs. The newly trained hosts finished their training and carried their Women's Circle Starter Kits to the circles arranged by their respective agencies.
"Even with women who were slightly more stable financially, the biggest barrier to education is low self-esteem, the sense within a woman that she's not capable of learning, or that she doesn't have the right to better herself. The circle began to serve as an esteem builder with a dozen outside voices pouring confidence into one another," Mladineo reported.
The success of one of these circles was reported in the Tacoma News Tribune on May 31, 2009 in an article by Debbie Cafazzo.