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Nissan says new fashions in key markets to be electrified by early 2030s By Reuters
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TOKYO (Reuters) – Nissan (OTC 🙂 Motor Co said Wednesday that all "new vehicle offerings" in key markets would be electrified in the early 2030s as part of the Japanese automaker's efforts to be carbon neutral by 2050.
The company, which aims to cover markets in Japan, China, the US and Europe, will pursue battery innovations, including solid-state batteries, for electric vehicles (EVs) and further develop its e-POWER hybrid technology to achieve higher energy efficiency.
"We are determined to help create a climate neutral society and accelerate global efforts against climate change," said Makoto Uchida, Nissan chief executive officer.
Nissan's plans stem from global automakers switching from diesel vehicles to electric and hybrid models, while Japan plans to halt sales of new gasoline-powered vehicles by the mid-2030s and switch to electric vehicles such as hybrids and fuel cell vehicles.
The country set up a "Green Growth Strategy" last year, which includes the goal of replacing new gasoline-powered vehicles with electric vehicles by the mid-2030s in order to achieve the climate-neutral target for 2050.
Japan, where renewables accounted for 18% of the country's electricity mix in March 2020, is in the process of reviewing its energy policy.
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Clarity is the first step in developing your purpose-driven (and profitable) business. When you are clear on What you want, Why you want it, and what Impact you hope to create, you not only set the stage for your business goals but also for some very important life goals as well.
It is the job of the leader to foster Clarity, even though overall success of the business is a team effort. Clarity lays the foundation upon which the rest of your business is built. When you have clarity, everyone with the company understands the "Why" behind everything they do in the business. And when people are convinced of their purpose, they have a better understanding as to where to best focus their efforts.
One of the challenges with smaller companies is that clarity is not always so easy to come by, especially during the early stages of a start-up company. It's amazing how many startups fail simply because they forgot to cover all of the bases during the planning stage. Key areas like marketing/sales, business development, staffing, skills shortage, and funding should be part of your business plan from the start. If you're always chasing down the next best thing and running with it — without validating that it's aligned with your strategic plan — you'll end up feeling unfulfilled and unaccomplished. You will also waste a lot of time which may lead to some form of regret later on. This is why having clarity that you gain through carefully defined goals is key to making the best decisions for your business.
The concept of business clarity can be elusive to grasp. Many business owners and executives spend more time working "In" their business rather than working "On" it, leaving them stuck in their daily routines and challenged to break free. Think about the "noise" that we are exposed to on a regular basis: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, emails, random meetings, etc. — all with experts and other business owners telling you what you should and shouldn't be doing.
Aside from helping you and your team become better aligned and reach new heights, Clarity provides a number of essential benefits to your business as well. Here are four examples of how Clarity will have a positive impact on your business.
Clarity helps to reduce conflict and stress while improving efficiency. We can all benefit from being less stressed about doing our jobs. Having precisely defined goals leads to more productivity from your entire team by clearly laying out the expectation of their role. When there are more issues that arise than resources to handle those issues, conflict arises which causes stress, and requires intervention (management) to resolve. Organizational Clarity provides the basis of a self-governing process that reduces conflict (prioritizing the work by its contribution to the company's goal/objective) and the need for management is lessened. In this way, Clarity empowers individuals while saving time and reducing stress.
Clarity makes it easier to find and retain the right people. People are the backbone of any organization. Whether it's hiring the right people for the job or determining the right partner for a project, having the right people in place is more important to the success of your business than another good idea. The easier and more clearly you are able to articulate what you want and where you want to go, the more powerful your appeal as an employer and/or partner. People who share the same values and purpose will be attracted to your company and are more likely to remain when their individual contributions are acknowledged as well.
Clarity provides direction and focus. Clarity acts as a compass, pointing you and your team in the direction you ought to go. You don't want to waste time spinning your wheels or exploring options because the path is clear, your goals and objectives are clear and your team knows how to best support you.
Clarity sets the way for easier and better decisions. Good decisions are made by following a clearly defined process or framework. Making great decisions is difficult if the objective of a particular department or role is unclear. Great decisions are a function of how clear the objective is. Lack of clarity leaves room for too many options which can lead to wasted time and resources with no real way to determine which option(s) delivers the most value for the business or its clients.
Defining what you want your business to look like in the future is not easy. It forces you to reflect and to start to define what's most important. Once you take the time to clearly define your vision or goal your actions will be measured against it.
Most business owners are too busy working in their business to tackle such a project. When taking on a challenge like this, my recommendation is always to start with a few simple steps. Begin with one goal such as customer service. A simple example: so many businesses say they offer "Excellent" customer service. Any business can say it but what exactly does that mean to you? What does it look like? How is it measured? Excellent is an adjective used to describe something being near perfect but it is still very vague or unclear. How do you strive for something if there is no clearly defined method or goal. Your first task then, becomes to put some words (and processes) to your definition of "Excellent" and what you want your customers to be saying about your company after they have done business with you. Test your "Excellent" definition with a potential or real life client and then share it with your company in effort to increase the horsepower of the organization. Your team can then work toward the specific definition you have given to the term Excellent. Not only will they value Clarity, they will help you figure out the best ways to deliver on your definition of Excellent customer service.
Clarity can come to your business in many ways. The key to achieving clarity is to make a concerted effort to clearly define what it looks like for your business. If you manage to foster a culture of clarity inside of your organization, you'll see fewer problems, better execution, and happier, more productive teams. If you'd like to discuss strategies to achieve clarity for your business, Contact me to set up a no obligation, Business Strategy Session.


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Rooster Bean entered into eternal rest this morning. It was his time, and Papa couldn't take him, and I volunteered. Before we left for the vet, I gave Rooster half a valium and I took a Xanax. The vet was really compassionate, and despite the fact that I was wearing my old plaid pajama bottoms and a sweatshirt, he only looked at me funny when I asked if we should administer last rites.
"Is Rooster Catholic?" he asked.
So then I asked Rooster if he had anything to confess, and Rooster looked at me pitifully and admitted that he used to take Hyacinth's bone just to yank her chain, and that when I wasn't home, he used to sit on my newly upholstered couch where the sun shone in the picture window.
I told him he was forgiven and then said a little prayer, and the kindly vet gave him a sedative, and when the sedative had taken effect, I left to get a cup of coffee, and when I returned Rooster was sealed up in makeshift cardboard coffin with his squeaky ball and his John Deere blanket. Then I took him home and buried him in the hole that Papa had dug on Tuesday. He's out in the backyard behind the old oak tree and the garage, and I put a pot of pansies on his grave.
Rooster was born in a chicken coop with a passel of other puppies, and as the story goes, Papa looked at Rooster and thought that there was something about him that needed taking care of, so Papa picked him up and took him home and told him that he would always take care of him.
Rooster was born with only one brain cell, which we named Ping. Ping helped to keep Rooster very focused. Rooster's first priority was always the ball. It was Rooster's duty to see that the ball got its exercise, and your arm might be about to fall off and Rooster might be one step away from utter exhaustion, but that ball was gonna get its exercise. When we finally had enough, we would try to hide the ball somewhere like the top of the refrigerator and then Rooster would go bark at the refrigerator for hours.
Sometimes we wondered if Ping didn't just wonder off somewhere for happy hour and leave Rooster on autopilot. In the early years when Papa first moved to Maison Bean, we used to make margaritas and invent stories about Ping's secret life…. In 2006, when Bode Miller bombed in the Olympics, it was because Ping jumped on Bode and went on a bender.
Rooster's second order of duty was to keep the neighborhood safe from elephants, and to that end, he was always willing to get in a car and go on patrol. As a puppy that even meant with people he didn't know very well… the mailman, the UPS man, Jehovah's witnesses…. At the time, Papa lived in the country—we're talking the sticks… in a dry county in rural Alabama—and Rooster would just hop in the car and they wouldn't even notice that he was in the car until they'd got halfway down that long country road and then they'd have to turn around and take Rooster back to Papa's house.
And then Papa got a divorce and moved to Maison Bean with Rooster and a mutt called Little Man (who was later reunited with his mother), so it was Hyacinth and me with Papa and his two dogs, and you know, I never did see an elephant in the neighborhood after they moved in.
Rooster was very sensitive. Most people thought he was nervous, but he was actually busy sensing things. He sensed fire, hurricanes, seismic activity, and on one occasion, a refrigerator motor that was overheating because some little miscreant had left the door ajar. We have a gas oven, and you couldn't turn it on without that dog having an attack of nerves. One year there was a hurricane out in the Atlantic and then an earthquake in the Southeast, and Rooster was such a wreck that Papa had to put him on valium.
Rooster was a very particular little dog. He liked to be in the sunshine, and if he wasn't in the sunshine, he was wearing a sweater (he had an extensive wardrobe) or burrowed deep in a pile of blankets. He was like a cat, kind of finicky, about what he ate—Papa said he just had excellent table manners. He loved chasing squirrels, but it was all just for show—the squirrels just ran up the trees and laughed and kept reproducing. And Rooster liked to chase Moose because Moose never let go of the ball so it was the next best thing.
Rooster lived a very good life. He was happy and he was loved and he will be missed. And we know that while our hearts our heavy, he is in a very special place where the sun shines all the time and butterflies dance about and birds sing and Rooster's very own guardian angel sits throwing a ball.
Losing a pet is always so hard, even if it is their time. My condolences to your family.
I'll miss hearing about Rooster Bean! Great to read his obit and see that he had a wonderful life!!
That was an awesome memorial you wrote – really, truly. I smiled at his sweet life all the way through, and yet shed a tear for the empty little space he'll leave behind.
so sorry. rooster sounds like he was a spirited little guy.
A great euolgy Jen! He's in better place. It's always hard losing a family pet. ………. Please pass a tissue……..
Did I love that dog? Let's just say I had to give up on tissues and start using paper towels.
Rooster was quite the character – I heard Papa say one day when he thought no one was listening "G-Dammit Rooster, do you have to go in EVERY yard?" Too funny. He was damn fast too – he'd zip inside our house if we happened to leave the door ajar for a neighborly chat with Papa. At least he never left a surprise for us. 🙂 Sorry for the Beans.
Maia, yea, I always try to get him to go in Betty's yard–where I would do the ole fake pick-up trick –till I saw her standing in the window with a gun one morning.
My friend Bill from Alabama had a terrier follow his wife home one day. After putting a notice in the paper and on radio without response they adopted him and call him Scooter…the name lives on.
I'm so sorry you had to say goodbye to Rooster. He sounds like one of those dogs that legends are made of.
RIP Rooster. *Hugs* to all the Beans.


Are you a product manager or owner, analytics leader, or data scientist facing these types of design challenges with your decision support software?
Low adoption or user engagement?
Low or no perceivable value / ROI despite significant engineering and data science investment?
Complaints about usability and simplicity?
Sales difficulties (the service doesn't sell itself)?
If these feel like your challenges, you may have design and user experience (UX) issues that go beyond the realm of UI design and data visualization.
Analytics, AI, ML, cloud, IOT, data lakes–the buzz words are endless.
Users don't care about your tech.
Designing good decision support software requires more than data viz & dashboards.
My name is Brian O'Neill, and I am on a mission to help product managers of SAAS data products and internal analytics leaders use design to maximize the value of their data. While analytics technology evolves rapidly—yesterday it was "big data," and now it's machine learning, neural nets, and AI—poor design and user experience makes this technology useless, lowering user engagement, hindering sales, and impeding digital transformation. Good design can address problems across the "entire stack:" customers, users, employees, and the business itself.
In early 2015, Apptopia.com–a marketplace for mobile companies to buy and sell their apps–was looking for a second business opportunity to monetize the mounds of mobile app data they had collected: the actual download and revenue data from thousands of real apps across Google Play and iTunes. Apptopia knew that this data could be turned into a useful competitive intelligence analytics product for app publishers, advertisers, SDK companies, and investors that would provide a less expensive and better offering than the leading competitor, App Annie. However, they needed help turning all this data into a useful, usable, well-designed analytics product capable of becoming a successful subscription-based SAAS platform.
Instead of just showing users random tables and charts of time series data and "data visualizations" that don't actually solve customer problems, Apptopia hired me to help them design a service that would allow app publishers and investors to answer real business questions prevalent in the app publishing world. Using my discovery process and a lot of dry-erase markers, we sketched out a product roadmap, including an MVP, and several follow-on features that would best satisfy the set of user goals, tasks, and business problems that we had uncovered.
And then I designed and helped them launch the MVP reflecting their new pivot to app intelligence.
When the new product launched in June 2015, it had no revenue. However, according to Apptopia CEO Eliran Sapir in a recent TechCrunch article, "within 60 days [of launch], we were at $30,000 MRR. Within 120 days, we were at $70,000 MRR." By 2018, they made the Inc. 5000 with three-year growth of 363%and 2017 revenue of $2.8M.
Apptopia's customers include Facebook, Localytics, Verizon, Google, Pinterest, NBC Universal, Philips, Deloitte, Chartboost, and SendGrid and its data has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, CNN and Barrons.
"I wasn't sure what to expect not having worked with a product designer before, but when Brian came on board, he helped us significantly accelerate our design efforts and meet our major enterprise clients' expectations and deadlines. We have gotten a lot of mileage out of his work, and we've received good responses from our customers. I can't recommend him enough.
"I wondered at first whether Brian's relative lack of experience in the patent/IP space would work with our team in the creation of a product like Legion, especially given the conservative, security-oriented corporate culture of Elysium. By the end, I realized just how much we needed Brian's approach, influence, and outside presence/energy to design a successful patent analysis tool. Brian made us think through the entire Legion product experience, and through this process, we learned to improve our own design skills. Today, our litigation consultants continue to use Legion regularly with clients. It has probably reduced collaboration overhead by 50% (which our clients love!) and allows consultants and clients to come together, using Legion's data and analytics, to build shared understandings of patented inventions quickly.
"When you're bringing on a consultant, there is always a level of uncertainty about results, and there's nothing worse than ending up with solutions that aren't feasible, workable, or usable at the end of the process. While Brian's processes differed from what I was used to, and I didn't always want to get into the level of requirements detail that he felt was necessary, the bottom line is that Brian brings a very high floor in terms of end results. Given how many different responsibilities I am juggling at any given time, it was extremely comforting to know that my goals for the [new Apptopia analytics] product would always be met, and that my bottom line was so high. I've recommended Brian to my peers because the worst possible end result they will get from him is so much higher than what most designers can provide at their best.
"Brian's questioning of our business and user objectives for a new video analytics SAAS–prior to any discussion of design solutions–was a bit unusual for me. In fact, I've rarely met anyone with a process like his. That said, by the time we started negotiating with Brian, we had already decided to work with him. One of the key capabilities Brian brought to the table was the ability to help us distinguish between "vanity" analytics and "actionable" analytics, so that our service's data was always presented in a way to help users actually make better business decisions. In the end, the prospects to whom we showed Brian's designs were wowed by the extremely clean and elegant presentation of our video analytics, and we got excellent feedback that this design was much better than the existing, highly established players in this space. At that point, we knew our main business challenge would be sales access, and not product quality. If I needed to develop a design strategy for another analytics product or service in the future, I wouldn't hesitate to call Brian first.
"Until Brian came in to help us, nobody could see a strategic direction, or if they did they lacked the ability to articulate it in an actionable way. This discovery and planning absolutely needed to happen and it's been great. It's nice to have a plan we can get behind and finally feel like we're on the same train as the leadership team. Execution will be more satisfying because we're going to have a better sense of what stakeholders need to see and how that relates to what we get to work on.
"Initially, the FMC had no prior exposure to Brian's design work, but in the end, the design strategy that he formulated with us enabled us to design a stunning data portal that exceeded our expectations. Timely delivery and transparent communication also helped us to manage expectations and plan well. Brian really felt like a thought partner for what we were trying to do, and I recommend his design services without reservation.


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Берёзовка — посёлок в Новохопёрском районе Воронежской области России.

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Постановлением Воронежской областной думы от 18 ноября 2004 года № 1028-III-ОД посёлок совхоза «Елань-Коленовский» переименован в посёлок Березовка.

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 В поселке имеется Муниципальное казенное общеобразовательное учреждение «Березовская основная общеобразовательная школа».

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It is Time for New York to Split in Two
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The people of upstate New York have had enough of New York City setting their policies for them. The farmers and small business owners of the Finger Lakes, Hudson Valley, Adirondacks, Western New York, the Capital District, the North Country, and the Southern Tier have little to nothing in common with their fellow citizens in New York City and its suburbs. The vast voter population of New York City negates any access to self-determination by New Yorkers outside the city limits. For years the New York State Senate, controlled by Republicans, has been a buttress against the worst inclinations of the NYC Democrats, but no. At The American Conservative Gerard T. Mundy explains how the recent election has changed all that, and upstate New Yorkers' way of life is now at risk. He writes (abridged):
With New York State increasingly divided between its dominant urban progressives and everyone else, is it time for it to split in two?
Following the results of November's elections in New York, the Empire State will be run in its totality by Democratic elected officials. Voters made this so by rejecting enough Republicans and GOP-aligned Democrats to flip the New York State Senate, which has been controlled by Republicans for every year since World War II except three. In the new senate, Democrats will hold their largest majority since 1912.
Up until now, the senate has served as a bastion of resistance to the state's elected Democrats, who are increasingly dominated by far-left progressives from New York City.
New York City mayor and proud progressive Bill de Blasio said of the state senate's turn: "It's a whole new ballgame.
Come January, with a New York City-dominated Democratic Party in control of all statewide offices (governor, assembly, senate, attorney general, and comptroller), the needs of the state's other voters, particularly those from rural areas, as well as political moderates and conservatives, may be forgotten.
Also telling, the significantly far-left Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), which has held status as more of a fringe-type group rather than a seriously influential one, has even gained considerable influence in New York City this year.
The representation issue is not likely to improve, as far upstate communities continue to lose residents while New York City, and some of its most immediate suburban counties, gain residents.
All of these issues show that the minority population of the state will increasingly be tyrannized politically by the majority population.
What is a long-term solution to the divides?
As a result of the practical legal difficulties, the topic of the secession of a state's territory and the creation of a new state is so often seen as being too difficult to be a practical option. Secession of territory from one state in order to form a new state is, indeed, not simple.
On the federal level, article IV, section 3 of the Constitution requires the consent of the concerned legislatures as well as of Congress.
At this critical juncture in American political history, the creation of new states in the current territory of New York demands a serious discussion.
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A few months back, I headed through to Harvey Nichols to celebrate the opening of the new Marc Jacobs counter, and very kindly, I was sent home clutching a bag of goodies – inside of which was the Velvet Noir Major Volume Mascara. Promising 'ultimate volume' and a false lash effect, this is a mascara for when you want lashes for days. Inspired by evenings watching his mother apply her make up, Marc Jacobs take on the stuff is a real classic. With a big fluffy brush, which grabs each and every lash, this pumps up lashes, and leaves them blacker than black. The formula is a touch wet – so I like to give the brush a little wipe prior to applying, but it gives lashes an unbelievable boost, and it leaves any makeup feeling 100 times more glamorous. The wear-time is also impressive. No matter whether I've worn this to meetings, to the gym, or simply just out and about, once this mascara is on, it isn't going anywhere. There is no smudging or flaking at all. I'd just recommend that you've got a good makeup remover on hand. Being so pigmented, it can be a bit of an ordeal to remove, but it's nothing that a good oil or makeup remover can't handle!


Increase the scratch space (available, writable space) of X: on your X/Y USBstick, post-build (i.e. on a completed WIM). This script does not use DISM.EXE which has limit of 512MB, and is a totally different script than the previous DISM-WINB Scratchspace. This requires using GimageX to mount the completed WIM. It will modify the Registry in your WIM file (likely you would use the one at Y:\sources\boot.wim -- once your build is running, you can modify the WIM it booted from). Once modified, you Capture to a new, second WIM with a different name. Some error checking is done.
1) Helps you run Installers that insist on using the boot drive (with no option to change).
2) Some large trial apps leave registry entries that won't let you reinstall them after the first expiration date.
3) Many fail to install because of insufficient temporary space on the installation drive.
4) I like to use Winbuilder as a test 'machine' for new apps that I don't yet trust on my 'good machines'.
5) If you ever infect your build, just make another copy by running the final stage, CopyToUSB-Device.
In Winbuilder, changes, installs, modifications, and additions you make on X: and in the registry ARE NOT saved and disappear at next reboot. However, changing the scratch space to your BOOT.WIM file is permanent. This script will modify the same WIM you booted from (unless you change it). I strongly suggest keeping a copy of your original BOOT.WIM just in case.
Scratch space gets set to 1024 MB (1GB); it is not recommended you to go any higher. If the host machine has little RAM, you don't want to run this. (Although consider using Multi-WIM by 2aCD to accommodate several WIM choices). I use this on 8GB machines.
I now have X: 954MB (2.439MB used, 951MB free) and the rest of a 16GB USBstick is for Y: with a RAMdisk B: of 3GB.
Based on forum notes at reboot.pro from Joakim from 2009 about using a registry hack to get 1024 MB Winbuilder scratch space, and, M.Greene's website about modifying the Registry in WIM files.
This is for Win7PESE. Win10PESE uses a different FBWF system, and lacks the specific key, WinPECacheThreshold.


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Music education programs are available at some of the top-ranked universities in the country, including Columbia University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Johns Hopkins University. Both undergraduate and graduate degrees in music education are available at high-quality educational institutions. The programs offered by at least one of the schools include music teacher certification as part of the curriculum, ensuring that graduates are qualified to find employment as educators.
The schools that offer the best music education programs in the country have received high rankings from U.S. News & World Report.
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Columbia University's music education program draws its education coursework from the Teachers College, which was ranked tied for the 7th- best graduate education program by U.S. News & World Report in 2019. The program offers graduate degrees, such as the Master of Arts in Music Education, Master of Education in Music Education, and Doctor of Education in Music Education.
Special programs at Columbia University include an early childhood music education concentration. Columbia has a number of performing arts groups, including the Columbia Musical Theater Society.
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The University of Wisconsin-Madison was named as being tied for the 3rd-best graduate education program in 2019, as well as tied for the 15th-best fine arts program in 2016 by U.S. News & World Report.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison offers several undergraduate and graduate degree programs, including the Bachelor of Music, Master of Science in Curriculum and Instruction, Master of Music, and Doctor of Philosophy in Curriculum and Instruction, which offer concentrations in music education. Music education programs offered at this university can prepare students for music teacher certification, and coursework is taken from the School of Music and School of Education. An audition is required for admission to the music education program, located in the School of Music; students are expected to have at least one performance area in addition to their early childhood and adolescent music education training.
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U.S. News & World Report ranked Johns Hopkins University as tied for the 7th-best graduate education program in 2019. The university offers three study options to meet the needs of students with a variety of backgrounds.
The undergraduate music education program is meant to prepare students to teach in public schools, while the graduate program is meant for current music educators who want to further their education. The school's unique certification program is typically for students with a music performance degree that want to become licensed teachers in the field. The school boasts that nearly all graduates secure teaching positions, and students are often qualified to teach in over 35 reciprocal states.
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Northwestern University Evanston, IL Has relationships with 60 Chicago area schools for practical experiences. The university also is ranked 10th for best graduate education school by U.S. News & World Report
University of Colorado Boulder, CO In addition to courses such as music theory, conducting, and music education, students focus on studying and performing with their own major instrument.
University of Kansas Lawrence, KS Offers student organizations that include a chapter of the National Association for Music Education. At this university, students can also participate in the Collegiate Music Educators National Conference.
Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN The Blair School of Music works with the university's top-ranked Peabody College of Education to offer a 5-year Bachelor of Music/Master of Music Education degree
Some of the top schools in the nation, including Columbia, Johns Hopkins, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, offer undergraduate and/or graduate degree programs in music education to interested students. The programs at these schools vary in the resources, opportunities, and hands-on learning that they offer students.
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On average Hartlepool United score 0 goals and concede 0 goals per match. 0% of this Hartlepool United's matches end with both teams scoring and their average total goals per match is 0.
• Hartlepool United has scored a total of 0 goals this season.
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WINTER SPRINGS, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35) - During the height of Hurricane Irma, a man was driving a van through a Winter Springs apartment complex when the earth opened up.
David Glenn drove from Sanford to the Astor Park apartment complex to help his girlfriend and her small child prepare for the storm. He made it to the complex without any problem and turned into the parking lot. That's when things got scary.
"I turn to go to her section, and all of a sudden, the road collapsed," said Glenn. "I had to pull on the rails with my hand. That is how ended up cutting my hand. I was able to get myself positioned behind the wheel well and continuously punched the window, until it popped out. I was able to get out."
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Kucoin Exchange is one of the best bitcoin and cryptocurrency exchanges to lookout for. With over 170 projects listed on the exchange and over 350 trading pairs within their first year, the CEO Michael Gan, will be telling us in this interview, what the future holds for Kucoin Exchange.
Hello, my name is Michael Gan, and I am the CEO and co-founder of the KuCoin Exchange, also known as "The People's Exchange." I was among the first batch of users of NetEase's free personal site hosting service in 1998. In 2009, while at university, I became the main developer and co-founder of Missyi Inc., an image sharing and editing app, and later I was a technical expert for Alibaba Group's Ant Financial.
During my time at university, I also became very interested in Bitcoin mining and blockchain technology. That is when my focus shifted to the crypto-world. While I continued with university and my entrepreneurial goals, I was becoming more and more focused on blockchain technology, which eventually led to creating KuCoin.
KuCoin is a cryptocurrency exchange based in Singapore. We have listed over 170 projects with over 350 trading pairs within our first year. We also have over five million registered users to date. KuCoin has some programs unique to our exchange, as well. Some of which reward user-loyalty based on KuCoin's cryptocurrency, KCS(KuCoin Shares). Finally, KuCoin offers one of the largest selections of NEO trading pairs.
3) What are the unique programs of the KuCoin Exchange and other services provided by KuCoin?
We have multiple programs unique to KuCoin. Some were recently released, and we have more coming in the future months. One of our most recently started programs is our Global Titan Ambassador Program. This program was set up to help us acquire new partnerships and help our exchange grow and benefit our users. The main aim of this program is to help us continue finding the best blockchain technology projects and 'hidden gems' of the crypto-world by teaming up with influencers and professionals in the entire industry. I will elaborate more on this later.
One of the most popular programs unique to KuCoin users is the Referral Bonus Program. For each person you refer to KuCoin, as long as they enter your referral code when they signup, you will receive a percentage of all of their trading fees for one year. Then, for anyone that you referred, you will receive more bonus for anyone that they refer to the exchange and so on.
Another popular program which rewards user-loyalty is our KuCoin Bonus Program, which was recently updated when users voted for a change. Based on KCS (KuCoin Shares) holdings, with a minimum of six KCS, users receive a daily bonus. Under our recently updated system, we will use 50% of all trading fees earned by KuCoin to buy KCS from the market and then redistribute the KCS back to users. In addition to the daily bonus for holding KCS, users also receive discounted trading fees depending on the amount they hold.
Something else we recently started was our Global Communities Program. As "The People's Exchange," we are deeply concerned about our user experience, which led to the development of this program. We have started developing global communities that respect and adapt to the individual needs and requirements for specific user groups. Currently, we have active communities in English, Chinese, Russian, Italian, Vietnamese, Turkish and Spanish. While this program is still new, it has been widely accepted, and I hope to have a total of 10 communities up and running by Q2 of next year.
One more aspect of KuCoin is that KYC (Know Your Customer) personal information submission is not mandatory, but as of November 1st users that have not completed KYC will be restricted to withdrawals of 2BTC or less every 24 hours. We are one of only a few centralized exchanges that don't require KYC.
Lastly, we are always trying to come up with new competitions, giveaways and ideas to keep our users happy and involved. Earlier this year we gave away a Tesla Model S with Car Vertical, as an example. Also, we recently had our one-year anniversary, which involved seven different competitions, trading discounts, and giveaways. Then, we followed this with our second Vote for Your Coin action on Telegram. All of these events were very successful, and our team is continually coming up with new ideas like this for our users.
4) From what we could see on your platform, KuCoin has experienced amazing progress since its launch, would you like to share your story with us and how KuCoin began?
Yes, I would. Some of my friends and I had become interested in cryptocurrency and mining from the early stages of Bitcoin while still in university. We were and still are firm believers in the uses of blockchain technology and the idea of decentralization.
Over the years, as cryptocurrencies became more popular, we were spending most of our free time thinking of ways to help blockchain technology become mainstream, and by early 2011 we started our in-depth research on blockchain technology. As we continued our research and our knowledge about blockchain technology grew, we started flirting with the idea of creating a user-friendly exchange platform where we would offer all people easy access to up and coming crypto projects.
Through my friends and acquaintances, we built a team of people that shared the same passion for blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies in 2012, and most importantly we all had the necessary skills and trusted each other. By 2013, we had successfully built KuCoin's technical architecture. Once we had this dependable technical architecture in place, we knew that our team was ready to engage in the cryptocurrency exchange business confidently in 2017. Then, as our platform came together and was getting closer to the launch date, we noticed the amount of ICOs that started in mid-2017 and how many were failing or were outright scams. At this point, we knew we had something better that would offer real value to users.
That is when we decided our exchange would be 'The People's Exchange.' We would use our platform to find the best projects available and the 'hidden gems' of the crypto-world for our users. We launched in September 2017, and I believe that this is the reason we passed our expected two-year growth expectations in the first four months.
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Вентейль в «Поисках»
Вентейль — композитор, чьи сочинения произвели «большое впечатление на самых передовых композиторов», и одновременно, безвестный провинциальный преподаватель музыки (обучал фортепиано сестёр бабушки Рассказчика в Комбре). В год знакомства с Одеттой Шарль Сван был очарован «короткой фразой» из сонаты Вентейля (Анданте сонаты Фа диез мажор для фортепиано и скрипки), однако не допускал и мысли, что её автор — тот самый преподаватель музыки по фамилии Вентейль, которого он встречал в Комбре. На восклицание г-жи Вердюрен «Может быть, это он и есть!», Сван со смехом отвечал: «О нет! Если бы вы только взглянули на него, вы бы не задали мне такого вопроса… Может быть, это его родственник. Печально, конечно, хотя, впрочем, может же гений доводиться двоюродным братом старому дураку».

Безутешный вдовец, получивший наследство и поселившийся вместе с дочерью в усадьбе Монжувен неподалёку от Комбре, Вентейль был строг по отношению ко всем другим, но дочери позволял делать всё, что она хочет, и даже унижать себя, в особенности, после того, как в их доме поселилась её старшая подруга. В семье Рассказчика знали, что он «что у него одна-единственная цель в жизни: счастье дочери, что он проводит все дни на могиле жены, — нетрудно было догадаться, что он вскоре умрёт от горя и что до него не могут не доходить толки. Он знал, что говорят, и, может быть, даже верил слухам… Но то, что Вентейль, может статься, был осведомлён о поведении дочери, не мешало ему по-прежнему боготворить её». Через несколько лет Вентейль умер, и юный Рассказчик оказался невольным свидетелем того, как, будучи в трауре по отцу, его дочь вместе со своей подругой-любовницей надругалась над его памятью.

Спустя годы после смерти Вентейля уже взрослый Рассказчик отмечает растущую славу композитора, связанную с исполнением его сочинений у Вердюренов: «Салон Вердюренов называли Храмом Музыки… Утверждали, что Вентейль именно там находит источник вдохновения и поддержку. Соната Вентейля была всё ещё совершенно не понята и почти никому не известна, но о нём самом говорили как о величайшем композиторе современности, и его имя было окружено ореолом славы. Среди молодых людей из Сен-Жерменского предместья, пришедших к убеждению, что они должны быть не менее образованны, чем буржуа, трое учились музыке, и вот они считали сонату Вентейля верхом совершенства». На одном из музыкальных вечеров у Вердюренов был исполнен Септет Вентейля. Присутствовавший на вечере Рассказчик сообщает, что композитор, по слухам, «оставил после себя только Сонату, а всё остальное было записано им на клочках и не поддавалось прочтению». Но затем поясняет: «Нет, всё-таки поддалось благодаря усидчивости, уму и благоговению перед покойным композитором единственного человека, который довольно долго общался с Вентейлем, изучил его приемы и мог догадаться, чего он добивается от оркестра: я имею в виду подругу мадмуазель Вентейль… Подругу мадмуазель Вентейль порой мучила мысль, что, может быть, она ускорила кончину музыканта. Но, в течение нескольких лет разбирая закорючки Вентейля, устанавливая единственно верное прочтение его загадочных иероглифов, она, омрачившая последние годы жизни композитора, могла утешить себя тем, что зато он обязан ей неувядаемой своею славой».

Музыка Вентейля и её прообразы
В текстах «Поисков» музыкальные произведения Вентейля подробно описываются в восприятии Шарля Свана, Рассказчика и некоторых других персонажей. Фрагменты Сонаты и Септета Вентейля, переложенные Прустом на язык литературных образов, вызывали неоднократные вопросы о прообразах этих музыкальных сочинений. В переписке писателя даются некоторые ответы на эти вопросы, в частности, в письме Марселя Пруста — Рюбо Газалу: «Анданте сонаты для фортепиано и скрипки Вентейля — это сложный синтез на основе пастиччо из многих композиторов, таких, как Вагнер, Франк, Шуберт и Форе. В то же время, правда и то, что я признался в 1918 году Жаку де Лакретелю, что "короткая фраза" из Сонаты Вентейля на самом деле "очаровательная, но, в конечном счёте, посредственная фраза из скрипичной сонаты Сен-Санса, музыканта, которого я не люблю"». Музыковед Александр Майкапар, пытаясь уточнить «ингредиенты этого пастиччо», высказывает предположение, что «тремоло, с которого начинается "короткая музыкальная фраза" — "из-под зыбей выдержанных скрипичных тремоло, трепетный покров которых простирался над ней двумя октавами выше…" — было навеяно вступлением к "Лоэнгрину" Вагнера», а также указывает на «Балладу для фортепиано с оркестром (1881) Габриэля Форе. В её первой части — Andante cantabile — медленно выплывает мягкая изменчивая фраза, по характеру очень похожая на ту, которую описывает здесь Пруст. И, наконец, привлекает внимание явный акцент Пруста на "водную стихию" описываемой музыки (впечатление Свана о впервые услышанном произведении)… Это позволило увидеть в этой музыке в качестве её прообраза "Море" Дебюсси (три симфонических эскиза)». Высказывалось предположение, что одним из прообразов сонаты Вентейля является скрипичная соната Сезара Франка.

В качестве прообраза Септета Вентейля Майкапар указывает на фортепианный Квинтет С. Франка. Говоря о тематике септета Вентейля, Андре Моруа отмечает, что в нём, как и в «необъятной симфонии» Пруста, «сталкиваются две темы: разрушительного Времени и спасительного Воспоминания». По словам Моруа, Вентейль — «это художник, каким Пруст хотел бы быть сам, и каким, по существу, был, расточая черта за чертой, мазок за мазком, неведомые краски бесценной вселенной. Зов Септета для Рассказчика — это доказательство существования чего-то иного, способного осуществиться через искусство, нежели пустота, которую он нашёл в удовольствиях и в любви».

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Filmmaker Ian Shive explores America's threatened marine national monuments in 'Hidden Pacific'
By Andrew Dubbins
1. A drone's-eye view of Palmyra Atoll National Wildlife Refuge; 2. Beneath the waves at the Rose Atoll Marine National Monument; 3. Sooty terns flock on Wilkes Island; 4. A brown boobie roosts on Wake Atoll;
West L.A. conservation photographer Ian Shive had just gotten back from filming three remote marine national monuments in the middle of the Pacific when he found out the Trump administration was considering shrinking and loosening protections on two of them.
"We're the only ones who know what's out there," Shive told his staff of the monuments they'd just explored. "So it's our job to share that with people."
What's out there are pristine atolls, turquoise waters, sharks, rays, whales, colonies of albatross, old World War II huts, coral reefs, and white sandy islands covered in palm trees.
"When you think of paradise," Shive says, "this is the place you think of."
An award-winning photographer and film producer, Shive was commissioned by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to document America's five marine national monuments, home to a diverse array of marine life that help support ocean ecosystems across the planet. Later this year, he'll release a feature-length documentary called "Hidden Pacific."
"Hidden Pacific" documents the Palmyra Atoll, 1,200 miles southwest of Honolulu; the Wake Atoll, 2,000 miles southeast of Japan; and the Rose Atoll, 185 miles east of American Samoa. Before Shive and his crew arrived, the 16-acre Rose Atoll had never been professionally photographed, and only about 700 people are believed to have set foot there throughout human history. Other than the Wake Atoll, which houses a U.S. Air Force base, none of the atolls have permanent residents, and typically researchers are the only visitors.
"Scientifically, these areas are considered a baseline of the most pristine marine environments in the Pacific," Shive says.
Following President Trump's recent proclamations to shrink Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments in Utah, "this conversation is especially pertinent," said Alice Garrett of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
The Trump administration is considering a plan to allow commercial fishing in two Pacific marine monuments: the Rose Atoll and Pacific Remote Islands, both of which provide refuge to a number of endangered and threatened species.
5. Masked boobies on Wake Atoll; 6. Coral thrives in the Palmyra Atoll National Wildlife Refuge; 7. Wreckage of a World War II aircraft on Palmyra Atoll; 8. The pristine shoreline of Palmyra Atoll; 9. A coconut crab on Palmyra Atoll; 10. Sting rays patrol the Palmyra Atoll
For Shive, documenting far-flung islands, atolls, and underwater ecosystems — where there's no hotel or power outlet for a thousand miles — proved a difficult task. To prepare for the trip, he had to get his pilot's license, earn a certificate for flying drones, learn CPR and first aid, and undergo two days of medical exams. The six-month shoot involved daylong boat rides on choppy seas and long-distance flights on cramped, single-engine planes. To reach shallower islands, his crew had to load their 400 pounds of high-tech equipment into waterproof cases and swim it to shore from a zodiac — "which is nerve-wracking," Shive recalls.
Shive's company, Culver City-based Tandem Stills and Motion, specializes in films that document "land, air and sea," utilizing high-tech drones and underwater cameras. In addition to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Shive has created films for the Nature Conservancy, Sierra Club, National Park Conservation Association, National Park Service and U.S. National Wildlife Refuge System.
Before becoming a professional photographer, Shive worked as a marketing executive for Sony, promoting big-budget projects like the Spiderman franchise. He'd spend weekends traveling to national parks, backpacking and taking photographs, and eventually quit his job and emptied his savings to launch Tandem Films out of his West L.A. apartment, selling his photographs to newspapers and magazines before transitioning into film production.
Although "Hidden Pacific" touches on ocean pollution and climate change, Shive says he avoided pushing an agenda.
"I try to be less fear-based, more inspirational," he says, adding that his goal is really to transport people's imaginations to the marine monuments, which few realize belong to the U.S. and most people will never visit.
There are plans to show "Hidden Pacific" on IMAX screens in 150 museums nationwide.
For his next gig, Shive is traveling to Alaska to document the state's most remote islands.
But first, a jaw x-ray.
"They won't let you go if you need an extraction," Shive says.
Visit tandem.film to learn more about "Hidden Pacific" and related web shorts.
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The Project 2030 Proposal
A simple, sweeping proposal to decisively solve systemic global issues with an entirely new social contract and complementary currency, built on distributed ledger technology (blockchain)
Michael Haupt
Aug 26, 2017 · Unlisted
Project 2030: Merging social innovation with tech innovation.
The Global Shift
Our world has undergone a significant shift over the last 50 years — from predictability and simplicity to VUCA: Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous. Despite these sweeping and rapid changes, our systems of governance, economics, health and education are centuries old and beginning to show signs of systemic failure.
Solutions offered have been few and — even if possible — none have been politically viable or adequate. A real solution must be bold and extraordinary. It must be global rather than national, while being able to cater for nuanced differences in local communities. It must be feasible, resilient, sustainable and evolvable. It must include effective feedback loops. It must captivate the attention through great emotional appeal, and allow for the expression of the full range of human emotion. Project 2030 is that solution.
The planet's current social contract (simplistically: how we engage with each other and with institutions) is built on outdated, inflexible ideologies and systems, and is slowly collapsing. Groups of experts from business, government and academia are currently assessing the opportunities for distributed ledgers (commonly referred to as blockchain) to be used within government and the private sector. However, none of these experts question the validity of the underlying social contract itself. Blockchain experts want to transform governance and business. Our ambition is to transcend centuries old governance and business principles to an entirely new operating system for humanity, one that works for everyone.
We will achieve this grand plan in 3 steps.
Step 1: We will bring together the most visionary social activists and developers of emerging technology in one place for a week-long celebration of humanity's ingenuity. We believe that no single movement has the answer to our global challenges. Instead we believe that the answer lies in a process, a journey. The inspiring vision and shared journey of creating a new social contract is the mechanism by which we will unite humanity. We're calling the event the First Annual Global Reboot Humanity Symposium, to culminate on 02/02/2020.
Step 2: We will build an incredible, beautiful, elegant governance platform and complementary/crypto currency that supports a meaningful income for all. Both the platform and the currency will support an entirely new social contract which is just and fair to people and planet.
Emerging Tech + Complementary Currency + New Social Contract = Systemic Solution
Step 3: We will educate those who are interested on how the new social contract works. We will jointly define a distinctive, innovative philosophy, which will be disseminated by a dynamic ambient knowledge system able to educate everyone on demand. The education campaign will be patient and persistent. The new social contract will include true equality of opportunity for everyone, without biases whether religious, sexual, or racial.
Longer term, and after we have proven the validity of the new social contract, we will build entirely new city-states to house thriving local communities of people who share consensually derived values. These city-states will be designed from the outset to regenerate people, planet and place.
We have identified the partnerships required to do this and have developed a viable, credible plan. We have an income stream that will fund Phase 1 and solutions for funding of Phase 2 and Phase 3 will emerge as we progress.
You've been invited to read this proposal because you are a Key Person of Influence. We need your help to kickstart a systemic solution.
A systemic problem requires a systemic solution.
Sufficient research exists to establish that the current human operating system is beyond repair. A system reset is required. The reset must be triggered from outside the existing system.
System resets have occurred in the past. The most recent occurred in the 1970s, architected by Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek. A system reset is a complex undertaking, which starts with an alignment between societal demands, emerging technologies and visionary leaders. That alignment is happening now.
Our world in 2017 is in a similar situation as the world was during The Great Horse Manure Crisis of 1894. The crisis then was solved not by policy makers, but by technology, thanks to Gottlieb Daimler and Henry Ford. Policy makers and activists are generally ignorant of emerging technologies, and the same is true today.
Exponential change is now pervading the planet, due to the all-encompassing effects of accelerating computer power. Exponential change looks linear until its explosive, final stage. We are entering that stage now.
More than 70 social engineers and 60 activist groups who want to fix global challenges have been identified. Over 35 relevant emerging technologies have been identified.
The two sectors of social innovation and tech innovation have never before collaborated with a view to rebooting humanity's operating system.
Project 2030 marries social innovation with technological innovation to facilitate a system reboot.
What Others Say About a System Reboot
"We challenge the deadly notion that nothing can be done — disputing that capitalism as we know it is the best and the only possible option." — Gar Alperovitz and Gus Speth, co-chairs of the Next System Project.
"Successfully ushering in the next system will depend on binding the diverse actors into powerful, federated strategies to effectively press for broader system change." — Michael T. Lewis, Executive Director, Canadian Centre for Community Renewal.
"Centralized, authoritarian systems of control — whether in the economy or in politics — must be challenged and overcome by genuine forms of democracy." — John Restakis, Executive director of Community Evolution Foundation
"We must develop a political economy in which decision-making powers and knowledge formation are dispersed both functionally and geographically among different actors, rather than concentrated within particular groups." — Andrew Cumbers, Professor of regional political economy at the University of Glasgow
"We must drive systemic changes so deeply that our planet emerges with a new system of political economy, one programmed to routinely deliver good results for people, place, and planet." — Gus Speth, Co-chair of The Next System Project
"The fundamental failure of the present system is that economic success is measured strictly according to monetary indicators, such as the Gross Domestic Product for countries, or financial profit for businesses." — Christian Felber and Gus Hagelberg, The Economy for the Common Good
"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell." — Edward Abbey, author
"Blockchain is a foundational technology: It has the potential to create new foundations for our economic and social systems," — Marco Iansiti, the David Sarnoff Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and Karim R. Lakhani, the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration and the Dorothy and Michael Hintze Fellow at Harvard Business School
"The blockchain is a technology for fair play in a globalized world." — Vinay Gupta, Founder, Hexayurt Capital
"We are searching for a path that will lead us beyond our current unsustainable economic system." — John Fullerton, Founder and President of Capital Institute
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The future will be decentralized | Charles Hoskinson | TEDxBermuda | 13:35
Rethinking Capitalism with the Blockchain | Kary Bheemaiah | TEDxIHEParis | 17:54
The journey to Project 2030 started almost 50 years ago.
In my early twenties, skeptical of all I was being told about how the world really worked, I committed to autodidactism: a life-long journey of self-education. The process really took off in mid-2004 with an unplanned two-and-a-half year sabbatical through south-east Asia.
What I learned about the human condition broke my heart. It seemed to me that the world is entirely beyond repair and no effort to fix it would ever succeed. In 2005 I self-published my first book — thankfully under a pen-name — an angry account of all society's faults. After a year or two I realised even Herculean efforts cannot change the tide of 'progress.'
The unplanned birth of my daughter in 2014 — at roughly the same time I was ousted by co-founders of the company I helped build — created mental and emotional panic. How could I bring a child into a world I knew was broken? How would I educate her when education systems globally exist merely to ensure conformity to a broken political and economic system? My mental and financial state was so bad that I regularly considered voluntarily removing myself from the planet.
At my lowest point of despair, and with the gentle but firm insistence of my personal coach and a vertical learning expert, I started writing Postcards from 2035 in June 2017. The tenet of the book is that every one of the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals can be solved with a new social contract, managed by emerging technology.
Instead of completing the book before publishing, each chapter was released online as they were completed. The decision to release each chapter publicly could turn out to be the best decision I've ever made, since it ignited conversations and formed friendships with people I would never have dreamed of meeting. Two of those people are Jonathan Kolber, author of A Celebration Society and his wife, Jennifer.
Jonathan's Story
In 2004, I accepted the position of Editor of an investment advisory focused on breakthrough tech companies. In the years that followed, I noticed a pattern. Technologies were emerging capable of remaking the world. However, those same technologies were preparing a wave of automation that would result in permanent unemployment for many millions, and perhaps billions, of people.
After leaving the Editorship in 2008, I focused on writings capable of addressing technological unemployment. I delved into Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, since it seemed to be the only book that all schools of economics revere. In it, I discovered little known views and insights of Smith, including that government debts and deficits are ordinarily not a problem, and his prediction that capitalism would lead us to a world of "universal opulence."
I edited the book, New Money for a New World, which defines complementary "currencies of abundance" and how they can solve major, seemingly intractable problems.
But that wasn't enough. I realized that we actually need a societal reboot. From 2012–2015, I researched and then wrote — with essential help from my wife Jennifer — A Celebration Society. It offers an evidence-based scaffolding and proposal for achieving a society of sustainable technological abundance.
The 2017 Eclipse Watershed
Down through the ages, many who have experienced a total solar eclipse have called it a watershed event in their lives. The 2017 US eclipse was no different for Jonathan (who was there in person) and Michael (who was there in spirit). Both of us were in awe that — volumetrically — 64 million moons can fit inside the sun. Despite it's size, when it's perfectly aligned, the moon can turn day into night — as well as inspire millions around the world. Little things, when fully aligned, can have a major impact.
The profound alignment of the work of many social activists — albeit from different angles — as well as the emergence of new technologies that can help solve global challenges is happening right now. However, most initiatives operate in silo's. What is needed is a global initiative that weaves together the threads of each individual solution to create a rich tapestry of new possibilities. Project 2030 is that initiative.
How We Will Generate Income
The long term vision of Project 2030 includes an entirely new currency which incentivises regenerative rather than extractive behaviour. You can read more about our unique revenue model here and our Universal Abundance Income here. In the short term, however, there is a need to cover the not-insignificant expenses required to make Phase 1 a reality.
Our short term revenue roadmap is focussed on the 1st Reboot Humanity Symposium, to be held in a luxury, private, tented safari in South Africa. The Symposium is an exclusive gathering of 500 of the world's social and tech innovators for a week of deliberation and decision-making, culminating in the birthing of a new social contract on 02/02/2020. The entire event will be live-streamed to the public and the public will be exposed to true participative democracy by being able to influence the policies debated.
The lead-up to the Symposium will include the largest online marketing and education campaign ever attempted, in which we plan to inform and educate at least 1bn individuals on the need for a new social contract. During the campaign we will generate a minimum of $325m revenue, through crowdfunding and the sale of digital products. Financing for the project will be transparent and anyone will be able to see how the funds are generated and used.
The safari operator, location and dates have been secured. The marketing team has been identified, with tentative agreement provided, subject to negotiation of details.
Similar gatherings of national leaders to steer humanity's future already occur. However, there are several key differences between the Symposium and existing policy gatherings:
It is unlikely that government officials will attend, since we intend transcending government rather than transforming it;
Few religious leaders will attend;
All sessions will be live-streamed for the public;
Citizens of every nation will actively participate in development of the agenda and topics for discussion and debate;
Proceedings will be an extravagant celebration, rather than dry policy deliberations. Since our envisioned society will emphasize fun, so too will this event — and the other events to follow.
Who We Will Collaborate With
We intend operating the Symposium under the banner of The Next System Project, an "established, multi-year initiative aimed at thinking boldly about what is required to deal with the systemic challenges the United States faces now and in coming decades." Project 2030 will simply extend their initiative to a global focus.
We have already identified over 300 supportive individuals and groups active in new economics, ecology, technology, culture design, societal reform, systems thinking, peak performance, consciousness and movement building. These and many more will be invited to the Symposium.
Our Hopes for the Future
1. Blockchain-Driven Distributed Direct Democracy
The Internet irreversibly changed society. Right now, a new technology is emerging that could have a greater impact on society than even the Internet did: blockchains and more specifically distributed ledgers. It is early days and the industry has many lessons to learn, but the vision of a blockchain-driven society is supported by many. Bettina Warburg explains why in this 15-minute TED talk:
Bettina Warburg, Public Foresight Strategist at the Institute for the Future, explains how blockchain will help humanity evolve.
Designing a social contract built on blockchain (Distributed Direct Democracy) — which removes mistake-prone, corruptible middlemen — is a required first step to solving today's Grand Challenges.
Ultimately we envision a world in which all governance and economies are powered by distributed ledgers. A built-in societal and individual feedback loop will measure the extent of celebration and quality-of-life measurements, which are our indicators of societal success. Central to this vision is a private Human Unique Identifier, or as Michael calls it, the Whole Person Index.
2. Celebration Societies
With a workable Distributed Direct Democracy platform built, we envision existing societies choosing to become Celebration Societies, as envisioned in A Celebration Society.
We hope that this decision will be driven by excitement rather than desperation. However, if existing societies fail to address the looming mega-crisis of technological unemployment, we intend to show them a viable alternative.
3. Circular Celebration Cities
Like the founder of The Venus Project, Jacques Fresco, we believe that it would be far easier and would require less energy to build new, efficient cities than to attempt to update and solve the problems of the old ones. We believe that the present state and aims of architecture need to be redefined, as envisioned to fit the evolving needs of individuals in a Celebration Society. We consider the architecture of a circular city to be most appropriate and we envision building the first of these cities, using 3D printing, hemp, bamboo, and other advanced construction materials and techniques, by 2030. A location for the initial community has already been identified.
4. A Peaceful World
We firmly believe that total world peace is achievable, however not under the current social contract. Project 2030 lays the groundwork for a world at peace.
Historically, most wars have been fought over resource shortages. In an attainable world of effectively unlimited material abundance — based on provable supplies of clean energy, cleanly extracted and recycled raw materials, and software, which we call the "Three Pillars of Abundance" — we can provide for everyone's basic needs through automation, with most luxuries soon to follow.
Even the catastrophe of WWII might have been averted, had a little-known experiment in two towns in Germany and Austria been allowed to flourish.
Meet the team, see our revenue model or find out what makes this project different. If you're skeptical, good — it means you're thinking critically. Our Frequently Asked Questions may allay some of your skepticism.
An audaciously bold, sweeping plan to decisively eradicate poverty, hunger, disease and inequality. Read the proposal for smart, self-organised, decentralised peer-to-peer societies.
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