An Arizona judge has recommended that utility regulators scrap the state's current retail-rate net metering policy for rooftop solar customers, and instead credit customers based on short-term valuation methods. The order is part of the Arizona Corporation Commission's value-of-solar proceeding that seeks to end protracted policy battles over distributed solar in the state.
For two years, regulators have delayed acting on contentious proposals to raise solar rates filed by Arizona Public Service, Tucson Electric Power and UNS Electric until the overarching value-of-solar (VOS) docket comes to a close. The next round of comments in the proceeding were initially due on October 31, but were extended last week to November 15. Arizona regulators are scheduled to vote on the docket in December -- but discussions still may not end there.
Under the current rules, customers with rooftop solar receive are credited for excess energy they produce and export to the grid at the retail rate for electricity. Customers can bank or carry over credits month to month.
Compensation for rooftop solar should reflect the actual value of DG, Jibilian wrote. Valuation, including the environmental costs and benefits of DG, should be based on an avoided-cost methodology. However, she determined that quantifying the societal and economic development benefits of DG in an avoided-cost forecast would be "speculative and inappropriate for ratemaking purposes." The cost of utility-scale solar provides a reasonable proxy for DG solar because it diminishes concerns for the inclusion of externalities like societal and environmental factors, she wrote. Also, long-term forecasts should not be used due to the risk of speculation.
As alternatives, Jibilian supported two rate proposals put forward by regulatory staff. The first proposal, the Resource Comparison Proxy methodology, would use a five-year rolling average of a utility's solar PPAs and utility-owned solar projects as a proxy for the valuation of distributed solar exports, to be reassessed every few years in each electric utility's rate case. The second proposal, the Avoided Cost Methodology, would use five-year forecasting to evaluate eligible costs and values of energy, capacity and other services delivered to the grid from DG.
In the Resource Comparison Proxy case, compensation for solar exports in Arizona would remain around 11 cents per kilowatt-hour, on par with the retail rate, until each utility's next rate case comes up in four or five years' time. But once the five-year price average is updated to account for new, lower-cost projects' rooftop solar compensation could drop by more than half.
In the Avoided Cost scenario, compensation for solar exports would likely fall to less than half of the retail rate in the near term, but could increase over time as energy prices go up.
Solar advocates took issue with the proposals, and with the short valuation period in particular.
"[The ROO] does not allow for a full consideration of the costs and benefits that customers' solar energy systems provide because it restricts the analysis to a 5-year planning window or limits the compensation based on the price paid for other resources," Vote Solar Program Director Briana Kobor said in a statement.
"This narrow calculation could make solar a bad deal for Arizonans, putting clean energy progress and solar jobs at risk in the state," she said. "The ACC requires utilities to plan the rest of their energy system over a 15-year horizon, and there's no reason that customer-driven solar should not be planned for in the same way."
In welcome news for the solar sector, given the upset in Nevada this year, the ROO recommends grandfathering in existing solar customers at their existing credit rates. Judge Jibilian said decisions to grandfather existing customers should be made in each utility rate case, but should only apply to customers who decide to go solar after the new rates go into effect.
Overall, some 30 parties took part in the VOS proceeding, and they had mixed responses to the ROO. The order is not the final outcome of the docket, but will inform Arizona utility commissioners as they prepare to vote on the matter in December.
The Residential Utility Consumer Office (RUCO) praised the judge for providing a foundation for future discussions, but expressed concern that some of the inputs within the two proposed methodologies have yet to be determined, including questions like, should transmission benefits be included in the avoided-cost option? Or should pricing from a solar project built on an existing site qualify for the cost proxy analysis?
The ROO also states that the most reasonable option in the VOS docket is the adoption of both the avoided-cost methodology and the resource proxy cost methodology. However, the report does not explain how to combine the two methods, creating uncertainty for all parties.
In light of these unanswered questions, it's possible there could be another round of VOS discussions in Arizona in order to address the technical details.
Tucson Electric Power declined to offer a comment while preparing to submit clarifying questions and some exceptions to the ROO. However, spokesperson Joseph Barrios noted that TEP has a proposal pending before the ACC that would compensate solar customers for excess energy with net metering credits valued at the same price the utility pays for community-scale power -- currently 5.8 cents per kilowatt-hour.
Arizona Public Service said its assessments show rooftop solar customers should be compensated even less, at around 3 cents per kilowatt-hour. Both utilities claim the changes are needed to eliminate the subsidization of solar customers at the expense of non-solar customers. Solar industry groups reject the view that solar adds costs to the system, and claim the utility proposals would effectively kill Arizona's residential solar market.
The battle over solar policy in Arizona has bled into the Arizona Corporation Commission election, with APS and SolarCity launching ad campaigns in favor of their preferred regulators. Three seats are up for grabs in the November election.


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Martian Review – Faulty Premise
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If you ask me, there're a couple of vexing flaws at the heart of Ridley Scott's space adventure Martian (Matt Damon, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jeff Daniels, Jessica Chastain).
At its core, the movie is about a young astronaut Mark Watney (Matt Damon) stranded on Mars and the heroic efforts mounted from Earth to rescue him.
When a fierce storm hits the Ares 3 mission on Mars, Mark is struck by a flying object while returning to the mother ship Hermes. He's mistakenly presumed dead and the Hermes crew leaves for earth without him.
Now given the general callousness of earthlings toward fellow humans and the well publicized resource squeeze and malaise affecting US space programs lately, it's highly unlikely so much effort and money would be expended on rescuing a single astronaut stranded five million miles from home.
Impossible!
Even if we have to account for cinematic liberties with reality, messing up the basic premise didn't sit well with me.
Visual Appeal
But if you're not the fussy kind and willing to watch with a less critical eye, you're likely to find Martian an enjoyable outing.
As the stranded astronaut Mark Watney determined to survive in a hostile environment and constrained by food supply, the well-toned, beefy Matt Damon makes for extremely compelling watching.
Neatly scripted, the film trots along at a merry pace alternating, both on Mars and Earth, between scenes of ingenuity, obstacles and overcoming hurdles.
Visual appeal is one of the movie's strong points, particularly of the stark, reddish Martian landscape. Apparently, this portion was filmed in Southern Jordan.
There were a few other niggling issues. For instance, there're reference to people on earth rooting for Mark but we see very little evidence of that enormous interest in Mark's pitiable plight (except toward the end).
There are no surprises in the film because you've divined early on that despite the severe challenges Mark will encounter, in the end it's going to be a happy ending.
In my not-so-humble opinion, Martian is one more of those Hollywood feel-good junk of 'heroic victory over great adversity.' Like other junk of its ilk and lacking a strong emotional core, this one too will be forgotten in a few weeks.
But Martian seems to have struck a chord with fans.
When I watched the film six days after its release, there were over two dozen people in the hall. Not bad for the matine show on a week day.
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Two teenage girls have been arrested after a stolen vehicle crashed into the front fence of a home in Guildford overnight. About 10.50pm (Monday, February 11), a vehicle, allegedly driven by a 15-year-old girl and carrying a 15-year-old occupant, crashed into the front yard of a home on Harris Street, Guildford. It's alleged the two girls got out of the car and ran but were stopped and detained by a nearby resident on Lucas Street. Officers from Cumberland Police Area Command were called, and an investigation was commenced. Initial inquiries revealed the vehicle was stolen in late January from an address in Smithfield. The two girls suffered cuts and abrasions during the crash and were both taken to The Children's Hospital at Westmead for treatment. Police have established the identity of the pair and they have been released pending further inquiries. Anyone with information about this incident is urged to contact Crime Stoppers: 1800 333 000.
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Teenage girls arrested after crash in stolen vehicle
Two teenage girls have been arrested after a stolen vehicle crashed into the front fence of a home in Guildford overnight.
About 10.50pm (Monday, February 11), a vehicle, allegedly driven by a 15-year-old girl and carrying a 15-year-old occupant, crashed into the front yard of a home on Harris Street, Guildford.
It's alleged the two girls got out of the car and ran but were stopped and detained by a nearby resident on Lucas Street.
Officers from Cumberland Police Area Command were called, and an investigation was commenced.
Initial inquiries revealed the vehicle was stolen in late January from an address in Smithfield.
The two girls suffered cuts and abrasions during the crash and were both taken to The Children's Hospital at Westmead for treatment.
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The BIO International Convention has plenty to offer at all levels of registration, including Exhibition Access. Below is a list of all the education, networking, and special exhibition events you can access with an Exhibition Access or Exhibit Booth Personnel (EBP) registration.
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One Health Day: This track will highlight BIO's commitment to One Health, the idea that the health of humans, animals, and our environment are all interconnected.
Global Innovation Hubs: Attendees to this track will hear a series of 15-minute presentations describing the most important competitive advantages of doing business in a particular country or region.
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Emerging Innovators Zone: The inaugural Emerging Innovators Zone at the 2018 BIO International Convention provides 4,500 square feet of space on the exhibit floor for pillar sponsor organizations that cater to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to showcase themselves, their services, and the "spotlight" companies within their network. Types of pillar organizations typically include investment banks, venture capital firms, accelerators, government agencies, big pharma/biotech, law firms, and service providers. The space also allows for independent SMEs that are post-$10M investment to apply and be given prime space on the exhibit floor to showcase their achievements. The "open-air market" atmosphere within the zone allows attendees to freely engage with other companies further along the company lifecycle as well as stakeholders operating in the SME space that they could employ to achieve the continual stages of growth.
Start-Up Stadium: Watch live as start-up companies pitch to key members of the investment community, venture philanthropy groups, and BIO attendees.
Don't miss the Headshot Lounge, Social Photo Booth, Chalk Art and more!
BIO Member Services Pavilion - an all-in-one space located that provides an opportunity for BIO attendees to gain firsthand knowledge of various solutions that can benefit their company and alleviate pain points, and view demonstrations, and meet with representatives from BIO's preferred partners.
Exhibitor Hospitality Receptions: The Exhibitor Hospitality Receptions are an attendee favorite and the single largest networking event at BIO. Thousands of BIO participants gather in the Exhibition to meet exhibitors and indulge in an assortment of food, drinks, entertainment and exciting giveaways. Exhibitor Hospitality Receptions take place Tuesday, June 5 from 5:00pm - 6:30pm.
History Maker's Happy Hour: Following the Scientific American WorldVIEW: Biotechnology's Promise in a Changing Landscape session, this is the concluding event for the day and a great chance to network with colleagues. All badge types are welcome to enjoy the final Reception!


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Mozilla is planning an Africa debut of its Firefox OS smartphones in 2015
Microsoft to debut a head-worn, VR gaming device in 2015
Published on 18 December 2014, 13:29 Asia/Kolkata Updated on 18 December 2014, 16:27 Asia/Kolkata
Deepanshu Khandelwal
Mozilla has had a tough run with its Firefox OS smartphones. It debuted the phones in India a while back, and the phones haven't really been able to come even close to rival Android brands like Xiaomi and Micromax, as far as sales are concerned.
However, Mozilla is still going ahead with its expansion plans and is all geared up to launch its Firefox OS smartphones in Africa. As per a report from Taiwan-based DigiTimes, the emerging-market-focussed phones will mark their debut in Africa, early 2015.
With introduction in Africa, Mozilla's Firefox-OS based phones will now be available in over 40 markets in Asia, Africa, Latin America, Europe and Australia. There are currently 14 models in Mozilla's FirefoxOS portfolio.
As per DigiTimes, for the supply chain in Asia, Mozilla has partnered with China-based handset makers including TCL, ZTE, and Huawei. For India and Southeast Asia markets, its associates include India-based Spice and Intex. Mozilla recently joined hands with Cherry Mobile to launch a Firefox model in the Philippines in November, priced only US$25.
However, despite the increasing availability of Mozila's FirefoxOS-based smartphones, there hasn't been a substantial rise in its sales. Since its October debut in India, sales have failed to pick up pace, largely because of the minimal hardware and an entire new software experience, which is hard to come by for an Android centric consumer community.
Mozilla however, is now reportedly teaming up wit LG Electronics, to launch a mid-ranged smartphone based on the mobile Firefox OS, which may offer configuration, enough for Mozilla's sales to pick up.
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Sailors' spouses can be reimbursed up to $500 for re-certifying professional licenses after PCSing. The other services have implemented similar programs in response to a study that shows military spouses' unemployment rates increase with every change of duty station. U.S. NAVY
Navy to reimburse spouses for professional licensing after a move
by Scott Wyland
Sailors can be reimbursed up to $500 to cover the cost of their spouses' professional licenses or certifications if an assignment requires them to move to a different state, the Navy announced this week.
"This is part of an ongoing effort to show Navy families we are working to expand family support programs and facilitate spouse employment opportunities," said Perry Christiansen, lead for the Navy's family readiness programs policy, in a statement.
Each state has its own licensing requirements and fees for various professions, from doctors and lawyers to midwives and athletic trainers. A license in one state generally can't be transferred to another, and the cost of applying for recertification in a new state can be burdensome. But without completing the process, spouses often can't work in their chosen field.
Servicemembers, not their spouses, must apply for the funds, which cover the costs of exams and registration fees.
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Meet NCJW: Passionate. Progressive. Powerful.
In honor of Women's History Month, TC Jewfolk asked the local chapters of Hadassah and the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW) for guest posts. This week's column is by NCJW Minneapolis's Executive Director Debbie Stillman and President Sarah Badower.
You've probably heard of National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW). Maybe your mother is a NCJW volunteer. Maybe your grandmother is a longtime member and supporter of the organization. Or maybe your great-grandmother was a new immigrant who received help from NCJW.
True, NCJW has been around for more than 100 years. But despite its rich past, NCJW is best known for its focus on the future.
Since 1893, NCJW has strived for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children, and families and by safeguarding individual rights and freedoms. This is hardly the work for the faint of heart. Rather, NCJW is made up of women of all ages – women just like you who are devoted to progressive ideals, dedicated to making a difference, and committed to taking action.
Consider these 10 ways for 20- and 30-somethings to get involved with NCJW:
Voice Lessons: Want to make your voice heard? NCJW can help you learn about the issues affecting our community and how to advocate for the causes you care about.
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Movies and Munchies: Want to catch a movie with friends? As part of this year's Jewish Film Festival, NCJW is sponsoring the movie, Killing Kasztner, on April 14. Join us for dessert beforehand, and meet the director afterwards.
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Teach & Outreach: Want to combat Anti-Semitism, while sharing your passion for Judaism and Israel? NCJW has a new curriculum for presenting information to middle schools and church groups. Presenter training and materials provided.
Party with a Purpose: Want to raise more than a glass at your next party? NCJW's Volunteer Toolkit can help you raise awareness about Minneapolis' growing homelessness population and do something tangible in response, such as raising funds or collecting needed items for homeless students in the Minneapolis Public Schools.
Round out your Resume: Want to expand your work-related experience? NCJW has volunteer opportunities to help hone your professional skills – in program planning, marketing, fundraising and more – while networking with well-connected women.
Lead the Way: Want to create something meaningful and of interest to you and your friends? Help us plan more programs, targeted especially for women in their 20s.
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Polo-like-Kinasen (dt. "Polo-ähnliche Kinasen", PLK) sind wichtige Regulatorenzyme des Zellzyklus der Eukaryoten und wurden erstmals 1993 bei der Taufliege beschrieben. Die PLK sind an der Bildung und Änderung der mitotischen Spindel und an der Aktivierung des CDK/Zyklin-Komplexes des Zellzyklus beteiligt.

PLK stellen eine Familie von evolutionär konservierten Serin-/Threoninkinasen dar, die das Voranschreiten des Zellzyklus fördern. Sie haben die Enzymnummer . Die meisten Spezies besitzen nur eine Form von PLK, beim Menschen sind PLK1 bis PLK5 bekannt.

Struktur
Die Polo-like-Kinasen enthalten eine konservierte Kinasedomäne am N-Terminus, sowie eine katalytisch nicht aktive Polo-Box-Domäne in der Nähe des C-Terminus, welche aus ein oder zwei Polo-Box-Motiven besteht.
Polo-Box-Dimere binden die Peptidsequenz Ser-(pSer-/pTyr)-(P/X), ermöglichen also Protein-Protein-Wechselwirkungen und kontrollieren so die Substratbindung sowie die Lokation der Kinase innerhalb der Zelle, beispielsweise durch die Bindung an mitotische Strukturen wie Zentrosom und Spindelapparat.

Die Polo-Box-Domäne ist ausschließlich innerhalb der PLK-Familie zu finden und kommt in keinem anderen Protein vor.

Wirkung
PLK vermitteln den Übergang von der Phase G2 zur Phase M während des Zellzyklus, Aktivierung von CDC25 und mitotische Prozesse einschließlich Zentrosomenreifung, Bildung des Spindelapparates, Aktivierung des Anaphase-promoting complex (APC), Chromosomenwanderung und Aktinringbildung (Zytokinese).
Die PLK1 von Säugern ist an der Regulation von Hauptschritten der Zellteilung, DNS-Schadenreparatur, Apoptose und der Vorantreibung des Zellzyklus beteiligt.
Die PLK3 ist ein multifunktionelles Enzym zur Stressantwort in der Zelle. Es wird durch Signale nach DNS-Schaden oder/und Beschädigung der mitotischen Spindel aktiviert. Zu den Substraten gehören Chk2 und p53.

Medizinische Forschung
Insbesondere PLK1 ist für die medizinische Forschung von großem Interesse, da in Tumoren häufig eine Überexpression dieser Kinase beobachtet werden kann und PLK1 aufgrund ihrer proliferativen Wirkung zum Tumorwachstum beiträgt. Auch eine Negativregulation von p53 durch PLK1 konnte beobachtet werden. PLK1-Überexpression setzt außerdem verschiedene mitotische Checkpoints außer Kraft, was die Genomstabilität gefährdet.
Wird in einem Tumor PLK1-Überexpression festgestellt, bedeutet dies eine schlechtere Prognose für den Patienten.

Die Inhibition von PLK1 kann entweder durch Inhibition der Kinasedomäne oder durch Inhibition der Polo-Box-Domäne erfolgen: Während die selektive Inhibition von Kinasedomänen aufgrund großer struktureller Ähnlichkeiten der aktiven Zentren nicht trivial ist, stellt die ausschließlich in PLK vorkommende Polo-Box-Domäne ein attraktives Alternativtarget dar.

Der nichtpeptidische, ATP-kompetitive Kinase-Inhibitor BI2536 befindet sich in der klinischen Phase zur Zulassung als Chemotherapeutikum. Beispiele für Inhibitoren der Polo-Box-Domäne sind Purpurogallin, Thymochinon und Poloxin.

Klaus Strebhardt und Kollegen vom Universitätsklinikum Frankfurt/M. haben in RNAi-Experimenten mit Onkomäusen und Zellkulturen festgestellt, dass Krebszellen PLK zum Weiterleben unbedingt benötigen, gesunde Zellen hingegen nicht.

Siehe auch
Proteinkinase PLK1

Literatur

 Strebhardt, Klaus: Multifaceted polo-like kinases: drug targets and antitargets for cancer therapy. In: Nature Reviews Drug Discovery. 8 2010, S. 643–660.

 Schöffski, Patrick: Polo-Like Kinase (PLK) Inhibitors in Preclinical and Early Clinical Development in Oncology. In: Oncologist. 2009, S. 559–570.

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Charles Pillsbury came to Minnesota and wanted to invest in a failing flour mill hoping to turn it around, and he did. He was raised in New Hampshire so he knew a lot about industry already.
Before Charles invested in the mill it was not doing well and it was really small, but after Charles it went up and become much bigger. The mill was in Minneapolis.
They had bad things going into the bread so they spent some of their money to get a new machine that's made all the bad stuff come out. As the mill grew they kept getting new machines to make the work easier.
They relied on their workers. Each person worked on what their skills are best at. The people that work at the machines get paid the most because it uses the most skills. People that swept the floors and cleaned got the less money because for that you don't need a lot of skill.
After they got the machine to get all the germ out of the bread they become the most selling flour mill in Minnesota. They also got some other machines that's helped transporting the flour places.
They make the flour by a machine powered by creaks and rivers, that's way most of the mills were by creaks and rivers. Most people used the flour for baking but others used it for other things.


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"For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth."
Before we move on with this article we need to make it very clear from the beginning that in no way does it intend to demean or slur the beautiful God given natural affection between a mother and child. What I intend doing is exposing the spiritual promotion of a feminine deity, with her child/partner, replacing God as our Father/Creator, paving the way for her "resurrected mystical son", the coming son of perdition to be enthroned upon the earth.
Does God Almighty change in order to fit in with our plans and concepts, or does He demand we change and conform to His image? Is God our Maker relative in His thinking towards us, or does His counsel, the Holy Bible, standeth for ever?
Back in the early eighties when attending a Pentecostal church I distinctly remember the assistant pastor bringing a sermon one evening where he mentioned over the pulpit the Holy Spirit being the feminine side of God. As far as I know no one challenged this man (who is now out of the ministry due to immorality) about his unbiblical declaration. Little wonder as the World Council of Churches in 1983, during it's sixth Assemble at Vancouver, was making this view official without a major outcry or any blasting from evangelical mainstream.
"God our father and mother we give you thanks for all you have done and all you have made."
This is not surprising as many mainline churches now have, in writing, common prayers to Parent God pervading the New Age anti-absoluteness contrary to God's holy word, presenting a common universal salvation for all mankind, devoid of the complete atoning work of the man Christ Jesus, experienced only through true repentance towards the living God.
Where did this teaching come from? Who instigated it? Why is it important that it coincides with the new millennium?
"Maia, the nymph of Greek mythology, who was the mother of Hermes by Zeus, the sky god." The month of May was named after Maia, who was known as "the Queen of May ... [and] the Jesuit effort to turn the Queen of May into the Virgin Mary was successful ..."
The Catholic Sun, May 26, 1993.
The vast creative Universal Mind behind all manifestation is revered as "Deity" in B.O.T.A. (the Builders Of The Adytum ... mystical teachings of the Holy Cabbala and the sacred Tarot) as it is an appellation which is able to convey both the masculine and the feminine content of the creative intelligence. Without duality there is no manifestation and men and women have always been regarded with equality in the Wisdom Teachings as they reflect the ancient declaration, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness". Any scholar able to consider even elementary Hebrew knows that the words translated as "us" contain this fundamental concept and that the Cosmic Father-Mother said, "Let us make ..."
The Great Adventure, B.O.T.A., 1982.
As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. Is. 3:12.
Today, multitudes of men are confused about their role in society, about their role as a father ( ... the glory of children are their fathers. Pr. 17:6) and about their role as husbands and leaders in general (Give not thy strength unto women ... Pr 31:3). Very few men know who their real enemy is; the enemy who hides behind engineered confusion and intellectual smokescreens, obscuring traditional values and spiritual landmarks. Very few men now they have a common invisible foe to combat and overcome. Because the struggle goes beyond mere physical strength and intelligence, for it is a spiritual onslaught from the supernatural realm.
Only by calling out to his Maker, through the Son, can man escape, and flee the wrath to come.
... "the Earth does not belong to us, we Belong to Her!"
In this belief system Gaia (Mother Earth's name chosen from one of the ancient pagan titles of the earth spirit goddess) is being used to unite the 'mind programmed' populace of the world. The object of the game is to condition every person on this planet (through television, education, and the mass media) into new age (ancient paganism, actually!) "awareness" that God and the earth / cosmos are one and the same. By everyone being inducted into this same awareness program, will it draw everyone onto the same plane and into the same conscious state, uniting everyone with the same common goal of saving planet earth, thus for the better of "human" kind.
Fundamental Christianity will cause a problem, because we believe our God and the earth stand apart from each other, and mankind needs to be reconciled by looking outward to his Maker through repentance, not by tuning into Force Gaia by looking inward and being absorbed into the "grand cosmos". According to scripture, the only thing inward should be a conviction of sin, righteousness and judgment (John 16:8).
Can you see the logic ... every person relating to and worshiping the same entity. Every person renouncing the last two thousand years and what it stood for (that's the impact of Christianity!), to be reborn into the new millennia, all with the purpose of avoiding a global catastrophe and creating a utopia here on earth.
"'Except' this global coercion and you will be saved," is the lie.
According to reports, the United Nations needs this paganism to justify their program of "sustainable development": their way of controlling the world's resources, depopulation, and enslaving us serfs. The plan is to force all nations into "Gaia Hypothesis". This "holds that earth is itself the deity we should worship, and the UN is the instrument through which the earth goddess will dictate our forms of devotion."
... Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Gen. 11:6.
The only defense to withstand being swept away by this ungodly satanic tsunami, is by being anchored to the sure and steadfast word of the living God.
God is who He is, a masculine deity, who begot a masculine son. Lucifer, who perverted himself through vanity and became a bi-sexual demigod, promoting the New Age Father/Mother god, or Parent god (without gender), to confuse the role of man so that there would be a break down of biblically based order on the earth. This would undermine the present democratic system based on these principles, and create an excuse to introduce a new draconian system. In other words; an imposed replacement called the New World Order. The whole idea was to get man focused on the image of another god/goddess so that Lucifer could sneak in behind the image and receive worship for himself.
To carry out this subtle plan he has had to corrupt the Word of God (2 Corinthians 2:17) so that society would have no firm foundation to base its principles on. Today, during this post Reformation era, the god of this age is using the modern translations (the watering down process) to prepare the world for the New Age translation where God is genderless. The breaking down period begins when the role of man is put into question ... no Father figure, then no family structure, then society begins to degenerate. This is where the Plan (satanic conspiracy for a new controlled order) kicks in, along with a contingency "safety net" put in place. And this is why society has become so materialistic ... With lot's of easy accessible goodies; from fast foods to luxury items; such as electronic goods, to redundancy packages and tax cuts, cushioning the break-down into a form of controlled anarchy.
As mentioned, the conditioning for this is brought about by Lucifer getting mans eyes of the true and living God onto a unisex (or bi-sexual) god, where God is no longer the Creator who made man first, followed by Eve as his help meet (helpful mate), before mankind degenerated through the Fall. This way man no longer thinks in terms of creation by a Creator, but in terms of a force called Mother Nature (also known as Lady Luck in superstitious circles, Luck short for Lucifer, as is Lucy in other circles), nurturing her evolving world/universe.
Therefore, the Father/Son relationship pictured in scripture as the basis for divine order, is replaced with the heathen Mother/Child image (easily interchanged with Parent/Child) as the basis for rebellion against the divine order. The Father/Son relationship (the preserved line of inheritance and order) is based on the intimacy between God and His Son.
John 1:12: But as many as received him (the man Christ Jesus, the Son of God), to them gave he (God the Father) power to become the sons (to do with eternal inheritance ) of God, even to them that believe on his name.
The relationship between God the Father and God the Son has been from the beginning. The Mother/Child idea came from Babel. The Devil invented this scheme so that it would lead the world away from remembering the Flood, and henceforth creation, therefore ultimately forgetting the Creator. So when Nimrod (Satan's man to lead the world away from God) was killed by his uncle Shem the son of Noah, his wife Semiramis announced at the birth of her new son that God had raised Nimrod from the dead. Calling her son Baal (the lord), after raising him in an incestuous relationship with herself, she married Baal (her son) as co-deliverer of mankind, declaring herself the Queen of Heaven, Mother of God.
When God brought judgment on Babel and scattered mankind across the face of the earth, under a mixture of different languages creating various races, man took this cult system with him (religion has always been in the exporting business). Today in most cultures and religions this Mother/Child cult survives, denying man access to the one and only true living God.
Now the Bible has been changed in this age, allowing God to be de-sexed, the base has been set to introduce this 'new world' generic religion. It is now just a matter of convincing the public that God is no longer "an invented He-god who punishes well meaning people and imperfect humans", "but a warm compelling force who wants to do everyone only good". Once mankind is conditioned into this new seductive type of reasoning, the old order based on Judaeo-Christian values will naturally dispel into the past. Therefore, it will only be a matter of time when God's plumb line, the book that ushered in the Reformation (where the Church/State System collapsed - canceling out the Dark Ages), namely God's Authorized Bible, will be blacklisted as a hindrance to human progress along with the awkward non-compliants (dum-dee- dum-dum! ... that's us; Bible Believing Fundies!) who follow the Book.
Lucifer worship (of the "Parent" god) will be publicly accepted through reverencing Mother Earth/Mother Nature. This will suit everyone ... environmentalists, evolutionists, humanists, modernists, liberals, feminists, gays, witches, eastern thinkers, the lodges, the cabbalists, the Catholics and orthodox Christianities (Maryology), Moslems (the moon crescent), and even neo-evangelical and Charismatics who believe the Holy Spirit to be the feminine side of God (this makes it impossible for God the Father begetting His Son). Lucifer, manifested through a world leader, will be given the right to openly set up his throne on earth, just like Hitler was made Fruehrer by a massive land-slide majority in Germany during the early thirties.
Because this present system relies on the exchange of money to exist, and because man loves money more than God, a new system of electronic money replacing cash will be used to bring this Luciferian society into being. For without a means of buying, selling, or trading, unless you are locked into this system, people will not be able to function and thereby will be compelled to comply. And the chip implant in the hand mentioned in Time magazine replacing the smart card, will be the final step in man giving allegiance to Lucifer. For without it, in practical terms, no one will be able to survive unless you're putting your complete trust in the living God through His Son Jesus.
There is much debate in Christian circles whether Y2K (the computer millennium bug) will be the big excuse used to collapse the old monetary system in order to bring in a new hard and fast 'tight sealed' cashless society. Whether it virtually happens over night by a major global collapse such as in Germany during the twenties, or on a more gradual slide (like what's happening at present), remains to be seen (scripture tends to support an 'over night' scenario). But it will happen! The Bible says it will! Are we ready for the worst? Are we on the brink of something so big and catastrophic, being only comparable with the days of Babel and Peleg, when God scattered the whole human race and divided the continents!?
There is no doubt God is going to divide the earth again (metaphorically speaking), before He Raptures His true Bride! There will be the sheep with their Shepherd in one camp, and the goats with their hirelings in the other. There will be a radical difference between those who will stand for Him and those who will be indifferent to the truth. Even as I write the great chasm is widening between those who worship Him in spirit and truth and those who will pay homage to Mother Earth.
...whereby we cry, Abba, Father.


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People want to work, they just don't want to work for you
I was on a video call last week with the CEO of a professional services company who had spent the past month trying to make the office more appealing to his employees. Now that the doors were open, only 15 percent of his workforce had shown up.
"I'm looking across an office that seats 200 people and all I see is a dozen employees," he told me.
He was surprised, but I wasn't. Over the past few months, I've watched versions of this story play out time and again. In the data and in conversations with Fortune 500 leaders, I'm seeing an alarming disconnect between management and employees. As one technology CEO told me, "Executives think they're being progressive by offering three days in the office, but the new employee baseline is zero."
Ignoring this gap will skyrocket already high burnout rates and further fuel what's being called "the great resignation."
People who worked from home this past year are exhausted. An Asana study showed that in 2020, 71 percent of employees experienced burnout at least once. The University of Chicago found that remote workers put in 30 percent more hours than normal during the shutdown. Another study by Microsoft showed that work-related messages sent between 6 p.m. and midnight jumped 52 percent.
But, paradoxically, people have also now seen what's possible: being present for their families, mid-afternoon walks and sleeping in. While they're working more, they're doing it on their own terms. The new employee baseline isn't sitting in traffic for hours for three days a week; it's not sitting in traffic at all.
All this places even more burden on already exhausted managers. Cisco, for example, announced they will "leave it up to teams themselves to determine how they'll work best in this new hybrid world." Imagine the poor manager who has to justify why her team has to be in the Glendale office each day when others can work from Hawaii. Suddenly her fiercest talent competition is from inside her own company.
The companies that best retain their people will be those who address burnout in a principled and consistent way. This requires taking intentional steps to improve employee wellbeing, starting where it counts most: at the manager level. The adage that "people don't quit jobs, they quit managers," has never been more true.
What can leaders encourage their managers to do?
Acknowledge Reality and Meet It Head-On
Problems don't go away by ignoring them, so bring them into the open. Of course your people are being recruited, and almost no one wants to be back in the office five days a week. Tell your teams you understand the trauma they have been through, ask about their concerns and make yourself a source of coaching and support. Don't force them to struggle in silence only to surprise you by quitting a month later.
Demonstrating that you want what's best for them builds loyalty and trust. When I led People Operations at Google, I encouraged my direct reports to interview for other jobs every six months. It's counterintuitive, but it showed them I cared about their careers. In every case, our relationship deepened—and my reports chose to stay. By supporting the members of my team as people, I gained outstanding employees who had made an intentional choice to work for me.
For Three Months, De-Prioritize Performance
If your team needs it, suspend the performance bar for even longer. Stressed-out people are not productive. Remember that if total productivity is up, it's because your people have been working longer hours.
At my company, we instituted "recharge Fridays," offering every other Friday as a day off so people can focus on their wellbeing. We were surprised to see no dip in productivity. In fact, we recently brought a new product to market in 30 days. If you give people the opportunity to breathe, they have the energy to sprint when it's needed.
Bring Everyone Together on Wednesdays
Or Tuesdays. Or Thursdays. The important thing is to pick a day when the majority of the team will be together in person. Then be purposeful in how you use that time.
People are social animals and part of why offices exist is to feed our need for connection. Ease into it by starting with one or two days back, centering those days on your team's social needs. Host all-hands meetings, do collaborative work like brainstorming, hash out the simmering product disagreements or simply take the team out for lunch.
Actually Address What People Are Asking For
There's an entire industry focused on surveying employees, but only 8 percent of people think their organization takes action based on feedback. For years, your teams have been telling you what they want, but if you're like most companies, you won't have made substantive changes. Listening alone won't cut it anymore. Act.
Here's what I've learned in my career: People want to do purposeful work for managers who value them and take their personal needs seriously. Attentive, compassionate actions, implemented at the team level, are the fastest way to address burnout and reduce attrition.
Longer term, making work meaningful, managers more supportive and organizations more inclusive will be worth far more to employees than simply being able to take a meeting from their living room.
Ask yourself: Do you think your people want to work for you? And if not, what are you going to do about it?
This piece was originally published by SHRM.
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Biden set to elevate climate-change action in federal departments besides environmental agencies
Author: Juliet Eilperin, Annie Linskey, The Washington Post
Oil drill horses line Highway 33 north of Ventura, Calif. (Washington Post photo byMichael Robinson Chavez)
WASHINGTON - President-elect Joe Biden is poised to embed action on climate change across the breadth of the federal government, from the departments of Agriculture to Treasury to State - expanding it beyond environmental agencies to speed up U.S. efforts to mitigate global warming and to acknowledge that the problem touches many aspects of American life.
The far-reaching strategy is aimed at making significant cuts in greenhouse gas emissions even without congressional action, by maximizing executive authority.
"From the very beginning of the campaign, when President-elect Biden rolled out his climate plan, he made it clear he sees this as an all-of-government agenda, domestic, economic, foreign policy," said Stef Feldman, campaign policy director for Biden, a Democrat. "From the very beginning, when he talked about infrastructure, he talked about making sure that it built in climate change, that we are making our communities more resilient to the effects of climate change."
The vast majority of scientists agree that carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases released when humans burn fossil fuels is helping warm the Earth. On the campaign trail, Biden proposed the most aggressive plan of any major party nominee to try to slow that warming.
In a sign of how Biden has already elevated the issue, he discussed the topic with every European head of state with whom he spoke on Tuesday, including the leaders of Britain, France, Germany and Ireland. Biden has started frequently referring to the climate "crisis," suggesting a heightened level of urgency.
A team of former Obama administration officials and experts have created a 300-page blueprint laying out a holistic approach to climate while avoiding some of the pitfalls that hampered President Barack Obama, who shared some of the same goals but was unable to enact all of them. Dubbed the Climate 21 Project, it took a year and a half to develop and was delivered recently to Biden's transition team. The document outlines how the incoming administration could restructure aspects of the government to move faster on global warming.
It specifies dozens of changes the new administration could take to reduce greenhouse gases, beyond just reversing the slew of Trump administration policies that have boosted oil and gas drilling and relaxed pollution controls. While Republicans are likely to fight many of Biden's most ambitious renewable energy investments and could challenge new federal rules in court, the report highlights a range of structural shifts that could move the needle on climate.
The recommendations include creating a White House National Climate Council that is "co-equal" to the Domestic Policy Council and National Economic Council; establish a "carbon bank" under the USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation that could pay farmers and forest owners to store carbon in their soils and lands; push to electrify cars and trucks through the Transportation Department; and develop a climate policy at the Treasury Department that promotes carbon reductions through tax, budget and regulatory policies.
Tim Profeta, who directs Duke University's Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions and co-chaired the Climate 21 Project, said in an interview that Biden "doesn't have to wait for congressional action. He can act immediately, across a range of the federal government."
Kristin Green, left, and Kayla Bordelon, from the Citizens Climate Lobby, hold signs and wave to motorists on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020, in Moscow, Idaho. (Geoff Crimmins/The Moscow-Pullman Daily News via AP)
Former New York mayor Mike Bloomberg published an op-ed Wednesday advocating a similar approach, arguing some of the most important steps the new administration could take "have nothing to do with the Environmental Protection Agency" and involve measures like incorporating climate impacts into the Housing and Urban Development's building standards and the Securities and Exchange Commission's disclosure requirements. On the same day two left-leaning groups, the Sunrise Movement and Justice Democrats, called on Biden to create a "White House Office of Climate Mobilization" to coordinate action across the federal government.
In a sign of how government institutions outside the usual environmental agencies are beginning to grapple with climate change, the Federal Reserve's biannual financial stability report released this week warned, "Climate change adds a layer of economic uncertainty and risk that we have only begun to incorporate into our analysis of financial stability." Federal Reserve governor Lael Brainard, a leading contender for treasury secretary under a Biden administration, welcomed climate's inclusion in the report, and Fed Board Chair Jerome H. Powell described it last week as a long-term risk. On Tuesday the Fed requested to join the Network for Greening the Financial System, a global coalition of central banks and bank supervisors working to manage climate risks.
Several former Obama officials noted how the last Democratic administration ended without a complete overhaul of federal policies affecting climate change. Obama made the issue a major focus in his second term, but he did not launch his climate action plan until June 2013, and key departments such as Interior did not finalize their own comprehensive plans before he left office.
Christy Goldfuss, who oversaw many of those efforts as managing director of the White House Council on Environmental Quality and who co-chaired the new report, said Biden is now positioned to institute climate-focused policies across the government since he made it a central issue in his campaign. It will be essential for Biden to quickly fill jobs left vacant under President Trump, rebuild departments and return the leadership of agencies such as the Bureau of Land Management back to D.C., she said.
"This is it. This is the moment for climate action," said Goldfuss, now senior vice president for energy and environment policy at the liberal think tank Center for American Progress. "Climate change impacts every aspect of people's lives, it impacts every aspect of the economy, and the federal government is connected to every aspect of those as well."
Changing the way the government buys goods and services could have a ripple effect in the private sector because of the purchasing power of federal agencies, Goldfuss said. Groups like the BlueGreen Alliance, a coalition of labor and environmental groups, have championed policies like California's Buy Clean law, which requires the state to consider the pollution emitted by manufacturers of glass, steel and other materials when making purchasing decisions.
Feldman declined to comment on the group's recommendations, but said that the incoming administration has a clear direction regardless of how the government is structured. "Actually, the biggest thing that will ensure we will deliver on the climate agenda is President-Elect Biden's personal commitment to the issue," she said.
Several of the experts Biden appointed Tuesday to the teams managing his transition at different agencies and departments - including the Pentagon, Commerce, Justice, Council on Economic Advisers and National Security Agency - have experience with topics ranging from climate risk to environmental justice.
The president-elect's team plans to move quickly on its climate agenda for several reasons. The federal rulemaking and budgeting process takes time, and the United States needs to show it's taking action to cut greenhouse gas emissions in order to convince other countries to ratchet up their commitments in advance of next year's U.N. climate talks in Glasgow, Scotland.
Even if Biden carries out a broad suite of policies aimed at curbing America's carbon footprint, it may fall short of averting dangerous planetary warming. Roughly 10% of the globe has already warmed 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) compared to preindustrial levels. Scientists say when the entire planet has passed that threshold of warming by 2 degrees C, the Earth will suffer irreversible and severe damage. A recent analysis by the Climate Action Tracker shows that if the president-elect's plan is fully realized it would shave 0.1 degree C off global temperature rise by 2100.
At the moment, the United States is nowhere near cutting its climate pollution by 4.3% a year, which is what the Rhodium Group estimates is required to achieve Biden's target of net-zero carbon emissions by mid-century. This week the EPA released data showing that greenhouse gas emissions from the power sector declined 8% last year, while emissions from oil and gas facilities increased by nearly 7%, and emissions from nearly every other industrial sector was flat.
University of Chicago economist Michael Greenstone, who served as chief economist for the Council of Economic Advisers under Obama, said plans like the ones outlined in the new report make sense, but in the end, "the planet only cares about greenhouse gas emissions. So, the acid tests will be whether there are meaningful emissions reductions in the United States, and whether those reductions leverage reductions in other countries."
Georgia Institute of Technology atmospheric science professor Kim Cobb said that many corporate players, frustrated by the sort of policy whiplash they experienced when Obama was succeeded by Trump, might accept more stringent pollution controls if it means greater business certainty.
Trump's move to weaken Obama-era tailpipe emissions standards has split the nation's automakers, for example, because California and more than a dozen other states representing roughly 40% of the U.S. car market prefer the tougher stringent standards. A handful of companies, including Ford Motor and Honda, have sided with California, while General Motors, Toyota and Fiat Chrysler have backed the administration. With a Democrat in charge, automakers might try to strike a compromise so there is consistency across the U.S. market.
Conservatives will do their best to convince industry to resist such deals. In an interview shortly after the election, West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, R, said he still envisioned a scenario where Trump could get enough electoral college votes to win a second term, though that outcome is not mathematically feasible. But Morrisey and other attorneys general had challenged the Obama administration's authority to regulate greenhouse gases, and they are prepared to launch similar lawsuits again.
Morrisey bemoaned the fact that some industries, like the power sector, accepted the idea that they had to curb their carbon emissions even as some of the Obama administration rules were being litigated. He said that if Biden took action he and other attorneys general considered unjustified, "Everyone is going to know at the outset that this is going to be unlawful."
Former Obama officials are keenly aware of the pitfalls of a go-it-alone approach. Ernest Moniz, Obama's former energy secretary, said legislation passed with support from both parties tends to be the best way to make durable change - and that it is still worth trying.
"My view of reality is that it's very, very hard to get major systemic change in this country without some considerable degree of bipartisan support," Moniz said.
The Washington Post's Brady Dennis, Rachel Siegel and Dino Grandoni contributed to this report.


You finally committed to scheduling a business headshot and now it is time to decide on attire. Where do you begin? First thing to consider is how you want your clients to see you. Approachable, professional, confident? Hopefully all three. Select an outfit that is comfortable to you while taking into account your industry's standards. The financial and legal industries generally wear suits. Semi casual industries might wear nice jeans and a fashionable shirt with jacket. That being said, remember your eyes and facial expression create the first impression, then the outfit and accessories. When it comes to color schemes, I tell my clients to stick with cool or warm tones. The attire should complement, not distract. Unless you sell Hawaiian shirts, steer away from the boldness. I should put an asterisk on that last statement. If you're fun, energetic, and full of color, own it! If your clients know your brand by your style, show it.


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There's a surplus of luxury condos in Miami, but three more developers are building anyway
Sea level rise? No worries. Sluggish sales in the luxury market? Not a problem. Strict requirements for construction loans and traditional bank financing? There are other ways to buy a condo.
High-end real estate development has slowed to a crawl in Miami-Dade, with most builders taking a breath while the market absorbs a bounty of condos priced at $1 million and up.
Only two new major luxury condos broke ground in 2018: Estates at Acqualina in Sunny Isles Beach, with 245 residences ranging from $4.2 million to $35 million, and One Park Grove, the third and final tower of the ritzy Coconut Grove development, priced from $2.7 million to $6.3 million.
But three ambitious developers from outside the U.S. are betting on Miami's enduring appeal with plans for ambitious condos priced in the mega-millions. The trio are proof that out-of-town investors continue to see a big future — and an even bigger payday — in Miami-Dade's luxury market, despite sluggish sales and climate change concerns.
"The rest of the world sees the U.S. as the safest place to move their capital," said Ron Shuffield, president and CEO of EWM Realty International, a brokerage firm. "The international developer is thinking about where they want to have their assets two or three years down the road. They feel there's no better use of their capital right now than to build high-quality properties in markets where it will continue to appreciate, even though it's not the best time to have a $5 million condo for sale."
The monthly number of Miami-Dade condos listed on the Southeast Florida Regional Multiple Listing Service (MLS) during 2018 priced $1 million and up reflects the highest levels in history, according to EWM Realty International. On Sept. 30, 2018, there were 2,874 active sale listings — an 11 percent increase over the same period last year.
The glut is even more evident for condos priced at $5 million and up. According to EWM, the MLS listed 348 units in that price range as of Aug. 31, 2018. That's a total of 58 months of inventory — well above a "healthy" inventory of 12 to 18 months.
But despite the surplus, three new luxury projects in Miami-Dade are moving forward, each launched by foreign-based developers who are financing the projects from their own resources:
57 Ocean, an 18-story, 81-unit luxury tower at 5775 Collins Avenue in Miami Beach, is the third condo project in Miami-Dade from the Brazilian firm Multiplan Real Estate Asset Management;
Okan Tower Miami, a mammoth 70-story condo/hotel/retail building at 555 North Miami Avenue in the downtown area, will reach a height of 890 feet. It is the first project in the U.S. for the Turkish firm Okan Development Group;
Monaco Yacht Club, at 6800 Indian Creek in Miami Beach, will offer 39 fully-finished waterfront units on 11 floors. The developer is Optimum Development USA, the Miami branch of the Luxembourg-based Optimum Asset Management.
The three projects join other luxury developments that have already broken ground or entered the pre-sale phase. Those include the Aston Martin Residences in downtown Miami, from Argentine supermarket magnate German Coto; the Missoni Baia tower in Edgewater and the Una Residences in Brickell, both from OKO Group; and the Eighty Seven Park tower in Miami Beach, a joint venture between the prolific South Florida developer Terra and the Italy-based Bizzi & Partners.
The developers behind the three new projects believe their product is unique enough to stand out from the pack — and they have the resources and staying power to weather the ebb and flow of the market.
Jose Isaac Peres, a Brazilian billionaire who amassed his fortune building shopping malls, is the founder of Multiplan, the firm behind the 57 Ocean tower on Miami Beach. The project, which will occupy the former location of the demolished Marlborough House, will emphasize wellness and healthy living in its design and amenities. Prices range from $1.5 million to $31 million. Pre-sales will begin this month.
Peres believes the building will impact the "Millionaire's Row" stretch of Collins Avenue like one of his previous projects, the Il Villaggio condominium, impacted Ocean Drive in the late 1990s.
"This project will present real value investment opportunities not only for us, but also our initial buyers, as these irreplaceable assets tend to appreciate over time," Peres said. "By self-financing, we have the flexibility to push our construction schedules forward and boost consumer confidence and differentiate ourselves from mainstream developers who struggle to reach sales milestones and meet financing requirements."
Marcelo Kingston, managing partner at Multiplan, said 57 Ocean's beachfront location balances out any concerns about real estate market fluctuations.
"The trickiest point is timing," Kingston said. "When is the right time to start a new project? But a project with a location like this one is special, because there will always be demand for it. This project transcends economic challenges and political tumult, because there's nothing on the market that can compare with this location. That gives us the ability to pull the trigger and move forward, knowing there will be demand from all parts of the world."
International interest
Experts say that global demand for Miami shows no signs of fading. In the 2019 edition of the annual Emerging Trends in Real Estate survey conducted by the Urban Land Institute and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Miami ranked 12th on a list of the top 20 U.S. markets to watch for overall real estate prospects. Miami also ranked fifth on a list of the 16 strongest markets in the South Atlantic and Florida region ranked by investor demand, capital availability and redevelopment opportunities. (Fort Lauderdale came in sixth).
"If you're trying to attract condo buyers from around the globe, it makes sense to broaden your net as far as you can," said Mitch Roschelle, partner and business development leader at PwC. "When you have a multicultural environment, you're opening yourself up to buyers from around the world. Because Miami is so culturally diverse, condo developers there have the broadest possible audience."
That growing cultural diversity is one of the factors that led Bekir Okan, founder of the Turkish company Okan Development Group, to build his first U.S. project in Miami. Okan first visited the city with his family in the 1990s, when they sailed on a Royal Caribbean Cruise that departed from the Port of Miami.
Two of his children later went to schools here — the University of Miami and Florida International University — which kept him returning to South Florida.
"He's been coming to Miami for 20 years and he loves the place," said Kasim Badak, CEO of Okan Development Group. "He had been doing construction in Turkey, Africa and the Middle East. And one day he said 'Why don't we do a project in Miami?'"
Badak said the company opened a 3,000 square-foot sales gallery with a full-model residence in Istanbul in May and has collected 65 reservations thus far. The $300 million tower will sport the shape of a tulip, Turkey's national flower, and be made up of 316 Hilton hotel rooms, 149 residences, 236 turnkey units and four penthouses.
Groundbreaking is scheduled for early 2019. The general contractor will be Suffolk Construction, which also built the guitar-shaped Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood. The other two new projects have not yet hired a contractor.
The Okan Tower is entirely self-financed for now. But even the most high-end luxury projects eventually turn to traditional bank lending once they cross certain thresholds of pre-sales or have a proven track record.
Ricardo Tabet, CEO of Optimum Development USA, sad that while the firm's Monaco Yacht Club project in Indian Creek is currently self-financed, he expects a loan to close next month. Some of the firm's other projects include The Optimum office building in Coconut Grove and the Celino Hotel on Ocean Drive, both due for completion in 2019.
The scale of the 39-unit Monaco Yacht Club was intentionally kept small — Tabet said the project could have easily accommodated 90 units — because the developer wants to attract an elite breed of sophisticated buyer who will appreciate (and pay for) touches such as custom-made wood doors. Prices will range from $1.1 million to over $4 million, and pre-sales are expected to launch by the end of the year.
But Tabet, like almost every other developer in Miami-Dade, says one thing that won't impede pre-sales is the growing concern over climate change. Despite the worry among South Florida residents about nature-based hazards including red tide and flooding, the real estate market thus far seems impervious to cooling from global warming.
"There's no such thing as Miami sea-level rise," Tabet said. "There's global sea-level rise. It's an issue we are facing around the world. Everyone knows the planet has an issue. But I believe people are still looking for the unique lifestyle that Miami is offering. Hurricanes have forced us to learn to live with nature. We take precautions and we have insurance. The construction requirements are stronger and the infrastructure of the city has gotten better. "
A bullish market
The early interest in projects that are already underway confirm Tabet's claim. Since breaking ground in 2017, the Aston Martin Residences has sold more than 40 percent of its 391 units, ranging in price from $700,000 to $50 million, to buyers from Latin America, Europe and the U.S. The building is scheduled for completion in 2021.
The 57-story Missoni Baia tower in Edgewater, which launched sales in 2016 and broke ground in 2017, has begun vertical construction and is scheduled to be completed by 2020. Prices on the remaining units range from $550,000 to more than $3.5 million.
"These developers see an opportunity and have their own capital structure, enabling them to be in the position to build right now," said Vlad Doronin, the Russian-born CEO and chairman of OKO Group. "They see the advantage of building at a time when nobody else is, particularly at a moment when there is less competition and very little new inventory. We take a long-term view on the markets we enter and we are bullish on Miami. The city is growing, and the domestic tax structure is increasing demand in Miami from the rest of the US."
Lenders are bullish too — at least about some projects. Earlier this month, the Trump Group (no relation to the president), the developers who built Williams Island, scored a $558 million loan from Bank OZK (formerly Bank of the Ozarks) for their Acqualina project, which is valued at $1.5 billion.
"There's a little bit of a misconception that there is an endless supply of new construction," said Alexandra Lehson, a partner at the law firm Bilzin Sumberg, which negotiated the Acqualina loan. "The market has stabilized. We are out of the boom and bust cycle days and the pendulum isn't swinging too far in either direction. Bank lenders need to have a sponsor with a solid track record, a project with a fantastic location and a great amenity package. They are increasingly focused on the quality of the loan they are financing."
Terra president David Martin said 54 of the 66 units at the Eighty Seven Park tower in Miami Beach have been sold at prices ranging from $2 million to $18 million — another indicator of the strength of Miami's luxury market. The building is topping off this month and is due for completion summer of 2019.
And although foreign buyers are critical to luxury developers, Martin argues that the number of out-of-town U.S. buyers investing in high-priced homes in Miami keeps growing and bodes well for the market.
"There's not one demographic at Eighty Seven Park: It's more of a psychographic, people who are adventurous and want to live on the ocean," he said. "As Miami has matured from a cultural and experiential standpoint, we've been able to attract more American buyers from Boston, Chicago, New York and Washington D.C. They either want to relocate here or use Miami as a second or fourth or fifth home."


We have officially hit winter. Not because there is snow on the ground or because it feels like it is dark ALL DAY LONG. No, I know it is officially winter when my plate of food starts to show more beige. So this post is a series of post that I like to call 'Colour Your Plate', where I will be showing you ways to brighten up your meals with natural, good for you items.
The last 3 months have been, well, slightly difficult in our house. Remember when I told you that my husband got pneumonia? Well by that time he had already had it for 3 weeks and was not getting any better. His body was not responding to antibiotics (2 types). The stress of it got worse when the doctor suggested that it could be TB or Cancer and that he was not to go into public places. Way to freak an ex-cancer patient out DOC! For the next several weeks I had to take over all the responsibility in the house, taking care of Little Q and my husband (who was unable to get out of bed most days). It was exhausting. Thankfully I work in a place where the people are completely understanding and willing to be flexible with my schedule to accommodate me taking Little Q to daycare and my husband to many doctor appointments. Finally, my husband has started to heal from this non contagious form of pneumonia without having to go on copious amounts of drugs. We just kept saying 'roll with it because this too will pass…' We are happily moving onward and upward!
Soup has been a meal I prepare every Sunday afternoon so we have it ready for the week. It is an easy go to meal when you don't feel like eating anything else. Winter vegetable in Canada mostly consist of root veggies, squash and dark leafy greens if you can get them. What I love about this soup is that it is bright orange. The colour is absolutely gorgeous! Seriously, look at this colour!!!! How could you not want to eat this?!?! Some of you may not be familiar with fennel and/or scared of it because it tastes like licorice. However, when placed in this soup it is very subtle and adds a lovely flavour that you might not find with typical butternut squash soup recipes. I HIGHLY encourage you to make your own broth. I really like to buy a full high quality, antibiotic free, hormone free chicken, roast the whole thing and then use it for a couple of dinners and lunches. When I'm, done getting all the meat off, I take the bones and boil it with celery, carrots and onion covered in water. Then I divide it up and place in containers to freeze. You have to be careful with the store bought varieties because they often have gluten hiding in them or MSG carefully disguised as yeast extract. It is so easy and cheap to make your own. All it takes is a lazy Sunday afternoon. Don't get complicated with this soup – just cut the ingredients up in chunks and throw it in a pot, boil, then purée and enjoy!
Place all ingredients in large pot. Boil until everything is tender.
Puree in high powered blender in batches if necessary.
Serve with pumpkin seeds or store in glass containers for 2-3 days in the fridge.
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The ballast keel had been bolted under the wood keel for about a month now. It has been sticking out and looking a bit out of place without the deadwoods which fill in the spaces fore and aft of the lead and finish off the underwater profile with a fair curve.
This week Barnaby made up and fitted the aft deadwood of three pieces using a large offcut of opepe for two. This opepe left over from the backbone structure has been used for the last year as a workbench. The third piece was a piece of Kenegie oak which has been lying around after being rejected as a possible stem. Unfortunately there are limited amounts of such large offcuts lying around and we're going to have to buy in some oak specially for the fore deadwood.
Although we're still waiting for the fore deadwood the transformation has been surprising. Holly Mae had been looking like a fishing boat hull or possibly a small pilot cutter but now with this extra depth she suddenly has the appearance of a Falmouth Quay Punt.