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Joints provide essential support and movement as connections between the bones. Any damage caused by injury and/or disease can cause a lot of pain and problems. Many conditions can lead to painful joints such as Rheumatoid Arthritis, Osteoarthritis, Gout, Bursitis, to name a few. Nearly 1 in every 3 adults report suffering from joint pain. Knee pain is the most common, followed by shoulder and hip pain. A report in the United States found roughly 52.5 million adults suffered from Arthritis between 2010-2012 and projected to rise to 78.4 million adults by 2040.
There are many people that suffer with chronic joint pain who never see a doctor. Generally speaking, many have very little understanding about arthritis and inflammation. Many adults assume that their aches and pain are associated with the natural way of aging, which they shouldn't be. This assumption and lack of attention to this serious matter can quickly lead to unnecessary joint deterioration and loss of quality of life.
If you allow the joint pain and inflammation to remain unchecked, the joints will become more and more restricted of proper motion. The degeneration of this range of motion will begin to limit the circulation the joint(s) and place even more strain on the joints below as they will have to move even more to compensate.
Can you prevent continued joint damage caused by Gout, Arthritis, and Inflammation?
Yes! - and it is crucial to take the necessary steps to do just that. Allowing these conditions to flourish can eventually lead to debilitating pain and irreversible damage. Inflammation is at the root of all diseases. When left unchecked you could be putting yourself at risk of not only the aforementioned problems, but also placing you on a path to even worse conditions such as Cancer.
Check any medications you are on to see if joint pain may be a side effect. The list of medications that can cause joint inflammation is quite extensive, unfortunately.
Maintain a healthy weight -- Excess food promotes inflammatory response and fat cells increase inflammation. Excess weight also adds unnecessary pressure on your joints.
Exercise -- Reduces weight, adds healthy muscle, and reduces stress.
Reduce/Avoid Stress -- Stress is very acidic and toxic to the body. Stress can be a key factor in disease growth.
Get enough sleep -- Adequate sleep is essential to your health. Be sure to seek non-drug options if you are having trouble with insomnia.
Eat healthy, pH balanced meals and avoid processed foods.
Drink enough pure water for your body weight -- 1/2 oz per pound of your body weight.
Be sure your digestive system is healthy -- Close to 80% of the immune system resides in the digestive tract. Healthy bacteria is beyond important!
Provide your body with extra nutrient resources from a high quality multivitamin specifically tailored to your body's needs.
Consider a high-quality antioxidant and anti-inflammatory product.


NASHVILLE, Tenn.—A new poll of United Methodists in the United States shows that issues related to human sexuality rank significantly lower than other concerns, and members want the church to engage on this issue and bring a positive perspective to the discussion.
Creating disciples of Christ, spiritual growth and youth involvement are among the top priorities for U.S. church members, according to the survey, commissioned by United Methodist Communications. The research is based on a May 30-June 1 survey of United Methodist members in the United States. The research was conducted by Corporate Research of Greensboro, N.C., and Research Now of Dallas. It had a 4.4 percent margin of error.
Seventy-six percent of members said the church "should engage and bring positive perspective" to society's discussion of issues related to sexuality.
More than 90 percent of respondents said The United Methodist Church should not split over issues related to human sexuality. Sixty-three percent said the issue of sexual orientation and same-gender marriage is "diverting the church from more important things." They ranked it 8th in importance among issues facing the church today.
The most important issues, according to members, are creating disciples of Christ (39 percent of respondents ranked it as first or second in importance); youth involvement (27 percent); members' spiritual growth (24 percent); decline in membership (19 percent); poverty (17 percent); children at risk (17 percent); and social injustice (16 percent). Sexual orientation and same-gender marriage drew 11 percent.


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The Future of Humanity: a Lecture by Isaac Asimov
I recall hearing, when
I was still young, a lecture by Isaac Asimov, who was famous then as a science-fiction writer, but was also perhaps the most notable science writer of his generation. At the end of his lecture a woman asked Asimov a question relating to some problematic human behavior. Fifty years have dimmed the memory of what the problem was, but Avimov's answer remained fixed in my mind. "People are stupid," Asimov replied. That was it. The audience laughed. Asimov had one great flaw as a writer, he did not write about Zombies. No woner his readership has dropped off so much in the last few years.
Topic: The Future of Humanity
Place: Newark College of Engineering
INTRODUCTION: (unidentified person)
It is now my great pleasure to introduce to you a man who is probably the most prolific science fiction author in the world today. And, he's also a very learned man...and I'm not going to talk to you anymore because he's so much smarter than I am. I'm just going to...well that's not saying much, but...I'm just going to bring him right out here now. Uhhh...would you please welcome Dr. Isaac Asimov.
[applause]
Dr. Asimov's words:
Thank you, thank you. I have...can you hear me as I talk now, or do I have to lean into this?
[no response]
Can you hear me when I speak like this? Anyone?
[some of the group responds that they can understand him.]
I had a pretty exciting time coming to Newark.
[group laughs]
Because you see, my correspondence was from my office. Which is not where I live. And when I was told that I would be picked up I carefully wrote a very clear letter explaining exactly where I lived. Which made it inevitable that they send the people to my office.
[group laughs slightly]
As I stood there in the street, waiting for the car, listening to the minutes tick away, realizing I had to be up here at eight o'clock...I grew desperate. Finally on the intercom, I called my wife and said: "Would you call my office and ask if there are any jerks there looking for me".
She did, and then she called back, and she said that's where they were, so I told them to come here. I said: "Why did you do that?" I said "It's four blocks. They'll never make it!"
They almost didn't.
I had to wait another ten minutes.
[group laughs mildly]
Then, but finally we got here with five minutes to spare. And we knocked at a locked door.
And a security guard opened it, and said: "You can't come in".
[group laughs heartily]
And the two young men who were with me, who looked like college students...very unsavory characters...
...said: "Well that's allright about us", he says, "But this is the lecturer". And the guard peered at me, and he said: "that's the lecturer?" And they said yes. "I happen to know that the lecturer is upstairs"
[group laughs very heartily]
So we went through another door where there wasn't any guard.
And here I am. Now this other lecturer isn't going to say a word to you, but I'll bet he collects the fee.
Ahhh... But anyway, now you see why I hate to travel. My discussion on the future of man applies very, very well to what has just happened to me as you will shortly see. Let me explain.
I once, when I was not quite nineteen, wrote a story called "Trends". It was the first story I ever sold to John Campbell of the old "Astounding Science Fiction". It appeared in the July 1939 issue.
And in it I dealt with the first flight around the Moon and back. I had it placed in the 1970's. The first attempt, which was a failure, was in 1973. And the second attempt, which was a success, was in 1978. The actual flight took place in 1968, so I was ten years conservative. In addition, my flight was all there was, whereas in real life the flight around the Moon was preceded by all kinds of orbital and sub-orbital flights, and dockings, and mid-course-corrections, and communication satellites, and navigation satellites...everything under the sun.
So you can see how wrong I was. In fact I was even wronger than that because when I wrote my story back in 1939...38, it was printed in 39...When I wrote that story, I had definite ideas on how the space flight was to take place.
First place, I had my inventor build a spaceship in his back yard.
In the second place, I took the attitude that any man who good enough to build a spaceship was good enough to fly the spaceship.
I mean the inventor was the astronaut; a great saving in time and labor.
Furthermore, I didn't bother establishing any computer banks anywhere...especially not in Texas. Because to this day, to be perfectly honest with you, and that's what I would like to be, perfectly honest. To be perfectly honest with you, I don't really see what the big deal is about getting to the Moon with the computers and the mid-course-corrections. I know you are a bunch of engineers, and you know better than I do, but I ask you...once you get there beyond the atmosphere, do you or do you not see the Moon?
[group laughs, and then applauds]
And if you see the moon steer for it, right?
In fact the only thing that bugged me...the only thing that bugged me in that story is where you launch the spaceship from. I lived in Brooklyn all my life, and I looking around Brooklyn I could see there was no place you could safely launch a spaceship...
...without arousing the anger of the citizenry.
And so I thought that I had better launch it outside Brooklyn somewhere. And that sort of promptly got me into trouble because I wasn't sure, for certain, that there was any place outside Brooklyn.
I mean I heard rumors to that effect, but I'm a pretty difficult fellow to fool. I like definite evidence. But I realized that I have to do something, so I launched the ship...the spaceship...from the farthest limits of the known world. To wit, in Jersey City.
[group very heartily laughs]
I'm not kidding. Really did. And yet I sold this story.
Not only sold this story, but its been reprinted five times. The last time, in 1973. By which time I suspect that most people had a pretty good idea that the details in my story were wrong.
Well why was this do you suppose? I'll tell you. The story was not printed because of any of the engineering details...you should excuse the expression. It was published because I had something in it that the editor had never seen before. I had postulated resistance to space flight. There was a whole organization of people on earth who were sore as anything at the people who were trying to get out into space. They thought people should stay on earth and mind their own business. And this had never been postulated before. Never!
Up till that moment in time, the only way in which space travel was treated was either by having the hero go out to Deneb or someplace, and fight the oyster men there,
...and marry the beautiful princess who lays eggs,
...without any reference whatsoever to earth or the people thereof. On the other hand, the other way of handling space flight was to have the hero land on the Moon, or on some other place thereto akin, and then come back and receive a ticker tape parade with everyone being very pleased at this heroic action.
It never occurred to anybody that there might actually be resistance to the whole notion; people might think it was a rotten idea and a waste of money.
After I wrote the story, again, nobody had the idea. I don't think another story ever appeared in which there was any hint of opposition to space flight. I mean, on principle. Until such time as the opposition did develop.
And so you are entitled to ask how is it possible that an eighteen year old boy, very unsophisticated an naive, who literally and honestly was dubious as to whether there was anyplace outside Brooklyn. How it was possible that he could see something clearly that older and thicker heads failed to see?
And it goes against the grain to have to explain this to you because I would much prefer to have you think I was very smart, and had some kind of key to the wisdom of the universe. I mean, that's a great thing to be able to impress you with. But instead I'm going to have to tell you the truth, and you're going to see how disgustingly simple the whole thing was.
I was going to Columbia University at the time, and as I don't need to tell any of you here, the tuition rates were something appalling. I mean, as I recall it was three hundred and sixty-five dollars a semester.
[mild laugh from crowd]
And I couldn't afford it. And so I looked about for all kinds of things to do in order to eke out the tuition.And one of the things I did was to join the NYA, National Youth Administration, which was a kind of relief for deserving students. They gave you little sinecure jobs, and paid you the munificent sum of fifteen dollars a month. And this enabled you to get through your tuition.
And the job I got was to serve as a kind of secretary to a sociologist who was preparing a book entitled "The Social Resistance to Technological Change". And what I was supposed to do was as follows: I had to go to the library with a list of references from him, and ask for the books. Turn to the pages where I was to find the reference, copy them out longhand...because this was the days before Xerox. Luckily too, otherwise I would have starved. Copied them out longhand, took them home, typed them up. Now, it was impossible for me to copy them out and type them up without reading them.
[mild laughter]
As a result, I read perhaps ninety percent of the book. Because you must understand how learned books are written in case you ever want to write a learned book. First thing you do is get a thousand references, chosen at random...
You then put them into the book, in the order you reach them...
And stick two or three lines of your own between each of them to act as mortar...
And you're all set.
Well, when I read all of these references I discovered, to my amazement, that all through history there had been resistance...and bitter, exaggerated, last-stitch resistance...to every significant technological change that had taken place on earth. Usually the resistance came from those groups who stood to lose influence, status, money...as a result of the change. Although they never advanced this as their reason for resisting it. It was always the good of humanity that rested upon their hearts.
For instance, when the stagecoaches came into England, the canal owners objected. Not that they would lose money, although they would, but they feared for humanity. Because as the stagecoaches tore along at fifteen miles an hour, the air whipping past the nostrils of the people on board, would by Bernoulli's Principle, suck all the air out of the lungs.
You know, when I tell this story to a non-engineering audience I can't mention Bernoulli's Principle, which is what gives it that real taste.
Well naturally the stagecoach people laughed heartily, and all they had to do was run a stagecoach at fifteen miles an hour with people inside and show them there's no harm. But they memorized the argument...for when the railroads came in.
Well then, reading all this, and this was over a period of months...I read it, and read it...I said to myself: "Hey, you know I can make a syllogism out of this" because I had taken up liberal arts and the humanities, and they taught me about syllogisms.
I don't know if you guys know about syllogisms. It's... The units of a syllogism is one Aristotle.
Well, see, that's...to put it in engineering terms: One Aristotle per second is a fast syllogism.
It goes this way: Major premise: All technological changes meet resistance. Minor Premise: Space travel represents a technological change. Conclusion:
This is the tricky one!
There will be resistance to space travel.
And I said "Gee!". And I wrote the story and sold it. My first story, it's Astounding, and they printed it. And here I am, a genius at having foreseen this.
But now, the question is, if it's that simple you can understand how a dumb kid of eighteen could think of it. The question now arises, how was it all that everyone else didn't see it?
And this leads us to the conclusion which you could also have gotten from my adventures in getting to Newark. Which is this: People are stupid.
[group laughs, and applauds]
We wouldn't be in the mess we're in if that weren't so. Because believe me, we're in a mess. Now, it isn't very difficult to see that we're in a mess, or even to see years ago that we were in a mess.
Let me tell you about a story I read in back in 1933. There's a gentleman here who has a copy of "Before the Golden Age" in which I tell this story. I trust that gentleman will not listen.
In 1933, I read a story called "The Man Who Awoke" by Lawrence Manning. In it, did the hero wish to see what the world of the future would be like, and he was not in the kind of science-fiction story where he would have a time machine, so he had to do something else. What he did was to invent a potion, which when he drank it, put him to sleep for five thousand years, and then woke him up a little hoarse, but otherwise OK.
Now when I was young, I was only thirteen at the time, I read that and it seemed perfectly good. But now, you see, these days I apply engineering principles to something like that. I say to myself: "Gee, a potion that puts you to sleep for five thousand years and then wakes you up unharmed. How do you test it?"
I figured it out how, it's allright, there is a way. You give a smaller amount to a dog...
..and wait five thousand years.
Anyway, he found himself a vault in which he would lie undisturbed for five thousand years.
Gee, the Great Pyramid at Giza didn't suffice to keep Cheops undisturbed for maybe five hundred years, let alone five thousand, but that's allright. Nobody's looking for this guy.
[mild chuckle from group]
And he stayed there five thousand years, and then woke up unharmed. Oh, give or take a few months; I mean, you know, you can't be too exact on a thing like this. And he somehow thought that he was going to come out and see a very futuristic world with all kinds of extremely super-modernistic devices flying through the air, and magical food pills and all that. And instead, what did he find? He found a very constricted world. A world in which everybody lived rather...rather not very lavish lives. You know, they dressed in homespun, and they walked everywhere, and they worried a lot about what the next meal would be. And so he said to them "What is this?" he says. "You guys are leading such a constricted lives. What's all this futurism I expected?" So they said "Oh well, you don't understand." He said: "We're short on energy. Very short on energy because some thousands of years ago there was a generation or two of human beings who burnt up all the coal and oil on Earth, and left nothing for us." And our hero said "Strange you should say that". He said "I happen to be from the very generation that did this for you!"
[mild chuckle from the group]
And so they tried to lynch him, naturally.
[mild laughter from the group]
And he got back to the vault just in time, slammed the door, and took another potion to see if anything new happened five thousand years later still.
That was the first of five stories, but that was the one I always remembered because, you know...they always say...used to say when I was a kid that science fiction was escape literature. They sneered at us. I mean, here are a bunch of rotten kids, usually with pimples on their faces. And with big glasses; especially those big glasses. And also they were snot-nosed kids too smart for their own good. Always going around getting high marks in class.
I mean in every possible way, not decent kids.
And here were a whole world of decent kids worried about the important things in life like baseball scores. And matching cards, or whatever the heck they did. And playing hooky from school. Real things. And here are these guys reading science fiction to escape from reality. To escape from this world. Literally get out there. And stupid things like the Moon, and missiles, population problems, and all sorts of things like that. And, for instance, the possibility that the coal and oil might vanish.
Heck, when I read that when I was thirteen, I started thinking. I didn't think in syllogisms then, but I now realize as I look back on it, that it amounted to a syllogism.
Major premise: The Earth's volume is finite Minor Premise: The total volume of coal and oil on the Earth is less than the total volume of the Earth Conclusion: The volume of coal and oil are finite.
You would think that this was so obvious! Now, let's start and make this conclusion the major premise of the next syllogism:
Major Premise: The volume of coal and oil are finite Minor Premise: We are burning some every day Conclusion: We will use it all up eventually
Well, I got that in 1933. And so you see how science fiction helps you escape. It helps you escape to the kinds of problems that'll keep you worried for forty years.
Before the rest of you guys!
Well, here we are. We have just come through a thirty year period of mankind's maximum prosperity, on the whole. We've done very well since World War Two. We have...the world as a whole has eaten better, has lived better, has had a higher standard of living than it has ever had before. Now, you might tell me that through this entire thirty years there have been millions...hundreds of millions of people always hungry, always starving, with very little, and I'll say yes; it's been rotten. My point is that before now, it's always been rotten-ER. And we haven't really appreciated how temporary this is.
For one thing, we've had ample supplies of food, and part of the reason for that was that we've had an extremely good spell of weather for the last thirty years. In fact, there are some people who say that this last thirty years was the best thirty year spell of weather that we have had in the last thousand years. Now you may remember cold spells, and floods, and droughts, and all the rest of this stuff. But there has been less of it the world over than usual. In addition, just as we've had this good weather, we've also been applying energy at a far greater rate than ever before to farm machinery, to irrigation machinery. In addition, we've been using insecticides and pesticides of various sorts, to sort of clobber those little beasties and those weeds who think they're going to get some of our food. And in addition to that we've also developed new strains of grain, so-called "green revolution", that grow a lot of protein very fast. And what with all these things put together, our food supply has been going up.
But now, look what happens.
The very thing that makes it possible for us to use more and more energy is our industrial technologized world. And another thing that our industry produces is dust. And the air is dustier now than its ever been before in human history. Except perhaps very temporarily after a large volcanic eruption.
This means that the Earth's albedo, the percentage of light from the sun that it reflects back into space before it hits the ground, has been going up slightly because dusty air reflects more light than clear air does. And...well, not very much more, but enough. It has been making the temperature of the Earth drop since 1940. It's been going down steadily. Again, not very much. You're probably not aware that the summers are cold, or that the winters are extraordinarily icy, they're not. The drop in temperature may be one degree. But it's enough to cut down on the growing season in the northern climates. It makes the weather a little bit worse. It sends the storm tracts further south, so that the Sahara Desert creeps southward, so that the monsoon rains in India fail a little bit. Just enough so that the harvests aren't as good as they used to be, and the Earth's reserve supply of food sinks to it's lowest in recent history.
And just as this is happening...and it's going to continue happening because the air isn't going to get un-dusty unless we stop our industrial activity. And if we stop our industrial activity, that's going to be because we've suffered some complete disaster.
So, the weather isn't going to turn better. The air is going to stay dusty, and it's going to continue getting a little colder. And at the same time, it's getting hard to get energy. Energy is much more expensive than it used to be; oil prices are up. And that means that fertilizer is more expensive than it used to be. And it turns out that the green revolution depends on strains of grain that require...yes, they do what they're supposed to do...but they require a lot of irrigation; a lot of water, and a lot of fertilizer. And the fertilizer isn't there. And the irrigation machinery is hard to run now with expensive oil. And, of course, the pesticides are produced in high-energy chemical factories; their price goes up. Everything is combining to cut down on the food supply. And to arrange it so that in years to come, we may have trouble keeping our present level of food, let alone increasing it.
Of course you might say: "Well, heck! Mankind got along thirty years ago, before the good weather spell came, when there were droughts in the midwest, and dust bowls, and when there was comparatively much less farm machinery in use, and irrigation machinery, and there was no green revolution, and we weren't using pesticides...except Paris Green and other tasty things like that. And when we weren't worrying, we weren't worrying about all the other means of improving the food supply either, so we'll go back to what it was then, and we'll live the simple life."
There are always people who think that all we have to do, after all is abandoned, all this foolish technology that we've made ourselves slave to, and go back like our ancestors and live close to the soil with the good things of nature. That would be great if we could do it. If we could go back to the way it was before World War II, technologically, we could support all the people that lived on Earth before World War II. The catch is that in these last thirty years one billion and a half people have been added to the population of the Earth. And we have been feeding them largely because of all these things that we have done in these last thirty years, the good weather, the fertilizers, and the pesticides, and the irrigation, and the green revolution, and all the rest of it. If we abandon that, we also have to abandon a billion and a half people; and there are going to be very few volunteers for the job.
Alas, this goes in general. We are in a situation where we cannot go back. We cannot abandon technology. We can't say "Well, heck! We'll go back to the good old fireplace with wooden logs! We don't need this damned central heating!" There's two things about the fireplace with those good old natural wooden logs. In the first place, it's a rotten system for heating the house, which is why everyone switched to first the coal furnace, and then the oil furnace. They didn't do that because they hated nature. They didn't do that because they turned their backs on things that were nice, and just wanted filthy modern stuff, no.
[group quietly chuckles]
The wood fire doesn't work! That's what it doesn't!
And in the second thing, if all of us decide to have wood fires the way our pioneering ancestors did, we'd better remember that there were maybe three million of our pioneering ancestors, and there are two hundred million of us. And there ain't enough wood. And the price will go up instantly. And there will be a black market. And the forests will be destroyed.
And the same will be if you substitute for electric lights, candles. There's something very romantic about studying by candlelight unless you try it.
And if you think studying by candlelight is bad, wait until you try to run a television set by candlelight.
Well then, what are we going to do in the future? Population is still going up. Population right now is higher than it's ever been in the world's history; it stands at just under four billion. And the increase, the rate of increase is higher that it's ever been in world history; two percent a year. Never been anywhere near that high. Right now, the world's population is going up by two hundred thousand hungry mouths every day. By the year 2000, barring catastrophe, the Earth's population is going to be seven billion. Nobody thinks the Earth's food supply is going to nearly double by the year 2000. It may be that our food supply won't go up much at all. There's going to be terrific amounts of famine. What can we do about it?
Well, throughout the history of life on Earth, there have been periods where a given species has, for one reason or another, spurted it's numbers upward temporarily. There's been a surprisingly good supply of food, the weather has been just right, somehow there have been no predators...something has happened, and the numbers went up. They always went down again, and always the same way; by an increase in the death rate. The large numbers of the species starved when the food ran short. They fell victim to some disease, when as a result of being on short rations they were weaker. They made good marks for predators. It always went down. And the same thing will happen to mankind, we don't have to worry. The death rate will go up, and we will die off through violence, through disease, through famine.
The only thing is, must we have our numbers controlled in the same way that all other species have them controlled? We have something others don't; we have brains. We can foresee. We can plan. We can see solutions that are humane. And there is a solution that is humane, and that is to lower the birth rate.
No species in the history of the Earth has ever voluntarily lowered it's birth rate in order to control it's population, because they didn't know what birth rate was, how to control it, that there was a population problem. We're the only species in the history of the Earth.
There is no need to decide whether to stop the population increase or not. There is no need to decide whether the population will be lowered or not. It will, it will!
The only thing mankind has to decide is whether to let it be done in the old inhumane method that nature has always used, or to invent a new humane method of our own. That is the only choice that faces us; whether to lower the population catastrophically by a raised death rate, or to lower it humanely by a lowered birth rate. And we all make the choice. And I have a suspicion that we won't make the right choice, which is the tragedy of humanity right now.
But supposing we do? Supposing we imagine that we have entered the 21st century, and that we have survived? Then the question is: what kind of a world will we have survived into? What will the twenty-first century world be? If we survive, if there is a civilization, if there is a technology.
Well, in the first place it's going to be a low birth rate world. It'll have to be; that's the conditions of survival. It'll have to be a very low birth rate world, because the population will be too high at the beginning of the 21st century, and it may take a century to lower the population to some reasonable value.
So, that throughout the century, the birth rate will have to be lower than the death rate; and the death rate, we hope, will be low. So that babies will be comparatively rare, mothers will be never multiple mothers very much. I imagine that it will be the kind of world where every woman will be expected to have no more than two children. If she has only one child, good. And if she has no children, fine.
I mean, people think of that, instantly they think of race suicide. "Oh my goodness! We're all going to vanish!" We will have billions of people on Earth, more than we have ever had prior to this century! And through all of history before, we've had lower populations. No one worried that we'd vanish from the Earth!! And besides, if it looked as though we were going to vanish from the Earth, all that has to happen is the word goes out: have babies. And you'd be surprised how fast we can make it up.
Do you know that through all of the disasters in history, that only one disaster as far as we know has ever actually lowered the world's population? The Black Death in the 1300's. Which may have killed off one third of all humanity. Lowered the world population, and took it a century to make it up.
Those were the days when death rates were very high; of course it would take a century to make it up. Nowadays we can make it up in maybe twenty years.
And since then, the disasters that have come: World War I, World War II, the Influenza pandemic of 1918...haven't even made a wiggle in the rise of human population.
So we have great powers of increasing like rabbits. We needn't worry if we allow the population to drop. God, how easily we could reverse that if we had to.
But, there are other things to remember. If we do have a very low birth rate, then what are we going to do with women?
Throughout history, the purpose and function of womankind has been to have lots of children. Now, no sane woman, if she came upon this whole thing cold, would want a lot of children; they're a lot of trouble, and they're dangerous to the health...
[group laughs moderately]
Seriously! When the germ theory finally came in and people learned how to arrange it so that women could have babies in reasonable safety, the world discovered to their surprise that women had a longer life expectancy than men. This had never been understood before, because throughout history women had, on the average, lived years and years less than men had. With all the dangers men faced, the hard work in the fields, the hunting accidents, the killings in war, everything else, women died faster for one reason and one reason only: childbirth. Every woman had one baby after another until one of them killed her. Usually, it didn't take long.
Well then, why do women do this? Because they are carefully told that being a wife and mother is the most glorious thing in the world, the one thing they're fit for, the most noble activity they can possibly have, and...and this is told to them until they believe it. And if they don't believe it, there's a lot of trouble made for them.
Well, I won't go into the whole thing. I suspect that you women know all about this already, and you men would rather not listen.
But notice the difference: once you want women not to have children, you're going to have to give them something else to do! It is absolutely impossible to tell a woman that she can't have children, and at the same time that she can't do anything else either except maybe wash an occasional dish.
[mild laugh from a few of the women in the group]
Because if you tell a woman that, she'll figure out some way to have a baby.
[swelling mild laughter from group]
I think I know the way, too!
Well then, in the world of the 21st century in order to keep the birth rate down, we're going to have to give women interesting things to do that'll make them glad to stay out of the nursery. And the interesting things that I can think of that we give women to do are essentially the same as the interesting things that we give men to do. I mean we're going to have women help in running the government, and science, and industry...whatever there is to run in the 21st century. And what it amounts to is we're going to have to pretend...when I say "we", I mean men...we're going to have to pretend that women are people.
And you know, pretending is a good thing because if you pretend long enough, you'll forget you're pretending and you'll begin to believe it.
[mild laugh from group]
In short, the 21st century, if we survive, will be a kind of women's lib world. And as a matter of fact, it will be a kind of people's lib world because, you know, sexism works bad both ways. If the women have some role which they must constantly fulfill whether they like it or not, men have some role which they would have to constantly fulfill whether they like it or not. And if you fix it so that women can do what suits them best, you can fix it so that men can do what suits them best too. And we'll have a world of people. And only incidentally will they be of opposite sexes instead of in every aspect of their life.
And then, here's another thing that you will find in such a world: you'll have to find age-blindness too, in addition to sex-blindness.
You have to understand that throughout history, mankind has lived in a world of youth. You know, we talk about the youth-centeredness of our culture. There's nothing else it can be. Throughout history, the life expectancy has been somewhere between twenty-five and thirty-five, depending upon the time and the place. Very few people have lived into middle-age and beyond. Very few. We've had a world of young, even today in those lands where the birth rate is higher...considerably higher...than the death rate. You have places where half the people are younger than fifteen.
Well naturally, where most of the people are young, you concentrate on the young! When there are very few old people, you don't worry about them very much. They come in handy in their small numbers. The old men were the repositories of tradition. In the days before we had written records...let alone electronic records and computers...the only people who remembered the way it used to be a long time ago...forty years ago...were old men with gray beards! So you respected them!! They represented wisdom!! And you let them rule the state and the church. The word "priest" comes from the Greek word for old, and the word senator comes from the Latin word for old...as you can tell by the relationship to senna which also comes.
And of course, the old women were feared. There were fewer old women than there were old men, because the only way a woman could become an old woman was to either have no children, or be extraordinarily lucky. Usually the former. And old women somehow suffered a great deal more than old men did because they lacked that magnificent sign of age: the beard.
Think about it! An old man had a long gray beard that covered up his entire face; it's like looking at some kind of thicket.
A woman, however, had a bare face so that you could see the wrinkles! Which ordinary people hardly ever saw because there were hardly ever any old people to have wrinkles. Not only that, people generally lost their teeth by the time they were forty because there was no such thing as dentistry. So that, the old women had gums that came together, and it brought the chin and the nose close together, which looked funny. In fact, if you will look at the caricature of "the Witch" as we see it now on Halloween. It's just an old woman without teeth, and with a wrinkled face. And I think a great many of the fears of witches really represented the fears of the strange appearance of old women...which of course nowadays we don't have because old women look young.
But what do you do in a society in which the number of old people increases? You have a lot of old people just when you don't need them anymore. We don't need them as repositories of tradition anymore. We've got everything in writing, and in documents. And we're getting more, and more, and more old people all the time. The life expectancy now is seventy now in the United States; people never die for goodness sakes! I mean, it's one of the reasons why there's a generation gap; all the old people hang on to the jobs until they're forcibly retired. And then they must be forcibly retired. And there's nothing else you can think of doing for them so you give them a watch, and a pat on the back, and a ticket to a park bench.
Now in the world of the 21st century, it's going to get worse and worse. There are going to be few young, and there's going to be even a more extended life span perhaps, so that old people beget more and more. What are we going to do with them?
We know what we think of old people. They're sort of drags. They're sort of dead-heads. They don't have bright thoughts the way young people do. They're not creative. They're not ingenious. They're not daring. They're sort of stick-in-the-mud. Conservative. Stodgy. I mean, they ain't with it.
[very mild chuckle from group]
Well, if we're going to have more old people, and we're going to avoid dying of over-population, we're going to die of old age! And we're not going to die with a bang; we're going to die with a whimper.
Well you know, that may not be so. Let me point out that our youth-centered culture is youth-centered particularly in one important way: education. For years, and centuries, and millennia, it has always been assumed that education is the prerogative of the very young. That there's such a thing as finishing your education.
As a matter of fact, young kids aren't stupid. Young kids go to school, and they see that old people don't. Now, going to school is a drag. And every child realizes that when he grows up, one of the rewards of growing up, of making it, is going to be...not to go to school.
School is the price of being young and helpless! Not going to school is the reward of being grown-up, and strong, and powerful. You associate school with weakness and childishness. You associate non-school with strength and adulthood. Every kid knows that he is going to be rewarded for reaching the age of sixteen, or whatever age he's allowed to get out, he's going to be rewarded by never having to go to school again, never having to open up another book, never having to learn another fact, never having to think another thought. We teach kids that to be grown up is to be able to be stupid for the rest of your life.
Allright, you take a person who has quit school at sixteen. Who has been taught that he never has to think again. And he lives on for another thirty years complete with whatever he can remember that he was taught in grade school thirty years before, and nothing else. And then you say: "Well here's a guy with no new thoughts. Here's a guy without any creative ideas. Here's a guy who's just a dead-head." And that's the way old people are.
That's the way you make old people be. An then you use as an excuse for making old people like that the fact that you think that's the way they are. It's called arguing in a circle. We won't be able to do that anymore. In the 21st century, we're going to have to think of education not as a task to be completed, but as a process to be continued.
The one thing that really separates the human species from all other species of plants or animals, is that we can learn with far greater facility than any other species can. Now, whatever it is that a species can do well, it enjoys doing! There's no question but that a bird must enjoy flying. That a fish must enjoy swimming. I mean, our great philosophers say that in their songs, you know? Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly!
Well men have to learn the process, which is something we are adapted for, is pleasurable...unless the pleasure is beaten out of us in childhood...very carefully and very doggedly!!! Give mankind half a chance!! And learning is a delightful process that he will do all his lifelong! In fact people do do it. Even those who are most dead-set against book learning will learn things that they like; the best way to bowl, the latest baseball scores, who knows what! What they want to learn, they learn with great facility.
And the thing is in the 21st century, if we survive, we can imagine that our technological society will advance even further. There will be even more computerization and automation. The dull work of the world will be done by machines. Men and women themselves will be able to do the kind of work they want to do. Undoubtedly, some of them will want to be research scientists, or symphony conductors, or they will want to be great artists, or writers, who knows! There will be enough people who will want to be that, and there will be people who will want to learn how to bowl perfectly, or how to collect leaves, or how to build battleships out of toothpicks. What's the difference? Whatever it is you do that makes you happy, and adds to the joyousness of the world, is justified. And there will be room for everything. And in an extended life span, if say when you are forty, you decide to start all over again and study Greek, and become a big expert in Greek literature, who's to stop you? I foresee a 21st century in which the educational process will be organized so that every human being has a right to institutional help for education in any field he wishes, in any direction he wishes, at any age he wishes. Education and learning will be the name of the game.
And when that happens, I'm sure it will be surprising how completely useful people can be throughout their lives, until actual physical senility hits.
And I think this will be a great life. It'll be a world without racism too. It'll have to be, or it won't survive for the simple reason that the only way we're going to apply a lower birth rate, is to apply it all over the world in a fair and non-selective manner. It's the only way it will work. As it is, one of the problems we have, and perhaps the most intransigent, is there are sections of the earth, sections of the world's population, who strongly suspects that when people like myself talk strenuously about population control and lowering the birth rate, that what we really have in mind is getting some of the people that we secretly think aren't the best in the world, to lower their birth rates. Reduce their numbers. Get rid of them altogether, perhaps, then the rest of us can have a better time on this earth. Maybe even there is some people who really think this way. But as long as this feeling exists, it's going to be very difficult to get people to lower their birth rates. And I suppose if we can somehow succeed in convincing the world generally that nobody hates anybody, and that there's room on earth for all kinds of people, then it will succeed. And in a world like that, you see, everyone is going to have to pretend they're not racist. And if they pretended long enough, they may get to believe it. And the world will be much better off for that reason.
You know, we can talk sometimes about managing our own evolution. About cloning people. About deciding how with genetic engineering we're going to improve ourselves. But how do we improve ourselves? We don't know. We've improved domestic animals a great way. We've got cows that give milk by the hundreds of gallons. We've got sheep that are wool...all the way through.
We've got turkeys that are all breast.
And horses that can run like the wind.
But you see, these things are all things that please us. We don't have to ask them what pleases them! But when it comes to human beings, when we're going to change ourselves, we have to ask what pleases us! And we don't really know.
Now I suppose lots of people are going to... Supposing you could arrange everybody so that they all have certain characteristics. What would you want them to have? So...we want everyone should be geniuses. Well, I've got some personal knowledge of geniuses, and let me tell you one in a long while is all you can stand.
I mean, I personally don't want anyone around me who's a genius; I can just barely stand myself.
[group heartily laughs, and then applauds]
Or we want everyone who's sort of a deep thinker, everyone who's sort of sensitive, and kind, and humane...naah! Any race, any set of human beings that are all alike are not only dull, but useless, really.
I was asked a few days ago...really was, I'm not making this up...whether I didn't think an intellectual elite ought to run the world. And I said, by an intellectual elite, you mean people like me? Because I didn't know what he meant by an intellectual elite. I thought maybe it might mean people like him, in which case no!
And he said: "Yes, people like you". And I said no, that would be no good because I'm only smart in certain ways, and very stupid in other ways. And if everybody was like me, and we were running the world, we'd all be smart in the same way, and all be stupid in the same way, and it's the stupidness that's going to kill us. I said, what we need are people of all kinds running the world! Some of whom are smart in one way, and some of whom are smart in the other way, and with everyone's smartness in different directions, so that they can sort of cancel out; so that everybody's stupidity can be caught by someone else's smartness in the same direction.
In the same way, that's what we want. The greatest...the greatest gift that mankind has is it's vast gene pool. All the different genes it has. All the different characteristics; the smart and the stupid, the strong and the weak. Because it's the variety that makes it possible for us to meet different emergencies, and what is weak under one set of conditions might be strong under another, what is stupid at one time is smart at another, and so on. We can't throw out anything for fear that that's exactly what we'll need someday.
The way I like to put it is, naturally we all think it's much better to be a brilliant nuclear physicist, than to just be a plumber. But, who would you rather live next door to, brilliant nuclear physicist or a plumber? And unless you're married to one, think: how often would you wake up in the middle of the night badly needing a nuclear physicist?
[group laughs and lightly applauds]
Well then, I'm coming now to the end of the 21st century. We've got a world without sexism, ageism, racism. We're not going to have a world without war, but that's nothing unusual. We've got a world without war now.
You don't think we have? Think about it. What kind of wars can we afford to fight? Two kinds. We can afford to fight a little war where you send bombs in envelopes, or stick some sticks of dynamite in an automobile in a busy place. There's no way of stopping that, and these days explosives are cheap. But what are you gonna win with a war like that? You can keep it up for a thousand years, and kill individuals, but you don't make any decisions that way. It's not really a war, you're just amusing yourself!
On the other kind of a war that we can fight is a all out nuclear war. It's cheap. It only takes half an hour.
And we have all the weapons we need. The capital investment has already been made. The only thing is that after the half hour is over, there's nothing left to do, and very few generals are going to be promoted in that half hour.
Which instantly kills it for the military.
Well then, can we fight the old-fashioned fun war, where you and an enemy choose up sides, and you pick out a place, and you throw bombs at them, and they throw bombs at you for four or five years, and then you decide who wins and who looses, who pays the indemnity, and who does the helping...
Can't do that anymore, because nobody's got the gasoline for it.
[group laughs and then applauds]
Except the Arabs.
And they can't fight a war unless somebody gives them something to put the gasoline in.
So we are already in a world without war. The only thing is that what we need in the 21st century is a world that realizes it's a world without war.
And one more thing: If we have a world without racism, ageism, sexism, war...it's gonna be a pretty dull world. Here we have lived all through history with a certain amount of excitement and risk in the world, and it's sort of a shame to sort of sit around this careful cold world of the 21st century and thereafter, in which not only is everybody happy, but everyone's very cautious... Because, you know, we live by slogans. Immediately after World War II, our entire foreign policy was based on the slogan "No more Munich's". Until we got into the Vietnam war by shouting that, and now it's "No more Vietnams". And well, in the 21st century, I'll tell you the slogan right now. Those of you who will live into the 21st century, come put a wreath on my grave, because this will be the slogan: "No more 20th centuries".
[group laughs and applauds]
So, everyone is going to be cautious in scientific advances. They're going to ask: "Before we do this, will it destroy the ozone layer? Before we do that is it going to make us too dependent on this or that? What are the side effects? How much cancer will it cause?" You know, that sort of thing. So that you'll be moving very...and you figure what kind of a world is that? You're going to sort of crawl yourself to death!
Well, in the 21st century we'll have to find a new horizon that's right there; out there. We'll go back to the Moon, only not this time to just get on it and come back. We're going to establish a colony there, and we're going to have a group of people on the Moon who will then be able to make long space flights because they're used to being cooped up and enclosed in an engineering environment subjected to low gravity. And they'll work out other worlds in the solar system.
And then, you know, we can be as risky as we want. The whole thing...we've always lived with risk, and that's been the great thing about life. The trouble is we've now reached the point where risk is risking everything! And you can't afford to risk everything. Until now in world's history, whenever we've had a dark age, its been temporary and local. And other parts of the world have been doing fine. And eventually, they help you get out of the dark age. We are now facing a possible dark age which is going to be world-wide and permanent! That's not fun. That's a different thing. But once we have established many worlds, we can do whatever we want as long as we do it one world at a time.
And out there beyond are the stars.
And the interesting thing is that if we can get through the next thirty years, there's no reason why we can't enter into a kind of plateau which will see the human race last, perhaps, indefinitely...till it evolves into better things...and spread out into space indefinitely. We have the choice here between nothing...and the virtually infinite. And the nice thing about it is that you guys in the audience today, when I say guys I mean it in a general term embracing gals...when you guys in the audience today will still be barely middle-aged when you will know which choice has been made.
See, I've been so shrewd that I fixed it so that I was born in 1920.
Which means I'll be safely dead.
Before the crunch comes!
But you guys will see for yourself. I hope you see a world in which mankind has decided to be sane. But I must say in all honesty that I figure that the chances are against it.
[end of lecture - group applauds for 24 seconds]
Labels: Issac Asimov, The Future of Humanity
Marcel F. Williams said...
Thanks for the post. I've enjoyed reading Asimov novels and short stories since I was a teen!

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The Last Laugh - Stereotypes about Aging
This brilliant film addresses preconceived notions about what is or isn't proper, appropriate, healthy, or recommended for people in the last stages of their lives.
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Last year, Netflix premiered an original movie that challenges clichés and stereotypes about aging. With The Last Laugh, director Greg Pritikin, with Hollywood greats Chevy Chase and Richard Dreyfuss, gives us a comic road movie that invites viewers to reflect on preconceived notions and prejudices about aging.
The idea isn't new. A while back, the movie industry started to make the occasional comedy featuring two, three, or more aging stars. Space Cowboys is an example.
Seeing favorite beloved actresses and actors age makes quite an impact on audiences. These are stars that played a part in your youth, and seeing them grow old reminds you of your own mortality. You watched them on the screen when they were young, beautiful, and fit. Maybe you even fell in love with a few of them.
The Last Laugh is another example of this kind of film, and it makes you think. What are the rules about growing old? What are you supposed to do or not do after a certain age? You don't have to be a famous Hollywood actor to ask yourself these questions. It'll happen to all of us someday.
What we do know is that there are a lot of conventions about what's appropriate and healthy behavior for older adults. Some people feel completely lost trying to fit into those molds and trying to find the meaning that they seem to have lost along the way.
In The Last Laugh, Chevy Chase plays a retired man, Al Hart. Before he retired, Hart was a talent manager for comedians, a job he loved. His family, concerned about his advanced age, insisted that he move to a retirement community.
There, he reunites with his very first client, Buddy Green (played by Richard Dreyfuss). Green was a promising young comic when Al represented him, but he abandoned his potentially successful entertainment career to pursue a more "serious" job and raise a family.
The two spend their time at the retirement community bored out of their minds by the second-hand shows, card games, old stories, and resignation. Al just can't get used to it, so he ends up convincing Buddy to dust off his long-forgotten dream of being a stand-up comedian, and take to the road.
The two decide to drive to New York without telling their families. Their fellow retirees think they've gone insane. Al, as Buddy's agent, gets him gigs all along the way, in the cities and towns they pass on the way to the Big Apple. Their ultimate goal? A big stand-up comedy show that's broadcast on TV.
Stereotypes about aging
Different studies have identified the stereotypes about aging that the elderly often internalize and start to believe about themselves. Levy, Slade, Kunkle, and Klas (2002) described this process. Starting in childhood, we learn about age-related stereotypes, which leads to developing expectations about our own aging process that we don't usually question.
As you age and reach different stages of life, you tend to unconsciously apply the stereotypes that are already internalized to yourself and others. As a result, you modify your perceptions about age and adjust them to the corresponding stereotype. Without realizing it, you make behavioral changes that have physical and psychological consequences.
You create new behavior and leave other kinds of behaviors behind. You try to follow the expectations about what's "normal" and what you "should" do. That's how stereotypes take shape. When someone doesn't fit into the stereotype about how their age group "should" act, it seems strange and inappropriate. Unconventional behaviors often trigger rejection. This is the case for adults over 65 who have frequent sex, which is behavior that we usually associate with other age groups.
An unhealthy attitude
Cuddy, Norton, and Fiske (2005) found that people tend to attribute fewer competencies to older people, and more traits of cordiality. In other words, our stereotype of old age involves fewer abilities and more sympathies. They replicated the study from the United States in six other countries with distinct cultures and got almost the same results.
They showed that people with more negative perceptions of their own aging process didn't live as long as those with more positive perceptions of that stage of life. The difference, on average, was seven years. The researchers observed this phenomenon in both genders and all ethnicities. Also, they found the same results across socio-economic and education levels.
Bargh, Chen, and Burrows conducted another study in 1996 about age-related stereotypes that had fascinating results. They attempted to activate stereotypes about old age in groups of young participants. Researchers used scrambled sentences and words, as well as photographs, to activate the stereotypes. They found that the young people who had had the stereotypes activated actually walked more slowly after the activities.
A lighter take on aging
The Last Laugh does a masterful job of addressing the human need to feel alive until the very end. Your identity is something that you spend your entire life developing. The idea that when you finally reach the end of your life you have to give up the person you've always been is tremendously cruel. We also often ask older adults to give up the very things that make them feel alive and treat them in a way that damages their self-esteem. Aging is a privilege, as long as you don't have to stop feeling alive. The Last Laugh is a good reminder of these ideas, as well as an incredible opportunity for these two actors to get back on the screen, maybe for the last time.
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Diesel Demand In U.S. Seen Sliding Despite Climbing LDV Sales
By Brian Milne | November 3, 2014
By Brian Milne, energy editor, Schneider Electric
The U.S. consumer's past aversion to diesel operated light duty vehicles is subsiding as evidenced by rising vehicle sales and a broader offering of models by auto manufacturers.
Despite this evolution, domestic diesel demand is expected to trend lower in 2017 and thereafter, as heavy duty vehicles increasingly transition to natural gas.
Despite their popularity in Europe, U.S. consumers historically have shunned diesel-operated passenger vehicles, which were loud and belched clouds of black smelly smoke many years ago. As manufacturers cured these ailments and the federal government mandated a reduction in sulfur content to the current 15 parts per million rating since 2006, consumers were still slow in giving up their gasoline operated vehicles and adopting diesel vehicles.
As the negative stigma of diesel vehicles subside, their higher cost is an impediment to sales, with diesel engines far pricier than gasoline's. Moreover, diesel's per gallon retail price holds well above the pump price for gasoline owing to diesel's greater energy density that pushes comparable miles per gallon well above that of gasoline.
In 2012, the Energy Information Administration shows retail diesel fuel averaged $3.97 gallon in the U.S. compared to gasoline's $3.63 gallon, with the difference in 2013 at 41 cents when diesel averaged $3.92 gallon. This year, retail diesel in the U.S. is expected to average $3.85 gallon to gasoline's $3.45 gallon average, and 42 cents more in 2015 at $3.80 gallon.
Diesel-powered vehicles get more mileage out of each gallon of fuel however, typically achieving 30-35% more miles per gallon than comparable vehicles powered by gasoline. Diesel engines are more energy efficient, and diesel fuel contains 10% more energy per gallon than gasoline.
The New York-based PIRA Energy Group assessed the U.S. diesel market in a recent report, showing the share of annual LDV diesel sales doubling from 2% in 2000 to 4% in 2010 with expectations for a 5% share in 2015. PIRA projects diesel's share to reach 10% in 2020 and 14% in 2030, with increased competition from hybrids and electric operated vehicles curtailing its penetration.
Climbing sales of diesel, hybrids and electric LDVs are seen cutting into the share of gasoline LDVs with gasoline's share seen dropping from 97% of all LDV sales in 2000 to 91% in 2015 and 69% in 2030.
As LDV diesel sales ramp up, the fleet will consume more diesel fuel seen by PIRA increasing from less than 300,000 bpd currently to more than 1.0 million bpd by 2030. However, HDVs using diesel fuel is estimated to drop from 2.6 million bpd now to roughly 1.8 million bpd by 2030 despite expectations for an increase in freight ton-miles. HDV fuel demand is seen declining 0.5% each year through 2020.
Efficiency gains in HDVs are part of the reason for the lower fuel demand, but so is a switch to natural gas powered vehicles. The move to CNG and LNG HDVs is expected to be limited near term, with greater penetration projected after 2020. PIRA believes this transition translates into a 3% decline in diesel demand annually from 2020 to 2030.
PIRA estimates total diesel demand in the U.S. will decline from a near-term peak of about 4.0 million bpd in 2015-2016 to 3.5 million bpd by 2030.
PIRA's report can be found here: http://www.fuelsinstitute.org/


The French Senate rejected a motion calling on the government to introduce basic income, but it still decided to form a parliamentary commission aiming at investigating the idea.
Last week was a busy week for basic income in the French Senate. The National Assembly had already debated the topic of basic income several times in the past few months (amendment to the Budget Bill of 2016 and Amendment to the National Digital Republic); it is now the Senate's turn to look deeper into the question of a basic income implementation in France.
Jean Desessard, Senator from the Green Party, who had contributed to the organization of a debate in the Senate last year on this same topic, tabled a draft resolution on May 19th that called on the government "to take the necessary steps to introduce a basic income". This political move lead to almost two hours of debate (see the video here) among Senators from left to right, most of whom declared that they were open to this idea yet needed to dig further.
Most MPs admitted that basic income was an interesting issue that needed to be explored in more of its details, potentially with the funding of feasibility studies and pilot-projects. Only a few MPs were more cautious, fearing that basic income would discourage people to work and would promote laziness.
The resolution was eventually rejected by a large margin. In fact, only the Ecologist group (parliamentary group composed with MPs from the Green parties: EELV and Ecologistes!, and one MP from the Socialist party), and one Conservative MP voted in favor. However, the fact that the Socialist group and the Centrists decided to abstain signalled that they did not oppose the topic in principle, but rather the actual proposal of committing the government to implement it directly. They thus showed that they were open to the debate and willing to study further the possibilities on the topic.
In fact, the Socialist group decided in parallel to support the initiative of its member Daniel Percheron, who proposed to form a parliamentary 'mission of information' that will enable MPs to work on "the interest and possible forms of implementation of a basic income in France". Within this framework, 27 Senators from different political groups will debate the topic and present their results by the Fall. The French Movement for a Basic Income was consulted on the 9th of June on this matter.
Given all these political moves, not only in the Senate but also in the National Assembly as well as from some members of the current government, we can now say that basic income has reached a milestone in the public debate, and will certainly be a key topic in the upcoming presidential and general elections to take place next year.


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Browns WR Bowe in No Danger of Not Making Roster
Matt Loede
CLEVELAND – Despite missing lots of camp with a hamstring injury and a comment being made that seemed to put him possibly on the roster bubble, Browns wide out Dwayne Bowe is safe when it comes to making the Browns 53-man roster.
"Dwayne? No," Pettine said after the Browns loss to the Bears Thursday night.
"He just needed to work, so that's why he was out there."
The clarity on the situation was needed after Bowe appeared in a meaningless preseason finale in which most of the opening day starters sat.
NFL commentator Solomon Wilcots stated earlier Thursday that "He needs to deliver (tonight), after talking to the coaches he needs to show up tonight to be a part of the 53-man roster (this weekend)."
While that may have been true that the coaches wanted to see Bowe – it now sounds like he was not in any danger of not making the team.
The Browns inked Bowe in March to a two-year deal worth $12.5 million.
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As previously indicated by PSE, communities secretary Sajid Javid has decided to allow councils to bring forward a planned increase in the social care precept, meaning local authorities will be able to raise a 3% care levy in the next two years rather than the expected 2%.
Speaking about the local government finance settlement at the Commons this morning – for which a whopping 97% of councils signed up, as had been expected – Javid agreed with many organisations that social care is the biggest cost pressure on local government at present.
As well as bringing forward the social care precept, which will result in a 6% rise in council tax this Parliament but only add a pound to individual tax bills, the secretary of state also promised to inject savings from major reforms to the New Homes Bonus (NHB) into the care sector for extra padding in 2017-18.
Implementing the 3% precept would allow councils to raise up to £208m in 2017-18 and £444m in 2018-19. Altogether, the alleged boost to the sector would amount to almost £900m.
However, it is expected that many, if not all, organisations will argue this extra money is insufficient to plug the major cash hole in the sector – with even health devo giant Greater Manchester worried that massive care costs will undermine the region's overall transformation plan.
Joe Anderson, mayor of Liverpool City Region, which recently admitted to a financial dead end, took to Twitter to complain that the government's response to the social care crisis is "like putting plaster on a patient that needs a triple bypass" – and that letting councils raise tax by 3% rather than the expected 2% is "not the bold radical change" the sector needs.
Similarly, Jo Miller, the new president of Solace and the chief executive of Doncaster council, said that while the fattened precept will provide a short-term relief, "ultimately relying on a regressive taxation system is not a long-term solution to tackling the long-term sustainability challenge our health and social care system faces".
"Likewise, taking money from the NHB may alleviate short term pressures, but simply robbing Peter to pay Paul will not tackle a systemic funding problem. This needs a long term national solution that does not simply exacerbate existing imbalances," she continued.
The LGiU agreed with Miller, noting that the finance settlement highlighted "exactly what is wrong with our over-centralised political system".
The organisation's CEO, Jonathan Carr-West, said: "Council tax rises cannot be the answer to the crisis in adult social care funding as many of the councils with the most pressing care needs have the lowest council tax base.
"In the end, this problem cannot be addressed while we continue to treat health and social care as separate systems and to protect the NHS at the expense of social care. After a decade of public debate all we have is a sticking plaster of increased council tax and no long term solution for the greatest public policy question of our age.
Sarah Wollaston, the Conservative chair of the Health Select Committee, agreed that the announcement does not go far enough, instead urging Javid to engage in cross-party talks in order to find a better long-term settlement to the country's care crisis.
And the GMB, who claimed the current social care funding gap could be as large as £2.6bn, reiterated the prevailing argument that because tax income varies from place to place, Javid's scheme will lead to a "shocking disparity between rich and poor areas – effectively a social care postcode lottery".
Its national secretary, Rehana Azam, called on Theresa May to step up to the problem, adding: "GMB has been warning the government for years that council tax is no way to plug the vast social care funding black hole – but they wouldn't listen.


Debt vs. Retirement: How Much Should You Put Toward Each?
You know that retirement planning is important, but should you be putting away for retirement while you still have a lot of debt? In most cases, it's best to work on planning for retirement and debt eliminating. However, the amount you put toward each option will depend on many different factors. For example, your age may make your retirement fund a priority or the amount of debt owed could make paying down debt the greater priority. Here's a closer look at saving for retirement and paying off debt, as well as a few tips to help you decide how much you should be putting towards each.
When Should You Put More Towards Retirement Planning?
You're getting older and you're close to retirement. In this case, you may want to make a retirement fund a top priority.
If your employer matches the contributions you make to your 401(k), you may want to take the free money offered by contributing as much as possible to your 401(k) plan.
If you have a small amount of debt, you may want to continue putting more money towards retirement while making minimum payments, since you'll be able to eliminate that debt soon anyway.
If most of your debt is a mortgage debt, paying off the mortgage may not be a priority, and it may make more sense to focus your money on your retirement savings.
When Should You Put More Money Towards Debt Elimination?
Reduced debt may give your credit score a boost, which can help you get lower interest rates. This is particularly helpful if you plan to purchase a home or a vehicle.
When you have less debt, you'll have lower monthly payments. By paying off debt, your monthly expenses will begin to decrease, making it easier to free up cash in the future.
Paying off debt results in lower balances, which means you'll pay less interest. By paying more towards debt now, you can save a lot of money in interest in the future.
Of course, everyone's financial situation is difference, so you need to set up a budget and savings plan that meets your needs. Keep these tips in mind and you'll find it easier to figure out how much money to designate for retirement planning and how much you need to use for debt reduction.
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Dirty Dark Secrets Behind Ancient Fairy Tales
Presumed innocent, yet dirty dark secrets are imbedded in the bedtime stories told to children. Fairy tales are magical narratives that pervade the young minds of children so deeply, leaving imprints on their subconscious that can mold their every-day lives. According to Bruno Bettelheim, the 20th century child psychologist and author on autism, ancient cultures had no hard lines: "separating myths from folklore and fairy tales; all these together form the literature of preliterate societies."
The fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm (1916) ( Public Domain )
Fairy tales contain well refined messages of a spiritual nature which not only emulate truths about how to live life, but they hold watered-down versions of some pretty dark historical occurrences. Involving social crimes such as incest, rape, cannibalism and bestiality the original fairy tales were a lot darker and so much is this the case that many would be way too terrifying for today's snowflake millennials to consume.
Illustration in The fairy tales of Charles Perrault 1628-1703; Clarke, Harry, 1889-1931, illustrator. London: Harrap (1922). ( Public Domain )
The Ancient Origins of Fairy Tales
The original stories which inspired later fairy tales were either told orally or dramatically reenacted, but they were never written down. This causes a lot of obscurity and uncertainty in determining not only their origins but their course of development. According to a recent BBC article, researchers at universities in Lisbon, Portugal and in Durham, England, claim some fairy tales date back more than 6,500 years.
These stories also openly exchange plots, motifs, characters and events with one another and as global travel increased, they became blended with stories from foreign lands. The Arabian Nights was compiled around 1500 AD and Chinese Taoist philosophers such as Liezi and Zhuangzi recounted fairy tales in their philosophical works, but the first famous Western fairy tales are those of Aesop written around the 6th century BC in ancient Greece.
At the earliest stages of culture ancient stories were loaded with magical and supernatural themes, for example, The Golden Ass or The Metamorphoses of Apuleius, which is according to Augustine of Hippo the: "only ancient Roman novel in Latin to survive in its entirety." The protagonist of the story, Lucius, at the end of the novel, is revealed as having been born in Madaurus, the hometown of Apuleius and the plot revolves around his 'curiosity' ( curiositas) and burning desire to experience and practice magic.
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Ashley Cowie has in February 2019 launched a new series of weekly Live streams on Ashley Cowie's You Tube called Clan Mythology. Twice weekly he tells original fairy tales, myths and legends aiming to preserve the spoken words of our forebears. There is also a new Facebook Group - Clan Mythology – for those who have any story ideas whatsoever to be told. Subscribe to the YouTube Channel or join Ashley on Facebook where 'the clan' actively guards the ancient words of our forebears, creating a wishing well of old tales for future digitized generations.
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Home » GenoPro Help and Technical Support » Using GenoPro - How to... » How to show mental illness, illness, alcoholism, etc.
Can someone please tell me how to get the cause of death such as cancer to show on the genogram? Also, how do you get mental illness and alcoholism to show? Also, how do you add an adopted sibling? Thank you!
You have to manually assign the colors using the Display tab.
Hi, I am using genopro 3.0.0.7. I am constructing a regular genogram, not a medical one. In the case of some individuals, I have signified a cause of death, such as cancer, by having a small colored box showing in a particular quadrant of their genogram symbol. I think I did this by selecting their genogram symbol and then clicking an icon on a toolbar. However, I no longer see a toolbar where I can click an icon that signifies an illness or cause of death. But when I open the View menu, I seem to have all of the toolbars displayed. So, after I select a genogram symbol for an individual, how can I signify an illness or cause of death? (I do understand that, for each individual's genogram symbol, I can set colors in the Display tab of the Properties dialog box.) Thanks!
I have the same problem, part of the bar disappeared. Reinstallation does not work.
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John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , häufig auch bei seinen Initialen JFK genannt, war von 1961 bis 1963 der 35. Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika. In seine Amtszeit während der Hochphase des Kalten Krieges fielen historische Ereignisse wie die Kubakrise, der Bau der Berliner Mauer, der Beginn der bemannten Raumfahrt, die Eskalation des Vietnamkriegs sowie die Zeit des zivilen Ungehorsams der afroamerikanischen Bürgerrechtsbewegung.
Kennedy war Mitglied der Demokratischen Partei und der erste US-Präsident römisch-katholischer Konfession. Wegen seiner Jugend und seines Charismas verkörperte er für viele die Hoffnung auf eine Erneuerung der USA. Die Hintergründe seiner Ermordung 1963 sind bis heute umstritten.
"The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it — and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
Context: In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility — I welcome it. I do not believe that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other generation. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it — and the glow from that fire can truly light the world. And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man. "In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility — I welcome it." is one of seven quotes inscribed on the walls at the gravesite of John F. Kennedy at Arlington National Cemetery. "The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it — and the glow from that fire can truly light the world." is one of seven quotes inscribed on the walls at the gravesite of John F. Kennedy at Arlington National Cemetery. "And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man." is one of seven quotes inscribed on the walls at the gravesite of John F. Kennedy at Arlington National Cemetery. It has been reported at various places on the internet that in JFK's Inaugural address, the famous line "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country", was inspired by, or even a direct quotation of the famous and much esteemed writer and poet Khalil Gibran. Gibran in 1925 wrote in Arabic a line that has been translated as: ::Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? ::If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in a desert. However, this translation of Gibran is one that occurred over a decade after Kennedy's 1961 speech, appearing in A Third Treasury of Kahlil Gibran (1975) edited by Andrew Dib Sherfan, and the translator most likely drew upon Kennedy's famous words in expressing Gibran's prior ideas. For a further discussion regarding the quote see here.
Context: Finally, to those nations who would make themselves our adversary, we offer not a pledge but a request: that both sides begin anew the quest for peace, before the dark powers of destruction unleashed by science engulf all humanity in planned or accidental self-destruction. We dare not tempt them with weakness. For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.


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UPDATE: the 2010 nationals are complete and I've amassed thousands of photos. Some of them have been loaded to the gallery, with more to come. Stay tuned for the final set. If you provide me with your email address I can notify you when the gallery is complete. Thanks for all the great racing action!
San Francisco and Crissy Field will once again play hosts for the US Windsurfing National Championship. July 20th – 24th, 2010 at St. Francis Yacht Club.
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