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Jacob Parker interview
NA: What drew you to write fantasy fiction?
JP: I suppose it was a couple of different things. "Zelda: Ocarina of Time" first drew me to fantasy. I'm pretty sure that game tripled the size of my imagination. And with fiction, I've always been an avid reader. In grade school, we had a yearly short story contest that showed me how much fun writing fiction is.
NA: What is unique in Kestrel's Midnight Song compared to other fantasy fiction?
JP: That was one of my biggest goals in writing Kestrel's Midnight Song. I would rather take a leap of faith with an original work that ended up flopping than utilize a sure formula in order to become a runaway success. I'd like to think the plot is original. Nobody has been able to guess the big twist that I know of. Also, the main character never picks up a sword, and there is no magic.
NA: Where did this story idea come from?
JP: I was sitting in front of my computer literally thinking, "What should I write about?" Microsoft has this desktop background with the rolling green hills and blue sky. I imagined a shepherd boy journeying across that, which led to a bunch of questions I needed to answer. That was the genesis for Kestrel's Midnight Song, originally titled The Shepherd.
JP: I wander through life with my inspiration detectors open as wide as possible. Anything and everything can strike me with an idea. For instance, I misspelled the word "warehouse" yesterday, which led to the idea of the "warhouse." You'll probably see exactly what that will be in my next book. ;)
NA: I can't wait! What inspired you to create an Aegre Bird or a Caelum Flute, and where did you get those names?
JP: Both of those I created to fill the needs of the story. I didn't think of them at the time as one of those cool ideas that are just burning to be included in a story somewhere. "Aegre" is latin for "scary" and "caelum" is latin for "air" as far as I know.
NA: How long did it take you to piece together the plot?
JP: I let this story idea simmer in my brain for years before I even started writing it. And even then it changed as I went along. The moment I came up with the ending was one of the most thrilling I can remember.
NA: Which character was the hardest to write?
JP: Drift was the hardest character to write because I couldn't decide whether to make him an introvert or an extrovert. At different times in the story it was more convenient one way or the other. Ultimately I made him an introvert, obviously, but it took a lot of concentration to keep him that way.
NA: Which character was the easiest to write?
JP: Micah was the easiest to write. We have a lot in common, or did when I started writing at age 15, anyway. 60% of the time, he did and said what I would have. But he's different in several ways, too, especially now. We've grown apart, you could say...
NA: If you could be any character in your books, which would it be?
JP: I'm much too mean to my characters to want to trade places with any of them! Haha. Plus, one of the rules I made for myself in order to avoid making my book like others already out there, was to avoid wish fulfillment. When I started I felt like giving the characters special abilities and/or privileges was a cheaply used and common trick to get the reader into the story, so although I hope the reader cares deeply for the characters and their perils, I don't think anyone envies them. And that's not to say I won't use abilities and/or privileges in future books in some way or other.
NA: If your books were made into a movie, would you have any preferred actor, director, composer, etc?
JP: First of all, let me say that I would prefer a horrible movie adaptation to no adaptation, simply because it would still drive a lot of people to the book. Second, I would either want no say or a great deal of say. I wouldn't want to direct simply because I have no experience and haven't studied that, but being involved in the creative process and having the ability to offer input with some weight would be fun.
NA: Can you tell us three things about yourself we readers may not know?
JP: Hmmmm. My first novel attempt was in 4th grade. I flew to St. Louis to play the evil prince in the book trailer for To Darkness Fled, by Jill Williamson. I used to be an avid fisherman. I'd fish once every two weeks. Not terribly interesting, but that's what popped into my head!
NA: Awesome! Do you have a title, cover idea, or plot for the next book that you can share with us?
JP: Hmmm, only one other place on the internet has this info, but I will say that the tentative title is Balloon Hunter. That is all. Shhhh. ;)
NA: Hmmm. Do you have any other book plans or ideas after this series?
JP: Many, but I'll keep them close to my chest for now. Sorry!
NA: Do you have any advice to those writing or planning to write speculative fiction?
JP: I think the craft of writing fiction is too often overlooked. Reading fiction is great. Writing fiction is too. But eventually you have to study the nuts and bolts, just like everything. Pick up a good, non-fiction book on writing and learn from the masters.
NA: Thanks for sharing your time with us! God bless you and your writing!
Buy Kestrel's Midnight Song
Check out Jacob Parker's book site!
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Thanks for the interview, Noah!ReplyDelete
I thought you did an excellent job on the interview guys! I really do! I am excited and anxious now to read "Kestrel's Midnight Song." I guess I need to save up, and find myself a copy of the book then. =)ReplyDelete
Blessings to the both of you guys,
Man, loved the interview! That's great! Thanks Jacob, Noah :DReplyDelete
What a wonderful review! I loved reading about Jacob and his writings. I never heard of his book before, so thank you, Noah, for bringing him to my attention!ReplyDelete
I'm always exciting to find other teen writers! :-) Keep up the great work, Jacob - your book looks awesome and sounds like it contains a wonderful, unique, story. May God bless you as you continue writing!
~ Katy
@Jacob Parker: Thank YOU! It was a pleasure!ReplyDelete
@Daughter of the King: You are welcome! It is worth reading, believe me!
@Millard: You are welcome!
@Katy: You are welcome! I hope you get to read and enjoy it soon!
Incredible review! Having just finished brainstorming the complicated, heroic ending to Wolf's Bard like 10 minutes ago, I greatly related to this: "The moment I came up with the ending was one of the most thrilling I can remember." LOLReplyDelete
Awesomeness! :D
Love the book, love the review.ReplyDelete
Great interview! And I've read the book -- it's awesome!ReplyDelete
I love getting a peek into how other authors' brains work. :P
Awesome job, guys! This made me want to re-read Kestrel's Midnight Song.ReplyDelete
Actually, I think I'll do that. It's a great book. :)
Great review! 'Balloon Hunter'? interesting....ReplyDelete


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The McKinsey Global Institute which has been conducting research on automation technologies and their potential effect has found that about half of today's work activities could be automated by 20-55. Researchers at the institute counted more than 70 entire professions in which at least 90% of activities can be automated. An opinion poll by the institute also shows about fifty-eight percent of C-E-Os plan to cut jobs over the next five years because of robotics. Automation tends to replace less-educated workers performing routine tasks while it creates new demand for more-educated workers performing more complex analysis or engaging in social interactions and communication.
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Congratulations are in order to both Mark Easterly from Houston who won 1st Place Chili, and to Miss Mollie who rocked her 2nd Annual Chili Cook-off for Make-A-Wish just as hard as she did the first time by once again raising an incredible $20,000.00! What a kid! She's gonna be an outstanding adult!
Somebody else who had a pretty good day is Bubba Thorp. He placed in every single category. He wound up with 9th Place in Chili, 3rd in Cheezy Cook, 4th in Salsa, 7th in Beans, 1st Place Open Meat, 1st Place Ribs, and 1st Place Brisket. Nice. Must be 'bout time for a new trophy case at the Thorp residence. Congratulations Bubba!
Promoters have been known to create special categories for their individual events, and Mollie was no different. A little side competition called, "I'mma Cheezy Cook," drew 16 contestants. The rules were to cook anything as long as it included cheese. Judged by a panel of 9 to 12-year-olds, Christy Cooper took 1st Place.
Special Congratulations to 9-year-old Hunter H. who submitted his own salsa, beat out 11 other samples and took home first place! Anybody else thinking Chopped Junior?
Speaking of Juniors, we had five contestants for a sanctioned event at Mollie's. Congratulations to Carter A. for his 1st Place Chili in the Junior Chili category. Carter, a 7-year-old, has a few opportunities in the spring to garner the rest of the points needed to qualify for competition in the 2018 Tolbert Junior Texas State Chili Championship next March. Michael C., from Melrose, NM who won first place in the junior event at Chili on the Guadalupe, came in 2nd Place at Mollie's and is now qualified to cook in the Championship next March.
Kathy and Mollie have asked that we recognize and thank some very special people, especially the local Rockne community who came out in support of the cook-off, and the kids from Cedar Creek and Bastrop NHS for volunteering their time, they were a tremendous help. Mr. Michael Hilbig was the auctioneer for the live auction, and did a great job.
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Many thanks to the long list of sponsors who supported Mollie's vision of being able to grant the wishes for four chronically ill children as the outcome for this event. With the help of these individuals and entities, Mollie's personal wish will come true.
Top sponsor was AAA Storage, owned by Wayne and Brenda Meuth, Bob Sundeen, V&V Sausage, First National Bank, In Memory of Billy Nolte, Frontier Bank of Texas, Catholic Life Insurance, G&C Printing, Hoffman Entertainment, Lockhart Motor Company, Tex Propane, George Arnold Trailer Sales, BBD Construction, Hoffman Electric Inc., Mark Lee Insurance Agency, Integrity Tools and Safety, LLC, Leon's Country Store, TRAID Mechanical Services, Inc., Elaine's Beauty Parlour, LeeAnn's Salon, RiverCat Chili, Robin & Brooklyn Richter, and Hunter & Heaton Hagler.
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Chairman: Mollie Carriger
Head Judge: Kathy Carriger
Junior Chili - 5 Samples Judged
1st Place - Carter A,
2nd Place - Michael C. - now qualified to cook in the Tolbert Texas Junior Chili Championship!
3rd Place - Hunter H.
4th Place - Joshua C.
5th Place - Noah C.
37 Chili Samples Judged
1st Place - Mark Easterly, Houston
2nd Place - Terry Wright, Lockhart
3rd Place - Brenda Willis, Austin
4th Place - Virginia Smith, Kyle
5th Place - Dwight Hamilton, Austin
6th Place - Patty Wimberly, Austin
7th Place - Melissa Voigt, Bastrop
8th Place - Ed Theriot, Lockhart
9th Place - Bubba Thorp, Paige
10th Place - Ron Faulstich, Lockhart
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I'mma Cheezy Cook - 16 Samples Judged
1st Place - Christy Cooper
2nd Place - Melissa Voigt
3rd Place - Bubba Thorp
4th Place - Yvette Lanning
5th Place - Nathan Morkovsky
Salsa - 12 Samples Judged
1st Place - Hunter H. (9 years old!)
2nd Place - Katie Sampson
3rd Place - Terri Meuth
4th Place - Bubba Thorp
5th Place - Kendal Fiebrich
Beans - 23 Samples Judged
1st Place - Deba Center
2nd Place - Melissa Voigt
3rd Place - Andy "Jr." Dalton
4th Place - Robert Henderson
5th Place - Ed Theriot
6th Place - Zach Lamson
7th Place - Bubba Thorp
8th Place - Bincent Goertz
9th Place - Cody Schneider
10th Place - Kalli Meuth
Open Meat - 25 Samples Judged
1st Place - Bubba Thorp
2nd Place - Melissa Voigt
3rd Place - Brian Vinklarce
4th Place - Tom McMurtray
5th Place - Clint Alexander
6th Place - Bob Little
7th Place - Heath Walden
8th Place - Larry Hudson
9th Place - Ed Theriot
10th Place - John Hoffman
Ribs - 26 Samples Judged
1st Place - Bubba Thorp
2nd Place - Heath Walden
3rd Place - Ralph Sluder
4th Place - Jeremy Lynch
5th Place - Bob Little
6th Place - Kendall Fiebrich
7th Place - Mike Kloss
8th Place - Melissa Voigt
9th Place - Clint Alexander
10th Place - Nathan Morkovsky
Brisket - 29 Samples Judged
1st Place - Bob Little
2nd Place - Bubba Thorp
3rd Place - Jeremy Lynch
4th Place - Ed Theriot
5th Place - Ralph Sluder
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It's that time again. Time for pumpkins, goblins, and ghouls. I like Halloween for the creative costumes, candy, decorations, but most of all, I love the creep factor. I'm drawn to it like a moth to a flame. I can't resist a good ghost story, a tour of historic houses with stories of hauntings and strange goings-ons, and old graveyards with tombstones and mausoleums. The older, the better.
In the spirit of Halloween and my fascination with the strange, here's a roundup of some of the interesting and worthwhile creepy places I've visited, some more than once.
La Isla de Las Munecas
Xochimilco/Mexico City
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No trip to Mexico City is complete without a visit to Xochimilco (for me). I always insist on a visit to this lake and an even further excursion via trajinera out to the remote chinampa of Don Julian. Obviously, it's the hanging baby dolls, doll parts, and hallowed out eyes of heads that are the main draw here as they seem to have multiplied in recent years. The shack is where you'll find the oldest and creepiest ones.
Castillo Torre Salvana
Colonia Guell/Santa Coloma de Cervelló
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We spotted this castle from a distance and decided to do some trespassing. It's magnificent from the outside, but inside is where you'll get the chills. It's downright dilapidated, but what can one expect afterall, it dates from 992. That's 992, folks! Among many claims of paranormal activity, the scariest of all is the claim that it has a portal to hell.
Sorrell Weed House
6 W Harris Street/Savannah, GA/ 31401
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Wealthy plantation owner, infidelity, suicide, and grisly deaths… the Sorrell Weed House has all the elements of a tragic story. The midnight ghost tour further entices morbid curiosities with all the trappings of a spooky haunting and the possibility of experiencing hair-raising paranormal activity for yourself. If you dare…
Basilica Sants Just i Pastor
Pl Sant Just, 6/ Barri Gòtic/Barcelona
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This is the church to visit if you want to view a nightmarish altar of unfortunate souls aglow in the pit of hell. Actually, this gothic church is a marvel of its own and quite eerie if you're the only one in there. Don't miss the skulls etched into the floor that also serve as headstones.
Hotel Connor
164 Main Street/Jerome, AZ
Whispers in the night, cold sensations, doors opening by themselves, and laughter coming from empty rooms are just a few of the ghostly reports associated with rooms in this hotel. Located in the ghost town of Jerome, Arizona, the Connor Hotel and Spirit Room was built during the mining heyday only to suffer repeated destruction from fire and eventual abandonment after the decline in mining. Luckily, the hotel was reopened and once again hosts visitors of this historic town.
House of the Devil
Calle Josep Torres 20/Barcelona
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Who wants to sell their soul to the devil in exchange for a profitable business? Augustin Atzerias, that's who. As one might guess, shortly after making a pact with the devil, Mr. Atzerias hit it big with a winning lottery ticket and held up his end of the bargain. To show his undying loyalty, Mr. Atzerias went about decorating his palatial home with ghoulish demon heads much to the chagrin of his neighbors. As if the terrifying heads were not enough, there were also murals depicting hell on the facade that have long since been destroyed and covered up.


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Um, well, first. I'm not in a clan. So, there's that. Secondly, you spelled this person's name differently twice... So honestly I'm not entirely sure who you're even talking about anymore. Anyways, let's look at you proposition.
"Saul Aulinskies fans are the new nazis, and love Muslims."
So, I'd say here that since the Nazis wanted to kill Mideasterners and that Saul Aulinksy the social reformer was a Jew himself... that both of those statements are wrong.
Just saying.
Apparently that was a rebuttal?
Ok. I stand by the fact that Saul Aulinky was a Jew... and therefore did not promote Nazi ideals.
I'm also wondering why loving Muslims is an insulting characteristic? I'm a Christian, and I love Muslims too.
I'm out.
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They created what where known as ghettos, for minorities, so that they would be easier to handle and transfer to the camps.
Saul Auliskies spent his life trying to improve "troubled spots" or ghettos in America.
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Pium is located at the access of the Cantão park and Bananal island borders. Its remarkable points are Lagoa Azul, a Lagoa de Pedra and Lagoa Bonita. The city has enormous reserves of rockcrystal, responsible for the economic development, attracting both tourists and investors. The city has also a prestigious Research Center, responsible for the Carbon Sequestration Project, which uses state of the art technology. http://www.ecologica.org.br/
Inhabitants: 7.000
Distance from Palmas: 181km
Website: http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pium
The city of Pium has its history linked to the exploitation of rock crystal, with the discovery of mineral deposits in 1940, in the town of Vila dos Piaus, today Pium. With the decline of the exploration of the crystal, families settled in the region and began to devote themselves to farming activities.
On December 6, 1949 the village was elevated to the rank of District and on June 23, 1953 to the status of municipality, under the name Pium, dismembered from Porto Nacional.
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Skill 2. Anticipation (Convergent thinking).
In the Evo Devo model of complex systems, the only foresight thinking and action skill that is as fundamental as possibility exploration and generation is probability exploration and generation, which we should typically do first, as it improves our efficiency and effectiveness. Even though we may only be able to usefully predict 5% or so of our future at any time in many environments, as the 95/5 Rule proposes, finding that special set of predictable elements, including understanding what things are presently accelerating, converging, and emerging, and placing uncertainty boundaries around the less-predictable elements, gives us a framework of constraints on the future, and a critical advantage in strategy and action. For just one good example of anticipation, read Thomas Hainlin's From Headlines to Trendlines: Long-Term Investing for Wealth Expansion (PDF), 2013. The more high quality info is accessible via the web, and the more evidence-based our models, the more key aspects of our near-term future become both predictable and profitable to understand.
As former US president Bill Clinton of the Clinton Global Initiative says, anticipators must learn to look beyond the headlines, which are often inflammatory and emotion-oriented, to find the trendlines, which are often going the opposite direction to what the media is portraying, for their own practical, self-serving reasons. The reporter's cynical expression is "If it bleeds, it leads." Meanwhile, the modern world grows safer, stabler, richer, and cleaner every year forward. But those real trendlines don't sell papers, so the headlines continue to drive most political and economic activity, and we obsess over ever smaller risks and dangers. Nevertheless, the growing immediacy and ubiquity of our global media, and our constant attendance to headlines, even as it distorts our perception, does tend to make a safer and better world.
Data Science & Machine Learning are the first specialty (in alpha order) we'd like you to be aware of in Anticipation. Since the rise of the internet in the 1990s, big data in the 2000's, and cloud computing and machine learning in the 2010s, this has become the most in-demand and fastest-improving of all the Anticipation specialties. The growth of open data, and the ability of our increasingly bio-inspired machine intelligences to use unstructured data, are massive new developments. See Chapters 7 and 8 for a lot more on the big picture future of these massive new developments.
Deep machine learning leaders like Google's DeepMind, machine learning as a service firms like Wise.io, text analytics and intelligence companies like Factual and Quid, predictive marketing companies like Netbase and Leadspace, and human-machine intelligence fusion platforms like Palantir and Recorded Future are just a few of the pioneers in this space, which is seeing exponential investment and improvement.
A great community to get involved with is the Open Data Science Community (OSDC). Consider attending their Open Data Science conference. Data science also includes predictive analytics (PA). Predictive Analytics World is the leading cross-industry event for predictive analytics professionals, run by Eric Siegel. I strongly recommend his nonspecialist introduction to the field, Predictive Analytics (2016)
Forecasting & Prediction are the best-known anticipation functions, though the former gets much better traction in organizations as so many people are still unaware how well crowd prediction works, as we discussed under collective intelligence. The International Institute of Forecasters (IIF) and Scott Armstrong's ForecastingPrinciples.com are two great practice communities. A great book on power of collective prediction is Tetlock and Gardner's Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction (2016)
As Paul Saffo says, to get good at forecasting and prediction we need to do it often, we should stick to subjects we can model well (mentally or formally), understand our own biases and try to counter them, and follow up with post-forecast review and analysis.
See Saffo's "Six Rules for Effective Forecasting," Harvard Business Review (2007) (PDF) which offers a great introduction to anticipation practice. Saffo's Six Rules are: 1) Define a Cone of Uncertainty, 2) Look for the S-Curve, 3) Embrace the Things that Don't Fit, 4) Hold Strong Opinions Weakly, 5) Look Back Twice as Far as You Look Forward (better yet, look back as far as your time and resources allow), and 6) Know When Not to Make a Forecast (Know When You Are Maximally Ignorant). This is all excellent anticipation advice.
Unfortunately Saffo, whom I respect and consider a mentor, genuflects a bit to the popular but incorrect perspective that "forecasting is not about prediction". While it isn't about prediction for evolutionary processes and events, which are the large majority of what we see in the world, I am quite sure that forecasting is about prediction when we are talking about seeking to find and validate that critical 5% of developmental processes and events that are emerging ahead of us. Saffo just doesn't see this yet, or talk publicly about prediction in a positive way.
In other words, I would argue Saffo's perspective is "95% right" in practice, but only 50% right in impact. Developmental processes and events, (think of globalization, information growth, Moore's law, mobile, cloud services) though they may be few in number, are often so powerful as causal agents, environmental factors, drivers and constraints, that they rival the much more common evolutionary events in their influence on our future options and strategy. Remember, finding relevant developmental (probable, predictable) processes and events is the central goal of the anticipation skill.
Qualitative forecasting is also called judgmental forecasting, or if it is aspirational, visioning. Qualitative forecasting can be an excellent start, but turning those into quantitative forecasts and predictions may be the most important for strategy, and once they are that specific their after-the-fact error can be easily reviewed (Skill 8), and adjustments made for future efforts. A great forecast or prediction always has some probability attached to it, and is shared in a critical internal or external community, which analyzes results to better calibrate future forecasts.
Particularly specific forecasts are called predictions. Their specificity makes them both particularly valuable and particularly risky. As a result, most of the professional foresight community does them rarely. That is their loss, as there are a host of obvious and nonobvious things we could say about any system's future state, and it is the nonobvious predictions that can be most helpful in our clients strategy, plans, and actions. Some of us even try to convince our colleagues that "prediction is not what we do". That is simply incorrect. Any futurist who offers a wildcard is saying that particular future is a low-probability, high-impact event. That's making a prediction. If we are to improve at forecasting and prediction, we need to be honest about how much we already do, and try to always assign probabilities to our anticipation work. If all we can presently see ahead are low-probability predictions, it's much better to communicate those than to do no prediction at all.
Reference class forecasting, developed by psychologists and economists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, is a clever strategy of measuring, predicting, and eliminating certain systemic biases in long-range forecasts. It starts by researching actual past outcomes in a reference class of similar actions to the one being forecast. Program management expert Bent Flyvbjerg developed methods for its use in large projects and contracts, common in construction, development, and defense. The basics of his method can be found in Megaprojects and Risk (2003), but go to his papers for the latest. Flyvbjerg's research shows, for example, that large public construction projects are usually underbid by a certain stable percentage, defense contracts underbid by another stable percentage, etc, for various types of bidders and various industries and countries. If you can find a good reference class for past forecasts in a particular country, industrial sector, and with a particular supplier, you can adjust your forecasts to eliminate that systemic bias and do better procurement and project forecasting and decision-making.
Information and communications technologies (ICT) will greatly change the nature of anticipation in coming years. For one survey of what is coming, see Keller and von der Gracht's ICT Tools in Foresight, Technological Forecasting & Social Change, June 2014. The authors propose that between now and 2020, typical ICT-aided foresight exercises will shift from their current use in scanning and data retrieval (Skill 1), to ICT for anticipation (Skill 2), strategy and decision-making (Skill 4) and execution (Skill 5). Yet over this time period we can also forsee how ICT will improve the other four of the eight skills as well. Having strong ICT skills should help this decade's foresight consultants like never before. Let's look briefly at a few examples.
Predictive analytics is an exciting new field that analyzes current and historical data to make quantitative predictions. One of its key features is simple mathematical modeling (correlational and causal models). It is a subset of data analytics, a term that has become popular with the rise of the modern web and big data. Siegel's Predictive Analytics (2013), is an excellent beginner's introduction to this rapidly emerging new field.
To consider how predictive analysis can help with strategy (Skill 4), let's look at a specific example. My wife, who works at Google, was recently involved in a research study to find ways to improve the number of US women majoring in computer science. Initial research surfaced over twenty potentially important intervention variables, and there was conflicting research on each variable's relative importance. Her team decided a logistic regression model and conjoint analysis, with good pre- and post-survey data, collected from a large group of women who had completed such majors, would allow them to cut through the noise and determine which variables were likely to be the most important. Such a model also ranks the variables in importance, without indicating causal relationships. They learned that parental encouragement (regardless of the parent's profession or social status) and positive exposure to coding in high school (regardless of whether an AP computer science class or a much easier summer coding extracurricular activity) were the two most important factors. They can now design specific interventions emphasizing these two factors, and measure their efficiency of impact (ROI) versus other spending to incentivize US women doing computer science work in college. By publishing their research, they also invite others to use it, and to independently verify or falsify their findings.
The number of organizations doing policy and social interventions informed by this kind of predictive analytics work today is fewer than you might expect. Such work is often not expensive; it just requires an anticipative and analytical approach. But unless we have evidence-based champions in the leader suite, we often find it easier to stick to our traditional seat-of-the-pants heuristics, or maintain the do-nothing position that the system must be too complex to predict. We should not be surprised if such an approach gives mediocre results. Fortunately, as the increasingly intelligent web makes evidence-based anticipation even easier in coming years, and as more of us understand the greater performance gains available, prediction will increasingly be adopted in business strategy.
Two promising and presently underdeveloped group anticipation methods are real-time Delphi (online group estimation and forecasting), and prediction markets (group forecasting offering financial reward or other incentives to find the best predictors by subject area). Prediction market can be thought of as either collective intelligence, a learning specialty, or as prediction, an anticipation specialty, depending on your perspective. Both views are helpful to foresighted managers and leaders.
Huunu and Zocalo are two early efforts in the prediction market space. See Sunstein's Infotopia (2008), and Thompson's Oracles: How Prediction Markets turn Employees into Visionaries (2012), for two good sources on real world experience with prediction markets today. As with group estimation (recall the Jelly Bean Estimation Challenge), studies have shown these platforms can provide more accurate forecasts and richer sets of alternative futures than those offered by individual experts. Even though it makes management more challenging, the data also show that leaders need measurable cognitive diversity on their anticipation teams if they want the best results on complex, poorly structured anticipation problems. See Scott Page, The Difference (2005), for evidence for this claim. There's also good evidence that we need to mix predictive analytics methods (data and algorithms) with methods that rely on collective human judgment (Delphi and prediction markets) when assessing more abstract variables. Nate Silver's impressive analytics techniques for predicting US presidential primaries in 2008 and 2012 were much less impressive when applied to World Cup predictions in 2014.
A few foresight consultants offer real-time Delphi platforms today, but their software and interfaces are primitive at present. Many firms have started and then abandoned internal prediction markets, as implementation requires careful participant training and facilitation. Unfortunately there are few successful commercial offerings today in this space. One non-commercial research platform of note is Philip Tetlock's Good Judgment Project at the University of Pennsylvania and U.C. Berkeley. It is presently pioneering leading methods for social and political prediction, and publishing its findings, which are impressive. But today, public and private funding for collective forecasting research remains quite small. I expect we'll need a better semantic web, and better-validated methods before we see real-time Delphi and prediction platforms take off in corporate environments.
Investing & Finance (asset management) is an organizational specialty where predictive quantitative models have made major advances. We'll say a bit more about investing as foresight practice at the end of Chapter 6 (Methods and Frameworks), as it is such a personally and professionally useful anticipation skill. Finance, and its particularly entrepreneurial subspecialties, including venture capital, seed funding, and accelerators, is of course another classic economic anticipation function. These topics are treated quite extensively and well in the business literature, so turn to that for more.
Law & Security are two related anticipation specialties that both seek to protect the firm's assets, and guard against loss. Note that protection-oriented anticipation (law and security) are as important to the firm as prediction–oriented anticipation (predicting opportunities, as in investing, and predicting issues, threats, and risks as in risk management). Different personalities tend to be attracted each of these core functions of anticipation. Both of these functions help the firm survive, but perhaps the greatest goal of group anticipation, in a time of accelerating change, is to be able to occasionally see very worthy opportunities opening up ahead.
Risk Management & Insurance is a relatively newer specialist practice with its own literature and methods, and insurance is of course one of the oldest forms of organizational anticipation. As we've said, some of the most validated predictive models in the world are built by the reinsurers, like Munich Re, Swiss Re, and many others. This is to be expected, as they have so much money riding on their bets, and as they know, from good research, that anticipation works.
There are many smart risk assessment, mitigation, and insurance strategies available today, even to small firms. A good primer is Tom Kendrick's Identifying and Managing Project Risk (2009). Doug Hubbard's, The Failure of Risk Management: Why It's Broken and How to Fix It (2009), is a great recent work on the field. Risk Management is now big enough and well-funded enough that it's been misapplied by many firms, just as strategic planning was poorly applied in the 1960s-1980s. When a field has grown up enough to be critiqued, and when those critiques are acted upon by business leaders, as some are doing with this book, that is progress of a sort!
Anticipation is concerned with foreseeing where things seem to be headed regardless of our individual creative acts, uncovering probable future opportunities and dangers, and protecting and preserving what we value. The skills of anticipation come largely from the rational and logical side of cognition (forecasting), and with managing negative emotions (fears, vulnerabilities) related to risks and uncertainties (security). We can oversimplify a bit and say anticipation is managed primarily "from the head". It is a conservative process, and it requires good data and models, and intellectual honesty.
One desirable anticipation practice is identifying environmental developments that are both increasingly inevitable and highly positive sum for all concerned, then getting on the right side of history with those expected developments in your mission, goals, and strategy. As a leader that values legacy, you might like your firm to be an instrument of the great developmental processes unfolding in your society in your era, at least the ones consistent with organizational goals, rather than fighting those emerging realities.
Let's explore this perspective on anticipation for leaders with a few examples.
For example, in 1860s America you'd hope to be doing your small part to end legal human slavery, and today, ending it internationally and in immigration slavery and sex trafficking, rather than ignoring it, trying to oppose ending it, or even unintentionally profiting from it, in your business practices. In 2010s America, as a corporate leader, you'd like to understand how certain employee ownership, benefits, governance, sustainability, and CSR trends aren't fads, but developmental trends that all the best companies must embrace as they get wealthier. If you have any influence over IT, you'd like to be doing your part to increase and cheapen broadband access, improve security, mobility, and transparency, and taking other actions to create the IT future that you know is inevitable, rather than siding with opportunistic monopolies working to slow down that access, as they try to maximize profits with old business models. If you are a law enforcement leader, you'd like to understand how your job now also should include crime prediction, crime prevention and community service. If you are a defense or intelligence agency leader, you'd like to understand how increasing global transparency, privacy and rights protection, humanitarian aid, and conflict prevention are among the inevitable new missions of all the best defense and intelligence agencies.
Let's look at now a global example of anticipation in an area many foresight professionals care deeply about: world population. It's easy to get scared about the future impacts of human population growth, as until recently, it was a classic example of exponential growth. It took 200,000 years for us to reach our first 1 billion, but just another 200 to go from there to 7 billion, more than a thousandfold increase in the baseline rate of growth.
But good anticipators know that since the 1960's our marginal rate of population growth has been increasingly rapidly decreasing, as societies continue to develop. I'm still amazed to run into leaders who don't realize this, but we've known it for about eight years, but what academics call the demographic transition didn't become part of accepted social science until the mid 2000's. We've ignoring this obvious deceleration, and its many implications, until only recently.
As statistician Hans Rosling of Gapminder says in Don't Panic: The Truth About Population (2013), humanity hit Peak Child in 2000, stabilizing our global birthrate at roughly 130 million a year, due to a complex set of factors like mass electronic media showing people there are other ways to live, growing economic opportunities, women's education, access to birth control, and the rising cost of raising a child in modern societies (children become liabilities, not assets once a certain level of technology and public health exists). Factoring out immigration, populations are now stable or declining in the great majority of countries. When I first started writing about this in 1999, I called it a "technological contraceptive," and argued it was one of the great forces we were still not recognizing in global development policy. Wherever sufficient amounts of the right kind of technology goes, population sizes start shrinking. People shift their interests from having larger families to other pursuits. Pessimists aside, we know now that once we've reached peak population, our total population will start shrinking again (the "UN low" green curve below right).
So we're presently nearing peak human population, and it's obvious to anyone who takes a universal view that from that point forward the population of biological humans will be increasingly less important to the future of the planet. There are still people who like to think that we might keep exploding in numbers (the "UN high" red curve below right) but that's just not going to happen. A few developed societies, worried about who will support the growing elderly, have paid women to have children, in the form of direct payments (Australia) or greatly ramped up benefits (Germany, Japan), but this hasn't stabilized their crashing population numbers.
These nations should be more foresighted. It's obvious who will support our aging, shrinking population of people. It's our technology, which will continue to accelerate in its abilities and intelligence, and continue to escape resource needs as it dives ever further into inner space. The ratio of machine to biological minds will continue to grow, exponentially in the favor of machines. The fraction of biological minds on Earth just a century from now may be quite small, and it will be negligible a century later.
The era of biological humans controlling the planet is ending, we can see it clearly ahead, and we just don't want to admit it yet. So we keep generating these silly estimates like the red curve at right. The red forecast is two kinds of wrong: the well-meaning kind, a self-preventing prophecy intended to scare us into getting much more aggressive about population control, as we should, and the ignorant kind, an unwillingness to see that human beings are rapidly and irreversibly being superseded by our machines, which will provide for all our basic needs just a few generations from now. It is the ignorant dimension of the red forecast that keeps us from having the dialog, and the smart investments in machine intelligence and machine productivity, and distributing the benefits of that productivity in things like a basic income, that we should be having right now. It's obvious that machines are both our future and our "salvation", we just are too arrogant to want to admit it.
How far ahead will our own population peak be? And what can we do to reduce it today? Rosling tells us the "pin code" for global population today is 1114. He means there are 1 billion humans in the Americas, 1 billion in Europe, 1 billion in Africa, and 4 billion in Asia. By 2100, median UN projections now expect our global population pin code to be 1145. The Americas and Europe have both stopped growing, other than through immigration, and just one billion more people will be added in Asia, which has almost achieved population stabilization. In Bangladesh, for example, there are now 2.2 births per two adults, down from 6 in the 1970s. In a worst case scenario, if present trends continue, three billion more humans may join the planet in Africa, taking us to a peak of 11 billion people by 2100. In a best case scenario, if we choose to get serious now about curbing population growth in Africa, and very secondarily in Asia, we might end up with something around 1124, with a peak of 8.3 billion people by 2050.
Rosling's analysis makes clear that it's really just the birth rate in underdeveloped countries in Africa, and a few underdeveloped countries in Asia, that we should be focusing on today. Even developing countries like Brazil and Iran have seen their birth rates drop. So when we talk about population reduction, we should be talking about development efforts in those two places. That's where our moral choice lies. Anyone who cares about sustainable human development, and providing the maximum resources to all the world's children as they increasingly seek developed world lifestyles should be looking at helping Africa and Asia today with women's rights and education, paid jobs, access to birth control, and a range of targeted technological development activities. That's where the problem is coming, and we can easily anticipate it today.
To solve this still-growing problem, we need opinion leaders, NGOs and corporate and political leaders to focus us on curbing birth rates in key countries in Africa and Asia today. We can't do it in a patronizing way, either. Those countries won't accept edicts from us, and why should they, we developed countries didn't curb our own populations early on. Instead they need targeted development policies and opportunities which create the results we seek, in a way that is acceptable to most of the countries offered those opportunites. All of us have a chance now to lead on this predictable developmental issue. Whether we do or not will have billions of consequences in the quality of human life and our global environment for the remainder of this century.
When you've been lucky enough to discover anything important and developmental coming your way, you can either get in front of the parade early and take credit for its inevitable arrival, or get forced or shamed into it later. How you respond to emerging inevitabilities is your choice, but you will be more respected as a leader, and accomplish much more when you can identify (learn and anticipate) and then align your strategy, execution, and influence behind the worthiest developmental destinations, those offering the most benefit to the most stakeholders, in your company, your industry, your profession, and your personal life.
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The American philosopher and naturalist Henry David Thoreau roamed far and wide over the hills and mountains of his native Massachusetts and neighboring New Hampshire. In his masterwork, "Walden," ...View Article
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Plato's Ideas were perfect templates, of which everything we perceive are tangible representations. But the Ideas were not to be found in the world around us. Rather, they were conceptions of rational thought, transcendental objects of knowledge existing in a realm beyond our own. And yet, Plato's Ideas continue to be a source of inspiration and wonder, more than 2400 years after he first described them. These ethereal notions continue to function as critical guideposts, significant markers along our various life journeys, standing for ideal outcomes we are striving for and hope to achieve.
For example, we all have our own ideal image of what physical fitness is supposed to look like. These ideal images may vary from person to person, but each image ultimately derives from a Platonic Idea of physical human beauty, strength, and musculoskeletal proportion. Our conundrum, if we care about health, wellness, and fitness, is how we're going to go about achieving our ideal. As we proceed along our path to optimal physical fitness, it's very important to keep in mind that the Idea, as such, is not an actual part of our world. We will fail if we seek to achieve such perfection. A reasonable goal is to do what needs to be done and continue to do our best in all such endeavors.
A primary major access to physical fitness is starting and maintaining a healthy, nutritious diet. Such a diet involves making consistent choices from all of the five food groups, that is, fruits, vegetables, grains, protein foods, and dairy products. Each of us has our own specific preferences, and some of us may have specific requirements, such as being gluten-free or lactose-free, but the requirement for variety and obtaining the nutrition provided by each group remains the same for everyone. Importantly, international health agencies strongly recommend eating five portions of fresh fruits and vegetables every day. In the United States, this recommendation has been termed, "Five to Stay Alive".
A healthy diet, maintained over months and years, provides across-the-board benefits for fitness and wellness. When combined with a program of regular vigorous exercise, healthy eating results in conversion of unneeded fat to lean muscle mass, weight loss, and an enhanced sense of well-being. Research consistently demonstrates that a healthy diet reduces the risk of high blood pressure, heart attack, and stroke.1 A healthy diet reduces the risk of cancer, diabetes, and obesity.2 Thus, a healthy diet not only helps us achieve our own representation of the Platonic Idea of physical fitness. A healthy diet helps us achieve our own demonstration of other important Platonic Ideas, those of happiness and harmony.3
Regular chiropractic care is an important component of any health, fitness, and wellness program. Whether you're engaged in upgrading your diet, beginning or enhancing a program of regular, vigorous exercise, or launching a meditation or awareness practice, regular chiropractic care helps provide the physiologic framework by which you can achieve the greatest benefit from your wellness activities.
In order to derive optimum benefit from your diet, fitness, and wellness programs, your nerve system must be functioning at peak capacity. Your nerve system is your body's master system. Accurate and timely flow of information is required between your nerve system and other systems, such as your digestive, hormonal, and cardiorespiratory systems. Interruptions in the flow of these signals or miscommunications will prevent you from obtaining maximum value from your healthy diet and exercise activities. By detecting and correcting spinal misalignments that cause nerve irritation, regular chiropractic care helps ensure that all your body systems are working together in harmony. As a result, regular chiropractic care helps you and your family achieve long-term health and well-being.
1 Koutsos A, et al: Apples and cardiovascular health--is the gut microbiota a core consideration? Nutrients 7(6):3959-3998, 2015
2 Esposito K, et al: A journey into a Mediterranean diet and type 2 diabetes: a systematic review with meta-analyses. BMJ Open 2015 Aug 10;5(8):e008222. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2015-008222
3 Richard A, et al: Associations between fruit and vegetable consumption and psychological distress: results from a population-based study. BMC Psychiatry 2015 Oct 1;15(1):213. doi: 10.1186/s12888-015-0597-4
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Elite Vocabulary Audio – Week 1
Here they are: the first 250 words, definitions, and example sentences from our brand new 2015 Summer Boot Camp vocabulary list! If you're a part of an Elite summer program, this audio matches your vocab flashcards. We'll be releasing all 2000 words over the course of the summer.
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BreakingNews 24/12/17 - Presidency warns religious organisations against divisive utterances
[ Masterweb Reports: Isiaka Wakili reports ] - The Presidency has asked religious organisations in the country to refrain from divisive utterances.According to the Presidency, the responsibility of maintaining peace and peaceful coexistence is not only the duty of the government, but also of religious organizations whose words carry weight.
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, gave the warning in a statement made available to journalists on Saturday.
He was reacting to the accusation by the Supreme Council for Sharia, that President Muhammadu Buhari let down Muslims by his alleged failure to attend the emergency summit of OIC called by Turkey to discuss the US declaration of Jerusalem as the official Capital of Israel.
He described the allegation as totally misleading and baseless, advising religious organisations to avoid jumping to conclusions and making unfounded allegations without adequate knowledge and facts of the reality surrounding government's decisions and actions.
The presidential spokesman urged all religious leaders to recognize the sensitivity of some of their utterances on the unity and peaceful coexistence of the country.
He thanked religious organisations for their support and prayers for Buhari, assuring that the president was committed to promoting peace and harmony.
He explained that Buhari went to France to attend the Climate Change Summit because he had earlier given a firm commitment to President Macron, adding the president sent the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, to represent him at the Turkey meeting of OIC.
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Growth and investigations on Fe/MgO/Fe magnetic tunnel junctions fabricated by dual ion beam sputtering technique
B. Singh, P. Gupta, S. Chaudhary, D.K. Pandya, S.C. Kashyap
Inidan Institute of Technology Delhi, IN
Keywords: memory, tunnel magnetoresistance, thin films, sputtering
Abstract:The experimental observation of Tunnel Magnetoresistance (TMR) in 1996 by Moodera's group of MIT has triggered intensive efforts worldwide to fabricate and investigate the magnetoresistive junctions showing a TMR effect. While in past 3-4 years, the predictions of over 1000% TMR is closely being approached, there however remain a number of process related issues that are yet to be resolved before such junctions would eventually be commercialized in developing MRAMs. The Fe/MgO/Fe system is an interesting system in which 300% TMR is reported. However, almost all the reports are based on MBE process, which is not commercially viable. In this work, we attempted to explore the possibility of fabricating and studying such junctions by in-situ ion beam ion assisted sputter deposition, a mode of sputtering in which the growth pressures are about two orders lower than the conventional RF/DC sputtering technique.


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The purpose of this organization shall be to bring together those people interested in history and especially the history of our community so as to discover, collect, preserve, and disseminate this information. The Moreland Hills Historical Society is a 501(c) 3 not for profit association, organized under the laws of the state of Ohio. Donations are tax deductible to the fullest extent of the law. Moreland Hills Birthplace of the 20th United States President James A. Garfield 1831-1881.
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