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Special Assessment: Members are requested to contribute $20 each for the specific purchase of copies of audio tracks from WFS 2010 and 2011. Send your check to Hank Lederer, Treasurer, 3132 County Road 101. Minnetonka, MN 55391. Thank you. David K., Chapter President. Update July 23, 2011: half way point surpassed, 2011 set has been ordered. drk
October 22, 2011
Topic: Emerging Nations
Title: "Report on Mongolia: Land of Vast Spaces -- and Maybe Riches"
Speakers: Dr. David F. Juncker and Dick Saunders
Abstract: David and his wife Trudi spent two weeks in Mongolia this summer exploring the vast reaches of the Gobi Desert. He will show slides of this emerging country's infrastructure, its people and culture, and its strategic importance to both the East and the West as a potential major source of coal, rare-earth ores and other minerals.
Biographical Sketch: Dr. Juncker has combined worldwide travel with his multifaceted career as a researcher and consultant in both the private and public sectors, largely in human organ system response factors, especially vision, cardiovascular and neural-memory functions. Much of his work utilizes multi-variable problem analysis and complex or chaotic systems, terms used by futurists. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from MIT (1963) and a Ph. D.in Physiology from Minnesota (1971). Dr. Juncker has visited some 33 countries on either professional assignments or biking and trekking adventures. He's also an accomplished flutist and fencer, and wields a mean caulking gun.
REF:State Dept http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/2779.htm
http://www.economist.com/node/21531521
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolia
October 29, 2011
Topic: Peace and Justice Futures
Title: "Iraqi & American Reconciliation Project-"
Speaker:Luke Wilcox, Iraqi & American Reconciliation Project- Development & Communications Director
Abstract:
Ref:
http://www.reconciliationproject.org
:Middle East Peace Futures
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Topics Pending for 2011
Future schedule work in progress
Roundtable: Tech Breakthrough Forecasts for 2015-2020
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