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The word: Benefactor
Poetry for Strangers is about finding inspiration in community, in people, in the chance encounters of everyday life. PFS suggests that every person can be a "muse" of a poem. Every week of this year I will ask a stranger for a single word and then write a poem inspired by the word. I invite you to do the same.
Share your poem on this week's word!
When I teach in the summer, I walk daily beneath a gate with the etched words: "Depart to serve better thy country and thy kind." It is kind of a big charge. The word for this week, from a stranger who I met several weeks ago at a conference of playwrights, seems to relate to the charge of these words. She gave her word because someone had believed in the play she was writing and had given her a gift, enabling her to work well on it. To do good work.
The Stranger: Deborah
Her Word: Benefactor
The poem I wrote:
Our shrapnel is this: we have heard
the words, "you're not brilliant"
and at least once believed them.
We don't trust those who say,
It is a pleasure to feed you, for
we have not earned those words.
We are still too close to the versions
our mothers first saw. We aren't
pretty. We didn't do it right.
We are skunked and broke, we shiver
under the charges made to us.
The distance between here
and brilliant, here and worth
our food, requires better work.
We must make good.
We must find those who say,
it is a pleasure to feed you. Then we will
make good. Just a little good
is fine. Yes, this is about pulling down
the fables where we must
earn our peace, putting the cart
before the horse, the benefactor
before the one who receives.
Good work makes good work and we rise
to give brilliant answers. To say,
Thank you. It is a pleasure to be fed.
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The biggest challenge in retirement planning is to ensure that you build a corpus, which will last long enough. You should estimate the number of years you will live and how you will manage your finances after retirement. Here are some tips to ensure that your money will continue to come for as many years as you live.
Social Security
Social Security is the first and important thing, which helps in your savings since these are the payments that will last longer in your life and can match the inflation every year. The person who is eligible for Social Security will never run out of money, but their standard of living may certainly come down radically if all their other income sources go dry, and they try to survive on from Social Security Payments. This is the only guaranteed source of income, which most of the retired people have.
So, it's highly recommended to increase the amount that you'd get from Social Security. The most important way to boost your Social Security Payments is to ensure that you have at least 35 years of earnings covered, delay in claim up to the age of 70 and claiming spouse payments too.
Pension is the second guaranteed income after retirement from the job. Many of the private sector companies are insured under PBGC, which gives guaranteed benefits for pension till certain limits annually and the amount will be paid to you even though your employer is not in business. The workers who are having traditional pension plan are offered with lump sum payment amount, but will not have the same protection. If you are not able to manage lump sum amount in a proper manner then you may end up spending the entire money very quickly.
Annuities allow you to hand over your retirement savings to an insurance company, and enjoy monthly guaranteed payment for the remaining part of your life. The cost of some of the annuities will be high and the benefits of annuity purchased cannot be passed on to your heirs. But, the guaranteed thing is that you will get some predictable monthly income even if you stay alive after the age of 100 or the stock market crashes, until the insurance companies are in business.
The insurance companies will guarantee you that the money will be paid to you for the rest of your life and it will not matter how long you're really alive. It you want the guaranteed monthly payment, and then you should not have any access to your money. With many of the annuities, once the money is given to the insurance company you cannot get it back other than the monthly amount. So, invest carefully, and don't actually give off all your savings.
Partial Withdrawals and Loans
Investors who are fairly disciplined can draw their savings gradually in such a way that it will last for a long period till the time they're alive. Financial advisors would recommend drawing not more than 3 or 4 percent of the retirement savings, which can be used as a hedge against inflation every year.
And, the worst thing that you'd want to do is to take loan against your pension savings. Never ever take personal loans for planning a vacation, buying jewellery, expensive Smartphone's, and any of the non-essential stuff.
Loans must be taken only during emergencies, and even if you avail a personal loan, don't take it against your annuities so long as you can help it. If you have no other way out, then try to repay the loan at the earliest.
If you want your post-retirement life to be peaceful, then you must start saving at an early age.
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Von Haefen, a certified financial planner, gives advice to his clients about retirement plans and to save money for retirement at an early age, and use easy personal loans very smartly.

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- We visited the native American museum in DC.I would say the government views the tribes with less enthusiasm than most of the tribes themselves. The location of the museum , east of the Mississippi slants the display toward the forest tribes of the east coast with less emphasis on the planes tribes . The building itself is most remarkable with a sandstone construction that mimics the natural in a way that conflicts with the classical renderings of the rest of the mall. Stone age man could have little but a head on collision with modern man.
The theme is one of natural simplicity. We were invited to look back ,into a past that drifts back to the hunter gatherers. I understand there are many theories as to how the primal people arrived on this hemisphere. The real feeling of the place lies before Europeans brought all the inventions of early modernity. Stone tools were the limit of technology. Native plants surround the building with beans,squash,peppers and maze growing all over the grounds. It makes for a wild, unruly patch in the middle of a great modern city.
It seems the curators cared a great deal for the inventions of Europe as the swords of conquistadors, smooth bores and rifled long guns and bayonets and daggers of cold steel fill drawer after drawer . Were this a museum of Japanese history they might have hung the Enola Gay from the rafters. The federalist view of native Americans is that they are a conquered people that has been assimilated. Most of the Indian peoples I have met beg to differ.
It is said that history is the story of the winners but our five hundred years of conquest is only a moment compared to the multi millenia these people existed here.
The museum is one of contrast and a meaningful attempt to show multiple cultures as they seem to have been. Gone,gone,no more,no more . Bill
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Very sudden and fast climate change has been occurring on our earth from last few decades. This could be an as serious matter of concern we would not be able to control it. Every day we read in news various drastic effects of climate change that certain area is in drought for a long time, or there are heavy floods for some reasons. Recently it was in the news that a very large iceberg has been broken down from Antarctica which was about double the size of Luxembourg. The broken iceberg was about 5800sq Km which is expected to melt quicker than normal, which would further lead to a rise in the level of the sea and hence also affect our climatic conditions.
Factors on which climate change depends
There are various factors on which our climate depends. The major one is Green House Gases. Greenhouse gases are the gases which cGreenhousetire earth like a blanket. These gases help in trapping the sun's energy and prevent them from leaking out. Disturbance in the amount of these green house gases may affect our entire climate. The gases which may contribute to the green house effect are: –
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- Nitrous Oxide
- Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)
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- Carbon dioxide (CO2): Carbon dioxide is present in a very low amount in our atmosphere but plays an important role in it. A certain increase in the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere may lead to increase in the temperature also. Carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere from various sources like respiration, volcanic eruptions or other human activities. Deforestation and constant industrialization has been increased the level of CO2 in the atmosphere and hence has affected the climate.
- Methane: Methane is a hydrocarbon gas present in very few amounts in the atmosphere. This gas is more active than CO2 and affects the climate change. There are various sources of methane gas in an atmosphere like deforestation, decomposition of organic matter, burning process etc.
- Nitrous Oxide: Nitrous oxide is one of the most participants of greenhouse gases which affect our environment. It is generally produced during the cultivation processes. It is also produced during the combustion of fossil fuels, use of commercial fertilizers or biomass burning etc. An increased amount of nitrous oxide increases the temperature.
- Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs): These are actually the synthesized compounds which are released during various chemical processes. These gases are the main cause of depletion of ozone layer also, which is a stronger alarm to human generation to stop all the processes which may affect our ecological balance.
- Water vapors: Water vapors are one of the most important constituents of the green house gases which increase with the increase in the temperature and hence will increase the chances of cloud formation and precipitation.
There are some other sources which also equally affect the climate change. These are:
- Deforestation
- Increase in the use of fertilizers
- Burning of wood, fuel, and gas
Increased human interference has been increased the level of these gases in the atmosphere which may lead to some harmful effects. Green house gases trap the energy coming from the sun like a blanket and prevent it from being leaking out all. With the increase in a number of these gases in the atmosphere, it decreases the chances of escaping the remaining energy. Now, more will be a number of gases more will be the absorbed energy and hence rise in temperature.
Consequences of climate change: Climate change has affected our environment to a deep extent. It has affected the balance created by different things of the matter and hence also has affected our lives too. We are here, explaining you the most common consequences of the climate change that may or may not directly have affected our lives:
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Climate change from the last few decades is becoming a major concern today. It is continuously changing and has affected most of the environmental states today. It is very much important to make a check on the changing climate so as to protect the human race in future. There are certain methods which can help in saving our environment and also can control the changing environment.
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People are always looking for interesting facts to use as conversation starters. It's been something that has been part of life since the days of Adam and Eve. They just didn't have the resources back then that we do now. Facts weren't as easily obtainable back then.
With the internet as we know it today, the information highway is exactly that. There is never a shortage of information on whatever topic you need. Back in the day people used to go to the library whenever they needed to do a little research, but now they just pull out their cell phones. Wow, how times have changed.
Some things couldn't be found in the library though and that's one of the great uses of the internet. The library might have been able to give facts like "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" broke box office records by generating more revenue than "Avatar" did, but could it have told you that Olympic athletes ate so much free McDonald's food in 2016 that the restaurant had to put a twenty dollar limit per order in place? Maybe it could have eventually but not anywhere as fast as the internet gave you the info.
Read on and you'll find 25 conversation starters to use. If you don't want to use the information for that, you'll at least be able to consider yourself a little bit smarter now. Information is power!
#1. At the 2016 Olympics athletes ate for free at a McDonald's restaurant. They ordered so much food the lines extended out the door. They had to cap each order at $20.
#2. The International Space Station grew the first ever flower in space using a system designed by NASA.
#3. Several states have had to replace mile markers with 420 on them because pot heads kept stealing them. Now they read 419.9.
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#5. The Tampa Bay Lightning signed female goalie Manon Rheaume in 1992. She played in a pair of preseason games for Tampa Bay but didn't make the regular season roster. She was the first woman to take part in a major pro sports game though, even though they didn't count.
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