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Across America, people are standing up for clean water.
On Saturday, thousands gathered in nearly 60 cities as part of the Green The Block "National Day of Action," which focused on the nation's water crisis. From California to New York, people came together to demand clean water for their children and communities.
Right now, Americans are facing enormous challenges. 250,000 water mains break annually because of crumbling infrastructure, which can lead to rust, dirt and other materials getting into our water. Plus, these breaks waste 1.7 trillion gallons of water a year.
Additionally, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council, by the year 2050, more than 1,100 counties in America will face a higher risk of water shortages due to global warming. And, every year, 20 million Americans get sick because of contaminated water due to untreated waste.
The challenges could get worse. Recently, the U.S. House Interior, Environment and Related Agencies Subcommittee passed a bill that would cut the EPA's Fiscal Year 2012 budget by $1.5 billion, or 18%. The largest cut — nearly $1 billion — would come out of clean water efforts.
In the face of these problems, Green The Block — a campaign created by Green For All and the Hip-Hop Caucus to get low-income communities and communities of color involved in green initiatives — has focused its latest efforts on helping communities come together to make a difference in their own neighborhoods. That's what this Saturday was all about.
In Denver, organizers created an educational initiative to inform and organize so that entire communities can get involved in the effort to clean their water. In Los Angeles, La Causa hosted a community event to show others the benefits of a new drip system and rain water catchment at a local elementary school. And, in Albuquerque, speakers used art, dance and workshops to raise awareness and engage others.
It was inspiring to watch people come together to take action. Thankfully, many of these events were captured in photos and videos, which will be live soon on the Green the Block website. Check them out. Also, take a look at the event map on the site to see what new events have been added for this weekend due to popular demand.
Come out. Get involved. Families shouldn't be put in danger because they're thirsty. Our nation's antiquated water network needs repair; our waterways need to be free of pollution.
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Judge for yourself, health-minded reader. In the first video, Rener and his father Rorion Gracie oversee an açaí contest. In the second, Rolles Gracie reveals one of his recipes. In doubt as to which is better? Mix one up each week and decide for yourself later.
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text: November 23, 2000 ATLANTA (AP) -- Atlanta Braves right fielder Brian Jordan says playing hurt last season didn't pay off for him. ``You figure you work so hard and you sacrifice your average for the team, and all of a sudden you're getting graded on your numbers,'' he said. ``Now I'm an inconsistent player. If I was just like everybody else, like a Larry Walker or somebody else, I would have sat out for the season and sat on my .300 average and just got healthy.'' Jordan, who has three years remaining on his five-year, $40 million contract, has been the subject of trade rumors. Atlanta has been discussing moving third baseman Chipper Jones to the outfield, and trading Jordan would create an opening. The Braves also are thought to be clearing salary room so they can make a run at free agents Alex Rodriguez and Mike Hampton. ``It just goes to show that sometimes when you sacrifice, it just doesn't pay off,'' Jordan said. One possible destination for Jordan is San Francisco, where the Giants will be looking to replace Ellis Burks, who signed with Cleveland last week. ``My thing is, as long as they trade me to a team that has a chance to win, I think it would be a little better,'' Jordan said. Jordan, who will be 34 next season, has had arthroscopic surgery on both shoulders since the season ended. His offensive numbers decreased significantly last year, when he batted .264, hit 17 home runs and drove in 77 runs. In 1999, he hit .283 with 23 homers and 115 RBIs. ``I get tired of hearing that I'm inconsistent because of injuries and I'm injury-prone,'' he said. ``But the thing they don't say is I play through the injuries for the team.''


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World War One Commemorations.
The Agent is helping research and co-ordinate the WW1 Centenary Commemorations for Castle Coop.
- He is organising village visits to Ypres and the Somme battlefields. This involves finding suitable guesthouses, and making the travel arrangements but more importantly, he spends a lot of time researching the area being visited first.
- He is researching the WW1 experiences of WLS (in whose memory I cycled to Paris).
- He is organising a War Memorial for Castle Coop.
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WW1 Army Training Camps
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Armistice Day: in memoriam Bede College, A Co, 8th Battalion DLI
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The Morning After
Calgary Flames 2 - Winnipeg Jets 3
The Flames dropped a close one to Winnipeg last night, coming THIS close to tying it at 3-3 with 33 seconds left. But it was all for not as Mikael Backlund's tally was taken off the board due to Matthew Tkachuk playing the puck with a high stick. The loss puts Calgary's preseason record at 2-4-1. Here's our game coverage, the post game comments and highlights.
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After Thoughts: Flames Fall Short In Feisty Affair With Winnipeg https://t.co/w5p6JXQyt2— Matchsticks & Gasoline (@MatchsticksCGY) October 7, 2021
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"We don't have a lot of goals in our lineup right now...can't get behind the eight ball..." Darryl Sutter
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Being a father ain't easy, and it's nigh-on impossible to pin down the archetype of a great dad. But, literature has certainly tried.
As a follow-up to my Literary Mothers post, I thought I'd do a corresponding post about literary dads just in time for Father's Day on Sunday. Literary fathers certainly run the gamut when it comes to character: they can be heroes or villains, role models or examples of how not to be, loving or distant, protective or abusive. But the men on my list all share one thing in common: they love their children, and want what's best for them in this wild, complicated world.
And so, with no further ado (and in no particular order), here are my top 5 literary dads!
Joe Gargery, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Although technically Pip's brother-in-law, Joe Gargery is the closest thing the boy has to a father. Joe is passive, and often downtrodden by his overbearing wife, but he is also kind and loving and adores Pip as his own. He gives Pip much-needed affection, passes him extra food under the table, and when Mrs. Joe is on a rampage, he tries to protect Pip from her verbal and physical abuse. He loves and supports Pip unconditionally, even when Pip inherits a mysterious fortune, moves to London, and becomes an imperious, pretentious, unbearable ass. Now that's what I call a good father!


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Chef Roblé's Roots Picnic @Okayafrica Instagram Takeover Ft. Erykah Badu, Questlove, The Weeknd & More!
Join @okayafrica on Instagram this Saturday as Chef Roblé takes over our feed live from the Roots Picnic with Erykah Badu, Questlove, The Weeknd and more.
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This weekend we're headed down to Philly with the whole Okayplayer fam for the 8th annual Roots Picnic. We had such a good time celebrating Africa Day with the Everyday People massive that we thought who better to join us than EP NYC host and star caterer Chef Roblé Ali.
Stay tuned to Okayafrica's Instagram this Saturday, May 30th, as Roblé takes over our feed all day from the Festival Pier, and look out for special appearances from Erykah Badu, Questlove, Black Thought and the legendary Roots crew, The Weeknd, Moses Sumney, A$AP Rocky, Afrika Bambaataa, King Britt, Hiatus Kaiyote, Raury, Phantogram, Chronixx, Bishop Nehru, Hudson Mohawke, Rae Sremmurd (fresh off the release of their Joburg music video), DJ Mustard, Arcade Fire's Win Butler and more of our favorite picnicgoers!
What: Chef Roblé's Roots Picnic @Okayafrica Instagram Takeover
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Speaking of Erykah Badu (whose performance Saturday will be backed by The Roots), it's been just over a year since we revealed Badoula Oblongata's African ancestry...


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PLAYING FOR KEEPS by Kendall Ryan is OUT NOW!
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And now I've spent three months trying to get her out of my head, but I'm starting to understand she's the only girl I'll ever want.
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Explosions in Egypt
Blasts in Egypt Kill at Least 83 at Resort in Sinai Peninsula. Sharm el-Sheik Terrorism: Round Up Of Early Coverage
We are at war, and yet some people can't seem to understand it. To them, it's all a matter of temporary, sporadic incidents of varying intensity that roll on to other places, like a bout of bad weather.
On yesterday's averted attack in London, the NYT article, 5 Shots in a Train Car Leave Londoners Shaken, quotes a Londoner saying,
"I wonder why London is different to New York and Madrid, why is it being sustained here?" said Patricia Mitchell, 35, a call-center worker. "I'm wondering if it's an easier target. It feels like London has a lot more people and a lot more public transport. But I was completely surprised. I totally thought it was going to be an attack on London and then they move on to another city."
Victor Davis Hanson asks, And Then They Came After Us: We're at war. How about acting like it?
Apparently, the hatred of radical Islam was not just predicated on the "occupation" of the West Bank. Instead it involved the pretexts of Americans protecting Saudi Arabia from another Iraqi attack, the United Nations boycott of Iraq, the removal of the Taliban and Saddam, and always as well as the Crusades and the Reconquista.
But Europe was supposedly different. Unlike the United States, it was correct on the Middle East, and disarmed after the Cold War. Indeed, the European Union was pacifistic, socialist, and guilt-ridden about former colonialism.
Hundreds of thousands of Muslims were left alone in unassimilated European ghettoes and allowed to preach or promulgate any particular hatred of the day they wished. Conspire to kill a Salmon Rushdie, talk of liquidating the "apes and pigs," distribute Mein Kampf and the Protocols, or plot in the cities of France and Germany to blow up the Pentagon and the World Trade Center — all that was about things "over there" and in a strange way was thought to ensure that Europe got a pass at home.
But the trump card was always triangulation against the United States. Most recently anti-Americanism was good street theater in Rome, Paris, London, and the capitals of the "good" West.
But then came Madrid — and the disturbing fact that after the shameful appeasement of its withdrawal from Iraq, further plots were hatched against Spanish justices and passenger trains.
Surely a Holland would be exempt — Holland of wide-open Amsterdam fame where anything goes and Muslim radicals could hate in peace. Then came the butchering of Theo Van Gogh and the death threats against parliamentarian Hirsi Ali — and always defiance and promises of more to come rather than apologies for their hatred.
Yet was not Britain different? After all, its capital was dubbed Londonistan for its hospitality to Muslims across the globe. Radical imams openly preached jihad against the United States to their flock as thanks for being given generous welfare subsidies from her majesty's government. But it was the United States, not liberal Britain, that evoked such understandable hatred.
But now?
After Holland, Madrid, and London, European operatives go to Israel not to harangue Jews about the West Bank, but to receive tips about preventing suicide bombings. And the cowboy Patriot Act to now-panicked European parliaments perhaps seems not so illiberal after all.
So it is was becoming clear that butchery by radical Muslims in Bali, Darfur, Iraq, the Philippines Thailand, Turkey, Tunisia, and Iraq was not so tied to particular and "understandable" Islamic grievances.
Perhaps the jihadist killing was not over the West Bank or U.S. hegemony after all, but rather symptoms of a global pathology of young male Islamic radicals blaming all others for their own self-inflicted miseries, convinced that attacks on the infidel would win political concessions, restore pride, and prove to Israelis, Europeans, Americans — and about everybody else on the globe — that Middle Eastern warriors were full of confidence and pride after all.
Meanwhile an odd thing happened. It turns out that the jihadists were cowards and bullies, and thus selective in their targets of hatred. A billion Chinese were left alone by radical Islam — even though the Chinese were secularists and mostly godless, as well as ruthless to their own Uighur Muslim minorities. Had bin Laden issued a fatwa against Beijing and slammed an airliner into a skyscraper in Shanghai, there is no telling what a nuclear China might have done.
India too got mostly a pass, other than the occasional murdering by Pakistani zealots. Yet India makes no effort to apologize to Muslims. When extremists occasionally riot and kill, they usually cease quickly before the response of a much more unpredictable angry populace.
What can we learn from all this?
Hanson points to three items:
Almost no secular Middle Easterners or religious officials write or state flatly, "Islamic terrorism is murder, pure and simple evil. End of story, no ifs or buts about it."
Second, thinking that the jihadists will target only Israel eventually leads to emboldened attacks on the United States. Assuming America is the only target assures terrorism against Europe. Civilizations will either hang separately or triumph over barbarism together. It is that simple — and past time for Europe and the United States to rediscover their common heritage and shared aims in eradicating this plague of Islamic fascism.
Third, Islamicists are selective in their attacks and hatred. So far global jihad avoids two billion Indians and Chinese, despite the fact that their countries are far tougher on Muslims than is the United States or Europe. In other words, the Islamicists target those whom they think they can intimidate and blackmail.
In another article, Hanson says Enough is enough:
Civilization has only two choices. It can continue appeasing these murderers, looking in vain for "root causes" of the mayhem. Maybe Mohammed Bouyeri did not have equal opportunity in the Netherlands? Maybe $50 billion in past American aid to Mohamed Atta's Egypt was too little? Maybe Britain was too insensitive to its Muslim minorities? Maybe the price paid for Middle East oil really is too low?
Or the United States and its allies can deny suspect Middle Eastern males entry into the West while distancing themselves from all Middle East dictatorships, which neither punish nor even shame thousands of their citizens whose money and psychological support fuel murderers across the globe.
We wait for a Western leader with the intellectual integrity and guts at last to say, "Enough is enough".
Enough, yes.


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In 2020, Houston, TX had a population of 2.31M people with a median age of 33.3 and a median household income of $53,600. Between 2019 and 2020 the population of Houston, TX grew from 2.31M to 2.31M, a 0.121% increase and its median household income grew from $52,338 to $53,600, a 2.41% increase.
The 5 largest ethnic groups in Houston, TX are White (Hispanic) (27.4%), White (Non-Hispanic) (24.1%), Black or African American (Non-Hispanic) (22.3%), Other (Hispanic) (11.1%), and Asian (Non-Hispanic) (6.8%).
None of the households in Houston, TX reported speaking a non-English language at home as their primary shared language. This does not consider the potential multi-lingual nature of households, but only the primary self-reported language spoken by all members of the household.
80.6% of the residents in Houston, TX are U.S. citizens.
The largest universities in Houston, TX are University of Houston (11,581 degrees awarded in 2021), Houston Community College (225423) (6,693 degrees), and University of Houston-Downtown (3,764 degrees).
In 2020, the median property value in Houston, TX was $186,800, and the homeownership rate was 42.9%.
Most people in Houston, TX drove alone to work, and the average commute time was 27.6 minutes. The average car ownership in Houston, TX was 2 cars per household.


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Ketamine Treatment
We provide these resources so that you are able to make informed decisions and explore the world of ketamine therapy with ease. These resources offer a wealth of information on what ketamine infusions have been used to treat successfully, how the therapy is often a welcome remedy for those with otherwise treatment-resistant conditions, and how people's lives have been changed by the introduction of ketamine treatment.
While there is a lot of information about ketamine infusions, therapies for pain, vitamin infusions, and ketamine nasal sprays, some of it is misleading or simply false. We want to make sure we offer you some outside guidance and assistance should you choose to explore your options further.
Nashville Ketamine Center – Research, News, & Links
Ketamine Advocacy Network – Read The Science
Ketamine For The Treatment of Depression
The Dazzling Promises Of Ketamine – Dana Foundation
Antidepressant efficacy of ketamine in treatment-resistant major depression – PubMed.gov
Ketamine for the treatment of major depressive disorder and bipolar depression – PMC
Repeated oral ketamine for out-patient treatment of resistant depression – PubMed.gov
On the safety of repeated ketamine infusions for the treatment of depression – PMC
Ketamine: A New (and Faster) Path to Treating Depression – NIMH
Ketamine Offers Hope for Vets Struggling with Depression – Psychology Today
Ketamine works its magic on depression by 'stabilizing the brain in a well state' – CBC
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The untimely passing of Satoru Iwata has led to an outpouring of condolences from people both inside and outside the game industry, for good reason. Iwata was not only a thoughtful business leader, but also a committed person who worked his way up the ranks in the game industry, as a programmer at HAL Laboratory to the head of one of the most powerful entertainment companies in the world at Nintendo.
We've gathered just a handful of quotes that reflect Iwata's personality, influence, savvy, and his opinion on video games -- where they are and what he thought they should become. His influence will be felt for decades to come.
"My actual last work on programming happened when I was working as the general manager of corporate planning at Nintendo. Something happened and the Gamecube version of Super Smash Brothers didn't look like it was going to make its release date so I sort of did a code review for it (Wry Laugh)." – Iwata, also a talented programmer, admits in a 2014 interview to getting very hands-on with 2001's Super Smash Bros. Melee, even as an executive.
"I sincerely doubt employees who fear that they may be laid off will be able to develop software titles that could impress people around the world." – Iwata in 2013, explaining why he didn't lay off workers and restructure the business amid Nintendo's financial challenges.
"Mr. Miyamoto taught me a painful lesson: Content really is king. His games outsold mine by a huge margin. I found out then that engineering is not quite as important as imagination. To be honest, I was ashamed." – Iwata reflects on how his technically-superior games were outsold by luminary Nintendo designer Shigeru Miyamoto's iconic games.
"Video games are meant to be just one thing. Fun. Fun for everyone." – Iwata in the GDC 2006 keynote, "Disrupting Development."
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"On my business card, I am a corporate president. In my mind, I am a game developer. But in my heart, I am a gamer." – from Iwata's GDC 2005 keynote, "Heart of a Gamer."
"1. lots of patience. 2. a glint in the eye. 3. liking games" – Iwata's answer to the question, "What qualities are necessary to be a game designer?" in an October 1985 interview with Beep!
"(laughs)" – Iwata, often, in every edition of Iwata Asks.


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Sony has begun shipping out a revised version of its PlayStation 5 console, and that has enabled some people to take a look inside. Most notably, YouTuber Austen Evans did a side-by-side comparison with a launch PS5, and he was able to spot some key differences in the design. This includes a reduction in the heatsink, which accounts for why the new PS5 is 300 grams lighter than its predecessor.
Based on that smaller heatsink, Evans and others have come to the conclusion that the new PlayStation 5 model is worse than the original. But that's a squishy statement that doesn't really line up with how we buy and use a gaming console.
In his video, Evans found that the new PS5 was putting out hotter air than the original PS5. And with the smaller heatsink, it makes sense that the overall cooling assembly is getting hotter before it's able to push that air out. But that difference is a matter of 3-to-4 degrees Celsius, which shouldn't impact performance. And that's where I fail to see how the new PS5 is worse.
I suppose you can claim that the latest PS5 model is worse if you are purchasing it as some sort of weird silicon cooling toy. But most people are probably purchasing it to play games. And both the original and revised hardware play the same games with the same performance.
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And on top of that, Evans' new PS5 was actually quieter. So while the new system was putting more heat into the room, it was also putting out less noise. While a lot of that comes down to the fan model your PS5 comes with, it's hard to declare the new PS5 worse if it's better at something key like noise pollution.
Concern trolls are just worried that the PS5 will melt
As I've tried to quell concerns about the PS5 revision on social media, some have countered with fear, uncertainty, and doubt. They're just worried that Sony is selling defective PS5s to make a quick buck. Or some think that this will shorten the life of the PS5. Of course, almost no one legitimately fears these things, but if you do have any real anxieties, let's do a quick thought experiment.
Imagine that this revision was actually a slim model with a new chassis and case. And then pretend that you opened the PS5 and found this smaller cooling structure. And while it runs a bit hotter, it's still well within spec and produces less noise. Would any of that sound strange or unacceptable? No. You would not hear those same complaints.
You should consider this PS5 revision in much the same way. While it's not a slimmer case, it's definitely a similar style refresh for Sony. The company shipped the console with a massive heatsink. It really is a behemoth of twisting, turning metal. And I suspected from the beginning that the company settled on that design out of an abundance of caution rather than because it was strictly necessary. And now, with months of real-world results, Sony is refining its PS5 device to save money and materials.
And we have to recognize the reality of the world. The original PS5 cooler used a lot more copper, which is expensive and hard to source right now. By eliminating most of that material from the design, Sony may encounter fewer supply constraints. And that will enable it to ship more systems this year. I think that is far more important than maintaining an oversized and potentially overengineered cooling system when a smaller design is getting the job done.
In short, don't let your anxieties prevent you from getting a PS5 just because it's not a certain model. At least not until someone can provide some evidence for how the system plays games worse.
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Earlier this year I argued that the fate of Russia's economy was all about how much confidence the average Russian has in the future, and that once people recovered from the shock and fear of the economic collapse the economy would pick up on the back of spending. The bottom line: even if the crisis was very nasty and undermined the population's confidence that Russia is on the "right track," they still want those toys and trappings of capitalism, and if they have money in the bank (or can borrow) they will buy them.
The latest Rosstat results released for May show that confidence is returning fast in the crucial retail segment of the economy.
Below are the details from a note from VTB Capital. The key point to note, however, is that both retail spending and consumer credit have surged. Even more significant is that investment was also up more than expected. This last one is also very important as it means companies are building to meet future demand and this starts the virtuous circle of profits-growth- investment-wage increases-spending-profits going, which is what spurred a rapid acceleration of the economy in 2006-2008.
The one disappointment is that corporate lending is still below par and capital flight is high (although most people seem to believe that it will stop in July). This is clearly driven by the political uncertainty ahead of the elections, as businessmen are not sure who will be in charge. But given that more and more people are predicting that the Medvedev/Putin tandem will remain in place (Renaissance Capital released a note today saying exactly this), I think these nerves are only temporary and a back log of investment plans and corporate lending will be unleashed in March next year, giving the economy another shot of adrenalin.
So, all in all, things are shaping up as expected for a strong second half of the year with the drag caused by the elections.
Here is what Alexandra Evtifyeva of VTB Capital had to say about the latest results:
"Rosstat has released economic data for May that reveal an unexpected surge in investment and robust growth in consumption accompanied by a declining savings rate and labor market tightening. The combination of a rebound in investment and the falling savings rate might be an additional argument for the CBR to resume monetary policy tightening in the autumn.
"Consumption growth robust, labor market tightens. Retail sales increased 5.5% YoY in May, almost unchanged from 5.6% YoY in April despite the continuing decline in disposable income (-7.7% YoY in May) and subdued real wages growth (2.6% YoY). The robust consumption growth is supported by the acceleration in retail lending (22.8% YoY in May) and a tightening labor market. The unemployment rate dropped 0.8pp to 6.4% in May, more than the usual seasonal pattern would suggest.
"Investment surges. Fixed capital investment unexpectedly surged 7.4% YoY in May, significantly above consensus (Bloomberg 4.0% YoY) and following rather moderate growth of 2.2% YoY in April.
"The recent data is encouraging, particularly as it happens against the background of lingering capital outflows and rather tepid corporate lending growth (16.6% YoY in May). It remains to be seen how sustainable the recent surge in investment is, although this year's investment pattern is very similar to last year's, when investment recovered in April-May.


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Tidal vs. Wave Energy
Difference between tidal and wave energy: – Now days a lot of scientific terms used around us and number of people who don't know about them even the few people don't their meanings. Tidal and wave energy are also one from such terminologies and to understand and know the difference between tidal and wave energy, first we need to know what is tidal energy and what is wave energy?
Difference between Tidal and Wave Energy
Tides and waves are two natural phenomena that occur on the surface of large water reservoirs like rivers, seas, oceans, etc. Both of them are similar to each other on the basis that both are related to water systems but their potential in creating and transferring the energy differs a lot. That's why it is important to understand the difference between tidal and wave energy.
As we, the humans, continue to use non-renewable resources, the earth continues to run out of them. And that is exactly why we set out to find and develop new and effective renewable energy sources, which have minimal effect on the environment and surrounding areas.
Seas and oceans being huge water reservoirs offer great potential as energy sources. So, special buoys and turbines are generally used to fully capture their vitality and convert it into clean electricity but like the majority of emerging solutions, they are costly to create and develop.
What's tidal energy?
Tides are the upward and downward movement of the sea level triggered by the gravitational pull of the moon and sun on the earth. Their effect isn't limited to seas, only, but also on the lands but this effect isn't so obvious as it is on the water surface.
The moon has a far more prominent influence on the tides, as it is a lot closer to the earth than the sun. So, shorelines experience the daily diurnal or semi-diurnal tide comprising a couple of high and low tides respectively. These tides are under the influence of a variety of factors including the positions of sun and moon, the condition of the coastline and changes in water depth.
What is wave energy?
Wave energy is the energy harnessed from oceanic waves and is produced when the wind blows over the surface of the sea. The gravitational pull plays its role and raises the water level when is then forced by the wind to move forward, which is why these waves are usually called wind waves. It occurs most effectively on seas as there is no land to resist the movement of the waves. These waves can also take place on lakes, streams, and canals and can be explained as either being capillary waves or ripples.
Major Difference between Both
Tidal Energy
- The tidal energy is harnessed by the rise and fall of sea levels
- It occurs due to the gravitational pull of the moon and sun
- There are two types of tidal energy: kinetic and potential energy
- It can be converted to electrical energy using barrages, dams, tidal fences and tidal turbines
- Tidal energy is far more reliable than other non-renewable resources since it is dependent on the gravitational pull of the moon and sun but is a discontinuous way as it is available for only 2 times a day
- The engineering costs for harnessing the tidal energy are high but zero maintenance costs
Wave Energy
- The wave energy is harnessed from waves moving on the surface of ocean due to wind
- The strength of waves is under direct effect of wind strength
- There are just two types of wave energy: kinetic energy
- It can be converted to electrical energy by installing special onshore and offshore systems
- As compared to tidal energy, it is less reliable as it is dependent on the resultant effect of the wind speed but is continuous way to obtain energy
- It requires extremely high start-up costs to create and develop the technology required
Now I'm sure you will be able to know the difference between the tidal and wave energy. At least you will be able to know what tidal energy is and what wave energy, the basics. If you wants to know more about them, then there are number of specialized websites there on web, with the help of which, you can easily clear your more concepts.


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Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam
Nick Turse
(Metropolitan Books, 2013)
This book came to my attention via Truth-out.org, the on-line news and commentary site I trust as my primary source for awareness of what's happening in the world. Turse had been interviewed by Bill Moyers on his TV show Moyers & Company, and Truthout published a transcript of that interview. I immediately ordered a copy of the book, and read it with mixed emotions. First of all, I quickly recognized Nick Turse as the author of another book in my possession, "The Complex: How the Military invades Our Everyday Lives." I haven't had time to read that book yet, but I have browsed it, and I give Mr. Turse high marks for his ability to recognize the big picture.
I left Vietnam in September of 1968. Instead of returning home to "the World," I transferred to nearby Thailand where I completed my military obligation. I avoided any possibility that I might be assigned to stand on the Pentagon steps and hold a bayoneted rifle against the anti-war protesters, and attempted to get my head straight enough that I would dare to walk down the street in my home town. Forty-four years after leaving Vietnam, I continue to have nightmares, anger, bitterness, and devastating sadness related to my war experiences. I was eager to read "Kill Anything That Moves," but I found I could only take it in small portions. Sometimes I could read a complete chapter in one sitting, but more often I had to put the book down and assimilate or digest the information. There is nothing new in Mr. Turse's book, but the sheer volume and detail of his reporting reveals in a harsh light that the few terrible moments that have haunted me all these years were not isolated instances at all, but mere threads in a huge tapestry. Turse acknowledges this head-on in his introduction. Yes, most Americans think of the massacre at My Lai when atrocities in Vietnam are mentioned, and the military's official position has been that that holocaust was an aberration. "The United States Army has never condoned wanton killing or disregard for human life," the army's director of military personnel policies, a Major General Franklin Davis, Jr. had assured one troubled vet back in 1971. It was, and is, a lie. Most Vietnam vets are painfully aware that the history of our war bears little resemblance to the reality of what we saw taking place all around us, but we carry that knowledge inside us like a cancer. It is terrible, not fit to be discussed at the dinner table, nor with friends while barbecuing in the back yard. We wait, always believing that there will be a better occasion to unburden ourselves, always hoping that someone will come along who might recognize the terrible importance of our fragments of memory to the vast mosaic that is American history in our lifetime. We read the newspapers, watch the TV evening news, and we become cynical as we wonder how the horrible truth has been ignored for so long. We will take our memories to our graves, still hoping that someday the truth might become known and accepted, even as the hopes slowly fade day by day.
Nick Turse was a graduate student researching post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, when he stumbled upon the basis for this book. He was at the National Archives and finding little about PTSD when he asked an archivist for help. "Do you think that witnessing war crimes could cause post-traumatic stress?" the person asked, and Turse replied, "You know, that's an excellent hypothesis. What do you have on war crimes?" Within minutes he was looking at an expansive collection of data in cardboard boxes, a collection titled The Vietnam War Crimes Working Group Collection. In the wake of the My Lai massacre and the bad publicity that resulted, the Pentagon set up a task force in the Army Chief of Staff's office to track any war crimes allegations that might arise, and handle or spin them in a manner that would guarantee ongoing public support for the war effort. This was a huge collection of information relating to more than 300 investigations by the US military during the war, all related to allegations or reports of war crimes such as atrocities, massacres, mutilations, murders, tortures, assaults, and rapes.
Turse was so moved by what he discovered that he left grad school to investigate this subject. He had no funding, no advance on a book, and no organization backing him. Fueled only by obsession, he traveled America to sit down with over one hundred veterans in their homes, or in hours-long telephone conversations, and hear their stories. His investigation led him to investigate other files at the National Archives, to request information under the Freedom of Information Act, and to interview generals and top civilian officials, and former military war crimes investigators. He made several trips to Vietnam, where he made his way to dozens of hamlets and villages to interview witnesses and survivors. "I'd thought I was looking for a needle in a haystack," he writes. "What I found was a veritable haystack of needles."
"The scattered, fragmentary nature of the case files makes them essentially useless for gauging the precise number of war crimes committed by US personnel in Vietnam. But the hundreds of reports that I gathered and the hundreds of witnesses I interviewed in the United States and Southeast Asia made it clear that killings of civilians — whether cold-blooded slaughter like the massacre at My Lai or the routinely indifferent, wanton bloodshed? were widespread, routine, and directly attributable to US command policies. And such massacres by soldiers and marines, my research showed, were themselves just a tiny part of the story. For every mass killing by ground troops that left piles of civilian corpses in a forest clearing or a drainage ditch, there were exponentially more victims killed by the everyday exercise of the American way of war from the air." He continues, "There's only so much killing a squad, a platoon, or a company can do. Face-to-face atrocities were responsible for just a fraction of the millions of civilian casualties in South Vietnam. Matter-of-fact mass killing that dwarfed the slaughter at My Lai normally involved heavier firepower and command policies that allowed it to be unleashed with impunity."
"This was the war in which the American military and successive administrations in Washington produced not a few random massacres or even discrete strings of atrocities, but something on the order of thousands of days of relentless misery -- a veritable system of suffering. That system, that machinery of suffering and what it meant for the Vietnamese people, is what this book is meant to explain." The above quotes are all from the author's introduction, and the book is relentlessly true to its aims. Mr. Turse exposes as never before the strategy of body counts, with accompanying competitions and incentives. Common grunts were awarded R & R (rest and recreation) days off for reporting enemy deaths, and higher-ups were awarded decorations, promotions, and career advancements. There was no concern for the Vietnamese who were dying by the millions. Turse calls this strategy overkill, and documents his case convincingly. "The notion that Vietnam's inhabitants were something less than human was often spoken of as the 'mere —gook rule', or, in the acronym-mad military, the MGR. This held that all Vietnamese — northern and southern, adults and children, armed enemy and innocent civilian — were little more than animals, who could be killed or abused at will. The MGR enabled soldiers to abuse children for amusement; it allowed officers sitting in judgment at courts-martial to let off murderers with little or no punishment; and it paved the way for commanders to willingly ignore rampant abuses by their troops while racking up 'kills' to win favor at the Pentagon." Again and again, the author quotes documents and records from the hidden files to substantiate his assertions.
"American forces came blazing in with fighter jets and helicopter gunships. They shook the earth with howitzers and mortars. In a country of pedestrians and bicycles, they rolled over the landscape in heavy tanks, light tanks, and flame-thrower tanks. They had armored personnel carriers for the roads and fields, swift boats for the rivers, and battleships and aircraft carriers offshore. The Americans unleashed millions of gallons of chemical defoliants, millions of pounds of chemical gases, and endless canisters of napalm; cluster bombs, high-explosive shells, and daisy-cutter bombs that obliterated everything within a ten-football-field diameter; anti-personnel rockets, high-explosive rockets, grenades by the millions, and myriad different kinds of mines. Their advanced weapons included M-16 rifles, M-79 grenade launchers, and even futuristic technologies that would only later enter widespread use, like electronic sensors and unmanned drones. " The American military saw the battlefield in poor, agricultural Vietnam as a "laboratory" for new tactics and weaponry, and they threw everything at the war except nuclear weapons. (General Westmoreland begged permission to nuke Khe-Sanh in 1968, and President Johnson refused.) Ultimately, Turse says, American bombing dropped the equivalent of 640 Hiroshima-sized atomic bombs upon Vietnam, an agricultural country approximately the size of Connecticut, and the majority was dropped upon our ally, South Vietnam. Civilian casualties were rarely avoided.
This is an uncomfortable book to read. Page after page describes the horror in unflinching terms, and the scope of the devastation is overwhelming. He quotes veterans, observers, military data banks, and journalistic reports to inform us of the immense damaged inflicted. It is an illuminating and troubling book, and sobering. But this story has been told before, perhaps in less detail, and all of this sordid history has not affected the American military's blood lust whatsoever. Books such as "Our War: What We Did in Vietnam and What It Did To Us," by David Harris (1996), "US War Crimes in Vietnam," published in 1968 by the Juridicial Sciences Institute of the Vietnam State Commission of Social Sciences in Hanoi, "The New Soldier," by John Kerry and Vietnam Veterans Against the War (1971), "The Winter Soldier Investigation: An Inquiry into American War Crimes by Vietnam Veterans Against the War in 1972," "The War Behind Me: Vietnam Veterans Confront the Truth About US War Crimes," by Deborah Nelson (2008), "Going to Jail: The Political Prisoner," by Howard Levy, M.D. and David Miller (approximately 1970), "Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character," by Jonathan Shay, M.D., Ph.D. (1995), "Conversations With Americans: Their Shocking Stories of Being Trained in Torture Tactics and Their Accounts of Atrocities and Massacres They witnessed or Participated In" by Mark Lane (1970), "If This Be Treason" by Franklin Stevens (1970), "In the Service of Their Country: War Resisters in Prison," by Willard Gaylin, M.D. (1970), and "The New Winter Soldiers: GI and Veteran Dissent During the Vietnam Era" by Richard Moser (1996) are just a few of the very explicit volumes published and available on library or book store shelves during and since the war that the American people have largely ignored. Alas, I'm afraid "Kill Anything That Moves" will also be largely ignored, which is a shame. It is the best researched and documented history of the subject yet, by far, and a desperately important book in every respect.
That said, I must point out that the book has its shortcomings. Very predictably, it has been criticized because it does not describe similar atrocities committed by the enemy in Vietnam. Yes, those atrocities did certainly happen, and they have been well documented elsewhere. Two wrongs don't make a right, and they are not relevant to the focus of this history. America still has not recognized that war itself is the common evil and to be avoided, in fact today's American society embraces militarism with far more passion than it did during the Vietnam tragedy or since!
As this is written, a recent CBS 60 Minutes segment estimated that 22 American veterans are committing suicide every day, and the situation is getting worse despite all efforts to control it. Nick Turse has done us a great service by revealing that atrocities and overkill were "the American way of waging war" in Vietnam. But he discovered the evidence by accident when that nameless archivist asked if there might be a connection between witnessing war crimes and post-traumatic stress. There is ample evidence that America's "way of waging war" has not changed significantly since Vietnam, except that today's weapons are more terrible than anything we saw in Southeast Asia forty-some years ago, and today's military leaders are assured and emboldened by the fact that no one has yet been held accountable for atrocities committed by our troops in any combat situation since My Lai. If the suicide rate among veterans is a national tragedy of unprecedented proportions, Nick Turse has taken us to the very rim of the precipice and given us a long, hard look at the snakepit lurking below, but he has not acknowledged in any meaningful way what damage our "American way of waging war" did to our Vietnam veterans, and what the current continuation of those policies in Iraq and Afghanistan might be doing to today's American troops. He fell upon this material while researching PTSD, and it is a shame he does not tie the two subject matters together in any way. He acknowledges the importance of that archivist's question in his introduction, and tells us he has devoted more than ten years of his life to researching the subject, but he never answers the question! The truth should be obvious. Far too many of America's veterans are severely troubled by what they have seen or done in wars. Mental health "experts" are reluctant to acknowledge moral damage as an integral part of PTSD, as that recognition might discourage enlistments or defense appropriations. It has been half a century since our military won a war, and millions of the world's people have died horrible, needless deaths as the great American military machine grinds on. Today our militarism accounts for sixty cents of every dollar the American government spends, and our politicians want to cut Social Security, Medicare, health care, education funds, and even veterans' benefits to regain control. No one questions the military in today's America. Nick Turse has shone a bright light upon the sickness infecting America, and one can only hope that America will read this book and demand the wanton killing and torturing come to a halt. Wouldn't it be wonderful if the common phrase "Support our troops" might someday come to mean that we no longer allow our military to expose our patriotic, well-meaning soldiers to these types of horrors? Clearly, that is the author's intention in releasing this book to the American public, but his case might have been better made, not just implied.
Vietnam veterans grew up in a different time. In those good old days, America stood for all that was good and just in the world. The Vietnam War was a tumultuous era in American history, and our nation changed drastically. "War is good for the economy," the protest posters read, "Invest your sons!" Today we have seen our manufacturing base abandoned or outsourced, with the obvious exception of the "defense industry". Our country is in the business of death and destruction, and business has been good. War profiteers buy influence in Washington, and flag-draped coffins come home to silent cemeteries in hometowns across the land. We know that civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan are suffering terribly, horribly, under America's assault. Meanwhile, President Obama has granted the Pentagon millions of dollars for a Vietnam War Commemoration Project that seeks to improve our appreciation of the "noble" aspects of the war. In a time of great economic and moral uncertainty, the "American way of waging war" might be far better served if copies of "Kill Anything That Moves" were placed in every library in the land.
America's "way of waging war" is cruel and heartless, and "Kill Anything That Moves" is a sincere, honest, and hugely important attempt to rein in the bloodbath-for-profit that has been bankrupting our country both financially and morally for half a century or more. It is a compelling book, a dark secret brought into the light of day. Turse's prose is thoroughly accessible, his research exhaustive, and he has organized his material well. Perhaps the horrible history of America's tragedy in Vietnam has never been told better, but sadly I doubt that "Kill Anything That Moves" will become a great commercial success.
John Ketwig is a lifetime member of VVAW, and the author of "...and a hard rain fell: A G.I.'s True Story of the War in Vietnam."First published by Macmillan in 1985, it is still available at most bookstores.


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By Lance Roberts
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"Sex" and "Money" are probably two of the most powerful words in the English language. First, those two words got you to look at this article. They also sell products, books, and services from "How To Have Better Sex" to "How To Make More Money" — ostensibly so you can have more of the former.
Unfortunately, they are also the two primary causes of divorce in the country today.
But "happiness," is also an interesting word because it is ultimately derived from the ability to obtain money and the lifestyle with which it will afford.
Researchers at Purdue University recently studied data culled from across the globe and found that "happiness"doesn't rise indefinitely with income. In fact, there were cut-off points at which more annual income had a negative effect on overall life satisfaction.
So, what's that number? In the U.S., $65,000 was found to be the optimal income for "feeling" happy.
While the media jumped on the headline, given median national incomes are closing in on $60,000, they should have actually read the rest of the study.
The income figure is per individual.
So to calculate the required income number for "happiness" you must multiply that number by the square root of the household size. So, what's the number for a couple, or a family of three or four?
That is an entirely different message from what most have been led to believe. An income of $130,000/year is far above the average incomes from most Americans currently and ability to maintain the basic lifestyle is becoming ever more problematic.
In the U.S., despite higher levels of low income (now there's an oxymoron), inflation-adjusted median incomes have remained virtually stagnant since 1998.
However, the chart above is grossly misleading because the income gains have only occurred in the Top 20% of income earners. For the bottom 80%, they are well short of the incomes needed to obtain "happiness."
For most American "families", who have to balance their living standards to their income, the "experience" of "happiness" is more of a function of "meeting obligations" each and every month.
Today, more than ever, the walk to the end of the driveway has become a dreaded thing as bills loom large in the dark crevices of the mailbox. If they can meet those obligations, they are "happy." If not, not so much.
The Financial Crisis Mindset
In my opinion, what the study failed to capture was the "change" in what was required to achieve "perceived"happiness following the "financial crisis."
Just as with "The Great Depression," individuals forever altered their feelings about banks, saving and investing after an entire generation had lost "everything." It is the same today as sluggish wage growth has failed to keep up with the cost of living which has forced an entire generation into debt just to make ends meet.
As the chart below shows, while savings spiked during the financial crisis, the rising cost of living for the bottom 80% has outpaced the median level of "disposable income" for that same group. As a consequence, the inability to "save" has continued.
So, if we assume a "family of four" needs an income of $132,000 a year to be "happy," such becomes problematic for the bottom 80% of the population whose wage growth falls far short of what is required to support the standard of living, much less to obtain "happiness."
The "gap" between the "standard of living" and real disposable incomes is more clearly shown below. Beginning in 1990, incomes alone were no longer able to meet the standard of living so consumers turned to debt to fill the "gap."
However, following the "financial crisis," even the combined levels of income and debt no longer fill the gap. Currently, there is almost a $7000 annual deficit that cannot be filled.
The mirage of consumer wealth has been a function of surging debt levels which was accumulated during the credit boom. The problem is the debt simply can't be disposed of through ordinary means.
Nothing brought this to light more than the recent release of the Fed's Report on "The Economic Well-Being Of U.S. Households." The overarching problem can be summed up in one chart:
This isn't just about the "baby boomers," either.
Millennials are haunted by the same problems, with 40%-ish unemployed, or underemployed, and living back home with parents. In turn, parents are now part of the "sandwich generation" that are caught between taking care of kids and elderly parents. The rise in medical costs and health care goes unabated consuming more of their incomes.
More importantly, despite economic reports of rising employment, low jobless claims, surging corporate profitability and continuing economic expansion, the percentage of government transfer payments (social benefits) as compared to disposable incomes have surged to the highest level on record.
More Money
Of course, by just looking at household net worth, once again you would not really suspect a problem existed. In the Fed's latest Flow of Funds report, the Fed revealed households currently held $112.4 trillion in assets with just a modest $15.4 trillion in liabilities, which brought the total net worth of all U.S. households to a new all-time high of $96.9 trillion.
The majority of the increase over the last several years has come from increasing real estate values and the rise in various stock-market linked financial assets like corporate equities, mutual and pension funds.
However, once again, the headlines are deceiving even if we just slightly scratch the surface. Given the breakdown of wealth across America we once again find that virtually all of the net worth, and the associated increase thereof, has only benefited a handful of the wealthiest Americans.
Despite the mainstream media's belief that surging asset prices, driven by the Federal Reserve's monetary interventions, has provided a boost to the overall economy, it has really been anything but. Given the bulk of the population either does not, or only marginally, participates in the financial markets, the "boost" has remained concentrated in the upper 10%. The Federal Reserve study breaks the data down in several ways, but the story remains the same – "if you are wealthy – life is good."
The illusion by many of ratios of "economic prosperity," such as debt-to-income ratios, wages, assets, etc., is they are heavily skewed to the upside by the top 20%. Such masks the majority of Americans who have an inability to increase their standard of living.
While the ongoing interventions by the Federal Reserve have certainly boosted asset prices higher, the only real accomplishment has been a widening of the wealth gap between the top 10% of individuals that have dollars invested in the financial markets and everyone else. What monetary interventions have failed to accomplish is an increase in production to foster higher levels of economic activity.
Of course, when couples are stressed financially, they also become stressed "sexually."
Less Sex
Not surprisingly, the "financial stress" in American households is leading to other factors which are fueling the "demographic" problem in the future. The equation is very simple – when individuals are stressed over finances they are less active sexually.
This was shown in a recent study by the National Bureau of Economic Research. Ahead of the past three US recessions, the number of conceptions began to fall at least six months before the economy started to contract. As the FT notes, while previous research has shown how birth rates track economic cycles, the scientific study is the first to show that fertility declines are a leading indicator of recessions.
Daniel Hungerman, economics professor at the University of Notre Dame and one of the report's authors, said
"It is 'striking' that the drop in pregnancies was evident before the recession that came after the 2007 financial crisis, since it has traditionally been argued that this slump had been hard to predict."
"It is 'striking' that the drop in pregnancies was evident before the recession that came after the 2007 financial crisis, since it has traditionally been argued that this slump had been hard to predict."
The analysis used data on the 109 million births in the US between 1989-2016 to examine how fertility rates changed through the last three economic cycles — in the early 1990's, the early 2000's, and the late 2000's. A similar pattern emerged in all three cases.
In other words, less sex with the intent to procreate.
"One way to think about this is that the decision to have a child often reflects one's level of optimism about the future," says Kasey Buckles, another Notre-Dame professor and co-author of the study. Research published through the NBER is often conducted by academics at their own universities.
"One way to think about this is that the decision to have a child often reflects one's level of optimism about the future," says Kasey Buckles, another Notre-Dame professor and co-author of the study. Research published through the NBER is often conducted by academics at their own universities.
To the researchers' surprise, they found that falls in conceptions were a far better leading indicator of recessions than many commonly used indicators such as consumer confidence, measures of uncertainty, and purchases of big-ticket items such as washing machines and cars.
Of course, this decline in fertility, fuels one of the primary problems facing the U.S. over the next 30-years – the decline in the ratio of workers per retiree or "demographics." As retirees are living longer (increasing the relative number of retirees), and lower birth rates (decreasing the relative number of workers.) the "support ratio" is falling sharply.
The problem for American families today, despite media commentary to the contrary, is simply the inability to maintain their current standard of living. When incomes remain stagnant, or falls, due to job loss or reduction in pay, the impact on the budget at home is significant when there are already very low saving rates and the inability to access a tight credit market. The recent surge in consumer debt, with little relative increase in overall personal consumption expenditures, shows this to be the case. For Main Street, the economy remains mired at sub-par growth rates ten-years into a post-recessionary environment.
These financial strains are pervasive and continue to weigh on families and their relationships. While it is true that "money can't buy happiness" try asking a couple who are working multiple part-time jobs just to "get by" about how "happy" they are.
Lance Roberts is a chief portfolio strategist and economist for Clarity Financial. He is also the host of "Street Talk with Lance Roberts," chief editor of "The X-Factor" Investment Newsletter and the Streettalklive daily blog. Follow Lance on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
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