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Should Schools be Investing in an Environment-Friendly Campus?
The adverse effect of climate change is more visible than ever before now and working to save the environment is no more an option. The process must start from the lowest of levels and every individual must participate equally to protect our world. Schools are centers where students learn and the awareness about the rising concerns must begin here. The top school in Sonepat will invest heavily, both time and money, to teach students about the importance of preserving nature and lead them towards a future of sustainable development.
Apart from the fact of inspiring young minds towards working for the environment, having a Green Campus serves other purposes as well. A school maintaining all norms of being environment-friendly shows better performance among its students along with the obvious facts that they are creating more informed individuals. Turning a campus green has always been a necessity and it is more so now due to the existing environmental challenges that we are now facing.
A recent report showed that a staggering number of children lose their health due to the continuous degrading air quality. Lung and breathing diseases are more common now and the urban areas are continuously facing the challenge to maintain a balance between development and pollution. Both students and faculty members spend most of their time inside the school campus and if air quality is unhealthy here, health failure is imminent.
A green campus will have substantial open space, covered with greenery along with adequate ventilation. High ceilings allow better air circulation which reduces the chances of contamination of air with dust. Such an environment reduces health risks which naturally drives down the absentee rate among all. Students can attend more classes and teachers can focus better. The whole ambiance supports learning as the surrounding greenery and space boost aesthetics along with air quality.
Apart from being environment-friendly, renewable resources are cheaper than the standard sources of energy. For instance, if a part of the electrical needs of a school can be met by solar energy which has zero cost of production, the institute is actually saving both the environment and its own resources. The same is applicable if the school invests in techniques like rainwater harvesting where the water needs can be fed by stored rainwater.
The money saved by using such sources of energy can, in turn, be put to use for advancing academics. Students can freely experiment with electrical components or brainstorm about new ways to preserve resources. Seeing such environment-friendly appliances in use, they can draw inspiration and apply the same in their homes which will further help the cause. Even energy efficient lighting systems help where CFLs can replace the age-old bulbs and reflectors can direct the light wherever necessary, reducing wastage.
The primary motive of any of the top 10 school in Sonepat is to make their students responsible towards the society and the environment. Only then can education be complete when students can grow themselves along with their surroundings. If the schools preach the importance of a clean environment and what effects can wastage have, their students will use their resources more responsibly which will help the entire society.
Take the example of waste segregation. The best school will teach their students to separate biodegradable wastes from the non-biodegradable ones and put them into separate bins. This practice will help the students to apply the knowledge in their personal lives as well where they will reduce wastage, avoid littering and opt for products that will not harm the environment. The teachings of recycling and upcycling will continue which will improve the quality of living but also create a better tomorrow.
And there is indeed no alternative to it in the current age. The faster the environment degrades, the poorer will be the health of our children and the effects will continue down the generation. If the school practices what it teaches, the impact on the students will be more prominent and they will absorb the knowledge rather than simply gathering it. A student will learn better about the applications of solar energy if he/she sees it in action daily and will naturally apply it in his/her own life.
Swarnprastha is one such institute in the top Sonepat schools list which invests heavily in an environmentally friendly campus. It makes extensive use of solar energy, the lighting systems are efficient, it has a reservoir for rainwater harvesting and has been successful in reducing its waste generation by 99 percent. Its environment-friendly approaches have earned the school the award of the top Green School campus and the authorities continue to further its efficiency. So, opt for such a school where students will learn about the environment along with academics and work together to save our nature for a better future.


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The diagnosis of ADHD is often incorrect in adults as well as children.
Attention deficit /hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has long been associated with fidgety children. However, up to eight million adults in the US also have the disorder.
Latest development: More and more research as well as years of clinical experience among eye doctors working with children and adults previously diagnosed with ADHD now show that many of these individuals may instead have visual problems.
For example, people who have difficulty coordinating both eyes at near distances — a condition called convergence insufficiency (CI) — can’t change their focus quickly. As a result, they have difficulty concentrating, tend to read slowly and eventually avoid reading. This often causes them to procrastinate at work and skip from one project to another — behaviors that are commonly associated with ADHD. CI is the vision problem most commonly misdiagnosed as ADHD.
Red flag: When medication prescribed to treat ADHD, such as methylphenidate (Ritalin), atomoxetine (Strattera) or amphetamine and dextroamphetamine (Adderall), doesn’t improve the condition, it can indicate an undiagnosed vision problem. Fortunately, vision therapy, which has long been used for such common vision problems as lazy eye, crossed eyes, reluctance to read, dizziness or double vision, can help.
At your yearly eye exam, your optometrist or ophthalmologist tests your eyesight and eye health. What most people don’t realize is that it’s possible to have 20/20 eyesight — that is, you can accurately read an eye chart—but also have very poor vision, which is the ability to focus on and therefore comprehend what you see.
Upon an eye exam, Michael was found to have 20/20 eyesight with his glasses, but when I asked him to focus on a penlight as I moved it within about 12 inches of his eyes, he developed double vision. This and other tests indicated that Michael had CI, which explained why he had begun to dread reading and had started to avoid it.
Within three weeks of twice weekly vision therapy sessions, he increased his reading speed and comprehension. His symptoms were eliminated within two months, and Michael began to read once again for pleasure.
If you cannot do the exercise as described, you may need vision therapy to improve focus flexibility, reduce eyestrain, prevent dizziness, etc. Consult a vision therapist (typically an optometrist). He/she will perform a routine eye exam, testing for both eyesight and vision problems, such as eye movement control, peripheral vision and visual perception.
To find a practitioner in your area, consult the College of Optometrists in Vision Development, 888-268-3770, www.covd.org, to find a doctor who is board certified in vision therapy. Even if you aren’t aware of any of the visual symptoms described here, it’s a good idea to ask your eye doctor for this type of testing at your normal checkup or refer you to a practitioner who can.
If a vision problem is diagnosed, the next step is to have your doctor tailor a program to your specific needs. Therapeutic tools such as lenses, prisms, eye patches, computer software, balance equipment and biofeedback devices may be used. Our average patient sees significant improvements within a few months of twice weekly, 50-minute sessions that are reinforced by 15-minute exercises done daily at home. Some health insurance plans cover doctor-directed vision therapy.
Bottom Line/Health interviewed Stanley A. Appelbaum, OD, FCOVD, an optometrist in private practice in Bethesda and Annapolis, Maryland. Dr. Appelbaum is a Fellow of the College of Optometrists in Vision Development and specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of vision problems that can cause reading, attention, movement and learning difficulties. He is the author of Eye Power (BookSurge), www.EyePowerBook.com. Dr. Appelbaum also is an adjunct clinical professor at the Southern College of Optometry in Memphis.
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Nancy Rubin is the Executive Director of Extended Campus at the University of Northern Colorado, a position she has held since January 2018. In this role, Rubin oversees the University’s extended campus operation, collaborating with Academic Affairs leaders to identify, create, deliver and evaluate undergraduate and graduate online, hybrid and off-campus face-to-face programs, and professional development offerings.
Concurrently, Rubin is the Owner of NRR Consulting, where she consults with business, educators, and instructional institutions on customizing and implementing online learning programs, learning and content management systems, and social media strategies.
Prior to joining the University of Northern Colorado, Rubin was Executive Director of Distance and Online Learning at the Columbia Video Network, the online graduate department of the Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Columbia University.
Prior to this, Rubin was the Director of Online Learning and Social Media at Columbia. She also served as a Curriculum Specialist at Kaplan University and as the Manager of Instructional Technology Support Services at Florida Atlantic University.
Rubin earned her BS in Marketing in 1985 at Syracuse University. In 2001, she completed her MS in Information Studies at Marist College. In 2007, she earned her PhD in Comparative Studies at Florida Atlantic University.
Rubin is an active blogger and spends time building social communities online. When not connected to her computer, Nancy enjoys reading, eating great food that her chef/husband cooks, and walking with her dog.
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As change comes quickly to public schools in Pine Bluff, parents and students told the heads of the three districts Monday evening that they want improvement.
PINE BLUFF, Ark. (KTHV) - As change comes quickly to public schools in Pine Bluff, parents and students told the heads of the three districts Monday evening that they want improvement.
The superintendents of the Dollarway, Pine Bluff and Watson Chapel school districts were guests at a town hall meeting hosted by Mayor Shirley Washington.
Dr. Barbara Warren, Superintendent of the Dollarway School District, said they are working together because the success of one depends on the success of the others.
Dollarway was placed under state control in 2015 because of academic struggles, while Pine Bluff was taken over earlier this month because of financial distress. Arkansas Department of Education leaders expressed worry that Pine Bluff would not have enough cash to fund operations through the end of the school year.
In explaining the severity and impact of PBSD’s money troubles, Washington mentioned that many classrooms go without textbooks during the entire year. Taniya Riles, a student at Pine Bluff High School, said that was true.
Each of the superintendents mentioned that declining enrollment was the cause of financial difficulties within their districts. They said charter schools were one factor, as was the city’s reduced population. Warren said enrollment at Dollarway had dropped from a peak of 1,600 students to approximately 1,000 this year. Dr. Jerry Guess, Watson Chapel’s superintendent, said enrollment had dropped from as much as 4,000 to 2,480 this year.
One former teacher told the superintendents that facility improvements would go a long way toward reviving interest in attending public schools.
Guess also mentioned that 20 percent of Watson Chapel’s staff turned over this year. Warren claimed that instability--whether from students moving in and out of the area, difficult home lives for students, or teacher retention--is the greatest threat to each of the three districts. She told the audience that publicizing more of the positive aspect of her school district would inspire more confidence from the community and convince people to stay. Guess agreed.
While promising to support teachers, Guess, who was hired in May, said layoffs would be necessary in the near future. He said that Watson Chapel is not in as dire of financial shape as Pine Bluff, but that it is on the verge of being in distress. He said the size of the staff had not been reduced at the same rate as student enrollment.
Owoh hinted that layoffs or pay cuts would be likely in PBSD. He said he has already started a human resources audit to determine if employees were earning a salary commensurate with their job description.
Discussions were held this summer about the idea of merging the three districts, but that was not brought up Monday.


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David Hume (1711 – 1776) was a Scottish philosopher, economist and historian of the Age of Enlightenment. He was an important figure in the Scottish Enlightenment and, along with John Locke and Bishop George Berkeley, one of the three main figureheads of the influential British Empiricism movement.
He was a fierce opponent of the Rationalism of Descartes, Leibniz and Spinoza, as well as an atheist and a skeptic. He has come to be considered as one of the most important British philosophers of all time, and he was a huge influence on later philosophers, from Immanuel Kant and Arthur Schopenhauer to the Logical Positivists and Analytic Philosophers of the 20th Century, as well as on intellectuals in other fields (including Albert Einstein, who claimed to have been inspired by Hume’s skepticism of the established order).
Even today, Hume’s philosophical work remains refreshingly modern, challenging and provocative. In later life, however, he largely turned away from philosophy in favor of economics and his other great love, history, and it was only then that he achieved recognition in his own lifetime.
Hume was born on 26 April 1711 in a tenement on the Lawnmarket in Edinburgh, Scotland. His father was Joseph Home (an advocate or barrister of Chirnside, Berwickshire, Scotland), and the aristocrat Katherine Lady Falconer. He changed his name to Hume in 1734 because the English had difficulty pronouncing “Home” in the Scottish manner.
He was well read, even as a child, and had a good grounding in Greek and Latin. He attended the University of Edinburgh at the unusually early age of twelve (possibly as young as ten), although he had little respect for the professors there and soon threw over a prospective career in law in favor of philosophy and general learning. At the tender age of eighteen, he made a great “philosophical discovery” (which remains somewhat unexplained and mysterious) that led him to devote the next ten years of his life to a concentrated period of study, reading and writing, almost to the verge of a nervous breakdown.
In order to earn a living, he took a position in a merchant’s office in Bristol before moving to Anjou, France in 1734. It was there that he used up his savings to support himself while he wrote his masterwork, “A Treatise of Human Nature”, which he completed in 1737 (at only 26 years of age). Despite the disappointment of the work’s poor reception in Britain (it was considered “abstract and unintelligible”), he immediately set to work to produce an anonymous “Abstract” or shortened version of it.
After the publication of his “Essays Moral and Political” in 1744, Hume was refused a post at the University of Edinburgh after local ministers petitioned the town council not to appoint Hume due to his Atheism. For about a year he tutored the unstable Marquise of Annandale and became involved with the Canongate Theatre in Edinburgh, where he associated with some of the Scottish Enlightenment luminaries of the time.
From 1746, Hume served for three years as Secretary to a distant relative, Lieutenant-General St. Clair, including as an aide-de-camp on diplomatic missions in Austria and Northern Italy, and even at one point as a staff officer on an ill-fated military expedition as part of the War of the Austrian Succession. It was during this period that he wrote his “Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding”, later published as “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding”, which proved little more successful than the “Treatise”. He was charged with heresy (although he was defended by his young clerical friends, who argued that, as an atheist, he was outside the Church’s jurisdiction), and was again deliberately overlooked for the Chair of Philosophy at the University of Glasgow.
In 1752, the Faculty of Advocates employed him as their librarian, for which he received little or no emolument, but which gave him access to a large library, and which enabled him to continue historical research for his “History of Great Britain”. This enormous work, begun in 1745 and not completed until 1760, ran to over a million words and traced events from the Saxon kingdoms to the Glorious Revolution. It was a best-seller in its day and became the standard work on English history for many years. Thus, it was as a historian that Hume finally achieved literary fame.
From 1763 to 1765, Hume was Secretary to Lord Hertford in Paris, where he was admired by Voltaire and was friends (briefly) with Jean-Jacques Rousseau. For a year from 1767, he held the appointment of Under Secretary of State for the Northern Department in London, before retiring back to Edinburgh in 1768.
He died in Edinburgh on 25 August 1776, aged 65, probably as a result of a debilitating cancer he suffered from in his latter years, and was buried, as he requested, on Calton Hill, overlooking his home in the New Town of Edinburgh. He remained to the end positive and humane, well-loved by all who knew him, and he retained great equanimity in the face of his suffering and death.
Most of Hume’s philosophical work dates from his earlier years, in particular stemming from a mysterious intellectual revelation he appears to have experienced at the age of just eighteen. He spent most of the next ten years frantically trying to capture these thoughts on paper, resulting in “A Treatise of Human Nature” which he completed in 1737 at the age of just 26 (and published two years later). This book, which he subtitled “An Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning into Moral Subjects”, is now considered to be Hume’s most important work and one of the most important books in the whole of Western philosophy, despite its poor initial reception. He refined the “Treatise” in the later “Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding” (actually published as “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding” in 1748), along with a companion volume “An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals” (1751), although these publications proved hardly more successful than the original “Treatise” on which they were based.
Hume was a thorough-going Empiricist, the last chronologically of the three great British Empiricists of the 18th Century (along with John Locke and Bishop George Berkeley), and the most extreme. He believed that, as he put it, “the science of man is the only solid foundation for the other sciences”, that human experience is as close are we are ever going to get to the truth, and that experience and observation must be the foundations of any logical argument. Anticipating the Logical Positivist movement by almost two centuries, Hume was essentially attempting to demonstrate how ordinary propositions about objects, causal relations, the self, etc, are semantically equivalent to propositions about one’s experiences.
He argued that all of human knowledge can be divided into two categories: relations of ideas (e.g. mathematical and logical propositions) and matters of fact (e.g. propositions involving some contingent observation of the world, such as “the sun rises in the East”), and that ideas are derived from our “impressions” or sensations. In the face of this, he argued, in sharp contradistinction to the French Rationalists, that even the most basic beliefs about the natural world, or even in the existence of the self, cannot be conclusively established by reason, but we accept them anyway because of their basis in instinct and custom, a hard-line Empiricist attitude verging on complete Skepticism.
But Hume’s Empiricism and Skepticism was mainly concerned with Epistemology and with the limits of our ability to know things. Although he would almost certainly have believed that there was indeed an independently existing world of material objects, causally interacting with each other, which we perceive and represent to ourselves through our senses, his point was that none of this could be actually proved. He freely admitted that we can form beliefs about that which extends beyond any possible experience (through the operation of faculties such as custom and the imagination), but he was entirely skeptical about any claims to knowledge on this basis.
Central to grasping Hume’s general philosophical system is the so-called “problem of induction”, and exactly how we are able to make inductive inferences (reasoning from the observed behavior of objects to their behavior when unobserved). He noted that humans tend to believe that things behave in a regular manner, and that patterns in the behavior of objects will persist into the future and throughout the unobserved present (an idea sometimes called the Principle of the Uniformity of Nature). Hume argued forcefully that such a belief cannot be justified, other than by the very sort of reasoning that is under question (induction), which would be circular reasoning. Hume’s solution to this problem was to argue that it is natural instinct, rather than reason, that explains our ability to make inductive inferences, and many have seen this as a major contribution to Epistemology and the theory of knowledge.
Hume was a great believer in the scientific method championed by Francis Bacon, Galileo Galilei (1564 – 1642) and Sir Isaac Newton (1643 – 1727). However, the application of the problem of induction to science suggests that all of science is actually based on a logical fallacy. The so-called induction fallacy states that, just because something has happened in the past, it cannot be assumed that it will happen again, no matter how often it seems to happen. However, this is exactly what the scientific method is built on, and Hume was forced to conclude, rather unsatisfactorily, that even though the fallacy applies, the scientific method appears to work.
Closely linked to the problem of induction is the notion of causality or causation. It is not always clear how we know that something is actually caused by another thing and, although day always follows night and night day, there is still no causal link between them. Hume concluded that it is the mental act of association that is the basis of our concept of causation (although different commentators differ in their interpretation of Hume’s words on the matter, varying from a logical positivist interpretation to a skeptical realist or quasi-realist position).
Hume’s views on personal identity arose from a similar argument. For Hume, the features or properties of an object are all that really exist, and there is no actual object or substance of which they are the features. Thus, he argued, an apple, when stripped of all its properties (color, size, shape, smell, taste, etc), is impossible to conceive of and effectively ceases to exist. Hume believed that the same argument applied to people, and he held that the self was nothing but a bundle or collection of interconnected perceptions linked by the properties of constancy and coherence, a view sometimes known as “bundle theory”, and one in direct opposition to Descartes’s “I think therefore I am” assertion.
Hume’s anti-Rationalism, however, was not confined to his theory of belief and knowledge, but also extended into other spheres, including Ethics. He asserted that “reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them”. Thus, he severely circumscribed reason’s role in the production of action, and stressed that desires are necessary for motivation, and this view on human motivation and action formed the cornerstone of his ethical theory. He conceived moral or ethical sentiments to be intrinsically motivating, and to be the providers of reasons for action. Thus, he argued, given that one cannot be motivated by reason alone (given that motivation requires the additional input of the passions), then reason cannot be behind morality. His theory of Ethics, sometimes described as sentimentalism, has helped to inspire various forms of non-cognitivist and moral nihilist ethical theories including emotivism, ethical expressivism, quasi-realism, error theory, etc.
In his “A Treatise of Human Nature”, Hume definitively articulated the so-called “is-ought problem”, which has since become so important in Meta-Ethics, noting that claims are often made about what ought to be on the basis of statements about what is. However, Hume pointed out, there are significant differences between descriptive statements (about what is) and prescriptive or normative statements (about what ought to be), and it is not at all obvious how we can get from making descriptive statements to prescriptive. In line with his ingrained Skepticism, he advised extreme caution against making such inferences, and this complete severing of “is” from “ought” is sometimes referred to as “Hume’s Guillotine”.
As an Empiricist, Hume was always concerned with going back to experience and observation, and this led him to touch on some difficult ideas in what would later become known as the Philosophy of Language. For instance, he was convinced that for a word to mean anything at all, it had to relate to a specific idea, and for an idea to have real content it had to be derived from real experience. If no such underlying experience can be found, therefore, the word effectively has no meaning. In fact, he drew a distinction between thinking (which concerns clear ideas which have a real source in experience) and just everyday talking (which often uses confused notions with no real foundation in experience).
This reasoning also led him to develop what has become known as “Hume’s Fork”. For any new idea or concept under consideration, he said, we should always ask whether it concerns either a matter of fact (in which case one should then ask whether it is based on observation and experience), or the relation between ideas (e.g. mathematics or Logic). If it is neither, then the idea has no value and no real meaning and should be discarded.
Like Thomas Hobbes before him, Hume sought to reconcile human freedom with the mechanist (or determinist) belief that human beings are part of a deterministic universe whose happenings are governed by the laws of physics. Hume’s reconciliation of freedom and determinism (a position known as compatibilism) involves a more precise definition of Liberty (“a power of acting or not acting, according to the determinations of the will”) and Necessity (“the uniformity, observable in the operations of nature; where similar objects are constantly conjoined together”), and the argued conclusion that not only are the two compatible, but that Liberty actually requires Necessity. Furthermore, he argued that, in order to be held morally responsible, it is required that our behavior be caused or necessitated.
Hume wrote a great deal on religion, although, due to the rather repressive religious climate of the day, he deliberately constrained his words (as it was, the Church of Scotland seriously considered bringing charges of infidelity against him). He never openly declared himself to be an atheist, and did not acknowledge his authorship of many of his works in this area until close to his death (and some were not even published until afterward).
However, it is certainly true that, in works such as “An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding” (1748) and “Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion” (written between about 1750 and his death in 1776, and published posthumously in 1779), he attacked many of the basic assumptions of religion and Christian belief, and he found the idea of a God effectively nonsensical, because there was no way of arriving at the idea through sensory data. Some consider it his best work, and many of his arguments have become the foundation of much of the succeeding secular thinking about religion. Having said that, though, it is likely that Hume was, true to his most basic inclinations, skeptical both about religious belief (at least as demanded by the religious organizations of his time) and of the complete Atheism of such contemporaries as Baron d’Holbach (1723 – 1789), and his position may best be characterized by the term “irreligious”.
Hume argued that it is impossible to deduce the existence of God from the existence of the world because causes cannot be determined from effects. Although he left open the theoretical possibility of miracles (which may be defined as singular events that differ from the established laws of Nature), he cautioned that they should only be believed if it were less likely that the testimony was false than that a miracle did in fact occur, and offered various arguments against this ever having actually happened in history.
He gave the classic criticism of the teleological argument for the existence of God (also known as the argument from design, that order and apparent purpose in the world bespeaks a divine origin – see the Arguments for the Existence of God section of the Philosophy of Religion page for more details), arguing that, for the design argument to be feasible, it must be true that order and purpose are observed only when they result from design (whereas, on the contrary, we see order in presumably mindless processes like the generation of snowflakes and crystals). Furthermore, he argued that the design argument is based on an incomplete analogy (that of the universe to a designed machine), and that to deduce that our universe is designed, we would need to have an experience of a range of different universes. Even if the design argument were to be successful, he questioned why we should assume that the designer is God, and, if there is indeed a designer god, then who designed the designer? Also, he asked, if we could be happy with an inexplicably self-ordered divine mind, why should we not rest content with an inexplicably self-ordered natural world?
When faced with Leibniz’s contention that the only answer to the question “why is there something rather than nothing?” was God, and that God was a necessary being with no need of explanation, Hume responded that there was no such thing as a necessary being, and that anything that could be conceived of as existent could just as easily be conceived of as non-existent. However, he was not willing to propose a convincing alternative answer to the riddle of existence, taking refuge in the argument that any answer to such a question would be necessarily meaningless, as it could never be grounded in our experience.
Hume’s Political Philosophy is difficult to pinpoint, as his work contains elements of both Conservatism and Liberalism, and he resisted aligning himself with either of Britain’s two political parties, the Whigs and the Tories. His central concern was to show the importance of the rule of law, and stressed, in his “Essays Moral and Political” of 1742, the importance of moderation in politics (particularly within the turbulent historical context of 18th Century Scotland). In general, he thought that republics were more likely than monarchies to administer laws fairly, but the important point for Hume was that society be governed by a general and impartial system of laws, based principally on the “artifice” of contract (Contractarianism). He supported freedom of the press; he was sympathetic to elected representation and democracy (when suitably constrained); he believed that private property was not a natural right (as John Locke held), but that it was justified because resources are limited; he was optimistic about social progress arising from the economic development that comes with the expansion of trade; and he counseled strongly against revolution and resistance to governments except in cases of the most egregious tyranny.
Although best known today as a philosopher, Hume also developed many of the ideas that are still prevalent in the field of economics, and Adam Smith, among others, acknowledged Hume’s influence on his own economics and Political Philosophy. Hume believed in the need for an unequal distribution of property, on the grounds that perfect equality would destroy the ideas of thrift and industry, and thus ultimately lead to impoverishment. He was among the first to develop the concept of automatic price-specie flow, and proposed a theory of beneficial inflation, which was later to be developed by John Maynard Keynes (1883 – 1946).
Hume was also famous as a prose stylist, and pioneered the essay as a literary genre, publicly engaging with contemporary intellectual luminaries such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith, James Boswell (1740 – 1795), Joseph Butler (1692 – 1752) and Thomas Reid (1710 – 1796).
But it was as a historian that Hume finally achieved literary fame. His immense 6-volume “History of England” (subtitled “From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688”), written between 1745 and 1760, is a work of immense sweep, running to over a million words. It became a best-seller in its day and became the standard work on English history for many years.


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There are 142 rooms to choose from at the Ocean Key Resort. Vacation suites come with separate living areas, which are perfect for the entire family. They also come equipped with full kitchen dinnerware and utensils. Custom bedding and is also available, as are king beds with full-sized sleeper sofas in the living areas. Balconies offer panoramic views out over the coast.
The Ocean Key Resort offers an on-site parking garage for those who have plans to rent a vehicle during their time in the city. There is also an activity center, along with a children's area, laundry facilities, and a fitness center. The on-site restaurant is perfect for those nights when you don't feel like cooking in your kitchenette.
The hotel also has an indoor pool, a Jacuzzi, a tanning area, and a game room. You'll have no problem keeping the family entertained when they aren't enjoying the beach or the rest of the hotel amenities.
Rates at the Ocean Key Resort start around $80 per night. This is on par with other hotels and resorts in the nearby area.
Is Internet Included at the Ocean Key Resort?
While many other hotels in the city charge for Internet usage, the Ocean Key Resort offers complimentary Wi-Fi. This is perfect for the business traveler who needs to get a bit of work done.
Choosing the Ocean Key puts you on the south end of the beach with panoramic views over the Atlantic Ocean. As far as hotels in Virginia Beach go, the Ocean Key is a solid choice if you are traveling with more than one person in your party. The family rooms make this one of the more group-friendly hotels in the region, and the views, along with the location and affordable price equal a quality stay for your money.
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Episode 4: To franchise, or not to franchise – that is the question.
Are you suited to the systematised nature of a franchised business?
Can you see yourself being involved in the day-to-day operations of this franchise – is it a product or service you are passionate and excited about?
Have you got advice on your franchising agreement?
What payments and expenses will you need to make during the lifetime of your agreement?
What restraints will be imposed on you once the agreement ends?


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Why Should You Invest in Metal Building Insulation in Sacramento, CA for Your Business?
Home» Metal Building Insulation » Why Should You Invest in Metal Building Insulation in Sacramento, CA for Your Business?
Provides temperature control: Temperature control is probably the benefit you are looking for the most with metal building insulation in Sacramento, CA. Not only will this insulation work to make your metal building warmer in the winter, but it will also work to control the temperature in the summer. You will also see significant savings on your energy bill, as your heating and cooling system doesn’t have to run as much to keep your business at an adequate temperature.
Creates a noise barrier: Metal buildings can be very noisy, as there is nothing to absorb the sound that is traveling through them. By investing in metal building insulation in Sacramento, CA, you will be able to muffle some of the noise that is created in your metal building. The insulation acts as a noise barrier, trapping sound and giving you a quieter business environment.
Adds light: Depending on the type of insulation you install in your metal building, you may be able to pick up more light. By using a foil wrapped insulation, sunlight will be able to reflect off the insulation and filter more light into your business. This can really work to brighten up the workspaces in your business and give your employees a better atmosphere to work in. Plus, you may be able to reduce the number of lights you need to have on during the day.
Reduces condensation: The metal panels of your building can produce moisture buildup when the temperature gets colder, which can produce mold and moisture where it shouldn’t be. This can add wear and cause damage to your metal building. Because metal building insulation in Sacramento, CA is designed to keep the temperature warmer in the rafters of your business, it prevents condensation from building up and prevents mold growth, too. This can save you from having to do repairs and will increase the longevity of your metal building.
Prevents animals from nesting: Animals such as birds and rodents love the exposed beams of a metal building and seek residency in this space. By adding metal building insulation in Sacramento, CA, you will be able to cover these beams so animals don’t have a nesting spot and don’t make your metal building their next home.
With metal building insulation in Sacramento, CA, you will be able to greatly improve the working environment for your employees at your business, as well as all who visit you. Your employees will be grateful for a more comfortable working space, and you will benefit from a lower energy bill each month. To add insulation to your metal building, call 5 Star Performance Insulation, Inc. We are experienced installation installers that offer many different varieties of insulation to meet the needs of your business.

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text: In 2018 Hunter Mountain opened new terrain, known as Hunter North, which will include a secondary base and parking area. These two design options are for temporary facilities at the Hunter North Base area, including ticketing, toilets, food truck, and seating. Sustainable features include low energy and low water use, reclaimed materials, and potential for photovoltaics.


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Translated here in abstract images are thoughts of a Hollywood actor. According to Winters, the Statue of Liberty in the painting represents the freedom that show business can bring you, but also the.
"What the art world thinks honestly has no more impact on me than. He owns a Stanley portrait of the Statue of Liberty. Like his "Mona Lisa," a re-interpretation of the Da Vinci classic, the.
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The Art of the United States The art of the United States is very comprehensive, so keep watching this website for more entries on this page. You’ll learn some art history and get lots of project ideas to reinforce your understanding of the art of the United States.
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But he arrived as the American fine art avant-garde was at a turning point. woman standing looking out the window in the distance. On the left are the Statue of Liberty and the New York skyline.
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Maybe the promises of “freedom and democracy” heralded by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi’s colossal copper Statue of Liberty. the abstract or the understated, but how many people do you know who go out.
Peter Max Limited Editions & Originals. Peter Max is an artist available through Herndon Fine Art. Whether you are interested in buying or selling fine art from Peter Max, you have arrived at an excellent resource to do so.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new admission policy beginning in March will. It indicates a kind of attitude, like having the Statue of Liberty in our harbor. It is, symbolically speaking, a.
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And New Yorker magazine Architecture Critic Paul Goldberger summed up the towers’ early history by saying that the two buildings initially succeeded only as works of abstract art. up-close views of.
Artist Doug Powell uses computer keys to create large scale statement making masterpieces. His works are collected by Ripley’s Museums, Marriot, Mary Kay, Intel, University of Miami as well as many other Corporate and commercial collectors.
. city’s parks are quickly filling with public art as outdoor exhibitions open in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens. From a reclining giant in Queens and a deconstructed duplicate of the Statue of.
Forget the Statue of Liberty and where it came from. “Coupland’s at first seemingly Op Art paintings are just black dots – abstract, weirdly familiar. But then you look at them on your iPhone.
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But though the galleries of the Art Institute of Chicago have been darkened to the. bathed in crimson light. In "Static," the Statue of Liberty appears as never quite before, though nothing about.
And with a culture keen on what’s current, trends in art will reflect that ethic. is represented by a cartoonish image of the Statue of Liberty in honor of her 100th birthday. A tear runs down her.
Oct 31, 2018 · Described as a tribute to Indian engineering skills, the Statue of Unity depicting the 182 metres (597 ft) height iconic figure of Iron Man of India, Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel, is located in Narmada District of Gujarat at a river Island facing the Narmada Dam. It is the tallest statue in the world and is 4 times the height of Statue of Liberty, New York (USA).
THE latest exhibition by the folk artist Kathy Jakobsen ”Innocence of Vision” had its opening reception at the Housatonic Museum of Art on Sunday. Ellis Island, the Statue of Liberty and the New.
The museum owns Peggy Guggenheim’s trove of Cubist, Surrealist and Abstract Expressionist works, along with the Panza di Biumo Collection of American Minimalist and Conceptual art from the.
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Could you overdo your pregnancy workouts? Learn how to stay fit without harming your baby.
There are lots of reasons why pregnancy workouts are a good thing. Exercise can enrich your pregnancy experience by giving you a boost of energy and reducing the stress associated with everything pregnancy, says Rebecca Stritchfield, a Washington, D.C.-based registered dietitian and ACSM certified health fitness specialist.
Record the important stats from your prenatal visits.
But even if you can continue your usual fitness activities, you'll probably have to change the way you do them, and prepare yourself to dial it back a bit on days when you're feeling tired, nauseated or stressed.
Monitor your body. The key to keeping your moderate exercise moderate is to respond to how you're feeling today. Be mindful of how you feel during every moment of your workout.
As Stritchfield notes, what feels like too much "will change from one trimester another, and even from day to day. That's okay," she says. "When you're out of breath, ease up. Slow from a jog to a walk. The point is to be out there, not to stress yourself out." Other signs that you should ease up on your pregnancy workouts? Getting too hot or sweaty, or short of breath.
Fuel properly. Staying hydrated (and as a result, for pregnant women, near a restroom!) is key to any pregnancy workout. And preparing healthy snacks also important -- you need to make sure you're getting enough calories to fuel your workout and feed your baby.
The best way to avoid over-exercising is to work with your doctor to come up with the right pregnancy exercise plan for you. "Approach your doctor early in your pregnancy so that you and he can develop an individualized program based on sound medical advice and your needs and desires," Dr. Johnson says.


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Does your pony get stressed at shows? Find out why and how to make going to a show fun for you both.
It’s common for ponies to become a bit more difficult to manage at a show or an event, and there’re many reasons why.
Shows are very unnatural situations for ponies – there’s lots of other horses and ponies they’ve never met before, lots of people, loud noises and l things to see which they’ve never experienced. We expect our ponies to cope with a day out at a show with little training or preparation for the situation.
Travelling to events can be stressful for your pony because he has to leave his companions who he feels safe with. If a pony travels to a show with a yard mate and naps to him, it’s because he feels secure with his companion in an unfamiliar place.
As riders, most of us get nervous before competing and change the way we behave – often without realising it! Do you get more anxious, do you rush around when you’re preparing to ride or are you quicker to lose your temper than normal? Your pony won’t understand why your behaviour has changed and so he’ll feel anxious and tense, which could cause him to change his own behaviour. This happens because ponies have evolved to recognise behavioural changes of their herd mates, so they can respond quickly to potential danger. It’s because ponies are so fine-tuned to change, that they respond to our behavioural changes as well as changes in other ponies.
Don’t be surprised or annoyed if your pony acts differently at a show than he does at home – try to understand his behaviour and adjust things to make the situation as stress-free as possible for him.
It’s important to always consider how your pony thinks and feels when at an event. It’s easy to focus on how well your jumping round or dressage test will go and, without meaning to, forget how your pony feels.
To make going to a show less daunting for your pony, make sure you prepare him for the things he might encounter before taking him out to compete. For example, if he’ll be leaving his field mates, make sure he’s used to leaving them for periods of time, so he’ll be less stressed about it on the day of a show.
Putting the time into preparing your pony for events will make him less anxious and happier when he’s there, which will benefit both of you.


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Instant messengers are an integral part of our life and are also one of the most challenging platforms to build. We have previously reviewed Telegram X and explored all ins and outs of it. Today, we put another popular messenger under the scanner and review hike 6.0, which was released by Hike Private Limited on 31st December last year and has managed to bag over 10,000,000+ installs on the Google Play Store in just over a week.
This guest article has been contributed by Anjali Rani.
If you are a user of internet services like net banking, e-commerce or social media, you must be familiar with the statements above. These set of rules are meant to make our passwords strong and thus our information more secure online. The National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) suggested scrapping this method of constructing our passwords and in this article we discuss why.
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We have all grown up learning about Mars as the fourth planet in the Solar System, right after our home planet Earth. It’s baffling to imagine that SpaceX, with the leadership of Elon Musk, may get the first human colonizers on the red planet as soon as 2024. Will the homo sapiens of Earth evolve to become another species on Mars? Short answer: probably!
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Homeowners have so many doubts and questions regarding metal roofing systems. This roofing system has been usually utilized by commercial buildings and businesses.
Rarely utilized for residences, the metal sheets were generally used for casing the barn and sheds in rural households. But, in recent times we have found a regular growth in the usage of metal roofs. You can also look for metal roofing in Chatham at Country Towne.
The main reason is straightforward. Aesthetically their appearances have improved greatly with the advent of exquisite shingles in various colors, colors, and textures.
Many standard roofing materials have their precise replicas in such roofing systems. Besides this, they have lots of benefits. They're durable, durable and simple to install. They're easy to keep too.
No, they don't attract lightning. Lightning strikes the maximum construction in a place whatever the substance with which it's made. Thus, metal roofs are on no account additional vulnerable subsequently other roofing materials unless it's the tallest building in the region. Don't have any fear in this respect if you're planning to get metal roofing systems.
No metallic roofs are all designed with appropriate design components to completely deaden the noise of hail and rain striking its surface. The brash pinging sound generally associated with rain along with horizontal metal sheets can also be reduced to a fantastic extent from the layer of insulation and felt beneath this roof.


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By the year 2031, the world will welcome its two billionth international traveller. Many will be seeking the dream of the ever-expanding middle class - a life less ordinary through international travel. But this wanderlust will not be equally and sustainably distributed around the world. There will be winners and losers.
Winners will be the destinations that not only invest in tourism, but understand the key motivators that will drive the international traveller of the future. This in turn will allow destinations to mount innovative marketing, destination and experience development strategies.
Dispersal – transitioning travelers beyond traditional gateways to explore alternative destinations and ensure the benefits of tourism are shared by local communities.
This session will explore the benefits of seasonality and dispersal to destinations and travel industry operators and outline the business case for adoption.
Hanna-Leena Halsas will be moderating the panel discussion where representatives from Croatia, Spain and Rovaniemi (Finland) are present.
The seminar is free and you can register via THIS LINK / All that signs up to the seminars will get a ticket to the fair, so if you don´t have it, contact jenni.kemppainen@smal.fi.
Hanna-Leena Halsas is the Chairman of the PATA Finland Chapter and Business Development Director for Scandinavia & Baltics for SingExpress Travel DMC, a DMC in Singapore.
She is a travel trade professional with a background in airline business and Asian tourism. As she today also works with inbound tourism in Finland she has insights into the challenges, opportunities and issues in the growth of travel both in Asia and in Europe.
A destination development strategist with 18+ years experience working with leadership teams, Oliver is an expert in the design of quantitative research to identify innovations in destination and brand strategy. Over his career, Oliver has worked with over 50 tourism boards around the world to develop sustainable growth plans and measure impact.
Oliver was formerly a partner with global reputation and sustainability consultancy GlobeScan where he led the thought leadership practice. He was also the co-facilitator of the world’s first major business crowd-sourcing forum, the Unilever Sustainable Living Lab, to identify solutions to sustainability challenges.
Oliver has served as the Associate Director of the Pacific Asia Travel Association's Strategic Intelligence Centre. In addition to co-managing the Centre’s research portfolio, Oliver was a frequent panellist on CNBC Asia’s morning business programme commenting on the business case for sustainability in the travel industry. He also facilitated the PATA CEO Challenge – the largest forum of senior travel and tourism industry leaders discussing best-practice in CSR and sustainability.
Oliver started his career at the Canadian Tourism Commission, Canada’s national tourism organisation, where he worked in progressively senior positions in corporate planning and the Office of the President. Oliver holds a Graduate Certificate in International Marketing from University of Toronto and an undergraduate degree in Economics and International Politics from Wilfrid Laurier University. He is a research advisor to the Adventure Travel Trade Association, on the Board of Directors of international development organization Oxfam, and on the Board of Trustees of the Pacific Asia Travel Association Foundation.

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If lightning damage on wind turbines (WTGs) remains undetected, this can have far-reaching consequences, particularly in the case of offshore parks.
To avoid expensive downtimes even in existing systems, Phoenix Contact has developed a retrofit solution for continual detection and evaluation of corresponding events. The core element of the solution is the lightning monitoring system (LM-S). It measures the strength and power of strikes and forwards them to operators in order to coordinate maintenance work. In the control cabinets for pitch control, there is very little room for subsequent mounting of the corresponding evaluation unit. The LM-S is therefore housed in a separate, space-saving control cabinet, that can be easily integrated into the automation landscape. The evaluation unit is supplied with power via its own power supply, from the QUINT product range. An uninterruptible version from the series can be installed, if desired. In order for the retrofit system to continue working without errors, even in the event of a lightning strike, all incoming and outgoing cables must be connected with surge protection.

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Compare funeral directors in Bootle and read verified reviews on the UK’s online funeral resource.
Use Funeral Zone Listings to find local funeral directors in Bootle that meet your specific needs. You can organise the search results by ‘best rated’, 'nearest' or ‘most reviewed’. There is also a handy Google Maps feature so you can see exactly where each funeral home is in relation to each other.


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"There’s great history here, and I also think there’s great folklore, which comes along with a story like this."
When a 50-foot-tall storage tank ruptured and poured millions of gallons of molasses onto the streets of Boston’s North End 100 years ago this Tuesday, the utter destruction of the catastrophe cemented the tragedy as one of the nation’s most bizarre and uncanny disasters in history.
While the Jan. 15, 1919, event — which killed 21 people and injured about 150 — is captivating in its most basic facts alone, there’s quite a bit more peculiarity, and significance, that goes beyond the surface.
“I’d say all the major events that America is dealing with at this time quite literally touch this story,” Puleo said.
Take, for example, the molasses itself.
The 2.5-million-gallon storage tank perched above Commercial Street belonged to United States Industrial Alcohol (USIA) — which bought out the Massachusetts-based Purity Distilling Company, and its tank, about a year before and made significant business during World War I.
Up until the fighting stopped and the armistice finalized two months before the massive flood, USIA was cranking out industrial alcohol for domestic munition manufacturers, the French and British governments, and later, starting in 1917, for the United States government, according to Puleo.
“About 90 percent of the molasses that was stored in that tank was processed and distilled into industrial alcohol and then further processed and used in the production of TNT, nitroglycerin, high explosives for the war effort,” he said.
Anarchism saw an upswell in activity across the globe in the early 1900s, and its threat was real — even in Boston.
In 1916, anarchists blew up a police station on Salutation Street in the North End, a neighborhood that had become the national Italian anarchist movement’s “de facto headquarters,” Puleo said.
In the months and years after the molasses flood, city and government officials were targeted with bomb attacks — some successful, some not — across the country, including in September 1920, when anarchists set off an explosion in New York City that killed 42 people outside of the J.P. Morgan and Co. offices, according to Puleo.
With the national fervor, USIA tried to peg the anarchist movement to the tank rupture while in court the following year.
“USIA makes as the cornerstone of its defense in the big civil lawsuit that follows (the flood) that an anarchist dropped a bomb into the tank and that’s what caused the explosion, the disaster, and that they should be absolved of all liability,” Puleo said.
Unlike the molasses, the argument didn’t stick.
Years later, in 1925, USIA is ordered to pay $630,000 in damages — approximately $6,000 for each person who died immediately in the disaster (approximately $600,000 in today’s money) and roughly $600 for each person who suffered and died afterward, according to Puleo.
At the time of the flood, the North End has about 40,000 residents, crammed into a small neighborhood that’s home to mainly Italian immigrants, Puleo said.
Most were not U.S. citizens — a lengthy process for native born Italians at the time — and also therefore could not vote, he said.
They were without local influence — and without a voice.
Although newspaper reports at the time mention in great detail the wave of molasses that blasted over the street and overhead rail lines, the rush didn’t exactly engulf the entire city the way modern folklore speculates.
But there is some truth to the fact that molasses got just about everywhere in the Hub, Puleo said.
It was on subways, and in pay phones, and even in the troughs provided curbside to the city’s horses, he said.
“I think there’s great history here, and I also think there’s great folklore, which comes along with a story like this.” Puleo said.
While the distinct smell of molasses no longer graces the air above the North End, that wasn’t always the case.
For years, decades even, reports swirled about the scent of molasses wafting through the neighborhood’s streets on hot days.
Puleo said a former meter reader for the Boston Gas Company once told him he could still smell it lingering in basements while on the job in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
“If you think about it, those buildings were filled with molasses and pumped out all the way up to the first floor basically, so it kind of makes sense,” he said.
As the USIA court case plays out, the United States experiences a financial boom in the roaring 1920s.
While the economy flourishes across industries, a judge ultimately rules against USIA in September 1925, “really the first major decision against a United States corporation,” Puleo said.
The decision is essentially at the forefront of an era of regulation to come as the country tries to balance big business success with public and employee safety, he said.
“Everything that we take for granted today in the way of building construction standards, that architects need to show their work, that engineers need to sign and seal their plans, that building inspectors need to come out and inspect projects …. are a direct outgrowth of the molasses flood case,” Puleo said.
He often compares that impact with how laws involving fire codes swept in following the 1942 Cocoanut Grove nightclub blaze in Boston that killed 492 people.
“I think those two Boston disasters, if there’s one silver lining that comes out of it, those regulations did get changed in both of those cases,” Puleo said.
Stephen Puleo will discuss his book, “Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919,” at the Boston Public Library in Copley Square at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 15.


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We Are What we Eat: Introduction to Food Studies Concordia University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Montreal, Quebec.
Encounter 2030: Food waste and Speculative Visioning. Non Complaint Futures, Sight and Sound Festival. Eastern Bloc, Montreal, Quebec.
Performing Food, Eating Ourselves: a little embodied course work. Joint Praxis Session CAFS/CATR joint session. Co-presenters, Natalie Doonan, Edward Whittall and David Szanto. Ryerson University. Toronto, Ontario.
What we waste: Subverting domestic food practices with experimental creation-based methodologies. Collaboratory for Ethnographic Experimentation Network Workshop, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal.
Rotting Potatoes: Participatory Making with Food Waste. Interactive Making Workshop. Concordia University, Montreal Quebec.


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Persons suffering catastrophic personal injury, as well as their families and representatives, need immediate, substantial, and expert assistance in handling the consequences of such injury to preserve claims and minimize trauma and disruption to the lives of both the injured person and his or her loved ones. The group of persons requiring assistance includes but is not limited to persons suffering death, dismemberment, and traumatic brain injury. The Law Offices of Matthew J. Witteman has substantial experience in such situations and can make a difference.
A recurring issue in catastrophic personal injury cases is how to pay for medical care. This becomes a particularly pressing question when an injured person is without medical insurance, or inadequate medical insurance. Surprisingly enough, sometimes even persons with medical insurance are denied coverage when an insurer or medical care provider finds out the claim arises out of a “third-party” accident situations. There are a number of ways of handling these problems. Not infrequently, an injured person’s own vehicle insurance, for example, may provide “med-pay coverage,” which provides for medical benefits up to a certain amount without questions of fault or liability. Alternately, doctors or health care providers sometimes work on a lien-basis when an injured person is without adequate medical insurance or substantial other assets. In other words, such providers will wait for payment until the injured person obtains a recovery from a third party who has caused his or her injury. A related service of some health care providers is reduced fees for services. Government assistance is also sometimes available to cover the cost of medical care. Experienced attorneys such as the Law Offices of Matthew Witteman, can assist you in addressing and solving these problems.
Another immediate concern is what to do with a damaged vehicle, how to pay for its tow, where to have it stored, how much to pay for storage, whether to salvage the vehicle, and what is fair compensation for its damage. In catastrophic and serious personal injury cases, sometimes problems like this recede into the background in light of the gravity of other issues. Nevertheless they are there, complicating the lives of persons whose lives are already complicated, and a competent, engaged attorney should help injured persons and their loved ones solve these problems.
Similarly, steps should be taken to preserve evidence relating to the injured person’s accidents and claims. Early retention of an experienced attorney will help to preserve evidence, sometimes with the assistance of a private investigator, sometimes without. Pictures or the damaged vehicle, the scene of the accident, or the injury, the actual product that has caused injury, names and addresses of persons who witnessed the accident or have information relating to it, collection of statements, and similar matters.
Securing replacement income is another serious problem for persons disabled in catastrophic accidents. If such persons are fortunate enough to have private disability insurance through their employer or otherwise, or state disability insurance, this will provide some cushion for the income loss associated with serious personal injury. If a person does not have disability insurance, finding replacement income is more difficult. If someone is self-employed, the disabled person may hire someone to fill in for him or her, paying the replacement less than the disabled persons normally charges, and recovering the difference. If disability persists, making a claim for disability benefits under the Social Security system may make sense. An experienced attorney in serious personal injury cases can advise on these important subjects.
Development of a catastrophic personal injury case should occur from a very early stage, including in the hours, days, and weeks following the accident causing injury. Collecting medical records and following of the course of an injured persons’ medical condition are crucial. Interviews of treating doctors and other health care professionals often become necessary. Timely retention of experts is critically important – including accident reconstructionists, biomechanical experts, medical experts, vocational experts, life care planners, and economists. Accident reconstruction videos and models, photographs, and other expensive exhibits must also be secured. An experienced attorney in serious personal injury is necessary both to select the appropriate experts, exhibits, and evidence, and advance the funds to secure this evidence.
Accident reconstructionists are experts that help explain how and why an accident has happened, what caused the accident and, by extension, who caused an accident. This becomes particularly important in accidents causing catastrophic injury, where there are not infrequently high speeds or complex machinery involved. This is true even if someone at the scene of an accident admits fault, or places fault squarely on another person.
Once an insurance company is involved in the claims process, its adjusters and agents will work diligently to undermine admissions of liability and obscure what should otherwise be a clear case.
Biomechanical experts are persons specially trained to determine whether a particular force or accident can cause a particular injury. These experts are often first retained by a defending insurance company, again to obscure what treating doctors often determine to be clear-cut causation. When insurance companies employ such experts, it falls to plaintiff’s counsel to rebut their nonsense by securing biomechanical experts that will actually tell the truth. Again, the selection and payment of such an expert is why the employment of a seasoned attorney in serious personal injury is necessary for catastrophic personal injury claims.
Vocational experts help to establish an injured person’s post-injury wage earning capacity, and life-time care planning experts help to establish nursing and other special costs that an injured person or his family may incur. Economists similarly assist in calculating the overall damages and costs to deceased or seriously injured persons because of the negligence of others.
In summary, substantial experience is required of any attorney who handles catastrophic personal injury cases. The Law Offices of Matthew J. Witteman is a firm with such experience. Call for a free consultation.

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It’s Black Friday, you know, prime shopping time. Malls and shopping centers are as good as under siege and I wanted to join the crowd. Already today, an over-zealous Walmart shopper used pepper spray to shoo away rival buyers from the Xboxes. She wanted first dibs.
As a rule, I steer clear of Walmart from November until February. You should, too. Modern day holiday shopping has taken on an element of danger. Online shopping, that’s for me. I can park myself wherever I want, plus a shirt and shoes are optional. I don’t even have to brave the cold and snow.
Socks. Curiously, they’re my weakness. There’s no sweeter feeling than wearing fluffy new socks, none. They put a spring in my step and a song in my heart; they transform an average day into a glorious event. Most people don’t share my enthusiasm or pretend to understand it, but I believe in the power of new socks. And underwear, there’s magic in those, too.
My supply of socks had started looking kind of down on their luck, with threadbare heels and dingy soles. They were thin and tired and out of shape. When I’d pull a pair from the sock drawer, I could hear the weary sigh. They’d been worn to a frazzle. Not all of them, mind you, just the everyday socks. The dress socks are in fine shape, bright and snug and cheerful.
Then, this afternoon, the mood struck: I had to buy new socks. Now. So I hopped in the car and took off for the mall. Of course, the parking lot was packed tight with cars and the stores were teeming with rabid shoppers, but the sock department was wide open. I browsed at my leisure, unbothered. Finally deciding on a lovely 3-pack of luxuriously thick, cottony socks — on sale for eight bucks, normally fifteen. I splurged and bought two packs, that’s six pairs. I am rich with toasty, beautiful, cushy socks.
I could join a marching band and still have happy feet. I could scale Everest in these babies, they’re some seriously thick, warm socks. I might not be able to get shoes on, but who cares? I have new socks and, oh, life is good.
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ok is it me or is this the third time this blog has posted with a different picture of socks each time??
It isn’t you. It’s me, I am so sorry. The damn computer is still not working right. All kinds of issues have popped up with WordPress and Firefox.
I apologize for the confusion and interruptions. Please forgive me and ignore the notifications. Have a nice weekend.
I love socks! I love them so hard! I can’t tell you how many times I put socks on my Christmas list. A dozen at least. Sadly, not everyone understands that not all socks are created equal. I’ve got some pretty crappy socks that might as well be left at a shoe store for their “try it on” stock. Thin, weak, pooey. I’m glad you get it.
Wimpy, skinny socks are fine for dressy shoes, but I like the sturdy heavyweights for everyday. They keep my feet nice and warm all winter long. Do you have socks on your list this year, Angie?
You’re the only person who’s ever said such a thing. It’s nice, thanks, Kim.
I have kept up with all your bloggs over the last couple of weeks and I think I understand where you are coming from.
You’ve made my day, parentingandus, thanks for keeping up with me. I hope it was worth your while and you’ll keep it up.
You probably understand where I’m coming from better than I do. Come back soon.
Congratulations on your new 6 pairs of socks. I may see if there are any good Cyber-Monday sock deals worth snagging. I won’t venture to the store … I’ll buy my socks online from the comfort of my home (in socks).
Great post, LD. You’re a turtleneck fan, too? That’s what I wear year round — turtlenecks and Levi’s and sneakers. That’s my uniform. I never thought about how much easier it is to sneak up on people in socks, I think I’ll give it a try.
I’m pretty psyched about so many new socks. I’m headed for weeks of bliss. Good luck online, I know you’ll find some great deals and totally awesome socks. I should’ve shopped online, but I was in a big damn hurry.


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