I hate the fact that historically this word has such gendered connotations. But – as with all concepts from the ancient world that we try to resurrect – we'll have to do the best we can to overcome that bias. I'm also not very keen on the fact that having pietas also involved a man's commitment to country – but we are talking about the Romans, after all. Of course, the concept has had a life since the Romans. Groups with roots in the Mediterranean world have all developed their take on pietas and, down through the centuries, Anglophone culture has inherited a Christian sense of the word "piety" that emphasizes psychological humility.
I'd like to go back to the drawing board and construct a new kind of piety, but a piety re-grounded in the aspect of "pietas" that emphasizes ritual propriety. Of course, propriety is all a matter of taste, and "Taste is not stable and peaceful, but a means of strategy and competition." I'm not trying to lay down rules and regulations for how you should interact in your rituals under the auspices of your gods. But, I would like to see pagans and new polytheists enter into deeper conversations regarding ritual conduct and the theological implications inherent therein, and then to go about including their conclusions regarding ritual conduct into their ritual practices. My wish is that this piece of writing can inform some of those conversations.
So, I'd like to define piety as respectful and harmonious conduct in the presence of gods. Thus, I see two sides to piety: ritual piety and personal piety.
In order to discuss the relationship between ritual piety and personal piety, first it will be useful to outline a distinction I first encountered in J. Van Baal's article on "Offering, sacrifice, and gift," which has done a lot to shape my ideas about domestic polytheism and ritual. The distinction I'm referring to is between "high-intensity" ritual situations and "low-intensity" situations.
Say that you're a rice paddy farmer in medieval Japan. Life is going well, the crops are coming in, and your family is well fed and healthy. Every day when you wake up, you greet your family's ancestor shrine and leave an offering of a handful of rice or fruit, and then go on about your day. This daily offering (accompanied only by a short prayer mumbled quickly, but with genuine gratitude) is given in thanks for your ancestors' assistance in making sure that all remains well. Throughout your day, you make sure to present visitors to the ancestors enshrined in your home, say certain phrases before meals, and observe other taboos called for by your ritual relationship to your ancestor shrine.
All of this is "low-intensity" ritual. Your offerings and conduct are meant to maintain right (rite) relationship with the spirits and powers who effect your life.
Now imagine that you (still a rice farmer) have a daughter who becomes seriously ill. You have exhausted all available medical options (say you have run out of all available forms of medicine, and a hospital is too far to risk a journey), and so you call in a few friends from your religious community and (perhaps) a ritual specialist in order to perform a healing ceremony – or perhaps you perform the ceremony yourself. This ceremony requires the recitation of certain texts, the burning of offerings and incense, and the collection and use of specific ritual tools and costume.
This would describe a "high-intensity" ritual. This is not the every-day stuff, but arises out of specific need. Other examples of "high-intensity" situations could include rituals to try and get a job (desperately needed) or find a lost object, or keep hostile people away. But large devotional or seasonal rituals could also be considered "high-intensity," for although these rituals would involve no other "end" than the maintenance of right relationship with a deity or deities, such an occasion would still require more intense effort and work to accomplish.
Both "high-" and "low-intensity" ritual is necessary, I think, and all at the appropriate time. Not all meals are dinner parties, but sometimes it's important to break out the nice silverware. And, of course, we're talking about a spectrum and some actions might cross the imaginary line that this distinction forces.
The reason I bring this up is this: We can think of ritual piety as piety (right/rite conduct) during high intensity ritual, and personal piety as piety during low intensity ritual (which includes daily life in general).
Ritual piety would include many things, but essentially it's what you say or do, how, and when. In high-intensity ritual, perhaps you decide never to turn your back toward an altar, or clap before making a formal invocation. Now, perhaps you're worshipping Dionysos and so ritual piety would include getting as drunk as possible and falling to the ground making baudy jokes! I'm not making judgments here, and I myself have done exactly that!
Personal piety would include many things as well, and sometimes the same things. Personal piety could be praying daily, or always wearing a certain necklace in honor of some god or goddess, or (less formally) clapping or bowing when passing an altar. Again, piety should match the circumstance.
So why? Why bring all of this up? I bring it up because, I have been in a mind to say recently, piety is the stuff of religion. Piety is relational, and describes our relationships to the entities we interact with in life, both human and non-human. Therefore, how can we – ostensibly those whose aim it is to create new religious traditions built from the collapsed bricks of old temples – hope to accomplish any of our goals if we do not inculcate a sense (senses!) of piety or rite conduct? Liturgy always* comes before theology, creating it. How could we possibly begin to develop theologies if we do not first develop our liturgy, where the driving force behind liturgy is piety?
In my personal life, I have found it difficult to cultivate personal piety or low-intensity ritual in overtly religious ways. When I was working as a waitress, it was easy to transform the ritual of waiting tables – saying the same thing to customers over and over, and performing the same simple tasks of offering food – as a ritual of service, acknowledging divinity in each person. Now, without such structure, it's become more difficult to incorporate religious rituals into daily life. Prayer before meals and some meditation in the mornings, perhaps, but beyond that….
Any suggestions on how to overcome this stumbling block? It seems to me that personal piety through low-intensity everyday ritual requires some form of community support and structure, even when the ritual actions are performed as solitary or private acts. Any thoughts on this, or theories about why such low-intensity forms of ritual have dropped out of Wiccan-esque practice in particular?
To answer your last question first: You know that I theorize that Wicca is the linchpin of contemporary paganism, and that so-called "genero-pagan" ritual is all essentially Wiccan. "Traditional" Wicca is not a layman's practice — on the contrary, its initiatory structure betrays that Wicca is meant to be practiced by specialists. Specifically, those would be specialists in the realm of Renaissance (and later) philosophic theology and occultism. By the time one would be performing Wiccan rituals (this is pre-US Wicca I'm talking about here), one would have been trained in the sort of formalized ritual that is, I think definitionally, high-intensity. Wiccan rituals are (relatively speaking) long and bulky, with many complicated movements and special tools, and all of this was meant to accomplish the "workings" of theurgy. Keep in mind that when Gardner wasn't holding Wiccan circles (very high-intensity ritual), he was engaged in day-to-day low-intensity English Christianity. The problem, I think, is that Wicca (and Wiccanate paganism by extension) today has inherited the high-intensity theurgic liturgy but has rejected the accompanying low-intensity "dual faith" piety (nor has there been much emphasis on the creation of new low-intensity devotional life).
Imagine the problems that arose when Wicca came to the US and the system of philosophical training through degreed initiation broke down! Now we've got non-specialists trying to turn theurgic workings into daily devotions and, in my opinion, not doing a particularly swell job at it. So, I suppose my answer to your question is a historical one, and I hope that brief description of my ideas makes sense!
As for advice on your "stumbling block," I'm not sure I'm the best to ask as I'm just beginning to stumble through all of this myself! But, I suppose I'll say this: You seem to think that "Prayer before meals and some meditation in the mornings" is somehow *not enough.* Why do you not think this is sufficient? I would say pray, a lot, with whatever is "in your hands." I said in the post that prayer is the epitome of low-intensity ritual, and I may want to amend that to say that *offering* — whether of prayer, or food, or candlelight and smoke, or whatever — is the epitome of piety. If you have gods (and I think you do!) give them offerings at the beginnings and the ends of your days, and keep them in mind prayerfully always. THAT will certainly be enough!
I'm struck by your use of "overtly religious," btw. I've taken a few classes and read up on religion in Japan (thus the metaphor in the post) and it's constantly repeated that the Japanese are the most non-religious religious people. This is because so much of Japanese life is taken up with low-intensity ritual that is NOT overtly religious that many would say that they are not religious at all, they're just doing what one does. There's a phrase from Greek drama (but I forget the reference, atm) that I like "[They did so] in the way that was customary." In the way that was customary — they just did it cuz, in the way that it's done. That, to me, is piety.
Now, as you point out, to have custom (a "way" that is customary), you have to have tradition to draw upon and, if at all possible, a community. BUT, as I mention, I think it's the task we've set before ourselves as pagans and new polytheists to start creating that custom for ourselves, and then to pass it along. That's why I don't have any specific advice (at the moment) for creating customs — I look at the practices of the ancient Greeks and Romans, (yes) the Japanese and Vietnamese Buddhists, Hoodoo, and Missouri farmer folklore to cobble together a custom, and right now that's the custom that's followed in my house! It could change, it's a project, not everything works out. But, since we're dealing in new religions, we've got to make the attempt to create custom, and then we can get on with following it!
Thanks for the terrific response! What you say about the history and development of Wicca makes a great deal of sense – and I have to admit, I'm not all that familiar with it simply because it hasn't been of much interest to me. 🙂 I know more about the origins of Druidry and its Revivalist traditions (and where they overlap and inform/are informed by Wicca as it developed), but only just. So your delving into it was very helpful.
It also reminded me that, in many ways, it was exactly the "high-intensity ritual" that Paganism offered that first drew me to this path in the first place, and I wonder if this is true for many others. For several years, I considered myself a Christian Druid, supplementing a usual (as you'd say, "low-intensity ritual") lifestyle of ordinary Christianity with the more formal, higher intensity personal ritual offered by Druidry. These personal rituals were infinitely more intense and meaningful than simply showing up to church every week (which I ceased to do by then, anyway), and I saw them as an extension and ritualization of my poetry writing, which was my primary form of spiritual devotion. Christianity just didn't have many opportunities for similar "high intensity ritual" beyond Christmas midnight mass, weddings and funerals. Yet now that I have moved further away from a Christian community which both models and supports low-intensity everyday ritual, I find that it's precisely that type of daily devotional structure that I crave.
Indeed! In fact, you'll be hearing all about my domestic practices as soon as Ruby Sara's Intrepid Spouse comes over with his fancy camera so that I can take pictures of a few things!
Great thoughts, and I was in the "amen corner" all the way* up to the penultimate sentence… which I'm having a lot of trouble getting past. To say that ritual reinforces theology, absolutely; even that ritual codifies and modifies theology – that I also agree with. But to say that ritual *creates* theology… if there is no concept or experience of Deity (the gods, the sacred, the ancestors, etc) as something other that can be entered into relationship with, then why does the desire to do ritual arise? Even if it's as primal as making an offering during a thunderstorm so that the lightning doesn't kill you, or praying forgiveness from the spirit of the animal you just hunted – it seems to me there has to be at least a basic theological understanding *before* there can be ritual.
Erik, I have not forgotten about you. Your questions are very good and I have been having to think about them, and I am taking my time in coming up with a response — so much so that my answer to you will probably take the form of one of my one or two next posts.
This post has been bouncing around in my head for the past few days, and I have come to the conclusion that there are some very important ideas here, especially as it relates to the growing need for a place for laity in neopaganism. As you mentioned, thus far, paganism has too much considered high-intensity ritual performed frequently to be its major focus and expression, which leaves little room for people who are just pagans but lack either the time or inclination to do a full-scale circle casting or the like on a daily basis. I have found that low-intensity ritual frequently and high intensity ritual only a few times a year (not even the eight sabbats, and certainly not the eight sabbats AND thirteen full moons, more like four or five holidays I find the most important) is what I have the time and energy for. And doing more than that makes me feel drained and, frankly, a bit silly.
I do think that there has been a tendency in paganism, thanks to Wicca considering everyone a priest or a priestess, for everyone to consider themselves a priest or priestess with accompanying high-intensity ritual all the time. I would like to see more of a push toward low-intensity ritual being the normal, with high-intensity being seen as something rare and that should be done when it's necessary, instead of what we have now, which is high-intensity being the normal ritual type, leaving low intensity ritual as seeming somehow lacking.
So basically, thanks for this post. It's been giving me a lot of food for thought.


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"Go Slow" has become a bit of a motto for my trip so far. As well as Caye Caulker, I've overstayed my initial expectations on the beaches of Playa Del Carmen and the beautiful Mexican colonial town of San Cristobal De Las Casas. "I'm leaving tomorrow" has become something of a catchphrase for me.
No seriously, how do you leave this?
I sometimes worry that all of this extra time spent at this end of Latin America may mean I'll be limited towards the end of my trip, but the way I look at it, if I', having a great time and hanging out with some great people, why move? I've met more than a few people who seem to be trying to pack too much into too short a time, and for mine, I'd rather err on the side of taking too long in one place than not long enough.
Sure, I'll get to South America eventually – the World Cup will make sure of that – but until then, I'm definitely enjoying going slow.


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Luisa María Hernández  (El Cobre, Santiago  de Cuba, 29 de julio de 1920 – Miami, 25 de marzo de 2006), conocida como  La India de Oriente, fue una cantante cubana que interpretaba guajiras, son cubano y son montuno principalmente.

Bibliografía
La India de Oriente, nacida en el pueblo conocido con el nombre de El Cobre (Provincia de Santiago de Cuba), en la zona oriental de Cuba, en la llamada Región de Oriente.

La India de Oriente empezó a cantar a los nueve años en misas solemnes en la venerada Ermita de El Cobre dedicada a la patrona de Cuba, Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre.

En la Cadena Oriental de Santiago de Cuba inició su carrera de cantante.

Inicios profesionales
En 1946 se trasladó a La Habana y debutó en la RHC (Radio Habana Cuba) Cadena Azul.

Luego graba con  el Trío La Rosa, con ellos varias canciones, como: Soy la pecadora, El penado arrepentido, Yo Fui La Callejera, etc.

En 1951, se abre paso en la televisión cubana.

Salida de Cuba
En 1960 se traslada a Nueva York, y, posteriormente se estableció en Miami.

Participó en festivales musicales en diversos países, entre ellos Colombia.

Falleció el sábado 25 de marzo de 2006 de un paro cardíaco, en Miami.

Discografía
Décimas guajiras

¡Desde El Cobre con amor!

La India de Oriente

Buenos días África

La Reina de la Guajira

Interpretó canciones como Mentira Salomé, Pedacito de mi vida, Como se baila el son, A Bailar El Son, El Madrugador, Yo soy guajira del monte, Yo soy el punto cubano, Guajira Guantanamera, Romance guajiro, Junto a un cañaveral, Ahora seremos felices, Canto a Borinquén, El Fiel Enamorado (Monta Mi Caballo), Canción de la serranía, Al Vaivén De Mi Carreta, Allá en el Batey, Gran sonera cubana, entre otras.

Décimas de la versión de Guajira Guantanamera de la India:

Véase también
 Música de Cuba

Referencias

Emigrantes cubanos hacia Estados Unidos
Cantantes en español
Cantantes femeninas de Cuba

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Happy almost New Year, dear readers! We've seen a lot of excitement come through the doors in 2019, and those memories are still in our hearts and minds. But a new year is coming and will bring a new crop of films that are set to delight, terrify and exhilarate viewers that are ready to live those particular experiences.
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An iconic force of evil is reborn in THE GRUDGE, when a realtor (John Cho) and a detective (Andrea Riseborough) scramble to solve the cause of a curse that haunts a house that's on the market. And we're not talking about a simple case of randomly moving furniture — a powerful anger is infecting all who dare to enter its unassuming location.
A prison warden (Alfre Woodard) reflects on her job as the clock ticks down on a death row inmate (Aldis Hodge) whose appeal is running up against his scheduled execution. CLEMENCY is a suspenseful drama that weighs the very real cost of the death penalty, even on those who would carry out such a sentence. (Limited Release)
Mel and Mia (Rose Byrne and Tiffany Haddish) are trying to make a name for themselves in the world of cosmetics. But after a beauty magnate (Salma Hayek) invests in their hard work only to rip it off for her own gain, these best friends are going to get revenge the only way they know how: LIKE A BOSS.
At the bottom of the ocean, a massive earthquake threatens the lives of the crew working in a research laboratory. But UNDERWATER's true threat isn't only that natural event; rather, it's the creature it seems to have unleashed on our unsuspecting group of human protagonists, stalking their every move as their oxygen tanks run out.
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May 17, 2013 — 10.50am
Wesfarmers has downgraded its earnings forecast for Target as the troubled department store continues to drag down the conglomerate's otherwise strong performance.
Wesfarmers, which owns Target as well as grocery giant Coles and hardware chain Bunnings, says it now expects earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) for the 2013 financial year at between $140 million and $160 million.
Target: Wesfarmers' "problem child". Credit:Jane Dyson
This compares to EBIT of $244 million in 2011-12 and analysts' expectations for this year's full year earnings of around $230 million.
The company's shares tumbled $1.27, or 2.9 per cent, to close at $42.93.
Wesfarmers expects its bottom line to be hit by weak sales in the second half of the year that have been exacerbated by a warmer than average autumn.
Excess inventory had also forced the retailer to hold more sales for longer periods and recent restructuring of the business had also taken a bite into earnings.
Wilson HTM Investment Group adviser Peter Esho said while external factors had played a part in Target's disappointing sales, the business had been deteriorating for some time.
''There's no doubt that the weather and other factors like clearance prices have impacted operations, but Target's woes have been a long time coming and unfortunately there doesn't seem to be light at the end of the tunnel,'' he said.
Mr Esho said Target's disappointing performance was dragging down Wesfarmers' otherwise well-managed conglomerate.
He said Target's earnings in the first half of the year accounted for almost half of earnings gained in Wesfarmers' supermarket division.
''Wesfarmers will need to quickly address the issues in Target, they won't simply solve themselves,'' he said.
Wesfarmers managing director Richard Goyder said the company was taking action to improve Target's earnings and maintain its brand in the Australian market.


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How the women's Euros 2022 is inspiring women on and off the pitch
Could team sport be the key to confidence?
The women's Euros 2022 has finally put women's football in the spotlight. The Lionesses are having a moment, with mainstream media covering every game and the BBC even pausing the ten o'clock news for the first time ever last week to show extra time of the quarter-finals.
Tonight, they go head-to-head against Sweden in the semi-final, battling it out for a place in the final.
There's no doubt that the Lionesses have inspired millions of sports fans across the globe – and, interestingly, a new Visa study researching female entrepreneurs across Europe has revealed that those who play a team sport, like football or netball, have more confidence, better resilience, and improved mental wellbeing.
"The link between physical activity and physical, mental, and social wellbeing has long been established. Now, our research shines a spotlight on the link between team sports and business success for many women entrepreneurs." Mandy Lamb, Managing Director of UK Visa says.
So, how is team sport inspiring women?
The findings revealed that those who play team sports were generally more positive, confident and resilient in business. Case in point: 75% of women businesswomen surveyed who play sport say it's had a positive impact on their business life.
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Researchers conducting the findings believe this is because you develop the same key skills in sport, such as stress management and confidence, as in business. Among those surveyed, 50% said sport helped them manage stress, tiredness or being overworked.
On top of that, one in three also say that they gain confidence from team sports, which they then take into their work life.
Other key skills which span both sport and work included adapting to change and communication.
The research revealed that one of the key barriers to women starting their own businesses is a lack of confidence. One way to boost confidence? Taking up a team sport.
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Of course, taking up a team sport isn't crucial for business success, but it is clear that many female entrepreneurs who do take up team sport see the benefits beyond the pitch.
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Falcons advance to Super Bowl
Jack Brock
It's official. The Atlanta Falcons will play in Super Bowl LI. The City of Atlanta has a professional sports team in their league championship for the first time since the Atlanta Braves played in the World Series in 1999.
"I'm excited for our family… the family of Atlanta," said Arthur Blank, the owner of the Falcons, in a post-game press conference on Sunday. "Our fans have been incredible."
Falcons' quarterback Matt Ryan, calling an audible in a game against the Dallas Cowboys in 2012.
To get to the Super Bowl, the Falcons defeated the Green Bay Packers 44-21 in the NFC Championship.
Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan, one of the league's front-runners for MVP, threw for 392 yards and four touchdowns and ran for 23 yards and another touchdown. Despite this, Ryan still wants the focus to be on the team.
"I'm happy for everyone in our organization," he said in his postgame press conference. "We've worked hard to get to this point."
On Feb. 5, the Falcons will face the New England Patriots in the 2017 edition of the Super Bowl. This is the second time the Falcons have played in the Super Bowl, and if they win, it will be their first victory.
In his postgame press conference, Falcons rookie safety Keanu Neal commented on the fact of being the second ever Falcons team to make it to the Super Bowl.
"It's surreal, I'm just so thankful," he said.
The Falcons don't have much time to celebrate, according to Ryan.
"The challenge is still in front of us, what we set out for is still in front of us," he said. "We'll enjoy it, but our ultimate goal is still in front of us."
For those who want to watch, Super Bowl LI will air on FOX at 6:30 p.m. ET on Feb. 5.
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Iraq's Problem Is Economic, not Security
Many Americans shy away from Iraq because of security concerns, and certainly last month's bloodshed has shaken confidence both inside and outside Iraq. Through all the violence—war, insurgency, and terrorism—Iraqis have been resilient, a trait which probably surprises only those who formed their political opinion about Iraq without ever talking to Iraqis. The security problems must be overcome—and Prime Minister Maliki is probably correct to fight them head-on rather than to appease those who would seek to win through violence what they cannot at the ballot box. Rather than allow any politician to walk away from terror support out of fear of sparking sectarian tension, the Iraqi government should instead enforce its standard universally and let no one off the hook. More systemic problems loom, however.
The decision to liberate Iraq was certainly wise, although the decision to occupy the country (as I stated before I entered government in this interview with the American Enterprise) was not. That said, once the decision to occupy was taken, it becomes essential to achieve the best possible outcome rather than refighting policy battles lost. Still, for all the years of occupation, the hundreds of billions of dollars in continued security and grandiose aid and development schemes, the United States really could count only two additional successes: First was modernizing Iraq's old currency and second was reviving Iraq's oil trade.
It is that oil trade which now threatens Iraq's long-term health. Iraqi government officials privately acknowledge that every ministry could function with one-tenth of the staff. Most young Iraqi college graduates, however, aspire to a safe government post rather than take a chance in the private sector. Entrepreneurship is still frowned upon in many families. The result is that the majority of Iraq's oil income goes to salaries, but not to basic infrastructure. Many Iraqis are content enough and willing to overlook Iraq's problems so long as they have a nice house, a car, satellite television, a cell phone, a generator to make up the short-fall in electricity, and basic financial security.
The Iraqi government—unlike its Iranian counterpart—has been able to make payroll, and will continue to do so as long as oil prices remain high. Inside the Middle East rulers might hope that $100 oil is the new normal but if history is any guide, what goes up also comes down. If the price of oil ever drops precipitously—as it did, for example, in the late 1990s—then Iraq may pay the price for its failure to reform its economy and better encourage both domestic entrepreneurship and direct foreign investment.
Nor should those who regularly sing Iraqi Kurdistan's praises believe that the Kurdish region will be immune from such consequences. The flash and the affluence upon which visitors to Kurdistan regularly remark are the hallmarks of a bubble, not a healthy economy. Real estate has boomed, but many of the apartment buildings and office buildings remain empty. Politicians, if asked, will acknowledge that Kurdish investors will pour money into real estate because there are few other outlets for their cash. Local banks are not trusted, and business still depends on political connections. Beyond oil, there has not been any significant industrial development. Rather than manufacture goods themselves, Kurds in the north and Arabs in the south continue to pour money into imports of Iranian and Turkish consumer goods.
Once again, however, a stable Iraq may be in U.S. interests, but the desire of both Democrats and Republicans to divorce themselves from Iraq is strategically shortsighted and deliberately undercuts a relationship which is America's for the asking.


During this vast time [of the split of Pangea] the sea waves have been continuously pounding against Africa and Brazil and in many places rivers have been bringing into the ocean great amounts of eroded material, yet everywhere the geographic shore lines are said to have remained practically unchanged!
However, his ideas were not taken seriously by many geologists, who pointed out that there was no apparent mechanism for continental drift.
Plate boundaries are commonly associated with geological events such as earthquakes and the creation of topographic features such as mountainsvolcanoesmid-ocean ridgesand oceanic trenches. There are essentially two main types of forces that are thought to influence plate motion: The hypothesis of continental drift was largely developed by the German Alfred L.
The manifestation of this varying lateral density is mantle convection from buoyancy forces. He called his southern supercontinent Gondwanaland and the northern land mass Laurasia. However, within a few decades that was all to change. Dietz and Hess the former published the same idea one year earlier in Nature but priority belongs to Hess who had already distributed an unpublished manuscript of his article by  were among the small handful who really understood the broad implications of sea floor spreading and how it would eventually agree with the, at that time, unconventional and unaccepted ideas of continental drift and the elegant and mobilistic models proposed by previous An overview of the plate tectonics theory by alfred wegener like Holmes.
Most people observed the apparent surface similarities of the two coasts, but Wegener was the first to look into how the continents fit together at their respective continental shelves. Another issue that hurt the hypothesis was the mechanism that Wegener proposed to initiate continental drift.
Either side of a spreading centre, weak magnetic anomalies km wide and hundreds of kilometres long can be identified. They were all inspired by the remarkable fit between the Atlantic coasts of Africa and South America. Thus, the new mobilistic concepts neatly explained why the Earth does not get bigger with sea floor spreading, why there is so little sediment accumulation on the ocean floor, and why oceanic rocks are much younger than continental rocks.
Most earthquakes occur in narrow belts that correspond to the locations of lithospheric plate boundaries. As one of the plates is subducted beneath the other it begins to melt at a depth of between 90 and km and the resulting magma rises to the surface above the subduction zone to form a chain or arc of volcanoes.
His paper, though little noted and even ridiculed at the time, has since been called "seminal" and "prescient".
Specifically, they did not see how continental rock could plow through the much denser rock that makes up oceanic crust. Paleontologists had also found that there were fossils of similar species found on continents that are now separated by great geographic distance.
Du Toit was confident he had found conclusive proof that the continents were once joined.
However, despite his range of evidence, the continental fits were not perfect and the geological match-ups were not always consistent while the continental fit left some gaps when using the current coastline, it was demonstrated in the s that using a m depth contour gives a much tighter fit.
Continental drift In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, geologists assumed that the Earth's major features were fixed, and that most geologic features such as basin development and mountain ranges could be explained by vertical crustal movement, described in what is called the geosynclinal theory.
This distortion was recognized by Icelandic mariners as early as the late 18th century.
The key principle of plate tectonics is that the lithosphere exists as separate and distinct tectonic plateswhich ride on the fluid-like visco-elastic solid asthenosphere.
Strong earthquakes can occur along a fault. Apart from using the fit of the two continents already mentioned, Wegener also used fossil distribution and lithological similarity as evidence. These elevations were the ocean abyss and the contiental crust.
As he later wrote: Generally, this was placed in the context of a contracting planet Earth due to heat loss in the course of a relatively short geological time. Definition and refining of the theory After all these considerations, Plate Tectonics or, as it was initially called "New Global Tectonics" became quickly accepted in the scientific world, and numerous papers followed that defined the concepts: Therefore, Heezen advocated the so-called " expanding Earth " hypothesis of S.
This is certainly true of plate tectonicsone of the most important and far-ranging geological theories of all time; when first proposed, it was ridiculed, but steadily accumulating evidence finally prompted its acceptance, with immense consequences for geology, geophysics, oceanography, and paleontology.
Death Wegener died in Clarinetania, Greenlandin November This activity required him to travel constantly between various weather stations in Germanyon the Balkanson the Western Front and in the Baltic region.
Most of the Earth's tectonic, seismic and volcanic activity occurs at the boundaries of neighbouring plates. In the early s scientists such as Heezen, Hess and Dietz had begun to theorise that mid-ocean ridges mark structurally weak zones where the ocean floor was being ripped in two lengthwise along the ridge crest see the previous paragraph.
Here is a modest sample: These long linear strips of magnetic anomalies form a symmerical pattern either side of a spreading centre. They are associated with different types of surface phenomena. Wegener was not the first to note this Abraham OrteliusAntonio Snider-PellegriniEduard SuessRoberto Mantovani and Frank Bursley Taylor preceded him just to mention a fewbut he was the first to marshal significant fossil and paleo-topographical and climatological evidence to support this simple observation and was supported in this by researchers such as Alex du Toit.In line with other previous and contemporaneous proposals, in the meteorologist Alfred Wegener amply described what he called continental drift, expanded in his book The Origin of Continents and Oceans and the scientific debate started that would end up fifty years later in the theory of plate tectonics.
Even though the theory of plate tectonics is now widely accepted by the scientific community, aspects of the theory are still being debated today. Ironically, one of the chief outstanding questions is the one Wegener failed to resolve: What is the nature of the forces propelling the plates?
Plate Tectonics: The Rocky History of an Idea. In Alfred Wegener () Wegener's drift theory seemed more plausible than land bridges connecting all of the continents.
But that in itself was not enough to support his idea. Another observation favoring continental drift was the presence of evidence for continental glaciation.
Plate Tectonics Overview. Last Updated on Tuesday, 27 June | | | Hits: The hypothesis of continental drift was largely developed by the German Alfred L. Wegener, a lecturer in astronomy and meteorology, who suggested that the Earth's continents had at one time been joined in two supercontinents.
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"In the last three years, doing business via the Internet has expanded enormously in our sector," reflects Kothuis. "In this period, the volumes that we supply to online shops have increased five-fold. We used to send these consignments via parcel delivery services, but for years now that has no longer been an option. Van Duuren has taken over a large share of this transport." One result of the growing turnover via the Internet that Kothuis has experienced in practice is that the delivery periods are coming even more under pressure. "Most online stores are finding that it's most important that they stick to the delivery periods advertised on their websites, even if it is only to ensure that they don't get negative reviews. This is why we also need to be able to count on a carrier that's reliable and keeps their promises. I believe that this is one of Van Duuren's strong points. And of course it is fine that Vianen is just around the corner from our warehouse in IJsselstein."
"I think that ABS and Van Duuren have together experienced very organic growth," adds Stef Blommaart. "Of course we also noticed that the market via Internet was playing an increasingly large role in the business of ABS, and in consultation with them we adapted our own route planning to match this." According to both Kothuis and Blommart a striking example is an online company in Germany that began as quite a small player in the market, but which can now be counted among the key accounts of ABS. "We have set up a special dedicated service for this client," Blommaart continues, "in which we load at IJsselstein at about 5.30 p.m. and unload in Berlin at 10.00 a.m. the following day. This is the best solution for ABS and for us as it involves large volumes, easily seven to eight pallets that are really heavy. For this service we always use a truck that can carry at least 2000 kilograms."
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In addition to hiking trails and observation towers you can have an active vacation by wondering around from Matsi beach to Marimetsa bog trail.
Boat trips to the Matsalu reeds start from the Suitsu bridge. At the beginning of the 20th century, the men of Kirikuküla built a number of fishermen huts on the banks of the Suitsu River, some of which have been preserved and restored.
One of the most interesting historical object is Kasari bridge, which was built in 1904. The 308 m long and 7 m wide bridge was the longest reinforced concrete bridge in Europe at that time. The bridge was renovated in 2000 and can now be used only by pedestrians. During flood season the bridge surrounding gives spectacular experience.
Boulders from the Ice Age often occur here. The best known of them are Jaagu-Mihkli Hiiekivi in the village of Ridase and Näärikivid on the southern shore of Matsalu Bay.
Salevere Salumägi marks the past coastline – the outcrop was carved out from a limestone plateau and polished by the sea, that last reached here 4000 years ago. Stairs and a boardwalk take the visitors down the limestone cliff to the Silmaallika spring. Under the outcrop grows the klint forest, on top of the cliff there is a species-rich forest. References to ancient settlement and remnants of the rampart have also been found here.
Several wooded meadows have been preserved in Western Estonia. The best known of them is one of the richest in species in Europe – Laelatu wooded meadow and the largest restored wooded meadow in Estonia – Nedrema (80 ha). Wooded meadows are known primarily as an orchid habitat. The Allika and Viita wooded meadows in Kirikuküla are also significant.
Most of the old oaks have been preserved in the Mihkli-Koonga area, the most famous of which is the Mihkli oakwood, which is worth visiting during the spring.
The pearl of the nature of Western Estonia is the Puhtu forest, a broad-leaved forest on the peninsula near Virtsu. The forest can be visited all year around, in addition to the native trees and the luxuriant spring flowers, you can enjoy bird voices and bird migration.
Marshes and bogs make up a good third of the local landscape. They have arisen due to the swamping of lower basins, but also due to the overgrowth of coastal lakes. Unfortunately, most of the Estonian swamps have been drained and cultivated into fields. One exception is the Tuhu mire, where a large part of the swamps are still untouched by human activity. The Nehatu mire, which is covered by a rare sword grass filed in Estonia, is also botanically interesting, but difficult to access.
The Marimetsa bog, which is located further off the coast, differs from the other bogs in Western Estonia in terms of its extensive bog pools.
To the south of Varbla, both the vegetation and the landscape change. The rocky limestone openings are replaced by sand dunes and light-filled pine forests.
Penijõe hiking trail
Penijõe-Aegviidu-Kauksi hiking route
Salevere hiking trail
Suitsu hiking trail
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Puhtulaiu nature trail
Kurese nature trail
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Kolga nature study trail
Lagleranna hiking trail
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TOSS TO BE EMPLOYED BEFORE ALL 2020 COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES
FEATURED NEWS | 19th December 2019
The toss will be mandatory before each County Championship game next season, replacing the system whereby teams have had the option of bowling first when playing away from home.
The ECB has confirmed the move, which will restore the toss to all County Championship games for the first time since 2015, as part of a raft of tweaks to the rulebook ahead of 2020.
The governing body believe that the tightening of the ECB Pitch Regulations, the advent of a tighter seam on the Dukes ball and the compulsory availability of the heavy roller will provide sufficient incentive for venues to produce pitches that provide a suitable balance between bat and ball.
A number of other changes are being implemented in domestic limited-overs fixtures ahead of the 2020 campaign.
In the event of the fielding side being responsible for slow over rates in the Vitality Blast, Royal London Cup or The Hundred, one fewer player will be allowed outside the 30-yard circle for any deliveries bowled after the cut-off time.
This replaces the system whereby six runs per over not completed after the cut-off are awarded to the batting side.
It has also been confirmed that players drafted for the Hundred will not be available for the group stages of the Royal London Cup, and a minimum period of 21 days will be in place for the loaning of players between two counties.
In The Hundred, meanwhile, a new batsman will be on strike even if the departing player was dismissed by being caught and the batsmen crossed while running.
Consultants behind the rule believe that, by giving the bowler the opportunity to immediately bowl at a new batsman, the fielding side can take full advantage of dismissing an opposition player.
Conditions for the strategic powerplay have also been confirmed, with one break of two-and-a-half minutes permitted in each innings at the fielding side's discretion after the initial 25-ball powerplay.
The tweaks have been approved by the ECB board following recommendations from the its cricket committee.
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18.01.2016 Power generation at biofuel plant
ROLT power systems (as a part of ROLT group) has completed a project for power supply modernization at "Miranda" bioethanol production plant (Vladikavkaz, RNO - Alania). After 72 hours of testing operations, three generator sets ROLT PSG 1000 were connected to the plant's local grid. As new equipment was commissioned, the power of the existing power park has increased by 50%, from 6 MW to 9 MW.
ROLT PSG 1000 is gas reciprocating modular power plant with high degree of operational compatibility. Generating units GE Jenbacher J320 (Austria) of nominal power 1063 kW with low-power generators of 0,4 kV are used in these mini CHPs. The step-up transformers 0,4/10,5 kV are located in the electric compartments that are assigned in the containers for relay protection and automatic equipment and control panel.
LLC "Miranda" pays special attention to its manufacturing plant efficiency. That is why cooling jacket heating energy is not emitted; it is used in plant's production processes to ferment raw materials and to dry residual stock. ROLT power systems' specialists have implemented a range of works on a turnkey basis - form unit manufacturing at production site in Kolomna to mini CHP full integration in plant's electric and heating systems. And as LLC "Miranda" uses in its technologies high powered engine output with smooth-start system, for integration ROLT implemented its innovation "Power supply network supervisory and monitoring control automated system". ROLT company engineers analyzed plant's energy consumption during one production cycle and determined bend points in case of technological process breakdown. As a result, this system that includes ballast load, hardware and software, has enabled power and load automated control. In case of energy consumption breakdown, Power supply network supervisory and monitoring control automated system provides power compensation, and in case of power ascension, the system redistributes it.
According to Ilya Kulumbegov, LLC "Miranda" chief power engineer, the convenience of the automated system developed by ROLT is evident. This system enables to cut operation costs, to minimize the possibility of the emergency shutdowns in case of peak capacity exceedance and to guarantee the higher engine endurance.
Information about LLC "Miranda":
Limited Liability Company "Miranda" is the only plant in Russia producing bioethanol, an additive to petrol that contributes to a more complete petrol combustion and reduction of exhaust gas toxicity (CO emission is reduced by 30%, particulate load emission - up to 50%). The production capacities are situated in Vladikavkaz (the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania), the site plot is 60 000 square meters. The plant was put into operation in the shortest period: the construction began in January 2005, and the first liters of biofuel were obtained in February 2006. Every day the plant produces about 100 tons of biofuel, the designed capacity is twice higher - 200 tons of product a day. Biofuel is produced from low-grade crops and food-industry waste. The main raw material suppliers of Bioethanol are sugar-plants of Krasnodar territory. The materials left after fermentation are used to produce gluten, bran, starch and DDGS food that is used in farming.


Tribes is widely considered the de facto modern marketing manual. If you run a small business, I encourage you to read it.
It makes a compelling case for ordinary people filling the enormous power vacuum left behind as production monopolies are eroded.
Published 2008, Tribes by Seth Godin has achieved cult status in the horizontal publishing world, earning thousands of regular mentions in blogs, videos and podcasts.
The central idea is that the social groups we belong to today can be traced back to the tribes in the early history of mankind.
The connected economy of the information age has killed mass marketing. Everyone and anyone has a voice. The internet is a platform for sharing ideas with those already interested in the same things.
This, the author urges, is a window of opportunity we must seize in order to forge strong, meaningful connections in the post-industrial marketing landscape.
The paradigm shift is self evident, and yet even now in 2015 some of us would rather cling to the factory led model that has served us for over 150 years.
The overlap between the author's other titles is apparent. He describes himself as someone "trying to scratch an itch," so that explains the common territory shared by his work.
Since he is one who frequently breaks the rules in the publishing world, I was unsurprised by the absence of a page of contents.
The book is 150 pages long and reads like an epic blog post, punctuated with bold sans-serif headings.
It took me a little over a week to read it. There's an audio version online as well.
I'm interested in what the book has to say about bringing people together for some mutually driven benefit, however small.
The best tribes are assembled around some value proposition and served generously by the few capable of directing and organising.
Like-minded individuals forming around a cause, movement or shared interest is natural in the social order of communities.
Because the book was written back in 2008 the examples of social media sites are limited to Facebook, Twitter and a couple other sites.
As you are no doubt aware, social media websites are designed around our hardwired social behaviours – the perfect way to connect to like minded individuals.
Godin argues that true connection has nothing to do with technology. Tools are just a means to an end, a way to enhance relationships.
Unfortunately, the book doesn't address trolling, bullying, harassment and the outright narcissism that comes with these sites.
The book gives examples of tribes, but I've written my own examples to try to reflect the zeitgeist for fellow UK readers.
They differ in size and geography. Whether you agree with the politics/ideology/subject of each tribe is beside the point.
Obviously negative tribes with nefarious agendas exist too. These could include terrorist cells, crime syndicates or even Chris De Burgh fans.
Then there's mediums, televangelists and other such hokum.
Throughout the book Godin cites examples/case studies that bring positive change rooted in some kind of valuable servitude.
One such idea is that you don't actually need many follower fans as long as you engage and interact with them. It could be less than a dozen or a few hundred. Some of us would love to lead millions but would probably settle for 1000.
Check out this entry from his blog in 2008. He links to an interesting post by Kevin Kelly, the founding editor of Wired.
Kelly writes that 1000 true fans can radically transform your life and enable you to make a living.
A running theme in Seth Godin's books is fear. The fear of failure, the fear of looking ridiculous, of attracting blame.
Question: Why should you lead?
Answer: Because no one else has bothered to step up.
If there isn't a website, club or Facebook group, go ahead and set one up! If no one is attempting to fix something that's broken, see what you can do about it. What's the worst that can happen?
If no one joins your cause, has it cost you anything apart from hurt feelings?
I admire Brian Eno, the synth wizard and recording studio enthusiast of the 1970's.
Famously, he spent time in the band Roxy Music before going on to invent ambient music and work with huge names in the music industry.
Besides baldness, Seth Godin and Brian Eno have a few other things in common.
I recommend watching this video below in which Eno discusses, among other things, the temerity of creation and the indoctrination of received tradition.
Eno remarks that after thousands of years of Judeo-Christian ideology , with its classical top-down belief system surrounding creation, Charles Darwin taught us that creation has simple origins from the bottom-up.
Let's be reminded that belonging to a group is hard wired as part of our human nature. These groups wouldn't be attractive if everyone was allowed to join.
If you haven't seen the film Quadrophenia (it's Rockers versus Mods all throughout) you're in for a treat. It is a good schooling on why people identify with sub cultures and the importance of having a sense of belonging.
Another reason to target smaller, specific audiences is that you'll have more success with targeted website traffic. Conversions are generally better. Email marketing opt in and open rates will be easier to achieve. (I assume, of course, you'll have built a website by now).
There's a great article here you might like: When you're selling, you want to disqualify potential buyers.
I suggest watching the talk below because the author makes a compelling case for the idea of finding, leading and connecting the right people to one another.
Be warned – this book isn't for the sheepwalkers of the world, waiting to be told what to do. Arguably, it has become the unofficial manifesto among proactive marketers who mean to make a difference.
If you persist with the broadcast style hand-me-down cry for attention characterised by billboards and aggressive sales pitches, you'll bleed yourself dry.
For example, Pay Per Click ads. While paid ads have their place in a strategy, they just get you clicks – not necessarily an engaged, organic following.
Real connections laced with mutual benefits are a much better way to earn rather than purchase the attention of your market.
It inspired me to relaunch a website I built for an unofficial news/views surrounding the development of a local railway station. The town I live in has been without a station for almost 50 years and it's finally about to change.
I don't know all that much about railways or trains but I do know local residents have an itch they badly want to scratch. I lead from behind the scenes by managing web design/development, talking to local journalists and acting as a low key director of sorts.
The railway website also a lead generator for business web design clients because the pretext for our conversation is genuine.
The front cover strapline of Tribes is "We need you to lead us." Where do your people want to go?
Tribes on Amazon (affiliate link).


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Sail GP: how do supercharged racing yachts go so fast? An engineer explains
Sailing used to be considered as a rather sedate pastime. But in the past few years, the world of yacht racing has been revolutionised by the arrival of hydrofoil-supported catamarans, known as "foilers". These vessels, more akin to high-performance aircraft than yachts, combine the laws of aerodynamics and hydrodynamics to create vessels capable of speeds of up to 50 knots, which is far faster than the wind propelling them.
An F50 catamaran preparing for the Sail GP series recently even broke this barrier, reaching an incredible speed of 50.22 knots (57.8mph) purely powered by the wind. This was achieved in a wind of just 19.3 knots (22.2mph). F50s are 15-metre-long, 8.8-metre-wide hydrofoil catamarans propelled by rigid sails and capable of such astounding speeds that Sail GP has been called the "Formula One of sailing". How are these yachts able to go so fast? The answer lies in some simple fluid dynamics.
As a vessel's hull moves through the water, there are two primary physical mechanisms that create drag and slow the vessel down. To build a faster boat you have to find ways to overcome the drag force.
The first mechanism is friction. As the water flows past the hull, a microscopic layer of water is effectively attached to the hull and is pulled along with the yacht. A second layer of water then attaches to the first layer, and the sliding or shearing between them creates friction.
On the outside of this is a third layer, which slides over the inner layers creating more friction, and so on. Together, these layers are known as the boundary layer – and it's the shearing of the boundary layer's molecules against each other that creates frictional drag.
F50 catamarans can travel at up to 50 knots. John G. Mabanglo/EPA
A yacht also makes waves as it pushes the water around and under the hull from the bow (front) to the stern (back) of the boat. The waves form two distinctive patterns around the yacht (one at each end), known as Kelvin Wave patterns.
These waves, which move at the same speed as the yacht, are very energetic. This creates drag on the boat known as the wave-making drag, which is responsible for around 90% of the total drag. As the yacht accelerates to faster speeds (close to the "hull speed", explained later), these waves get higher and longer.
These two effects combine to produce a phenomenon known as "hull speed", which is the fastest the boat can travel – and in conventional single-hull yachts it is very slow. A single-hull yacht of the same size as the F50 has a hull speed of around 12 mph.
However, it's possible to reduce both the frictional and wave-making drag and overcome this hull-speed limit by building a yacht with hydrofoils. Hydrofoils are small, underwater wings. These act in the same way as an aircraft wing, creating a lift force which acts against gravity, lifting our yacht upwards so that the hull is clear of the water.
Hydrofoils help lift the boats out of the water. Dean Lewis/EPA
While an aircraft's wings are very large, the high density of water compared to air means that we only need very small hydrofoils to produce a lot of the important lift force. A hydrofoil just the size of three A3 sheets of paper, when moving at just 10 mph, can produce enough lift to pick up a large person.
This significantly reduces the surface area and the volume of the boat that is underwater, which cuts the frictional drag and the wave-making drag, respectively. The combined effect is a reduction in the overall drag to a fraction of its original amount, so that the yacht is capable of sailing much faster than it could without hydrofoils.
The other innovation that helps boost the speed of racing yachts is the use of rigid sails. The power available from traditional sails to drive the boat forward is relatively small, limited by the fact that the sail's forces have to act in equilibrium with a range of other forces, and that fabric sails do not make an ideal shape for creating power. Rigid sails, which are very similar in design to an aircraft wing, form a much more efficient shape than traditional sails, effectively giving the yacht a larger engine and more power.
As the yacht accelerates from the driving force of these sails, it experiences what is known as "apparent wind". Imagine a completely calm day, with no wind. As you walk, you experience a breeze in your face at the same speed that you are walking. If there was a wind blowing too, you would feel a mixture of the real (or "true" wind) and the breeze you have generated.
The two together form the apparent wind, which can be faster than the true wind. If there is enough true wind combined with this apparent wind, then significant force and power can be generated from the sail to propel the yacht, so it can easily sail faster than the wind speed itself.
Lifting out of the water enables the boat to travel faster. Dean Lewis/EPA
The combined effect of reducing the drag and increasing the driving power results in a yacht that is far faster than those of even a few years ago. But all of this would not be possible without one further advance: materials. In order to be able to "fly", the yacht must have a low mass, and the hydrofoil itself must be very strong. To achieve the required mass, strength and rigidity using traditional boat-building materials such as wood or aluminium would be very difficult.
This is where modern advanced composite materials such as carbon fibre come in. Production techniques optimising weight, rigidity and strength allow the production of structures that are strong and light enough to produce incredible yachts like the F50.
The engineers who design these high-performance boats (known as naval architects) are always looking to use new materials and science to get an optimum design. In theory, the F50 should be able to go even faster.
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Inflation Risk Takes Center Stage as Strong Economic Growth Expected to Moderate
Housing-related Components Predicted to Become Key Inflation Driver
WASHINGTON, DC – Economic growth expectations for full-year 2021 were revised modestly upward to 7.1 percent, one-tenth higher than the previous forecast, due to stronger-than-expected consumer spending data year to date, according to the June 2021 commentary from the Fannie Mae (FNMA/OTCQB) Economic and Strategic Research (ESR) Group. The ESR Group also continues to forecast a deceleration in the recently rapid growth trajectory, projecting economic growth to slow to 5.5 percent in the fourth quarter of 2021 and 2.2 percent in the fourth quarter of 2022. However, as discussed in the ESR Group's latest Housing Insights piece, housing appears poised to become a meaningful driver of inflation over the next year and a half, contributing to the ESR Group's prediction that domestic inflation measures will remain near 5 percent through year-end 2021 – before decelerating to approximately 3 percent by the end of 2022 – well above the Federal Reserve's 2.0-percent inflation target. At the moment, the ESR Group's large upward revision to its inflation expectations has not materially changed its growth forecast, because while it sees underlying inflation pressure building, it believes the factors driving current inflation to be largely transitory. Even so, the downside risks associated with potentially persistently higher inflation, including a more aggressive pace of monetary tightening by the Federal Reserve, could drag on growth over the forecast horizon.
While demand for housing remains quite strong, the ESR Group's latest forecast reiterates that supply-side factors continue to significantly limit construction, mortgage origination, and home sale activity. In fact, the ESR Group meaningfully downgraded its forecast for second and third quarter home sales – to 6.6 million and 6.5 million, respectively, from 6.9 million and 6.7 million in the prior forecast – due to the ongoing lack of available listings and a softening pace of new construction due to supply constraints. The ESR Group's 30-year fixed mortgage rate forecast was little changed at 3.0 percent and 3.3 percent on a full-year 2021 and 2022 basis, respectively.
"Strong demand for housing continues to run up against a long-running lack of supply," said Doug Duncan, Fannie Mae Senior Vice President and Chief Economist. "We've seen this disconnect lead to rapid house prices gains over this past year, but we believe it will soon reveal itself within inflation measures as well. Demographic factors remain favorable for a strong housing market and many of the supply constraints that homebuilders face are likely to persist in the near term, so this upward pricing pressure is not likely to be as transitory as many of the current inflation drivers."
Duncan continued: "Nonetheless, in the past housing has served as an intermediate-term inflation hedge. If interest rates rise to reflect the increase in inflation based on an expectation of tighter future monetary policy, home sales would likely moderate along with house price appreciation."
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InternetNZ (Internet New Zealand inc) invites participants from throughout New Zealand's Health Sector to attend NetHui 2012, New Zealand's most diverse and inclusive conference about the Internet.
There are 29 roundtable discussion sessions of which three are in the Health stream. These cover topics such as consumer involvement with their health and wellness information, telemedicine, and accessing health information on mobile devices and with social media. These sessions have been organised in collaboration with volunteers from the Health sector. There is fantastic opportunity also to network with and learn from other sectors and communities that are participating.
To round out the conference, on the Friday afternoon of NetHui 2012 there will be a "barcamp". This means that topics for these final dozen or more sessions are decided on the day. These sessions may well be utilised by people to get action going on something that has been heard about at NetHui, or to address issues that simply need further discussion.