Self-insertion as discursive and core-identity of Gibran's Al Mustafa

This paper studies the core-identity of Al Mustafa (the chosen) in Gibran's book The Prophet (1923) as an individual property by investigating its discursive features as revealed in the words and deeds of the participants in the discourse. The study deals with how Gibran refers to the protagonist and how this portrayal reflects on the identity of the writer. It examines how the prophet refers to himself, his worries and needs, how the interlocutors address him in the discourse and finally how the telling of the on-going actions leads to the perception of Al-Mustafa as a prophetic figure. The results show that the source of the power of such a discursive identity is neither nature, nor certain established institutions, but the people of Orphalese themselves (the participants in the discourse), plus those readers of Gibran's book who discern a prophetic figure in his words. The process through which this power works is that of “recognition”, in that rational individuals recognise Al-Mustafa as a Prophet in the discourse. Such recognition is realised as an active “self-achievement” arising as a deserved property of the ways in which the prophet's words and deeds are recognised by his followers.

Future Property Risk Estimation For Wildfire In Louisiana, USA

Background: Wildfire is an important but understudied natural hazard. As with other natural hazards, wildfire research is all too often conducted at too broad a spatial scale to identify local or regional patterns. This study addresses these gaps by examining the current and future wildfire property risk at the census-block level in Louisiana, a U.S. state with relatively dense population and substantial vulnerability to loss from this hazard, despite its wet climate. Here wildfire risk is defined as the product of exposure and vulnerability to the hazard, where exposure is a function of the historical and anticipated future wildfire frequency and extent, and the latter is a function of population, structure and content property value, damage probability, and percent of property damaged. Results: Historical (1992−2015) average annual statewide property loss due to wildfire was $5,556,389 (2010$), with the greatest risk to wildfire in southwestern inland, east-central, extreme northwestern, and coastal southwestern Louisiana. Based on existing climate and environmental model output, this research projects that wildfire will increase by 25 percent by 2050 in Louisiana from current values. When combined with projections of population and property value, it is determined that the geographic distribution of risk by 2050 will remain similar to that today – with highest risk in southwestern inland Louisiana and east-central Louisiana. However, the magnitude of risk will increase across the state, especially in those areas. Projected annual loss will be $11,167,496 by 2050 (2010$) due to population growth, intensification of development at the wildland-urban interface, and climate change. The wildfire-induced property damage is notable because it is projected to increase by 101 percent. These values do not include crop, forestry, or indirect losses (e.g., cost of evacuation and missed time at work), which are likely to be substantial. Conclusions: The results suggest that increased efforts are needed to contain wildfires, to reduce the future risk. Otherwise, wildfire managers, environmental planners, actuaries, community leaders, and individual property owners in Louisiana will need to anticipate and budget for additional efforts to mitigate the economic (and presumably other) impacts associated with a substantial and increasing hazard that often goes underestimated.

Enacting Ought: Ethics, Anti-Racism, and Interactional Possibilities

Focusing on political and interpersonal conflict in the U.S., particularly racial conflict, but with an eye to similar conflicts throughout the world, we argue that the enactive approach to mind as life can be elaborated to provide an exigent framework for present social-political problems. An enactive approach fills problematic lacunae in the Western philosophical ethics project by offering radically refigured notions of responsibility and language. The dual enactive, participatory insight is that interactional responsibility is not singular and language is not an individual property or ability, something that someone simply and uniformly 'has' or 'controls'. These points have not been integrated into our self-understanding as moral actors, to everyone’s detriment. We first advocate for adequate appreciation of Colombetti and Torrance’s 2009 suggestion that participatory sense-making necessarily implies shared responsibility for interactional outcomes. We argue that the enactive approach presents open-ended cultivation of virtue as embodied, contextualized, and dynamic know-how and destabilizes an individualist metaphysics. Putting this framework to work, we turn to the interactional challenges of conversations that concern differences and that involve potentially oppositional parties, offering a reading of Claudia Rankine’s Just Us. Finally, we make explicit Rankine’s normative project of mindful navigation of multiple perspectives in an interaction. We abstract three interrelated spheres of participatory intervention: location, language, and labor. These also indicate routes for empirical investigation into complex perspective-taking in dynamic interactions.

COVID-19 Mortality In Adult Congregate Living Settings Across Five U.S. States

The magnitude of COVID-19 mortality in adult congregate living settings other than nursing homes (NH) is unknown. To address this, we created an individual property level dataset for five U.S. states (Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, and Pennsylvania) using multiple public and private sources. The data included information on each observation’s state and county, level of care (LOC), the estimated number of residents, COVID-19 deaths through December 31, 2020, and county-level cases of COVID-19 per 100,000. We restricted our sample to market grade properties with 25+ residents, for which we able to estimate resident and LOC information. We defined LOC as County, non-congregate (CN), Independent Living (IL), Assisted Living (AL), Memory Care (MC), and Nursing Home (NH). We used multilevel, multivariable logistic regression models to estimate the expected death rate for each LOC controlling for differences in reported COVID-19 infections and county and state reporting differences. We identified 3,059 properties that met our inclusion criteria (69 CN, 477 IL, 1,118 AL, 179 MC, and 1,216 NH). We estimated deaths per 1,000 persons of 4.4 (95% CI: 4.0-4.8) for CN, 4.4 (3.9-4.9) for IL, 16.2 (14.7-17.9) for AL, 50.3 (44.4-56.8) for MC, and 32.0 (29.3-34.9) for NH. The order of death rate severity was the same in each state, except MC in Georgia. Additional research is needed to evaluate whether death rate differences resulted from congregate living risks, from COVID mortality risk factors at each LOC, or a combination of factors.

Local authority liability for flooding: Where should loss fall?

<p>Flooding is New Zealand’s most frequent natural hazard the cost of which is outdone only by the recent Canterbury earthquakes. Local authorities are the bodies primarily tasked with protecting communities against flooding through a range of measures including physical works such as stopbanks. This essay explores the extent to which a local authority can be liable in tort where those physical works fail, causing damage. Direct liability and non-delegable duties are discussed, the latter addressing whether a local authority can nevertheless be liable having outsourced the construction of flood works to independent contractors. Additionally, whether local authorities should be liable for such damage or whether individual property owners ought to protect their own interests through insurance is discussed.This essay recommends that property owners should purchase private insurance, but that local authorities should remain liable at least for their own negligence.</p>

Local authority liability for flooding: Where should loss fall?

<p>Flooding is New Zealand’s most frequent natural hazard the cost of which is outdone only by the recent Canterbury earthquakes. Local authorities are the bodies primarily tasked with protecting communities against flooding through a range of measures including physical works such as stopbanks. This essay explores the extent to which a local authority can be liable in tort where those physical works fail, causing damage. Direct liability and non-delegable duties are discussed, the latter addressing whether a local authority can nevertheless be liable having outsourced the construction of flood works to independent contractors. Additionally, whether local authorities should be liable for such damage or whether individual property owners ought to protect their own interests through insurance is discussed.This essay recommends that property owners should purchase private insurance, but that local authorities should remain liable at least for their own negligence.</p>

A review on the integration between urban and energy planning considering the planning tools

The increasing energy demand is a global concern, directly associated with indicators of greenhouse gases and air pollution. These, in turn, are directly related to the physical, social and economic aspects of cities. One way to minimize such impacts is to diversify the energy matrix with renewable sources. On the other hand, the use of wind and solar plants are susceptible to multiple conflicts, due to urban aesthetics, technology scale or directionality of the energy flow across individual property limits. Considering that the urban form directly impacts the energy demand and the existence of conflicts arising from the use of renewable sources, the integration between urban and energy planning plays an important role in mitigating the risks associated with the growth of renewable generation. With such motivation, we propose a comparative analysis of the main tools of urban and / or energy planning through a systematic review of the literature. The methodology of the literature review and the results are presented through a table with the evaluated functionalities: Scenarios, simulations, energy conditioning, integration with GIS systems and ability to integrate with cities master plans.

RESULTS OF TAX REFORM:IMPROVING THE TAXATION OF PROPERTY INCOME OF INDIVIDUALS

This article examines the property income of individuals in accordance with the legal framework of the Republic of Uzbekistan, their composition, the current state of taxation of property income of individuals. According to the results of the study, it wasproposed to reconsider the minimum amount of rent for property leases, as the minimum rent for the use of state-owned realestate for legal entities is very low, legal entities -business approval of separate rental rates for entities; taking into accountthat it is not less than the minimum amounts established for individuals.Keywords: Tax Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan, individual, property income, objects belonging to individuals, income declaration, income tax, source of income

MORAL ORIENTATIONS OF STUDENTS᾿ PROFESSIONAL FORMATION

The article considers the moral sphere of the individual as a necessary condition for the existence and effective functioning of man in society. It is emphasized that moral norms regulate interpersonal interaction, which is associated with professional activities, and morality is the basis for effective interaction between people. Moral guidelines as a basis of maturity from the standpoint of the system-subject approach are analyzed. It is noted that moral values are formed on the basis of human needs, and value in general is formed in relation to the object that is able to meet human needs. Moral judgments are seen as a process of social decision-making based on numerous factors. The generalization of the views of researchers dealing with the moral sphere of personality, allowed within the concept of moral development of personality, to distinguish three stages of moral development of the individual: pre-moral, conventional (guided by most members of society) and post-conventional, which requires the following factors: social contacts, high level intelligence, independence from authorities. It is determined that morality is an individual property of the individual, based on the norms of morality. For the formation of morality it necessary to determine the following basic foundations of morality: biological, spiritual, social, pragmatic. It is established that the highest level of personal and professional self-determination is the moral, value-semantic level, which has a great influence on professional self-determination and professional development of a person. It is emphasized that moral guidelines as a tool of social regulation are a necessary prerequisite and resource for successful professional development and play a crucial role in the course of professional development and the effectiveness of professional activity. It is noted that the key stage of professional development in the study of moral guidelines is the acquisition of higher education. It was found that in the process of learning in adolescents, moral guidelines reflect the general ethical values accepted in society and serve as a basis for the formation of specific professional values adopted in the profession, which is mastered by the student.