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"Christians should be troublemakers, creators of uncertainty, agents in a dimension incompatible with society." Jacques Ellul
My! How far we have fallen short of this? Jacques Ellul, a critical, perceptive writer who was once a member of the French Resistance and author of such classics as 'Propaganda' and 'The Technological Society' kind of stirs things up for us with this little thought. We immediately reject it, don't we for we are not called to be troublemakers, but peacemakers, creators of certainty and not uncertainty, aren't we? Agents of incompatibility? What is he driving at? Surely this is hyperbole, right? He's said it just to make us think and then we can run back into the safety of our churches? Isn't the world unsafe enough already?
It seems to me that Ellul's call is for the artist, for those with subversive gifts, artists of the subtext, in other words artists of uncertainty. The clue is in his former job title, 'Member of the French Resistance'. Think about it.
I wrote last week of 'giving up' and wondered why we seemed to have cultivated a theology of 'calling it a day'. We have developed a set of measures, the success criteria, whereby we may judge someone's call from God by the material success of their work. I reject the churchified term 'ministry'; leaving that to the professional holy person, for it is a term not of the laity, but of the clergy! Think about it.
In this disavowal of a cultural way of being, of a cultural calling and vocation we have used worldly judgements. It seems that Scripture can be used in the service of anyone, or any point-of-view when it is taken out of context and utilised to declare the will of God. So, if I'm adjudged to be failing because of my lack of income, lack of tangible contracts or sales, it is therefore correct to doubt my calling. (I leave it in the first person here, but this is not just a personal story!) It would help of course if people understood I was doing this with 'the Lord', but generally this is not the case, as the arts are a worldly domain where the flesh and the devil roam about like a wild chimera.
But, God so loved the World, right. And the words used are 'agape' and 'kosmos', the arrangement, or beauty of Creation, the people and everything in it. However, is John conflicted, because later in one of his famous letters he tells us not to 'agape' the 'kosmos', so what's he on? Was he a secret Gnostic? Nah, of course not, but this only appears anti-world, anti-creation if you are working from a dualistic, anti-material philosophy of life. The first mention however, is the act of love from God, the second is about a misplaced love towards something created which should be only for God, 'agape', but not for the world, 'kosmos'. In the first mention John is talking about God's Creation and in the second he's talking about a fallen world. Darn those Greeks for forming a language which has multiple meanings for the same word! I'm so thankful for being English, because that doesn't happen with my language, because I know what literal truth looks like and hey, once the Scriptures were translated into English I knew I could start to talk about literal truth; English being a conservative, precise language and all that!
So, if people ask me if I'm worldly, I point them to the John's first mention in his good news story. I tell them that I'm worldly like God! And if you get the drift, you'll realise that if there's a difference in context then there's likely to be a difference in meaning, because God is just being Creational. However, if your worldview starts with Original Sin and our most infamous act 'The Fall' – not the season by the way, my dear American readers – then you will not have any perception of a Good Creation nor the Creator of it; Who is still active in our everyday lives of joy and sorrow, storm and calm.
The next great divide and reason why we don't give a fig about the Arts is that it's fleshly, sensual. Its appeal is to anything other than the spirit. Not even a thousand Renaissance theologians could convince us otherwise! We may make a claim that Reformational theologians had it sussed in their anti-image Iconoclasms. Sad then for us, that they were not anti-image, but anti-church art; the art which was controlled by the Church Institution. Instead of closing down artistic practice it actually expanded outwards into God's good Creation and hey presto, landscape was born. Thank you Holland!!
Anything that makes its appeal to the senses is of course fleshly, so here's another reason why we shouldn't affirm the call of the artist. In terms of sin, it is probably seen as a move from Idolatry to Adultery! But people's sense of 'spiritual' is decidedly anti-incarnational, it's a disembodied spirituality, more akin to Eastern Philosophy than Scriptural Truth and Worldview.
Notably Artists paint nudes; it's as simple as that! They have barenakedladies, or barenakedmen waltzing around their studios and if they weren't in their studios then those dear 'Die Brücke' artists seemed to have no qualms about getting 'back to nature' at some of their holiday retreats. An appalling level of depravity!
We have decried the calling of the artist, leaving the church without means of communication to an aching world and we thus rely on outmoded means of communiqué (preaching) to tell the greatest story ever told! But, but, Jesus preached and Paul preached, you retort. Isn't hearing one of the senses, I quibble? You see there's a reason why Jesus didn't appear on the 'Daily Show with Jon Stewart' and tell his story, nor be interviewed about his latest cunning parables. You see my dear friends it's as simple as this…Come closer to the screen and hear me whisper this personal message to you. "In those days there wasn't any television!" Now I think the Romans and Pharisees would have been more aware of what Jesus was doing if they had Jon Stewart reporting on the political context of the day, but hey even great civilisations have their limitations, right? Would the Romans have trusted Stewart, because he's, y'know, he's, er, ahem, Jewish? Probably not, but not because of his ethnicity, but more down to them being Republicans!!
So, where were we? Oh yes, we've done the worldly thing and the fleshly thing, now it's time for the rebel thing. Now perhaps you think I meant to allude to 'the world, the flesh and the devil' and not 'the world the flesh and the rebel', but I think enough has been written by yours truly about diabolical art, so let's look at the other reason we don't like the arts, REBELLION!
You see, you just can't trust artists because they don't toe the line. Hitler didn't trust them! Stalin didn't trust them either. Although Hitler made a big faux pas by having an art exhibition and allowing people to see how better this stuff was than Nazi Art i.e. propaganda! Note to tyrants – don't have degenerate art exhibitions if the stuff you're renouncing is better than the art you're espousing! In trying to control art you kill art and hey, a Beckmann, Schmidt-Rottluff or a Kirchner is infinitely better than a Hitler watercolour!
Artists go out of their way to be troublemakers, they upset the status quo, they create images wherein reality seems to melt into the air, or is fragmented to such a state that you can't tell the difference between the guitar and the wallpaper. Shocking, Seņor Picasso!
All of this avant-garde behaviour leads to the distrust of the artist. They ask too many questions and don't give enough answers, or make unequivocal statements. You cannot trust an artist because they refuse literal (representational) truth and appear more at home with those awful relativists.
These are totally biblical concerns of course…of course not!
'Agents in a dimension incompatible with society' don't attempt to follow or collaborate with the status quo, they don't reduce their art to theological codes and keys, they refuse to be a slave to the Institution because they know that art only has a voice for freedom and humanity, is only able to critique reality by remaining on the margins, in 'sub-communities' of rebellious, troublemaking, aesthetically animated artistry. The art of the prophetic voice or vision is not located in the soft-centre of ecclesiastical power structures, or as I've called it elsewhere being 'Armchair Prophetic'.
What is necessary for the church to do is to relinquish power and be a servant community. The Church's worldview needs to denounce its self-service activities and serve those who are marginalised and disenfranchised. It needs to affirm those whose call is outside of its defensive structures and support their vocations in those isolated, wilderness-like places of our society. (BTW – The aim is to resurrect spirituality in our day). A church which can show that troublemaking doesn't have to be in the form of rioting on the streets, but which can by the Spirit of God give purpose and meaning, value and affirmation to the artists of uncertainty, shunning the materialism and opulent consumerism of our day and communicate this to those dying of thirst. Oh, sorry did I just appeal to one of those forbidden senses?


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This article is the third of three essays on the possible collapse of Putin's Russia. The second is here.
In the study of post-post-Cold War Russia, Kremlinology has been superseded by Putinology, variously hailed as an indispensable tool or derided as a pathetic pseudoscience. This increasing focus on the persona of Vladimir Putin is in part misplaced, but in a larger measure justified.
On the one hand, as Thomas Graham has aptly noted, the West does not have a Putin problem, it has a Russia problem. Putin is not popular domestically because he has brainwashed his citizenry, but because his narrative about a humiliated but resurgent Russia—great, respected, and unbowed—resonates with Russians. Putin reflects the zeitgeist of modern Russia, and if he had been accidentally run over by a St. Petersburg trolleybus in the 1990s, whoever had become the second president of the Russian Federation in his stead would undoubtedly have had a very similar outlook and agenda.
On the other hand, in today's Russia there is one man who towers above all others, a single individual whose vision drives policy to such a degree that a senior Russian official could, without inviting ridicule, equate Russia with Putin and Putin with Russia. And this is not the legendary "collective Putin" comprised of senior officials, oligarchs, and bureaucrats, but a single body, mind, and ego. Most Russians may very well believe that Crimea had been stolen from them, or even that Ukraine is an artificial construct. However, it was one man, Vladimir Putin, who decided to seize Crimea and launch the Novorossiya project, and a different individual in his position—even one who shared his opinions and perspective—might have decided otherwise.
This "power vertical," with Putin at its pinnacle, has some indisputable advantages. It gives the Kremlin the freedom to make decisions quickly and implement them boldly without annoying second-guessing by an unruly legislature, independent courts, or naysaying opposition parties. There is no need to waste time building a painstaking consensus among political actors when there is only one player whose opinion matters. The speed and tactical brilliance of the Crimea operation or the military intervention in Syria, eliciting awe and admiration (sometimes grudging) from a wide range of observers, would be unimaginable in any Western country.
However, omnipotence is not omniscience, and the elimination of all other centers of power or authority in Russia means that there is no one to tell the Emperor that he has no clothes—or even to opine that he's perhaps just a tad underdressed. No one has quite suggested yet that Putin is infallible even in terms of his policy choices, let alone in any ex cathedra, doctrinal sense. He and many other Russians may believe to their dying breath that Ukraine is a Frankenstein state stitched together of disparate, mismatched parts, many of them taken from Russia, and that the Ukrainians are simply Russians who either don't realize it or are too stubborn to admit it. However, tens of millions of Ukrainians beg to differ, and any Russian policy that fails to reflect that hard fact is doomed to frustration and failure. Determined, resolute leadership will not in the least mitigate the fiasco resulting from misguided policy. Quite the contrary—the natural inclination of an autocrat to double down and stay the course is likely to prolong the agony.
Another problematic aspect of the Putin leadership phenomenon, noted more by Russian than foreign observers, is the hollowing out of the Russian state. People are accustomed to associating Russia with a strong state, and in the days when the duties of the state were largely limited to defending the borders, collecting taxes, and maintaining some semblance of domestic order, that perception was generally accurate. The modern state, however, has far more—and more complex—tasks of overseeing the economy, enhancing employment and growth, educating the populace, and providing a host of other social services. A country's might (not to mention its welfare) is no longer determined principally by the strength of its army; one must also take stock of the ingenuity of its entrepreneurs and innovators, the attractiveness of its business climate, and the prowess of its educational system.
Russia has a mighty autocrat, world-class oligarchs, and a hypertrophied bureaucracy. However, by modern standards, it has a feeble, underperforming state. A couple of comparisons involving two modern states not usually considered as role models should help illustrate the point.
Belgium went 589 days in 2010–11 without an elected government. While the episode generated a mixture of puzzlement and mirth from foreign observers, and probably a certain cynical stoicism among Belgians, it actually had little impact on day-to-day life. Ordinary activities, from the postal service to public sanitation, continued pretty much as usual. No one took advantage of the interregnum to invade or even interfere in the country's internal affairs—which, given Belgium's history, is no small consolation.
The Belgian governmental autopilot, unthinkable in Russia, is the very antithesis of the Putinesque approach of a supreme leader maintaining manual control over just about everything. It does beg the question of where citizens live better: in a country with decisive, daring, hands-on leadership, or one where the bureaucracy pretty much runs itself. The former might be a more exciting place in many respects, but people in the latter are more likely to receive their pensions on time, and in general to lead more prosperous, dignified lives.
The crash of a Polish government plane near Smolensk, Russia, on April 10, 2010 killed 96 people, including President Kaczyński and senior members of the government, parliament, and military, nearly decapitating the country's leadership. Before Poland had even recovered from its shock, a new phalanx of permanent or acting leaders had moved, according to the rules of succession, seamlessly and unchallenged into the vacant positions of authority. There were no rivals or pretenders, no challenges to the constitutional order, no martial law, no tanks in the streets. A national tragedy did not turn into a national crisis, precisely because of the health and durability of state institutions—all the more remarkable as Poland's post-Communist institutions were barely a generation old.
Once again, it is hard to imagine such a placid, orderly denouement to a similar disaster in Russia. As the Medvedev presidential interlude demonstrated, power in Russia resides in the person, not in the office, and its peaceful, consensual transfer under catastrophic circumstances is by no means assured.
It is not only the Russian state but the economy that is at risk of being hollowed out by the corrosive effect of one-man rule. As Vladislav Inozemtsev pointed out in a recent essay on Russia's decline, "the Russian elite actually owns the country, but formally cannot turn it into its property; therefore, its major aim is to plunder the national wealth rather than to increase it. In such a kleptocratic society any attempt to build something new seems counterproductive."
One final aspect of Putin's leadership is crucial for evaluating the resilience of his regime. Westerners sometimes ask whether Moscow "believes its own propaganda." The answer is that it depends on which "propaganda" one has in mind. When the Kremlin claims that Russians are in mortal danger from roving bands of Ukrainian fascists, or spins an endless web of conspiracy theories about the destruction of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17, it is engaging in intentional disinformation—in the one case creating a pretext for intervention, in the other case deflecting the consequences of a tragic and embarrassing error. This propaganda is purely operational, and, while ordinary Russians might accept it as fact (as, indeed, they are intended to), the leadership certainly knows better.
Quite a different matter is the official Russian narrative about the decadence and malevolence of the West. I'm persuaded that Russian leaders genuinely believe that the West is a whited sepulcher—effete, indolent, and ultimately no match for a heroic and purposeful nation like Russia. Notwithstanding the material advantages on the West's side of the ledger, surely the passionarnost of the Russians must prevail.
Nevertheless, despite the overall impression of the West's languid degeneracy, there is one place where the West displays exceptional vigor and uncharacteristic singleness of purpose. It is the notional institution that Russians have dubbed "the Washington Obkom." An obkom was a Soviet-era regional committee of the Communist Party, and its use in the term "Washington Obkom" conveys a sense of dogmatism, fanaticism, and conspiracy. The Washington Obkom is a virtual collective comprised of those policymakers and policyshapers who have taken upon themselves the single-minded, 24/7 task of keeping Russia down. Even as the sun sets on the West, the imperialists are grimly determined, with the last flickering energy of their dying world, to prevent the emergence of a more worthy Eurasian civilization.
This Russian perception of the West is the filter through which the Kremlin analyzes Western motives and actions. It is, if you will, "propaganda that they believe." The beauty of it lies in its ability to elucidate and systematize a vast array of disparate and otherwise inexplicable phenomena, both domestic and foreign. Have "color revolutions" broken out in various parts of the post-Soviet space? The cause lies not in local conditions, but in plots hatched in the bowels of the U.S. State Department. Have demonstrators taken to the streets of Russian cities to protest perceived falsification of elections? It's because Hillary Clinton gave them the signal. Speaking of the devil, didn't she once reproach Moscow for trying to recreate the Soviet Union? Obviously, Eurasian integration is lagging only because the United States is putting on a full-court press to block it. Have hydrocarbon prices collapsed? Once again, it's all the fault of those fracking Americans.
What, then, can we say about the stability of Putin's Russia? Can we weigh all the factors, trace a trajectory, and predict an outcome? Alas, no—ye shall know neither the day nor the hour. There is no checklist of indicators to verify a safe passage through the storm on the one hand, or to signal impending disaster on the other. There might not be a point of no return on the path to ruin. Even if there is one, it will probably not be clearly marked as such, and neither Russian nor foreign observers may even recognize its passing. One is reminded of the old adage about the decay of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, where the situation was assessed as "hopeless but not yet serious." About a year into the current crisis, Putin stated that "the situation is difficult but not critical." The lurking danger to Russia is that the situation in some key respect might actually become critical before it becomes palpably difficult. With 20/20 hindsight, we might look back from the vantage point of the year 2024 and see Crimea, Novorossiya, and the cyclical plunge in energy prices as just so many minor bumps on the road to Russian glory. Alternatively, they might be seen clearly in retrospect as the loose threads that ultimately caused the whole garment to unravel.
What I would hazard to offer at this point in time is this: While Putin's regime is highly unlikely to collapse in the near term, it faces a thorny dilemma that makes its medium-term survival problematic.
Stimulating economic growth by unleashing Russia's entrepreneurial potential would require considerable dismantling of the power vertical, a hefty measure of decentralization and diffusion of authority, and the sharing of control over economic resources. Such an approach would permit the emergence of other domestic power centers and ultimately the possibility of executive power slipping out of Putin's hands.
Alternatively, stimulating growth through massive state subsidization of industry poses none of these political dangers, but Russia would probably blow quickly through its cash reserves and have nothing to show for it but a brief, unsustainable spike in production.
Finally, Russia can limp along for quite some time with an unreformed economy—but only if the Kremlin would be satisfied with anemic growth rates. Moscow might nurture illusions that the next boom in commodity prices would produce a reprise of the growth rates of Putin's first two terms, but the two-year stagnation of 2012 through mid-2014, even at a time of high oil prices, ought to temper those hopes. No, if the Kremlin fears the political risks of systemic reform—and those risks are genuine—it will have to settle for a Russia slowly slipping down the ranking of global economic powers.
To bring Russia through the immediate crisis, the Kremlin has opted for full mobilization of the state and society to consolidate the absorption of Crimea, maintain pressure on Kyiv, and push back against the West. Russia is now in its third year of this mobilization, and as Maxim Trudolyubov recently observed in the context of military measures, "Moscow is running out of capacity exactly when others have started to respond to Russia's assertive behavior." One has the impression of an athlete straining every sinew while his opponent has yet to break a sweat. True, the West might simply choose not to engage, and to back down from even the modest sanctions currently in place. Otherwise, however, a Russia sprinting breathlessly toward the finish line might find itself instead only in the first leg of a marathon.
Moreover, there are limits to what one can achieve by the patriotic mobilization of the population. The Soviet Union didn't collapse because Russians were insufficiently patriotic or incapable of self-abnegation. Scarred by war and convinced of the West's bellicose intentions, Russians were willing to endure considerable material deprivation if they thought they could thereby preserve peace. However, the Soviet state's endless exhortation could not prevent people from pilfering state property, create economic incentives for better work discipline (let alone innovation), or ultimately inspire Russians to embrace their internationalist duty to support the just struggle of the Afghan workers and peasants against imperialist aggression. Similarly, the Kremlin's current campaign of patriotic mobilization cannot stop predatory oligarchic rent-taking, nurture a nimble, entrepreneurial business culture, or reconcile post-Soviet neighbors alienated by Moscow's policies. "Work a little harder, steal a little less" will only get you so far.
The problem is not that Putin needs to "buy off" the Russian people with high growth rates in order to cling desperately to power. The Russian people, who have endured far worse deprivation within living memory, are unlikely to turn against him solely because of a modest economic downturn or even an extended period of slow growth. In any event, his enormous popularity could take a sizable hit without putting him in any real political jeopardy.
Rather, Putin's quandary lies in the fact that, with a chronically stagnant economy, he cannot hope to realize the vision of Russia as the core of a mighty, reintegrated Eurasia asserting itself as one of the principal actors in the multipolar world of the 21st century. The inexorable drift of Russia's post-Soviet neighbors away from the old imperial metropole is bound to accelerate as Russia runs low on the resources required either to attract, coerce, or subsidize (regarding the latter, it is quite likely that Moscow, whatever it may suppose, has not so much been buying its clients' loyalty as merely renting it). It is the failure of this vision of Russian power and majesty, rather than mediocre economic performance per se, that could erode the ideological basis of support for Putin's rule. And the Kremlin's most audacious efforts to reverse centripetal tendencies in the near abroad—the invasions of Georgia and Ukraine—have only accelerated them.
Thus, it comes down, in large measure, to the subjective factor: the persona of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. As the sole arbiter of his country's policies—arguably, of its very destiny—how will he go about squaring the circle of the mismatch between ambitions and capabilities? Will he simply batten down the hatches during the current storm, with the expectation of resuming Russia's triumphal advance with the return of fairer weather? Will he choose one program or another to stimulate the Russian economy, fiddle inconclusively with economic reform, or reject reform altogether? Will frustration and impatience with the slow, uneven pace of Russia's economic and geopolitical renaissance goad him to overreach? Or is it even possible he might grow to accept, if only for the sake of self-preservation, a scaled-back vision of Russia's place in the world, commensurate with the country's actual resources and its genuine, not mythical, degree of attractiveness to its Eurasian neighbors?
As he replaces many of his old lieutenants with loyal nonentities, Putin increases the risk of getting trapped in an echo chamber where he never hears a thought or opinion at variance with his own. While Putin is hardly reckless, he has demonstrated that he's not exactly risk-averse, either. Moreover, his perception of events, and of Russia's options, is shaped by his upbringing, training and worldview. The potential for miscalculation is therefore considerable. With his power vertical, Putin has set himself up as a single point of failure for all of Russia at the same time that he is, to paraphrase Angela Merkel, living in his own Russian World. It is a combination that does not bode well for the durability of the system he has created.


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For the 12 months ended Jan. 31, health-care stocks in the S&P 500 index returned 33.1%, beating the overall S&P 500's 21.5% return. That surge was fueled by outsize returns from biotech shares, and by an aging population creating demand for medical products and services.
Many advisers and analysts say health-care stocks—which include the shares of biotech, pharmaceutical, medical-device, insurance and hospital companies—continue to have a healthy role to play in investors' portfolios. But they also say investors need to be aware of the level of funds' exposure to different types of health-care companies—especially small biotech firms that are prone to soar or crash.
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Health care currently accounts for about 13% of the S&P 500 index's market capitalization, and is represented in many broad funds that include assets across all sectors. But some advisers think that many investors could profit this year from boosting their health-care allocation above that level.
Ventura Wealth Management in Ewing, N.J., is recommending a 15% weight for health care in many client portfolios, says its president, Nick Ventura. That's partly because the firm expects interest-rate pressures to negatively affect sectors such as telecommunications and utilities.
Health-care holdings have the potential to do well regardless of the economy's ups and downs, some analysts say. "Health care is pretty resilient," says Robert Goldsborough, an analyst at Morningstar Inc. who tracks passively managed health-care funds and ETFs. "For some investors it's a defensive sector."
Dan Kern, president and chief investment officer at Advisor Partners LLC, based in Walnut Creek, Calif., says retirees might want to overweight health care in their portfolios as a hedge against future health-care costs. His thinking is that the high medical costs that burden many older Americans could thus be at least partially offset by the strong performance of health-care companies.
Among managers of broad stock funds, Tom Vandeventer, portfolio manager of Tocqueville Opportunity, says he has increased his fund's position in the sector to 30%, up by one-third over the past 18 months.
"We think it's a growth industry, especially with respect to new drug development," Mr. Vandeventer says. "We've entered a period of tremendous productivity in terms of targeted medicine, especially with respect to new cancer drugs and medication that treats 'orphan diseases'—those suffered by smaller populations."
The continuing implementation of the Affordable Care Act will create some uncertainty in the sector, particularly for managed-care companies and insurers, some advisers say. And Mr. Vandeventer thinks the new insurance climate may influence the fates of new, experimental drugs, especially to the extent that coverage choices are based on product pricing—where a cheaper, established drug may gain coverage support over a new, pricier drug.
But the near-term effect of the new rules on health-care companies' performance remains uncertain and is likely to be minor, in general, in comparison with other influences on the sector, some advisers say.
One thing investors should be aware of is which biotech stocks, if any, a fund holds: Do they include mature biotech assets like Gilead Sciences Inc. and Amgen Inc., or experimental startups?
Flynn Murphy, a Morningstar analyst who tracks actively managed health-care funds, says the early-stage biotech companies, whose shares appear in many general health-care funds as well as biotech-specific funds, involve "binary risk"—strong upside when a company reaches development milestones or gets regulatory approval for new therapies, but proportional downside when a development project fails or a company encounters regulatory hurdles.
For investors willing to take the risk of a focused bet on biotech, Mr. Murphy suggests Fidelity Select Biotechnology, which concentrates its top holdings in established companies including Gilead and Amgen, and balances that with many small positions that include companies with shorter histories.
Other Options
There are many other choices for investors who want dedicated health funds. Mr. Ventura likes actively managed funds including BlackRock Health Sciences Opportunities, Vanguard Health Care and T. Rowe Price Health Sciences for the breadth of their holdings. With the T. Rowe Price fund, however, he is watching to see if strong performance continues under a new manager who took over in 2013.
Mr. Murphy says he likes the Vanguard mutual fund for its "value-minded approach," and Fidelity Select Health Care for its "elevated" allocation to biotech—about 33% of assets.
Among ETFs, Morningstar's Mr. Goldsborough likes two broad-based funds, Health Care Select Sector SPDR for large-cap holdings that include the entirety of the S&P 500's health-care allocation, and Vanguard Health Care ETF, with assets including larger pharmaceutical firms as well as biotech, devices and managed-care assets. Their expenses are 0.18% and 0.14% of assets a year, respectively.
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If you're using best practices like Branders, you've got an email marketing newsletter sign-up form on every page of your website. You collect email addresses at your counter before someone leaves and you ask for their email address over the phone before you hang up. You even ask for a business card with an email address on it when you meet someone.
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The 2015 Applications for the CSC Commonwealth Scholarships for Masters and PhD students from developing Commonwealth countries to study in UK, funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID) is now open. Applications are welcomed from students from the Commonwealth countries.
On a yearly basis, the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission invites each nominating agency, university or university body to forward a specific number of nominations for the commonwealth scholarship for developing countries. Each nominating agency/university/university body is responsible for its own selection process, and in most cases they will set a closing date in the months preceding the CSC's deadline for nominations (17 December 2013).
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A magnificent team of around 25 ladies based at Stagecoach's Worthing and Chichester depots will be exchanging uniforms for sportswear to raise cash for Cancer Research UK.
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Define the steel pipe application. An industrial well application requires pumping 425 gallons per minute (gpm) of water 575 feet away into an in-ground reservoir that is 80 feet higher than the pump at the well. If a 60-psi (pounds per square inch) pump is available, you can calculate the minimum Schedule 40-steel pipe size that would handle the flow and pressure constraints.
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Determine the pressure available to provide the 425-gpm flow. Because the reservoir is 80 feet higher than the pump, some of the 60-psi pumping pressure will be lost pushing the water uphill. Dividing 80 feet/2.31 feet/psi yields a static pressure loss of 34.63 psi, which, when subtracted from the 60-psi pump pressure, leaves 25.37 psi to push the 425-gpm flow through the 575-foot pipe.
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Scale the pressure drop per 100 feet of pipe, since this is how published pipe data is presented. Substituting values yields 25.37 psi/575 feet/100 feet = 4.41-psi drop per 100 feet at 425 gpm.
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Define the steam flow application. Saturated low pressure steam at 12 psi is flowing through 3-inch Schedule 40-steel pipe. If it loses 1.5 psi pressure at the end of 100 feet of the pipe, you can calculate the flow rate in pounds/hour (lb/hr) of steam.
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Calculate your flow at the 1.5-psi drop by taking the square root of (1.5/2.0) = 0.866 and multiplying by the 1089kg/hr at the higher pressure drop = 0.866 X 2,400 = 2,356kg/hr with a 1.5-psi drop.
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Compare against the calculation using the lower 1-psi drop value to interpolate the actual flow value. Square root (1.5/1) = 2,2056kg/hr. Adding half the difference to the lower value or (2,078.4 minus 2,045.32 = 33.08/2 + 2,045.32 = 2,2806kg/hr, which would be a reasonable interpolation result in light of the tabular data.
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Tips and warnings
- Conservative design with flow piping may mean moving up one pipe size to require less energy to move the volume.
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Innate and enduring personality characteristics and we are born with certain personality
characteristics, which are determined genetically.
Stable, enduring, and consistent.
Dominant traits are stronger as they are arranged in a hierarchical order.
These characteristics are likely to be shown in all situations so behaviour is predictable.
The trait approach doesn't consider environmental affects or that people may try to
structure their own personality, saying personality is stable and enduring.
E.g. a netball player will remain calm/controlled even if their opponent is constantly
making contact.
Type A and B
Type A highly competitive, desire to succeed, works fast, likes control, and prone to
stress, high stress/arousal level, competitive, lacks tolerance, needs to be in control of the
task and fast worker.
Type B noncompetitive, unambitious, works slower,
doesn't enjoy control, and less prone to stress, low
stress/arousal level, not concerned with competition,
patient, doesn't need to be in control, and works slowly.
4 dimensional model.
Introvert unsociable, shy and nervous.
Extrovert sociable, outgoing and lively.
Neurotic anxious, moody and illogical.
Stable calm, even tempered, and controlled.
Personality is made up of traits and the influence of environmental experiences.
Accepts that traits and social learning are relevant and combines them.
E.g. an introverted gymnast displays extrovert characteristics to appeal to judges.
Concentric ring theory.
Psychological core permanent and unlikely to change.
Typical response to the environment but indicate the core.
Role related behaviour can be different to the core and makes up the surface of our
Behaviour is a function of personality and the environment.
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Social learning theory
Personality is not innate but learned from our experiences.
Behaviour changes according to the situation, so cannot be predicted.
We observe and copy the behaviour and personality of significant others (parents, peers,
coaches and role models) as well as socialising (conforming to the `norms').
If behaviour is successful or is praised, it's more likely that we will imitate it.…read more
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Achievement motivation
NACH need to achieve, approach behaviour, seeks challenge, concerned about training
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Testing has proved inconclusive and as there is no certain method of linking personality
with sport/behaviour.
Performers may change their behaviour if they know they are being tested or watched
May be inhibited by wearing biological testing equipment E.g.…read more
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At high arousal the performance reverts to their dominant response. The dominant
response is a welllearned skill that the performer uses when under immense competitive
If the performer is in the autonomous stage of learning, or using a gross or simple skill, the
dominant response is likely to be correct.
I f the performer is in the associative stage of learning, they will not be able to cope with
the high level of arousal and therefore the dominant response is likely to be incorrect.…read more
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The reduction in performance is more dramatic.
Control can be regained and performance can be built back up or it can continue to
decrease. Follows the same principle as the inverted U theory, but once moderate is
surpassed and arousal continues to increase, there is a dramatic decrease in performance.
Body and mind become overaroused causing an immediate decline in performance,
making them unable to make the correct decisions, to lose focus and frequent mistakes.…read more
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To achieve peak flow, performers should be given a task that is realistic yet challenges
them at an appropriate level. They then enter `the zone'.
Characteristics of peak flow
Highly focused on task, with good selective attention.
Movement feels effortless.
Clear goals.
High levels of selfefficacy.
In the zone of optimal functioning.
Thoughts of nervousness, apprehension and worry a performer has about their lack of
ability to perform tasks successfully.
Mental symptoms of anxiety, e.g. worrying, irrational thoughts and confusion.…read more
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Task importance, losing, or fear of failing, perceived inaccuracy of an official's decisions,
being fouled, injury, or fear of being injury, lack of selfconfidence of efficacy, audience
effect such as an abusive crowd and evaluation apprehension.
Often both types of anxiety occur together in sport. To achieve maximal performance the
athlete needs to experience low levels of cognitive anxiety and not worry about
Performers should have moderate levels of somatic anxiety as this produces the best
performance.…read more
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Goal setting
SMARTER goals.
Specific, measurable, agreed, realistic, time phased, exiting, recorded.
Visualization, mental rehearsal and imagery
Formation of mental images of performance and imagine a calm place.
Internal create the feeling of the movement.
External see yourself performing the movement.
Used when negative thoughts occur and replace them with positive statements about
Thought stopping
Use of cue, action or word.
Redirects attention to positive thoughts.
Attention control
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Hostile aggression
In individual purposefully harms an opponent for no reason other than to cause pain. It is
outside the rules and anger is shown.
E.g. A player punching in rugby, when the player gets up to play the ball.
Instrumental aggression
An individual purposely harms and opponent, but the aim is to gain an advantage over the
opposition. Anger is not involved.
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How to Find the Center of Mass of an Asymmetric Beam
T-Beam, C-Beam, L-Beam
I-beams and rectangular beams are symmetric along both axes, thus their centers of gravity (centroids) are at the intuitive geometric center. However, many kinds of beams have cross-sections that are symmetric along one axis and asymmetric along the other, while some are asymmetric along both axes. When one end of the beam has more mass than the other end, the centroid is closer to the heavier end.
Finding the exact location of the center of mass can be tricky for complex shapes. Luckily, if you can partition the cross-sectional shape of the beam into rectangles, you can easily find the x- and y-coordinates of its center of mass.
The Rectangular Partition Method(1) Draw the cross-section to scale on a piece of paper and designate one corner to be the origin (0,0). Draw the x-axis and y-axis and note the figure's position in relation to the axes. Label the lengths and widths of edges.
(2) Divide the figure into several smaller rectangles. There may be more than one way to do this; you will arrive at the same final answer no matter which partition you work with. Label the widths and lengths of each rectangle.
(3) Label the coordinates of the center of mass for each rectangle and also record the area of each rectangle. Remember, the center of mass for each rectange will coincide with its geometric center.
(4) Multiply the x-coordinate of each rectangular centroid by the area of its corresponding rectangle. Add the numbers and divide by the total area of the figure. This new number is the x-coordinate of the figure's center of mass.
(5) Multiply the y-coordinate of each rectangular centroid by the area of its corresponding rectangle. Add the numbers and divide by the total area of the shape. This number is the y-coordinate of the figure's center of gravity.
The x- and y-coordinates of the figure's centroid are weighted averages of the centroids of the smaller rectangles.
Example 1: T-BeamA T-beam is symmetric about the vertical axis, so the x-coordinate of the centroid lies along the vertical axis. Finding the y-coordinate requires the rectangle method. See image below.
Example 2: C-BeamA C-beam is symmetric about the horizontal axis, so the y-coordinate of its center of gravity lies along the horizontal axis. To find the x-coordinate of the centroid, you can use the rectangular partion method. See image below.
Example 3: L-BeamAn L-beam is not symmetric in either direction, so you must use the rectangle technique to find both the x- and y-coordinates of its centroid. See image below.
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