As surprising as it may sound, almost anyone can have
factors in their life for which having a legal plan in place would be beneficial for their loved ones.
Not exact matches
A good work -
life balance is repeatedly identified as the top motivating
factor for professionals
in the MENA.
And there's this interesting tidbit too: One quarter of business executives surveyed said they are simply more effective communicating
in their businesses than
in their personal
lives, which may
factor into why so many have trouble communicating plans
for passing on their businesses to family members.
Median salary: $ 55,010 Having your
life in danger and being responsible
for other people's
lives are two criteria
for most stressful jobs — and the biggest
factors for why police officer made the list.
Don't forget to
factor in fun — entertainment, weekend trips, whatever you love — because drudging through
life with a too - tight spending plan is a recipe
for failure.
Of course, matching the landscape to your degree of extraversion is almost certainly going to be far from your primary consideration when choosing where to
live, but these results suggest that if you're always had a hankering
for living tucked away
in a mountain valley or next to the wide open sky over the ocean, your personality very well may be behind the preference — and if other
factors work out, you'll probably be happier indulging it.
Stress, as defined by the Jobs Rated methodology, is determined by 11
factors: travel, deadlines, working
in the public eye, competitiveness, physical demands, environmental conditions, hazards encountered, the
life of oneself or others at risk, meeting and interacting with customers and / or the public, and the potential
for job growth.
[16:00] Pain + reflection = progress [16:30] Creating a meritocracy to draw the best out of everybody [18:30] How to raise your probability of being right [18:50] Why we are conditioned to need to be right [19:30] The neuroscience
factor [19:50] The habitual and environmental
factor [20:20] How to get to the other side [21:20] Great collective decision - making [21:50] The 5 things you need to be successful [21:55] Create audacious goals [22:15] Why you need problems [22:25] Diagnose the problems to determine the root causes [22:50] Determine the design
for what you will do about the root causes [23:00] Decide to work with people who are strong where you are weak [23:15] Push through to results [23:20] The loop of success [24:15] Ray's new instinctual approach to failure [24:40] Tony's ritual after every event [25:30] The review that changed Ray's outlook on leadership [27:30] Creating new policies based on fairness and truth [28:00] What people are missing about Ray's culture [29:30] Creating meaningful work and meaningful relationships [30:15] The importance of radical honesty [30:50] Thoughtful disagreement [32:10] Why it was the relationships that changed Ray's
life [33:10] Ray's biggest weakness and how he overcame it [34:30] The jungle metaphor [36:00] The dot collector — deciding what to listen to [40:15] The wanting of meritocratic decision - making [41:40] How to see bubbles and busts [42:40] Productivity [43:00] Where we are
in the cycle [43:40] What the Fed will do [44:05] We are late
in the long - term debt cycle [44:30] Long - term debt is going to be squeezing us [45:00] We have 2 economies [45:30] This year is very similar to 1937 [46:10] The top tenth of the top 1 % of wealth = bottom 90 % combined [46:25] How this creates populism [47:00] The economy
for the bottom 60 % isn't growing [48:20] If you look at averages, the country is
in a bind [49:10] What are the overarching principles that bind us together?
This generally supports the case that
Living Goods offers high quality products, but because our experience on the site visit may have been non-representative and there are many other potential
factors that may affect the effectiveness of drug treatments aside from following storage procedures
for drugs properly, we consider it to be only weak evidence
in support of the quality of
Living Goods» drug treatments.
Many
factors could cause BlackBerry's actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward - looking statements, including, without limitation: BlackBerry's ability to enhance its current products and services, or develop new products and services
in a timely manner or at competitive prices, including risks related to new product introductions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to mitigate the impact of the anticipated decline
in BlackBerry's infrastructure access fees on its consolidated revenue by developing an integrated services and software offering; intense competition, rapid change and significant strategic alliances within BlackBerry's industry; BlackBerry's reliance on carrier partners and distributors; risks associated with BlackBerry's foreign operations, including risks related to recent political and economic developments
in Venezuela and the impact of foreign currency restrictions; risks relating to network disruptions and other business interruptions, including costs, potential liabilities, lost revenues and reputational damage associated with service interruptions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to implement and to realize the anticipated benefits of its CORE program; BlackBerry's ability to maintain or increase its cash balance; security risks; BlackBerry's ability to attract and retain key personnel; risks related to intellectual property rights; BlackBerry's ability to expand and manage BlackBerry ® World ™; risks related to the collection, storage, transmission, use and disclosure of confidential and personal information; BlackBerry's ability to manage inventory and asset risk; BlackBerry's reliance on suppliers of functional components
for its products and risks relating to its supply chain; BlackBerry's ability to obtain rights to use software or components supplied by third parties; BlackBerry's ability to successfully maintain and enhance its brand; risks related to government regulations, including regulations relating to encryption technology; BlackBerry's ability to continue to adapt to recent board and management changes and headcount reductions; reliance on strategic alliances with third - party network infrastructure developers, software platform vendors and service platform vendors; BlackBerry's reliance on third - party manufacturers; potential defects and vulnerabilities
in BlackBerry's products; risks related to litigation, including litigation claims arising from BlackBerry's practice of providing forward - looking guidance; potential charges relating to the impairment of intangible assets recorded on BlackBerry's balance sheet; risks as a result of actions of activist shareholders; government regulation of wireless spectrum and radio frequencies; risks related to economic and geopolitical conditions; risks associated with acquisitions; foreign exchange risks; and difficulties
in forecasting BlackBerry's financial results given the rapid technological changes, evolving industry standards, intense competition and short product
life cycles that characterize the wireless communications industry.
You could make an argument
for 5 %
in gold as a good diversifier — although I'd argue against it as compounding will become a huge
factor for your son later
in life and gold doesn't pay dividends.
The state of the natural environment plays a critical role
in defining human quality of
life and serves as a production
factor for economic development.
To give you confidence
in a long - term distribution strategy, several
factors must be considered to solve
for the «magic number» needed to support your lifestyle including: sequence of returns, volatility, portfolio withdrawals, taxes,
life expectancy, inflation, and more.
I don't reject that conditions are perfect
for life here and that small changes
in many
factors would not have allowed
life to exist as we know it.
Some people start their adult
lives with an advantage because of their parents» wealth and maintain that advantage because they are more likely to understand finances, but even controlling
for these and all other
factors, religion is still a significant
factor in economic success.
The interesting thing is that to us, you are not only suffering a
life time of delusions that there is not a God but if you
factor in Pascals Wager you will suffer longer
for the lack of Faith.
For although certain principles of wear and dissolution, which apparently can not be prevented from growing more pronounced with age, seem to be inherent
in the structure of our individual bodies, there is no indication of any similar
factor in the global evolution of a
living mass as large as the Noosphere, where the overriding evolutionary law seems to be that, of statistical necessity, it must simply converge upon itself.
For all we know, there lie ahead of us activities and responsibilities far beyond our present dreams, but at least it is clear that what we do
in this present
life is a significant
factor in determining our status
in the next.
I broke out my truly horrid dance moves to the cheers of the students, wholly unconcerned
for once
in my
life about my coolness
factor.
Long - range planning
for preaching can be assisted by formulating an annual grid listing the months of the year along one side and three sets of
factors along the other: (1) human
factors (personal and public) relating to the seasons of the year beginning with spring; (2) congregational
factors relating to the church
life cycle usually beginning
in September; (3) theological
factors relating to the Christian Year, to lectionary selections or lectia continua, and to spiritual and theological themes needed by the church
in its
life and mission beginning with Advent.
I strongly feel that the motivating
factors which pushed those people to participate
in that struggle was a quest
for freedom to travel, to
live and work and obtain just wages
for their labors, and protection
for their women from the landowners and their henchmen.
Certainly other
factors are at play here, from low levels of education to strong kinship systems, but it's likely that Christian and Muslim teachings celebrating the generation of
life and customs and rituals honoring the sacrifices of fathers and mothers play a role
in accounting
for the close connection between fertility and faith around the globe.
Feast and celebration of and
for life in Asian religious communities provide fountains of strength and vitality of cultural fulfillment of
life, although much of
life - stifling and
life - suppressing
factors should be eliminated from the traditional religious institutions.
- God, the Absolute - humanity, the human condition
in its universal characteristics, - male and female, though different, equal
in rights and dignity, - the cosmos, especially the planet earth available, with its limited resources,
for all humanity - the planet's ecology as common essential source of
life and hence of concern
for all humans, present and future, - the human conscience guiding each one interiorly would be known only to each one personally, - the each group of humans has a history and a religio - cultural background of its own is a universal
factor that makes
for particularity and different contexts
for theology, - the realization that the present increasing globalization of relationships, economy and culture impinge on theology and spirituality universally, though differently.
By the same token, conflict between rival groups within a society may be intensified by differences
in their net reproduction rates; such differences may have implications
for the tenor of civil
life or the composition and character of the national directorate,
factors that may play a decisive role
in determining the climate
for development.
The limitation which has been noted was that Socratic man's self - identification with one
factor within the soul alongside other
factors prevented the incipient sense of personal responsibility
for the psychic
life in general from coming to fruition.
As we read this history, the furor over stem cells was fueled by numerous
factors: the near - universal human desire
for magic; patients» desperation
in the face of illness and their hope
for cures; the belief that biology can now do anything; the reluctance of scientists to accept any limits (particularly moral limits) on their research; the impact of big money from biotech stocks, patents, and federal funding; the willingness of America's elite class to use every means possible to discredit religion
in general; and the need to protect the unlimited abortion license by accepting no protections of unborn human
life.
In this vein, he says, it is essential to resist «the trivialization of sexuality,» which is «among the principal
factors which has led to contempt
for new
life.»
12 It may well be a legitimate and well - founded thesis of the philosophy of nature (and
in what follows we will confidently take it
for granted) that infra - human
living things are not reducible to purely material
factors.
I intuitively sense an Immanent, Benevolent Presence
in my
life; but, of course spiritual experience is a subjective matter dependent on many
factors — temperamental tendencies that are genetically predisposed (not determined) and personal experiences, so I am not claiming my experience is any sort of empirical «proof»
for the existence of God that should convince others.
Rational activity of the sort so prized by the Greek philosophers could be,
for the Indian, at best one
factor in the total
life of the soul alongside others of equal or greater centrality.
This condition is one
factor behind the steady decay of purpose and the decline
in identity among mainline denominations: The second volume of the United Methodist Church's «Into Our Third Century» series argues that the denomination's most pressing need as it approaches its bicentennial
in 1984 is «to develop a clear sense of purpose and identity
for its
life and work.»
«So when we come alongside government and secular partners we have our foot
in the door already because we've been there
for years so our campaign is to strengthen that infrastructure even more and that trust
factor kicks
in and more
lives can be saved.»
The prophets came to believe that the proper basis
for Israel's theology, the
life - or - death
factor in Israel's existence, was a future event, something God had not yet done, but promised to do.
The most urgent immediate task, therefore, is the development of education on the basis of the sciences, both natural and social,
for only with their help can society as a whole be taught to construct a
life completely
in accordance with that knowledge which has become the
factor by which our age is distinguished from all preceding periods of history.
In Jesus» case it was a combination of
factors — such as the fervent longing of oppressed people, their religious preparation and ethical sensitivity, the remarkable personal power of Jesus, and the particular circumstances of his death — which produced among his followers a mental and emotional situation favorable to the attainment of a remarkable new intensity of
life, marked by love, loyalty, courage and joy, all
for the sake of the Master, who had sacrificed his
life for them and
for the larger good he saw through them.
Or, if we are to give the widest possible interpretation to the definition of the religious
life by calling it the quest
for the good
life, we should surely include
in a description of this quest, as it undoubtedly has accompanied man through his history, a reference to man's recognition of those
factors and elements
in his and nature's
life which clearly transcend his or its making and control.
Several
factors contributed to this development, including developments
in the mission field and the pressure from the younger churches
for unity, experiences of the churches
in Europe during the two world wars, the political situation
in the West, the theological developments
in Europe, and the ecumenical discussions on church unity
in the
Life and Work and Faith and Order movements and their influence on the missionary movement.
It is instructive that
in Fromm's recent book, The Heart of Man, its Genius
for Good and Evil, he seeks to answer the criticism of his optimistic view of man.7 He traces all the sources of human evil to some
factor in the developing
life of the person which has become fixed, and blocks normal activity.
For those fortunate enough to
live in a competitive electoral context such as a swing state, the sheer size of the electorate renders the possibility of one voter being the deciding
factor statistically infinitesimal.
If the Church is deeply engaged
in the civil rights movement, if it is struggling against right - wing misrepresentation of Christianity and of civil
life, if it finds itself
in a new phase of the Church - State relationship, if it is deeply involved
in urbanization and
in the passing of previous forms that once marked the so - called Christian epoch, then all these
factors must have a profound impact upon theological education and the preparation of men
for the ministry.
For instance, relating these losses to (1) increased leisure time, (2) use of and reliance on mass media, (3) influence of science, (4) standard of
living, and (5) competition of secular or volunteer organizations can not be supported since each of these
factors was already present and increasing
in the 1940s and 50s as well as
in the «60s.
MSN has compiled this list of the 10 best cities
for recent college grads by looking at
factors like cost of rent, the job growth rate, unemployment, the number of twentysomethings
living in the city and average salary
for a recent grad.
One more
factor is very powerful
in shielding technology from examination: liberal democratic individualism — the notion that the individual is to be the judge of what is the good
life for him or her.
Under such circumstances the
life and teachings of Jesus could have been only a minor
factor in the adoption of Christianity,
for the multitude could have known little about them.
Secular ideologies which have brought a new sense of selfhood to all communities and the rights of that selfhood
for full participation
in the centers of power which determine the meaning - content and goals of
life in society is also a basic
factor in this pluralism with parity.
The driving force behind this process — i.e., the «
factors making
for growth
in the halakhah» — is, first, the «necessity to respond to new external conditions — social, economic, political, or cultural — that pose a challenge or even a threat to accepted religious and ethical values,» and, second, the «need to give recognition to new ethical insights and attitudes and to embody them
in the
life of the people, even if there [is] no change
in objective conditions.»
It may be an arrangement that
factors out different aspects of the school's common
life to the reign of each model of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign
for faculty,
for example, or
for faculty
in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not
in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model
for students, or only
for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated
in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the school's extracurricular
life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that,
for example, common worship is made central to their common
life and a high premium is placed on the school being a residential community.
Secular ideologies which have brought a new sense of selfhood to all communities and the rights of that selfhood
for full participation
in the Centres of power which determine the meaning - content and goals of
life in society are also a basic
factor in this pluralism with parity.
However, I hate to see that being a deciding
factor for you, or at least a very big
factor, cause
in the end it is not about how humans behave, it is about how the Messiah
lived and died.