Home Something Different Are Electric Cars Really Green Or Fad?
Nowadays everyone talking about electric revolution in automobile as in near future petroleum sources would come to end. But as in India, we still produce electricity mainly from coal based plants, and our nation has electricity deficit (those power cuts now and then), so can we adopt electric revolution just like whole world? Let's find out.
Petroleum sources would soon dry out and also to fight pollution caused by using it, we have to find alternative. There are many like bio fuel, electric engines, and hydrogen engines.
Electric engines are first choice of most companies as it was in practical use from almost 1960s, where big three Germans succeeded in running cars with batteries. But in fact electric motor was invented way before first internal combustion engine made. So going electric is most practical choice.
First of all India has huge population so it needs massive amounts of electricity. Today most of electricity produced by coal based plants. We are generating more power through solar and water based natural renewable sources and some nuclear reactors too.
But even if we can't provide enough electricity for day to day life, think about addition in production capacity needed to charge huge number of cars.
Firstly as above mentioned, source of electricity produces equal pollution. So switching electric won't solve pollution problem.
For that charging infrastructure is needed, and just like current fuel pumps 4 of filling point would not do justice, so it will eat up space. We can't provide charging stations without supervision as theft is main safety reason.
Also calculating huge cars needed to be electric, batteries needed for them in replacement will be huge in numbers, which also leads to one more hazard, lead pollution. Lead used as main component in today's batteries, if comes contact with water or land resource, can turn that resource toxic too.
Only viable solution to electric cars are hydrogen fuel cell or hydrogen IC engines. Hydrogen when burned, gives highest energy and also produces water which is least toxic. Only that it's firing process needs to be maintained at safe level. Also to store hydrogen, no toxic metal needed, like fuel tanks, hydrogen tanks too can last for longer period, thus reducing waste.
Well BMW has produced hydrogen run 7series car, which had normal IC engine with modified intakes. But in 2006, technology to produce hydrogen was not efficient. Now hydrogen can be produced using algae into waste water plant, or just using solar or wind power to produce electricity for electrolysis.
Thus hydrogen can be made cheaper now. And also improved fuel cells gives capacity to run even a bus on hydrogen. Recently TATA motors, a big name in Indian commercial automobile segment and 5th largest commercial vehicle manufacturer in world, has produced and delivered 25 buses that runs on hydrogen fuel cell with capacity to sit 30 people to MMRDA which will be used in Mumbai.
Recently Toyota and Honda both has fuel cell cars in their stable. And if hydrogen can be availed at lower cost, even small manufacturers can produce hydrogen powered vehicles due to common parts needed. A graphite tank, fuel cell, motors and sufficient battery storage and you are ready to go.
Bio fuels made from food waste, sugarcanes and Jetropha tree, can also be used and no needs to change current IC technology. But that produces same polluting gases that are produced when fossil fuel is used. But thing is when those plants are grown again, carbon dioxide is taken back by them from environment. Also one more problem for this alternative is food channels can be effected due to large land resource used for bio fuel plantation.
Also biggest benefit of these alternatives are job production. As currently in India charging station can be put by only licensed electricity companies. While anyone can grow bio fuel plants or install solar and wind power unit at their place. So as economic point of view and as environmental point of view Electric powered automobiles are not really that green in nature when used in India. We need to focus on alternatives too.


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Today's question comes to us from Shell from Facebook and she wants to know the possible causes and solutions for foot cramping during yoga poses.
So of course I am a Ph.D. not a medical doctor so it is not possible for me to diagnose the possible causes for foot cramping during yoga poses. The first thing I would recommend would be to check with your medical doctor to make sure that there isn't anything specific going on with you or any medications that you are on causing foot cramping during your yoga practice.
One thing that I noticed from my experience when I used to teach my in person students was that when they had cramps I would ask them how much water they had consumed that day. Very often they were dehydrated. Make sure you are drinking enough water. The rule of thumb is drink half your body weight ( in pound) in ounces every day. Another thing is to make sure you are getting enough potassium. Bananas are not the only source of potassium available pre-yoga! You can also check out sweet potatoes, beet greens, orange juice, white beans, and dates.
Check in with the shoes you are wearing. Are they causing discomfort in your feet? Footwear is a super personal thing, but I switched to birkis a few years back and my feet have never been happier (I was having foot cramps too!) Find what works best for you on your feet and stick with it.
Today I will show you an exercise to help relax your plantar fascia – the fascial connections along the bottom of your feet. (Rolling your foot with a tennis ball) It may help to reduce the cramping you experience during yoga.
I am actually going to be doing some hand and foot training with Sue Hitzmann, Creator of MELT Method® in a couple of weeks in Toronto, so I will be offering my members some great new methods of releasing fascia in the coming weeks on the membership site.
I would also definitely check out my full length yoga videos for feet to help build stronger feet.
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CD172a, also known as SIRPα, is a type I transmembrane protein with one V-set Ig-like and two C-set Ig-like domains in the extracellular portion, and two ITIM motifs and a proline-rich region in the cytoplasmic tail. CD172a is expressed by monocytes, macrophages, myeloid cells, and neuronal tissue. The phosphorylation of SIRPα ITIMs induces the recruitment and activation of the tyrosine phosphatases PTPN6 and PTPN11, resulting in the negative regulation of several biological processes. The ligands of CD172a are CD47, SP-A, and SP-D.
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Additional reported applications (for the relevant formats) include: blocking SIRPa interaction with CD474, in vivo blocking of dendritic cell migration3, enhancing of macrophage phagocytosis2,4, immunohistochemical staining of cerebellum frozen sections1, and immunoprecipitation2,4.
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Adhesion Molecules, CD Molecules, Protein Kinases/Phosphatase
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Reliving A Title Run #16: Bobby Roode As TNA World Champion '11 – '12
Bobby Roode made his debut in Total Non-Stop Action Wrestling way back in May 2004 as part of the heel stable Team Canada. For almost three years, Roode remained one of the top performers for the group winning the tag team championships on several occasions with partner Eric Young. Once Team Canada went their separate ways, Roode ventured off into singles wrestling competing in feuds with the likes of Eric Young, Petey Williams, Samoa and Jeff Jarrett throughout 2007.
By the time 2008 came around Roode was involved in a feud with Booker T involving Booker's wife Sharmel. While Roode wouldn't win the feud, he did defeat Booker at Destination X that year and competed in the King of the Mountain match, but was unable to win the TNA World Heavyweight Championship. His singles career would stall and he formed one of the greatest tag teams not only in TNA history, but in pro wrestling history when he teamed with James Storm to be known as Beer Money Inc.
Bobby Roode and James Storm, Beer Money Inc.
From August 2008 to August 2011, Beer Money would hold the titles four times and had several classic matches including a best of five series against the Motor City Machine Guns. By the fall of 2011, many fans, including myself, were ready for Bobby Roode to breakthrough and win the TNA World Championship when he got his shot at Bound For Glory 2011.
Going into the event, I was almost certain that Roode was going to walkout as the new champion. It needed to happen. TNA World Champion Kurt Angle had been a good champion, but this was an opportunity to establish Roode as a TNA homegrown talent and fans were behind Roode completely as a babyface. He should have won.
But, he didn't.
Instead, Angle retained the title by holding the ropes for leverage after hitting the Olympic Slam. I remember reading that Hulk Hogan didn't feel that Roode was "ready" for the top spot. Instead, four days later James Storm won the championship from Kurt Angle on Impact. While it was a huge victory for Storm, the victory should have been Roode's at the biggest pay per view of the year for the company.
November 3rd, 2011 in Macon, Georgia, Bobby Roode competed in a title match against TNA World Champion James Storm. They went in as friends competing for the gold, but by the end, Roode tossed friendship aside in order to realize his dream of being the TNA World Champion. Roode smashed a beer bottle over Storm's head and walked out of Macon as the new TNA World Champion.
Roode's first pay per view defense was against AJ Styles at Turning Point on November 13th. Styles is the franchise wrestler for the company and Roode was able to retain the title by countering the Styles Clash and rolling AJ up using a handful of tights. However, the issues with Styles wouldn't come to an end with the victory.
Styles would get another shot at the gold the following month at Final Resolution with the stipulation being a thirty minute ironman match. The person that got the most falls or submissions within the time limit would walk out as the champion. The first fifteen minutes saw Roode have a 2-0 advantage, but within five minutes, Styles had it all tied at two. By the twenty three minute mark, Styles was up three to two with only seven minutes left. However, Roode tied the match up with five minutes left and neither man was able to get the final pin fall causing the match to end in a draw.
Heading into 2012, Jeff Hardy was on a path of redemption. Back in February of 2011, Hardy embarrassed himself and the company when he showed up to Victory Road intoxicated and not in the proper mindset to perform in front of the fans. Since that time, Hardy got himself clean and earned himself a title match at Genesis on January 8th. Hardy would come close to winning the title, but Roode would get himself disqualified on purpose in order to retain the championship.
Hardy would get a rematch on the next Impact, but was unable to win the title thanks to Bully Ray getting involved and causing yet another disqualification. The following week, James Storm and Jeff Hardy competed in a number one contenders match despite Storm beating Kurt Angle the previous week to have that spot. Roode would attack both men with the championship and proclaimed himself to be the most dominate champion in TNA history.
Roode and Bully Ray teamed up on the January 26th edition of Impact losing a tables match to James Storm and Jeff Hardy. The following week, Roode managed to retain the championship against James Storm thanks to Ray getting involved again. On the February 9th Impact, Roode teamed with Ray again this time against Storm and Sting. However, Ray didn't help Roode when he was in the Scorpion Death Lock and instead bailed on the champion saying he would see him in three days at Against All Odds.
At Against All Odds, Roode would defend the championship against Bully Ray, James Storm and Jeff Hardy. Roode would manage to sneak away with the championship when special referee Sting accidentally hit Jeff Hardy with the championship allowing Roode to get the pin fall. It was evident that this was setting up a showdown between Sting and Roode on pay per view.
Roode continued to be a fighting champion as he defended the championship in a no disqualification match on the February 16th edition of Impact against Jeff Hardy. Kurt Angle made an appearance and sent Hardy into the ring steps allowing Roode to retain the title following a spear. Roode has been a dominating champion, but has had plenty of help.
On the February 23rd edition of Impact, Sting revealed to Bobby Roode that he was tired of being the nice guy around TNA and that he was going to kick Roode's ass at Victory Road. They would have a contract signing on the March 15th edition of Impact. During the signing, Roode told Sting that he is better than Sting ever was and thinks Sting is afraid to be forgotten. As per usual with contract signings, Sting went nuts and attacked Roode on the last show before the pay per view.
Sting and Roode competed in a no holds barred match at Victory Road. Sting would hit the Scorpion Death Drop, which should have led to a victory, but he hit his head on a chair and Roode took advantage of the situation to win the match. The finish didn't exactly help Roode since it came across much more like a fluke of a victory. Following the victory, Roode would tape Sting to the ropes and threaten to use a chair and even shoved Dixie Carter to the canvas and rubbed some of Sting's paint onto her face as well.
Managing to get past Sting was one obstacle overcame by Roode, but next up was his highly anticipated steel cage match with James Storm at Lockdown on April 15th. On the March 22nd edition of Impact, Storm made promises that he would be the next champion and called out Roode. Instead, a lawyer for Roode came out and revealed that Roode would be staying at home in Canada due to TNA providing an unsafe working environment.
Roode returned to Impact the following week with a police escort to not protect himself, but rather to protect James Storm. Roode would team with Bully Ray against James Storm and Austin Aries on the program, with Storm pinning Ray and taunting Roode making his intentions clear that he was coming for the TNA World Championship. They would have a seriously intense confrontation on April 12th Impact, and here is the video to give it proper credit.
At Lockdown, Roode and Storm competed in a memorable brutal and bloody cage match that lasted nearly twenty minutes. Storm seemed to be destined to win the title and overcome his former friend and now hated rival. However, Roode would retain the championship by fluke, once again, due to Storm super kicking Roode out the cage door and the champion hit the floor. The fans were not thrilled with the finish as they were 100% behind a title change. Nevertheless, the title reign for Bobby Roode continues.
On the following Impact, Roode came out with a new and as of August 2015, his current haircut ditching the longhair look for a shorter buzz cut look. He would put himself over during the promo about how he is the greatest and would soon be cut off by Mr. Anderson and Jeff Hardy, who would compete in a number one contenders match with the winner meeting Roode at Sacrifice in May. Later in the program, Hogan puts Rob Van Dam in the match to make it a triple threat match to say thanks for Van Dam teaming with Garrett Bischoff's team at Lockdown in Lethal Lockdown. Rob Van Dam would become the number one contender pinning Jeff Hardy by countering the Twist of Fate.
May 3rd Impact saw Van Dam and Roode choose each others opponents for the show. Van Dam would be victorious over Jeff Hardy while Roode got a win over Mr. Anderson in a non-title no disqualification match. At the end of the show, Van Dam tried to save Anderson from a beating but Roode would plant RVD on a chair with a DDT.
The May 10th episode of Impact saw a four way match involving Roode, Van Dam, Anderson and Hardy taking place. Each wrestler had something to fight for. If Roode won, he would be able to choose his opponent at Sacrifice. If Van Dam won, he would choose a stipulation for his match with Roode. If Anderson or Hardy won, they would replace Van Dam in the main event at the pay per view. Van Dam would win the match by pinning Roode with the Five Star frog splash and opted to have a ladder match at Sacrifice for the championship!
At Sacrifice, Roode was able to knock Van Dam off the ladder sending Van Dam face first into a steel chair which allowed Roode to retrieve the TNA World Championship to continue his dominance as champion for TNA. The next night, Roode cut a promo about how he constantly overcomes the odds and declared there would "The It Factor's Celebration Of Dominance" on Impact. That wouldn't happen as Hulk Hogan revealed that Roode would be defending the title instead.
The following week Roode would defend the championship against AJ Styles, who failed to defeat Roode earlier in the title reign. After a lengthy back and forth match, Roode pinned Stlyes following the Payoff and with the victory it officially made Roode the longest reigning TNA World Champion in history. However, the victory would be short-lived.
Roode started to celebrate with confetti dropping from the ceiling, but the lights would go out and when they came back on, Sting appeared from behind and attacked Roode. Sting clotheslined Roode over the top to the floor and a lumberjack match between the two was announced for next weeks show. The match would kick off the show and Sting was able to get a submission victory by locking in the Scorpion Death Lock. With the victory, Hogan announced that Sting would challenge Roode for the TNA World Championship at Slammiversary.
Sting would team with AJ Styles and Kurt Angle on the June 7th Impact in a six man tag match against Bobby Roode, Kazarian and Christopher Daniels. Sting prevailed again in this encounter by making Roode submit to the Scorpion Death Lock. With two submission victories over Roode, it was looking pretty good that Sting would walkout of Slammiversary with the TNA World Championship.
At Slammiversary, Roode would find a way to retain the championship by smashing Sting over the head with a beer bottle that was at ringside following James Storm returning to the company earlier in the event. Sting would recover and attack Roode hitting a Scorpion Death Drop off the ramp!
Roode would have no time to celebrate as he defended the championship on Impact against the number one contender, Mr. Anderson. Roode continued to his winning ways by making Anderson submit to a Crossface. Roode has defeated all the top challengers including Storm, Styles, Van Dam and Sting. Who could possibly step up and dethrone Bobby Roode?
On the June 21st edition of Impact a new challenger was revealed. TNA X-Division Champion Austin Aries took advantage of vacating the championship in order to get a title match with the TNA World Champion, which would take place at Destination X on July 8th. On the July 5th edition of Impact, Roode cut off Chris Sabin, who was out with injury, and talked down about the X-Division saying the division didn't mean anything and wasn't on his level. Roode would get a few cheap shots on Sabin's injured knee until Aries ran down to make the save.
At the end of the July 5th show, Aries ducked a TNA World Championship strike from Roode and decked Roode with the X-Division Championship. Aries officially handed over the championship to Hulk Hogan and raised the TNA World Championship in the air while declaring there would be a new champion at Destination X.
After 256 days as champion, the reign of the If Factor would come to an end on July 8th after over twenty minutes of action. Aries planted Roode with the brain buster and won his first (and only thus far) TNA World Championship.
The reign of Bobby Roode may go down as the best one in TNA history. Roode was made a credible main event act and he really grew into the role and was a believable star for the company, and still is despite the ups and downs TNA has experience in recent years. Roode had some great matches during his run and was able to get the best he could out of Sting during the tail end of his career.
I'd say this was a very successful and very entertaining title reign in TNA history. While James Storm perhaps should have won the title at Lockdown, the end result of Austin Aries winning the gold made yet another main event act for the company since Storm had already reached that level.
This was one of my favorite title reigns to relive and I forgot that the main event scene in TNA in 2011/2012 was actually a lot of fun to watch.
What are your memories of Bobby Roode's reign as TNA World Champion during this time?
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Phil Robinson says:
Roode's title reign was one I remember distinctly as it was just a few months after I started watching wrestling. At the time I hated him, but watching it back, he was such a good heel and the way he carried himself gave the title so much prestige, as he'd do anything to retain it. He was such a great champion, and the matches, he never had a "bad" title defence. Especially loved the Ironman match because of the creative ending, it gave you a reason to watch the next episode of Impact
wordoftherenegade says:
I remember this reign so well because when he won the title, I'd been watching wrestling for maybe 5 months, so it's one of my earliest firm memories. I hated him at the time, but that's the magic of him – he was a brilliant heel but his desperation gave the title prestige. And the way he held himself during the reign, he was ready for the title. My favourite match of the reign was either at Lockdown (because of the story), or the Ironman match (because of a creative ending).
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Entangled right whale found off Outer Banks coast, NOAA says
A survey team with the Clearwater Marine Aquarium in Florida found the whale, a 4-year-old female, 20 miles east of Rodanthe, North Carolina.
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Scientists sighted North Atlantic right whale #4904 with a severe entanglement off the coast of North Carolina during an aerial survey.
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RODANTHE, N.C. — A North Atlantic right whale was found entangled off the coast of North Carolina's Outer Banks, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said.
A survey team with the Clearwater Marine Aquarium in Florida found the whale, a 4-year-old female, 20 miles east of Rodanthe, North Carolina, on Jan. 8. She had several lines wrapped around her mouth and tails, along with an additional line trailing behind her.
The NOAA said after reviewing the situation, biologists decided that the whale meets the criteria of a "serious injury," meaning she is likely to die. Pictures taken on Sunday found that the whale had several wounds across her body and whale lice on her head.
The administration's entanglement response teams didn't respond when they sighted the whale because it was too late in the day and she was too far off the shore. But experts and responders will work to find her again as conditions get better.
From there, NOAA said it will continue to document the entanglement and see if a response is possible.
Prior to this, the whale was last seen in Massachusetts Bay in May 2022. She wasn't entangled at the time. She is the daughter of a right whale named "Spindle," who was recently seen off St. Catherines Island, Georgia, with a new calf.
The administration said the whale is the 94th documented in an "unusual mortality event" declared since 2017, which includes dead, injured and sick whales, and who represent more than 20 percent of the population.
According to NOAA, researchers estimate there are less than 70 reproductively active females remaining. Those who encounter a whale that could be entangled are asked to reach out to the experts and not intervene.
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Although younger investors have time on their side, since they can bear more fluctuations in the market, they too should be playing the long game, says Johnson. "Building a well-funded retirement is a marathon, not a series of sprints," he says. "Take a long-term perspective and your odds of success increase dramatically."
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Video asks: Whatever happened to Johnny Knoxville?
His broken penis? Bad acting? A new YouTube video lists reasons for Johnny Knoxville's career slump, and fans balk.
Video asks: Whatever happened to Johnny Knoxville? His broken penis? Bad acting? A new YouTube video lists reasons for Johnny Knoxville's career slump, and fans balk. Check out this story on knoxnews.com: http://knoxne.ws/2eWKGnW
Chuck Campbell, chuck.campbell@knoxnews.com Published 8:02 p.m. ET Oct. 20, 2016
Johnny Knoxville arrives for the premiere of the film "Her" in Los Angeles on Dec. 12, 2013(Photo: (The Associated Press))
A new video published this week by the entertainment-based media outlet Looper throws a lot of shade on actor/daredevil Johnny Knoxville, and the video is getting blowback from fans of the Knoxville native.
The provocative five-minute video, titled "The Real Reasons We Don't Hear From Johnny Knoxville Anymore," was posted Monday on YouTube, where it had been viewed more than four and a half million times by Thursday evening. The video issues a series of condemnations, back-handed compliments and straightforward compliments to assert that Knoxville is in obscurity … though maybe not really and also maybe not for long.
The video blames Knoxville's obscurity on his bad acting, roles in movie flops, the death of his friend and "Jackass" co-star Ryan Dunn and a series of injuries, including one in which, "he broke his own penis and tore his urethra when a 400-pound motorcycle landed on him … he must use a catheter twice a day."
The 45-year-old Knoxville, aka PJ Clapp, grew up in South Knoxville and first achieved fame as the host of the MTV prankster/stunt show "Jackass," which debuted in 2000. His career eventually brought him to the big screen with "Jackass" movies and other films such as "Men in Black II," "Walking Tall" and "Dukes of Hazzard." The Looper video acknowledges some of his film successes but claims, "He's not much of an actor" and ridicules him for his part in "The Ringer."
The video then runs through a checklist of injuries sustained by Knoxville and zeroes in on Dunn's death, which took a toll on Knoxville's psyche – and by extension (according the video), Knoxville's career.
Looper then shifts into a more positive spin, crediting Knoxville's "financial success" with the 2013 film "Bad Grandpa" and noting a couple of upcoming Knoxville indie films ("Weightless" with Julianne Nicholson and "Above Suspicion" with "Game of Thrones" star Emilia Clarke). The video also points out that Knoxville, a married father of three, has a "happy life as a family man" and is "not the tabloid type" and concludes "he's earned a break."
Despite that flattering conclusion, many of Knoxville's fans were irritated at what they considered cheap shots and oversights in the video. Some of the comments on the YouTube video point out other films that Knoxville has been in and will be in, one of the commenters condemned the "dumb conjecture in this video" and another said it was "tasteless" to connect Dunn's death to an alleged career slump by Knoxville.
Another commenter summed up the video with: "The Real Reason Why We'll Never Hear From Looper Anymore."
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PHD in Marrickville is named one of the best pho restaurants in Sydney by Noodlies.com and chopinandmysaucepan.com. This time we didn't go to PHD, but rather its spinoff that is located just a few blocks away, called Pho phd restaurant. As the name stated, the restaurant specialises more on its pho.
I must say that this drink is not for everyone… especially when thinking about egg yolk was dunked into your milk and soda! It is really an acquired taste.
There is a drink in Indonesia that is pretty similar to this called STMJ with milk, egg yolk, and honey and substituting soda for ginger.
I think $10 for four fish cakes and crackers is a bit steep. It tasted just like any other fish cakes.
Despite being the dish that I ordered, I failed to remember how it tasted. It wasn't particularly bad and wasn't particularly memorable either.
Pho with Medium rare beef and combination (Extra Large) – $19 – Pho dish served with tender medium rare thinly sliced premium beef in beef broth and combination of beef brisket, beef balls and beef tripe.
The regular-sized pho is actually the cheapest amongst other pho restaurants I have reviewed in this blog. However, I was more interested in the extra-large pho. It was seriously large!
Despity being the younger sibling for the famous PHD, Pho phd restaurant failed to live up to our expectations. The exciting novelty of extra-large pho was quickly subdued by indifference.


1. Never put a comma after although.
3. Yes, you can start a sentence with although! If you start a sentence with an although idea, end the idea with a comma, and follow it with a real sentence.
Suppose you wrote "Although the hurricane was headed our way." This is an extra idea that can't end with a period. What to do?
4. Sometimes you can fix an although mistake just by substituting however. Nothing fancy is required: Just use a period and a capital letter.
Here's a sentence that needs fixing (never put a comma after although, and never leave an although idea hanging out there by itself).
And that's all there is to it! Those four simple rules will help you use although with confidence – an important skill for any serious writer.
Jean Reynolds, Ph.D., is a longtime English professor and Shaw scholar who has published eleven books. Her most recent book is What Your English Teacher Didn't Tell You: Everything You Need to Know about Showcasing Yourself through Your Writing(Maple Leaf Press).


Participate and win a cash prize of Rs. 5 Lakhs in the Rural Energy Challenge 2017, IIT Madras.
Save the dates! You are about to win Rs. 5 lakhs! Shaastra, the tech fest organised in IIT Madras, enthusiastically presents to all the aspiring participants the Rural Energy Challenge 2017. All you have to do is, gather a team and devise energy solutions for the rural areas. Here are the details of Rural Energy Challenge 2017.
The Summit: The Rural Energy Challenge 2017 intends to motivate students to identify avenues that have a potential for Green Energy solutions and then devise their offering.
Highlights: This will be done with a four-month long competition where teams will have to suggest and implement an innovation in the creation or use of green energy in villages, and develop a business model for the same with the help of mentors and experts in the field as well as primary and secondary research. A key aspect of the Rural Energy Challenge 2017 will be the village visits. The teams will be asked to identify a nearby village and make at least 3 trips during the at different stages during the semester in order to directly identify problems and possible solutions.
The participants will then be required to come to IIT Madras in December during Shaastra for the final stage of the competition. Here, they will be joined by other Summit participants in a competition lasting four days which is centered around the production, consumption, distribution and implementation aspects of Green Energy.
This challenge is not a mere challenge to win a cash prize. Shaastra offers a summit each year, taking up issues like healthcare, education, culture etc. This year it is the Rural Energy Challenge 2017.
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The Federal Communications Commission just did something it should have done long ago. It cut the cost of phone calls made by and received by prisoners in federal and state prisons and most local jails.
Believe it or not, the so-called government watchdog previously allowed telephone service providers to add fees that drove the cost up of such calls to as much as $14 per minute. The new regulations will cap in-state and local calls at $1.65 per fifteen minutes and also lower the price charged per minute.
Just how outrageous is $14 per minute? You can make a call from the United States to North Korea — called America's highest rate per minute by rebtel.com — for just $2.49 per minute.
Please allow us to vent: The old rates are clearly what's known as taking advantage of a captive audience. Literally.
We're certain that most people never suspected that prisoners were charged such usurious rates. In fact, it's doubtful that anyone other than prisoners and their families knew. Like many Americans, we've had family members imprisoned. We know that for many struggling families, limited income means making a heartbreaking choice between speaking to incarcerated family members or paying the rent or purchasing lifesaving medications.
So while this isn't the kind of news we typically cover here at FreeGovernmentCellPhones.net, a reader made us aware of the story and convinced us that we should cover it because there is a huge overlap between customers who qualify for free government cell phone service and prisoners and their families.
Who are those people? Unfortunately, it's a sad fact of life that there seems to be a direct link between poverty and prison.
The American prison system is bursting at the seams with people who have been shut out of the economy and who had neither a quality education nor access to good jobs. We found that, in 2014 dollars, incarcerated people had a median annual income of $19,185 prior to their incarceration, which is 41% less than non-incarcerated people of similar ages.
Does anyone think it's fair to charge poor prisoners and their equally-poor families $14 per minute for the privilege of staying in touch with their loved ones? Seriously. Anyone?
By way of comparison, can you imagine the howls of protest that would erupt if cell phone companies began charging upper income Americans $14 per hour. We'd be surprised if they didn't gather by the thousands with pitchforks and flaming torches in front of the cell phone companies' headquarters with pitchforks and demand the heads of the CEOs.
"Calls that used to cost a dollar a minute now could be as low as 11 cents," said Aleks Kajstura, legal director at the Prison Policy Initiative, which has been pushing to make prison calls more affordable.
"Studies show keeping communication in between families members and incarcerated loved ones reduces recidivism, and that helps us all," she said.
A few paragraphs earlier we asked if anyone thinks it's fair to charge prisoners and their families $14 per minute for the privilege of staying in touch with their loved ones. Well, it turns out that one company does and NBC found it.
We're sure you will not be shocked to discover that the company that thinks a $14 per minute rate is fair is none other than the company that's been raking in the big bucks by charging $14 per minute.
One company, Securus Technologies, said Thursday that it may sue in an effort to overturn the FCC decision.
"Today, the FCC made a colossal error in judgment, law, and public safety and policy," CEO Richard Smith said in a statement, adding that its costs are higher than the rate caps just instituted.
The juxtaposition of these stories pleases us. Imagine how horrible prison life could be if you were unable to speak to your family because to do so would require you to pay some of the highest phone rates in the world.
Imagine how horrible life back in mainstream society would be if you still can't speak to them because you don't have a cell phone and still can't afford to call loved ones.
Fair prices when you're in prison. A little help when you get out.
That does not seem unreasonable to us.
In California It seems the County Jails are reaping some benefits here. The Company Global Tel Link services the jails and Prisons here.
The State Prison calls are 75% lower than the County Jails!
When you can buy stock in corporations whose business is building prisons and making sure they fill up quickly so that there is demand to build more, and fill them up as well, the way to generate profits and keep the stockholders happy is to make sure more laws are passed and sentences become longer for lesser crimes, if is laughable that anyone refers to america as "land of the free". No othee country even comes close to our rate of incarceration.
The reason we lock people up has nothing to do with keeping criminals off the streets or making people feel safe, or deterring crime. Its about money and profit. You aren't required to work when in prison, but you can get your sentence cut in half if you do. You also can earn money by working, and working is usually preferable to sitting in a cell all day. But minimum wage doesn't apply to prisoners, who get paid something like 50 cents per day. And they have expanded beyond just stamping out license plates. Now they make furniture, run printing presses, and produce all sorts of goods that can be sold.
Where else but america can you find such a huge labor force that can be had for less money than you would have to pay children working in a sweat shop in some third world country? Someone is getting filthy rich, and not just from the labor and phone calls either. The commissary items sold to the inmates are similarly marked up.
Just one more way to make sure the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.