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� � � � � � You Might Like � � � � � � � � � The Power Of Being Proactive: 5 Ways To Develop This Surprising Skill - Forbes    If you’re trying to get ahead or nurture greater happiness and satisfaction in life and work, there’s a trait you may not have realized is quite so important: the ability to be proactive. Challenges are seemingly everywhere: The job market is tough, work is a struggle, stress is rampant, loneliness is epidemic, and people are polarized. But amidst all the challenges, being proactive may help. Of course, it’s not a panacea, but research on being proactive provides powerful evidence it can help build your career, contribute to your success, foster positive relationships, nurture your fulfillment and even help you make more money. Continued here I Resold My Taylor Swift Tickets for an Unthinkable Price. It Changed Everything. - Slate Magazine    In What It’s Like, people tell us, well, what it’s like to have experiences many of us have not even imagined. This summer, Taylor Swift’s “Eras” tour was lauded for generating $5 billion in consumer spending in the United States. Some of the tour’s economic impact trickled down to average concertgoers who were able to turn a major profit on ticket resales. The inflationary nature of the “Eras” tour’s ticket prices left many in disbelief that people were willing and able to pay that much for a single concert. In this entry, we spoke to a Jersey City mother who managed to resell four Taylor Swift tickets for a whopping $20,000. Her ticket sales have been internally verified.  I had bought Taylor Swift “Eras” tour tickets to celebrate my daughter’s and niece’s eighth grade graduation. I was planning to fly my sister and niece from L.A. out to Jersey City over Memorial Day weekend to catch Taylor’s Saturday show at MetLife Stadium. We’re all pretty big Swifties, and this was going to be a celebratory girls’ night out. I bought my tickets on Nov. 15, 2022, on Ticketmaster as a verified fan. I remember logging on around 9 or 10 a.m. and only having to wait in line for two hours—I was pretty fortunate and managed to snag four VIP tickets for around $800 each. After Ticketmaster fees, my total ended up coming out to $3,472 for four tickets. The VIP section came with these cute little boxes filled with stickers, glow bracelets, and posters. Continued here Don't like ads? Go ad-free with TradeBriefs Premium How remote islands underpin Japan's maritime power - The Economist    From afar, the Japanese archipelago appears to consist of just a few islands. Zoom in and more come into view, dotting the map like the ink splatters of a calligraphy brush. Japan has around 14,000 islands, some 400 of which are inhabited. These often-remote abodes, known as ritou, define the country’s borders. Though small, and sometimes tiny, together they shape Japan’s identity as an ocean nation and underpin its maritime power. The ritou are often overlooked. Fewer than 1% of Japan’s 125m people live outside its five main islands, Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku, Hokkaido and Okinawa. Remote islands make up about 2% of Japan’s land mass. Yet they account for half of the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) which helps Japan punch above its weight at sea: it is the world’s 62nd-largest country yet has the sixth-largest marine area (see map). The combined coastlines of the ritou, 20% of Japan’s total, are longer than the whole of Brazil’s. They are also storehouses of cultural and biological diversity. Yet these quietly consequential islands face mounting pressures. On islands like Sado, off the northern coast of Honshu, or Rishiri, near Hokkaido, demographic change is hollowing out communities. Climate change threatens the already fragile supply chains of places like the Ogasawara, a group of islands halfway to Guam, which rely on ferries to connect them to the mainland. In the Nansei, the islands that stretch between Taiwan and Kyushu, residents are making flight plans in case of a war with China. Continued here These Birds Got a Little Too Comfortable in Birdhouses - The Atlantic    Purple martins may have been saved by human-built nest boxes. What happens when our hospitality runs out? Whether it’s because we destroy their habitats, discombobulate them with city lights, or allow cats into their midst, most wild birds want nothing to do with humans. But purple martins—shimmery, blackish-bluish swallows native to North America—just can’t get enough. For centuries, the species has gradually abandoned its homes in the wild for birdhouses we’ve built. An entire subspecies of the bird now nests exclusively in human-made boxes; east of the Rocky Mountains, “there are officially no purple-martin colonies that exist outside of that,” says Joe Siegrist, the president of the Purple Martin Conservation Association. Modern martins have become downright trusting of people. Some will even let humans reach into their nest and pick up their chicks—an intrusion that would send other birds into a screeching, pecking rage. “They’re the most docile species I’ve ever worked with,” says Blake Grisham, a wildlife biologist at Texas Tech University. And the more we build birdhouses and interact with martins, the more they seem to thrive. “It’s totally the opposite of our default in wildlife management,” Grisham told me. The martins’ reliance on us is a bit bizarre, but it’s also a boon: As habitat destruction, environmental contaminants, and invasive species continue to threaten wildlife across the world, an affinity for humans very well may have saved the purple martin. Continued here

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