#this is one of the things that isri's built on

[apostacism]

One thing I love about mage Lavellan is the perversion of purpose. Mage Lavellan was First to their clan: the expectation was that they would one day be a leader. They might well have been training for it since they were a child.

And it happens! Just... wrong. Lavellan is supposed to be for the People, not for the Chantry. Everything they learned, everything they thought their life would be - there's an extent to which the skills are transferrable. People are still looking to them for leadership and certainty, to make the hard choices and keep everyone safe and balance competing interests.

It's the disconnect, the ways that Inquisitor is almost the thing they were meant for, and yet not. And yet it could never be, yet it is fundamentally against the world and people they come from. The way being closer to the life they were supposed to have brings them even further away and emphasizes the utter wrongness of it. It's not the shock and disorientation of becoming a leader when no one ever expected anything of them, it's the pain of being a leader, having built the skills and the knowledge to lead effectively, and being forced into a position where they have to use those skills against their own interests and desires.

[awesomegloriouscollectorpup-blog]

What is In The Future For Electronics Recycling?

drones Electronics recycling in the U.S. is developing as the industry consolidates and matures. The potential of electronics recycling - at minimum in the U.S., and possibly globally - will be driven by electronics technologies, valuable metals, and industry structure, in distinct. Though there are other things that can affect the industry - this kind of as buyer electronics collections, legislation and restrictions and export problems - I believe that these three variables will have a much more profound impact on the foreseeable future of electronics recycling. The most latest information on the sector - from a survey executed by the Worldwide Information Company (IDC) and sponsored by the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) - located that the sector (in 2010) taken care of approximately 3.5 million tons of electronics with revenues of $five billion and directly utilized 30,000 people - and that it has been expanding at about 20% yearly for the earlier 10 years. But will this development proceed? Electronics Technology Personalized pc tools has dominated volumes handled by the electronics recycling sector. The IDC examine described that in excess of sixty% by weight of business enter volumes was "laptop products" (which includes PCs and displays). But recent studies by IDC and Gartner display that shipments of desktop and laptop computer personal computers have declined by far more than 10% and that the shipments of smartphones and tablets now every single exceed that of PCs. About 1 billion sensible telephones will be shipped in 2013 - and for the first time exceed the volumes of traditional mobile telephones. And shipments of extremely-gentle laptops and laptop-pill hybrids are rising quickly. So, we are moving into the "Put up-Laptop Period". In addition, CRT TVs and screens have been a important part of the input volumes (by fat) in the recycling stream - up to 75% of the "consumer electronics" stream. And the demise of the CRT indicates that less CRT TVs and displays will be entering the recycling stream - changed by smaller/lighter flat screens. So, what do these technology traits imply to the electronics recycling market? Do these developments in engineering, which lead to dimension reduction, outcome in a "more compact components footprint" and considerably less overall quantity (by weight)? Given that cellular gadgets (e.g., smart telephones, tablets) already signify greater volumes than PCs - and almost certainly flip more than more rapidly - they will most likely dominate the long term volumes moving into the recycling stream. And they are not only a lot scaled-down, but usually expense much less than PCs. And, traditional laptops are being changed by ultra-textbooks as well as tablets - which means that the notebook equivalent is a great deal more compact and weighs considerably less. So, even with continuously increasing quantities of electronics, the excess weight volume getting into the recycling stream could start lowering. Common desktop pc processors weigh fifteen-twenty lbs. Conventional laptop pcs weigh five-seven lbs. But the new "ultra-books" weigh three-four lbs. So, if "computers" (including monitors) have comprised about sixty% of the whole industry enter volume by bodyweight and TVs have comprised a massive part of the quantity of "client electronics" (about 15% of the sector input volume) - then up to 75% of the enter volume could be topic to the weight reduction of new technologies - maybe as a lot as a 50% reduction. And, related technological innovation change and measurement reduction is transpiring in other markets - e.g., telecommunications, industrial, health care, and so forth. Even so, the inherent worth of these units could be greater than PCs and CRTs (for resale as properly as scrap - per unit weight). So, industry fat volumes could lessen, but revenues could carry on to boost (with resale, components recovery price and solutions). And, given that cell products are envisioned to turn more than far more swiftly than PCs (which have normally turned more than in three-five years), these changes in the electronics recycling stream may possibly take place within 5 a long time or much less. One more element for the market to take into account, as recently noted by E-Scrap News - "The all round portability trend in computing products, such as standard kind-factors, is characterised by built-in batteries, parts and non-repairable parts. With fix and refurbishment progressively tough for these types of products, e-scrap processors will experience significant challenges in identifying the best way to manage these gadgets responsibly, as they steadily compose an increasing share of the end-of-daily life administration stream." So, does that imply that the resale likely for these smaller sized products could be considerably less? The electronics recycling business has historically focused on PCs and buyer electronics, but what about infrastructure tools? - this kind of as servers/info facilities/cloud computing, telecom techniques, cable network methods, satellite/navigation programs, defense/army systems. These sectors normally use larger, larger benefit products and have significant (and increasing?) volumes. They are not normally visible or believed of when contemplating the electronics recycling business, but may be an more and more important and bigger share of the volumes that it handles. And some, if not significantly, of this infrastructure is thanks to alter in technological innovation - which will end result in a big quantity turnover of gear. GreenBiz.com studies that "... as the industry overhauls and replaces... servers, storage and networking gear to accommodate massive consolidation and virtualization tasks and put together for the age of cloud computing... the construct-out of cloud computing, the stock of physical IT property will change from the client to the info middle... Although the variety of client units is rising, they are also acquiring more compact in dimensions. Meanwhile, data facilities are becoming upgraded and expanded, possibly creating a huge quantity of future e-waste." But, exterior the U.S. - and in developing nations in specific - the input volume bodyweight to the electronics recycling stream will enhance significantly - as the utilization of digital gadgets spreads to a broader marketplace and an infrastructure for recycling is designed. In addition, building international locations will continue to be attractive marketplaces for the resale of employed electronics. Cherished Metals In the IDC review, in excess of 75% by fat of business output volumes was found to be "commodity quality scrap". And much more than 50 % of that was "metals". Treasured metals depict a tiny part of the quantity - the regular focus of valuable metals in electronics scrap is calculated in grams for every ton. But their recovery worth is a considerable portion of the whole price of commodity grade scrap from electronics. Treasured metals prices have increased substantially in recent many years. The market place prices for gold, silver, palladium and platinum have every more than doubled more than the previous five several years. Even so, gold and silver have traditionally been really volatile given that their costs are driven largely by investors. Their prices seem to be to have peaked - and are now drastically underneath their higher points very last 12 months. Whilst, platinum and palladium prices have usually been driven by need (e.g., production - like electronics and automotive applications) and generally much more stable. Telecommunications tools and cell phones typically have the greatest valuable metals content - up to 10 times the common of scrap electronics primarily based on per unit excess weight. As technological innovation improvements, the valuable metals content material of electronics tools generally decreases - owing to expense reduction learning. However, the scaled-down, more recent gadgets (e.g., sensible telephones, tablets) have higher treasured metals articles for every unit bodyweight than standard electronics gear - this sort of as PCs. So, if the excess weight quantity of electronics gear handled by the electronics sector decreases, and the marketplace prices for cherished metals decreases - or at the very least does not improve - will the restoration worth of cherished metals from electronics scrap lessen? Possibly the recovery price of valuable metals from electronics scrap per unit fat will boost because more electronics goods are getting smaller/lighter, but have a larger concentration of valuable metals (e.g., cell telephones) than conventional e-scrap in whole. So, this aspect of the sector may actually turn out to be a lot more cost effective. But the overall business earnings from commodity scrap - and particularly precious metals - may possibly not proceed to boost. Industry Structure The electronics recycling business in the U.S. can be thought of as comprising 4 tiers of firms. From the extremely biggest - that approach effectively in excessive of twenty up to far more than 200 million lbs. per yr - to medium, tiny and the quite smallest firms - that procedure much less than one million lbs. for every 12 months. The top 2 tiers (which signify about 35% of the companies) method roughly seventy five% of the business volume. The amount of firms in "Tier one" has previously reduced due to consolidation - and continued industry consolidation will almost certainly drive it more toward the acquainted 80/20 design. Though there are in excess of a thousand businesses functioning in the electronics recycling business in the U.S., I estimate that the "Top fifty" businesses approach almost fifty percent of the overall industry quantity. What will take place to the smaller firms? The mid-dimension businesses will possibly merge, get, get obtained or partner to contend with the greater companies. The modest and smallest firms will either uncover a market or disappear. So, the complete quantity of businesses in the electronics recycling business will possibly decrease. And more of the volumes will be taken care of by the largest firms. As with any maturing market, the most price productive and rewarding firms will endure and grow.