Yes on trends! I mentioned earlier that we publish findings every two years from our Volunteering and Civic Life in America Report – coming out this month. I don’t want to get ahead of data, but one thing is clear is that service and volunteering opportunities need to meet people where they are.

I think about this issue of barriers to service a lot. For example, we have 140,000 AmeriCorps Seniors volunteers who dedicate their time and talent, and we need to make sure they can afford the gas it takes to get to a volunteer opportunity. It’s something we’re working on closely with our colleagues in the Biden-Harris Administration, which has ensured an exponential increase in resources to expand benefits.

I’m also encouraged by the way volunteer and service programs were able to pivot during quarantines and lock downs in the earlier days of the pandemic. Some of the virtual opportunities we saw arise may be more accessible for people who have less time, and I’m optimistic that these will be part of the volunteering landscape going forward.

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Thanks for your answer and thanks for doing this AMA. I’m glad you are as theres plenty of useful projects out there which gets 0 coverage cause they dont have insane sudden increases in mcap or scammy team members.

How would you respond to the criticism that AmeriCorps exploits and undervalue young bodies/labor? I think for a long time the corps was a legitimate and worthwhile way to build skills and find an entry point for a career-- these days it often seems that the organizations taking AmeriCorps money and running programs are just interested in cheap labor to fund their non profit operations, and the members are catching on-- recruitment is way down, corps "wages" have stagnated while even the most basic of jobs is now paying $15/hr, the education award hasn't remotely kept up with the price of education...etc. etc. How is it a viable option for anyone that doesn't already come from wealth and can afford to essentially subsidize AmeriCorps by paying their own living expenses for a year?

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Thanks for the reply. Seems everywhere we look something stinks. I’m hopeful some investigation can be done into these Tokenized stocks FTX created. Come to find out they are not backed 1:1 like FTX/SBF said (more lies; shocker I know). This claim may have left the door open for these tokenized stocks to be accessible for reasonable locates for hedge/money funds needing to meet lending obligations.

From someone with very little in depth knowledge of how cryptocurrencies work - Is it easier or harder to uncover these kinds of issues in crypto exchanges vs FIAT exchanges? Isn't blockchain supposed to make these transactions transparent?

Really dig into the tokenized stocks thing and I promise you it will be the biggest story you have ever broken.

Our 2019 findings show that about a third of Americans volunteer with an organization on a regular basis, and that Utah had the highest volunteer rate with 50% of Americans volunteering through an organization. You can learn more here: Americorps.gov/newsroom/news/via

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In other words, why not do a story about a project like Banano which has been around since 2018 and remains the top contributor to science out of all crypto projects through Folding at Home?

I do try to make my reporting as original as I can, and i do that by talking to experts, execs, and founders in crypto industry. The FTX saga is indeed widely covered now, but it's still important to cover, and worth reading and writing about.

That said, I'm still working constantly to dig into new projects, storylines, and people in and around markets and crypto. -PR

It’s the stability of organics vs conventional inorganic materials. For organic photovoltaic cells, for example, efficiencies currently overcome those for amorphous silicon-based devices. The drawback is that you cannot use them on the top of the roof of your house to get electricity, at least not for a long time, because when exposed to the combination of heating and light, organics degrade faster , and your device loss it’s efficiency. However, OE are very important in complementary applications (the e-skin, for example, or the OLED displays , or portable photovoltaics( much lighter devices are possible). Another point is that charge mobility in organic semiconductors is inherently lower than that in the inorganic counterparts, and this means that it would not be possible to reach the performance of the most performing types of inorganics. But this is not the objective. The major objective is to complement them. In fact, some characteristics are not possible to be achieved by conventional inorganics , like transparency, lightness, low energy manufacturing (OE devices can be printed like newspapers!) Examples of benchmark organic semiconductor are polythiophenes, pentacene derivatives, etc. For the dielectrics also polysaccharides, silicone rubbers, silk fibroins and so on. You need to have something which can be easily ‘polarized ‘ We recently carried out a study were we used polymers extracted from brewers spent grains (which is a byproduct of the brewing industry) to make dielectrics for transistors

It's their way of ushering in cdbc's.

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One of the things our agency is excited about as we discuss COVID-19 recovery is the creation of Public Health AmeriCorps. AmeriCorps and the CDC joined forces to launch this program and support the recruitment, training, and development of the next generation of public health leaders. This program has opportunities in almost every state. Check it out: AmeriCorps.gov/PublicHealth

You could break a huge story if you just dig in a little. Hopefully you have the balls to do it.

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What a year you've had; you finally got over the hump and won your first PDC major and then at the Ally Pally you nailed a 9-darter against MVG in the greatest leg of all-time on your way to securing your first World Championship. How do you feel after accomplishing all that?

Every two years we publish our Volunteering and Civic Life in America report. The next report will be released this month, which will show how Americans came together during the pandemic.

Hard to pin a number on it. But Bankman-fried faces a potential 115 years in prison if he's convicted on all charges. Compare that to Madoff, who faced 150-year sentence.-PR

As a senior reporter, do you ever take a deep dive into crypto to look at projects and aspects that are not covered by everyone else?

To be fair, the entire SBF saga is covered by everyone by now, so why not do something more original?

Instead of contributing to already established headlines you could be the one making them.

Chicken - PR

Do the people that investigate these matters have any block chain expertise? For example I haven’t seen a single person accurately describe how people like Safemoon had so much access to liquidity that was locked. Everyone seems to think they took from locked liquidity while there’s something completely else going on.

Best kept secret I’ve ever seen myself. This type of thing has being going on since 2017 since that’s where those types of contracts came from.