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Austin Forsyth married Joy-Anna Duggar last month in Arkansas, and we’re still getting more details on the biggest day of her entire life.
Emphasis on BIG. It’s the Duggar family after all.
The wedding, which will be chronicled in the very first episode of Counting On Season 4 June 12, took place at Cross Church in Arkansas.
Thanks to photos posted by the family, and a little sleuthing by The Ashley‘s Reality Roundup, we now know more about the May 26 event.
Joy-Anna had eight bridesmaids, but unlike her sisters – who had both family members and friends stand with them – it was family only.
Jill Duggar, her older sister and part of Joy’s “buddy group” (yes, the Duggars have 19 kids, so they have those) was Matron of Honor.
On top of Jill, Jessa Seewald, Jinger Duggar, Jana Duggar, Johanna Duggar and Jennifer Duggar were bridesmaids, along with two in-laws.
Well, one in-law and one future-in-law. Anna Duggar, Josh’s wife, and Kendra Caldwell, Joseph’s soon-to-be wife, rounded out the party.
Guess Josh was invited to the wedding after all.
Austin, meanwhile, had a whopping 13 groomsmen at his wedding, and according to The Ashley, and those 13 varied greatly in age.
Joy-Anna’s wedding dress was a beautiful, lace-covered gown that included pieces of her mother’s wedding gown, and that’s not all.
The dress also featured portions ofher grandmother’s wedding gown and Austin’s mother’s wedding gown, a touching family tradition.
Austin wore … a dark blue suit. He’s a guy. His groomsmen did the same, along with gray, as the bridesmaids wore long, dark blue gowns.
The stage for the ceremony featured flowers and hay (really) hanging from the ceiling and decorating the floor in an outdoor-themed decor.
As for the cake, the dessert-loving duo chose a simple, six-tier white wedding cake trimmed in orange, white and yellow flowers. Delish.
As previously reported, Joy’s brother Joseph Duggar proposed to Kendra Caldwell, his girlfriend of a few months, at the wedding reception.
Kendra said she had no idea that Joe was planning to propose – “I’m so happy and so shocked,” she said – but Joy had given her blessing.
Joe didn’t want to upstage her, after all.
Following the wedding, Joy and Austin’s honeymoon is now underway, with the blissfully in love couple saying they will be gone for awhile.
The two have not revealed where they are honeymooning, but given that they’re wearing big jackets in photos, it appears to be chilly.
No tropical islands for these two.
That’s too bad for those of us hoping for a revival of Jessa Duggar’s swimsuit photo from a few years ago, but we’re glad they’re happy.
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We can’t wait to see it play out on TV.
Click below to see what else we can expect when Counting On returns to TLC Monday night for what looks like an epic fourth season.
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These days a definition essay is not a complicated type of task, but if a student finds it hard for many reasons, he/she may contact professional online writing service to let it solve a homework essay paper assignment on any topic.
It is not a good idea to write explanation essay papers on the words with narrow, specific meanings like “bread” or “bed.” Try something broad instead. Choose words like “freedom” or “beauty” to interpret. In the essay provide all possible meanings of these terms, including personal interpretation; add examples from personal experience, and share the opinions of other people. The 1st thing to include in the essay is an official dictionary’s explanation. Pick the topics for the essay paper that exist without any doubts.
Begin with selecting a proper topic. The teacher may give several words to discuss to make the definition essay paper writing longer. A student will barely earn a high grade for paper writing which requires several sentences or even words to describe it. It is better to select complex terms with a broad definition. They should possess a long history and interesting origins - come up with the whole 1-page story for your writing.
Many times, a complicated term with multiple meanings cannot be explained in a sentence or two without sharing vivid examples. Even a full paragraph may not be enough to share the entire sense. Deep writing may demand a lot of words/phrases to describe them - that is when a teacher may give a specific assignment to the class. Look at the detailed description of each essay papers section below.
Select a word for the essay paper to explain (avoid those you do not completely understand), introduce it to the target reading audience. The primary purpose is to outset the contents of the essay.
Apply some primary sources (dictionaries, vocabularies, encyclopedias, textbooks) to see how the majority of the population tend to explain the chosen term. Combine/merge the offered definitions during single essay paper writing.
Reveal the selected item in the essay paper introduction writing.
These days for an assignment each student has to get ready before coming up with the written version of the essay paper. It won't take too much time. First of all, you need to treat your writing properly. The best approach is to consider your writing a little exam. Indeed, every essay paper is a test of your writing skills. So, you need to recall all exam preparation tips and tricks.
If your teacher does not provide you with the essay paper writing clues, begin with exploring all possible topic ideas. We would like to share several hints that will help to make a decision and get ready!
Select your word for an essay paper wisely. There is no chance of writing a hefty essay on a simple word with an obvious or single definition. While making your decision, try to be meticulous. Avoid including nouns or verbs. What we mean is that you won't write too much about the words like "bed"; or "dress." Of course, you can use all your imagination, but it will only lead to wordiness. However, if you choose some process to analyze, you may come up with several good essay topics. You may select "painting" or "observing." They are more or less subjective so that you can give it a try!
Pick only terms with multiple definitions for an essay. You can find many multi-dimensional words in every language. Select words that have a lot of synonyms like "gorgeous" or "fight." People tend to perceive such words differently – it is your chance to stand out!
Ignore words that are universal in every culture in your essay writing (these words can be “hi”, “café”, or “telephone”).
Do you get the explanation of the term in the essay paper? If not, it is better to switch to another one. Keep in mind that teachers want to see some examples drawn from student's own life instead of reading pages of definitions only. Explore all dictionaries to check your choice.
Turn to the Oxford Dictionary or another official dictionary to find the full interpretation of the term for an essay.
The section of this definition essay writing guide discusses several basic elements. From how to write an essay paper introduction to the transition words for the essay paper, we will share everything necessary to know about this type of assignment.
Even though this essay paper is smaller than other types of essays, it may still have an outline. The volume of writing depends on the complexity of the chosen term or phrase. Choose a whole phrase, idiom, or proverb to talk about in your essay, and remember: some words are truly logical and simple to explain. At the same time, some writing demands in-depth research and investigation to formulate an exact representation of their meaning.
An introduction must contain a dictionary (official) explanation of the selected writing approaches of a paper, which a student can find in the English dictionaries on the needed page. It is possible to search on the web to avoid paperwork. When a correct definition (or several interpretations) pops up, try to make them concise and clear before implementing it into your introduction. Choose the best meaning concerning your essay paper context. Decide in which light you would like to discuss the chosen writing style (example: words like “frenemies” have 2 sides of a coin, representing positive (friends) and negative (enemies) at the same time).
Writing items like "love" and "hate" are excellent choices as it is impossible to define them in short. There is no specific explanation of these words. A student may involve a universal interpretation of one of these words; include the offers from the dictionaries, and add a few words describing the personal understanding of the essay. Such type of writing does not need a regular thesis.
Find more topics below or have a look at the excellent examples of definition essays online from the academic experts.
The only thing you should keep in mind which makes this type of essay different is whether you deal with the standard or thesis definition. According to a thesis essay paper, it is the main argument of the entire essay paper writing, and it goes in the last sentences of introduction.
You may include both into an essay to get the full credit. The first type of definition is the one taken from the official sources like dictionaries. It is an important starting point. As for thesis definition, this sentence involves the full version of what the writing item of an essay paper means. Mix standard explanation with your own experience plus the usage of the term - it is all about writing a good essay introduction.
Naturalism regarding literature is a specific perception of the real world: everything going on and surrounding people looks like an experiment of nature.
The author mentions that this definition works for the literary aspect. It means the writing item of the paper has other interpretations based on the different subjects.
A body of an essay definition has an original structure compared to the argumentative/persuasive essays. In opposition to a research essay writing, in a definition essay, a student has to share various points that constitute the explanation of the chosen word/term. Background information is not obligatory – just check whether every separate idea has a separate paragraph and stick to the essay structure below.
Claim #1: Include the 1st element of the explanation. Provide an in-depth analysis of how the offered example(s) substantiates the meaning of the world.
Claim #2: It will be the next aspect of writing + supporting examples of the essay paper.
Claim #3: In case the writing item of an essay paper has more than 2 meanings (bark, jam, mine, and more), list one more definition. It will be a typical 5-paragraph essay.
There is nothing special about the conclusion of an essay paper – summarize multiple meanings of the same word or remind of the basic definitions of several simple words discussed in the essay paper.
An essay conclusion must contain a summary & analysis of the mentioned points. The good idea is to explain the way specific term influences the author’s life; return the hook sentence and thesis statement from the introduction to finish the essay, but reword both sentences.
Do not start with the explanation from the dictionary directly. If you do, paraphrase the offered definition to avoid problems with plagiarism in the essay.
The article has mentioned some of the great essay writing ideas to discuss & explain in an essay paper. Grab more excellent essay paper topics divided into several categories to make it easier.
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The necessity of the second language (Spanish, French, or German?).
Factors that predetermine a happy marriage, which will last for a while.
How most of the modern teenagers define the concept of platonic love.
College degree: How it matters in the life of each student.
Winning college application: Magic words to impress the admission officers.
Rock’n’roll, democracy, anarchy, and other words associated with the freedom of choice.
Mobile apps for education and video games to speed up the learning process.
Things every employee should contribute to the development of corporate social responsibility.
Several to define whether the last elections were fair or not.
Factors that lead to the obvious racial segregation in the United States.
Death penalty (list pros & cons after the explanation).
Cheating on the examinations and tests: Something out of control.
Massive murders: Causes, outcomes, and prevention measures.
Cigarette smoking: Healthcare professionals definition of the problem.
Using cell phones and other electronic devices in class: Two sides of a coin.
English as an official language in the United States.
Creationism: Reasons why it may become a new school subject.
Self-assurance, self-control, self-development - what’s in common?
Do people in the United States know what freedom is?
Generosity: Who can be considered generous in the modern world?
Proves that government and FBI violate our right to privacy.
Five factors that determine whether a person can be called modest.
Several medical symptoms of a healthy appetite.
Definition of laziness and effective ways to overcome this bad habit.
True friendship compared to hostility these days (along with the explanation of what frenemy is).
Bad coach and the adverse consequences of improper training.
Measures of punishment associated with the caring parents.
The traits of a true hero: Analyzing Superman, Iron Man, and some other guys.
Describing success on the example of Steve Jobs or Bill Gates.
The eternal, powerful, never-ending, undefined feeling of love.
Different interpretations of beauty as compared to ugliness these days.
The best definition of respect based on what your granny told you.
The definition of loyalty grabbed from the stories of McDonald’s customers.
What courage means to different types of people these days.
Which features should a true friend possess to trust him/her?
The nature of hate: Is it the most destructive feeling in the world?
How come some people living in poverty call it a comfort?
The way each human defines happiness: A universal meaning.
Happiness, kindness, excitement, and other positive psychologies these days.
What makes happiness: living with the one you love having no material goods or living with a rich person without having a sympathy?
Can we say that money and other material goods make one happy?
How do modern adolescents identify the feeling of happiness these days?
Happiness as a fundamental right for the US citizens that preoccupied their minds.
Defining happiness and several other controversial topics.
Several theories used to describe the feeling of happiness these days.
The religious, biological, and philosophical/psychological basis of happiness these days.
The best definite statements offered to describe happiness.
General meanings of freedom discovered in various dictionaries.
The meaning of freedom to people who work in the factories.
Freedom in the eyes of the 1st-year college student.
The essence of freedom and independence in American society these days.
Defining freedom with the help of the Constitution of the United States.
Life, liberty, and justice - the words related to the term “freedom”.
How the US government should interpret the meaning of freedom.
Freedom for all: Does every human being deserve to be free?
Being free VS being happy: Are these two interrelated?
How comes some prisoners are not eager to become free again?
Official interpretations of “family” from different dictionaries.
The size of a small, medium, and big family.
Spending a perfect summer with a family: Description with details.
Reflective essay on the role of the family in a student’s life.
Is it possible to call a single parent a complete family?
Are the same-gender families destroying the institution of marriage?
Can the far-far-away relatives be considered part of a family?
A family is a group of people that includes parents, kids, and relatives - Agree/Disagree.
Factors that can make strangers better parents than your native.
The family is a pillar of society, so it makes it valuable.
The Oxford American Dictionary interpretation of love.
Love as the strongest and most unexplored feeling in the world.
Harmonization of personality through mutual love and respect.
Love is not another fairy tale with no adverse manifestations.
adoration, desire, and respect - the qualities of love.
The love between man and woman compared to love between people of the same gender.
Are the same-gender relationships destroying the concept of love?
Can young people aged 16 or less fall in love and save this feeling forever?
Is it possible to love several people of the opposite gender at the same time?
The way your parents define the word love (make the difference between love and passion).
Traits that make a university professor a field expert.
Living with the roommate on campus: Features that make him/her good.
Factors that predetermine excellent emotional health.
Anti-Semitism and other controversial religions of the world.
Things in our life that can be characterized as humanely.
Interpret the term “phase” in relation to homogeneous and heterogeneous mixtures.
Acting and pretending: Hints to detect the pretender from the 1st sight.
Explain the meaning of the words: onomatopoeia, assonance, and alliteration.
Defining and describing several movements in contemporary art.
The importance of time management in college and at the workplace.
Factors that may lead young people to depression.
Having a sense of humor: Pros & cons of joking in various life situations.
The traits a human should possess to be called a good person.
Team player and teamwork: The signs every member contributed to the common goal.
Living to fulfill the American Dream: The possible waste of time.
Political correctness as a tool to prevent various world conflicts.
Methods used to achieve career goals in the chosen field.
Dream career: Wages, conditions, working hours, and other features.
The characteristics of a person who deserves to be called the Great.
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At the first “CHECK-IN” event of the Promotion of Economic Development Bocholt, supported by the Chamber of Commerce North Westphalia and the Development Fund West Munsterland for the University Bocholt/ Ahaus, on a mid November Thursday 170 students of the University used the opportunity to get to know businesses throughout the district Borken.
Did you arrive in fall as good as we did? Our fall opened up with a really good in-house exhibition in the new “TIS -Tower”, on which we had many interesting discussions with customers and suppliers – and have taken numerous suggestions for our further work. In early October, we were also present at the Post-Expo in Vienna for the first time – and were able to make new, exciting contacts with international visitors.
Meet TIS on Tuesday, November 26, 2013 at the SVG symposium in Mannheim. On the event established and new methods of fleet management are presented and discussed, backed up by specific examples in practice.
In early October, we are in Vienna at the Post-Expo – and glad to welcome you at our booth. Vienna is always worth a visit – and especially this October. Because the international trade exhibition Post-Expo offers the courier, parcel and express industry (CEP), an exciting forum to share experiences, information and ideas.
Am Donnerstag, dem 5. September 2013 laden wir unsere Kunden sehr herzlich ein, unsere neuen Räumlichkeiten kennenzulernen – und sich gleichzeitig über Neuigkeiten aus dem Hause TIS zu informieren.
Since June 17 we are working in our new office building in Bocholt’s Technology Park.
Get to know our new premises: TIS invite you to our “Open House” in the new building at Müller-Armack-Strasse 8.
We are already in the middle of the hot moving phase: Our IT system has been adapted, the server has securely moved to our data center, the new telephone system is installed. Our customer support and management are waiting in the wings; they will be the vanguard of the physical relocation of our offices which as early as Friday, June 14, will already be able to answer calls from the new headquarters.
Back in June we moved into our new premises.
The house was built within approximately one year after the ideas and plans of managing shareholder and founder, Josef Bielefeld also with the environment in mind.
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I, like people the world over, heard about Lilly when she had her accident and have been an avid fan ever since. However, Lilly’s heart and good nature was always apart of her and proves what a wonderful companion pit bulls can be. Beyond that, the love that she gives is an inspiration to all of us (dogs and humans alike) to be better than what we are and to be a positive force to the world around us.
I saw Lilly’s story on the news and was so touched by her bravery and loyalty. She won my heart along with thousands of others across the world. I even had the pleasure of meeting her! David was nice enough to bring her by my job and share her wonderfulness with me. I was so honored, i felt like i was meeting a celebrity. She was nothing but kind and had plenty of kisses to share. By far the sweetest dog I’ve ever met- for any breed. What these guys are doing is amazing. Lilly’s heroic title didn’t just end when she saved her human companion, her journey continues by making a new name for pit bulls everywhere.
Thank you so much for posting pictures of Lilly with cards that some students of mine sent to Lilly. They will be soooo happy to see the picture of her with the cards they made!!!
truly a reflection of heroic love. May St. Francis watch over her as she continues to recover!
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Refrigerators have almost become a mandatory home appliance for today’s modern lifestyle. Without the refrigerator your kitchen is incomplete and simply you are making your lifestyle more difficult.
Gone are the days when you have the time or luxury to go to market each day to bring your necessary commodities daily.
There was a time when Refrigerators was considered the thing for the rich and only a few people could afford it. But with the changing times, it has become an integral part of almost all middle-upper class people.
In these days it is rather common to buy your daily stuff once and store all those in your home refrigerator. In this way, you can both save your time and money.
But buying a refrigerator is another tricky thing. Especially when the market is flooded with so many brands and choices it is a very difficult job to pick the right refrigerator for your need!
So if you are looking to buy a new refrigerator and wondering what to do, you have come to the right place.
In this post, I will outline the 10 factors you should consider when buying a refrigerator.
The first thing you consider before buying any refrigerator is the number of members of your family who will use it.
If you are a bachelor or buying a refrigerator for a single person, then a small frost-free refrigerator will suffice your needs.
A capacity ranging from 45 to 80 lit.a single door frost free refrigerator is the ideal one I recommend.
But if you are buying it for a family of 4-5 then a refrigerator ranging from 200 to 350 lit. with multi-door option is the best option.
It is also better to go with the model equipped with a larger vegetable bin for that extra storage.
But what happens if you have a large family of 6-7 people?
Then it is best to go with the double door, side-by-side and bottom mounted models which will provide you the space you need for the daily usage.
Models with 300 to 450 lit. storage capacity can be your ideal choice.
Lastly, if you are buying for commercial purposes or large offices then Refrigerators with 700-800 lit storage capacity, Side-by-side models are great options for the opening of single door reduces heat loss significantly.
The one of the most significant part for buying the modern refrigerator as to choose the model with the most energy saving capability which results in the lower electricity consumption.
One option is to buy the refrigerator with the highest ENERGY STAR ratings.
Now What is ENERGY STAR rating?
ENERGY STAR is a special symbol authorized by Bureau of Energy Efficiency(BEE ), a government system ratings which ensure the energy efficiency of the machine.
The Highest is 5 star and the lowest is the 2 star.
So anything above 4 stars can be considered as an energy efficient refrigerator and consumes less amount of electricity.
Though the price tag is a little higher for those 5- star ones it completely worth the money in the long run.
So whenever possible go for a 5tar or at least 4-star rating refrigerator.
One of the modern advancement of the compressor section is the rise of Digital Inverter Compressors. In case of normal compressors, they start and stop multiple times to maintain the desired temperature.
But Digital Inverter Compressors completely works a little different. They start slow and when the desired temperature is achieved they slow down but never stops.
This trigger the less electricity consumption delivering up to 40 percent more energy efficient than conventional compressors.
The use of Digital Inverter Compressors also decrease the greenhouse gases (CO2, CFC) emissions significantly which makes them more environmentally friendly.
Another Factor to consider before buying any refrigerator is the space availability.
If you are limited on space there is no way you can accommodate those larger 2 doors or multidoor refrigerators.
There are many small mini refrigerators available (ranging around 50 lt.) can be your best options.
They are equipped with a thermostat which allows you to set the temperature in the freezer compartment and works really well.
They also have the Low Power Consumption, Stabilizer Free Operation facilities to make the job done!
So always keep in mind the above refrigerator buying tips discussed and I am sure you will never make a bad decision again.
If you have any questions regarding buying your refrigerator, feel free to comment below and I will be happy to answer!
Thanks for sharing this informative post. All the tips you have mentioned in the article are awesome. I really like the one tip most consider your space. I think this is an important factor to consider…………Keep Posting!!!
Thank you Andy.Glad you like the post.Please keep in touch!
As refrigerator is most important equipment in home everyone needs it and without it you cannot lie without it. There are several points which need to be keep in mind before buying it always buy refrigerator as your family needs.
Thank you for the comment.Please be in touch!
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The Bible is notoriously hard on women as it is a book, or rather a collection of books, shaped through and through by the patriarchal culture from which it sprang, a culture which silenced and oppressed women, at least in the public realm. However, if we look more closely, what emerges is a much more subtle picture as we encounter women who changed the course of Israel’s history or whose influence was of paramount importance in the early Christian church. In the next few issues of this monthly bi-blog, I will therefore be looking in more detail at several of these women, some very well- known, some more obscure. So we start today with a woman which I think deserves to be better known: Hannah, the mother of the prophet Samuel.
“There was a certain man of Ramathaim, a Zuphiten from the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Elkanah son of Jeroham son of Elihu son of Tohu son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.2 He had two wives; the name of one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah. Peninnah had children but Hannah had no children”. (1Sam.1:1-2).
This vow, as Trevor Dennis notes, “represents Hannah’s first speech in the narrative and breaks her silence not just for the time of its utterance but for the rest of the story. After this, we will find her more vocal, indeed she will have far more to say than anyone else.” However, Hannah’s prayer receives no immediate answer from God. Clearly, this is NOT another annunciation type-scene that is so common in the Bible. In any case, God does not get the chance to answer as he is interrupted by Eli: Seeing her lips moving, the high priest of Shiloh thinks Hannah is drunk. His judgement appears quite rash and offensive, but we must remember that pilgrimages to holy places in Israel were one of the few occasions people had to drink wine freely and many got very merry and intoxicated. Rather prematurely, Eli thought that it was the case here.
There is in Hannah’s dignified response two very interesting elements: first, in the most polite and subtle way, she rebukes Eli and his sons by saying she is not a “wicked woman” the very words that are used 3 times in Hebrew to describe Eli’s sons: The use of words and repetitions in the Bible are never haphazard coincidences as they are always used with a specific purpose. Secondly, in a great ironic twist, Eli, who does not know what Hannah’s vow is, asks God to grant her petition, therefore unwittingly spelling his own demise as it will be Hannah’s son, Samuel, who will bring about God’s judgment against Eli and his family. As Trevor Dennis remarks, “the narrator’s skill resides in showing Eli as a bit of a fool: he has mistaken Hannah’s distress for drunkenness, he has not spotted her veiled rebuke and has greatly contributed to the fulfilment of a vow which will bring about his own downfall.” The high priest of Shiloh has been duped by a mere woman!
Hannah’s story is a great example of a “simple woman” finding her voice, being empowered and no longer accepting to be bullied, demeaned or crushed by cultural expectations or by conforming rivals. She could be a great inspiration for many women around the world!
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Your Local Sanitair™ owner operator for Air Conditioning Cleaning in the Townsville region. Freecall: 1800 130 168 for your air conditioning cleaning in Townsville and surrounds. Sanitair Townsville can also be contacted on 1800 130 168 or email townsville@sanitair.com.au. Sanitair™ Townsville will eliminate all contamination from your air conditIoning system and offer a nationwide 12 Month Mould Free Guarantee.
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Townsville is a coastal city in North Eastern Queensland and is a vibrant mix of rainforests, reefs, sandy beaches, outback towns, and islands packed with interesting flora and wildlife. Residents and visitors enjoy on average 320 days of sunshine a year making outdoor activities a huge attraction.
Whether you are dining alfresco by the ocean, uncovering the stories of the military past, exploring dramatic landscapes or immersing yourself in the remarkable diving experience on the Great Barrier Reef, Townsville offers activities to suite everyone’s holiday agenda to create memories to last a lifetime. Recommended things to do include visiting the Town Common Conservation Park, Townsville Military History Tours, Yongala Wreck Drive, Outer Great Barrier Reef Trip and a Magnetic Island Day Trip or even enjoy an overnight stay.
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This is a one-stop real estate website for all your home buying and selling needs in Youngstown, OH. Contact us if you'd like more information on finding your dream home or preparing to sell your home.
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Accommodation in Sabie Mpumalanga. Offering Eco friendly accommodation and breathtaking views of mountain ranges and wild life. To explore Wolwe Krans Eco Lodge, browse by clicking any link below.
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Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal laid foundation stone of Mini Secretariat at Badsar that will be constructed at a cost of Rs. 7.90 crore and Science Block of Government Degree College, Badsar estimated to cost Rs. 1.75 crore. He dedicated the newly constructed Degree College building constructed at a cost of Rs. 4.75 crore to the students of the college.
Chief Minister was accompanied by Education Minister I.D. Dhiman, local MLA Baldev Sharma, Urmil Thakur, MLA, N.L. Sharma, Engineer in Chief, PWD, Rajender Singh, Deputy Commissioner, Kuldeep Sharma, S.P, Vijay Uppal, Chief Architect and prominent persons of the area.
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24 Inch Gray Bathroom Vanity Invigorate Awesome Mirror Pertaining To 19 | Puacomic.com light gray bathroom vanity 24 inch. 24 inch highland bathroom gray vanity. 24 inch grey bathroom vanity with sink.
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Management is responsible for preventing fraud. Preventing consists of activities discouraging people from carrying out fraud and limiting losses in case it happens. The main mechanism for preventing fraud is control. Management is responsible for developing and implementing the internal control system. Internal auditors are responsible for analysing and assessing the adequacy and effectiveness of management activities in this respect.
Our course supplies the auditors with knowledge and tools to investigate if an organisation effectively manages the risk of fraud.
What is the role of internal audit in relation to fraud.
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In 2005, the General Assembly repealed the Personal Property Tax Relief Act as adopted first in 1998. For the tax year of 2006, the Commonwealth disbursed each tax locality a portion of the allotted $950 million tax relief to be applied to individuals on the 1st $20,000 of value for qualifying vehicles.
Personal cars, motorcycles and pick-up or panel trucks under 7,501 gross pounds qualify for tax relief. Business and farm use vehicles along with motor homes do not qualify for tax relief. Effective 2017 a truck with a gross weight between 7,501 and 10,000 pounds and classified as a pickup, displaying standard passenger license plates and no longer qualifying for truck license plates may receive tax relief. The amount of tax relief is set by the local governing body each year to distribute the state allotted relief among qualifying vehicles.
Since Pittsylvania County uses a percentage of value, the assessed value shown on your tax bill is not the value the relief is based upon. For qualifying vehicles valued at $1,000 or less (100% value) your obligation to pay this tax has been eliminated.
Using the assessment ratio of 30% of average trade-in to qualify for 100% reimbursement from the state your assessed value as shown on your tax bill would be $300. Tax relief is limited to the 1st $6,000 of the assessed value as shown on your tax bill of any qualifying vehicle.
Business use vehicles do not qualify for tax relief under the current law. If you have a question regarding the eligibility of a vehicle you may contact the Commissioner of the Revenue Office or read Title 58.1- 3523 as adopted by the General Assembly.
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A must addition to your miniature garden decor! This detailed hacienda style abode will add a distinctive flair to your collection. Painted polyresin with cobblestone and terracotta roof detailing.
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We all understand the importance of a healthy diet and informed nutrition. The wrong choices can lead to a wealth of health problems, including heart attacks, strokes, diabetes, high blood pressure, stress, and some cancers, as well as making it increasingly difficult to control your weight. However, did you know that your diet could have just as many implications for your health? Sometimes it’s not enough to cut foods out, or to alter your lifestyle; you should first understand how your body harmonizes with the food you’re providing, and the kinds of changes that are likely to occur once you embark upon such a diet.
It doesn’t matter which diet you’re exploring, the likelihood is that you’ll be starving your body of something; whether you’re forgoing a particular food group, certain meals, or hundreds of calories, diets exist to restrict the body’s nutritional intake in some form or another. This deprivation will cause your body to hold onto every nutrient it can, and increase the levels of fat stored around your cells and organs. Followers of so-called ‘yo-yo’ diets risk placing their body under immense pressure, and will usually find themselves hungrier more quickly following a meal.
Yo-yo dieting, or the act of losing and gaining weight in quick succession, can severely impact a person’s health and wellbeing; your body is unaccustomed to altering so rapidly, and will react to the stress it’s being placed under with detrimental consequences. Extreme dieting can affect cholesterol, blood pressure, and the heart, causing inflammation around the muscles and organs. In addition, your brain is likely to be running under capacity, making it difficult to function at work or play.
The right food choices are likely to improve your general health and wellbeing, enabling you to enjoy mealtimes and maintain a steady weight. The wrong choices, however, can destroy that relationship with food, leading to depression and anxiety around mealtimes. We eat food to enjoy its flavors and textures, and so our bodies can make the most of its vital nutrients.
Extreme dieting can cause your metabolism to slow, your blood sugar to spike and fall, and your muscles to break down. You might begin to feel hungry and dehydrated, unsatisfied after every meal. So, what can you do to offset the damaging effects of dieting? Firstly, learn to recognize the symptoms of poor diet choices, which can include increased appetite, an inability to feel full, lethargy, a lack of concentration, and digestive woes. Often, the best way to approach the issue of dieting is to listen to your body, and to adopt a lifestyle that works for you. Discuss your options with a nutritionist or medical professional, and find a diet that won’t indulge, or restrict, your body outside of its comfort zone. A healthy attitude to nutrition can go a long way towards supporting a nutritious diet.
It’s vital that you seek a professional opinion prior to undertaking any radical dietary changes, particularly if you’re at risk of aggravating an existing medical complaint. Certain issues, including celiac disease, diabetes, thyroid problems, intolerances, and metabolism disorders are dependent upon a healthy diet and nutrition, and so minute changes to your lifestyle could have far-reaching consequences for your wellbeing. Some kinds of disorders can also affect your success with a particular diet. Those affected by hypothyroidism will usually find it very difficult to lose weight, while those with hyperthyroidism, or an overactive thyroid, might find it increasingly difficult to gain weight, and maintain a healthy lifestyle. A healthy diet and informed nutritional choices are essential to the management of these kinds of disorders. Early diagnosis is vital. A simple, preventative thyroid test can determine whether you are living with an underlying condition that might be affecting your ability to maintain a healthy weight; valuable nutritional advice can then be applied to your lifestyle.
Before embarking upon any radical diets or lifestyle changes it’s essential to take stock of your health; and how your body is likely to be affected by any dramatic alterations to your diet and fitness. Diets are certainly not a universal solution. Indeed, some diets are more dangerous than others, particularly when you’re already battling medical issues that may or may not relate to your weight. Don’t forget that weight and size aren’t always a good indication of overall health, and always seek medical advice before making any big changes to your diet or lifestyle; no diet is ever worth risking your health for.
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The key to our success is perfect teamwork, because we can only achieve the best for our customers together. From the development to the design and production department, up to our project management and the installation teams, - everyone at Effekt Grafik makes a contribution to the success of the whole team.
The Effekt Grafik team is looking forward to receiving your individual request!
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In a digital world governed by a long list of clever SEO rules, it is mandatory to optimize your web content in order to boost the online visibility and profitability of your business. However, what does this optimization process actually involve? In one word: everything.
From your headlines, to your body copy and meta descriptions, every single element present on your webpage should be perfected, from an SEO standpoint. Keep reading to find out how you can easily write killer meta descriptions for your webpage, designed to improve your conversion rates and bring your business into the spotlight.
It is useful to note that Google does not use Meta descriptions for its ranking algorithm; however, the description is shown as a rich snippit to the users when they search.
Excellent Meta descriptions serve a clear purpose: they give website owners a much-needed competitive advantage in SERPs, maximize click-through rates and turn more visitors into actual buyers. Here are a few great tips showing you how to write compelling, user-oriented Meta descriptions.
1) Keep it short and simple: it is advisable to write short, concise descriptions that do not exceed 155 characters.
2) Highlight your unique value proposition: accentuate the unique features and benefits of your products or services and differentiate them from the ones provided by your competitors.
3) Make your meta description welcoming: is your meta description a courteous doorman or a rude bouncer? Remember that you write for people, not for machines, and make sure your page descriptions are inviting and user-oriented.
5) Name dropping may be helpful: listing the names of some important clients or partners could accentuate your qualifications and boost your credibility; just don’t overdo it.
6) Experiment, monitor, and improve: don’t be afraid to experiment! Roll out the first version of your page description, evaluate its results, and make changes if necessary. The key is to understand exactly which elements work better for your website and for your entire niche.
The problem: description is too short (only 9 characters) and not descriptive at all.
The problem: Meta description contains too many characters (161), plus the plus the description relevancy to webpage content is terrible (estimated at only 3%).
All in all, Google-friendly Meta descriptions are actually very easy to write, as long as you follow a basic set of rules.
Keep it simple and concise (by all means, don’t exceed the 156 character limit; otherwise Google will just truncate it for you). Here’s an extra tip: use http://www.submitshop.com/seo-tools/meta-tag-analyzer to count the characters of your meta description.
Make sure every single page has a unique, short, compelling Meta description. Google is not a big fan of duplicate content, so the highest level of originality is a must-have. If you want to please Google, note that it is better to leave your page description blank than to post duplicate page descriptions.
Mention your company; even if the name of your company is mentioned in the title, don’t hesitate to include it in the meta description. This will help your readers find your webpage faster and easier.
Bottom line: a massive load of jargon and a plenitude of stuffed keywords shouldn’t pass as an ideal Meta description. The best page descriptions focus on the needs, demands, and expectations of the targeted audience and are concise, compelling, and intriguing.
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The Asean Foundation and software company SAP open the applications for the Asean Data Science Explorers (ASEANDSE) 2019 encouraging tertiary students across all 10 member states in the region to harness the power of data to help solve the most pressing developmental issues.
The ASEANDSE is a flagship program borne out of the partnership of the Asean Foundation and SAP, which aims to galvanize youth activism among students in the Asean. It hopes to increase the youth’s information and communication technology competencies and transform them into innovators, who are capable of delivering data-driven recommendations and solutions that help contribute to the achievement of Asean Community’s goals.
The competition will be carried out from February to October 2019, kickstarting with informative enablement sessions organized for students and lecturers in local institutions of higher learning across all 10 Asean member states to improve their data analytics’ skills and knowledge. The enablement sessions will then be followed with a national and regional data analytics competition where successful youth applicants will converge to present data-driven proposals which highlight issues in Asea across six UN Sustainable Development Goals: good health and well-being, quality education, gender equality, decent work and economic growth, industry, innovation and infrastructure, and sustainable cities and communities utilizing SAP’s Analytics Cloud software.
Students are required to form teams of two to register for the competition and submit their proposals. One participating team from each member state will stand a chance to be crowned as the national finalist before advancing to compete in the regional finals. At the highest honor of the regional finals, the 10 national finalists will be given the opportunity to present their winning ideas to a panel of judges which consists of distinguished representatives from the Asean Foundation, SAP, and various government officials and selected NGO organizations. Coinciding with Thailand’s Asean Chairmanship in 2019, this year’s regional finals will be held in Bangkok on Oct. 16. The call for applications for the ASEANDSE 2019 will close on May 10, 2019.
The initiative integrates two key activities, which are a series of enablement sessions and a data analytics competition, to achieve its objective. Since its introduction in 2017, the ASEANDSE has empowered over 5,000 youths from 287 higher education institutions in the region and has been recognized by 10 Asean leaders, Senior Officials Meeting on Youth (SOMY), and Senior Officials Meeting on Education (SOMED) for its contribution to youth development.
For further information about the ASEAN Data Science Explorers, please visit the website or email aseandse@sap.com.
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2018-07-20· Tungsten is mined in China, Russia, Portugal, Austria and Bolivia. China is reported to have about 75% of the world’s tungsten supply. China is reported to have about 75% of the world’s tungsten supply.
In fact, according to the World Health Organization, iron deficiency is the most common nutrient-related condition in the world. In the U.S., the numbers are a little more encouraging, but iron deficiency still affects about 10% of women of childbearing age. Symptomatic iron deficiency is quite rare in men and post-menopausal women.
In many instances they are mined as iron ores but, most importantly, they are the source rocks for most of the large high-grade concentrations of iron ore currently mined throughout the world.
A large majority of mined iron ore is used in steelmaking, used as a raw material to produce pig iron, which is subsequently utilized as a main component in steel. Iron ore minerals are mostly found as hematite and magnetite.
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There seems to be check on viral diseases in city. Hospitals are flooded with over dozen fresh cases of measles and chicken pox every day. Health experts, taking a serious note of prevailing situation have asked people to adopt precautions to save them. They have also issued some guidelines in the same regard. Senior medical officer community health Dr SAM Meesum said: "Measles is a highly contagious viral disease, which affects mostly children."
He said the first sign of measles is usually a high fever, which begins about 10 to 12 days after exposure to the virus, and lasts four to seven days. "A running nose, cough, red and watery eyes, and small white spots inside the cheeks can develop in the initial stage. After several days, a rash erupts, usually on the face and upper neck. After three days, the rash spreads, eventually reaching the hands and feet, he added."
There is no specific treatment for measles and most people recover within 2–3 weeks. However, particularly in malnourished children and people with reduced immunity, measles may even cause serious complications, including blindness, encephalitis, severe diarrhoea, ear infection and pneumonia. Measles can be prevented by immunisation, he said. Chicken pox is a common illness among kids.
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Staff team up to bring bright ideas to life!
During March, we asked for your bright ideas in our second, cluster-wide Future Transport Staff Challenge.
It was all about improving the way we do things around here by identifying the hurdles, hoops and hold-ups slowing down our progress or ability to deliver excellent customer service.
And you delivered in spades!
A total of 274 ideas were submitted across five categories – a fantastic result so thank you to everyone who participated! You left no stone unturned, submitting a whole range of ideas about digitising paper-based systems, streamlining processes, collaborating better and making life that little bit easier for our customers.
Staff from across the cluster are now teaming up to turn these ideas into reality as part of the Innovation Incubator Program, which kicked off on Monday 1 May!
Over the next two months, the top 12 ideas chosen by the Innovation Leader’s Panel, will go through the exciting and challenging design thinking program. Each idea will be ‘incubated’ by a team of staff members who submitted similar ideas in the challenge.
Teams will be put through their paces, workshopping their ideas with subject matter experts and leaders in order to develop a solution or prototype! And then the really exciting bit… teams will get the chance to bid for sponsorship and funding from the Transport Executive to go forward and implement their idea!
Which ideas have been chosen?
1. E-list - How can we improve the use of talent pool candidates across the cluster?
Project team members; Talita Brooks (STA), Rana Roy (TfNSW), Gabi Neagu (Sydney Trains), Harpreet Singh (TfNSW).
2. Hire Plant – How can we improve the RMS Plant Hire process?
Christopher Oswald (TfNSW), Christine D’Rozario (TfNSW), Laurena Basutu (TfNSW).
3. Defect Management – How can we improve our ability to report and track maintenance issues?
Project team members; Jonathon Chalker (Sydney Trains), Nicola Chung (TfNSW), MJ Elali (Sydney Trains).
4. Visual Management Cell (VMC) – How can we make various VMC boards visible at all times in a digital environment?
Project team members; Deren Devrimol (Sydney Trains), Louise Webeck (TfNSW), Chrystal D’Silva (TfNSW).
This is just the first of three rounds of the Innovation Incubator Program occurring over May and June, so stay tuned for more ideas to be announced soon!
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After five years of practicing as a CPA, I realized that I wanted to be more proactive in helping my clients prepare for their futures. I met a Northwestern Mutual Representative through my father-in-law. This representative discussed the planning analysis process with me, and strongly emphasised the quality of Northwestern Mutual. Little did I know that this was the start of a career as a Financial Representative with Northwestern Mutual. I haven't regretted my decision to join Northwestern Mutual.
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We would like to present to you Thom Browne’s Spring/Summer 2019 Men’s Paris collection backstage.
View the runway collection here.
We would like to present to you Thom Browne’s Spring/Summer 2019 Men’s Paris collection backstage.Photography by Julien Boudet.
We would like to present to you Thom Browne’s Spring/Summer 2019 Men’s Paris collection backstage. Photography by Julien Boudet.
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Historical reminder of the Orchestre National de France on its 40th anniversary, and excerpt of a concert conducted by Sergiu Celibidache with Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli on piano, given on this occasion. Sergiu Celibidache speaks some words on the life of French music and the high level of musicianship of French musicians.
Born in 1912, Sergiu Celibidache studied music and philosophy in Bucharest and in Berlin. At the end of the war he was a director of the Berlin Philharmonic. Then, he directed numerous orchestras around the world (South America, Scandinavia, France, Italy), and after that devoted himself to the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra from 1979. He directed the great German repertoire, Brahms, Beethoven, Schubert, but also Russian music, Debussy, Ravel and particularly Bruckner, which has given some famous recordings. On that topic, it must be noted that, contrary to Karajan, he practically never wanted to record, neither in studio nor in public. He thought that recording didn't capture the essence of music, the union of a place, moment, audience and access to transcendence. In this we see one of his terribly demanding aspects. Many recordings do exist, often cult-objects for music-lovers, but they were recorded without the conductor knowing, or at least at his indifference. Another fascinating aspect of Celibidache's personality are his lyrics: his very personal and mystic conception of music, his oral training, his taste for philosophy and especially Zen Buddhism have all contributed to build the legend of this mythical conductor who passed away in 1996.
To commemorate this anniversary, the National Orchestra will give two great performances, tonight and tomorrow, and they have called on great pianist Benedetti Michelangeli who will play under the guidance of Sergiu Celibidache.
Amongst them, the ten musicians that have been with the National Orchestra since its debut 40 years ago now remember. Its creation was decided by Jean Mistler, who was minister of the Postal Telegraph and Telephone agency at the time, and who was in charge of supervising radio. He wanted a great National Orchestra, then a European one and so he put Désiré Inghelbrecht, whose Flemish name means fallen angel, in charge of creating the orchestra.
90 musicians followed his conductor's baton back then. Today they are over 200. And the greatest conductors have lead it, from Toscanini to Münch.
Celibidache discusses the music situation in France.
You don't have a musical movement that represents France, which would be the gift of the people. We're below that. Musical life in France is rather mediocre in my opinion. Although the musicians aren't lacking anything. They are the best musicians I've ever found. It means there's good musicians everywhere, of course, but I've never worked as fast with results as great, as positive, as palpable as in France.
Sergiu Celibidache, whose father wanted him to become president of the republic and who got angry at him and chased him out of the house when he realized that his son was only interested in music, rehearses a lot for his concerts and refuses to record albums.
In 40 years, the National Orchestra has become one of the biggest orchestras in the world.
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Here is a sweet peek at our latest Grit+Gold project. A Cinco De Mayo stylin’ inspiration! Stay tuned for more photos!
Last year we purchased Loretta. She was a 1957 Chevy Bel Air from Ennis and belonged to a policeman. She was in dire need of a restoration. We stripped her down to bare metal, replacing flooring, complete interior, new paint, bumpers, chrome, tires, making her sparkle like new from inside, out. She is a our labor of love and now to she her carrying couples around DFW is BEAUTIFUL.
Interested in booking Dolly or Loretta, contact us or go directly to the main site at Bowtie Vintage Classics.
Check out this peek from our fellow G+G partner, Nine Photography. Congrats to Alex & Chance who wed recently at 809 at Vickery in Fort Worth!
WE ARE IN AWE of the beauty and spirit of this couple! Please welcome Erin + Shea who’s upcoming wedding will be held at the Omni Mandalay Hotel in October. A 20’s inspired glam soiree!! Now feast on these by the very talented Lauren Peele Photography!
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Although social media is still considered to be trendy and perhaps reserved only for those proficient in the digital world, it is important to know that new generations couldn’t imagine their lives without it – and why should they? Social media apps are useful, interesting, and a portal opening up to the whole world on your device. As a personal user or a brand, you shouldn’t be afraid to take part in it. Now, to stay relevant, it does take a bit more than just playing along so here is an overview of the social media trends for 2019.
While Instagram is leading the way of trends, it is important not to leave behind Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, Snapchat or any other platform that’s relevant to your business. These apps tend to follow in the steps of the app with the best performing features, while always thinking of ways to outgrow each other with new, even more creative ideas. Each of these platforms offers something unique that makes them great for what they are. If you’re finding social media tedious, time consuming or resource exhausting, consider hiring a social media marketing expert to develop a social media strategy for your brand.
1. Video Victory – Modern day show and tell.
Research shows that our attention span is decreasing, lasting for around eight seconds as opposed to what was approximately 12 seconds at the start of the century. As vertical video is showing to be one of the most effective ways to grab our attention, brands and personal accounts should focus on creating appealing visual content. Consider showing your audience what its like to be behind the scenes of your brand and make sure your message and aims are clear. If you can include video which is in the territory of personal storytelling – you’ve got yourself a winner!
2. Influencer Marketing – Who is THAT!
Who would’ve thought that we’d live in a world where anyone can become successful and famous on social media, only if they know a few key methods of promoting themselves? Influencer Marketing is becoming more and more popular and necessary for brands to participate in. People are trusting human interactions and recommendations far more than traditional methods of promotion. Picking the right Influencer to be the ambassador of your brand is one of the best things you can do for the growth of your business, if done strategically and with utmost transparency.
3. Disappearing Content – Blink and it’s gone.
Snapchat was one of the first platforms to offer disappearing content, with posted pictures and videos only being available to view for 24 hours. In late 2016, Instagram began rocking it with a similarly styled feature called Stories. This little trick triggers the sense of exclusivity in social media users, making users feel special to be able to witness certain content. Being in the club of followers is almost like being present in a brand’s exciting, informative or even funny moments, which is what we all strive for. Brands and personal users can use this meaningfully, in order to promote certain events such as product launches, teasers and day to day anecdotes.
4. Transparency – Be true to your word.
There is no doubt about the fact that people use social media not only to explore the world, but also to voice their own opinions. Saying what you think or sharing your experience has never been so easy or reached as far, which is both the beauty and the flaw of the Internet. As a brand, be careful to stay transparent, relevant and mostly truthful. There’s nothing worse for a brand’s reputation than to have to admit your failings, especially after they’ve already affected the experience of your customers. Dealing with potential issues head on and being the first to acknowledge any problems is key to a healthy relationship with your followers. Trust your public and you will be trusted.
5. Chatbots – AI has come a long way since MSN’s SmarterChild!
Humans are social beings, even if some of us don’t want to admit that. When we’re in need of information, we understand that talking to a representative of a brand is one of the best ways to answer our questions. This is why Chatbots are becoming a very important asset to a brand’s social media platforms and website. Customers will be able to ask them for information about your business and a Chatbot will, in turn, give the user all the right information they may need, such as operating hours, pricing queries, stock availability and other FAQs.
Hopefully, this list will give you the confidence to face the daunting world of social media and improve your business’s competitiveness in the industry.
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There’s the Vancouver of charming neighbourhoods, vast verdant parks, lovely beaches and snow-capped mountains as a backdrop to it all.
But the Vancouver of the newly published Vancouver Noir collection of 14 original short stories is the unsettling underside of all that – and the project masterminds couldn’t be happier.
This is the latest in the series of about 100 Noir collections set in cities around the world, published by Akashic Books of Brooklyn, N.Y. Previous Canadian-themed titles were Toronto Noir and Montreal Noir.
While popular Vancouver-area touchstones, central to the city’s pitch for tourists, exist among the collection’s stories, Noir’s focus is such noir-genre touchstones as murder, violence, conspiracy, abduction and unhappy endings.
Vancouver collection editor Sam Wiebe, widely praised for his crime novels Last of the Independents, Invisible Dead and Cut You Down, says noir always involves characters spiralling downward no matter how well things are going as the story begins.
In his introduction, Wiebe writes that the book is a “tour through the dark nooks of the city from an expert group of guides,” including authors Linda L. Richards, Timothy Taylor, Sheena Kamal, Dietrich Kalteis and S.G. Wong, who spin tales set in such Vancouver-area neighbourhoods as Mount Pleasant, Commercial Drive, Kitsilano, English Bay and the Financial District.
For example, Richards’s Terminal City, focused on English Bay, is about a female hired killer whose assignment in Vancouver takes an unusual twist. Kamal, whose story is set in the Financial District, writes in Eight Game-Changing Tips on Public Speaking about a ferociously exasperated corporate assistant. Robin Spano’s The Perfect Playgroup, which takes a spin out to West Vancouver, is about what the title suggests and is utterly terrifying. Wiebe also contributed a story, titled Wonderful Life, focused on Commercial Drive.
Akashic Books began its noir series in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Since then, there has been an A-to-Z collection of titles including Atlanta Noir, Baghdad Noir, Copenhagen Noir, Lagos Noir, Moscow Noir and Zagreb Noir.
Vancouver’s turn came after Wiebe made a successful pitch to Akashic Books. He began work on it in 2017, recruiting the writers as part of an effort completed by the middle of the year. Writers were paid a straight fee and received a copy of the finished book. The challenge was tricky. “You’re finding the most economic way to say something and hit a certain point. You can’t waste a lot of words," Wiebe said.
Johnny Temple, president and editor at Akashic Books, said he was long interested in a collection about Vancouver, a city he visited in the 1990s as a rock 'n' roll musician. “But we had to wait for the right proposal,” he said.
“Sam gave us a proposal for a book that we really liked a lot," said Temple, who added that the company looks for a good collection of stories told by a diverse mix of authors.
Richards, who has written 15 books, said her story, about a female assassin visiting Vancouver for a job, arose out of continuing work she’s done about such a character, which is not set in Vancouver.
"Every few days, I’d pull my head out of the novel and think about Sam’s request: ‘Okay. Vancouver. Short story. What have I got? What am I thinking?’ On one of these trips to the surface, I realized that the part of the novel I was working on at that moment was actually set in Vancouver. Not only that, it was a set-piece; a story on its own. I realized that if I trimmed it some, pulled out the connective tissue to the rest of the book, the story could stand alone,” Richards wrote in an e-mail exchange.
Spano, author of The Perfect Playgroup, says it was “an easy yes” to commit to the project because of her friendship with Wiebe and her respect for his writing. But she said she almost pulled out over the challenge of writing effective noir.
“I didn’t think I could do the genre justice. My published work to date had been light, breezy mystery novels,” Spano wrote in an e-mail.
The author of three novels featuring series character Clare Vengel is a resident of Lions Bay, B.C., and she visits West Vancouver often for shopping and recreation.
As a result, she leaned into her West Vancouver experience and added such noir elements as an outsider protagonist who crosses a moral line and is neither a hero nor villain but very much the guilty party, as well as having an inescapable fate.
Akashic Books began its world noir tour in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir – a project that was supposed to be a one-off. But in a twist akin to the plot turns of good noir, critical and commercial success made the company rethink its plans.
“Once the book did better than expected, it was really easy to say, ‘Why don’t we take this neighbourhood-by-neighbourhood concept and stick it in other cities?'" Akashic Books president and editor Johnny Temple said.
Temple says it’s clear people relish local crime fiction. “It’s an interesting irony that people enjoy reading about bad things happening in their cities,” he said.
A promotional page in Vancouver Noir promises 14 new titles, including Addis Ababa Noir, Berlin Noir, Hong Kong Noir and Santa Fe Noir. To Temple, the two big holes are Tokyo Noir and Shanghai Noir.
While there are no future Canadian titles scheduled, Temple said he’s open to pitches. “When we get our Winnipeg Noir proposal, we will be taking it very seriously."
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<i>Photo by Jeff Pope</i> <b>The Winslow Levee Committee met at Winslow High School on Aug. 3 to hear public comments on decertification of the levee. The committee includes Winslow resident Jim O1Haco (left), Supervisors J.R. DeSpain and Jesse Thompson and Navajo County Public Works Director Dusty Parsons. Mayor Jim Boles (right) also attended but is not a committee member.
Originally Published: August 10, 2005 5 a.m.
County officials said they were expecting to have to answer many questions at Wednesday's public hearing regarding decertification of the Winslow Levee. However, of the approximately 30 people who attended the meeting, just two spoke and the hearing was over in about an hour.
The public comments will be sent along with information gathered by Navajo County offices and contractors to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The federal agency will officially decertify the Winslow Levee, an action that forces floodplain maps to be withdrawn for county residents living north of I-40 and east of North Park.
Since the levee failed twice this past winter, the county commissioned several studies into the causes as well as remedies. On Wednesday, Navajo County Public Works Director Dusty Parsons presented several recommendations to the public based on those studies.
"We can probably not get (all improvements) accomplished in five years. Rather than five years without any kind of protection, we're giving you this information to allow you to make decisions that you need to make," he said. "The Navajo County Public Works Department is going to make this our top priority."
Delph Engineering conducted a sediment survey and delineation study. Kent Delph said the redrawn flood maps would not affect anyone residing within city limits.
"We're proposing no changes to the city maps," he said.
The problem facing the county is that there is more than one solution needed to repair the levee so FEMA can recertify it. The build up of sediment along the levee, a process known as aggradation, has lowered the acceptable height. Parsons said sections vary in the height that they need to be raised, from 1-4 feet, along the 7.2 mile levee.
Knowing that the repairs will be costly and need to be made quickly, the county has asked the Army Corps of Engineers (ACOE) to perform a cost benefit study. If the Corps performs the study, then it would pay the bulk (possibly 75-percent) of repairs. If the Corps denies the request, the Navajo County Flood Control District would begin design options.
"If they (ACOE) do agree, then they would come in and build, which would solve a lot of those problems and it would be a structure that we would feel a lot safer with," Parsons said.
Regardless if the Corps takes over, the Flood Control District would begin removing tamarisk plants, an invasive species that blocks access to water resulting in more frequent flooding, by spraying herbicide by way of helicopter.
Besides lowering floodwater levels, removing tamarisk would be less costly than construction options, at first. However, Parsons said removal is temporary. The tamarisk root structure can be as deep as 20 feet. They reproduce quickly, partly by producing millions of seeds each year. Management of tamarisk is a long-term commitment.
Parsons presented two plans for the eradication of tamarisk, which include raising the levee depending on the extent of the area of eradication. Either plan costs about $2.2 million.
Thomas Chacon, one of the two residents who spoke, said that in his experience as a U.S. Forest Ranger, fire was more cost effective and "less drastic" than spraying a large area with chemicals.
Parsons replied that fire would be looked at as an option when the time comes. He added that removing the tamarisk would not be enough to recertify the levee.
Three areas require at least 3-4 feet of freeboard ‹ protection above the floodwater line ‹ for recertification. Nearly the entire levee needs to be raised at least one foot.
"We know that the probably the most feasible option is to raise the levee to get back to a certified levee. This may take us awhile," Parsons said.
Other options the county considered according to Parsons, were building a channel, purchasing all flood-prone property in Ames and Bushman acres and realigning 1,600-feet of the levee. Parsons said, the channel and property purchasing plans would probably be cost prohibitive.
Besides the ACOE, the county has asked U.S. Rep. Rick Renzi to help secure federal funds and Parsons said they are looking for other financial options so construction could begin as soon as possible.
The other resident to speak at the meeting was Dave Hartman, a property owner in Bushman Acres. He asked what was the cause for the change in certification.
"The (Winslow) City Council and Board of Supervisors don't want to change the certification from one year to the next, but because of the studies we have done in order to improve the levee, this information has brought out this new mapping," County Supervisor J.R. DeSpain (Dist. III) replied.
Delph said Winslow is most at risk of flooding when heavy rains strike the White Mountains causing the Little Colorado River tributaries (Jack's Canyon, Chevelon Creek, and Clear Creek) to fill.
A seven-member Winslow Levee Committee formed in July to address further issues with the levee.
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Campbeltown Loch POL Depot is a petroluem, oils and lubricants (POL) depot which is now referred to as a Scottish NATO POL Depot (SNPD).
The picture shows the depot with HMS Cattistock alongside. Launched in 1981, she is one of Britain's thirteen (2006) Hunter Class minesweepers, the largest class of vessel constructed from glass reinforced plastic, to minimise their signal in the presence of magnetic mines.
The site was also designated as a Z-Berth, but this classification no longer applies.
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As you enter the 25 acre coconut property, do not be surprised to witness baby elephants being bottle fed or moving around freely causing absolutely no harm to anyone. It is rightly a sincere sight to observe how these gentle giants – orphaned and sometimes three-legged – are taken care of since 1975 at Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage. Up to date, over 20 calves have been born here, and it is surprising to hear that some of its inmates have even seen their grand children during the past few decades!
Watch as they feed at 09:15 am, 12:15 pm & 05:00 pm and take a river bath twice a day at 10:00 am & 02:00 pm respectively for an experience that could never be felt anywhere else on earth!
The 5th century rock citadel of King Kasyapa and World Heritage Site – Sigiriya – doesn’t only boasts of ancient Sri Lankan engineering & urban planning supremacy but also acclaims to be one of the finest monuments of art & culture. Step through the gigantic ‘Lion Paws’ – overlooking the symmetrical royal gardens below – to comprehend the absolute splendor that once dominated this rock fortress. Surrounded by ramparts & moats the Lion Rock – resembling the mythological ‘City of Gods’ – is coated by frescoes that relate to Gupta style paintings found in Ajanta caves of India. Walk in the shade of an eminent ‘mirror wall’ embracing the Western face of Sigiriya representing an artistic hundred meters laminated with graffiti. Wander into the well-fabricated museum downstairs for an epic journey of yesteryears to realize how the citadel floated above citizens with the castle, ponds and irrigation systems that pumped water right onto its summit with an ingenious hydraulic system describing a colossal masterpiece of the great king which remained a wonder in Asia for centuries.
Visit Dambulla rock temple. A hub which has been treasured by many kings since the 1st century B.C. Today, an icon in the face of Sri Lanka Dambulla Rock Temple houses some of the most unique drawings in magnificently constructed 5 cave temples flanking the golden temple of Dambulla. Observe how exquisitely cave paintings are done along walls that shelter 150 statues of Lord Buddha. As you enter the retreat look straight up to the gigantic Buddha statue glittering in gold over a land which today houses an important junction in the country’s economic and cultural uplifting.
Misty steep roads, twisting through lush green blankets of tea bushes in a cool climate, remind visitors that they are within the range of the renowned British colonial retreat, Nuwara Eliya. Augmented by an English countryside atmosphere, the city of light – once governed by English & Scottish planters – is still studded with colonial bungalows, hedgerows & one of the finest 18-hole golf courses in the world. A hike through the green grass and red-brick walls should present breathtaking views of a buzzing countryside hamlet. Hop into a rattling train smoking and hissing its way through green valleys of the hill country pierced by endless waterfalls & dotted by tea pluckers draped in bright-colored saris. Or rent a bike for a gentle ride along the banks splashed by the waters of Lake Gregory.
Galle, the epic Southern capital, is the intersection where classic Dutch architecture meets a tropical setting creating a vivid atmosphere in beauty. Walk the Dutch-haunted streets listening to the creaks of wooden saloon doors and observe how European architecture mingles with South Asian traditions today flooding cultural enthusiasts on a global scale. Its original ramparts and bastions preserved up to date showcase evidences of a heritage preserved for more than 3 1/2 centuries. Walk clockwise within the fort to observe the ‘old gate’ carrying the British coat of arms. Flanking the old gate is the Zwart bastion – the oldest of all – and the lighthouse standing 18 feet in its glory next to the Point Utretcht Bastion. This Dutch bliss is painted with streets that spread in a rectangular grid pattern pierced with houses carrying Dutch colonial style verandas. However, its hallmark stands a reality where the Dutch fort remains a working community with its usual buzz of administrative offices, court complex, commercial buildings, churches and Southern folks frequenting its streets bracing the air of the Elysium of architecture Galle!
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requirements and so on. Especially in chemical safety, the requirements is updated unprecedented.
◎ Chemicals that are susceptible to provoke cancer, change genetic information or harm reproduction,so-called CMR (Carcinogenic, Mutagenic or toxic for Reproduction) substances, are no longer allowed in accessible parts of toys.
Recognizing that this is a more complicated chemical area and the development of chemical testing technique. the parts of the Directive relating to chemical content will come into force on 20 July 2013. During this transitional period, part III of annex II of Directive 88/378/EEC will continue to be effective.
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Besieged was an exhibition by the artist Graham Woodall held at St James Cavalier Centre for Creativity between the 30th March 2007 and the 14th May 2007.
The exhibition contained a range of mixed media artworks.
Times of Malta, "A Looming Presence", 11th April 2007.
This page was last edited on 29 January 2018, at 05:14.
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When you think of ways to protect your server room and data, you probably immediately jump to cybersecurity efforts. While those are vital, physical security efforts can sometimes be overlooked when it comes to a secure server room.
We have created a checklist to ensure your server room is physically secure, which includes 8 in-depth checkpoints to implement in your server room as well as a guide of Sonitrol’s products and how they can keep the room, your employees, and property safe. Below are the possible risks you could face without implementing physical security measures.
Physical dangers are in your building right now. These threats include temperature, humidity levels, water leaks, and intrusion. All of these threats can damage equipment, slow performance, and even harm your employees in the case of extreme events like break-ins and serious fires.
It’s important to identify, monitor, and prevent all threats to your server room. You can do this by running a risk assessment, which is the first step in a Contingency Plan. These are some of the physical aspects that you can control to keep your server room safe and possible implications of what could happen when they’re overlooked.
Temperature. A server room needs to be in a temperature controlled environment at all times so the computers don’t overheat. It’s suggested that server rooms be kept between 68 to 72 degrees for optimal reliability. Aside from the heat produced by the computers, outside factors could contribute to the temperature. It’s best to have a server room where there are no windows as sunlight will affect the room temperature throughout the day. Humidity levels are also important to monitor and should be kept in the 45%-55% range as too little or too much humidity can cause damage.
Fires. Without proper temperature and humidity monitoring, server rooms can easily become a serious fire hazard. Fires can start from overheating, electrical failure of IT equipment, and issues with wires in the subfloor.
Break-ins. If your server room is not properly protected against break-ins, you could put your people and property in serious danger. Not everyone needs access to the server room and if left unlocked or someone gains access who shouldn’t, your data could be stolen, equipment damaged beyond repair, and people could be harmed.
These threats may seem overwhelming and unpredictable, but there are measures you can take to prevent and protect your server room.
To maintain temperature and protect against fires, you should invest in a fire alarm system that provides for smoke and heat detection and temperature monitoring for temperature-sensitive areas like server rooms. It is vital to catch a fire in the early stages and our verified system ensures that no false alarms occur.
To protect against break-ins, there are several measures you can take. First and foremost, Access Control reduces possible harmful activity, allows for traffic control, monitors activity, and maintains strict access to certain areas. It is also monitored 24 hours a day by our trained security professionals.
In conjunction with our Security Camera System and Audio Detection solutions, threats can be recorded audibly and visually to authenticate all types of threats.
Download our Secure Server Room and Secure Server Room Access Control checklist for more information and contact us to see how we can help protect your business from the inside out.
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So, it’s been nearly 5 years since I’ve posted here. And even that 2012 post was an outlier. You’ve got to go back about 9 years to find more than 3 posts in a calendar year. But you know what? I hate navel-gazing, why I do-or-don’t blog posts. Things got busy, life moved on, and I had neither the time nor the inclination to write a blog. But i kept it around, checked the oil level and tire pressure from time to time, and figured it’d always be here if I wanted it. And look, here it is. Cool.
Over the past year or so, I’ve found a little more free time, and I’ve had some other interests kindled/rekindled. I’ve been slowly pursuing an interest in electronics, one that started when I was a kid. I purchased a 3D printer and started learning a bit about 3D modeling. I’ve gotten very interested in metalworking, though I’ve had not time or space to pursue that just yet. And I’ve tried to take on some projects just for the sake of having something fun to pursue, while maybe learning something in the bargain. As a result, I’ve been thinking a lot about writing about these projects. And so here we are.
For a while, I was convinced that I wanted a new blog for my electronics/3d-printing/maker-tinker-whatever projects, especially given how old and dated the rest of the content is around here. Maybe a new path under the main jclark.org domain. But I soon realized that I was making excuses not to write, instead of writing. So tonight, while waiting on several iterations of a little 3D-printed tool that I designed to print (more later), I figured out how to log in here again, made sure all the latest software updates are installed, and even moved the whole site to SSL (Free cert from Let’s Encrypt, and dead simple setup via Dreamhost). The design may be a bit dated – this just isn’t how websites look in 2017 – but I built this theme, and I like it, so it stays. At least for now. And I may yet add jclark.org/make or suchlike as an alternate in to some of this content, but maybe I won’t. The point for now is that I’m writing again. So that’s it for the housekeeping, next post is content. I’ve got a few things in progress, and a list of more projects to work on in the future.
P.S. If you are a long-ago reader who just never unsubscribed in your RSS reader (I said “Long ago”!), and you were surprised to hear a voice from the past, thanks for keeping me around/forgetting to unsubscribe. Hope you’ll find whatever I put here worth staying subscribed for a while longer. I still consume a lot of my daily info via RSS (via Feedbin on the big screen and Reeder on iOS) and it’s always a nice surprise to see a long-silent feed come to life. Hope you agree.
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The Great Highway Gallery is pleased to present The Morning After, a group exhibition curated by Leo Bersamina. Paintings, photography and ceramics from John Bucklin, Rebecca Latourette Connolly, Amy WIlson Faville, Jane Fisher, Terry Hoff, Karl McDade, Jessica Snow, Travis Somerville, Judy Starbuck Sorro, Marie Van Elder and Nicole White.
A fourth generation San Franciscan, John Bucklin has been drawing and painting since he was three. Trained in the classical tradition at the Florence Academy of Art, he continued his studies in New York City, graduating with a BFA from the School of Visual Arts. His work has been shown in Miami, Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco.
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Jesus is not only the one who was raised from the dead so we could all have new life through faith in him. He is the Resurrection. He is the Life.
By believing in him, we will have life. We are raised. This could only mean life beyond this life. He is talking about eternal life with God.
He says some will die, and yet will live. He says some will never die. There is coming a time when Jesus will return for the Body of Christ, which is his Church, all the people who have already believed and received him as Lord.
Some of these people will have died, or as the Bible puts it, will be ‘sleeping’ in Christ. These will be raised first. When he comes for the Church, there will be believers still living on earth. These will never die. They will be changed.
Whether we are sleeping or awake, the good news is that, when he comes for his Church, all who believe will put off this corruptible body, and will put on the incorruptible, heavenly body, being changed in an atomic second as we go to be with him.
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Linux users are as evangelical about desktop environments, the all-encompassing graphical user interface software responsible for providing everything from taskbars to office suites, as they are about operating systems. It shouldn’t come as any surprise, then, that the first major release in over five years of the most popular desktop environment available is causing quite a stir. Due to be released on December 11th, KDE 4.0 is bringing exhilarating graphical, usability, and functionality improvements to the Unix-like systems it is designed for—and Windows users will get a taste, too.
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Jaydlyn would like to work on raising funds for the WE Charity which is formerly known as Free the Children, to help empower youth in less developed nations. She would like to help children and their families with poverty. Jaydlyn will use her platform to raise funds toward the charity.
Jaydlyn is a kind, confident, caring, and smart young woman. She has loved music, singing, acting, and learning new instruments since she was very young. She always scores lead roles in theatre productions, and enjoys singing for audiences. With her talents, she wishes to pursue a career in performing arts. Jaydlyn enjoys to cooking, writing songs, and volunteering. She has a strong moral character and hopes to help people in need. Jaydlyn is a powerful leader, who always takes charge in situations, and school projects.
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My sweet husband made wrought iron pieces, especially the scroll work that decorates a lot of the older homes in the area where we lived. I have an iron bed that he made scroll work for and turned a plain piece into a very decorative bed that I cherish! Keeping our heritage alive is so important. Thank you for sharing your talents.
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Since our values derive from our situatedness as physical human being within a particular culture, how can we defend them as absolutes? Since our cognitive apparatus likewise grows out of a particular biological and cultural context, how can we be sure it reflects the world as it is in itself? This essay addresses the threat of relativism to the common conviction that our values and knowledge are ultimately justifiable or grounded in something external to our conditioned ways of valuing and knowing. Relativism is accommodated, but with the important proviso that we indeed cannot abandon those values and facts which constitute us as ethical and cognitive creatures. Published in the Humanist, 1992, V52, #1, pp. 25-32.
We have no choice but to live our lives from the standpoint of value. As sentient beings we embody a network of needs, desires, preferences, and long term goals which determine the course of action, and we cannot, even for an instant, step completely outside this network. Even if we decide to question our preferences, or to evaluate them, we do this from the standpoint of yet other preferences which act as a standard for evaluation. The very desire to conduct such an inquiry expresses commitment to a value, that of self-understanding. Thus we never look at the world, or ourselves, from a completely neutral, unmotivated stance.
If we stop to reflect upon the source of our values, we discover that they have what might be called a "natural history". They flow from our biology, culture, upbringing, education, and the idiosyncratic twists and turns of our career through life. If we knew enough of this history, we could use it to explain the appearance of these values, to show how our particular constellation of aesthetic preferences, ethical beliefs, and personal commitments arises out of genetic and environmental circumstances.
These two claims about value–its inescapable effect on thought and action, and the naturalistic contingency of its origins–underlie the thesis of relativism. Our way of understanding the world is inherently relative to, that is, motivated and biased by, our needs and preferences. Further, the preferences we embody are relative to, that is, they grow out of our particular situation. This thesis causes consternation in both secular and religious circles, for it seems to deny an objective foundation for one's cognitive scheme and it rules out any absolute basis for ethical claims. How, they worry, can we justify as true our beliefs about the world if they are tainted by biologically and culturally induced motives? How can we justify as right a system of ethics which originates in contingent circumstances?
In what follows I want to explore this worry and some responses to it, and show that relativism, while it may undercut the impulse to justify our cognitive and ethical systems, may by and large leave them intact. My basic prescription for those troubled by relativism will be to face squarely the contingency of their situation, and then notice that such a confrontation may not erase the preferences they thought needed absolute justification. The justifications we can offer will be in terms of those preferences, not something deeper which shows them to be ultimately right or just. Having understood the limits of justification, worrying about the contingent, relative character of our views may strike us as unnecessary, the result of the false supposition that some particular view could or should be universally correct.
In discussing reactions to relativism, I will focus particularly on the secular tendency to set up the notion of rationality as a foundation for deriving universally acceptable cognitive and ethical systems. Despite some fond hopes to the contrary, I believe that an "objective" rationality, something against which we could measure or evaluate our ideas about what's true and what's right, is a chimera. Taking a line explored by several contemporary philosophers, among them Peter Strawson, Alasdair MacIntyre, and Richard Rorty, I will argue that rationality operates within an already given system of assumptions and motives, and that even our conception of rationality itself is relative to a context. We will never be able, finally, to rationally justify our most basic values, nor perhaps our fundamental beliefs about how the world is. These values and beliefs constitute the context within which our version of rationality works. Again, my move is away from justification towards something like an acceptance of how things are for us and how we want things to be. Finally, I want to address the practical question of how competing ethical and cognitive views are to coexist. The desire to universalize our values may continue even though we discover they lack an ultimate foundation or justification. The acceptance of relativism may affect how we express that desire.
That we are inextricably bound up with values and that these have their origins in our culture and biology are naturalistic hypotheses, stemming from the basic idea that nothing exists beyond the natural continuum of events and processes. If we are wholly embedded in the natural world then there is no essential self, soul, or disembodied awareness which monitors, from a causally detached vantage point, the ebb and flow of desire within us. We exist as our motives and desires (among other things), not as something which can pick and choose among them. If we do pick and choose our motives, it has to be according to some existing preference, operating within us as yet another motive, albeit at a higher level. To act at all, whether overtly or in thought, requires us to embody a desire; thus it is a mistake to think we stand above our motives, dispassionately observing and channeling them.
The values which we embody are themselves a function of the cultural and biological circumstances of our situation. As might be clear by now, I mean by "value" the full range of our motivational dispositions, from the basic desire to draw one's next breath to a commitment to an ideal conception of virtue. The naturalistic claim is that even the upper reaches of abstract value, those general norms we find ourselves subscribing to (the "golden rule", "honesty is the best policy", etc.) have their roots in our creaturely existence. They do not come from on high, graven in the stone of the Absolute, but rather from our collective experience as social creatures with a specific past and with specific current needs. The particular ethical norms of a culture represent a compromise between each individual's tendency to maximize his or her own benefit (or the benefit of family, town, or country) and each individual's need for protection against the unlimited expression of that tendency by another. Ethics have evolved as the codification of such compromise, and not surprisingly, they have varied greatly from culture to culture. The naturalistic view of value I am taking here can account for such variation as a function of differing geographical, political, and economic conditions, and furthermore sees no moral difficulty associated with it. Like other phenomena, behavioral norms arise out of complex sets of circumstances. They are natural facts, some of which inevitably apply to each of us insofar as we find ourselves subscribing to various notions of what is right and wrong.
Cognition, the representation of the world to ourselves, is likewise a natural function, reflecting our needs, wants, and aspirations, as well as the very selective structure of our perceptual systems. There are many possible world views, and the human condition shapes just one that may not be particularly privileged or objective in the sense of seeing things as they "really" are, or are "in themselves". Objectivity, naturalistically understood, becomes simply the agreement between individuals about what exists and how the world works, but this occurs within the unavoidable cognitive relativity of being a particular sort of creature inhabiting a particular culture.
The cognitive and ethical relativisms described here follow from the understanding of ourselves as completely included in the natural world. Knowledge and ethics are conditioned by the circumstances in which they arise, not revealed by contact with some ideal or unconditioned vantage point. For absolutists, convinced that there are universal, certain standards of knowledge and behavior, such relativisms must be denied. There must be a source of truth and value outside human needs and preferences to ground such standards. Thus we find, predictably, that they attack the naturalistic premises with which I started. For many of religious or New Age persuasions there is not one inclusive world of natural phenomena, but rather two worlds, one natural and one supernatural, and it is contact with the latter which provides cognitive, moral, and existential certainty. Truth is revealed by consulting God or a spiritually authoritative text, or entering one's "higher" body, or receiving instructions from a trusted channeler. All such versions of the supernatural, however disparate, have a common characteristic. They attempt to escape relativism by sidestepping what the naturalist sees as the obvious contingency and uniqueness of each person's historical situation. They place the individual securely in a transcendent realm in which knowledge and ethics are part of the structure of the Absolute. Back on earth, travelers in the supernatural or paranormal justify their actions in the everyday world by standards they suppose are eternal and universal. Unfortunately, there seem to be a number of rather different Absolutes, and violent disagreement about which of them constitutes Truth. The consequences of such ideological conflict need no elaboration here, except to say that they demonstrate the surprising strength of the human urge for self-justification.
As Arthur Schlesinger Jr. pointed out in an article on the virtues of relativism ("The Opening of the American Mind", New York Times Book Review, July 23, 1989) non-religious forms of absolutism display an equal disregard for the multiplicity and contingency of human experience. Fascist ideologies, super-patriotism, utopian dogmas, systems of racial and caste rank, all seek to monopolize truth and justice. Thus is "civil blasphemy" born, the judgment that "there are things so sacred that they must be protected by the arm of the state from irreverence and challenge–that absolutes of truth and virtue exist and that those who scoff are to be punished." Here it is the flag, symbol of American virtue, which some think must be defended at all costs from those who would desecrate it. In communist China it is the monolithic and utopian absolute of the party line. Often such secular absolutes will be based in a highly selective or distorted version of naturalism itself. Free markets and the unchecked accumulation of personal wealth are the only "natural" way to regulate economic interaction; homosexuality is "unnatural"; science "demonstrated" the inherent superiority of the Aryan race, the inevitable ascendance of the working class, and gave its stamp of approval to the "Darwinian" triumph of colonialism. If we can't appeal to God for justification we can always appeal to Nature.
The perennial resurgence of spiritual and secular absolutes is, to some extent, a response to the ethically neutral world described by objective, non-partisan science. Such a world has no built-in guidelines for how we should conduct ourselves, just a description of what exists and how things fit together. Generally people want to feel secure in their beliefs, want to feel justified in acting as they do, and want things, finally, to work out. Since there are no clear guarantees for any of this in science they undertake what John Dewey called the "quest for certainty", getting plenty of assistance from religions, gurus, and charismatic leaders. Even those of us immune to the seductions of obviously contrived absolutes may attempt, in more "respectable" ways, to find a guarantee for our cognitive and ethical stance. We may construct a perhaps more sophisticated, but (I claim) equally forlorn version of some foundational absolute, to which we try to anchor our beliefs about what is and what is right.
The desire to justify one's ethical stance or one's beliefs about matters of fact is common enough. It can manifest itself on at least two levels. First, we often find ourselves attempting to justify a particular belief or action. If we can't, we'll usually modify our belief (or behavior) so that it becomes justifiable according to criteria we still accept. Most of us find it important to be self-consistent by not holding obviously contradictory beliefs and by acting according to our avowed values. If we are self-consistent, then chances are we'll be able to offer justifications more or less straightforwardly. We point to our larger network of values and cognitive commitments and show how the particular act or belief in question fits into this network. This ability to offer justifications which are acceptable to ourselves and others in our community is one general characteristic, I think, of being rational.
But there is another level at which we sometimes find the impulse to justify arising, the level of our most basic and strongly held beliefs. These commitments, about what is fundamentally right and about how the world fundamentally is, function as the background criteria by which we justify particular higher level actions and beliefs. If we are challenged to justify these background criteria, we can to some extent employ the strategy above, that is, we can show that they are mutually consistent (if in fact they are). But of course we won't be able to offer further or yet deeper commitments as justification since it is precisely our central beliefs and values that are being called into question. The regress of justification has to stop somewhere. As Peter Strawson puts it in his book Skepticism and Naturalism, "we have an original non-rational commitment which sets the bounds within which, or the stage upon which, reason can effectively operate, and within which the question of the rationality or irrationality, justification or lack of justification, of this or that particular judgment or belief can come up" (emphasis added). The rational is embedded and elaborated within a non-rational context of preferences and cognitive assumptions.
Many of our preferences and assumptions are practically universal, so we don't ordinarily get challenged to justify them. We would find it odd if we were asked to justify our implicit desires to breathe, eat, sleep, avoid severe pain, and seek human companionship. This would be tantamount to asking us to justify living itself. We might, if we are Christian fundamentalists, respond that even the most basic biological "values" find their justification in allowing us to testify to the greater glory of God. (Why God should be glorified or exist at all then becomes the mystery.) But if we are more naturalistically inclined it is likely that at this point, instead of offering a justification, we would offer an explanation: "There's no reason or a priori value that justifies my desires to breathe, eat, avoid pain, etc. I just find that those are my desires. I can explain them as a function of evolutionary biology, but I can neither justify them or nor put them aside." An explanation can only show the origins of basic commitments, it doesn't and can't attempt to show why they should exist according to antecedent standards. When we find ourselves unable to offer justifications, but only explanations, then we know we have reached what I will call pre-rational values and beliefs. Rational justification proceeds using these values and beliefs as background criteria, but they cannot themselves be rationally justified. Rationality, at least as the ability to offer justifications, cannot be applied to what functions as the standard for justification itself.
It is not only basic biological values that are beyond the reach of rational justification, but many of the commonly held, but by no means universal values and world views generated by human culture. These too form part of the pre-rational set of commitments which rationality uses as benchmarks to decide higher level questions. Take, for instance, the widespread religious commitment to the authoritarian transmission of knowledge and social norms. This background belief functions as a standard for justification, allowing, for example, the Muslim fundamentalist to claim that the social status of women in his society is ordained by the Koran. If we ask further why he trusts the Koran, we might get the answer "It is the word of Allah", which for the fundamentalist ends the discussion. It is here that we have likely reached the point at which he will be unable to offer a yet more basic commitment to justify his belief in the Koran's divine infallibility, and at which no amount of persuasive rhetoric on our part will change his belief. That the Koran constitutes truth is for him cognitive bedrock.
If we are naturalists we may want to call this sort of commitment not pre-rational, but irrational. To do so implies that we have ready to hand a standard by which to judge a belief in the Koran's inerrancy; and I suppose that the naturalist's own commitment to evidence, experiment, and scientific consensus functions as that standard. The difficulty is that while we may subscribe to this, the fundamentalist does not. We will not persuade him of his irrationality since he starts from different background assumptions about how to justify belief and proceeds from there, with perhaps a high degree of consistency. He could easily make a similar claim about us: we are fools not to see the limited scope of naturalism: its ignorance of authoritative truths, its blindness to the spiritual reality of personal revelation, its denial of the miraculous.
If in reply we try to justify our commitment to evidence (and our skepticism about miracles) we may be hard pressed to come up with anything more basic which might function as a justification. As David Hume showed in posing the problem of induction (and Nelson Goodman more recently), we encounter grave difficulties in making a non-circular argument for our deeply ingrained belief that what has happened regularly in the past will continue to happen. The reliability of evidence is based on this sort of continuity (same cause will lead to same effect); but to show that past regularities are a guide to the future we can't, of course, point to earlier confirmations of our predictions, for to say that they are grounds for confidence in future confirmations is to assume what we are trying to prove. There may be no rational justification, from a more basic fact, for assuming ongoing regularities in nature, and thus for skepticism about future miracles which violate natural laws. Instead, that assumption itself partially constitutes scientific rationality and, not surprisingly, is notably absent from the rationality of many religious traditions.
Beyond the reliability of evidence the further issue arises, for our beleaguered naturalist, of justifying an evidential standard for all beliefs. The fundamentalist is happy to decide most everyday questions on the basis of a commonsense in which evidence plays a central role, yet when it comes to the "ultimate concerns" of life and death it is faith, tradition, and revelation – not evidence – which provide the benchmarks for his convictions. What, exactly, is wrong with this dual standard, rendering unto Caesar where appropriate, and unto God where appropriate? If, for example, faith in the existence of a scientifically inadmissible soul works to allay anxieties about death, on what grounds should we deny him this resource? Unless we can convince the fundamentalist that the exclusive use of evidence to decide beliefs is pragmatically equal to or better than a resort to faith, then a reassuring belief in the soul seems quite understandable, perhaps even sensible. To convert the fundamentalist on this score will be nigh impossible, for since his goal is reassurance, the absence of empirical evidence for the soul or an afterlife surely makes science less attractive than his faith. Lacking a surefire pragmatic argument for requiring evidence for all beliefs, we might cast about for a yet more central tenet of science by which to rationally justify it. But there is nothing more basic than this requirement. Like the assumption of the reliability of natural laws, it forms another pre-rational element of scientific rationality itself.
Such considerations show that competing notions of what is rational or sensible are tied closely to our pre-rational convictions about beliefs: should we hold them as a matter of authority, revelation, and tradition or as a matter of evidence? To answer this question is to take a normative stance, that is, to subscribe to a basic value regarding what should be considered knowledge. Within religious cultures the individual is approved as sensible to accept the claims of spiritual texts and religious leaders, but is condemned as irrational by those skeptical of beliefs unsupported by empirical evidence. Thus, although the logical and practical consistency of respective beliefs in both camps may be impeccable, the grounds for holding them conflict, leading to the charge and counter-charge of irrationality, or lack of common sense. So even if rationality – conceived of as basic cognitive coherence – is common to both the fundamentalist and the naturalist, this cannot unite them in any agreement about what to believe.
If we are naturalists we might try to justify our world view by showing how well it works in our everyday, technologically sophisticated affairs, how it contributes to our material well-being, how it encourages (perhaps) healthy individualism and egalitarianism. But this sort of pragmatic justification will not move our fundamentalist. He will show us the equally effective results of his world view: its social cohesiveness, its regulation of proper individual roles, its spiritual satisfactions. The point here is that both world views work well according to their own standards, standards generated by radically different fundamental assumptions about how the world is, how we should act, and what constitutes a good life. The question of whether these assumptions are correct or the one's we should subscribe to is still left open by pragmatic justification.
Still, there is again something common to both cultures that seems part of a general conception of rationality, namely the pragmatic capacity to fulfill the needs and desires of their respective members. But like coherence, pragmatic effectiveness works within a context of specific values. A successful means-ends, instrumental rationality, when applied to different sets of values, may only increase the gulf between cultures and magnify the divergence of their basic assumptions.
Given all this, what are we to make of the naturalist's original charge of irrationality against the fundamentalist, and the latter's complaints against naturalism? It seems best to drop the charges of irrationality and admit that what is really at issue is the choice of pre-rational starting points. If to be rational includes, among other things, the ability to offer acceptable justifications to one's peers, the coherence of beliefs, and the capacity to pursue desires effectively, then the naturalist and the fundamentalist may both count as rational. But there are other criteria, relative to each culture, which play a decisive role in judging who is rational (sensible) and who isn't. The norms about justifying beliefs, the common social values, and the long-term goals pursued in one culture may seem outlandish and "obviously" flawed when judged by the standards of a rival world view. But the basic cognitive and ethical commitments of any view, precisely because they are basic, are not themselves open to a rational critique. Alasdair MacIntyre stresses this point in his book Whose Justice? Which Rationality?: "...there is no set of independent standards of rational justification by appeal to which the issues between contending traditions can be decided." There is no neutral common ground from which to evaluate the conflicting traditions of science and religion. If we dismiss the fundamentalist as irrational, my claim is that such a judgment really reflects a difference in the pre-rational, culturally relative values over which the shared aspects of rationality – coherence and pragmatic effectiveness – operate. Pre-rational values provide the standards by which we justify higher level beliefs and actions; they cannot themselves be rationally justified.
The limits to justification outlined here often go unrecognized. For instance, the hope is sometimes expressed, especially in the secular humanist community, that differences in world views might eventually be ironed out by a meeting of reasonable men and women. Agreement would be reached not by dint of propaganda or emotional persuasion but through the rational consideration of facts. But in practice it can turn out that the differences in perspective are radical enough so that no one on the other side seems reasonable. The underlying assumptions about the correct way to establish beliefs (and thus the facts), the correct way to treat others, and indeed the notion of what counts as rational, self-consistent discourse, may vary between cultures. Even if there is agreement about what constitutes formal reason, the underlying cognitive and ethical assumptions over which reason operates may be irreconcilable. There may be no shared, fundamental value that is binding enough to serve as common ground, in which case there is no basis for discussion. For me this came up recently in conversation with a Christian Scientist about faith healing. It rapidly became clear that our ideas of what would constitute valid evidence for the efficacy of prayer were so far apart that further talk was useless. There seemed to be no underlying concept or value we had in common that could have resolved the difference.
And I, who have forsaken in my heart all deities, do hereby pledge my soul unto the faith that we ourselves can chart by reason's light the course that will control the forces of destruction, and make whole our lovely earth and all her wounded lives (emphasis added).
The light of pure rationality, unconditioned by organic need or cultural bias, will guide us through the morass of human differences and, given the recent interest in animal rights, the differences between us and other species. If we have no god at least we have Reason to underpin our decisions about what is and what is right.
Obviously, I dispute the existence of such an ideal perspective. First, as I began by arguing, the human activities of cognition and valuation are conditioned at every turn by our organic embeddedness in the world. To desire, to know, and to act at the prompting of desire and in the light of knowledge are inherently perspectival functions of organisms with limited outlooks and specific needs. On top of this specifically human perspective cultures put their heterogeneous stamp. Why, then, should we think our point of view and modes of action are, or could be, universal? Why do we suppose that we could represent or take into account all interests and somehow harmonize them to every person's, or creature's, satisfaction? Richard Rorty, in his book Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity suggests instead that "we abandon the notion that 'reason' names a healing, reconciling, unifying power–the source of human solidarity...We do not need to replace religion with a philosophical account of a healing and unifying power which will do the work once done by God." Should human solidarity ever be achieved, Rorty goes on to argue, it will be a contingent, historical achievement, not the result of coming to see the world by the light of universal reason.
Rationality, in its various forms, serves purposes which may never be universal. True, all persons (excepting the insane) and even all creatures may be "rational" in the sense that their actions are, in general, pragmatically consistent with their motives and their pictures of the world. But this conception of rationality still leaves potentially unbridgeable gulfs between motives and between world views. Although it's possible we might all come to agree about what constitutes the good life, acceptable grounds for belief, and ethical conduct, it's highly unlikely in a world of cultural diversity.
This leads to a second point. Even if such an agreement were reached, it wouldn't be the triumph of some universal rationality but rather the triumph of certain pre-rational values. I have tried to show that the notion of what's rational is inapplicable to our most basic assumptions about the world and how we should act. An ultimate rationality would be that which could command agreement about such assumptions, but on what further grounds could it command it? Even if at some point all of us here on earth ended up agreeing that science, for instance, is the One True View, that wouldn't mean that such a view was finally rational in the sense of being justifiable by antecedent standards. It would have to stand on its own, perhaps self-consistent, intellectually satisfying, and pragmatically effective, but not founded on anything deeper and not necessarily unique in its achievements. We can never rule out the possibility of other, alien perspectives, equally consistent and effective, bounded and shaped by unimaginably different constraints, and perhaps unknowable by parochial bipeds with limited cognitive resources. Given this, can we be confident of identifying science, or any other world view, as ultimate in any sense?
This question, posed non-rhetorically, lies at the heart of much philosophical inquiry. Indeed, the history of Western philosophy can be understood as the ongoing investigation of claims to establish, for all times, places, and persons, some ultimate and necessary truths about reality. The prospect of success for such claims seemed bright in earlier eras of Platonism, rationalism, and idealism, when the discursive human intellect was thought to be more or less independent of, or somehow prior to, nature and circumstance. Around the time of Descartes the growing sophistication of logical analysis, combined with the assumption that some self-evident propositions about the world were there waiting to be discovered, set the stage for final solutions to philosophical problems. But with the advent of empiricism and scientific understanding came the realization that reasoning and philosophy, like other human activities, occur within a context of conditioning circumstances. As it became clear that mind is not independent of nature, the whole project of classical objectivity was called into question, both in the realm of science and in the larger arena of philosophy.
The expectation that truth might be universal and context-free still lingers, but the naturalistic, anti-foundationalist turn of the postmodern era has tempered it considerably. As Hilary Putnam, Richard Rorty, and many other philosophers have pointed out, we can no longer maintain the so-called "correspondence" theory of truth. There is not, on one side, our theories about the world, and on the other, the world in itself; we do not evaluate our theories by seeing how well they correspond to the world. This is because we have no access to a theory-independent world, that is, a world unconditioned by our point of view, our needs, goals, and perceptual idiosyncrasies. The world we see is, to use a philosophical expression, "theory-laden"; it already bears the ineliminable mark of our involvement in it. Thus there is no point outside our view of the world from which to evaluate that view's truth. Knowledge, it turns out, is always a representation of reality from within a particular perspective. Although we exist and participate in an ultimate reality we cannot know this reality ultimately or objectively in the sense once hoped for.
As participants in the natural we cannot assume the detached vantage point of what philosopher Thomas Nagel has called "the view from nowhere". The best we can do, it seems, is to discover and correct the flaws internal to our perspective and realize that even if we find no further emendations are necessary, there may be other possible points of view, equally self-consistent and pragmatically effective. Such a reduction in the scope of our philosophical expectations may seem a disappointment, an end to the quest for ultimate cognitive enlightenment. But we are compensated, perhaps, by the original insight of naturalism, that we are completely caught up in a larger, non-human drama in which we play an open-ended role, limited only by the structure and dimensions of the universe as we perceive it. If our desire for a god's eye view is thwarted, nevertheless we are – existentially speaking – at home, actively being that part of the scheme of things that wonders about the scheme of things.
For some, such compensation affords little comfort. The inability to finally justify a world view as absolute seems tantamount to rejecting it. Basic cognitive and ethical commitments lose their worth, are less "dignified" once they are understood to be relative to a context and naturally originated. To explain the origins of values, for those wedded to absolutes, is to explain them away. But this need not and indeed cannot follow. Recognizing the natural, relative, and pre-rational status of basic assumptions cannot pry us loose from our commitment to at least some version of them. We have no choice but to hold certain biological values, and as social creatures we have an almost equally strong commitment to the ethical standards bequeathed us by our culture. Even if we end up rejecting the norms of the majority, we will find ourselves acting by another standard. Nor can we function in life without some method of deciding what and who to believe. If, which is unlikely, my arguments for relativism created doubts in the mind of a spiritual absolutist, that might initiate a shift in some basic beliefs, but it wouldn't lessen his need for them. We must all think, act, and believe from some standpoint which is taken as provisionally correct.
The arguments here are from the standpoint of a naturalistic philosophy. They support the thesis that we hold our basic cognitive and ethical commitments not as rationally justified by some absolute standard, but as functions of natural conditions. I hope they are rational arguments – rational, that is, within a particular context – but to be consistent with the thesis I'm trying to justify, I can hardly claim that they have an indisputable foundation which other viewpoints lack. Naturalism and science embody assumptions which are congenial and compelling to many – assumptions about what constitutes good argument, good evidence, good theory, and the basic assumption of a single universe of interconnected phenomena – but they lead to the very relativism which insists that there is no final, absolute way in which the world must appear to us.
Such relativism does not undermine the commitment to these assumptions. They are part of a powerfully consistent and practically effective world view that its adherents are not about to abandon just because it understands itself as relative. Part of the attraction of the naturalistic stance is its capacity to explain its own development and predict that major changes may occur within it in response to unforeseeable contingencies. Relativism is acceptable for the naturalist, indeed inevitable, since it follows from and is consistent with the basic (and perhaps pre-rational) scientific notion that all phenomena, including human cognition, arise in a unified context of conditioning circumstances. This notion itself, the naturalistic relativist will happily admit, must be equally conditioned by some context. If science, even in its most basic assumptions, were not a function of the world in which it appeared, then it would be an arbitrary affair indeed and unintelligible by its own lights.
Even so, a dilemma often confronting the relativist is how to make a case for relativism itself. As Hilary Putnam puts it in Reason, Truth, and History: "[I]s it not obviously contradictory to hold a point of view while at the same time holding that no point of view is more justified or right than any other?" (Putnam's emphasis) My answer to such an objection is that our holding a point of view is, finally, not a matter of justification at all, but a matter of being human. To repeat Strawson's point, we can't help but have cognitive and ethical commitments which are beyond or prior to rational justification. When these conflict with someone else's there may be no way to show which is superior. Naturalism is a body of cognitive commitments, one of whose corollaries is relativism. If we accept a naturalistically causal view of perception, motivation, and how cognitive schemes are built up, then we may well be relativists. So naturalism, by its own lights, is not ultimately justifiable from irrefutable premises but simply is the way the naturalist sees the world. As one world view among many it can be explained as a natural phenomenon, albeit an extremely complex one. Inevitably, I offer this assessment of how we hold world views and how we can explain them from within one such view, that of naturalism itself.
The discovery that we cannot finally justify our most deeply held assumptions and preferences does not mean we will cease to hold them. It does not mean that we will suddenly become nihilists, or feel warm kinship with the Nazi, or (if we are pro-choice) start to believe that a day old fetus is a person. Our basic convictions are held in place by the biological and cultural conditions which created them, so although they may change with those conditions, it's highly unlikely we'll disown them simply because we discover they are natural, not ultimately rational, phenomena. This explains, as Rorty puts it, why "a belief can still regulate action, can still be thought worth dying for, among people who are quite aware that this belief is caused by nothing deeper than contingent historical circumstance." Our beliefs don't, it turns out, need the dignity of being universal and absolute. There is nothing more basic required to justify our abhorrence of the Nazi; it's something that constitutes us. Instead of seeking further justifications, we simply accept the natural fact that these are our preferences, that this is how we see the world. Our views may be contingent, relative, and open to eventual change but they are rooted in our being. They don't need final justification for support, and it turns out we can't supply it in any case.
If we accept relativism this may well undercut the impulse for self-justification, making us less smug ideologically and perhaps more tolerant of opposing world views. I don't mean that we will consider all views equally true, or just, or justifiable. Since we must still think and act according to our (local) standards of knowledge, ethics, and rationality, we don't have that choice. Rather I mean that we can understand the existence of the opposing view as the outcome of a set of conditions, not the willful distortion of a finally "correct" picture of the world of which we are the guardians. Smugness and intolerance come from thinking that we are privileged in our understanding and that those who fail to agree with us are somehow morally blameworthy. Such self-righteousness can have its roots either in the religious absolutism that sees God as the infallible source of knowledge and ethics, or the secular absolutism that supposes Reason, Nature, or the State to be the universal arbiter.
Of course the tolerance generated by relativism will have its practical limits. Since we cannot set aside our basic preferences (for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, for example) we will defend them to the death if forced to. We grant others the right to hold opposing views as long as the real-world consequences of those views don't compromise our basic values or do us material harm. If they do, then the relativists' defense is to prohibit the actions of an ideological adversary, not to prohibit his ideology.
Up to this limit, tolerance itself constitutes a fundamental value for the naturalistic relativist. It reflects the appropriate attitude towards knowledge itself, the basic normative stance congruent with the naturalistic view of cognitive and ethical commitments: since these commitments do not correspond to the way the world (or reason) is in any ultimate sense, we do not hold them, and so should not claim to hold them, as absolutes, whether rational, secular, or religious. They are simply the naturally derived solutions to the general problem of being motivated, vulnerable creatures in a complex environment. Given other peoples' very different needs and backgrounds, it is only to be expected that different solutions will have arisen, and these solutions are naturalistically on a par with relativism and naturalism itself. Seeing our perspective as one among many (albeit the one we prefer) means we cannot consider it ultimately privileged, universally applicable, or unimprovable; and so we must admit the possibility that other perspectives may have something to offer. The willingness to tolerate different points of view, to engage in debate, to consider new information, and to admit that one's position might change, all flow from the relativist's open-ended view of knowledge and ethics as responses to contingent circumstances.
Absolutists, on the other hand, are prone to limit not just the actions of their adversaries (whether these be relativists or absolutists of another stripe) but the opportunity to hold and to form opposing views in the first place. Since a high value is often placed on ideological purity and security, central beliefs are protected against challenge by limiting dissent, debate, and liberal education. This generalization must be qualified in two important respects. First, those with faith in Reason are unlikely to impose ideological agreement precisely because they believe (I think wrongly) that, given enough time and argument, most everyone will start behaving Rationally. Consequently, the absolutism of ultimate rationality is benign compared to the absolutism of more authoritarian ideologies. Second, there is no necessary link between feeling that one possesses the One True View and the wish to impose it on others. It is only when absolutism includes among its tenets the belief that differing views are a threat and an affront to the true faith that crusades are mounted and the inquisition begins. But this tenet, whether tacit or explicit, is unfortunately rather common in absolutist frameworks. The fervor to crush opposing views, whether religious or secular, implies a deep insecurity which only the silence of one's critics can assuage. The germ of skeptical doubt must be stamped out lest it infect one's own vehement, but unconsciously precarious, commitment. Underlying much absolutistic thought is the virtually universal desire for secure cognitive and ethical systems, systems which give the individual a stable place within a like-minded social group and which present a manageable and meaningful universe. Many traditional religions offer guarantees against personal annihilation at death, so to challenge them is perhaps to rob someone of a crucial reassurance. Likewise, the ethical and social injunctions of absolutist systems often represent a functional, if sometimes oppressive, solution to the problem of creating social order. If the system which justifies the injunctions is questioned, then the culture as a whole may seem threatened. No wonder, then, that Muslim theocracies such as Iran seek to limit the influence of the West, or that fundamentalists here work ceaselessly to keep Darwin out of the classroom. If an unquestioned ideology seems necessary to underpin individual security and cultural practices, then much energy will be devoted to protecting it from the great Satan of doubt.
The desire for security expressed in an allegiance to absolutes contrasts markedly with the openness, tolerance, and pluralism characteristic of the relativist perspective. But these tendencies are basic, in varying proportions, to each human being. On the one hand we all need a minimum of security and stability. There are practical limits to how far we can immediately compromise our cognitive and ethical assumptions, even if in the long run they may change drastically. On the other hand, it is also a human trait to be curious, delight in the new, and find better solutions to perennial problems. Openness, like protectiveness, is adaptive as a general strategy, so long as there is an effective "operating procedure" in place to handle the exigencies of the moment.
The conflict between the relativist, naturalist, and scientific stance on one side and the religious or secular absolutist stance on the other expresses, in broad cultural terms, the opposing tendencies within each of us to seek discovery and security. Of course the opposition thus drawn is too simple. Science can be used, illegitimately, to justify entrenched preconceptions useful to those in power, while many on the front lines of social change believe in an absolute, non-human source of their commitment. However, science at its best epitomizes openness, creative self-doubt, and tolerance for revolutionary options. Science and naturalism both undercut the possibility of absolute, authoritarian justifications, whether secular or religious. It is this absence of any final ideological security which makes the naturalistic enterprise open-ended, unpredictable, and thus so attractive to those whose tastes run to the adventurous and unforeseen.
This contrasts with the sometimes stifling insistence on the status quo characteristic of world views based on unquestionable absolutes. Fundamentalist cultures, whether they be states or churches, are driven far more by security than by curiosity. But again, the need for some viable status quo is essential and must be addressed even in the most free-thinking and pluralistic society. To survive, a culture has to present some sort of practically effective united front even if – especially if – it includes, as does ours, radically diverse points of view. Thus the question arises: what should be the common procedural assumptions, the ground rules in the debate between the world views represented in our culture? How are they to coexist? How are we, collectively, to balance the impulse for discovery with the need for security?
There is no neutral point from which to answer this question. Our answer will be shaped by the world view we subscribe to. Even to assume that different points of view should coexist presupposes the value of diversity, of debate, of tolerance. These values, I have tried to show, are more characteristic of relativism than absolutism, of naturalism rather than theistic or utopian philosophies. On the other hand, it is characteristic of absolutism, especially when combined with ideological and personal insecurity, to cut off debate, drastically limit diversity, and encourage intolerance.
We should see allegiance to social institutions as no more matters for justification by reference to familiar, commonly accepted premises – but also as no more arbitrary – than choices of friends or heroes. Such choices are not made by reference to criteria. They cannot be preceded by presuppositionless critical reflection, conducted in no particular language and outside of any particular historical context.
Social institutions and the political arena, like the fundamental views of the world they reflect, are not finally justifiable according to neutral standards. The parliamentary, democratic institutions within which tolerance survives represent a political – not ultimately rational – response to conflicting ideologies. Liberal democracy is simply the bet that collective security need not require ideological conformity; instead, security of the sort worth wanting, namely that which allows for discovery, may best be achieved by institutionalizing tolerance of just about any view whatsoever.
It might be supposed that there is a more fundamental and more widely shared value underlying tolerance which could give it rational justification, namely the simple libertarian desire to be left alone with my own opinions. If I let you be, then you should let me be. But the respect for the other's autonomy expressed by this reciprocity is rarely championed by the insecure absolutist, even though he values his own freedom. Since the autonomy of others poses a threat to the universality of his beliefs, the absolutist definitely does not grant us liberty from ideological intervention in forming our opinions and preferences. That liberty, what we know as the rights to privacy and free speech, does not underlie or justify tolerance, but is the expression of tolerance itself. Autonomy can only be granted by those who do not require ideological conformity. Tolerance is permission to be different, make known that difference, and still remain an accepted member of the culture. Intolerance is the desire to suppress or eliminate differences and expel those who persist in their autonomy. Beyond these opposing stances there may not be a deeper, underlying value by which we could justify tolerance to the evangelical absolutist. The simple desire to be left alone may be widely shared, but the reciprocity of "live and let live" cannot be derived from it.
The value of tolerance is of supreme importance to many who are not in the least relativists, and undoubtedly to many who don't have any particularly well thought-out scheme of basic commitments. There are, fortunately, many paths to tolerance and I don't want to leave the impression that naturalism and relativism are the necessary basis for it. Some defend privacy and free speech as "natural rights", while some hold tolerance to be a religiously derived virtue. Relativists will disagree with such justifications but are likely to applaud the result. Their own inclination towards tolerance comes out of a particular world view, one which sees no need or possibility of being finally or universally grounded.
If we are relativists we cannot give an ultimate rational justification of views which give rise to tolerance. How, then, are we to make a case for tolerance, how can we attempt to universalize it (if, that is, we find we want to do this)? How can we defend it against the ever present, equally strong desire that many have to impose ideological conformity? There are two ways, short of force of arms. First is the political process of appealing to the desire for tolerance in others. We search for cognitive and ethical soul mates (or pragmatically acceptable substitutes), create a union of shared interests, and then work for the sort of culture we want. We recognize and accept that beyond a certain point we will not be able to offer any ideological justifications for our program. What we want just is what we want. How we see the world just is how we see it. Our power ultimately comes from the extent to which others share our views about what is and what's right. We believe that debate is more important than Truth, that openness has a higher value than ideological security, that human capacities and preferences, not universal absolutes, are sufficient grounds for cognitive and ethical judgments.
The second strategy is to show, using rational argument, how tolerance underlies, manifests, or brings about other widely held values, values of individual freedoms and collective values of productivity and security. For instance, we might argue that tolerance of personal visions and tastes, besides having intrinsic worth to the individual, has the practical social worth of generating original solutions to common problems, or perhaps the artistic value of allowing the expression of a shared aesthetic impulse. This kind of argument is rational justification par excellence, since it starts with some values as given and shows how other values follow from them. But as rational justification it can only succeed if those to whom we present it share at least some of the values we start from, share some of our ideas of what the facts are, and share our version of rationality itself. Thus it depends a good deal on the first strategy, that of finding and enlisting the support of pre-rational soul mates. If someone is an avowed, militantly evangelical absolutist, then none of this will cut any ice. Rationality will have reached its practical limit.
In the Western democracies, the open political arena embodied in these strategies (and defended by the necessary resort to force in defeating Nazi absolutism) reflects what is only the provisional triumph of tolerance. There is an inherent asymmetry in what I have drawn as the general opposing stances regarding how we are to hold our views concerning knowledge and ethics: tolerance allows the existence of absolutist views that themselves will not, if given the opportunity, countenance tolerance. This asymmetry means that tolerance has within itself the seeds of its potential undoing. The arena that permits debate risks the eventuality that a view based on limiting debate will arise and gain popularity. Thus to be tolerant means to live with a certain unavoidable political insecurity involved in advocating what we take to be a fundamental value.
The consensus now exists that we have the right to think and act as we wish, so long as we don't materially harm anyone, or compromise their similar right to self-expression. But this is only a consensus, it is not how things ultimately should be, or have to be. We won't find support for it written in the stars, or in physical law, or in some universal rationality. It is simply the expression of a set of contingent human preferences which are in competition with other deeply held preferences. Whether or not it remains the consensus depends on how astutely we mount our appeals to the spark of tolerance in others. It may also depend on how much we are willing to sacrifice for what now seems as ordinary as the air we breathe.
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Last night, following the celebrations of the Independents Day held in the open IDF Naval base in Eilat that included 14,000 visitors, IDF ships, while on a security patrol in the region, discovered a suspicious ship holding two people. The IDF ship arrested the ship and led it and its crew to an investigation in Eilat.
Previous articleAttached is the curriculum vitae of both the Brigadier Generals.
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Nguyen Thi Ngoan was unable to repeat her golden success from last year's tournament.
Vietnam's Nguyen Thi Ngoan claimed the bronze medal at the Karate1-Premier League in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, on Sunday.
Nguyen Thi Ngoan in action against Peru's Grande Alexandra on Sunday. Photo courtesy of the World Karate Federation.
The world's most prestigious karate tournament gathered 683 athletes from 74 nations and territories.
Ngoan, 20, took bronze in the 61kg kumite (combat) category after defeating Peru's Grande Alexandra.
She was the only medal winner for Vietnam at this year's competition, after her compatriots failed to make it to the finals.
Last year, Ngoan won Vietnam's first gold medal at the Karate1-Premier League in Germany.
Launched in 2011, the Karate1-Premier League has made exponential progress in terms of magnitude and status, as well as the number of participants and countries represented.
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Amidst the tide of rapidly advancing hardware, software, and internet technologies, companies in the video game industry must constantly evolve to stay competitive. Electronic Arts Inc. (EA), one of largest game software development and publishing companies in the world, is currently experiencing both incredible highs and lows as it transforms its business model to capitalize on emerging opportunities and succeed in a shifting landscape.
The shift of gaming to online and mobile has been every bit as transformative for the industry as the move from the arcade to the den and TV room. With the advent of 4G/LTE communication networks, expanded wireless LAN and Wi-Fi coverage, and ultra high-speed home internet connections, gaming experiences have become more connected and social than ever before.
Low-latency connections have led to the rise of new classes of games rooted in persistent online worlds and multiplayer experiences, rather than single-player stories. Led first by massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) and online first-person shooters, recent years have seen the rise of the multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) and battle royale (BR) games. Although these genres exhibit diverse gameplay styles, the most successful releases feature large social components and robust gameplay mechanics that support intense in-game competition. Together, these features foster the growth and development of committed, vibrant communities who keep returning to the same game worlds for long periods of time.
Celebrity streamers and fans at a gaming tournament in April 2018. Photo: Nick Statt, The Verge.
The growth of high-speed internet and competitive multiplayer gaming has also supported the rise of online HD streaming services like Twitch, Youtube Gaming, and various e-sports leagues. The level of audience interest and engagement with pro gamers and Twitch personalities is now high enough for thousands of people to play games for a living.
Together, these forces have served to create a growing network of pro and personality-driven streamers, their audiences, and the wider gaming public. Full-time gamers possess strong financial incentives to play only the most popular games to reach the highest subscriber bases and largest prize pools they can, intensifying the network effects of hit games; the releases best suited for competition and streaming draw the most interest from competitive gamers and streamers, introducing their established audiences to the game and effectively marketing it for free. As audience interest grows in a game, more people try playing it themselves, the potential for a pro community increases, and more streamers begin playing to ride the trend and capture a share of the game’s audience.
The implications for game companies are clear: find the right recipe to feed the streamer-viewer-gamer ecosystem, and you can end up with a runaway, blow-the-lights-out success like Minecraft, PUBG, or Fortnite. Get the recipe just slightly wrong, and the game — no matter how high-budget, well-reviewed, and effortfully marketed — could end up dead on arrival.
High-speed internet has also enabled new digital distribution channels, allowing today’s gamers to download purchases directly from platforms like Steam and Xbox Live, and removing the need to buy a cartridge or disc from a store or e-retailer. For EA, the direct download platforms has created the potential for higher-margin sales, as Steam and other digital platforms are obviously asset-light and take a smaller cut of a game’s sale price than a store-based retailer like GameStop.
Additionally, as games have become more focused on social experiences and persistent communities, more and more players are now willing to make follow-on buys for access to expanded content and challenges (downloadable content, or DLC) as well as reiterative small-dollar purchases (microtransactions) for character skins, ornaments, and power-ups. Many of these in-game items cost little to nothing to develop, so the incremental sales they generate are usually extreme high-margin or pure profit.
Meanwhile, the arrival of revolutionary mobile hardware technology (powerful integrated chips, sensitive touch-screens, and high-res LCD and AMOLED displays) has turned every smartphone into a highly capable game platform — and thus nearly every user into a potential “gamer,” dramatically expanding the addressable market for gaming. Mobile also poses a threat to incumbents such as EA, however, as its traditional customer base of PC and console players are now presented with low-cost and increasingly attractive mobile gaming alternatives. Since mobile games can be developed with minimal resources, the Apple and Android App stores are now populated with tens of thousands of games, with hundreds more released each day, and frequently based on free-to-play (F2P) or freemium models. Furthermore, with free open-source game engines (such as Unity and Gamemaker) and unfettered access to digital distribution portals, it is easier than ever to develop and release indie console and PC games.
All considered, the shifting industry landscape has jeopardized several sources of EA’s historical competitive advantage. While EA could once control shelf space through its relationships with specialty and big-box retailers, games are increasingly downloaded from app stores and portals. Third-party developers can release titles direct to consumers, avoiding the need to partner with a publisher. Marketing advantages — including large advertising budgets and special market-power benefits (e.g., the ability to collude with industry journalists by trading preview access for sweetheart review scores) — are disappearing as consumers become more connected and responsive to independent commentators. The games market is more crowded, fragmented, and easier to enter than ever.
Based on all these trends, the prescription might seem simple: more mobile, more e-sports, leverage more data, grow a proprietary distribution platform, et cetera. If it were only so easy — in reality, EA understands these trends, and has already made reasonable reasonable efforts to capitalize on them. For instance, EA’s mobile division (EA Mobile) has been in operation since 2004, did over $600 million in revenue in 2017, and is still growing each year. The mobile initiative is already firing on all cylinders, so in my view, questions of how to best grow it are tactical rather than strategic in scope. Likewise, EA already has its own digital distribution platform (EA Origin), but due to the iron grip of the Microsoft and Playstation Stores on consoles, Origin is effectively limited to being a niche portal for EA’s PC titles. The company even established a competitive gaming division (EA CGD) in 2015, so an e-sports foundation is in place — but for now, it appears there is little pro or audience appetite for current EA titles to be played the competitive level. And as for data, EA already collects a lot of it from players, who are required to sign in to Origin during online sessions; although it is difficult to assess from the outside if EA is fully leveraging the data it collects, anecdotal evidence suggests EA and its peers are finding clever ways to use it to improve player experiences, marketing efforts, and to influence in-game purchases.
Right now, EA should focus on one thing above all: developing and publishing quality, compelling games that are built from bottom-up on the recurrent spending model. What’s the goal? Games that make money over long periods of time: successful releases that foster devoted communities, with high-margin tails fueled by follow-on microtransactions and incremental sales as players stay engaged and draw in their friends.
Naturally, EA’s executive team fully understands the value of this model; after all, this is a $40 billion dollar public enterprise run by highly competent managers. However, I would argue that EA’s recent string of failed releases and controversies — most notably, Star Wars Battlefront II, Mass Effect: Andromeda, Need for Speed Payback, UFC 3, and FIFA 18 — indicates that the company is struggling with systemic organizational deficiencies that are preventing steady execution on the model. Over time, EA has been moving fans of its longest-running series backward, rather than forward: new versions and sequels are more of the same, with no fresh features or innovations, but now with half of the content cordoned within secondary paywalls and hidden in buyable “loot boxes.” In my view, these are clumsy attempts to retrofit old-model game structures with new-model payment fixtures — and in doing so, there is no new value created. As such, EA’s efforts to capture more value necessarily leave its customers less well off, and widespread consumer dissatisfaction has been reflected in weak sales and popular criticism of EA’s business practices. If it wants to remain successful in coming years, EA should make several changes to address these problems.
Screenshot of a “loot crate” in EA’s Star Wars: Battlefront II. Under pressure from Disney and the gaming public, EA was forced to abandon its microtransaction model for the game, which had offered players the option to purchase credits redeemable for the crates in increments of up to $90.
First, EA must refresh its current approach to project planning and development. As we’ve discussed, the most popular contemporary games — releases that gain serious traction in the streamer-viewer-gamer network and attract prolonged engagement — typically succeed because they reward skilled players, encourage serious competition, and promote socialization. EA’s project managers and creative directors should focus more on these aspects as the critical “jobs to be done” while at the planning table. Today, EA releases are often (though not always) viewed easy to pick up, easy to master, and short on content; to keep players coming back, more resources should be directed toward the development of core game mechanics that are deep and nuanced. To improve quality and user experience, EA should opt for longer development cycles, even though that will raise production costs. More time for beta testing, data analysis, and the incorporation of player feedback will eventually pay off in better games with longer life cycles. Longer dev cycles can also help decrease EA’s notoriously high levels of employee burnout and brain drain, and give designers the time they need to do solid work. New incentive structures could encourage project managers to move away from short-term financial targets and instead optimize for long-term audience reach, engagement, and multi-year sales goals.
Second, strategies for microtransactions and DLC implementation should also be a major point of focus during core game planning. For a game with a full $60 sticker price, the trick is delivering enough content and value in the core package to make the consumer feel satisfied. A positive experience with the core product can then bridge gamers into limitless “end-game” experiences, where microtransaction offers are no longer viewed as predatory since the game’s implicit promise of value to the gamer is seen as fulfilled. (A shining example would be Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto V, one of the most successful games of all time, which led players into the open-ended micropayment bonanza GTA Online after the main game.) Another option is to limit microtransactions to cosmetic enhancements, encouraging players to differentiate their appearances without having to pay-to-win. Finally, EA can release a larger number of games as free-to-play or at discounted prices — as consumers are required to make less of an initial investment, better audience reach is possible, and tolls for additional content access receive are accepted with less contention. In fact, if more new games like this are released on EA’s growing $5-per-month subscription service, EA Access, it could help grow the value of the platform, attract more subscribers, and set the foundation for a new gaming ecoystem.
Third, EA should take a more active role in community maintenance and promoting engagement over time. Full-time community managers must be empowered and integrated on core development teams. Instead of shifting to new projects, lead game directors should be required to stay involved in their projects in the months and years after release, playing active and visible roles in their game communities. Developers should be engaged with the players and fans of their games, incorporating feedback into updates and new content add-ons. To achieve this, EA will have shift from a culture of “fire and forget” to one that encourages project teams to act as long-term community stewards. Refreshing the corporate culture, along with the company’s standard development processes and game models, will take time and concerted effort, but EA’s management team has signaled it is prepared to rise to the challenge.
Hi Chris – Thanks for the great read on EA’s opportunities and struggles as a game developer!
I think you’re correct that microtransactions and DLC should be a major point of focus for EA, but that they shouldn’t overlap with the core package. I remember the big fuss over the Star Wars Battlefront II loot crates. Most videogames used staggered in-game leveling to reward players who invest the time to level-up or unlock special items. To the gamer, this is a form of value creation — they use their hard work and time invested to enhance their in-game experience through unlocked items or boosted stats. When EA launched Battlefront II, it essentially monetized this leveling-up process, letting players with high WTP skip the hours of farming and questing to achieve max stats and all the special weapons. To the gaming community, those players had paid for their special status, but hadn’t earned it. Gamers also revolted over the randomness of loot crates in Battlefront II. While randomly generated/dropped weapons have long been features of RPGs and Action Adventure games (e.g., Fallout, Skyrim), players saw the randomness of loot crates as a blatant attempt by EA to force players to pay up for them.
I think you’re right about being intentional on what is your core product, and what are your add-on in-game purchases and DLC. Game developers have already found a good model for creating and capturing additional value from games: 3-6 months after a game’s release, the developer releases DLC for purchase in the form of new maps/quests/items. Many developers — including EA — have even packaged future DLC as discounted bundles, which can be purchased with the main game. But at the end of the day, you’re correct that the starting point is “developing and publishing quality, compelling games.” So long as EA continues to generate great new IP, it should do just fine.
Thanks Chris! How do you think about the changing views quality of release at release date? Before the internet, the logic was you had one release window, and there was no room for bugs in the final product. As internet speeds got faster, developers felt more confident in the ‘release early, patch often’ method. Then developers blurred the line between release further, allowing early access to Beta and Alpha stage of the game. Minecraft famously did this and essentially crowdsourced the debugging/development. Can large firms get in on this? It might have prevented things like the Mass Effect disaster.
That’s a great point! IMO, there is definitely an opportunity for large developers like EA to take advantage of early releases and longer closed & open betas. If decide to try more early access programs, it’s important that they price down appropriately and follow through on their initial promises to the players who buy in early. And long-form beta testing is a great way to build buzz, crowd-source bug-finding and feedback, and get to a better finished product EA does run open betas for its multiplayer games, but it’s usually done on a short timeline before the games get kicked out the door. In fact, the Battlefront II “loot box” wildfire broke out during the beta — EA DICE was doing the right thing by sourcing player feedback, but the problem was that the game producers initially refused to take corrective action in response.
As you point out, the Battlefront Lootbox fiasco, shows the importance of having something close to a finished product before releasing a beta. Especially with games like Halo, Star Wars, World of Warcraft or even FIFA that have very passionate and critical fan bases, I think it’s important you insure that whatever product you release (even if you tell players its a beta) is up to a standard that doesn’t erode that brand value the franchises have managed to build. New games like PUBG and Fortnite are able to do earlier releases but for big blockbusters games that are expected to be tentpoles for developers, I don’t know that you can apply the same methodology.
Thanks for bringing this up, Mike, and I totally agree that the opportunities for both AR and VR are really interesting. I think games like “Pokémon Go” have shown us that there’s already a lot of potential for AR gaming today, and I’ve heard EA’s CEO say that they (particularly EA Mobile) are working on a lot of projects that will take advantage of it.
In time, I think VR has definitely the potential to change gaming, but it will probably take several more years (and at least one more console generation) for the tech to really take hold of the mass market. Since EA specializes in big budget, triple-A games, the install base just isn’t big enough yet to justify shifting a large amount of resources toward developing VR-first games. There shouldn’t be a rush to bet the farm on VR, either, as I don’t think see EA at risk of classic disruption here: full-featured VR games are expensive to develop, and when EA wants to start making more of them, they already have most of the tools and talent to do them well. As such, the safest and highest ROI bet is probably to start with ports of some key titles that could translate well to a VR experience (e.g. Anthem, Battlefield), focusing on developing institutional knowledge and optimizing the process. EA could also partner with startup studios and experiment with smaller in-house projects to learn more about building VR-first games from the ground-up, treating it as an investment in the future.
And as for the question of whether EA should enter the VR gaming hardware space, I think your instincts are totally correct on that — they should stick to software. It’s an early market that’s already crowded with a lot of players (HTC, Oculus, Playstation VR, more) who can do it better, and EA has no hardware expertise to begin with.
I saw this crazy shift in person a few weeks ago at the airport. I heard what sounded like a war movie and turned around to glare at the person who was rude enough to watch something on his phone in public without headphones (a major pet peeve) and was shocked when I saw a 12-year-old playing PUBG on his phone. I had heard that they were working on porting the game to mobile, but was amazed at how clear the picture was and how latency didn’t seem to be an issue at all. It truly is an amazing time for gaming.
Regarding microtransactions, I’ve read a lot about pushback from governments recently. Loot boxes in particular have been under scrutiny, with US regulators starting to look into them and The Netherlands declaring that they are considered gambling and thus must be removed from games. More regulation here may limit revenue in the short term for game makers, but I’d think the increased transparency will have long-term benefits.
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Phonics consists of the skills of segmentation and blending, knowledge of the alphabetic code and understanding of the principles which underpin how children learn to read and write. Here at St James’s Catholic Primary children in EYFS and Year 1 receive daily phonics sessions through supportive, differentiated group work.
In Nursery children follow the governments initiative ‘letter and sounds’. The first phase of Letters and Sounds concentrates on developing children's speaking and listening skills and lays the foundations for phonic work. The emphasis is to get children attuned to the sounds around them and ready to begin developing oral blending and segmenting skills.
Reception and Year 1, teachers use progressive planning based on the ‘Read Write Inc’ scheme of work. Focused activities allow children to revisit, learn, practise and apply their knowledge and understanding in fun and engaging games and activities. Pupils are systematically taught the phonemes (sounds), how to blend the sounds through words for reading, and how to segment the sounds for spelling. In Reception and Year 1 children are formally assessed every half term by class teachers. When children reach the summer term of Year 1, their phonic knowledge is assessed through the statutory phonics screening check. It can also be repeated during Year 2 to monitor progress and identify those children in need of intervention.
In KS2 children continue with phonics, applying their phonic knowledge to spell new words. Intervention programmes, designed to ‘boost’ children’s learning, are also put in place to support children in developing and applying the skills they need for reading and writing.
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So I am super excited today. Why you might ask?? Because today I get to post that the 3 things that were on the top of my priority list from Wednesday are now done!! Yippee Skippe!!!
First off, I finally quilted my little Jocelyn's crib quilt. This quilt has been sitting in the corner of the sewing room basted for like a month. Wednesday afternoon I decided it was time to get this little cutie quilted.
On to project 2. I finished this customer quilt yesterday. The design is based on Natalia's Let Your Imigantion Bloom quilt tutorial but instead of layer cakes I use charms. This was a super fun customer quilt because it was a bit of a throw back. You See . . . . .
About 2 years ago I sold this little quilt. (I had made a similar one for a friend and had cut extra's so I whipped up a second one :) A few weeks ago I was contacted by the owner asking If I could make another quilt similar to this one for their new little arrival. I was super happy to. Luckily, I still had a lot of the same fabrics (which she wanted) so it was fun to recreate the same look with a little twist.
The customer requested an all over meandering quilting so that it matched the first. I haven't done meandering in quite some time and I forgot how much I enjoy it.
Yes, you've accomplished a lot this week, but some of it was just so you could post a cutie pie baby picture, wasn't it?!?! Great job on everything.
Beautiful baby quilt and even more beautiful baby!
Great accomplishments and what a sweet quilt and baby!!
YEA!! I love the crin quilt and those baby quilts are so darling! Way to go!
Great projects and adorable baby...so cute!!!
I dig the swirl! Can't FMQ on my machine at the moment, so I've got a ton of wip's backed up waiting to be finished - congrats on finishing so many this week!
I love that baby quilt, your quilting on it, and that precious pic of your little one--how sweet!!
Ooh I just love each of these you've posted pics of. I couldn't pick my favorite among them if you forced me to do so. I would love it if you could give more info about how you made that top one. I realize it's probably super easy for most reading but, for me I'm chicken to look at something and try making it yet. Maybe another year and I'll be more brave. I have to make a quilt for my Granddaughter who arrives sometime next month and I really need to pick something soon to make. I have these grand dreams of something just super gorgeous and way too ambitious for me I'm sure. I need to scale it back a little. This one looks perfect and maybe something I could do much more easily than those I've been thinking of trying to make.
Jocelyn is adorable on her new girlie quilt!
Oh that is so cute. My wife is due in march with a baby girl I cant wait to get her here and in her quilt I made for her. Nice work you did.
Oh the quitlt is nearly as GORGEOUS as Jocelyn. She is such a happy looking baby.
You have been busy this week. Great finishes and quilting.
Love what you have gotten done! But woman... i am going to come through this computer you keep teasing us! LOL!! Keep up the great goals and finishing them up!!
What happened to your Disappearing 9 Patch Variation Tutorial? It disappeared somehow!
Your daughter is precious! Did you use a pattern for her quilt? I'm a newbie quilter and not sure I'm ready to try figuring it out on my own yet but I love that quilt and a friend of mine is having a little girl in May that I would love to make this for. Thanks!
great finishes! i love the swirl quilting in the sashing! such a great idea.
Congrats on all your beautiful finishes...and that happy little baby!!
The baby quilt is so sweet, the quilted flowers are dear and the colors are just happy. Great finish!! I have a boy baby quilt I must baste and get quilted this week. I am using you as my motivation! Thanks!
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30 Inch Yukon Jack Canadian Liqueur Embossed Metal Sign - My Metal Signs Inc.
These custom wall tacker signs are made with .024" 3003H14 aluminum. The aluminum is coil coated at the mill with a high gloss automotive grade white polyester and sheeted to 48" X 144" sheets. First, we shear the larger sheets to smaller 31" X 10" blanks. Then, we screen print four color process using high bake automotive grade inks. After that, we laminate them with 4mil protective shipping film. Once the laminating is complete, we take the 31" X 10" printed rectangles and diecut them to a custom bottle shape. Lastly, we emboss each bottle individually on a 400 ton hydraulic press using our custom made emboss plate.
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The massive display is complemented by a 7-inch touchscreen built into the steering wheel and an 8-inch touchpad between the front seats.
Chinese startup Byton took the automotive world by surprise last year at the Consumer Electronics Show where it exhibited the M-Byte concept with a gargantuan touchscreen display for the infotainment system. For this year’s show in Las Vegas, the company decided to unveil the production-ready cabin of its electric SUV, complete with an expansive 48-inch display or a bit wider than seven iPads put side by side. Tesla’s 17-inch screen doesn’t look so big anymore, does it?
Dubbed the “Shared Experience Display” (SED), it’s by far the largest screen you will find in the automotive industry and stretches from one A-pillar to the other. While at a first glance it might seem distracting because of its sheer size, Byton mentions it does not interfere with the driver’s line of sight. The Chinese automaker mentions the SED complies with all safety and crash standards in all the markets where the M-Byte will be sold.
Here's a comparison between the 2018 concept (left) and the 2019 production version (right).
You’d think such a giant display would be more than enough for the interior of a car, but there’s another one incorporated within the steering wheel. Located just above the driver’s airbag, the 7-inch touchscreen allows the person behind the wheel to configure the car and go through the functions offered by the SED.
But wait, there’s more. Compared to the concept shown 12 months ago, the road-going EV has gained an 8-inch touchpad mounted between the front seats so that the passenger can play with the SED and its numerous features. Because there’s no such thing as having too many screens inside a car, the passengers sitting in the back have their own displays linked to the infotainment system. That brings the grand total to five screens.
Screens aside, this is still first and foremost an EV. A full reveal of the Byton M-Byte production version is programmed for the middle of the year ahead of production start towards the end of 2019 at the Nanjing plant in China. Buyers will get to pick between a 71-kWh, 250-mile base model estimated to start at $45,000 and a more expensive 95-kWh, 325-mile variant.
The M-Byte electric SUV will be available at first in homeland China, with North America and Europe to follow in 2020.
It is not about refining cars. It is about refining life.
BYTON aspires to build premium intelligent electric vehicles for the future. Its crafted cars integrate advanced digital technologies to offer customers a smart, sage, comfortable and eco-friendly driving and mobility experience.
BYTON aims to create a premium brand rooted in China which has a global reach. Its global headquarters, intelligent manufacturing base and R&D center are located in Nanjing, China, while its North American headquarters, devoted to intelligent car experience, autonomous driving, whole vehicle integration and other cutting-edge technologies, is based in the Silicon Valley. The company's vehicle concept and design center is located in Munich. BYTON also has offices in Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong to handle external affairs, marketing, sales, design and investor relations.
BYTON's core management team is made up of the world's top experts from China, Europe and the U.S., all of whom have held senior management positions in innovative companies such as BMW, Tesla, Google and Apple. Their expertise covers automotive design, automotive engineering and manufacturing, electric powertrain, intelligent connectivity, autonomous driving, user interface and supply chain management among other industry sectors, the sum of which represents BYTON's strengths in manufacturing premium automobiles that are equipped with high quality internet technologies.
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Comes equipped with: Black/Ivory, Leather-Trimmed Seating Surfaces, White Orchid Pearl.
This Honda Civic Hatchback also includes Power Driver's Seat, Clock, Climate Control, Tachometer, Dual Zone Climate Control, Memory Seat Position, Power Steering, Telescoping Steering Wheel, Steering Radio Controls, Sunroof, Power Mirrors, Moonroof, Lthr. Steering Wheel, Driver Airbag, Fog Lights, Passenger Airbag, Intermittent Wipers, Side Airbags, Rear Defogger, Security System, AM/FM, Touch Screen, Satellite Radio, Bluetooth, Navigation System, Rear Spoiler, Rear Wipers, Center Arm Rest, Vanity Mirrors, Center Console, Heated Mirrors, Child Proof Door Locks, Daytime Running Lights, Reverse Camera, Side Curtain Airbags, Roll Stability Control, Tire Pressure Monitor, Premium Sound, Carpeted Floor Mats, Aux. Audio Input, Front Heated Seats, HD Radio, Voice Control. Round Rock Honda is committed to a comfortable and relaxed purchase experience. We pride ourselves on our many awards and excellent customer service. Please call, email or just stop on by to see that we are out to make this the best new Honda purchase you can make.
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I blog quite often and I truly appreciate your information. This article has truly peaked my interest. I am going to bookmark your blog and keep checking for new information about once per week. I subscribed to your Feed as well.
Carney reminds me of a high school kid portraying a press secretary. He is not very convincing. Were there any signs before this that there were radicals in the world? Nope, not until YouTube.
I received my Zenyatta Call sweathirt today and I LOVE it!!!! It’s nice and big and soft and I’m so happy to have it since our winter weather is starting and there is snow on the ground (but I hope it goes away for awhile and comes back later next month!)lol!
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Keep all of your menu items shrilling hot and ready for serving any time with the Steam Table 4 Bay Waterbath With Cutting Board and Tray Rack 3000W. It comes with an under shelf! This powerful holding unit can hold four full size food pans full of meat, pasta or side dishes in each 750W well.
This unit consists of heavy-duty stainless steel with galvanized legs. It also features 8″ deep wells, ensuring the reliability and durability you need at your cafeteria or catered event.
The steam table comes with the stainless steel tray rack and polycarbonate 9″ wide cutting board and shelf.
Use the under shelf to store additional food pans, serving utensils, or lids. That way you’ll make sure to keep all of the tools you need within reach. For further convenience, the polyethylene 9″ deep thick cutting board gives you an extra maneuvering space for filling plates or changing out food pans. What’s more, for optimal heating flexibility you can control the temperature via an infinite control knob. It requires a 208/240V electrical connection. Keep hot food items for extended periods of time and protect them from spoiling. All with our 4 bay water bath steam table!
Even more, each table comes supplied with a heated well that can hold water. That way it creates hot steam to maintain temperatures until your food is ready to be served. This 4 bay water bath steam table can keep foods warm and fresh for lengths of time. There is also a drainage pipe for easy removal of water. That makes it ideal for commercial kitchens, cafeterias, banquets and catered events.
Our 4 bay water bath steam table is the ideal piece of equipment for any food service establishment. Great for inside the kitchen as well as in the front of the house, our 4 bay water bath steam table allows you to store and keep food at the proper and, most importantly, safe temperatures for a extended period of time.
Weather you’re using it as your main food line or as a side station for soups and sauces, this 4 bay water bath steam table will surely fit any of your food heating and holding needs.
All of our steam tables are backed by our two year replace or repair warranty.
This product does not come with the spit guard and we do not sell it separately.
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Strengths-Based Development Coach and Trainer.
I work with individuals and teams who want to step into their power to create more of what they want in their lives. I create a safe space to explore current realities, their desired future, and how they can leverage their natural strengths as their super power to move forward powerfully! My role is to help my clients tap into their own wisdom so they can continue to grow after our work is complete, and I provide them with models and tools to make the change process easier.
Brene Brown stating, "Vulnerability is our most accurate measurement of courage."
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Facilities The hotel comprises a total of 56 rooms. A lobby and a reception are available to travellers. Services and facilities at the hotel include a restaurant, a dining area and a transfer service. Wireless internet access in public areas allows guests to stay connected. Those arriving in their own vehicles can leave them in the car park of the establishment. Rooms Each of the rooms is appointed with air conditioning and a bathroom. The rooms each feature a double bed. Additional features include a fridge, a microwave and a tea/coffee station. An ironing set is also available for travellers' convenience. Little extras, including internet access, a telephone, a TV and WiFi, contribute to a great stay. Amenities in the bathrooms include a shower. A hairdryer can also be found in each of the bathrooms. The accommodation offers family rooms and non-smoking rooms. Meals Breakfast can be booked.
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Matted silver framed art piece printed on canvas.
Vincent van Gogh 'Roses 1890' Matted Silver Framed Art Black 11" x 14"
Vincent van Gogh 'Roses 1890' Matted Silver Framed Art White 11" x 14"
Vincent van Gogh 'Roses 1890' Matted Silver Framed Art Black 16" x 20"
Vincent van Gogh 'Roses 1890' Matted Silver Framed Art White 16" x 20"
Love the print! It has a really beautiful frame. Great Deal!
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The Akita is a rich forest green jersey maxi dress. Featuring a v neck wrap front bodice, ruched waistband and a waterfall skirt drape. The back also has an elegant cowl. This dress is perfect for Party, Cocktail, Wedding or any formal occasion.
More sizes arriving shortly. Call for reservation: +44 (0) 208 815 0383.
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We’ve extensively covered it and we’ve already driven it (well, around the Tagaytay Highlands at least), but now Honda Cars Philippines (HCPI) is giving you the best bit of good news: the all-new BR-V is finally here!
After a lengthy weight, the first batch of Honda’s 7-seater crossover is finally being turned over to customers starting today. And commemorating this event, HCPI is actually hosting festive Open House events at all its dealerships while adding two new variants to the BR-V. This brings the total line-up count of the BR-V to four.
It must be remembered that the all-new Honda BR-V is the country’s most affordable 7-seater SUV with a retail price that starts at just P 989,000. According to Honda, the BR-V “has already captured the Filipino families’ taste and interest thanks to its commanding exterior, modern and expansive interior, and dynamic driving performance”.
See the all-new BR-V for yourselves at all Honda Cars dealers nationwide.
Meh, I'd sooner choose a Subaru XV crossover than the BR-V.
Sa tagalog, matagal na paghihintay.
But is it worth the wait?
I think the Juke is still undoubtedly the head turner in this segment.
The Juke looks like a joke, pun intended.
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OSI Maritime Systems (OSI) has been awarded a contract by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) to deliver integrating navigation and tactical systems in support of the Indonesian Navy’s Type 209 diesel submarine programme.
Under the contract, the company will deliver three integrating navigation and tactical systems, as well as ECPINS-W Sub software to DSME for installation on three Type 209 diesel submarines for the Indonesian Navy.
Specifically designed to meet unique requirements of subsurface navigation, the ECPINS-W Sub software is an International Maritime Organization (IMO) approved electronic chart display and information system (ECDIS) and is compliant with the Nato WECDIS STANAG 4564.
The software will enable the crew to navigate the submarine in the most challenging conditions, both dived and on the surface, while providing enhanced situational awareness and navigational safety.
Powered by a diesel electric propulsion system based on four MTU 12V 396 diesel engines with four alternators and one Siemens 3.7MW motor, the Type 209 submarines feature non-hull-penetrating mast and surface-search radar.
"The software will enable the crew to navigate the submarine in the most challenging conditions."
Equipped with a Saab Grintek Avionics electronic support measures system, the submarines in this class are armed with 533mm bow torpedo tubes.
A sonar suite is also installed on the submarine, comprising an Atlas Elektronik CSU 90 hull-mounted passive and active search-and-attack sonar and flank sonar arrays.
Previously, the Indonesian Navy awarded a contract to Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) to build three type 209 submarines in a move to modernise its capabilities in line with other countries across the Asia-Pacific region.
Under the contract, DSME will construct two submarines in South Korea in partnership with shipbuilder PT PAL and the third submarine will be built at PT PAL’s facilities in Surabaya, Indonesia.
Image: Turkish Navy also operates Type 209 submarine. Photo: courtesy of US Navy, by chief journalist Dave Fliesen (Released).
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Seven Card Stud Poker (7 Card Stud) to 80 years of the twentieth century was the most popular form of poker in the world, but with the development of online technologies benefit received such poker games like Texas Hold'em and Omaha , as they are easier to be adapted for online games . But now, Seven Card Stud quickly returns lost position, because this game is considered to be the most interesting professional, aggressive and challenging poker game.
Seven Card Stud can be played with two to eight people at a time. Before you start distributing all players make a certain contribution to the bank, it is called the "ante" and, as a rule, its size is 1/5 of the minimum bet (but not necessarily). Then the dealer from his left, clockwise delivers all the players two cards face down and one face up. This open map called " dor map "and trade at this stage of the game called" third Street , "or the third street in Russian.
Seven Card Stud - the only kind of poker in which the suit separated by seniority. The oldest suit - spades, followed by hearts, diamonds, and the most junior suit - the Cross. Player dor card which has the smallest denomination must make a forced bet 2 ante. If several players have dropped the same card, such as the Group of Seven - then take into account the suit of the card.
The fifth and sixth straights do not differ from the fourth, the beginning of trade determines the strength of open cards. Seventh Street traditionally is called the "river", it still players receive one card. Trade opens the same player who made the first bet on sixth street. The latest round of trade - the players show their cards.
Bank takes the player with the strongest combination (all conventional poker hand are described in Poker Hands ). If two or more players have the same hand combination, the winner is determined by the kicker - the most powerful card that is not involved in a play, but there is a player's hand. If kickers and equal - the pot is split between all winners.
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I remember various achievements when employed as head teacher at a primary school that highlighted the importance of teamwork and how individuals affected each other as a team. One example in a previous school I was employed at was the requirements as a team to complete student expected outcomes. The school ask me as head teacher to work with fourteen other foreign teachers to complete expected outcomes within the school’s curriculum to enable a character analysis of each student.
Numerous expected outcomes for each student meant high volumes of administration. Each student had separate expected outcomes to be completed and a separate grading book for each class. I had seven separate classes with 147 students to grade accordingly. All other homeroom teachers received high administration work but were asked to work together as a team. It was this outstanding team work that helped us achieve a perfect analysis of each student.
I found teamwork important when working with expected outcomes as each student needed to be graded fairly with complete awareness from myself the teacher. Each teacher should at some point discuss the student’s skills in order to have an effective plan to assign various agreed work tasks that work close to other teacher’s areas of teaching. I found efficiently implementing agreed work tasks with other teachers a good practice. I’ll admit that the amount of expected outcomes at Saint Francis Xavier School was extremely high and meant less time for lesson preparation and activities due to teachers spending huge amounts of time on each student expected outcome. I thought the system was effective and worked for both the school and the Ministry of Education although extremely demanding at times.
I had an amazing teacher assistant in Thailand who was highly respected by the children and other foreign teachers in the lower grade known as grade three. The students loved her comfortable style of tuition and I remember the reports on each student been accurate and each student’s performance was observed with good evaluation. The assistant teachers were able to complete student registration and homeroom teachers were to complete expected outcomes for a good indication on how each student was performing in each class. Another memory about my assistant teacher was how she observed the student’s behavioural patterns and assisted me with various teaching styles. I recorded the levels of student development where a range of various learning skills calculated tuition achievements, goals and needs. This meant an improved evaluation for the learning sequence for each child within the classroom environment. This teamwork was fantastic for classroom achievements from students.
My expectations as a homeroom teacher for my students depended on how each student behaved in lessons when classes were separated into A and B classes. Students in class A were higher achievers and B the lower achievers but all were from the same grade. One of the remarkable studies I completed was done under discussion with the student’s from class B.
One afternoon my B students in grade 6 were unusually quiet and I asked them for a reason. One student placed his hand in the air and mentioned that other teachers in the past had not congratulated them on their achievements. I decided to give the students from class B some advice with a quiet speech. I explained that they were more than capable of been great achievers if their assignments continued to follow the guidelines I had them follow. This would reduce the distance between them and class A to become stronger in their studies. I congratulated the students and told them I was thankful for their studies at that point. I explained that they could achieve more than class A and be rewarded with a certificate. The following months were incredible as class B achieved as class A had previous to our discussion , if not a little more. What came next was the reason why I had become a teacher and love to be involved in education.
One day I was playing football with various students outside on the sports field and one student from class B, grade 6 came towards me. He said thanks for everything I had done to motivate him and his class to achieve higher grades than class A in grade 6. His actions and voice made me realise he meant his words. I told him that he had completed all assignments to the level required to move on to the next year. Class A had also achieved high grades that year. For me as a teacher that moment was the highlight of my career because I had conditioned the lower level class to compete and become more active and successful in their studies.
Over the years I have taught at most levels from Kindergarten to Business English and even (IELTS) International English Language Testing System. Business English depended on business resources such as training rooms and computers within the business. On occasion I had to role-play due to lack of learning equipment. The business students I conducted lessons with were within close proximity giving me more time to prepare lessons at home or at the agency I was employed at. I remember teaching from several books that covered interviews, telephone skills, correspondence skills and business role-plays. The senior students found lessons easy to follow and learnt business English to a good level. However some student’s hadn’t learnt any English previous to the contract and needed extra tuition. When this problem arose classes were separated into various levels and more tuition hours were managed by myself to maintain and improve the lower level students to a suitable level eventually decreasing learning hours overall within the business. I have had some wonderful experiences and taught English at Thailand’s Channel Seven’s broadcasting channel, also an advertising re-touching company and a flight booking, system software business. All memories from these experiences in teaching Business English gave me so much motivation and commitment to my work as a teacher.
During projects I found it important to observe pupils performance to understand the wide ranges of skills in all areas of development and to understand the sequence of development each student took. I linked this knowledge with theory and used it to develop my own skills in order to move students towards the development of existing skills and put them into practice with appropriate teams on an equal balance. This in term showed individual learning needs as a group and as an individual. Various students were given a captaincy role in order to make various decisions on ideas within the project. Some children would rather sit back and be controlled other than be the driver of each project. However the projects I initiated were that of a group even though individual students were graded on their captaincy and development skills. The assistant teacher was asked by me as a homeroom teacher to ask for permission before making formal observations of individual students.
To develop into healthy, considerate and intelligent adults I found my students required intellectual stimulation as well as physical care and emotional security, especially the younger students in lower grades. The pupils I worked with were able to constantly think and learn whilst gathering new information and formulate new ideas for themselves. During activities students were able to explore their environment to discover things for themselves. colour. One specification I introduced was an environmental project where students worked as teams to create and produce theme cities built from home products such as plastic bottles, paper and other household waists. The plan was to build a city (photo’s available) that would show huge improvements to the environment. I chose Singapore as and example of a city that is clean safe and of mixed ethnic population. The teams were split into their school colour groups and asked to build a model city. A writing exercise was also implemented where students had to create a set of rules and procedures as to how their cities people were to act to enable a successful environment. The outcome of this project was remarkable and was placed outside the principles office for parents to see. I took photographs at each level so that I could grade the students on their ability to work together and as a team under a time limit.
After the environment project was completed I focused on the pupils strengths and behavioural difficulties that gave an example towards what a student can do in terms of learning from the project. This in term created a foundation for future learning activities.
Teaching meant me passing information then receiving it. The lessons were then interpreted into a meaning or understanding. I have noticed that very young children are not able to use a complex system of symbols; it takes time to learn the system in their home environment. Children use other ways to communicate their needs and feelings to other people, for example: body language, facial expressions and gestures. As a teacher I have never shouted at a student but rather used body language and facial expressions to calm students down or relay a message of my feelings. Students often use facial expressions and body language, which in time is understood by the teacher as he/she begins to know the student more each day. Language is the key factor and my students were taught to communicate with others, relate with others, explore the environment, understand concepts, formulate others and express feelings.
Freedom To Roam Marketing combines travel with opportunities on how to become your own boss and take control of your life to become a successful marketing entrepreneur, traveller or soul writer.
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I've writen a Python script which worked perfectly on v 10. now, when i have v 10.1, the script works good except for 1 part: df.zoomToSelectedFeatures. The script selects a parcel, copies it, adds it to an mxd, zooms to it (it's suppose to do it), changes its symbology, sets the df.scale and exports to JPEG file.
Workspace = r"E:\Local Disk (E)\users\Ilan\Projects\Helkot_Maps\11516_23"
This is only a trial example. the final one will have 'arcpy.GetParameterAsText(0)' for the Gush, Helka and workspace parameters.
I simply dont understand why the df.zoomToSelectedFeatures function doesnt work. i get a jpeg file with all the layers and the symbology, and the scale and the text changes, but without the zoom in to the selected features.
The answer was adding another arcpy.MakeFeatureLayer_management () command after adding the layer to the mxd. Apparantly 'helkaelyr' was no longer a feature layer after adding it.
Plus some new paramaters and checks to make sure there was actually something being selected by the arcpy.SelectLayerByAttribute_management () command.
You have this set to a static scale. Is this not the result you are getting?
You could also try isolating the layer to make sure there aren't any other selections.
The JPEg which the script generates is at 1:8000 scale, as specified in the script. But, the map isnt zoomd to the selected feature. It's fixed on another part, and i just dont understand why.
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I realy have no idea why it's not working.
That error seems to indicate you are not selecting anything or your selection is not valid. Have you checked to see if you actually select anything using .getOuput() or .FIDSet? Have you tried doing this process manually in ArcMap?
Thank you for your help. i have added a line to the script to check if there is actually something being selected usint getOutput (), and then printing the result. I do get the name of the parcel, which means that it is being seleted. But still, df.zoomToSelectedFeatures is not working. The jpeg is still fixed on another part of the map and not on the selected parcel.
can the be some other way of writing this is V 10.1? since its working in v 10? I cant think on anything else, but im not that expirienced in Python.
About trying it manualy in Arcmap - the select by attribute tool works good, then the map zooms to the selcted feature when i pushe the 'zoom to selected featuresw button.
If i try the script in Python window, df.zoomToSelectedFeatures still doesnt work.
I deleted the df.zoomToSelectedFeatures line from the script. Apperantely, in V 10.1 there is an automatic zoom to the selected features, so no command is actually needed, only setting the scale after selection, and deselecting the feature. Other then that i have no other explanation for this.
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What would be the best low VOC product to seal cedar to prevent its natural VOC emissions?
My wife is very sensitive to VOC’s. We have an expensive 3 year old oak bedroom dresser and two matching nightstands with a total of 20 drawers that have dovetailed joints and cedar sides and backs. The cedar in the drawers is causing my wife headaches, and we will have to sell the furniture at quite a financial sacrifice unless I can find a low VOC coating of some kind, primer, polyurethane, whatever, to seal the cedar well enough to prevent its natural emissions. Any ideas as to what would work would be very appreciated.
IMO, you know what to do, remove the furniture, take the loss, for more important issue of health.
Thanks for the tip about milk paint; I appreciate your interest. Milk paint certainly is low VOC itself, but I can't find any indication that it will cover cedar or anything else well enough to prevent the cedar from its "natural" emissions, which is the problem. Having someone use the oak drawer fronts to rebuild all the drawers with something other than cedar is a lower cost effective solution than just giving away $7,000 worth of bedroom furniture; I was just hoping to find a less expensive solution than building new drawers as it seemed there must be something that would effectively seal off odors. They use primers sometimes to cover wood and other materials that have smoke damage to contain the smoke odor; I just don't know how well they work, and no one here seems to know either. Thanks for our suggestion.
BIN for smoke damage. Not low VOC. You might try a water base poly on a test chunk of cedar if you prefer a clear coat. Get some cedar and experiment.
James, shellac is the classic all-purpose sealer. Get some shellac flakes and denatured alcohol, mix them together, and brush the solution on. It will dry almost instantly. You will get a small amount of residual odor from the alcohol but it won't last long.
You can buy pre-mixed shellac but I don't know how pure it is. Flakes are simply the dried excretion of the seedlac bug, and the dried finish is food-safe.
BIN is supposedly pigmented shellac but I don't know how pure it is.
I don't think milk paint would create a continuous barrier against cedar VOC's.
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The Horizons Atlanta 100% Club is designed for donors interested in developing a benefactor relationship with a student by making a strong personal commitment of support. Donors who participate in the 100% Club are matched to a Horizons Atlanta student and commit to funding their summer learning experience at the annual giving level of $2,500, the average per student cost of our signature six-week summer learning program. Thank you for your interest in sponsoring a Horizons Atlanta student! The process is quick and easy.
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Students meet twice a week, like any other regular class. One class is specifically for giving progress updates. These progress updates center around a certain theme each week. For example, subject recruitment might be the focus one week, so students might talk about how they recruited subjects, and what information they provided to these people.
We tend to give each other feedback during progress updates days, and my colleague and I try to throw in different questions about situations that might occur, questions along the tangents of “If this doesn’t go well, what’s your plan B?” We try to talk about issues that might be relevant in students’ future research careers so that we prepare them to be able to tackle these sorts of issues when they get out of this class.
The other day has more of a workshop-feel, where my colleague and I go over methods used in actual research, such as statistics, programming, and scientific writing. For programming, the PI might expect you to be knowledgeable of basic commands of programming languages, so it’s really hard to find research opportunities without any programming experience. We hope that by incorporating these workshop-style classes, we prepare students for these future opportunities.
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Quick & Yummy Turmeric Tea!
Turmeric Tea. Here’s a little bonus brain food/ anti-inflammatory /strong-immune-system tonic for any time.
Why turmeric? HERE is a list of incredible health benefits of turmeric from Dr. Andrew Weil.
In a pot, heat up two cups of coconut milk (fresh is best!), 1/2 tespoon each of organic powdered turmeric & cinnamon and 2 tsp or so of honey to taste. Whisk it until its as hot as cocoa, and you are all set!
Mango Parsley Super Summer Brunch Smoothie!
Doesn’t heating it up destroy some of the health benefits of the turmeric? Wouldn’t it be better to heat up the coconut milk & honey and then whisk in the turmeric just prior to drinking?
Can I use coconut milk powder and still get the results?
The big deal is that there is some fat, as it helps with the turmeric absorption. So, prehaps use it and add coconut oil?
I am on two blood pressure medications , will this alter the affects of this mixture?
i would ask a doctor first because turmeric is powerful…!
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The designated week hasn’t yet been chosen, but Alloway said it could be in May, a low-attendance time for Schlow, as nice weather picks up and the school year ends.
Library staff discussed forgoing annual raises, layoffs and furloughs, choosing the latter over losing staff members. Just last year Schlow received approval for a part-time children’s department staff member.
Since 2007, and including anticipated 2014 figures, Schlow has lost nearly $1 million — $982,571, which includes additional state aid Schlow receives to act as a district library, providing services for facilities in neighboring counties.
Through this year, the state funding losses total $775,000 since 2007.
For 2014, Schlow will request a 5 percent increase in municipal contributions. While the average increase has been 3.7 percent since 2009 and fundraising revenue has doubled since then, the gap left by state aid has become too large.
At the same time, libraries are required by the state to spend 12 percent on materials. For 2014, that won’t be possible, and Alloway said the amount is just below that.
However, for the first time, the deputy secretary of education, or state librarian, has granted waivers for that requirement and one that requires libraries to be open an average of 65 hours a week. The one-week closure will lower Schlow’s average.
Library staff even will be picking up dusters to help clean the facility, as Alloway scheduled a 19.4 percent cut in janitorial and maintenance services. Those are provided by State College, and the cost was controversial among officials last year.
The 2013 budgeted amount was $114,490, and for 2014 it’s proposed at $92,200.
Though Alloway tends to be optimistic about the services Schlow can provide on a tight budget, she’s less so about libraries seeing any future funding increases. Library card holders soon will receive Schlow’s year-end donation appeal.
As she says every year, Alloway said she’s thankful for residents’ generosity.
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Josephus, soldier, statesman, historian, was once a Jew born at Jerusalem approximately 37 CE. a guy of excessive descent, he early grew to become discovered in Jewish legislations and Greek literature and was once a Pharisee. After pleading in Rome the reason for a few Jewish clergymen he back to Jerusalem and in sixty six attempted to avoid riot opposed to Rome, handling for the Jews the affairs of Galilee. within the issues which he made his peace with Vespasian. current on the siege of Jerusalem via Titus, he got favours from those as emperors and from Domitian and assumed their relatives identify Flavius. He died after 97.
As a ancient resource Josephus is important. His significant works are: heritage of the Jewish warfare , in seven books, from one hundred seventy BCE to his personal time, first written in Aramaic yet translated through himself into the Greek we've got; and Jewish Antiquities , in twenty books, from the production of the area to sixty six CE. The Loeb Classical Library variation of the works of Josephus additionally comprises the autobiographical lifestyles and his treatise opposed to Apion .
Based on Christian mythology, the Holy Grail used to be the dish, plate, or cup utilized by Jesus on the final Supper, acknowledged to own fabulous powers. the relationship of Joseph of Arimathea with the Grail legend dates from Robert de Boron's Joseph d'Arimathie (late twelfth century) during which Joseph gets the Grail from an apparition of Jesus and sends it along with his fans to nice Britain; construction upon this subject, later writers mentioned how Joseph used the Grail to capture Christ's blood whereas interring him and that during Britain he based a line of guardians to maintain it secure.
The interval of Israel’s Babylonian exile is without doubt one of the so much captivating eras of biblical background. in this time Israel went via its inner most hindrance and the root was once laid for its such a lot profound renewal. The predicament provoked the construction of a wealth of literary works reminiscent of laments, prophetic books, and ancient works, all of which Albertz analyzes intimately in the course of the tools of social background, composition feedback, and redaction feedback.
Demosthenes (384–322 BCE), orator at Athens, was once a pleader in legislations courts who later turned additionally a statesman, champion of the earlier greatness of his urban and the current resistance of Greece to the increase of Philip of Macedon to supremacy. We own by way of him political speeches and law-court speeches composed for events in inner most instances and political instances.
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CELL PHONE AND PDA FOR WEB ACCESS?
I currently use Verizon as my cell provider. Im interested in purchasing an HP iPAQ HX 2495 PDA Pocket PC. It comes with Windows Mobile with Internet Explorer,and bluetooth connectivity.
Can I use an appropriate bluetooth cell phone or adapt my cell phone to the HP iPAQ in some way so that I can just use my normal cell phone minutes and go online with the HP?
I know that folks use cell phones with their laptop PC's im just wondering if I can do the same with the smaller HP iPAQ HX 2495 ?????
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The Massachusetts softball team remains perfect in the Atlantic 10, but the midweek non-conference circuit hasn’t been so kind.
UMass (22-12, 11-0 A-10) fell to Boston College 3-0 last week, and Wednesday’s return matchup was more of the same, as the Minutewomen dropped a 5-0 contest to the Eagles (23-18, 9-5 Atlantic Coast Conference) at Sortino Field.
As has been the case multiple times this year, defensive mistakes sunk UMass, as two errors and a handful of glances off gloves helped BC post five runs on the afternoon.
The Eagles got off to a quick start, plating two runs in each of the first two innings. With one on and one out in the first, freshman Riley Gregoire dropped a liner in right field to put runners on the corners, and CC Cook laced a double down the right field line to open the scoring. Eagles right fielder Lexi DiEmmanuele legged out an infield single to score the second, as Jena Cozza’s throw to first was too late.
Annie Murphy’s double in the second extended the lead to 3-0, and UMass starter Meg Colleran was pulled after just an inning and a third, allowing four runs on six hits.
Freshman Kiara Oliver allowed one inherited runner to score on an RBI groundout before getting out of the inning, but was strong through the rest of her outing, allowing one run in 5.2 innings of work, surrendering just three hits and striking out seven while walking none.
The Eagles would score one more in the fifth, a solo homer from senior Chloe Sharabba, the only run charged to Oliver.
While only two errors were charged to the Minutewomen, Kaitlyn Stavinoha and Amy Smith both had runners advance when a ball skipped off their glove, and Gregoire struggled to smother a ball that dropped right in front of her in the outfield.
While the defensive struggles weren’t new, the quiet afternoon at the plate was. The usually potent UMass offense, the highest scoring A-10 team in conference play this season, couldn’t muster a run for the second straight week. The hits weren’t exactly nonexistent — the Minutewomen finished with seven — but baserunning mistakes and some poor clutch hitting kept the offense from producing.
BC senior Jessica Dreswick threw seven innings of shutout ball, striking out nine and walking three. She retired the first eight UMass batters, and ran out an infield single for the day’s first hit, Gregoire was thrown out trying to take second with the nation’s leading hitter, Cozza, standing on the on-deck circle to end the third.
Two innings later, Gregoire’s two-out single should’ve loaded the bases, but Stavinoha was gunned down at home after getting stranded in no-mans land.
UMass’ final threat came in the sixth, with the bases loaded and one down, but Dreswick escaped after getting Madison Gimpl to ground into a fielder’s choice and punching out Amy Smith on strikes.
The Minutewomen couldn’t rally in the seventh, and fell to their in-state rivals for the second time in eight days.
The sole bright spots for UMass were Oliver, pitching strong in relief, and Gregoire who, despite some issues defensively, had her best hitting performance of the season.
UMass will host Hartford for a doubleheader on Thursday, before heading to St. Bonaventure to continue conference play this weekend.
First pitch Thursday is set for 1 p.m.
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For the last few months my band has been doing fairly well. We had a successful tour with some press here and there and we’ve release some albums and tapes that have sold fairly well. About six months ago when we received an email from the head of a very legitimate label saying how much she liked our material. We met with her and we discussed our band and basically danced around the issue at hand. It seemed like she wanted to sign us but nothing was presented and we didn’t want to seem presumptuous–we still keep in touch and she has come to our shows. Recently she emailed me saying how she liked some of our new songs. What’s the deal here? Why is she keeping in contact here and there and offering no contract or anything? Is she trying to develop a relationship and then present a deal? Or is she looking for us to write a record and present it to her first? Very confused, not sure if I should be hopeful or not. I don’t want to make the wrong move! Help!
Congratulations on your label interest. My first thought is that she likes your band but perhaps does not think you are quite there yet, and is not committed enough to tell you. She might also think other labels are likely to show interest and wants to maintain connection once you are ready. Friends who have done A&R have often told me about getting in with bands in order to be able to tell their label heads they were in the courtship mix. Her interest might just be her doing her job, or maybe she just wants to make sure she is the first pig in the pile. Maybe she is holding back because she doesn’t think your band is ambitious enough to do the work, since you have never said anything. You will never know unless you ask her.
Are you thinking about making a record? Tell her. Do you want to make records with her label? Tell her. Open up space in the conversation and let her know what it is your band wants, your big dreams and where her label fits. But don’t try to get her to pull the trigger on a deal unless your whole band is certain that it is right for you. You don’t want to just sign with her because she’s the only one to make overtures towards your band.
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Up for grabs is my beautiful Clebar “Heuer” made 2447.
The Watch is in great un-polished condition, and works well.
Serial number visible between the lugs. Looks amazing on the wrist.
UK based £1950 inc shipping.
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Sail Canada is pleased to announce the Volvo Cars Volunteer of the Month for June 2015.
Annie Mitchell of the Royal Canadian Yacht Club in Toronto, Ontario, has been named June volunteer of the month.
Annie’s cheer and commitment to running great races stands behind the growth of match racing at RCYC and in the GTA. Annie runs weekend and weeknight races for the guys’ and girls’ teams at RCYC and at the National Yacht Club (also in Toronto). She travels extensively to join the Race Committees at the Oakcliff Sailing Centre and Chicago in the U.S. – taking roles as Principal Race Officer, Deputy Race Officer and Race Officer. She supports the growth of Canada's Match Racing Program in Toronto through her dedicated support to the RCYC team, and in organizing events and finding key volunteers to make events happen. Fellow RCYC members tout their luck in having Annie as a tireless member of their team – always providing an encouraging atmosphere to all, keeping the sailors and officials excited.
The Royal Canadian Yacht Club is a Member Club with Ontario Sailing and Sail Canada. The Club’s sailing school is a registered CANSail Training Site, delivering CANSail Dinghy and Sail Canada Keel boating programs. RCYC is renowned for organizing regattas of every type for its members and visitors. Rarely is there a weekend when a match race event, a team race event or an Olympic Class championship isn’t taking place out of RCYC. This year the Royal Canadian Yacht Club will host the Pan Am Sailing Event for Toronto2015.
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Known as "The Ka-Bar", this is the black handled version of the iconic Ka-Bar Marine Fighting Knife. A practical, all-purpose utility knife! Features ergonomically-designed slip-resistant handle with powdered 7 inch 1095 Cro-Van steel, clip-style blade.A partially serrated edge makes cutting looped and synthetic materials a breeze. Blade marked 1211. Comes with black leather sheath too, for safe storage. Knife made in USA, sheath made in Mexico. A partially serrated edge makes cutting looped and synthetic materials a breeze.
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Dyldam Parramatta Eels second-rower Manu Ma'u has been charged by the Match Review Committee for Grade 1 Dangerous Throw during the Eels' Round 20 clash against the Gold Coast Titans on Saturday July 23.
The charge, for a tackle on Titans half Ash Taylor in the 54th minute of the game, carries a base penalty of 125 points.
An early guilty plea would see Ma'u miss one week of competition.
The Eels have until midday on Tuesday, July 26, to respond to the charge.
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Our daycare center focuses specifically on caring for severely malnourished children. We have an average of 35 kids attending our recovery program, lasting a maximum of 6 months. We always try to run two full recovery cycles per year. Daily from 09:00am to 04:00pm in the afternoon, our daycare staff with some responsive mothers care for the nutritional needs of these children while our medical staff oversees the additional many medical needs.
After each 6-month recovery cycle, the kids “graduate” and mothers are expected to implement the skills learned from our social workers and councilors who had been attending to them while their children where in our program. Presently, we have been able to have 10 children graduate from our second recovery cycle while the remaining 21 need the full recovery time.
The daily feeding program focuses on malnourished kids of which an average of 100 a day. At our small center, located directly in front of Smokey Mountain, children first receive a bath to ensure and improve their hygiene and health. Our shampoos and soaps used, treat and later prevent scabies and deal with hair lice so rampant among children.
We also provide new clothing and wash their dirty clothes as hardly any water is privately available for their families. After the daily feeding program, we conduct educational and fun activities. All programs offered are clearly structured to provide activities before and after school. At present, we have 6 full-time workers and 10 volunteers working daily in the program.
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After seeing a few photos and hearing that Sri Suva Subramaniya Temple, in Nadi, is the largest Hindu temple in the southern hemisphere I considered it a ‘must see’ on a recent trip to Fiji, both because I was interested in the structure as a Hindu place of worship and also because, according to what I knew at that time, it seemed a little out of place in Fiji. The island nation proved itself to be a fascinating melting pot of people, culture and religion however and a visit to the temple is a great way to learn about Fiji’s Hindu culture.
Before visiting Fiji I expected the majority of Fijians to be south pacific islanders by origin. A little pre-trip research informed me an Indian population remained in Fiji, following the introduction of Indians to Fiji to work on the sugar can plantations. However, I was still surprised at the sheer number of Indian faces I met and saw in Nadi. I don’t know why I was so surprised really as the construction of large temples is often indicative of a large following in the local area. I must have not given it quite enough thought!
Sri Suva Subramaniya is a peaceful haven away from the chaos of the shops and traffic in modern day Nadi. The temple brings bright colours and characterful depictions of deities to the southern end of town. It is one of the few places outside India where it is possible to see traditional Dravidian architecture. The artists that completed the paintings came from India, bringing with them the wooden carvings of deities that feature in the intricate designs of the temple.
Sri Suva Subramaniya temple is dedicated to the deity Murugan and consists of three parts. The main part of the temple complex honours Murugan while the others are the Ganesh temple and Meenakshi and Shiva temple. While the temple is a place of worship, with each feature’s dimensions having specific religious meanings, it is also an extremely artful, colourful and inspiring building, especially if you look up towards the ceiling in the main complex.
In exchange for a $5 Fijian entry fee, I was provided with an information brochure when I arrived at the temple, which explained what some of the paintings depicted. I was otherwise left to wander around myself. The only place that was strictly off-limits to non-devotees was the inner sanctum of the main temple and I was asked to be respectful when using my camera and limit photographs to being taken from the outer perimeter of the main complex.
One of the many reasons I love travelling is that I love learning about different cultures and what other people believe. Being given permission to enter a place of worship is something I see as a privilege so I feel it is essential to show appropriate respect. Visitors are asked to dress modestly and remove shoes before entering the temple complex (on a hot day I’d suggest wearing socks as the ground can get hot). Women are requested to cover their legs and are given a sarong at the entrance if required.
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Why do ruff plastic surgery?
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Everybody appreciates a an amazing kitchen layout. It’s one of the very most items when someone’s considering buying a house.
Whether the kitchen is the heart of your house, or if you’re thinking about putting a property up for sale or on the market as a rental property, nothing says ‘deal breaker’ quite like an outdated old kitchen.
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It’s about having an optimum amount of kitchen space in right places. You require a set-down space on either side of the cooking area and you will need sufficient preparation space.
If you’re chopping up fruit and vegetables then a bin should be close by and be close to the sink so you can wash the vegetables. When you open the dishwasher, make sure you close off half of the kitchen in order to step around it.
Your kitchen’s aesthetic and floorplan is going to be dictated by where the kitchen is located in your apartment and the dimensions of your home . If it’s centrally located as opposed being tucked around a corner, that determines how you design the kitchen.
In the event you have a large sized three-bedroom house or apartment, then you won’t want to be seeing the kitchen from the living room.However if own a studio apartment you you happen to be required to integrate the kitchen as part of the living room.
A kitchen island is a wonderful area to gravitate to and depending on how it’s detailed, it could look less like a kitchen and much more like a beautiful design feature of your new kitchen, rather than a separate space.
When selecting kitchen appliances you should decide on functionality as well as quality. There is a trend towards the big-name suppliers that provide longer-term guarantees and follow-up services. If you are purchasing a quantity of appliances at once, it’s worth considering buying all the same brand. In this way all of the appliances will complement, details such as dials, railings and overall designs will likely be consistent, and you just might obtain a discount.
A important remodelling suggestion when it comes to kitchen flooring is consistency. The choice in the flooring materials depends upon the larger design concept, not just the fact that it’s in the kitchen. It’s important to understand the flow of the flooring throughout the kitchen so it is all connected, rather than it being a different flooring surface just in that zone .
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Thank you for visiting my fundraising page for Team HFOT in the Disney Wine & Dine Half Marathon Weekend! I have committed to raising funds & awareness for Homes For Our Troops, a 501(c)(3) organization that builds and donates specially adapted custom homes nationwide for severely injured post-9/11 Veterans, to enable them to rebuild their lives.
Good luck Tran and Jeff!!
Good luck guys for the big race!!
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This is Bellerophon5685's userpage on Wikipedia. I was formerlly known as dudeman5685. I came up with that name back when I was 16, relatively new to the internet and G. W. Bush was in his first term (hell, it might even have been Clinton). Now its pretty embarrassing putting it on job applications and such. I've used it for so many applications on wiki, imdb, etc though that its become a "brand" now. However I have now changed it to the much less chimerical Bellerophon5685.
Anyway, my areas of activity on Wikipedia are pretty broad. I take a particular interest in political and social movements usually thought of as radical or extremist, both on the right and the left (as well as some that defy classification). I do this because I think, especially in today's political atmosphere, the phenomenon of extremism deserves an unbiased, scientific examination. Too often it is used by opposition research and partisan outfits to exaggerate the radicalism of their opponents and the "threat" that the theocratic, socialist, communist, Klan etc. movement are supposed to represent and how "close" they are to mainstream politicians. I take the view that these movements have intrinsic interest in and of themselves, and should be studied with a more scholarly to determine the large role that "extremism" plays in the larger political and social context.
I have other interests, of course - religion, folklore, mythology, classical and medieval studies, fraternal orders, literature etc. Mostly things that focus on people and their interaction with each other.
Congratulations on reaching 100000 edits. You have achieved a milestone that only 530 editors have been able to accomplish. The Wikipedia Community thanks you for your continuing efforts. Keep up the good work!
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