Observe then that He said not simply, Do not before men, but added, to be seen of them. For if a poor man come before us in the presence of any one, how shall we be able to give him alms in secret? If we lead him aside, it must be seen that we shall give him. Or if this may be, how can they be so done that we should not know of it. But how can it be that we should not do our alms before men. It is our heart we must watch, for it is an invisible serpent that we have to guard against, which secretly enters in and seduces but if the heart be pure into which the enemy has succeeded in entering in, the righteous man soon feels that he is prompted by a strange spirit but if his heart were full of wickednesses, he does not readily perceive the suggestion of the Devil, and therefore He first taught us, Be not angry, Lust not, for that he who is under the yoke of these evils cannot attend to his own heart. And therefore he enjoins this to be more carefully avoided, Take heed that ye do not your righteousness before men. Observe how He has begun as it were describing some beast hard to be discerned, and ready to steal upon him who is not greatly on his guard against it it enters in secretly, and carries off insensibly all those things that are within. For though it is easy for any not to wish for praise when it is denied him, it is difficult not to be pleased with it when it is offered.ĬHRYSOSTOM. 318.) How great strength the love of human glory has, none feels, but he who has proclaimed war against it. The servants of the Devil are tormented by all kinds of vices but it is the desire of empty glory that torments the servants of the Lord more than the servants of the Devil.ĪUGUSTINE. For when any thing truly glorious is done, there ostentation has its readiest occasion so the Lord first shuts out all intention of seeking glory as He knows that this is of all fleshly vices the most dangerous to man. xix.) Yet be it known that the desire of fame is near a kin to virtue. Therefore the Lord now forbids these two things, glory and wealth, to the attention of believers.ĬHRYSOSTOM. 28:1.) And in the same place it is added of earthly wealth, The Lord shall make thee abound in all good things. Concerning the first is that spoken in Deuteronomy, The Lord shall make thee higher than all the nations who dwell on the face of the earth. human glory, and abundance of earthly goods, both of which seem to be promised in the Law. All earthly things are reduced to two main heads, viz. (non occ.) Christ having now fulfilled the Law in respect of commandments, begins to fulfil it in respect of promises, that we may do God’s commandments for heavenly wages, not for the earthly which the Law held out. Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in Heaven.
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* _player.ShouldDropWeapon( player, bool ) * Returned tables now start from 1 instead of 0 as is the Lua * GetPlayerDamageScale( hitgroup ) - see a * _player.ShowPanel( player, name, show ) * _phys.ApplyForceOffset( ent, force, worldpos ) * _npc.AddRelationship( ent, ent, disposition, priority ) * _util.ScreenShake( pos, amp, frequency, duration, radius ) * Scope graphics are now drawn behind kills/chat * Chat style messages now show in single player * HideAndSeek - Hiders get melon and baby guns * Fortwars - Fixed buying weapons as spectator * Text, rects and wquads showing in the next level * Changed weapon select menu to fit more weapons (use gm_wepselmode You also have to keep them installed.* Spawn menu now grows with a higher screen res
Kestrel Cruiser (The Kestrel / Red-Tail): A standard if slightly old ship with missiles and acceptable shields.Each ship has a fixed layout, although a different variant of that ship (with a slightly different layout, skin, and starting equipment) can be unlocked by achieving 2 of the 3 ship specific achievements. Only one ship, the Kestrel, is unlocked at the start, and the other ships are unlocked through special quests and events. There are ten types of spaceships in FTL, each with its own specific style of gameplay. There is no hard-save system, although players can suspend their current run and return to it later. This is a protracted rule of three boss fight.įTL is a roguelike with permadeath, and a poor decision or ill luck could mean the end of the ship and that particular run. In sector eight, players reach the Federation holdout where they must defeat the attacking Rebel Flagship to win the game. Some of these encounters are puzzles, requiring the player to have certain races or equipment aboard their ship, choose a certain dialogue option, or use a specific weapon during a battle. On top of this, each jump beacon brings about a new encounter, be it a random enemy encounter, neutral mercenaries and traders, or even friendly Federation allies willing to lend a helping hand. This is not a game over, but instead a series of very difficult enemy encounters. While balancing their resources (fuel, scrap, missiles and drone parts) players must clear the sector or risk being caught by the Rebel fleet. Each sector could be made up of roughly 10 to 20 beacons. Players guide this ship through seven sectors, navigating from jump beacon to jump beacon to reach the exit at the end of the sector. Gameplay The StartįTL follows the journey of a ship on a mission to determine the fate of the noble Galactic Federation, which has all but been destroyed by savage Rebel terrorists. The iPad version of the game was launched April 3, 2014, as part of the Advanced Edition update, which includes a new race, new variations of all the ships, and new equipment and events. The game was designed to recreate the experience of crew management in sci-fi shows like Star Trek and Firefly.įTL was released Septemon the PC and Mac, after a wildly successful Kickstarter campaign. What sets FTL apart from others in the genre is its abstracted playstyle the game plays more like a strategy game or RPG than a flight simulator. If, however, it goes through your shield it may hit another, less crucial system (or even an empty room) and your shields will be undamaged.Created by former 2K China employees Justin Ma and Matthew Davis, FTL is a space simulation at its core. If it hits the ship while your shields are up they will be reduced in power for a few seconds. If your enemy is attacking with an ion weapon, consider letting your shields down. Submitted by: ign_cheats Avoid Ion Shield Damage On average you can max your shield crewman in 10 minutes. Every asteroid strike that hits your shield will give your crew manning the shield 1 experience point. If you encounter combat in an asteroid field after destroying the enemy ship, don't jump! Remove your pilot to drop your evasion to 0%.So long as your timing is good you won't take damage but the crew member manning shields will receive a small boost. If you have a cloaking device be sure and enable it when the enemy fires - even if they can't hurt you.If your enemy is unable to penetrate your shield just sit tight! While they futilely attack you your engine, pilot and shield crew gain experience.This way they will not be able to escape. Disable the enemy's engines to maximize your combat time. Your crew gain's experience with every shot. If you have a low-level weapon that will not damage the enemy's hull keep firing (so long as you are not in danger).Use this fact to your advantage and prolong combat when your enemy is unable to damage your hull. Your crew members gain valuable skills while they are in combat. and countless other improvements to the classic open-ended sandbox gameplay.Ībout This Game State of Decay 2 is an open-world survival-fantasy game set just after the zombie apocalypse. A new introductory experience and improved controls to help you master the apocalypse.Two-handed heavy weapons with new melee combat moves to bust zombie heads.Providence Ridge: a brand-new open-world map full of forests, zombies, and mystery.An expanded soundtrack with hours of new thematic musical arrangements.Remastered graphics and an upgraded engine featuring realistic fog effects.
These are not even capable of keeping a lone ant alive for more than a few minutes. The brain of an ant is only a rudimentary cluster of neurons. Reductionist principles in science are very important, but it turns out that ‘1 + 1’ usually equals a lot more than ‘2’. While there may be a kind of mechanistic, billiard ball logic governing the behaviour of atoms, the origins of life itself remain a mystery. Nor can we calculate how things work from the ground up. In many other respects as well, our planet is exquisitely attuned to the requirements of life. This sometimes called the Goldilocks principle – not too hot, not too cold but just right. Instead it means they need to work together to fight the conflict, rather than working with the conflict to fight each other.When we look at life on Earth, scientists can’t explain why everything works as well as it does. That does not mean that they are doomed to fail. No one is perfect when it comes to marriage and every couple faces hard times. Barring physical limitations, when a couple has not had sex for a long time it is usually an indicator that emotional intimacy is severely damaged and the partners have no pleasure in each other. Sex expresses and reinforces emotional connection. Both strengthen feelings of closeness, and so when they are missing, couples can feel distant and disengaged from one another. Partners who are unwilling to discuss their feelings, lack interest in one another’s emotional life, and fail to show reciprocal empathy run the risk of losing emotional intimacy, which can significantly harm the relationship.īoth verbal and physical affection are an important aspect of a healthy relationship. Successful marriages include emotional engagement between both spouses. This can lead to a loss of respect, increasing distance, and each spouse withdrawing from one another. Instead they sit and fester, turning something that may have been small into a huge monster you can’t forget. Unfortunately, ignoring differences does not make them go away. Couples who do not find a way to resolve differences without hurting the relationship end up avoiding conflict which can lead to differences being ignored. Instead, lack of effective conflict resolution is what really hurts the relationship. Having conflict in a marriage is not a death sentence. The important thing is for every individual to focus on doing what they can to be a partner who encourages a healthy relationship, and work to avoid the detrimental indicators of divorce. Thereafter, the chances of divorce go up again.”ĭoes this mean that if you are married at 18, or still unmarried at 38 there’s no hope for you? Definitely not. Wolfinger explains, “the odds of divorce decline as you age from your teenage years through your late twenties and early thirties. You have to get it just right.Īge at marriage has a U-shaped relationship to divorce risk. Getting married too young is risky, but so is getting married too late. Both studies indicated that there’s a delicate balance for marrying at the right time. Then, to assure he got it right, he did it again. Wolfinger studied the best time to get married in order to lower your risk of divorce. The Goldilocks Theory of Marriage and Divorce While it is true that people change and every couple will hit hard times throughout their relationship, science can give us a helpful hand to know our prime age for successful marriage. Research suggests that there is a ripe time for marrying, just as there is time when my produce is best for picking (I should probably look at the latter before shopping again). Sometimes I get duds, but other times I have some really delicious fruits and vegs. All I can do is pick the best I can, and wait until I get home to see how well I did. I try to look like I’m a knowledgeable adult by knocking on the watermelons, squeezing the tomatoes, smelling the oranges. I never know what I’m doing when I pick produce at the grocery store. You can use multiple instances of the same Audio Unit at once. Audio Units are smaller, modular parts of apps you have installed which load directly within Audiobus.Apps are full-sized applications you have installed which launch into the background and keep running during your Audiobus session.There are several categories of things that can be used, accessed by tabs running along the bottom of the pop-up: See the Audiobus Compatible Apps Directory for an extensive database of compatible apps and where they can be used with Audiobus. in the input position), and receive audio (in the output position). Some apps can appear in multiple positions – for example, a live-looper app can both send audio (i.e. Outputs like a multi-track recorder or DAW, live-looper, sampler or a channel on an audio interface plugged into your iPad.Effects like a delay, chorus, EQ or distortion, or a MIDI scaler or arpeggiator.Or, a MIDI keyboard, step sequencer or Bluetooth MIDI guitar. Inputs like the device microphone, or a channel on an audio interface plugged into your iPad, a synthesizer app, guitar amp simulator app or drum machine.Tap one of the buttons to open a list of things that can go into that position: Together, they make up a pipeline: the basic building block in Audiobus.Īudio or MIDI flows from the left to the right, and you can have as many items in the left (input) and center (effect) slots as you like. They are labelled INPUT, EFFECT and OUTPUT. When you start Audiobus, you'll see three empty boxes with symbols in the middle. Create a ducker or sidechain compressor using an audio-envelope-to-MIDI utility tied to the audio level control of a bass synth, or the parameter on a compressor effect on its output.Use an LFO generator Audio Unit to drive the bandpass frequency parameter on an EQ effect, for a continuous sweep sound.Use a MIDI sequencer Audio Unit to drive a synth, and a different one to drive a virtual drumkit, and keep it all perfectly synchronized with your external MIDI gear.Run vocals and guitar into your iPad, and apply different effects for each, then record each separate track live in a multi-track recorder, or record the mix in a live-looper – or, send each channel out separately through an external audio interface.Set up one set of effects for one song, and a totally different set for a different song, and use a MIDI pedal to switch between them.Control a modular synth simulator app from a MIDI keyboard, through an arpeggiator.Play a synth app into a live-looper app like Loopy.
The question of visibility has plagued the school library Todd, 2010), particularly the increasing trend of mobile technology as theĭominant platform for accessing information content, the changing arena ofĬontent publishing and development of new delivery platforms such as aps, ebooks The increasingly digital information environment of school education (Hay & With this decreasing visibility there areĪlso fundamental questions being asked about the sustainability of school in The sustainability of school libraries in many countries, with evidenceĮmerging of cuts in library budgets and professional staffing. Part of my motivation for documenting stories about theĭynamics and future of school libraries centers on questions being asked about Libraries in learning, and their future in an evolving educational landscape. Provided me with claims, challenges and questions about the role of school These stories provide compelling, cumulative and deeply personal insights into Learning, and the development of life skills. Told in many different ways how their school library had helped them with their Through Ohio School Libraries” research study (Todd & Kuhlthau, 2005). Remember when we collected 10,000 stories as part of the “Student learning Story, as a data collection approach, has been School libraries and how young people engage with them to learn, I amĬaptivated by the stories that people tell about school libraries. Significant, as embodying certain meanings that "make sense of things. Presented with the stories which underlie or embody that viewpoint the abilityĪnd tendency to see people, places and things in fresh, insightful andįunctional ways in a story and the ability to recognize certain elements as History in any explanation the ability to see another's viewpoint when Stories) the capacity to sense the importance of context, character, and Sometimes to have trouble understanding things when they aren't presented as To understand things better when they are presented in the form of a story (and According to Atlee (2003) of TheĬo-Intelligence Institute, the strengths of the use of “story” as a dataĬollection and presentation approach include: t he tendency Through telling and selection, are given cohesion, meaning and direction. Narratives that convey the richness, depth and variation of experience, and Has often been lost in the data-driven research environment, yet it is these Sandelowski (1991) posits that the narrative nature of human beings Traditional scientific methods in order to develop rich patterns of meaning and Social work, have embraced the use of stories and narrative forms as anĮffective methodology that is able to hone in on findings not possible through Intelligence, Mateaas & Sengers (1999) claim that a growing number ofįields ranging from history to psychology, law and medicine, education to I believe in the power of the good story! Falling under the scholarly discourse of Narrative Ah, the power of the story, and the challenge to learn from Owe it to each other to respect our stories and learn from them” (Williams, inĬole, 1989, 30). Yours and mine - it’s what we all carry with us on this trip we take, and we Speaks of the power of the story: “ Their story, In a similar vein, the American poet William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) Retell it, rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as timesĬhange - truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts" (Rushdie, 1993, 17). Who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives - the power to In his essay titled "One Thousand Days in a I have always been inspired by many of the statements of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Standards and the Power of the Story: Creatingĭirector, Center for International Scholarship in School Acquire customers and generate more leads via Facebook Messenger. Chatbots As Medical Assistants In COVID-19 PandemicĤ. Powerful marketing tool to build a Messenger bot, broadcast messages and automate sales. It has options for agencies, marketers, and SMBs and creators. 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Source: The Guardian You can swipe between decision cards or change topic categories to find the most relevant articles. freemium 30.0 / Monthly 51 Chatfuel Chatfuel is the best bot platform for creating an AI chatbot on Facebook. You just need to answer a sequence of questions to help it with choosing the right pieces. 28 Landbot An intuitive no-code conversational apps builder that combines the benefits of conversational interface with rich UI elements. And of course, it also responds to any typical weather-related question: Poncho is a great example of a chatbot that’s focused on solving one specific problem in a way that’s fun and easy to use on social media. There are mainly three different types of bots that you can build here-Īs the name suggests, rule-based bots work on predefined rules. The Guardian deployed a Facebook chatbot that can send you top stories and article recommendations. 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Some of these cruise ships were built in 2020 and had initially intended to make their maiden voyages before the pandemic hit, however other cruise lines built brand-new vessels, kitted out with all-manner of exciting new features, for the 2021 season.įrom the tattoo parlour onboard Virgin’s Scarlet Lady, to Carnival Cruise Line’s rollercoaster-clad Mardi Gras, this is what you can expect from the new cruise ships in 2021. Here are some of the new cruise ships that took to the seas in 2021. New Cruise Ships for 2021 While 2020 saw sailing suspensions and travel bans, cruise lines shared a multitude of exciting new launches in 2021. Discover sustainable luxury on board Silver Nova, Silversea’s newest ship. 8 of the best Antarctica cruises to book now for 2022 & 2023.The best Mediterranean cruises to book now for 2022.Emerald Azzurra kicks off its maiden season in the Red Sea before heading to the Mediterranean for summer and autumn.Īn eight-day Mediterranean Enchantment cruise from Athens to Dubrovnik on April 9, 2022, costs from £4,366 per person for a balcony suite (01 .uk). Carrying just 100 passengers in 50 cabins – most of which feature balconies – there’s plenty of space in which to simply relax.Īlthough the ship is intimate in size, you’ll find more than enough entertainment on board, with two bars, a restaurant, spa, gym, an infinity-style pool and a water sports platform. Picture: Getty Images/iStockphoto/Zhanna_DoroshenkoĮmerald Azzurra, the first superyacht from Emerald Waterways, that is predominantly known for river cruising, debuts in January 2022. Disney Wish, Disney Cruise LineĮmerald Azzura. Norwegian Prima’s maiden season starts in northern Europe this August, before heading across the Atlantic.Īn eight-day cruise, Northern Europe: Iceland and Norway to Reykjavik, departing Amsterdam on August 17, starts from £2,564 per person for an inside cabin (03 ncl.com). When it comes to accommodation, an exclusive area known as the Haven by Norwegian offers upscale suites, lounges and a spa that are only accessible via private lifts. Its Ocean Boulevard will wrap around the entire deck and guests can not only lounge in hammocks or dine al fresco, but also swim in two infinity pools or cross a glass bridge that will make you feel like you’re walking over water. The 3,215-passenger ship claims to offer the most outdoor deck space of any new-build. Not a line to shy away from innovations at sea, Norwegian Cruise Line’s Norwegian Prima will be the first of six new-generation ships – with one due to launch each year until 2027 – when it sets sail this summer. |