Many RPGs are fundamentally skill-driven, using successes in character talents to adjudicate action, create uncertainty and drive the story forward. On occasions, the story might develop in such a way that a skill takes centre stage – can the hero defuse the bomb before the City is levelled? Can he repair the damaged controls before t he light aeroplane plunges into Mont Blanc?
For fighting, we have combat systems. For social interaction, we now have a number of social combat systems such as those offered by Luke Crane's Burning Wheel and Green Ronin's A Song of Ice & Fire. But for extended skill contests, the RPG world is decidedly under-resourced. You have options like extended checks (multiple successes to complete), but this is often nothing more than rolling a single skill lots of times. Dull, dull, dull. It lacks the interesting element of good combat-type systems, which is that of tactical choices.
Probably the best system I've seen is West End Games classic system Torg (recently spotted resurfacing on Bundle of Holding to the delight of fans like me).
Is there more than 1 letter that I need? In which case, should I try to complete multiple elements while I can, or play safe and just go for a single success?
If it's a Complication, you need to succeed at a roll, or something bad happens ("Oh no, my pliers fell down the lava-filled chasm!") – lose a step, increase the difficulty of future steps, or require the character to switch to a new skill.
This is a relatively easy system to port across to other RPGs, although it works best with games that allow multiple actions in a single round – without that a key element of tactical choice is removed. One issue is the reliance on the initiative cards to generate the A, B, C, D results. A possible fix is to roll 4 different coloured dice at the start of each round, with every die that is above a certain value meaning that task can be attempted. If none of the dice reach the Threshold, it's a Complication. This actually adds more flexibility than the Torg cards, as you as GM could control the rate at which certain tasks are possible – ramp up the tension by making that key D stage only crop up 20% of the time.
Another downside is that it can be sometimes difficult to fit the narrative to the game mechanics. The best way to resolve this is to make sure a specific task is ascribed to each letter, and then improvise why certain things aren't possible, especially if the scene is ripe with environmental or other hazards (as should be the case for a dramatic skill check). Why can I not analyse the circuits this turn, but I could disarm the trap or cut the fuse? Well, you try to concentrate on the circuit layout but are distracted by a nearby explosion or roaring T-Rex.
A new approach – Skill Combat!
There's another possible approach to spice up Skill Contests that as far as I'm aware no game has yet embraced. To go with Physical Combat and Social Combat, we have Skill Combat!
Each round, you try to cause damage to the task's Difficulty Points. This is largely the same as how many RPGs treat extended skill checks at the moment – you roll against difficulty and have to accumulate a certain number of successes. You could go with fixed skill damage, or inflict the difference between the Target Number and your result. For class-based games such as D&D, I'd be inclined to go further and give each class a Skill Damage die to reflect differing ability (so a Rogue does d10 skill damage, a Fighter or Wizard only d6). Otherwise this is a relatively straight-forward idea.
However, this is the new bit. As with any combat, the task also tries to cause damage to you in return. If the game has an existing mechanic to represent narrative defeat – such as Fate or HeroWars – use that. For something like D&D you could add a new characteristic for skill hit points (e.g. "Composure"), along with another characteristic (e.g. "Cool") that represents your Skill Armour Class. Each round as you attack the Task, the Task attacks back, trying to hit your Cool and undermine your Composure. The amount of damage done by the Task is probably a little abstracted, based on the overall stress of the situation: it's not about how much time is left, it's about how much pressure the PC perceives themselves to be under. Again, in a d20-style game, it's pretty easy to come up with suitable values.
If the Difficulty Points reach zero, you succeed against the odds. If your Composure reaches zero, you run away screaming, throw your hands up in the air claiming it's just too damn hard, or wh atever. In effect, this gives you a dual timer track – will the hero repair the aeroplane controls, will the plane crash, or will the hero reach breaking point and run for a parachute in a (futile) attempt to save herself?
Because this system introduces the dual nature of attacking and being attacked, it opens up the opportunity for slightly crunchy tactical options. This changes extended skill contests by adding a critical missing element – player choice. It's no longer just roll your skill. Do you decide to Taking Care (reduce your chance of success, but minimises your risk of losing Composure)? Do you tackle the task Recklessly (reducing your skill, but boosting the Difficulty damage you inflict)?
This entry was posted in House Rules, Mechanics and tagged Mechanics, Skills on February 15, 2015 by The Dice Mechanic.
The GUMSHOE system, as designed by Robin D. Laws and used in a number of RPGs, Trail of Cthulhu and Mutant City Blues being but two, has been widely praised for turning the standard approach of how role-playing game systems dealt with the issue of clues and information on its head.
Traditional RPGs doled out clues and information to the players only if characters completed a successful action of some kind – did you notice the single blonde hair in the victim's hand, did you find the relevant newspaper clipping in the library, do you know anything about ancient Aztec murder rituals? On the plus side, this gave players a sense of positive achievement if they managed to find a clue; on the flip side, a failed roll could stall the adventure and bring the entire story crashing to a halt. So GUMSHOE does what many GMs ended up doing anyway: if you have the necessary investigative skill, you get the clue. No roll necessary. You just get it. Simple and, in hindsight, so obvious.
But that's not the genius of GUMSHOE. Well, ok, maybe it is. But it's not the genius I want to talk about today.
Objective – the players must have some firm goal that they're looking to achieve.
Challenge – a clear obstacle between the players and the objective.
Risk – the scene presents some sort of negative consequence for failure.
Reward – the scene presents some sort of positive consequence for success.
Choices – the players have to decide how best to overcome the challenge.
Resources – the players have limited resources that inform what Choices they can exercise.
Objective – the heroes want to save a Princess, locked up in a far-away tower.
Challenge – the tower is being guarded by a Dragon.
Risk – the dragon will eat you. Or maybe eat the Princess. Or both.
Reward – if you kill the dragon, rather than just avoid it, you get its huge pile of treasure.
Choices – you have potions, spells, different types of weapons and a range of combat maneuvers that you can exercise to take down this hideous monster.
Resources – you have a limited number of potions and spells. In addition, you have a finite number of Hit Points and when they have gone, you're dead.
This example has all of the mechanical ingredients to be a great dramatic scene. To become the finished article, it probably needs one other thing, which is to be interesting, but it's got all of the basics.
Other scenes frequently lack one of more of these ingredients, and the more of these that are missing, the more it is difficult to capture an appropriate level of drama. A classic one of these is the simple binary obstacle.
Take a rock in the path. You can move it, or you can go back and find another route, which will waste time. You have an objective. The rock is the challenge. The risk is losing time. There's no clear reward. You may have multiple ways of dealing with the rock but nothing to stop you potentially trying all of them, so there's limited decision-making. Resources may be used, but that depends on what Choices you exercise. In the absence of real pressure, its unlikely to be an issue.
In D&D, we could ask the players to make Strength rolls for their characters. They succeed or they fail. They could use a potion of Bull's Strength, but it's unlikely that any party would do so. So it becomes a straight roll. Succeed. Fail. Basically, it's a rubbish obstacle. Unless your aim is just to annoy your players, you should just narrate your way through and let them get onto the next really dramatic challenge… which, knowing D&D, is probably another fight.
However, this is another area where GUMSHOE really cleverly changes how we think about simple binary obstacles. In GUMSHOE, each skill has a numerical rating. If you want to use that skill, you have to spend one or more points, reducing its numerical rating in return for getting a bonus on your die roll. So having a high skill level doesn't mean you're always better at something, it means you have more opportunity to choose to be better at something. But once it's gone it's gone. All of a sudden, we're embuing every single skill roll with the elements of Choice and Resources.
In GUMSHOE, we still have that rock. My character has the Athletics skill. I could spend some points to improve their chance of success, but how many should I spend? Spending 1 doesn't improve chances that much, so I might have just wasted it. How important is this rock anyway? If I fail, is there someone else in the party who might be able to succeed after me? I only have 2 Athletics points left, what if I need some later on?
With GUMSHOE's resource-based skills, every single skill-use is embued with inherent dramatic tension. It's only modest, not over-whelming. It's unlikely to lead to analysis-paralysis. But it does mean that the players are constantly thinking about what is important to them, trying to think ahead to future challenges, trying to juggle their choices and balance the limited resources available to them. Just as with how GUMSHOE handles clues, it's a really simple mechanic that has a huge impact on game play.
Other RPGs have suggested bringing tension into simple obstacles through the use of complications. This is basically a way of ensuring that even simple tests have a heightened Risk and/or Reward. So it's not a question of whether you can move the rock – of course you can, given enough time. It's a question of whether you can move the rock before the mob of ravenous ghouls descends upon you and feasts on your weak, scrawny, unable-to-shift-a-rock-fast-enough bodies. Luke Crane's Burning Wheel puts this concept at the core of its conflict resolution mechanics, requiring that every action is framed in terms of not what you do but what you want to achieve: you don't say "I try to move the rock", you say "I move the rock before the ravenous ghouls can get to us", placing the onus on the player to set up the consequences for failure.
So if you really want to make simple skill checks dramatic and exciting, go the full whammy. Combine the use of consequences with GUMSHOE's inherent Choices/Resources aspect. Now you have the tools at your finger tips to turn every non-combat obstacle into a dramatic challenge that tests, excites and challenges your players.
NB: Just realised I should add a citation to the end of this. Main inspiration for this was listening to discussion on obstacles in RPGs in Ken & Robin Talk About Stuff podcast, episode 103. If you haven't listened to it before, there's no time like the present!
This entry was posted in Mechanics, Uncategorized and tagged Conflict resolution, Gumshoe, Mechanics, RPG, Skills on October 23, 2014 by The Dice Mechanic.


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Chuck Todd: Nothing new in Obama's déjà pivot
Ed MorrisseyPosted at 3:21 pm on July 25, 2013
NBC's Chuck Todd didn't expect to hear anything new from Barack Obama's "déjà pivot," and in that sense Obama certainly delivered. Noting that the first three letters of news is N-E-W, Todd told the Morning Joe crew today that Obama didn't make any of either. Obama went on the campaign trail not to make a difference in the political debate, Todd believes, but as a self-tonic (via The Corner):
Yesterday's job speeches were more of the same from President Obama, says NBC's Chuck Todd. "If you're looking for the 'new' — No, there wasn't 'new' in there," he said on Morning Joe today.
Todd sensed that the speeches were also a sign that the "flagging" White House is "stuck" because of a lack of agenda. "I think the president needed to do this," Todd explained. "I think he needed to go in front of crowds, I think he needed to re-energize himself."
Dana Milbank had reached that conclusion a day before Obama gave the speech. The entire exercise, Milbank wrote, showed that Obama was out of ideas, and had gone into "reruns" instead:
How can the president make news, and remake the agenda, by delivering the same message he gave in 2005? He's even giving the speech from the same place, Galesburg, Ill.
White House officials say this will show Obama's consistency. "We plead guilty to the charge that there is a thematic continuity that exists between the speech the president will give in Galesburg, at Knox College on Wednesday, and his speech in Osawatomie [Kansas, in 2011] and his speech back at Knox College in 2005," White House press secretary Jay Carney said.
Yes, but this also risks sending the signal that, just six months into his second term, Obama is fresh out of ideas. There's little hope of getting Congress to act on major initiatives and little appetite in the White House to fight for bold new legislation that is likely to fail. And so the president, it seems, is going into reruns. …
If he's to break through the resistance, Obama will need some bold new proposals. That's why his speech returning to the oldies would seem to confirm that the White House has given up on big achievements.
The editors at the Wall Street Journal note that Obama's attempt to blame "inequality" for the sorry state of the Obama recovery is indeed the same-old, same-old — and it's the reason why Obama had to give the speech at all. Had Obama focused on growth rather than "fairness," both of these problems might have disappeared:
The President summed up his economic priorities close to the top of his hour-long address. "This growing inequality isn't just morally wrong; it's bad economics," he told his Galesburg, Illinois audience. "When middle-class families have less to spend, businesses have fewer customers. When wealth concentrates at the very top, it can inflate unstable bubbles that threaten the economy. When the rungs on the ladder of opportunity grow farther apart, it undermines the very essence of this country."
Then the heart of the matter: "That's why reversing these trends must be Washington's highest priority. It's certainly my highest priority."
Which is the problem. For four and a half years, Mr. Obama has focused his policies on reducing inequality rather than increasing growth. The predictable result has been more inequality and less growth. As even Mr. Obama conceded in his speech, the rich have done well in the last few years thanks to a rising stock market, but the middle class and poor have not. The President called his speech "A Better Bargain for the Middle Class," but no President has done worse by the middle class in modern times.
By now the lackluster growth figures are well known. The recovery that began four years ago has been one of the weakest on record, averaging a little more than 2%. And it has not gained speed. Growth in the fourth quarter of 2012 was 0.4%. It rose to a still anemic 1.8% in the first quarter but most economists are predicting even slower growth in the second quarter.
Populism may sell with voters, but its policies don't create economic growth, as the last four years have conclusively demonstrated. If Obama was more interested in economic growth than his own political energy, he might have suggested a real change of course on regulatory and tax policies. Instead, we just got the familiar déjà pivot.
Tags: Barack Obama Chuck Todd economy fairness income inequality Obamanomics pivot populism

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Les Thermopyles sont un rivage et un ancien passage de Grèce délimité par le golfe Maliaque au nord et le Kallidromo, un massif montagneux du Pinde, au sud. Dans l'Antiquité, le rivage se trouvait contre la falaise mais il a reculé, laissant la place à une plaine côtière étroite mais suffisamment large pour permettre le passage d'une route, d'une autoroute et d'un chemin de fer. Ce passage constituait un point stratégique dans la Grèce antique et de nombreuses batailles y ont été livrées dont la première en -480, qui a opposé les Grecs aux Perses, et la dernière en 1941, qui a vu s'affronter les Allemands contre les Grecs et les Britanniques.

Toponymie
Les Thermopyles sont appelées en grec ancien  / , et en grec moderne , soit littéralement « les portes chaudes ». Elles doivent leur nom aux nombreuses sources chaudes qui jaillissent au pied de la falaise. La légende veut qu'Héraclès se soit baigné dans la rivière afin de se laver du poison de l'Hydre de Lerne qui recouvrait sa peau, transformant ainsi le cours d'eau en source chaude.

Géographie

Les Thermopyles se situent dans le centre de la Grèce, dans le district régional de Phthiotide de la périphérie de Grèce-Centrale. Ils sont bordés au nord par le golfe Maliaque, dans la mer Égée, et au sud par le Kallidromo, un massif du Pinde. La ville de Lamia se trouve au nord-ouest, la ville de Molos à l'est et l'embouchure du Sperchios, qui se jette dans le golfe Maliaque, au nord.

Le passage se trouve depuis l'époque moderne dans une friche au pied de la montagne boisée, tandis qu'à la place de la mer passent une autoroute, une route et un chemin de fer qui relient le nord et le sud de la Grèce continentale.

Histoire

L'amphictyonie de Delphes y tenait ses assemblées.

En raison de sa situation stratégique, le site a été le théâtre de six batailles, dont cinq débouchèrent sur la victoire des armées voulant forcer le passage :
 la plus célèbre est la bataille des Thermopyles de 480 av. J.-C., au cours des guerres médiques, qui oppose  grecs ( de Sparte ainsi que  de Thèbes et de Thespies) menés par Léonidas  aux Perses de Xerxès  qui sont plus de  et finissent par passer ;
 la bataille de 352 av. J.-C. oppose des contingents athénien, spartiate et achéen  à , qui se replie finalement en Thessalie ;
 la bataille de 279 av. J.-C. oppose les Grecs aux Celtes de la Grande Expédition, qui sont repoussés (mais n'en pilleront pas moins le sanctuaire de Delphes) ;
 la bataille de 191 av. J.-C. oppose les Séleucides d'Antiochos III aux légions de la République romaine, victorieuses ;
 la bataille de 267 ap. J.-C. oppose les Grecs à une coalition barbare de Hérules, Peucins, Goths et Gépides (peuples germaniques) mais également de Carpes (peuple dacique), qui aurait compté plus de  (chiffre probablement exagéré par les chroniqueurs romains et grecs pour expliquer la victoire barbare) ;
 la bataille de 1941 oppose les Grecs aux Allemands, victorieux dans le cadre de la bataille de Grèce durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.

Une statue en bronze de Léonidas a été érigée aux Thermopyles en 1955. Un signe, sous la statue, se lit simplement :  (« Viens (les) prendre »), ce qui fut la réponse laconique de Léonidas lorsque Xerxès proposa d'épargner la vie des Spartiates s'ils abandonnaient leurs armes. Une autre statue, également avec l'inscription , a été érigée à Sparte en 1968.

Notes et références

Côte de la mer Méditerranée
Source chaude
Station thermale en Grèce
Bataille des Thermopyles
Géographie de la Phthiotide

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President Donald
Tom Barrack in hot water over Khashoggi comments
Colony Capital Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tom Barrack, a longtime ally of President Donald Trump, apologized following backlash over his comments that it's a mistake to criticize the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Trade tensions with Canada rise ahead of G-7
Bloomberg's Josh Wingrove discusses the reaction to President Donald Trump's imposed steel and aluminum tariffs.
Freedom of the press under attack by Trump: U.N. rights boss
The United Nations' top human rights official says that derogatory remarks by U.S. President Donald Trump about journalists could amount to incitement and embolden followers to attack certain communities.


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Cora Clendennen
Dateline: Three Rivers Cora Ludewig Glover Clendennen, 77, passed Monday the 29th at her residence following an extended illness. She was surrounded by family and friends as she passed peacefully at the ranch she grew up on and still called home. She is survived by her husband, Lloyd Clendennen, and their children. Earl Glover III (Kecia) of Colorado, Tiki Venglar (Clifford Hubenak) of Texas, M'Liss Miller (Stephen) of Tennessee, Lloyd "Freddie" Clendennen (Kimberly) of Texas, Theodore Clendennen (Melissa) of Texas. She has 11 grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren. She is preceded in death by her loving parents F. W. and Vesterlene Ludewig, her beloved sister Jeannie Lavonne Goynes, and nephew Daniel Goynes. Cora grew up in Three Rivers, Tx; although she left to marry and raise her children, she returned home to the ranch frequently. Her heart and love of the ranch and brush country always brought her home. After retiring from teaching public school, where she touched the lives of hundreds of students, Cora returned to the place she called home, the ranch where she grew up. During her retirement, Cora substitute taught school at Three Rivers and Pawnee school districts, where she continued to impact children's lives. During these years, Cora furthered her artistic ability and created many treasured paintings for family and friends alike. Cora was also a long-standing member of the local Goodie Box. Her membership here brought close friendships with others, shared her love of Three Rivers, its community members, and antiques. Cora also enjoyed the laughter and fun she shared while playing Bunco. Cora had a love of the outdoors, especially the nature she encountered during years of horseback riding in the pastures of home. Cora was a unique and loving person who had the ability to listen to what was said and at the same time understand what was not said. No one who came to her for a friendly ear or a shoulder to cry on was ever turned away. She had an abundant supply of love and she showered her love on all those she found in need. Although Cora was filled with laughter, mischief, and love, she was also made of steel and grit. She knew how to weather a storm and remain standing. She passed this ability on to her children and everyone else's lives she touched. Cora was a firm believer and instilled her belief and love of the Lord with her children as well. With Cora's passing, Heaven gained an angel who loves mischief; she will be waiting to greet all of us with her trademark wink, a welcoming smile, wide-open arms, and a warm hug. A celebration of life will be held at a later date. Services entrusted to Roberson Funeral Home, Three Rivers
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Today, someone who will hopefully become a new customer sent me this pic as an example of a 25 carat extra quality cabochon emerald which he wants me to try to source for him.
The ring was made by the famed Russian jewellery house, Fabergé. Hidden during the turmoil of the Russian revolution, it was recovered in 1990. Fabergé is launching their new collection with some very impressive emeralds.
The gemstone you see in the picture was described by Vogue as having "mystic forces captive, swirling in its depths". I love this description: it really captures my feelings when I saw the photo. The emerald doesn't perhaps have the greatest clarity but instead, the inclusion or "gardens" – as well as the sheer brightness of it - are part of the gem's great attraction!
I think this is a good example of how each emerald can be unique, with its own "personality". I dearly hope I will find the perfect stone for my "customer to be"!


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Q: PHP: How to check if variable is a "large integer" I need to check if a parameter (either string or int or float) is a "large" integer. By "large integer" I mean that it doesn't have decimal places and can exceed PHP_INT_MAX. It's used as msec timestamp, internally represented as float.
ctype_digit comes to mind but enforces string type. is_int as secondary check is limited to PHP_INT_MAX range and is_numeric will accept floats with decimal places which is what I don't want.
Is it safe to rely on something like this or is there a better method:
if (is_numeric($val) && $val == floor($val)) {
    return (double) $val;
}
else ...

A: I recommend the binary calculator as it does not care about length and max bytes. It converts your "integer" to a binary string and does all calculations that way.
BC math lib is the only reliable way to do RSA key generation/encryption in PHP, and so it can easy handle your requirement:
$userNumber = '1233333333333333333333333333333333333333312412412412';

if (bccomp($userNumber, PHP_INT_MAX, 0) === 1) {
    // $userNumber is greater than INT MAX
}

Third parameter is the number of floating digits.

A: So basically you want to check if a particular variable is integer-like?
function isInteger($var)
{
    if (is_int($var)) {
        // the most obvious test
        return true;
    } elseif (is_numeric($var)) {
        // cast to string first
        return ctype_digit((string)$var);
    }
    return false;
}

Note that using a floating point variable to keep large integers will lose precision and when big enough will turn into a fraction, e.g. 9.9999999999991E+36, which will obviously fail the above tests.
If the value exceeds INT_MAX on the given environment (32-bit or 64-bit), I would recommend using gmp instead and persist the numbers in a string format.

A: function isInteger($var)
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}

A: I did
at the end of the function to check for numeric data.
return is_numeric($text)&&!(is_int(strpos($text,".",0)));

It will first check if it is numeric then check if there is no decimal in the string by checking if it found a position. If it did the returned position is an int so is_int() will catch it.
(strpos($text,".",0)==FALSE) would also work based on the strpos manual but sometimes the function seems to send nothing at all back like
echo (strpos($text,".",0));

could be nothing and the ==FALSE is needed.

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The Prehistoric Pompeii
The volcanic catastrophe
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Upper- csevice Spring, Tar
Natural area of local importance.
Tar in the Zagyva Valley is famous for its csevice springs, among others. The springs can be approached by following the yellow mark from Tar. Field studies in the 1990s indicate that at least four csevice springs in the area should be mentioned. These are the following:
- Lower Csevice: To the south-west from the so-called White-quarry, directly next to the bed of the Csevice stream, under the Black-quarry.
- Upper-built Csevice: a source with a basin in the Csevice Valley about 800 meters to the south-east.
- Upper Csevice: 15-20 meters to the south of the former, well excavated with a well ring, without well fitting.
- Csevice at the pedestrian bridge: inland at the pedestrian bridge over the Zagyva on the left bank of the river.
Features, water quality
Its presence is indicated by weak bubbling and discoloration caused by iron. The earliest record of the Tar csevice dates back to 1851, which describes the "sour spring" from two places in Tar. A description from 1865 classifies the Tar csevice as either sour or wine water. Within the sour water, it is included in the iron, potash (old name for alkali metals).
In 1926 Jenő Noszky writes about the surfacing Csevice in three places. Two of these are mentioned in the Csevice Valley, and the third is given on the banks of the Zagyva. In 1937 he also explained the dilution of the Lower Csevice with the Black Quarry, which was operating near the source in the mid-1930s. The first water chemistry analysis of the Csevices was carried out between 1961 and 1962, which covered the first three of the Csevices. All three waters were found to have an alkaline hydrocarbonate carbonated composition. However, there was a discrepancy between the two in Upper Csevice and the lower one. The Lower Csevice type contained sodium, magnesium and chloride, the upper ones contain calcium and sodium. In the same years, when examining the origin of water carbon dioxide, the earlier view that a source containing carbon dioxide as a volcanic activity of the Mátra Mountains was abandoned was rejected. Rather, it was considered correct to explain that carbon dioxide is of organic origin of the decomposition of organic residues of the Oligocene hydrocarbon base rock. Geological mapping in the Cserhát Mountains in 1969 records the conditions at that time. From this it can be seen that a basin made of natural stone (dacite tuff) was carved in the Upper-Csevice and was not completely masonized at its outlet. The fully enclosed basin was later created, probably in 1977, where water flows through a pipe. Lower Csevice was made of untreated natural stone (andesite). As a result of research on the origin of carbon dioxide from 1970 to 1971, the explanation that carbon inflows can be metamorphic is most acceptable. According to this, the deep rocks located at great depths or the minerals contained therein decompose at high temperatures and pressures, resulting in the release of carbon dioxide. And to get to the surface, loose rock zones, so-called fault zone were needed, which have been proven for the Tar csevices. Coming to Lower Csevice, the lines of Jenő Noszky, written in 1926, seem to be justified: "it is only a pity that the good Tar locals think little of the virtue of cleanliness". As this spring is closest to the village, the population also uses it most. It is not aesthetically or healthily fit.
The path leading to it is colored by the purple-pink flowers of the protected Rose-Campion (Lychnis coronaria). Masses of butterflies fly around the spring water surrounded by alder groves, including the protected Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta), the Little Apatura (Apatura ilia) and the Clouded Apollo (Parnassius mnemosyne). On the rapidly warming rocks in the mine opposite the spring, the Sand Lizards (Lacerta agilis) are favored. Leaving the populated area,on the left a few pairs of the also highly protected European Bee-Eaters (Merops apiaster) are nesting in a broken shore wall.
The Upper Csevice spring and its surroundings are nature reserves. Other sights include the lone cliff on the other side of the creek and the yellow circle sign next to the fountain sign, after 200 meters. From here you have a beautiful view towards Ágasvár and Óvár, as well as to the Szakadás Pit. There are also a number of bizarre rock formations. Worth to visit.
Leaving the springs on the hiking trail, the banks of the stream bed are surrounded by beautiful rock walls. Not far to the left of the springs opens a small valley, also with showy rock forms, sometimes with a waterfall. Also nearby is the Szakadás Pit where you can find particularly beautiful brackens in the closed, often very narrow gorges.
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One specialty of ancient Buddhist rock cut temples in Maharashtra state of India, is that they are widely littered with rock inscriptions of various word lengths everywhere. You can find these writings in main prayer hall or Chaitya, residence quarters excavated for the monks and even near water cisterns. Some of them are short; just one or two liners, whereas some are very lengthy. The most distinguished example of such lengthy inscriptions is found in Nashik cave numbering three. In this inscription, 'Goutami', the mother of the great king Goutamiputra Satkarni, who defeated the saka satrup Nahapana's forces decisively to liberate Deccan region sometimes in the first century CE, has gone absolutely eloquent in describing the bravery and great deeds of her son. However, such lengthy epigraphs, of much interest to historians, are not of any real use to us from the point of view of our subject here and I shall rather concentrate on the shorter variety.
According to the book; "Inscriptions from the Cave-Temples of Western India" written by Jas Burgess and Bhagvanlal Indraji Pandit, total numbers of inscriptions found in following Cave temples are as follows.
It would be clear to readers that these are in substantially large numbers and therefore deserve our special attention. Above inscriptions can be divided in two categories. The first category of Inscriptions are carved to put on record orders of Kings, Governors or of persons having some authority. The inscription from King's mother, which I mentioned above is from this category. The second category consists of inscriptions that have been primarily carved on behalf of private individuals. It is this category of inscriptions that is of specific interest to us because these inscriptions are essentially a record of a donation of an individual to the monastery.
It should be clear from the text that this inscription was made as an acknowledgment of the donation received from an official known as 'maharathi,' and with a name as "Vinhudata," that was used to excavate the cistern at the place where this inscription is found carved. This means that that these large number of inscriptions done at the behest of private individuals were essentially carved to mark the donations of the individuals to the monastery.
Having established that the word 'Yavana' means a person of Greek origin, let us try to find out whether there are any 'Yavanas' in the list of donors to the Buddhist monasteries. Fortunately for us Laeuchli has prepared a list of number of inscriptions done at the behest of private Yavana donors.


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Happy New Year to you! I hope you have had the chance to rest, relax and enjoy the sun.
We have several projects on the go as we head into 2019. At our first working group meeting of the year - to be held 11 February - we will be setting priorities for the year ahead. These will include issues relating to the upcoming local body elections, to be held on 12 October, and assisting with the campaign to counter the claims to the coast made under the Marine and Coastal Area Act.
We acknowledge and very much appreciate the all the time and effort those at the New Zealand Centre for Political Research (NZCPR) and the Countering Coastal Claims Campaign are putting into fighting tribal control of New Zealand's coast. As it is a very complex business, understanding the process is not easy, and countering the claims a huge task. It is especially frustrating that while generous taxpayer funding is available for claimants, there is no government assistance for anyone wanting to defend the public interest in the coast. On behalf of the Democracy Action Working group, a heartfelt thanks to all involved.
I spent Waitangi Day sifting through recent developments relating to the Treaty of Waitangi, and its contrived 'principles'. I can see why the likes of Margaret Mutu are increasingly optimistic and confident of constitutional transformation, just as promoted in the Report of Matike Mai Aotearoa - the Independent Working Group on Constitutional Transformation. (Mutu being co-author of the report. Please click HERE to view).
If you would like to become more actively involved, do come along to our monthly working group meetings, at which we discuss the issues, and decide on action.
Our first monthly meeting of the year is to be held on:
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If you plan to attend, please contact me at for a copy of the agenda. Email: [email protected]
Thank you for your continued interest and support. If you have any suggestions you would like to offer, or if you need further information or help, please do not hesitate to contact us at [email protected]
Hauraki Gulf Forum meeting - change of date and venue. Friday 8th February
Time: 2.00pm Venue: Room 1, Level 26, 135 Albert Street Auckland The Minister for Māori Development Nanaia Mahuta is to address the Forum. Public are welcome to attend. The agenda is available HERE. Continue reading
The Office of the Attorney General has released its review of the Sea Change process.
As to the implementation aspect of the Plan, the review says that the agencies involved in the project each developed their own processes for considering how to implement the plan. For instance, Auckland Council and Waikato Regional Council have taken different approaches. Please click HERE to download this file. Continue reading
Claims under the Marine and Coastal Area Act
The first of the High Court cases to be heard is the Clarkson application. Details about this claim (and the other overlapping claims) are available on the NZCPR website. Please click HERE. Continue reading
Campaign to repeal the MACA Act and restore public ownership of the coast
NZCPR has launched a campaign to restore public ownership of the coast. Continue reading
North Head now controlled by Tupuna Maunga Authority
As part of a Treaty of Waitangi settlement, 14 volcanic cones were given to 13 iwi and hapū of Auckland when the Ngā Mana Whenua o Tāmaki Makaurau Collective Redress Deed passed into law in 2014. North Head (Maungauika) is the last of these to come under the control of the Tupuna Maunga Authority (TMA) - when it was transferred from the Department of Conservation on January 18. Continue reading
Ratepayers' group criticised for objecting to iwi gaining control of public parks
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Iwi leaders welcome more influence over government policy
The Iwi Chairs Forum held its first hui of the year in the lead up to Waitangi Day. Tribal leaders welcomed the government's willingness to give Māori a greater say in the way the country is run. Continue reading
Marlborough District Council seeks unelected race-based appointments – without consulting the community
Marlborough District council is holding a hui early this year to encourage a partnership with iwi. Part of that is more iwi representation on council. A sub committee has been formed to work out the best way forward with the appointment of cultural advisors and iwi representation, according to Councillor Nadine Taylor, chair of the subcommittee. Continue reading
Hawke's Bay Councillors accused of racism for acting with integrity
Two Hawke's Bay Regional Councillors are being accused of racism after raising concerns about a deal the council has done with local iwi, Ngāti Kahugnunu. Hawke's Bay Regional Council's deal to loan 100,000 carbon credits to iwi is being described by councillors Debbie Hewitt and Fenton Wilson as "deeply concerning". The council voted in December to lend the carbon credits to iwi subsidiary Kahutia Limited Partnership. The credits were worth around $2.5 million. This decision was rushed through without proper consultation, with key documents detailing the final agreement and legal advice were not given to councillors until 7pm on the night before the decision-making meeting. Continue reading
Supreme Court decision gives weight to the 'principles' of the Treaty
An Auckland iwi, Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki Tribal Trust, has won a Supreme Court case giving it the right to re-apply for exclusive rights to conduct commercial operations on Rangitoto and Motutapu Islands, (situated in the Hauraki Gulf). The main issue was the interpretation of section four of the Conservation Act, "to give effect to the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi". Continue reading
Rapid landscape transformation in South Island following initial Polynesian settlement
Despite claiming to be "of the land" the first colonists burned and destroyed huge tracts of native bush and trees, as shown in the article 'Early settlers rapidly transformed lowland forests with fire', published by TerraNature, 15 December 2010. This article was informed by the more in-depth article published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) -'Rapid landscape transformation in South Island, New Zealand, following initial Polynesian settlement'
'Drifting into racism, the destruction of New Zealand social structure' by Dr John Robinson, the author of 'The corruption of New Zealand democracy, a Treaty overview', 'When two cultures meet, the New Zealand experience', and 'The Kingite Rebellion'. Other articles by Dr Robinson can be accessed on the Kiwi Frontline Forum by clicking HERE. Continue reading


In November 2018, London business newspaper, City A.M., launched the City A.M. Club – a virtual members club aimed at the paper's affluent consumer and business audience. The Club will have 5,000 members, initially, who will be able to take advantage of fantastic and unique benefits offered by 50 different partners, representing several sectors including lifestyle, professional services, entertainment, travel, motors and food & drink.
GHS has secured sector exclusivity for international hotels for two years. Participating GHS hotels will be promoted through the City A.M. Club website, online and offline advertising, events and social media, offering a unique marketing and PR opportunity. Additionally, hotels will be able to take advantage of the paper's platforms, such as the City A.M. magazine, for any newsworthy press releases.
GHS Hotels to join so far include the Kolbe Hotel, Rome; Mondrian South Beach, Miami; Lily Beach, Maldives and the Andersia Hotel in Poland.
City A.M. is now the only London publication of this nature with a members club where partners can transform members in to customers. GHS joins brands such as Montblanc, Hertz Dream Collection and The NED.
Launched in 2005, City A.M. is London's leading free business title, covering the biggest news across finance, economics, politics and business, as well as technology, lifestyle and sport.
The newspaper has a daily readership of 400,00 and is distributed at more than 400 commuter hubs in London and the Home Counties. It is typically available from around 6 am at London commuter stations and is handed out at key points in the City, Canary Wharf and other central London locations. The paper is also delivered to the offices of some large companies.


Can we take this that there's a chance you may be active around PUG once again?
Finally, a new member that's not a spam bot!
Welcome to PUG Gaming! Hopefully you can find that you'll enjoy your stay here; the people that actually post on the forums are all friendly and awesome. We just need to start playing more events.
Definitely seems like it'll be a nice indie game for people who enjoyed playing in the FF and Earthbound styles, but with a new twist.


SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is something that everybody needs to be aware of these days (that is if you're going to be getting into the world of internet marketing). If you have a webpage that you've been looking to rank on search engines there are a few things you need to be aware of, because if you aren't you might find yourself in a position you don't want to be in. There are 8 different things that make up local SEO these days, when it comes to ranking these 8 factors are what you need to work on in order to have optimal results. Local results are a common term when it comes to discussing page ranks, and there are three different major categories in which your Local results can fall (those being localized organic, pack/carousel, and finally maps). These results can come through either desktop traffic or mobile traffic, which actually does play a part in how well your sites are going to rank in the end of it all.
The first category we're going to be running through is "Place Page Signals". These would pertain to the actual categories of your traffic, as well as having your keyword in the businesses title. Proximity plays an important role as well, because localized traffic (meaning traffic that is close to your base of operations) has the tendency to be a bit more loyal. Loyal visitors are something that every site wants to see, so of course this would play a key role in the success of improve page rankings.
The second one is going to be "Social Signals". The name itself s pretty self-explanatory, social signals are ones that would relate to any social media platforms on the internet. Having a strong Google+ authority is a good one, as well as having a large amount of Facebook likes (Twitter followers would also fall under this category as well). Social media is a platform that everybody has been getting into as of recently, which is why it's so important to SEO in this day and age.
Thirdly, we're going to get into "External Loc. Signals", which are a bit more complicated than any of the other ones. These signals rely on IYP/aggregator NAP consistency, as well as the Volume of Citations a page withholds. A citation would be where your page (or your company) is being mentioned on another site, which is of course great for search engine optimization.
"Link Signals" and "On-Page Signals" are important as well, with link signals relying on the domains authority (backlinks and such); on-page signals rely on the presence of NAP, as well as any keywords in the title or domain authority you may have at your disposal.
In the end there's one thing that everybody needs to be able to improve upon, that being the Behavioral/Mob. Signals being received. Click through rates and mobile clicks would be something that falls under this category of signal, different offers and such from different companies keeps things interesting (as well as improving the optimization of your site in the process). If you're looking at the analytics and you find that the click through rate is high, you can expect to see a rather large increase pertaining to your SEO results (as well as your revenue!).
The optimization of websites and online businesses is crucial in order to be successful, it's a well-known fact that high-quality SEO services are always going to be in demand. The ranking of your websites when it comes to search engines is important, and it's up to you to make sure that you're informed on how the whole process works.
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Risk migration and scientific advance : the case of flame retardant compounds.
Alcock, R. E. & Busby, J., 04/2006, In: Risk Analysis. 26, 2, p. 369-381
Risk Migration- where next?
Alcock, R. E. & Busby, J., 2007, Society for Risk Analysis Conference. 2007. The Hague, Netherlands 24th June 2007. Taylor & Francis
Understanding the mismatch between the demands of risk assessment and practice of scientists - the case of Deca-BDE.
Alcock, R. E., MacGillivray, B. H. & Busby, J., 01/2011, In: Environment International. 37, 1, p. 216-225 10 p.
Combining activity based costing and process models to describe the manufacturing organisation
Amsler, B. M., Williams, G. & Busby, J. S., 1993, In: Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems. 4, 4, p. 10-17 8 p.
Human and Organizational Issues for Resilient Communications
Anderson, T., Busby, J., Gouglidis, A., Hough, K., Hutchison, D. & Rouncefield, M., 2020, Guide to Disaster-Resilient Communication Networks. Rak, J. & Hutchison, D. (eds.). Cham: Springer, p. 791-807 17 p. (Computer Communications and Networks).
Understanding the ecological validity of relying practice as a basis for risk identification
Anderson, T., Busby, J. & Rouncefield, M., 1/07/2020, In: Risk Analysis. 40, 7, p. 1383-1398 16 p.
Measuring the performance of the technology intelligence process
Aurrecochea, A., Williams, G., Nimmons, T. & Busby, J. S., 1996, In: International Journal of Materials and Product Technology. 11, 5/6, p. 419-437 19 p.
The acceptability of deontic health and safety rules: Evidence for the conditional expected utility hypothesis
Ball, L. J., Alford, D., Iszatt-White, M., Kinder, K. E. & Busby, J. S., 2006, 23rd Annual British Psychological Society Cognitive Section Conference (Lancaster) - 2006. N/A: unknown
Helping designers learn from incidents involving distributed failures
Bes, M. & Busby, J. S., 2004, Royal Institution of Naval Architects International Conference on Learning from Marine Accidents II (London) - 2004. N/A: unknown
Interrupting the social amplification of risk process: a case study in collective emissions reduction
Busby, J. S., Alcock, R. E. & MacGillivray, B. H., 2009, In: Environmental Science and Policy. 12, 3, p. 297-308 12 p.
Risk and Organizational Networks: Making Sense of Failure in the Division of Labour
Busby, J. & Alcock, R. E., 10/2008, In: Risk Management. 10, 4, p. 235-256 22 p.
Types of risk transformation: a case study
Busby, J., Alcock, R. E. & MacGillivray, B., 2012, In: Journal of Risk Research. 15, 1, p. 67-84 18 p.
Failure to mobilise in reliability-seeking organisations : two cases from the UK railway.
Busby, J., 09/2006, In: Journal of Management Studies. 43, 6, p. 1375-1393 19 p.
Projects, pathogens and incubation processes
Busby, J. S. & Hughes, E. J., 2004, In: International Journal of Project Management. 22, p. 425-434 10 p.
A situational analysis of how barriers to systemic failure are undermined during accident sequences
Busby, J. S., Chung, P. W. H. & Wen, Q., 2004, In: Journal of Risk Research. 7, 7/8, p. 811-826 16 p.
The social ascription of obligations to engineers
Busby, J. S. & Coeckelbergh, M., 2003, In: Science and Engineering Ethics. 9, 3, p. 363-376 14 p.
The role of distributed cognition in the causation of accidents
Busby, J. S. & Hughes, E. J., 2003, In: International Journal of Risk Assessment and Management. 4, p. 36-51 16 p.
In what ways are designers' and operators' reasonable-world assumptions not reasonable assumptions?
Busby, J. S. & Chung, P. W. H., 03/2003, In: Process Safety and Environmental Protection. 81, 2, p. 114-120 7 p.
How plan delegation contributes to systemic failure
Busby, J. S. & Hughes, E. J., 2003, In: Human Systems Management. 22, p. 13-22 10 p.
Mutual misconceptions between designers and operators of hazardous systems
Busby, J. S. & Hibberd, R. E., 2002, In: Research in Engineering Design. 13, p. 132-138 7 p.
The adaptation failures that underlie error-making in organizational processes
Busby, J. S., 2001, In: Human Systems Management. 20, p. 301-312 12 p.
What limits design organisations' ability to predict failure?
Busby, J. S. & Strutt, J. E., 2001, In: Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture. 215, p. 1471-1474 4 p.
Practices in design concept selection as distributed cognition
Busby, J. S., 2001, In: Cognition, Technology and Work. 3, p. 150-160 11 p.
The derivation of hazard criteria from historical knowledge
Busby, J. S. & Strutt, J. E., 2001, In: Journal of Engineering Design. 12, 2, p. 117-129 13 p.
Error and distributed cognition in design
Busby, J. S., 2001, In: Design Studies. 22, 3, p. 233-254 22 p.


Hatters boss John Still has backed defender Stephen O'Donnell to come good at Kenilworth Road this season.
The summer signing from Partick Thistle was left out of the squad for Tuesday night's 3-1 win at Morecambe after struggling badly against AFC Wimbleon on Saturday, when he was substituted after an hour.
Still opted for Scott Cuthbert in his place at the Globe Arena, as he said: "It's all new for Steve. He had a difficult time Saturday, but we all think a lot of him and I explained to him, 'just have a rest'.
"He'll play, Steve will be back in I've got no doubt about it all as we like Steve, but he's still learning it.
"I brought Scott in. It was a little bit of a risk as he's missed a little bit of it and had to come off at the end, although that was just cramp.
Still also felt fellow full back Scott Griffiths had been culpable for the Shrimps equaliser, although he he redeemed himself afterwards, adding: "I was very disappointed because we do so much back four work about keeping your body open, seeing your runners and Scott didn't.


Contact Steve Parry (England and Wales) and Martin Gillespie (Scotland) for more information.
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Obtaining a mortgage is an essential step toward buying a new home, but options for factory-built homes can seem limited, and the details can sometimes be confusing. At Denham Springs Housing, we can help you make sense of it all—our team is experienced with the current options and resources for manufactured and modular home financing, and we can help you make sense of it all. We'll help you find a home loan that's right for your particular financial situation, and make sure you're able to do so without delay or unwanted stress. We want to help you get a great deal on a new home you love. Read on to learn more about the financing options Denham Springs Housing offers, or pre-qualify for a home loan now—just complete and send the short form at the bottom of this page, and we'll reach out to you.
Once you find the new mobile home or used manufactured home that's right for you, we're committed to making it a reality for you. At Denham Springs Housing, our team of experienced factory-built home sales and finance professionals will go the extra mile to get you into the new home you love. We offer our customers a wide variety of financing sources. Our professionals will help you find a financing program that suits your individual needs. We've helped hundreds of satisfied home buyers find the loan that works for them. We'd love to do the same for you!
In an effort to best serve all of our customers, Denham Springs Housing offers a multitude of factory-built home financing options. We can happily help you with Home Only, Land & Home, FHA, and Rural Development home loans. We even offer Zero Down financing, with approved credit! Fixed and variable rates, low notes, and flexible terms are available. If you think you can't get a loan for a home, think again—we have financing to fit almost every situation or need. If you have credit issues, our experienced staff can help you with that, too.
At Denham Springs Housing, we believe home buyers deserve the peace of mind that comes with knowing their investment will be protected in the years to come. What's more, our 33 years of experience has taught us that insuring new homes is always a prudent decision. In addition to financing new and used manufactured homes, Denham Springs Housing also offers manufactured homeowner's insurance to the manufactured homes sold in and around Baton Rouge, Louisiana. After we've helped you secure a loan to purchase your new home, we can help you acquire insurance, too—it's our goal to serve all of your housing needs in one convenient location.
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Tokyo Day-Trip: Fall Under the Spell of Gods and Dragons at Enoshima Island
Day Trips from Tokyo, Japanese Culture, Travel
by Sarah B. Hodge
The island of Enoshima is only an hour from Tokyo on the Shonan Coast and offers visitors gorgeous ocean vistas, historic shrines, mysterious caves, beautifully manicured gardens and great food, not to mention breathtaking illuminations, colorful festivals and fireworks. Due to great water conditions, abundant sunshine and temperate weather, Enoshima is a haven for surfers and will host Tokyo 2020 sailing events.
The Mystique of Enoshima Island
Now known as a laid-back beach resort popular with day trippers, Enoshima was once a popular Edo-era pilgrimage destination. According to Enoshima Engi, a history of Enoshima's temples and shrines written in 1047 by Japanese Buddhist monk Kokei, the island's origins can be traced to the goddess Benzaiten and the five-headed dragon Gozuryu.
For a millennium, Gozuryu terrorized villagers in nearby Koshigoe. In 552, Benzaiten caused Enoshima Island to rise from the bottom of Sagami Bay to serve as her dwelling. The dragon fell in love with her at first sight, changed his evil ways and the two eventually wed. Under their joint rule, the area prospered.
Japan's History and Mystery
Enoshima Shrine (dedicated to Benzaiten) has existed since 552, and was originally located closer to the erosion caves at the back of the island. Hojo Tokimasa, first regent of the Kamakura Shogunate, was said to have visited to pray for prosperity and was gifted with three dragon scales, which became his family crest.
The modern shrine is made up of three separate shrines at different levels on the island. Passing through the imposing Zuishin-mon gate, you'll encounter a stone carving of Benzaiten and Gozuryu that was commissioned for the shrine's 1,450th anniversary.
Continuing upwards, you'll find the second shrine Hetsuno-miya, originally built in 1206 and rebuilt in 1976. This is the most picturesque of the three and includes a grass purification wheel, dragon's pond and small shrine dedicated to Benzaiten. For easier access, you can ride the ESCAR paid escalator to the top of the island (but note it only operates one way).
At the top, you'll find the scenic Samuel Cocking Garden and the Enoshima Lighthouse Observation Tower (Sea Candle) that stands 119.6 meters tall. The garden hosts many of Enoshima's annual events, including a lantern festival during Obon season in August, a candle festival in October and the magnificent winter illuminations from November–February. You can also sign up for a (Japanese-language) hands-on soba-making class at Matsumotokan.
Enoshima Eats
It's a good idea to have lunch before proceeding, as it's quite a hike and options are limited beyond this point. There are many restaurants with seating overlooking Sagami Bay. The local specialties are shirasu (baby sardines) and sazae (turbo shells) served a variety of ways.
Massive tako senbei (pressed crackers stuffed with grilled chunks of octopus) hot off the grill are easy to spot: look for the long lines outside flagship store Asahi-Honten. The crackers and other street foods pair well with Kamakura Brewery's Enoshima Kölsch beer or Niigata Beer Co.'s Shonan Enoshima Beer, a witbier-style beer.
If you follow the stairs downwards from the garden, you will eventually reach Chigogafuchi Abyss and Iwaya Caves. When you enter the caves, you are given a candle to light the way. Be sure not to miss the dragon-themed artwork inside.
Enoshima Island Style
The luxurious Enoshima Island Spa offers a variety of gender-segregated hot spring baths, unique cave and waterfall pools, and an open-air pool with an outstanding view of Mount Fuji (pools require a swimsuit; bring or rent one). A variety of massages and body treatments are available at Beng Teng Spa. (Note that like most Japanese hot springs, there is a strict no-tattoo policy that applies to the entire spa.) If you're feeling hungry after all the pampering, spring for a meal (the lunch sets are a good bargain) at the fourth-floor Island Grill Restaurant, which uses local produce and seafood to create stunning Mediterranean-influenced fare.
If you're visiting Enoshima with kids, good options are the Hello Kitty Saryo Japanese Teahouse on the main road approaching the shrine (offering Hello Kitty licensed goods and a small menu of classic comfort foods like omurice, hamburg steak, pasta and curry, all emblazoned with Kitty-chan's likeness), or the nearby Enoshima Aquarium. In addition to a dolphin show and capybaras, the aquarium offers adorable turtle-shaped melonpan and maritime-themed snacks in the Ocean Café.
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2013 - 2018 PhD. Painting, School of Arts and Humanities, Royal College of Art, London, UK.
2009 - 2011 MFA. Painting and Drawing, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA.
2002 - 2008 BFA. Painting, Hong-Ik University, Seoul, Korea.
2006 - 2007 BFA. École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France.
2017 SWAP:UK/Ukraine Artist Residency Programme, British Council & Liverpool Biennale.
2015 Visiting Artist, Pure Print Elements, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.
2011 - 2012 The Starr Scholar, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK.
2018 Every Second in Between, partnership with Stanhope, White City Public art commission project, London, UK.
2017 Should I put sunglasses on?, YermilovCentre, Kharkiv, Ukraine.
2017 A Space of the 'In-Between': Word, Time, Image, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea.
2016 WW Solo Award: The City of Fragments, WW Contemporary Art, London Art Fair, London, UK.
2016 The surface of the city and the depth of the psyche, Alternative Space Loop, Seoul, Korea.
2013 Psychogeographic Contemporary Abstract Landscapes, Seoul Olympic Museum of Art (SOMA), Seoul, Korea.
2012 Psychogeographic Abstract Landscapes In London, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK.
2012 Silhouette of the London Landscape, Royal Academy Schools, London, UK.
2010 Fragments of the Chicago City Maze Project, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA.
2007 Soul, Find, Space, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France.
2018 Wonder City, Sehwa Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea.
2018 SWAP:UK/Ukraine 2017, YermilovCentre, Kharkiv, Ukraine.
2017 Perceived identities:to have or to be, YermilovCentre, Kharkiv, Ukraine.
2017 Snaps is the Name of the Game or A Few Words on Secret Writing, Barbican Arts Group Trust, UK.
2017 Contemporary Visions VII, Beers London Gallery, London, UK.
2017 Stars of Stars, Gyeongnam Art Museum, Changwon, Korea.
2017 THE SHIPS ARE ALWAYS THERE, Crate Project Space, Chiara Williams Contemporary Art, Margate, UK.
2016 Paper | Publication | Performance, Lychee One Gallery, London, UK.
2016 Stand a little out of my sun, Atrium Space, Barbican Arts Group Trust, London, UK.
2016 Notes App, Dyson Gallery, Royal College of Art, London, UK.
2015 UK/RAINE : Emerging Artists from the UK and Ukraine, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK.
2015 Uncovered Invisible Remnants, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.
2015 Mindful Mindless, Seoul Olympic Museum of Art (SOMA), Seoul, Korea.
2015 The Great Artist, Posco Art Museum, Seoul, Korea.
2015 Artworks Open, Artworks Project Space, Barbican Arts Group Trust, London, UK.
2015 The Faces of SeongNam_City樂, Seongnam Arts Centre, Seongnam, Korea.
2015 Surface, Materiality, Space, Hockney gallery, London, UK.
2015 Why Would I lie?, 2015 Research Biennial, Royal College of Art, London, UK.
2015 You never look at me from the place which I see you, Blyth Gallery, Imperial College, London, UK.
2015 RCA Secret, Dyson Gallery, London, UK.
2014 re:SEARCH, Dyson Gallery, Royal College of Art, London, UK.
2014 RCA Secret, Dyson Gallery, London, UK.
2013 Take Old Road New Way, Gallery Korea of the Korean Cultural Service New York, NY, USA.
2012 NOW X HERE, Korean Cultural Centre UK, London, UK.
2011 300 S. Riverside Plaza Exhibit I, King Art Collective, 300 S. Riverside Plaza Building, Chicago, USA.
2011 Nippon 18th Exhibition Show 2, Nippon Steel U.S.A, Inc. Chicago, USA.
2011 MFA Thesis Exhibition, Wabash Gallery, Chicago, USA.
2010 Nippon 18th Exhibition Show 1, Nippon Steel U.S.A, Inc. Chicago, USA.
2010 Art Loop Open, Block 37, Chicago, USA.
2010 Green Showcase, Harold Washington College, Chicago, USA.
2010 Interiority-Exteriority, 18S. Wabash Pop-Up Art Loop Gallery, Chicago, USA.
2010 A Live Exhibition, Jewish Community Center, Chicago, USA.
2018 Interview with OTB TV Channel, "Your Morning", Kharkiv, Ukraine.
2018 Interview with White Noise, Eve Watling, "Every Second in Between: Public Art Coming to White City", UK.
2018 Valeriya Rudenko, "Perceived identities: to have or to be: residence in the YermilovCentre", FAQindecor.
2017 Jeon So-Hyun, "Young artists examine the struggles of changed perspective", Korea Joongang Daily.
2016 Hana Yoon, "A City of Flâneur Looking for a Ghost", CNB(July), Exhibition Review, p.51-53.
2016 India Irving, "ArtAttack Interviews Korean artist, Kyung Hwa Shon", ArtAttack.
2016 Sarah Barlondon, "The Faces of Art Projects At London Art Fair 2016", ArtReport.
2015 Liza Premiyak, "Raw talent : Ten emerging artists from UK and Ukraine", The Calvert Journal, UK.
2015 Philip Gowman, "Exhibition News: Kyung Hwa Shon in UK/RAINE, at Saatchi Gallery", London Korean Links, UK.
2015 Jac Kuntz and Ana Sekler, "Alumni Spotlight, Q&A with Kyung Hwa Shon ", School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA.
2015 "Uncovered Invisible Remnants", Pure Print Elements, University of Porto (Faculty of Fine Arts), Porto, Portugal.
Symposium for the Women Artists in the 'Post-Feminism' Era panel.
2017 Winner for Kumho Museum of Art (Young Artist), Korea.
2016 Finalist for HIX Award 2016, UK.
2015 Winner for WW SOLO AWARD 2015, UK.
2015 Finalist for UK/RAINE Art Prize, Saatchi Gallery & Firtash Foundation, UK.
2015 Winner for Alternative Space Loop Art Prize, Seoul, Korea.
2015 Finalist for Artworks Open 2015, Barbican Arts Group Trust, UK.
2015 Finalist for the great artist, Posco Art Museum, Korea.
2015 Research Conference Fund, Royal College of Art, London, UK.
2014 Collaboration with Paul Hedge and Hales Gallery & Drake's, Pocket square design, London, UK.
2012 Winner for Seoul Olympic Museum of Art (SOMA) Drawing Prize, Seoul, Korea.
2013 Finalist for 100 Painters of Tomorrow competition.
2012 The Starr Foundation Scholarship, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK.
2011 Carrie Ellen Tuttle Fellowship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA.
2011 Finalist for The Clare Rosen and Samuel Edes Foundation Prize, SAIC, Chicago, USA.
2011 Finalist for the 2011 Union League Civic & Arts Foundation Visual Arts Competition, Union League Club of Chicago, USA.
2011 Artavita Art Competition, USA.
2007 Painting Department Special Scholarship, Hong-Ik University, Seoul, Korea.
2006 Exchange program Scholarship and Award, Embassy of France in Korea.
2006 Merit Excellent Honors Scholarship, Hong-Ik University, Seoul, Korea.
2006 Dean and Chair Special Scholarship and Award, Hong-Ik University, Seoul, Korea.
2006 President Honors Scholarship, Hong-Ik University, Seoul, Korea.
2005 President Honors Scholarship, Hong-Ik University, Seoul, Korea.
2003 Merit Excellent Honors Scholarship, Hong-Ik University, Seoul, Korea.
2018 HSBC Art collection, UK.


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FED Global Thought Leadership 2018
To Ensure a Great Customer Experience, Start with the Staff
Leading service providers all want to provide the ultimate customer experience. Dee Robinson, a champion of corporate culture, leadership and diversity, challenges you to consider that the staff experience is an avenue toward that achievement. In this session, Robinson will provide practical solutions around how the employee experience can lead to a better customer experience--and thus better sales and profitability.
Dee Robinson, founder and president, Robinson Hill
Dee Robinson is an entrepreneurial leader with a solutions-focused management approach and strong track record of successful results, growth, financial performance, creativity, and team building. Drawing on her varied experience in food & beverage, consumer products, advertising and banking, she founded Robinson Hill, Inc., a concessions management firm specializing in airports and other non-traditional retail and F&B locations across the U.S. Focusing on the core competencies of conceptual thinking and innovation, people management, strategic planning and decision making, Robinson Hill manages and operates restaurants and news & gift stores in locations across the country with a portfolio of award-winning national and local brands such as Ben and Jerry's Super Premium Ice Cream, Einstein Bros Bagels, Lebanese Taverna, Lalo's Mexican, and Potbelly Sandwich Works. Robinson Hill partners with the Hudson Group at both O'Hare (ORD) and Midway Airports, Potbelly Corporation at Boston Logan, OTG Management at ORD and with Areas USA at the ORD Terminal 5, operating Rick Bayless' Frontera Grill and other widely-recognized restaurant concepts.
Robinson Hill has built a reputation as a successful operator committed to exceptional customer service, operational efficiency, team development and effective brand management.
Dee believes in giving back to the community; she does so by hiring local talent, mentoring and supporting philanthropic efforts devoted to girl empowerment, education, entrepreneurship and food nutritional advocacy.