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Arachnophobes, steer clear. Chuck Wendig's latest novel, Invasive, is filled with enough creepy crawlers to fuel a year's worth of nightmares. It all starts on an island where scientists have created genetically engineered ants. FBI futurist Hannah Stander believes the ants are responsible for the dead body she found in an abandoned cabin and starts to investigate. As the novel shows, Wendig is a big fan of deadly creatures in literature. Here, he shares his five favorite novels featuring animals you'd never want to come across.
Jurassic Park and Jaws
Including these two together is unfair to the majesty of each, but both are such classics and such obvious choices that I hate to exclude them as much as I hate to have them take up any spots on this list—because, duh, of course GIANT SHARK and VELOCIRAPTORS make for exciting creature-feature fiction. (One thing to note, particularly in regards to Jurassic Park: Though the film is its own masterpiece, the book is bigger, smarter, and occasionally weirder, and it ramps up the intelligence and pack-to-tribe nature of the Velociraptors.)
The creature in this feature is much smaller than all the others but no less impactful. In this one, mankind lives willfully with a designer parasite inside the human body, and the parasite confers all manner of benefits to the host. But eventually, the parasite… well, let's just say it decides that it's getting the raw end of the deal and it wants more from this relationship. Mira Grant (aka Seanan McGuire) is a nightmare factory, and it is glorious.
The Shuddering
Something is in the woods. So, of course, it's a good time to hunker down in a cabin and get trapped by a snowstorm just in time for horrible, nameless monsters to come out of the darkness to start picking off people one at a time. It's a classic set-up, but Ania Ahlborn elevates it with complicated characters and the quality of her prose.
The Fold
I hesitate to include this here because of potential spoilers, but I'll say this: The Fold takes a little while to become a creature feature. At first, it's an unsettling thriller about a group of scientists who have figured out how to teleport matter from one place to another, but actually, they don't know how they figured it out. Eventually, they discover the truth behind their teleportation—and, well, let's just say certain horrific creatures from some other world decide to, um, investigate. It is awesome. It is twisty. It is creaturey.
The Descent
Basic gist? Hell is real. It is not mythological. It is not mythic. Beneath the Earth's mantle is a subterranean realm of other creatures, and they are smart, and they are hungry. So of course the best thing to do is to send an expedition to go find them. Jeff Long makes this story properly claustrophobic, and his expertise in spelunking lends the book a level of realism. (Note: Despite sounding the same, this predates the movie, The Descent, and has nothing to do with it. Think of this book as the Crichton-esque thriller version of that film.)
The Hatching
World on the brink of madness? Sure. Ancient evil awakening in the form of terrifying spiders? Even better. This novel does a great job balancing the exciting thriller aspects with the skin-crawling horror.
Chuck Wendig is the author of the Miriam Black thrillers (which begin with Blackbirds) and numerous other works across books, comics, games, and more. A finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer and the cowriter of the Emmy-nominated digital narrative Collapsus, he is also known for his popular blog, terribleminds.com. He lives in Pennsylvania with his family.


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The Filtrine INDESTRUCT brand of drinking water equipment was developed from the belief that everyone, in every profession in any location, deserves and requires a cool drink of water. Instead of the traditional way of serving bottled water at sea or in extreme or dangerous environments, INDESTRUCT electric water coolers and mobile bottle filling stations, are a sustainable and low cost alternative.
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Filtrine offers four types of drinking water equipment designed for the most challenging applications. Filtrine's INDESTRUCT Model MFS mobile bottle filling station is popular with the military because of its large drinking water reservoir. The INDESTRUCT Model MLA marine floor electric water cooler is specially designed to operate in saltwater environments and can be made CBC USPH Vessel Sanitation Program compliant. The INDESTRUCT Model M-10-N marine drinking fountain complies with the military specification: MIL-C-24166[C] and will withstand shock test DWTNSR & DC and vibration test AERONAV. The INDESTRUCT Model WCS-20-HL-HC free standing electric water cooler has been approved by the Federal Bureau of Prisons. There are also combination units that include any variety of features that are available by consulting the factory.
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At a recent Maryland-wide workshop which focused on refugee workforce development, Higher had participants do a brainstorming activity, in which groups worked together to list common barriers refugees face to employment as well as possible solutions.
These types of activities inevitably generate a "wish list" of solutions which are great ideas but not always in our power to implement quickly (e.g. adding staff members, ESL at work sites, home-based self-employment for refugee women).
While there are certainly times to pursue those big ideas, perhaps the best thing about exercises like this is that they allow groups to identify simpler solutions that can be implemented immediately.
Over the past several weeks, we've been sharing insights from your Maryland peers, focusing on simple and practical strategies that are relatively easy to implement!
So far, we've shared tips for overcoming challenges including transportation, childcare, limited English proficiency (LEP), and challenges related to digital literacy/computer access. Today we'll wrap up this series and share a few tips on overcoming the barrier of unrealistic client expectations.
Tips for Managing Expectations:
- Educate yourself on the information clients receive during pre-arrival cultural orientation (CO) so that you can reinforce important points and/or present new information that may not have been covered in the overseas CO (See Adjusting Expectations: The Cultural Orientation Connection, a recent Higher post by Daryl Morrissey, Cultural Orientation Coordinator at LIRS).
- Collaborate with R&P cultural orientation staff to make sure that messaging around employment is consistent.
- Consistent messaging with within office among staff- have a team strategy for how you will handle client expectations.
- Connect with community leaders to encourage consistent messaging within communities.
- Set expectations early- have honest conversations about appropriate expectations.
- Highlight the benefits of two-income households and ensure equality of services to both spouses.
- Walk the line of hopeful realism. Emphasize the importance of taking that initial survival job while also recognizing the skills, experience and education, your clients bring, and laying out a path and timeline for how they can pursue a fulfilling career over time. Develop short, medium, and long term goals with clients.
- Mobilize mentors (including former refugees) who will help support clients by giving them realistic expectations and a sense of hope.
- Educate clients about training programs and career development options.
For more on managing expectations see:
Managing Expectations: When Will You Find Me a Job?
Creative, Participatory Employment Plans that Work
Help Highly Skilled Refugees Look Out the Windshield
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(AP) — The water of an Eastern Kentucky creek has turned red due to mine discharge, but state officials say the discharge isn't responsible for dead wildlife in the creek.
Kentucky Energy and Environment spokesman John Mura says that mine activity at Hardshell Tipples in Letcher County overflowed a retention pond on Friday, sending the iron-laced water into Pine Creek.
State officials issued three violations to the company, and are continuing to monitor to see if the company is complying with regulations that prohibit discharging mine waste into water supplies.
Tarence Ray of nonprofit Appalachian Voices says there are dead fish and turtles in the creek. Mura says the state doesn't believe the spill caused the animal deaths.
The company is treating the spill by putting soda ash into the retention pond.
Hardshell Tipples couldn't be reached for comment.


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It's Almost Here!
Codien and I have finished the first half of the season already with episodes including what you love: randomness, drama, and ACTION! Grab your popcorn with a side of 7-UP, because Golden Ticket is premiering this Friday! Can you believe that? THIS Friday! We all knew this day would come and it's almost here ( lol just like the title huh )! :D
We've uncovered a sneak peek of a mysterious episode this season on a Post-It note. We used the keenest of eyes to read it. This episode will make your epic Summer worth it, although who knows what it's called?
*at Mino's mansion*Minotaur – *eating cereal, sitting on couch, watching Family Fued*Host – It's time to play Fast Money! I'm going to ask you a series of questions and you'll have to answer them before time runs out. Ready?Bob – Gotcha.Minotaur – I love this section of the show! The only thing that irritates me about it is that they always have at least one stupid answer. I could get it due to the pressure and everything, but you could do better.Host – What's a favorite holiday?Bob – Birthday.Minotaur – Your birthday's not a holiday, you overweight doof! Unless Google made you your own logo on their homepage, don't try to consider it a holiday, hun.Host – What's a common screenname for a random Austrailian teenager that loves online games for kids?Bob – Codien Flame.Minotaur – Ooh! That's a best answer right there!
Pokékon (ポケット昆虫)
A season premier? No.
A 'B-Side' episode (with the classification of episode 0)? Yes!
Welcome back to the party fans with the beginnings of Season 8. Start your popcorn poppin' and grab your calendar because with a line up of episodes being released every week, you won't want to miss out on the fun.
To kick start the adventure into overdrive we have sparks flying and tempers rising as Ryku tricks Minotaur into believing insects are 'Pokémon', helping him journey their broad suburban street to "Collect em' all!" in this new 'B-side' series called "Pokékon (ポケット昆虫)".
Under Every Rock, a New Star(fish) is Born.
Roll up, roll up, and come witness the birth of something new, something fresh.
Once this rock is turned over who knows what might happen.
You never know your luck. You might even witness the birth of a new star…fish.
I've been a secret fan of Party With Hobos for quite some time now, and I've watched as it's aged, progressed and slowly changed. Like an obscure father I have found comfort reading episode after episode till I drift off to sleep, and I've constantly wanted to help guide and change the series into blooming popularity. And now I can.
I am proud to announce, that I am, a new contributing writer in the PWH series. I hope I will provide as much insanity and curiosity as the series already demands. We have a grand line-up of episodes coming your way in Season 8. And maybe after that you might start to see something a little more animated from MT and I. *wink*
Thank-you, and happy reading.
Just bein' silly editing Codien's post. You should check out this awesome game I found in which the creator wants it to be advertised! Knight Chrome is the name, epic is the game. – MT
It's funny how there's no new episodes, but this blog is somewhat active. We just discovered some news on a low-quality Post-It note. This could be leading somewhere hopefully.
Starting up June 6th 2011, Party with Hobos will be renewed for an eighth season following the season premiere of The Golden Ticket. There will be approximately 15-20 episodes in the season, therefore making it the longest season in PWH history. It will be based off current events and random thoughts. It will either be posted on weekdays or the weekends. There's idiotic, indecisive children writing the series. Also, about PWH Forever, it will either be continued written or not depending on the lone writer's decision. Good day and happy holidays.
T-T-That's all folks! That's the epic news! Now if only I could bury up Zey-Shomi wherever he is. Zey? Zey, are you there? Codien? Oh, that's real manly. Just walk away. Mhm, I see how it is. WHAT ARE YOU DOING, MT? GO TO SLEEP ASFGHJKL;
By the way, Buh-Lay's not going to be written anymore. Don't ask questions.
PWH Exclusive: Treasure Hunt!
"MT, are you cereal that you want to do this? You already spoiled them enough."
They choose to read it. And that's my argument, silly imaginary friend.
Until Tuesday, May 17th, Party with Hobos will expose a super epic, challenging treasure hunt in order to find the first twenty-one lines of upcoming special, The Golden Ticket.
Also, Zey will be guiding you to closer and closer to the sneak peek by giving you the clues at the bottom of each page/post. Are you game? Awesome, here's your first hint.
The Golden Ticket Advertisement EDIT! ;)
The crew is back just for once more, but they have no idea what's waiting in store for them.
Ryku – Guys, we all need to calm down.
? – *comes closer to Ryku, swings knife towards his back*
Ryku – *looks down* Ooh! A penny! *crouches over to grab*
? – *trips over Ryku*
No one is left out of the danger.
Medusa – It's too late, Bradley! Now, if you'd be a good boy and take off your sunglasses..
Bradley – NEVER!
Medusa – *small gathering of snakes pull off Bradley's sunglasses*
Bradley – *eyes shut tight*
Medusa – Sneak a peek, Bradley. You know you want to.
There's no way to escape.
Zey I – *pulls on handle nervously* The doors are locked!
Minotaur – What? *shoots laser beams towards door*
*nothing happens*
Dasr – Oh man! It's laser-beam proof!
It'll make you excited and scared at the same time.
Whaley – *rolls his eyes, sips drink*
june 3rd, 2011
It's coming..
Ending This was lacking some things.
*golden gates swing open*
Charm – Welcome to Prince Willer's Magical, Mythology Factory!
Ryku – MINOTAUR, LOOK OUT!
Minotaur – *looks up*
*Fury flies directly towards Mino*
Kyan – *walks up behind Zey I* Oh my gosh – *starts to tear*
Zey I – *cries* Who did this..
? – *hides behind shelf*
Ryku – You guys need to calm down..
? – *sneaks up behind Ryku with a knife*


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Royal Icing cookies is a must have skill when it comes to creating personalised gifts, wedding cake tables or just for you to eat with a cup of tea. We've created this class to show you how to create your own set of beautiful royal iced cookies. During this class you'll learn..
- How to achieve the right consistencies for piping
- How to successfully flood your cookies and adding detail.
- How to outline your cookies
- Piping lines, dots, hearts, flowers, roses, leaves and letters.
You'll be working on cookies that we've already baked for you. You'll recieve full notes of the class including the cookie recipe. During the day you'll decorate 8 - 12 cookies. We provide everything for you. Just bring along an apron so you don't get too mucky.


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In Jumanji: The Next Level, the gang is back but the game has changed. As they return to rescue one of their own, the players will have to brave parts unknown from arid deserts to snowy mountains, to escape the world's most dangerous game.
27 years after overcoming the malevolent supernatural entity Pennywise, the former members of the Losers' Club, who have grown up and moved away from Derry, are brought back together by a devastating phone call.
A kindhearted street urchin named Aladdin embarks on a magical adventure after finding a lamp that releases a wisecracking genie while a power-hungry Grand Vizier vies for the same lamp that has the power to make their deepest wishes come true.
A traumatized, alcoholic Dan Torrance meets Abra, a kid who also has the ability to "shine." He tries to protect her from the True Knot, a cult whose goal is to feed off of people like them in order to remain immortal.
Ageing assassin, Henry Brogen tries to get out of the business but finds himself in the ultimate battle—fighting his own clone who is 25 years younger than him, and at the peak of his abilities.
Immediately after the events of The Desolation of Smaug, Bilbo and the dwarves try to defend Erebor's mountain of treasure from others who claim it: the men of the ruined Laketown and the elves of Mirkwood. Meanwhile an army of Orcs led by Azog the Defiler is marching on Erebor, fueled by the rise of the dark lord Sauron. Dwarves, elves and men must unite, and the hope for Middle-Earth falls into Bilbo's hands.
Woody has always been confident about his place in the world and that his priority is taking care of his kid, whether that's Andy or Bonnie. But when Bonnie adds a reluctant new toy called "Forky" to her room, a road trip adventure alongside old and new friends will show Woody how big the world can be for a toy.
Rey develops her newly discovered abilities with the guidance of Luke Skywalker, who is unsettled by the strength of her powers. Meanwhile, the Resistance prepares to do battle with the First Order.
Maleficent and her goddaughter Aurora begin to question the complex family ties that bind them as they are pulled in different directions by impending nuptials, unexpected allies, and dark new forces at play.
Jack Sparrow, a freewheeling 18th-century pirate, quarrels with a rival pirate bent on pillaging Port Royal. When the governor's daughter is kidnapped, Sparrow decides to help the girl's love save her.
Thirty years after defeating the Galactic Empire, Han Solo and his allies face a new threat from the evil Kylo Ren and his army of Stormtroopers.
Thor is imprisoned on the other side of the universe and finds himself in a race against time to get back to Asgard to stop Ragnarok, the destruction of his home-world and the end of Asgardian civilization, at the hands of an all-powerful new threat, the ruthless Hela.
Harry Potter has lived under the stairs at his aunt and uncle's house his whole life. But on his 11th birthday, he learns he's a powerful wizard -- with a place waiting for him at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. As he learns to harness his newfound powers with the help of the school's kindly headmaster, Harry uncovers the truth about his parents' deaths -- and about the villain who's to blame.
Despite his family's baffling generations-old ban on music, Miguel dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz. Desperate to prove his talent, Miguel finds himself in the stunning and colorful Land of the Dead following a mysterious chain of events. Along the way, he meets charming trickster Hector, and together, they set off on an extraordinary journey to unlock the real story behind Miguel's family history.
King T'Challa returns home from America to the reclusive, technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda to serve as his country's new leader. However, T'Challa soon finds that he is challenged for the throne by factions within his own country as well as without. Using powers reserved to Wakandan kings, T'Challa assumes the Black Panther mantel to join with girlfriend Nakia, the queen-mother, his princess-kid sister, members of the Dora Milaje (the Wakandan 'special forces') and an American secret agent, to prevent Wakanda from being dragged into a world war.
Young hobbit Frodo Baggins, after inheriting a mysterious ring from his uncle Bilbo, must leave his home in order to keep it from falling into the hands of its evil creator. Along the way, a fellowship is formed to protect the ringbearer and make sure that the ring arrives at its final destination: Mt. Doom, the only place where it can be destroyed.
Fuelled by his restored faith in humanity and inspired by Superman's selfless act, Bruce Wayne and Diana Prince assemble a team of metahumans consisting of Barry Allen, Arthur Curry and Victor Stone to face the catastrophic threat of Steppenwolf and the Parademons who are on the hunt for three Mother Boxes on Earth.
The Grinch hatches a scheme to ruin Christmas when the residents of Whoville plan their annual holiday celebration.
A young girl, Chihiro, becomes trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free her family.
Princess Jasmine grows tired of being forced to remain in the palace, so she sneaks out into the marketplace, in disguise, where she meets street-urchin Aladdin. The couple falls in love, although Jasmine may only marry a prince. After being thrown in jail, Aladdin becomes embroiled in a plot to find a mysterious lamp, with which the evil Jafar hopes to rule the land.


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As I posted in Replacing Cable TV with Netflix, we're trying Netflix instead of cable TV for a month; that month is almost over and we're cutting the cord – no more cable.
I just cancelled my television cable and upgraded my internet package. We didn't watch any cable TV the past month, using Netflix the entire time. We all love it.
I upgraded my internet package to increase the download limit from 60 GB to 90 GB but the download speed remains the same. I'm willing to upgrade again if it'll make a big different (from 10 Mbps to 25 Mbps), but netflix has been working well even on two devices at the same time.
We get Netflix through our wii, which is connected to my wireless router. I don't like the wii interface but otherwise no problems. I also watch Netflix in bed using my iPod Touch with no streaming problems.
TV cable cost $80+ a month, which was cancelled. Netflix cost $8/month. Internet package upgrade cost an additional $10/month. Good savings overall!


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Logo for Mandarina Clementina, a natural flavored water brand in Mexico. My client wanted something fresh, yet calming. Something vibrant but also traditional. For the logo, I made a minimal drawing of a mandarin orange and a clementine, which are what the brand is named after.
The packaging is flexible so that it can be modified for different flavors.
Buisness card sample for the team at Mandarina Clementina.
One-color version of the logo to be printed on merchandise
Logo for a Mexican artisanal food brand named Natural Green. I've been wanting to experiment with watercolor for a while so this was my chance! This logo will be on the packaging for hand-crafted jam, olive oil, some for salsa, and many others.
Packaging sample for hand-crafted strawberry jam.
Business card sample for the team at Natural Green.
Poster and collateral designed for Arizona's World Usability Day, hosted in 2014 at the PayPal offices
Poster at the entrance of the event
Collateral detail
Logo re-design for Best Western. Made just for fun. I kept the top half of the original shape, made the blue a little deeper to contrast better with the bright red, and made the type smaller with more space between letters. I tried different serif typefaces but they kept competing with the W. Also, got rid of that giant 'registered trademark' symbol.
Logo design for a non-profit organization from Buffalo, NY. Done while at Eric Mower + Associates.
Business system detail.
Winning t-shirt design chosen by faculty at the Design School from Arizona State University.
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It's the moment you've all been waiting for – an up close and personal interview with Yoga One co-founder and teacher extraordinaire, Michael Caldwell!
From picking apples in Australia to starting a yoga studio in San Diego, Michael embodies the yogic journey both on and off the mat. Come to his Tuesday night Vinyasa Flow at 6pm or Friday noon Flow class to see what all the hype is about! You can find our full schedule here.
1. What is your favorite style of yoga?
Flow yoga is my favorite style. I enjoy and benefit from the linking of breath with movement combined with the power of now.
2. What first attracted you to yoga when you began your practice?
The connection to my body. Prior to my practice, my body was just a means to an end, a vessel to get me where I was going or a tool to help me accomplish a task. I learned my first few poses from the book Fit for Life during the months Amy and I were in Australia picking apples ten days at a time, ten hours a day in order to make extra money for our backpacking adventures around the world. It was physically demanding work and the sensation, relief and awareness fostered from the few poses ignited a cartoon light bulb above my head that still shines.
3. What is your favorite yoga pose right now?
Always has been karnapidasana (ear pressure pose). I had a slight scoliosis which made it painful to buckle my belt among other things. This pose and yoga in general cured me. Plus when I'm in this position, I feel like I'm underwater, which I love.
4. What pose is still the most challenging?
Any pose where I wander from the present moment.
5. If you were an animal, you would be: Animal the drummer from the muppets!
6. Describe what yoga means in your life using just 6 words: Friends, Fun, Family, Flexibility, Freedom, Feeling
7. What might your students be surprised to learn about you?
I'm probably a little too open with my students. They might prefer to know less. But if they really want to be surprised, they can read my (as yet unpublished) coming-of-age travel memoir tentatively titled Big in Japan (…not so much in South East Asia). The adventures of a 23 year old American male finding his edge in Asia.
8. Do you have any words of wisdom or advice for new students?
I would advise new students (of every age) to read Dr Seuss's Oh the Places You'll Go! Yoga is an adventure that involves the mind, body and spirit, just like life. I feel the wisdom in this book can help people to be happier and healthier during their yoga practice and in their every day lives.
Today is your day.
You're off to Great Places!
You're off and away!"


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These Creepy Personalization Techniques May Be Causing You To Lose Out On Your Email Marketing
Clients want relevance. They like it when your email content is customized to their interests and purchasing propensities; thus personalization. However, they also want to be safe and in control of the content they receive. Overdoing personalization can leave them feeling disturbed and creeped out. According to a study conducted by Barnard (2014), if customers view you and your selling techniques as "creepy", they become 5 percent less likely to make a purchase. They will see you as a threat and assume negative perception towards your product. Indeed, there's a thin line between "cool" and "creepy" personalization in email marketing. Below are personalization techniques in your email that are bothering your prospects. Make sure you are not doing them.
Getting Too Personal
Putting your prospect's name in the subject line and repeating it numerous times throughout your email or marketing materials can send the wrong flag. It simply sounds shady. Sure. It may catch attention. But remember that you are not the only one using such technique. Your prospect is most likely besieged with heaps of different or similar customized marketing emails everyday, which implies they got more than they can bear and that you can't really depend on using their first name to spark their interest.
Sending from your Brand
There are instances where prospects aren't compelled to open email from companies because there is this perception of it being just promotional and not a personalized correspondence. An email from a person? Now that can appeal more to them.
Overdoing Email Automation
Sending out emails frequently through automation even if you don't get a response from your prospects. You may unintentionally spam a market segment without noticing if there excessive number of procedures are automated.
Stagnating Email Content
Personalization encompassed the type of content you want your prospects to receive and where and when you choose to send it. Take for example, the early part of an email correspondence with a prospect might contain promotional content or information why he needs to purchase your service. If this prospect became a warm lead, you might consider sending him newsletter subscriptions or the cost of your service or other content like service packages or discounts to push him further down the conversion funnel; this, coupled with considerations of your prospects locations. Overlooking these things might defeat the purpose of your personalized email.
Personalization in email marketing, when done right, can be a manifestation of your relentless effort to comprehend and act on your prospect's needs. There is something great you can reap with this more than just B2B leads or conversions; a client's confidence and loyalty.


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GoFrugal's solution comes integrated with a comprehensive trade & financial accounting module that handles all the accounting aspects at ease. It provides quantitative information about finances of an organization eliminating the need to have a separate accounting software & double work to be done for posting entries.
Key Features
- Supports both single & double entry method, all types of voucher entries such as journal, contra, receipt, payment, etc
- Flexible user-interface for entering opening balance for customers, suppliers & other ledger accounts
- Easy generation of financial statements like Trial Balance, Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet
- Generate Cash & Fund flow, Statutory reports and file VAT without extra effort
- Complete cheque management, deposit, bounce, represent & post dated cheque tracking, issue management along with cheque printing facility
- Manage multi-company billing, annual accounting maintenance, receivables, payables, ageing & virtual outstanding maintenance
- Comprehensive tracking of receipts with reconciliation for all receipt instruments
- User authentication can be taken into account if late payment is entered
- Supports trade & statutory accounting
- Track bill acknowledgements while receiving payments
- Financial accounting is intuitive to learn & easy to use


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If stubborn fat pockets don't go away with diet and exercise, innovative SculpSure® body contouring can help eliminate excess fat in problem areas. At his clinic in Tamarac, Florida, Dr. Andrew Krinsky offers SculpSure laser treatment that destroys fat cells for more desirable, tight, and smooth body contours. Call Dr. Krinsky's office to learn more or book an appointment online today.
SculpSure, also known as coolsculpting, smart lipo, and body sculpting, is an FDA-approved, noninvasive laser treatment that destroys stubborn fat cells to tighten skin without surgery or downtime.
SculpSure is an excellent way to achieve smooth, tight, younger-looking skin without incisions or anesthesia. It reduces stubborn fat pockets in your:
Dr. Krinsky lets you know if you're a good candidate for SculpSure, and how many sessions you'll need to achieve optimal results.
SculpSure treatment reduces fat cells using laser energy to gently heat and cool the skin, destroying up to 24% of targeted fat tissue. If you maintain your weight with a healthy diet and exercise regimen, your body will often eliminate damaged fat cells for good.
During SculpSure body contouring sessions, you may feel intermittent deep warmth or tingling sensations mixed with cooling sensations. The procedure targets specific fat pockets without affecting the surrounding skin.
Coolsculpting sessions last about 25 minutes and are generally well-tolerated by patients. You may notice results in as quickly as six weeks, with optimal results occurring around 12 weeks' time.
After a coolsculpting session with Dr. Krinsky, there's no recovery time so you can resume normal daily activities right away. You'll likely require multiple SculpSure sessions to achieve maximum results.
If you're at or near a healthy weight but have stubborn fat pockets that linger even with diet and exercise, chances are you're a good candidate for SculpSure body contouring. This innovative medical treatment is designed for patients who:
Based on your individual situation, needs, and preferences, Dr. Krinsky lets you know if you're a good candidate for SculpSure or another aesthetic treatment.
When you're ready to achieve a more youthful look and gain the confidence you deserve with SculpSure, schedule a consultation with Dr. Krinsky or book an appointment online today.


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Søren Kierkegaard
was a 19th century Danish philosopher who has been called the "Father of Existentialism". His philosophy also influenced the development of
existential psychology
Kierkegaard criticized aspects of the philosophical systems that were brought on by philosophers such as
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
before him and the Danish Hegelians. He was also indirectly influenced by the philosophy of
Immanuel Kant
. He measured himself against the model of philosophy which he found in Socrates, which aims to draw one's attention not to explanatory systems, but rather to the issue of how one exists.
One of Kierkegaard's recurrent themes is the importance of subjectivity, which has to do with the way people relate themselves to (objective) truths. In
Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments
, he argues that "subjectivity is truth" and "truth is subjectivity." What he means by this is that most essentially, truth is not just a matter of discovering objective facts. While objective facts are important, there is a second and more crucial element of truth, which involves how one relates oneself to those matters of fact. Since how one acts is, from the ethical perspective, more important than any matter of fact, truth is to be found in subjectivity rather than objectivity.
Note on pseudonyms
Many of Kierkegaard's earlier works from 1843–1846 were written pseudonymously. In the non-pseudonymous
The Point of View of My Work as an Author
, he explained that the pseudonymous works are written from perspectives which are not his own: while Kierkegaard himself was a religious author, the pseudonymous authors wrote from points of view that were aesthetic or speculative. One exception to this is
, a pseudonymous author developed after the writing of
The Point of View
: Anti-Climacus is a religious author who writes from a Christian perspective so ideal that Kierkegaard did not wish it to be attributed to himself.
Because the pseudonymous authors write from perspectives which are not Kierkegaard's own, some of the philosophy mentioned in this article may or may not necessarily reflect Kierkegaard's own beliefs. Just as other philosophers bring up viewpoints in their essays to discuss and criticize them, Kierkegaard assigns pseudonyms to explore a particular viewpoint in-depth, which may take up a whole book or two in some instances, and Kierkegaard, or another pseudonym, critiques that position. For example, the author,
Johannes Climacus
is not a Christian and he argues from a non-Christian viewpoint.
, as mentioned earlier, is a Christian to a high degree and he argues from a devout Christian viewpoint. Kierkegaard places his beliefs in-between these two authors.
Most of Kierkegaard's later philosophical and religious writings from 1846–1855 were written and authored by himself, and he assigned no pseudonyms to these works. Subsequently, these works are considered by most scholars to reflect Kierkegaard's own beliefs. Where appropriate, this article will mention the respective author, pseudonymous or not.
Themes in his philosophy
is a term applied to a wide variety of phenomena including: any feeling of separation from, and discontent with, society; feeling that there is a moral breakdown in society; feelings of powerlessness in the face of the solidity of social institutions; the impersonal, dehumanised nature of large-scale and bureaucratic social organisations. Kierkegaard recognizes and accepts the notion of alienation, although he phrases it and understands it in his own distinctly original terms. For Kierkegaard, the present age is a reflective age—one that values objectivity and thought over action, lip-service to ideals rather than action, discussion over action, publicity and advertising to reality, and fantasy to the real world. For Kierkegaard, the meaning of values has been removed from life, by lack of finding any true and legitimate authority. Instead of falling into any claimed authority, any "literal" sacred book or any other great and lasting voice, cognizant humans must face the accuracy of embrace existential uncertainty.
Man has lost meaning because the accepted criterion of reality and truth is ambiguous and subjective thought—that which cannot be proved with
, historical research, or
scientific analysis
. Humans cannot think our choices in life, we must live them; and even those choices that we often think about become different once life itself enters into the picture. For Kierkegaard, the type of objectivity that a scientist or historian might use misses the point—humans are not motivated and do not find meaning in life through pure objectivity. Instead, they find it through passion, desire, and moral and religious commitment. These phenomena are not objectively provable—nor do they come about through any form of analysis of the external world; they come about through inward reflection, a way of looking at one's life that evades objective scrutiny.
Kierkegaard's analysis of the present age uses terms that resemble but are not exactly coincident with Hegel and
Marx's theory of alienation
An element of Kierkegaard's critique of modernity in his socio-political work,
Two Ages
, is the mention of
— which he calls an
. An abstraction is something that only has a reality in an
reality. It is not tangible, and only has meaning within an artificial context, which ultimately serves devious and deceptive purposes. It is a figment of thought that has no concrete reality, neither now nor in the future.
How is money an abstraction? Money gives the illusion that it has a direct relationship to the work that is done. That is, the work one does is worth so much, equals so much money. In reality, however, the work one does is an expression of who one is as a person; it expresses one's goals in life and associated meaning. As a person, the work one performs is supposed to be an external realization of one's relationship to others and to the world. It is one's way of making the world a better place for oneself and for others. What reducing work to a monetary value does is to replace the concrete reality of one's everyday struggles with the world —to give it shape, form and meaning— with an abstraction. Kierkegaard lamented that "a young man today would scarcely envy another his capacities or skill or the love of a beautiful girl or his fame, no, but he would envy him his money. Give me money, the young man will say, and I will be all right."
is inevitable and temporally unpredictable. Kierkegaard believed that individuals needed to sincerely and intensely come to realize the truth of that fact in order to live passionately. Kierkegaard accuses society of being in death-denial. Even though people see death all around them and grasp as an objective fact that everyone dies, few people truly understand, subjectively and inwardly, that they will die someday. For example, in
Concluding Unscientific Postscript
, Kierkegaard notes that people never think to say, "I shall certainly attend your party, but I must make an exception for the contingency that a roof tile happens to blow down and kill me; for in that case, I cannot attend."
Dread or anxiety
For Kierkegaard's author,
Vigilius Haufniensis
(depending on the translation and context) is unfocused fear. Haufniensis uses the example of a man standing on the edge of a tall building or cliff. When the man looks over the edge, he experiences a focused fear of falling, but at the same time, the man feels a terrifying impulse to throw himself intentionally off the edge. That experience is anxiety because of our complete freedom to choose to either throw oneself off or to stay put. The mere fact that one has the possibility and freedom to do something, even the most terrifying of possibilities, triggers immense feelings of dread. Haufniensis called this our "dizziness of freedom."
The Concept of Anxiety
, Haufniensis focuses on the first anxiety experienced by man:
's choice to eat from God's forbidden tree of knowledge or not. Since the concepts of good and evil did not come into existence before Adam ate the fruit, which is now dubbed
original sin
, Adam had no concept of good and evil, and did not know that eating from the tree was evil. What he did know was that God told him not to eat from the tree. The anxiety comes from the fact that God's prohibition itself implies that Adam is free and that he could choose to obey God or not. After Adam ate from the tree, sin was born. So, according to Kierkegaard, anxiety precedes sin, and it is anxiety that leads Adam to sin. Haufniensis mentions that anxiety is the presupposition for hereditary sin.
However, Haufniensis mentions that anxiety is a way for humanity to be saved as well. Anxiety informs us of our choices, our self-awareness and personal responsibility, and brings us from a state of un-self-conscious immediacy to self-conscious reflection. (
Jean-Paul Sartre
calls these terms pre-reflexive consciousness and reflexive consciousness.) An individual becomes truly aware of their potential through the experience of dread. So, anxiety may be a possibility for sin, but anxiety can also be a recognition or realization of one's true identity and freedoms.
Most emphatically in
The Sickness Unto Death
Kierkegaard's author argues that the human self is a composition of various aspects that must be brought into conscious balance: the finite, the infinite, a consciousness of the "relationship of the two to itself," and a consciousness of "the power that posited" the self. The finite (limitations such as those imposed by one's body or one's concrete circumstances) and the infinite (those capacities that free us from limitations such as imagination) always exist in a state of tension. That tension between two aspects of the "self" that must be brought into balance. When the self is out of balance, i.e., has the wrong understanding of who it is because it conceives itself too much in terms of its own limiting circumstances (and thus fails to recognize its own freedom to determine what it will be) or too much in terms of what it would like to be, (thus ignoring its own circumstances), the person is in a state of
. Notably, Anti-Climacus says one can be in despair even if one feels perfectly happy. Despair is not just an emotion, in a deeper sense it is the loss of self, i.e., it describes the state when one has the wrong conception of oneself.In
Judge William
each has one
epistolary novels
in two volumes. The
is an aesthete well aware that he can use the power of interpretation to define who he is and what he takes to be valuable. He knows he can shape and reshape his own self identity. Nothing binds him to his relationships. Nothing binds him to his past actions. In the end though, he also knows he lacks a consistent understanding of who he is. He lacks a self that resists his own power of reinterpretation. His older friend
Judge William,
argues that a deeper concept of selfhood is discovered as one commits to one's actions, and takes ownership of the past and present. A concept of oneself, as this particular human being, begins to take form in one's own consciousness.Another perspective, one in which an individual can find some measure of freedom from despair, is available for the person with religious "faith." This attunes the individual so that he or she can recognize what has always been there: a self to be realized within the circumstances it finds itself right now, i.e., this inner attunement brings about a sort of synthesis between the infinite and the finite.In
Fear and Trembling
Johannes de Silentio
argues that the choice of
to obey the private, unethical, commandment of God to sacrifice his son reveals what faith entails: he directs his consciousness absolutely toward "the absolute" rather than the merely ethical, i.e., he practices an inner spirituality that seeks to be "before god" rather than seeking to understand himself as an ethically upright person. His God requires more than being good, he demands that he seek out an inner commitment to him. If Abraham were to blithely obey, his actions would have no meaning. It is only when he acts
with fear and trembling
that he demonstrates a full awareness that murdering a son is absolutely wrong, ethically speaking.
Despair has several specific levels that a person can find themselves, each one further in despair than the last as laid out in
The Sickness Unto Death
The first level is "The despair that is ignorant of being despair or the despairing ignorance of having a self and an eternal self." Essentially this level is one has the wrong conception of what a self is, i.e., is ignorant of how to realize the self one already potentially is. In this sense, the person does not recognize his own despair because he often measures the success of his life based on whether he himself judges himself to be happy. Regardless of whether you know you are in despair or not, Kierkegaard asserts, you can still be in that state. He notes that this is the most common in the world.
The next level of despair is "The despair that is conscious of being despair and therefore is conscious of having a self in which there is something eternal and then either in despair does not will to be itself or in despair wills to be itself." The first form of this conscious despair is "In despair not to will or want to be oneself." This becomes further subdivided into three categories: the one already mentioned, the despair not to will to be a self, and lowest, the despair to wish for a new self. These three divisions are mostly the self-worth the person has and the amount to which they understand their own despair. The despair to not be oneself is pretty straightforward. A person sees himself as unworthy and as such does not see himself as worthy before something they do not understand. The despair not to be a self is deeper, because to not wish to be a self is to wish to not have a relation to God or at the very least see one's relation to God as unworthy, and thus shrink from it. The lowest form of this group, however, is the desire to be a new self. This is logically the deepest form as it assumes the deepest understanding of one's despair. Once in despair, without a complete relation to God one will always be in despair, so to be in this level one understands the permanence of the despair. The despair in this group arises from the nature of sensate things and physical desires. These three sub groups are also grouped under the heading "Despair over the earthly."
The second level of conscious despair under the heading "Despair over the eternal." Someone in this level views themselves in light of their own weakness. Unlike in the upper level, this weakness is understood and as such, instead of turning to faith and humbling oneself before God, they despair in their own weakness and unworthiness. In this sense, they despair over the eternal and refuse to be comforted by the light of God.
The last and lowest form of despair is the desire "In despair to will to be oneself." This last form of despair is also referred to by Kierkegaard as "demonic despair" (Note that the term demonic is used in the Classical Greek Sense, not the modern sense). In this form of despair, the individual finds him or herself in despair, understands they are in despair, and seeks some way to alleviate it, and yet no help is forthcoming. As a result, the self becomes hardened against any form of help and "Even if God in heaven and all the angels offered him aid, he would not want it." At this level of despair the individual revels in their own despair and sees their own pain as lifting them up above the base nature of other men who do not find themselves in this state. This is the least common form of despair and Kierkegaard claims it is mostly found in true poets. This despair can also be called the despair of defiance, as it the despair that strikes out against all that is eternal. One last note is that as one travels further down the forms of despair, the number of people in each group becomes less and less.
Many philosophers who initially read Kierkegaard, especially
Johannes de Silentio's
Fear and Trembling
, often come to the conclusion that Kierkegaard supports a
divine command
law of ethics. The divine command theory is a
theory which claims moral values are whatever is commanded by a god or gods. However, Kierkegaard (through his pseudonym Johannes de Silentio) is not arguing that morality is created by
; instead, he would argue that a divine command from God
ethics. This distinction means that God does not necessarily create human morality: it is up to us as individuals to create our own morals and values. But any religious person must be prepared for the event of a divine command from God that would take precedence over all moral and rational obligations. Kierkegaard called this event the
suspension of the ethical
. Abraham, the
knight of faith
, chose to obey God unconditionally, and was rewarded with his son, his faith, and the title of
Father of Faith
. Abraham transcended ethics and leaped into faith.
But there is no valid logical argument one can make to claim that morality ought to be or can be suspended in any given circumstance, or ever. Thus, Silentio believes ethics and faith are separate stages of consciousness. The choice to obey God unconditionally is a true existential 'either/or' decision faced by the individual. Either one chooses to live in faith (the religious stage) or to live ethically (the ethical stage).
Works of Love
Purity of Heart
, Kierkegaard skillfully examines
Christian ethics
and the maxim,
Love Thy Neighbour
"In the public and the like, the individual is nothing, … the numerical is constitutive … the individual is nothing, and in the public he is not, in any profound sense, anything either".
For Kierkegaard, true
is called selfhood. Becoming aware of our true self is our true task and endeavor in life—it is an ethical imperative, as well as preparatory to a true religious understanding. Individuals can exist at a level that is less than true selfhood. We can live, for example, simply in terms of our
—our immediate satisfaction of desires, propensities, or distractions. In this way, we glide through life without direction or purpose. To have a direction, we must have a purpose that defines for us the meaning of our lives.
Sickness Unto Death
specifically Kierkegaard deals with the self as a product of relations. In this sense, a human results from a relation between the Infinite (Noumena, spirit, eternal) and Finite (Phenomena, body, temporal). This does not create a true self, as a human can live without a "self" as he defines it. Instead, the Self or ability for the self to be created from a relation to the Absolute or God (the Self can only be realized through a relation to God) arises as a relation between the relation of the Finite and Infinite relating back to the human. This would be a positive relation.
An individual person, for Kierkegaard, is a particular that no abstract formula or definition can ever capture. Including the individual in "the public" (or "the crowd" or "the herd") or subsuming a human being as simply a member of a species is a reduction of the true meaning of life for individuals. What philosophy or politics try to do is to categorize and pigeonhole individuals by group characteristics instead of individual differences. For Kierkegaard, those differences are what make us who we are.
Kierkegaard's critique of the modern age, therefore, is about the loss of what it means to be an individual. Modern society contributes to this dissolution of what it means to be an individual. Through its production of the
false idol
of "the public", it diverts attention away from individuals to a mass public that loses itself in abstractions, communal dreams, and fantasies. It is helped in this task by the media and the mass production of products to keep it distracted.
Although Kierkegaard attacked "the public", he is supportive of communities:
Pathos (passion)
For Kierkegaard, in order to apprehend the absolute, the mind must radically empty itself of objective content. What supports this radical emptying, however, is the desire for the absolute. Kierkegaard names this desire
According to Kierkegaard, the human self desires that which is beyond
. Desire itself appears to be a desire for the infinite, as Plato once wrote. Even the desire to propagate, according to
, is a kind of desire for
—that is, we wish to live on in time through our children and their children.
Erotic love
itself appears as an example of this desire for something beyond the purely finite. It is a taste of what could be, if only it could continue beyond the boundaries of
. As the analogy implies, humans seek something beyond the here and now. The question remains, however, why is it that human pathos or passion is the most precious thing? In some ways, it might have to do with our status as existential beings. It is not thought that gets us through life—it is action; and what motivates and sustains action is passion, the desire to overcome hardships, pain, and suffering. It is also passion that enables us to die for ideals in the name of a higher reality. While a scientist might see this as plain emotion or simple animal desire, Kierkegaard sees it as that which binds to the source of life itself. The desire to live, and to live in the right way, for the right reasons, and with the right desires, is a holy and sacred force.
One can also look at this from the perspective of what the meaning of our existence is. Why suffer what humans have suffered, the pain and despair—what meaning can all of this have? For Kierkegaard, there is no meaning unless passion, the emotions and will of humans, has a divine source.
Passion is closely aligned with faith in Kierkegaard's thought.
as a passion is what drives humans to seek reality and truth in a transcendent world, even though everything we can know intellectually speaks against it. To live and die for a belief, to stake everything one has and is in the belief in something that has a higher meaning than anything in the world—this is belief and passion at their highest.
Johannes Climacus
, in
Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments
, writes the following cryptic line: "
is Truth". To understand Climacus's concept of the individual, it is important to look at what he says regarding subjectivity. What is subjectivity? In very rough terms, subjectivity refers to what is personal to the individual—what makes the individual
who he is in distinction from others
. It is what is inside—what the individual can see, feel, think, imagine, dream, etc. It is often opposed to objectivity—that which is outside the individual, which the individual and others around can feel, see, measure, and think about. Another way to interpret subjectivity is the
relationship between the subject and object.
Scientists and historians, for example, study the objective world, hoping to elicit the truth of nature—or perhaps the truth of
. In this way, they hope to predict how the future will unfold in accordance with these laws. In terms of history, by studying the past, the individual can perhaps elicit the laws that determine how events will unfold—in this way the individual can predict the future with more exactness and perhaps take control of events that in the past appeared to fall outside the control of humans.
In most respects, Climacus did not have problems with
or the scientific endeavor. He would not disregard the importance of objective knowledge. Where the scientist or historian finds certainty, however, Climacus noted very accurately that results in science change as the tools of observation change. But Climacus's special interest was in history. His most vehement attacks came against those who believed that they had understood history and its laws—and by doing so could ascertain what a human's true self is. That is, the assumption is that by studying history someone can come to know who he really is as a person. Kierkegaard especially accused Hegel's philosophy of falling prey to this assumption.
For Climacus, this is a ridiculous argument at best, and a harmful notion at worst. It undermines the meaning of what a self is. For Climacus, the individual comes to know who he is by an intensely personal and passionate pursuit of what will give meaning to his life. As an existing individual, who must come to terms with everyday life, overcome its obstacles and setbacks, who must live and die, the single individual has a life that no one else will ever live. In dealing with what life brings his way, the individual must encounter them with all his psycho-physical resources.
Subjectivity is that which the individual—and no one else—has. But what does it mean to have something like this? It cannot be understood in the same way as having a
or a bank account. It means to be someone who is becoming someone—it means being a person with a past, a present, and a future. No one can have an individual's past, present or future. Different people experience these in various ways—these experiences are unique, not anyone else's. Having a past, present, and future means that a person is an existing individual—that a person can find meaning in time and by existing. Individuals do not think themselves into existence, they are born. But once born and past a certain age, the individual begins to make choices in life; now those choices can be his, his parents', society's, etc. The important point is that to exist, the individual must make choices—the individual must decide what to do the next moment and on into the future. What the individual chooses and how he chooses will define who and what he is—to himself and to others.
The goal of life, according to
, is to know thyself. Knowing oneself means being aware of who one is, what one can be and what one cannot be. The search for this self, is the task of subjectivity. This task is the most important one in life. Climacus and Kierkegaard considers this to be an important task and should have been obvious to the individual immediately.
If I do not know who I am, then I am living a lie.
Subjectivity comes with consciousness of myself as a self. It encompasses the emotional and intellectual resources that the individual is born with. Subjectivity is what the individual is as a human being. Now the problem of subjectivity is to decide how to choose—what rules or models is the individual going to use to make the right choices? What are the right choices? Who defines
? To be truly an individual, to be true to himself, his actions should in some way be expressed so that they describe who and what he is to himself and to others. The problem, according to Kierkegaard, is that we must choose who and what we will be based on subjective interests—the individual must make choices that will mean something to him as a reasoning, feeling being.
Three stages of life
Three stages of life.
(The circles' sizes are for illustrative purposes only.)
Early American Kierkegaard scholars tried to reduce the complexity of Kierkegaard's authorship by focusing on three levels of individual existence, which are named in passing by one of Kierkegaard's pseudonyms, Johannes Climacus, who wrote
Concluding Unscientific Postscript
. Though the stages represent only one way of interpreting Kierkegaard's thought, it has become a popular way of introducing his authorship among Anglo-American scholars. In continental European circles, stage theory never took hold in the same way.In one popular interpretation of stage theory, each of the so-called levels of existence envelops those below it: an ethical person is still capable of aesthetic enjoyment, for example, and a religious person is still capable of aesthetic enjoyment and ethical duty. The difference between these ways of living are internal, not external, and thus there are no external signs one can point to determine at what level a person is living.
Stage One: Aesthetic
Kierkegaard was interested in
, and is sometimes referred to as the "poet-philosopher" because of the passionate way in which he approached
. But he is often said to be interested in showing the inadequacy of a life lived entirely in the aesthetic level. Aesthetic life is defined in numerous different ways in Kierkegaard's authorship, including a life defined by intellectual enjoyment, sensuous desire, and an inclination to interpret oneself as if one were "on stage." There are many degrees of this aesthetic existence and a single definition is thus difficult to offer. At bottom, one might see the purely unreflective lifestyle. At the top, we might find those lives which are lived in a reflective, independent, critical and socially apathetic way. But many interpreters of Kierkegaard believe that most people live in the least reflective sort of aesthetic stage, their lives and activities guided by everyday tasks and concerns. Fewer aesthetically-guided people are the reflective sort. Whether such people know it or not, their lives are said to be ones of complete despair. Kierkegaard's author
is an example of an individual living the aesthetic life.
Stage Two: Ethical
The second level of existence is the ethical. This is where an individual begins to take on a true direction in life, becoming aware of and personally responsible for
and forming a commitment to oneself and others. One's actions at this level of existence have a consistency and coherence that they lacked in the previous sphere of existence. For many readers of Kierkegaard, the ethical is central. It calls each individual to take account of their lives and to scrutinize their actions in terms of absolute responsibility.
"Judge Wilhelm," a pseudonymous author of
and the voice who defines the ethical consciousness, argues that the commitment to take responsibility for one's own choices must be made individually. To take responsibility for the various relationships in which an individual finds him- or herself is a possibility open to every human being, but it does not follow that every human being chooses to do so as a matter of course. The meaning of a person's life for Wilhelm depends on how she takes responsibility for her current and future choices, and how she takes ownership of those choices already made. For Wilhelm, the ethically-governed person takes responsibility for past actions, some good and some bad, seeks consistency, and takes seriously the obligation to live in a passionate and devoted way.
Stage Three: Religious
The ethical and the
are intimately connected: a person can be ethically serious without being religious, but the religious stage includes the ethical. Whereas living in the ethical sphere involves a commitment to some ethical absolute, living in the religious sphere involves a commitment and relation to God.
The Kierkegaardian pseudonyms who speak of stage theory consider religion to be the highest stage in human existence. In one discussion of religious life, one of Kierkegaard's pseudonyms, Johannes Climacus, distinguishes two types within this stage, which have been called
Religiousness A
Religiousness B
. One type is symbolized by the
Greek philosopher
, whose passionate pursuit of the truth and individual conscience came into conflict with his society. Another type of religiousness is one characterized by the realization that the individual is
and is the source of untruth. In time, through revelation and in direct relationship with the
that is
, the individual begins to see that his or her eternal salvation rests on a paradox—God, the transcendent, coming into time in human form to redeem human beings. For Kierkegaard, the very notion of this occurring was scandalous to human reason—indeed, it must be, and if it is not then one does not truly understand the
nor the meaning of human sinfulness. For Kierkegaard, the impulse towards an awareness of a transcendent power in the universe is what religion is. Religion has a social and an individual (not just personal) dimension. But it begins with the individual and his or her awareness of sinfulness.
Kierkegaard's thoughts on other philosophers
Kierkegaard and Hegel
Many philosophers think that one of Kierkegaard's greatest contributions to philosophy is his critique of
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
. Indeed, many of Kierkegaard's works are written in response to or as a critique of Hegel. Although Kierkegaard strongly criticized some aspects of Hegelian philosophy, his work also shows that he was also positively influenced by Hegel, and had respect for Hegel himself. In a journal entry made in 1844, Kierkegaard wrote:
While Kierkegaard was a student of theology at the University of Copenhagen,
had become increasingly popular.
Johan Ludvig Heiberg
Hans Lassen Martensen
were key figures in Danish Hegelianism. Kierkegaard remarked in his journal on 17 May 1843 that Heiberg's writings were "borrowed" from Hegel, implying Heiberg would have been a nobody without Hegel.
Kierkegaard objected to Hegel's claim that he had devised a system of thought that could explain the whole of reality, with a
analysis of history leading the way to this whole. Hegel claimed that the doctrines and history of Christianity could be explained as a part of the rational unfolding and development of our understanding of the natural world and our place within it. Kierkegaard considered Hegel's explanation of Christianity as a necessary part of world history to be a distortion of the Christian message and a misunderstanding of the limits of human reason. He attempted to refute this aspect of Hegel's thought by suggesting that many doctrines of Christianity - including the
doctrine of Incarnation
, a God who is also human - cannot be explained rationally but remain a logical paradox.
To refute Hegel's claim that Christianity should be understood as a part of the necessary evolution of thought, or in Hegelians terms, Spirit, in
Fear and Trembling
, Kierkegaard attempts to use the story of
to show that there is a goal higher than that of ethics (questioning the Hegelian claim that doing one's ethical duty is the highest that can be said of a human being) and that faith cannot be explained by Hegelian ethics, (disproving Hegel's claim that Christianity can be rationally explained by philosophy). Either way, this work can be read as a challenge to the Hegelian notion that a human being's ultimate purpose is to fulfill ethical demands.
By doing this, Hegelian critics accuse Kierkegaard of using the dialectic to disprove the dialectic, which seems somewhat contradictory and hypocritical. However, Kierkegaard would not claim the dialectic itself is bad, only the Hegelian premise that the dialectic
would lead to a harmonious reconciliation of everything
, which Hegel called the
Kierkegaardian scholars have made several interpretations of how Kierkegaard proceeds with parodying Hegel's dialectic. One of the more popular interpretations argues the aesthetic-ethical-religious stages are the triadic process Kierkegaard was talking about. See section
Spheres of existence
for more information. Another interpretation argues for the world-individual-will triadic process. The dialectic here is either to assert an individual's own desire to be independent and the desire to be part of a community. Instead of reconciliation of the world and the individual where problems between the individual and society are neatly resolved in the Hegelian system, Kierkegaard argues that there's a delicate bond holding the interaction between them together, which needs to be constantly reaffirmed.
Jean-Paul Sartre
takes this latter view and says the individual is in a constant state of reaffirming his or her own identity, else one falls into
bad faith
This process of reconciliation leads to a "both/and" view of life, where both thesis and antithesis are resolved into a synthesis, which negates the importance of personal responsibility and the human choice of either/or. The work
is a response to this aspect of Hegel's philosophy. A passage from that work exemplifies Kierkegaard's contempt for Hegel's philosophy:
Kierkegaard and Schelling
In 1841–1842, Kierkegaard attended the
lectures of
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling
Schelling was a critic of
Georg Hegel
and a professor at the
University of Berlin
The university started a lecture series given by Schelling in order to espouse a type of
positive philosophy
which would be diametrically opposed to
. Kierkegaard was initially delighted with Schelling. Before he left Copenhagen to attend Schelling's lectures in Berlin, he wrote to his friend Peter Johannes Sprang:
At Berlin, Kierkegaard gave high praises to Schelling. In a journal entry made sometime around October or November 1841, Kierkegaard wrote this piece about Schelling's second lecture:
As time went on, however, Kierkegaard, as well as many in Schelling's audience, began to become disillusioned with Schelling. In a particularly insulting letter about Schelling, Kierkegaard wrote to his brother, Peter Kierkegaard:
Kierkegaard became disillusioned with Schelling partly because Schelling shifted his focus on actuality, including a discussion on
quid sit
[what is] and
quod sit
[that is], to a more mythological, psychic-type pseudo-philosophy. Kierkegaard's last writing about Schelling's lectures was on 4 February 1842.
Although Schelling had little influence on Kierkegaard's subsequent writings, Kierkegaard's trip to Berlin provided him ample time to work on his masterpiece,
In a reflection about Schelling in 1849, Kierkegaard remarked that Schelling was
like the
at its mouth where it became stagnant water - he was degenerating into a Prussian "Excellency".
(Journals, January 1849)
Kierkegaard and Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer
Kierkegaard became acquainted with
Arthur Schopenhauer
's writings quite late in his life. Kierkegaard felt Schopenhauer was an important writer, but disagreed on almost every point Schopenhauer made. In several journal entries made in 1854, a year before he died, Kierkegaard spoke highly of Schopenhauer:
However, Kierkegaard also considered him,
a most dangerous sign
of things to come:
Kierkegaard believes Schopenhauer's ethical point of view is that the individual succeeds in seeing through the wretchedness of existence and then decides to deaden or mortify the joy of life. As a result of this complete asceticism, one reaches contemplation: the individual does this out of sympathy. He sympathizes with all the misery and the misery of others, which is to exist. Kierkegaard here is probably referring to the pessimistic nature of Schopenhauer's philosophy. One of Kierkegaard's main concerns is a suspicion of his whole philosophy:
Little else is known about Kierkegaard's attitude to Schopenhauer. On Schopenhauer himself, Kierkegaard felt that Schopenhauer would have been patronizing. "Schopenhauer interests me very much, as does his fate in Germany. If I could talk to him I am sure he would shudder or laugh if I were to show him [my philosophy]."
(Journals, 1854)
Further reading
Dru, Alexander.
The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard
, Oxford University Press, 1938.
Duncan, Elmer.
Søren Kierkegaard: Maker of the Modern Theological Mind
, Word Books 1976, ISBN 0876804636
Garff, Joakim
Søren Kierkegaard: A Biography
, Princeton University Press 2005, ISBN 069109165X.
Hannay, Alastair
Kierkegaard: A Biography
, Cambridge University Press, New edition 2003, ISBN 0521531810.
The Concept of Anxiety
, Princeton University Press, 1981, ISBN 0691020116
The Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates
, Princeton University Press 1989, ISBN 0691073546
The Sickness Unto Death
, Princeton University Press, 1983, ISBN 0691020280
Lippit, John.
Kierkegaard and Fear and Trembling
, Routledge 2003, ISBN 0415180473
Ostenfeld, Ib and Alastair McKinnon.
Søren Kierkegaard's Psychology
, Wilfrid Laurer University Press 1972, ISBN 0889200688
Westphal, Merold.
A Reading of Kierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific Postscript
, Purdue University Press 1996, ISBN 1557530904
External links
Anthony Storm's Commentary On Kierkegaard
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard Newsletter
edited by Gordon D. Marino
Wabash Center Internet Guide: Soren Kierkegaard
Online Library Catalog at St. Olaf College; select
Kierkegaard Library
from the menu to search for books and articles.
Universidad Iberoamericana - Kierkegaard en español
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Woodbender at 100% Design South Africa28 August, 2017
100% Design South Africa is the largest curated exhibition platform for high-end contemporary design in Africa and we were thrilled to have a stand for the first time. The event took place from 9-13 August at the Gallagher Convention Centre in Johannesburg and is one of the main attractions at Decorex.
The Woodbender stand took on somewhat of a retro-inspired palette with hues of olive, mustard and blush in the mix. Our new timeless and trendy releases were centre stage on the stand and over the course of the 4 days we had a steady flow of visitors trying out the new designs.
Those in need of colour inspiration were not left disappointed. The rest of the hall offered up daily doses of colourful installations in the form of bright patterns and bold designs by some of our fellow exhibitors.
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Case Study — REI
Nation's top outdoor retailer is a pipeline for its own and the industry's innovations
Kent, Wash. – When people talk about the innovations flowing from the Pacific Northwest, many focus in on aerospace and software. But as REI exemplifies, the outdoor industry is just as dynamic and shares many of the same attributes: a young, well-educated workforce, the constant melding of new components and ideas into new products, consumer-focused design, and sophisticated supply chain and distribution channels, to name just a few.
The retailer has a longstanding mission to "inspire, educate and outfit people for a lifetime of outdoor adventure and stewardship." In the process it has created thousands of skilled jobs, and it sustains an ecosystem of equally innovative suppliers in the Northwest and across the country.
Just like high tech, the industry is infused with knowledgeable workers. There are apparel designers figuring out new ways to wick sweat through advanced fabrics, sustainability experts focusing on minimizing waste and environmental footprints, tent architects inventing ever-lighter designs, and logistics experts optimizing inventory distribution. REI professionals also have to deliver a top-tier retail experiences both in stores and online. What's different is that all this work is fueled by a passion for human-powered outdoor recreation.
And while REI develops its own line of high-quality gear and apparel for camping, climbing, cycling, fitness, hiking, paddling, snow sports and travel, the lion's share of its inventory comes from other brands, large and small. Nationwide, REI relies on innovations from more than 1300 vendors, almost 500 of which are headquartered in the Northwest. This ecosystem helps the company deliver more than 25,000 product SKUs to its 120+ retail stores and its online stores, REI.com and REI-OUTLET.com. The company is even expanding into new territories as enthusiasm for outdoor adventure grows, opening its first New York City store in SoHo last year.
The parallels to traditional high tech bleed over into R&D too. It it can take years before a new outdoor design hits the market. REI's work culture promotes developing high-performance products at reasonable consumer prices. So even seemingly mundane design elements like the placement of zippers, pockets or hoods are repeatedly analyzed, tested and re-designed until they're just right.
This focus on performance and expertise extends to REI's retail experience. The company seeks out retail employees with outdoor adventure know-how who are passionate about engaging the outdoors so that they can provide shoppers with well-grounded advice.
Beyond its stores, expert REI instructors staff its REI Outdoor School, offering beginning- to advanced-level classes in kayaking, rock climbing, mountain biking, navigation, snowshoeing, road cycling, backpacking and more. Thousands of people attend these outdoor activity classes annually. REI also runs a full-service adventure travel business – REI Adventures – which offers unique high-adventure excursions to all seven continents. The company offers more than 150 trips worldwide, including weekend getaways, family adventures and volunteer expeditions.
Attracting the best and brightest requires careful attention to the work environment as well as to the company's impact on the world. REI's business practices include extensive recycling efforts, sustainable sourcing of materials and requiring workplace codes of conduct and fair labor practices from its suppliers. REI's emphasis on workplace values is a big reason why it has been chosen as one of FORTUNE magazine's "Best Companies to Work For" every year since the magazine began compiling its list in 1998.
Employees say REI's focus on environmental stewardship is another reason they love working for the company. REI stores mobilize tens of thousands of volunteers to build trails, clean up beaches, restore local habitats and more. Last year, the company spearheaded more than 540 REI-sponsored conservation projects, including 35,990 volunteers and 137,089 hours of "sweat equity" on trails, parks and waterways. REI also invests a portion of its profits each year in organizations with similar goals. In 2011, REI granted more than $4.4 million to more than 330 local and national nonprofits that share REI's commitment to engage in and care for the great outdoors. The result was an additional 3.4 million volunteer hours to protect and maintain natural spaces and recreational areas. The company's non-profit organization, The REI Foundation, works to ensure that tomorrow's outdoor enthusiasts and conservation stewards reflect the diversity of America.
This commitment to both innovation and stewardship helps chart REI's course. And there's one more parallel to high tech that bodes not just for REI, but for the outdoor industry as a whole. U.S. tech innovators proudly point to being global leaders in their fields. Arguably, the outdoor industry can say that with even more conviction. Non-U.S. companies are hard to find at the industry's enormous biannual trade show, Outdoor Retailer. This is an industry in which American entrepreneurship and innovation clearly outpace the competition.


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A wind farm comprised of 432 vertical-axis wind turbines on the coast of Changhua County's Fangyuan Township (芳苑) has become the county's latest tourist attraction.
The DS-3000 turbines, which has a two-blade system that guarantees high efficiency while enabling the system to activate even with very weak winds, were erected by a power company, which rented about 26,000 ping (85,950m2) of idle fish farms in the township's Sinbao Village (新寶), near the Wanggong Fishing Port (王功漁港).
The turbines look like egg beaters, and standing in the middle of the turbines feels like being on a different planet, a resident of the county's Lugang Township (鹿港), surnamed Hsu, said on Monday.
This is the county's first privately financed wind farm on aquaculture land, Taiwan Power Co's Changhua branch said.
The turbines have been registered with the Ministry of Economic Affairs, it added.
Each turbine generates up to 3 kilowatts of electricity, which could be sold for NT$8.97 per kilowatt-hour, it said.
The ministry's Bureau of Energy approved the equipment's registration in its initial review, but the wind farm is on aquaculture land, which cannot be freely used for other purposes, Changhua County Government Department of Economic Affairs Director Liu Yu-ping (劉玉平) said.
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Top Chef finalist Kevin Gillespie wowed the judges early in season 6 with this recipe for bacon jam. He braises bacon with onion, brown sugar, chicken broth, and Espelette pepper, then blends it into a sweet-savory jam. Toss it with split fresh okra pods that are charred in a cast-iron skillet to remove some of their characteristic slime. Spread the leftover bacon jam on toast or biscuits with eggs, or layer it into a tasty meatloaf or egg salad sandwich.
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