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However, traffic volumes and poor access to daily living destinations and public transport had negative impacts
on residents’ lived experiences. While current liveability indices usually
consider access to daily living destinations - such as food
outlets, schools, hospitals, and public transport - traffic is often overlooked.
Yet, 10 out of 11 people mentioned traffic,
in 30 separate instances, as something that makes their neighbourhoods less liveable.

A painter living in the City of Casey described how increasing traffic in recent years was forcing him to wake
up half an hour earlier and get back home half an hour later in the afternoon.



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a painter, so I work anywhere from here to the city. ] … I
call it my driveway. So I’m on that every day, and it just depends which exit I’m taking for the
day. For some, the traffic has affected their mental health and increased stress levels.
We’ve lived in this house for 16 years and just the buildup of traffic … I was used to getting from A
to B very quickly. I now have to plan, embed in my day, more time to get
from A to B. I think that’s the biggest negative.
And it’s certainly one that impacts my husband.



He doesn’t work locally. He works in the eastern suburbs and he also
has to travel around a lot for his work. And that’s becoming a bit of a nightmare for him and actually creating a bit of stress.
Lack of access to daily living destinations, including employment
and supermarkets, means residents depend on their cars.
This adds to their cost of living and reduces neighbourhood liveability.
Lack of public transport or infrequent services
also has negative impacts on residents’ quality of life and well-being.
I take my hubby to work in Derrimut and so that normally takes
me … about two hours easy; just over two hours.



… he doesn’t drive. He can’t use the train simply because the train doesn’t go anywhere near where he works.
There’s nothing. No public transport to take my husband to work.
S0 … we’ve got no choice. So, if something happens to
me, uh, we’re in a load of trouble. That’s where it’s difficult.

We need more public transport. The film highlights the gaps in current
measures of liveability. For example, future liveability indices should consider
including traffic and car-dependency indicators.
Increasing traffic, the time spent travelling, and the
financial burden of car dependency can detract from some of the key reasons residents choose to live in Melbourne’s outer suburbs
- namely, affordability and sense of community. We need to engage with communities and hear from them about their lived experience to better understand and measure their quality of life, their health and their neighbourhoods’ liveability.

Objective measures of the quality of access should be accompanied by insights from residents about their lives in the suburbs.

The voice of residents needs to be included in the planning of our cities as they
grow, as well as the metrics of how successful we are in delivering equitable cities
that foster healthy, affordable and prosperous lives for all.



In most workplaces, there are those who merely regret not following the careers or occupations which their hearts truly desired.
Today, most of the jobs that they forewent have transitioned into high-paying job opportunities;
hence there are those who go through midlife career changes rather than pass up another chance to realize
their dream jobs. Still, some of the younger generations prefer to exploit their talents
while the demand is high rather than spend their time in college.

As they reach the turning points in their careers, it would be to their advantage if they pursued college education to enhance their
skills.


This way, they can maintain their edge over the incoming generations by possessing combined
knowledge, skills, and experience. Another individual who also feels
pressured by time considers taking
the flight of stairs but is hesitant because his destination is at the top-floor level.
He perceives the hard climb as too tedious and decides that he’s not up to it
at the moment. Turn to the next page for the continuation of our analogy about
elevator doors and career opportunities. Nevertheless, for those of you who still wait patiently in the
hallway, the best strategy you could probably think of
is to pay more attention to the flashing numbers above the elevator doors.



Patience still has its virtues, though, because many employees do advance
in their careers through loyalty and hard work.
However, in case of setbacks, learn from your mistakes by becoming
proactive in your career plans. There are some individuals, though, who are quite lucky.

They have just arrived at the hallway and get to stand in front of the elevator
door that is about to open. They could be
too brazen as to slip-in through a line and get a ride ahead of the others who have been standing in line for
a longer time. You have often heard how some people
are lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time.
It’s also a matter of being prepared or bold enough to take on a new challenge.




Yet we have to face the fact that life is not ideal; there are those who will step on your toes and infringe upon your rights
if they deem themselves as stronger contenders in a competitive work
environment. Those who were overtaken get irked, of course, but they feel there’s nothing else
to do but wait, since the numbers indicate that their elevator door
is about to open. There are those whose career advancements are assured through
a system of succession, but caution should also be instilled because
opportunity assurances are only good as far as your contribution to the company is
concerned.


Discrimination against age is strictly prohibited, but in the
real world, it can still happen. In waiting for an elevator ride, there should be awareness of the
possibility that the cab that is about to come up could
be full of passengers. Stoically, people simply wait for their luck to change.
Bear in mind that when it comes to career advancements, those who have made
notable landmarks in their professions did not perceive "luck" as a random experience but as a bonus that came
along when they took action. Nonetheless, the similarity
between elevator doors and opportunities ends if the point
of comparison is the certainty of arrival. An empty elevator is sure to
come up, no matter how long it takes; but opportunities for career growth
could be elusive. Employees may even fail to recognize the instances
when these career breaks are presented to them.
Perhaps the next time you stand and wait in the hallway, you’ll pay heed to the career advancement quotes
posted on the hallway walls. These were words uttered by famous people who found success in life by taking positive action instead of simply waiting for career opportunities
to happen.


Brian Chung still remembers the first time he attempted to read the Bible.
A 20-year-old college student at the University of Southern California at the
time, he’d recently converted to Christianity and was eager to plunge into
the scripture that he’d heard so much about. The
text was small and serious-looking, each line corralled inside densely packed, numbered
columns devoid of imagery — like citations at the end
of a biology textbook. Inside, the pages were toilet paper thin. Outside, the cover
was solid black and intimidating. For an artistic college student studying
communications, design and advertising, the "good book"
looked surprisingly bad.


"There were 20 pages before you actually got to Genesis," Chung
said, remembering how impatient he felt. [Want millennials back in the pews? Over the past 2,000 years, scholars say, no other book has been reimagined and reinterpreted as many times as the Bible. Each iteration — from the first translations in Greek to the King James edition more than 1,500 years later — was created to reach a new audience. Now, Christian publishers are scrambling to repair that relationship by making the Bible more accessible and attractive to a generation of young people for whom the written word no longer resonates as strongly.


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Inetianbor (106).jpg[/img]Their efforts are a way of embracing the present but
also a nod to the church’s medieval past, when an illiterate populace relied
on beautiful frescoes, sculptures and majestic cathedrals to understand the Christian message.
A decade after his failed attempt at reading, Chung has turned his early aversion to the
Bible into a growing business. He’s one half of a duo attempting to
make the Bible "millennial-friendly," sharing their ancient faith with
a new generation shaped by an unending stream of visual content and
social media stimulation. Negative space is plentiful, and the text is a stylish sans serif font, dwarfed by
the kind of moody, still-life images that proliferate on Instagram.
For inspiration, the partners didn’t look to
contemporary Christian artists or the Catholic Church but urbane
magazines such as Kinfolk and Drift .


They also studied hip, era-defining brands such as Warby Parker,
Harry’s , Shinola and Swedish watchmaker Daniel Wellington .

Those companies, they say, understand something that the discerning millennial
mind treats as, well, Gospel: The quality of
a product’s visual packaging is just as important as the quality of the product itself.

The Bible may be a holy book, Chung realized, but it’s also a
"content-rich lifestyle brand" — one in desperate need
of a modern upgrade. "Visual culture is everything for millennials," Alabaster
co-founder Bryan Ye-Chung said. "That’s what is important to us, too, so we wondered, why can’t a faith-based product take advantage of that space, as well? The start-up is not without competition.


Absorbing Christian teachings without opening a Bible or stepping inside a church has never been easier. Instagram has helped turn megachurch pastors such as Carl Lentz and Steven Furtick into fashion-forward "influencers" with millions of followers. The number of people who have downloaded mobile apps offering thousands of biblical translations, texts and access to podcasts is now in the hundreds of millions. Ancient manuscripts such as the Dead Sea scrolls have been digitized for online consumption, and now anyone with Internet access can listen to Bible readings in the book’s original languages — Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek. Why read about the Holy Land when you can strap on a virtual-reality headset that offers 3-D tours of sacred Christian sites? If VR isn’t your thing, you can download apps that pair smartphone photos with Bible verses, creating shareable content for social media.


If you don’t want to read the Bible, then Alexa, Amazon’s virtual assistant, can do it for you. As faith-based organizations seek to share their message in new ways, even their job postings have begun to resemble those from Silicon Valley tech firms, with organizations recruiting product designers and software engineers. The digital products may be new, but the sensibility is not, according to Matthew Engelke, a professor of religion at Columbia University . The Protestant impulse has always been to expand outward, Engelke said, finding new ways to engage new groups of people. The rise of digital culture over the past 20 years has heightened that impulse, he said.


For today’s evangelicals, Engelke said, a rising tide of secular atheism is no longer considered the greatest threat to the church. "It’s the stuck-in-the-mud old Christian who
doesn’t move with the times and refuses to recognize that
you can’t get people into church reading the King James
version in the evenings on the radio anymore," Engelke said. "It’s a
renaissance in craftsmanship," said Daniel Marrs, publisher of Thomas Nelson Bibles. The company has also developed proprietary typefaces designed to reduce eye fatigue for customers who spend their days staring at digital screens. If they’re not going to access scripture via a mobile app, publishers say, Bible readers want a customized product that makes them feel unique. "It’s all about the experience," said Doug Lockhart, senior vice president of Bible marketing and outreach at HarperCollins Christian Publishing .


318,000 in sales. It was enough for Chung and Ye-Chung to quit their jobs in recent weeks to focus on Alabaster full time. This year, both men said, the company hopes to triple last year’s sales figures. Their customers, they said, are primarily women, 21 to 35 years old. Though they have customers as far away as Singapore and Australia, most are city-dwellers from places such as Los Angeles, New York, Dallas, Chicago and Atlanta. [The new Bible museum tells a clear, powerful story. 155 for packages of six books — tap into millennials’ more casual approach to religion. Instead of letting the Book of Romans collect dust on a shelf, they said, the idea is to bring the words out into the open, turning them into an enticing work of art whose pages feel more interactive than intimidating. "We’ve become a culture
that cares about beauty and visual stimulation," Chung said. Harvey Cox, Hollis Research Professor of Divinity at Harvard, said Chung and Ye-Chung have unearthed an age-old marketing tactic perfected by the church. Christianity, like many religions, has long relied on beautiful packaging to sell its ideas. That was especially true, he said, during the Middle Ages, when the overwhelming majority of Christians couldn’t read. "It’s
a perfectly understandable evolution," he added. Friendly nurse or nightmare-inducing machine? How culture programs our taste in robots.


Tamar Charney is managing editor of NPR One. Ann Arbor writer Tamar Charney shares her thoughts about the connection between ice fishing and life. Somewhere beneath the runways of the Toronto airport I found myself in a tunnel between concourses, contemplating something I’d never thought much about - ice fishing. The walls of the tunnel were lined with Richard Johnson’s giant, colorful photographs of ice fishing shacks, lovingly painted wooden ones and utilitarian scrap corrugated ones. Shacks in the midst of snowstorms and shacks on shore in the summer. Shacks in bright sun and in darkness. But most notably, shacks in groups or alone. In ice fishing, as in life, people often sort themselves out into those who travel together and those who walk alone.


Most pastimes require you to make that choice up front, poet or part of a performance troop, swimming or softball team. You might as well be signing up for Solitary Solace or Comradery of Companionship than the actual activity. But ice fishing makes room for both. You’ve got the community of the ice shanty village where groups of people drink beer and tell fish tales surrounded by friends. For others, ice fishing is quiet alone time in a tiny shack, in middle of the frozen lake, in the middle of nowhere. Ice fishing is something I mostly see from the distance of a lakeside road. For all my years in Michigan, I’ve only been in an ice shack once.


Some friends and I were skiing across a frozen lake. I can’t recall if we chatted up a fisherman or just opened up a shack somewhere out there. I do recall being instantly mesmerized once inside. With the door shut behind me, the searing wind and bright sun were gone. In the center of the dark shanty was the hole cut through the ice, glowing an otherworldly deep blue. Forget the fish, the poles, the beer, the shanty towns, and the rest of ice fishing culture, I could lose myself for hours in that blue glowing portal to the watery world beneath the ice.


Years later, looking at the photographs of ice shacks in the passage between two airport concourses, I made a connection I’d long been missing. We overlook something pretty fundamental when we sort ourselves out as someone who ice fishes alone or as part of the village. The things we do for fun are ultimately about connecting to something beyond our mundane lives. It’s just the form of it that varies. The connection might be with others, it might be to a deeper part of our soul, or with forces of nature just beyond our full grasp. It's just so easy to notice shallow differences in how we live our lives, but harder to see the similarities that connect us all, that lie deeper down below the surface. It definitely wasn’t a connection I expected to catch just before my flight. But one well worth making.


If your company is like mine, you probably employ people from all religious beliefs; all with different traditions and customs. In New Mexico at my car dealership, I have Native Americans, Hispanics, Catholics, Protestants, Jewish, and Mormon faiths. In most employee handbooks that set the paid holidays, Christmas is almost always a paid holiday-but what if you have employees who are Jewish or those of the Buddhist or Mormon faith? What about Native American holidays that occur throughout the year and require that certain apparel is worn along with time off? While you can’t allow week after week of paid time off, there are some things you can do to help deal with religion in the work environment.


Religion in the work environment doesn’t consist of just days off, either. Certain religions seem to clash and so can co-workers who have different beliefs. Below are some tips on how to deal with your religious diversity so everyone is at ease. In the United States, all citizens are given the right under the First Amendment to practice the religion of their choice. As an employer you can’t even ask a person’s religious preference during the interview or hiring process, and you don’t want to fall victim to discrimination in the workplace if you don’t agree with a person’s religious preference. Going further, a person who singularly practices a religion not common among other workers can’t be placed into a hostile work environment.

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