Thursday, 9 October 2014

Fifteen years prior, the worldwide group

Fifteen years prior, the worldwide group met up and, as the Millennium Development Goals, made some enormous responsibilities to battle destitution, setting a deadline of 2015 for their consummation. Presently, after 15 years, we are seeing festivals of achievement, distinguishment of deficits, and reestablished endeavors to electrify worldwide duties around the imparted objectives of destroying amazing destitution and boosting imparted success. It is, in short, the quest for a more evenhanded society. 

Amid this period, assessment as a calling has additionally created immensely. Recollecting 25 years to when I initially began as an evaluator, I'm struck by the changes that have happened. 

Assessment used to be giver driven. Today accomplice nations around the globe have a much more prominent enthusiasm toward assessment, whether inside their nations or in the sheets of multilateral associations. New systems have been created, tried and combat over. Assuredly, we have arrived at a state of assention that we require all assessment systems and all the more in our tool compartment. Also, yes, inside each of our connections we have our stories of achievement where an assessment of our own impacted change and had any kind of effect. 

In any case what commitment have we made in serving to accomplish the Mdgs? Did assessment confirmation help quicken achievement and prevent botches from being rehashed? Hard to tell. 

Looking ahead, what will the following 15 years bring? 

The world confronts complex difficulties, each without anyone else's input overwhelming, together profoundly disquieting: 

Innovation is a two-edged sword: on one hand giving unfathomable open doors, yet on the other reducing the sorts of employments that have in the past helped lessening neediness, 

Systemic disparity is influencing  social attachment and driving us to reexamine our advancement models, and 

Environmental change and the disintegration of characteristic assets debilitate advance made hitherto. 

Under these circumstances, understanding the aspiration of an evenhanded society will be amazingly difficult. 

Will we, as evaluators, have the capacity to say all the more in regards to our commitments to accomplishing the manageable improvement objectives by 2030? What will the universe of assessment look like later on? 

First and foremost, accomplice nations will be accomplishing more assessments themselves. They will move from assessing support projects to taking a more all encompassing perspective of improvement, taking a gander at household assets, speculations, exchanges, exchange, and help cash together. This will upgrade proprietorship and consider an examination of how these streams interface, help advancement or opposite patterns. Our test as a worldwide assessment group is twofold: we require systems that will defend the autonomy of assessment frameworks and we have to concede to measures that will bring about professionalization. Second, the unpredictability of the difficulties and the arrangements improvement accomplices are searching for mean we need to continually hone and overhaul our assessment systems. Our work needs to help a finer understanding of the circulation impacts of intercessions and react to moves that are occurring in the advancement connection, specifically: 

From direct logframes to complex reliant frameworks where assessing multiplier and bob back impacts will be required; 

From single division activities to multi-part, multi-instrument engagements where assessing collaborations will be vital; 

From task, nation, and local viewpoints to one of nation gatherings that impart improvement challenges and can impart lessons from their experience, including from free assessment. 

Third, we will need to swallow a bit of our own solution and arrangement for the impact we need to have by setting ourselves clear targets. In what capacity would we be able to best bring our assessment confirmation to endure and who would we like to impact with it? A results system for assessment is a vital next venture to getting to be more key – with one assessment, as well as with the capacity of assessment all the more extensively. We must be ready to hold ourselves to the gauges to which we hold others so that when we think back a long time from now, we will have the capacity to recognize how we helped advancement exertions getting to be more viabl

Tuesday, 13 August 2013

Philosophical Exploration

This is identified as philosophical exploration of religious practices and beliefs. Religion imposes on every area of human life, and it has to be looked into by all scholarly disciplines:

history/anthropology/sociology/psychology/philosophy of religion.

The basic science of studying this subject is phenomenology of religion; it collects data from the religion, explaining and describing the phenomena, constructing typologies and comparing the kinds of things across the range of religions, but without making value judgements.

Monday, 4 March 2013

PhilRel

Philrem provides goods and services to the Philippine community in New England to their families back home. Goods and services involve cakes, flowers and gift items. The company is an authorized dealer of ABS CBN Phone cards and Ramar Foods. The business was established in 1997 in Vermont. Mr. Rafael Reyes is the Proprietor of the business and any questions or problems should be directed to his attention. Business policy states, complete refund for goods and services not delivered or damaged delivery.

Monday, 16 July 2012

Blog

A blog (a portmanteau of the term web log) is a discussion or information site published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete entries ("posts") typically displayed in reverse chronological order so the most recent post appears first. Until 2009 blogs were usually the work of a single individual, occasionally of a small group, and often were themed on a single subject. More recently "multi-author blogs" (MABs) have developed, with posts written by large numbers of authors and professionally edited. MABs from newspapers, other media outlets, universities, think tanks, interest groups and similar institutions account for an increasing proportion of blog traffic. The rise of Twitter and other "microblogging" systems helps integrate MABs and single-author blogs into societal newstreams. Blog can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.

Tuesday, 7 February 2012

Pharrell Williams

Pharrell Williams (born April 5, 1973), commonly known simply as Pharrell, is an American rapper, singer, record producer, composer, and fashion designer. Williams and Chad Hugo make up the record production duo The Neptunes, producing hip hop and R&B music. He is also the lead vocalist and drummer of hip-hop band N.E.R.D, which he formed with Hugo and childhood friend Shay Haley. He released his first single "Frontin'" in 2003 and followed up with his first album In My Mind in 2006.

As part of The Neptunes, Williams has produced numerous hit singles for various musicians.The two have earned three Grammy Awards amongst ten nominations. He is also the co-founder of the clothing brands Billionaire Boys Club and Ice Cream Clothing. He is a member of the supergroup V.A. Playaz with Fam-Lay, Clipse, Skillz, Missy Elliott, and Timbaland & Magoo.

Monday, 14 November 2011

Why Study Religion in College?

We live in an age of rapid globalization - the transformation of the world into a single, highly interconnected unity. Our students travel extensively throughout the world. Their friends, neighbors, work colleagues and perhaps even relatives include people from many other countries and cultures. In such a world, we are all in the process of learning as fast as we can how to deal with "otherness," people who differ from us in significant ways. JMU's religion program plays a very large role in helping to prepare stsudents to be educated and enlightened citizens because it helps us deal with "otherness," which is a task inherent to the future of the world in this era of globalization. The theologian Paul Tillich demonstrated that religion is "the depth dimension of culture," i.e., the foundation of the way we think and feel. Therefore, teaching religion is a direct way to help students to understand the diverse cultures of the world in which they live, the diverse peoples and cultures which, indeed, are now a part of American society.

Basic questions of human existence are addressed by religion: the meaning and purpose of life; the presence of death, sorrow and anxiety; the existence of God; questions of morality and justice; the possibilities of transcendence, salvation, peace, and liberation for individuals and communities. The academic study of religion explores how religion shapes culture and thought, forms values, and compels human action. Students majoring in Religious Studies, whatever their ultimate vocation might turn out to be, find themselves equipped to navigate skillfully in our culturally pluralistic, diverse world.

Of all the liberal arts, Religious Studies is the most comprehensive in its approach to culture and society. Scholars in other disciplines deal with religion fragmentarily, from single perspectives, if they deal with it at all. Religious Studies takes religion as the multi-faceted human reality it is—a sometimes controversial but often poorly understood phenomenon that leaves its mark all aspects of history, the arts, literature, culture, and society.

Religious Studies at JMU has a global focus. Students concentrating in Religion gain a broad knowledge of the major religions of the world from geographical, historical, literary, cultural, ethical, and political perspectives. Many choose to focus their advanced courses in one or two religious traditions, while others pursue interests in related areas such as ancient Mediterranean religions, biblical studies, theology, and ethics. Religion is approached academically, as a discipline in the humanities. Students of many different religious backgrounds, or of no religion at all, take Religion courses.

Monday, 19 September 2011

Blog


A blog (a blend of the term web log) is a type of website or part of a website. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. Blog can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.

Most blogs are interactive, allowing visitors to leave comments and even message each other via widgets on the blogs and it is this interactivity that distinguishes them from other static websites.

Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, Web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability of readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs. Most blogs are primarily textual, although some focus on art (art blog), photographs (photoblog), videos (video blogging or vlogging), music (MP3 blog), and audio (podcasting). Microblogging is another type of blogging, featuring very short posts.

As of 16 February 2011, there were over 156 million public blogs in existence.