![]() ![]() You simply gut the space and make sure you have the right amount of wall and floor tiles to fill your area back up.Īlso, you’ll have the flexibility to keep the drain where it is – and work your tiles around it. (Advantage #4 of a ceramic tile shower) It can be ‘built on the fly!’Įven if you’re unsure of the exact size you need your shower pan or walls to be, this isn’t a problem when doing a site-built or component based (more about this later) tile shower. ![]() If you want to fill a 9’ ceiling, simply continue the tile up the wall to the top. You cut and fit the tiles to work for the walls– or along the shower floor pan. Since ceramic tile can be cut to fit, you can make any size or shaped shower. (Advantage #3 of a ceramic tile shower) They can be customized to any sized shower It’s nice (although sometimes daunting) to consider the alternatives. ![]() Your home center stores are filled with choices and specialty tile retailers have so many options your head will spin. There is no lack of choices when it comes to ceramic tile and they’re available EVERYWHERE (OK – you can’t get them in the supermarket or the gas station…. (Advantage #2 of a ceramic tile shower) – Selection and availability If you have a desire for unique, ceramic tile can be the bomb. You can even get fun designs like fish scales and hexagons. You can use herringbone, running bond, or tiles stacked on end. Nothing quite says fashion like ceramic tile. In many cases people take on bathroom remodeling projects because they’re existing shower is outdated and flat-out ugly. The Pros (Advantages) of a Ceramic Tile shower (Advantage #1 or a ceramic tile shower) Style Let’s first dig into the pros of a ceramic tile shower. And then if you still HATE, HATE, HATE tile (and its evil stepbrother the grout joint), I’ll give you 3 smart alternatives to the ‘traditional tile shower.’ My goal is to give you a ‘no-holds-barred’ look at the advantages and disadvantages of a ceramic tile shower. You need to know better alternatives to tile if your spouse or significant ‘utter’ is hell-bent on a tile shower (but you HATE them).Īnd these 3 needs are EXACTLY what this article is about. You need to make an informed choice (there’s no turning back after it’s done). You need to make the best choice, so you don’t waste money. So, here’s what’s critical in the shower selection process. Reason #3) You’re not ‘made of money’ as Dad used to say!.Reason #2) You don’t have the option of ‘voting your shower out’ every 4 years (unless you have a boat-load of money and the patience to ‘re-remodel’ (OK – that’s not a word, but that doesn’t mean owners haven’t been subjected to this problem before).Reason #1) You can’t ‘turn your shower in’ as fast as you can as the ‘lemon’ SUV you’ve regretted buying since the day you drove it off the lot.They’ll debate (that’s another word for argue) if it makes more sense to get a unique tile shower or blow up tile and grout and opt for grout free shower wall panels and premade shower pans instead?Īnd I can tell you (as a guy whose been in the bathroom remodeling and bathroom products wholesale business for years – and has the gray hairs to show for it) this decision SHOULD NOT be taken lightly. OK, maybe not as controversial as picking a United States President, but I’ve seen their pros and cons cause knock-down drag, out fights between couples during a bathroom remodeling job. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The allocation of responsibility within a jurisdiction (e.g., cities within a county) is straightforward, since each trip is attached to a resident and each resident has a single home location. It may be calculated either by averaging the daily VMT of all residents or by calculating total VMT, counting total residents, and dividing. This is not applicable for trip-based models, since non-home-based (NHB) trips aren’t tied to the households making them. A “correspondence” between the model land use input variables and population and employment rates is required for these types of models.Īll automobile (i.e., passenger cars and light-duty trucks) vehicle trips are traced back to the residence of the trip-maker, even non-home-based trips. ![]() Some trip-based models may not use population and employment as trip generation variables. For this reason, it is often difficult to draw conclusions about VMT patterns, and use of the metric should be limited to analysis scenarios comparing full model runs typically focused on changes at the sub-regional, city, county, or regional scale. This means that vehicle trips made by people other than the employees are accounted for in the trip rate, including visitors, customers, vendors, custodians, and delivery companies. Note that employment is often used as the independent variable for total vehicle trip generation associated with non-residential land uses. If the model generates vehicle trips from other sources, such as students and visitors, then those variables are included in the service population. This uses the same method as Total VMT Generated by a Project to estimate VMT and then divides by the population and employment of the zone or zones of study. Source: California Governor’s Office of Planning and Research, Transportation Impacts (SB 743) Report: Potential to reduce petroleum reliance through updating LOS metric (Summary 1p, report 9p): Unraveling Petroleum: Use of Performance Measures that Prioritize Automobiles over Other Modes in Congested Areas.Full Report (71p): Measuring Urban Transportation Performance: A critique of mobility measures and a synthesis.Executive summary (17p): A Critique of Mobility Measures and a Synthesis: How sprawl is lengthening our commutes and why misleading mobility measures are making things worse.Report: Problems with reliance on metrics of auto mobility and delay (Joe Cortright, Impresa and CEOs for Cities).Report: Problems with reliance on LOS, discussion of updated metrics (American Planning Association, 12p): Smart Transportation Metrics for Smart Growth.Study: Pursuit of high LOS grades worsens transportation and lessens economic activity in Northern California (UCLA Lewis Center and UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies, 10p Executive Summary, 99p academic study) Not So Fast: A Study of Traffic Delays, Access, and Economic Activity in the San Francisco Bay Area.Study: Pursuit of high LOS grades worsens transportation and lessens economic activity in Southern California (UCLA Lewis Center and UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies, 12p Executive Summary, 80p academic study): Congested Development: A Study of Traffic Delays, Access, and Economic Activity in Metropolitan.Primer: The difference between accessibility and mobility (Susan Handy, Access Journal, 5p): Highway Blues: Nothing a Little Accessibility Can’t Cure.Article, Institute of Transportation Engineers Journal: LOS-based transportation impact studies inhibit sustainable transportation (ITE Journal May 2014, 5p) Changing the Paradigm of Traffic Impact Studies: How Typical Traffic Studies Inhibit Sustainable Transportation.Article, Institute of Transportation Engineers Journal: Biases inherent in the LOS metric (ITE Journal, Aug 2014, 5p): Decision, Values, and Data: Understanding Bias in Transportation Performance Measures. ![]() ![]() ![]() Just repeat the above steps and work your way through the list. You can reassign all of the keyboard shortcuts in VLC if you want to.
![]() ![]() It is evident that the Revelation bears the style of an epistle at the beginning and at the end. There is no convincing reason however why one should doubt the Apostle John's authorship. The reasons mentioned are doctrinal distinctions compared with John's other writings as well as the very simple language of the book. However, doubts in relation to the authorship of Revelation have been raised from the time of Dionysius, Bishop of Alexandria and pupil of Origines (2 nd part of 3 rd century) onward. This is where he wrote the Revelation of Jesus Christ around 95 AC upon God's command. According to Revelation 1:9 John was in the isle called Patmos which is 50 miles off the coast of Asia Minor (now Turkey). Irenaeus also mentions that John has written the book of Revelation towards the end of the Roman emperor Domitian's reign. He is the author of the forth gospel and of three epistles. Justin the martyr (around 100 to 165 AC), Irenaeus (around 140 to 220 AC) and the Muratori Canon (end of 2 nd century) confirm that the Apostle John is the author. John mentions his name four times in the book ( Revelation 1:1 Revelation 1:4 Revelation 1:9 Revelation 22:8). The Revelation is the only book in the NT mentioning John as author. ![]() For we learn from Peter, in 2 Peter 1:20, ".that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation." One can only explain these symbols in connection with the Holy Scriptures as a whole and especially in connection with prophecy as a whole. The language of Revelation is largely symbolical. It cannot be understood without knowing the OT prophets (Ezekiel and Daniel especially), nor without knowing the words of the Lord Jesus in Matthew 24 Matthew 25 Matthew 1 and 2 Thessalonians. The book of Revelation is the fulfilment of every biblical prophecy. This view has already been seen, in part, by the Church Fathers. The correct way however to consider the Revelation is to look at chapters 4 to 22 regarding the future (see also paragraph 2 Purpose and Subject). The spiritualizing method looks at the book as timeless symbolizing the fight between good and evil. This way of interpretation was especially popular during the time of Reformation: Luther for example saw the Antichrist in the Pope. The historical interpretation sees in it a description of the whole time of Christendom. The Past Interpretation sees the battle of Christendom gaining strength against heathen Rome ending with faith's victory. There have been many attempts up to the present day to interpret the Revelation in a different way. Most biblical prophecies including the ones in Revelation concern the time after the rapture. And this rapture will happen anytime (compare Revelation 22:7 Revelation 22:12 Revelation 22:20). It is much rather centred on the coming of the Lord Jesus to rapture the believers. This heavenly company's expectation is not centred on happenings of the last days. The assembly also plays a subordinate part in the NT prophecies. The assembly or church is subject of a divine mystery revealed in the NT only (compare Ephesians 3:2-11). The assembly of the Living God, the body of Christ, is not mentioned at all in OT prophecies. The main thought of OT and NT biblical prophecy is the still future introduction of the reign of the Lord Jesus' over creation as well as the preceding events, especially in relation to Israel, God's earthly people. This is why it is sometimes called "the book with seven seals" and is much neglected by many Christians. As with all prophecies the Revelation also is not easily understood. The Revelation is a very solemn book speaking much about divine judgments but it is also a wonderful book in which we find the completion of God's ways up to eternal glory. The Holy Scriptures start with a revelation on the past (Genesis 1) and they end with a revelation on the future. ![]() The Revelation is the only prophetic book of the NT and it is the keystone of the Word of God. ![]() |