A welcome is a kind of greeting designed to introduce a person to a new place or situation, and to make them feel at ease. The term can similarly be used to describe the feeling of being accepted on the part of the new person.
In some contexts, a welcome is extended to a stranger to an area or a household. "The concept of welcoming the stranger means intentionally building into the interaction those factors that make others feel that they belong, that they matter, and that you want to get to know them". It is also noted, however, that "n many community settings, being welcoming is viewed as in conflict with ensuring safety. Thus, welcoming becomes somewhat self-limited: 'We will be welcoming unless you do something unsafe'". Different cultures have their own traditional forms of welcome, and a variety of different practices can go into an effort to welcome:
Making a welcome is not a physical fabrication, though welcome may be embodied and fostered by appropriate physical arrangements. There can be an aesthetics of welcome. What is there when one makes a welcome? No thing really, and yet more than any thing. When one makes a welcome one creates the conditions that promise of home. One makes it possible for the other not any longer to feel outside or out of it, but to feel at home.
Indications that visitors are welcome can occur at different levels. For example, a welcome sign, at the national, state, or municipal level, is a road sign at the border of a region that introduces or welcomes visitors to the region. A welcome sign might also be present for a specific community, or an individual building. One architect suggests that "[a] primary distinction between a gateway and a Welcome sign is that the gateway is usually designed and built by an outsider, a developer or architect, while the Welcome sign has been designed and built by an inside member of the community". A welcome mat is a doormat that welcomes visitors to a house or other building by providing them with a place to wipe their feet before entering.
Another community tradition, the welcome wagon, a phrase that originally referred to an actual wagon containing a collection of useful gifts collected from residents of an area to welcome new people moving to that area.
Greetings to all Forumites ! I am new to this forum and this is my first post. If the subject of my post does not concur with this section, pls excuse me and redirect me to the correct section. Thanks.
My interest is in ballistics, particularly internal. Most of my questions and discussions...
Hi!
I believe a shipyard working on new ships, with all its electrical arc welding and stuff, makes for a lot of "stray" currents in the sea.
Do you guys have any plausible idea to re-create such scenario in the lab? A small-scale model perhaps?
Thanks a lot.
:smile: Hi, I'm new here (duh!). I just wanted to introduce myself. I am a first year BSc student hoping to major in maths. Seems like a fantastic site!
Hey,
I haven't worked on an old computer in ages and I'm not sure if anything was around before PATA... I'm asking this because I see no PATA ports. All the ports with the right "size" have one extra pin. Do I just have bad cables?
This is just to welcome my son, Cale Micheal Baillie, into the world, he was born at 12:16 pm (MST) today, weighing 6 lbs, 13 ounces. I will post pictures soon.
I'm not much for country but I love them for what they did - they stood up for what's right when it counted and came out publically against Bush. Welcome back Dixie Chicks!
http://www.pbs.org/klru/austin/artists/DixieChicks.html
The crowd cheered when they sang "Not Ready to Make Nice"...
tough induction!
hey !
I'm new here... :redface:
I'm looking for a really tough induction!
I will appreaciate who will write here some inductions..
thanks...
* I JUST LOVVVVVE THOSE SMILIES ! :-p
Welcome to Zenmaster99!
Since he hasn't introduced himself yet, I want to welcome a friend of mine to PF. Zenmaster99 is yet another crazy physicist (crazy enough to associate with me :smile:).
Feel free to whack him with as many welcome fish as you want. :biggrin:
Hello everyone,
For my programming class we have to find somthing we want to code and do it, and it must be at least 1,000 lines of code. This is an indepedant project we have to work on through out the semester. This is an internmediate programming course so it doesn't have to be that...
Hey!
I finally got something I wanted to get done. You guys are the first to see the website. I won't be publishing the link to the website for another 2 weeks.
This is my comic strip that I write at my university. I write one issue every week. The website contains an extra one at that...
Just in time for Christmas, a lizard is expecting a virgin birth! Now THAT is what *I* would call an immaculate conception!
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/12/20/uk.komodo.reut/index.html
Zz.
Hi, I have to do a brief introduction for transistors in my seminar class.
Are there any simple demos you recommend? it's just to show the class what a transistor does?
we were thinking about activating a LED.
any other options (we wil be using a breadboard)
thanks!
Dear colleagues,
In order to celebrate the first year of Christine's Background Independence, I'm inviting anyone interested to send their contributions. See the blog page for instructions:
http://christinedantas.blogspot.com"
Thank you very much! :biggrin:
Christine
When you joined PF, which did you choose for your welcome snack?
I wonder if we should add another option. Should we start handing out those leftover triffles that Wolly is trying to unload?
Any enviromentalists do not look .
So do you want a fast vehicle? i am trying to get a classic 1960 motorbike
to go faster, i know it will never reach current motorbike standards, but it is the challenge, with some nostalgia ,that drives me, any engine gurus out there? if so your advice...
Hello,
I'm brand new here; needless to say, I think it's great what this community is doing. Now to my question: my class is just finishing up geometry, which means we're starting to enter into beginning trig. Here's the problem:
1-Sinx/1+Sinx = (Secx-Tanx)^2
So far, I've been able...
Guess who!
Hey hey hey hey hey!
I'm back and badder than ever... i think. Been a busy old time but now I have no job, I have nothing better to do than try remember my password to get back on here! It must be some kind of sense I have, being tribdog's birthday and all. I'm the best present...
I am back, i can see loads of things have changed, Evo looks different from
how i remember her, " sorry to read about Evo childs pnumonia".
So what has been occurring in my abscense? I have a few stories to tell, but
they can wait unitil later when i have all your news.
What has Evo, MIH...
Hello all,
Its my first thread here!
I'll start things off with a (simple?) question.
Suppose a block is suspended on a surface of water. It comprises potential energy quite obviously. As the block desends down the water level, it loses PE. According to the rules of conservation of energy...
Hello chaps,
Just checking in again. Tesco (aka big idiots) keep postponing activation of my broadband. Not a good enough excuse for not being a regular in here, I know, but I'm doing my best and hope to be with you again permanently shortly!
Anyway, things are still fun. I've been given...
I am trying to learn more about air coupling.
That is the coupling between 2 shafts
I am having a hard time finding any information on the subject matter
does anyone know how these systems work and have any diagrams?
thanks
Welcome Back Franznietzsche!
Thank god you returned, these menial peasants were beginning to bore me with their incessant chatter and meaningless lives.
i haven't been on the forums for awhile, so i decided maybe i should start hangin out out here again. not sure if anyone remembers me or not. just fyi.
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Arg Mateys! I am yer Captain Pillowhead! This is the Pf pirate ship, the SS Galenog! all ye who board best be ready fer fantastic adventures and treasures beyond yer wildest dreams. All you scallywags prepare to set...
Hello All
I am having problems Verifying this identity
(COS A) / (1-SIN A) = SEC A + TAN A
I can get the RHS = (1 + SIN A)/COS A
But this does not equal the LHS
Any advice is welcome.
THanks
i was thinking can anyone findv the area of a straight line and also can anyone determine the area of a point or dot as the case maybe ,any suggestions wiil be appreciated
Hello! We've begun a new project in our Physics class, and the objective is to walk on eggs with shoes designed by each group. My problem is designing the shoes. I have learned that we need to increase the surface area of the shoes to reduce the pressure, but I don't know of any ideas on how to...
Hi, well I'm new here.. and I wanted to congradulated you guys for making this awsome community... I've been sick all week & I've stumbled upon this forum... I read a lot of stuff here & learned way more then if I went to school... anyways that's about it, I should be around here now hoping to...
Happy New Year - reply to Lubos
HAPPY 2005 EVERYBODY
Let us welcome the International Year of Physics! There is a
poster on the wall in the corridor here, saying "Help make 2005
another miraculous year".
Well, I don't know that I can do much - but one can try.
I've posted here...
Hi everyone, as you can see I'm new to this place and this is my first visit. Although I haven't seen much yet, I'm already fascinated with this place. To tell you a bit more about me I'm 14 years old probably the youngest or one of the youngest members here. Despite my age I believe I can still...
this is my first time in here. Thought I'd look around, see the place moonbear calls home. I like what you've done with the place, but I got to tell you the thread titled, "Sticky fun with molecular biologists." Wasn't exactly what I thought it would be.
Remember Me ?
Hi, old friends...don't know those I've seen last time still here or not...
If you guys and gals are still there and remember me can you raise your hand please? :-p
hi.. I am new. well, actually i signed up for this thing a few months ago back when i was in calc class... i was searching for math help on google and found a problem similar to the one i had a question on here... i signed up and havnet been here since. i think i can learn a lot from these fora...
Hey guys, I'm not sure if introduction posts are the norm here or not.. if not then I'm risking looking like a klutz eh? Hehe...
Anyway I just posted my first message in a book thread and thought I'd make an official "Hello" post here. It's 2 AM and I have nothing to do so I decided to take...
I'm starting to listen to a bit of Classical Music. I'm unsure what's good so does anyone have any favorites or a site that lists great songs perhaps?
Right now I have four songs: The Requiem by Mozart, Fur Elise by Beethoven, Moonlight Sonata by Beethoven and Allegro Concerto #3 by Bach...
Welcome to Java Class!
We're going to learn a bit of Java here, one bit at a time, using real world examples to understand what we're doing. My aim is that all of the Java posted here is executable, so you can try it yourself.
First, before you can make use of any Java programs, you'll...
Hey every one,
This is my first post on the forums glad to know i have such smart people here who can help me when I am stuck. right now I am taking physics 12 in British columbia. For some reason I am really having trouble grasping the topic of 2d kinematics. any pointers in helping me...
Ilja Schmelzer, the author of
http://arxiv.org/gr-qc/0205035
just introduced himself in one of the Philosophy Forums.
I am guessing he is a new member of PF
so I personally wish to welcome him and
provide an opportunity for anyone who is
interested in alternative approaches to
quantizing...