Instead, systems of engagement will put us right in the center of a feedback loop that allows us to measure our own selves and in the process connect to all the other smart aspects of our life.
Instead of an engagement ring, which would prompt questions, Spyer gave her a pin, a circle of diamonds.
She explained that she had heard from many people that the archive had been a wedding present, and that Zanco had asked for it instead of an engagement ring.
She arrives there to propose to her longtime boyfriend (Adam Scott), whose heeliness is signaled by his workaholic attachment to his BlackBerry and by the fact that he gives Anna diamond earrings instead of the engagement ring she had been expecting.
10 P.M. (Bravo) QUEER EYE: THE WEDDING SEASON -- The Fab Five kick off a block of new episodes with the sad story of Joe Uva, whose girlfriend of 10 years broke up with him when he bought a motorcycle instead of an engagement ring.
It's another angle on this market as the company focuses on features, quality and distribution instead of virality, engagement and ephemerality.
Other instances of badtech take the form of new ad units designed to maximize short-term performance stats, gaming the measurement standards that still reward clicks and views instead of real engagement.
But Norris, like many American playwrights today, instead of serious engagement goes for shock and "edge" (see here, here, and here) and so apparently do critics (here and here) and prize committees.
We prefer the more general term bodily engagement instead of the term motor engagement introduced by Johnson-Glenberg et al. (2014) since it includes aspects of embodiment that lie beyond the nervous system (for overviews on environmental aspects of cognition, see Clark, 2008 and Wilson, 2002).
For the past five years, under two successive administrations, Seoul has abandoned its long-standing antagonism toward Pyongyang, adopting instead a policy of engagement, aimed at propping up North Korea with aid and trade.
