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The University of Delaware's College of Health Sciences encourages businesses and the community to play an active role in the Health Sciences campus, with its focus on translational medicine and utilization of the next generation of classrooms. Kathleen Matt, dean of the College of Heath Sciences, describes these learning spaces as "not a classroom at all. It is interacting in unique ways, in all kinds of environments, that drives the learning process, it drives the outcomes, and it drives the changes."
According to Matt, a founding principle of the College was to create an atmosphere that welcomes as much community involvement as possible, to build a site that would "give back to the community to create a living, breathing campus," working with "the community, the clinical community, and the business community to bring a vibrancy back into the city, back to the state, and bring economic development into our education programs." Her goal was to design the building to welcome the community so that they could engage with the students, and influence the areas of study the students choose.
The first 100,000-sf portion of the building is designed with research labs down one side, and the clinics—physical therapy, the nurse-managed health center, and the speech language hearing center—down the other. These clinical spaces are situated so that the public can see the work going on in the laboratories, across what is called the "Translation Hallway." Students, faculty, and post-docs conducting research in the laboratories can see and be inspired by patients and families who come into the clinics. In addition to inviting the public into the clinics, a goal of the campus is to feature walking and biking paths that are also available to the community.
Unique History of the Site
Matt took an untraditional route to funding the project: The University leased the land to a developer, who constructed the building to meet the needs of the college. Matt, in turn, leases the space that she needs for the College of Health Sciences from the developer, who is responsible for the care and upkeep of the facility. This is an advantageous arrangement, because developers tend to build structures that are more flexible than those built by the owner, and they have a faster turn-around time, says Matt.
The College is on the site of a 272-acre automobile assembly plant that the University bought in 2009 for $25 million. Because it was a historic site—a former paint plant, where tanks were made for the Korean War before it was an automobile assembly plant—the University needed to be mindful of preserving this piece of history while creating a state-of-the-art health sciences facility.
Construction crews recycled as much as 80 percent of the original materials found at the site. In addition to preserving pieces of history, the approach saved money that could be invested elsewhere in the development.
Fostering Innovation
The College fosters innovation by encouraging students to create business startups that in turn contribute to the community. When students have an idea, they are challenged to translate it, and are given funding to bring their project to life. Students and faculty work together to improve the lives of local residents, and to include them in the innovation process. Student-driven inventions include a toy car converted and specialized for a child with disabilities, and a harness system that allows individuals to undergo physical therapy and rehabilitation while working at a café. This same harness system is now installed in the local YMCA so that people with disabilities can take fitness, gymnastic, and dance classes.
Another startup, called SimuCare, developed a new technology to train undergraduates from "Healthcare Theater" to be patients for nursing students learning to perform a suctioning tracheotomy. Students designed an overlay piece that the patient/actor wears to alert him or her to cough, as an actual patient would do, if the procedure is being done incorrectly. This project, which creates more realistic simulations compared to high fidelity mannequins, has become one of the most successful university startups, and fits in perfectly with Matt's notion of a nontraditional classroom. "I think one of the most important things that we have learned in this building is that our students learn in a very different way," she says.
The university, in partnership with the Delaware Technology Park, recently opened a separate incubator space to further support this kind of innovation, and plans are under way, working with the same developer, for a new 10-story tower with 50,000 sf of space designed to promote interaction between businesses, startups, and the College of Health Sciences, as well as other colleges at the university. The first floor is centered around the patient/visitor experience, with an atrium, an auditorium, catering/demonstration kitchen, cafe/restaurant, a living wall, genius bar kiosk, digital library kiosk, outdoor garden, and reception/information. The mezzanine will have an exercise intervention space, executive conference room, and innovation space. The upper floors are designed to include research labs; space for shared testing and observation; administration; shared teaching and training; simulation; and shared counseling, and interviewing.
Matt is hoping that the tower will promote the idea that not all faculty need offices, which will free up space on the second floor, where offices are currently on the floor plan. This additional space could be used for incoming programs and grants, such as the recently acquired $11 million grant from the Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE). Previously, Matt was forced to put trailers on the south side of the site to accommodate the growing speech program. "Our space needs are growing much faster than we can get the buildings created. We need to think about how to get ahead of that curve," she says. The hope is that this new tower will accommodate the growth with room for future expansion.
Interdisciplinary Communications
Within the college itself, Matt wanted to find a way to get all groups of health students to work together, "from the physician to the laboratory student," which she says is facilitated by the way the spaces are designed. One strategy is to have research core labs rather than individual laboratories. One lab may combine wet bench spaces, exercise interventions, and treadmills with motion capture systems and infrared cameras. This brings in multiple groups of people, such as biomedical engineers, physical therapists, and kinesiologists. Employee health has also been moved from human resources to the College, so that primary care and wellness are connected.
Matt is reaching out beyond the College of Health Sciences, to students from other areas of the University. "We want to display our students and what they do," she says. Toward this end, the College commissioned a class of art students to design murals for the building. The art students walked around the health building, interviewed patients and students, and then designed the murals, which are now featured throughout the building.
This spirit of outreach extends even beyond the University. The College of Health Sciences offers nursing, physical therapy, athletic training, kinesiology, medical laboratory sciences, behavioral health, and nutrition, but through the Health Education partnership with Thomas Jefferson University, UDelaware students also have the opportunity to take public health, occupational health, and pharmacy.
"Our shared core design spaces have no limitations in terms of who comes in and works in those spaces," says Matt. "Our students know no limitations. We should not have those limitations, either. It is amazing what can happen as you bring all those different people in—research and clinical care integration. By having the patients in the building every day, and having that as an inspiration and a guidepost, the innovation happens, the energy happens, and it really creates transformation."
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Mysore, Nov. 16 (DV)- American students performed Bhara-thanatya as per Indian style of rhythm. With Indian traditional dresses like saree and kachche, the students both boys and girls performed like Indians and received applause.
The Bharathanatya formed part of the progremme "Study away, teach away" by the students of Connecticut College of America and was performed at the valedictory function organised by JSS Educational Institutions at Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering (SJCE) here on Saturday.
Bharathanatya was performed by a troupe of 12 students for 30 minutes. Initially they performed for 15 minutes to the tune of devotional song on Goddess Chamundeshwari. This was followed by a 10-minute performance to the tune of music followed by stepping for 5 minutes to the tune of Kannada song Hachchevu Kannadada Deepa.
Nruthyagiri Director Krupa Phadke had trained them.
If only Kannadigas understand the message in Hachchevu Kannadada Deepa unlike the Americans who only danced to a good song...


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The NTD International Piano Competition is fairly new to the stage in the world of major classical music competitions. However, its unique focus on tradition and the different approach to repertoire have set it apart. The repertoire focuses strictly on the Baroque, Classical, and Romantic periods as their musical style, form and technique are very unique. "That's a difficult repertoire, you going to get the best," said Sara Faust. Sara is a classical pianist and the president of Faust Harrison pianos known for its rebuilding of Steinway pianos. As a judge herself for a number of competitions, she agrees that competitors should take a traditional approach to their craft. "As a juror what strikes me is not how louder, fast the pianist comply, but how personal and how musical it is," she added. The final round also includes a piece commissioned especially for the competition. As with the 2016 run, the jurists have commissioned D.F. to write music specifically for the competition. D.F. is the artistic director of Shen Yun Performing Arts, the premier classical Chinese dance company that has caught the world's attention over the past decade. One of its notable features is the East-West take on its music. The company travels with a unique orchestra that blends Chinese instruments into an otherwise Western classical orchestra, and bel canto vocalists perform original songs in Mandarin. "The fact that you have a commission work I think it's important," added Sara. "The commission piece that they haven't heard. the piece they have to do all the interpreting it has to come from inside them...so I think commission pieces are terrific." Music With Higher Purpose "If we lose traditional music. We're going to lose so much of our great history," said Sara. One of Beethoven's famous quote says, "Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend." "Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine." Beethoven believed in a higher, spiritual purpose to music, and could appreciate its profound language—one that many people today would agree can only be felt in one's heart, and not expressed in words. Sara said a good pianist can express their emotions through music. "So I think it is very important when you sit down and play, take a moment, hear the music in your head, center yourself and then play, because then the music can come from inside you, rather than just being a technical thing," she said. Applications for the NTD International Piano Competition close Aug. 9. The Epoch Times reporter Catherine Yang contributed to this report.


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President Donald Trump on Friday said he has not agreed to rollbacks of U.S. tariffs sought by China, sparking fresh doubts about when the world's two largest economies may end a 16-month trade war that has slowed global growth.
Officials from both countries on Thursday said China and the United States had agreed to roll back tariffs on each others' goods in a "phase one" trade deal. But the idea of tariff rollbacks met with stiff opposition within the Trump administration, Reuters reported later on Thursday.


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One brand to watch, Terra Soap Co. is a fan favourite on Etsy Canada. Launched by Toronto-based maker Isola Stauch, Terra Soap Co. recently took part in the Etsy: Made in Canada event held at the MaRS Discovery District building in September.
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*How did you start working with essential oils and making your own soaps?
I started working with essential oils the first day I started making soap for myself. Before my journey in soap making, I took a soap making course. It was a melt and pour course and we used fragrance oil. I knew right there and then that melt & pour or using fragrance oils was not for me. Essential oils are extracted by distillation, often by using steam and have been used for centuries, that appealed to me and I knew if I was going to venture in the soap making business, natural was the only way to go for myself and for my clients.
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No objections to Kudankulam n-project: SL
Colombo: Sri Lanka today said it had not objected to the Kudankulam nuclear power project in Tamil Nadu and underlined that India has every right to use nuclear technology in meeting the requirements of electrical energy.
"Sri Lanka has not brought up the issue of the safety of Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant against India`s voting at the 19th session of the UNHRC," Lanka`s Atomic Energy Authority said dismissing media reports that Colombo was against the project.
The reports had quoted Lankan energy minister Champika Ranawaka as saying that Sri Lanka was to refer the matter at the IAEA sessions in September since the country feared that any radiation from the plant will affect it. However, Atomic Energy Authority`s chairman R L Wijayawardana denied any such move.
Recalling that both Sri Lanka and India are members of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the statement said Sri Lanka fully understands the need of utilising nuclear energy for electricity generation.
India has every right to use nuclear technology in meeting the requirements of electrical energy. "Sri Lankan Government has neither opposed nor registered their protest for any Nuclear power plant on Indian soil. It is their sovereign right."
Wijayawardena said that Ranawaka headed the Sri Lanka delegation to the IAEA General Conference where he visited the Koodankulam nuclear project with Chairman of the Indian Atomic Energy Commission.
"Therefore, the statement made to give the impression that Sri Lanka is protesting to Kudankulam project is baseless and malicious. As there are power plants in India close to our country, the only possible thing we can do is to make a bilateral agreement with India under the provisions of these conventions to exchange of information of status of their power plants and emergency plans and to obtain assistance in case of a nuclear accident in India", he said.


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So, have finally arrived at the yoga retreat for the summer and already we are cooking some delicious vegetarian recipes, like this amazing vegan cauliflower cheese. You will not believe that it doesn't have cheese in it, its tastes so wonderfully cheesy! This is the first time I have made it myself and every little bit was eaten with lots of mmmm's and "wow are you sure this is vegan?" comments. A huge big thanks to Charlie for this delicious recipe!
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Oil – could use any that can be heated
Flour – I used gluten free
White Miso
Umesu (vinegar)
Garlic – crushed
Rice Milk (or soya milk)
Nutmeg -(optional)
Cook the Cauliflower – steam or boil, or you could try roasting in a little olive oil and salt for extra taste.
While the Cauliflower is cooking, heat the oil, roughly a tablespoon, in a saucepan and add flour until you have a thick paste or 'roux'. Then gradually add the milk and stir or whisk until there are no lumps, keep adding milk until you have the right consistency. Crush the garlic well, and go easy, it will be very overpowering if too much is used. Again will depend on how much you are making so I would recommend adding a very little at a time until it tastes right. Heat for a little longer (this will cook the garlic and soften the taste a little) Then turn off the heat and add a teaspoon of sweet white miso and a teaspoon of umesu. The sweet white miso will sweeten the taste and the umesu will make the sauce taste more salty. Keep adding and tasting until you have found your perfect cheesy taste.
Place the cooked cauliflower in a baking dish and cover with the sauce, you could sprinkle a little nutmeg over the top if you like nutmeg. Place in the oven for about 10-15 mins to brown the top.
You could use any vegetables really, Broccoli is also delicious in a vegan cheesy sauce!


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Vaughn Taylor's sleeping problem started the night of Sunday, Feb. 14. It turned into a waking problem the next day when he arrived at Riviera Country Club in Los Angeles and stepped into a flurry of backslaps, hugs and handshakes from people congratulating him for his out-of-nowhere victory at the AT&T Pro-Am at Pebble Beach. An odd sensation followed him onto the course. "I got over putts, and it was strange," he said recently, trying to describe the giddy-but-absent feeling that caused him to shoot 73–74 and miss the cut at the Northern Trust Open. "I said, 'Let's just go home and enjoy everything, take some time off.'"
The waking problem faded. The sleeping problem, no. "He's still turning and tossing," Leot, his wife of four years, said in early March, watching her soft-spoken husband open the fridge at their home in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. "I hear him get up in the morning."
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Insomnia is typically caused by depression, anxiety, medication or lack of exercise. Taylor's is fueled by euphoria. His brain plays and replays a five-hour loop from Pebble Beach: his birdies on 13 and 14, the fragrance of cypress and Monterey pine, draining the putt of his life on 16, the hovering seagulls, the crashing waves, the waiting, Phil Mickelson over his short birdie putt on 18, the grandstand gasp when the ball lipped out. "I remember so many details of that day," Taylor says. "I remember every shot, and everything is so clear, so great. I'm going to hold those memories forever."
But what wakes him up is a recurring thought.
"Yeah, I think about it every day," he says, smiling like a sweepstakes winner.
The thought: Wow, I'm back on Tour.
To appreciate the anomaly of Taylor's third PGA Tour win, one must, as the British say, "mind the gap." The interval between his second and third wins was 10½ years, and nothing had suggested he was gaining the form necessary to compete at the game's high level. The quiet Georgian had landed in California two days early, flu-ridden and exhausted from two profitless weeks playing in Latin America. He had only conditional Web.com tour status, hadn't held a PGA Tour card since 2012 and was 447th in the World Ranking. He carried a kickstand bag to avoid the airlines' weight penalties. In short, he was a Hollywood movie script waiting to be written.
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The young guns in the AT&T field probably saw Taylor as a 39-year-old has-been, but others remembered him for his consecutive wins at the Reno-Tahoe Open (2004 and '05), his selection to the '06 U.S. Ryder Cup team and his tie for 10th at the '07 Masters. So when Taylor rearranged golf's firmament with a final-round 65, his peers got teary-eyed. "It was quite amazing what he did at Pebble," says Matt Kuchar, who ended a seven-year winless stretch of his own by beating Taylor in a playoff at the '09 Turning Stone Resort Championship. "It was great to see a guy like Vaughn weather the storm."
"I was ecstatic," says reigning British Open champ Zach Johnson, who roomed with Taylor on the Hooters tour in the early aughts. "Vaughn's a guy of high character who's just had a lot of bad luck and misfortune."
Indeed, the Taylor story is one of niggling injuries and modest impediments. In 2007 he was hospitalized for vertigo caused by an allergic reaction to fescue rough at the AT&T Classic in Atlanta. The vertigo diagnosis was unsupported, but Taylor has battled sinus infections ever since. "Even today, my ears will ring and I lose my balance," he says. Nor were things much better from the nose down. Taylor's neck stiffened and ached. His right hip decided to settle six inches above his left. "My body got all out of whack," he recalls. "I didn't know what to do, so I just kept practicing and playing."
That strategy frayed. Having won, on average, $1.5 million per year since 2004, Taylor tumbled from 35th to 116th in the '11 FedEx Cup standings, posting only two top 25 finishes in 27 starts. The following year was a bit better, but in '14 the bottom fell out. He won only $20,451 in three PGA Tour starts and less than a hundred grand more on the Web.com tour. "I struggled," he says. "It was the complete opposite direction I was hoping to go."
Taking stock of the situation last year, Taylor picked out three flaws in his game. Number 1 was the softness of his 6-foot, 160-pound frame. ("After years of neglect, I had to get my core stronger.") Number 2 was a tendency to lose his posture during an otherwise graceful swing. ("I hoped the body part would fix the swing part, but it didn't entirely.") Number 3 was his sometimes shabby putting. ("In my really good years I was one of the best putters on Tour.") Fixing all three would be a daunting task, but not insuperable.
"I could turn into the bitter victim and run myself into the ground," he says, "or I could persevere and work and dream of getting back on Tour." Taylor chose the latter course, and although he won't claim to have hit the trifecta, he says, "I can see a drastic improvement. I think guys noticed that I was playing better last year."
What didn't change was Taylor's string of bad luck. At one tournament his right foot began to hurt so much that he couldn't walk; doctors couldn't determine why. Near the end of the Web.com tour season, he cut his left thumb "exactly where you can't cut it." He fell three spots short of earning full status on that tour. Then he put a fishhook through his other thumb, sending him to the ER. But those were merely previews of unbecoming attractions. Taylor's aluminum boat capsized in rough water on the Savannah River, and he nearly drowned. His favorite driver of five years cracked and couldn't be fixed. He came down with the aforementioned stomach flu in Bogotá and wound up in an ambulance with an IV drip in his arm. "All these little things," he says, "were telling me I'm not supposed to be playing on Tour."
And then Pebble happened. Three good rounds with amateur partner Gregg Ontiveros put Taylor in a tie for eighth and six off the overnight lead at the AT&T. On Sunday he decided to press for a top 10 finish, which would exempt him into the Northern Trust. But Sunday was different; or, rather, Taylor was different. "I had this amazing focus," he says. "I could feel a different energy inside me." On the 15th hole, Taylor's shot from the rough bumped Matt Jones's ball on the green and stopped within two feet of the hole. "That was the moment I thought something special was happening," he says. "Wow, maybe it is my day."
Taylor drained a 30-footer on number 16 for his fourth straight birdie, catching CBS's eye with a Tom Watson–style celebratory lap around the green. But Mickelson, trying to end a winning drought of his own, was the real crowd-pleaser. He was, anyway, until he missed the tying five-footer on the final hole. (Gasp!) Behind the green, Leot, holding the couple's blond toddler, Locklyn, in her arms, began to sob. "That came from three years of being positive, of being Vaughn's cheerleader," she says. "All the tears I never cried, I think they just all came out."
So he tosses and turns, this comeback man, trying to make sense of it all. He's thrilled to have his PGA Tour card back. He's buzzed about his first million-dollar-plus payday. But something else informs his insomnia: the Masters.
Taylor grew up on Augusta's south side. He bicycled to Goshen Plantation Golf Club, a public course, and played collegiately at Augusta State. His parents live nearby in a house in Groveton that Vaughn built for them after his first Tour win. The pro's primary residence, meanwhile, is in Evans, just 15 minutes from Magnolia Lane. "Vaughn's heart is in Augusta," says Leot. "He's a Georgia boy. He's yes sir, no sir. He opens car doors. He's a Southern gentleman."
Taylor, who turned 40 on March 9, hasn't played in the Masters since 2008, when he missed the cut. (In fact he hasn't played in a major since missing the cut at the '10 PGA.) He remembers being ridiculously nervous in his Masters debut of '06. "It was scary," he says. "On the 1st tee I was shaking." No surprise, he wasn't around for the weekend. He was more comfortable in '07, staying in contention through three rounds and walking up the final fairway, lined with clapping spectators, alongside his pal Johnson, that year's champion. "But I don't remember a lot of it," Taylor says, blaming the fog of competition. "It's definitely my goal this year to let everything sink in and let my family enjoy it."
Asked to predict how he'll perform in his fourth Masters, Taylor responds with a smile and a shrug. "Whatever was going on on Sunday at Pebble—I want that again."
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DENVER — Peyton Manning announced today that he will return for the 2015-16 season, continuing his quest to appear in a Super Bowl that has a decent halftime show. "That's always been one of my main career goals," Manning stated, "right up there with surpassing Brett Favre's records and starring in more commercials than Tom Brady."
The favored Broncos were upset in last year's divisional round by Manning's former team, the Indianapolis Colts. "That was a bitter pill," Manning admitted, "but when I saw that Katy Perry performance, I felt a lot better. It wasn't like I was missing the 'Super Bowl of halftimes,' if ya'll know what I mean."
Manning recalled that, even when he won his lone title in 2007, he wasn't completely satisfied with the halftime show. "Prince left some chords out there," Manning said. "For me, it took a bit of shine off the Lombardi Trophy."
A spate of injuries and Manning's advancing age have led some critics to doubt that the veteran QB has enough left to get the Broncos to another Super Bowl halftime. But Manning pointed to his most recent Super Bowl appearance versus the Seattle Seahawks as proof that he still has what it takes. "We basically got our asses kicked from the opening play," Manning said. "And yet, at halftime, I made some adjustments so I could check out the Bruno Mars-Chili Peppers show. I could see the Chili Peppers weren't always making the right reads. That's where playoff experience counts."
Like many Manning boosters, Denver GM John Elway spoke glowingly of his QB's work ethic and intelligence. "He spends hours and hours reviewing tape of Super Bowl halftimes," Elway said. "Nobody breaks down that Janet Jackson nip-slip like Peyton. Believe me, when he saw Justin Timberlake's position, Peyton knew exactly what was coming. If it had been Peyton, he would have checked to a different dance move."
When asked what type of Super Bowl halftime would make the perfect capper for his illustrious career, Manning shrugged. "There's probably no chance of a Wham reunion," he said. "Maybe the league needs to go to a completely different game plan, try something classical, or that guy 'Christopher', who dances with those puppets. I've seen him at NBA games and he's great. Or the UT band could play 'Rocky Top' for 20 minutes. That's always worked for me."
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My Digital Self
For 30 days I tracked my life and put it online for all to see; if I could figure out a way to quantify a facet of my life, it was shared with the world. For 30 days I tried to create the most authentic digital version of myself that I could.
Using "over the counter" consumer products and commercial computer applications, I cobbled together a means of automatically collecting data about myself: distance traveled, quality of sleep, mood, location, etcetera. My goal was to create a system that was massively automated and simple to construct. I needed the tracking to be automated because I knew that I would never be able to develop the necessary habits to record all the data I wanted to collect manually. Besides, exhorting a large portion of my day to data recording would skew my activity levels substantially, altering the vision of self portrayed to the public. I also wanted the setup to be simple to reproduce by anyone who had access to the Internet. All of the apps and hardware I used had to be publicly accessible, and ideally as inexpensive as possible. When I was done, I had an iPhone in my pocket, a small FitBit clip on my pants, and a Jawbone UP bracelet on my left arm. Overall, my new digital attire was rather commonplace, if not inconspicuous.
Artists often look inward for inspiration, using emotions and feelings as subjects for the canvas. My art is no exception. I have always collected bits of my life in boxes—souvenirs, photographs, diaries—and in 2003 I pulled all of these intimate objects out of storage and created a 80 page book entitled The first 22 years. This was my first attempt at exploring identity and the documentation of self. Essentially an autobiography, I created layouts composed of old photographs, memorabilia, journal entries, emails, and any other personal items that I could scan, photograph or document with a computer. The project took the most intimate aspects of my life and reassembled them as a narrative for the public to witness. My life (the good and the bad) was on display for all to see.
As I waded through the memories, I faced two problems with sharing such an intimate version of myself: What was I not willing to share? and what could I share about others? I knew the things I was going to share would make me vulnerable; some of the things I put in the book were secrets I had never told anyone. I also knew that friends and family would see the book, so I had to censor the content based on what I was willing to let them know about myself.
To portray myself through the book meant sharing the lives of others that have affected my life in some way. Putting myself out there, sharing intimate details, potentially facing embarrassment or ridicule, was one thing. But putting other people, whom I cared about, through the same experience was a violation of their trust and privacy. I had to be mindful of what I included about everyone in the book.
Page spreads from "The first 22 years" project.
Page spreads from "The first 22 years" project.
Page spreads from "The first 22 years" project.
Page spreads from "The first 22 years" project.
Page spreads from "The first 22 years" project.
My digital self project was no different. As I began working out methods for collecting data about myself, I had to determine what I wanted to collect and how to display it. If I collected location data, did I really want it shown in real-time on the Internet? As a Masters student, I knew there was the potential for my professors to be looking at what was being posted. If I had class on Wednesday afternoon, did I really want them to see that my actual location was at the mall? If I collected data about my computer use, did I want the world to know how much time I'd wasted on Facebook, or should I just provide the aggregate data and let them know I'd spent 4 hours online that day?
Some data was easy to dismiss: I had a few suggestions from friends to collect data about my bowel movements; while there is certainly an argument for monitoring bathroom activity, I did not feel it was a necessary or prudent metric for the purposes of this installation.
"Media changes the user. With each shift in automation, simulation, and transmission, we discover not only new technologies but also new facets of ourselves."
—Beth Coleman, Hello Avatar
The great thing about numbers is that "they don't lie". The bad thing about numbers is that when we collect them through tracking devices, sometimes we don't think about where they are going or what they are doing as a set of stats and figures. I was collecting a lot of raw data, but I was also choosing how to display that information to the public. Despite that sense of control, I was anxious about how that information might be reinterpreted and how 'safe' the source data was. My fears stemmed from news I had recalled from 2011 when FitBit, the maker of one of my trackers, had to shut down access to their users' data streams because some user's sexual activities were being displayed publicly for the online world to see [7].
Aside from the fears associated with my data collection, another issue that I encountered was that some of my data could not be accurately tracked. I spend a lot of time online, but it does not all occur on my laptop. I also use my phone and tablet. Unfortunately, there is no easy way to track Web usage on all three devices as a combined set of metrics. I wanted to track things like how much electricity I used, but I live in a house of four people. My money is shared with my wife, so I couldn't just post credit card purchases as a set of data about my spending; all of my data was skewed. These challenges limited the data points that I could accurately record.
Many of the concerns I had came from the general conservative nature we experience in North America. Being overly open and intimate is considered taboo. Psychoanalysis built up the idea that the 'self' is private [20]. This notion of privacy is slowly being eroded in part because of the Internet. Tracking data online "is an adaptive reaction to the pathologies of disembodiment that are part of digital culture" [20].
As a culture we have always tracked personal data. As children our parents record our growth as carvings on the kitchen doorframe. We write diaries and journals, assemble scrapbooks and photo albums of vacations, holidays, and birthdays. We balance our chequebooks. This naturalistic data gathering stems from the fact that as humans, we are natural observers of patterns. We see patterns as an almost aesthetic experience [20]. People like data not only for the aesthetic pleasures we experience while viewing it, but also for the simple fact that we have poor memories, and writing it all down helps us to remember [19].
Our diaries, photo albums, and even our balance sheets are now all online. This shift in the way we collect and curate our data occurred because of a set of shifts in technology—small, inexpensive sensors, portable computing power (smartphones), social media as a sharing tool, and affordable data storage [19] [20]—without all of these things happening together, we'd still be notching out splinters of wood in the kitchen. The data that we post and share online tells a story of who we are and forms a digital identity of our self [18]. As Gary Wolf, one of the founders of the quantified self movement, states "we leave traces of ourselves with our numbers" [19] and these traces tell a story.
The ephemeral and often mundane pieces of information we share online via social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook help form the narrative of who we are [11]. Tweets proclaiming our boredom or Instagram photos of our lunch immediately before its consumption litter the Internet, and are often scrolled by with haste as detritus littered across our media timelines, but in their totality, they are in fact pages from the book of 'me'.
Media changes the user. With each shift in automation, simulation, and transmission, we discover not only new technologies but also new facets of ourselves.
—Beth Coleman, Hello Avatar
Digital Self, Defined
Actively sharing data online, whether it is through wifi-enabled pedometers, photo-sharing sites, or posts to social media networks falls under many different umbrellas—self-tracking, life streaming, quantified self, digital self, virtual self, digital identity—but all of these coined phrases share the same central theme: an attempt at "finding the self through the act of documentation" [20]. The digital self is the continuous sharing of personal information to a networked audience (via the Internet), creating a "digital portrait" of the self [11]. There are two key components to the creation of the digital self: the tracking of personal data, and the broadcasting of that data to the audience [11] [20]. Without the audience, we are merely collecting data.
A Brief History of the Digital Self
In the mid-1990s, a group of researchers began strapping computers and radio transmitters to their bodies. Their heads donned inward-facing digital displays and outward-aiming camera lenses. These researchers, draped in clunky techno-fashion, referred to themselves as "cyborgs". Akin to the borg depicted on the concurrent popular television series Star Trek: the Next Generation, these cyborgs were interconnected to the world around them and to each other. Their wearable computers broadcast their every move to the Internet. The cyborg was part man, part machine. "When their burdensome technology cut into their skin, they were indifferent" [16]. They were often perceived as social outcasts because of their odd attire, and became the target of verbal and physical abuse. The cyborgs truly suffered for their art.
The cyborgs were not alone in trying to share themselves with the world. In April 1996, student and artist, Jennifer Ringley set up jennicam.org, a website that streamed a live feed of her dorm room to the world. When Jenni moved into a new home, so did her camera, followed by several more. The cameras caught every moment of Jenni's life, as well as those who entered her home. Daily activities, intimate or uneventful, ranging from "mundane tasks and chitchat to stripteases and sexual activity" [5] were broadcast to the world. Jenni shut the site down on December 31, 2003, citing that her site was in violation of PayPal's new anti-nude policies, removing a viable source of funding for the project.
"As I see it, technology has built the house in which we all live. The house is continually being extended and remodelled. More and more of human life takes place within its walls, so that today there is hardly any human activity that does not occur within this house. All are affected by the design of the house, by the division of its space, by the location of its doors and walls. Compared to people in earlier times, we rarely have a chance to live outside this house."
—Ursula Franklin, "The Real World of Technology", Massey Lecture Series, 1989
While Jenni was sharing her life online, Josh Harris, an Internet tycoon, was broadcasting the lives of 100 artists (himself included) from an underground bunker in Manhattan. The space was "rigged with 100 sleeping pods, surveillance cameras, [a] shooting range, translucent shower tents and a banquet table [with a never-ending supply of food and drink]" [6]. The artists were all given free room and board, but in exchange had to abide by Harris' rules. All tenants had to wear orange jumpsuits, were subject to interrogation, and could not leave the bunker, all while being recorded and broadcast 24 hours a day. The bunker was raided by police on New Year's Day, 2000, ending the experiment/installation.
Harris evolved his art form by installing 32 cameras inside his Manhattan apartment. The cameras followed Harris and his girlfriend around the apartment, again streaming every intimate detail of their lives; there was even a camera installed in the bowl of the toilet.
These artists, all shared their life through the lens of the camera, attempting to capture every facet of themselves for public consumption. To do so, they needed special equipment, technical skills, and lots of money. Now, with cheap, inexpensive, portable equipment, everyone can afford to create their own digital self and share it with the world.
Still frames from jennicam.org (Courtesy: JenniCam.org (offline)).
A progression of cyborg equipment by Steve Mann (Courtesy: wearcam.org).
I, cyborg
We are attached to our devices, and our devices are attached to the Internet. The Internet connects us to each other. In a way, we are no different than the cyborgs at MIT, we just dress a bit better. My cyborg attire was modest; a thick rubber bracelet, a money clip-sized sensor, and a smartphone were the only physical accoutrements I donned. The devices and software we use to assimilate our cyborg form have no feelings. They do not judge our behaviours or taint the data because they know we need a pick-me-up on a particularly bad day. They act as mirrors, showing us our true digital self [19]. These devices become an extension of who we are in the same way that "clothing is an extension of the skin" [9]. We feel naked without our devices because we become detached from the hive mind; we are no longer connected.
The computer [is] the most extraordinary of Man's technological clothing; it is an extension of our central nervous system. Beside it the wheel is a mere hulahoop."
—Marshall McLuhan, War and Peace in the Global Village
The Internet became a regular part of life in the 1990s. We began communicating through email and connecting via Multiple User Dungeons (MUDs). These MUDs began as chat rooms, created by geeks who cared about eccentric hobbies and interests. We created online identities for these virtual spaces, generating usernames and avatars for their various logins and accounts. These avatars allowed users the chance to shift gender and change race, allowing for the experimentation of identity in these virtual worlds [15]. Today we still use the concept of usernames and avatars to be recognized online, but we often use the same handle—either our real name or a recognizable screen name—to maintain a sense of identity [13]. This self-branding is commonplace, but it does not eliminate the potential for more than one online identity.
The avatar is an essential part of the digital identity. It allows us to put a face to our tweets and likes. Humans are "equal opportunity agency attributors—we see personality in everything, which helps to explain the power of avatars as representations of self" [3]. Avatars literally put a face to the name. They humanize our digitized words. The digital images we upload to act as our avatars can be edited and manipulated, allowing us to alter our identity in any way we choose [17]. An avatar defines our presence online. "They mark our sense of being there together when we are physically apart" [3]. An avatar can share all kinds of identifiers about ourselves through a single image: race, gender, and age can all be shared through our avatars (or we can make it all up) [3].
Our digital identity is more than just a username and our avatar. It can be comprised of a Facebook account, Tumblr blog, Twitter page, and any other data we may post online, all of these channels proffering a slew of usernames, avatars, and other traces from our lives. A digital identity "can be very complex and dynamic set of information that is hardly ever processed all at once. More often, people view only a small fraction of it, in the form of a social network profile, for instance" [2].
"In 2006, the cover of Time magazine's annual 'Person of the Year' issue depicted a computer with a shiny mirrored mylar screen, intended to reflect the face of the viewer. The person of the year: You."
—Alice Marwick, Status Update
While it is possible to create multiple identities online, I was careful to keep all of my different domain identities as cohesive and consistent as possible. To ensure uniformness, I had a Web app update my Twitter avatar every time I recorded a new personal likeness on Instagram. My avatar, thus, changed daily, but the image was consistent across all channels. That said, just like in the physical world, some people might know me better than others online. I use Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and other various social networks, but Facebook, in particular, is closed off from public viewing. Facebook is my digital haven away from the public. I only allow friends and family to see me on Facebook. Just like in the real world, different people see who I am to varying degrees.
The Internet is a place in which we can experiment with identity. We have a multitude of Web apps and online environments in which to experiment[16] [11] [3], but while this option is available to us, many people, myself included, try to create a consistent identity—a more authentic self—online. Trying to be one's self online doesn't mean that we act the same between platforms, mind you. Different environments bring out different "selfs" [14] [10] [18]. The information we share on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn may be consistent with each other, but that doesn't mean that we behave the same way on each site. LinkedIn, for example, is a business-focused social network, whereas Facebook is more for our friends and family. My avatar on both sites may be the same, as is my name, as well as other details about who I am, but the manner in which I comment to others on each site differs given the audience being addressed. Each version of self shares particular pieces of information with each specific audience, "casting certain aspects of life into sharp relief but obscuring others" [11]. In a sense, we are actors, altering our performance for the various audiences and contexts [10] [14].
All this performing can be seductive; the Internet provides the potential for "boundless exhibition and narcissism" [14]. We share the good news about ourselves on Facebook seeking kudos and applause; we post our sorrows, hoping for a groundswell of sympathy from our friends and followers. We ensure that only the most photogenic selfies see the light of day online [12]. We carefully craft our posts in an effort to garner the most likes, favourites, and retweets that we can muster [11]. The constant stream of mundane posts, sharing our latest breakfast choice, brand of shampoo, and constant whereabouts is often seen as narcissistic, but that isn't usually the case. Yes, we all like attention, but claiming all of this attention-seeking as narcissistic is a misnomer. Knowing that someone is watching our timelines and news feeds, creates a sense of duty to post; we have an obligation to our audience [11].
We begin to create content for our online friends and followers. We alter our self to suit our audience. Steve Mann, an MIT cyborg who streamed his life online for three years, noted that over time he began to change the way he walked. "I changed my way of walking so that I was always conscious of framing the shot, ensuring that I was moving down the centre of the corridors and sidewalks in order to provide a cinematographic perspective" [9]. In my Digital Self project I recorded my personal likeness (a selfie) and uploaded it to Instagram each day. Some days I would take multiple images before getting the composition right. I still looked like me, but a part of me wanted the image to be aesthetically pleasing for my audience. Over the 30 days of this project, I began to notice my practice of taking images was adjusting; I was always seeking out a new background for my photos, and trying to change the angle, facial expression, and so on, to keep the content lively and interesting for my audience. As Mann states "I was optimizing some aspect of my private life" [9].
We are often seeking attention, but that attention is our innate need for togetherness, not narcissism. We are social beings, and we need to communicate, to belong.
The Audience
We vary how we present ourselves based on context and audience; the way we we talk to the cashier at the grocery store is different than how we respond to friends at the bar [11]. No matter what the context is—Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, or the even the dentist's office—we have a sense of who our audience is, but that doesn't mean we know who our audience is online [10]. On many social media sites, like Twitter, we have a perceived sense of who our audience is. We can see how "Follows" us, but that is not where our audience ends. Anyone can read our tweets through the site or other third-party software [10]. Our audience can be anyone.
"...personality is a social chameleon..."
—Jeremy Rifkin, The Empathic Civilization
We may not know who our audience is, but we still address our audience as though we do. We have a mental image of who our audience should be, even though, in reality, we understand that our audience can be infinite [10]. We compose our tweets and upload pictures based upon who we imagine our audience to be [10].
During my 30 days of posting I struggled to record all of my data. I was diligent with recording some facets of my self, while I struggled with others. I was supposed to record all of my meals, but failed miserably at remembering to do so. I think, deep down, I assumed that my wife would be one of my audience members, and for that reason I subconsciously "forgot" to post all the unhealthy greasy food I ate while out of the house. I constantly apply filters to my posts, whether it is a conscious decision or not. Like everyone, I have moments of frustration at work, but my job is teaching college students. As much as I would like to publicly complain and criticize their actions at times, I never post anything negative about my class on Twitter because I know that it is public and can be seen by anyone.
Our audience is both public and personal, made up of friends, family, and complete strangers. The members of the audience are not only connected us, but to each other, "creating an active, communicative network" [10]. This pulsing network of people leads to a form of "mass intimacy" [14]. The data we collect and post online is personal, but it is also social; [20] [19] "...we are at once plugged in to millions of lives around the world while maintaining our identity and our right to our own physical and mental space" [9].
When we feel naked without our smartphones, it isn't because we feel lost without our calendar and ToDo lists that are stored on the phone; it is because we become disconnected from each other and ultimately we have lost the self that is formed from the audience [15]. We can no longer connect and share the bits and pieces of our lives with others through our social networks. We are no longer part of the cyborg collective. We are no longer our self.
When I proposed my project the the graduate committee for approval I was asked whether I intended to write about other people or photograph them in any way. The committee was worried about ethics, or more specifically, about the right to privacy. If I post an image of my personal likeness with someone else in the background, I have given away their right to privacy. People frequently disclose information about others online, often inadvertently [11]. Privacy isn't just about remaining anonymous or keeping things secret, it's about the right to be able to keep those things secret [1] [4]. As a result, the only time others were mentioned online was through Twitter, and only if their Twitter accounts were public. The assumption being that I am not disclosing any personal or private information about someone that isn't already public.
When we consciously evaluate privacy online, we tend to focus our thoughts on our known audience. We are "far more concerned with parents or employers viewing [our] Twitter stream than a complete stranger" [10]. This is how I evaluated privacy for my project. I was concerned about how I would be perceived by my peers and the faculty more than I was worried about how a complete stranger might see me. That said, I didn't discount strangers completely. I considered strangers to be just that—someone I did not know, that did not care about me—and acted accordingly. I did not post my whereabouts online, because as I stated earlier, I perceived my audience to include my professors and didn't want to get caught potentially skipping class (I attended all classes). I also did not want to release to the world that I was away from home. A semi-skilled online researcher ("Googler") could easily determine where I live and break in to my home. I realize the likelihood for this scenario is low, and my thoughts are somewhat paranoid, but at the end of the day, I don't know how my data may be used by strangers. In this case, I chose to limit my data and keep it private.
We produce a lot of data about ourselves online. We give away our name, age, gender, and all kinds of personal data to gain access to various websites and social media networks. We buy things online and share our address and credit card information with businesses, not to mention our shopping habits and interests. Our devices track us (where we are, what we used the phone for, etc.) and we actively post images, video, and text to various Web apps. We generate an enormous amount of data about ourselves, and much of it we don't even realize we are creating. All of these byproducts of our Internet activity is known as "data exhaust" [20] and it allows for high levels of digital surveillance [1] [20] [11].
A famous example of this data exhaust being used for surveillance is when big box retailer, Target, determined that a Minneapolis teenager was pregnant before her own father knew. The company sent a set of coupons to the teen's home offering discounts on baby clothes and cribs, all because the data told them that this girl was pregnant [8].
In the Spring of 2011, Apple iPhone users learned that their phones were logging their continual whereabouts. While Apple claimed that the information was not being actively used, they acknowledged that they were in fact collecting it [20].
At the University of Texas, researchers managed to identify several Netflix customers without knowing their names or addresses. Netflix, in an aim to improve their movie recommendation algorithms, released an anonymous set of customer data for the public to use in a competition aimed at improving the recommendation engine. The Texas researchers took the anonymous data sets from Netflix and cross-referenced it with other data sets from sites like the Internet Movie Database (IMdB) and Rotten Tomatoes. Not only did the researchers identify the Netflix customers, but they also managed to determine their sexual and political orientations [20].
The problem with privacy online is that so much of our information is already public [1]. The problem isn't just about what we want to keep private, but how that information is used [4]. Many people don't mind having ads catered to their interests when they surf the Web, but they also don't recognize that those ads are specific to them because of the digital data exhaust they have scattered across the Internet. Users are happy to give up aspects of privacy in return for something they want: coupons, social networking site memberships, and email [4]. Some of the information we've willingly shared online includes: our name, address, birth date, location, who are friends and family are, our email address(es), and the list goes on [1].
The lack of privacy we face due to digital exhaust is one thing, but even when we share within a closed environment, our data may not be safe. For example, we assume that an email sent to a friend is private, but once that data is sent through the tubes of the Internet, there is no getting it back and making it private again. The email may be meant for only one person, but it's appearance on the screen makes it potentially visible to many [15] [1]. That private message can be forwarded, cut & pasted, or simply shared by turning the screen towards someone else's glare. At the end of the day, the best way to keep something private is to never put it online. The advice that I live by, and the message that led my decison-making process for this project came from my grandmother long before the Internet; she told me "if you don't want someone to see it, don't write it down".
I recorded a lot of data about myself for 30 days in an effort to create an authentic digital self. I have not, as of yet, defined what it means to be authentic. Rifkin asks the question in The empathic civilization: the race to global consciousness in a world in crisis, "[If] we are dramaturgical, how can we be authentic?" [14] and his question, in large part, is what led me to this project. I felt that numbers don't lie, and for that reason, collecting all the quantifiable data I could about myself and posting it online, in a sense, would show my authentic self. After reading about all the self, both online and offline, I came to a simple conclusion, one that is best summed up by Alice Marwick: "The fact that we constantly vary self-presentation based on audience reveals authenticity as a construct: are we more or less authentic with our book club or gym partner? Whether we are viewed as authentic depends on the definition imposed by the person doing the judging" [10]. This definition lends itself well to my definition of the self as well. The self is the sum of those around you. We are who we are because of the people in our lives; without friends and family, co-workers and acquaintances, we cease to exist.
I have reviewed the data that I collected during the project and have come to some conclusions about my personal life. I have also confirmed some of my previous beliefs by analyzing the data. Below I will briefly outline these findings:
I drink too much coffee and not enough water. When I looked at my coffee intake versus my water consumption, I realized I am likely dehydrated most (if not all) days. This may further help explain the next point.
I do not sleep well. I have never slept well; I knew that before this study. I have trouble turning my mind off at night, and adding insult to injury, my young children like to come into my bed and takeover the space where I sleep. My sleep habits were validated by the data I collected. The numbers prove that I don't sleep well.
I eat poorly. My meals are not unhealthy (usually), but I probably don't eat enough throughout the day. I reported being hungry during a large portion of each day, and this is likely because I should be eating several small meals each day instead of just breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Additionally, I often eat when I'm hungry, rather than before I'm hungry, which is not the right way to consume calories.
I'm not happy as I think I am. The stress of school, work, and trying to balance my life and help raise my children has taken a toll on my happiness. I knew I was stressed out at times, but when I look at the data, it seems that I spend a lot of time unhappy. This is the single most important thing I learned from this project. To fix this issue, I have started saying "yes" to more things in my life—my kids, experiences, and people's favours—and in the short time I have started saying "yes" more often I have noticed a significant improvement in my happiness. And I don't need the data to prove it!
A chart generated by fitbit, displaying the calories burned by my daily activities.<
FitBit records how many flights of stairs I climb each day. Mid month I had to charge the device and broke the habit of putting it on, resulting in a week of forgetfulness.
Total distance walked during my 30 days of tracking.
A breakdown from RescueTime of how I spend my time on the computer. Apparently I write a lot more than I thought I did.
RescueTime's breakdown of my overall productivity on the computer for the 30 days of tracking.
This is a list of keywords Facebook provided of the keywords used to target ads to me.
Screen captures from the Reporter iPhone app highlight some interesting details, like I apparently don't do much work!
I drink way too much coffee, and spend a lot of time at school. I think a correlation could be made.
My sleep was rarely categorized as "Great", and for some reason I always felt very tired.
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Scrabble & Words with Friends Word Unscrambler
Definition of Animated
2 Definitions of Animated
The definition of animated, the meaning of word Animated
Is animated a scrabble word? Yes!
- adj.- having life or vigor or spirit
- adj.- made to appear to move as living creatures do
1 Synonym of Animated
Animated is worth 11 points in Words with Friends and 13 points in Words with Friends
There are 8 letters in animated: A A D E I M N T


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The academy is the brainchild of Mrs. Erica Kulumba the owner and manager. She is a renowned educationist here in the Coast Province with a wealth of experience. The school was started in 1991 with just three students in the nursery section. It has since grown to offer nursery, primary and secondary education.
The school is a full day and boarding school embracing nursery, primary and high school.
It offers the Kenyan 8-4-4 curriculum and has achieved remarkable results in KCPE examinations.
To be among the best Christian institutions in the area recognized locally, nationally and internationally to the glory of God almighty.
To teach God's children to know their Saviour and to love Him dearly so that they will be able to rise from poverty, ignorance and disease. This transformation through Christian teaching should enhance the quality of life in the community in which they live
Learn and Shine is based on Isaiah 60:1, 'Arise and shine for your light is come and the glory of the Lord is risen upon you.'
Website: http://www.risenshineacademy.ac.ke/


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stone casona hotel | mountain views
Property Description
Casona D´Alevia
Fully restored traditional stone 'casona', with parts dating from XV century, operating as a successful characterful hotel. Large house of 544 metres squared over 3 floors, 9 distinct rooms including some duplex suites, large entrance hall & reception, social and breakfast room, kitchen, garage, ironing and storage room, and outside terrace area. The house would also work as a generous family home.
Location stone casona hotel: Alevia, Peñamellera Baja, Picos de Europa, Asturias, Northern Spain
Located within the quiet historic village of Alevia, near Panes, with mountain views overlooking the Picos de Europa, and only half an hour from the coast. 15 kilometres from the La Franca beach, golf course of La Cuesta 25 km, Potes 25 kilometres, Llanes 30 kilometres, and Covadonga 55 kilometres. Parque Nacional de Picos de Europa mountain range is half an hour away. The vibrant historic towns of Oviedo, Avilés and Gijón are just over an hour away, with airport of Santander 80 kilometres away.
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This Weird Feeling
For a moment I felt a little strange. Within this past month there has been a slight change. This is the time for the man of mine to start kneeling. However, today I had this weird feeling. Yeah, that is what this poem is about. More than two weeks ago my middle sister moved out. She came by today thinking that I had something to … Continuer de lire This Weird Feeling


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President Donald Trump said Friday that he will name former acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Thomas Homan to become "border czar."
Trump made the comment during a lengthy phone interview on "Fox & Friends."
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"Tom Homan's coming back," Trump said. "He's going to be very much involved with the border."
The White House for months has weighed the possibility of creating a "czar" position to coordinate immigration issues across various federal agencies. Former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli reportedly was considered for the role, but instead became acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services director.
"He'll be reporting directly to me," Trump said of Homan. "He'll be probably be working out of the White House but spending a lot of time at the border."
Homan could not immediately be reached for comment.
The possibility that Homan could rejoin the Trump administration follows a shakeup at the Homeland Security Department that saw the departure of several top officials, including former Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen.
In January 2017, Trump named Homan acting ICE director. Homan — a career law enforcement official — gained a reputation as a pugnacious defender of Trump's immigration policies.
While he was nominated in November 2017 to take the job permanently, the Senate never took up the nomination, and Homan retired in May 2018. Since leaving government, Homan has been a regular guest on Fox News to discuss immigration issues.


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Like I said in my last post, I'm reading American Schools: The Art of Creating a Democratic Learning Community by Sam Chaltain. I've been really busy and just read the Prologue today. Chaltain has some very insightful questions and thoughts to really bring things forward in your mind. One question he asked was:
"In one word, what does it mean to be an American?" Some answers that I received on my PLN were: lucky, free, blessed, privileged, independent. Chaltain said that most people would say "freedom". What is freedom though? Do all the answers I received fit into that category?
Another question:
"If there were only one thing you'd want our public schools to achieve, what would it be?" Some answers from my PLN: "Teach students how to be autonomous learners", "Learn how to learn", "teach students how to think for themselves and to love to exlore and learn", "to love learning and think independently". Chaltain went on to say "To help all young people aquire the skills and self-confidence they need to be visible in the word." (Chaltain, p. 7)
All of this is great information and I feel that we all as teachers have the same thoughts about education. We want students to learn for themselves and to think for themselves. Then we want them to be able to share what they have learned. They need and want to be heard! So how can we do this?
I feel that first of all, we as educators need to take the time to listen to each of our students when they have something they want to tell us. I know that we are busy and have difficulty doing so, but be careful not to push people away. Make sure that they have a chance to share and have your undivided attention. They feel that what they want to say is very important and worthwhile to tell. Make sure you understand that.
I'm really excited to read more into this book and Sam's thoughts. I think that he has some great insight into how we can make education better. We do not need the fear of having an anonymous student from the Communist Party sitting in our classrooms to make sure that our conversations are "within guidelines" as China does. (Chaltain, p. 5) We need to be free to speak freely and let the students do the same.
There is a lot of fear in our education system in America right now. I hope that this book will help open my eyes to what I can do better as well as your eyes.


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The Empathy of the Incarnation
We are posting the opening of Jesse's sermon today, "The Empathy of the Incarnation." It drew on recent events to set up the notion that the only way to achieve true peace with friend or foe is through empathy, perfectly modeled for us by He who did not count equality with God something to be grasped, but became our Immanuel, "God with us," our High Priest who sympathizes with us in our weakness. The entire message will be posted later, but for now, here's the introduction.
"On the night of August 9, 2014, we learned that a white LEO in Ferguson, MO, killed an unarmed black man. While the circumstances surrounding this untimely death were unclear at best, we watched a very predictable process unfold. It is a story that is as predictable as it is tragic, in both the incident and the way our country responded. One might have predicted that there would be conflicting eye-witness testimony, as there almost always is, and that lines would be drawn as people picked their favorite witnesses whose testimony supported their pre-conceived ideas of what tends to cause white cops to shoot black men.
One might have predicted the various camps rallied for and against the different players involved as the nation divided itself along our standard racial and ideological lines. One might have predicted that no charges would be brought, since they rarely are in similar cases, and that in lieu of a public trial, the families of both parties would be left little opportunity for closure.
One might have predicted the officer would make an argument of self defense and fear, since that's all the law requires, without assessing the legitimacy or motive for that fear, fear that tends to be strongest towards those different from us.
One might have predicted that while supporters of the officer would wax eloquent about the presumption of innocence in court, our black brothers and sisters testify that they've never experienced the luxury of that same presumption in their own neighborhoods.
One might have predicted that people with political agendas would behave in ways that are insensitive, hurtful, counter-productive and stupid.
One might have predicted a reaction of protest by people who claim to be acting in righteous indignation at injustice and a government that failed the standards of Isaiah 61, while others look at the same events and understandably question the efficacy of burning buildings as a form of protest.
One might have predicted that this week a deranged murderer would try to steal headlines by killing two cops right after killing his girlfriend and just prior to killing himself. One might predict this morning that there are some of you thinking 'this is the worst opening to a Christmas message I've ever heard in my life.'
We live in a world of conflict, centuries old divisions, animosity and hatred everywhere you look, which flies in the face of a longing and yearning which is at the heart of the Christmas season, a desire for peace on earth and good-will towards men. This morning we are going to examine what God did to end conflict and what we as Christians need to be convinced of if we are going to work for peace. We're going to discuss something without which you will never be able to sustain peace with friend or foe -- our topic this morning is the empathy of God, expressed through Incarnation."
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Arcadia Book - The Elements Series Part 1. Fire; The sun, its use & Replication in Reptile keeping.
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Records kept by the Government have revealed that 94 estates have been left unclaimed with links to Liverpool and Wirral, and they could be worth some serious cash.
When people die without a Will their estate is divided and distributed in accordance with the intestacy rules as contained in the Administration of Estates Act 1925. The rules provide which individuals benefit from the estate and in what order.
When there are no surviving relatives who can inherit under the rules of intestacy, the estate ultimately passes to the Crown. The Treasury solicitor is then responsible for dealing with the estate.
In Britain approximately 1 in 3 individuals die intestate and the Crown benefits every year from unclaimed estates. The rules are complex and can change depending on your individual family circumstances when you die. This may mean that your estate may not pass in accordance with your instructions and can cause great problems following death.
The Treasury keep a record of all unclaimed estates and have recently provided that nearly 100 unclaimed estates have been linked to Merseyside. The individual details of the value of the estates has not been revealed but they have released a list of names which can be found on the Government website; https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/unclaimed-estates-list.
Who is entitled to an unclaimed estate?
The intestacy rules specify an order of potential beneficiaries starting with a surviving spouse or civil partner. However, partners who are simply cohabiting cannot inherit under the rules of intestacy and if they do not have a Will they leave one another in a vulnerable situation.
Children are also entitled to benefit under the rules and particular rules apply when there is a surviving spouse/civil partner along with children. The list of potential beneficiaries then passes to grandchildren and great grandchildren etc, parents, brothers and sisters, niece and nephews an so forth.
How to collect from an unclaimed estate:
There is a 30 year time limit when claiming the benefit of an unclaimed estate. You must prove that you are one of the list of 'entitled' beneficiaries as set out by the intestacy rules.
Once you have established that you are able to benefit from the estate, you will need to provide evidence of your family tree proving how you are related to the deceased individual.
There are various estate hunting firms that provide help and guidance in doing this but they do charge fees for doing so, so you should ensure that you look into the matter before proceeding.
As you can see it is not always easy dealing with intestate estates. As well as complicating issues and making the process of administration lengthy, dying without a Will in place can cause great problems as previously mentioned for cohabitees. Under the intestacy rules unmarried couples have no automatic entitlement to any of the deceased partner's estate. If the property they shared was in the deceased's name solely, then the partner has no immediate interest in the property and would be forced to leave.
Dealing with the loss of a loved one can be hard enough without the above and the concern that they did not have their estate in order. Preparing a Will provides peace of mind and security that your wishes are complied with and that you have simplified the process for your loved ones.
As a Will is such an important part in planning for your future it is important that you seek professional guidance and legal advice from a solicitor when doing so. Our team of experts are able to take you through the process to guarantee you the service is tailored specifically to your needs and advise on all suitable areas. Please contact us to discuss further.
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Calling all cold callers, while you're calling out, how successful are you on making that big sale? We know you often don't take "no" for an answer, so what are you going to do to ensure that sale?
With 80% of people saying 2 or more cold calls over a 2 month period is annoying, it's in your best interest to make the best of each call. Before contacting your potential buyer, you should fully understand their industry, primary business goals, and company size. Meaning, you wouldn't call a potato chip company and try to sell them boat insurance. Interact with your customer first, sell second. The hardest part is getting them to talk to you in the first place. Therefore, by making a connection, you may hold their interest a little longer.
By making a personal connection, there is a 243% increase in sales productivity. Even for callers with a direct connection, the likelihood of receiving a return call increases 11 times. When making your call, it has been stated that the most annoying vendor approaches to a busy C-Level are unsolicited phone calls, a lack of preparation and knowledge and unsolicited emails (SPAM).
Although it is rare and difficult to sell on a cold call, don't get discouraged. Make that connection and make that sale. Share the risk, share the reward.
Check out this infographic presented by InsideView to learn more.


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Garden Cottage
As you drive through the Kristmont Acres neighborhood in Lodi's wine country, and you arrive at your destination, you enter through the garden gate. Then you are lead down a path to the Garden Cottage, through a private, landscaped courtyard. Whether you are on a weekly business trip, visiting family or friends, or are in Lodi to enjoy any of our special wine events, the Garden Cottage is the perfect place to relax and enjoy a quiet place to unwind. The cottage is detached from the main house, which allows for complete privacy. Just beyond the French doors, you will see a beautifully landscaped yard with mature trees and foliage.
Kristmont Acres is a lovely area for morning or evening walks. Lodi Lake is within walking distance and provides kayak rentals for a beautiful paddle on the Mokelumne River where you will spot an abundance of wildlife.
The Garden Cottage is within a few blocks of the Lodi Visitor's Center and Wine Trail which will direct you to more than 60 wineries. You may also want to visit our lovely downtown, offering an abundance of restaurants, charming tasting rooms, and boutiques.


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The 6th CleanTech Investing Seminar (Lausanne) 2-3 Dec 2015
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- Lausanne, Switzerland Visit conference website
This European CleanTech conference - the CleanTech Investing Europe Conference - enters its sixth year in 2015. The event will introduce cutting edge technology alongside CleanTech investors including VCs, CleanTech corporations, angel investors, family offices and private wealth holders, facilitating the building of new investment partnerships and opportunities. Delegates will gain insight into CleanTech through the specialised programme, and expert speakers will discuss how successful investments can be made within the sector. There will also be opportunities for attendees to network with entrepreneurs and investors and fine tune their own practices accordingly, with an optimum ratio of investors to presenting companies so that delegates are able to consider and source the right investment deals.
Conference websiteThe 6th CleanTech Investing Seminar (Lausanne) 2-3 Dec 2015
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The ice cream tagging along on the space flight that launched Sunday night from Cape Canaveral, Fla is none other than our beloved Blue Bell. The capsule is expected to reach the International Space Station on Wednesday.
The Blue Bell will be stored in GLACIER, or General Laboratory Active Cryogenic ISS Experiment Refrigerator. Primarily used to preserve science samples that require temperatures between -301 and 39 degrees Fahrenheit on the way to or from the space station, it makes a dandy ice cream transporter. The mini-fridge sized freezer previously flew aboard the space shuttle.
All space station crew members, regardless of their home nation, spend time training for their expeditions at Johnson Space Center in Houston, and everybody knows Blue Bell dominates the market in Texas.
As such, the Blue Bell Sundae Ice Cream Cups should be especially welcome by Expedition 33's commander, NASA astronaut Sunita Williams, as well as flight engineers Yuri Malenchenko of Russia's federal space agency and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Akihiko Hoshide.
Blue Bell isn't a space rookie. Far from it. In 1995, astronauts aboard the space shuttle Atlantis first took Blue Bell along for the ride. In 2006 it made it's first visit to the ISS delivered by, ironically, Atlantis.


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There have been many kings in rock. But there is only one true King of the Blues — and that would be the incomparable B.B. King. King, who started performing in the 1940s before there was even music called rock & roll, has influenced almost all blues and blues rock guitarists to follow him.
You can learn how more about B'B. King, his music, and his influence by picking up and reading my new book Come Together: How the Baby Boomers, the Beatles, and a Young Counterculture Combined to Create the Music of the Woodstock Generation.
It's available exclusively at the Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, DC, or you can order it online by clicking here.