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Saint I Don't Know
I imagine that life as English teacher in Spain is a lot like being a dentist. People are generally unhappy when they see you, and you spend an inordinate amount of time pulling teeth. Teeth, for me, generally means any response in English. Over time, I'd like to think that I've successfully combatted many of my students' reluctance to participate. Except, that is when it comes to the topic of religion.
I'd always imagined Spain to be quite a religious country. Given the fervent Catholicism that is still common in its former colonies, I imagined that Spain itself would have a close connection to the Catholic Church. One that could only be outdone by Italy. And at some point in recent history, that was probably true. But it is not now. I learned that this week when I asked them what I thought was a simple question: Who is Moses?
They returned blank stares, but not the usual kind. Usually, when I don't get a response, it means that the students either don't understand the question or don't know how to answer it in English.
These pauses are generally short and the silence is almost always broken by their mutterings to each other in Spanish. Que significa "friendship?" Amistad. Ahhh...okay. Vale. The best classes will continue this until they collectively come up with an appropriate answer.
This does not happen when I ask them questions such as these: What is the period before Easter and after Carnival? Or what day is Easter? Or as before, Who is Moses?
Catholic Atheists
On these occasions, the silence only ever was broken by me or my Spanish co-teacher. I will try to restate the question. And if I still don't get a response my teacher will ask it for me in Spanish or Menorquí. But they still don't answer. But not because they don't want to. It is generally because they have no idea.
Suffice it to say I found this shocking. One of my favorite students told me that she was an atheist and therefore didn't believe in these stories. I tried to explain to her that that wasn't the point I was trying to make.
I told her that generally in America regardless of one's religious background, you will learn the basic tenants of the most famous Judeo-Christian stories. It is not generally taught in public schools, but you will learn through a kind of cultural osmosis. I explained that I thought it might be a little dangerous to participate in rituals without knowing the history behind them. My class responded with a typical shrug.
Though I obviously cannot speak for all of Spain, through my experience I have learned that an ambivalent/agnostic/atheistic viewpoint isn't really unique here. Another American friend of mine calls it "Catholic Atheism." Which in other words means that people are culturally Catholic, but not generally religious.
So how does Catholicism manifest itself here? In my experience, through holidays or vacations. In Spain, every single city and pueblo has a patron saint. Madrid's patron is San Isidro. In early May, there is a big festival throughout the city. Women wear red carnations in their hair and people dance the chotis a traditional Madrilenian dance.
Who is San Isidro and what did he do?
I have no idea, and neither do the people in Madrid.
Patron, Who?
In Mahón, Menorca, the Patron is San Antonio, but again, neither the teachers nor the students know who that is either. To be fair, Spanish history, religiosity included, is very long and complex. It is no wonder that a few details would slip one's mind. That seems to be happening here in a cultural sense.
Given the heavy-handedness of Catholicism here, don't forget about the Inquisition, folks, it is understandable that people would grow a little weary of religion. But I wasn't expecting this level of disconnect.
To the point, two weeks ago, after I spent nearly 10 minutes explaining Ash Wednesday to my students--complete with pictures. After class, my co-teacher remarked on the differences between the generations. She told me that when she was in high school on Ash Wednesday the students didn't even have to trouble themselves to walk to church. The priest would come to school on Ash Wednesday and mark the foreheads of both students and staff.
Now, twenty-plus years later, nobody was coming to mark foreheads. And even if they did, many might refuse because the children had never even heard of the ritual.
I'll keep this in mind the next time the next time I'm performing an English extraction. Because it would seem that in Spain, it is generally not a good idea to speak about religion. But not because it is considered rude. It is more, at this point, people just do not know or care about it.


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When I was still an undergraduate at Grove City College (1979-1983), I read David Norton's Personal Destinies (1977) and it had a big impact on me and in my reading of the argument made me realize I was the author of my own life story. But I was prepared to read these arguments this way from my experience in sports and the consistent message I always heard from my father since I was a little kid playing sports. My love of sports always exceeded my ability to play, but I learned early on that to compete in sports you had to put in long hours of hard work. From the time I was little I was always dealing with mixed messages -- great successes followed by crushing defeats, not just in terms of wins and losses, but assessment of my talents by various coaches. My father's message from the time I was 8 years old and starting to play Little League baseball was if you aren't getting selected, or you are getting to play as much as you want there is only one response, work harder at getting better so that no coach will not want to select you and play you. Not succeeding was nobody's fault other than your own.
Typical of my era, when I entered HS I played football, basketball and baseball. But by that time, my love of the game of basketball was solidified. And, starting in 8th grade I would spend my summers practicing basketball everyday up to 10 hours a day working on individual skills and playing pick up games at various playgrounds always seeking out the best competition that would let me play -- first by bicycle and then when older by car. I followed that path until I was 20 years of age. Along the way, I stopped playing football and baseball (though after my junior year of HS I missed playing baseball so I played on an American Legion team through the summer except when I was away at basketball camp). I did well enough at basketball camp to win awards and to get invited to be a camp counselor in-between HS and college. My HS team was the most successful team in the history of my school when we graduated. But between the age of 17 and 19, I repeatedly suffered severely sprained and even broke my ankle 3 times, and this probably impacted my confidence even more than my skills (which were limited to begin with). Anyway, my aspirations as an athlete were crushed during this time (though I would end up switching sports from basketball to tennis and finish out my college athletic career playing tennis and eventually working as a tennis pro). Reality had caught up to me -- I was not as athletic or as skilled as I had hoped to be, and my body and my mind were more fragile than required to achieve what I wanted as an athlete.* Thank god I had already found my soul-mate in Rosemary, because this experience devastated me at a very vulnerable age, and left me completely lost as to who I was and what I was going to do with my life. I almost quit college in the fall of 1979 after I got hurt again, but thankfully Rosemary talked me through that.
I mentioned Hidden Brain podcast in the last post, and I am drawing on it again (I promise I will not do so for a while now, though you should give it a listen). In December 2018, there is a great podcast discussing loss and renewal that really hit home and reminded me of my clumsy efforts to grapple with my 17-19 year old frustrations. My Aunt Lol, who had various stages in her own life, often said you need to learn to close one chapter and move to the next. What happened to me during that time is I got introduced to academic pursuits, including economics and philosophy. In many ways I really had no preparation for this, but it happened and my life went in a different direction than I had planned. Listening to this episode on a plane ride yesterday, fascinated me because we all must face down frustrations, disappointments, and dashed plans. In response, we must reinvent and renew our life purpose. We are in control of our personal destiny -- perhaps not 100% -- but it is the only variable that is under our control, so we should behave as if it is 100% under our control. We are entrepreneurs of our life.
As I entered graduate school (1984-88), I was completely enamoured with James Buchanan's essay "Natural and Artifactual Man" even more so than G. L. S. Shackle's presentation of the agony of choice because while I agree with Shackle's depiction of our choice situation in the face of radical uncertainty, Buchanan's depiction stresses our creativity and our aspirational hopes. We can, in essence, fake it until we make ourselves better than what we currently are. So when I read in 1987 Loren Lomasky's Persons, Rights and the Moral Community when it was first published, I interpreted in light of Norton's work and Buchanan's subjectivism, and to be honest, Kirzner's theory of entrepreneurship.* I didn't focus so much on "rights" speak, but on persons and their projects in Lomasky's presentation, and thus the idea that we must behave entrepreneurially in the construction of our own lives, and the political and legal and cultural background must give us space to be architect of our own destiny.
This is also how I read the recent book by Agnes Callard Aspiration -- a work that explores our volition and our efforts to be architects of our own destiny.
I realize that many parts of my interpretation are idiosyncratic and perhaps "forced", but it is how I make sense of these arguments in light of what I consider critical stage in our lives when we face down adversity and must bob and weave, adapt and adjust, and reinvent and renew. We must be creative architects and alert entrepreneurs throughout our lives. And critical to that, the political, legal and cultural background must give us space.
Anyway, I do think it is important to distinguish between methodological individualism (a scientific proposition) and epistemological individualism (a philosophical position) and normative individualism (a political/legal/moral theory). The position I have just laid out are in the area of normative individualism, though I am using tools of thinking I learned from the pursuit of a methodologically individualistic approach to social science.
*In a recent interview, my colleague Tyler Cowen was asked about his early chess career and he emphasized the discipline and focus he learned in pursuing that endeavor. I learned that same thing, I'd argue, through basketball. But my failures were great teachers. In basketball in retrospect, I would say I worked very hard, but not smart. In tennis, I would say I worked smart, but not hard. In economics, I hope I can say I worked very hard and did so with some smarts. I guess ultimately how smart will be an assessment others pass rather than one I can make.
**Lomasky was well known to my era of economics students because he had spent time at the Center for Study of Public Choice in the year right before the move to GMU, and Buchanan at that time (prior to Nobel) was very much pushing the ideas summed up in his New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics entry on Political Economy and Social Philosophy. So Lomasky's work was just part of the common knowledge of those of us trying to learn from Buchanan.

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Over the past month I have been slowly and steadily making my way through the amazing selection of loose leaf teas from Adagio Teas, where tea blending is almost and art and every blend is carefully created to produce the perfect cup every time. I was sent quite the selection, and it felt like Christmas had come early! If you've been watching my instagram stories over the past month you'll have seen me drooling over a few teas on there as I make my way through them!
Each box contains specially selected, sealed 'sample size' packets of loose tea, each one making between 10 and 15 cups. Each packet is cleverly colour coded so you can differentiate between black, green and fruit teas etc. at a glance, and has instructions printed on for water temperature and brew time. I still haven't managed to try every single individual tea I was sent but have made my way through a lot of them now so wanted to pick out a few of my favourites from the sample boxes I was sent!
Chai: Chocolate Chai is perfection! Spiced Apple Chai is also incredibly drinkable, with pieces of real apple in the blend.
Berry Teas: I've tried all but blackberry so far, and these are perfect hot or cold, I prefer to make these with the tea filters so I can keep the bag in for extra flavour.
Rooibos: I first drank Rooibos when I was in South Africa and brought a lot home with me but it's all long gone and this box reminds me of my trip, I drink mine with a dash of milk.
Sweet Teas: The boxes I was most excited to try were the 'Sweet Tooth' and 'Christmas' boxes, containing such delights as Candy Cane, Candy Apple, Gingerbread (all as good as they sound and will be perfect with a slice of cake or the remnants of the gingerbread house we attempt to make every year! Also Caramel & Cream and indulgent, rich tasting ceylon blends and really unique.
Earl Grey: If you're partial to an Earl Grey then you really need to try the Rooibos Earl Grey blend, it's a caffeine free version of one of my favoruites with a sweeter taste. I first drank Rooibos when I was in South Africa and brought a lot home with me but it's long gone, I drink mine with a dash of milk – which I am sure most Earl Grey drinkers would wince at but there we go!
Oolong, Orchard & Jasmine: I must admit these are taking me longer to get through sampling as they're not the teas I would normally choose but it's been great trying them out and getting used to a different taste. The Raspberry Green tea is refreshing, and the Jasmine Pheonix Pearls are just calming to watch brew, as the tiny hand rolled balls slowly unfurl in the water!
Teas of India & Sri Lanka: Sri Lanka was the first place I ever tried loose leaf tea, and we had been up in the hills watching it being picked and seen the process the tea leaves went through so it was a really special experience, and as I drink these teas i'm wondering if it came from the same plantations we visited! The Irish Breakfast tea from this packet has been my first, almost medicinal cup of tea for the past week and it's just the kickstart I need after not enough sleep and two full on kids who bounce at of bed at stupid-O'clock!
They also sent me the 'Tree House' selection of kid friendly (decaf!) teas which is such a great idea! The tins are all bright, colourful and decorated with things the kids are drawn to, like dinosaurs and stars and contain tea bags, rather than loose leaf tea so it's a lot friendlier for little hands. Both my kids see me drink tea all day long and when they were little they'd ask for a sip but not be that impressed with the taste. We've tried Monster Brew (containing honeybush, raspberry, rooibos, cocoa nibs and more) which went down well once it had cooled down! Rocket Fuel also went down well which is a fruitier zingy tea with orange peel, blueberries, apple and blue cornflowers and the kids love this cold, I tend to brew it and pop a jug in the fridge and serve it cold with some ice cubes!
Finally the 'London Collection' would make the perfect gift – hand selected, and with themed names (Double Decker & Covent Garden Chai for example) and presented in gorgeous tins, easy to slip in a bag for work or to refill with other blends when finished! Oxford Steep has a marzipan aroma and gives quite a kick! Other collections in the Fandom sets include Game of Thrones, Magic Potions and Doctor Who! Perfect if you're doing your christmas shopping and know someone who's into these!
I love drinking loose leaf tea but I know some people find it a bit of a faff. Of course the most 'traditional' way is with a proper tea pot and a tea strainer, but for someone like me who tends to only drink one cup of each type at a time this can be a bit wasteful, although this is perfect for when friends are round! Adagio have a few different ways to brew a perfect cup, which I've detailed below but they do sell tea in bags too, or you could use a…
Paper Tea Filters
These are so simple to use: pop a spoon of your chosen tea in the pocket and add hot water, making sure the long part of the bag stays over the lip of your mug. As soon as you add water the teabag works just like a regular one with no bits ending up floating in your mug! They're made of taste-neutral wood and hemp fibres, not plastic and you get 100 in a box. Perfect for if a few of you are having a cuppa of different flavoured teas, or if your other tea-making equipment is being cleaned, and even better for taking away to hotels and other peoples houses when you go away, little air tight container of your favourite blend, a few of these and you're good to go!
Toshima Tea Pot
This cast iron tea pot comes with a diffuser, and I was sent two matching tea cups too. There is a history of the factory that manufactures these as Adagio have selected it specifically for the uniqueness of these tea pots, a traditionally japanese style now produced in China:
If an imperfection is found at any point – even after painting and buffing – the pot is melted down and begun anew. It's never too late to turn back and try again, and the amount of sorting and inspection that takes place is astounding. Mr. Lu's father still works in the factory, even though he's supposed to be enjoying retirement, and gives lessons to the workers. His son has learned well: a kind, generous and utterly hilarious soul – everything tea itself should be.
It might sound crazy but a pot of tea, especially green or white teas just taste so amazing when poured from this pot, and the tea stays hot for ages as the iron retains the heat so well!
The IngenuiTEA 'pot' is SO much fun to use– I defy anyone not to have a smile on their face when they use it! You pop your tea in the top and add your hot water. Pop the lid closed and let it brew for the specified time. Then you pip it on top of any mug and the tea (but not the leaves!) Drains down into your mug. GENIUS! I've used this for black teas a few times and found it stains a little around the bottom but a quick scrub after every few brews with some bicarb and a run through the dishwasher (yes, dishwasher friendly!) and it's as good as new!
Diffuser in a glass mug
This is a more elegant way to brew tea, the thin (but sturdy) glass mug & lid, which has a metal diffuser that pops in and out so you can either keep it in for a stronger cup or remove when your brewing time is up.
There are of course lots more clever ways to brew and drink tea in the Teaware section of the website. I've been so impressed by the flavours (and the scents!) of these teas, and love that you can choose the pack size of your favourite teas, and read about the blend. The website is easy to use and I love the extra information about the farmers who supply the tea – Adagio seems like a company that really cares, all along the chain from production to delivery and that's really important to me these days!
Very kindly Adagio have offered one of their clever IngenuiTEA diffusers and 15 sample packs of tea – that's around 150 cups! To enter just use the form below, good luck!
Adagio Tea Diffuser & Tea Giveaway
T&Cs: One winner will be picked from all correct entries at random. The prize is Ingenuitea diffuser and 15 tea samples, and the prize will be dispatched to a UK address only. The winner will be notified by email and has 2 weeks to respond, or another winner will be drawn. Ends 1st December at 11.59pm.
So if you find yourself invited to my house then be prepared to be overwhelmed by the choice of tea on offer!


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Lost is a Burgos Perdiguera of 6 years of age who has been rescued from the Faculty of veterinary medicine of León
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Traces achieves a House of refuge in Puertollano for 245 dogs in the past two years
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The grandmother Li Jun: a life dedicated to the most disadvantaged animals
The grandmother Li Jun lives in China, in Beijing.
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- Startup Alley at Inman Connect New York (January 22-26, 2018) has a number of tech companies focused on automation and agent support.
- Technology trends are suggesting that agents will need to focus more on service and less on managing information.
Startup Alley has long been my favorite part of Inman Connect not only because it shines a spotlight on cutting-edge technology, but because I find it to be the most accurate measure of where the real estate industry is headed.


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India's industrial output recorded marginally 0.1 % growth in January, 2014 after contracting for three months in a row.
- The marginal improvement in the Index of Industrial Production (IIP) was mainly on account of higher power generation and mining sector output, while manufacturing declined.
Though, the cumulative growth of the industrial production during the 10-month period from April to January of this financial year was flat compared to an over 1 % growth in the same period of 2012-13.


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THE CHINESE EXCLUSION ACT premieres as a special presentation on PBS' American Experience on Tuesday, May 29. Check local listings.
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So one fine day you woke up and finally decided to get a tattoo, correction – your first tattoo. That's great, however, beforehand you need to know a few things before actually doing it.
What do you want to get?
You seem to appreciate the fine body art, you're a rebel or you just think it's the right thing to do but you firstly need to consider what you'd like to get. Whether it will be a butterfly, dragon or lettering, think it over carefully because a tattoo usually aims to either make a personal statement, help you remember something dear to you or just decorate your natural canvas.
Where will it be?
Secondly make sure you have figured where you want to place it and take into consideration whether or not your choice will affect your job prospects. Don't forget that the big companies show a rather conservative outlook on tattoos.
Pick your tattoo artist
Ask your friends or just people you know whose tattoo you like. Check out a few studios and talk to the artists – you're looking for someone who'll take time to sit down with you and discuss ideas, whether they're applicable for the body part you'd like to get inked and whether your design can be modified to look better.
Look around the studio
Make sure it is clean and the equipment is sterile and new. Everything needs to be opened in front of you – from the needles to the gloves.
Pay a visit to your GP
Ask if it is safe enough for you to get inked with regards to any allergies or skin conditions you might have (ex. eczema). If you're given the green light – splendid, if not better steer away from the idea.
Book your appointment and start your mental preparation
First tattoos are exciting because you don't know what to expect. Pain is dependent on your individual threshold, expertise of the tattoo artist and of course the place where you are getting the work. It will probably sting a bit, but it's manageable. Most importantly be well rested and relaxed so you don't feel any discomfort and don't take any painkillers, alcohol or drugs before your appointment as they can make you bleed more.
How to take care of the new tattoo?
- First and most importantly – follow strictly the instructions given to you by the studio
- Keep the bandage on for as long as you are told
- Wash the tattoo with anti-bacterial soap, not any other type; otherwise, you might dry out the tattoo. This may cause a serious itch and redness
- Do not scratch – you'll damage the skin and the tattoo most likely
- Use an antibiotic ointment
- Keep it away from direct sunlight, pools and hot tubs. Avoid getting tattooed in the summer because it is the season in which your tattoos is likely to get irritated by thousands to stimuli such as sun, heat, dust, sand and etc.
- Do not pick the scabs; they'll fall off until it heals.
- It will heal fully in about one to three weeks.
So there you go, now you know everything about the process and I wish you luck with your new work of art 🙂


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By Joy O'Neal
Mamas, we have mastered the art of giving. We give our time, energy and body to our family. There is one person we often forget though and that's the beautiful yet tired face that stares us back in the mirror each morning. Today, lets talk about giving ourselves something and I'm not talking about getting your nails done, getting a massage or scheduling a much needed night out; although I am a lover of all these things. I am talking about giving yourself grace! Grace to the gap of uncontrollable circumstances.
As mothers, grace is often forgotten amidst the sleepless nights, dirty diapers, mounds of homework, sibling meltdowns, toddler tantrums and empty milk jug corners, can I get an amen? Moms often construct the perfect picture of the Joanna Gaines meets Mrs. Walton moments and find ourselves confused on how they ended up looking more like Rosanne meets Peggy Bundy!
I remember when my two oldest were under the age of three, I painted a perfect picture for Mother's Day. Sunday after church my husband, kids and I would have a perfect picnic on the beach. I started prepping the food on Saturday, put all the beach toys and umbrella in the car. It was going to go off without a hitch! I would sit on the sand, eat my grapes and look at my cute little babies and sweet husband and feel so celebrated. When church was over my husband mentioned that a storm was coming. Oh, No! Not on my perfect day! I told him it would be fine and we should keep things as planned. When we arrived at the beach the wind picked up and again my husband suggested that maybe going out for some fresh seafood was the better plan. Again, I blew off his suggestion and recommended that sitting in the car a few minutes was all we needed. The storm stayed! Finally, I decided that maybe the wind wouldn't be so bad once we walked over the dunes and closer to the water. My husband started to gather all of the wonderful things I packed for my perfect day. One thing that's dangerous about preparing for an entire day is it allows an entire day worth of "maybe we should bring ______?" thoughts! I can still see my husband walking through the thick sand carrying a blanket, two chairs, a bag full of toys and ALL while pulling a giant cooler full of food. Once we got onto the beach and set everything up our children began to scream because the wind blew the sand like tiny pellets from Hell all over them and our food. We packed everything up, trekked back to the car and my Mother's Day was a complete fail.
My plans were shot! The uncontrollable circumstances where there but where was the grace? Nothing had gone as planned and my day was wrecked!
Now it's a funny memory but what about the mom moments that aren't so funny? The ones that keep us up at night—the ones we replay over and over, fishing for how we could change the outcome?
When my youngest was sick for the first time (that she could remember) she laid on the floor and rolled back and forth moaning, "UGH, I didn't see this day coming!" As to say, had I known I'd been better prepared? Isn't that all of us? Life throws us curveballs and instead of giving grace to the gap of uncontrollable circumstances we force the picnic against the storm or roll around on the floor wishing we'd known it was coming so we could be better prepared.
I am so thankful that in spite of ourselves we have a God that weathers all storms and DOES hold each day in His loving hands.
Over the last year the phase "Give grace to the gap" has become a bit of a personal tagline. God continually places me inside beautiful collisions that teach me the importance of giving grace to the gap and allowing provision to catch up to the promises He's spoken over my life.
As a pastors daughter, growing up in church I knew the ending to every story. I knew Rehab and her family were spared, Daniel left untouched, the grave left empty and Jonah's story didn't end in the belly of a fish. These spoiler alert moments created a desensitized revelation that clouded an overwhelming truth! Each one of these people had zero clue around their future while they were living in the gap yet their words of faith send my soul swimming in the goodness of God and the beauty of living as a true grace giver inside of the gap of uncontrollable circumstances.
Particularly Jonahs Prayer in Jonah 2:1-9, I listen as Jonah cries out in the depths with praise and certainty that his God will rescue and redeem him. Now that's a grace giver! The bold declaration of an almost certain faith that his God is already at work in delivering him and in spite of it all he would praise the God he loved so well.
So as moms, what does giving grace to the gap of uncontrollable circumstances look like?
We all have patterns of fighting uncontrollable circumstances. For me, these battles always had signs of my combative approach that were undeniably byproducts of my lack of trust and grace giving.
A life lived without giving grace to ourselves looks a lot like worry, doubt, frustration and weariness. So what does giving grace to the gaps look like? While looking back during times when I was able to give grace to the gap I found some familiar actions that I know are responsible for a positive outcome. Something I now call the 4S approach: Speak, Seek, Sing and Stand.
Thumbing through my journal I can see how I allowed women of faith to speak into my life. I also found that I had a hunger to seek counsel. Additionally, there was a pattern of praise, personal laments to a God who hears my cry. Finally, I stood! I boldly declared His promise over my life and chose to speak the God breath truth into the gap.
I've only been in the mom game for 10 years now but I'd much rather stand inside the 4S approach then experience worry, doubt, frustration and weariness.
As moms, I am certain that we will continue to be plagued with uncontrollable circumstances but can I challenge you today to give grace to the gap? Our God is good all the time! He is drawing near, coming as close as a breath, standing shoulder to shoulder and declaring that we are His and He is ours. No weapon of mind, body or spirit formed against us shall prosper. We've already been given every ounce of today's grace, today's mercies and today's spiritual bread needed to be courageous and victorious!
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A visit to the Reichstag Building is one of the top things to do in Berlin. Better known as the German Parliament, it was built in 1894 and renovated in 1992 to add a glass dome symbolising transparency. It's open to only a limited number of visitors each day and a wonderful place to gulp in 360 degree views of Berlin.
Location: Platz der Republik 1, 11011 Berlin
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Location: Cora-Berliner-Straße 1, 10117 Berlin
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Among the fun things to do in Berlin is to enjoy a chilled beer in Tiergarten Park's café after a nice run. Tiergarten is a lively park full of lawns and trees. The open-air lantern museum will also make a great addition to your list of things to do in Berlin! The park turns into a fairyland every evening when over 100 gas lanterns are lit!
Location: Str. des 17. Juni 31, 10785 Berlin
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Location: Museum Island, Berlin
Entry cost: INR 1,460/- per person (€18)
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Berliners love their flea markets and shopping here is one of the most popular things to do in Berlin. Open mostly on Sundays, these markets have lots of hidden treasure!
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Location: Köpenicker Str. 70, 10179 Berlin
Average cost: INR 1,000/- per person (€13)
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Location: Tauentzienstraße 21-24, 10789 Berlin
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Location: Fritz-Wildung-Straße 9, 14199 Berlin
Average cost: INR 250/- per person (€3)
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After about four months of being a contributer my wife was in a friends wedding and the bride allowed me to take as many photos as I wanted (no she did not hire me as her photographer). I took many shots at her wedding and was really impressed when I got home and began uploading them in photoshop. As our wedding gift to her, my wife and I created a photo album for the bride and groom. To our amazement this angered the couple. They said that every one of the photos in our album far surpassed the photos which were taken by the photographer they hired.
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January is the month when we meet for our annual play reading but, as we gathered, uppermost in our thoughts was the sad news of the death of one of our former members, Reverend Faith Surridge, whose wise and forthright contributions enlivened so many of our meetings in the past.
This year we had elected to read Henrik Ibsen's ground-breaking study of a dysfunctional marriage, A Doll's House. The scene is set in the Helmer's flat, just before Christmas. From the start we are made aware of the strains in Nora and Torvald Helmer's relationship: she eats macaroons and denies having done so when he challenges her, she submits to being referred to as his songbird, his squirrel, and generally allows herself to be treated as a naughty, spendthrift child by her overbearing, father-figure husband; she is clearly the inhabitant of the titular doll's house.
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The play was considered so shocking by its first mid-nineteenth century audiences that it was refused a production in Germany unless the ending was changed. The idea that a woman should consider her first duty as being to herself and her human rights rather than to her husband and children provoked hysterical reviews, referring to the final door slam as 'reverberating across the roof of the world'. We greatly enjoyed reading A Doll's House and sympathized with Ibsen's reaction to its hostile reception.
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Jacques Edouard Chirazi, Certified Biomimicry Professional has managed the California City of San Diego's Clean Technology Program since 2007. His focus is to create economic growth while fostering sustainability. One emerging initiative is to bridge cleantech with biomimicry. He develops and supports a clean technology cluster in San Diego. As a critical thinker, analyzing complex programs and policies, he leverages his strong communication skills while collaborating across a diverse range of private, public and non-profit sector groups. With a passion for learning about the natural world and understanding how nature could transform the corporate environment, his long term vision is to create new business models and financial instruments to accelerate the commercialization of biomimetic solutions. Jacques served six years as Senior Project Manager at Bainbridge Inc., a strategic management consulting firm, which provides consulting services for Fortune 500 companies. He currently teaches sustainability courses and clean technology to business students at the University of California, San Diego and San Diego State University. He holds a Masters of Arts from UCSD Graduate School of International Relations & Pacific Studies in International Environmental Policy and a Bachelor of Arts in Marketing from San Diego State University. Jacques is also a certified Energy Manager (C.E.M.), Renewable Energy Professional (R.E.P.) and LEED-GA.
Jamie Brown
Certified Biomimicry Specialist
Managing Partner
Sustainable Development and Community Credit Architect
Jamie is a sustainable development, community credit and biomimicry specialist in Basel, Switzerland. She specialises in regenerative financial architecture, or the application of biomimicry to financial system design. Biological design can inform financial architecture at all levels from community credit to global finance policy. Jamie unfolds a story of how nature would design a financial system, and is working with the Biomimicry Global Network to put these lessons into practice (link). She manages the secretariat of its Bio-credits Working Group and administers the biomimicry movement's first prototype bioinspired credit facility, the Biomimicry Exchange Network (BXN). Jamie received the US Presidential Scholar's medallion from Bill Clinton in 1999. She holds an MSc with Distinction in Development Management from the London School of Economics, where she submitted a controversial dissertation on "The Root of All Money". Jamie was Founder and Head of Secretariat for the UNEP Sustainable Energy Finance Alliance, the first convening body in the international system for public finance agencies in the clean energy sector, with a fee-for-service business model. She developed this from BASE, a non-profit UNEP Collaborating Centre in Basel. She authored major policy publications for UNEP, the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and the German federal government (GIZ) on public finance for sustainable energy with emphasis on developing countries. Jamie's earliest work experiences were with the US Agency for International Development (USAID) in Nicaragua on environmental impact mitigation after Hurricane Mitch, and in Colombia on local governance and democracy building; and in economic development for the New Orleans Mayor's Office under Ray Nagin. She has over ten years' experience living in developing countries - primarily Kenya, Honduras and Guatemala. Immediately prior to arriving in Switzerland, she worked in private equity investment for PFI health infrastructure in the UK. Her website is www.consciousevolution.ch
Patrick Baumann
Certified Biomimicry Specialist
Biomimicry Associate
Entrepreneur and Engineer
Patrick is the founder and owner of the mechanical engineering company Baumann Maschinenbau and is a Certified Biomimicry Specialist. Very important for him is to take care about our resources, take responsibility for how we produce goods and make products more efficient. One of his goals is to bring the mechanisms, processes and systems that we find in nature into the design and manufacturing process of everyday products to make them more sustainable. As a mechanical engineer with a masters degree from the ETH Zürich in Switzerland, Patrick has 20 years of experience in industrial designing and project management in textile technology, transportation vehicle and train carriage design, industrial computer tomography and automation of manufacturing processes. As a drummer, he received a degree from the Los Angeles Music Academy.
PiusLeuba Dit Galland
Associate Professor, Architect, Sustainable Consultant and Biomimicry Associate
A practicing architect, designer and sustainable consultant, Pius is teaching Environental Design ad TonjJi Unversity, Shnghai, School of Design and Innovation (D&I). For more than an decade he has researched designed and taught in the realm of sustainability human environment. His current focus are urban ecology, biomimicrym sustainable materials, place specific design, sustainable rural development projects and sustainable mobility. projects. Pius is director of the biomimetic desgin lab (BiDL: http://bidl.tongji.edu.cn/) at the D&I and instrumental in the creation of the a Regional Biomimicry Network in China (BCN).
marina Ruta, phd
Chemical Engineering and Biomimicry Associate
Marina is a consultant and advisor, with over 13 years of experience within academia, industry and international organisations. Passionate about innovation and initiatives fostering environmental sustainability, she found in biomimicry the most adapted framework to innovate according to life-sustaining principles. Through her highly diversified career she managed projects for technology innovation, business and partnership development within the chemicals industry at private corporations such as Dow Chemical, Vestergaard-Frandsen and Novozymes.
More recently, she focused on developing multi-stakeholder partnerships at international organizations including the World Economic Forum and UN Environment. Her areas of expertise are scientific research, project/partnership management and business development. With natural enthusiasm and energy, she brings excellent analytical, communication and interpersonal skills to her initiatives. She thrives on building communities and connecting people.
Marina is a trained chemical engineer, holds a PhD from the Doctoral School of Environmental Engineering at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and an MBA with specialization in International Organizations from the University of Geneva. She is also PMI®certified project manager.the health sector.
Catherine RAssat, PhD
Marine Biologist, Teacher and Chief Biologist
Catherine obtained a PhD in Biological Oceanography at the University of Paris VI working on the influence of environmental factors on marine copepod populations. She redirected her career to teaching environmental sciences at Temple University in Philadelphia, USA.
Fascinated by biodiversity, she became a Nature Guide for the Singaporian Environmental Council, which allowed her to introduce local biodiversity to high schools and corporate organizations (i.e. sustainable committee).
Her interest in Biomimicry has resulted in the development of children's camps in Singapore, focusing on the discovery of fauna and flora and the technologies in life, inviting them to reconsider Nature as a model of inspiration.
Biliana Vassileva
Senior Social Innovation Consultant, Trainer and Coach and Biomimicry Associate - Social Innovation
Her fascination with biomimicry started in 2015 when she was asked to craft a social innovation workshop introducing biomimicry. In general, Biliana works with mid-sized companies and international organizations that are pursuing innovation and growth and are investing in it. But their internal and external associates lack trust and willingness to work together. Some may be ready to change but others are not, which creates tension rather than productive collaborations. She eliminates the tension and creates constructive working relationships across all silos. Essentially, Biliana builds trust where people can take risks so that the sum of their efforts creates innovative results beyond their individual capacities.
Biliana is the founder of the Swiss Failure + Akademy, which designs and spreads practical tools to harness the transformative power of failure to accelerate innovation. Life's Principles are integrated into the tools designed by Swiss Failure+ Akademy.
She holds: MS in Sociology; MA in Leadership, Innovation & Change; Certificate in Executive & Organizational Coaching.


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St. Gianna Molla is our patron. Gianna was born in Italy in 1922. She was raised in a large and strong Catholic family; both of her parents were Third Order Franciscans. Daily Mass and a daily rosary were part of her family tradition, and of the 13 children born to her parents there were two priests, a nun, and a saint (Gianna).
Gianna was an adventurous woman who loved skiing and mountaineering. She studied medicine in college while also serving others through Catholic Action and the St. Vincent de Paul Society. She earned degrees in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Pavia in 1949. After opening her own medical clinic she gave special attention to mothers, babies, the elderly, and the poor, inspiring her to specialize in Pediatrics at the University of Milan in 1952. {Read more.}
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Associated Waste
Cans - The Forecourt Project
In 2015, Collect-a-Can terminated their forecourt collection contract as they had revised their business model. In response, the ROSE Foundation reviewed the forecourt project and put other service providers in place. The revised structure offers a similar service and ensures compliance with waste legislation.
Individual collectors own and run businesses that collect used oil containers from garage forecourts and deliver them to processors for decanting and recycling or disposal.
ROSE provides can collectors with vehicles and has subsidised certain operating costs to assist their businesses in the start-up phase.
In the Johannesburg main metro, collectors work with Oil Separation Solutions (OSS), whereas in Durban collectors work with Anchor Pail & Drum. In Cape Town, CanDo Recycling facilitates can processing.
Anchor Pail & Drum – Arnand / Lerissa - (031) 468 5236
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Things have changed in Enugu State. It is no longer business as usual, the top-down approach with little regard to the needs of the people, the exaltation of the urban guerrillas, a dictatorship, not of the masses, but of the para-juntas, mostly self-appointed chiefs without coronation. A community-centred and grassroots-oriented empowerment programme has been enthroned.
All over Africa democracy has been government of the rich, by the rich and for the rich: a well-structured plutocracy masquerading as democracy forgetting that the root word "demos" in the original word stands for people.
One of the first things Chief Dr Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi did on assumption of office as Governor of Enugu State was to democratize our democracy. Each of the over 450 autonomous communities in Enugu State was told to select five projects to be executed in their communities and write them in their order of priority, the first is a legacy project that will not only transform the lives of the people in the community now but will benefit generations yet unborn.
This was not only historic, it was innovative, catalytic and salutary.
The first community development project is a community project chosen by the people and capable of speeding up development in all other sectors of the community. Prior to now, what was in practice was pick a project, take your cut and dump it on the community. Major Chukwuma Nzeogwu would turn in his grave with happiness and gratitude that at last the urban guerrillas and all the self-appointed chiefs even without umunna or a kindred have been dumped in the ESWEMA landfill sites for good, no ten per cent upfront commission paid to anybody for parading the corridors of power.
This singular initiative by Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State of 'one community, one project' instilled the real meaning of democracy in the people of the state: it truly became government of the people, by the people and for the people. Again for the first time democracy became participatory, not in word, but in deed. The choice and execution of the project was left entirely to the people.
Igwe of the community automatically began to live the true meaning of his title as "Igwe na-ezoro Oha', the heaven that drops the rain for everyone. In addition the befitting epithet of "Nnaanyi" was added to the Igwe as a true father in fact, the man through his agency the community received the benefaction of the government, a tranche of N10m (ten million naira) in two instalments for a project of their choice in their community. Also a new synergy developed between the traditional ruler and the president of the town union.
Governor Ugwuanyi's novel approach to community development has a medicinal value. State capitals and other cities around them in Nigeria have been blighted by abandoned projects. No project in any of the recipient communities that has been given the first five million naira (N5m) or the first and the second totaling ten million (N10m) should be allowed to be abandoned whether carried out by a contractor or executed through direct labour.
While the Millennium Development Goals did not attain their set goals in the world by 2015 as envisaged in the year 2000, the Sustainable Development Goal is hitting its critical target in Enugu State. Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi has empowered the first and second batches of trainees totaling 750 from the seventeen local governments in Enugu State by giving everyone that has completed the training the seed money to start their own business and not flock to Enugu, the capital city, in search of jobs.
After one year from now, the government should audit all the projects to ensure that each one of them has been executed to specification and in record time. Anything short of absolute completion is not good enough and should be regarded as economic sabotage capable of being referred the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) for the prosecution of offenders.
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A young physicist from The University of Western Australia has won a prestigious Federal Government National Measurement Institute (NMI) Prize for his outstanding work in the science of measurement.
Dr Daniel Creedon was awarded the prize yesterday - 2013 World Metrology Day. He is the third UWA scientist to win this award.
Dr Creedon was lauded by the institute for his ground-breaking measurements on a Whispering Gallery Maser Oscillator (WGMO), pointing the way to further improvements for the WGMO as a next generation ultra-stable frequency standard.
His work with the WGMO exploits the properties of iron (Fe3+) which exists in minute quantities in a sapphire crystal. Fe3+ ions can be stimulated by resonant Whispering Gallery modes in sapphire to generate a microwave laser with a pure and regular frequency.
Dr Creedon was also recognised for having characterised crystal sapphire oscillators at temperatures approaching absolute zero, thus discovering a new operational range with the potential for even better frequency stability.
Dr Creedon is a member of the UWA node of EQuS - a multi-institutional collaborative Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence which studies and exploits the strangest features of quantum physics.
In 2009, UWA's Winthrop Professor Michael Tobar - Dr Creedon's PhD supervisor - won the NMI's Barry Inglis Medal, while UWA's Winthrop Professor Eric May and Associate Professor Paul Stanwix have been NMI Prize-winners.
World Metrology Day celebrates the signing (by representatives of 17 nations) of the Metre Convention on 20 May 1875. The Convention set the framework for global collaboration in the science of measurement and in its industrial, commercial and societal application. The original aim of the Metre Convention was the worldwide uniformity of measurement.
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19 Jul Concerts in the Plaza featuring The Tipsy Gypsies
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Wind down and kick off your weekend with some blues and jazzy tunes of the The Tipsy Gypsies, this Friday, July 22nd! THE premier summer concert series is presented by Sunset Honda and hosted by SLO Downtown Association and runs every Friday from June 10th through September 9th from 5 – 8 PM.
The Tipsy Gypsies are a full electric group who play a lively repertoire of Blues, Jazz and Pop music from the 1910's to the 2010's. Vocalist Hilary Langdon, guitarist Forrestt Williams, violinist Allan Dick, bassist Brian Lanzone, drummer Daryl Vandruff and additional vocals provided by the talented Reese Galido make up the lineup of musicians who have been developing their organic style and honing musical skills for five years now. Read More


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3D printing is a manufacturing method dating from the '80s. Chuck Hull, co-founder of 3D Systems, created the first 3D printer in 1984. Despite promising discoveries, the additive manufacturing remained discrete until the 2000's, the expiration date of the patents protecting its use. Foreseeing that 3D printing will disrupt numerous sectors of activity, some say that 3D printing revolution is more important than that of the Internet.
A tremendous technological progress
The technologies developed in the scope of 3D printing are numerous. Today it is possible to work with 110 different materials ranging from titanium to ceramics, from sugar to living cells. The printers are also improving. They can print simultaneously with several materials and print sizeable pieces. Architectburo DUS and Utilimaker have thus developed together a printer capable of printing pieces 2 meters wide and 3 meters high.
However there remains pitfalls upon which the firms are focusing. In particular, the triptych cost/quality/speed could be improved. For the moment, printing pieces remains a long process, which does not allow the operation to scale up into mass production. In addition, for the machine to print, it needs digital files. But the software is complex and thus not many people know how to create these 3D design files. Businesses like Autodesk are looking to simplify the user interface.
The technological advances as well as the innovations are numerous and should multiply in the coming years. This progress foreshadows a price reduction of 3D printers (prices that extend at the moment from $250 to over $1,000,000).
A diversity of players
The market for 3D printers is new and thus unstructured. Important groups like Autodesk are rubbing shoulders with startups like Sculpteo or Type A Machines.
The players can be divided into three categories:
- Those who edit software and facilitate the user experience like Autodesk, 3D Systems
- Those who build machines and new materials like Type A Machines, Emerging Objects
- Those who position themselves as providers of start to finish services of printers like Fathom studio, Sculpteo, HoneyPoint 3D
These categories are not exclusive and players like 3D Systems are 3D software editors, machine builders, and services providers. The 'pure' services providers are, for now, rare. Sculpteo estimates thus having only 3 direct competitors.
As long as the market grows and increases, the players will obviously multiply. Hence, distributors like Amazon or Wal-Mart show some interest in 3D printing. HP has also declared last March that they wish to make 3D printing one of its big development axes this Summer.
As far as education is concerned, schools are a non-negligible method of entry in order to democratize the use of 3D printing, to educate students' use of this new technology and also to create new jobs. Thus, at UC Berkeley, the environmental design college sees a growing use of 3D printers.
A broad range of opportunities
Additive manufacturing opens a number of doors that globalization and mass production had condemned. It allows for agile and flexible production via production of small series' and via reducing inventory. It reduces delays because it eliminates many supply chain links. This flexibility is key in order to make the SMBs competitive against corporations.
It also establishes itself in the sustainable economy. Additive manufacturing limits the consumption of materials. In addition, more and more materials are developed from trash and are themselves recyclable. Ideally, the construction and the consumption of finished goods produced thanks to 3D printing will attain the local level, thus limiting transport costs.
The applications of 3D printing will grow when progress is made, but some sectors are already benefiting from it. This is the case of the medical sector and, in particular, prosthetics. 3D printing allows the production of prosthetics to be customized to all at a small cost. The Defense and Aeronautic departments are domains in which 3D printing applications are used in a more surprising fashion. Elon Musk, the founder of Space X, recently explained that for the production of certain pieces of his new space shuttle, he resorted to 3D printing because the complexity of the pieces was too much to be built in the traditional manner without compromising their durability.
Some still believe that 3D printing is not a major technological advance and that it will be quickly put in the gadget category. However, there is promise of a new industrialization via 3D printers, that's why this technology cannot be ignored. 3D printing is now becoming a manufacturing tool, with unique properties in terms of customization and adaptation to industrial and commercial needs. 3D printing has a real opportunity to completely disrupt the manufacturing industry. Forester estimates that eventually one-third of the global manufacturing industry will be taken over by 3D printers.


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By Henry
I have an idea. Let's say you have a favorite store, like a book store, that you love to go visit because they have a great selection of books but also because one of the most handsome creatures on this here green earth resides there. Well I've decided, that if the main draw for that bookstore is ME
|(handsome creature)
Or maybe
or even
and then maybe in little letters we can put:
and we sell books!!!
if there is enough room. I know that there are a lot of book lovers out there, maybe almost as many of them as cat lovers, but I've got to believe that more people are searching for Henry on their GPS or google or whatever people use to find me. So I'm going to leave the bosses a post-it
We'll see if those humans get the hint. In the meantime here's the latest in the bookstore news:
My humans made a beautiful new window display for me to sit in
|when I'm feeling blue, I go to my red room
I've been told that its primary color is red, but all I see is a grayish purple. Those humans must be colorblind.
Also, because I've been known to be such a hip cat, a beatnik if you will, they've set me up my own table full of some of my favorite beat generation authors. I'm hoping I have enough time to finish reading them all before they get purchased by some hipster.....
|my favorite is "Cat's Cradle" by Vonnegut, of course
And Dickens just told me that he's too cute not to be in at least one picture on my blog, so whatever. Since I have to live with him I might as well keep him happy. Here is your obligatory Dickens centerfold:
|I told him to try to act natural and no showboating, this is what I got.
Kitty Ciao,
p.s. Dickens doesn't know I'm posting this pic, but here is what he usually looks like
|who's a crazy kitty? ME! hahahaha


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New Report on Asthma and Housing from the National League of Cities and GWU/
Advancing City-Level Healthy Housing - Policies, Programs and Practices in Asthma and Lead, is a new report prepared for the National League of Cities by the George Washington University School of Public Health.
Cities across the country face housing stock riddled with lead and asthma hazards. One in three US homes has lead paint; nearly half of all US homes have elevated levels of at least three asthma-related allergens. These unhealthy housing conditions in rental units are making residents sick. This report reviews nine cities that have implemented programs, policies and practices aimed at addressing asthma and lead triggers in private rental housing in their jurisdictions.
Read the full report: https://www.nlc.org/sites/default/files/users/user93/YEF_Healthy_Housing%20WEB.pdf


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Assistant Data Manager
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- Leeds or London
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- £30,401 - £37,267 per annum, Benefits: (plus London weighting if applicable)
- Posted
- 26 Mar 2019
- Closing date
- 22 Apr 2019
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- Industry
- Government & politics, Central government, Health, Support services, Technology, IT business analysis
- Job function
- Job level
- Experienced (non manager)
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- Full time
- Contract
- Permanent
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- Job vacancy
About the role
The Assistant Data Manager will play a key role in the management of data across its full lifecycle, from the collection of data through to the point of data exploitation.
Working with the UKs best scientific and statistical capabilities, this is an opportunity to improve the health and care for the population of England.
Working alongside colleagues from other departments, such as Data Scientists and Statisticians, and occasionally leading a team, the Assistant Data Manager will help to ensure that data are handled in an efficient and secure way. The role holder will apply skills across the following areas of data management:
- Gathering requirements from colleagues.
- Determining the most appropriate database architecture for a particular process
- Mapping out end-to-end processes.
- Writing code to develop automated processes and peer reviewing code developed by direct reports.
- Testing, and reviewing test plans created by colleagues across the organisation
- Management of reference datasets.
We have roles available in either Leeds or London. You will be responsible for a range of outputs, potentially managing a team of Data Managements Officers, whilst being supported by the Data Manager for the area. Rare travel to events, customer sites throughout England, may be required.
We are also recruiting for Data Managers and Data Scientist, please click on the job title for more information.
About you...
You will operate to standard service and project management techniques and help NHS Digital fulfil its regulatory requirements in such areas as data quality and data security.
We want to make sure that you are set for success, these are the skills and experience you will have:
- Educated to degree level, or equivalent specialist experience, backed up by additional and continual professional development.
- Experience in using data management tools such as SSIS, R, Python, SAS DI Studio, or other advanced industry standard tools.
- Data management and optimisation expertise, covering: process design; code development (using languages such as R, Python, SQL or SAS); data architecture; testing and assurance; and reference/ master data management.
- Experience in successful delivery of data management services in a large and complex organisation.
- Experience in the collection, analysis, interpretation and prioritisation of customer requirements.
- Experience in communicating complex and technical concepts and issues to non-technical colleagues, customers and stakeholders at all levels.
What we offer
In addition to a competitive salary with planned, transparent progression you can look forward to the following benefits:
- 27 days annual leave entitlement increasing with service
- Buy and sell annual leave scheme
- 14% contribution to your NHS pension
- Flexible working opportunities
- A range of NHS Discounts covering, for example, shops, restaurants, gym, mobile phones and insurance
- Season ticket loan
- Car Lease scheme
- High profile work providing professional development and ability to significantly impact on health and care services
About us
We are the national information and technology partner to the health and care system. Our task is to build and run excellent digital products and services that NHS and care staff across the country can rely on every day.
NHS Digital is at a transformation stage in its development and requires insight professionals to harness the wealth of data that is available to it. The health and care system has one of the richest data stores across any industry and have already invested heavily in the infrastructure required to process, access and surface that data. What we now require are individuals that can harness the power of that data and convert it into insights and information that can make a real difference to the lives of people every day.
In the next few years the health industry will experience significant change, with the advent of wearables, continuous monitoring, connected devices, sensors as well as AI. This is an opportunity to be part of that evolution.
We are proud of what we have achieved and our amazing people, many of whom have deservedly received public recognition in forums ranging from Women in IT awards to our own Queen's Honours List.
Next Steps
To view further information please see role profile.
The application process will involve an online assessment, technical test and interview.
Interviews are expected to take place week commencing 10th June 2019.
If you would like to discuss this role, please contact: email@example.com
We are unable to accept speculative CVs, all applications must be made through NHS Digital's career site.
NHS Digital values and respects the diversity of its employees and aims to recruit a workforce which reflects our diverse communities.
Roles at NHS Digital are subject to a basic Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service following an acceptance of an offer of employment. Basic checks provide details of convictions and conditional cautions that are considered to be unspent under the terms of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
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