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The Highly Sensitive Person

The Highly Sensitive Person
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The Greatest Books of All Time, As Voted by 125 Famous Authors “Reading is the nourishment that lets you do interesting work,” Jennifer Egan once said. This intersection of reading and writing is both a necessary bi-directional life skill for us mere mortals and a secret of iconic writers’ success, as bespoken by their personal libraries. The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books asks 125 of modernity’s greatest British and American writers — including Norman Mailer, Ann Patchett, Jonathan Franzen, Claire Messud, and Joyce Carol Oates — “to provide a list, ranked, in order, of what [they] consider the ten greatest works of fiction of all time– novels, story collections, plays, or poems.” Of the 544 separate titles selected, each is assigned a reverse-order point value based on the number position at which it appears on any list — so, a book that tops a list at number one receives 10 points, and a book that graces the bottom, at number ten, receives 1 point. In introducing the lists, David Orr offers a litmus test for greatness:

Nomadic Photographer Travels the Globe to Capture the World in Faces Oroqen girl in Inner Mongolia Eight years ago, photographer Alexander Khimushin set off on an adventure around the globe—and he’s been a permanent nomad ever since. This lifestyle has allowed him to see incredible sights while also teaching him a valuable lesson: people are the most amazing part of his travels. “Especially in those remote places, where culture and traditions are still alive,” he explains. “There are hundreds of unique ethnic minorities in the world.” But, due to forces like globalization, war, and discrimination, many of these groups are living on the fringe. The premise of his portrait project is simple—to show the diversity of the world by taking pictures of people. Khimushin continues to travel and photograph people from the farthest corners of the world. Hamer tribe woman in South West Ethiopia Ixil Mayan girl in the Guatemalan highlands Wakhi woman in Afghanistan Daasanach girl in Africa Woman in the Wakhan Valley, Afghanistan Semeiskie Old Believer woman in Siberia

Best Public Golf Courses in Every State 2012 Golf.com Zurich Classic of New Orleans - TPC Louisiana |Full Leaderboards» B.Martin 1 2:50 p -10 -10 A.Svoboda 2 10:00 a -8 -8 P.Hanson T3 9:50 a -7 -7 S.Noh T3 2:20 p -7 -7 E.Compton T5 8:40 a -6 -6 8inShare Bookmark & Share Facebook StumbleUpon Reddit Tumblr Del.ic.ious Digg Related Gallery Top 100 Golf Courses You Can Play: 25-1 Related Stories Special Section: Top 100 Courses You Can Play 2012 Top Stories Videos More Videos Make More Putts With The Proper Thumb Position prevnext Best Public Golf Courses in Every State 2012 Published: Tuesday, July 24, 2012 | 12:15:49 PM | Comments (0) inShare8 Comments Facebook StumbleUpon Reddit Tumblr Del.ic.ious Digg As part of Golf Magazine's biennial Top 100 Courses You Can Play, our ranking of the best public golf courses in the U.S., we have also ranked the best courses in every state. Courtesy of Chambers Bay Alaska 1. Arizona 1. California 1. Colorado 1. Hawaii 1. Idaho 1. Montana 1. Nevada 1. New Mexico 1. Oregon 1. Utah 1.

500 Free eBooks: Download to Kindle, iPad/iPhone & Nook Download 800 free eBooks to your Kindle, iPad/iPhone, computer, smart phone or ereader. Collection includes great works of fiction, non-fiction and poetry, including works by Asimov, Jane Austen, Philip K. Dick, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Neil Gaiman, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Shakespeare, Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf & James Joyce. Learn how to load ebook (.mobi) files to your Kindle with this video Religious Texts Assorted Texts This list of Free eBooks has received mentions in the The Daily Beast, Computer World, Gizmodo and Lifehacker.

How Lenny Kravitz made art out of paparazzi mayhem But these days you are just as likely to find him behind the camera. His passion for photography has led to an exhibition at Art Basel and a collaboration with camera company Leica. His most recent series, "Flash," sees Kravitz turning his lens onto the fans and paparazzi who pursued him. "It ended up being a really beautiful dance, and I started to see these people in a different way," he said. All the images are shot in black and white. "I find that black and white is far more realistic," he said. In fact, it was his mother's black-and-white image of Martin Luther King Jr. giving a speech in Washington that sparked the musician's love of photography as a child. "I recognized that it was a moment and that something important was going on. Watch the video above to find out more about Lenny Kravitz's love for photography.

How to Erase Yourself From the Internet Life Enhancing Four Formative Instructional Practices that Drive Student Growth When I first started working with teachers on integrating formative instructional practices into their daily classroom practice, I noticed that many wanted to start with students self assessing and monitoring their learning progress. While that felt like a natural starting point, what they quickly discovered was that working first to develop high-quality learning targets and success criteria made it much easier for their students to self assess. So the teachers stepped back and worked on clarifying the learning for and with their learners, before moving forward with the other practices. What I’ve come to understand over time is that there are really three foundational formative instructional practices, with a fourth one woven inextricably throughout the three. Take a look at the graphic below. Where am I going? If you look at the questions framing the graphic, you’ll find similarity. Clarifying Learning: The starting point is clarifying the learning. Next Steps to Consider References

My mind is bigger than my brain: the emerging biology of gut-brain communication – Lucid thoughts A great review just published in Nature Reviews Neuroscience reminded me of something that has continued to puzzle me off and on for many years – what are gut feelings? In 2007 I read a fascinating book called Gut feelings: the intelligence of the unconscious by the cognitive psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer. In it Gigerenzer looks at the research that underpins our understanding of intuition and asked the question “where do these feelings come from?” He then explores the world of ‘rules of thumb’. These are decisions that may at first look like reasoning errors, from a purely logical perspective, however, can in fact, be highly nuanced social intelligence decisions which involve aspects of trust, deception, rumour, wishful thinking and cooperation. Enter Emeran Mayer, from the Center for Neurobiology at the University of California, Los Angeles and his 2011 review Gut feelings: the emerging biology of gut-brain communication published in the August edition of Nature Reviews Neuroscience.

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