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[Umbelina Baublitz]

Theengineering trip to San Ignacio, Belize, was a very rewarding and educational one. I have traveled to many places, but when I do I stay in hotels, or only stop by for a short time as part of a cruise. This experience was completely different than those in a better way. When staying in a hotel and visiting the tourist parts of countries, you do not get a true sense of the culture and lifestyle. On this trip we stayed in a house with a local family and were truly immersed in the Belizean lifestyle. Everyone was very friendly to us and made us feel at home. We did some tough manual labor throughout the week while we were there, but we knew it was for a good purpose.

The project itself included building homes at an orphanage from an earth bag foundation and then covering the exterior with a clay like substance. The earth bags we made were chicken feed bags filled with a mix of dirt and lime. After these are wet and then dried, it turns into a very hard, solid material similar to concrete. Although this method is an old technique, it is still used because of its reliability and its low cost. Nancy, our hostess, had inherited the land for the farm from her grandfather, and decided to turn it into an orphanage named Barzakh Fallah.

After arriving in Belize City, we traveled west by bus across the country to a small town called San Ignacio. That is where we stayed in a guest house with a local family. The parents of this family, Nancy and Jaime, were in charge of the orphanage project. We worked from about 8:00 am until 3:00 pm during the week so we had a lot of free time in the afternoons/evenings. We used this time to go into town and explore the area. The locals were very friendly to us and we found a few places we liked to eat and relax.

The orphanages in Belize are overcrowded, which is forcing them to release kids before they are ready to make it on their own. It is truly inspiring to see how much impact a single family can have. Nancy provided the land and helped raise awareness for this issue, while Jaime, a licensed architect, designed the whole orphanage. It was so impressive to see how much work Jaime had put into this project and to see how much one person can do. He has designed several homes for the people working at the orphanage and is planning to have one large home to house most of the children. The entire theme of the orphanage is self-sustainment. The houses are designed so that the air flow will keep the houses cool throughout the summer months. There are several farm animals, including chickens and goats, to provide food for the residents. There are also plenty of fruit trees and vegetables planted so that the children can learn the skills needed to farm and provide for themselves.

I got to talk to many people from the area and some other students visiting to help. There were two medical students from Great Britain that stayed at the guest house as well that were helping at the local hospital. Dinner was provided by the family we were staying with and it was always fresh foods that were healthy and delicious. The nights after dinner we would stay up in the courtyard area and talk with Nancy and Jaime and others about our day and Belizean culture. This is when I learned the most about Belize because we got the perspective of the locals instead of just reading something online. Everyone was very personable and friendly and definitely appreciative of us coming to volunteer.

A loveable monster has just flown in from Planet Tickle on a mission is to tickle any child who happens to be following along with the Tickle Monster book. Parents read aloud and do the tickling, while children laugh and squirm with delight.

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I am one of those who has loved this book since it was read to me in childhood. A few years ago, I was thrilled to buy a copy online. But today, I am REALLY thrilled that I actually saw real puffins in the wild, yesterday, during a Puffin Watch boat tour from New Harbor, ME! Amazing how those childhood books can still with a person!

I can clearly remember being on my mom's lap while she read this book to me over & over again. Those were precious, loving, close days. Seeing the cover page today brings tears to my eyes. A flood of memories return. When, as a child, I heard Mrs. Ticklefeather say, at the end of the book, with her arm around Paul, "What a lucky lucky lady I am", I knew that is exactly how I'd feel as an older lady. AND I DO!!!

Hello, I just went online today to get a copy of this book & can't believe how much it goes for! Wow, you got a bargain! It was one of my favorite books also. My friend who lives in Alaska just had her first baby & I thought this would be such a nice book to add to her collection--there are lots of puffins in Alaska. I've seen puffins in real life--they are adorable--and ur right, the puffin in the story looks nothing like the real thing. But doesn't matter one bit. Such a wonderful, imaginitive story. Great for any animal lover! Wish they'd reprint it.

The purpose of this book is to inspire as many people as possible and to make them realise they are not alone. Their thoughts are similar to mine and many others, and we need to speak out in a positive and constructive way to make a change.

The book is available in print format in the USA, UK, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and the Middle East; and the e-book will have distribution from more than 70 online partners serving readers across the globe.

Working out how television programmes could one day stimulate all our senses is an interesting question for researchers like myself, who are exploring the future of TV. But the bigger, more exciting challenge is how we can not only imitate what is happening on the screen, but also use smell, taste and touch in a way that's not a novelty and enhances the emotional experience of a show, just as a soundtrack does.

There's good reason to think about how the TV industry can innovate in this way. Despite the rise of online video, millions if not billions of people still watch traditional broadcast media through television sets. TV remains a powerful format for programme making and watching that follows specific restrictions and guidelines.

But more people are watching TV programmes online after their original broadcast, on other devices such as tablets and phones, are even using multiple screens to engage with more than one piece of content at once. Broadcasters need to create new ways of experiencing TV that capture the audience's full attention and immerse them in a multisensory world.

Creating truly compelling TV that stimulates all our senses is not an easy task. Programme makers and technology manufacturers know how to design their products so you can see depth and distance on the screen. But sound and vision aren't always enough. Being able to smell the odours that a character on screen would smell, or feel the objects or atmosphere they would feel, can create anticipation and build suspense in the same way as sound currently does.

Cinema is already experimenting with these extra senses. Films with touch and smell sensations can be experienced in newly equipped 4DX cinemas, such as the one in Milton Keynes. The sense of taste seems a final frontier for technology development, but the interest in taste experiences has started to take off. For example, audience members at Edible Cinema each receive a package of food and drinks to match what characters on screen experience.

Our latest work focuses on cutting edge technology such as the mid-air touch feedback or "haptic" device developed by Ultrahaptics, a start-up in Bristol. We're looking at how this technology could evoke emotions in the audience by allowing them to feel physical sensations without touching actual objects.

For example, projecting a pattern of ultrasound beams onto your hand can create different tactile sensations, such as a feeling of raindrops on your palm (without the water), or a flow of air as if you were holding your hand out of the window of a moving car. When carefully designed, this haptic feedback can produce even more specific patterns that allow you to feel different shapes, that change in size or that quickly move around.

By experimenting with different shapes, we've studied how this kind of haptic feedback can produce different emotions. We found that short, sharp bursts of air to the area around the thumb, index finger and middle part of the palm generate excitement. Slow and moderate stimulation of the outer palm and the area around the little finger create sad feelings.

This gives us a starting point to find out how mid-air touch sensations could be meaningfully integrated into other experiences, such as watching a movie. One challenge will be to make haptic feedback enhance the viewing experience without seeming intrusive or creepy, as suggested by "the feelies" cinema experience portrayed in the dystopian novel Brave New World.

We've recently began a five-year project to expand the research into taste and smell, as well as touch. The SenseX project will aim to provide guidelines and tools on how to design and integrate sensory stimuli for inventors and innovators to create richer interactive experiences. Relatively soon, we may be able to realise truly compelling and multi-faceted media experiences, such as 9-dimensional TV (adding tastes on top of 4DX), that evoke emotions through all our senses.

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