Socialism kills. From the former Soviet Union to Cuba, from North Korea to Venezuela, everywhere socialism was implemented, it robbed people of their freedom and property, produced economic stagnation and misallocation of resources and resulted in millions of deaths, caused either directly or indirectly.
Despite this fact, in an interview in New York Magazine, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio pined for government control over everyone's property –their homes, their businesses, everything, saying, "I think there's a socialistic impulse … if I had my druthers, the city government would determine every single plot of land, how development would proceed." Because that's brought such happiness, prosperity, and better living conditions to the people of Cuba, North Korea and Venezuela.
Then we come to the energy socialism being pushed by self-described socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a newly elected Democratic Representative from New York, among others. Despite an annual salary topping $174,000, Ocasio-Cortez complained with a straight face after being elected that it will be hard for her to find a place she can afford to rent in Washington, D.C. — a city, by the way, that almost perfectly satisfies de Blasio's desire for all of the property in the city being owned by, its uses directed by, or sharply delimited by various levels of government. I've got a news flash for Ocasio-Cortez: most people, even those in D.C., live on much less.
Despite her struggle to find affordable housing on her taxpayer-funded lavish salary, Ocasio-Cortez has the hubris to believe Congress and federal bureaucracies in D.C. have the wisdom to control and direct peoples energy choices across the nation.
Ocasio-Cortez led protests outside long-time Democratic congressional leader Nancy Pelosi's office last week, demanding the front-runner for speaker of the House push for greater government control over the nation's energy system in the next Congress.
In fact, Ocasio-Cortez has proposed what she calls a "Green New Deal," requiring "the investment of trillions of dollars," to transition the United States to a 100 percent renewable energy system by 2035.
Unfortunately, Ocasio-Cortez is not alone in her distorted economics and history philosophies. Many Democrats now favor energy socialism. Hundreds of Democratic candidates for local, state and federal offices in the 2018 midterm elections signed a pledge to push for the 100 percent renewable energy makeover. Undoubtedly, many of those candidates now sit in positions of power to restrict peoples' use of affordable, reliable fossil fuels and enforce expensive renewable energy mandates on them.
Are you concerned about Democrats' push for socialist policies?
Unattainable energy policies, supported fully by numerous environmental extremists, would destroy millions of jobs and put the United States at a huge disadvantage when competing against other countries, especially China, India, Russia and other nations whose environmental laws are much less stringent.
Energy is the lifeblood of the economy, powering everything we do. Giving government even more control over energy development and use than it already has, including directing or limiting people's fundamental choices over how to move about the country, what kind of electronics they use and how and when they can be charged, how to light, heat, cook in, and exercise climate control in their homes, what types of energy investments they want in their retirement portfolios, and what types of energy sources companies can develop, supply, and use would be catastrophic. Only chaos and misery will result.
Wind, solar, and other forms of renewable energy are more expensive and less reliable than traditional energy sources like natural gas and coal, which explains why states that require or subsidize renewable energy sources or tax fossil fuels at high rates have higher electric power and gasoline costs than states with lower gas tax burdens and which don't demand, or subsidize the use of renewables.
The U.S. economy is the envy of the world, built on a power system reliant primarily on relatively inexpensive, reliable fossil fuels. Adopting the kind of energy socialism being pushed by Democrats threatens to impoverish families, cause greater unemployment and bring the power grid and the economy crashing down.
In Europe, which is much further down the road to energy socialism than most of the United States, thousands of people die in winter due to a lack of reliable heat, and during the summer from not having access to reliable air conditioning. These are third-world energy problems brought on by increasing government control over the energy system.
Energy socialism can't fix our problems, but it sure can make things much worse.


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There's no place like Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
Clarissa Stark
Section: Arts, Etc.
Your Monday nights at ten just got a new home. Just tune in to NBC and prepare to indulge in some televisiony goodness. The latest from West Wing mastermind Aaron Sorkin is already one of the best shows out there right now and, incidentally, one of the strongest series premieres that Ive ever seen.
Seriously. Get excited.
Even from the very opening sequence of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, theres an excited tension in the air. The show starts with the moments before a live sketch comedy show a la Saturday Night Live aptly named Studio 60 goes on the air. Simon Stiles (D. L. Hughley), one of the lead three cast members of the show, warms up the audience before the show airs while the cameras pan backstage for a look at all of the false walls, wiring, lights and lack of ceilings that we dont normally get to see in television. You get the sense that you are about to be let in on a secret, something interesting and seedy basically, the underbelly of Hollywood is right before your eyes. And who doesnt want to know about that?
This show seems real for all intents and purposes, it is SNL, and the audience gets the behind the scenes peak at the politics, bureaucracy, as well as the personal lives of the cast, crew, producers and writers. Felicity Huffman guests stars in the first episode as herself (making mention of Wisteria Lane, for all of those Desperate Housewives fans. Dont worry, you dont have to identify yourselves), adding a touch of realism.
Theres also, however, the producers hating each other and behind-the-scenes crew dissing on the writing staff as wells as people arguing about whether or not to walk on eggshells when it comes to appeasing the FCC and offending the more conservative groups in the viewing audience.
It also feels like the real, high-stress environment of live tv with the last minute, down to the wire, cutting a sketch at the last second and writing another one just as the show is about to go to air drama that is intense and all too familiar to many a procrastinating college student.
The writing for show-within-the-shows has been accused of becoming highly unfunny in the last few years, a criticism that SNL has been accused of for years, adding to the sense that this could be real. The writing on the actual show, however, is amazing. Take it from an English major, its hard to write especially bad writing to achieve the effect you want (generic bad is pretty easy, however), but Sorkin can do it all. He writes the bad sketches for the show-within-the show that make the actual show amazing. Not bad, Sorkin.
And not only that this show is funny. I mean, its about a sketch comedy show. One of the first shots of the series shows a staircase backstage with the words Be funny tonight! scrawled in all caps on it and the show definitely takes its own advice. Aaron Sorkin and company are basically masterminds of witty dialogue, and they blend it perfectly within the framework of the show. For instance, Matt Albie (played by Chandl- I mean, Matthew Perry), a former writer for the show, has recently had back surgery and spends all of the episode high on a mix of Vicodin Percocet.
Funny. Then we learn that Danny Tripp, Matts best friend and partner in crime/Hollywood (basically the Joey to his Chandler) recently tested positive for cocaine after 11 years of being clean. Heartfelt. This show has both. The friend-chemistry between Matt and Danny is strong and enjoyable to watch. Theyre not perfect, they joke around too much basically, theyre 12 year old boys but they are completely bonded to one another. I mean, when Matt says to Danny, I dont want someone else, I want you (sure, its about directing a movie, but ignore that for a second), thats love. And its beautifully played out on this show.
The basic premise is that Matt and Danny, fired by the higher-ups four years ago, have been offered of all Studio 60 in an attempt to save the show. Their new boss, the lovely and ballsy Jordan McDeere (played by Amanda Peet), intends to give them free reign over the studio, thus allowing them to air whatever and offend whoever they want. Its the dream of writers getting to say what they really want to say on a show written by people who are in the business. If that isnt an inside scoop, I dont know what is.
There are about a million places this show could go, tons of storylines to be developed, and all I know is that I cant wait to find out. Its going to be an awesome ride. As it says in Studio 60s profile on IMDB, 2006-????, which is exactly right. If you want a show to fall in love with that will stick around for a while, this ones for you. Stay tuned.

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 Kitayama, village japonais de la préfecture de Wakayama

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 Kitayama, une station du métro de Kyoto

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This interdisciplinary program provides students with multidimensional professional preparation in Physical Education. The Physical Education major is completed by selecting one of the following two options: Teacher Certification or Child and Youth Physical Activity Specialist. An retention process is required for the Teacher Certification option. Specific requirements and standards are listed for each of the two options.
Students are accepted to the College as Physical Education majors, Teacher Certification (PETC) option, as described below. Students are advised and assisted with program planning throughout the program of study.
Students accepted to the College who wish to pursue the Physical Education major, Teacher Certification option must complete a Declaration of Major form within the HPPE 100 Issues in Physical Education course, or upon consultation with the Human Performance and Movement Sciences Department chair.
Both internal and external transfer students, upon consultation with the Human Performance and Movement Sciences Department chair, may complete the Declaration of Major form. Retention within the PETC program, beyond the first-year classes, will depend upon available openings, and will be consistent with established retention guidelines.
Retention within the PETC program occurs each year. Because of the professional nature of the PETC program, the following criteria for retention and program completion have been established.
Demonstration of basic competencies in planning, instruction, reflection, and assessment.
Documentation of progress in professional role modeling, professional writing, and professional experience.
NOTE: Admission to Educator Preparation is a separate process and is required of all students (refer to Decision Points for Undergraduate Initial Certification Programs, Decision Point 1).
All students in an educator preparation program must meet the New Hampshire General Education Studies standard (ED 609.1). This standard is met by successful completion of the Keene State College Integrative Studies Program.
BIO 230 (Human Anatomy and Physiology I) and BIO 332 (Human Anatomy and Physiology II) are prerequisites for courses in the major for all students majoring in Physical Education Teacher Certification option. This sequence is normally started in the spring semester of the freshman year.
The prerequisite for BIO 230 is INCHEM 100, INCHEM 103, or INCHEM 111. Therefore, a chemistry course should be taken during the first semester of the freshman year.
All students majoring in Physical Education are required to be certified in Standard First Aid, Adult and Child CPR, and AED for courses marked with a 1.
Students are responsible for the purchase of PETC shirts (pending successful completion of PETC retention portfolio) and expenses associated with Admission to Educator Preparation, and required criminal background checks for specific clinical placements.
Travel is required for practicum and student teaching experiences. Students are responsible for their own transportation.
The Child and Youth Physical Activity Specialist option (CYPAS) prepares students to promote and teach physical activities to children and youth within a community or outdoor setting. This non-licensure option merges an understanding of child and youth development with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary to instruct a variety of physical activities. Students who graduate from this program are prepared to become physical activity leaders in one or more of the following settings: recreation, sports and dance clubs/teams, after school programs, and outdoor programs.
Does not lead to K-12 certification.
Students are accepted to the College as Physical Education majors, Child and Youth Physical Activity (CYPAS) option, as described below. Students are advised and assisted with program planning throughout the program of study.
Students accepted to the College who wish to pursue the Physical Education major, Child and Youth Physical Activity option must complete a Declaration of Major form within the HPPE 100 Issues in Physical Education course, or upon consultation with the Human Performance and Movement Sciences Department chair.
Both internal and external transfer students, upon consultation with the Human Performance and Movement Sciences Department chair, may complete the Declaration of Major form. Retention within the CYPAS program, beyond the first-year classes, will depend upon available openings.
Select courses to reach a minimum total of 120 credits for the degree.
Travel is required for practicum experiences. Students are responsible for their own transportation.


Here are simple ideas for customer service training that can help you address some of the critical skills and behavioural changes you may be seeking. . This may look straightforward and not worth your time, but consider how many times you have been improperly approached or greeted by customer support staff. Train your customer care staff to deliver a positive and consistent greeting to every client. . Download EdApp: Small Team Edition from the App store now.
Customer service is important to most businesses but when you work for a telecom company?—?it BT Consumer , a division of British Telecommunications Group, which is responsible for consumer fixed-voice and broadband services, was determined to move ahead of a highly competitive pack of telecom competitors by offering a customer service experience that was second to none. As a first step, BT decided to conduct a survey to find out what its customers wanted.
Good customer service skills make a difference to your bottom line. If your business has customers, you and your team needs customer service skills. As long as you're patiently listening to your customer, you should be "hearing" them.
managers (aka supervisors, team leads, mid-level managers). new managers transition from skilled individual producer to team. building a team today? companies to build their own custom solutions". conversations with her team members. development team?
"We are moving beyond just selling products to being the brand customers rely on to make their lives simpler and more meaningful as they save money", explains McMillon. "We've The mantra "Customer is King" is a glaring truth. Total Product Knowledge.
Customer service is a philosophy that needs to be adopted organization-wide, not reduced to one department. Every employee must prioritize customer service, because ultimately customer satisfaction drives business growth. People can be great at their jobs, but fail to understand how to interact with customers in a manner that's conducive to better performance. This is surprising, and largely the result of a lack of focus on customer service trainings.
According to HubSpot, growing companies are nearly twice as likely as stagnating companies to prioritize customer service training as "very important." To retain your customers and keep them happy so you can grow, you need to prioritize your employees by implementing effective customer service training ideas so they're equipped to be as helpful as possible. Customer Service Training Games and Activities. Customer Role Play.
Is mobile learning a viable addition for your customer service online training course? In this article, I'll highlight eight reasons why you should bring mobile learning into the fold to improve employee productivity and online training ROI. Builds Service Skills On The Spot.
Technology has changed how people shop and what they expect from customer service representatives. Unfortunately, most customer service training hasn't kept pace with the rate of technology and customer expectations. If you want to deliver the best customer service training, you must modernize it to meet the needs of the modern customer. Who Is the Modern Customer? The Best Customer Service Training Increases Revenue.
When FMC Technologies experienced rapid growth in a business sector, its customer service performance suffered. Quinn contacted Linkage, a global leadership development firm, to help the western region's customer-facing employees become better strategic thinkers.
Any customer-facing organization understands that it's fairly impossible to keep everyone happy, all the time. But second (and most importantly), it's the ideal opportunity to become the best in customer service and limit irate customers in the future.
It is a fantastic accolade to all our employees who work very hard to ensure that are customers are always our number one priority."Businesses John Carter, Head of Skills Academy Accreditation Programme, said: "We were pleased to recognise Unicorn for the quality of their customer service.
What does a great customer experience look like to you? You might think about Apple and their beautiful products, elegant stores, and a tightly integrated ecosystem. Hire the right team. This starts with ensuring that we hire individuals with a passion for service.
Today we feature a post by Adam Avramescu , Head of Customer Education & Training at Checkr and Co-Founder of the CELab blog/podcast. He also authored the new book, Customer Education: Why Smart Companies Profit by Making Customers Smarter. Product adoption rates?
It's about how you listen to each other, because I think that teams have the best ideas, not individuals. The experience of Andrea Whitmer , a customer of Vocalocity who happens to be a blogger, suggests that the actions of the company are aligned with Kellum's values.
I serve as a TechSmith champion to maintain, grow, and work with a variety of communities who are engaged with TechSmith products and services online. I would trade jobs with one of our Evangelists because I would love to travel more and interact/meet face to face with our customers.
The vast majority of questions that customers have are the same ones. This is a huge time waster for your customer service team. They can answer these questions tirelessly for your team and release them from this drudgery. They raise customer satisfaction.
While customer relations are at the core of any business, it's a responsibility often left to the most inexperienced members of a team. It will make no difference how state-of-the-art your product is, if your customer service is lackluster.


really going to hurt you? Truth be told, you know it's much more than one night. Most likely, you own a dozen pair of high heels, and the occasional ill-fitted flat shoe or wedge, just because they looked good in the store or on Instagram.
Bad footwear can do much more harm than just cause you to trip or fall. Thousands of women across the country complain about foot and ankle issues because of ill-fitting shoes. If just the thought of wearing a certain pair of stilettos is making you squirm with pain, it may be time to retire them.
The long-term repercussions of wearing the wrong shoes aren't always obvious, but the end result can be much worse than a few aches and pains. These are some of the issues linked to wearing bad shoes.
Muscle Spasms and Pain: According to the American Osteopathic Association, long-term usage of ill-fitting or cheap shoes can alter the muscles in your back and calves leading to muscle pain and spasms.
Nail Damage: Ill-fitting shoes are one of the main causes of ingrown toenails, according to a recent study. They cause the toes to compress together which can lead to nails growing inwards and even fungal infections.
Worse Bunions: Bad shoes do not distribute your weight evenly and can make existing bunions worse. They tend to concentrate your weight in the front and push your toes together unnaturally.
Exacerbated Hip and Knee Pain: Women bend their knees more when walking in high-heels, which puts more pressure on knee joints. Wearing cheap shoes for prolonged periods can also affect the hips and pinch nerves.
Increased Risk of Osteoarthritis: The wrong shoes can increase your risk of suffering from osteoarthritis, which is a wearing down of the flexible tissue at the end of bones.
You may want to look good and rock your favorite pair of stilettos all the time, no matter how uncomfortable they can be. However, as with many other things in life, moderation is key when it comes to wearing high heels. Since most of us are unlikely to trash our stilettos for good, it's important to find a middle ground. Ideally you should be saving these for special occasions and wearing comfortable shoes whenever possible. There are limitations to how much your bones and joints can take, so always let good sense prevail over the need to look stylish. Luckily, there are also many stylish shoes that won't hurt your spine!
If you're addicted to your stilettos, make sure they fit correctly and always invest in good quality footwear. Avoid sky-high heels and settle for a more moderate heel size that you can comfortably walk in, from morning 'til night.


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What Kind of World Do You Want?
Philanthropic Quest
Imagine having a proven way to create an inspired organizational culture, so you can …
Expand what people believe is possible, for themselves and for society. (Most of us have had glimpses of greater possibilities. But on the day-to-day level, we often settle for much less.)
Inspire everyone around you to take bold action and accelerate results. (After all, this is no time to be timid or sluggish.)
Attract, develop, and retain the most capable staff, the most respected civic leaders, and the most generous supporters. (The kind of people who are drawn to vibrant organizations and ambitious causes.)
Transcend the cynicism and mistrust that too often hold people back from investing themselves in society. (The antidote? Nurturing hope, trust, and confidence in a systematic way. That's almost never given the attention it deserves).
All so you can bring new energy and momentum to your organization, cause, or movement.
The Philanthropic Quest™ can be used to accomplish all these aims (and more).
This strength-based curriculum, grounded in up-to-date applied research in organizational behavior and human development, has been quietly developed and field-tested with hundreds of leaders from all walks of life and every corner of the world.
Their successes have compelled us to release this program into the world much more widely, to answer the extraordinary challenges and opportunities of these times.
The Philanthropic Quest can be used in a wide variety of settings, including social sector organizations, community foundations, businesses, civic and political organizations, philanthropic advising, social causes, and socially-minded initiatives of all kinds.
How can you bring this advanced, field-tested program into your organization or cause?
Option 1: Engage a Certified Philanthropic Quest Facilitator.
If you'd like to bring someone in to your organization to lead a Philanthropic Quest retreat, we invite you to meet the growing circle of Certified Philanthropic Quest Facilitators. These independent practitioners have studied directly with Jim Lord and are well-prepared to serve you.
(In unusual situations, it may be possible to arrange for facilitation of on-site retreats by Jim Lord. Inquire here.)
Option 2: Grow your internal capacity and have the program delivered by your own people.
It takes sustained attention to create the kind of culture you want. Sometimes that's difficult to achieve with an outside trainer or consultant, who can't be with your team every day and may not be deeply knowledgeable about your organization and its culture.
If you want sustainable, lasting results, the key is to combine the right content (tailored to the kind of work you do) with the right delivery system (your own people).
That's what the Facilitator Certification Program was created to do. It lets you bring the proven methods of The Philanthropic Quest into your organization or cause by preparing one or more of your staff to deliver it. (This is often called a "train the trainer" approach.)
Your Certified Facilitators will be able to deliver The Philanthropic Quest curriculum on behalf of your organization, while receiving extensive support from us. We will also work with you to customize the program materials to fit your organizational culture, and to create a plan to deliver the program and assess results.
You'll be able to …
Scale the program quickly to reach a wide range of internal and external stakeholders, for maximum impact.
Integrate The Philanthropic Quest into your existing professional growth and outreach programs, so it becomes a seamless part of "the way things are done around here."
Have your Philanthropic Quest retreats delivered by people who are deeply familiar with your organization's culture and language.
Reduce the per-person investment significantly, without sacrificing quality.
Certification is also available to individuals who are acting on their own initiative to offer Philanthropic Quest retreats. This includes civic leaders; fundraising, leadership, and organization development consultants and coaches; philanthropic advisors; and change-makers of all kinds. Send us a message to express your interest and receive more information about the Facilitator Certification Program for individuals.
What results could you see when your Certified Facilitators bring The Philanthropic Quest into your organization or cause?
Consider these ideas to be thought-starters — to stimulate your imagination. You may well have additional outcomes in mind, as this program has many applications.
Think bigger (which lets you raise more money and attract higher-level civic leadership)
The Philanthropic Quest offers a proven way to invite people to think bigger, to let go of the unspoken assumptions that limit their vision, and to know that they have unlimited capability. When that shift spreads throughout your institution's culture, higher aspirations and greater results automatically follow.
Develop staff capabilities
The Philanthropic Quest offers your staff — in development and beyond — a more sophisticated approach, a shift in thinking that lets them expand their own contribution and create genuine engagement with high-potential donors and stakeholders. For institutions committed to staff excellence, this is a program like no other available.
Attract and retain the best staff
Attraction and retention of highly capable development staff is a big challenge these days. The Philanthropic Quest will make your organization's philanthropic culture stronger, more visible, and more attractive. What's more, having an in-house program of this sophistication shows your commitment to advanced professional development. All of this makes your institution more appealing to the best professionals.
Support leadership growth
Offering a few key people the opportunity to be certified in The Philanthropic Quest is an ideal way to develop significant leadership capability. It also provides a way for experienced professionals (who may have few other ways to advance without going elsewhere) to reach a new professional status within the institution.
Break down silos
The Philanthropic Quest offers a structure within which people in all roles and at all levels can gain a deeper, shared understanding of philanthropy and voluntary action — more thoughtful, more innovative, and more inspiring than anything available in conventional "fundraising training."
Create an extraordinary organizational culture
You can use this program to make the spirit of contribution — the spirit of taking bold personal initiative for the common good — central to the overall culture of your organization. (This can be applied in the business world and in public service, as well as the social sector.) It's a natural fit if you want to nurture human growth and development, promote humane values, and honor the best in everyone.
Inspire a cause or movement
At an even larger scale, you can use The Philanthropic Quest to inspire a cause or movement. If you have high aspirations, maybe a touch of the heroic … or even an "impossible" mission in front of you … this could well be the missing piece of the puzzle. The world is aching for new perspectives, more meaningful connection, and a hopeful path forward. You can show people how to get there.
What's your next step?
If you're curious to learn more, we invite you to be in touch and let us know of your interest. Together we can look at the possible benefits of this program for your institution or cause, assess its suitability for the culture of your organization, and determine whether it would advance what you want to accomplish.
We'll also be glad to tell you more about how the Facilitator Certification Program works, answer any questions you may have, and provide customized options tailored to your situation.
We are committed to making sure your institution or cause is in a position to benefit from this program with significant return on investment.
Once we have a mutual sense that this could be a good fit, the next step is for decision-makers and prospective facilitators to attend a Philanthropic Quest Strategic Retreat with us. Because seats are limited, we encourage you to start the process as early as possible.
"Just as the rivers we see are much less numerous than the underground streams, so the idealism that is visible is minor compared to what men and women carry in their hearts, unreleased or scarcely released. Mankind is waiting and longing for those who can accomplish the task of untying what is knotted and bringing the underground waters to the surface."
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Describe about the Competency Demonstration Report (CDR)?
The academic background I have is bachelors in Electronics and Communication from Malla Reddy Engineering College, Hyderabad, India. I did two projects during my bachelors, one of which is a mini project and the other is a main project. The mini project has been done at MIC Electronics. The main projects have been done at Bharat Electronics Ltd.
The engineering knowledge and skills that I used is the IT skills are a must for an engineer in the present day world. I have CAD skills that are developed over time during my academic career which includes the knowledge of the Programming language concept, Relational algebra, Software architectures, Computability theory, Operating system concepts, Induction and formula proofs, Predicate logic, Automata theory, Set theory and Data structure concepts.
Along with the above I have knowledge of software's in engineering including the Software Engineering Management, Software Quality Assurance, Software Product Engineering, Software Product Deployment. Also the list of software product engineering skills and knowledge that I developed overtime includes the Software project audits, Proofs of correctness, Statistical process control, Task Kick offs and Software testing techniques.
Also I have the various software quality assurance skills that are also added overtime which included the Software design, Human computer interaction, Debugging techniques, CASE tools and Code optimization.
Various communication skills are also developed in me overtime during the earlier academic years including the ability to understand the coded information and to decode information so that only the relevant authority could be conveyed with the message. Also I learnt using of various modes of communication so that the message can be efficiently transmitted to the concerned authorities. I have developed clear and concise communication of the data, facts and figures required to support decision making and directing the organization department to work in alignment with the organization objectives and goals. I even gained the ability to get involved in the group activity so that the team spirit and benefits can be achieved from the formal and informal communications.
Various mathematics abilities are developed in me overtime that has helped me in getting the right outcome from the problem statements. This includes high extent learning and understanding of the Applied mathematics, Radio engineering and signal processing, Control theory in operation and Techno and industrial mathematics.
The various organization handling and time management skills that are learnt during the engineering academic years includes organizing, developing focus techniques, learning project development and initiation techniques, taking proactive actions and delegating authorities and roles to the appropriate personnel's. I also learnt prioritizing work as per the project requirements, ways for streamlining the whole work, setting up of deadlines and meeting them and planning for the project keeping in mind all the objectives and constrains.
I have even developed great problem solving abilities during my engineering. This includes getting specific with the problem by early identification and realization of the way, methods that could possibly affect the organization output and gains. Also I learnt breaking of the bigger problems into smaller problems so that the project can be handled efficiently and the IT related problems can be sorted out at various stages. I even support the idea of taking expert advice and achieving synergy effect so that the most appropriate outcome is achieved in the end.
I have learnt that the application of these competency standards meets the relevant occupational category as it helps in planning and prioritizing for the projects so that the desired outcome is finally achieved in the end. Also it supports in managing interruptions in the project application so that the delays can be avoided and cost effectiveness can be achieved. Along with that it helps in managing perfectionism as the project gets completed on time and the objectives that are expected to be achieved are finally realized in the end. Therefore I understand that it becomes easier for goal setting is done is the initial stage and the project is directed and controlled accordingly to achieve those particular goals. The delegation of the authority and roles are done accordingly so that the desired personnel is allowed to work on the project who has the abilities to achieved the targeted goals and objectives.
The target where I am applying is to achieve SMART objectives. The targets that I want to achieve are specific which includes getting admission in the course to upgrade my academic skills and help me learn new concepts and theories that could actually help me achieve desired career goal. The goal is therefore break down in smaller steps of first earning engineering qualifications than now with the addition of these applied managerial abilities. The motivational factor is to win a good job and make a successful career in life. This way I want to earn respect and knowledge from my learning. The accountable outcome can be achieved by securing good markets and earning degree from the academic institution that I am applying at. Also I would like becoming responsible and skilled enough to tackle business problems and support business operation to achieve desired goals and targets for the business. This way I will be able to achieve the actually attainable goals in the form of good career growth after the end of the academic period.
The main problems in area of my workplace in mini project included the lack of feedback by the employees using the efficient communication system that could be developed overtime was avoided with a negative thought that nothing will be actually achieved from it. Therefore the employees were totally unaware about the possible benefits of feedback along with the safety in feedback through non sharing of the information displayed in the feedback. Also the personal issues that was observed in the organization was the reluctance of the concerned department head to discuss and display the required the information. It was considered as a kind of attack on security as per his personal views. Therefore the inefficiency in sharing the related and required information with the employees resulted in creating confusion and personal disagreement between the department head and other employees of the company. I even observed the language barriers. This was due to the reason that people working belonged from various backgrounds in the company. This way the employees were only attached in a formal mode of communication using English language as the other regional languages were not known to other employees. This created a language barrier which at different proved fatal as the problems were not discussed in details and the employees were directed towards a certain direction or goal without taking their consent and suggestions. I even found the presence of lack of knowledge about the usage of communication system at various stages of operation during the organization process mainly to the new entrants was observed. This problem created a havoc conditions at various times when the concerned department was not alerted accordingly about the business operation and decision taken. The result was delay in the communication process that resulted in affecting the output and punctuality feature of the organization. The negative impact on the productivity, efficiency and the losses incurred by the organization due to the same included the existence of confusion in the work environment. Also the employees did not trust each other, synergy effect was absent during the decision making process and the departments were unaware of the latest decisions taken by the organization. Along with that the employees were unable to understand the main motive and were just directed towards a particular goal. There also existed lack of informal relation between the employees of the organization. The employees hesitated to approach and discuss their problems with the department heads, thereby giving chance to the problems and issues to become huge with the passage of time.
The main problems in area of my workplace in main project included the use of old technique that was almost becoming obsolete was used in the organization. This was due to the fact that the company had employees which were aged and had passed several years of service. These employees were reluctant to change as per the new technological requirements as they considered it difficult to grasp and apply in the daily operation. I even found out that there was lack of competent skills within the organization as the human resource at the current time was not equipped with the required skills that could help in using the latest technological upgrade to achieve high efficiency and effectiveness for the company. Also the high level commitment was seen missing with the concerned department head unable to communicate fairly with the employees. This way the confusion was observed in the work place and the high level managers were not showing commitment towards the development of skills and technological upgrades in the company. There existed lack of technological upgrades that could have actually helped in achieving high level of gains in business operation. The lack of technological upgrades was due to the fact that the company spent less on buying the technological upgrades. Also the system that was offered to be developed was affected by time and monetary constraints which were actually halting the seamless development of the technological upgrade process.
The negative impact on the productivity, efficiency and the losses incurred by the organization due to the same included the productivity of the company which was declining since the technological support system is getting obsolete and does not support the present day business requirements. Also the business efficiency was facing serious threats due to the incompatible technology application which does not facilitate the usage of data, facts and figures from various places. The loss to the organization was observed through losing of customers which was due to delay in the consignment delivery. The cost of operation was rising as the technological status at the current stage was not giving an in-depth knowledge about the cost factors and other factor inputs.
The role that I played for eliminating the problems in mini project was that I analyze the present communication system and detected flaws at various stages that were suggested to the concerned departments to be removed with the application of the new technology upgrade. I even supported the idea of developing communication system as per the new technological requirements. Also I conveyed the management about the various benefits that the end of the communication gap can give to the organization. I even suggested the high level manager about bringing some level of change in the work method so that the trust can be built in the work environment. Along with that I kept the idea of making informal meetings at regular intervals. Training, education and development programs are suggested to be developed to convey the new technological breakthrough for the employees.
The role that I played for eliminating the problems in the main project was that I made research with my team on the new technological inputs that could help the organization in achieving the various objectives, goals and targets in the long run. Also I analyzed the present status of using the technology and found out ways that could help enhance the technological system followed in the organization. Along with that I supported the idea of bringing technological upgrades at all stages in the company so that the dependence on obsolete technology can be removed completely. I even suggested methods and places where the new technology can bring in benefits, gains and profits to the organization. Also the benefit of upgrading the technological upgrade was discussed and displayed to the management so that they could understand the value and the possible they could retrieve from it.
The organization in both cases worked as team. The members of the team used their experience, skills and education to assist each other and reach out to the solutions. A synergy effect was observed every time the discussions took place between the team members regarding the problem identification and possible and proposed solutions. Hence the team spirit was achieved by helping each other in identifying the problems and reaching out the possible solutions.
The problem in the mini project was to enhance real time computing assistance during the project completion through the application of the Zigbee module that could help in improving the communication techniques and tools followed in the organization. The problem was solved with the team efforts to review and analyze the present communication system being followed. Also the estimation of the usage and benefit that can be retrieved from the application of the Zigbee module was made. Thus the areas were the Zigbee module can be applied were identified and the methods that could help in enhancing the communication system were recognized. Finally the ZIgbee module of communication was designed such that it meets the requirements of the organization related to the communication.
The problem in the main project was that the need to develop the VHDL code for the Amplitude DF algorithm for a DF or Direction Finding system was required. This way the efforts were made to compare the two maxima and estimate direction of the arrivals. The problem was solved by analyzing the present status of the Amplitude DF algorithm for direction finding system. Hence the VHDL was model was developed accordingly so that it meets the organizational requirements in the best way. The team worked together in this regard using their engineering capabilities and finally framed out a design for developing the VHDL code that could actually help in meeting the organization targets and goals.
The reward that I received for mini project was certification that the mini project "Zigbee Communication between embedded application and PC" was completed successfully which met the objectives and need of the organization.
The reward for the main project "DOA (Direction of Arrival) Computation Algorithm" was certified as completed and submitted to the organization as per the required directions. This way the project meet the objectives, needs and satisfaction of the related department head which is considered to be my main reward.
PROJECT NAME - ZIGBEE Communication between embedded application and PC.
The time period consumed for this project was one month and five days.
The date of start of the project was 10th May, 2009.
The date of the completion of the project was 15th June, 2009.
My role in the project was of a team member during that time.
The name of the organization was MIC Electronics Tech Center.
The objective of the project was to deal with the communication with the embedded application which will display device with the Zigbee module. The other side will of the communication channel will be the personal computer with the Zigbee module that will receive the data and information transferred through the same system.
The need of this system was to perform a dedicated function to enhance real time computing assistance during the project completion. This way the need was to bring in efficiency and effectiveness in the communication method.
The team members were Sri Harsha Mothukuri and Nikhil Prasad Luke.
PROJECT NAME – A project report on DOA (Direction of Arrival) Computation Algorithm.
The time period consumed was 5 months.
The date of start of the project was December 2009.
The date of completion of the project was April 2010.
The location of the project was at Bharat Electronics LTD, Industrial Estates, Near Manikchand Gutka, Nacharam, Hyderabad - 500076, Telangana, India.
My role in the project was a team leader who was entrusted with the task of organizing team and assigning work to the other team members.
The name of the organization was Bharat Electronics Limited.
The objective of the project was to develop the VHDL code for the Amplitude DF algorithm for a DF or Direction Finding system. This way the FPGA compared the amplitude signals which it actually received from various directions and gives the DOA with 6 bit buffers.
The need of the project was to compare the two maxima and estimated direction of arrival. That is the PCB received 4 sets of amplitude data and generate course DF that was measured and estimated accordingly.
The team members were Sri Harsha Mothukuri, Nikhil Prasad Luke and Pavani Poluru.
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Weighted squats and lunges are a great way to take your fitness routine to the next level. Whether you're a beginner or a pro, adding weights to any workout can add the extra intensity you may need.
It is important to reflect on how you feel before, during, and after each workout. Are you experiencing any of those positive effects that people boast about? How about your mind? Do you feel more relaxed after exercise? Write it down! You may feel like you are just standing idle but you are not. Having a goal inspires action and focus each day. If you stay consistent then the results will inevitably follow.
Smashing muscles with a foam roller is a great way to loosen up any tension you may have and also increase blood flow to the area to allow better recovery.
Lay face down with the roller under one leg then cross the other leg over to apply more pressure.
Slowly shift your weight up and down working your way up from right above the knee cap to the hip.
4x 10-15 (4 sets of 10 -15 reps).
This movement is no different than the air squat we did on Day 2 except we now have a barbell on your back and our hands are gripped onto it.
4×10-15 (4 sets of 10 -15 reps).
Another squat variation while holding a kettle-bell or a plate in front of you. This exercise is great for those who struggle to keep their torso upright during the squat.
3×16-20 (3 sets of 16 -20 reps).
This is the same movement as the lunge from Day 2 but now we are holding dumbbells at our sides to increase the intensity.
3×30-60 seconds (3 sets of 30-60 seconds).
Put two benches far enough apart that your heels and shoulders can rest on each on comfortably.
Lift your hips up as high as you can while squeezing your glutes. This can get intense but it is a great exercise for creating a strong core!
Spend 15-30 minutes doing a physical activity of your choice. Have fun and get sweaty!
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In her hugely popular New York Times bestseller A Holiday of Love, Jude Deveraux wrote a novella about two kids playing matchmakers -- Eli and Chelsea, best friends who were determined to find true love for El's bighearted mother. But what happens when these ambitious children grow up? What exactly made Eli's mother, Miranda, fall in love with Frank all those years ago? And how does that affect their future together?


There's a lot going on inside the Lake Austin home of actors Jensen and Danneel Ackles—a lot of color, a lot of texture, endless elements begging their stories to be told. If you need a quick snapshot: The living room is scattered with guitars and, on the shag rug, Technicolor floor pillows; antique Venetian dioramas of Lilliputian-sized rooms are embedded into the white-oak walls, while a hanging cage traps gilded Barbie dolls by Micky Hoogendijk; on top of a shelf housing a record player, a photograph of Tom Waits sits next to a chicken skeleton; a regal white peacock perches on the side of the mercantile-style bar. There's the master bedroom swaddled in Trove wall covering bearing vintage photography of 1920s opera boxes. And the two-story screened-in porch holds a table crafted from a 2,000-year-old cypress sinker log, a storied Boyd Elder cow skull, and four-foot glass lanterns from Tony Duquette's estate.
Indeed, Danneel and Duquette share a similar philosophy. "More is more is more!" Danneel says emphatically. "More is the most." Still, the Ackleses' five-bedroom, 7,500-square-foot residence isn't actually an ode to opulence but rather an evocative tribute to key passions at the core of their personalities: the music and aesthetics of the late '60s, Austin's art scene, and imaginative oddities and occultist ephemera, perhaps appropriate considering Jensen's longtime role on the CW's Supernatural.
After deciding to leave Brentwood, California, and coming this close to putting in an offer on a Lake Austin fixer-upper, the couple set their gaze on a house three doors down, sans "for sale" sign. "As we drove by, Danneel and I both looked at our real estate agent and were like, 'See, that is the kind of house we're looking for,'" recalls Jensen. Adds Danneel, "we wanted something less ostentatious." Fortunately, the owner was willing to sell, but the property was far from turnkey and required an overhaul to go from what Danneel calls the "Texas Tuscan look"—generic stuccoed track mansion—to a wood-clad ranch-style stunner.
Danneel, a Tony Duquette superfan, was over the moon when Santini brought the stained glass pendants she'd bought from his estate.
The slightly sunken living room with the deep blue banquette couch, white shag rug, macrame chair, and muscular oak beams is Jensen's favorite space.
The parents of three also are active supporters of local art. "We're not the type who need it to all be the same. That's criminal to me, almost," says Danneel of their home full of diverse pieces from Austin and Marfa, including female artists from galleries like Women and Their Work. Santini describes the pair as risk-takers who both led the charge on outside-the-box thinking and let her push the limits. In their third home together, the Ackleses hit their stride, nailing a personally reflective infusion of edge, humor, and spirit.


365 Secrets of Happiness: A Wisdom Blog at JamesBaquet.com: Find a "Spiritual Buddy"
Once in a blue moon, something really cool happens.
A person comes along who sees things as you do, who has the same spiritual priorities, who is positioned to join you on your path.
When that person comes along, hold on, and don't let go!
It may be someone at your church, or in a club; someone you met on the internet; or, for us lucky few, a spouse or loved one.
And the result is: fellowship, what one waggish pastor described as "a bunch of fellows in the same ship."
The Biblical Book of Proverbs says, "As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another."
I couldn't have said it better myself. A "spiritual buddy" can share readings with you, support your efforts, and--when the relationship deepens--point out your blind spots, all in the name of "sharpening" your spirituality. Money can't buy the growth that results from that kind of friendship.
So find a spiritual buddy to walk the path with.
"Be All That You Can Be"


On Saturday, July 8, I'll be performing with Michelle Gott on a program she put together for Music & Beyond called "Meditations on Light." I'll be performing Theseus by R. Murray Schafer (an amazing work for harp and string quartet) and a really interesting piece called Night Music for harp and violin by Sebastian Currier. Michelle calls the program a cathartic exploration of our human relationship with the abyss of darkness and its healing counterpart of light.
The program includes music by Sebastian Currier, Jocelyn Morlock, R. Murray Schafer, and Marcel Grandjany. Emily Westell (violin), David Marks (viola), and Rachel Mercer (cello) will make up the quartet.
The Capital Ukrainian Festival takes place the weekend of Friday, July 21 through Sunday, July 23rd. My Ukrainian turbo-folk band, Tyt i Tam, will perform for the first time in Ottawa at the festival. We'll perform on the festival Main Stage (free admission) on Friday, July 21 at 10:00pm and on Saturday, July 22nd at 6:00pm. We're also playing the Korchma afterparty from 12:30am-2am! More info: www.capitalukrainianfestival.com and www.tytitam.com.
This show is one of artsfile.ca's five fave's for chamberfest!
The Forest String Ensemble, put together by Keiko Devaux and Carissa Klopoushak, will perform music by Nico Muhly, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and Devaux out in the sticks.
The Ironwood Quartet performs in three concerts at the third-annual Classical Unbound Festival in Prince Edward County, Ontario. Concerts are in the Grange Winery Wine-Tasting Barn, the Hillier Creek Estates Winery, and Mt Tabor Theatre - and include wine tastings & nibbles! $49, www.classicalunbound.com.


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PM2.5 chemical composition in five European Mediterranean cities: A 1-year study
The seasonal and spatial characteristics of PM2.5 and its chemical composition in the Mediterranean Basin have been studied over a 1-year period (2011–2012) in five European...
Residential heating with wood and coal: health impacts and policy options in Europe and North America
Residential heating with wood and coal is an important source of ambient (outdoor) air pollution; it can also cause substantial indoor air pollution through either direct exposure or...
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Recently, short-term monitoring campaigns have been carried out to investigate the spatial variation of air pollutants within cities. Typically, such campaigns are based on short-term measurements...
Keuken, M. P., M. Moerman, P. Zandveld, J.S. Henzing, & G. Hoek
Total and size-resolved particle number and black carbon concentrations in urban areas near Schiphol airport (the Netherlands)
The presence of black carbon, and size-resolved and total particle number concentrations (PNC) were investigated in the vicinity of Schiphol airport in the Netherlands, the fourth busiest airport...
Jiao, C., M. G. Flanner, Y. Balkanski, S. E. Bauer, N. Bellouin, T. K. Berntsen, H. Bian, K. S. Carslaw, M. Chin, N. De Luca, T. Diehl, S. J. Ghan, T. Iversen, A. Kirkevåg, D. Koch, X. Liu, G. W. Mann, J. E. Penner, G. Pitari, M. Schulz, Ø. Seland, R. B. Skeie, S. D. Steenrod, P. Stier, T. Takemura, K. Tsigaridis, T. van Noije, Y. Yun, & K. Zhang
An AeroCom assessment of black carbon in Arctic snow and sea ice
Though many global aerosols models prognose surface deposition, only a few models have been used to directly simulate the radiative effect from black carbon (BC) deposition to snow and sea ice....
Nordmann, S., Y. F. Cheng, G. R. Carmichael, M. Yu, H. A. C. Denier van der Gon, Q. Zhang, P. E. Saide, U. Pöschl, H. Su, W. Birmili, A. Wiedensohler
Atmospheric black carbon and warming effects influenced by the source and absorption enhancement in Central Europe
Particles containing black carbon (BC), a strong absorbing substance, exert a rather uncertain direct and indirect radiative forcing in the atmosphere. To investigate the mass concentration and...
Nordmann, S., Y. F. Cheng, G. R. Carmichael, M. Yu, H. A. C. Denier van der Gon, Q. Zhang, P. E. Saide, U. Pöschl, H. Su, W. Birmili, & A. Wiedensohler
Santos, F., M. P. Fraser, & J. A. Bird
Atmospheric black carbon deposition and characterization of biomass burning tracers in a northern temperate forest
Aerosol black carbon (BC) is considered the second largest contributor to global warming after CO2, and is known to increase the atmosphere's temperature, decrease the albedo in...
Comiso, J. C., & D. K. Hall
Climate trends in the Arctic as observed from space
The Arctic is a region in transformation. Warming in the region has been amplified, as expected from ice-albedo feedback effects, with the rate of warming observed to be ∼0.60 ±...


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Elizabeth Benedict
Mark Doty
Stephen Dunn Mary Gaitskill
Peter Hanson
Akasha Gloria Hull
Pierre Joris
Pablo Medina
Susan Minot
Martin Nakell
Caryl Philips
Marion Roach
Michele Serros
Kate Walbert
Eliot Weinberger
Linda Zisquit
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Sneak preview of tentative Spring 2002 Schedule.
American playwright EDWARD ALBEE has won numerous awards, including three Pulitzer Prizes (A Delicate Balance, Seascape, and Three Tall Women) and two Tony Awards (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and A Delicate Balance). In 1996, he received a Kennedy Center Lifetime Achievement Award and in 1997 he was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Clinton. At the Kennedy Center Honors Ceremony in 1996, Albee was praised for his impact on American drama. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? will be presented as part of our Classic Film Series on Friday, September 21.
(Friday)
7:30 pm Who's Afraid
of Virginia Woolf?
(Tuesday)
8 pm Conversation
Main Theatre, PAC
MARY HIGGINS CLARK, America's "Queen of Suspense," knows the struggles most writers experience while honing their craft. It took six years and forty rejection slips before she sold her first short story for $100. Her first suspense novel, Where Are the Children?, became her first bestseller. Mary Higgins Clark is the author of 22 bestsellers, with over 50 million copies of her books in print in the U.S. Her books are world-wide bestsellers. October 3
(Wednesday)
4:00 p.m. Seminar
Page Hall
8:00 p.m. Reading
MARY GAITSKILL and ELIZABETH BENEDICT
MARY GAITSKILL, novelist and short story writer, is the author of the story collections Because They Wanted To (1997) and Bad Behavior (1988), and the novel Two Girls, Fat and Thin (1991). Her work, which has received high critical praise, portrays characters journeying into the dark side of contemporary life as they search for human connections."
ELIZABETH BENEDICT is the author of Almost, Slow Dancing, a finalist for the National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Fiction Prize, The Beginner's Book of Dreams, Safe Conduct, and The Joy of Writing Sex. Her work has appeared in Salmagundi, The New York Times, Esquire, Harper's Bazaar, The American Retrospect, and other periodicals. She has taught writing at Princeton University, Swarthmore, and at the University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop. October 9
4:00 p.m. Joint Seminar
8 p.m. Joint Reading
Recital Hall, PAC
SUSAN MINOT and KATE WALBERT
SUSAN MINOT is the author of Monkeys (1986), Lust and Other Stories (1989), Folly (1992), and Evening (1998, Random, ISBN 0-375-40037-0). Monkeys was her first novel and was published in a dozen countries and received the Prix Femina Entranger in France. She also wrote the screenplay for Bernardo Bertolucci's Stealing Beauty which will be presented as part of our Classic Film Series on Wednesday, October 10. She will provide film commentary immediately following the screening.
KATE WALBERT is the author of a short story collection Where She Went and a novel The Gardens of Kyoto (2001, Scribner, ISBN 0-684-86948-9). She has published fiction and articles in the Paris Review, Double Take, The New York Times, and numerous other publications. She has received fellowships from the national endowment for the Arts and the Connecticut Commission on the Arts.
7 pm Stealing Beauty
w/Minot Commentary
(Thursday)
4 pm Minot Seminar
8 pm Joint Reading
PABLO MEDINA was born in Cuba and emigrated to the United States when he was twelve. He is the author most recently of The Return of Felix Nogara (2000) and The Floating Island (1999). His other works include The Marks of Birth, Arching into the Afterlife, of Exiled Memories: A Cuban Childhood, Everyone Will Have to Listen (translationsfrom the Spanish of Tania Diaz Castro), and Pork Rind and Cuban Songs. His work has appeared in American Poetry Review and Iguana Dreams among others. He lives in Miami. October 16
MARTIN NAKELL, poet and fiction writer, is the recipient of the 1996-97 Gertrude Stein Award in Poetry, and was a finalist in the New American Poetry Series for 1999. He is the author of the novel, The Library of Thomas Rivka (1997), a playful study of the inexhaustible significance of books. His newest book is Two Fields That Face and Mirror Each Other (2001), a novel told in many voices that "interact, intersect and overlap." He currently serves as Professor of Literature at Chapman University in Orange, CA, and Visiting Professor in Creative Writing at UC San Diego.
Poet STEPHEN DUNN won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Different Hours (Norton, 2000) and is the author of eleven collections of poetry including Loosestrife (National Book Critic Circle Award finalist, 1996), New & Selected Poems: 1974-1994, Landscape at the End of the Century, Between Angels, and Riffs & Reciporicities: Prose Pairs. Among his awards are the Levinson Prize from Poetry and fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. October 18
Asssembly Hall
RICHARD RUSSO, novelist, is renowned for his depiction of blue collar life in abandoned mill towns in upstate New York and northern New England, believed to be modeled after the city he grew up in, Gloversville, New York. His most recent novel, Empire Falls (2001), is set in Maine and features the author's trademark cast of loveable losers, cranks and misfits. Earlier novels include Mohawk (1986), The Risk Pool (1988), Nobody's Fool (1993), which was made into a feature film starring Paul Newman and Bruce Willis, and Straight Man (1997). Russo also cowrote the screenplay of Twilight, the 1998 film starring Paul Newman, Susan Sarandon and Gene Hackman.
& Book Signing
PETER HANSON is a filmmaker, critic, and arts editor from Albany and the author of the biography, Dalton Trumbo, Hollywood Rebel: A Critical Survey and Filmography (2001, McFarland). It examines Trumbo's screenwriting and the scores of films he worked on and the techniques that made him, at the time he was blacklisted in 1947, Hollywood's highest-paid writer. Dalton Trumbo was the screenwriter for Roman Holiday and Hanson will provide film commentary immediately following the screening.
7:00 p.m. Screening
w/Film Commentary
MICHELE SERROS is the author of Chicana Falsa, and Other Stories of Death, Identity and Oxnard (1998) and How to Be a Chicana Role Model (2000). The Oxnard, California-born poet, fiction writer and storyteller is a fast-rising literary star, particularly in the southwestern United States where her books have found their way into many high school curriculums and college English and Chicano Studies courses. Her work explores, with wit and humor, the collision and exchange between Latino and Anglo cultures. She writes commentaries regularly for magazines and radio and is producing a documentary, Medium Brown Girl, about her experiences meeting her "fans" on book tour.
Assembly Hall
CARYL PHILLIPS, West Indian-born writer, is the author of fiction, nonfiction, plays and screen and radio plays. His fiction includes the novels The Nature of Blood (1997), Crossing the River (1993), and Cambridge (1991), all of which reflect his multinational identity and examine aspects of Caribbean, British and American cultures. His nonfiction books incude The European Tribe (1987) and most recently The Atlantic Sound (2000), a unique history of the Atlantic slave trade. Phillips has won numerous awards for his work includeing the Malcolm X Prize for Literature, the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Lannan Literary Award.
Assembly Hall, CC
LINDA ZISQUIT has published two poetry collections, Unopened Letters (1996) and Ritual Bath (1993), and several books of translations from Hebrew including Wild Light: Selected Poems of Yona Wallach (1997) for which she received an NEA Translation Grant and a PEN Translation Award nomination.
AKASHA GLORIA HULL has taught literature and Women's Studies at a variety of institutions, most recently the University of California at Santa Cruz and has published under the name Gloria T. Hull. Her books include Color, Sex, and Poetry: Three Women Writers of the Harlem Renaissance, Give Us Each Day: The Diary of Alice Dunbar-Nelson, All the Women are White, All the Blacks are Men, but Some of Us Are Brave (co-edited), and Healing Heart: Poems.
MARK DOTY is the author of five books of poems, including Sweet Machine (HarperCollins, 1998); Atlantis (1995), which received the Ambassador Book Award, the Bingham Poetry Prize, and a Lambda Literary Award; My Alexandria (1993), chosen by Philip Levine for the National Poetry Series, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and Britain's T. S. Eliot Prize, and was also a National Book Award finalist; Bethlehem in Broad Daylight (1991); and Turtle, Swan (1987). He has also published Heaven's Coast: A Memoir (1996), which won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction, and Firebird (HarperCollins, 1999), an autobiography. His most recent book is Still Life with Oysters and Lemons (2001), which combines memoir with artistic and philosophical musings.
PIERRE JORIS is the Luxembourg-born author of numerous books of poetry, most recently Poasis: Selected Poems 1986-1999 (2001) and H.J.R. (1999), a poetic investigation of nomadic culture. With Jerome Rothenberg, Joris is co-editor of the monumental anthology, Poems for the Millenium: The University of California Book of Modern & Postmodern Poetry (1995 Volume 1, 1998 Volume 2). A Professor of English at the University of Albany, Joris is also an accomplished translator from French and German into English, and from English into French. His most recent translation is of Romanian-born Holocaust survivor Paul Celan's Threadsuns (2000), a work that had never before been translated in its entirety.
BEI DAO and ELIOT WEINBERGER
BEI DAO (aka Zhao Zhenkai), internationally acclaimed Chinese poet-in-exile, has been the poetic conscience of the dissident movements in China for over twenty years. Away at a literary conference in Berlin at the time of the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989, he was not allowed to return home. Dao is the author of Landscape Over Zero(translated by David Hinton, with Yanbing Chen), Forms of Distance (1994, translated by David Hinton), Old Snow: Poems (1991, translated by Bonnie S. McDougall and Chen Maiping), Notes From the City of the Sun : Poems (1983, edited and translated by Bonnie S. McDougall), The August Sleepwalker: Poems (1988, translated and introduced by Bonnie S. McDougall). He was recently inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters as an 'honorary member.'
Bei Dao's reading will be translated from the Mandarin by ELIOT WEINBERGER, who will also read from his own work. Weinberger is a distinguished essayist and acclaimed translator of Octavio Paz and Jore Luis borges and is known for his work promoting Hispanic literature in the U.S. In 1999 he received the National Book Critics Chrcle Award for criticism for his edition of Selected Non Fictin of Jore Luis Borges (1999). That same year, he received the Order of the Aztec Eagle, the highest honor the Mexican government can bestow on a foreign national, for his numerous translations of Paz. Weinberger's most recently collection of essays, Karmic Traces: 1993-1999 (2000), is a record of the author's wide-ranging exploration of poetry, places, peoples and cultures.
3 pm EW Seminar
4 pm BD Seminar
Both in HU 354
MARION ROACH and DR. MICHAEL BADEN
MARION ROACH, journalist, is co-author with Dr. Michael Baden of the new book, Dead Reckoning: The New Science of Catching Killers (2001), an entertaining and informative examination of the latest breakthroughs in forensic pathology. Roach is also the author of Another Name for Madness (1985), a harrowing account of her mother's battle with Alzheimer's disease. Her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Newsday, American Health, and Prevention. A resident of Troy, she served as host of the 1996 WMHT/PBS docoumentary, Historic Views of the Collar City.
MICHAEL BADEN, M.D., is one of the world's foremost forensic pathologists and co-director of the Medicolegal Investigative Unit of the New York State Police. He has participated as investigator and expert witness in numerous high-profile homicide cases, including that of Sunny von Bulow, Nichole Brown Simpson, and JonBenet Ramsey. Dr. Baden is also the author of Unnatural Death: Confessions of a Medical Examiner (1989), and host of the ongoing special on HBO, Autopsy.
4:00 pm Joint Seminar
EDWARD HIRSCH is the author of five poetry collections including On Love (Alfred A. Knopf, 1998), Earthly Measures (1994), The Night Parade (1989)--the previous two listed as notable books of the year by the New York Times Book Review--Wild Gratitude (1986), which received the Lavan Younger Poets Award. His poetry has been praised for its tenderness, intelligence and musicality. Hirsch's latest prose work is How to Read a Poem (1999, Harcourt, ISBN #0-15-600566-2). He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur foundations, an Ingram Merrill Foundation Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, and a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award.


amos the prophet essaysWhen deciding upon a prophet to use for this project, I wanted to choose one that I thought not many others would choose while at the same time find one who I thought I could relate with. I decided to choose Amos. Amos was set to save the poor and who wouldn't want to le.


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Support Grows for School Vouchers in D.C.
"Students from Bridges Academy in Washington, D.C., at a Capitol Hill rally last month in support of the city's Opportunity Scholarship Program, which gives students from low-income families scholarships for private schools." Source of caption and photo: online version of the WSJ article quoted and cited below.
(p. A2) The District of Columbia's embattled school-voucher program, which lawmakers appeared to have killed earlier this year, looks like it could still survive.
Congress voted in March not to fund the program, which provides certificates to pay for recipients' private-school tuition, after the current school year. But after months of pro-voucher rallies, a television-advertising campaign and statements of support by local political leaders, backers say they are more confident about its prospects. Even some Democrats, many of whom have opposed voucher efforts, have been supportive.
Many parents whose children receive vouchers say they are satisfied with the private schools they attend. During the 2008-2009 school year, about 61,700 students nationwide received vouchers, up 9% from the previous school year, according to the Alliance for School Choice, a pro-voucher advocacy group.
Created as a five-year pilot project by a Republican-controlled Congress in early 2004, the Opportunity Scholarship Program is the nation's only federally funded voucher program. It is open to students who live in the long-struggling Washington school district and whose families have incomes at or below 185% of the federal poverty level — about $40,000 for a family of four. Recipients are chosen by lottery, although preference is given to those attending traditional schools deemed to be in need of improvement under federal law.
Joe Kelley entered his oldest son, Rashawn, in the first Opportunity Scholarship Program lottery in 2004, fearful about violence at the public middle school. Rashawn, now 17, received a voucher, and so have his three sisters. All attend a small, private Christian academy where they have been earning A's and B's. "It's a lot of worry off of me," said Mr. Kelley, a retired cook and youth counselor.
In an evaluation released in March, researchers found that in reading skills, voucher recipients overall were approximately 3.1 months ahead of eligible students who didn't receive scholarships. But there was no difference in math skills, and voucher recipients from the worst-performing public schools got no boost in either subject.
For the full story, see:
ROBERT TOMSHO. "D.C. School Vouchers Have a Brighter Outlook in Congress." The Wall Street Journal (Mon., October 19, 2009): A2.
(Note: ellipses added.)
Author Art DiamondPosted on November 24, 2009 Categories Education, Friedman, Milton, Government
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The DIY video is finally here!
Feel free to leave comments here & on the youtube page.
If you have any suggestions for future DIY videos, I'd love to hear them too.
Hello everyone! The store has had even more changes to it. You can now get just about every design on a whole lot more items.
This weekend, I'll shooting the DIY video for the Aly tank. My friend will be joining me in it. No sewing skills required, so this will be something everyone will be able to do. Check back for that.
I finished the book "Just Listen" by Sarah Dessen today. I would highly recommend it. It's only the second book of hers I've read, –the first being "The Truth About Forever"– and I absolutely love her as an author now. So, go read one now!
Halloween is just days away. Anyone planning on dressing up? If so, what are you going to be?
It's always fun to put on costumes.
I'm so excited to have finally launched an offical blog for Missa by Design. It's not just going to be updates about my designs and my shop. This blog will also be used to post fashion DIYs, tips, news, thoughts, and whatever else comes to mind.
If you have any suggestions or what to see me blog about something specific, then I'd love to read your comments about whatever it is you want.
I don't have anything prepared for this entry. This is mostly just to announce what's to come.
My first DIY will feature how to make a tank simular to the one Aly Michalka of Aly & AJ is wearing in the photo above, including with different designs.
So get your scissors ready & be prepared to create something amazing!


Nurses Memorial Centre Australian Scholarship Program for 2019!
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We encourage all Australian nurses and midwives who are undertaking post-graduate study to consider applying.
The application period opens 1 July and closes 31 August.
(Note: scholarships are currently only available to Australian residents).


Below is a link to a printable Life Story Pin & Jewelry information form which may be used as an alternative to the online form. The information you provide will be used to personalize the Life Story Pin or Jewelry for the recipient. Please complete the form and contact me to complete your transaction.


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