5/30/2023 0 Comments Background Noise by Peter DeMarco![]() ![]() Instead, use non-defensive communication techniques. Don’t antagonize the boss by telling him to “calm down.” Avoid giving a “yes, I’m wrong” answer just to get off the phone or out of his office. Seek to clarify what you don’t understand and restate the message to confirm it is understood and received. ![]() ![]() Twice, Jim’s calls compelled me to leave family vacations in Cape Cod to address issues at my production facility in Mexico, and then return to catch the tail end of our family trip.īreathe fully, listen carefully and sort the signal (the actual message) from the noise (the boss’s intensity) to figure out exactly what’s setting him off. ![]() Once, my wife Debbie could even hear him from across the room. Sometimes his calls were so intense that I had to hold the phone about six inches from my head to keep my eardrums intact. My boss, Jim, was passionate about performance. Unfortunately, the ferocity of the frustrations hurled by the ranter often leave the recipient feeling like a refugee, adrift, disoriented and sometimes desperate.Īs a young plant manager, I was on the receiving end of numerous rants while struggling to keep up with the demands of my new job. An effective rant is an intense reprimand intended to sharpen focus and motivate results in the recipient. For all the emphasis on respect in the workplace, many leaders struggle with how to respond when their boss goes on a rant. ![]()
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5/30/2023 0 Comments The virgin cure book![]() Through the friendship of Dr Sadie, a female physician, Moth learns to question and observe the world around her, where her new friends are falling prey to the myth of the ‘virgin cure’ to heal the incurable and tainted. Miss Everett caters to gentlemen who pay dearly for companions, and the most desirable of them all are young virgins like Moth. These betrayals lead Moth to the wild, murky world of the Bowery, filled with house-thieves, pickpockets, beggars, sideshow freaks and prostitutes, where eventually she meets Miss Everett, the owner of a brothel. The summer she turned twelve, her mother sold her as a servant to a wealthy woman, with no intention of ever seeing her again. As a young child, Moth’s father smiled, tipped his hat and walked away from her for ever. ![]() ‘I am Moth, a girl from the lowest part of Chrystie Street, born to a slum-house mystic and the man who broke her heart.’ So begins THE VIRGIN CURE, a novel set in the tenements of lower Manhattan in 1871. A macabre voyage into the underbelly of nineteenth-century New York. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments The shunning book![]() Overall, I'd say that this was a very weak 4/10 (and that is probably being generous). They would not treat someone like this girl was treated for such minor things. In reality, the Amish are a very forgiving people. This seemed like a contrived way to move along the plot. You don't shun someone just because they left you at the altar and have some unresolved issues with their parents. the shunning itself happened for the wrong reasons. ![]() Will she, if she returns, end up with The Bishop? Another thing. If her former boyfriend who taught her how to play the guitar (and who she promised to marry) still actually alive and living in a city somewhere? We are told that he drowned and that they never recovered the body, but he obviously wanted "out." (and where did he ever get that guitar in the first place?) 4. ![]() Do her parents and the busy body midwife get into trouble for violating the shunning? 3. Does she get to see her mother before she dies? 2. Are we looking at a series of films here? Unresolved issues included: 1. Okay, this was kind of mediocre up until the end, when it left everything hanging and did not resolve several of the major plot points. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments They called us enemy takei![]() ![]() ![]() Takei’s father was an Issei (first-generation). It is noteworthy that the Nisei and Sansei (second- and third-generation Japanese Americans) were U.S. Takei’s family was taken by train from Los Angeles to Camp Rohwer in Arkansas, along with other 8,500 Japanese Americans. “In 1943, California passed a law that any farm equipment left behind could be seized by the state… We were forced to sell our property for a fraction of its worth.” ![]() The result was that 120,000 Japanese Americans were forcibly removed from their homes and relocated to “internment camps” set up in remote areas of California, Arizona, Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, and Arkansas. “The order never used the word ‘Japanese’ or ‘Camps’-it authorized the military to declare areas ‘from which any or all persons may be excluded,’ and to provide ‘transportation, food, shelter, and other accommodations’ to persons excluded from those areas.” President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942. On December 7, 1941, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. The book is in the format of a graphic novel. Famous for his Star Trek role as Commander Sulu, George Takei tells the real-life story of his family’s experience as Japanese Americans during World War II. ![]() ![]() ![]() the Centraal Beheer building in Alpendoorn, Netherlands. The book investigates some of the classics of modern architecture, but also discusses buildings that aren't well described in the standard books, e.g. While Colquhoun's arguments are not always so easy to understand in general, whenever he discusses specific buildings, it's clear to see what he's driving at. ![]() ![]() This book is a wonderful introduction to architectural criticism, more lively than Colin Rowe's "The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa and Other Essays" and Reyner Banham's "Theory and Design in the First Machine Age." Colquhoun applies all sorts of funky terminology borrowed from and in some cases anticipating literary theory (e.g., a term like "bricolage," which is bandied about by Homi Bhabha, is used in this book, published in the mid 80s, to describe Michael Graves's work). ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Liar City by Allie Therin![]() ![]() Soon, Reece’s caller arrives: a shadowy government agent known as The Dead Man, who is rumored to deal exclusively in cases involving empathy. At an out-of-the-way Seattle marina, he discovers that three people have been butchered-including the author of the country’s strictest anti-empathy bill, which is just days from being passed into law. ![]() It’s the middle of the night when part-time police consultant and full-time empath Reece gets an anonymous call warning him that his detective sister needs his help. A murder has Seattle on edge, and it falls to a pacifist empath-and a notorious empath hunter-to find the killer before it's too late ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments The masque of the red death story![]() ![]() ![]() Both qualities are on display in "The Masque of the Red Death," which is among the most colorful and the creepiest of his stories. He also had a mad sense of style and an incredible imagination, which allowed him to paint vivid and unforgettable images with words. (His life, it turns out, was just about as mysterious as some of his stories – check out a biography.) Poe had a talent for writing terrifying and spine-tingly tales: many of his short stories are now considered horror classics. ![]() He later published a slightly revised version of the story under the title by which it's known today, "The Masque of the Red Death," in a July 1845 issue of a magazine called the Broadway Journal.Įdgar Allan Poe (who lived from 1809-1849) was a poet, essayist, and short story writer, particularly famous for writing dark, mysterious, and death-centered pieces. A Fantasy" in the May 1842 issue of Graham's Magazine, a Philadelphia literary magazine for which he served as editor. Poe first published it as "The Mask of the Red Death. " The Masque of the Red Death" is a deliciously creepy and wonderfully bizarre story written by that early American master of Gothic horror, Edgar Allan Poe. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Where the wild things are art![]() ![]() The Wild Things try to scare Max, but to no avail. Max's bedroom undergoes a mysterious transformation into a jungle environment, and he winds up sailing to an island inhabited by monsters, simply called the Wild Things. ![]() The story focuses on a young boy named Max who, after dressing in his wolf costume, wreaks such havoc through his household that he is sent to bed without his supper. It was voted the number one picture book in a 2012 survey of School Library Journal readers, not for the first time. Sendak won the annual Caldecott Medal from the children's librarians in 1964, recognizing Wild Things as the previous year's "most distinguished American picture book for children". The book had sold over 19 million copies worldwide as of 2009, with 10 million of those being in the United States. The book has been adapted into other media several times, including an animated short film in 1973 (with an updated version in 1988) a 1980 opera and a live-action 2009 feature-film adaptation. ![]() Where the Wild Things Are is a 1963 children's picture book written and illustrated by American writer and illustrator Maurice Sendak, originally published in hardcover by Harper & Row. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Hunter thompson las vegas![]() ![]() Clean and fresh internally and externally, no creases on the spine of the cover. Softcover, in immaculate condition, could pass for new. Thompson’s musings on the collapse of the American Dream. It brings to a new generation the hallucinatory humour and nightmare terror of Hunter S. Thompson’s iconic masterpiece, a controversial bestseller when it appeared in 1971, features the brilliant Ralph Steadman illustrations of the original. Armed with a drug arsenal of stupendous proportions, the duo engage in a surreal succession of chemically enhanced confrontations with casino operators, police officers and assorted Middle Americans. The basic synopsis revolves around journalist Raoul Duke (Hunter S. Thompson is roaring down the desert highway to Las Vegas with his attorney, the Samoan, to find the dark side of the American Dream. ![]() I remember saying something like, `I feel a bit lightheaded maybe you should drive …`’ Hunter S. ![]() ‘We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Rainbow fish and the blue whale![]() ![]() The foil stamping is then applied during the production process after the pages are printed and before the final binding. When the illustration is complete he cuts the paper from the wooden board.įor books that feature holographic foil stamping, he then tapes a piece of transparent film over the art and indicates with a black marker where the foil stamping should be. ![]() For sharper details, he first lets the paper dry, then paints the final picture layer by layer. ![]() For backgrounds and blended contours, he uses wet paint on wet paper to get a softer effect. At this point, he is ready to begin painting. ![]() He then copies his rough sketches onto the paper in pencil. He begins each book by stretching watercolor paper over a wooden board so that it won't warp when wet. Marcus does most of his illustrations for children's books in watercolors. His best-known work to date is The Rainbow Fish, which has remained on bestseller lists across the United States since 1992. In 1983, he decided to dedicate more time to artistic pursuits, and began to write and illustrate his first book, The Sleepy Owl, which was published in 1986. Marcus Pfister was born in Berne, Switzerland, and began his career as a graphic artist in an advertising agency. ![]() |