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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling, Mary GrandPré
Date Read: June 2016
Genre: MG
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All Harry Potter wants is to get away from the Dursleys and go back to Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. But just as he's packing his bags, Harry receives a warning from a strange, impish creature named Dobby - who says that if Harry Potter returns to Hogwarts, disaster will strike.
And strike it does. For in Harry's second year at Hogwarts, fresh torments and horrors arise, including an outrageously stuck-up new professor, Gilderoy Lockheart, a spirit named Moaning Myrtle who haunts the girls' bathroom, and the unwanted attentions of Ron Weasley's younger sister, Ginny.
But each of these seem minor annoyances when the real trouble begins, and someone--or something--starts turning Hogwarts students to stone. Could it be Draco Malfoy, a more poisonous rival than ever? Could it possibly be Hagrid, whose mysterious past is finally told? Or could it be the one everyone at Hogwarts most suspects... Harry Potter himself.
Publisher: Arthur A. Levine Books
Series: Harry Potter UK #2
Also by this author: Harry Potter and The Sourcerer's Stone, Harry Potter and The Sourcerer's Stone, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child br> br>
Bought for Myself
Overall Rating: 5.00 +
Series Rating: 5.00 +
NOTE: June 26, 2011 marks my "Gosh I don't know how many times I have read this book" annual Re-Read! I will be changing all my ratings of this series to 5 because I have come to the conclusion that if I can re-read them this many times they are worthy of a 5!
What I Loved: The friendships! G. Lockheart (just because he was fabulously stupid) and Snape (which I read every scene he is in with a different perspective than the first time). I loved when Harry got a name to being able to talk to snakes and also got a history lesson on why it was not looked at kindly.
What I Liked: The more description we get of Hogwarts and how the school is run. I could probably say this about this exact same thing about the first 4 books but I really do think it adds a lot to the story. You realize that school is very important and that the lessons are for life!
Why I gave it a 5: This book had one of my favorite silly characters in G. Lockheart. Is he good? No. Is he evil? Not really. Is he fun to read? Absolutely! I must add I thought he was brilliantly acted in the film too 🙂
Who would I recommend it too: Honestly, anyone. This is a magical story for people of all ages.
This is one of my favorite series to read and love my annual re-reading of them. If you are one of the few that have not read the books–you really should whether your young or young at heart!
Updates from 2015
I am going to try and put down my read dates/book type (as I have them logged from previous years). I have nothing really to add to the review….
2011: HC US/Audiobook US 06/26/2011
2012: HC US/Audiobook US
2013: Ebook US/Audiobook US
2014: Ebook US/Audiobook UK
2015: Ebook UK 07/08/2015
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Charity information
Sportability provides sport and challenging pursuits for people with paralysis around the UK - free of charge.
Founded 1989
Mission statement
To provide sport and challenging pursuits for people with paralysis around the UK. People with conditions such as spinal cord injury, stroke, MS and others, are able to participate in a whole range of sports - scuba diving, sailing, archery, angling, abseiling, quad-biking, gliding, canoeing, clay pigeon shooting, go-karting, land-yachting, wheelchair tennis and many more.
It is not about creating elite sportsmen and women. It is about trying something new and different. It is about the adrenaline rush, putting the buzz back into a life corralled by the wheelchair, taking the 'dis' out of disability and focusing on ability. To inspire the thought, "If I can do this, what else can I achieve? "
Sportability aims to:
- To provide a greater range of sports (indoor and out) in the existing regions; and to offer programmes in more regions. Simply put, we want people with paralysis to have access to sport throughout the UK.
Established: August 1989
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|Chief of a Company
|March 15, T.A. 3019
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Grimbold was a rider of Rohan, who dwelt in Grimslade. He was a veteran of both Battles of the Fords of Isen and the Battle of the Pelennor Fields.
Grimbold was a valiant captain under the Second Marshal. He was instrumental in the defense of the Fords of Isen; after his Marshal Théodred fell, he managed to hold the eyot in the river until Elfhelm arrived. Soon after, the troops of Isengard left; their mission was over with the death of the Marshal.
Grimbold and his company were scattered after the Second Battle of the Fords of Isen, though most of his troops survived. When Gandalf arrived, he sent Elfhelm to protect Edoras and Grimbold to join Erkenbrand, who was making his way to the Hornburg in an attempt to lift the siege.
After the victory at Helm's Deep and the lighting of the Warning beacons of Gondor, Théoden had to quickly reorganize his troops. The elderly Erkenbrand commanded the defense of Rohan, while Grimbold was elected to take over command of the muster of the West-fold based on the valour he had shown at earlier battles.[1] At the battle, Grimbold fought on the eastern side of the Pelennor Fields, where he was slain. He was remembered in the Song of the Mounds of Mundburg as "doughty".[2]
Portrayal in adaptations
2003: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King:
- Grimbold is briefly glimpsed twice in this film. The first time is as Theoden arrives at Dunharrow and calls out to Grimbold. In this scene he appears as an elderly man in the armour of the guard of Edoras. Later on in the film as the Rohirrim arrive at the Pelennor Fields Theoden gives Grimbold orders and tells him to "Go forth and fear not darkness!". In these scenes he was played by Bruce Phillips.
2007: The Lord of the Rings Online:
- Grimbold can be found in his encampment in eastern Healthfells in the region of the Gap of Rohan.
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Word of God and Salesian life by Fr Juan Jose' Bartolome' SDB
28th Sunday Year B. Lectio divina on Mk 10,17-30
In its present form, this account illustrates the theme of the absolute availability required of the disciples of Jesus. Doing God's will from childhood is not enough to become a companion of Jesus as he journeys towards his death. Renouncing everything that gives security, even what is good, is a prior condition for following Jesus. He does not want people who have other commitments, who think that they should comply with other demands that are not of the kingdom.
Being perfect is not something one can earn. Renouncing one's goods is not possible by one's own efforts, or just through enthusiasm for Jesus, the good Master. To be able to renounce everything, we need the grace of God. If we leave everything to follow Jesus, it is because we have been chosen by him. It is not enough to want to be a disciple of Jesus. We must be chosen by him. And we are chosen, not because we are good, but in order to become good, not to receive many goods but to reach the Kingdom.
It is not necessary to be good already in order to follow Jesus, but it is absolutely necessary not to prefer anything to him, if we are to be his companions. We do not renounce everything in order to possess Jesus, but because we already possess him.
17 Jesus was setting out on a journey when a man ran up, knelt before him and put this question to him, 'Good master, what must I do to inherit eternal life?' 18 Jesus said to him, 'Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone. 19 You know the commandments: You must not kill; You must not commit adultery; You must not steal; You shall not bring false witness; You must not defraud; Honour your father and mother.' 20 And he said to him, 'Master, I have kept all these from my earliest days.' 21 Jesus looked steadily at him and loved him, and he said, 'There is one thing you lack. Go and sell everything you own and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.' 22 But his face fell at these words and he went away sad, for he was a man of great wealth. 23 Jesus looked round and said to his disciples, 'How hard it is for those who have riches to enter the kingdom of God!' 24 The disciples were astounded by these words, but Jesus insisted, 'My children,' he said to them, 'how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God! 25 It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.' 26 They were more astonished than ever. 'In that case,' they said to one another, 'who can be saved?' 27 Jesus gazed at them. 'For men,' he said, 'it is impossible, but not for God: because everything is possible for God . 28 Peter took this up. 'What about us?' he asked him. 'We have left everything and followed you.' 29 Jesus said, 'I tell you solemnly, there is no one who has left house, brothers, sisters, father, children or land for my sake and for the sake of the gospel 30 who will not be repaid a hundred times over, houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and land – not without persecutions — now in this present time and, in the world to come, eternal life.'
I. READ: understand what the text is saying, focusing on how is says it
In his account of the journey of Jesus to Jerusalem (Mk 10,1 – 52), after the instruction given to the disciples (Mk 9,33 – 50) which follows the second foretelling of his passion (Mk 9,30 -32) Mark presents Jesus for the last time in Galilee as teacher of the crowd and of the disciples. In this scene (Mk 10,17 -31) Jesus teaches clearly the incompatibility of riches and discipleship. The wealth of the good disciple is to be found only in the Master he follows, and, in order to follow him, he will have to leave everything he owns. Jesus will not allow his disciples to retain their wealth in competition with him. He asks his disciples for a total commitment.
This is the only vocation story in the gospel that does not evoke a positive response. That must be borne in mind. The memory of the meeting of Jesus with the good young man, who happened also to be rich, served as a guideline to the early Christian community on the relationship between riches and discipleship. The early Christians were able to identify with those first disciples who had abandoned everything to follow Jesus. Their call was not the result of a life of obedience to the law, but a response to the personal love of Jesus.
The story is skilfully crafted and is told in all three synoptics (Mk 10, 17-31; Mt 19,16-30; Lk 18,18 -30). Mark's account pays more attention to the affection Jesus had for the young man (Mk 10,18.104.22.168.26). The story is presented, essentially, as an ongoing conversation in which Jesus is always present. According to who he is speaking to – the unnamed young man, the disciples or Peter – we can divide the episode into three scenes: the meeting of the young man with Jesus (Mk 10,17b-20), the comment of Jesus addressed to the disciples (Mk 10,23 -27), and the disciples' reaction to the radical demand of Jesus (Mk 10,28 -31).
The conversation between Jesus and the rich man (Mk 10,17b -22) begins rather abruptly. On his journey, Jesus is approached by a man who is not interested in Jesus but in himself and his own salvation. He asks Jesus for nothing except advice (Mk 10,17.20). The meeting takes place at the request of the stranger. Jesus responds to the concerns of the man who approaches him, but only apparently. In reality, he leads him skilfully from self-preoccupation and calls him to perfection. From being a stranger, he becomes a beloved friend.
When the rich man had gone away, Jesus commented on his failure to the disciples (Mk 10,23 -27). The description opens and closes with the mention of Jesus looking, first at the rich man, and then at the disciples (Mk 10,23.27). He insists, in a kind of catechesis, on how difficult it is to enter the Kingdom (Mk 10,23.24.27). The disciples were astounded at first (Mk 10,24), and then interested (Mk 10,26). This teaching is addressed to them alone and, for once, they understand correctly. It is difficult for men, but it is made possible by God and only by God.
Peter expresses the disciples' reaction to the radical teaching of Jesus (Mk 10,28 -31). The personal problem of the young man simply disappears from the story. Peter takes it for granted that he has already done what the rich man found impossible, and succeeds in getting from Jesus a promise of reward, for now and for ever. Anything he leaves – and there are several things listed – will be recompensed generously. Interestingly, it is not just property or belongings that are mentioned, and they are not even in first place. There are other things to be left, apart from material belongings.
It is not observance of the law that leads to sharing life with the Master. Being without fault from childhood is no guarantee that someone will remain with Jesus. Personal goodness is not the best preparation for following Jesus. Being good already is not sufficient to make one a disciple. The rich man had always observed all the commandments. Jesus loved him and invited him to follow him, at the cost of unheard of renunciation and painful detachment. He was to give up all his goods and give everything to the poorest. Jesus is good only in the eyes of those who have no other goods. We cannot have Jesus as our good master, if we hold on to other goods as our own.
II. MEDITATE: apply what the text says to life
The young man's question to Jesus was, without doubt, well-intentioned. He wanted to know what he had to do to gain heaven, and he did not delay in putting the question to the good Master he met on the road. It is all the more surprising, then, that the answer he received from Jesus was a bit strange; "There is no reason to call anybody good except God alone. If you know the commandments you will know what to do to enter eternal life." If any of us received a similar response, we would immediately lose all interest in following a Master who paid so little attention to us. To Jesus' surprise, the young man continued the conversation. "I have kept all the commandments since my earliest days" (Mk 10,20). This confession was bound to attract Jesus' attention and, the evangelist says, "he looked steadily at him and loved him." Jesus fixed his attention and his heart on that young man who was able to declare publicly that he had always respected God.
As we read the gospel, we may feel a bit envious of that young man who was able to win the Lord's affection in what was only a fleeting encounter. Maybe we should also feel a bit ashamed. Even though we have been following Jesus for many years, we are unable to say what he said. The disciple of many years, who has been a Christian all his life, cannot say, as the young man said, that he has always done perfectly the will of God from the time of his childhood. It is not surprising that we, unlike that young man, do not feel ourselves the object of the loving gaze of Jesus, nor do we feel we have a special place in his heart. Jesus reserves his love and his attention for those who do the will of God, and are still not satisfied but ask what more can they do. Anyone who does all he ought to do, and wants to do even more for God, can always count on the affection and attention of Jesus.
Instead of complaining then, that God neglects us, we ought to resolve to respond better to his wishes and to live according to his will. If we want to earn his love, we must love his will. Anyone who wants to feel loved by God must desire God's will. Like Jesus in the gospel, God cannot resist people who have never resisted Him. He loves those who have never disobeyed him. He never ceases to gaze lovingly on those who have always contemplated him. Jesus felt attracted to that young man who was able to acknowledge the goodness of his life. In the same way, God falls in love with anyone who loves him enough to do his will always, and still feels he has not yet done enough.
And as proof of the love he feels for those who obey, like Jesus with the rich young man, God normally reveals what they still must do, the renunciation they have not yet made, the sacrifice they had always been avoiding, even if they have always obeyed God's law. God invites them to follow him personally, to share more closely in his life, to partake of all that God possesses, and therefore to renounce every other inheritance.
God normally demands, as Jesus did of the young man who was so observant of the law, the renunciation of all other goods so that He alone can be their treasure. He wants to occupy the place in our hearts and in our lives that is occupied by other goods. Sadly, the young man preferred to hold on to his possessions instead of choosing God as his supreme good. He had the goodness to do always the will of God but was unable to renounce his possessions to win the God he already loved. That was his great tragedy!
He could not stay with Jesus because he could not live without his many riches. All his obedience and the love he received from Jesus were of little use to him. His possessions had not kept him from being a good believer and observing God's law in every detail, but they did keep him from being a disciple of Jesus, his companion on the journey and his friend for the whole of his life.
There is an interesting detail in this gospel scene. We come to know that the young man was very rich only after he had refused to sell all he had. The young man of the Gospel who had been faithful all his life and observed the law, and still wanted to do more to gain salvation, was very rich and wanted to remain so. He considered his possessions more important than following the good Master. And so, this faithful servant of God whom Jesus loved, endangered his salvation by clinging to his possessions. It does not matter how little or how much he owned. The things he possessed in this life were enough to keep him from following the one who loved him, and to endanger his eternal life. The goods that Jesus asks us to give up are not always material possessions, even though Jesus here refers explicitly to material wealth. Anything we put our trust in that is not of God, any person or any thing, any sentiment or plan, that we commit our future to, anything we are unwilling to renounce, even when clinging to it means denying God – these are the things that Jesus wants us to get rid of as soon as possible. As the young man learned, if we want to follow Jesus, neither good will nor exact observance of the law are sufficient.
To follow Jesus we have to let go of everything that binds us to anything else, to detach ourselves from everything that keeps us from following him free of baggage. Jesus does not want in his company disciples laden with burdens that they cannot let go of, possessed by their goods, preoccupied about holding on to things they will one day have to leave behind on this earth. If we want him to be our only good, and our surest treasure, we must carry no provisions for the journey nor rely on perishable goods.
It would be a mistake to think that Jesus does not address to us today an invitation similar to that given to the young man he loved. If we are not yet as good as the rich young man was, that does not excuse us from seeking him so that, as a good Master, he can show us what we ought to do. We may think we are not rich, or that we have not enough, but that does not exclude us from the call of Jesus to let go of the things we think we own and which keep us far away from Jesus and the service we owe him. We continue to live our Christian lives accumulating more and more riches, with our more urgent needs satisfied to the full every day, but poor in the things of God and with little joy in our lives.
We know that the young man was very rich because he was unable to give up his fortune. We know also that he lost the opportunity to stay with Jesus, and he went away sad. He had lost the joy in life. He held on to his possessions and he lost God. The worst thing that could happen to us as disciples of Jesus would be to lose Jesus because we are unable to let go of our possessions, even though we may not be as rich as the young man. Our meagre possessions could be the cause of our perdition. All the things that we have to renounce to follow Jesus today, all the things that become an obstacle or hindrance to following Jesus today, are the things we must renounce in order not to lose God. These are the things we have to give up if we want to live in joy and to live with God.
Undoubtedly this renunciation is extremely difficult! The disciples accompanying Jesus understood that, because they had left all to follow him. Jesus revealed the secret to them – God makes possible what is impossible to man. What may seem less good to us is made better by God. Anyone who knows that his only good is God, and his treasure is in heaven, cannot live without God and is willing to pay any price and to sacrifice everything for the sake of God, in order not to lose him forever. As for ourselves, when will we understand this? When will we begin to make God our treasure, the one good that we cannot do without?


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I regularly work with other healthcare practitioners to facilitate patients' recovery from injury or chronic pain. I have a Holistic approach to working with people with complex neurological conditions; providing therapy in various treatment settings including clinics and their private and care homes. ! have extensive experience of working with Case Managers and Solicitors regarding patients to provide therapy, alongside other healthcare professionals, for people with complex physical and cognitive problems. I work with a wide range of conditions including Stroke, Brain Injury, Spinal Injury, Spastic Paraparesis and Cerebral Palsy.
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Sure, there is the ultra-exclusive Wednesday night party at the Monterey Jet Center to which you can never hope to be invited unless you were actually born on your own private jet. And there's the Quail thing for however many dollars that costs, but if you didn't already sign up for that, you are probably not going to have any caviar again this year, either. And then there's the granddaddy of them all, the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance on Sunday. But those posers pale in comparison to this newest beauty near the beach.
Ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce to you the latest, greatest and what promises to be the absolute worst event of the entire Monterey car weekend, the Concours d'Ignorance: An Automotive Celebration of the Mundane and the Truly Awful.
"It's a bad idea whose time has come," said organizer Alan Galbraith.
"The local Pinto club is onboard with a couple of very nicely restored cars," said Galbraith. "I am meeting with Jay Lamm, the promoter for the 24 Hours of LeMons, on Wednesday to discuss the special display of 'competition cars.' The Dirt Bag Challenge promoters are interested in the 'Ignorance of the Motorcycle' display."
The lists go on and on. When it comes to the truly terrible, the possibilities are endless.
"Anything mundane or awful: Azteks, Citroëns, Yugos, if there are any of them out there, Pacers, Gremlins, Cordobas with the original Corinthian leather . . ."
Galbraith's dad, Art, was a hot-rodder who went to high school with Kenny and Wally Parks, raced jalopies on California dirt tracks and set records at Bonneville on a Triumph motorcycle. The younger Galbraith worked on the family hot rods throughout childhood. He strayed away during a career in television and movies, then bought Billetproof car shows (www.billetproof.com) and puts on four of those a year. Those shows celebrate "a time when hot rods and customs were about what you could do in your garage rather than with your checkbook. A time when hot-rodding was a little dirtier, less polished and still experimental," says the promotional material. "No billet-clad fluff mobiles!"
Now, just as Galbraith's Billetproof shows came about as a reaction to high-priced hot rods built by somebody else, the Concours d'Ignorance is designed to serve as the antodote to shows such as Pebble Beach.
"I've been going [to Pebble] 18 years now," said Galbraith. "It's changed, it's grown over the years and become more important, and rightfully so. I mean, it's the pinnacle."
But . . .
"If we're celebrating the best, there has to be a place to celebrate the worst," he added.
The actual place is not worked out yet. In fact, very little has been worked out yet.
"This is still kind of in the formative stages. Jay Lamm said, 'What's your plan?' I said, 'Plan? I don't have any plan.'"
Galbraith said he doesn't think there's anything going on the Thursday before the big weekend on the Monterey Peninsula--that would be Thursday, Aug. 14--so the Concours d'Ignorance will probably be held then. Likewise, the location is still open, too. It could be at the fairgrounds. Or somewhere else.
"The event may take place in a grocery-store parking lot or a schoolyard. We'll see," Galbraith said.
And while Jaguar, Mercedes-Benz and Rolls-Royce may have already committed their promotional budgets to various Monterey happenings, Galbraith is appropriately creative when it comes to lining up sponsors for such an unusual event.
"J-B Weld and Pick-n-Pull," he suggested. "Or even eBay Motors."
Perfect. Sponsors, funnel your budgets to [email protected] Everyone else, keep checking back at www.concoursdignorance.com.
I hope it works out. Surely it will.
"The whole idea of actually doing this as a real, viable thing is only a couple of weeks old," Galbraith said.
So you are present at the birth of a brilliant idea.
Once he gets back from the Billetproof show in Detroit on June 7, Galbraith is going to concentrate on getting everything lined up for the C d'I. He'll be working on it at the Billetproof show in Detroit, too.
"I need to find contact info for the Pacer and Gremlin clubs. They've been hard to track down," he said.
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Beyond the Dark Place: A #HoldOnToTheLight Post
We traffic in emotion and internal monologue, in the interpretation of sensation and the vagaries of mood and feeling. Most of the time — at least ideally — we can separate our own emotions and thoughts from those of our … Continue reading
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The Virtual Tour Goes to the Library
I discovered worlds there. As a kid, I was fascinated by nature and the Apollo moon missions, and so I took out every book I could find on birds and mammals, rockets and space. Thanks to the librarian — I've … Continue reading
Posted in Appearances, Business of publishing, Dead Man's Reach, Family, Fun, kids, Novels, Publicity, Publishing, Reading, Thieftaker, travel, Writing, Writing Life Tagged Australia, blog tour, Case Files of Justis Fearsson, David B. Coe, Dead Man's Reach, family, His Father's Eyes, kids, libraries. reading, publicity, publishing, Thieftaker, Travel, Word Nerds Comments Off on The Virtual Tour Goes to the Library
My Mom
There was a time when I was in graduate school . . . I was working on a paper — a big one, the cornerstone project of one of the classes I was taking at the time — and struggling … Continue reading
Guitar in the Evening
So, I've started giving guitar lessons to my younger daughter. She loves music, she sings beautifully, and she's a talented writer and poet. I think that if she can learn guitar, she'll start writing songs, which will give her an … Continue reading
Little Things
Sometimes it's the little things that get us through a rough day — a warm exchange of messages with our teenage kid, time to chat with dear friends at a slow signing, the sound of a guitar with brand new … Continue reading
Where Do the Years Go?
Earlier today I put one of them on a plane to Germany for her semester abroad. The other one is already getting letters from college admission offices. I swear, I don't know where the years went. They are smart, funny, … Continue reading
Two Days on the Blog Tour
I was on the road yesterday, driving home from North Carolina after a fun and successful signing tour that began with a book launch party at ConGregate in Winston-Salem, and then took me to Rock Hill, SC, Gastonia, NC, Richmond, … Continue reading
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A Post About Narrative and Life, At Magical Words
Today's post can be found at http://magicalwords.net, the group blog on the business and craft of writing fantasy that I maintain, under the name David B. Coe, with fellow authors Faith Hunter, Misty Massey, Mindy Klasky, John Hartness, Kalayna Price, … Continue reading
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A Post About Balance in the Writing Life
Today I have a post up at the SFNovelists blogsite, a site I maintain in cooperation with approximately 100 other published authors of fantasy and science fiction. The post (written under David B. Coe) is called "Six Non-Writing Things That … Continue reading
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Music From My Kids
I used to tell my daughters that no good music had been produced since sometime in the late 1970s. I didn't really believe it, but they were younger then, and at the time they were listening to some truly horrid … Continue reading
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November 6, 2011
NOTHING COSTS MORE THAN IT USED TO:List of free Prime eligible Kindle e-books (David Carnoy, November 5, 2011, C-Net)
In case you missed it, Amazon recently launched the Kindle Owners' Lending Library, which allows Amazon Prime members to check out up to one e-book a month for free with no due date.
The only problem is that it wasn't so easy to find all the more than 5,000 titles in the Kindle Store that qualify for free borrowing. However, as one might expect, a somewhat helpful link has cropped up in the blogosphere.
Click on this link to get to the list.
Posted by oj at November 6, 2011 8:31 AM
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02 Mar Charlatan's Magic: Cover Art Reveal
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I wanted the cover of this book to be dark and dirty, like the cobbled streets of Rathlera late at night. The shadowy figure of Ming Loo was always the right choice for me as far as who to feature. It isn't simply because he is the titular charlatan. His plotting is what drives the other characters to change themselves, for better or worse.
"Do you believe in magic?"
He offers up the amulet. It looks tempting.
Please share feedback at #CharlatansMagic or in the comments below.
Charlatan's Magic is available April 1!
The perfect read for April Fools.
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If you take this attitude now, as time goes by you're going to find yourself completely isolated. You're going to want to hide your husband more and more and since you're always together, you're going to be in hiding as well.
|Dr Ruth Westheimer
Q. I find myself trying to preserve my 63-year-old husband's dignity by NOT divulging information about his difficulties to our family and close friends. As I result, I am presenting a false front about how well we are doing.
I almost feel like I'm leading two lives: the brave face that I wear in public and the tearful one this I often wear behind closed doors here at home.
How do I go about reconciling this?
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A. While I understand your reaction, and in the case of some crises that one might face I would react the same way but you can't go down this road in the case of Alzheimer's.
With Alzheimer's you know that the situation is going to progressively get worse. That your husband's mental facilities are going to fail is inevitable and it has nothing to do with dignity. It's not his fault, it's a disease. And since time isn't on your side you must use the time you have to prepare.
There are many ways to prepare for the future that you are cutting off. Most importantly you aren't giving your family – his family- time to say goodbye while they still can.
If you have grandchildren they need to spend as much time with their grandfather as possible now when they can still react to each other. If they're of a certain maturity they have to be told that grandpa is sick and that they have to make a priority of spending time with him. They may prefer to be with their friends but their friends will be there while their grandpa won't. And whatever their reaction now, believe me later on when they're older, they'll appreciate these moments they had with their grandfather. You want them to build up memories of what a great guy he is while he can still be that great guy. And you don't want to spring on them someone whose mind is no longer what it was. Better for them to see the gradual decline and get used to it.
But you need to prepare too. You need to make plans of what you'll be doing in the future when taking care of him will become more of a burden.
For example, now is the time to start looking at nursing homes not when you're all worn out and faced with the need to send him somewhere. Remember knowing your options doesn't mean you have to send him away but you have to be realistic that the time may come when there won't be a choice and that time won't be the best one to start looking.
I list many other ways that you can prepare in my book. Please read it because I do think it will help you.
The last point that I want to make here is that if you take this attitude now, as time goes by you're going to find yourself completely isolated. You're going to want to hide your husband more and more and since you're always together, you're going to be in hiding as well.
Keep in mind, he might outlive you so that would mean the rest of your days would be spent in utter misery, almost as walled in by Alzheimer's as he will be. You can't let that happen.
In her book Dr Ruth presents coping strategies for both the practical problems and emotional stresses of Alzheimer's care.Note: Dr. Ruth has agreed to answer questions about Alzheimer's caregiving from readers in the Alzheimer's Reading Room. You should confine your question to problems associated with caregiving. If you have questions on medicine or medical treatments you should consult with your doctor. You can enter your question in the comments area below, and we will forward it to Dr. Ruth for her response.
Dr. Ruth shows you how to avoid caregiver burnout; get effective support from family and friends; resolve family disputes; maintain your relationship with a spouse or parent with Alzheimer's; manage behavior; make your home safe; and deal effectively with doctors, care providers and facilities.
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After-dark inquiry: Angie Pontani
The veteran burly-Q performer gears up for the ninth annual New York Burlesque Festival.
Mon Sep 26 2011
Before the first New York Burlesque Festival, in 2002, neither Pontani Productions, which you run with your sister Tara, nor the event's coproducer, Jen Gapay from Thirsty Girl Productions, had ever undertaken a venture quite like this. What made you think you could pull it off?
I was pretty confident that we could do this, but like most things that I did back then, I didn't really know enough not to be confident. And there was so much enthusiasm around the festival. The minute we announced that we were gonna do this, we got a tremendous response. And that response came from not only the burlesque community, but also people that were coming to the shows. Everyone was just so excited about it and into it. There was this momentum of enthusiasm from the start that we just kind of rode. And failure was not an option.
The popularity of burlesque seems to go through phases, but at that time, it seemed to be on a real upswing. Was that an impetus for starting the festival?
Absolutely. There seemed to be a market for it. And New York is the greatest city in the world; there's tons of burlesque here, there are tons of venues, there are tons of New Yorkers who want to see burlesque shows, and there are tons of tourists who want to see burlesque shows. So it seemed like a pretty good idea!
The festival now has scores of performers spread out over four nights. Was the first edition quite as sprawling as it is now?
Oh no, not at all. Well, to us it was just as big as it is now, really. But our rooms were a lot smaller. Back then, we had our opening night party at the Slipper Room, for instance.
Which fit maybe 150 people on a good night.
Exactly. Still, we were very happy when we sold it out. But this year our opening party is at the Bell House, which fits what, like 600 people? And all of the other nights are now at much bigger venues than that first year as well. Our venues have grown every year, really, and our numbers have grown and grown.
The festival always features plenty of local talent, but you seem to attract more and more performers from around the country and around the world every year.
And that's one of the most exciting things about this. There are lots of New York performers, of course; honestly, I think New York has more burlesque performers than any other city. But we do try to bring people in from all over. It makes the festival so exciting. And when you put all these performers together, you can see how they're stylistically influenced by where they come from, which is really cool.
So there are regional burlesque differences?
Oh, yeah. New Orleans has it's own style, for example; it's very traditional, very bluesy. Chicago is very theatrical, and the Las Angeles is really over-the-top glamorous. It's different everywhere. That's even more true of people that come in from other countries—those performers usual bring something into their performance that's indicative of their culture in some way, which is really cool. Cherry Typhoon—who's from Japan, and has an amazing energy and is a total crowd favorite—will usually come in wearing a kimono and do something with silk fans or something. A couple of years ago we had a girl from Scotland who did this little traditional dance—in a burlesque fashion, obviously—that was so cool.
Between corralling all these performers, dealing with multiple venues, doing publicity and everything else that goes into putting the festival together—not to mention that you're performing as well—it seems like it must be a mind-boggling amount of work involved.
It's a big, big job. After four years, we have our formula down; we know what we have to do. But there are a considerable amount of hours that we have to put into this to make it happen. We start working on the festival pretty much right after the last one ends. The minute this one is over, we'll meet, talk about what we can do to improve next year's festival and get right to work on it. But we've gotten to the point where we're not just doing it by ourselves anymore. We actually employ some people to help us, so we're not doing absolutely everything. We're not flyering the town ourselves anymore.
Which, I'm guessing, you actually were doing in the beginning.
Totally. We were walking all over the Lower East Side with our granny cart full of postcards.
Do you find that the performers are bringing their A game to the festival?
People get so excited to come to New York, and have the opportunity to perform to a sold-out venue in New York—so yeah, they're definitely bringing their A game. It's really a dream come true for a lot of people. And this is also a chance for the performers to network with these people from all over the world, a lot of who produce shows as well. So people are not only trying to knock out the audience, but to knock out their fellow performers. People debut new numbers, bring these wild props and just generally go all-out.
You seem to have a bit more boylesque performers this year than in the past.
Boylesque is getting really, really popular, and I think we probably have about a dozen boylesque people this year. Those guys really get the audience to go wild; some of these guys are absolutely fantastic. When you're at a burlesque show, you're generally gonna see a lot of acts over the course of the night, and you need a bit of variation. Boylesque definitely fits that bill. We also have live music, circus-style performers and some other things—it helps to keep the audience refreshed and alive. It's not just striptease, striptease, striptease, striptease. Not that there would be anything wrong with that.
Back in the early days of the festival, I think a lot of people looked at the burlesque scene as something of a novelty, but now it seems like an accepted, totally normal part of nightlife.
Yeah! Even I thought, when I first was getting started, that this was gonna be like the swing scene: It's gonna rock for a couple of years, and then it's gonna disappear. It has so not done that—it's just grown and grown and grown. I think it will continue to, and I find that totally exciting. I've talked to a lot of the older ladies who were performing in the '50s and the '60s—people like Dixie Evans and Tempest Storm—and they all say things like "Burlesque is an original form of American theater, and it deserves its place in the annals of theatrical history." And I kind of feel that, nowadays, burlesque is actually getting to that point again.
That might even be truer now than it was then, in a way. Burlesque used to be run by male impresarios who, I assume, were mainly out to make a buck. Now it seems like the performers themselves are in charge.
Burlesque is like 97 percent lady land nowadays. It's run by the ladies, for the ladies. But the men enjoy it too!
Are you ever surprised that you've been able to make burlesque your life's work?
Oh, absolutely. I'm constantly surprised. Really, I never intended this to happen. My sisters and I worked hard and kept it rolling, but I'm still kind of shocked about all of this. I'm blessed to have such a ridiculously fun job.
The New York Burlesque Festival is at on Thursday, Sept. 29; on Friday, Sept. 30; B.B. King Blues Club & Grill on Saturday Oct 1; and on Sunday, Oct. 2. Go to thenewyorkburlesquefestival.com for more info.


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December 17, 2006
Monumental Brass Quintet
St. Louis Choir
Jessica Marie Swink, soprano
Christopher Rhodovi, baritone
Maria Augusta Pannunzi, flute
Francesca Meli, guitar
Marvin Mills, organ
Greg Herron, timpani
Procession and Sing-along
O Come All Ye Faithful, arranged by Marvin Mills
Jessica Marie Swink
Ave Maria by J. S. Bach and Charles Gounod
Monumental Brass Quintet
Carol of the Bells by Mykola Leontovich
Coventry Carol
El Cant del Ocells, arranged by E. W. Schlabach
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, arranged by Sam Pilafian
O Come All Ye Faithful, arranged by Sam Pilafian
Maria Augusta Pannunzi and Francesca Meli
Siciliana in G Minor by J. S. Bach
Allegro from Flute Sonata op. 1 no. 4 in A Minor by G. F. Handel
Pastorale from Christmas Concerto op. 6 no. 8 by Arcangelo Corelli
Tritsch-Tratsch-Polka by Johann Strauss, Jr.
Christopher Rhodovi, Jessica Marie Swink,
Monumental Brass Quintet,
St. Louis Choir
Selections from Messiah by George Frideric Handel
- For behold, darkness shall cover the earth
- The people that walked in darkness
- Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion
- Hallelujah
Marvin Mills
Christmas by Gaston M. Dethier
Jessica Marie Swink and Marvin Mills
O Holy Night by Adolphe Adam
Maria Augusta Pannunzi and Francesca Meli
Histoire du Tango by Astor Piazzolla
- Tango 1930
- Tango 1960
Aguinaldo (Two Venezuelan Christmas Songs)
Christopher Rhodovi, Baritone
A Christmas Confection, arranged by J. F. Dausch
- The Christmas Song
- Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
- I'll Be Home for Christmas
I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas by Irving Berlin
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Attractive design. Strong reception. Very fast LTE speeds. Fun, easy to use OS.
Lacks some popular apps from other platforms. Camera isn't the greatest.
Bottom Line
The Nokia Lumia 900 for AT&T is a powerful, easy-to-use Windows Phone. It's great, as long as you don't need Words With Friends or some other apps you might find on an iPhone or an Android phone.
The best Windows Phone so far, Nokia's Lumia 900 ($99 with a two-year AT&T contract) is a big, attractively designed slab of fun. We recommend it especially to first-time smartphone owners and Facebook addicts, although the lack of some key apps, including a few popular casual games, still keep Android and iOS phones in the lead for most buyers.
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The Lumia 900 comes in black, white, or cyan. Don't get black. The other two colors highlight the phone's elegant Northern European design, while the black one just looks like another black slab. The rolled edges, flat bottom, and matte back really help the Lumia 900 stand apart from similar smartphones, and you see these features much more with the white or blue models.
At 5.0 by 2.7 by .45 inches (HWD) and 5.6 ounces, this is a big phone, on par with other large phones like the Editor's Choice Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket for AT&T ($199, 4.5 stars). I found it usable single-handed, though. The 4.3-inch screen offers a 800-by-480 resolution, and Nokia's ClearBlack Display technology has very deep blacks and saturated colors. There's just one occasional odd note: Skin oils on the front glass can give some white areas a rainbow effect.
With excellent reception on AT&T's network, I was able to connect calls with the Lumia 900 in places the Skyrocket couldn't. Voice quality wasn't quite as good as with the Skyrocket, though. The Lumia's speaker is tuned louder, which makes it easier to understand quiet talkers, but introduces distortion with loud inputs. Sound through the microphone was generally clear on the other end of calls, with a little bit of background noise coming through. The speakerphone is loud enough for outdoor use.
Windows Phone 7's voice command system is excellent. You can trigger it from a Bluetooth headset—our Jawbone Icon ($99, 4 stars) worked perfectly—and use it not only to dial the phone, but to do Web or local area searches.
The phone connects via HSPA+ 21 and LTE networks and it has the right bands for AT&T's and foreign systems, but not T-Mobile's HSPA. Data speeds were spectacular on AT&T's LTE network in New York City, with downloads ranging from 13-20Mbps and uploads in the 5-7Mbps range. I got consistently faster speed test speeds on the Lumia 900 than on the Skyrocket. Also, you can use the phone as a wireless hotspot with the appropriate plan.
The Lumia 900 also connects via Wi-Fi 802.11n, and had no problem connecting to WPA2-protected networks during testing. Talk time was very good at 7 hours, 17 minutes, and my Lumia lasted more than a day on standby.
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The Lumia 900 runs on a 1.4GHz Qualcomm APQ8055 (single-core, not dual-core) processor. The OS is well-tuned for the CPU, though: I didn't find any problems with responsiveness, and the Lumia 900 split our browser benchmarks with faster Android phones.
Windows Phone is bold, easy to use, well-executed, fun, and social. It doesn't look like the competition, and it puts Facebook and Twitter at its core. As I say in our full Windows Phone 7.5 Mango review, "It's full of people-centric features that make it easier to stay in touch with friends and family, to communicate, and to share ideas. It's easier to use than Android, and in many ways slicker than Apple's iOS."
Windows Phone owners tend to love the platform. The OS won our Reader's Choice award, and readers rated it as better for texting, email, Web browsing, and gaming than Android. In our experience, it's smoother and more stable than many Android devices.
The platform now has 65,000 apps, including a great collection of exclusive games. But if you're specifically looking for key social games that new smartphone owners may want to play with their friends, you'll run into trouble. Windows Phone lacks all the Zynga "With Friends" games, as well as Draw Something, Pandora, Angry Birds Rio, Temple Run, and Cut the Rope.
You won't be bored. You can play Doodle Jump, Super Monkey Ball, Sonic the Hedgehog 4, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, Angry Birds, Fruit Ninja, and thousands of other games. High-end titles include Assassin's Creed and Sims 3. But if your friends are all playing Draw Something, well, you're out. The problem isn't that there aren't aren't great apps. It's that there aren't the specific apps your non-Windows-Phone-owning friends are using.


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Clubs are made with different materials for the shafts. The material determines how the club will react and how much flexibility there is in the club. Graphite shafts are lightweight and can help add speed to the swing. They have a softer flex and are a good choice for junior players as well as women. Steel shafts are stiff and offer no give. Yet steel is more durable and stronger.
Here are some tips to keep your golf clubs in perfect condition. A top quality set of clubs that are provided with care and maintenance may last for a long time. Many golf players who miss a shot will sometimes take out their frustrations and anger on their clubs. Even though often it is unintentional, golf players must always mind their actions on the course. Their outbursts may cause severe and more damages to their pricey golf sticks compared to those that are brought on by normal play.
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During the weekend of September 18th, five students and three faculty went on a trip to visit the MINERVA project in Arizona. MINERVA (MINiature Exoplanet Radial Velocity Array) is an array of four telescopes located at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory. "The purpose of the trip," Dr. Swift remarked, "was to explore the possibility of Thacher establishing a relationship with the [collaboration]."
While MINERVA was located at CalTech, Dr. Swift was one of the project managers. During the summer, he met with the principal investigator, John Johnson, at Harvard. After telling Mr. Johnson about Thacher, its brilliant astronomy club, and its "uncharacteristically capable" students, they both agreed to bring a small group of proficient students to help out with tasks around the observatory and to see whether or not they had the skills and the maturity to be a part of such significant work.
In Arizona, the principal investigator joined the students—Katie O'Neill, Doug Klink, Asher Wood, Natalie Osuna, and Maya Wilcox— and faculty— Mr. Meyer, Dr. Swift, and Dr. Vyhnal—and gave them a full tour of the facility. The faculty and staff then assigned the students many duties to help with the project's operations. After splitting into groups and delegating the tasks, the students were eager to start.
Three main jobs were essential to observatory's operations. One of the most important responsibilities was to document the entire shutdown and reopening sequence for the array of telescopes. By recording the sequence in its entirety, the Thacher students documented a safe, reliable way to shutdown and reopen the array. Due to the Arizona monsoons, closing the array is a crucial task, and, thanks to the students, MINERVA will be able to protect their equipment without affecting its functions.
Another group of students was in charge of documenting the steps for removing and replacing instruments on two ports of each of the ten telescopes. They removed the camera and recorded the actions needed to place it back onto the telescope in a sound way. In addition, because the fifth telescope was not integrated, the students worked on troubleshooting the Python code that was in charge of the telescope's functions by reading through the code and finding inconsistencies.
In response to the Thacher students' and faculties' incredible work, the project staff opened the a night of observation. When asked about the entire experience, Katie O'Neill, head of the Thacher observatory, replied, "Being up on the mountain with these experts in the field, and being able to learn from and ask questions of them, gave us an incredible glimpse into what it's like to be an astronomer. When we were able to use one of the telescopes to look out into the night sky, it really just capped off an incredible trip."
The Thacher students' dedication to the work they accomplished while at the observatory and the maturity and competence they carried astounded the staff. In the final conversation with Dr. Swift, the project manager, Jason Eastman, stated, "I think this is the start of a beautiful relationship." Due to the amazing minds of the faculty and students that attended the trip, Thacher once again showed the professionalism, responsibility, and intelligence its students possess.


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Essay on The Allegory Of The Cave
Essay on The Allegory Of The Cave
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The "Allegory of the Cave" is still relevant as we observe today's classroom. Many or most students believe that the teacher controls their learning, and that they only need to know the information that is presented to them. Instead of taking responsibility for their own education, ...
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...of our minds. He implies through this metaphoric story, that only people that grow to the level of a philosopher can truly understand reality. The chains that bind the prisoners in the cave represent our senses that prevent us, although by choice, from searching for truth. Instead, we choose to remain in the familiar cave, where we depend on the comfort of believing that what we see is actual. We can better understand this implication through the interpretation of education, religion, and society. Everyone, at some point in maturity, questions reality and our responsibility to it. Plato uses the conversation between Socrates and Glaucon to imply that what we see is only half-seen images of reality. By using only our senses in education, religion, and socially, we are living blindly. It is only through understanding this reality that can lead to true knowledge.
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Selecting engineering college
By jayaram, 3rd Jun 2015 | Follow this author
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In this article, i have narrated various aspects to be considered by the students and parents while selecting an engineering college for admission.
factors to be considered.
My request: Please read this completely before taking any decision. Not only students but also parents should read this.
1. placement quality and percentage
Main objective of studying engineering is to get a good job. So, one should know the placement activity of the college for the previous 3 to 4 years. In some colleges, placement percentage will be high but most of the students will be place in low salaried, low quality jobs. Also, core branch placement is important, that is, a mechanical engineer must get a job in mechanical industry and so on. If a mechanical engineer goes to software job, almost all the knowledge that he had acquired in four years of engineering will be a waste. Also, he cannot perform better than a student who studied engineering in computer science.
2. laboratory facilities
Before finally selecting a college, one should see the laboratory facilities in the college. Engineering is more of practical than theory. If the laboratories are not up to the mark, the knowledge gained by the student will be less. This will finally reflect in poor performance in the campus interview and also in the job.
3. transportation facilities
If the parents can provide vehicles, it is ok in one way. Otherwise, or for one or two years till the student will be able to manage with the vehicle, a good transportation facility is a must. Otherwise, most of the time will be wasted in travelling.
4. Quality of education and examination result.
For understanding most of the engineering subjects, fundamentals are very important. So, experienced teachers are required to teach some of the difficult subjects. This information can be had from the students who are studying in the college. If the teaching is not good, whole infrastructure is a waste.
Examination pass percentage and overall grade is very important. But in some autonomous colleges, syllabus is made very simple so as to get good result. This is because the autonomous colleges are having freedom to modify the syllabus. But some autonomous colleges are having very good syllabus and having good overall result.
Note: Getting knowledge is more important than getting degree certificate.
5. canteen quality
Many times students will have to depend upon canteen for lunch of for coffee and so on. A good canteen facility is a desirable thing. If all other things are good, then one can think of giving less importance to this and manage with lunch box.
6. Infrastructure
It includes spacious and ventilated class rooms, good quality desks, advanced teaching aids like LCD projectors, good toilets, play ground, big auditorium, seminar halls, grass lawns and trees, places to sit and relax, computer internet facility for students and so on.
7. Branches (engineering streams) availability and selection.
In some colleges, only few branches are available. It is better to select an established college having many branches. This will automatically ensure good infrastructure and other facilities. Selecting a branch has been discussed later in this article, under the heading 'misconceptions'.
Note: Do not sacrifice your favorite branch for the sake of college. But if you are not particular about any branch, then give preference to college.
8. Hostel facility: If you select a college away from your hometown, you have to consider the facilities of the hostel, availability and such other factors.
9. Library: a good library normally gives an indication of a good college. With the new technology, e-books and online facilities are there in many colleges.
10. Distance from the house: Some students do not want to go to a college which requires about two hours of travelling daily. It is understandable, but if the college is very good and if you can get a seat, you can think of selecting such a college.
11. Fee structure: this varies from year to year, college to college, but in a broad sense, it will be as follows:
-Government engineering colleges – lowest fee
-Aided engineering colleges- little higher fee
- Private engineering- still higher fee
- Donation seats – donation + private college fee.
In case of donation seats, one should consider affordability, against the quality of the college. Donation varies from college to college, branch to branch, year to year and time to time in the same year!
12. Reputation of the college: If the college is having good reputation, placement will be easy. Also, if the student wants to go for higher studies in other countries, then it is the college name that counts.
The procedure:
(i) Filling the form to select the college and branch:
This varies from year to year. All the colleges will be listed and therefore, it will be a big confusion.
Shortlist the colleges based on the factors which are discussed already. If possible, go and have a look at some colleges, before selection. Then select the colleges.
Selecting a branch has already been discussed.
(ii) Second and subsequent rounds.
If you are not satisfied about your seat in the first list, do not worry. Fill it for the second round. Many seats in many colleges which were
Not open earlier, will be available in second round. You can always have the chance to select
better colleges in the second and subsequent rounds.
wrong concepts
• Getting transfer to required branch or college in 2nd year
This is the biggest misconception. In some colleges, seats for some branches will not be easily filled. To fill those seats which are otherwise difficult to fill, some people will assure you that you can select those branches and later in the 2nd year, you can get a transfer to your desired branch. In some instances, they even assure you to get a better college. Remember there are conditions for branch transfer or college transfer.
As an example, say, if you are in mechanical branch and want to get computer science in 2nd year, then:
a] You must be in the top 10 rank in the college result of your first year, because the transfers will be considered on merit basis.
b] At least one student should get a year back or change his branch in computer science branch, so that there will be a vacancy in that branch.
c] In case of other college, there must be another student willing to come to your college against you going there, with the additional condition that both the college principals should agree.
These are all the very remote chances. It is better not to think of it. So, it is always better to select the required branch initially itself.
• Any branch will be good
Some branches are not suited for you, say, marine engineering. It is a very good branch for having inclination in that direction. Therefore, depending upon your interest, select a branch first and then the college.
• Scope of a branch
Most of the parents will ask this question,
"Which branch is having scope?"
Never ask this question to anyone. This is because of the fact that scope will be changing. As an example, civil engineering, which was not having that much scope about 10 years ago, is now having too much of scope!
Now you are joining for 1st year and by the time you complete, whole scenario of the world will be different. So, no one can correctly predict the so called 'scope' of a branch. It should be selected by student's own interest. Parents should never force their children to any branch or any course.
• Trends of friends are good
Normally, students say "all my friends are joining to a particular college or branch and so i should also join. It is similar to getting down from the bus in a stop where your friends are getting down, even though your stop is far away! Become a leader and not a blind follower.
• If I cannot get placement in the college campus, I will not get the job:
No. This is not fully correct. There are many of campus open interviews and many will get jobs in such places. But only thing is, it will be more difficult to get jobs in such places, compared to in campus interview.
• It is a big turning point in life and any small mistake done at this stage will be disastrous and irreversible.
Parents will normally tell this too many times to their children, especially in 12 standard or 2nd PUC. This will actually make the student nervous and thus results in getting low marks.
In my experience, it is not the only turning point. Life is a long journey and there will be many turns that one has to go through. This stage is also one such small turning point. Many engineering drop outs whom I know, have achieved many things even a good engineer cannot do. You should not neglect the procedure but you should not worry, if you cannot get the best. There are thousands of ways of leading a success full life in this world, other than getting a popular degree.


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