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Ok, here's the brief: you need to engage all employees; communicate with all employees in an informative and of course innovative way; you need to promote the management team; you need to instil a sense of belief of one Ericsson; you need to deliver a review of the year with all parts of the business represented; you need to provide a means for instant feedback and questions; you need to reinforce our strategic direction. What do you do?
I know exactly what you're thinking… Powerpoint presentation right? 20 or 30 slides per person? 10-15mins per speaker? Block out a couple of hours to deliver the message? Plan weeks in advance on the messaging – who's going to say what? Let me stop you there! The part of my job I love the most is breaking down the barriers of tradition. Blowing away the thoughts that it can't be done any other way. Powerpoint rules! Wrong.
This week has finished on a high for me with an all employee meeting today that defied all of the above. There were no slides; nine members of the management team including the Head of our organisation, all managed to get air-time to talk about successes, opportunities, customers, improvements, competitors; employee recognition was celebrated; and all inside 40 minutes!
Can it be done? Oh yes it can (sorry it's panto season here!). We delivered a successful chat-show style event today which ticked all the boxes, which even the management team seemed to enjoy. Yes there is a time and place for Powerpoint, but today we turned a corner with a more open and engaging management team (together with a not too bad Comms team of course!) Let's hope that begins to spread.


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Men and women perceive female faces with makeup as more attractive than those without, but men see such faces as more "prestigious" and women see them as more "dominant." Singers who employ vocal fry seem more expressive if they are female and less expressive if they are male. Straight men evaluating the pain of another man will rate it lower if he has an attractive female partner. Australian teenage boys whose empathy is one standard deviation above average have nearly twice as many female friends as boys whose empathy is one standard deviation below, and a study of ninth graders found that opposite-gender friends are unlikely to date. Researchers found that young, educated, neurotic women are particularly likely to report aversion to the word "moist." However, "moist"-averse subjects are no likelier than other subjects to condemn consensual incest, and all study participants rate "moist" more negatively when it follows "fuck" and "pussy" or "paradise" and "heaven," and more positively when it follows "cake" and "delicious" or "nigger" and "retarded." Psychologists described the case of a brain-damaged Italian man who compulsively speaks bad French and bakes excessive amounts of bread.
Breast milk thwarts infant diarrhea. Babies who lead their own weaning are likeliest to choke on apples, raw vegetables, and dried fruit, whereas spoon-fed babies are likeliest to choke on corn, crackers, meat, and rusks. Chinese children, as they mature, more closely associate facial attractiveness with trustworthiness. Experienced mother pandas spend more time grooming and nursing their cubs, who also whine less. Bears exhibit lower self-esteem, higher BMI, and riskier sexual behavior than other gay men. A Homo rhodesiensis femur was found to have been gnawed by a hyena. A study of 954 mammal species established that penis bones evolved at least nine times and disappeared at least ten. An analysis of Kinsey data collected between 1938 and 1961 found that boys rated their first postpubertal same-sex experience just as positively regardless of whether it was with another adolescent or with an adult man. Adults with Williams syndrome are at risk of immediately seeking to meet new online "friends" in person. At the Mayo Clinic between 1995 and 2015, hypersexuality, nose-picking, dementia, and eating the cotton from one's Depends were noted among coprophagists. Herpes may cause constipation.
Perch larvae exposed to high concentrations of polystyrene come to prefer eating plastic. Invasive aquatic hydrilla weed dumped from home aquariums into Florida waterways is being eaten by large invasive apple snails, who are then eaten by snail kites, who go insane. Electric eels will, as Alexander von Humboldt reported, leap from the water to administer shocks. An expert tree climber with a measuring tape climbed to the top of a yellow meranti that is now the tallest known tree in the tropics and texted, "I don't have time to take photos using a good camera because there's an eagle around that keeps trying to attack me and also lots of bees." Fat air passengers are treated most kindly by female African-American flight attendants. French doctors proposed that anorexia nervosa is less about the fear of getting fat than about the pleasure of getting thin. In Germany, certain psychopaths are beneficial for the workplace. Crowd-sourcing brain-wave data may make it possible to predict seizures in dogs. Psychologists unveiled the Mind Excessively Wandering Scale.
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in November 2007 I viseted South Africa,
started in PE / Addo Elephant Park
and Kragga Gamma Game Reserve,
going north to Graaf-Reinet, followed by Swartberg-Pass and Prince Albert,
then I drove down to CPT,
visting some ;-) Wine areas on the way
(Robertson, Walker Bay, Stellenbosch, Franschhoek, Paarl and Constantia).
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Wave Soldering
Wave soldering, also known as flow soldering, is normally performed in a protective gas atmosphere since the use of nitrogen offers an opportunity to reduce solder defects. While the wave soldering process can be designed to be more secure, it has distinct technological limitations.
Selective soldering is also a form of flow soldering and offers the only possible soldering method where through-hole components must be soldered on both sides of a two-sided printed circuit board assembly.
Although wave soldering can be used successfully for large unit volume production, since it is a form of mass soldering it has several disadvantages including:
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Selective soldering is a variant of wave soldering used mainly for soldering printed circuit boards that are assembled partly or even entirely with through-hole components. With Nordson SELECT selective soldering machines, nitrogen inerting is standard and the solder pot is designed with titanium material to resist the corrosive effects of aggressive lead-free solder alloys.
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The project, intended to bring the park's play equipment up to ADA standards, will have the playground out of service for about six weeks, according to GHSNC member and park employee Sean Rivas.
"Our playground is no longer going to be a full sand structure. We will have a soft rubber flooring with a small sand area. This allows all persons with disabilities to utilize the playground," Rivas said via email. Much-needed shade awnings will also be added to the structure.
With the removal of the articulated bridge, I guess that means no more ricochet jumps like the ones pictured below. The now-historic photos below were taken immediately after the (wildly successful, I might add!) Incredibles Movie Night and Food Truck Fest.
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These photos illustrate one possible use of the play equipment: recreation undertaken by young people. Yet unfortunately, these feats of daring, performed to a cheering crowd, were, in sadly typical grown up fashion, halted in the name of "safety" -- the term most often invoked to dampen the antics of naturally high spirited young people.
Despite the fact that this playground equipment is designed to withstand the rigors of play, and built to ASTM F 1487 safety standards, a self-appointed security guard, wearing a cop-like navy blue baseball cap and windbreaker came over and yelled at the kids to stop, saying, "You're going to break it!"
I continued to laugh, and snap pictures, and engage him, arguing that play equipment was designed precisely for this purpose: for the enjoyment of young people. Captain Buzzkill's frustrated reply: "You're just encouraging them!"
That I am, Captain. That I am.
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The historic Hall of Flags in the rotunda of the state capitol in Augusta, Maine, was the setting for a November 6th press conference announcing the formation of the Citizens Task Force on Wind Power. The group is a coalition of citizens from around the state drawn together in the common purpose of advocating for responsible, science based, economically and environmentally sound approaches to Maine's energy policy, according to co-chair Steve Thurston. Thurston highlighted the key concerns of the group in the release that is posted here. Co-chair Monique Aniel, M.D., set the tone for the press conference by recounting how the arrogance of the developer of Record Hill Wind in Roxbury, Maine, ignited her concern over the siting of utility scale wind projects in Maine
Other speakers included economist J. Dwight who addressed economic problems of wind energy; Gary Steinberg of Friends of Lincoln Lakes who spoke of denial of citizens rights relating to permitting processes; Carolyn Dodge who spoke of wind developers' violation of Native Americans' respect for natural resources; Jon Carter of Forest Ecology Network who spoke of the devastating impact of wind development on the vast forests of the northern two-thirds of Maine. Bringing the Press Conference to a close, Brad Blake of Friends of Lincoln Lakes used the scale of the Rollins Project proposed by First Wind to demonstrate the huge impact of the state's goals for utility scale wind power for 2020.
Citizens Task Force on Wind Power is concerned that the state government under the leadership of Governor John Baldacci has committed the state to public policy that aggressively promotes development of utility scale wind projects without adequate citizen input to public policy and denial of citizen involvement in permitting processes. In 2008, the Maine Legislature passed the "Expedited Wind Permitting" law that negates citizens' rights and opens the floodgates for a proliferation of wind projects that will destroy more than 300 miles of ridgelines and permanently clear cut more than 50,000 acres of forest in rural Maine. The group also notes that development of wind projects in rural Maine is the major reason for a proposed $1.4 billion expansion of transmission lines by Central Maine Power Company, which is owned by Iberdrola. Maine has operating wind power sites in Freedom, Mars Hill, Stetson Mt., and Kibby Mt. Another project in Roxbury is under construction for site access even though the permitting for the project is under appeal and the transmission line capacity is inadequate to bring the electricity to the grid.
Our testimony follows.
Following are the key points about industrial industrial wind power that the government and the wind industry are not talking about.
- The "Expedited Permit" wind law was an "emergency" bill from the governor which passed through the legislature in 15 days with very little scrutiny and no debate in April 2008. The bill was the result of the Governor's Task Force on Industrial wind power, whose mandate was to identify and remove obstacles to industrial industrial wind power development in the state, and not to examine the pros and cons or negative impacts of industrial wind power.
- The wind law established a goal of 2,700 megawatts of installed capacity by 2020 which equates to 1,800 GE 1.5 MW turbines spaced approximately 1/5 mile apart = 360 miles of ridge line for the turbines.
- Hundreds of miles of new access roads and transmission corridors fragmenting deep forest habitats and fragile ecosystems must be constructed to gain access to the top of the ridges and connect the turbines to the grid. As much as 50,000 acres of clear cutting will be required. Compare that to 3,000 acres for the Plumb Creek development, recently appealed by NRCM. Ironically, NRCM fully supports industrial industrial wind power on Maine's mountains.
Maine's Economy
- Tourism is Maine's #1 industry, as important to the mountain region as the coast. The installation of more than one thousand turbines on Maine's ridges will change the experience for tourists as well as residents. Access for hiking, snowmobiling, hunting will be restricted.
- Maine's "Quality of Place" has received a great deal of attention recently. The Governor's Task Force defined Quality of Place as "our majestic mountains, unbroken forests, open fields, wild rivers, pristine lakes, widely celebrated coast, picturesque downtowns, lively arts and culture, authentic historic buildings, and exceptional recreational opportunities. It is our principal advantage in today's global economic competition. Quality of place will help us keep and attract skilled workers and entrepreneurs to fill Maine's declining workforce population."
Maine's "Quality of Place Investment Strategy", adopted by executive order in July 2008 contains the following goals:
- Protect, strengthen, and develop Maine's Quality of Place assets, both natural and built;
- Make the State's several regions more economically competitive and prosperous through increased investment, job opportunities, regional incomes, and public revenues; and
- Create new jobs and valued products and services in Maine that will succeed in national and global markets for local, regional, and state benefit.
These goals are in direct opposition to the development of 2700 MW of industrial industrial wind power in Maine's mountains and are absolutely irreconcilable.
Human Health Concerns
- Turbines cause sleep disturbance at long distances for some people due to low frequency noise which travels further in the atmosphere than higher frequencies.
- People living within range of turbine noise around the world report symptoms similar to the complaints of folks living at Mars Hill and Freedom – sleep disturbance, headaches, aggravation, anxiety – caused by the intense sound of the enormous blades ripping through the atmosphere.
- The wind industry is in denial about these well documented and very serious health concerns, and Maine CDC has exhibited a startling lack of medical ethics by ignoring the complaints of citizens whose lives have been negatively impacted by the very first turbine installations in the state.
Electricity Produced by 2,700 MW of Wind Turbines in Maine's Mountains
- 2700 MW @ 25% average capacity factor = 675 MW electricity delivered on average to the ISO NE grid.
- 675 MW divided by average ISO NE grid demand of 16,000 MW = only 4.5% of grid demand will be met by 2700 MW of wind turbines.
- Cost of Wind Generated Electricity
- 2700 MW x $2 million per MW construction cost = $5.4 billion plus $1.5 billion new CMP transmission project to serve remote wind projects = $6.9 billion installed cost.
- Percentage of industrial wind power installed cost provided by taxpayer subsidies = approximately 2/3 of cost = $4.3 billion dollars
- Transmission lines must be built to accommodate 100% of the capacity of the wind project, even though the wind project will only produce erratically at about 25% of rated capacity. Ratepayers will pay for this gross over build of transmission capacity with higher rates due to the under-utilization of the infrastructure.
A Much More Cost Effective Use of Our Tax Dollars
- If $4.3 billion was instead directed to conservation and efficiency programs it would equal more than $10,000 per household in Maine, which could be used for incentives to encourage massive reductions in heating oil usage. By contrast, Maine's current year budget for C and E programs is about $15 per household. The
- government and the wind industry pay lip service to C and E while pouring 90% of subsidies into industrial industrial wind power.
- Without these massive subsidies wind projects cannot pay their property taxes, or their TIF payments, or come up with the money to remove the turbines when they stop working.
Towns considering wind projects need to understand industrial wind power's reliance on massive government subsidies (our tax dollars) for its existence. When political support for industrial wind power dries up and the subsidies are removed all of the "tangible benefits" towns believed they would get indefinitely will disappear. The limited liability shell corporations that own the wind turbines will abandon these projects, having received handsome returns on their
investments. Lack of funds to remove the turbines and restore the sites, due to the DEP's failure to require up front set aside of these funds will leave towns with no ability to remove the turbines, or deal with the long term environmental consequences of high mountain clearing and road building.
Citizens Task Force on Wind Power is a newly formed coalition of citizens from around the state drawn together in the common purpose of advocating for responsible, science based, economically and environmentally sound approaches to Maine's energy policy.
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Steve Thurston co-chair 207 545 2151 or 802 384 5267
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Organize the information you have collected about your family history. Give each relative in your family their own folder. Place copies of the notes and documents or document references that directly relate to that relative in the assigned folder.
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Begin your genealogy report with the oldest generation of your known family history. At the top of the page for each relative in this oldest group write "Generation No. 1." Pages for your relatives in the succeeding generation will have "Generation No. 2" and so on. Under the generational heading, type the name of the relative whose biography you are about to present.
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Would you take advantage of your friendship with a government official to jump the queue and get your papers completed in a shorter time?
Apparently, 45 per cent of Twitter users in Oman have openly admitted to doing so, a poll released by the State Audit reveals.
It's difficult to clarify the public's attitude towards this form of corruption, since only 4,739 people took part in the poll, but the results were quite depressing.
However, this poll must serve as a reality check for Oman. Instead of being pessimistic about the results, I see it as a warning sign; a call for change.
Our nation must start seeing "wasta"(influence) as a taboo, not a privilege. Playing this card should be frowned upon and condemned by those in high places all the way down to the man in the street.
While corruption is a hot topic in many countries, it's one that is embraced by many Omanis, and the poll just proves how much work is needed to be done to overcome what I like to call "the wasta syndrome".
A friend once told me that corruption starts in school cafeterias, and as long as we, the common people, don't take a stand against such behaviour, especially with our kids, we are facing a major obstacle in our country's road to prosperity.
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In this spirit, we started the Kick-ass Fridays initiative.
Every other Friday, at Werkspot everyone within our multidisciplinary tracks is encouraged to spend the day working on a short project or initiative to stimulate everyone to explore alternative ways to create value for our users.
On 19th January, we had our Kick-Ass Friday #0 (Yes, we start the numbering with 0, as Dijkstra intended!) in which our cross-functional teams huddled together to hack on some whacky ideas. The team gathered a lot of ideas from minor annoyances to big improvements in all facets – code, product, devops, and other fun stuff. On the very first day of this initiative, we ended up these ideas/demos from Werkspotters!
- Consumer Flow Improvements – to make our product easy to use
- Improve UX for the mobile app based on SP feedback – Fancy Swiping animations!
- Make it easier to find meeting space at Werkspot using a slack bot, you know the challenge every office space faces 🙂
- Better UX – Werkspot logo in 3D as a loading Indicator, because 3D is everywhere
- Accurate monitoring for DB Backups to improve Signal to Noise Ratio of our alerts
- How strong are passwords really – a review of password cracking tools to show the weakness of … weak passwords.
- A tool/easy method to measure how proud we are of our product
- Improving Not Found (404) pages, hopefully, you'll never find them 🙂
- Increase Customer Satisfaction and decrease refunds by increasing trust to share phone number on our platform.
The day ended with music, pizza, and drinks as usual. We will have these Kick-Ass Friday's every other Friday from now on.
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Fire renders through solid blocks at certain angles (depending on the layout of blocks). It becomes more visible at certain angles and when the player is further away.
Steps To Reproduce
- Use the following world save as provided below this text.
- MCPE-28670 Fire though blocks.mcworld 18.104.22.168 world
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Fire can be seen through blocks if blocks are placed
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The Romantic Novelists' Association (RNA) is delighted to announce that prestigious London bookshop, Goldsboro Books, will sponsor the Romantic Novel of the Year Award 2016.
The annual prize celebrating the best in romantic fiction has been awarded since 1960, and this year will be presented on Monday 7th March 2016 at the Gladstone Library, One Whitehall Place, 2 Whitehall Court, London SW1A 2EJ. Recent winners include Joss Stirling, Veronica Henry, Jenny Colgan, Jane Lovering, Julia Gregson, Freya North, Rosie Thomas, Jojo Moyes and Philippa Gregory.
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Your body has 360 joints. Your heart pumps 2,000 gallons of blood every day. Your body was made for movement. Unfortunately, global studies indicate you may be sitting between 7.7 and 15 waking hours each day.1
Prolonged hours in a chair may increase your risk of heart disease, diabetes, obesity, cancer, depression and a host of muscle and joint problems. Researchers are catching up with my recommendation that you sit no more than three hours in your entire waking day.
Health experts now recommend Americans work standing up for at least two hours each day, and work up to standing for four of their eight hours at work each day.2 Increasing amounts of movement and exercise helps reduce your overall potential risks for illness and disease, and help you to feel better.
Changing your exercise routine can help improve your motivation to move, boost your metabolic rate and work different muscles in your body. Changing your routine doesn't mean you need new equipment, a new sport or even a new gym though. You can simply use your surrounding environment to pump your fitness up a notch.
In an effort to reduce the effects of obesity on New Yorkers, Mayor Michael Bloomberg developed an initiative to require city agencies to promote the use of stairways over elevators and for future design strategies in new construction to encourage the use of stairs.3
While a consistent use of the steps won't increase your weight loss, it will help to improve your fitness or the ability of your muscles to work.
And, stairs are an excellent way to get in a good cardio workout, especially when the heat index increases the potential for heat-related illness, were you to exercise outdoors, or when it's raining.
All you'll need are about 15 stairs, whether in your own home or another public building. If the weather is good, bring these exercises outdoors to absorb sunlight and enjoy the fresh air.
Although a recommendation for the height of the step you use is made, the step you use in each of the following exercises will depend upon the height of the steps and how tall you are.
This exercise routine can easily be incorporated in my Peak Fitness high-intensity interval training (HIIT).
By working up to do these movements with high intensity over 30 seconds, you may experience the benefits described in my previous article titled "Peak Fitness: Reap the Benefits of High-Intensity Interval Training."
In the following video, I explain why a Peak Fitness Program is the key to producing natural human growth hormone (HGH), aka the "fitness hormone."
Cardiovascular exercise on stairs increases your heart rate quickly and engages your hamstrings, glutes, quadriceps and core muscles more than working out on a flat surface.4 The effect of working against gravity while climbing increases your work output.
Begin your exercise by warming up. Go up and down the steps slowly, head up and shoulders back, three times before beginning any of the following exercises. This increases the blood flow to your legs and starts your heart pumping faster.
✓ Skating Steps
This movement works the outside of your thigh, so be sure to do the iliotibial (IT) band stretch below on the same day. Stand facing the steps. Lift your left foot to the second step on the far left side of the stairs. Follow with your right leg going to the far right of the fourth step.5
Continue up the stairs taking them two at a time. This action mimics the work of a speed skater, giving you both cardio and strength in your quadriceps and abductor muscles of your upper legs.
Alternatively, if you have access to wide, deep and short stairs you may accomplish the same muscle movements using just one step.6
Stand facing the left with feet hip-width apart on the lower step. Hop up to the upper step with your right foot, bring your left foot behind your right leg and lunge forward to tap your hand to the ground.
You may not be able to "curtsy" to the ground in the lunge, but go as far as you are comfortable without losing your balance. Reverse the motion, hopping down the step with the left foot and bringing your right leg behind your left, bending the knee on the left and bending to tap the ground.
The motion should imitate the movement of a speed skater. Up and down the step once is one repetition. Aim for 12 repetitions facing left and another 12 facing right.
✓ Running Mountains
This movement can also be done flat on the floor, but using the stairs to incline your body increases the work against gravity and the intensity of the movement.
Facing the stairs, place your hands firmly on the second step, keeping your arms and elbows aligned tightly with your shoulders.7 Extend your legs backwards and engage your core, as you would in a plank position or the start of a pushup.
Bring your left knee toward your left shoulder and replace it in the start position without touching the floor. Repeat with your right foot toward your right shoulder. This is one repetition. Start by doing 12 and work toward running in place for 30 to 60 seconds.
✓ High Knees
This movement works your hip flexors, quadriceps and glutes. With head up and shoulders back, jog up the stairs, drawing your knees as high as possible. Take your time at first to avoid losing your balance. As you get better with the movement, you can increase the intensity by increasing your speed.
✓ Bear Crawl
This movement works your quadriceps and core muscles, as well as your arms and shoulders.8
Start at the bottom of the stairs. Place your hands on the second or third step and "crawl" up the steps using just your hands and feet. Going up once is one repetition. Start with six reps and work up to doing the bear crawl for 30 to 60 seconds.
The following exercises help to strengthen the large muscle groups in your legs while increasing your heart rate, doing double duty as strengthening and cardiovascular exercises. For a visual demonstration of several of these exercises, please see this Greatist article.9
✓ Step Up to Reverse Lunge
The reverse lunge works your glutes, quadriceps, soleus (calves) and adductor magnus (inside of the leg).10 Doing them on the incline of the stairs increases the intensity of the exercise. Start facing the stairs with your left foot on the second step (use the first step if you're a beginner) and your right leg behind you.11 Move forward and up the steps, raising your right knee toward your chest.
Step back to your start position. Take your left foot off the step and move it behind your right foot, dropping into lunge position. Proper positioning is necessary to reduce the risk of injury.
Be sure your knee does not go past your toes. Move your right leg back only as far as you're comfortable and can maintain your balance. This is one repetition. Do 12 on the left and then switch feet, starting with your right leg on the second step, and do 12 more.
✓ Triceps Dips
Looking for a way to reduce the flapping skin under your upper arms? The triceps dip is the perfect way to work those muscles, which aren't often worked in your daily activities.
Turn your back to the steps and sit on the edge of the second or third step.12 Press the palms of your hands onto one step up behind you, with your fingers facing your body and your elbows tight to your body. Be sure your elbows don't point out from your body but instead point straight back. Lift your body off the stairs a couple inches and slowly drop back down. Lift and repeat 12 times.
✓ Incline or Decline Pushups
By changing your orientation, you can increase the intensity of pushups. Incline pushups work on indoor steps or outdoors on wide, shallow height steps, but decline pushups on indoor stairs are not for the faint of heart or beginners. The percent of incline using indoor stairs will be steep and is an advanced move.13
Place your hands on the first, second or third step, with your fingers pointing forward. The different heights will work different muscle groups, but the higher pushup may feel easier at first. Place your feet behind you and get into a pushup position. Raise and lower yourself one time slowly. This is one repetition. Try to do 12 for one set.
Decline pushups are more difficult as they place more weight on your upper extremities and require more work through your core. Place your hands on the floor and your feet on the first, second or third step. Because the steps are graduated, you may start on the first step and work up to the third step.
Place your hands on the floor in the pushup position. Lower your body to the floor slowly without releasing the tension in your arms and raise yourself back up to the starting position. This is one repetition. Try to do 12.
✓ Alligator Crawl
The Alligator Crawl can be done on the steps when you have a wide set of stairs with a low rise.14 Face the left with your body the full width of the steps. Get into a plank or push up position on one step. Travel up the stairs initiating movement with your right arm and right leg going up the step and your left side following. Travel up eight steps and then back down. Turn facing the right side of the stairs and repeat with your left side leading up the steps.
✓ Staggered Squat
Staggered squats are done on the stairs with one leg on a step and the other on the floor. These are best done on stairs without a high rise, or can be done on a low box or one large book. Don't stack books to the height you want as they may slip and cause you to fall.
Start with feet shoulder-width apart, your right leg on a step no higher than 4 inches.15 Move into a squat position, driving your weight through your heels, hands at your waist or chest, head up and shoulders back. Don't let your knees move over your toes to reduce pressure on the knee joints.
If the step is higher, it can cause an imbalance in your muscle development. Be sure you do an equal number of squats with your right leg on the upper plane and your left leg to ensure fairly equal muscle development.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), each year millions over the age of 65 fall.16 Improving your flexibility and integration will help improve your balance, and therefore help reduce your risk of falling. It is easier to maintain your flexibility and balance than to regain it.
✓ Calf Raise
A calf raise is both a strengthening movement for your soleus muscle (calf) and a dynamic stretch of the same area.17 Stand on a step, holding the wall or banister for balance. Allow your heel to hang off the step and drop your weight through your heel so it drops below the step.
This stretches your Achilles heel and your soleus muscle. Be careful not to overstretch and injure the area. Raise up on your toes and lower slowly to the starting position again. Repeat three or four times.18
✓ Crossover Steps
Starting at the bottom of the steps and facing left, raise your right leg to the first step. Cross your left leg over the right to the next step higher. Raise the right foot to the next step and cross the left leg over again. Jog to the bottom and repeat on the other side.
Once you are confident going up the steps crossing over, you can go down crossing your legs. In this case, you will go up and down facing the same direction and then switch when you get to the bottom again. This ensures the muscles on both sides are worked equally.
✓ Hamstring Stretch
Stretching your hamstring muscle group helps reduce the potential for injury. A light stretch on the steps can improve your flexibility, but overdoing it can injure your leg or your lower back.
Stand close to the wall, facing the steps.19 You can use the wall for balance if you are unable to maintain the position. Put your left leg on a step so your leg is at a 90-degree angle to your body. Lean slowly over, gradually increasing your range until you can touch your toe on the elevated leg.
✓ IT Band Stretch
Your IT band is a thick fibrous band of muscles extending from your knee to your hip. When they become tight, you may experience knee or hip pain. Stand on the floor facing the stairs. Place your right hand on the banister or wall. Lift your right leg to the second or third step and cross it in front of your body. Lay the right side of your right ankle on the step and bend slowly to touch the step.20
Hold the stretch for 15 to 30 seconds. Switch legs and repeat on the other side. This is one repetition. Do four to five repetitions slowly. Remember, do not bounce during a stretch as it may cause micro-tears in the muscle.
✓ Adductor Stretch
Your adductor muscles are on the inside of your upper leg and responsible for pulling your leg inward, toward the center. Stretch them easily and slowly by standing at the bottom of the steps, facing the left side.21
Lift your left foot to the third or fourth step, or until you feel a slight stretch on the inside of your leg. Hold for 15 to 30 seconds, turn and repeat on the other side. You should not stretch until you feel pain as you may cause damage to the muscles that could sideline you from your exercise program for weeks.
✓ Gluteal Stretch
Most of the movements on the steps use your gluteal muscles. Stand on the floor facing the stairs. Put your right leg on the fourth step and lean in to the leg, hugging your knee. You'll feel the stretch in your glutes. Bring your right leg down and repeat on the left, holding for 15 to 30 seconds. Do not stretch until you feel pain.
Consider using this list to develop your own 15-minute program. There are a couple of rules. It is important that you start slow. Especially if you don't have a high level of fitness now, working against gravity makes the program more difficult. If you get so sore the first day that you can't continue, you'll reduce the benefit of the program.
Pain is not good. The adage of "no pain, no gain" is not appropriate here. You want to work out until it's difficult but not until you feel pain in your muscles. Remembering to breathe through the workout, and not hold your breath, can help you relax and work harder.
Avoid doing strengthening exercises for your upper or lower body two days in a row. If you do triceps dips today, wait for two days to do them again. This helps your muscles to rebuild from the work done today. Choose two strengthening exercises, two cardio exercises and two from the flexibility list. Do each exercise back-to-back, each for 60 seconds. At the end of the first set rest, for 90 seconds and repeat two more times.
Consider interspersing stretches during your 90 seconds of rest. If an area of your body is chronically tight, you may want to stretch that area each day. Although in this program you choose two stretches, you may choose to do all the stretches daily. However, it is important you do not do the same strengthening exercises each day for the reasons outlined above.
If you repeat stair exercises the next day, vary the exercises. Your goal is to work different muscles with each workout to improve your strength and conditioning as well as keep your interest in the workout. Keep a journal of the exercises you choose so you don't repeat them too often.
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Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) Grand Valley Student Chapter
The Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) is a group that focuses on the profession of Internal Auditing. Meetings consist of bringing in Internal Audit professionals, presentations on professional certifications, and trips to Internal Audit shops. IIA also offers students information to help students succeed in careers in internal auditing such as exam prep courses.
Faculty Advisors: David Centers - Affiliate, Paulette Ratliff-Miller - Associate Professor, and Ann Sergeant - Associate Professor
For more information, contact the School of Accounting, 616-331-7190 or visit their website.
Institute of Management Accountants (IMA) Grand Valley Student Chapter
IMA is dedicated to educating students of Accounting and Finance about the profession of Management Accountancy. The purpose of IMA is to provide networking, learning, and career opportunities for students interested in management accounting. It encourages the highest ethical standards and promotes professionalism in the dynamic world of managerial accounting by networking with other students, faculty, and business professionals. Through professional events, such as guest speakers, lectures about current events in the fields of accounting and finance and recruiting events, students gain valuable professional credentials along with various professional opportunities. The IMA also sponsors conferences, scholarships, and competitions solely for student members.
Faculty Co-Advisors: David Centers - Affiliate Instructor and Paulette Ratliff-Miller - Assistant Professor
For more information, contact the School of Accounting, 616-331-7190 or visit their website via LakerLink
Minorities Interested in Business (MIB)
Minorities Interested in Business is an academic organization that is designed to develop and encourage professionalism among minority students and those with an interest in professional development in the business world and to establish networking and communication skills with external businesses and business-oriented associations. Meetings encourage discussion of current professional events on campus, networking and employment opportunities, and current events happening in today's society. This is an organization open to any student from any background in any major looking to develop new and improve current professionalism skills.
Faculty Advisor: David Cannon - Assistant Professor
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Phi Chi Theta
Phi Chi Theta is one of the nation's premier business and economics fraternities. The mission of Phi Chi Theta is to provide an opportunity to develop and practice those professional leadership skills and abilities necessary to succeed in the business community; to provide a local and national network to share resources, ideas and concepts; to instill in its membership those values, codes and creeds which will enable participation in a rapidly changing world: and to enable members to develop the business astuteness necessary to achieve high esteem and success in their chosen fields; to promote the cause of higher business education and training for all individuals, to foster high ideals for everyone pursuing a career in business; to encourage fraternity and cooperation among people preparing for such careers; and to stimulate the spirit of sacrifice and unselfish devotion to the attainment of such ends. Phi Chi Theta strives to provide academically inclined programming, professional and personal development, and future career opportunities for its members.
Faculty Advisor: Gerry Simons - Professor
Website: phichithetagvsu.com
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Professional Sales Association (PSA)
The purpose of this organization shall be to provide students the resources to effectively learn and engage in advanced selling techniques. These techniques will encompass the development of professional presentation skills, verbal and non-verbal communication, ethical sales practices, networking skills, and leadership in the field of professional selling.
Faculty Advisors: Vivek Dalela & Mark Kubik
Phone: 616-331-7495
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Seidman Graduate Student Advisory Board (GSAB)
The Seidman Graduate Student Advisory Board consists of at least eight graduate business students. New members are elected by the current board each year. The purpose of GSAB is to support the mission and vision of the Seidman College. The board also promotes a closer relationship and enhances communications between students and the faculty, staff, and administration. Members serve as ambassadors for the Seidman Graduate Programs and provide input to the Seidman Dean and the Director of Graduate Business Programs.
View a list of the current GSAB members
For more information, please contact Koleta Moore, Assistant Dean, Seidman Graduate Programs
Seidman Investment Portfolio Organization (IPO)
The goal of the Seidman IPO is to foster interaction among students and enhance their career opportunities. We are always seeking students who are interested in personal investing, portfolio management, the markets, and economics. The activities of the club include biweekly meetings, trips, speakers, and social events. The primary function of the club has been the management of a portfolio of securities, which was donated to the school. The club has complete power over the investments involved.
Faculty Advisor: Eric Hoogstra - Affiliate Professor
Website: www.gvsu.edu/invest
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Seidman Supply Chain Management Association (SSCMA)
The Seidman Supply Chain Management Association is a student organization focused on providing opportunities to students interested in Supply Chain Management and Operations. The organization hosts a variety of events for students including plant tours, guest speakers, professional development meetings, networking events, and recruiting events. We also participate in volunteer work and supply chain management case competitions throughout the school year. The opportunities we provide give members the edge they need to launch themselves into a successful career within Supply Chain Management or Operations.
Faculty Co-Advisors: Lori Koste - Associate Professor and Vivek Dalela - Associate Professor
Website: http://gvsu.orgsync.com/org/sscma
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APICS, The Association for Operations Management, is the global leader and premier source of the body of knowledge in supply chain and operations management, including production, inventory, materials management, purchasing, and logistics. Since 1957, individuals and companies have relied on APICS for its superior training, internationally recognized certifications, comprehensive resources, and worldwide network of accomplished industry professionals. With APICS at GVSU, you have the opportunity to network with operations and supply chain professionals from every field and job title, right here in Grand Rapids. APICS hosts plant tours, speakers, and other professional development meetings throughout the year to give members the edge they need to launch themselves into a successful career.
Faculty Co-Advisors: Lori Koste - Associate Professor and Xiangling Hu - Assistant Professor
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Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP)
The purpose of the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals is to provide opportunities for students interested in supply chain management to communicate and learn from supply chain management professionals in order to improve their industry knowledge. CSCMP provides networking, learning, and career opportunities through professional events, such as guest speakers, lectures about current events in the supply chain field, and recruiting events. CSCMP of GVSU also strives to create awareness of the significance of supply chain management to students.
For more information, please contact the Marketing Department at 616-331-7495.
Faculty Advisor: Vivek Dalela - Associate Professor
Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)
The purpose of the SHRM is to aid its members in becoming more effective in the field through group projects and activities, publications, speakers, and employment assistance.
Faculty Advisor: Tim Syfert - Affiliate Instructor Email: email@example.com
For more information, contact the Management Department. Phone: 616-331-7490
Women in Business (WIB)
Grand Valley State Women in Business (WIB) is an undergraduate student organization (for all majors and genders) founded to empower and enable women to reach their fullest potential through the expansion of professional and personal opportunities, with a focus on business, leadership, and female celebration and innovation.
Faculty Advisor: Carol Sanchez
Honors Organizations
Beta Alpha Psi Kappa Beta Chapter
Beta Alpha Psi is a national scholastic and professional honors society. The primary objective of the society is to encourage and give recognition to scholastic and professional excellence in the field of accounting, finance, and information systems. Grand Valley State University's chapter of Beta Alpha Psi is dedicated to enhancing career opportunities and providing a social environment for persons of similar life goals. The chapter has regular meetings, sponsors speakers, participates in outreach programs such as the VITA (Volunteer Income Tax Assistance) program, and holds numerous social events. Members have the opportunity to attend regional meetings and national meetings held in different cities each year. Membership allows students to learn firsthand about elements of a successful accounting career and ensures multiple network opportunities with practicing professional accountants.
Membership is open to any part- or full-time student majoring in accounting or finance at Grand Valley State University with an upper level cumulative GPA in declared area of concentration of at least a 3.0 (based on a 4.0 scale) and a cumulative overall GPA of at least 3.0 (or an overall GPA of 3.25 for the last 35 credits).
Faculty Co-Advisors: Denise de la Rosa - Associate Professor and Lara Kessler - Associate Professor
Website: www.gvsu.edu/bap
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Beta Gamma Sigma
The Grand Valley State University chapter of Beta Gamma Sigma, a national honor society in business administration, promotes high scholarship in business education by recognizing and rewarding scholastic attainment in business subjects.
Membership in Beta Gamma Sigma is awarded once each year to undergraduate and graduate students who are in the top 7 percent of the junior class, the top 10 percent of the senior class, and the top 20 percent of graduating master's students. Induction occurs annually near the end of the Winter Semester.
Faculty Co-Advisors: Asli Akbulut - Associate Professor and Yatin Bhagwat - Professor
Phone: 616-331-3774 (Seidman Dean's Allendale Office)
Omicron Delta Epsilon
Grand Valley State University is home to Omicron Delta Epsilon's Rho Chapter of Michigan. Omicron Delta Epsilon is the international honor society for economics and is one of the world's largest academic honor societies. The objectives of Omicron Delta Epsilon include recognition of scholastic attainment, the honoring of outstanding achievement in economics, and the establishment of closer ties between students and faculty in economics within colleges and universities, and among colleges and universities.
Membership is open primarily to economics majors (although non-majors who have a significant interest in economics will also be considered) who have completed at least 12 credit hours of economics courses, have at least an overall "B" average at Grand Valley State University and a minimum 3.0 GPA in their economics courses, and be ranked in the top third of their class. Induction occurs annually near the end of the Winter Semester.
For more information, contact the Economics Department:
Faculty Advisor: Dan Giedeman
Phone: 616-331-7488


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Steve's most recent book, the memoir Have Dog, Will Travel, was published in March by Simon & Schuster.
From the publisher: "In this vivid and lyrical memoir, Stephen Kuusisto recounts how an incredible partnership with a guide dog changed his life and the heart-stopping, wondrous adventure that began for him in midlife. Profound and deeply moving, this is a spiritual journey, the story of discovering that life with a guide dog is both a method and a state of mind."
Read a wonderful Q&A with Steve published in The Bark.
Sigrid's new novel, The Friend — a moving story of love, friendship, grief, healing, and the magical bond between a woman and her dog" — was published in February by Penguin Random House.
A recent review on NPR describes the book as "a penetrating, moving meditation on loss, comfort, memory, what it means to be a writer today, and various forms of love and friendship… Nunez has a wry, withering wit."
This dog-loving reading will also feature some special, furry guests: guide-dogs-in-training from the Finger Lakes Chapter of Guiding Eyes for the Blind.
The Saltonstall Foundation was proud to host alums Javier Zamora ('15) and Monica Sok ('16) in November. Javier and Monica read from their debut publications, Unaccompanied (published by Copper Canyon Press in September), and Year Zero (2015) at Buffalo Street Books in Downtown Ithaca on November 15, 2017.
Monica Sok is the author of Year Zero, selected by Marilyn Chin for the 2015 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship.
Her poems appear in Narrative, The New Republic, The Offing, and TriQuarterly Review, among others.
Her honors include fellowships and grants from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Elizabeth George Foundation, Hedgebrook, Kundiman, MacDowell Colony, and others.
She is the 2016-2018 Stadler Fellow at Bucknell University.
Javier Zamora was born in La Herradura, El Salvador in 1990. His father fled El Salvador when he was a year old; and his mother when he was about to turn five. Both parents' migrations were caused by the US-funded Salvadoran Civil War (1980-1992).
Zamora is a 2016-2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and is a 2016 Ruth Lilly/Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow. He holds fellowships from CantoMundo, Colgate University (Olive B. O'Connor), MacDowell, Macondo, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Yaddo. In 2016, Barnes and Noble granted him the Writers for Writers Award for his work in the Undocupoets Campaign.
Graciously introduced by another Saltonstall Fellow and poet R.A. Villanueva ('17), alums Chen Chen and Eric Berlin read to a standing room-only audience at Buffalo Street Books on September 23, 2017. What a fantastic evening!
Chen Chen ('14) is the author of When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities, winner of the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize and published this past spring from BOA Editions, Ltd.
A Kundiman and Lambda Literary Fellow, Chen's work has appeared in two chapbooks as well as in publications such as Poetry, The New York Times Magazine, Poem-a-Day, Best of the Net, and The Best American Poetry. Chen received his MFA from Syracuse University and is currently pursuing a PhD in English and Creative Writing at Texas Tech University.
Eric Berlin's ('16) poems have won the National Poetry Prize 2015 and Ledge 2014 Poetry Prize, and were finalists for the Tupelo Quarterly Poetry Prize, Ruth Stone Prize, Able Muse Write Prize, and Tor House Poetry Award. They've appeared in North American Review, Jewish Currents, Stone Canoe and The Poetry Review among others.
Eric received an MFA in Sculpture from NY Academy of Art, an MFA in Poetry from Syracuse University, and a BA in English from Harvard University.
Writer Lisa Ko ('10) returned to Ithaca's Buffalo Street Books where she read excerpts from her critically acclaimed book The Leavers.
Lisa is a writer and editor living in New York City. Her fiction has appeared in Best American Short Stories 2016, Apogee Journal, Narrative, Copper Nickel, Storychord, One Teen Story, Brooklyn Review, and elsewhere.
The Leavers was long-listed for the 2017 National Book Award for Fiction.
Saltonstall alums Jessica Cuello ('15), Lisa Harris ('97), and Michael Morse ('16) came together for a lively panel discussion on publishing their first books after 40. The panel was offered as part of the Community Arts Partnership's Spring Writes Literary Festival, on May 6, 2017 at Buffalo Street Books.
We celebrated the publication of Sarah's new poetry collection, What Enters the Mouth (Standing Stone Books) with a reading on Sunday, February 19, 2017.
Sarah Jefferis is an author, editor, and writing consultant based in Ithaca, New York. Her first poetry book, Forgetting the Salt was published by Foothills Press in 2008. Her poems and nonfiction have appeared in Rhino, The Mississippi Review, The American Literary Review, Stone Canoe, Icon, The Hollins Critic, The Patterson Review, and other journals. She is the winner of the 2014 Stone Canoe poetry prize.
We celebrated the publication of Ocean's first full-length book of poetry, Night Sky With Exit Wounds (Copper Canyon Press) with a reading and book signing on Saturday, November 5, 2016.
Ocean Vuong is the 2016 winner of the Whiting Award and 2014 Ruth Lilly fellow, he has received honors from Poets House, the Elizabeth George Foundation, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, the Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, the Academy of American Poets, and a Pushcart Prize.
Writer Elizabeth Greenwood ('11) returned to Ithaca to celebrate the publication of Elizabeth's nonfiction book, Playing Dead: A Journey Through the World of Death Fraud (Simon & Schuster) for a reading and book signing on Saturday, October 15, 2016 at Buffalo Street Books.
Elizabeth Greenwood's book about people who have faked their deaths, entitled Playing Dead: A Journey Through the World of Death Fraud, was published by Simon & Schuster in August 2016.
We celebrated the publication of Bob's novel, A HUNDRED THOUSAND WORLDS (Viking) and with a reading on Thursday, August 18, 2016.
Bob Proehl has worked as a bookseller and programming director for Buffalo Street Books, a DJ, a record store owner, and a bartender. Proehl currently lives in Ithaca, New York, with his wife, stepson, and daughter.
Jay Deshpande ('13), held a reading and book signing of his first full-length poetry collection, Love the Stranger (YesYes Books) as a part of Ithaca's Spring Writes Literary Festival.
Jay wrote key sections of Love the Stranger during his 2013 residency at Saltonstall, and returned to Ithaca to read sections of his collection, which was named one of the top debuts of 2015 by Poets & Writers, at Buffalo Street Books.
We had so much fun hosting an alumni poetry reading in NYC on April 16, 2015. Four poet alums based in New York City read from their work at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe. The reading featured poets Elana Bell ('14), Emily Brandt ('13), Tina Chang ('05), and David Groff ('12).
Elana Bell's first collection of poetry, Eyes, Stones, was selected by Fanny Howe as the winner of the 2011 Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets.
She is the recipient of grants and fellowships from the Jerome Foundation, the Edward Albee Foundation, and the Brooklyn Arts Council. Her work has recently appeared in AGNI, Harvard Review, and the Massachusetts Review.
Emily Brandt is a Brooklyn based poet and teacher. She is the author of two chapbooks: ManWorld (dancing girl press) and Behind Teeth (Full Court Books). Her poems have appeared in Sink Review, Coconut, H_NGM_N, The Atlas Review, Epiphany, and others.
Tina Chang, Brooklyn Poet Laureate, is the author of the poetry collections Half-Lit Houses (2004) and Of Gods & Strangers (2011). She is also co-editor of the Norton anthology Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond.
David Groff is a poet, writer, independent book editor, literary scout, and teacher.
His book of poems, Clay, was chosen by Michael Waters as winner of the Louise Bogan Award for Artistic Merit and Excellence and was published in 2013 by Trio House Press. His previous collection, Theory of Devolution was selected by Mark Doty for the National Poetry Series, was published in 2002 by the University of Illinois Press, and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary and Publishing Triangle awards.
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We hosted our first-ever event in Syracuse with an alumni poetry reading at Point of Contact Gallery on Thursday, October 29, 2015 from 6:00 – 7:30 pm. Four poet alums, Jessica Cuello ('15), David Lloyd ('01), Devon Moore ('15), and Jesse Nissim ('13), based in and around Syracuse read from their work.
Jessica Cuello is a poet and teacher in Syracuse, NY. She is the author of the chapbooks My Father's Bargain (Finishing Line Press, 2015), By Fire (Hyacinth Girl Press, 2013), and Curie (Kattywompus Press, 2011).
She was the winner of the 2013 New Letters Poetry Prize and the recipient of the 2014 Decker Award from Hollins University for outstanding secondary teaching. Her poems have appeared in such places as Verse Daily, Tampa Review, RHINO, Copper Nickel, and LUMINA. Her first full-length collection, Pricking, is forthcoming from Tiger Bark Press in 2016.
David Lloyd is the author of nine books, including three poetry collections: Warriors (Salt Publishing, 2012), The Gospel According to Frank (New American Press, 2009), and The Everyday Apocalypse (Three Conditions Press, 2002). He published a novel, Over the Line (2013), and a story collection, Boys: Stories and a Novella (2004) with Syracuse University Press.
Devon Moore hails from Buffalo, NY with a lot of time spent growing in Wilmington, NC. Her poems have appeared in or are forthcoming from Gulf Coast, Harpur Palate, Meridian, The Cortland Review, New Ohio Review, Juked, and others. Apology of a Girl Who Is Told She Is Going to Hell, her debut collection, was released by Mayapple Press in May 2015.
Jesse Nissim is the author of Day cracks between the bones of the foot (Furniture Press Books, 2015) and Where They Would Never Be Invited (Black Radish Books, forthcoming in 2016). She is the author of the chapbooks: Nesting instinct (Nous-Zot 2014), SELF NAMED BODY (Finishing Line Press 2012), and Alphabet for M (Dancing Girl Press 2007).
Bob Proehl has worked as a bookseller and programming director for Buffalo Street Books, a DJ, a record store owner, and a bartender. He was a 2012 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in Fiction and a 2013 resident at the Saltonstall Arts Colony. He has written for the 33⅓ book series and worked as a columnist and reviewer for the arts and culture site PopMatters.com.
Sarah Jefferis' first poetry book Forgetting the Salt was published by Foothills Press in 2008. Recently she won the Bea Gonzalez poetry prize for her poem, "Motherhood." She has been both a poetry fellow and fiction fellow at the Squaw Valley Community of Writers Center in California. She is working on completing her first novel, entitled Running After Jesus, and a second book of poetry about how secrets destroy our teeth, and a collection of essays on grief.


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1988 road rage case: SC to pronounce judgement in Navjot Singh Sidhu's appeal
The Supreme Court on Tuesday will pronounce its judgment on the appeal filed by cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu challenging the Punjab and Haryana High Court verdict convicting and sentencing him to three years in jail in a 1988 road rage case.
The former cricketer had argued that there was "ambiguity" regarding the actual cause of death of Patiala resident Singh.
The cricketer-turned-politician, who deserted the BJP and joined the Congress days before the Punjab assembly election last year, holds the tourism portfolio in the Amrendra Singh Cabinet.
Sidhu was acquitted of the murder charges of Gurnam Singh by the trial court in September 1999.
However, the high court reversed the verdict and held him and co-accused Rupinder Singh Sandhu guilty of culpable homicide not amounting to murder in December, 2006.
The high court sentenced them to three-year imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh each on the convicts. In 2007, the apex court stayed the conviction of Sidhu and Sandhu in the case, paving the way for him to contest the by-poll for the Amritsar Lok Sabha seat.
As per the prosecution case, Sidhu and Sandhu were allegedly present in a Gypsy parked near Sheranwala Gate Crossing on December 27, 1988, when Gurnam Singh, Jaswinder Singh and one other were going to the bank to withdraw money for a marriage function.
As they reached Sheranwala Gate Crossing, Gurnam Singh driving a maruti car found a Gypsy in between the road and asked the occupant Sidhu and Sandhu to remove the vehicle for their passage following which the heated exchange took place.
Singh was beaten up by Sidhu and later fled the crime scene. The injured was taken to a hospital, where he was declared dead.
(with PTI inputs)