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Alice Rothman-Hicks
Master Tutor
Humanities Math Science Test Prep
Columbia University, 2011, major in English and Comparative Literature, 3.96 GPA, graduated Magna Cum Laude with English Departmental Honors, Dean's List Fall 2007-Spring 2011; member of Phi Beta Kappa; National Merit Finalist, 2007; Recipient of the Robert C. Byrd Scholarship, 2007; Near-perfect score of 2350 on SATs, (with perfect scores on Writing and Reading sections), 770 on Chemistry SAT Subject Test, 800 on Spanish SAT Subject Test; AP Scholar with Distinction: Score of 5 on AP exams in U.S. History, Latin, Spanish, and BC Calculus.
A lifelong academic high-achiever and extremely versatile and experienced tutor, Alice has worked with hundreds of students to help them excel in such diverse subjects as English, history, Spanish, geometry, chemistry, physics, algebra, trigonometry, precalculus, and calculus; she has also tutored dozens of students for the SAT, ACT, ISEE, SSAT, SHSAT, GRE, and various SAT subject tests with consistently spectacular results.
As a native New Yorker and graduate of the New York City private school system, Alice is well acquainted with the stress and anxiety created by its pressure-cooker academic environment. She employs empathy, humor, and enthusiasm to help her students solidify their skill sets and develop confidence in their own academic abilities, while having as much fun as possible along the way. Her methodology consists of a systematic, step-by-step breakdown and explanation of concepts and strategies, as well as a keen attention to the details of each student's unique personality and learning style.
When she is not tutoring, Alice may be found reading at home, running in various NYC parks, or pursuing her career as an actress/singer/dancer.
Alex Field
Junior Standardized Test Preparation Specialist
Georgetown University, 2014, major in International Politics with a certificate in International Law, Norms, and Ethics from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service; graduated Cum Laude with an advanced proficiency in Mandarin; High school valedictorian, Recipient of the Robert G. Hazo Award for the highest weighted-GPA, 2010; National Merit Finalist, 2010; Near perfect SAT score: 2320.
Originally from Pittsburgh, Alex has always been both a political junkie and an arts enthusiast, pursuing his passion for international relations and musical theatre since childhood. In his senior year in high school, Alex won the 2010 Gene Kelly Award for Best Actor, the highest accolade given to a Pittsburgh high school student for musical theatre acting, and went on to become first runner-up at the 2010 National High School Musical Theatre Awards, held at the Marquis Theatre in New York City. Changing his focus in college to political science, Alex enrolled in Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service in 2010, where he majored in international politics and Mandarin, concentrating his research on China's role in the global community.
While at Georgetown, Alex tutored for Capital Educators, a standardized-test prep company catering to the DC-Baltimore area. During his tenure, he consistently received top ratings from the more than 200 high school students he tutored. His enthusiasm, energy, and sense of humor promote strong ties with his students, transforming the way they approach standardized tests and empowering them to successfully reach their test goals. At Competitive Edge, Alex has blended his experience as an SAT tutor with Competitive Edge's proprietary materials and methodology to become an exceptional, all-around standardized test tutor, specializing in the ISEE, SSAT, ACT, and SAT.
While in New York, Alex is pursuing the musical theatre career he put on hold briefly while at Georgetown. You may also catch him occasionally performing stand-up around the city, taking every dance class he can find, and playing softball in the park.
Paisley Kang
Homework Helpers Humanities Test Prep
Teachers College Columbia University, 2016, M.A. with Initial Certification in Art and Art Education; Williams College, 2012, major in English Literature; Class of 1960 Scholar, 2011-2012; Gates Millennium Scholar, 2007-2016; perfect score on Essay section of the GRE; National Merit Scholar, 2007; National Honor Society, 2006-2008; perfect score on SAT Essay section and scores of 800 and 790 on the Writing and Critical Reading sections; Scholastic Writing Awards, 2004; Prep for Prep Valedictorian, Contingent XXIV; scores of 5 on AP exams in U.S. History, English Literature and Composition.
Raised in New York City, Paisley attended Hunter College High School and the Brearley School. At Brearley, she was a writer for the literary journal and school newspaper, and was the President of the Music Appreciation Club. On Saturdays, she attended the Parsons School of Design Precollege, later the Manhattan School of Music Precollege Jazz Division. At Williams, Paisley was a leader in the Student Government, serving as Neighborhood President. Always active and yearning for outdoor adventure, she was a member of the Equestrian and Cross-Country teams. Paisley's curious nature led her to take Winter Term courses abroad in Argentina and Egypt for choral singing and art. In addition, she contributed to the Williams Record as the restaurant critic.
Paisley has been teaching and tutoring for over a decade, and she loves every second of it. After college, she taught in public and private schools in Massachusetts and New York City, during which time she gained valuable experience in lesson planning, curriculum design, classroom management, and how to foster the most effective student-teacher relationships. Two of the schools she worked in were Berkshire Arts and Technology and Coney Island Prep, where she taught grades 6-12 Visual Art and grades 6-7 English, respectively. Paisley tutors the SAT, ACT, AP, ISEE, SSAT, and SHSAT in addition to academic subjects including Social Studies, History, Algebra I/II, Geometry, and English. All of her students see clear improvements in their grades and test scores. She has also worked with students on college essays and applications for college and awards. Her students have won honors including the Scholastic Writing Awards.
A methodical tutor, Paisley subscribes to zeroing in right away on any weaknesses and constantly drilling difficult concepts (grammar, math, science, reading comprehension, or vocabulary) until they are internalized. However, Paisley's goal is not only to teach her students the strategies and content knowledge they need to succeed on their tests and courses, but also to be a mentor and motivator. Lightening up the tutoring experience by injecting humor and laughs, she aims to have her students look forward to their sessions.
When she is not tutoring or planning lessons, Paisley spends her time cooking, exploring new restaurants, swimming, going to museums and jazz concerts, and listening to music.
Clayton Raithel
Humanities Math Science Test Prep
Princeton University, 2012, major in Religion with a certificate in Theatre, top quintile; Member of Phi Beta Kappa; Award for Outstanding Original Research in Islamic Studies, 2012; Sophomore Award for Excellence in Theatre, 2010; Shapiro Award for Academic Excellence as a Freshman, 2009; score of 5 on AP exams in Chemistry, BC Calculus, US History, and Psychology.
Clayton has worked with Competitive Edge since 2012, working with students in virtually every area of test prep and coursework. He is uniquely qualified to support students in both the humanities and advanced science and math courses, and shifts seamlessly between these disciplines. As a test prep tutor, Clayton has worked with students to prepare for the ACT, SAT, SAT Subject Tests, Advanced Placement exams, Regents Exams, ISEE, and the SSAT. Though his plan for students is always based on their individual needs, Clayton strives to make his sessions fun and engaging, while also holding his students accountable. He takes great pride in letting his students gradually take more ownership over their test prep program, and has helped them gain admittance into some of the top colleges in the nation. Clayton loves to make personal connections during his sessions, and still regularly keeps in touch with many of his former students.
Prior to his work with Competitive Edge, Clayton tutored for three years as a Fellow with the Princeton University Writing Center, an undergraduate and graduate resource for academic writing. He worked individually with hundreds of students on a wide variety of academic papers, becoming known for his calm and approachable demeanor, and his ability to explain concepts clearly while letting students take ownership of their work. He later became a Head Fellow at the Writing Center, training other Fellows to become more effective at their craft.
Clayton is also a certified high school science teacher for the subjects of Physics, Biology, and Chemistry. He has experience teaching science in the classroom at Sharpstown High School, part of the Houston Independent School District. His passion for science dates back to the earlier years of his education, when he won the Bausch and Lomb Award for Excellence in Science in 2007. Through Competitive Edge, Clayton has designed curricula for and taught full classroom based courses on the ACT and the SAT Physics subject test. In the classroom setting, Clayton focuses on finding a balance between creating engaging content for all students, while making sure no students feel left behind.
Lastly, he is a nut for all things creative—he loves theatre, writing and music, so much so that he has trouble determining which of these is his true love! Currently, he is writing a book, while occasionally performing his award winning one man show at colleges along the East Coast.
Katherine Demby
Yale Law School, 2016, J.D., Yale Law Journal Fellowship, 2014;The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2010, B.A., double major in History and Political Science, highest honors; Phi Beta Kappa; graduated in 3 years; William and Ida B. Taylor Summer Fellowship, 2009.
Katherine grew up in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and attended the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics where she participated in student government and the student activities board.
At The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she started the UNC Creative Writer's Association, was a member of the Carolina Union Activities Board and a member of the Honor Court. She graduated in three years, spending the summer between her sophomore and junior/senior year collecting oral histories from local civil rights activists in preparation for her senior history thesis.
She spent two years prior to Law School as a Teach for America Corps member. She taught high school English, Argumentative Writing, and ACT English and Reading prep at an Arkansas charter school.
At Yale Law School, she served as the chair of the Civil Rights Project, which connected students to pro bono public interest opportunities throughout the school year. She interned at the Department of Justice, Voting Rights Section, and with a Judge on the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. She was also a Teaching Fellow for two Yale College humanities classes.
Since graduating, Katherine has been working as a writer and tutor in New York City. She writes long-form fiction and freelance non-fiction.
She takes an individual approach to tutoring, assessing each student's current level of ability and learning style and then tailoring her instruction to their specific needs. She believes that confidence-building is key to academic success.
When not tutoring or writing, Katherine enjoys vegan cooking, hiking, art museums, and documentaries. She also enjoys snow days, spa days, and snow days at the spa.
Erin Spampinato
CUNY Graduate Center, currently matriculated, Ph.D. in English Literature; Columbia University, 2011, M.A. in English and Comparative Literature; St. John's University, 2009, M.A. in Secondary Education; Smith College, 2006, double major in English and Fine Arts, recipient of Highest Honors.
As a senior at Smith College, Erin spent a year on her first major writing project: a senior thesis on the psychology of Alice in Wonderland which was awarded highest honers and the annual award for best honors thesis in English. After graduating, Erin pursued secondary education, teaching English to high school students in Red Hook, Brooklyn. After two years in the role of English Teacher, Erin was promoted to Educational Interventions Coordinator. In this position she was responsible for implementing strategic individualized learning programs for students who were struggling. During this time, Erin worked as a consultant for other schools, creating and facilitating professional development days designed to help other teachers implement the strategies that had been so effective in Erin's classroom. Meanwhile, Erin attended Columbia University part-time, completing a master's degree in English literature.
After four years in public education, Erin returned to academia full-time, and is currently matriculated in CUNY Graduate Center's English PhD Program. Her research interests include the history of the novel and narrative theory. She teaches at Queens College and continues to work as a private tutor for high school and college students. Erin is a master editor, bringing her knowledge of genre and her years of experience into play in order to help her students write as effectively as possible. Her role as the head of a team designed to bring struggling students up to grade level taught Erin how to help struggling learners see their own potential; she excels at sensitively holding students to high standards.
Erin is an animal and nature lover, an avid reader and writer, and a passionate consumer of arts and culture.
Lauren Woodward
Manhattanville College, Masters of Professional Studies in English and Special Education, 2011, 4.0 GPA; Colby College, 2006, major in English Literature, graduated Magna Cum Laude with Distinction in Major; Dean's List 2002-2006; High School Valedictorian.
Lauren earned her M.P.S. degree while acting as a learning specialist, supporting undergraduates with learning disabilities in their college-level mathematics, science, humanities, and social science coursework. She is adept at making complex concepts understandable to learners at all skill levels. As a New York State Certified Teacher in English and Special Education grades 5-12, she currently provides targeted special education services to students in the Bronx. Lauren believes that all students can excel when given appropriate supports and individualized attention.
A native of Mid-Coast Maine where tutoring programs were few and far between and an accomplished graduate of the state's public school system, Lauren is a self-motivated individual who strives to foster the same ambition and determination to excel in her students. A tutor since 2007, she has worked with numerous public and private school students in Westchester, specializing in Test Prep, Mathematics, English, History, Earth Science, and Study Skills. She employs strategies to empower her students by establishing internal loci of control and developing their confidence in their academic abilities. Lauren's success as an educator can be attributed to ability to empathize with her students, guiding them to channel their strengths and remediate their weaknesses.
When she isn't tutoring, Lauren is likely reading a novel, viewing an independent film, or improving her physical fitness at the gym. She also enjoys exploring Westchester and tending to the needs of her two very demanding feline roommates.
Dmitriy Rapoport
Homework Helpers Humanities Math Test Prep
Brown University, 2011, double major in English and Literary Arts; 2330 on SAT with perfect score of 800 on Math section; 35 on ACT (35 on English, 36 on Math, Reading, and Science); 790 on SAT Math II Subject Test; National Merit Scholar; AP Scholar with Distinction: scores of 5 on Physics B, Calculus BC, Statistics, English Literature and Composition, Spanish Language, and U.S. History.
Dmitriy first started teaching after his freshman year of college, when he started a branch of a newly founded SAT/ACT prep company entirely from scratch in his hometown, Vernon Hills, Illinois. After coordinating all logistics, publicity, and marketing, he taught two classes and tutored dozens of students privately. He then continued freelance tutoring on both exams over the next three years. After graduating, he moved to Seoul, South Korea, where he primarily taught high school literature at an elite after-school academy. Since moving to New York, Dmitriy has continued to tutor on the ACT, SAT, and writing. Until recently, he worked in the editorial department at Bedford/St. Martin's, a leading college textbook publisher.
Throughout his years of teaching, Dmitriy has helped students with the SAT, ACT, AP English Literature and Composition Exam, AP English Language and Composition Exam, SAT Literature Subject Test, SHSAT, SSAT, writing (including both English class and admissions essays), literature, and K-8 and high school math. His goal is to direct students to better futures by building their confidence and helping them reach higher scores.
When it comes to test prep, Dmitriy systematically targets gaps in knowledge and suggests specific strategies to overcome weaknesses. When helping with homework and writing, his strategy (and pleasure) is to connect with students and help them realize how their studies are relevant to their lives and the world around them. He has a passion for literature and is excited to inspire the same in his students.
In his free time, Dmitriy enjoys attending literary events, dancing at concerts, playing poker competitively, experimenting in the kitchen, and traveling the world (26 countries and counting).
Spenser Mestel
University of Iowa, 2016, MFA in Nonfiction Writing; American University of Cairo, 2012, Masters in Arabic Language; Dartmouth College, 2011, major in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (Arabic), Phi Beta Kappa (2011)
At Dartmouth, Spenser wrote for the school newspaper, was the social chair for his fraternity, and dove for the varsity swim team. The day after he graduated, he flew to Cairo where he studied Arabic in a one-year Masters program and joined an Egyptian parkour team. After completing his studies in Cairo, Spenser moved to New York City and tutored the SHSAT, SAT, and ACT for A-List Tutoring until he left to attend Iowa's Creative Writing MFA program where he studied nonfiction and translation.
In addition to being a student at Iowa, Spenser also taught undergraduates courses. His Introduction to Nonfiction course examined six aspects of the genre: personal writing, science writing, travelogue, writing about language, profiles, and political writing. Students also learned how to workshop, revise, and then revise again. For his Writing for Grants and Awards course, he required his students to design their own semester-long project. He then worked with them to draft personal statements, grant proposals, Fulbright applications, resumes, and cover letters. Spenser currently lives in Brooklyn, and his writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, and Sports Illustrated.
Spenser tutors Constructing America, social studies, and all things ELA and writing related. He believes in hard work and discipline but also thinks that tutoring can be casual and, if not exactly fun, then pleasant. In terms of style, he focuses on practicality. If a student wants to learn the difference between a coordinating and subordinating conjunction, he's happy to teach him/her, but otherwise, Spenser eliminates jargon and pretension in order to make the subject matter as accessible as possible. Students who come to him for help with writing can expect to learn specific, concrete techniques to improve their organization, structure, and flow. They should also prepare to revise, revise, revise.
In 2015, Spenser competed on "American Ninja Warrior," which he wrote about for Rolling Stone.
Alfred Miller
Humanities Languages Math Science Test Prep
Princeton University, 2011, major in Electrical Engineering with certificates in Materials Science & Engineering and Chinese Language & Culture; Sigma Xi Book Award for oral presentation at Spring 2011 Materials Research Society conference; National Merit Scholarship Winner; 800 on GRE Quantitative Reasoning; 800 on GRE Verbal Reasoning; 800 on SAT Writing section; 800 on SAT Mathematics Level 2 Subject Test; 800 on SAT Physics Subject Test; 5 on AP Physics B; 5 on AP Biology; 5 on AP Chemistry; 5 on AP Latin - Vergil; 5 on AP Calculus BC; 5 on AP Statistics.
Alfred grew up on Staten Island, New York, and attended Brooklyn's Poly Prep Country Day School throughout middle school and high school. There, he developed a love for asking tough questions and sharing the answers he found with others. This, combined with his love for taking things apart, led him to pursue the path of engineer by day and journalist by night.
Alfred majored in Electrical Engineering at Princeton and spent much of his free time either interning at WABC radio's John Batchelor Show or working for the news division of Princeton's own student-run radio station, WPRB. He also taught math for Princeton's Freshman Scholar's Institute, where he welcomed incoming freshmen to campus and helped them gain the confidence they needed to tackle freshman year math coursework.
Upon graduation, he moved to Lexington, Kentucky, to work as an engineer for the printer maker Lexmark International. There, too, he maintained an interest in sharing his knowledge with others. On nights and weekends, he coached the University of Kentucky's elite college athletes not in basketball—Coach John Calipari has that under control—but in math, physics and economics.
Alfred returned to New York in 2013 to attend Columbia Journalism School and to pursue his dream of asking questions for a living. When he's not tutoring or pursuing a story, Alfred can usually be found rocking out to country music, hitting rails on the squash court, or cheering on his beloved Yankees.
Anna Winham
Homework Helpers Humanities Languages Test Prep
Dartmouth College, 2014, majors in Linguistics and English; Graduated with honors; Gender Research Institute at Dartmouth Fellow, 2013; recipient of Stanley Prize, 2013; Recipient of Kaminsky Family Fund Award, 2013; near-perfect score of 2340 on SAT; perfect scores of 800 on English, Math, and Chemistry SAT Subject Tests; near-perfect scores of 780 on US History and Biology SAT Subject Tests; score of 5 on AP exams in Biology, Chemistry, Calculus BC, US History, and European History; Gold Medalist on National Latin Exam.
At Dartmouth, Anna's class choices were widely varied, ranging from Social Neuroscience to The Black Radical Tradition to Design Thinking. Anna's favorite courses usually had more to do with the pedagogy of her professors than with the content of the courses, grounding her belief that the right teacher can enliven any subject material. She particularly enjoyed, for example, a course on Puritan Poetry with the professor who later became her Honors Thesis Advisor. In this class Dartmouth students worked on equal footing with students from an alternative high school in West Lebanon, each group learning from the life experiences and understandings of the other. In her senior seminar, Dialectology, the advanced linguistics students conducted field research in Boston and co-wrote an academic paper which we submitted to conferences. Her activities outside of the classroom included founding The Dartmouth Radical newspaper—for which she edited articles and wrote press releases, serving as president of Soul Scribes slam poetry group, sitting on the Women's and Gender Studies Student Steering Committee, and teaching newly initiated fraternity brothers the basics of consent as a Mentor Against Violence.
Anna's teaching career began at her high school in the heart of Silicon Valley, Castilleja, as she participated in a peer tutoring program for middle and high school students, a volunteer tutoring program at a nearby school, and mathematics and English instruction for elementary school students in her neighborhood. In college, she ran writing workshops and taught performance poetry.
Since graduating from Dartmouth, Anna worked as a teacher in somewhat unorthodox settings. At Everytown for Gun Safety in Las Vegas and NYG Strategic Marketing Consultants, her jobs were to train new hires and direct team-building. She focused on teaching, training, and establishing rapport with her team and clients.
Since Anna has taught a diverse group of people in a variety of settings, she learned how to teach to different learning styles and backgrounds. Finding mutual interests and building rapport allows her to build excitement in the material she is teaching. Her fervent belief in excellence is reflected in students being motivated to their top performance, even those students who are already performing at a high level. Anna's appreciation for both breadth and depth allows her to forge unlikely connections between subjects, learn and teach in a deep and highly contextual manner, as well as to find points of interest for almost any student in almost any subject.
When she isn't waxing poetic about the way multiple-choice questions reveal their own answers, you might find Anna editing her friends' first novels, or gazing fondly at falling leaves.
Emelyn Daly
Barnard College, 2011, major in Comparative Literature with concentrations in French and Spanish, minor in Art History, GPA of 3.7. Dean's list Fall 2007-Spring 2011. Recipient of the 2014 Fulbright Scholarship Award for English Teaching in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Emelyn has been dedicated to foreign language learning from a young age. In high school, her advanced placement in French led her to undertake an immersive study abroad program in Bordeaux, France, where she gained fluency living with a host family and attending a local public school. In college, she deepened her romance language expertise, quickly becoming fluent in Spanish and studying abroad, again, this time in Barcelona, Spain.
Emelyn's teaching career began in 2012 at the Language Workshop for Children, an Upper East Side after-school program, where she instructed students one-on-one in French, Spanish, and ESL. From there, Emelyn began working closely with the head of the program, writing and editing original French and Spanish language textbooks for romance language learners. Later, Emelyn tutored high school students seeking placement in AP Spanish and French before being selected to teach university-level English courses with the Fulbright Program in Rio de Janeiro, where she lived for one year.
Emelyn is an enthusiastic, nurturing teacher. She believes in establishing a strong rapport with every student in order to create lessons that integrate his or her personal learning needs, goals, and interests.
Emelyn practices yoga and meditation. She also loves to read, write, and make pottery. She can often be found taking walks around the Central Park Reservoir.


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A woman named Abby Fisher, a former slave from South Carolina, is the author of the first published African American cookbook. Born in 1832, Abby Fisher was freed after the Civil War. After she and her family moved to San Francisco, she entered her food in cooking competitions. Her recipes, especially pickles, jellies and preserves, would become an instant success with friends and the upper class. She would be known around town as "Mrs. Abby Fisher, Pickle Manufacturer."
Mrs. Abby's recipes were featured in local competitions. In 1879, she was awarded a "diploma" at the Sacramento State Fair and a year later, she won two medals at the San Francisco Mechanics' Institute. Her recipes included those like Sweet Watermelon Rind Pickle, Jumble Cake, Green Turtle Soup and Hoe cake. It is also believed that Fisher was the first to present the recipe for fried chicken and waffles.
Though she could not read or write herself, friends of Fisher encouraged her to record her award-winning foods to share. In 1881, Abby Fisher published, "What Mrs. Fisher Knows about Old Southern Cooking: Soups, Pickles, Preserves, Etc.," published by the Women's Cooperative Printing Office in San Francisco. This is only one of the many businesses that supported Fisher's work. Abby Fisher's cookbook was known for its unusual spelling of dishes and ingredients that we know today. It was most likely because of her explanation of the recipes that a second party recorded. For instance, she would call Jambalaya "Jumberlie." Fisher refers to a dish called Circuit Hash, which was most likely succotash and the milanaise sauce used in her recipe for chicken salad is mayonnaise.
In 1984, a century after the first publication, a volume of the cookbook was put up for auction at Sotheby's in New York. The book was purchased by the Schlesinger Library at Harvard University.
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Alumni Reunion Days - Memory Book Home » Programs & Events » Alumni Reunion Days » Memory Book
Alumni Reunion Days Memory Book
We would love to hear your stories about MSU. If you would like to submit your memories, please email them to Regina Cross at firstname.lastname@example.com by Friday, May 1, 2012. All stories will be featured on the MSU Alumni Association website and several will be selected for inclusion in the 2012 edition of the reunion book. Entries received after the deadline will be posted on the website. Handwritten or typed memories submitted through the U.S. mail will not be accepted. Text is subject to editing.
Use these thought starters if you're not sure what to share with your Michigan State classmates:
- What year did you graduate and what Michigan State traditions do you remember most?
- What Michigan State clubs, fraternities/sororities, sports, band, etc. were you a part of?
- What Michigan State event that you participated in is most memorable to you?
- What was your favorite social activity?
- What was your favorite musical group/song?
- Did you wear any special clothing or jewelry for specific occasions? What were the fashions?
- Where did you live? How was it decorated?
- What was a typical day like? What was a football Saturday like? Where did you enjoy "hanging out?"
- What national and international events do you remember most?
- What campus locations/landmarks were especially meaningful to you? Why?
- Knowing what you know now, what advice would you give to current MSU students?
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This is achieved in two distinct ways. If they are extremely grand (or think they are), they will hold an intimate New Year's dinner, preferably with duck and kumquats, to which they will invite such an insultingly small portion of their relevant acquaintance that everyone who did not make the A-list will pale and leave town. This move secures the hosts a smaller pond to be big fish in come Epiphany. If they are less grand (most others), they will seek to lose themselves in the company of strangers in the most expensive and elaborate way they can think of, so that no one from their own circle will witness them sinking listlessly into the bubbly eddy of the old year's wake. That way, they can either brag about the splendour of their end-of-year revels without fear of being gainsaid, or else they can tactfully hint, without precisely saying it, that they formed part of the slim roster that made it to that society couple's duckfeed on Park - not that they would want to rub it in.
For 90 years, the city has aided its citizens in this quest for splendid isolation by throwing a jamboree and glitterball-lowering in Times Square for crowds of half a million - a throng so faceless, so huge, that even the most visible New Yorkers can mill among it without sunglasses. The celebration is duly broadcast across the world to foster insecurity among foreigners, who watch it and worry that they're not having nearly as good a time (this, at least, is the intention). This year, however, when Mayor Giuliani drops the ball and the clock strikes 12, New York City will celebrate its 100th birthday - the one remaining perk this town had been waiting for before it declared itself once and for all un-Gothamed and reborn as America's new, urban Disneyland.
The rehabilitation, spit-polishing and refurbishment that New York City has undergone in the past year has happened so quickly that many New Yorkers find themselves in an unrecognisable landscape, forced to ask directions of tourists. Luckily, there are a lot of them about. But this New Year's, as helpful as the tourists are, it is anticipated that there will be so many of them that New York's locals will no longer have room to hide from each other.
In the past weeks, residents who heard the news realised they would have to take instant action to learn how to mix with each other politely to avoid incident come 31 December. They bought etiquette books and white gloves, began to say please and thank you and signed up for crash courses in bridge and ballroom dancing. As a result, more than ever before will inaugurate their foxtrots at the Grand Central Terminal, which annually throws open its floor to quadrilling types, and, for a fee of $25, as part of something called First Night New York '98, they can dance their way downtown, from the escalatored malls of Herald Square to the skyscrapers at the World Financial Center.
Most, however, will prefer to pay more and head to one of the multitude of restaurants and clubs that have thrown their portals open lately and have raced to roll out enticing New Year's gatherings to pull in street- shy revellers, promising party hats, crustacea and timbales of endangered species. Near Times Square searchers of swank will sashay into the Supper Club, a swing-era temple on 47th Street, where, for only $500, a couple can swallow a few oyster crackers and a magnum of champagne while dancing to an 18-piece big band. Uptown, moguls will skirt the park, squabbing it up at Daniel, JG and Vong.
Downtown, scenesters will memorise their favourite lines from All About Eve, then head for Life!, Rialto, or the Blue Note, spilling bons mots and C-notes everywhere they go; while college students will roll into divey blues clubs like Arthur's Tavern for some free fizz in plastic-stemmed glasses, husky piano-bar blues, and noisemakers galore. The misanthropes who still can't stomach the notion of running into their pals will head for the river, to stow away on the Circle Line cruise for only $75 (panoramic view of Times Square fireworks thrown in for free), or drop a few hundred on love boats like Midnight Magic, 1998.
But most New Yorkers who can't overcome the impulse to run from each other on this most self-conscious of holidays will take refuge on solid ground, in the one place the tourists still fear to tread; Central Park after dark. There they will listen to Debbie Harry at the Boathouse, lie on the grass by Tavern on the Green, look up at the fireworks, and then, hopefully in time, get up and run for their lives - in the annual 5km midnight jog around the park. (Should anyone spot them mid-sprint, they'll just wave and call out a cheery, "Auld Lang Syne!" which, as every New Yorker knows, means, "Out with the old, in with the new!"/ "Happy New Year, whoever you are.")
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- Now the truth can be revealed Look within to find: The mystical origins and secret legends of the Clans. An insiders' tour of the Clan camps and territories. The histories and characters of each Clan, and information about their leaders and medicine cats. Knowledge of cats outside the Clans. The tenets of the warrior code. Prophecies and omens, and how they have been fulfilled. And many more truths about the secrets, beliefs, and daily lives of the cats of the Clans.
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Julian Bliss
Firmly established on the international concert scene Julian Bliss has already appeared as soloist with a number of important orchestras including the London Philharmonic, BBC Symphony, Royal Philharmonic, Orchestre National de France, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, BBC Philharmonic, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, NHK Symphony, Munich Chamber, Gulbenkian Orchestra, Malaysian Philharmonic, Swedish Radio Symphony, and the Bergen Philharmonic.
In recital Julian has appeared at such prestigious venues as the Wigmore Hall, Cadogan Hall, the Louvre in Paris, Montpellier Festival, Jerusalem Music Festival, Bad Kissingen, Rheingau and Mecklenburg Festivals, where he was awarded the audience prize and is now a regular guest. His debut recital at the Lincoln Center in New York was a great success. As a prolific chamber musician, Julian has collaborated with artists such as Joshua Bell, Steven Isserlis, Misha Maisky, Steven Kovacevich, Elena Bashkirova, Julian Rachlin, Simon Trpceski and Helen Grimaud.
This season sees the launch of 'Julian Bliss and the King of Swing – the Benny Goodman Legacy'; a project focusing on the musical life and times of the legendary clarinetist Benny Goodman. In Spring Julian will release a CD on Signum that re-creates the exciting sound of swing from the 40's, before embarking on an International tour following highly successful concerts in London and at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.
Julian's recordings for EMI have been greeted with critical acclaim and of his most record with Sabine Meyer as recording partner was said "Spohr Clarinet Concerto no.2 in C minor, colourfully played by Julian Bliss, is full of instrumental invention, pitting the clarinet against some highly original effects and so requiring much care in balance as well as finger dexterity." (Gramophone)
Julian has appeared on national television on numerous occasions; at the Queen's 80th Birthday at the BBC Proms in front of a live audience and a television audience around the world in forty countries, in a three-part documentary about his life for Channel 4 entitled 'Gifted', and he was among the distinguished artists invited to perform at the Queen's Golden Jubilee Celebrations at Buckingham Palace on 1 June 2002.
In 2007 Julian was invited by Conn Selmer to design a range of affordable clarinets bearing his name. The BLISS range of clarinets was recently launched world-wide and have received much praise. For more information about Julian and the BLISS clarinets visit www.Julianbliss.com


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This past month, the Mackey Advisors team attended an economics presentation by Alan Beaulieu, the President of ITR Economics and a leading authority on global economics. His presentations are informative and detailed providing unique insight into economic trends; both short and long term. His latest report was positive and upbeat, especially for the United States…. Read More


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Standard Acceleration due to Gravity
The acceleration of freefall, the acceleration at which an object would fall under the force of gravity in a vacuum. The value will vary according to the distance from the centre of gravity. The value quoted is the internationally accepted value.
g = 9.80665 ms-2
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g = 32.174 ft s-2
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Monday 25 June 1984
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|Canucks preparing for a series' worth of Zdeno Chara
|05.31.11 at 12:44 am ET
VANCOUVER — The Bruins know that they have plenty of guys who can create problems for other teams. Tim Thomas can be unbeatable, while David Krejci made things very hard for both the Flyers and Lightning in the last two rounds of the playoffs. Very high on (and perhaps at the top) of the list of players the Canucks might worry about is Zdeno Chara.
With the captain and Dennis Seidenberg providing Boston with an outstanding top pairing this postseason, Vancouver's first line of the brothers Sedin and Alex Burrows.
As has been well-documented, the Sedins have not played to their usual point (or more) a game pace when facing the Bruins. Daniel Sedin has five points in 10 career games vs. Boston, while Henrik Sedin has four points in 11 games against the B's. Not all of those have come against Chara, and ultimately the biggest thing Henrik feels he lacks going into the Stanley Cup matchup is experience against the 6-foot-9 defenseman.
"He was in Ottawa and we played him a couple times there," Henrik said, "and Boston maybe once or twice [note: the Bruins have played the Canucks four times since signing Chara in 2006]. We played the Slovaks in the Olympics a couple of times, but that's it.'
The Sedins faced Chara three times when he played for the Senators. Each brother had one goal over those three games.
"I haven't really seen him play in game action like for a lot of time,' Henrik admitted. 'It's tough for me to [pick up] what his tendencies are. Like if you want to get close to him or if you want to try to move around him. I don't know. We'll see."
The Sedins (and all of Vancouver's forwards, for that matter) are not the only ones who have to worry about Boston's captain. In an attempt to help a historically bad power play, Claude Julien finally moved Chara up front on the man advantage to create chaos for the goaltender. Roberto Luongo has taken notice, and said Monday that when the Bruins are on the power play, he hopes that Chara's the only one in front.
"I think the key is not to get into battles in front of the net with him as far as our D men are concerned and things like that," Luongo, a Vezina finalist, said. "For myself, I prefer to just leave him there by himself and it will be easier for me to pick up the puck than having one of our D men try to move him out of the way. I mean, I don't know if we have anybody strong enough back there. Maybe [Aaron Rome], but apart from that, that's it."
Whether or not Chara has company in front, Luongo's coach has faith that his netminder can deal with him.
'Roberto has seen big bodies in front of him before,' Canucks coach Alain Vigneault said. 'He's adapted his style to that this year. He's staying in the blue paint to play his game. He's been excellent all year, so it's just another big body for him.'
Chara is a finalist for the Norris Memorial Trophy, which is awarded to the league's top defenseman. He won it back in 2009 with the B's, and has been a frequent finalist.
This postseason, he leads all skaters with a plus-11 rating. He missed Game 2 of the first round due to illness, but his 28:17 average time on ice is second only to Seidenberg for the most among remaining players.
'He's one of the best defensemen in the league,' Vigneault said. 'He's strong 1-on-1, and without a doubt, he uses his size to his advantage. Obviously it's a challenge for us offensively to try and generate when he's on the ice.'
The players might not be used to Chara, but they'll have to get used to him in a hurry. With Seidenberg turning in a stellar postseason that was brought into the spotlight with his eight-block performance in Game 7 vs. the Lightning, they should be prepared for a difficult time. On the other hand, Henrik Sedin hopes the unfamiliarity is a two-way street.
"I'm hoping it's going to help us that they haven't seen us that much," Henrik said. "But we'll see. They've got to watch their video, we've got to watch ours, so it shouldn't be a big difference."
|Roberto Luongo is no Tim Thomas, and he knows it
|05.30.11 at 7:38 pm ET
VANCOUVER — Call Roberto Luongo and Tim Thomas polar opposites, but the truth is there was a time when the Canucks' Vezina finalist seriously considered playing Thomas' signature risk/reward, flopping style.
"I did when I was five and playing street hockey," Luongo said with a laugh after Monday's practice at Rogers Arena.
All kidding aside, Luongo made it pretty clear that he has a great amount of respect for Boston's 37-year-old netminder. In the end, Luongo, along with Nashville's Pekka Rinne, will fall short of Thomas when the Vezina is awarded this summer, so as unorthodox as Thomas plays, Luongo can appreciate what he's doing.
"You've got to give him credit for the type of value that he has on the ice," Luongo said. "When you play like that, you have to have tremendous reads and anticipation and things like that."
Though their styles differ, both Thomas and Luongo share a 2.29 goals against average and have 12-6 records thus far in the postseason. Luongo was pulled twice and was even benched for a game in the first round against the Blackhawks, but since Game 7 of the quarterfinals has been sharp as a tack.
You won't catch Luongo lunging to make save after save or using his stick to bat down game-tying goals, but just because he's more of a conventional goalie does not mean he is fooled by Thomas' tendency to be all over the place.
"I mean, he likes to make saves looking at the net. I like to look the other way," Luongo said. "He's a great goalie. He had a great year and he's a guy that we can't take for granted that just because maybe you think he's out of position that we're going to get a goal. We have to make sure that we bear down and bury it, because he'll find a way to stop it."
|Former Boston College and Bruins defenseman Andrew Alberts eager to return to Boston for Stanley Cup finals
|05.30.11 at 6:00 pm ET
VANCOUVER — Andrew Alberts may be a healthy scratch with the Canucks, but he has plenty of reason to stay motivated during the Stanley Cup finals. His team is going up against his first NHL team in the city in which he played his college puck. The former BC and Bruins defenseman noted that the Bruins are "not the same team" that he played for from 2005-2008, but that he still remembers his time in Boston fondly and looks forward to returning.
"Playing with Brian Leetch my first year was great, playing with Hal Gill," Alberts said Monday after the Canucks practiced. "Playing college in Boston and getting to know the city and playing there for three years was great. I love the city. It's fun to go back, and it's a great organization."
Alberts was traded early in the 2008 season after finding himself stuck as a healthy scratch. Though there's been significant roster turnover over the years in Boston, the likes of Patrice Bergeron, Zdeno Chara, Shawn Thornton, Andrew Ference, David Krejci, Tim Thomas and Michael Ryder are among those who are still on the team. Though some faces remain, the biggest chance since Alberts last played for the Bruins is clear: They are winning,.
"It was a little bit different when I was there," Alberts recalled. "We were kind of rebuilding and what not. We didn't have a real great team, so it's going to be excited to see the Fleet Center, the — what is it — the TD Bank North Garden or whatever now? To see it rocking. The city will be behind them for sure. It's going to be an tough environment to play in."
The 29-year-old native of Minneapolis said he doesn't keep in contact with his former teammates though he will greet them if he sees them on the ice. Should he find his way into Vancouver's lineup for the finals, he'll refrain from that this time around.
Said Alberts: "It's a different circumstance now."
|Manny Malhotra: Monday the 'most game-like that I've felt'
|05.30.11 at 5:31 pm ET
VANCOUVER — Canucks center Manny Malhotra participated in both the team's scrimmage and special teams work in Monday's practice at Rogers Arena. Malhotra, who has been out since March with an eye injury but was recently cleared for contact, said that Monday was "the most game-like" he was felt since his injury. His coach saw the same.
"I thought today was a good day. We scrimmaged, and we did a little bit of power play and penalty killing. I thought he looked alright," Alain Vigneault said. "He's still day-to-day, and we'll see how he practices tomorrow."
Malhotra, who had 11 goals and 19 assist for 30 points in 72 regular-season games, doesn't know whether he's good to go for Game 1 of the Stanley Cup finals vs. the Bruins, but is happy just to be on the ice.
"A lot of my status is going to be based on how I feel post these two scrimmages. It was good to get back in, mix it up a little bit,feel the pressure in the corners, get into some intense face-offs and get some PK work in. We'll see on a daily basis how the progression goes."
Once Malhotra makes his return to the lineup, it's hard to tell whether he will return to centering the third line with regular minutes or whether he might be brought along slowly.
"It's kind out of my hands at that point," he said. "Everybody in this room has it the same way. If you're ready to play and you're in there, you're either ready to play two minutes or 20 minutes. It doesn't matter. You're going to be used however coach sees fit."
|Dennis Seidenberg is looking forward to defending the Sedins
|05.30.11 at 5:26 pm ET
Dennis Seidenberg knows what the main assignment for him and Zdeno Chara is going to be in the Stanley Cup finals — contain Daniel and Henrik Sedin. It certainly isn't going to be easy, but Seidenberg said he's looking forward to the test.
"I love shutting down those guys, trying to at least," Seidenberg said. "There's nothing better than having a big challenge ahead of you."
The Sedins can make their opponent look like a JV team with their ability to possess the puck for entire shifts at a time. They always know where the other is, and the two of them make no-look and indirect passes seem easy. Eventually, they wear their opponent down to the point where someone ends up open in a quality scoring area.
Seidenberg said the key in defending the Sedins is to not get caught chasing them around.
"You want to try to not be over-aggressive, because once you do that, they spin off of you," Seidenberg said. "They're really good at finding each other with the give-and-gos and the blind pass behind the back. So that's a real challenge for us, to be aggressive without being stupid about it. We have to be smart in our defensive play."
|Bruins notes Monday: Claude Julien pumps up the volume and Rich Peverley gets the gold
|05.30.11 at 4:55 pm ET
The Bruins held their final practice before departing for Vancouver in preparation for Wednesday's opening game of the 2011 Stanley Cup finals at Rogers Arena.
Every player was on the ice – with the exception of defenseman Shane Hnidy – for the 45-minute skate that began at 11:35 and ended with several laps of hard skating around the rink, which was covered in a thin haze of fog by the end of the session. It was the first day back on the ice for several players since winning Game 7 Friday night against Tampa Bay.
"Conditioning doesn't go bad," coach Claude Julien said. "We came back on the ice, and then as a whole team, it was obviously a little warm out there today. So, the ice was probably not at its best and it was a tough grind to push through this practice today, which I think is not a bad thing because we might as well get used to it.
"That's what the buildings are like on game nights. I thought we pushed ourselves pretty good today and did a little bit of sprints at the end to make sure we raise the volume, if you want, and [Tuesday] hopefully, we'll be really good and flying out there in Vancouver and getting ready for Wednesday."
Shawn Thornton took shifts on the fourth line with Daniel Paille and Gregory Campbell, otherwise known as the "Merlot" line.
"They don't get the same amount of ice time those others do," Julien said. "And with Thorty not having played, I think it was important for them to get a regular turn at practice. And those other guys play a lot. Whether it's Mark who we like to give a rest at times, or Bergy, who plays a lot, we kind of rotate through that. I wouldn't read more into it than it was."
Wearing a gold sweater, Rich Peverley skated with the regular second-line unit of Patrice Bergeron, Mark Recchi and Brad Marchand.
Julien moved Peverley up to the second shift during Friday's Game 7 against Tampa Bay, replacing Recchi at times to give the line added speed with Bergeron.
Peverley told WEEI.com's Scott McLaughlin he's totally fine with moving from line to line, especially at this time of year.
|Rich Peverley is being shuffled all around the line chart, and he's perfectly OK with it
|05.30.11 at 4:52 pm ET
For the entire first two rounds of the playoffs, Rich Peverley played on a line with Chris Kelly and Michael Ryder. It was the same line — with some guest appearances by Tyler Seguin — that he had played on since coming to Boston in mid-February.
In Game 3 of the Eastern Conference finals, however, Peverley was dropped down to the fourth line. Patrice Bergeron's absence in the first two games had opened the door for Seguin to assert himself as a top-nine forward, and once Bergeron returned, Peverley found himself as the odd man out of the top three lines.
The problem for Claude Julien — one any coach would love to have — was that Peverley was simply too good to keep on the fourth line. He is solid defensively and he kills penalties. He has the speed and vision to create chances on offense. And he has been the Bruins' second-best faceoff man behind Bergeron, having ranked 13th in the NHL in the regular season with a 55.9-percent success rate.
So in Game 7 against the Lightning, Julien got Peverley on the ice any way he could. He slid him onto other lines throughout the game, both giving Peverley more ice time and giving some other guys more rest in the process. In fact, Peverley had played on all four lines by the end of the first period.
"I'm all over the place," Peverley said Monday. "But I enjoy getting minutes. I just try to play my game and use my speed. I'm lucky I'm used in all situations. … Whichever way the minutes come, it really doesn't matter to me as long as I continue to play my game."
The only concern with moving Peverley around so much would be that there wouldn't be much chemistry. Peverley said that isn't an issue, though, because everyone knows how everyone else plays by this point in the season.
"You don't want to change too much," he said. "You want to try and play your game, and hopefully guys will adapt to you, also. … I think everybody I've played with so far, I had a chance to play with them even before last game. So you already know what guys are doing, and that helps."
Whether or not Julien continues to bounce Peverley up and down the line chart against the Canucks remains to be seen, but Peverley said he's ready to play with anyone.
"Yeah, I think so, just being out there in different situations," Peverley said when asked if he expects to be used in a similar role. "Claude relies on me a little bit for faceoffs, so sometimes I stay out there, sometimes I change. Just being able to play with everybody, I think that's good for me, too, because it gets me a little more ice time."


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Email is a technological abomination foist upon us by corporate overlords. It's a todo list created for you by other people. It's how you allow strangers to organise your time, disrupt your flow and invade your space. I wish I could tell you that I've eliminated it completely, but that's not true. I do feel like I've killed it, however, by reducing it to a tiny blip in my day. Here's how.
Batch and commit
I have a finite set of hours in this lush paradise we call reality, and I'll be damned if I'm going to spend it answering emails from people who want me to do stuff. So I don't. I look at my email once every day - usually after my most productive hours in the morning - and I don't spend more than fifteen minutes on it unless there is something that needs serious attention, which there seldom ever is. Email is asynchronous and anyone expecting an immediate response from it is doing it wrong. Need an answer urgently? Text me, or call. Otherwise expect to wait at least a day, probably longer. That said, I do commit to hitting Inbox Zero after every 15 minute session. Details lower down.
I have eleven - yes, I just counted - email addresses that are used for different things, from promoting some of the talks I do to having a special address for the ton of PR-related email I receive every day. No matter which of my addresses receive, all messages go to the same place. One, single inbox with automated labels. More about that later.
I use the magic of Gmail to send and receive all my email with one account, and you can do the same using Gmail's 'Send mail as' setting.
Fight fire with fire
The best thing I've ever done with my email is ignore it, for the most part. The second best thing was moving to Inbox by Gmail for all my email. This is awesome for a few reasons I'll go into in more depth below. In a nutshell: Inbox uses some machine learning and great UX design to be the precision blade with which to efficiently shred your email demon. You can swipe email away and mark it as done, or swipe the other way to make a message come back later, like at a particular date when it may be relevant. While I prefer to deal with things immediately if I can, deferring can be useful for stuff like utility bills that I don't need to pay yet. One swipe and I can make them go away until the due date.
Inbox by Gmail also lives in my browser or as an app on my phone. This is important, because it means I can shut it down and make it go away when I'm done with it. No notifications, beeps, bleeps and other distractions every time someone wants to sell me something. If you can't or won't use Inbox, I can highly recommend at very least disabling notifications for your email.
Let artifical intelligence do the work
Part of why I love Inbox is the smart machine learning Google has developed for automatically organising email. All my flight receipts, hotel bookings and other travel-related messages are elegantly tucked away under 'Trips' and sorted together by the trip they refer to. Genius. There are other default labels for things like 'Purchases' where all my online orders, invoices and related messages go. You can also create your own labels as I have for the pointless forums I belong to and never engage with, but don't unjoin lest I upset someone.
My favourite of these is the 'Low Priority' folder which, with a bit of training, has become a nice catchment area for all the email I can safely ignore and only go through if I really have nothing better to do. Another hack is to create a rule that puts all email containing the word 'Subscribe' in one label, to safely catch all the newsletters and product spam, and keep them out the way. I haven't found this necessary with Inbox. It's so smart.
Get closure
When you're not in your email, you don't want to be thinking about it. I make sure that my inbox is empty before moving on. This doesn't mean I've deleted messages - in fact I keep every bit of my email which is indexed and searchable - but it does mean that messages are either marked as 'done' or set to come back later, and are visually out of the way. Again, Inbox by Gmail is a powerful tool for doing this, and once you've cleared out all your mail it presents the single most awesome screen that exists in my world:
Yup, that's what my inbox looks like a lot of the time. Gorgeous.
Move beyond
We have reduced the amount of email sent and received by the teams I work with up to 95% after switching to dedicated chat services instead. The poster child in this department is Slack, but I have also used Telegram, Hipchat, and even Whatsapp before we consolidated on Slack. The important thing isn't what platform you use, but rather the commitment of the team to stop deferring, start communicating, and to do so in a more effective manner. Need to know something from a colleague? Don't send a freakin email or, worse, schedule a meeting - just go over to them and ask. If they're busy, message them on Slack.
Most frustrations with technology are symptomatic, not ultimate causes. Being overwhelmed with email is a problem in the way we work. Becoming more productive means thinking about people and processes. How I operate can always be improved and the tools are secondary to the attitude.
Preemptively, here are answers to questions that might be raised after reading this:
But I work in sales / business dev / etcetera! I can't afford to ignore my email!
Yes you can. Using time to proactively engage in growing your business will always produce better results than passively prioritising email. It doesn't matter what your job is, except maybe firefighters 🤔, it would be better served by you controlling your time and output instead of allowing others to. By all means use email to converse with clients, send invoices, or whatever, but always ask yourself how much time is being spent being reactive versus getting on the front foot.
You're crazy to trust Google with all your email!
We can't be friends.
My email is safer with Google than it would be with my ISP, or on an internal server at my company. That isn't an opinion. Firstly: encryption. Secondly: Google. Thirdly: I'll take Google's staff over your IT people any day of the week.
My business won't let me use cool email tools :(
Ah, that sucks. But even if your business insists on you using Outlook, the same methodologies can be applied. Use rules to get unimportant email out of sight. Commit to spending a set amount of time in your email. Almost everything I've suggested above can be reproduced using other apps and services. Even Microsoft does this stuff well now - in fact Outlook for Android and iOS is one of the best email apps ever devised and shares some functionality with Inbox.
More questions or thoughts? Hit up the comments, yo 👇


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Verse 1 answers the question why I should NOT fear death in spite of the fact that I know I am still a sinner.
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Young learners in mixed-level classes can benefit greatly from a supportive classroom culture. In this article, two aspects of classroom management – flexible grouping and the teacher as ...
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Standard Interview Questions
In today's business world, it is important to understand what it is appropriate behavior during the interview process. Having the right questions prepared can help you better uncover the qualities and skills you are seeking in your next hire.
Here are some questions to keep in mind during an interview.
• What made you apply for this position?
• In a brief statement, summarize your work history and education for me?
• Why are you leaving your present (or last) job?
• What kinds of co-workers do you like best? Why?
• How does this job fit in with your overall career plan?
• Can you describe for me your most important accomplishments or biggest disappointments in your career?
• What might make you leave this job?
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• How would you describe your relationship with your last (present) supervisor?
Questions to Avoid During an Interview:
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Potential employees will quickly form an impression of you, both as a representative of your company and as a potential supervisor. By taking the follow steps to structure your interviews, you can greatly improve their effectiveness:
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A job description includes a careful analysis of the major functions of an employee's position. A job description should include the following:
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• List of Duties or Tasks Performed – the list should contain each and every essential job duty or responsibility that is critical to the successful performance of the job. The list should begin with the most important functional and relational responsibilities and continue down in order of significance.
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Information on how to apply, including contact email.
Realistically speaking, many jobs are subject to change due either to personal growth, organizational development, and/or the evolution of new technologies. Flexible job descriptions will encourage your employees to grow within their positions and learn how to make larger contributions to your company. When writing a job description, keep in mind that the job description will serve as a major basis for outlining job training or conducting future job evaluations.
• Prepare answers to commonly asked questions.
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The view was breathtaking. The sun was up so bright but we haven't felt the heat but we got sun burns HAHA. If you're too skinny, surely the strong winds will knock you out. If you wish to visit Osmeña Peak, don't forget your jackets or sweaters!
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