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Let's talk for a moment about successful people.
They have a commonality, whether they're Brittany Spears or Michael Jordan or Bill Gates or Nora Roberts. It isn't genius, or talent, or luck, though they may have some of that.
No, the thing that most success stories have in common is: Hard work, perserverence, and sacrifice.
Nobody gets handed a successful career. There are failures beforehand. Adversity. Set-backs. Mistakes. Learning curves. Hurdles to overcome. Refusal to give up.
Not too many bestselling authors debuted at #1 on the List. It was a gradual climb, over many years and many books. Lots of writing. Lots of promotion. Lots of persevervence and dedication.
I have life-long friends in Corporate America, and I find it interesting how many parallels there are between their careers and mine. We'll talk about long work weeks, and travel, and business politics and gossip, and competition. What happens in the publishing undustry happens in the engineering industry and the finance industry.
For my friends in the corporate world, I composed this list:
JA Konrath's 12 Steps to Success
1. Sleep is for babies and old women.
2. If you have anything left in the tank at the end of the day, you didn't work hard enough.
3. Fate is a future you didn't change.
4. There's a word for someone who never gives up... successful.
5. No one became rich or famous by being a good parent.
6. There's more to life than work, I've heard.
7. Vacation is a perfect opportunity to work hard in a different location.
8. If your boss doesn't push you as hard as you push yourself, your boss sucks.
9. If you don't take the credit, someone less deserving will.
10. Work smarter and harder.
11. You don't win races without facing some injuries.
12. Pain is temporary, chicks dig scars, and you need to stop reading blogs and get back to work.
The list was meant to be tongue in cheek, but looking at it now, it isn't as silly as I'd intended it to be.
Obviously, this isn't a recipe for leading a balanced, fulfilling life. But it isn't a bad course to follow if you're consumed with desire for success at the cost of everything else. And it's probably the course that Brittany, Michael, Bill, and Nora followed.
Everyone is looking for that edge, that way to get to the next level. In publishing, the buzz is all about high concept, hooks, marketing, publicity, promotion, advertising, and coop.
Somehow, good old-fashioned hard work got left in the dust.
You need to write a good book. You need to have a good agent. You need to have your publisher behind you.
But most of all, you need to bust your ass. And if it isn't busted yet, you only have one person to blame for your lack of success.
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
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Friends of Sheba necesitaba un nuevo diseño de papelería y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 11 diseños de 3 diseñadores freelance.
American Friends of Sheba Medical Center http://www.shebamedical.org
We are a growing non-profit located in NYC who raise funds and build support for Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer, Israel's Hospital Without Boundaries. Sheba Medical Center is the Hospital for the Israeli Defense Forces. The Hospital sends doctors around the world to bring expert medical care to underprivileged countries. Sheba's Dr. Itzik Kreiss of the IDF was commander of the Israeli emergency relief field hospital in Haiti, the first hospital to set up on site. Sheba is also renowned for its advanced research, technology & innovation in every field of medicine.
We have several new initiatives underway, both here and abroad. We recently partnered with The Hopeful Dawn Foundation and Garth Brooks Teammates for Kids on potential building projects at the hospital- both would become international models for both foundations. We are branded as an international, cross-cultural hospital: A Hospital Without Boundaries. Annually we honor a Global Ambassador for Sheba- past honorees are Yue Sai Kan and Lapo Elkann. We also have a young leadership board directed towards upcoming philanthropists and business leaders. We have several events planned from now till October, please view our website for photos and other info http://www.shebamedical.org.
We need letterhead, business cards, note cards and/or pads, 11x13 and regular No.7 envelopes. We dont really have an official logo, but it must incorporate our:
1. Sheba 'snake' icon, several versions attached
2. our registered trademark, 'Hospital Without Boundaries', and
3. our name, 'American Friends of Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer' (the 'at Tel Hashomer' does NOT have to be prominent).
Our palette is blue, white, gray and black- shades are flexible but should be mostly blue. Envelopes should be blue, for the rest please provide both color and white paper options. Our current Stationary is attached and includes all the information we need on the letterhead- including members of the board and our contact info. Additional documents are attached- invitations or other items regarding previous events and some info about the hospital itself, but the best place to see what we have done is probably the website http://www.shebamedical.org. We are also on Facebook.

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PreStros: May 30
Brian Bass pitched well in his OKC debut as the RedHawks beat Nashville (MIL) 7-2.
Bass threw 6 shutout innings, allowing 5 H, 2 HBP, and 1 BB with 2 K. Enerio Del Rosario gave up 1 R on 2 H in .1 innings. Adalberto Flores threw 1.2 innings and gave up 1 R on 2 H. Jose Valdez pitched the ninth, allowing 1 H.
LF-Scott Moore was 1x3 with 1 BB and 2 RBI. 3B-Brett Wallace went 1x3 with 1 BB and 1 HR. 2B-Jimmy Paredes as 2x3 with 1 R. CF-Brandon Barnes was 2x4 with 2 SB, 1 R, and 1 RBI. 2B-Angel Sanchez went 1x1 with 1 BB, 1 HR, 2 R, and 2 RBI.
Man of the Match: Brian Bass
Keuchel was placed on the temporary inactive list to help alleviate a roster
crunch. Jordan Lyles returned to OKC from Dallas . Houston
The Hooks made the most of their five hits to beat Arkansas (LAA) 3-2.
Ross Seaton lasted 6.2 innings and gave up 2 R on 9 H with 1 K. Josh Zeid threw 1.1 innings with 1 K. Jason Stoffel earned his sixth save with 1 scoreless inning allowing 1 H.
CF-Austin Wates was 1x2 with 1 BB, 2 SB, and 1 R. 1B-Jon Singleton was 1x4 with 1 HR. RF-Andrew Simunic was 0x2 with 1 BB, 1 SB, 1 R, and 1 outfield assist on a play at the plate.
Man of the Match: Austin Wates
*Notes: Jon Singleton was named Texas League player of the week for the week of May 21-27. He hit .500 with four home runs and 12 runs batted in for the week. Seaton has held his opponents to two or fewer earned runs in six of his last seven starts. Jarred Cosart was scratched for this game due to "not conforming to organizational policy." He is expected to make his next start Sunday.
The JetHawks managed to pull out of their 3 G flat spin (three games…see what I did there?) with a 4-3 win over Visalia (ARI).
Ruben Alaniz gave an impressive 8 innings, allowing 2 R on 7 H and 1 BB with 4 K. Andrew Robinson gave up 1 H and 1 BB and was charged with 1 R without getting an out in the ninth. Kirk Clark shut the door with 1 inning, 0 R, and 2 BB.
SS-Alex Todd went 1x2 with 3 BB, 1 2B, 1 SB, and 1 R. CF-George Springer was 1x5 with 1 SB and 2 R. DH-Erik Castro was 2x4 with 1 BB, 1 HR, and 2 RBI.
Man of the Match: Ruben Alaniz
*Notes: The JetHawks are 20-0 with leading after eight innings. They are 22-3 when allowing four or fewer runs.
The Legends dominated Augusta (SF) from start to finish, winning 6-1.
Luis Cruz threw 7 shutout innings, allowing 7 H and 1 BB with 5 K. Evan Grills pitched the final 2 innings and gave up 1 R on 2 H and 1 BB with 2 K.
2B-Delino DeShields went 1x4 with 1 BB, 1 SB, 1 R, and 1 RBI. CF-Jordan Scott was 1x5 with 1 2B, 1 R, and 1 RBI. 1B-Jesse Wierzbicki was 2x4 with 1 3B, 1 SB, 1 R, and 2 RBI. SS-Chan Moon went 3x3 with 1 BB and 2 R.
Man of the Match: Luis Cruz
*Notes: Three of the top four league leaders in innings pitched are Legends (Cruz, Foltynewicz, Tropeano).
Tri-City (0-0)
Season begins June 18.
Season begins June 18.
Greeneville (0-0)
Season begins June 19.
Season begins June 19.
GCL Astros (0-0)
Season begins June 18.
Season begins June 18.
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by Brian DeCandia, sports information graduate assistant
PENSACOLA, Fla. – The No. 30 Georgia College women's tennis squad (8-8) trounced the Lindenwood University Lions (1-12) Friday morning, 9-0.
Domination despite a slight mix in partners helped the Bobcats take an early 3-0 lead after doubles. May Johnson (Sydney, Australia) and Leah Pridegon (Lawrenceville, Ga.) played in the second slot and made quick work of Rachel Bailey and Sarah Sharpe in a shutout. Ivana Marevic (Rottweil, Germany) and Sarah Roberts (Kennesaw, Ga.) followed up with a stellar performance of their own, blanking Shreeja Karki and Lindsey Wolfgang.
Kayla Barksdale (Augusta, Ga.) and Lisa Setyon-Ortenzio (Paris) finished up last playing in the one spot defeating Adela Slovakova and Mariona Pinol 8-2.
The Bobcats continued to dominate in singles action. Marevic and Barksdale both won their sets without surrendering a game against Brigitte Bustamante and Sharpe, respectively. Setyon-Ortenzio finished off Mariona Pinol, 6-0, 6-3 and Johnson toppled Adela Slovakova, 6-3, 6-0.
Pridgeon edged out Bailey in straight sets, 6-2, 6-3. To cap it off, freshman Anna Hicks (Brunswick, Ga.) recorded her first career GC singles victory, taking down Karki in straight sets, 6-3, 6-3.
With the singles wins, Barksdale maintains her team lead with a 12-4 mark, while Johnson joins her in double-digit wins with a 10-4 record. The top doubles pairing remains Setyon-Ortenzio and Barksdale, now improving to 11-5 this season.
The GC women play again tomorrow, March 31 against No. 1 BYU-Hawaii set to start at 9 p.m. central time in the final day of the Spring Break trip.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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That Dustin Lynch played a Justin Timberlake song Sunday at the Stagecoach Country Music Festival hardly seemed a big deal.
A proud native of Memphis, Tenn., Timberlake is almost certain to make his own country album one day, and he's already portrayed a young folkie in the Coen brothers' movie "Inside Llewyn Davis."
But when Lynch, best known for his hit single "Cowboys and Angels," moved from Timberlake's "Rock Your Body" into a remarkably faithful rendition of "Say Aah" by the R&B star Trey Songz — and his audience squealed in excited approval — then it was clear: Country is changing.
The headliners at this year's Stagecoach — which brought Eric Church, Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan and over 60,000 fans to the Empire Polo Club in Indio — were three of the highest-profile purveyors of what's often referred to as "bro country." It's the hugely popular Nashville variant that sets words about tailgates and tan lines (to borrow the title of one of Bryan's albums) against crunching arena-rock guitars.
The bros didn't disappoint, either. Church opened his show Friday with "That's Damn Rock & Roll," an AC/DC song in virtually all respects but the singer's Southern accent, and Aldean had pyrotechnics and huge video screens straight out of the hair-metal style guide.
On one of the festival's smaller stages, the grizzled veterans of Lynyrd Skynyrd — bros emeriti, let's call them — even played to an enormous overflow crowd that seemed to regard "Simple Man" as though it were a foundational roots-music text. (The crowd was right — it is.)
Throughout the weekend, though, many of the younger artists at Stagecoach — guys (and a few women) who came up in Aldean's shadow — looked elsewhere for inspiration. For them, rock songs from the 1970s and '80s are nearly as old-fashioned as the midcentury rockabilly tunes you could hear 76-year-old Wanda Jackson play Sunday afternoon. They're borrowing more widely, from pop and hip-hop and dance music and R&B.
Was this the birth of baby-bro country?
Fresh-faced Hunter Hayes made you think so with the Daft Punk-style robot voices he used in his hit "Storm Warning." Ditto Thomas Rhett, who appended a bit of the rapper J-Kwon's club classic "Tipsy" to his song "All-American Middle Class White Boy."
And there was no way to deny it while watching Florida Georgia Line, the thrillingly boisterous duo whose Sunday night set put more bass in my face than any country show I've ever seen.
"Give me something with a backbeat, with country in the rap beat," Tyler Hubbard and Brian Kelley demanded in "Party People," "And twist it on up to 10." On at least four occasions Hubbard thanked the audience for changing his and Kelley's lives by making huge hits out of their songs.
But after "Cruise" — the biggest-selling country download of all time, according to Nielsen SoundScan — he went one better and told the group's fans that they'd also "changed country music history." He was referring, presumably, to those fans' endorsement of the full-fledged integration of hip-hop and country.
Florida Georgia Line didn't invent that hybrid. The Georgia rapper Bubba Sparxxx made waves over a decade ago with a strong debut album produced by Timbaland. And Colt Ford has been rhyming over twangy guitar riffs for years; in 2008 he and Brantley Gilbert wrote and recorded "Dirt Road Anthem," which Aldean later covered and took to No. 1 on Billboard's country chart. (Aldean and Gilbert both performed the song at Stagecoach.)
But those artists combined the two styles with the zeal of self-conscious outlaws. Today the fusion is commonplace, even expected among young listeners for whom country is more a lifestyle than a type of music. Lynch wasn't trying to shock anyone by covering Trey Songz; he was merely expanding his sound to encompass what plays on his and his fans' iPhones.
The gesture has become so safe, in fact, that it's trickled upward (or is it backward?) to the bros, who now risk appearing out of touch if they limit their adventures to Tom Petty and Bon Jovi.
In his festival-closing performance Sunday night, Bryan worked hard — well, as hard as this twinkly-eyed charmer ever works – to come across as a product of the heartland. "Rain Is a Good Thing" was about how rain makes corn, which makes whiskey, which makes "my baby feel a little frisky"; he introduced "Muckalee Creek Water" with a bit of invective about unfettered gun rights.
But he also did a slick version of "Can't Hold Us" by the pop-rap duo Macklemore & Ryan Lewis. And during his encore Bryan injected a few lines from Jason Derulo's "Talk Dirty" into his hit "Country Girl (Shake It for Me)."
Do these songs mean anything to Bryan? Or was he just exploiting their appeal to a large portion of his audience? It's anyone's guess. Either way, the country girls happily obliged.


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AI Instructor's Resource Page
Instructors of AI courses may get some benefit from this page. Some of it is designed specifically for the book
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
and some of it does not depend on the choice of textbook. Our aim is to provide resources for every step of designing and running an AI course.
Choose a Textbook
AI Books
: a list of AI books (useful as supplements or for a course that does not use a textbook).
by other people about AIMA.
Prentice Hall's resource page for AIMA
allows you to request an evaluation copy of the book, see resources for the first day of class, etc.
Position Paper
from the
AAAI Fall Symposium on Innovative Instruction for Introductory AI
, New Orleans, Nov. 1994. Gives some of our motivation for writing the first edition.
Talk with Other Instructors
discussion group for instructors (and TAs) only. Click the link to apply for membership. Please use your University email address, so that I can verify you are an instructor and not a student. Then in a separate message to
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discussion group for any readers of the book. You can look at the archives here, and you can invite your students to use this as a resource.
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Computing Reviews topic list
covered by the book.
Intro AI at Berkeley
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We'll have other sample courses here later.
Develop Your Lectures
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AI Education
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