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Book Review: Why is it so important to make fast decisions?
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Maggie, the golden retriever whose patient postponement of the pleasure of eating her biscuit graces the cover of Wait, is a deeper symbol than you might expect.You might pick up Wait on the basis of the whimsical cover, expecting Maggie and her treat to be the promise of a pleasant little read about patience and its virtues and its rewards. Be advised, this book does deliver some rewards, but they represent the payoff for some challenging reading.This is not a self-improvement book, at least not in the usual sense, nor is it a how-to guide. You might call it a philosophical approach to patience, but one where the philosophy follows a good deal of technical discussion. The book's subtitle, The Art and Science of Delay, gives a truer flavor of what's to come. Author Frank Partnoy takes a highly scientific approach to his premise that modern man makes decisions too quickly.The dog and the biscuit come in because scientific evidence described by Partnoy indicates that animals can learn to be "patient" when they discover that waiting to satisfy their appetite is rewarded by extra food. It also happens that he trained his own dog--named Fletch, by the way--to put off devouring his biscuits, with the same incentive. Partnoy would have us change our ways, and holds out various incentives as the reward for doing so.
Why slow down--and the "face" of our enemy
It is no secret to bankers that we live in a very fast-paced world and Partnoy begins with the essence of his case in stating: "Given the fast pace of modern life, most of us tend to react too quickly. We don't, or can't, take enough time to think about the increasingly complex timing challenges we face. Technology surrounds us, speeding us up. We feel its crush every day, both at work and at home. Yet the best time managers are comfortable pausing for as long as necessary before they act, even in the face of the most pressing decisions. Some seem to slow down time. For good decision-makers, time is more flexible than a metronome or atomic clock." Indeed, Partnoy would have the reader learn to delay decisions, taking advantage of as much time as possible. He's not advocating procrastination--which he deals with in its own chapter—but deliberation."The longer we can wait," he writes, "the better."As a banker, mother, and wife, I'm fully aware of time and deadlines, and how it is imperative to effectively balance and manage a thriving career and a family to accomplish everyday tasks and significant projects alike.Our daily lives impress upon us the need to hurry up and get things done right away, always trying to beat the clock. I don't doubt that you live by the clock as well. Banking is full of deadlines.But Partnoy considers the clock as "one dangerous piece of technology that leads us, even more than software or smartphones or the internet or email, to focus too much on right now."He continues: "It distorts our ability to make decisions and--tick, tick, tick–interferes with our thinking about these short-term versus long-term trade-offs that imperil not just professionals but all of us."Partnoy draws on stories, scientific and medical research, and often-detailed studies to make his case from chapter to chapter. You never know where the next one will take you. Performance of extreme sports stars is the focus of one chapter, while another deals with the impact on decisionmaking of high-speed communications lines that promise traders the advantage of milliseconds over competitors. You can get the general drift of Partnoy's chapters in a casual read, but the detail level frequently is so deep that to truly get the lessons of each chapter, you must slow down.Which is, in some ways, Partnoy's point, I suspect. At times he gives the reader a bit of relief, dwelling not on detail but on concept, such as when he discusses how timing—waiting—can be the mark of the great comedians."Timing is central to comedy," writes Partnoy, using examples such as Jack Benny to illustrate how a built-in wait can be what makes the joke a joke.
The slow-cooked decision
The fact is that some people—those with long experience and who are considered "seasoned"—can and have made decisions in a short time with great results.However, the majority need to take as much time as allowed to make a final decision. Partnoy frequently cites sports examples, recounting decisions that played out well and those that did not. The main point that is continuously reinforced throughout the book is that waiting in most cases just makes sense. Obeying this philosophy may mean a more favorable result.In a chapter called, "Master Class," Partnoy writes about professionals who frequently "are able to act quickly, but are willing to go slow." One such player is Warren Buffet, whom he quotes as stating that one of his investing "secrets" is being willing to delay decisions. Buffet points out that investors, unlike baseball players, don't risk called strikes when stepping up to the plate. The disciplined investor waits for the right pitch, so to speak, and is permitted to wait at the plate all day until the right pitch comes along.While Partnoy argues for the deliberate, often delayed decision, he opposes procrastination when it is bad procrastination. His chapter on procrastination distinguishes between productive and unproductive delays. This section grows pretty murky at times, though the roots of procrastination, as explained by Partnoy, are enlightening.
Stuck on ideas
One particularly interesting chapter that supports Partnoy's central idea very likely has its end result on your desk--the Post-it Note.Partnoy's chapter, "A Lifetime of Innovation," examines the invention of the Post-it note. It's an interesting story about how the Post-it note came to be. The office staple serves as an example of what Partnoy calls a "slow hunch."The onetime office innovation was originally named "Press 'n' Peel," and was a collaboration between Art Fry and Spencer Silver, both long-time employees of Minnesota Mining, which later changed its name to 3M. The Post-it originated as a bookmark but throughout the organization employees were using it as a note for just about anything in the workplace.It was no surprise that years later this "bookmark" became the Post-it note we all use now. But Partnoy makes the point that while the development of these notes often is told as a "eureka story," that wasn't the case at all. Going to his theme, he believes that the 3M culture of the time, one of patient capitalism, made the Post-it's gradual invention possible.Provocatively, Partnoy asks whether today's 3M could have come up with the product. The company underwent massive personnel cutbacks and Partnoy implies it has lost the long-term view that made developing the Post-it possible, putting pressure on employees to think of the now."Will they have the time and support to find the next Post-it?" Partnoy asks.
Today's innovators began as yesterday's tinkerers
The folks at 3M aren't the only people who benefit from such slow opportunities. The ability to delay making a decision either by choice or by circumstance has contributed to many innovative companies like Apple and Google. Partnoy says that "behind every innovator is a playful, experimental childhood." When Steve Jobs was five or six years old, for example, his adoptive father gave him a piece of his workbench and some tools and, according to Jobs, "spent a lot of time with me ... teaching me how to build things, how to take things apart, put things back together."Larry Page, co-founder of Google, has a similar childhood story, related in this book, of growing up in a house full of computers and gadgets and having an older brother who showed him how things worked" Apple was established in 1976, and Google in 1996, but they really began long before.The Post-it story and these stories all appear in the "A Lifetime of Innovation" chapter, in my opinion one of the best parts in the book. That's because it reveals many relevant and relatable facts that lead me to believe that innovation takes time, sometimes decades.But when it reveals itself as we see with Apple and Google, it leaves an indelible mark to be appreciated not only presently but for future generations to come."Innovation," Partnoy writes near the end of the chapter, "seems like it should be fast, but it almost never is."
Many thoughts, no road map
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As I said early on, this is not a self-improvement or how-to book in the usual sense. The reader won't find a conclusion at the end with a "to do" list or a game plan for adopting slow hunches or shifting one's thinking.Instead, the relatively short concluding chapter, "Go Long," leaves the reader with some distilled philosophy based on the rest of the book. An instructive point to end on:"We are hard-wired to react quickly. Modern society taps into that hardwiring, tempting us to respond instantly to all kinds of information and demands. Yet we are often better off resisting both biology and technology."And Partnoy's final word of advice, not surprisingly, is his title.
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The next car you buy will probably be lighter, courtesy of federal mandates to increase average gas mileage by 30 percent to 40 percent over the next five years. Automakers figure the easiest and cheapest way to cut fuel consumption is to make passenger cars, which now weigh about 3,500 pounds on average, about 400 pounds lighter.
Under Uncle Sam's new rules, the current 27.5 mpg minimum for passenger cars will jump to 33.8 mpg for 2012 models and 39.5 mpg for 2016 models. A similar phased-in approach for light trucks will require them to average 29.8 mpg for 2016 models.
The upshot: Heated competition between steel and aluminum manufacturers for a larger slice of the lucrative pie. Aluminum makers have a weighty advantage and are aiming to use it to muscle out steel for use in vehicle roofs and other body panels, engines and structural components.
Manufacturers such as Alcoa, Rio Tinto Alcan and Novelis are developing aluminum products with greater strength to better stand up to the everyday dings that cars pick up in parking lots and elsewhere, as well as specialty versions for use in bumpers that crumple to absorb the force of a collision. The aluminum industry is honing its strategy to win a large chunk of the plug-in electric car market that will take off within five years.
Steelmakers are fighting back with a lighter generation of high-strength steel.
Thanks to research stretching back 20 years, automotive steel today weighs around 25 percent less than it did during the heyday of muscle cars in the 1960s and 1970s. Automakers including Ford routinely use this steel in key structural components in auto body pillars and panels.
Now steelmakers are on the cusp of commercializing a breakthrough product that is not only 10 percent lighter, but stronger and more easily molded. "This third-generation product will enable us to make auto parts that are much lighter than today because the steel can be made thinner with no compromise in strength," says Ronald Krupitzer, a vice president for automotive applications with the American Iron and Steel Institute, a trade group.
Down the road, look for steel and aluminum to be challenged by an even-lighter-weight contender — composite carbon fiber. Long used in aerospace and for pricey bicycles and tennis rackets, the expensive material has been finding its way into exotic cars such as Chevrolet's Corvette ZR-1.
Odds are the price differential between carbon fiber and aluminum and steel will narrow by decade's end, thanks in part to research and development at the Department of Energy's laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tenn., and at Magna International, Canada's largest automotive parts supplier.
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Ten Tips To Get the Most From KDE 4.2
Desktop, Icons, Folder Views
Over the last year, the KDE 4 releases have suffered frequently hostile receptions. Part of that hostility was due to a widespread failure to understand that the first release was not intended for general use, and therefore was missing some of the features that KDE users took for granted. Another part seems to have been the sheer number and novelty of some of the changes. However, improvements and familiarity have taken much of the edge off the hostility, and, with last month's release of version 4.2, users finally seem to be warming to the new KDE.
To help bring you up to speed, here are ten tips for understanding and working with KDE 4.2. They aren't exhaustive by any means -- but they should be enough to make you comfortable moving around KDE 4.2 so that you can discover other changes on your own.
1) Going in and out of customization display
Probably the first thing you should know about KDE 4 is that it has separate views for customizing desktop and panel options.
On the desktop, you cannot add widgets (or, depending on the distribution, icons) until you go to the desktop toolkit -- the cashew or kidney-shaped icon in the upper right of the desktop -- and select Unlock Widgets. When this selection is chosen, any widget or icon you add has a collar of four mini-icons. From the top to the bottom, these mini-icons allow you to resize, move, configure, and delete the widget to which they are attached. After you are finished adding a widget or icon, select Lock Widgets from the desktop toolkit to prevent further editing. You can still right-click on the desktop and select Icons to sort and align icons.
The panel works the same way, requiring you to select Unlock Widgets from its right-click menu before you can customize anything. Once you have done so, select Panel Options -> Panel Settings to get into customization mode. A configuration panel appears above the actual panel that allows you to move the panel to another edge of the screen, adjust the height, add widgets -- the same set as on the desktop -- and autohide the panel. Below the customization panel, you'll also find slider arrows for changing the width of the panel.
Note that you also need to be in customization mode to move icons on the panel, or to add a new panel. KDE 4.2 still does not have four of the five panel types found in KDE 3.5.9, but you should be able to create rough equivalents of the missing four by a careful selection of widgets.
The only thing about the panel that you cannot customize directly from the panel is its color. Instead, the panel's color is set by the theme you choose from Main Menu -> Configure Desktop -> General -> Appearance.
2) Swapping desktop icons with Folder View
KDE has gone beyond the traditional desktop by introducing a new concept called Folder View. Contrary to what you may have heard, Folder View represents not the elimination of desktop icons, but, rather, the expansion of the concept.
In its simplest form, Folder View is a semi-transparent widget that displays the contents of a designated folder, and can be moved around. However, if you right-click the desktop and select Appearance -> Desktop Activity -> Type -> Folder View, then a Folder View becomes a transparent overlay of the entire desktop. Either way, you can have as many Folder Views open as you want.
You can also create Folder Views, store each collection in a separate folder, then choose which one to display by right-clicking and selecting Folder View Options -> Location -> Specify a folder, selecting an icon collection that matches a specific task. Alternatively, you associate different Folder Views with different Activities (see below.)
In addition, you can customize the icons in each Folder View, or filter the icons that each displays by right-clicking in it and selecting Folder View Options.
3) Using Multiple Desktops and Activities
Multiple or virtual desktops have been a feature of KDE for years. They still exist in the KDE 4 series, and you can switch between them using the pager on the panel. However, KDE also includes an identical feature called Activities.
To add an activity, select Desktop Toolkit -> Zoom Out. The first time you do so, you will see only one desktop that occupies about a quarter of the screen. However, if you select Add Activity from the toolbar, you can create another Activity. Each Activity can have its own colors, widgets and -- if you want -- Folder View, and can be given a separate name if you click Appearance Settings on the tool bar.
While you are zoomed out, you can return to a full-screen view by selecting an Activity and clicking the Zoom In icon. Once you are in a full-screen view, you can use Shift + Ctrl + N or Shift + Ctrl + P to change the current Activity.
Why both multiple desktops and Activities co-exist is a bit of a mystery. However, given that multiple desktops cannot have separate wallpapers or colors in KDE 4.2, I suspect that they will eventually disappear, making for one less tool on the panel.
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About Ishmael Reed's Life and Work
Robert Elliot Fox
Ishmael Reed is one of the most original and controversial figures in the field of African American letters.
Reed was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on 22 February 1938, but he grew up in Buffalo, New York. After graduating from high school in 1956, he enrolled as a night student at Millard Fillmore College but transferred to the University of Buffalo as a day student with the assistance of an English teacher who was impressed with a story Reed had written. For financial reasons, however, Reed eventually withdrew without taking a degree. He remained in Buffalo for some time, working as a correspondent for the Empire Star Weekly, a black community newspaper, and serving as cohost of a local radio program that was canceled after Reed conducted an interview with Malcolm X.
Moving to New York City in 1962, Reed served as editor of a Newark, New Jersey, weekly and helped establish the legendary East Village Other, one of the first and best-known of the so-called underground newspapers. Reed also was a member of the Umbra Writers Workshop, one of the organizations instrumental in the creation of the Black Arts movement and its efforts to establish a Black Aesthetic.
Reed's first novel, The Freelance Pallbearers, was published in 1967. That same year he moved to Berkeley, California, later relocating to the adjacent city of Oakland, where he currently resides with his wife, Carla Blank, a dancer and choreographer. They have a daughter, Tennessee. Reed also has a daughter, Timothy Brett, from a previous marriage.
Reed has taught at the University of California at Berkeley since the late 1960s, even though he was denied tenure in 1977 (a circumstance he wrote about in his first collection of essays, Shrovetide in Old New Orleans (1978). He also has held visiting appointments at many other academic institutions, including Yale, Harvard, Dartmouth, Washington University in St. Louis, and SUNY Buffalo. In addition to winning several awards for his writing, Reed has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and was twice a finalist for the National Book Award (once in poetry and once in fiction).
As of 1995, Reed had published nine novels, five books of poems, and four collections of essays; he also had authored four plays, three television productions, and two librettos, and edited four anthologies. His publishing and editing enterprises have included Reed, Cannon and Johnson Publications, I. Reed Books, and the journals Yardbird Reader YBird, Quilt, and Konch.
In 1976, Reed cofounded what is--outside of his writing--perhaps his most significant venture, the Before Columbus Foundation, a multiethnic organization dedicated to promoting a pan-cultural view of America. One of Reed's outstanding attributes is his consistent advocacy of powerful, innovative, and neglected writing--not just by people of color but by white people as well. This might seem surprising to those who associate Reed with the combative, antiwhite aesthetics and politics of the cultural nationalist program, but it is important to understand that Reed's involvement with the Black Arts movement, through his membership in the Umbra Workshop, was a complex one that can be described as both participatory and adversarial. True, Reed is a vigorous promoter of African-originated modes of being and performance, which he uses to challenge established canons of judgment and achievement, but a careful assessment of his work over three decades reveals that his pro-black position never was a dogmatic one. If much of Reed's work constitutes an intertext through which "the blackness of blackness" can be read, he nevertheless insists that this "blackness of blackness" cannot be categorized or prescribed. For Reed, as his masterpiece Mumbo Jumbo (1972) signifies, this indefinable but irresistible something "jes grew." It may indeed be "mumbo jumbo"--an enigma to the ignorant, a function of "soul" to those who know--but it is not reducible to skin color alone or to a militant creed.
In Reed's view, the black element reveals the permeable nature of American experience and identity, but he also acknowledges the permeable nature of blackness; thus Reed actually belongs in the company of those for whom notions of "mainstream" and "margins" are falsely dichotomous. Reed insists, for example, that a black writer steeped in tradition is a "classical" writer. At the same time, Reed's postmodernism enables him to take in everything at once, so to speak, so that conventional ideas of form and genre are contested, as well as canonical considerations.
Neohoodooism is the name Reed gave to the philosophy and aesthetic processes he employs to take care of business on behalf of the maligned and the mishandled. Hoodoo--the African American version of voodoo, a misunderstood term that actually refers to traditional African religious practices as they have reasserted themselves in the diaspora--appeals to Reed because of its "mystery" and its eclectic nature, thus providing him with an appropriate metaphor for his understanding and realization of art. Reed's best statements concerning the workings of neohoodooism can be found in his first book of poetry, Conjure (1972)--especially "Neo-HooDoo Manifesto," "The Neo-HooDoo Aesthetic," and "catechism of d neoamerican hoodoo church"--while the most successful actualizations of neohoodooism as a practice are his novels Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down (1969), the aforementioned Mumbo Jumbo, and Flight to Canada (1976).
Neohoodooism is, in many ways, a truly "black" art, but at the same time, due to the undeniable mix of ingredients in the New World, it is also "something else." Unlike those who argue for a black essentialism, Reed sees this hybridity as a virtue, rather than a defect or betrayal. A deep immersion in blackness is simultaneously an immersion in Americanness, given the extent to which, as a result of slavery and its aftermath, Africa helped to make America; and, considering the give-and-take of many other cultural influences, an immersion in Americanness is also an experience of the unfolding of multiculturalism.
Leaving aside for a moment his contributions as an author to American literature, it seems safe to say that when the history of multiculturalism in the late twentieth century is written, Ishmael Reed's entrepreneurial and promotional efforts will be seen to have played a meaningful role in demonstrating the degree to which we are--artistically as well as demographically--a nation of nations.
In his writing, Reed is a great improviser, a master of collage with an amazing ability to syncretize seemingly disparate and divergent materials into coherent "edutainments"--forms of surprise, revelation, and frequent hilarity. However, those who focus primarily on how funny or unfunny his works are miss the point of Reed's rollicking revisions, his apparently loony "toons"--which is to employ humor as a weapon in the very serious enterprise of exposing human excesses and absurdities, and, at the same time, to remind us of the dangers of taking ourselves and our cherished opinions too seriously. (One of Reed's consistent gripes about militants of all persuasions is that they lack a sense of humor.)
From the start, Reed's iconoclasm has been aimed not only at the Western tradition, which has attempted to monopolize the world at the expense of other versions of experience, but at the black tradition as well. Reed's first novel, The Freelance Pallbearers, parodied Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man--for many critics, the masterwork of African American fiction and black autobiography in general--at a moment when black studies was just being established and the principal critical approach was a documentary one that emphasized black art's sociopolitical aspects. For Reed to be seen as satirizing the black literary tradition in a period of Black Power and the long overdue recuperation and reassessment of that very tradition was not likely to endear him to either white liberals or black cultural nationalists.
The risk of censure and ridicule notwithstanding, Reed always has gone against the grain of the prevailing critical-polemical fashion--a sign of his fierce independence as an artist and thinker. He has insisted continually on his right to do things his own way, and possesses an uncanny skill at pinpointing the follies and inconsistencies of many aspects of our consensus reality. Although Reed prefers to ride ahead of the herd, he is viewed in certain quarters as conservative, even reactionary--a judgment of his own position that he satirized in "The Reactionary Poet" in his third collection of poems, Secretary to the Spirits (1978).
Using analogies from comedy and music, one could argue that Ishmael Reed is much closer to Richard Pryor and In Living Color than he is to Bill Cosby, more akin to George Clinton or Sun Ra than to Wynton Marsalis. Does this help us to place him within the black tradition? At the least, it forces us to relinquish any notion of "the" black tradition; there are, and always have been, several black traditions, sometimes conflicting, sometimes intersecting, but nonetheless coexistent. One of the reasons Reed's reputation has suffered over the years is that he has steadfastly refused to toe any party line with regard to African American authenticity, aspiration, and achievement. Moreover, as the title of his 1993 essay collection, Airing Dirty Laundry, indicates, Reed believes in "outing" what others wish to keep closeted. Rather than working toward closure, he vigorously engages in disclosure. Some critics have interpreted the openness (and occasional open-endedness) of Reed's works as indeterminacy. For example, Michael G. Cooke, in Afro-American Literature in the Twentieth Century (1984), while emphasizing Reed's importance based upon the distinctiveness of his vision, style, and scope, believes nonetheless that his work is "affected by an instinct of irresolution." Reed's target, however, is the overdetermined, which he combats by accentuating chance, spontaneity, and instinct, deliberately embracing what amounts to an uncertainty principle that acknowledges "other" positions, myriad possibilities.
Given Reed's chosen task of providing revelatory "readings" of, and putting operative "writings" on, both black and white mischief and miscreants, it would have been impossible for him to have received only praise for his efforts. Reed does, in fact, have his share of enemies and detractors, who, in a real sense, are as much of a defining presence for his career as the endorsements of his many admirers. Indeed, Reed made the negative pronouncements of some of his critics part of the "problem" to be solved by the proper decoding of Mumbo Jumbo when he included them on the back of the dust jacket of the original hardcover edition of the novel.
The impressive commercial success attained by some African American authors has eluded Reed; yet, over the course of a distinguished and turbulent career, he has received numerous, frequently potent, critical accolades. Musician Max Roach is said to have called Reed the Charlie Parker of American fiction, while Fredric Jameson has judged him to be one of the principal postmodernists. Nick Aaron Ford, in Studies in the Novel (vol. 3, 1971), referred to him as the "most revolutionary" African American novelist to have appeared thus far, and Addison Gayle, Jr., in The Way of the New World (1975), called Reed the best satirist in the black tradition since George S. Schuyler. Acknowledging that his satire does derive in part from Schuyler, Wallace Thurman, and Rudolph Fisher, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s essay on Reed in the Dictionary of Literary Biography (vol. 33), argues that he really has "no true predecessor or counterpart." For Gates, Reeds situation in the African American literary tradition is both "unique" and "ironic" because the conventions and canonical texts of the tradition itself are the principal targets of Reeds satire. It is crucial to insist, however, that Reed is in no way indulging in a gratuitous put-down of black writers and writings; rather, he is engaged in a project of emancipating an artistic heritage from predictable or predetermined forms and norms imposed by those who fail to fully comprehend the depth and complexity of that heritage, including its folkish inventiveness, hilarious undercurrents, and seasoned extravagances. Reed, in short, uses tradition to illuminate and reinvigorate tradition, combining continuity and improvisation in a cultural dynamic that Amiri Baraka has astutely dubbed "the changing same."
From The Oxford Companion to African American Literature. Copyright © 1997 by Oxford University Press.
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Watching robots compete is interesting, but watching robots play 3-on-3 basketball? "Intense," "exciting" and "dramatic" are just some of the words that come to mind. And it will be happening right here in Chestnut Hill this week on March 9 to 10, when Springside Chestnut Hill Academy will host the city's only FIRST Robotics District event.
After six weeks of late nights and weekends spent prototyping, building and testing, the SCH Vulcan Robotics team is ready to compete in this year's FIRST Robotics competition, "Rebound Rumble," based on the game of basketball.
This won't be an easy task: The best robots will have to shoot balls into a basket from more than 30 feet away and cooperate with other teams' robots to balance on a teeter-totter ramp at the end of the match.
One distinguishing feature of this year's robot, named the Vulcan Viper for its two mechanical arms that reach out like fangs, is its versatility. Peter Randall, SCH engineering and robotics department chair and mentor, says this versatility "allows it to shoot baskets from anywhere on the field."
To assist in targeting, an onboard camera enables the Viper to automatically adjust the trajectory of its shooting mechanism to accommodate its distance from the basket. Its multi-brush pickup system is also versatile, allowing it to pick up balls quickly and in tight spaces.
Unlike other teams' robots, the Viper has been built "long and wide" to give it a low center of gravity and less probability of tipping – especially important when it tries to balance on a teetering ramp for extra points. To complete the design, the SCH team has installed a secret device, called "the Charminator," which improves consistency in shooting by testing the density of each ball and adjusting the trajectory accordingly.
The team believes this design will be competitive enough to get it through the district and regional competitions and on to the World Championships in St. Louis this April.
One of the district events will take place this Friday and Saturday at Springside Chestnut Hill Academy, when 38 area robotics teams, representing more than 1,000 students, will be competing. Twice as many competition games will take place during this event as compared to previous years, which will make for what our mentors have described as an "intense, high-energy" experience.
Kids from first grade and above are welcome to attend the event and experience what engineering and 21st century learning is all about in an easy-to-understand and entertaining context. After all, who doesn't understand basketball?
Springside Chestnut Hill Academy FIRST District Competition will take place from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on March 9 and 10 at the school's Vare Field House on the Cherokee Campus (8000 Cherokee St., in Chestnut Hill). The public is welcome. Persons who would like to volunteer, sponsor the team, or make a donation, should contact Diane Drinker firstname.lastname@example.com) or Peter Randall email@example.com) and visit the team's website at www.team1218.org.
Jeffrey Ng is a member of Springside Chestnut Hill Academy's Class of 2012.


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M. Ronen Plesser
Professor of Physics
My research is in String Theory, the most ambitious attempt yet at a comprehensive theory of the fundamental structure of the universe. In some (rather imprecise) sense, string theory replaces the particles that form the fundamental building blocks for conventional theories (the fields, or wave phenomena, we observe are obtained starting from particles when we apply the principles of quantum mechanics) with objects that are not point-like but extended in one dimension – strings. At present, the theory is not precisely formulated, as we still seek the conceptual and technical tools needed. The structures we do have in hand suggest that, when formulated precisely, the theory will provide a consistent framework encompassing the two greatest achievements of twentieth century theoretical physics: Einstein's general theory of relativity, which describes gravitational forces objects in terms of deformations of the geometry of spacetime; and quantum mechanics, a model of fundamental physics in which microscopic objects exhibit the properties of particles under some circumstances and those of waves under others. Both of these theories have been tested with extraordinary precision and yield predictions that agree with our observations of the physical universe. Relativistic effects are manifest at the largest scales in the universe, in the interactions of stars, galaxies, etc. The differences between a quantum mechanical description and a classical nineteenth century description of these objects are so small they can be neglected. Quantum effects dominate at the smallest scales – atoms and their constituents. In this realm, the effects of gravitation can be completely neglected. And yet, under extreme conditions of density, such as may obtain in the final instant of the evaporation of a black hole, both kinds of effects are important. A universal theory of physics thus requires a consistent quantum theory of gravity. Thus far, string theory is the most promising candidate for producing such a theory. Investigations of this theory have already yielded rich insights, and continue to produce more.
My own research centers on the crucial role played in the theory by geometric structures. There is an obvious role for geometry in a theory that incorporates gravitation, which as discussed above is tantamount to the geometry of spacetime. Related to this are several other, less obvious, geometric structures that play an important role in determining the physics of the theory. Indeed, advances in mathematics and in the physics of string theory have often been closely linked. An example of how the two fields have interacted in a surprising way is the ongoing story of mirror symmetry.
Selected Grants
Moduli Spaces of String Vacua with Four Supersymmetries awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2015 to 2019
A Regional Conference Series in Mathematical String Theory awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2013 to 2019
Integrative Middle School STEM Teacher Preparation: A Collaborative Capacity Building Project at Duke University awarded by National Science Foundation (Co Investigator). 2014 to 2017
Geometry and Physics of String Compactifications awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2012 to 2016
Algebraic Geometry and Quantum Field Theory of D-Branes awarded by National Science Foundation (Co-Principal Investigator). 2006 to 2011
D-Brane Physics and Calabi-Yau Geometry awarded by National Science Foundation (Co-Principal Investigator). 2003 to 2007
Focused Research awarded by National Science Foundation (Co-Principal Investigator). 2000 to 2004
Bertolini, M, and Plesser, MR. "(0,2) hybrid models." Journal of High Energy Physics 2018.9 (September 1, 2018). Full Text
Jockers, H, Katz, S, Morrison, DR, and Plesser, MR. "SU(N) Transitions in M-Theory on Calabi–Yau Fourfolds and Background Fluxes." Communications in Mathematical Physics 351.2 (April 2017): 837-871. Full Text
Aspinwall, PS, and Plesser, MR. "General mirror pairs for gauged linear sigma models." Journal of High Energy Physics 2015.11 (November 1, 2015): 1-33. Full Text
Morrison, DR, and Ronen Plesser, M. "Special Lagrangian torus fibrations of complete intersection Calabi-Yau manifolds: A geometric conjecture." Nuclear Physics B 898 (September 1, 2015): 751-770. Full Text
Bertolini, M, and Plesser, MR. "Worldsheet instantons and (0,2) linear models." Journal of High Energy Physics 2015.8 (August 28, 2015). Full Text
Bertolini, M, Melnikov, IV, and Plesser, MR. "Hybrid conformal field theories." Journal of High Energy Physics 2014.5 (January 1, 2014). Full Text
Bertolini, M, Melnikov, IV, and Plesser, MR. "Accidents in (0,2) Landau-Ginzburg theories." Journal of High Energy Physics 2014.12 (January 1, 2014). Full Text
Intriligator, K, Jockers, H, Mayr, P, Morrison, DR, and Ronen Plesser, M. "Conifold transitions in m-theory on calabi-yau fourfolds with background fluxes." Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics 17.3 (December 1, 2013): 601-699. Full Text
Aspinwall, PS, Melnikov, IV, and Ronen Plesser, M. "(0,2) elephants." Journal of High Energy Physics 2012.1 (February 27, 2012). Full Text
Aspinwall, PS, Melnikov, IV, and Ronen Plesser, M. "(0,2) Elephants." JHEP 2012 (January 2012): 60-. (Academic Article) Full Text


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The Climate Reality Project
The Alliance for Climate Protection
The Climate Project
|November 2006
|INGO Non-profit
|Environmental education, advocacy
|Washington, D.C., U.S.
Chief executive officer
|Ken Berlin
Chairman of the board of directors
|Al Gore
Board members
Rosina Bierbaum
Sherwood Boehlert
Don Henry
Manuela Herzer
Cindy Horn
Orin S. Kramer
Theodore Roosevelt IV
Larry Schweiger
James Gustave Speth[1]
The Climate Reality Project is a non-profit organization involved in education and advocacy related to climate change. The project was established in July 2011 after the joining of two environmental groups, The Alliance for Climate Protection and The Climate Project, which were both founded in 2006 by Al Gore. Among its activities, The Climate Reality Project hosts an annual event called 24 Hours of Reality and, in 2013, launched Reality Drop, a social media tool.
The Climate Reality Project is a non-profit organization focused on climate change education and countering climate change denial campaigns worldwide. The organization was established following the consolidation of two environmental organizations, the Alliance for Climate Protection and The Climate Project, which were both founded in 2006 by former Vice President Al Gore. Gore has described the group as bipartisan.[2][3]
Gore currently serves as chairman of the board of directors.[4] Ken Berlin is The Climate Reality Project's president and CEO. Operation of The Climate Reality Project is overseen by a board of directors whose members include Sherwood Boehlert,[5] James Gustave Speth,[6] Cindy Horn,[7] Larry Schweiger, and Theodore Roosevelt IV,[8] in addition to chairman Gore.[9]
Since its establishment, The Climate Reality Project has trained over 7,800 individuals representing 126 countries as volunteer Climate Leaders for the project. As of 2015, the organization operated 10 branches worldwide and is active in over 30 countries.[10][11]
Climate change reality maintains a list of the top green countries on its website[12] which curiously includes high carbon emitting Germany and Austria but excludes France, Lithuania and Ukraine with much lower carbon emissions.[13]
Alliance for Climate Protection
The Alliance for Climate Protection was founded in 2006 by Al Gore to encourage civic action against climate change.[2] The organization was founded in Palo Alto, California and later moved to Menlo Park, California before relocating to Washington D.C. in 2009.[4][14] Originally established as a 501(c)(3), the organization later included an affiliated 501(c)(4), the Climate Protection Action Fund,[15] which developed advocacy campaigns focused on climate change solutions through grassroots organizing and lobbying.[16]
The organization was partially funded by proceeds donated from Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth, as well as profits from the book of the same name. Gore also donated his salary from his work for the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers and prize money from his 2007 Nobel Peace prize for a total of more than $2.7 million. The distributor of An Inconvenient Truth, Paramount Classics, also donated 5 percent of the film's box office earnings to the Alliance. The Alliance was also funded by profits from Live Earth concerts in 2007.[5]
The Alliance encouraged federal policies that limited greenhouse gas emissions and supported low-carbon power sources.[17] Former campaigns from the Alliance include the bipartisan "We" campaign, launched in 2008.[18][19] The campaign, which included an advertisement called "We Can Solve It" featuring Nancy Pelosi and Newt Gingrich jointly calling for a response to climate change, was created to prompt public action against climate change on a national and international level.[18] The "We" campaign included partnerships with the Girl Scouts of the United States of America, the United Steelworkers of America and the National Audubon Society.[4][14] The same year, the Alliance launched the "Repower America" campaign to support Gore's directive to shift American homes to 100 percent clean energy within 10 years. This campaign supported climate change legislation in the United States[14][18] and, according to The Washington Post in 2008, was one of the farthest reaching public advocacy initiatives in recent history.[5]
Also in 2008, the Alliance created the Reality Coalition in partnership with the National Wildlife Federation, the League of Conservation Voters, the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Sierra Club. The Reality Coalition used television, print and online advertisements as well as grassroots events to challenge the idea of clean coal.[20][21]
The Climate Project
The Climate Project, founded in 2006 and based in Nashville, Tennessee, was also supported by Gore's profits from the documentary An Inconvenient Truth.[14] The Climate Project was an educational, worldwide grassroots organization that trained volunteers to give public talks, similar to Gore's presentation in the film. The talks focused on the harmful effects of climate change and ways to address climate change at the grassroots level. By 2009, the project had more than 3,000 volunteers worldwide. These volunteers, trained by Gore, delivered 70,000 presentations to 7.3 million people.[22]
Recent history
In March 2010, the Alliance for Climate Protection and The Climate Project combined to create a single organization.[17] The new organization was known as the Alliance for Climate Protection[17] until it was renamed The Climate Reality Project in July 2011.[23] The organization brought together the aims of its two predecessors to focus on education initiatives related to climate change[23] as well as continuing to develop a grassroots network to address climate change.[24]
24 Hours of Reality campaign
The Climate Reality Project hosts a yearly event called 24 Hours of Reality. The first event was held in 2011 from September 14 to September 15, aiming to promote the newly renamed organization.[3][25] The 24-hour event was broadcast live over the Internet and featured 24 presenters across 24 time zones presenting in 13 different languages.[9] The presentations, which stressed a link between climate change and oil and coal producers,[26] started in Mexico City and traveled west before culminating in New York City with a presentation by Gore.[9][23] In addition to participation from Gore, the event included celebrity hosts and panel members including Renee Zellweger, Fran Drescher and Virgin Group's Sir Richard Branson.[27] The webcast received 8 million views, 5 million of which were unique viewers,[28][29] and was awarded a "Silver Lion" at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity event in 2012.[30] Accompanying this event, The Climate Reality Project also released several short videos covering topics related to climate change. The videos included Doubt, Climate 101 and Grassroots.[31]
A second webcast called 24 Hours of Reality: The Dirty Weather Report was broadcast beginning on November 14, 2012.[28] The second annual 24 Hours of Reality followed a format similar to the inaugural event and featured speeches and presentations from more than 100 activists, business leaders and scientists in 24 locations.[32] The 2012 webcast focused on the impact coal, oil and gas pollution have on weather patterns.[28] The webcast attracted 14 million unique viewers and a viewership of more than 16 million, which set a Ustream record for the most online viewers in a 24-hour period.[29][33] The event also generated 135 million tweets from Twitter users, compared with 120 million tweets in 2011,[32] and received ten Telly Awards in 2013 including two silver Telly awards in the News/News Feature and Social Responsibility categories[34] and seven bronze Telly awards.[35]
Reality Drop news aggregator
In 2013, The Climate Reality Project released the Reality Drop tool, a news aggregator that collects online news stories about climate change.[36] The social media tool was developed in partnership with Skeptical Science, a climate science blog, and Arnold Worldwide, a global communications organization, following a challenge initiated by the online publication PSFK that asked for submissions of creative ways to address climate change.[36][37] The tool allows users to discuss what is said about climate change in the media[37] and collect points by commenting on and promoting news stories about climate change and demoting articles that exhibit climate change denial.[36] Reality Drop users can also use the tool to share news stories on social media networks.[38]
Climate Reality Leadership Corps
The Climate Reality Project also addresses climate change through a network of approximately 10,000 grassroots Climate Reality Leaders,[10][24] which the organization calls the Climate Reality Leadership Corps.[39] As of 2016, The Climate Reality Leadership Corps has conducted 33 training events to prepare Climate Reality Leaders to communicate and conduct effective advocacy events within their local communities. Climate Reality Leaders come from 135 countries.[10][33] Members of the Climate Reality Leadership Corps lead educational events and encourage activity to address climate change in their local communities.[40]
The Climate Reality Project has also established a partnership with Warren Miller Entertainment called "I Am Pro Snow". The partnership's goal is to explore the impact of climate change on winter sports and locations impacted by changes in temperature.[10][41]
- ↑ "Who we are". climaterealityproject.org. The Climate Reality Project. Retrieved 2015-10-02.
- 1 2 "Gore Says Climate Change Not a Political Issue". Dalje. 12 October 2007. Retrieved 18 June 2013.
- 1 2 John M. Broder (13 July 2011). "Al Gore's Reality Show". The New York Times. Retrieved 18 June 2013.
- 1 2 3 Kristina Peterson (2 April 2008). "Gore's Menlo Park group launches ad campaign". The Oakland Tribune. Retrieved 12 July 2013.
- 1 2 3 Juliet Eilperin (31 March 2008). "Gore Launches Ambitious Advocacy Campaign on Climate". Washington Post. Retrieved 18 June 2013.
- ↑ "Gus Speth". neweconomicinstitute.org. New Economics Institute. Retrieved 12 July 2013.
- ↑ John Vilanova (23 May 2013). "#Hamptons35 Flashback: Cindy Harrell Horn, Circa 1982". Hamptons. Retrieved 12 July 2013.
- ↑ "Theodore Roosevelt IV". weforum.org. World Economic Forum. Retrieved 12 July 2013.
- 1 2 3 Warief Djajanto Basorie (14 September 2011). "Jakarta hosts 24 hours of climate reality". The Jakarta Post. Retrieved 18 June 2013.
- 1 2 3 4 Coleen Jose (1 August 2013). "Al Gore enlists 1,500 'climate leaders' from around the globe". Environment & Energy Publishing. Retrieved 12 August 2013.
- ↑ "Climate Reality Leadership Corps". climaterealityproject.org. The Climate Reality Project. Retrieved 16 October 2015.
- ↑ https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?app_id=1487652294780345&sdk=joey&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fclimatereality%2Fphotos%2Fpb.153278754738777.-2207520000.1417467992.%2F785804561486190%2F%3Ftype%3D3%26theater
- ↑ List of countries by carbon dioxide emissions per capita
- 1 2 3 4 Kate Sheppard (28 May 2009). "Gore's green groups kick into campaign mode to push climate legislation". Grist. Retrieved 18 June 2013.
- ↑ Matthew C. Nisbet (Summer 2011). Climate Shift (Report). American University School of Communication. Retrieved 20 June 2013.
- ↑ Rick Cohen (28 June 2011). "Obama and the Environment: In Need of a Climate Shift?". Non Profit Quarterly. Retrieved 2 August 2013.
- 1 2 3 Ben Geman (5 March 2010). "Gore-backed climate groups form single organization". The Hill. Retrieved 18 June 2013.
- 1 2 3 Bryan Walsh (1 September 2008). "'We' Climate Campaign: Glossy, But Will It Work?". Time. Retrieved 12 July 2013.
- ↑ Guy Dixon (27 March 2008). "Alliance for Climate Protection begins $300m awareness campaign". BusinessGreen. Retrieved 18 June 2013.
- ↑ Rachel Weiner (4 December 2008). "Gore's "Reality Coalition" Fighting "Clean Coal"". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 15 July 2013.
- ↑ Eleftheria Parpis (10 December 2008). "Clean Coal? Time for a Reality Check". Adweek. Retrieved 15 July 2013.
- ↑ Adianto P. Simamora (18 December 2009). "Al Gore, activists urge action at Copenhagen climate talks". The Jakarta Post. Retrieved 18 June 2013.
- 1 2 3 David Roberts (12 July 2011). "Gore launches new Climate Reality Project, tells Grist all about it". Grist. Retrieved 18 June 2013.
- 1 2 Jennifer Elks (1 March 2013). "Al Gore's Climate Reality Project Launches Interactive Tool for Rebutting Climate-Change Deniers". SustainableBrands.com. Retrieved 18 June 2013.
- ↑ TJ Burgonio (31 October 2011). "Filipino climate change activist tells world: We can do something". Philippine Daily Inquirer. Retrieved 18 June 2013.
- ↑ Matthew C. Nisbet (12 July 2011). "Al Gore Seeks to Re-Energize His Base with The Climate Reality Project". Big Think. Retrieved 18 June 2013.
- ↑ "24 Hours Of Reality: Al Gore's Climate Reality Project Hosts Worldwide Event (Video)". The Huffington Post. 14 September 2011. Retrieved 18 June 2013.
- 1 2 3 "'24 Hours Of Reality: The Dirty Weather Report' Launched By Al Gore's Climate Reality Project". The Huffington Post. 14 September 2011. Retrieved 18 June 2013.
- 1 2 "Gore Climate Change Broadcast Breaks Online Viewership Record". AccuWeather. 5 December 2012. Retrieved 12 August 2013.
- ↑ "Branded Content & Entertainment Lions" (PDF). canneslions.com. Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. Retrieved 26 July 2013.
- ↑ Brian Merchant (16 September 2011). "Must-See Climate Reality Videos: 'Doubt', 'Climate 101', and 'Grassroots'". TreeHugger. Retrieved 26 July 2013.
- 1 2 Christopher F. Schuetze (19 November 2012). "Activists Use Webcast to Try to Ignite Climate Change Passions". International Herald Tribune. Retrieved 18 June 2013.
- 1 2 Paul Bedard (31 July 2013). ": Al Gore: Charge polluters for damage from super storms, wildfires, rising sea". Washington Examiner. Retrieved 12 August 2013.
- ↑ "2013 Online Video Silver Winners". tellyawards.com. The Telly Awards. Retrieved 12 August 2013.
- ↑ "2013 Online Video Bronze Winners". tellyawards.com. The Telly Awards. Retrieved 12 August 2013.
- 1 2 3 Salvatore Cardoni (28 February 2013). "Can Gaming Take Down Climate Change Deniers? Al Gore Thinks So". TakePart.com. Retrieved 18 June 2013.
- 1 2 Piers Fawkes (14 January 2012). "How Al Gore Will Use Games To Fight Climate Change". psfk.com. Retrieved 18 June 2013.
- ↑ Zoe Fox (28 February 2013). "Al Gore Gamifies the Climate Change Conversation". Mashable. Retrieved 26 July 2013.
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- ↑ "NJ Sierra Club South Highlands Group to host a presentation at Hunterdon Medical Center". Hunterdon County Democrat. 9 March 2012. Retrieved 18 June 2013.
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Denise Levertov was born in Ilford, Essex, England, on October 24, 1923. Her father, raised a Hasidic Jew, had converted to Christianity while attending university in Germany. By the time Levertov was born, he had settled in England and become an Anglican parson. Her mother, who was Welsh, read authors such as Willa Cather, Joseph Conrad, Charles Dickens, and Leo Tolstoy aloud to the family. Levertov was educated entirely at home and claimed to have decided to become a writer at the age of five. When she was twelve, she sent some of her poetry to T. S. Eliot, who responded with two pages of "excellent advice" and encouragement to continue writing. At age seventeen she had her first poem published, in Poetry Quarterly.
During World War II, Levertov became a civilian nurse serving in London throughout the bombings. She wrote her first book, The Double Image, while she was between the ages of seventeen and twenty-one. The book, released in 1946, brought her recognition as one of a group of poets dubbed the "New Romantics."
In 1947 Levertov married Mitchell Goodman, an American writer, and a year later they moved to America. They settled in New York City, spending summers in Maine. Their son Nickolai was born in 1949. She became a naturalized U. S. citizen in 1956.
After her move to the U. S., Levertov was introduced to the Transcendentalism of Emerson and Thoreau, the formal experimentation of Ezra Pound, and, in particular, the work of William Carlos Willams. Through her husband's friendship with poet Robert Creeley, she became associated with the Black Mountain group of poets, particularly Creeley, Charles Olson, and Robert Duncan, who had formed a short-lived but groundbreaking school in 1933 in North Carolina. Some of her work was published in the 1950s in the Black Mountain Review. Levertov acknowledged these influences but disclaimed membership in any poetic school. She moved away from the fixed forms of English practice, developing an open, experimental style. With the publication of her first American book, Here and Now (1956), she became an important voice in the American avant-garde. Her poems of the fifties and sixties won her immediate and excited recognition, not just from peers like Creeley and Duncan, but also from the avant-garde poets of an earlier generation, such as Kenneth Rexroth and William Carlos Williams.
Her next book, With Eyes at the Back of our Heads (1959), established her as one of the great American poets, and her British origins were soon forgotten. She was poetry editor of The Nation magazine in 1961 and from 1963 to 1965. During the 1960s, activism and feminism became prominent in her poetry. During this period she produced one of her most memorable works of rage and sadness, The Sorrow Dance (1967), which encompassed her feelings toward the war and the death of her older sister. She received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1969. From 1975 to 1978, she was poetry editor of Mother Jones magazine.
Levertov went on to publish more than twenty volumes of poetry, including The Freeing of the Dust (1975), which won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. She was also the author of four books of prose, most recently Tesserae (1995), and translator of three volumes of poetry, among them Jean Joubert's Black Iris (1989). From 1982 to 1993, she taught at Stanford University. She spent the last decade of her life in Seattle, during which time she published Poems 1968-1972 (1987), Breathing the Water (1987), A Door in the Hive (1989), Evening Train (1992), and The Sands of the Well (1996). On December 20, 1997, Levertov died from complications of lymphoma. She was seventy-four. New Directions published This Great Unknowing: Last Poems in 1999 and The Collected Poems of Denise Levertov in 2013.
A Selected Bibliography
The Collected Poems of Denise Levertov (2013)
The Great Unknowing: Last Poems (1999)
The Stream & the Sapphire: Selected Poems on Religious Themes (1997)
The Life Around Us: Selected Poems on Nature (1997)
The Sands of the Well (1996)
Evening Train (1992)
A Door in the Hive (1989)
Breathing the Water (1987)
Poems 1968-1972 (1987)
Oblique Prayers: New Poems (1984)
Poems 1960-1967 (1983)
Candles in Babylon (1982)
Collected Earlier Poems 1940-1960 (1979)
Life in the Forest (1978)
The Freeing of the Dust (1975)
Footprints (1972)
To Stay Alive (1971)
Relearning the Alphabet (1970)
The Sorrow Dance (1967)
O Taste and See: New Poems (1964)
The Jacob's Ladder (1961)
With Eyes at the Back of Our Heads (1959)
Overland to the Islands (1958)
Here and Now (1956)
The Double Image (1946)
The Letters of Denise Levertov and William Carlos Williams (1998)
Tesserae: Memories & Suppositions (1995)
New & Selected Essays (1992)
Light Up the Cave (1981)
The Poet in the World (1973)
Black Iris: Selected Poems by Jean Joubert (1989)
Selected Poems by Eugène Guillevic (1969)
In Praise of Krishna: Songs From the Bengali (1967)


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Yesterday, people around the world marked the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day. Here at the State Department, First Lady Michelle Obama joined Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to recognize ten remarkable women, recipients of the 2011 International Women of Courage Award. The honorees were:
· Her Excellency, Roza Otunbayeva, President of the Kyrgyz Republic;
· Maria Bashir, Prosecutor General, Herat Province (Afghanistan);
· Nasta Palazhanka, Deputy Chairperson, Malady Front (Young Front) non-governmental organization (Belarus);
· Henriette Ekwe Ebongo, journalist and publisher of Bebela (Cameroon);
· Guo Jianmei, lawyer and Director of the Beijing Zhongze Women's Legal Counseling and Service Center (China);
· Yoani Sanchez, Innovator and Blogger, Founder of Generación Y blog (Cuba);
· The Honorable Agnes Osztolykan, Member of Parliament, Politics Can Be Different Party (Hungary);
· Eva Abu Halaweh, Executive Director of Mizan Law Group for Human Rights (Jordan);
· Marisela Morales Ibañez, Deputy Attorney General for Special Investigations against Organized Crime (Mexico);
· Ghulam Sughra, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Marvi Rural Development Organization, (Pakistan).
Two of the honorees, Nasta Palazhanka of Belarus and Yoani Sanchez of Cuba, were not permitted to travel to accept their award in person, but Secretary Clinton paid tribute to them and they were with us in spirit.
These ten women have done heroic work to advance freedom, equality, and dignity for all, in spite of great personal risk to themselves and their families. These women have been harassed and oppressed, and some have been beaten, tortured, and imprisoned. As Secretary Clinton said, "Each of these women...[has] reached down deep and done what was necessary. And I often wonder how many of us, including myself, under those circumstances, could have done the same. Their courage, their compassion, their commitment, their quiet moral authority has come from putting the well-being of others before their own."
If you are not familiar with these ten women, I encourage you to learn more about them and their work. They have inspired me, and I'd like to share some of their biographical information with you.
President Roza Otunbayeva of Kyrgyzstan First stepping forward as a central figure in the second effort of her country to shed authoritarian rule after the fall of the Soviet Union, Roza Otunbayeva, 60, recently became Central Asia's first female head of state and head of government in a traditional, majority Muslim country. In the face of a collapsing, corrupt government, strong regional divisions and widespread economic stagnation, President Otunbayeva succeeded in binding together a historically fractious opposition into a provisional government structure able to check the struggles for power from stirring up wider divisions in society. Her courageous leadership was instrumental in keeping Kyrgyzstan whole after the June 2010 clashes, staying the course to hold competitive elections.
Maria Bashir of Afghanistan
Prosecutor General, Attorney General's Office, Herat Province Banned from working during the Taliban regime, Ms. Bashir, 40, served her community by secretly teaching her sisters and local girls at home despite the risks of reprisal. After the fall of the Taliban, Maria Bashir regained her position as an investigative prosecutor, and in 2006 was appointed Prosecutor General for Herat, the only woman to ever hold such a position in Afghan history. Ms. Bashir has waged a determined campaign against crime and corruption. She stands out as a champion of judicial transparency and women's rights, and exemplifies the resilience of Afghan women. In 2010 alone, Ms. Bashir handled 87 cases on behalf of victims of domestic abuse, including forced child marriage.
Henriette Ekwe Ebongo of Cameroon
Journalist, publisher of Bebela, political activist Regarded as one of the most experienced and influential female journalists in Cameroon, Henriette Ekwe Ebongo, 61, has spent a lifetime advancing press freedom, freedom of expression, human rights, good governance, and gender equality. From the struggle against dictatorship in the 1980s, to the struggle against corruption and injustice in recent years, she has refused to be silenced for standing up for justice and the rule of law. The publisher of Bebela, a weekly independent newspaper, she was instrumental in the founding of a freer and more independent media in Cameroon.
Jianmei Guo of China
Director and Lawyer, Women's Law Studies and Legal Aid Center Born in an impoverished area of China, Guo Jianmei, 49, rose to graduate from China's Peking University and went on to become the country's best-known female lawyer, a passionate activist, and pioneer of legal advocacy. Ms. Guo enjoyed a fast-track career as a government legal professional. She left her comfortable world to become an advocate for those excluded from access to law in China, founding the Women's Law Center at Peking University.
Agnes Osztolykan of Hungary
Member of Parliament, Politics Can Be Different Party, Lehet Mas a Politika (LMP) Agnes Osztolykan, 36, was elected to Parliament in 2010, and is the only female Roma Member of Parliament (MP) in Hungary. She represents the newly established party, Politics Can Be Different (LMP). Ms. Osztolykan speaks out for Roma in the face of open hostility, fearlessly advocating for the equal rights and inclusion of Roma in Hungarian society. As deputy chair of the Education Committee, she is making a tangible contribution to Hungary's new education regulations, ensuring that Roma inclusion remains a priority of government programming.
Eva Abu Halaweh of Jordan
Executive Director, Mizan Law Group for Human Rights As Executive Director of the Mizan Law Group for Human Rights, Ms. Halaweh, 36, has dedicated her career to advocating for the vulnerable people of Jordan, including women at risk of becoming victims of "honor crimes." She has developed a legal team that provides free legal advice and counseling, often the only option for those seeking justice or a remedy to their plight. She has taken on sensitive issues, including action against what many human rights activists term a "culture of torture and abuse" within Jordan's prison system and police stations, which has resulted in deaths in previous years.
Ghulam Sughra of Pakistan
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Marvi Rural Development Organization Ghulam Sughra, 40, created the Marvi Rural Development Organization (MRDO), an NGO focused on creating community savings funds and raising awareness of education, health, human rights, and social development issues. While originally focused in her home village, Ms. Sughra has expanded to the rural areas of Sindh, Punjab, and Baluchistan provinces. Born in rural Sindh Province, Ms. Sughra was forced to marry at the age of 12. Six years later, Ms. Sughra became the first woman in her village to divorce, and consequently, became a social outcast. Severely beaten by her brothers when she tried to attend school, she pursued her studies at home. She later succeeded in becoming her village's first female high school graduate and the first teacher at the first school for girls.
Marisela Morales Ibañez of Mexico
Assistant Attorney General for Specialized Investigation of Organized Crime The first woman ever appointed to the position of Assistant Attorney General for Specialized Investigation of Organized Crime (SIEDO) in 2008, Marisela Morales, 40, has been a leader in bringing to justice some of Mexico's most dangerous and notorious criminals. Her fearless efforts to stand up against corruption have generated confidence in SIEDO among the public at large. Under Ms. Morales' leadership, SIEDO has succeeding in coordinating efforts with the Secretariat of Defense, the Secretariat of the Navy, the Secretariat of Public Security, and the Secretariat of Governance, as well as with the U.S. Embassy in Mexico, and the embassies of other governments. Ms. Morales has been instrumental in creating the first Federal Witness Protection Program in Mexico. With her guidance and support, SIEDO indicted the first federal trafficking in persons case. With her oversight, SIEDO and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security have cooperated to reunify children of trafficking victims with their mothers in the United States.
Yoani Sanchez of Cuba
Innovator and Blogger, Founder of Generación Y blog Blogger, technological innovator, and emerging civil society leader Yoani Sanchez, 35, has attracted an international following for her blog, Generacíon Y, which gives readers unprecedented insight into life in Cuba. She has worked to improve the ability of ordinary Cubans to access and disseminate information, and to expand information flow and free expression throughout Cuba. She has been credited as the "founder" of the independent Cuban blogosphere. Her work has expanded beyond blogging to training and advising dozens of newcomers to the blogosphere, providing a voice for young Cubans and for established civil society leaders.
Nasta Palazhanka of Belarus
Deputy Chairperson, Malady Front (Young Front) non-governmental organization Joining the opposition youth movement in Belarus at the age of 14, Nasta Palazhanka, now 20, has grown into a key figure in the opposition youth group "Malady Front" (Young Front) and exemplifies the extraordinary potential of civil activism in Belarus. Despite threats and politically-motivated pressure and harassment against herself and her family, she continues to advocate for civil society freedoms and promote respect for fundamental human rights. Imprisoned repeatedly for her convictions, she prevails in her belief that a brighter future is possible.
You can learn more about the International Women of Courage here.
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