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4 Sure Fire Ways To Immediately Boost Your Success In The Mba Group Discussion/ Personal Interview 0

Having cleared the written test for B- Schools such as IIM’s, XLRI, IIFT, FMS- Delhi, it is important that you have a proper strategy ready for the Group Discussion and Personal Interview. Adequate knowledge of the economy and refining your communication skills are important at this stage.

Here are 4 surefire ways to boost your communication skills

(1) Organized viewpoints: As soon as the topic is given to you, think of three keywords that you can think which relate to the topic. For example if the topic is India in 2020, you can build your viewpoints around Jobs, FDI, Infrastructure

(2) Visualisation: Retention of the Group Discussion panel peaks after 15 seconds of your statements. So try to create mental visualizations. So start by saying-“Imagine Mumbai connected with a 4 lane flyover and smooth traffic”. Visualizations remain in the mind of the panel long after you have spoken.

(3) Use data: You should definitely use data around one of your keywords. After all you are going to become an MBA and should become comfortable with numbers. However don’t overuse your knowledge of facts and figures- or else you come across as a show off

(4) Listening: It’s not only your own viewpoint that matters but also how you integrate the viewpoints of others into your statement. Coming across as a team player will give you a higher grade as compared to someone who made good viewpoints but did not take into account what other’s said.

Keeping these 4 surefire ways for a successful Group Discussion in mind also for the Personal Interview. The same factors apply when being asked about your future goals and ambitions. Always remember to be properly updated about the economy as YOU WILL DEFINITELY be questioned about some aspect of the economy and your views of the same.

Priyanka is a MBA from IIM- Bangalore and works as a communication specialist. Her website mbainterview.in mbainterview.in provides useful tips for MBA aspirants to succeed in the MBA Group Discussion and Personal Interview

Sickness in Literature 0

Addie is the main character in the “As I Lay Dying”. She is sick in the beginning of the novel and later she dies. Even though each person in the novel views events differently, through their own perception and believe system, we can still observe the common for each character dissatisfaction with the life. Addie uses her sickness as a weapon to put guilt on each one of the family members. She is not happy with her husband and children. As a woman she should have loved her children. However, it can be observed that her attitude toward her family is quite unexpected and uncommon. She doesn’t love her husband and views children as a duty to him. Children are always fighting for her attention, even when she was sick they were trying to please her in every possible and to receive special attention. They are not sincere in their love to mother though. Making coffin in front of a dying woman is not what a loving child would do. The whole family is not actually loving Addie or emotionally supporting her. The only acceptation is Jewel, Addie’s child with from her true loving relationship, an affair she had.

Addie feels unhappy and blames her husband for creating this kind of life for her. She makes all her family to feel guilty. Addie asked for her body to be berried in Jefferson, which is a long way to go for her family members especially in the hot summer time. It was very problematic to transport Addie’s body to town. It seems that even after her death Addie wanted her family to feel even more guilt. On the road to town only miscommunication and insincerity of the family is exposed.

In the novel when the doctor was visiting Addie he said “She’s been dead for 10 days” meaning that mind left her body. I think that she’s been emotionally dead for much longer than that. A person dies when his faith in himself and others dies; when his wish to find the inner love disappears.

In the play “Long Day’s Journey into Night” a Tyrone family is depicted. All family members are portrayed as emotionally not healthy people. They are not satisfied with their lives and their psychological instability is reflected in their habits, addictions and in health and emotional condition in general.

Men in the family are alcoholics. Jamie, the older son, has no goal in life and is only spending money on alcohol and women. Edmund is sick on tuberculosis and is also drinking. The father is drinking as well and is not satisfied with his life. The family is constantly fighting and it seems from the play that there is no love in their relationships at all. Mary, as a woman, should be a loving and caring mother. But she is a morphine addict and seems to be very disappointed with her life and children. Through the whole play she is on morphine. She became an addict because of regrets and mistakes she has done. She feels that her dreams and goals have not been reached. Mary blames her husband for not being able to become a pianist or a nun. She wants her family members to feel guilty for things she hasn’t done, for things she feels guilty of herself. Also she blames James, her husband, for a cheap doctor she had after Edmund’s birth; for the Eugene’s, her other son, death. She uses morphine to make her family feel guilty for their own dissatisfaction and alcoholism. She blames everyone and everything she possibly can. Mary even blames her hands that were constantly shaking for revealing her nervousness and instability. She is living in the past and brings the past time into the family life. She refuses to face the present and the reality. The high hopes she set for her sons never came true. So she chooses the morphine to help her close the eyes on the reality and to bring her back in the old happy and idealized times and dreams. Mary wants her family to feel guilty. But as we can observe it results only in the suffering of all family, including her. Mary’s life in the past is not letting anyone in the family move forward. The only person who has a chance to leave a constant circle of misery is Edmund, as he has a chance to actually leave the family. However, living with the problem and constant replaying it in the mind is not the way to solve it. All people make mistakes, our life is not perfect. But we can make it better by simply forgiving others their mistakes and moving on. Also what is even more important and is often even harder is to forgive oneself. Mary, just as Addie, was simply transferring her own guilt and feeling of dissatisfaction on to others. Instead, she should have stopped for a moment and thought about the problems in her life with the clear mind, without alcohol and morphine. Every person has love deep inside his heart. It only takes a desire to look inside and search for that inner love. With love the forgiveness and understanding will come along. The key for happiness after all is in each one of us, we just need to find it. And no one else can make us find it. We need to do it on our own. And once we do, no mistakes and no life circumstances will ever matter.

People are not satisfied and blame others for it. They get sick, trying to put guilt on people around them without realizing that it is not other’s fault and even if it was, they should forgive them. Truly forgive people, deep in the heart. Let the past go and let the future begin. And most importantly forgive yourself. People are ready to die, when they loose sense of life and only see it in punishing others, taking a victim position. We need to appreciate each other and learn to understand that love and strength is all in us. This is what both families in the books truly need to realize and start a new life, with no regrets and no fears.

I don’t recall any cases of me manipulating anyone using sickness as a weapon. However, even if there were any, I’m now confident that I will do my best to never let this take place again as these two books help to realize the importance of forgiveness and made me think about the true values in the life.

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Wind Energy - Can There Be Too Much Of A Good Thing? 0

The Conference Board of Canada just published its report on ‘International Experience with Implementing Wind Energy’. The report makes an overview of current knowledge on wind energy:

wind energy is becoming competitive in some regions, primarily driven by cost reductions, better technology and improved siting
developing wind energy requires a variety of policy instruments
public opinion is favourable in the abstract, but a NIMBY syndrome pops often up for concrete projects (NIMBY = ‘not in my backyard’)

Intermittency is becoming the single biggest challenge for the sector, as the penetration of wind energy increases. The integration of wind energy into the electricity system brings additional costs:

balancing cost: thermal power stations deviate from their original production schedule due to the increase variability of the load (where unbuffered use of wind power is seen as negative load)
backup capacity needs to be available to supply electricity when there is no wind
reinforcement of transmission and distribution grids, and a lot of good wind sites are found in areas with weak grids
Estimates for these costs vary among various studies between 5% and 40% of generation costs, and further understanding in this field is needed.

The report also expresses a concern that the integration of wind without buffer affects system stability beyond a certain point. Experiences in Denmark and Germany indicate this thresholds might be around 20%. Beyond that, integration costs would tend to increase with increasing wind use.

Wind energy has grown significantly over the past 1.5 decades in 4 countries (Denmark, Germany, Spain US), primarily with policy support. The technology is now becoming competitive in certain regions. But intermittency, siting and distance to load limit its potential.

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The full report is freely available after registration from the website of the Conference Board of Canada
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Graduate School Survival Guide - Top 10 Tips to Survival 0

Announcer: “And tonight on Grad Nite TV it’s time for the Top 10 Ten List. Tonight’s Top 10 is ‘How do I Survive Graduate School?’”

And the top 10 ways that you can survive graduate school are:

#10. Stay focused. The road is long, but by staying focused on your goal of successfully completing your program, you can make it a smooth ride instead of a bumpy one.

#9. Keep up with assigned readings, project tasks, and research. It is much easier to break your tasks, assignments, readings and research into smaller segments. This alleviates you from having to cram everything into one night or one day.

#8. If you don’t know the answer to something, then ask. There is nothing wrong with not knowing the answer to everything. If you do not know or understand something, then ask a classmate, a professor or someone else who will know the answer. Just to put your mind a little more at ease for asking questions in class, the answer to your question will not only help you, but it will also help your classmates as well. Most likely, someone in your class has the same question, but was too afraid to ask it.

#7. Make a plan and stick to it. Create a written plan that details out your goals, tasks, and deadlines. Also write a plan on the tasks that you must complete to achieve them. You may have different plans like daily, weekly, monthly and semester long plans. Just make sure that your daily plans help you achieve your weekly plans, and that your weekly plans help you achieve your monthly plans, and so on.

#6. Introduce yourself to new people. The people you meet and interact with may prove to be important contacts to you at some point during or after graduate school. By increasing the amount of people that you know you are increasing your chances of finding new and interesting opportunities.

#5. Don’t cheat! Sometimes the easy way out is not the most beneficial thing for you in the long run. With well thought out plans and task lists there won’t be a need for you to cheat because you will be organized and on task.

#4. Don’t be afraid to ask for help. Everyone needs a little help sometime. Ask you professors if you don’t understand something or if you need clarification on something. That is what they are there for!

#3. Get a study buddy. By studying with a friend or classmate you can compliment each other’s strengths and weaknesses. They may have something in their notes that you don’t have and vice versa. Plus, it makes it easier to study when you have a partner to push you along and they have you to push them along.

#2. Manage your stress. There is no doubt that graduate school is stressful. It is important that you manage your stress. Eating healthy and getting enough rest, along with being focused and organized, will help to keep your stress level to a minimum.

And the #1 way to survive grad school is…
Learn work, school, and life balance. You need to learn to balance your schedule so that you have time for all aspects of your life including school, work and home. It is important that you take time to participate in leisure and relaxation activities that you enjoy. This will help you to live a more balanced life, preventing you from burning out from school overload!

In all seriousness, grad school is a big challenge. It is important that you follow these 10 survival tips to make your time there as productive and pleasurable as possible.

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Finding Science And Art In Phoenix Schools 0

Many, many programs are available to students throughout all Phoenix Public Schools districts. Sensing the constant need for improvements, and to keep up with national and global standards, Phoenix Schools are meeting these demands head on. For example, some Phoenix Schools have implemented innovative Science, Art, and IB (International Baccalaureate) programs.

InnoWorks, a new science program available to underprivileged Phoenix Schools middle-school students, was implemented in February 2007 by Grace Hsieh, a junior at the University of Arizona. Hsieh was looking to start a peer mentor and tutoring program when she came across a website detailing the program InnoWorks, which had its beginnings at Duke University.

Phoenix Schools middle-schoolers take part in a free science camp organized and run entirely by UA undergraduates. Twenty-four students from six Phoenix Schools were selected for the camp. InnoWorks’ leaders hope that by exposing underprivileged Phoenix Schools students to college campuses and science research, more students will be inspired to study science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

“Immediately it was easy to recognize what a great program it was, in its philosophy and vision,” Hsieh said.

Hsieh has gathered about $20,000 in donations to fund the program, recruited about 20 fellow students to work as mentors, and sought out campers by calling Phoenix Schools counselors and teachers.

Explorer Middle School recently received the Mayor’s School of Excellence Award for Outstanding Achievement in Arts Education. Integrating arts into their academic classes is one thing that makes this member of the Phoenix Schools unique.

Principal Marianne Bursi believes that the appreciation of art relates to all fields of study.

“We find students learn more by doing,” said Bursi. “The brain remembers more with visuals rather than just looking at plain old text. The [students] discover [they have] many hidden talents because art is incorporated into all their academics.”

Each quarter, seventh-graders are encouraged to take chorus, visual arts, world languages and applied technology courses. Once they are in eighth grade, these Phoenix Schools children can then choose which they prefer for the year

Phoenix Schools are beginning to offer children in Grades K-10 an opportunity to learn via the International Baccalaureate program. This is a teaching model used around the world that pushes students to become proficient in at least two languages, think critically and learn from a global perspective by studying other cultures.

Mesa Public Schools could soon become the first school district in Phoenix Schools, and one of only a handful nationwide, to offer an IB program to students from kindergarten through the end of high school.

Gregg Good, is the IB coordinator for one Phoenix Schools high school which began offering the program last year. Administrators are still determining the best way to test young Phoenix Schools elementary students in a “culturally neutral” way to decide which children will participate in the rigorous IB program for the 2007-2008 school year.

Patricia Hawke is a staff writer for Schools K-12, providing free, in-depth reports on all U.S. public and private K-12 schools. For more information please visit schoolsk-12.com/Arizona/Phoenix/index.html Phoenix Public Schools

New York School of Practical Nursing for LPN’s 0

New York school of practical nursing graduates face competition ever since the number of hospital jobs for LPN’s (licensed practical nurses) declines. Yet, jobs may still be available for LPN’s as rapid employment growth is projected in other health care industries, with the best job opportunities in nursing care facilities and in home health care services.

There are a lot of LPN’s in the US since training in a New York school of practical nursing only lasts about 1-year and the state-approved programs in New York school of practical nursing institutions (mostly in vocational or technical schools) reach to over 1-thousand. It is therefore a good thing that replacement needs will be a major source of job openings as many workers leave the practical nursing occupation permanently. Only about 27% of New York school of practical nursing LPN’s work in hospitals, while 25% in nursing care facilities, 12% in offices of physicians, as the other 36% work for home health care services, employment services, elderly community care facilities, public/private educational services, outpatient care centers, and Federal, State, and local government agencies, with about 1 in 5 LPN’s working part-time.

Although employment of LPNs in the traditional hospital setting is expected to continue to decline, conversely, employment of New York LPNs in home health care facilities is expected to grow at least averagely because of the growing number of aged and disabled persons in need of long-term care, also because of consumer preference for care in the home, and technological advances that make it possible to bring increasingly complex treatments into the home. In addition, New York LPNs in nursing care facilities will be needed to care for the increasing number of patients who have been discharged from the hospital but who have not recovered enough. LPN’s are heavily needed for their workloads at 40-hours/week, round-the-clock care on week nights, weekends, and holidays for the patients’ needs.

Here is a list of some New York School of Practical Nursing institutions: ADELPHI UNIVERSITY-Garden City, COLLEGE OF MOUNT ST.VINCENT-Riverdale, COLLEGE OF NEW ROCHELLE-New Rochelle, COLLEGE OF STATEN ISLAND-Staten, WAGNER COLLEGE-Staten Island, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY-NY, HUNTER COLLEGE OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK-NY, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY-NY, STATE-UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK-Buffalo, D’YOUVILLE COLLEGE-Buffalo, DAEMEN COLLEGE-Amherst, DOMINICAN COLLEGE-Orangeburg, LEHMAN COLLEGE OF CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK-Bronx, MERCY COLLEGE-Bronx, LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY-C.W. POST CAMPUS-Brookville, MOLLOY COLLEGE-Rockville Center, MOUNT SAINT MARY COLLEGE-Newburgh, NAZARETH COLLEGE OF ROCHESTER-Rochester, ST.JOHN FISHER COLLEGE-Rochester, UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER-Rochester, PACE UNIVERSITY-Pleasantville, SAGE GRADUATE SCHOOL-Troy, STATE-UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK-Binghamton, STATE-UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK-Stonybrook, STATE-UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT BROOKLYN-Brooklyn, STATE-UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY-Utica/Rome, STATE-UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY-Syracuse,

Aspiring LPN’s should also find out about accredited NP/Nurse Practitioner Program lists, NP Primary Care Competencies in Specialty Areas (Adult, Family, Gerontological, Pediatric, and Women’s Health), NP Exam/Review Courses, Practice Doctorate (DNP) Resources, HRSA Bureau of Health Professions Nursing Grants, and information and educational resources on nurse practitioners, or search the AANP-American Academy of Nurse Practitioners.

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Teaching Abroad - Contract Conditions to Look For 0

There are as many contract conditions as there are international schools, almost.

International schools are sometimes caught in a difficult situation. They need to comply with the regulations of the country they are operating in, ensure their conditions and salaries are competitive with other international schools and balance this all with the fact that they have to work within a salary budget.

Here are some items to consider when you are thinking about contract conditions for you and your family.

* tuition fee for dependent children

* housing allowance

* medical cover

* pension contributions

* end of contract bonus

* annual flights home

* sick pay

* maternity leave

* spouse visas

* professional development

* extra-curricular activities

* over-night trips

When you are making the decision to work overseas, you will need to set some criteria for what contract conditions you are willing to accept.

If you have three or more children, you’ll be looking for a contract where the tuition fee for all of your children is waived. Otherwise you may end up spending a considerable amount of your take-home pay on tuition fees for your third child. The fees for international schools are high, frequently beyond what a teacher can afford to pay, even on the good salaries that are available for teachers at international schools. This makes sense when you think about it – it’s those salaries that pay overseas teachers so lucratively.

When you choose to move to a location far away from your family, you won’t want to spend the money you’ve saved to fly your whole family home each year for a visit. This is where annual flights home are a must for me when I am deciding what conditions I will accept.

Consider the period of time you are willing to commit to your new school. There is a trend towards offering starting contracts of two years. My advice is to sign a contract for two years, initially, as it may take you a year or more to settle into the community. Then you can ask to sign contract renewals annually.

If I had signed a one year contract for my current school, I wouldn’t be here now, nor would I have just re-signed for an additional 12 months. It took me a year to get settled and find new hobbies and places to do my old hobbies.

To avoid making a mistake you will regret later you need to have a clear idea of what you want before you enter into any interview situation with the international schools’ recruiters. You also need to have some way of comparing the contract conditions that are offered by different schools, should you be offered more than one teaching position.

Knowing what you’re looking for doesn’t mean that you will get it, but it will mean that you can make informed decisions based on what’s being offered. You will still need to be flexible because, as per the point I made earlier, there is considerable diversity in contract conditions offered across the world.