The Prize

Its been five years since the beginning of the project which involves Zuckerberg's donation of 100 million dollars to reform Newark schools. The results are pouring in and more importantly, the questions - what happened to the money? Now that aint pretty. 20 million dollars to consultants, more than that to underperforming teachers as buyout, 50 percent of it to teacher contracts. Its this divvying that has been marked in the title with not much changes to the schools or students. Author Russakoff does a people centric story with coverage on all the honchos and the teachers too who bring about change in students in a positive way. Teachers who motivate students with an assessment of where they are and where they could be.
Now I am eager to know what happens to Intel's Oakland Initiative.

Assessing the 100 million upheaval of newarks public schools

His Gift to America

I have read Frida Diego: Art,Love and Life by Catherine Reef and enjoyed it. Having read Ida M Tarbell by Emily Arnold mcCully, I have realised that biographies meant for tweens is a good way of quickly learning about some great people. All I knew about Webster before reading this book 'Noah Webster: man of Many Words' was about his dictionary.
But after reading the book, I am wondering how some things are just the same - his insistence on standing up (stand up desks) while working, he wrote letters for funding his magnum opus promising a copy (early kickstarter). Goodreads shows that webster has 127 books. It also seems like his fascination with getting the words right connects to compiling facts. Its this naming that starts off encyclopedic works. Words and Encyclopedia are two of my favourite things for all the new stuff you learn from and through them.
The book has many illustrations. some reviewers have done a good job of recognising how the major dose of American History was needed to show the man as a work of his times.

One Red Paper Clip for Kids

I havent heard of the Japanese story Straw Millionaire until I read about this book. Antonio wants a guitarro but all he gets is a stick from his Papa which is what he got from his Papa before he got his guitarro.
Involving a perro (dog), pajaro (bird), burro (donkey), gato (cat), a groom, a wedding and a mariachi band, can Antonio fulfill his dreams of a guitarro for himself?
With an undercurrent of how is something going to be helpful in getting a guitar, Antonio finds himself helping others get warmth, satisfy hunger, reduce pain, save from drowning and so on. Such a lovely kid like the sweet brother in 'How much for the Doggie in he window' (soaking in the rain at his lemonade stand) has an incredible journey trading up.
The illustrations are soft and the texture, hols you to each section of it, inviting you to explore.

Oneredpaperclip

Realization

I never knew a time I couldnt read ;)

In an interview, the context of a time when luxury goods were rare to understand the coolness of Bond, made me appreciate how good questions raise news to history.

They Jangle

In pockets, lockers,
at the end of lanyards
on necks
in hands, in cars
on doors, in hands


Looking at the guy opening
the magazine stand to refill
it at Tempe Public Library

Pair of Words

In the DISC class, I was interested in pairing of words - Situational Hearing.

In NPR, I hear of  'emotional shorthand'.

“Music is the shorthand of emotion” - Leo Tolstoy

Ongoingness: The End of Diary

Key Performance Indicators for Dummies

Key Performance Indicators for Dummies is a good book to get your rookies knowledgeable on what is KPI and what KPQ (KP questions) will get you to the performance you want. The difference between leading and lagging indicators is a good one to know, even the focus on the word indicator in KPIs is essential. While the author does these kind of highlighting and contextualizing well, the dos and dont when it comes to KPIs, the book starts to feel like many booklets put together, trying to reel in different departments together. Yes finance is where all the numbers are but it is this cross functional jump, that makes the book look like a motley. I was very interested with terms like KPQ, EVA- Economic Value Added but after a while there were too many terms (I remember reading about NPS - Net Promoter Score, but cant recall which book), that made it seem like KPI should have been a small section under an umbrella title that would tie the book all in one. Something to appreciate in this varied terms definition are the examples, which make all the acronyms very easy to understand. Keep this book under the 'Basics of Business' folder.

Thinking Like a Mountain

is a popular interesting title.

Thinking like a mountain

Out of the Blue

The first idiom I remember in English is broke down. In 'Out of the Blue' I learnt some new idioms like ticked pink, shrinking violet, diffrent horse. The illustrations are minimal but the colour is deep spread.

An Idiom is a very powerful thing. in English, it first happened to me in sixth grade in a lesson called 'I met a Bushman'. It was the narrator saying his car 'broke down'.
'Out of the Blue - A Book of Color Idioms and Silly Pictures' is a great creative book for kids. I myself walk out of the book with few new idioms - tickled pink, yellow bellied and so on.
The illustrations are neat and the colour is emphatic.
There is a good mix of culture - brown bag. Red tape and Red letters illustrations are different from what I have in my mind.
(NetGalley)

Its  a great idea to make a page with a color Idiom and ask kids to guess it or give an idiom and ask them to illustrate it.

Inspiration for sketching

Legs and a hand

all pointing in the

same direction

three eighth of

an octopus

Sun Symbols in Phoenix

When your skin
is burning
and stepping out
of the car feels like
you are entering
heaven
should the bridges
on freeway have
sun symbols or
umbrellas?

Contact Entrance

Contact Entrance Wound
as opposed to Exit Wound

From dictionary.com

noun

1.

the act or state of touching; a touching or meeting, as of two things or people.

Its contact when its

things or people

its wound when one 

is a thing and another

a people

Entrance Vs Exit wounds

Networking for Nerds

pool story

Why VCs invest in serial entrepreneurs?
public speaking
apply for award

Poetry mags through your library

Your library national poetry month

Story to Research

From New Kitten to Bull Frog to Grey Kitten to Grey tree frog

Alternative to Greyhound

People who took greyhound said, "Dont".

Networking outside

How to network outside your company
How leaders create and use networks

Empathy and teaching

I realised that I try to think that for a person to learn something new, will need time to get adjusted to oit, to the extent that I might never let them try the new task. My husband has a knack of getting others to become self independent.

Intel's Professional Development & Career Series 2015

Intel's Professional Development & Career Series 2015 had 

Eric Rodriguez as Emcee who referred to Ariana Huffington's 30000 days. There was a reference to the Oakland initiative. I wondered if individuals could help in innovative programs like this.  Barbara Mcallister presented a workshop on Emotional Intelligence. During her talk I was able to see redeployment in line with Zero based budgeting (ZBB).

In there, it was amazing to see how during the break, people all moved out of the chairs. The whole periphery of the hall wa filled with people standing and networking. Eric's advice, dont be in a rush to talk to as many people, your network should be of people you can call upon for favour. The way you do that is asking how you can help.

One of the HR lady suggested I find a mentor.

A Day

is an interesting thing

It might seem
that your days
are not different

but when you try
to say what you
do in the evenings

then if you can
recall
you will see that
there is not one
pattern
not one thing
that you do the
same
everyday

we have a plan
but something
happens

and makes the
days not
recallable

Science stand-up comedy

SUPER BATTERY Engineer invented lithium-ion cell developing battery

The scientific research path has material for stand up comedy.

Medicine with its diagnosis way, errors and tracebacks too is rich material for Medicine stand-up comedy

Marketing and saving time

1. Library bookmark advertising
2. Fill up Grocery at counter. Some regular things need no aisle shopping, for those stock grocery, if they can be ready at the check out counter, saving you time.

Making Old things

If you could bring back one product, what would that be?
Retro making a comeback

I am a book

a bird
whose pages
are feathers

Renters rights

small claims courts are not setup for follow up work

Brand New Ancients

Liked Brand New Ancients as long as it was abstract in the beginning.

Network of words

I wondered
why countertop is called so.
if Discus and Discuss were related in throwing thoughts around.

As words follow a path, is the path giving rise to more words, or are the words chasing people and their activities?

Pack to Unpack

Unpacking seems to be such a stressful idea that it seems worthy of a business to pack and then unpack in the same way. Its like you flew your house on Aladdin Carpet.

Farm vacation

Getting an experience of living on a farm and doing everything by yourself.

Learnt of a colleague who learnt how to get a water connection from the main by doing it on the farm.

Farm stay vacation

Drawing From life

I didnt imagine
that my model
of a Peregrine Falcon
whom I thought to be a
Hawk
would not stay still

Quickly I learnt
that Drawing from Life
involves drawing not
one portrait
but many portraits
each filled as the
bird moves to
offer a different profile

Most of the body
remains the same
you get that part
right quick

when a little ruffled
or bored
the wings might span out

But the head
moves
the left eye soon
becomes the right

The neck line
moves like
percentile graphs

********************

During this attempt, looking closely at the eyes, I thought of how Jester looked like a baby. He was imprinted by a human.

Fitness goals

I wanted to be light enough to ride a bike without sitting on it.
I wanted to pole vault.

To be able to do a single leg Lateral jump

10 min of  Jump rope

From Bud to Boss

How kids follow rules?

When they see other kids follow them.
library 20 min limit for the computer games.

A-Z of Embroidery Stitches

Embroidery Floss with Organizer Storage Box - BASEIN 100％Cotton Friendship Bracelets Floss String Embroidery Thread 69 Pcs (50 Colors)

Shisha Stitch

I didnt know that you could use ribbons for all the lovely rose stitches.
We used to make the concertina rose with palm leaves at a convent school.
Now I remember the blanket stitch we learnt in SUPW class but didnt recognise it even though I saw it on the blankets.

Leadership Fundamentals by Britt andreatta

Emotional Intelligence containing self-awareness and awareness of others emotions (empathy)

Boxes

Boxes

A Man is

A Man is