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Stephen Crane and the Green Place of Paint
No full textThis paper addresses the influence of French Impressionist painting on the late nineteenth-century writer Stephen Crane (1871-1900), a key figure in the movement of literary naturalism and the author of, among other stories, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, The Red Badge of Courage, The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky, and The Blue Hotel. A journalist and war-time correspondent as well as a literary figure, Crane produced a remarkable number of poems, prose pieces, short stories, and “sketches” in a period of time spanning little more than a decade. Much of his work is characterized by formal devices analogous to Impressionist painting’s seemingly antithetical devices of atmospheric (or animated) paint and flat paint. These formal devices put into question normative, anthropocentric distinctions between human and nonhuman subjects and objects. The short story “An Experiment in Misery” (1889) describes in impressionist painterly language the city’s human and nonhuman subjectobjects that implies that ecogenic (nonhuman-made) human and nonhuman subject-objects are outcast, defaced, or bullied by the anthropogenic (humanmade) environs of the modern industrial city. The influence of French Impressionist painting on Crane has been addressed by scholars. However, these scholars do not comment on its ecocritical significances. I argue that Crane’s animation of the nonhuman figure and the oft-commented on flattening or caricaturing of the human figure by Crane express a nascent ecological argument.補正完畢TW
One Simple Idea for Startups and Entrepreneurs
No full textFrom award-winning entrepreneur, inventor, and business owner Stephen Key comes the highly anticipated follow-up to his bestseller One Simple Idea
How many times have you seen a product and thought, I know how to make that better? Or not seen a product and thought, How is it that no one has invented this yet? And when haven’t you thought, I need to be my own boss?
You’re thinking the right things. Now, the next step is to take action?and that’s exactly what One Simple Idea for Startups and Entrepreneurs is all about.
Stephen Key, one of the world’s leading experts on getting business ideas off the ground, revealed in his groundbreaking book One Simple Idea just how simple it is to make a fortune by selling or “renting” your great ideas.
Now, he helps you live the entrepreneurial dream by delivering a proven, straightforward process for starting, growing, and running a business?without the need for an MBA or millions of dollars in funding. As an inventor and successful business owner, Key brings a unique and fully rounded perspective to the subject, teaching you how to:
Develop, test, and protect your idea
Plan and launch your business
Manufacture, package, market, sell, and distribute your product
Manage and grow your business
Prepare for and implement your endgame
Key draws on his own experience as a billion dollar inventor to offer how-to’s and other takeaways you can use to get off the ground and into the black. Case studies, tips, and advice from other successful entrepreneurs underscore key principles to make it easier than ever for you to achieve your business and life dreams.
You don’t need millions of dollars or a business, engineering, or manufacturing background to develop, produce, and sell your own product idea. All you need is one simple idea?and the passion to make it happen.
Praise for One Simple Idea
“This book is straight-forward, no-nonsense information for how to start a successful company. Read it!”
?Barbara Corcoran, investor/shark on ABC’s reality hit Shark Tank
“The ideas in this book are key to creating the kind of enterprise that will create hundreds of thousands of jobs in the future. The goal of entrepreneurship is to reduce the risk of failure as detailed in this book.”
?Nolan Bushnell, inventor of Pong® and founder of Atari®
"Kudos!! One Simple Idea for Startups & Entrepreneurs is brilliant !! A must read for those that have the courage to dive into their dreams. This is a true Road Map for those that have the passion to achieve their Freedom. Truly something that I wish would have been there for me 33 years ago."
?Russ Hornsby, toy industry veteran, 2010 Toy of the Year award winner in seven different countries, and creator of hit toys ZhuZhu Pets®, XiaXia Pets®, DeGeDar® and others
“I took one of those simple ideas and turned it into a company that now has its products in over 35,000 doors of retail distribution. With One Simple Idea for Startups & Entrepreneurs, Stephen gives us the tools we need to take an idea from your Head to the Store shelf.”
?Todd Basche, inventor of Word Lock®, the #1 selling word combination lock
“Any inventor or entrepreneur who wants to make money without risking hundreds of thousands in design, manufacturing, warehousing and distribution would be well served to take advantage of the practical wisdom offered up in Stephen’s most recent work, One Simple Idea for Startups & Entrepreneurs.”
?Ron Hazelton, former home improvement editor for ABC’s Good Morning America and leading authority in the do-it-yourself home improvement field
“One Simple Idea for Startups and Entrepreneurs is a MUST read. The process is broken down into steps that makes it simple to follow and gives you a roadmap to Success.”
?Gene Luoma, Inventor of Zip-It Clean®
"Advice is everywhere but good advice is very rare. Stephen Key’ One Simple Idea for Startups & Entrepreneurs is the exception."
?Steve Greenberg, author of Gadget Nation and co-host of Food Network\u27s television program Invention Hunters
“Stephen’s a trailblazer in what is now widely accepted as the emerging field of frugal innovation.”
?Patrick Raymond, Invention Expert for Huffington Post, creator of InventionScore®, and co-host of Invention Hunters on Food Network
“Stephen Key is the real deal. Without his knowledge and willingness to share it, I would not have been able to successfully bring my own product to market. Now readers of One Simple Idea for Startups & Entrepreneurs have the same opportunity to benefit from an education in startups and just how true it is that all it takes is persistence and one simple idea.”
?Nancy Tedeschi, inventor of SnapIt Screw&™ and prize winner of the WalMart Get on the Shelf contest
An easy, important read for practitioner and academic alike. . . . Highly recommended."
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The short and long term implications for the Global, UK and Scottish economy, with Stephen Boyle and Professor Andrew Goudie [Podcast] EP22
No full textGraeme Roy is joined by Mairi Spowage and Stephen Boyle of the Fraser of Allander Institute, and Professor Andrew Goudie of the University of Strathclyde to discuss the latest economic implications of the global crisis. The team discuss the current ongoing economic implications for the global, UK and Scottish economies, as well as setting out the long term issues they will face. Stephen expands on his contribution to our Expert Insights publication, with Andrew offering findings from his report ‘Rethinking our global future’. Timestamps (1:03) Oversight and key points from ‘Rethinking our Global Future’, Andrew (12:20) The short term and long term implications and issues for the global economy, Stephen (18:25) What are your concerns for the Euro Area? Stephen (21:08) What is the importance of resilience? Andrew (28:20) What do you see as the outlook for monetary policy internationally and in the UK? Stephen (30:34) What are your expectations for future public finances and public services? Andrew (38:31) What are your reflections on the outlook for public spending? Stephen (43:02) Where should the attention be focussed in the next few years? Andrew (48:45) What should the priority be within the policy landscape of Scotland? Stephen (55:57) How do you turn ideas within a strategy into reality? Stephen & Andre
Atomic Structure and the Periodic Table
No full textAny online chemistry textbook that contains a photograph of Max Planck and Albert Einstein on its first page definitely sets the right tone, and Stephen Lowerâs textbook certainly falls into that category. Over the past several years Lower has been working on this textbook, and for students looking for a bit of refresher on the world of atom structure and the periodic table, this is the right place in which to spend a bit of time. Through the use of short and concise chapters, the textbook provides six different lesson titles which cover the world of quantum physics, the Bohr atom, and the periodic properties of the elements. Within each chapter, users will also find illustrations and a âWhat you need to knowâ section that effectively summarizes the key principles and concepts in each section. [KMG
A roadmap for fiscal sustainability
No full textThe conduct of fiscal policy as part of overall macroeconomic management is essential to underpinning growth and stability in the Australian economy.The sustainability of fiscal settings and the efficiency of individual budget measures help to support consumer and investor confidence, to ensure governments do their job cost-effectively and, ultimately, to assist rising living standards.A central theme of this Monograph is that effective fiscal rules can guide budget behaviours around a sustainable benchmark, provided that benchmark is properly specified and clearly identified. The combination of transparency and high-quality information can assist political acceptance of the need for budget discipline, without removing necessary fiscal flexibility.The experience of Australian economic reform over the last three decades supports this insight. Australia had seen its relative economic performance decline by the 1980s and arresting this trend required an effective mix of microeconomic and macroeconomic reforms pursued by successive Australian Governments, at least up to 2000. On the fiscal policy front, this meant tackling the accumulation of historically-high levels of Commonwealth (and state and territory) net debt.Policy reformers argued that improving the long-term credibility of policy settings would underpin strong and stable economic growth. The idea was that fiscal policy was felt most strongly through stabilising debt and national savings, via related confidence effects attached to the risk premia on interest rates and allocative efficiency improvements. In 1998, the Howard Government enacted the Charter of Budget Honesty reforms which required the explicit outlining of a “medium-term” fiscal strategy. The practicalities of this involved a fiscal strategy statement being included from the 1997-98 Budget onwards, nominating a target objective for the strategy._______________ Stephen Anthony is the Director of Budget Policy and Forecasting at Macroeconomics, an economic modelling firm based in Canberra. He has worked as a senior policy officer and manager at the Federal Treasury and the Department of Finance. This paper has been sponsored by the Minerals Council of Australia, but the views expressed are those of Mr Anthony.  
Oral History Interview: Stephen Myrah (1086)
No full textAbstract: In his April 2010 interview with Char Tortorice, Stephen Myrah reminisces about his over 4 decades of service to the University of Wisconsin as part of academic staff. He explains how he came to UW as a student and member of the financial aid staff, how he worked his way up the ranks of the staff, and how important issues of academic staff governance have been to the university. He offered his perspectives on a number of key issues and personalities in his roles in the financia aid department and as Secretary of the Academic Staff. This interview was conducted for inclusion into the UW-Madison Oral History Program.
Key Words: University of Wisconsin-Madison; academic staff; National Defense Education Act (NDEA); the Cold War; Wally Douma; Fred Harvey Harrington; Academic Staff Executive Committee (ASEC); Bob Miller; Madison Academic Staff Association (MASA); Student Personnel Association (SPA); Academic Staff Professional Representation Organization (ASPRO); Donna Shalala
Historical experiences, collective memory and willingness to fight for one’s country: Comments on Paez et al. (2008)
No full textThis paper considers Paez et al.’s (2008) article ‘“Remembering” World War II and willingness to fight: Sociocultural factors in the social representation of historical warfare across 22 societies.’ Despite the importance of their focus on social representations of history and willingness to fight for one’s country, it is argued that Paez et al.’s paper features a number of methodological flaws. Specifically, the way in which key variables (historical experience, collective memory and willingness to fight for one’s country) are operationalized is especially problematic. The implications of these weaknesses for their conceptual conclusions are discussed briefly, as are the more general limitations of statistical analyses of survey data for addressing these issues
What we are left with: psychoanalytic endings
No full textBook synopsis: Psychosocial Imaginaries collects together essays by members of the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck, University of London, one of the key sites for the development of psychosocial studies in the UK. Psychosocial studies is a new and exciting area of work that challenges the traditions of psychology and sociology from a genuinely transdisciplinary perspective. This book reflects this agenda in its very varied theoretical and empirical strands, producing a newly contextualised and restless body of understanding of how 'psychic' and 'social' processes intertwine
Stephen Yaffee Interview, February 23, 1998
No full textStephen Yaffee discusses internal discussions in the U.S. Forest Service at the time of ecosystem management’s implementation. He explains the “scientific base” for the decision and how that scientific knowledge was managed. He alludes to the difficulties of moving policy through the hierarchy of the Forest Service, shifting in this way into some history of the agency. He mentions key legislation including NEMA, NFMA (National Forest Management Act of 1976), and FORPLAN (FORest PLANning).https://scholarworks.umt.edu/forestserviceecosystemmanagement/1004/thumbnail.jp
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