Framed by stories of young artists and teaching art, Richard Olsen's memoir, Art, Kids, and Institutions, dares to ask: Who are these beings called kids and how do we engage them? What role can art have in their lives? What is the nature of the institutions they find themselves in? Why can't learning (and teaching) be liberating and filled with joy? Art, Kids, and Institutions goes beyond a reminiscence of the past. It becomes a polemic for the present."Poised between sharp social commentary and tender teacher wisdom, Art, Kids, and Institutions embodies its artful subject. In language that is rich and spare, it speaks to the simple artistry of great teachers--their commitment, caring, resilience, and courage." --Jessica Hoffmann Davis, EdD Founder of the Arts in Education Program, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Growing up a stone's throw away from New York City in a small house on suburban Long Island, Richard Olsen-Harbich always dreamed of being a farmer. After graduating from Cornell with a degree in viticulture, he found himself back on the Island at the heart of an emerging wine region that was struggling to find itself. Starting from the ground up with little information or experience, Olsen-Harbich began a lifelong quest to master the art and science of growing wine grapes less than 90 miles from Manhattan. In the last half-century, the North Fork's bucolic seaside towns and humble potato farms were transformed into one of this country's most compelling agricultural success stories, garnering praise from wine critics around the world. Olsen-Harbich charts the meteoric rise of North Fork winemaking from the historic failures of colonial times to the modern triumph of becoming one of the most important wine-producing districts on the East Coast. Through a poetic interweaving of personal anecdotes with scientific reporting about climate, soils, geology, and botany, Olsen-Harbich drills deep into the topic, giving the world a new language for talking about wine. In doing so, he redefines what it means to make wine in the New World.
This is an edited volume reviewing the major means-tested social programs in the United States. Each author addresses a major program or area, reviewing each area’s successes and recommending how to address shortcomings through policy change. In general, our means-tested programs do many things well, but some adjustments to each could make the system much more effective. This book provides policymakers with a broad overview of the issues at hand in each program and how to address them.
Liquid markets generate hundreds or thousands of ticks (the minimum change in price a security can have, either up or down) every business day. Data vendors such as Reuters transmit more than 275,000 prices per day for foreign exchange spot rates alone. Thus, high-frequency data can be a fundamental object of study, as traders make decisions by observing high-frequency or tick-by-tick data. Yet most studies published in financial literature deal with low frequency, regularly spaced data. For a variety of reasons, high-frequency data are becoming a way for understanding market microstructure. This book discusses the best mathematical models and tools for dealing with such vast amounts of data. This book provides a framework for the analysis, modeling, and inference of high frequency financial time series. With particular emphasis on foreign exchange markets, as well as currency, interest rate, and bond futures markets, this unified view of high frequency time series methods investigates the price formation process and concludes by reviewing techniques for constructing systematic trading models for financial assets.
Apollo Journal is a true history of the lunar landing in July 1969 that culminated 2500 years of dreaming, conflict, the struggle of ideas and finally the physical reality confronting Apollo astronauts. The genesis of space travel traces back at least to the classical Greek world of 500 B.C. when astronomers speculated about the universe's structure.Cosmology. Disputes about the structure of the universe (earth-centered or sun- centered) covered a time period of 500 B.C. to the 17th century. Violence and cruelty characterized much of this dispute. Greeks killed Greeks; Christianity adopted the earth-centered geocentric theory as gospel; which led to the Tyranny of the Church and the infamous trial of Galileo. In the interim, Rome conquered Greece. Islamic forces invaded Europe, Europeans launched the crusades and the Renaissance occurred. British astronomer-scientist Sir Isaac Newton laid the issue to rest with his Universal Laws of Motion. Rockets. A reliable means of propulsion capable of lifting a space vehicle out of earth's atmosphere had to be developed. Rockets, whose first use is credited to the Chinese in the 13th century, were used for celebrations and waging war, but were unreliable and unsafe. However, governments and private groups experimented with rockets, striving to improve their safety and guidance systems until the launch of Sputnik in 1957 established the rocket as the propulsion system of choice for space exploration.Space Race.The space race between United States and the Soviet Union commenced when President Kennedy proposed to Congress and the Nation the Apollo lunar landing project in 1961. The Nation's wars, budget battles, Watergate and economic conditions haveall impacted manned space programs. Mismanagement has characterized much of manned space programs, which coupled with human error, resulted in years of schedule slips, horrendous waste of taxpayers' money, four major accidents and the death of seventeen astronauts. In spite of this, the Nation's space programs represent unique accomplishments in world history.Third Millennium. Manned space programs are now in limbo pending the findings of the Columbia Shuttle review panel. NASA plans to resume Shuttle flights perhaps in the latter part of the year (2005), but the future of manned space operation is uncertain.
When Ronald Reagan arrived in Hollywood in the latter part of May1937 to begin his film career, it was like being cast in an epic film noir project with a DeMille cast of thousands, without having read the script, or met or known any of the principals in the project. Because of political corruption, labor racketeering, an out of control Police Department, and violent crime, writers referred to Los Angeles as the "unholy city." Much of this dark side of Los Angeles played out in the film industry and on Hollywood Boulevard. This story traces back to the early 1930s when two small time Chicago hoodlums, Willie Bioff and George Browne, formed a partnership that would shake up the film industry, give the old moguls who dominated Hollywood ulcers, and provoke labor disturbances that ultimately would lead to the blacklist years of the 1950s. Bioff was a street hustler who worked as a Teamster slugger-dues collector, maintained a brothel and sold protection to kosher chicken dealers in Chicago´s Fulton Market area. For this latter activity in 1933 the Chicago police department listed Bioff as a public enemy. Browne was a business agent of Chicago Stagehands Local 2. He had risen to this job by early on showing willingness to use a blackjack on nonconforming stagehands. As a sideline, Browne sold protection to gentile chicken dealers in the Fulton Market area. When these two met, instead of fighting over territorial rights, they formed a partnership to share equally income derived from whatever source. Their first big score was a $20,000 bribe from the Balaban and Katz Theater operators in lieu of a pay raise for members of Stagehands Local 2. When Frank Nitti, nominal head of the Capone gang with Al Capone in jail for income tax fraud, learned of B&B´s operation, he offered to back Browne for president of the stagehands´ union, the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE). Nitti assured them that a national network of gangsters and hoodlums would guarantee Browne´s election. B&B readily accepted the offer. At IATSE´s convention in June 1934 Nitti´s hoodlums dictated the election of officers to IATSE´s General Executive Board, with Browne ascending to the presidency. Nitti then laid out a master plan to seize control of all Hollywood employees. During these years, Reagan was highly visible about town (Des Moines) working for radio station WHO and escorting pretty girls from the Club Belvedere gambling establishment to various events. He got serious about one, a singer whose big number was Ding Dong Daddy from Dumas, but he went off to Hollywood. In December 1935, Browne, following Nitti´s orders, called a strike of Chicago theaters. Projectionists followed with a threat of a nationwide strike unless film producers gave IATSE jurisdiction over 12,000 film craft workers. The film producers, fearing a strike during the Great Depression, caved into their demands. Suddenly 12,000 film workers had to join IATSE or lose their jobs, so they joined. With this leverage B&B levied a two- percent assessment on IATSE members´ annual earnings, $50 thousand annually from each of the four major motion picture companies and $25 thousand annually from the three minor companies. Nitti dispatched Bioff to Hollywood to run the Hollywood unions while Browne remained in New York as head of IATSE´s International Office. Nitti assigned Chicago nightclub operator, Nick Circella, to watch over Browne and West Coast gangster, Johnny Rosselli, to watch over Bioff. Rosselli went on IATSE´s payroll as compensation for his new duties and coincidentally he was also on the payroll of the film producers´ labor negotiator, Pat Casey. Reagan arrived in Hollywood June 1937 to start his career. His first film, Love is on the Air, had him playing the role of a crusading radio reporter against crime and corruption, a role inconsistent with his lifestyle in Des Moines where he frequented bootlegging and gambling establishments.
About the Christian Right's attempt to impose their religious beliefs on the Nation via political action and to eliminate the "Separation of church and state" as defined by U.S. Supreme Court decisions. The book details Christianity's long, cruel bloody history whenever "Christian" leaders meddled in civic affairs and recent attempts to substitute biblical beliefs for science in public education.
This book will guide you in the use of remote sensing for military and intelligence gathering applications. It is a must read for students working on systems acquisition or for anyone interested in the products derived from remote sensing systems.
With common sense and good humor, Richard Olsen examines both the "outer journeys" and the "inner journeys", making clear throughout that the middle third of peoples' lives--the thirties, forties and fifties--is not the time to bemoan the past but rather to celebrate all that is around us. Olsen points out how readers can use the maturity of midlife to strengthen their personal relationships, maintain and increase their health, and reevaluate their vocational and career goals.
Will America find enough good teachers to staff its public schools? How can we ensure that all our children will be taught by skilled professionals? The policies that determine who teaches today are a confusing and often conflicting array that includes tougher licensing requirements, higher salaries, mandatory master's degrees, merit pay, and alternative routes to certification. Who Will Teach? examines these policies and separates those that work from those that backfire. The authors present an intriguing portrait of America's teachers and reveal who they are, who they have been, and who they will be. Using innovative statistical methods to track the professional lives of more than 50,000 college graduates, the book describes, in many cases for the first time, just how prospective, current, and former teachers respond to the incentives and disincentives they face. The authors, a group of noted educators, economists, and statisticians, find cause for serious concern. Few academically talented college graduates even try teaching, and many of those who do leave quickly, never to return. Current licensing requirements stifle innovation in training and dissuade many potentially talented teachers at the outset. But Who Will Teach? shows that we can reverse these trends if we get the incentives right. Although better salaries are essential, especially for new teachers, money is not enough. Potential teachers should be offered alternative paths into the classroom. School districts should improve their recruiting strategies. Licensing criteria should assess teaching skills, not just academic achievement and number of courses completed. The authors offer a promising strategy based on high standards and substantial rewards.
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