I gem 2012 design competition design team 4 proposalpittus23
The document proposes expressing the li16 gene from wood frogs in E. coli to study its antifreeze protein Li16. Li16 increases in wood frogs after freezing and may help freezing survival. The team will obtain li16, express it in E. coli, and test the effects on freezing using ice recrystallization assays and freeze tolerance tests. Isolated Li16 protein will then be applied to crops to study effects on freezing preservation. Challenges include obtaining li16 and ensuring proper folding in E. coli.
This document discusses cell movement during amphibian gastrulation. It begins by introducing gastrulation and how it establishes the three germ layers and body plan. There are a few basic types of cell movement during gastrulation: invagination, involution, ingression, delamination, and epiboly. The document then focuses on amphibian gastrulation, noting that bottle cells first sink in and the blastopore forms opposite the sperm entry point. Involution begins dorsally and the mesoderm enters through the expanding blastopore lip through the end of gastrulation.
The document summarizes the human excretory system. It describes that excretion removes nitrogenous waste from the body while defecation removes undigested waste. It then discusses the different forms of nitrogenous waste excreted by different organisms - ammonia, uric acid, and urea. The document outlines the major components of the human urinary system including the kidneys, ureters, urinary bladder, and urethra. It provides details on kidney structure, nephron structure, and the processes of ultrafiltration, tubular reabsorption, and tubular secretion involved in urine formation. Hormonal control of urine formation by ADH and aldosterone is also summarized.
This document shares lessons that can be learned from observing geese flying in a V formation. It discusses how flying together makes the journey easier by reducing wind resistance. It encourages sharing leadership, helping others in need, finding strength in unity, and supporting each other through difficult times as well as good. Working as a team allows individuals and groups to achieve more.
I gem 2012 design competition design team 4 proposalpittus23
The document proposes expressing the li16 gene from wood frogs in E. coli to study its antifreeze protein Li16. Li16 increases in wood frogs after freezing and may help freezing survival. The team will obtain li16, express it in E. coli, and test the effects on freezing using ice recrystallization assays and freeze tolerance tests. Isolated Li16 protein will then be applied to crops to study effects on freezing preservation. Challenges include obtaining li16 and ensuring proper folding in E. coli.
This document discusses cell movement during amphibian gastrulation. It begins by introducing gastrulation and how it establishes the three germ layers and body plan. There are a few basic types of cell movement during gastrulation: invagination, involution, ingression, delamination, and epiboly. The document then focuses on amphibian gastrulation, noting that bottle cells first sink in and the blastopore forms opposite the sperm entry point. Involution begins dorsally and the mesoderm enters through the expanding blastopore lip through the end of gastrulation.
The document summarizes the human excretory system. It describes that excretion removes nitrogenous waste from the body while defecation removes undigested waste. It then discusses the different forms of nitrogenous waste excreted by different organisms - ammonia, uric acid, and urea. The document outlines the major components of the human urinary system including the kidneys, ureters, urinary bladder, and urethra. It provides details on kidney structure, nephron structure, and the processes of ultrafiltration, tubular reabsorption, and tubular secretion involved in urine formation. Hormonal control of urine formation by ADH and aldosterone is also summarized.
This document shares lessons that can be learned from observing geese flying in a V formation. It discusses how flying together makes the journey easier by reducing wind resistance. It encourages sharing leadership, helping others in need, finding strength in unity, and supporting each other through difficult times as well as good. Working as a team allows individuals and groups to achieve more.
A session about the importance of knowledge management from Dr Madhukar. This was presented in the Whatfix Inspire series where external experts are invited to speak about an impactful topic.
Users are People Too Adobe Max PresentationMeagan Fisher
Too often we create brands, experiences, and content that sacrifice humanity on the altar of conversion optimization. Join this session as we explore how to make our web and mobile experiences feel less like a business transaction and more like a conversation through human-oriented brand, marketing, and experience design.
Creative director, user advocate, and designer Meagan Fisher will share techniques that will help you honor the humanity of users through empathy-driven design and content.
It's Stories All the Way Down: Spectrum 2016Mark Baker
There is a growing appreciation of the importance of story in all forms of communication, but there is still a tendency to think of story as something distinct from fact, a kind of decoration on top of the basic communication of facts. This presentation argues that the distinction is false, that it is really stories all the way down, and that it is when we forget the every phrase and every sentence invokes a story, that we fail to communicate effectively.
Douglas Land presents the concept of blameless system design, which aims to remove fear from system failures and improvements by assuming good faith, conducting blameless post-mortems, promoting empathy, experimentation, honesty, and communication. The goal is to change an organization's culture away from retribution by encouraging openness, risk-taking, and shared learning from failures and successes. However, changing culture is challenging work that requires buy-in from leadership and a willingness to accept uncertainty.
Talk given in March 2013 at Dublin City Public Libraries as part of their public lecture series on career development. Prepared and delivered by John Deely BA MSc, Occupational Psychologist with Pinpoint (www.pinpoint.ie)
Making Business Human: Delivering Great Experiences in a Connected AgePeter Merholz
Slides from my talk at IA Summit 2012. Won't make much sense of you were there.
In it, I discuss how business must engage in humanist practices and values in this messy and complex Connected Age.
10 Sample Research Paper Proposal Template - SampAngie Lee
This essay discusses Faith Ringgold's artwork, which appropriates imagery and artistic practices to comment on social issues like gender and racial expectations. Her story quilts combine painted canvases depicting historical scenes with fabric borders containing her written messages. This format draws on African storytelling traditions and women's craft of quilt making. Ringgold's quilts challenge history by including women and people of color, provoking consideration of underrepresented groups.
This document outlines how to create a global brand voice strategy. It discusses researching customers, competitors, stakeholders and writers to understand different perspectives. It recommends establishing guidelines that define the brand character through attributes, principles and writing style. The process takes 6-12 weeks with a core team in key regions. Guidelines are refined through team practice and education to ensure consistent brand voice globally.
The document discusses the importance of overcoming apathy towards new ideas and giving ideas attention in order to help them succeed. It states that developing great ideas is not enough - one must devote significant time, creativity and energy to promoting the ideas and overcoming people's tendency towards complacency. The document introduces The Gnu Guy as someone who can help keep ideas growing and relevant by fighting for ideas to be given a chance.
Storytelling is an effective communication tool that can inspire change. It allows leaders to convey ideas in a memorable way and give audiences new perspectives. Leaders can use different types of stories to achieve goals like igniting action, fostering collaboration, or building their brand. Effective stories are simple, unexpected, concrete, credible, emotional, and told in a narrative format. Storyboarding is a useful tool to plan out stories and ensure they will stick with the audience by following principles like simplicity and emotions.
This document provides an itinerary for an entrepreneurship event hosted by Unstoppables in exotic global locations. The itinerary outlines activities over multiple days including workshops on disruptive technology, peer learning sessions, adventure activities, and networking events. The goal is to foster collaboration and bring together entrepreneurs to spark new business ideas and opportunities in a challenging environment that pushes participants outside their comfort zones.
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Barack Obama delivered an electrifying and historic speech on election night 2008 that resonated powerfully with audiences. The speech was masterfully crafted, building momentum through techniques like repetition, dramatic imagery, contrast, anecdotes, and rhetoric. Obama referenced inclusion, promises, and slogans to relate his message back to the campaign. While not everyone is called to give historic speeches, anyone can learn from Obama's exemplary speech design and presentation skills with training and practice.
7/17/14: Whitney Meers on StorytellingTechfestClub
Storytelling: It's a trendy buzzword, but what does it really mean? Whitney Meers joins us this month to discuss why storytelling matters and tactics to weave into your product and marketing.
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How to Make a Product Vision a Reality by HSBC Senior PMProduct School
Main takeaways:
-Show the way and have followers
-Earn trust with honesty and low ego
-Architect for scale or expect production gremlins
-Go deep, go wide and un-learn a lot
-Get good at being good
A session about the importance of knowledge management from Dr Madhukar. This was presented in the Whatfix Inspire series where external experts are invited to speak about an impactful topic.
Users are People Too Adobe Max PresentationMeagan Fisher
Too often we create brands, experiences, and content that sacrifice humanity on the altar of conversion optimization. Join this session as we explore how to make our web and mobile experiences feel less like a business transaction and more like a conversation through human-oriented brand, marketing, and experience design.
Creative director, user advocate, and designer Meagan Fisher will share techniques that will help you honor the humanity of users through empathy-driven design and content.
It's Stories All the Way Down: Spectrum 2016Mark Baker
There is a growing appreciation of the importance of story in all forms of communication, but there is still a tendency to think of story as something distinct from fact, a kind of decoration on top of the basic communication of facts. This presentation argues that the distinction is false, that it is really stories all the way down, and that it is when we forget the every phrase and every sentence invokes a story, that we fail to communicate effectively.
Douglas Land presents the concept of blameless system design, which aims to remove fear from system failures and improvements by assuming good faith, conducting blameless post-mortems, promoting empathy, experimentation, honesty, and communication. The goal is to change an organization's culture away from retribution by encouraging openness, risk-taking, and shared learning from failures and successes. However, changing culture is challenging work that requires buy-in from leadership and a willingness to accept uncertainty.
Talk given in March 2013 at Dublin City Public Libraries as part of their public lecture series on career development. Prepared and delivered by John Deely BA MSc, Occupational Psychologist with Pinpoint (www.pinpoint.ie)
Making Business Human: Delivering Great Experiences in a Connected AgePeter Merholz
Slides from my talk at IA Summit 2012. Won't make much sense of you were there.
In it, I discuss how business must engage in humanist practices and values in this messy and complex Connected Age.
10 Sample Research Paper Proposal Template - SampAngie Lee
This essay discusses Faith Ringgold's artwork, which appropriates imagery and artistic practices to comment on social issues like gender and racial expectations. Her story quilts combine painted canvases depicting historical scenes with fabric borders containing her written messages. This format draws on African storytelling traditions and women's craft of quilt making. Ringgold's quilts challenge history by including women and people of color, provoking consideration of underrepresented groups.
This document outlines how to create a global brand voice strategy. It discusses researching customers, competitors, stakeholders and writers to understand different perspectives. It recommends establishing guidelines that define the brand character through attributes, principles and writing style. The process takes 6-12 weeks with a core team in key regions. Guidelines are refined through team practice and education to ensure consistent brand voice globally.
The document discusses the importance of overcoming apathy towards new ideas and giving ideas attention in order to help them succeed. It states that developing great ideas is not enough - one must devote significant time, creativity and energy to promoting the ideas and overcoming people's tendency towards complacency. The document introduces The Gnu Guy as someone who can help keep ideas growing and relevant by fighting for ideas to be given a chance.
Storytelling is an effective communication tool that can inspire change. It allows leaders to convey ideas in a memorable way and give audiences new perspectives. Leaders can use different types of stories to achieve goals like igniting action, fostering collaboration, or building their brand. Effective stories are simple, unexpected, concrete, credible, emotional, and told in a narrative format. Storyboarding is a useful tool to plan out stories and ensure they will stick with the audience by following principles like simplicity and emotions.
This document provides an itinerary for an entrepreneurship event hosted by Unstoppables in exotic global locations. The itinerary outlines activities over multiple days including workshops on disruptive technology, peer learning sessions, adventure activities, and networking events. The goal is to foster collaboration and bring together entrepreneurs to spark new business ideas and opportunities in a challenging environment that pushes participants outside their comfort zones.
Navigating Your Career in Cyber Security - Steve Santini & Drew FearsonChristopher Clark
Veteran cybersecurity executive Steve Santini, Founding Partner and Managing Director at Cyber Intersections Group and host Drew Fearson, Chief Operating Officer at NinjaJobs discuss how to steer your career, get noticed as a problem solver, and develop your skills and network in this 60-minute webinar, "Navigating Career Change"
Barack Obama delivered an electrifying and historic speech on election night 2008 that resonated powerfully with audiences. The speech was masterfully crafted, building momentum through techniques like repetition, dramatic imagery, contrast, anecdotes, and rhetoric. Obama referenced inclusion, promises, and slogans to relate his message back to the campaign. While not everyone is called to give historic speeches, anyone can learn from Obama's exemplary speech design and presentation skills with training and practice.
7/17/14: Whitney Meers on StorytellingTechfestClub
Storytelling: It's a trendy buzzword, but what does it really mean? Whitney Meers joins us this month to discuss why storytelling matters and tactics to weave into your product and marketing.
I reflect on how info pros can best leverage our skills and expertise while addressing the often radically changed needs and expectations of our organizations. Presented at the Rocky Mountain SLA 2021 Mini-Conference.
How to Make a Product Vision a Reality by HSBC Senior PMProduct School
Main takeaways:
-Show the way and have followers
-Earn trust with honesty and low ego
-Architect for scale or expect production gremlins
-Go deep, go wide and un-learn a lot
-Get good at being good
How to Make a Product Vision a Reality by HSBC Senior PM
Blink2012b
1. Welcome Senior CCs
Loralyn Cropper
Senior Community Counselor
MarkeTeam Leader
Wilton and Weston, CT
lledwell@aol.com
203-280-3446
2. Trusting Our Experience
Decisions made very
quickly can be every bit
as good as decisions
made cautiously and
deliberately.
3. Do you use your experience as a
selling tool?
Review how to trust your intuition when interviewing
families and helping a family match.
How to offer your experience as an advantage when
speaking to new families and attracting new ones!
Your experiences as a “selling tool.”
4. t: 203.280.3446
e: lledwell@aol.com
Read my blog: http://blogs.aupairinamerica.com/midfairfieldcounty/
Listening to our
Powerful
“On Board” computers
“Thin slicing refers to the ability of our
unconscious to find patters in situations and
behavior based on very narrow slices of
experiences.” (p. 23)
Theory of “Thin Slicing”: Make sophisticated
judgements in complex situations in a short
amount of time.
5. t: 203.280.3446
e: lledwell@aol.com
Read my blog: http://blogs.aupairinamerica.com/midfairfieldcounty/
Huge Database at our
fingertips!
What makes us SO GOOD at what we do!
But do we let our new customers know?
6. t: 203.280.3446
e: lledwell@aol.com
Read my blog: http://blogs.aupairinamerica.com/midfairfieldcounty/
What exactly is our
inventory?
Formula:
#of yrs x Avg. # of families=number of matches
Ex: 5 yrs x 25 families = 100 matches
Help with matching:
#of yrs x Avg. # of families x 5=number of applications
7. Experience is a our gift!
“Snap judgements are, first of all, enormously
quick and they rely on the thinnest slice of
experience.” (p. 50)
Numerous years have built a database in our
unconscious.
“I can help you with every aspect of the
process, from matching, to the ups and
downs of the program”
8. Experience is an
advantage!
“The gift of training and expertise-the ability to
extract an ENORMOUS amount of
information in the thinnest slice of
experience” (p.241)
9. Trusting yourself &
Let the office know
• Trust your instincts because if you get a
“feeling” that a family isn’t right, it is important
to listen to it.
• Important to speak to your Program Manager
if you “get a feeling”.
• Prefer future ambassdors of the
program….wrong people can really make
things messy for yourself.
10. Caution….how our “snap decisions can go awry…
Amadou Diallou and Seven Seconds in the Bronx..
11. Don’t go on “automatic pilot”..
BUT
GO back to basics…listen to the customer (80/20
rule).
Balancing our “on board computer of information”
with listening…
12. Remember it maybe be the first time for a family
to have live in childcare….
Our challenge: balance listening with our expertise
13. “Every moment, every -“Blink” -is composed of
discrete moving parts (verbal, non verbal cues)
that offers an opportunity for invention and
understanding.” (p. 241)
14. Hope you can now present
YOUR advantage to NEW
customers!