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Students

This Is What Niagara Falls Looks Like When It Freezes Over

While gale-force winds, feet of snow, and blizzard bombardments can plunge a winter wonderland into a life-threatening deep freeze, there is an upside to the wintry weather: breathtaking images of the partially frozen Niagara Falls.

Rather than deter tourists, it seems the icy waterfalls are getting people out of their blankets and into their jackets to view the scene.

“The attention the Falls is receiving is bringing a crowd to view them in their majestic, winter splendor!” said Michelle Blackley, communications & community relations manager for the Falls.

The chilly conditions transformed the gush of water into a carpet of snow when temperatures dropped to -8.8°C (16°F) on Wednesday morning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iuZuVqf7jE

Students, Teachers, Training & Conferences

საინტერესო სიტყვები და გამონათქვამები – Eon

What does eon mean?

It is a noun that means an eternity, or an infinite amount of time; forever.

How do you pronounce it?

ē′ən

OR

e·on

Where does it come from?

Eon is a variation of Aeon. It is from the Greek aiōn ‘age’.

How do you use it?

It’s been aeons since I saw a movie at the multiplex.

Glaciers formed eons ago.

Books

Book of the Week: The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

In 1949 four Chinese women-drawn together by the shadow of their past-begin meeting in San Francisco to play Mahjong, invest in stocks, eat dim sum, and “say” stories. They call their gathering the Joy Luck Club. Nearly forty years later, one of the members has died, and her daughter has come to take her place, only to learn of her mother’s lifelong wish-and the tragic way in which it has come true. The revelation of this secret unleashes an urgent need among the women to reach back and remember… In this extraordinary first work of fiction, Amy Tan writes about what is lost-over the years, between generations, among friends-and what is saved. Their stories told within this book ultimately display the double happiness that can be found in being both Chinese and American.

Books

On this day…

Poets, Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath

On this day in 1956, Sylvia Plath meets her future husband, Ted Hughes, at a party in Cambridge, UK. The two poets fell in love at first sight and married four months later.

Plath and Hughes with their child

Her first poetry collection, Colossus, was published in 1960 to favorable reviews. After that, she moved to London and wrote dozens of her best poems in the winter of 1962. Her only novel, The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical account of a college girl who works at a magazine in New York and suffers a breakdown, was published in early 1963, but received mediocre reviews.

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Professionals

8 Steps to Make Things Happen Now in Your Business

Successful people dream, plan and envision what they want in life and business just like anyone else.

The difference between the highly successful and the moderately so, though, is that the former do all they can today to ensure a prosperous tomorrow.

To prevail, be willing to take 100 percent responsibility for your personal and business development and create balance so there’s nothing your future self will regret not having tried.

1. Shape your destiny

Don’t let other people define your purpose. You’re the engineer in charge of designing your business life.

When you become clear about who you are and what you want, you will have seized two of the most important guideposts along your career path.

Many fear assuming responsibility for shaping their destiny and shrink from it. This is one reason why not everyone achieves success at the highest levels.

People in business may go against you and judge you. To succeed, see this as beneficial. These counterforce’s force you to stand up for your beliefs.

2. Embrace change

Many people have poor work habits and not all have the will or fortitude to create healthier and more productive ones.

To look back on your life with pride, start changing unproductive habits now.

Be willing to be in a constant state of change as the unexpected unfolds in business. Change isn’t easy, but to be effective, you must embrace it.

Aim to be the most resilient version of yourself and expect exceptional results. Don’t wait for change to happen. Make it happen.

3. Keep moving

To be highly successful, view disappointments as “business-refinement opportunities.” With the wisdom acquired from letdowns, learn what you need to do to step up to the plate again and take another swing with clearer direction.

Quitting is the easiest way to avoid feeling bad or taking responsibility for frustrations in business. But to be successful and avoid future regret, don’t entertain blame or play the victim. Trust that whatever was lost will be replaced by something good or better and power on.

4. Lead authentically

Don’t waste energy trying to satisfy other people’s perceptions. Just be you.

When you are inauthentic and fake a role of success, you may fail. You will talk too much, be impatient and react negatively in high-pressure situations.

Pursue success not the need to impress. To be highly effective in business, communicate sensitively, directly and intelligently so others can hear you. Learn to listen intently so you can respond intelligently. You will learn more by listening than speaking.

5. Act now

To be successful, act now. Be fluid, risk taking, intuitive and prepared. The more prepared and knowledgeable you are about your business, the less fear you will have about making decisions. If you’re unsure in your knowledge or afraid to lose, you cannot succeed at the highest levels.

Having faith in yourself is integral to taking charge. Many develop different excuses for not taking action. To be successful in business, never assume you have more time than you do. Make every day count.

6. Keep a positive attitude

Just one person’s negative attitude has the power to reverberate throughout a business like an infection. Don’t be tolerant of negative attitudes: your own or others’.

Choose team members, employees and bosses wisely so you won’t later regret about not having safeguarded your business from toxic attitudes.

Select personal relationships wisely as well, as those will undoubtedly spill into your business life, influencing your attitude and focus.

7. Expect uncertainty

Business is fluid, so anticipate uncertainty at every turn. Make yourself adaptable to changing circumstances to secure existing opportunities and be open to new ones you might have missed by remaining rigid.

It’s wasteful to struggle with what you cannot control: Identify such areas in your business, accept them and tap other resources to find fresh ways to proceed.

For your success to blossom, be willing to consistently reinterpret your ideas, thoughts, plans and goals. Embrace not always knowing what will happen next.

8. Be healthy

It’s easy to get caught up in a fast-paced life and forget to care for the machine you live in. To be successful at the highest levels, don’t underestimate the value of good nutrition, exercise and rest. Your brain is the greatest computer you have and directly affected by what you ingest, exercise and the restorative powers of sleep.

When you care for your health, you are supplied with the necessary energy and focus for building your wealth, personally and professionally.

In conclusion, know that you alone are responsible for your success. Don’t expect others to build your business for you. Otherwise someone will take over and take you under. There’s no room in the house of success for complacency or remaining stuck too long.

If you spend too much time dreaming, planning or making others responsible but not leading your own way, you won’t arrive at the heights of business expansion desired. Don’t settle for average. Run a highly successful business.

High-achieving businesspeople are well-rounded focused individuals who care for their personal life ensuring it’s healthy so as to immerse themselves in their business and design it for prosperity.

These people are doers. They do not wait behind ideas they hope will materialize. They see what they want and are the architects of their business goals and ventures. They live without regret not putting off for tomorrow what can be done today.

Students, Teachers, Training & Conferences

საინტერესო სიტყვები და გამონათქვამები – Don’t bite the hand that feeds you

“Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.”

What does it mean?

If someone’s paying you or helping you out, you have to be careful not to make them angry or say bad things about them. Don’t turn on someone who has supported you spiritually or physically.

Where does it come from?

It was used about 600 b.c. by the Greek poet Sappho, this metaphor of a dog biting its master was first recorded in English in 1711.

Books

Which Book Would You Read?

 The Grapes of Wrath

Author: John Steinbeck

ISBN: 9780230031050

The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized—and sometimes outraged—millions of readers.

First published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads—driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into Haves and Have-Nots evolves a drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision, elemental yet plainspoken, tragic but ultimately stirring in its human dignity. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man’s fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman’s stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. At once a naturalistic epic, captivity narrative, road novel, and transcendental gospel, Steinbeck’s powerful landmark novel is perhaps the most American of American Classics.

 

Les Misérables

Author: Victor Hugo

ISBN: 9780194794404

One of the most widely read novels of all time, Les Misérables was the crowning literary achievement of Victor Hugo’s stunning career. Though he was considered the greatest French writer of his day, Hugo was forced to flee the country because of his opposition to Napoleon III. While in exile he completed Les Misérables, an enormous melodrama set against the background of political upheaval in France following the rule of Napoleon I.

Les Misérables tells the story of the peasant Jean Valjean—unjustly imprisoned, baffled by destiny, and hounded by his nemesis, the magnificently realized, ambiguously malevolent police detective Javert. As Valjean struggles to redeem his past, we are thrust into the teeming underworld of Paris with all its poverty, ignorance, and suffering. Just as cruel tyranny threatens to extinguish the last vestiges of hope, rebellion sweeps over the land like wildfire, igniting a vast struggle for the democratic ideal in France.

A monumental classic dedicated to the oppressed, the underdog, the laborer, the rebel, the orphan, and the misunderstood, Les Misérables is a rich, emotional novel that captures nothing less than the entirety of life in nineteenth-century France.

Corporate, Teachers, Training & Conferences

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Books

Theme of the Week: Celebrating Authors of February

This week we celebrate authors of the past and present who had birthdays in the month of February. Check them out below.

(Top L-R) Amy Tan, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Wilhelm Grimm, Charles Lamb, Johnston McCulley (Bottom L-R) Jules Verne, John Steinbeck, Victor Hugo, Susan Hill, James Joyce

James Joyce   

(February 2, 1882 – January 13, 1941)

Joyce was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century. He is best known for Ulysses (1922), a landmark work in which the episodes of Homer’s Odyssey are paralleled in an array of contrasting literary styles, perhaps most prominent among these the stream of consciousness technique he utilized. Other well-known works are the short-story collection Dubliners (1914), and the novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916).

James Joyce

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Johnston McCulley  

(February 2, 1883 – November 23, 1958)

was the author of hundreds of stories, fifty novels, numerous screenplays for film and television, and the creator of the character Zorro.

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Robert Coover    

(February 4, 1932 –   )

Coover is an American author and professor emeritus in the Literary Arts program at Brown University. He is generally considered a writer of fabulation and metafiction. He is most noted for the Romance of the Thin Man and the Fat Lady.

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Susan Hill   

(February 5, 1942 –   )

Hill is an English author of fiction and non-fiction works. Her most noted novel is The Woman in Black which was turned into a film in 2012. She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2012 Birthday Honours for services to literature.

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Laura Ingalls Wilder    

(February 7, 1867 – February 10, 1957)

Wilder was an American writer, most notably the author of the Little House on the Prairie books of children’s novels based on her childhood in a settler family. Her daughter encouraged her to write and helped her to edit and publish the novels.

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Jules Verne     

(February 8, 1828 – March 24, 1905)

Verne was a French novelist, poet, and playwright best known for his adventure novels and his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction. One of his most popular books is Around the World in Eighty Days.

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Charles Lamb

(February 10, 1775 – December 27, 1834)

Lamb was an English writer and essayist, best known for the children’s book Tales from Shakespeare, which he produced with his sister, Mary Lamb.

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Amy Tan      

(February 19, 1952 –   )

Tan is an American writer whose works explore mother-daughter relationships and the Chinese-American experience. Her best-known work is The Joy Luck Club, which has been translated into 35 languages. In 1993, the book was adapted into a commercially successful film.

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Jonathan Safran Foer     

(February 21, 1977 –   )

Safran Foer is an American writer. He is best known for his novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005) which was adapted into a film in 2011.

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Wilhelm Grimm   

(February 24, 1786 – December 16, 1859)

Grimm was a German author, the younger of the Brothers Grimm. He is best known for writing, with his brother, Grimm’s Fairy Tales.

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Victor Hugo  

(February 26, 1802 – May 22, 1885)

Hugo was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. He is considered one of the greatest and best known French writers. In France, Hugo’s literary fame comes first from his poetry but also rests upon his novels and his dramatic achievements. Outside France, his best-known work is the acclaimed novel Les Misérables (1862).

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John Steinbeck   

(February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968)

Steinbeck was an American author of twenty-seven books, including sixteen novels, six non-fiction books, and five collections of short stories. The Pulitzer Prize-winning The Grapes of Wrath (1939), widely attributed to be part of the American literary canon, is considered Steinbeck’s masterpiece. In the first 75 years since it was published, it sold 14 million copies.

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