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On a sunny afternoon, Grantham, a retired army officer, cleans his service revolver. Jessica, his younger wife, arrives with tea. But this normal scene changes when the subject of divorce arises and Jessica shoots Grantham. Dotty Aunt Herbacia happily plans the funeral and when Amelia arrives from America she reassures Jessica. But Herbacia has her own plans...3 women, 2 men

A year after the Stonewall riots in New York, the Gay Liberation Front of Washington, D.C., held its first meeting on June 30, 1970.GLF-DC's activities included protests, publications and communal living experiments.Although the group faded quickly, in part because of disorganization and divisiveness about goals, activities and actions, its attendees established openly gay community organizations, including some long-lasting institutions in Washington-Capital Pride, Whitman-Walker Health, the Metropolitan Community Church and Lambda Rising bookstore.The book is based on interviews with more than 50 participants.The first chapter describes Washington in the Mattachine Society era, before GLF.A chapter is devoted to GLF meetings: the heated discussions, especially the division between radical and liberal members, with radicals opposed to war, sexism, racism and homophobia as part of liberationist beliefs, while more liberal members wanted achievable goals such as public education efforts and achieving civil rights; developing a legal case against D.C.'s sodomy law; protests against gay bars that discriminated against women, blacks and others; why women disappeared from meetings; and concerns over the group's failure to attract many blacks.What life was like inside the GLF commune, a mixed-race household that quickly became a meeting place and social hub for GLF: where skag drag was explored, a Christian chapel was established, and consciousness raising groups were encouraged.A chapter describes public GLF actions: distribution of gay literature; a zap on a conference on homosexuality and religion at Catholic University of America; participation in the Black Panther-sponsored Revolutionary People's Constitutional Convention; helping Frank Kameny in his campaign for nonvoting delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives; May Day antiwar activities; and a zap on the convention of the American Psychiatric Association.In a second gay group house, the Skyline Faggots collective: how six men tried a mutually supportive experiment in living according to radical gay principles; their would-be alignment with the separatist women's collective the Furies; their production of an issue of Motive magazine; their conflict with the Venceremos Brigade; and personal attacks from an even more radical collective, the Effeminists.The gay community grows as GLF fades: with organizations and social activities, a demonstration against police entrapment at the Iwo Jima Memorial, visits to local high schools; the first Gay Pride Week; the origins of a standalone gay bookstore, the origins of Whitman-Walker Health in a gay men's VD clinic, the start of the D.C. congregation of the Metropolitan Community Church, and the development of the Gay Men's Counseling Community.

How effective a meeting will be depends on the tone set in the first few minutes...and it's up to the person running it to set that tone. "Quick Meeting Openers for Busy Managers" gives readers the tools, activities, and advice they need to create the kind of open, energetic, and relaxed atmosphere that leads to effective meetings and serious results. Designed to take the anxiety out of meetings and encourage creative and practical discussion, the book contains meeting starters that will help managers, team leaders, and facilitators. For anyone charged with the task of running meetings, this book is the answer.

This guide provides the antidote to the common tendency of conflict, giving managers, team leaders, members, and facilitators the practical support they need to battle “the nice trap” and start getting results.Conflict naturally exists in most organizations--even in those that never make waves. In the case of the more subdued teams, author Brian Miller explains that there’s a much deeper problem going on: the conflict doesn’t go away, but instead it manifests itself in passive-aggression, mediocrity, and a molasses-like inability to get anything done.In Nice Teams Finish Last, you will learn:how to hone skills such as constructive criticism,provide clear and honest communication,and discover how to lean in to the kind of conflict that drives innovation and quality without hurting feelings or creating enemies.Clear, sharp feedback, and constructive challenges are just what teams need to go from NICE to BOLD and reap all the benefits that come with that radical transformation--including more satisfaction with your workplace culture (not less). Complete with helpful team assessments and easy-to-use planning sheets, Nice Teams Finish Last provides the eye-opening tools teams need to achieve very nice results!

Author Brian Miller helps you explore the most effective brainstorming method for your team and generate the best results using straightforward, focused activities that each take less than fifteen minutes to complete.Filled with clear, concise guidance and quick, easily implemented techniques, Quick Brainstorming Activities for Busy Managers provides supervisors, managers, and team leaders the fun, proven activities they need to get idea-packed brainstorming sessions started, and keep them going.You will discover how to:ask questions that provoke responses and inspire creativity;react to and record ideas in a way that encourages participation and prompts more input;sort and categorize lengthy lists;evaluate ideas;and prioritize the most useful concepts and expand on them.Contrary to popular opinion, great brainstorming sessions don’t just happen. For brainstorming to be a truly productive activity, leaders must create the right environment to let employees’ ideas flow. Complete with sample dialogues and well as resources for virtual team brainstorming, Quick Brainstorming Activities for Busy Managers helps you guide your team to generate great ideas.

Eliminate the need for time or resources on formal training and get your teams up and running themselves--with only minutes of prep.Between workplace personnel being more culturally diverse than ever before, a generation of employees being raised attached to technology while avoiding human interaction, and an increasing culture of competitiveness that is constantly raising tensions between cubicles, it has become absolutely essential for managers to focus more on camaraderie and building team spirit.Now in its second edition, Quick Team-Building Activities for Busy Managers addresses the problems that drag down group productivity and helps teams:Collaborate successfullyCope with changeSolve problems togetherCommunicate better despite cultural and generational differencesBoost creativitLeverage diversityNurture healthy competitionEach of the 50 team-building activities in this invaluable resource takes only minutes to prep and uses only everyday office items to get its point across. In just 15 minutes a day, the results will be immediate: sullen teams find sparkle, nervous teams gain confidence, teams of strangers get to know one another.There are even activities to help the virtual team! No one will be left out, and all with leave the activity feeling better about their team and their individual role within it.

This useful resource gives time-pressed managers the proven, practical information they need to help their people accomplish more.All managers want to hold their employees accountable for results, but few know how. Moving far beyond the typical annual performance review, Keeping Employees Accountable for Results provides simple ways to build teams by engaging participants in learning about themselves and their team players. The book gives busy managers quick, step-by-step advice on:Setting expectationsMonitoring progressGiving feedbackFollowing throughLight on theory and heavy on practical application, Keeping Employees Accountable for Results contains checklists, templates, techniques, and other tools to manage performance on an ongoing basis.

Most managers, supervisors, and team leaders realize the importance of team-building, but just can't seem to find the time in their busy schedules. This book provides the solution!More Quick Team-Building Activities for Busy Managers contains 50 all-new exercises that can be conducted in 15 minutes or less, and which require no special facilities, big expense, or previous training experience. Each activity is presented in just a few short pages with all the relevant information including a list of materials needed, the purpose of the exercise, and handy tips for success, all highlighted for easy reference.You will find fun and effective activities for:building new teams and helping teams with new membersfinding creative ways to work together and solve problemsincreasing and improving communicationkeeping competition healthy and productive within the teamdealing with change and its effects: anger, fear, frustrationThe book also includes special guidance for "virtual teams," whose members are in different locations but must work as a unit. For anyone charged with the task of bringing teams together, More Quick Team-Building Activities for Busy Managers is the answer.

"Previous biographers have poorly understood Hood within the culture of his times, but Miller's study is a refreshing look at this important theme. Relying on the perspective of memory studies and the experience of amputees, he adds new dimensions to our understanding of Hood and the Civil War." --Earl J. Hess, author of In the Trenches at Petersburg: Field Fortifications and Confederate Defeat "Miller is particularly strong on the cultivation of Hood's legend as part of the Lost Cause narrative. . . . He has done nice work in areas previously neglected, offering the first new research on Hood to emerge in years." --David Coffey, author of John Bell Hood and the Struggle for Atlanta Some Southern generals, like Lee and Jackson, have stood the test of time, celebrated in their place in history. And then there are generals like John Bell Hood, reviled and ridiculed by generations of Civil War historians as one of the inglorious architects of the Confederate disgrace in the Western Theater. The time has come to rethink this long-held notion, argues Brian Miller, in his comprehensive new biography, John Bell Hood and the Fight for Civil War Memory, and to reassess John Bell Hood as a man, a myth, and a memory. In this first biography of the general in more than twenty years, Miller offers a new, original perspective, directly challenging those historians who have pointed to Hood's perceived personality flaws, his alleged abuse of painkillers, and other unsubstantiated claims as proof of his incompetence as a military leader. This book takes into account Hood's entire life--as a student at West Point, his meteoric rise and fall as a soldier and Civil War commander, and his career as a successful postwar businessman. In many ways, Hood represents a typical southern man, consumed by personal and societal definitions of manhood that were threatened by amputation and preserved and reconstructed by Civil War memory. Miller consults an extensive variety of sources, explaining not only what Hood did but also the environment in which he lived and how it affected him. What emerges is a more nuanced, balanced portrait, unfettered by the one-sided perceptions of previous historical narratives. It gives Hood the fair treatment he has been denied for far too long. By looking at Hood's formative years, his wartime experiences, and his postwar struggles to preserve his good name, this book opens up a provocative new perspective on the life of this controversial figure. Brian Craig Miller is an assistant professor of history at Emporia State University. He is the author of The American Memory: Americans and Their History in 1877.

New Providence Travel, Rhode Island. Atop the confluence of the Providence, Moshassuck and Woonasquatucket Rivers, Rhode Island's capital city offers some of the finest urban strolling in New England: around Brown University's historic campus on 18th-century College Hill, along the landscaped Riverwalk trail, and among downtown's handsome streets and lanes with their hipster-y cafes, art-house theaters, fusion restaurants and trendsetting bars. Once destined to become an industrial relic, Providence's fate was spared when Buddy Cianci, its then controversial two-time mayor, rolled out a plan to revitalize the downtown core by rerouting subterranean rivers, reclaiming land and restoring historic facades. It created a city where history's treasures are integrated into a creative present, not simply memorialized; where three centuries of architectural styles are unified in colorful urban streetscapes that are at once bold, beautiful and cooler than cool.

Improved learning outcomes can only come from our teachers' classrooms. Sequencing and scaffolding is a practical guide to develop and strengthen explicit teaching practices through strategic leadership and thereby make those classroom enhancements achievable. Most teachers will have experienced professional learning processes that have been irrelevant to their needs, have failed to be sustained, have been ignored by colleagues or have simply failed to make any impact on their teaching. The research indicates that up to 80% of professional learning fails to be incorporated in teacher practice in the medium to longer terms. The book's prime focus is to describe and explain the kind of secondary school leadership strategies that make positive classroom reform realistic and achievable by clearly outlining the means to make professional learning relevant, impactful and sustainable. As a 'how to' manual, it translates the 'what and why' of contemporary educational research into the 'how and when' of actual teaching. Through numerous, actual and trialled classroom and school examples, it carefully signposts the methods to enhance instructional leadership capacity of existing and aspiring secondary school executives. Based firmly on the principles of explicit teaching and grounded in the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers and the Australian Professional Standards for Middle Leaders, the textbook melds diverse educational topics such as cognitive science, academic literacy, intellectual quality, Teaching and Learning program and assessment design, evaluating teaching programs based on the research evidence, classroom management, evaluative thinking and informed decision-making processes and the issues surrounding generative AI. The book's main argument is that improved learning outcomes cannot be achieved through pursuing just one element of teaching. You cannot have teaching without assessment; you cannot have curriculum without pedagogy. This is a crucial point for instructional leaders. If teachers are to learn more about the process of teaching and learning, they need to develop a repertoire of ways to address this multiplicity. The book outlines an efficient and respectful way to foster this teacher meta-awareness. These professional practices are contextualised within a single, coherent professional Learning strategy for elevating learning outcomes titled, the Programming and Assessment Renovation Strategy or PARS. The PARS directly contributes to: fostering professional trust relationships that both challenge and respect colleagues identifying, translating and applying research-based strategies for action growing and sustaining teachers' awareness of, and practice in, explicit pedagogy providing a clear, logical, coherent and practical Professional Learning pathway directly aligning coherent Teaching and Learning programs with assessments fostering better-taught and therefore more engaged secondary students improving schools' externally measured performance establishing clear leadership pathways and authenic structured processess that engage and text ideas Each chapter explores a major issue in depth. For example, in examining the reading proficiency issue, the relevant chapter analyses the externally-measured Australian performance trends, summaries the research pertinent to secondary schools and provides two elaborated examples of classroom application that have been shown to produce enhanced student reading performance. The book is fully indexed and has a detailed table of contents for easy access to those specific issues. It contains numerous figures or models to assist staff presentation