Room for Improvement

by Martyn Steel

This volume is offered to readers as a series of personal and random reminiscences and reflectionssometimes rambling, sometimes serious, and sometimes more lighthearted.

Room for Improvement

Author: Martyn Steel

Publisher: Xlibris UK

ISBN: 9781543488814

Page: 112

View: 940

This volume is offered to readers as a series of personal and random reminiscences and reflectionssometimes rambling, sometimes serious, and sometimes more lighthearted. The book contains a number of cameos spanning fifty-seven years, a number that is of particular significance in my life. Sorry to keep you in suspense; perhaps in the next book, all will be revealed!

Room for Improvement

by John Casey

... "What was your time?" I shaved off the twenty-five minutes I'd taken for lunch at
mile twenty-four. I said, "Ten hours." The distance runner barked a laugh and said
, "Room for improvement." My student was embarrassed. I thought it was funny.

Room for Improvement

Author: John Casey

Publisher: Vintage

ISBN: 0307701352

Page: 256

View: 205

From the author of the novel Spartina, which won the National Book Award and has established itself as a modern classic, comes a collection of essays that describe with tenderhearted candor and humor a lifetime’s worth of addiction. No, not an addiction to booze or drugs, but an addiction to a more natural gratification: the joy of sport, exercise, and the sheer elation of being ready and willing to say yes to a challenge. Want to run a marathon? OK. Climb Mount Katahdin? Sure! How about canoeing the entire length of the Delaware River? Why not? Spanning more than fifty years of ambitious and sometimes peculiar endeavors, these essays take us along on some of Casey’s greatest adventures: a twenty-six-day Outward Bound course in Maine during the dead of winter; being pinned by a two-hundred-pound judo instructor whose words, “Come on, white boy. Don’t give up,” encourage at least one more attempt at escape; leading a lost couple on a yacht through the rocky waterways of Narragansett Bay by a simple rowboat; and completing—on his seventieth birthday—a 70K marathon of his own devising that included rowing, bicycling, skating, Rollerblading, and finally, trotting the dog out for a mile. Be it a preoccupation with health, vanity, or just an indomitably playful sense of adventure, John Casey’s Room for Improvement is a joyful self-portrait of a writer who loves going to extremes, just to find out what it’s like once he gets there. From the Hardcover edition.

Room for Improvement

by Barbara Kavovit

Doors are pretty simple — usually a rectangular panel of some kind of material (
wood, fiberglass) that helps us access buildings and rooms and close off closets
or other storage areas. I think doors are a neglected part of a room — people ...

Room for Improvement

Author: Barbara Kavovit

Publisher: Rodale

ISBN: 9781594861338

Page: 304

View: 109

The home improvement entrepreneur shares her philosophy of home improvement as she furnishes the information, inspiration, and methods on how to fix everything, with detailed instructions on how to cope with a range of everyday household emergencies, as well as a host of do-it-yourself projects to help women enhance their personal surroundings. Original. 100,000 first printing.

Room For Improvement

by Stacey Ballis

Room for improvement / Stacey Ballis. p. cm. eISBN : 9780425209820 1. Women
interior decorators—Fiction. 2. Chicago (Ill.)—Fiction. 3. Reality television
programs—Fiction. I. Title. PS3602.A624R66 2006 813'.6—dc22 2006041780 ...

Room For Improvement

Author: Stacey Ballis

Publisher: Penguin

ISBN: 9781440624827

Page: 304

View: 314

Stacey Ballis tackles home improvement and reality TV—and reminds us that sometimes life and love are better left unscripted… What do you get when you give two hopeful singles fashion consultants and interior designers, allow them four days to perk up each other’s homes and get a total style overhaul, then let their single friends celebrate the results at a fabulous party? You get Swap/Meet, the newest reality show on the network block, where major changes are either embraced or embarrassing—and Lily Allen’s dream job turned nightmare. At first, Lily was thrilled to appear on Swap/Meet. What better way for a Chicago interior designer to promote her business and enjoy some pseudo-celebrity? She just didn’t think she’d be doing take after take with the ditzy host, dodging sabotage attempts, and getting caught in the middle of the fashion czars’ lovers’ spat. Plus, the cute, curmudgeonly carpenter on her team knows just how to push her buttons. Episode by episode, through do-it-yourself disasters and matchmaking miracles, Lily discovers that a little bit of controlled chaos is the spice of life—and love…

Room for Improvement

by Amy Zalneraitis

I used to have a roommate named Amanda who never cleaned the bathroom
because she said she was never taught the proper way to scour that particular
room. “My mother never made me do it,” was her excuse. “I don't know how to.”
When ...

Room for Improvement

Author: Amy Zalneraitis

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

ISBN: 9781416959267

Page: 256

View: 522

If you've ever lived with a roommate, you're all too familiar with the dark side of splitting rent: your favorite lipstick mysteriously gone missing, dishes left "soaking" in the sink for a week, and far-too-intimate noises coming from the adjacent bedroom as you desperately try to sleep. But roommate resentment doesn't have to become a pattern. A comprehensive and sassy guide to roommate living for post-college women, Room for Improvement explains how a little cooperation can lead to smoother cohabitation. Harnessing her own and others' experiences, Amy Zalneraitis delivers essential roommate dos and don'ts, hilarious (and often horrifying) anecdotes, and invaluable tips from experts, and covers such sanity-saving topics as: Checks and Imbalances: Keeping Financial Friction at Bay Idiosyncrasies or Idiosyncrazies? There's Eccentric, and Then There's Psychotic Dust Bunnies Are Not Real Pets: What to Do with a Filthy Roommate Is That My Underwear You're Wearing? Sharing Clothes Without Exchanging Blows ...and much, much more. Candid and laugh-out-loud funny, Room for Improvement will help you iron out existing roommate problems, prevent future ones, and, just as important, spot and address bad roommate behavior in yourself.

Room for Improvement

by Grant Watson

Accompanying this are texts by the curators and the museum s director, plus transcriptions of conversations between the participants, and ongoing discussion at CAIR.

Room for Improvement

Author: Grant Watson

Publisher:

ISBN:

Page: 40

View: 594

Room for Improvement was a workshop that took place over four weeks at the Crafts Museum in New Delhi and brought together six leading artists and craftsmen from India and the UK. The Museum provided an unusually rich context for an experimental workshop where a loosely affiliated group of artists and craftsmen could make new work including an installation of refuse from the museum and its surroundings by Tomoko Takahashi, surreal, large scale wall drawings by Valsan Koomer Kolleri, and a series of cartoons depicting the artists at work by Kalam Patua, made in the 19th Century Kalighat tradition. Accompanying this are texts by the curators and the museum s director, plus transcriptions of conversations between the participants, and ongoing discussion at CAIR.

Accounts and Papers

by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords

Girls remarkably neat and clean , Room for improvement in the discipline and
instruction of the boys . Girls taught the Scriptures well . The elder ones learn the
Thirty - Nine Articles . Mistress appears to take pains , with intelligence , in the
right ...

Accounts and Papers

Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords

Publisher:

ISBN:

Page:

View: 847

Impact assessments in the EU

by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: European Union Committee

This inquiry was launched in summer 2009 in order to investigate the progress of the EU Better Regulation agenda.

Impact assessments in the EU

Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: European Union Committee

Publisher: The Stationery Office

ISBN: 9780108459542

Page: 100

View: 402

This inquiry was launched in summer 2009 in order to investigate the progress of the EU Better Regulation agenda. The agenda has been running since 2005 with the aim of cutting red tape, reducing administrative burdens and improving the legislative process by means of impact assessment. In January 2009, new Impact Assessment Guidelines were issued, which, among other things, introduced the inclusion of an "SME test", that is, an assessment of the particular impact any likely legislation would have on small businesses, to the standard Commission impact assessment. This report focuses to a large extent on the impact assessment process, in particular how IAs are produced, the role of the Impact Assessment Board in monitoring their quality, and their subsequent use by the European Institutions. The intention of this report is to take the views of various stakeholders in EU better regulation and to suggest areas where further examination might be necessary. It does seem to be the case that the Council of Ministers and the European Parliament are not making as full use of impact assessments as they might. Certain other areas have been highlighted where the situation is unclear and further investigation might be warranted. These include the conformity of IAs to the Guidelines, the production and use of IAs on comitology proposals, the adequacy of consultation exercises in the preparation of assessments, whether the SME test is working and the use of ex-post evaluation

Points of View

by R. A. Vowles

These poems are an insight into the close knit communities that form the Welsh psyche.

Points of View

Author: R. A. Vowles

Publisher: iUniverse

ISBN: 1440114293

Page:

View: 638

These poems are an insight into the close knit communities that form the Welsh psyche. The sense of loss when a a neighbour dies, the dry humour of the Working Mens Clubs, the strength of family ties. Most but not least the strong communty spirit that still exists, despite everything.

Appraisal and Feedback

by Clive Fletcher

Nor does it say anything about the quality of the training. On both these criteria
there is great room for improvement. One of the main failings of appraisal training
in the past has been the emphasis on the procedure and paperwork, rather than
 ...

Appraisal and Feedback

Author: Clive Fletcher

Publisher: CIPD Publishing

ISBN: 9781843980292

Page: 183

View: 620

Do your line managers use performance review as a powerful management tool or do they regard it as a pointless form filling exercise to be ticked off and forgotten for another six months? A properly designed and managed appraisal process is the most efficient, and cost effective, means of identifying and managing employees' performance and development needs. It is also the best way you have of focusing employees on those activities that will deliver the greatest impact on your business. With its combination of practical 'hands on' experience and research, Clive Fletcher's book has long been regarded as the leading work on the subject. This third edition has been thoroughly revised and includes two new chapters on 360 degree appraisal and developing challenges in applying performance review. Fletcher has delivered a master class in making appraisal work. If you want an appraisal system that will deliver results - read this book.

Assistance to Forestry Experiences and Potential for Improvement

by Reidar Persson

There is, therefore, little room for receiving countries to modify the approach.' • 'It
is now almost engraved ...that projects are simply a source of money and prestige
. People now take it for granted that without aid, no work can be done.' • 'Donors ...

Assistance to Forestry Experiences and Potential for Improvement

Author: Reidar Persson

Publisher: CIFOR

ISBN: 9793361158

Page: 120

View: 141

Forestry assistance in perspective. The setting. Discussion of successes and failures. Problems with forestry assistance. Some general points concerning development assistance. Why is existing knowledge not used? Some points to consider when discussing changes in forestry assistance. Some concrete proposals.

Superintendent Performance Evaluation Current Practice and Directions for Improvement

by I. Carl Candoli

There is little room for conflict of interest when using the portfolio model. • This
model uses multiple sources of data. • The evaluation serves to delineate board/
superintendent roles. • This model provides a useful basis for board/
superintendent ...

Superintendent Performance Evaluation Current Practice and Directions for Improvement

Author: I. Carl Candoli

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

ISBN: 9401153566

Page: 289

View: 787

Every school district needs a system of sound superintendent performance evaluation. School district superintendents are and must be accountable to their school boards, communities, faculties, and students for delivering effective educational leadership. To assure that they are evaluated fairly, competently, and functionally, superintendents need to help their school boards plan and implement evaluation systems that adhere to the evaluation standards. Superintendent Performance Evaluation outlines some of the problems and deficiencies in current evaluation practice and offers professionally-based leads for strengthening or replacing superintendent performance evaluation systems. This book focuses on the on-the-job performance of school district superintendents as they implement school board policy. The decision to focus on performance evaluation reflects the importance of this kind of evaluation in the move to raise educational standards and improve educational accountability. Boards and superintendents are advised to make superintendent performance evaluation an integral part of the district's larger system for evaluating district needs, plans, processes, and accomplishments.