Elizabeth T. Gray Jr.’s After the Operation reports from the No Man’s Land she wandered following eight hours of surgery to remove a brain tumor. What does the mind feel like after something has been taken out of your skull?  “An uninhabited coast,” or “all shatter and thoroughfare?” These spare poems interweave medical documents, journal entries, and memories, assembling a polyvocal chorus to document the surgery itself and the recuperation process. The decentralized perspective of After the Operation allows the reader to see the procedure holistically—medically, from the doctor’s perspective; subjectively, from the author’s; and vicariously, from her caretakers’, family’s, and friends’—while approximating the disassociation the patient feels as she navigates unexpected cognitive and emotional side effects. Sometimes bleak but always gorgeous, After the Operation does us a great service in illuminating and articulating the complexities of a serious medical event. This tangible chronicle of Gray’s terror, isolation, bafflement, desolation, love, loss, relief and gratitude serves as a beacon for all of us who will one day, as Susan Sontag says, find ourselves dwelling in “the kingdom of the sick.” Gray makes valiant use of her citizenship there, asking, “When they come for you, when the unfamiliar roar comes, and a sudden opening, and light pours in, when what had kept you safe, what had always been, is breached, pried open, and light pours in, what do you want to have been writing then?” After the Operation is her triumphant answer. 
 

Integrating intermittent distributed generation, distributed storage systems, electric vehicles, and flexible loads will present security, stability, and power quality challenges in future smart grids. The amount of data to be processed to face these issues can overwhelm grid operation tools and conventional IT-based applications, limiting situational awareness and decision support. Decentralized and self-organizing technologies can help with that problem. In a self-organizing system, information processing is based on local interactions of its elementary parts (dynamic agents), enabling the cooperative solution of complex decision-making problems by only requiring local information exchange without needing a fusion center for data collection and processing.

Summer Sports Camps 101: A Guidebook for Development and Operation is a comprehensive manual that will take the reader through all of the administrative nuances of creating and operating a summer sports camp. Funding, for the majority of athletic programs, is one of the most (if not the most) consequential element for administrators and coaches. With the limited amount of resource dollars available and ever-rising expenses, athletic programs have to make difficult financial decisions, which can have long-lasting ramifications on all of the organization's teams and programs. The purpose for this comprehensive guidebook is to provide professional practitioners (coaches and administrators) with the foundations and practical applications to develop and manage a cost-efficient, profitable summer sports camp. Simply stated, professionally-run camps can promote the institution's athletic programs and provide much needed resources and funds. As you will see, the book covers the entire subject from constructing administrative models today-to-day operations. This book could be used by all athletic teams and programs―whether they are starting a summer sports camp for the first time or have an established operation―in their development and execution of lucrative summer sports camps. The book can be used as an all-inclusive handbook for new sports camps or as a reference guide and idea generator for seasoned camp administrators.

Section I: Introduction examines the basic foundations and choices involved with operating a summer sports camp as well as conducting a feasibility study to examine the practicality of the venture.
Section II: Planning defines the clear benefits and uses associated with creating a summers ports camp plan.
Section III: Administration Systems provides indispensable camp system designs for registration, filing, and accounting that are universal to all camps.
Section IV: Human Resources discusses human resource management as an essential part of any summer sports camp. Concepts that have an unmistakable impact on the entire camp, such as selection, orientation, compensation and evaluation, are reviewed.
Section V: Marketing Systems furnishes detailed marketing and promotional ideas that can enlarge the camp's exposure as well as increase revenues.
Section VI: Risk Management and Camp Operations enables the reader to become a critical thinker in the area of risk management and camper safety.