A Skype Discussion with Robert Chomiak

 

Robert Chomiak is an active member of The Washington Group, a Washington, DC based association of Ukrainian-American and other professionals.  He co-organizes monthly socials and other networking events for the group.  In addition, he co-organizes a Ukrainian language meetup group with the purpose of practicing and promoting the Ukrainian language and culture. Professionally, Robert works as a Consultant in the Washington DC area primarily in the medical device sector. He graduated with a Bachelors and Masters degree in Biomedical Engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, NJ.

Watch a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eKpwjAiw9g&feature=youtu.be

The Application Form for Teacher Development Workshop for Novice Teachers of English

TEACHER DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP FOR NOVICE TEACHERS OF ENGLISH

“FUNDEMENTALS OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING METHODOLOGY”

         July 8 - 12, 2012

APPLICATION FORM

Name
Date of birth
Place of employment or study (university name, school number, location)
Job title
Number of years you have been teaching
Age group you teach
Contact telephone number
Contact e-mail address

APPLICATION DEADLINE – 27 June 2012

 

English Club on Outdoor Activities

Introductions
Make a list: Which adventure is the best for you when travelling (1-8):
- Scuba Diving - Mountain Climbing - Taking pictures of famous sites - camping/ Hiking - laying on the beach - surfing - visiting museums - Green Tourism
Discussion Topic: Outdoor Activities

1. Do you think that this Euro 2012 tournamnet has been a success? Why or why not?

2. What do you think has been the most dramatic / valuable change in Ukraine over the past 5 years?

3. What single change do you hope to see in the net 5 years?

4. Which countries supporters have been he best? What makes them the best?

5. Why do you think that people care so much about football? is there any hobby that you are similarly passionate about?

 Group Contest

Our Schedule

Thursday, June 28 - 17:30 

Saturday, June 30 - 10:30

The Star-Spangled Banner

On September 14, 1814, U.S. soldiers at Baltimore’s Fort McHenry raised a huge American flag to celebrate a crucial victory over British forces during the War of 1812. The sight of those “broad stripes and bright stars” inspired Francis Scott Key to write a song that eventually became the United States national anthem. Key’s words gave new significance to a national symbol and started a tradition through which generations of Americans have invested the flag with their own meanings and memories.

In the summer of 1813, Mary Pickersgill (1776–1857) was contracted to sew two flags for Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland. The one that became the Star-Spangled Banner was a 30 x 42–foot garrison flag; the other was a 17 x 25–foot storm flag for use in inclement weather. Pickersgill, a thirty-seven-year-old widow, was an experienced maker of ships’ colors and signal flags. She filled orders for many of the military and merchant ships that sailed into Baltimore’s busy port.

Helping Pickersgill make the flags were her thirteen-year-old daughter Caroline; nieces Eliza Young (thirteen) and Margaret Young (fifteen); and a thirteen-year-old African American indentured servant, Grace Wisher. Pickersgill’s elderly mother, Rebecca Young, from whom she had learned flagmaking, may have helped as well.

Pickersgill and her assistants spent about seven weeks making the two flags. They assembled the blue canton and the red and white stripes of the flag by piecing together strips of loosely woven English wool bunting that were only 12 or 18 inches wide.

The Star-Spangled Banner

O say can you see, by the dawn’s early light,

What so proudly we hail’d at the twilight’s last gleaming,

Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight

O’er the ramparts we watch’d were so gallantly streaming?

And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air,

Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there,

O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave

O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep

Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,

What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,

As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?

Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam,

In full glory reflected now shines in the stream,

’Tis the star-spangled banner - O long may it wave

O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore,

That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion

A home and a Country should leave us no more?

Their blood has wash’d out their foul footstep’s pollution.

No refuge could save the hireling and slave

From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave,

And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave

O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

O thus be it ever when freemen shall stand

Between their lov’d home and the war’s desolation!

Blest with vict’ry and peace may the heav’n rescued land

Praise the power that hath made and preserv’d us a nation!

Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,

And this be our motto - “In God is our trust,” 

And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave

O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Floor Plan of Mary Pickersgill’s House

The huge 30 by 42–foot flag overwhelmed the cramped rooms of Pickersgill’s house. She moved the operation across the street to the more spacious Claggett’s brewery. There they assembled the pieces of the flag and placed fifteen cotton stars on the blue canton.

Read More: http://americanhistory.si.edu/starspangledbanner/making-the-flag.aspx

You are welcome for the Skype Discussion

You are welcome for the Skype Discussion: a talk on topic of contemporary youth movements and social activities with Robert Chomiak, an active member of the Washington Group, a Washington, DC based association of Ukrainian-American and other professionals. 

Venue: Information Center "Window on America".

Time: 5:30 pm.

Speaker: Robert Chomiak

More Info: 351-059

A short bio for Robert Chomiak

Robert Chomiak is an active member of The Washington Group, a Washington, DC based association of Ukrainian-American and other professionals. He co-organizes monthly socials and other networking events for the group. In addition, he co-organizes a Ukrainian language meetup group with the purpose of practicing and promoting the Ukrainian language and culture. Professionally, Robert works as a Consultant in the Washington DC area primarily in the medical device sector. He graduated with a Bachelors and Masters degree in Biomedical Engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, NJ.

CO.NX Program for July

Upcoming Program Guide

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July 4^th Celebration with U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv  - New!
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
12:00 EDT (16:00 UTC)
URL: http://conx.state.gov/telaviv  (Short URL: http://goo.gl/kz9hV )

Description: Celebrate the 237th anniversary of the United States of America’s declaration of independence by joining this unforgettable event, hosted by the U.S. Embassy to Israel in Tel Aviv. With remarks from the U.S. Ambassador, Israeli President, and Israeli Prime Minister, musical entertainment and fireworks over the Mediterranean Sea, this is an event you don’t want to miss! Watch online to enjoy the event, and engage with others from around the world.

Format: This will be an interactive video webcast in English. Please click on the URL above to participate. Share your thoughts in the virtual space or on Twitter by using the hashtag #July4thTLV

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A Capitol Fourth Independence Day Concert and Fireworks  - New!
Wednesday, July 4, 2012
20:00 EDT (24:00 UTC)
URL: http://conx.state.gov/digital-diplomacy/  (Short URL:http://goo.gl/CBHtr)

Description: The United States of America is celebrating its 236thanniversary on Wednesday, July Fourth! Join the U.S. Department of State and Americans at home and abroad for an Independence Day celebration, featuring fireworks, music, dancing, the U.S. Olympic and Paralympics teams, and a moving tribute to U.S. servicemen and women. Tune in to watch a live webcast from the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol Building!

This year’s show, “A Capital Fourth”, will feature classic performances by the National Symphony Orchestra and some of the country’s best known pop artists. The list of performers and featured guests includes: 

· Tom Bergeron, Emmy Award-winning television personality of the hit TV series, “Dancing with the Stars.”
· Phillip Phillips, “American Idol” winner.
· Megan Hilty, NBC’s TV show, “Smash”.
· Matthew Broderick, Two-time Tony Award winner performing songs from the hit Broadway musical, “Nice Work If You Can Get It”.
· Kelli O’Hara, Four-time Tony Award nominee.
· Javier Colon, Singer-songwriter and winner of “The Voice”.
· Josh Turner, Country music star.
· Kool & The Gang, R&B superstars.
· Russell Watson, Renowned tenor.
· National Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of top pops conductor Maestro Jack Everly.
· Apolo Anton Ohno, Eight-time Olympic medalist.

· John Williams, Five-time Academy Award-winner conducting his “Olympic Fanfare”. 

 The show will end with a spectacular fireworks display accompanied by Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture” and live cannon fire provided by The United States Army Presidential Salute Battery. Also participating in the show will be The Choral Arts Society of Washington, The U.S. Army Herald Trumpets, The U.S. Army Ceremonial Band, the U.S. Air Force Ceremonial Band, members of the Armed Forces carrying the state and territorial flags, and the Joint Armed Forces Color Guard provided by the Military District of Washington, D.C.

Format: This will be a video webcast in English. Please click on the URL above to participate.

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The Transmedia Generation: Spreadable Media, Fan Activism, and Participatory Culture  - New!

Monday, July 9, 2012

09:00 EDT (13:00 UTC / 15:00 CEST (Rome))

URL: http://conx.state.gov/italy/  (Short URL: http://goo.gl/kJ12z )

Description: Commonly referred to as the Digital Generation, or Digital Natives, young people of today’s new media world think, learn, create, and mobilize politically much differently than in previous generations. Join our discussion with Professor Henry Jenkins as he offers powerful examples of young people implementing networked communication and innovating new approaches to make a difference in the world. Learn what it means to be part of the “transmedia generation” and create a “participatory culture”! 

 Henry Jenkins is Provost’s Professor of Communication, Journalism, Cinematic Arts, and Education at the University of Southern California. He is co-author, with Sam Ford and Joshua Green, of the 2013 bookSpreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture. Since coming to USC, Jenkins has formed the Participatory Culture and Learning Lab which includes Project New Media Literacies and Media Activism and Participatory Politics. 

Format: This will be a video webchat in English. Please click on the URL above to participate.

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Preview of the International AIDS Conference: Working Together for an AIDS-Free Generation

Thursday, July 12, 2012

08:30 EDT (12:30 UTC)

URL: http://conx.state.gov/digital-diplomacy/  (Short URL: http://goo.gl/Bq1g0 )

Description: Hear how the United States is partnering with countries around the world to reach an AIDS-free generation! Join us for a live discussion about current PEPFAR efforts with Deborah von Zinkernagel, the Principal Deputy Global AIDS Coordinator in the Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, which leads implementation of the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). Ms. von Zinkernagel has been a leader in the field of HIV/AIDS for over 25 years both globally and in the United States. She will discuss the upcoming International AIDS Conference and respond to your online questions. Join the conversation and get involved!

Format: This will be a video webchat in English. Please click on the URL above to participate.

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CO.NX Program Archive On-Demand, 24/7: Did you miss an IIP CO.NX program? Our past programs are now more accessible and shareable than ever. Visit the CO.NX Portal to watch on-demand video recordings in the Media Archive section. Full CO.NX programs are also available on YouTube and for download on iTunesAudio and Video podcasts.

Books That Shaped America

Books That Shaped America

The Library of Congress, the world’s largest repository of knowledge and information, began a multiyear “Celebration of the Book” with an exhibition on “Books That Shaped America.” The initial books in the exhibition are displayed below.
“This list is a starting point,” said Librarian of Congress James H. Billington. “It is not a register of the ‘best’ American books – although many of them fit that description. Rather, the list is intended to spark a national conversation on books written by Americans that have influenced our lives, whether they appear on this initial list or not.”
We hope you will view the list, nominate other titles, and most importantly, choose to read and discuss some of the books on this list, reflecting America’s unique and extraordinary literary heritage, which the Library of Congress makes available to the world.

Книжки, які створили Америку

Бібліотека Конгресу США розпочала новий проект «Святкуємо книгу», що розрахований на багато років, з електронної виставки «Книжки, що створили Америку». Бібліотекар Конгресу Джеймс Біллінгтон зауважив, що це – лише початок, це не перелік кращих американських книжок, проте про більшість з них можна так сказати. Цей список складено для того, щоби заохотити дискусію в американському суспільстві навколо книжок, написаних американцями, які мали суттєвий влив. Громадян запросили до читання і обговорення цих видань.

Цікаво побачити, які ж це книжки. Подивіться… І подумалося, а які книжки включили би в такий список ми?

Title	Author	Date
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	Mark Twain	1884
Alcoholics Anonymous	anonymous	1939
American Cookery	Amelia Simmons	1796
The American Woman's Home	Catharine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe	1869
And the Band Played On	Randy Shilts	1987
Atlas Shrugged	Ayn Rand	1957
The Autobiography of Malcolm X	Malcolm X and Alex Haley	1965
Beloved	Toni Morrison	1987
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee	Dee Brown	1970
The Call of the Wild	Jack London	1903
The Cat in the Hat	Dr. Seuss	1957
Catch-22	Joseph Heller	1961
The Catcher in the Rye	J.D. Salinger	1951
Charlotte's Web	E.B. White	1952
Common Sense	Thomas Paine	1776
The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care	Benjamin Spock	1946
Cosmos	Carl Sagan	1980
A Curious Hieroglyphick Bible	anonymous	1788
The Double Helix	James D. Watson	1968
The Education of Henry Adams	Henry Adams	1907
Experiments and Observations on Electricity	Benjamin Franklin	1751
Fahrenheit 451	Ray Bradbury	1953
Family Limitation	Margaret Sanger	1914
The Federalist	anonymous	1787
The Feminine Mystique	Betty Friedan	1963
The Fire Next Time	James Baldwin	1963
For Whom the Bell Tolls	Ernest Hemingway	1940
Gone With the Wind	Margaret Mitchell	1936
Goodnight Moon	Margaret Wise Brown	1947
A Grammatical Institute of the English Language	Noah Webster	1783
The Grapes of Wrath	John Steinbeck	1939
The Great Gatsby	F. Scott Fitzgerald	1925
Harriet, the Moses of Her People	Sarah H. Bradford	1901
The History of Standard Oil	Ida Tarbell	1904
History of the Expedition Under the Command of the Captains Lewis and Clark	Meriwether Lewis	1814
How the Other Half Lives	Jacob Riis	1890
How to Win Friends and Influence People	Dale Carnegie	1936
Howl	Allen Ginsberg	1956
The Iceman Cometh	Eugene O'Neill	1946
Idaho: A Guide in Word and Pictures	Federal Writers' Project	1937
In Cold Blood	Truman Capote	1966
Invisible Man	Ralph Ellison	1952
Joy of Cooking	Irma Rombauer	1931
The Jungle	Upton Sinclair	1906
Leaves of Grass	Walt Whitman	1855
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow	Washington Irving	1820
Little Women, or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy	Louisa May Alcott	1868
Mark, the Match Boy	Horatio Alger Jr.	1869
McGuffey's Newly Revised Eclectic Primer	William Holmes McGuffey	1836
Moby-Dick; or The Whale	Herman Melville	1851
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass	Frederick Douglass	1845
Native Son	Richard Wright	1940
New England Primer	anonymous	1803
New Hampshire	Robert Frost	1923
On the Road	Jack Kerouac	1957
Our Bodies, Ourselves	Boston Women's Health Book Collective	1971
Our Town: A Play	Thornton Wilder	1938
Peter Parley's Universal History	Samuel Goodrich	1837
Poems	Emily Dickinson	1890
Poor Richard Improved and The Way to Wealth	Benjamin Franklin	1758
Pragmatism	William James	1907
The Private Life of the Late Benjamin Franklin, LL.D.	Benjamin Franklin	1793
The Red Badge of Courage	Stephen Crane	1895
Red Harvest	Dashiell Hammett	1929
Riders of the Purple Sage	Zane Grey	1912
The Scarlet Letter	Nathaniel Hawthorne	1850
Sexual Behavior in the Human Male	Alfred C. Kinsey	1948
Silent Spring	Rachel Carson	1962
The Snowy Day	Ezra Jack Keats	1962
The Souls of Black Folk	W.E.B. Du Bois	1903
The Sound and the Fury	William Faulkner	1929
Spring and All	William Carlos Williams	1923
Stranger in a Strange Land	Robert E. Heinlein	1961
A Street in Bronzeville	Gwendolyn Brooks	1945
A Streetcar Named Desire	Tennessee Williams	1947
A Survey of the Roads of the United States of America	Christopher Colles	1789
Tarzan of the Apes	Edgar Rice Burroughs	1914
Their Eyes Were Watching God	Zora Neale Hurston	1937
To Kill a Mockingbird	Harper Lee	1960
A Treasury of American Folklore	Benjamin A. Botkin	1944
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn	Betty Smith	1943
Uncle Tom's Cabin	Harriet Beecher Stowe	1852
Unsafe at Any Speed	Ralph Nader	1965
Walden; or Life in the Woods	Henry David Thoreau	1854
The Weary Blues	Langston Hughes	1925
Where the Wild Things Are	Maurice Sendak	1963
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz	L. Frank Baum	1900
The Words of Cesar Chavez	Cesar Chavez	2002