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The Wisdom of Finance
This book captures Desai's lucid exploration of the ideas of finance as seen through the unusual prism of the humanities.
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This book captures Desai's lucid exploration of the ideas of finance as seen through the unusual prism of the humanities.
Doctoroff explores the many cultural, political, and economic forces shaping the 21st century Chinese and their implications for businesspeople, marketers, and entrepreneurs or anyone else who wants to know what makes the Chinese tick.
A Splendid Exchange is a sweeping narrative history of world trade - from Mesopotamia in 3000 B.C. to the firestorm over globalization today - that explores trade's colorful and contentious past and provides new insights into its future.
Dawson covers every aspect of the negotiating process with practical, proven advice from beginning steps to critical final moves.
Moss researched the big food manufacturers and discovered how junk food is formulated to make us eat more of it. He also persuasively argues that the food industry's aim is to addict the consumer.
This book explains how to be more productive, how to get exposure without breaking the bank, and many more counterintuitive ideas that will inspire and provoke the entrepreneurs, small-business owners, downsizing victims, etc., to move ahead.
The Promise of a Pencil chronicles Braun's journey to find his calling, as each chapter explains one clear step that every person can take to turn their biggest ambitions into reality.
Onward is Schultz's candid narrative documenting the maturing of the Starbucks' brand as well as himself as a businessman.
Thaler tells his readers about how to make smarter decisions in an increasingly perplexing world. He reveals how behavioral economic analysis opens up new ways to look at everything from household finance to businesses like Uber.
Lords of Finance is a reminder of the enormous impact that the decisions of central bankers can have, their fallibility, and the terrible human consequences that can result when they are wrong.
Jon Gertner traces the origins of some of the twentieth century's most important inventions and delivers an untold chapter of American history.
Hillbilly Elegy is the story of how upward mobility really feels from Vance's personal experience and the urgent and troubling meditation on the loss of the American dream for a large segment of this country.
Kristof and WuDunn make a brilliantly argued case for investing in the health and autonomy of women worldwide.
Chris Anderson explores this radical idea for the new global economy and demonstrates how this revolutionary price can be harnessed for the benefit of consumers and businesses alike.
Flynt fully explains financial technology - he covers the ins-n-outs, the terminology, and how to capitalize on breakthrough technologies.
Roberts lays out the stark economic realities behind modern food and shows how our system of making, marketing, and moving what we eat is growing less and less compatible with the billions of consumers that system was built to serve.
Angwin chronicles the tragedy of the digital commons at the level of policy and our individual civil liberties and she illuminates the costs of living with systems that track nearly everything we do, think, or say.
Lyons goes deep inside a company that uses terms like 'world class marketing thought leaders' to show us how ridiculous, wasteful, and infantile tech start-ups like this can be.
Mackey and Sisodia, leaders of the corporation Conscious Capitalism, describe the movement in the context of Mackey's reflections as cofounder of Whole Foods Market.
Zingales joins the small but influential group of economists who see that America's economy is now more corporatist and less capitalist. His account of our downhill slide is enriched by his deep knowledge of the harm wrought by the worst excesses of Italian crony capitalism.
The Billionaire's Apprentices follows an ambitious hero as he climbs to the pinnacle of power inside the top boardrooms of corporate America, gets seduced, and falls in a spectacular insider trading scandal.
The Blue Sweater is the inspiring story of a woman who left a career in international banking to spend her life on a quest to understand global poverty and find powerful new ways of tackling it.
This book explores how animal spirits contribute to the performance of the macroeconomy. The range of issues covered are broad, including the business cycle, inflation and unemployment, the swings in financial markets and real estate, the existence of poverty, and the way monetary policy works.
The book captures the hidden history of the financial crisis and explores the motivations of everyone from famous politicians to anonymous lenders, borrowers, analysts and Wall Street traders.
Lutz¿s commonsense lessons, combined with a generous helping of fascinating anecdotes, will inspire readers in any industry.
Tracy Kidder tells the true story of a gifted man, Paul Farmer, who loves the world and has set out to do all he can to cure it
Steele offers an insider's look at his research and groundbreaking findings on stereotypes and identity.
18 MINUTES clearly shows how busy people can cut through all the daily clutter and distractions and find a way to focus on those key items which are truly the top priorities in our lives.
Kawasaki's guide to launching and making your new product, service, or idea a success.
A powerful look at corporate change and why mergers, reorganizations, and transformations succeed or fail.
The Charisma Myth shows you how to become more influential, more persuasive, and more inspiring. Becoming more charismatic doesn't mean transforming your fundamental personality. It's about adopting a series of specific practices that fit in with the personality you already have.
Brown's book is about a transformative new vision for the way we lead, love, work, parent, and educate that teaches us the power of vulnerability.
The book reveals the design principles, concrete practices, and underlying science at the heart of Deliberately Developmental Orgs - from their disciplined approach to giving feedback, to how they use meetings, to the distinctive way that managers and leaders define their roles.
This book tells the story of GDP, making sense of a statistic that appears constantly in the news, business, and politics, and that seems to rule our lives--but that hardly anyone actually understands.
Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's recalls life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. He argues that we cannot avoid suffering but we can choose how to cope with it, find meaning in it, and move forward with renewed purpose.
Ferrazzi outlines the timeless strategies shared by the world's most connected individuals - from Winston Churchill to Bill Clinton, Vernon Jordan to the Dalai Lama - for making connections in the digital world
The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan delivers expert guidance to prepare executives for their new leadership roles, accelerate their results, and reduce turnover.
Chamine reveals how to achieve one's true potential for both professional success and personal fulfillment.
Meg Whitman, former president and CEO of eBay, identifies ten core values that steered her¿and can steer any leader¿to success without ethical compromise.
McChrystal and his colleagues show how the challenges they faced in Iraq can be relevant to countless businesses, nonprofits, and other organizations.
Edmondson shows that organizations thrive, or fail to thrive, based on how well the small groups within those organizations work.
When Markets Collide is a timely alert to the fundamental changes taking place in today's global economic and financial systems--and a call to action for investors who may fall victim to misinterpreting important signals.
Margaret Heffernan examines the phenomenon of willful blindness, exploring the reasons that individuals and groups are blind to impending personal tragedies, corporate collapses, engineering failures-even crimes against humanity.
The Women of Berkshire Hathaway is an inspirational read about the triumph of a group of remarkable women within a company once dominated by men.
Well researched, impassioned, and accessible, Presence is filled with stories of individuals who learned how to flourish during the stressful moments that once terrified them.
Goldsmith, America¿s most sought-after executive coach shows how to climb the last few rungs of the ladder.
This book shows how leaders who've had the greatest influence in the world all think, act, and communicate the same way - they all started by understanding people won't truly buy into a product, service, movement, or idea until they understand the WHY behind it.
Carr taps into a well of anxiety about how the Internet is changing us. He also crystallizes one of the most important debates of our time: As we enjoy the Net's bounties, are we sacrificing our ability to read and think deeply?
Achor explains how we can reprogram our brains to become more positive in order to gain a competitive edge at work.
This novel contains a serious message for all managers in industry and explains the ideas, which underline the Theory of Constraints (TOC), developed by Eli Goldratt.
An exciting, hugely revealing account of China's burgeoning presence in Africa - a developing empire already shaping, and reshaping, the future of millions of people.
The authors explain what big data is, how it will change our lives, and what we can do to protect ourselves from its hazards.
An important look into the future, Wikinomics will be your road map for doing business in the twenty-first century.
Rubin details how much our lifestyle is connected to oil.
The book will change the way one looks at--and understands--the world.
Pink takes readers to a daring new place, and offers a provocative and urgent new way of thinking about a future that has already arrived.
What Works ultimately offers the general reader the chance to learn from some of the grandest economic successes and unexpected failures in the world today, through a series of imaginative, unusual and insightful examples.
Combining front-line investigation with startling new data, Waste shows how the way we live now has created a global food crisis and what we can do to fix it.
Sandel provokes an essential discussion that we, in our market-driven age, need to have: What is the proper role of markets in a democratic society--and how can we protect the moral and civic goods that markets don't honor and that money can't buy?
Sorkin delivers the first definitive blow- by-blow account of the epochal economic crisis that brought the world to the brink.
An important book that will affect policy discussions for a long time to come - This Time Is Different exposes centuries of financial missteps.
That Used to Be Us is both a searching exploration of the American condition today and a rousing manifesto for American renewal.
SuperCorp provides the answer to a question crucial to both business and society more broadly - as a company grows, how can it avoid becoming a lumbering, corrupt giant?
This book traces the complicated lives and legacies of these four tycoons, as well as their business, social, and political ambitions.
This book recounts the life and times of one of the most respected men in the world, Warren Buffett.
The Second Machine Age will alter how we think about issues of technological, societal, and economic progress.
A great book about Asia's two emerging super-powers and the regional veteran who is making its own case for a strong future. The book offers some valuable insights into some of the historical roadblocks that threaten economic and political stability in the region.
The book offers an inspiring vision of the postwar world where enormous opportunities await those who view art as a resource to be shared openly rather than a commodity to be hoarded.
In The Quest, Yergin shows us how energy is an engine of global political and economic change and conflict.
The Powers to Lead, Joseph S. Nye offers a sweeping look at the nature of leadership in today's world.
Duhigg gives a fresh look of how routine behaviors take hold and whether they are susceptible to change.
Our Daily Meds connects the dots for the first time to show how corporate salesmanship has triumphed over science inside the biggest pharmaceutical companies and, in turn, how this promotion driven industry has taken over the practice of medicine and is changing American life.
Nudge is about choices - how we make them and how we can make better ones. This book is good reading for anyone interested in our individual and collective well-being.
Mallaby tells the inside story of hedge funds, from their origins in the 1960s and 1970s to their role in the financial crisis of 2007-2009.
In this book, Tapscott and Williams show the world how mass collaboration is changing the way businesses communicate, create value, and compete in the new global marketplace.
The book tells the story of the four men who invented corporate strategy as we know it and set in motion the modern, multibillion-dollar consulting industry.
Nandan Nilekani traces the central ideas that shaped India's past and present and asks the key question of the future.
The book offers leaders the well-founded hope that they can learn how to stave off decline and, if they find themselves falling, reverse their course.
Studwell's latest work is provocative and iconoclastic - and sobering reading for most of the world's developing countries. How Asia Works is a must-read book that packs powerful insights about the world's most misunderstood continent.
Coates demonstrates how our bodies produce the fabled gut feelings we so often rely on, how stress in the workplace can impair our judgment and even damage our health, and how sports science can help us toughen our bodies against the ravages of stress.
A revelatory examination of how the wildfirelike spread of new forms of social interaction enabled by technology is changing the way humans form groups and exist within them, with profound long-term economic and social effects-for good and for ill.
Horowitz, the most respected and experienced entrepreneurs, draws on his own story of founding, running, selling, buying, managing, and investing in technology companies to offer essential advice and practical wisdom for navigating the toughest entrepreneurial problems.
Rumelt dispels popular misconceptions about strategy - such as confusing it with ambitions, visions or financial goals - by very practically showing that a good strategy focuses on the challenges a business faces, and providing an insightful new approach for overcoming them.
Browne draws on the latest research, his own experience as a closeted gay man in the oil industry, and interviews with gay and lesbian leaders to expose the lingering culture of homophobia in corporations around the world, and to inspire the LGBT community to share who they are with their employers.
This book highlights what effective networking, collaboration, influence, negotiation, and leadership skills have in common.
Fragile by Design is a revealing exploration of the ways that politics inevitably intrudes into bank regulation.
The true story of how risk destroys, as told through the ongoing saga of AIG.
The Everything Store is the book that the business world can't stop talking about, the revealing, definitive biography of the company that placed one of the first and largest bets on the Internet and forever changed the way we shop and read.
Naim writes about the struggle between once-dominant megaplayers and the new micropowers challenging them in every field of human endeavor.
The book talks about about how and why leadership and followership have changed over time and about the leadership industry itself making it good reading for business, political, and community leaders.
The book is a guide to renewed success and profitable growth in an economy increasingly defined by transient advantage.
This book contains great stories interwoven with solid business advice and some wonderful insights into leading creative people.
Jeffrey Sachs lists some solutions for the major challenges facing our planet today: population growth, poverty, climate change, water availability and conflict.
This book provides the ideas, practices, and examples you need to create an environment where your most brilliant people can flourish.
Sehgal casts aside our workaday assumptions about money and takes the reader on a global quest to uncover a deeper understanding of the relationship between money and humankind.
Taleb's depth of erudition and wisdom concerning the philosophy of uncertainty is covered.
Iyengar asks the difficult questions about how and why we choose: Is the desire for choice innate or bound by culture? Why do we sometimes choose against our best interests? How much control do we really have over what we choose?
Greenspan's book gives insight into American and world politics and economics.
Kotler documents how progress in artificial intelligence, robotics, digital manufacturing synthetic biology, and other exponentially growing technologies will enable us to make greater gains in the next two decades than we have in the previous 200 years.
Singer introduces us to an array of remarkable people who are restructuring their lives in accordance with these ideas, and shows how living altruistically often leads to greater personal fulfillment than living for oneself.
Moneyball is a quest for the secret of success in baseball and a tale of the search for new baseball knowledge insights that will give the little guy who is willing to discard old wisdom the edge over big money.
This book provides up-to-date insights and practical advice on how to create, manage, and measure the value of an organization.
The authors enumerate the principles for building a truly great enterprise in unpredictable, tumultuous, and fast-moving times.
This book is a frank and clear-eyed assessment of six critical drivers of global change in the decades to come.
This is an easy to read defense of the principles of free market capitalism.
Lencioni reveals the five dysfunctions which go to the very heart of why teams even the best ones-often struggle. He outlines a powerful model and actionable steps that can be used to overcome these common hurdles and build a cohesive, effective team.
This book draws our attention to those defining moments that literally shape our lives, our relationships, and our world.
Lewis writes about credit default swaps and sovereign debt from his deep understanding of how the global financial system works and he tells the tale through fascinating human stories of greed, excess, and self-delusion.
Michael Lewis creates a fresh, character-driven narrative brimming with indignation and dark humor, a fitting sequel to his #1 bestseller Liar's Poker. Out of a handful of unlikely-really unlikely-heroes, Lewis proves yet again that he is the finest and funniest chronicler of our time.
After serving six presidents in both the CIA and the National Security Council, Robert M. Gates believed that he had left Washington politics behind for good but when he received the call from the White House in 2006 to help a nation mired in two wars, he answered what he felt was the call of duty.
The World Is Flat is an essential update on globalization, its successes and discontents, powerfully illuminated by one of our most respected journalists.
Emotional intelligence is actually a set of skills that anyone can acquire, and in this practical guide, Daniel Goleman identifies them, explains their importance, and shows how they can be fostered.
This widely acclaimed bestseller, in which Malcolm Gladwell explores and brilliantly illuminates the tipping point phenomenon, is changing the way people think about selling products.
Daniel Kahneman takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think.
Napoleon Hill's classic mental-exercise book teaches you everything you need to know to empower yourself for success.
This book is a very well researched account that tracks not only the rise of McKinsey, but also encapsulates the history of the entire consulting industry.
Switch shows that successful changes follow a pattern, a pattern you can use to make the changes that matter to you, whether your interest is in changing the world or changing your waistline.
This book is an intimate look at the founding father of the modern leadership movement - Warren Bennis is an acclaimed American scholar, successful organizational consultant and author, and an expert in the field of leadership.
Steve Job's tale is instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values.
Goleman has written a groundbreaking synthesis of the latest findings in biology and brain science revealing that we are wired to connect and the surprisingly deep impact of our relationships on every aspect of our lives.
A Random Walk Down Wall Street has long been established as the first book to purchase when starting a portfolio. In addition to covering the full range of investment opportunities, the book features new material on the Great Recession and the global credit crisis and more.
A classic since its publication in 1954, The Practice of Management was the first book to look at management as a whole and being a manager as a separate responsibility and it remains an essential book for students, aspiring managers, and seasoned professionals.
Own The Future offers 50 ideas to help readers chart their organization's path to future leadership.
Drawing on years of research and experience, Thorndike tells eye-opening stories, extracting lessons and revealing a compelling alternative model for anyone interested in leading a company or investing in one and reaping extraordinary returns.
Outrageous Fortunes tells which industries will grow, which economies will crumble, which investments will pay off, and where the next big crisis may occur.
In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey in which he asks the question: what makes high-achievers different?
Harvard Press combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles on leadership and selected the most important ones to help you maximize your own and your organization's performance.
On China provides historical perspective on Chinese foreign affairs from one of the premier statesmen of our time.
On Becoming a Leader has served as a source of essential insight for countless readers. In a world increasingly defined by turbulence and uncertainty, the call to leadership is more urgent than ever.
Highly engaging and very practical, Mindset breaks new ground as it leads you to change how you feel about yourself and your future.
The Millionaire Next Door identifies seven common traits that show up again and again among those who have accumulated wealth. Learn how they reject the big-spending lifestyles most of us associate with rich people.
THE MCKINSEY WAY contains valuable lessons on widely diverse topics such as marketing, interviewing, team-building, and brainstorming.
In this book Rasiel and Friga expand upon the lessons found in The McKinsey Way with real-world examples, parables, and easy-to-do exercises designed to get readers up and running.
The 3rd volume in the bestselling McKinsey Trilogy, The McKinsey Engagement is an action guide to realizing the consistently high level of business solutions achieved by the experts at the world's most respected consulting firms.
With the eye and ear of a born storyteller, Michael Lewis shows us how things really worked on Wall Street. Out on the trading floor, bond traders throw telephones at the heads of underlings and Salomon chairman Gutfreund challenges his chief trader to a hand of liar's poker for one million dollars.
Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched.
By outlining the process every organization must go through to achieve its goals, and by identifying where and how even top performers derail during the change process, Kotter provides a practical resource for leaders and managers charged with making change initiatives work.
The greatest investment advisor of the 20th century, Benjamin Graham, taught and inspired people worldwide. His philosophy of "value investing" has made this book the stock market bible.
Christensen explains why most companies miss out on new waves of innovation. No matter the industry, he says, a successful company with established products will get pushed aside unless managers know how and when to abandon traditional business practices.
We may communicate today with different tools and with greater speed, but Carnegie¿s advice on how to communicate, lead, and work efficiently remains priceless across the ages.
The findings of the Good to Great study will surprise many readers and shed light on virtually every area of management strategy and practice.
Getting to Yes offers a proven, step-by-step strategy for coming to mutually acceptable agreements in every sort of conflict.
Allen's premise is simple: our ability to be productive is directly proportional to our ability to relax. Only when our minds are clear and our thoughts are organized can we achieve stress-free productivity.
Freakonomics is a groundbreaking collaboration between Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, an award-winning author and journalist. They set out to explore the inner workings of a crack gang, the truth about real estate agents, the secrets of the Ku Klux Klan, and much more.
For God, Country & Coca-Cola, Mark Pendergrast looks at America¿s cultural, social, and economic history through the world¿s most recognizable consumer product.
The leadership stories in the book demonstrate the many ways that the core ideas in The Fifth Discipline, many of which seemed radical when first published in 1990, have become deeply integrated into people¿s ways of seeing the world and their managerial practices.
The Essential Drucker covers the basic principles and concerns of management and its problems, challenges, and opportunities, giving managers, executives, and professionals the tools to perform the tasks that the economy and society of tomorrow will demand of them.
Goleman delineates the five crucial skills of emotional intelligence, and shows how they determine our success in relationships, work, and even our physical well-being. What emerges is an entirely new way to talk about being smart.
Pink asserts that the secret to high performance and satisfaction is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world.
In this book, Kurzweil examines the radical possibilities of a world in which humans and intelligent machines could live side by side.
Competitive Advantage has guided countless companies, business school students, and scholars in understanding the roots of competition. Porter's work captures the extraordinary complexity of competition in a way that makes strategy both concrete and actionable.
We live in a world of great and increasing complexity, where even the most expert professionals struggle to master the tasks they face. Longer training, ever more advanced technologies, neither seems to prevent grievous errors. Gawande finds a remedy in the humblest and simplest of techniques.
Built to Last provides a master blueprint for building organizations that will prosper long into the twenty-first century and beyond.
This book offers a broad and up-to-date selection of the firm's best ideas on strategy with fresh ideas, insights, and practical lessons for managers, executives, and entrepreneurs in every industry.
Blink is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices that seem to be made in an instant-in the blink of an eye-that actually aren't as simple as they seem.
Covey reveals a step-by-step pathway for living with fairness, integrity, service, and human dignity -- principles that give us the wisdom and power to take advantage of the opportunities that change creates.
This book brings together a series of essays describing the results of ongoing research, by the Strategy Institute of The Boston Consulting Group, into how companies can sharpen their edge by accelerating the clock speeds of their strategies to match those of their markets.
In this deeply personal book, Arianna talks candidly about her own challenges with managing time and prioritizing the demands of a career and raising two daughters -- of juggling business deadlines and family crises, a harried dance that led to her collapse and to her "aha moment."
In this book, Wright describes the hopes and the turmoil across the Islamic world through the words of those who are living it.
In this updated edition of Profit from the Core, authors Zook and Allen show that a renewed focus on the core is more critical than ever as firms seek to rebuild their competitive advantage coming out of the downturn and that a strong core will be the foundation for successful expansion.
Made to Stick shows us the vital principles of winning ideas and tells us how we can apply these rules to making our own messages stick.
Eight true stories show that Leaders today aren't just bosses, they're self-starters who take charge even when they haven't been given a charge.
Helgesen's findings reveal that organizations run by women do not take the form of the traditional hierarchical pyranaid, but more closely resemble a web, where leaders reach out, not down, to form an interrelating matrix built around a central purpose.
Chaleff's Courageous Follower model has facilitated healthy upward information flow in organizations for over 15 years.
Bramson's proven-effective techniques are guaranteed to help you right the balance and take charge of your life. Learn the six basic steps that allow you to cope with just about anyone. Reclaim the power the rightfully belongs to you in any relationship!
In CONNECTED, the authors explain why emotions are contagious, how health behaviors spread, why the rich get richer, even how we find and choose our partners.
The Halo Effect continues to unmask the delusions found in the corporate world and provides a sharp understanding of what drives business success and failure.
This book uncovers what enables some talented people to rise to the top and live their full ambitions at work and in life, while others stop short.
Giving Effective Feedback quickly walks you through the basics of delivering feedback that gets results, including: choosing the right time to talk; engaging in productive dialogue; helping both star and struggling performers; and developing a plan for effective follow-up.
Zero-One is worth reading if you're interested in starting and funding businesses - or if you just want some good business tips.
Underhill's book is full of fresh observations and important lessons from the cutting edge of retail such as Internet behemoths Amazon and iTunes as well as the globalization of retail in the world's emerging markets.
The Innovators is Walter Isaacson's revealing story of the people who created the computer and the Internet.
In this book, Phelan dissects a whole range of consulting treatments for unhealthy companies and shows why they are essentially fad diets: superficial would-be fixes that don"t result in lasting improvements and can cause serious damage.
HOW GOOGLE WORKS is an entertaining, page-turning primer containing lessons that Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg learned as they helped build the company.
Flash Boys is about a small group of Wall Street guys who figure out that the U.S. stock market has been rigged for the benefit of insiders and that, post-financial crisis, the markets have become not more free but less, and more controlled by the big Wall Street banks.
Levitt and Dubner have written their most revolutionary book yet. With their trademark blend of captivating storytelling and unconventional analysis, they take us inside their thought process and teach us all to think a bit more productively, more creatively, and more rationally.
Geithner demonstrates that he can discuss economics in an accessible fashion, making the situation the country faced in 2008 and 2009 tactile, comprehensible, and harrowing to the lay reader. Along the way, he also gives us a telling portrait of himself.
Amoruso isn't your typical entrepreneur and employees say she's the ultimate nasty gal. However, in a predominantly male tech industry, she is gaining notice for being a young female CEO who is doing things her way.
LeFebvre breaks down the GTD implementation into basic concepts and he gives an in-depth expanation of tools and methods.
The Future of the Mind gives us an authoritative and compelling look at the astonishing research being done in top laboratories around the world¿all based on the latest advancements in neuroscience and physics.
Piketty analyzes a unique collection of data from twenty countries, ranging as far back as the eighteenth century, to uncover key economic and social patterns. His findings will transform debate and set the agenda for the next generation of thought about wealth and inequality.
Gladwell challenges how we think about obstacles and disadvantages, offering a new interpretation of what it means to be discriminated against, or cope with a disability, or lose a parent, or attend a mediocre school, or suffer from any number of other apparent setbacks.
Susan Cain argues that we dramatically undervalue introverts and shows how much we lose in doing so.
Rogers became a Wall Street legend when he co-founded the Quantum Fund. The books is the fascinating story of Rogers's global motorcycle journey/investing trip with advice on the current state and future direction of international economies.
Beasley's book is filled with stories and lessons appealing to anybody who has ever taken the pause that refreshes. It s also a readable and important look at how companies can market and govern themselves more-ethically and to great success.
Haunted Empire is an illuminating portrait of Apple today that offers clues to its future. Kane explores Tim Cook¿s leadership and its impact on Jobs¿s loyal lieutenants, and new product development.
How to Design (and Deliver) TED-Worthy Presentation Slides is a short, practical and step-by-step guide to creating sexy slides. Included in the book are sample sexy slides from TED talks, as well as from across the web, to help you master the art of presentation design.
What makes these TED talks so inspiring? What is the secret formula for creating a successful TED talk? If you follow the guidelines and tools in this book, your audience will have no choice but to be wrapped up in your speeches and presentations.
Today's business people should take note: In the post-crisis economy, traditional career strategies spell professional extinction, but the fluid new "gig economy" offers tremendous potential for anyone willing to adapt. Nacie Carson explains what it takes to make it in today's world of work.
The Unauthorized Guide to Doing Business the Alan Sugar Way draws out the universal lessons from Alan Sugar's remarkable success and identifies 10 strategies that can be applied to any business or career.
Raise the Bar distills the secrets to running a successful enterprise with Reaction Management, a strategy and philosophy Taffer developed and uses in his business and on Bar Rescue.
Netflix has come a long way since 1997, when Marc Randolph and Reed Hastings decided to start an online DVD store before most people owned a DVD player. Yet its long-term success or even survival is still far from guaranteed.
Acclaimed journalist Randall Stross was granted unprecedented access to Y Combinator, enabling a unique inside tour of the world of software startups.
In How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big, Adams shares the strategy he has used since he was a teen to invite failure in, embrace it, then pick its pocket.
This is a story of betrayed friendships and high-stakes power struggles, as the founders went from everyday engineers to wealthy celebrities featured in print and TV broadcasting.
Get Big Fast and Do More Good is a guide to modern entrepreneurship and accelerated brand-building from the founders of Yes To Inc, the company behind the breakthrough natural beauty brand Yes to Carrots.
With Dot Complicated: Untangling Our Wired Lives, new media pioneer Randi Zuckerberg offers an entertaining and essential guide to understanding how technology and social media influence and inform our lives online and off.
Taleb stands uncertainty on its head, making it desirable, even necessary, and proposes that things be built in an antifragile manner. The antifragile is beyond the resilient or robust. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better and better.
This book offers a wealth of insights and advice to entrepreneurs and would-be entrepreneurs about the challenges and hurdles of creating a successful business--and the importance of perseverance and creative problem-solving.
This book reveals the essential nature of the new economy, identifies the best path forward for workers and entrepreneurs, and provides readers with actionable advice to make the most of the new economic landscape. In debates about our nation's economic future, it will be impossible to ignore.
Zuckerberg and a small group of key executives have created a company that has changed social life in the United States and elsewhere, a company that has become a ubiquitous presence in marketing, altering politics, business, and even our sense of our own identity. This is the Facebook Effect.
A narration of a summer motorcycle trip undertaken by a father and his son, the book becomes a personal and philosophical odyssey into fundamental questions of how to live.
The classic account of the fall of RJR Nabisco is told. An enduring masterpiece of investigative journalism by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar, it includes a new afterword by the authors that brings this remarkable story of greed and double-dealings up to date twenty years after the famed deal.
After the Music Stopped is an essential history that we cannot afford to forget, because one thing history teaches is that it will happen again.
The book lays out the four terms and conditions of the leadership contract and enlists leaders in making a conscious decision to lead, including the understanding that leadership is a decision, entails an obligation, is difficult, and requires a community.
In The ONE Thing, you'll learn to; cut through the clutter; achieve better results in less time; build momentum toward your goal; dial down the stress; stay on track; and master what matters to you.
Loomis uses her unique insight into Buffett¿s thinking to chronicle his work for Fortune, writing and proposing scores of stories that tracked his many accomplishments¿and also his occasional mistakes.
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Beautiful Experience at the Sukamantri Camping Ground.
It was a beautiful sunny day, on the early month of July, when the children just started the school holiday, we decided to go camping. Joining with us, some close family members; cousins, nephews, nieces, auntie and uncle.
Sukamantri Camping Ground, in Ciapus Bogor was chosen to be our short escape place. Located about 800 m ASL, we really enjoyed the fresh air and not too cold temperature.
The place is not hard to reach, it's not too far from Jakarta, just about 60 km away, or 10 km from Bogor. Easy!
My 12 years old son was acting as a navigator while his dad sat behind the stirring wheel. Meanwhile my daughter and I spent our time to play with our cameras on the way to the camping ground.
The good news is... this location is not popular yet. So, not too many campers or visitors here.
Don't worry, the area is part of training ground of Army's elite Kujang Raider unit.
How to get there;
Thanks to my husband who has helped me explaining this for you.
- First of all, if we have never been there or if we are not familiar with city of Bogor, please use the Google Map; search 'Sukamantri Camping Ground'. It'll show us a few alternative routes; it'll give us the idea about where it is. Please remember, Bogor is a traffic-jammed city especially during weekends.
- If we drive, from wherever we come from, we need to reach the road of Jalan Raya Ciapus. This is what I recommend because it's clearer; less junctions. If we see the Angkot no 3 Ramayana-Ciapus, then we are on the right track.
- We will notice at least two green-square road signs saying the Bumi Perkemahan Sukamantri (Sukamantri Camping Ground). One of the signs tells us to turn left to reach the camping ground.
- From the junction, the road becomes narrow but in good condition; straight. An intersection will be in front of us not far, just go straight. The good road will ends after 2km.
- A gravel road will follow; ascending; winding for about 2 km. Some spots are too narrow for two cars, but majority two vehicles can pass each other. Don't worry, the road is very empty.
- After passing a security portal; a big housing complex on the left (people say it's owned by the family of Cendana), the road gets worse; from gravel becoming rocky road without asphalt. This is the misled information written in many blogs regarding the bad road condition, preventing many people to visit Sukamantri. In my opinion; yes the road is bad; not comfortable but as long as our car is not a regular sedan, then we can go through with no problem. Of course, keep the low speed to preserve the mood of the passengers aboard.
- After 1 km, we will reach the Kujang Raider gate before entering the rain forest. Here, the road gets more ascending; winding under the canopy of jungle.
- After another 1 km, we will reach the entrance post of the Sukamantri camping ground.
"Camping without Trekking is like Sayur Asem without Salty Fish (Ikan Asin)".ahaaa... I'm the one who make that quote.
Yup, it is! For me, camping is not complete without trekking.
Lucky, there is a good and challenging track near by the camping ground.
Actually, it's just a short distance track to Curug Parakan waterfall. Because of the track condition with many misled junctions, I suggest you to use a guide. We passed some narrow path in between dense forest, the edge of deep cliff, slippery rock, and in some parts we need to climb several big volcanic rocks.
The experience of trekking, especially when you bring along your 'city children', it'll become a good memorable experience. Let them see and touch the real forest, river, waterfall, even the cliff. Let them learn to recognize the smell of nature; the soil, the leaves and let them be brave to go through the difficult path.
So prepare your sneakers!
The guide, available from one of the warung in the camping ground.
(the fee is Rp 50.000)
... and when the night came.
Not many pictures I could share about night activities, because I like to spend my night with some books or magazines that I bring from home. I couldn't skip 'my night reading time' even in the camping ground.
Others were having dinner, playing cards, and enjoying bonfire.
glorious morning
It's always a pleasant moment gather in the morning, having cup of hot beverages and simple breakfast with the light chit-chat. Fresh air, beautiful warm sunshine, nice smell from the pine trees, ...something that we couldn't get in the city.
Nature is cheaper than therapy.
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Rockalily Style: Nautical in Autumn/
Today I'm embracing the nautical look. You need to stick to reds, white, and blue, and throw in some nautical symbols. I have red anchors on my hair clips, and boat rope print on my top. The swallow necklace is traditionally nautical too!
I also had people asking to see the new shoes I bought yesterday - here they are! I would say most of my shoes are from Clarks now (my boots are too!).


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More on the Neptune/Sun combination…
When the Sun and Neptune combine we are generally faced with the overwhelming desire to fuse with something unspeakably bigger than ourselves. Fame, glamour, god, sex, art, and altered states alike, the Neptune/Sun combination inspires within us a kind of divine reaching and simultaneous discontent. It might be hardest to think of the form or shape or images of Neptune's longings because we tend to describe Neptune in terms of words like "formless" or "beyond." When we take these words too literally it's easy to get swept out to sea, intoxicated, poisoned, hypnotized, or drugged. We get captured by the subtler layers of already subtle images and we forget the inseparability of our yearnings with the images…and Neptune's images more than any others like to hide.
For example, the desire many of us have to "be in nature." We might say something like, "I just want to be up in the mountains and away from the city lights. I want to see the stars. I want to see my breath in the morning and be surrounded by trees." Although these are compelling images, it's easy to miss the subtle body of these images (such is the power of Neptune). For example, seeing the stars, no city lights, or being up in the mountains, who is the one seeing the stars or walking the mountain trails? In the subtle body of these images we'll find ourselves and if we keep describing, we might find more of Neptune as well. We might say, "It's just me. Living in a country house. I have a fire place and a nice office. I drink my tea in the morning and I go outside and I can see mountains in the distance, and I can see my breath, and I can see the stars at night. All I have to do to see them is turn off the outside house lights. It's that easy."
Most of the time if we keep going "into" the fantasy or dream we'll learn more about the shape and form of the image calling to us from the far shore. The further we go with the image, often enough, the more we'll be able to see if there's something hidden within the image trying to speak through the fog. For example, sometimes the longing for the cabin in the woods is discovered to be the voice of our desire for time off from work, deeper sexual exploration, or a change of pace or schedule and other times its really a call to move to the country. The point isn't ever to reduce Neptune into something practical but rather to explore the dream images of Neptune to see if our fantasies have any metaphorical requests. Is there a cabin in the woods or a non-light polluted view we can open up right here and now? Can these dream images work as metaphors if their literal attainment isn't possible? It's a strange thing how dreamy Neptune is and yet how literal Neptune's demands for its dreams can become. It's as though Neptune's resistance to anything other than the literal dream itself (it's not a metaphor damnit!) is an ironic dilution of itself that creates a kind of self-irritation, hence Neptune's relationship to hypochondria, rashes, skin
irritations, and allergies.
There's always a challenge with Neptune to dream the dream along, as dream-tenders like to say. Don't let the dream stop and suspend its longings over your head. Instead, once you recognize the dream, dream it along by fantasizing into the dream with questions. Ask the dream to speak or reveal a little more of itself. Otherwise, again, the dream's tendency might be to coagulate into something more like an agitated storm cloud…it can drain, overwhelm, exhaust, dampen, depress and fill us with its own literalized fantasy irritations.
The other thing to watch for with Neptune and the Sun, in particular, are the dream images of the ego. Various fantasies of who we are or who we'd like to become can overwhelm us and we can easily delude ourselves into choices that will only serve to disillusion our ego later. The disillusions of Neptune have again to do with that very important activity of listening INTO or dreaming INTO the fantasies Neptune inspires. Because often enough disillusionment is something that simply reveals to us the subtle body of our fantasies, where we recognize the simpler vision or the metaphoric within the romantic landscape of a dream.
Last but not least, let's meditate for a moment on the idea of psychic receptivity or intuition and the ideas of dreams and visions. Crucial to the development of psychic receptivity is the ability to see through the artificial divide between the dream state and the waking state. As the Neptune/Sun poet Mary Oliver once wrote about the nature of receiving a poetic inspiration, "[It] exists in a mysterious, unmapped zone: not unconscious, not subconscious, but cautious." Neptune likes to hide. Or as Heraclitus once wrote, "Nature likes to hide." When we try to retain ordinary consciousness in a dream the dream vanishes. When we try to take too much control of inspiration, it disappears.
When we try to interpret a dream, the dream itself deadens. Psychic receptivity is therefore not about "hitting the bullseye" or "hitting the nail on the head," with some fancy gift or skill, its about the gentle allowance that lets the subtler bodies, Jung's "thousand fish eyes," come gently rising to the surface, fins quietly cresting and fast tails quickly splashing. Not lucid dreaming notebooks or psychic training camps but liminal living. The bullseye always alluded to, drawn forward, but never struck, lest we pluck out the very bull's eyes by which we see.
Prayer: the simple bull, wading through the grass, watching the subtle blue stones as they rise from the river.
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With the support of his family, friends, and organizations such as St. Louis-based The Mission Continues (www.mission continues.org), which provides fellowships to wounded veterans who engage in service, Smith opened Anthony's Martial Arts Academy in Blytheville, Arkansas, last May. He teaches martial arts to people of all ages, including disadvantaged youth, and now has three locations.
"I had 15 students when I first opened,†recalls Smith. "About five months later, I had 90.†Today, Smith trains about 185 students ranging in age from 5 to 65 in arts such as tai chi, tae kwon do, and others. "I use martial arts as a character builder,†says Smith. "If you've got it on the inside, then it's going to come out on the outside.â€
His students have received countless lessons in patience, bravery, and awareness, while Smith got something even greater: a renewed sense of purpose. "I thought I was doing the martial arts to keep myself going,†he says, with a lighthearted laugh. "I was trying to figure out what my purpose was, and people around me said, 'Dude, you're doing it.'â€
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Soccer, sex, and a world about to be overturned by revolution sound like pretty good ingredients for the second film by Alexey Guerman Jr., whose poignant debut "The Last Train" was a hit on the festival circuit. But "Garpastum," although vaunting the same knock-out cinematography and stylish anti-drama, fails to raise the emotional temperature. This highly aestheticized entry will be too arty for most soccer fans and disappointing to "Last Train" admirers. Yet it still points to the 29-year-old Guerman as a highly talented director in search of a way to match his keen cinematic instincts with a dramatic story.
"Garpastum" is a Latin word meaning a ball game, and contests were played as far back as ancient China and Sparta. One the eve of World War I, the handsome brothers Andrey (Evgeny Pronin) and Nikolai (Danila Kozlovsky) are passionate about the amateur matches they play on the streets of St. Petersburg. With their pals Shoust (Dmitry Vladimirov) and Fatso (Alexander Bykovsky), they hatch a scheme to buy a playing field. In order to finance it, they start playing for money with workmen, seminarians and anyone else they encounter.
War breaks out, though its effects are slow in being felt. Andrey starts an affair with an eccentric actress from Belgrade, Anitsa (Chulpan Khamatova), who hosts a fashionable salon frequented by writers, musicians and intellectuals. Nikolai, an aspiring doctor like his uncle (Pavel Romanov), becomes infatuated with her sister Vita (Iamze Sukhitashvili). Their world of rowdy, carefree adolescence ends suddenly when two of their friends are killed in senseless violence. But there's still soccer.
Moving away from the influence of his legendary director-father Alexey Guerman, Guerman Jr. has several things to say in his own post-Perestroika voice. Here, the end of youth is as important as the end of the 19th century. "Time's river carries off human deeds," remarks one character — but the film seems to be just paying lip service to the noble sentiments of sadness and melancholy that were the staples of earlier Russian cinema. Despite all the bad things the 20th century has in store for the heroes, they seem basically unfazed by tragedy, and survive to play another day.
The film is constructed as a series of dramatically unconnected set pieces. While this gives it a pleasingly modern feel, it also kills emotional flow. The screenplay by Oleg Antonov and producer Alexander Vaynshteyn also comes to a halt four or five times for long unexciting, painstakingly choreographed soccer matches. It isn't even clear who wins.
In the end, what seems to matter most to Guerman and his talented d.p. Oleg Lukichov, who also shot his first film, is creating atmosphere through the photography. Graceful camera movements are shot through mist, smoke, fog and rain. Great attention is paid to framing and the composition of figures in depth, to emphasize their isolation in a universe full of tragic portents. Many scenes are so drained of color they are almost monochrome, with the faded look of memory. Yet overall, there is a disconnect between the sophisticated images and what is fundamentally a light-hearted story about boys and soccer.
The male cast, who play good if suspiciously modern-looking soccer, are not at the same level as actors. The muscular Pronin, sexily stripped to the waist in several scenes, is athletic but wooden in a one-note part. It is bothersome that he looks no younger than Khamatova, who keeps referring to herself as an older woman.
The late Pavel Romanov, who played the lead in "The Last Train," is forceful and original in the role of the boy's uncle. Most memorable face belongs to young Dmitry Vladimirov as Shoust, a boy from the wrong side of the tracks whose serious expression reflects a tragic depth. Gosha Kutsenko has an eye-catching cameo as the poet Alexander Blok.
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Using money is a daily routine for most people, so knowing how to handle basic transactions on an ATM is an essential skill. Often in Japan you can access machines, at convenience stores & the post office for example, that have an English language option. If you have access to those kinds of ATMs, that's wonderful! But, what if the ATM you're using is in 100% unadulterated Japanese? Kanji (easily the hardest of the three Japanese writing systems) can be super confusing for a Japan newbie…hell, kanji can be confusing if you've lived in Japan for years. So, what we'll do today is just go through some important ATM basics. The ATM I'm using (owned by JOYO bank), isn't located everywhere in Japan, but the concepts I'm showing you should apply to most automatic teller machines.
Let's start first with five key Japanese vocabulary words you should know when using an ATM. With kanji, you don't have to know what they mean to do this. Initially, I just focused on what the kanji looked like…not their meanings. Please keep in mind, if any of this gets to be too overwhelming, go to your bank and ask an attendant to help you; they're usually quite polite and quite willing to help. If you need assistance simply say one of the words below and add おねがいします-Onegaishimasu (a polite please). For example if I say "Ohikidashi Tetsudate Onegaishimasu"-おひきだしてつだっておねがいします, I should be able to do a withdrawal. The grammar isn't perfect, but the clerk will understand withdrawal, help, and please. Just keep it simple for now.Japanese ATM Terms.mp3
Next, let's look at the anatomy of a Japanese ATM. What does Japanese ATM look like?
See? They're really not all that different from the ATMs you have at home. The cool thing on some of the machines is the ability to accept coins for deposits. I guess that makes sense, though, because the largest coin (500 yen) is about the equivalent of a five-dollar bill.
Now, I want to show you an example of what a real Japanese ATM screen looks like, and together we can find each of the terms that I listed above. I will only focus on these five bank procedures, because they are the essentials. You will have everything you need to get money out of your account, put money into your account, get balances, and even send money to your home accounts.
In the Part 2 of this series, I will actually walk you through each five basics at an Japanese ATM: 1. A Withdrawal, 2. A Deposit, 3. Balance Inquiry, 4. A Money Transfer, and 5. A Passbook/Bankbook Update.
Thanks for reading,
Donald Ash
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Mainspring box of the kinetic energy of the never together, not to feed through a balance wheel balance spring, in the process of the waste a lot of kinetic energy loss in the transport chain, so, how to avoid the occurrence of this phenomenon?
At present, energy is as a rare resource, social ecology and the manufacture of watches are for energy saving of the same importance. Specific to the manufacture of watches, mega industry has been in the TAB material and progress achieved different forms of the vertical system. Still has a fatal flaw, however, must be recognized: some (some) precious energy by box spring from the starting point to terminal balance wheel transmission in the process of waste. Here the "some" actually refers to "a all amount" (a lot).Vacheron constantin replica Here.
The loss in the air
Finally calculated the amount of loss of kinetic energy is very surprising, box spring manufacture nearly all be wiped out two-thirds of the energy (go up in smoke). The generation of this kind of phenomenon mainly based on two reasons: friction between components and the friction and air. Cartier in 2012 launched a ID for this Two concepts of wrist watch, movement is set under vacuum conditions in operation, this is at least eliminates the components in the process of operation and the friction between the unprecedented.
If you don't go to build such extreme conditions, the air in the keep watch case is always a great unknowns, ultimately hurt or balance wheel balance spring. Keep balance wheel balance spring device in two directions of air volume and mass balance is key, for example, if one side of the balance wheel is too close to the bridge, will lead to the friction between air and watch-balance enhances hair suddenly increased, while the latter just need enough space to breathe.
Close observation box spring
After carefully screening the whole transmission process, which can be found that the kinetic energy loss of one of the key point lies in the clockwork box itself, "about 15% to 20%." According to the vice President of Eterna Samir Merdanovic is introduced. Between 2007 and 2009, Eterna clockwork box for a more detailed study and research and development, and finally launched Spherodrive ball bearing box spring system – innovation. The energy saving device has been applied in Madison series wrist watch carrying 3510 movement, dynamic storage for up to eight days.
The problem of gear train
On the kinetic energy transport chain, another key point of energy loss is gear train, more precisely, is the gear itself, or arising from materials or modelling.
In fact, if the gear shape after full consideration in advance and then modify the little, but for the most efficiency, every detail is very important. So you need to cutting gear shape to ensure priority to minimize the contact between each other.
At the same time, select appropriate materials can reduce friction, thus reducing energy consumption. Silicon is the most popular materials, but also it is mainly used for regulating system, pure silicone gear train is relatively rare, therefore temporarily energy-efficient materials are of brass and beryllium bronze alloy.
Cartier is a nowatches exception. "We have make a siliceous gear, facts have proved that it is absolutely feasible," brand machine core r&d director Carole Forestier – Kasapi said, "in spite of this, it is still a very difficult problem, in order to promote their hardness, surface coated with diamond coating we are part. All these efforts for us to build a solid bridge to tabulation foreign."
This is a very interesting game, but it is difficult to put into the factory production, "Richard miller machine core r&d division Salvador laurel Arbona points out," that being said, we also carried out actively trying, brand all the gear section were treated with rhodium plating. "
Christophe Claretz has issued a stern warning, will issue back to the origin, "for the gear train, what really matters is to ensure accurate, this means that the polishing processing and spacing calculation is very important. Whether it's now, or in the future, gear train tolerance is very strict, do not allow the rough estimate, because the precision of the tiny deviation nowadays, with the passage of time will be more and more serious, will produce a series of complicated problems in the future."
Energy balance wheel balance spring hole
Finally, we found the terminal in the transport chain, the operation of the lever escapement system will waste about 35% of the energy, the data is very persuasive. Industry experts tie only modified gear, a clockwork box, add lubricating oil as the appearance of whitewash, this is tantamount to trying to fill a bucket, only of the wasted effort.


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The methodology includes performance indicators that aim to address the issues that matter to students and their families when choosing which college is best for them. But how does the WSJ / THE approach differ to the US News rankings? To help explain, we have put together a handy "cheat sheet" that explains the differences.
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|Game of Thrones - Bronn the Sellsword with House Lannister's heraldry on his armour
My search for a suitable tool to sketch initial outlines of freehand paintings is finally over. And the solution was right under my nose too. As part of my new journey into coloured pencil portraits, I had bought Faber Castell Polychromos as well as Primacolor Premiere professional artist grade coloured pencils. Polychromos pencils are highly pigmented with a hard oil-based core - a combination which makes it easier to sketch outlines on painted figurines. While Prismacolor pencils are also highly pigmented, they are wax based with a softer core. So I used a cream coloured Polychromos pencil to sketch the initial outline. Any excess pencil residue was carefully removed using a kneaded eraser.
|Polychromos oil-based colour pencil (cream) and a kneaded eraser
|Freehand Painting - Stage One: Initial outlines drawn using the Polychoromos colour pencil
|A more detailed symbol was then drawn with any excess pencil residue removed using a kneaded eraser
My previous attempt at painting the House Lannister heraldry had ended up being too yellowish. So for this effort, I used less yellow and more of the dark orange hues. Any yellows used were mixed with light orange to effectively tone down the overall brightness of the freehand symbol.
|Freehand Painting - Stage Two: Basecoat with Amarantha Red
|Dark basecoat colour makes it easier for the subsequent lighter colours to be layered on
I started with a basecoat of Vallejo Model Color Amarantha Red followed by a midtone comprising a mixture of Amarantha Red and Light Orange. The darker basecoat made layering on the lighter hue easier and allowed for a more consistently smooth coverage of the lighter hue.
|Freehand Painting - Stage Three: Midtones with a mixture of Amarantha Red and Light Orange
|Lion symbol begins to take shape as lighter hue contrasts better against the armour
From there on out, every subsequent layer of a lighter hue were painted with some of the earlier darker hue showing through. This was so that the symbol had more depth to it. In this case, it meant the Amrantha Red showing through the Amarantha Red/Light Orange layer which itself showed through the pure Light Orange layer. Effects were subtle to prevent a too 3D'ish looking symbol.
|Freehand Painting - Stage Four: General highlights with pure Light Orange
|Light orange was layered in thin layers with the midtone colour showing through
Then, I lightly layered the final highlight at the very edges of the lion symbol using a Light Orange/Flat Yellow mix. Again, the effects were kept subtle to prevent a too 3D'ish symbol that looks like an ironed on patch. Lastly, an eye was painted using the Amarantha Red/Light Orange mix.
|Freehand Painting - Stage Five: Extreme highlights on edges with a Light Orange/Flat Yellow mix
|Lastly, an eye was painted in with a darker hue - Amarantha Red/Light Orange mix
Dark creases on the armour were left untouched as a stylistic choice. Moreover, I felt that it avoided the patched on look the symbol would have took if I painted over the creases. An alternative would be to paint darker hues on the creases - perhaps a mix of Amarantha Red and either an orangey red or reddish brown. This is something I might still do, if only to reduce the width of the dark creases.
|Nocturna Models The Crusader 54 mm figurine aka Bronn proxy [work-in-progress back view]
My efforts at painting male skin tones still lags far behind female ones as I tend to paint more of the latter. As such I've decided to put any further progress on hold until I've sufficiently researched and experimented with a suitable skin tone for Bronn. I can only hope that this temporary halt will not drag on for an eternity as it seemingly has for my other Game of Thrones project i.e. House Martell Knight/Warhorse proxy using Games Workshop minis. Speaking of which, using the Polychromos pencil to outline a design for freehand painting has unstoppered the creative block that has been hindering the Martell proxy's progress. Just like that ... after so long! I'm excited to have finally found the inspiration to finish this long delayed project and hope to share the results with you ... soon.


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Happy Birthday Kim!!!!
On Tuesday, January 6 2007, it was Kims' birthday (Or as she likes to say: We celebrated a quarter century of Kim)
Since she had her photography thing on Tuesdays we had to have post-birthday cocktails on Wednesday.
We went to Mama Thembas in Greenside and had our long awaited 'Girls night', Kim, Leanne, Ilze and myself. (we get to hang out with Ilze when Anton is out of town and we always have a ton of fun).
Leanne asked our waiterboy to service us, but instead he brought us drinks. (which is ok, I guess).
Eventually Kim got free drinks from everybody.... and well... all I'm saying is thatv at least it was not like when Britney vomited a powerful tidalwave of hot chunky grey puke into Isaac Cohen's hands in front of about a billion photographers a few weeks ago... (mainly because Isaac Cohen wasn't there neither were there photographers - and it was pink, not grey), but here are the pics of the rest of the evening:
who made her birthday
Girls' night
Kim & Ilze
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Mallow's Tsareena
Mallow's Tsareena
Mallow's Tsareena (Japanese: マオのアマージョ Mao's Amajo) is Mallow's only known Pokémon. She is often seen outside of her Poké Ball.
In the anime
Prior to the Sun & Moon series, Mallow and her mother met Tsareena as a Bounsweet in the forest behind the Pokémon School. Mallow's mother then caught Bounsweet for her daughter to keep so she wouldn't be lonely.
Tsareena first appeared as a Bounsweet in Alola to New Adventure! alongside her Trainer. Bounsweet accompanied Mallow on her tour of the Pokémon School for Ash and Pikachu, happily sharing her pleasant scent for them to enjoy. She later watched several Team Skull Grunts battle Kiawe.
In First Catch in Alola, Ketchum-Style!, Bounsweet was attacked by a wild Rowlet, who was attracted to her scent and mistook her for a fruit. Bounsweet quickly responded to the attack, deflecting the Rowlet multiple times with ease before it tired out.
In A Seasoned Search!, Bounsweet helped Ash and Mallow lure in and subsequently follow a wild Oricorio to the Melemele Meadow, so that they could collect the Nectar necessary for the food Mallow was trying to perfect. However, soon after finding the meadow, they were attacked by Team Rocket, who tried to steal the Nectar for themselves. In order to save everyone, Bounsweet attacked Team Rocket and proceeded to evolve into Steenee. This allowed it to recover the stolen Nectar, free Ash and Mallow, and defeat Team Rocket.
In When Regions Collide!, Steenee was used in a battle against Misty's Psyduck alongside Lana's Popplio. Steenee started the battle with Magical Leaf while Popplio quickly followed with Bubble Beam. Psyduck then counterattacked with Water Gun. Popplio then created a water balloon, absorbing the Water Gun, which it then launched at the Duck Pokémon, trapping it inside. Misty commanded Psyduck to use Confusion, but Psyduck didn't respond. Steenee then attacked with another Magical Leaf, breaking the balloon and causing Psyduck land on its head, giving it a headache. This allowed Psyduck to successfully use Confusion, but before it could do anything more to its opponents, Misty told Psyduck to put Popplio and Steenee down, saying that they had had enough.
In Rescuing the Unwilling!, Steenee was among those used to fight Lusamine's Mismagius, Milotic, and Lilligant, which were under Nihilego's control, to allow Ash to save Lusamine. Going up against Milotic, Steenee countered its attack with Double Slap. Lilligant then made her dance with Teeter Dance, but Ash's Litten and Rowlet released her from the dance, joining the fight. In the next episode, Steenee emitted her own Sweet Scent to lure Rowlet back to her. She then launched Rowlet into the air with her Double Slap, and asked Mallow to throw her up as well. Steenee kicked Rowlet back towards the ground, and, combined with Rowlet's high-speed Peck attack, they used a move Lana dubbed "Rowlaunch" on Lilligant. The attack angered Lilligant, causing it to charge up its Solar Beam attack, but Litten interrupted the move with Fire Fang. Although Lilligant appeared to have been defeated by this move, Nihilego made it get back up and continue battling. The battle ended when Ash and Pikachu performed 10,000,000 Volt Thunderbolt to defeat Nihilego.
In All They Want to Do is Dance Dance!, in preparation for the PokéDance class set up by Professor Kukui, Steenee was taught a dance called the "Alola Hula" by Anela's Oricorio. When the day of the dance class finally came, Steenee stepped away from the others to do some last-minute practice. Due to this, she failed to notice how all of the humans and the rest of the Pokémon present stepped into what turned out to be a pair of cage traps set up by Team Rocket. Noticing that Steenee was still free, Team Rocket fired a net at her, binding her arms and sepals. When Meowth accidentally revealed that the cages have a weak point at the top, Mallow told Steenee to attack it. With her sepals and hands binded by the net, Steenee had to resort to using her feet in order to attack the weak point. While doing this, Steenee unexpectedly learned Stomp, which immediately triggered her evolution into Tsareena. After evolving, Tsareena demonstrated her increased leg strength by using Trop Kick on Meowth and breaking the cages open with ease. After Team Rocket had been carried away by Bewear, Mallow happily greeted her newly evolved partner, who proceeded to perform a new, enhanced version of "Rowlauch" with Rowlet.
In Securing the Future!, Tsareena joined the rest of Alola in showering Necrozma with light so it could return to its normal form.
Personality and characteristics
Tsareena is a friendly Pokémon, happily interacting with people and Pokémon. She is not easily discouraged, staying positive even after Lillie was frightened by her attempts to play with her. She has a strong relationship with her Trainer. As a Bounsweet, she was normally seen resting on Mallow's shoulder. Tsareena also likes to help Mallow out at her family's restaurant, serving food to customers as the restaurant's poster Pokémon. In the events before SM117, Tsareena even volunteered to stay behind with Abe to help in the kitchen while Mallow took Shaymin to go sightseeing overnight in Malie City with her classmates. In addition, she loves flowers, as shown in The Ol' Raise and Switch. According to Mallow, she likes floral-patterned Poké Beans. In That's Some Spicy Island Research!, Tsareena was shown to like the taste of Poni Island daikon.
Tsareena is a very agile Pokémon. As a Bounsweet, she often used her quick reflexes to deflect Rowlet as it flew toward her. However, after evolving for the first time, she started displaying this trait much less often, due to no longer needing to worry about being consumed by other Pokémon. After evolving again, Tsareena also gained great kicking strength, as well as a more proud and mature personality, although she still remains friendly and respectful towards Mallow.
Tsareena also enjoys relaxing, like in I Choose Paradise!, where, whilst most of the Pokémon were playing in the pool, it laid on a sun lounger at the Pokémon Paradise Resort. In Memories in the Mist!, Mallow mentioned during a flashback that she saw her Tsareena, which was Bounsweet at the time, as her little sister. In turn, Tsareena appears to care for Shaymin like a big sister, as mentioned by Mallow in a flashback in SM117.
Moves used
|A † shows that the move was used recently, unless all moves fit this case or there are fewer than five known moves.
Moves improvised
|First Used In
|Moves Involved
|Partnered With
|10,000,000 Reasons to Fight!
|Sweet Scent, Double Slap, and Peck
|Ash's Rowlet
|Description: Rowlaunch (Japanese: ひっさつのモクシュート Certain-kill Mokushoot) After luring Ash's Rowlet in with Sweet Scent, Steenee or Tsareena knocks Rowlet into the air with Double Slap. Mallow then throws Steenee into the air or Tsareena jumps up, allowing her to kick Rowlet, sending it flying into the opponent at high speeds while using Peck.
The move's Japanese name is a reference to that of Catastropika.
|Twirling with a Bang!
|Electroweb, Zing Zap, Discharge, Bubble Beam, Magical Leaf, Flamethrower, Fire Blast, and Powder Snow
|The Ultra Guardians' Pokémon
|Description: Super Pokémon Fireworks (Japanese: 超特大ポケモン花火 Super Special Pokémon Fireworks) A combination move used by the Ultra Guardians' partner Pokémon and their Ride Pokémon. Pikachu launches Electroweb into the air, followed by Togedemaru and Charjabug adding to it by creating a makeshift Electroweb with Zing Zap and Discharge, respectively. Popplio, Steenee, Turtonator, and Charizard add to the combination with Bubble Beam, Magical Leaf, and a double Flamethrower, respectively. Flygon, Garchomp, and Altaria then use a triple Fire Blast, followed by Snowy's Powder Snow and Poipole's poison. Together, the moves make a giant spinning ferris wheel-shaped construction.
In the manga
In the Pokémon Adventures manga
Steenee first appeared in Homecoming and the Brilliant Professional Golfer. She was called out alongside Moon's Pokémon to assist them in finding a Mirage Berry at Lush Jungle. Steenee asked the wild Pokémon in the area to help by gathering several Berries into a large pile. Once the task was complete, Moon successfully found a Mirage Berry from the gathered pile. Afterwards, Steenee was used at Memorial Hill to battle a group of Team Skull Grunts that claimed to have attacked Kiawe.
Later, Steenee was used to battle the Ultra Beasts used by Guzma at Po Town. Together with Kiawe's Marowak, she fought against a Pheromosa before later being defeated by a Celesteela.
Moves used
|A † shows that the move was used recently, unless all moves fit this case or there are fewer than five known moves.
In the games
Mallow's Steenee and Tsareena appear in the following games:
Ash's Classmates' Partner Pokémon
A Japanese event distributed an in-game representation of Mallow's Steenee, along with Kiawe's Turtonator and Lillie's Alolan Vulpix via serial code and local wireless. The serial codes were available at Æon stores in Japan from June 17 to 25, 2017, and could be used until July 4, 2017. The local wireless were available at Pokémon Center stores and Pokémon Stores in Japan from July 22 to August 13, 2017.
The same Steenee was distributed to players who inserted the common serial code ALOLASTEW762 from September 19 to October 31, 2017. The serial code was revealed on September 19, 2017 during the debut of brand new episodes on Animax at 6 pm, on Daekyo Kids TV at 7 pm, and on KBS Kids at 6:45 pm. The serial code was revealed again on September 26, 2017 on Animax.
|Moves in bold can be taught again at the Move Reminder as a special move if forgotten.
|Date received is the date on the system when the gift is picked up from the deliveryman.
|This Pokémon is set to the same language as the game that received it.
- Out of all the walking Pokémon owned by Ash and his friends, Tsareena is the first one to evolve twice.
- Tsareena is still shown as a Steenee in certain scenes of the opening Future Connection, even after it was updated following its evolution.
- The same thing happens in the dub opening The Challenge of Life due to it using clips from Future Connection.
Related articles
For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Bounsweet, Steenee, and Tsareena.
|This article is part of Project Anime, a Bulbapedia project that covers all aspects of the Pokémon anime.


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|First Degree
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|Graduate lifetime earnings premium (£)
Source: Labour Force Survey data from autumn 2000Summer 2001.
Additional notes on Methodology and Interpretation
3. The figures in Table 1 are rounded to the nearest £25,000 because they are based on the Labour Force Survey, which is a sample survey. Weekly earnings are usually rounded to the nearest £10.
4. The analysis is based on gross weekly average earnings for graduates and the national average, for the four quarters of the Labour Force Survey, autumn 2000 to summer 2001. The figures relate to full-time employees in Great Britain.
5. Average weekly earnings were obtained for the following age groups: 2024; 2529; 3034; 3539; 4049; and 5059. Information on the employment rate of graduates and the national employment rate was also obtained for the same age groups. The gross weekly earnings figures were deflated by the respective employment rates to account for the fact that not all individuals are employed at any point.
6. The deflated weekly earnings were averaged over the four quarters and grossed up to annual estimates for each age group. Since the averages relate to the age groups, they were taken as proxies for the average (deflated) annual earnings at each age in the group. Multiplying the averages by the number of years in the age group and summing across all groups provide an estimate of average lifetime earnings for graduates and the national average.
Sensitivity analysis
7. A sensitivity analysis was carried out to assess whether the estimated lifetime earnings differential changed according to the use of different quarters of LFS data. This analysis (see table 2) suggests that the lifetime earnings estimates fluctuate very little. Given this, the £400,000 figure seems to be a robust estimate.
Labour Force Survey.
Department for Education and Skills
Analytical Services: Higher Education Division
November 2002
Graduate lifetime earnings
Graduate premium (£000)
Quarters used in LFS for earnings data Autumn 2000Summer 2001 Quarters used Autumn 2000Summer 2001
All four quarters £1,075,000 All four quarters £400,000
All except spring £1,075,000 All except spring £400,000
All except summer £1,075,000 All except summer £400,000
All except autumn £1,075,000 All except autumn £375,000
All except winter £1,075,000 All except winter £405,000
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TOLUCA, MEXICO—They don't see eye to eye on the major irritant between their two countries, but Prime Minister Stephen Harper and U.S. President Barack Obama projected a bit of genuine warmth at the so-called Three Amigos summit on Wednesday.
It may have been the sunny, high-altitude climes in the scenic Spanish colonial corner of Toluca, the hometown of their host, Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto.
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Harper echoed Obama's light-hearted tone during his own brief comments.
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Earlier, Obama told a business forum that the United States, Canada and Mexico will always have "parochial interests."
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