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In her bestselling classic, An Unquiet Mind, Kay Redfield Jamison changed the way we think about moods and madness.
Dr. Jamison is one of the foremost authorities on manic-depressive (bipolar) illness; she has also experienced it firsthand. For even while she was pursuing her career in academic medicine, Jamison found herself succumbing to the same exhilarating highs and catastrophic depressions that afflicted many of her patients, as her disorder launched her into ruinous spending sprees, episodes of violence, and an attempted suicide.
Here Jamison examines bipolar illness from the dual perspectives of the healer and the healed, revealing both its terrors and the cruel allure that at times prompted her to resist taking medication. An Unquiet Mind is a memoir of enormous candor, vividness, and wisdom—a deeply powerful book that has both transformed and saved lives.
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Kay Redfield Jamison is the Dalio Family Professor in Mood Disorders and Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She is co-director of the Johns Hopkins Mood Disorders Center and a member of the governing board of the National Network of Depression Centers. She is also Honorary Professor of English at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and the author of the national best sellers An Unquiet Mind and Night Falls Fast, as well as of Touched With Fire, Exuberance, and Nothing Was the Same. Dr. Jamison is the coauthor of the standard medical text on bipolar illness, Manic–Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression, and the recipient of numerous national and international literary and scientific honors, including a MacArthur Award. In 2010 she married Thomas Traill, a cardiologist and fellow faculty member at Johns Hopkins.
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1. "The long and important years of childhood and early adolescence...were to be an extremely powerful amulet, a potent and positive countervailing force against future unhappiness"[p. 15]. What aspects of Jamison's early life and upbringing helped to provide her with emotional support on which to draw years later?
2. What benefits did the conservative military lifestyle led by the Jamisons confer upon the young Kay Jamison? With what disadvantages did that same culture, with its stiff-upper-lip creed, afflict her in her battle with mental illness?
3. In graduate school, Jamison writes, "Despite the fact that we were being taught how to make clinical diagnoses, I still did not make any connection in my own mind between the problems I had experienced and what was described as manic-depressive illness in the textbooks"[p. 58]. Why did she refuse to acknowledge the obvious? Why didn't she question the "rigid, irrelevant notions of self-reliance"[p. 101] she had been taught?
4. "Being open is the sort of thing that I advise people to think very long and hard about,"Jamison has stated. "It's one thing if you're independently wealthy. It's another thing if you're out in the real world"(Washington Post Magazine, 4/16/95). Why did Jamison avoid bringing her illness into the open for so many years, and what made her finally decide to do so?
5. Jamison worries that we could "risk making the world a blander, more homogenized place if we get rid of the genes for manic-depressive illness"[p. 194]. On the other hand, E. Fuller Torrey, a well-known author and schizophrenia researcher, says he "would quite happily lose a van Gogh to treat the disease"(Washington Post Magazine, 4/16/95). Which point of view do you endorse? Can you sympathize with both sides of the issue?
6. With her book Touched with Fire and her public television specials on artists like Byron, van Gogh and Schumann, Jamison has been accused by some of her colleagues of romanticizing manic-depressive illness by associating it with creative genius. Does this accusation seem reasonable or unreasonable to you?
7. "Lithium moderates the illness,"Jamison observes, "but therapy teaches you to live with it"(Time, 9/11/95). Has she convinced you that drugs plus psychotherapy is the answer for mental illness? In that case, might not psychotherapy benefit people suffering from any debilitating illness, not just a mental one?
8. Some physicians wonder whether the increased use of mood-regulating medications might lead to a society-wide practice of chemically altering personality, with the result of making people blander and more conformist (the widespread use of the anti-depressant Prozac has helped fuel this debate). "Which of my feelings are real?"Jamison asks. "Which of the me's is me"[p. 68]? Jamison's sister discouraged her from taking lithium, saying that her "soul would wither if [she] chose to dampen the intensity and pain of [her] experiences by using medication"[p. 99]. How much of personality do you believe to be intrinsic, and how much is a result of biological impulses and chemicals? Is such a question even answerable?
9. Her work, and her own illness, convinces Jamison of "the total beholdenness of brain to mind and mind to brain. My temperament, moods, and illness clearly, and deeply, affected the relationships I had with others and the fabric of my work. But my moods were themselves powerfully shaped by the same relationships and work"[p. 88]. Jamison expresses anger against physicians who draw a distinction between "medical illnesses"and psychiatric illnesses [p. 102]. Does she imply that there is, in actuality, no difference? If there is a difference, of what does it consist?
10. "Depression, somehow, is much more in line with society's notions of what women are all about....Manic states, on the other hand, seem to be more the provenance of men"[p.122]. What might the results of this stereotyping be when it comes to giving treatment?
11. After David's death, Jamison reflects that "grief, fortunately, is very different from depression"[p.150]. How can you explain the essential difference between the two? Is it more possible to cope with the "real"causes of grief than with the impalpable causes of depression?
12. Through bitter experience Jamison comes to recognize the value of emotional steadiness in a relationship, but "somewhere in my heart,"she writes, "I continued to believe that intense and lasting love was possible only in a climate of somewhat tumultuous passions"[p. 170]. Is this feeling peculiar to Jamison and her temperament, or does it reflect certain assumptions in our society? How is the importance of love and friendship demonstrated again and again in the story? How does each of the three principal men in Jamison's life help her to seek a cure?
13. Jamison worries that her work may now be seen by her colleagues "as somehow biased because of my illness,"while admitting that "of course, my work has been tremendously colored by my emotions and my experiences"[p. 203]. Does this make her work less viable than strictly "objective"work, or more so?
14. "My major goal has been to really try and make a difference in how the illness is seen and treated"(Philadelphia Inquirer, 9/18/95). Has she succeeded, so far as you are concerned? Which of your preconceptions were changed by reading her account?
15. "Do I really think that someone with mental illness should be allowed to treat patients?"[p. 204] Jamison asks. She ultimately answers the question in the affirmative. What would your own answer be?


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|Electronic mail software — Email software; Microsoft Outlook
|Spreadsheet software — Microsoft Excel
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|Clerical — Knowledge of administrative and clerical procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and other office procedures and terminology.
|English Language — Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
|Customer and Personal Service — Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
|Law and Government — Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process.
|Administration and Management — Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
|Economics and Accounting — Knowledge of economic and accounting principles and practices, the financial markets, banking and the analysis and reporting of financial data.
|Mathematics — Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.
|Personnel and Human Resources — Knowledge of principles and procedures for personnel recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, labor relations and negotiation, and personnel information systems.
|Public Safety and Security — Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions.
|Computers and Electronics — Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
|Reading Comprehension — Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
|Active Listening — Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
|Speaking — Talking to others to convey information effectively.
|Writing — Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
|Coordination — Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
|Critical Thinking — Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
|Active Learning — Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
|Judgment and Decision Making — Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
|Monitoring — Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
|Social Perceptiveness — Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
|Oral Comprehension — The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
|Oral Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
|Written Comprehension — The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
|Written Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
|Near Vision — The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
|Speech Recognition — The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
|Speech Clarity — The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
|Deductive Reasoning — The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
|Information Ordering — The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
|Inductive Reasoning — The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
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|Interacting With Computers — Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
|Getting Information — Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
|Performing for or Working Directly with the Public — Performing for people or dealing directly with the public. This includes serving customers in restaurants and stores, and receiving clients or guests.
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|Processing Information — Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.
|Communicating with Persons Outside Organization — Communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail.
|Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards — Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.
|Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships — Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
Work Context
|Face-to-Face Discussions — 92% responded "Every day."
|Telephone — 84% responded "Every day."
|Contact With Others — 80% responded "Constant contact with others."
|Electronic Mail — 76% responded "Every day."
|Structured versus Unstructured Work — 62% responded "A lot of freedom."
|Letters and Memos — 51% responded "Once a week or more but not every day."
|Deal With External Customers — 46% responded "Extremely important."
|Importance of Being Exact or Accurate — 58% responded "Extremely important."
|Spend Time Sitting — 43% responded "Continually or almost continually."
|Work With Work Group or Team — 43% responded "Very important."
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Percentage of Respondents
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Indies -The AAR which refuses to sell out. Featured on Weekly AAR Showcase 21 July 2010 (Still writing Episode 4 "A New Hope" - the Flux will be with you)
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Congrats, Aldriq!
I'm a little behind, but I've been enjoying your AAR. And the title is great (and you even used Where the Sidewalk Ends as a chapter heading!).
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Congratulations aldriq! Well-deserved distinction. As always!
Gratulations aldriq!
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Thanks again everybody!
Time to pass this cabalistic 10/10/10 showcase to the next AAR, and back to EU3. My choice is a very nicely set up game, entertaining and well written, which also showcases a great mod: MEIOU. The weekly AAR Showcase goes to:
Children of the Sun - a Cuzco MEIOU AAR by Malurous.
Congratulations Malurous!
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Thank you aldriq, I'm surprised but happy and honored to receive the Showcase! As a novice AAR author, the early support and community recognition means a lot. And everyone who's following Cuzco's endeavors also deserves a thank you - the encouragement has helped me shut up my inner perfectionist for long enough periods to actually get something written.
Thanks also, Qorten and Boris ze Spider, for the congrats.
Read my Cuzco MEIOU AAR Children of the Sun! (ongoing)
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Salt and Pepper Shrimp
Salt and pepper, two of the most basic ingredients in a kitchen and they do wonders for Chinese deep-fried dishes, such as this Salt and Pepper Shrimp. This Salt and Pepper Shrimp is one of the most requested recipes from my readers and finally, you can have the recipe and try to make it at home.
For the shrimp, I recommend buying shell-on and head-on shrimp because salt and pepper shrimp will not be the same if it's made with peeled shrimp. I usually get my shrimp from the seafood section of Asian supermarkets. They are frozen and come in a rectangle paper box but you can always buy the quantity you want from the seafood section. Somehow, the shrimp sold in regular supermarkets usually has an amonia taste and they are not ideal for this recipe.
My recipe calls for a two-step process that promises restaurant-style Salt and Pepper Shrimp. First, deep fry the shrimp with a light and crispy frying batter, and then lightly toss the fried shrimp in a wok with chopped green onion, red chili, salt, and pepper. The end result is a serving of Salt and Pepper Shrimp that tastes like it's straight from a Chinese restaurant kitchen!
This salt and pepper shrimp recipe is actually adapted from the salt and pepper squid recipe in my cookbook Easy Chinese Recipes. The cooking process is the same, which meas that you can use the same recipe to make squid.
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When we eat this, are we eating the head & shells & legs?
Or do we peel off the head & shells & just eat the meat?
Can I use shelled shrimps? It looks so good.
I've just read your comments and see that you recommend to use shrimps with the shell on.
What if you can not find shrimp heads on~does that make a
big change in the recipe?
Does it matter if I use baking Powder or Soda? would one or the other affect the taste?
Oh, this shrimp dish is LOVELY! This looks like something I must try. The recipe is great and I loved the picture!!
I like this version with the crispy batter. Yum! I'd chew the batter off first and then peel off the prawn shells :)
These shrimps look so good! Thank you so much for the recipe. What size of shrimp do you recommend?
This is a lovely recipe! I will never say no to any prawn dishes!
I use the bigger prawns,fresh raw king/tiger prawns & eat the shell,it doesn't hurt & tastes good.
I am at home in Uk with 7 inches of snow outside,so watching a tv show about a couple buying a house in penang,saw you blogging on your computer,checked out rasa website (which i often use) as i love asian food,how nice to put a face to your recipes
Can I use the same recipe for salt and pepper calamari?
Just made this for dinner tonight. Yummy!
Thanks for posting. Love this Dish…LOVE.
Tried it tonight with great success and yumminess. Used shell off shrimp and yes it didn't quite pack the flavor punch, but was perfectly fine and easy to eat. Dusted the shrimp in Flour/cornstarch mixture before adding wet ingrediants then dipped in batter.
Didn't figure out till too late it;s White Pepper…ohhhh. Next time!!
I just made this recipe and it turned out horrible. I followed the instructions exactly. Something is wrong with the water ratio in the batter, it turned out way too thick and my prawns were coated with a super thick layer of batter which when fried produced a thick white layer nothing like the picture. The coating tasted bready and got soggy in seconds.
How could I get a this specific recipe sent to my email or if I wanted to SEND THIS RECIPE to a friend?
Looks heavenly! Thanks for the recipe, Bee!!
Can we use the "How to Make Shrimp Crispy" method before deep frying? Also, while curing the shrimp you mention to marinate it in the egg white and tapioca mixture, do we rinse that off or do we leave it on?


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GE's Imagination Breakthroughs: The Evo Project
Christopher A. Bartlett, Brian J. Hall, Nicole Bennett
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In September 2003, Jeff Immelt challenged the business leaders at GE to come up with "Imagination Breakthroughs," innovative new projects that would serve as the centerpiece of GE's organic growth initiative. Follows the company as these changes are driven through the business units, focusing on GE Transportation as it launches a series of groundbreaking, green products--from the Evolution Locomotive to the Hybrid Locomotive. The growth process transforms the culture within GE Transportation, leading to a redefinition of the marketing role, the implementation of a "growth leader" profile and new decision-making processes to encourage innovation and risk. Finally, presents a critical decision point, as Transportation executives must decide whether or not to support the high-risk Hybrid Locomotive project.
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subjects covered:
Change management; Corporate vision; Energy; Global business; Growth strategy; Innovation; Leadership development; Marketing management; Risk; Strategy
- Industry: Computers & electronics
- Industry: Transportation
- Company Employee Count: 320,000
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1. Two Dreams and a Wizard
Turning his pipe in his hand, Isengar Took sat back in his seat, looking thoughtfully at his old friend. "Gandalf, I wonder if you would do me a favour," he said slowly.
"Probably, if I can. What is it?"
Gar fidgeted uneasily in his seat. "I had a dream that troubles me. In fact, I've had this dream in two forms three times each."
"You think that is significant?"
"Well…I dreamed three times about my first adventure, and it happened. I dreamed three times about the lass I'd wed—and I held back, so she married another, and I've regretted it ever since. Now…."
"What is it, Gar?" Gandalf's voice was gentle; he was fond of this adventurous Hobbit, and was suddenly aware of how elderly he had become. Had he dreamed of his own death?
"I am worried for my nephew Bilbo," Gar said in a rush. "In my dream, you are visiting him at his home, Bag End, years from now, and so are thirteen Dwarves."
The wizard's bushy eyebrows rose. "Thirteen? Visiting a Hobbit? That's unusual."
"It's never happened," he said flatly. "I understood that you were going on an adventure, and you had selected Bilbo to go too. But my nephew seemed to have grown settled and secure, conventional and conservative." His distaste and disappointment were clear in his tone. "Each time, each set of dreams had differences from the other. In one, the Dwarves were able to carry him out of himself by one action. In the other, the other, they couldn't. And each time, far in the future, something happened—a horrible, horrible catastrophe—and the entire world was affected. Everything became dark, Gandalf, and no one had any hope of happiness; they had no hope at all! All the Kindreds—Hobbits, Men, Dwarves, Elves, even Ents!"
Gandalf leaned back in his chair. "Did you recognize any of the Dwarves?"
"When is this?"
"I'm not sure. Bilbo is middle-aged in it, although he's barely a tweennow, but you know yourself that it depends on how long he lives—and he may live long."
"What is the adventure about?"
"I don't know."
Smoke rings accumulated up near the ceiling as both of them thought. Finally Gandalf asked, "What was the difference?"
"I know my nephews, Gandalf, three of them especially. Of them all, Bilbo has the most heart, the most curiosity, the most joy in sharing what he's learned. He has a real gift for poetry and song."
The wizard asked another question. "What was the difference between the two dreams?"
"In one, they talked and talked, and Bilbo refused to go. He's not unreasonable, you know, Gandalf, and he's not a coward, but they could not sway him. In the other, they were playing music and singing. I saw his face; he was swept out of himself, he glimpsed more than he had ever dreamed could be, and it awakened his Tookish side. I don't know if this adventure, whatever and wherever it is, succeeds. I could be asking you to send him to his death far from home. I don't know! But I have a feeling I can't shake that the outcome for him, personally, is very important in light of that other, more distant outcome. Does this make any sense at all?"
"I don't know," Gandalf answered. "But you have given me much to consider, my friend, and I will not forget."
"Thank you, Gandalf. I have a new blend of pipeweed you might like to try," he added more cheerfully.
Much later, the wizard met Thorin Oakenshield one frosty day at the Last Inn. Sitting in a quiet corner, Gandalf asked, "So, Thorin, where are you bound, so far from the Blue Hills?"
"I'm traveling to the Iron Hills, hoping to persuade more of my folk to join me in ridding the world of that cursed dragon, and take back the Lonely Mountain," Thorin growled.
Gandalf considered him over his pipe and asked, "How long have we known each other?"
"Since before Smaug killed my father and drove us out."
"How are you doing, changing that?"
For a moment, it seemed his question had been too blunt, even though Dwarves are blunt themselves. Then Thorin relaxed his grip on his axe and sighed. "Not well. My folk are becoming used to being scattered and to our precarious toehold in the Blue Hills. The younger ones know little else. Since Moria was lost to us, even the older ones prefer such security as they have to possibly losing all. I am not sure I can raise a large enough force."
"Do you need a large force?" Gandalf watched him keenly from behind a smoke ring.
"Of course! One always uses a large force, against a dragon. Everyone knows that."
"Including the dragons," Gandalf pointed out. "I wouldn't be surprised if they teach their hatchlings how to combat armies. They expect to fight them."
"Or a Hero, but those are thin on the ground these days," Thorin grumbled.
"What about a group, smaller than an army, yet larger than one or two?" suggested Gandalf.
"Well, you know your own business best," the wizard said with a shrug. He yawned. "It was pleasant seeing you, Thorin. Good night." He rose to his feet.
"What size group?"
"I beg your pardon?"
"What size group, smaller than an army?"
"I don't know. How many of your kin are you sure would answer your call?"
Thorin thought that over. "Ten. Well, twelve, if I include my two young nephews, Fili and Kili."
"Would that be enough?"
"Not quite. You'd need another."
"I've spent almost one hundred and seventy-five years trying to get even one more!"
"Oh, well, if you feel you can add the risk of the bad luck of having thirteen!" Gandalf shrugged.
Thorin frowned. "Unless you're offering? And why would you do that?"
"I'm not interested in treasure, if that's why you're looking at me so suspiciously," Gandalf retorted. "I might help out, here and there, but business of my own might call me away. No, I mean another viewpoint, from someone who isn't a Dwarf. Someone with a fresh outlook, so to speak, and different professional skills."
"You aren't suggesting an Elf or an Ent, I suppose, and few enough Men are brave enough or strong enough to keep up with us."
"Noooo, I was thinking of another. But you'd have to give him a fair offer, mind, or why should he leave home?"
"I would not be ungrateful," Thorin said stiffly. "We'd offer the customary agreement, of course."
"Summon them, then. Meet me in at the Green Dragon in Hobbiton—"
"In the Shire?"
"Why not? Quite a few folk travel through it, and it'd be a quiet place for discussions. He may not be easy to persuade, so I cannot promise. Oh, and Thorin! Am I right that you play the harp?"
"I do. Why?"
"Make sure all of you folk are good players or singers, or both. He is a music lover; a good song may well make up his mind in your favour."
Thorin shook his head. "No."
"My harp is over 500 years old, that's why, and fragile! Most instruments are, and valuable. It's been handed down for all that time, and while I have made a few repairs—any Dwarf must learn to make the instrument he plays, so he fully understands it—I will not risk my harp on an adventure. There are few enough heirlooms left of my House and folk!" He looked up craftily. "But you're a wizard."
"As you well know."
"And that means you are wise. If you can devise a way to guarantee my harp's safety—and that of the other Dwarves' instruments—then we will bring them. If not, the most your musical friend can expect is our voices, and perhaps a flute or two." There was a note of finality in his voice that told Gandalf not to quibble.
"Let me think about it."
"Fair enough," he agreed.
The next morning, the innkeeper gave Thorin a sealed note. Opened, he read:
Very well. I shall bring you each a pouch into which an instrument may be placed. No matter the size of the contents, it will fit easily inside a pocket, and when wanted, may be taken out. This will serve only twice per object, so you may not use the pouches more than that number of times. Any attempt to take the pouch apart will result in the destruction of said pouch and its contents, and possibly anything within 10 feet of it.
Meet me at the Green Dragon in Hobbiton just before teatime in four months.
Thus it was that Thorin Oakenshield and his party were each given a message by the innkeeper of the Green Dragon to leave their luggage in the rooms Gandalf had booked in Thorin's name, and then to go to a place called Bag End (directions provided by the innkeeper) up the Hill, where'd they find a sign on the door, to take their instruments, and not to be late. Each Dwarf made sure that he had put on his best detachable party hood when he freshened up, that his instrument (two clarinets, two fiddles, two viols, three flutes, a horn, Thorin's harp in its green bag, and Bombur's drum) was either in tune or polished, before he set out.
And as Bilbo would later record in his book, after the tea that stretched beyond High Tea into supper and the washing-up that so alarmed him, the Dwarves adjourned to his parlor:
It was a beautiful golden harp, and when Thorin struck it, the music began all at once, so sudden and sweet that Bilbo forgot everything else, and was swept away into dark lands under strange moons, far over the Water and very far from his hobbit-hole under The Hill.
The dark came into the room from the little window that opened in the side of The Hill; the firelight flickered – it was April – and still they played on, while the shadow of Gandalf's beard wagged against the wall.
The dark filled all the room, and the fire died down, and the shadows were lost, and still they played on. And suddenly first one and then another began to sing as they played, deep-throated singing of the dwarves in the deep places of their ancient homes; and this is like a fragment of their song, if it can be like their song without their music.
Far over the misty mountains cold
To dungeons deep and caverns old
We must away ere break of day
To seek the pale enchanted gold….
As they sang the hobbit felt the love of beautiful things made by hands and by cunning and by magic moving through him, a fierce and a jealous love, the desire of the hearts of dwarves. Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick. The stars were out in a dark sky above the trees. He thought of the jewels of the dwarves shining in the dark caverns. Suddenly in the wood beyond the Water a flame leapt up – probably somebody lighting a wood-fire – and he thought of plundering dragons settling on his quiet Hill and kindling it all to flames…..
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Hiroshi Mikitani, the CEO of Rakuten, (Japan's largest online retailer), is at the helm of an organization that is rapidly expanding into global markets. In a critical stride toward becoming the world's No. 1 Internet services company, Mikitani announces Englishnization - a highly publicized aggressive two-year English proficiency mandate for all 7,100 of Rakuten's Japanese employees. Mikitani's goal is not only to ensure the success of the organization, but also to break down linguistic and cultural boundaries in Japanese society. At the time, only an estimated 10% of the Japanese staff could function in English. The stakes are high: those who do not reach their target score by the deadline risk being demoted. As Englishnization progresses, loss of productivity, lack of time to study, and conflicted views among managers impede staff success. Some employees even question the relevance of Englishnization, particularly for staff working exclusively in Japan. Fifteen months since the announcement, the vast majority had not yet reached their target English proficiency scores. With the deadline rapidly approaching, Mikitani must decide how to proceed to ensure the success of Englishnization, the continued global rise of his organization, and even the future of Japan.
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