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Yes, one of this content free summaries about previous read books - but I think it would be nice if you had a small reading lists with some great books.
Best of Marketing
Ice to the Eskimos
Probably to most creative marketing ideas I've ever read about. Jon Spoelstra has excellent writing skills, it's so much fun to read this book even if you're not into basketball. He's probably what you think a marketing guy should be. Creative, uncommon and full of power. If you want to read about marketing that stands out of common marketing then this is the book for you!
The Referral Engine
Not as loud as Ice to the Eskimos but filled with love and thought about your customers. Show love to your customer and he will probably learn to love you. I think this book is ideal if you work in some sort of service industry where you have direct contact to your customers. But even if you build some product, you can learn a lot about how to please your customer and why pens as advertising gifts probably won't work.
Best of Organization
The E-Myth
Probably one of the most important books if you got more than one employee. Micheal E. Gerber shows you how you can organize your company so that you don't have to work in the company but you can work on the company. This book is so full of useful ideas and their implementations that you probably won't be disappointed.
Built to Sell
One could say that Built To Sell is a unofficial sequel to The E-Myth. John Warrillow tells this excellent story in this book about a guy who has a advertising company and he wants to sell it. Like The E-Myth this book shows how to make yourself dispensable in your company - and so got more time for other important things. Awesome book, even if you never will sell your company.
Best of Entrepreneurship
Running Lean
The best book, I read, about customer development. Ash Maurya explains demonstrates colorful how to find markets, test your ideas and track your objectives. Furthermore, the book is neatly organized and quite short. If you want to start a company then Running Lean should be on your reading list.
Best of Management
A book for people how value quality over quantity. The guys from 37signals explain their business philosophy in Rework and it's excellent. It's a down to earth approach on running a business - work less, but better - stay simple - hire reasonably. A magnificent book for small and medium sized business owners or new entrepreneurs.
Some will already know Derek Sivers from his blog sivers.org. Sivers started CDBaby, a CD distributor for independent musicians, in 1998. He sold it 2007 when the company had $100m in revenue. He tells his story of CDBaby in detail in this book and it's quite interesting.
Sivers was a musician before starting CDBaby and he created a small online shop for his CDs and other musicians asked him if he can offer their CDs, too. After a while more and more musicians asked for distribution and CDBaby grew. He said that after a while he talked to his first employee and said that they maybe need a second employee and he don't want to grow the company.
It's quite funny how he found a perfect opportunity but didn't realize then that it was one. One main objective or like Guy Kawasaki would say the mantra of Sivers was to help musicians. Everything should help musicians to distribute their CDs.
If you are the owner of a company you can do with it anything you want. You don't have to follow some strict rules or even some "common sense". Sivers avoided lots of formalities and did just the stuff he wanted. For example, often people think that CEOs are handling the business deals - Sivers never wanted to do that - he looked for persons who were motivated and good at doing deals and let them do the work. But he enjoyed coding and thinking about improving his business and this was what he did.
He also talks a lot about delegation and overdelegation. At one point he delegated nearly everything to his employees, even the profit-sharing plan. After a while somebody said to him that his employees take all the profit, which wasn't really into his intention. The result argument lead him to leave the USA and work alone from the UK.
Anything You Want is a really interesting story because he talks so much about things that gone wrong but it never appeared that he was unhappy in retro-perspective. I think the main points are that you should somehow help other people in providing products or services to them and that you can do anything you want with your business. All in all a real nice book, quite short but insightful. Do what makes you happy!
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And an other book on education - mostly higher education but also K12. The book consists of two parts. In the first part he talks about the status of education in the US and in the second part he presents his recommendations.
A common dream of lots of American people is that everybody can be a superstar. They think that everybody should go to college and that schools are so bad that it's not surprising that some people lag behind. Is that so?
Murray takes an interesting approach but not so surprising knowing his background. He takes the theory of intelligence, i.e. g in connection with multiple intelligences and talks about abilities. Most of you are somewhere below in an ability, maybe bodily-kinesthetic or musical. That's pretty OK, but not everybody have to become a athlete or musician. However, if we talk about two other abilities: logical-mathematical and linguistic - lots of people think that everybody can become above average in them and there's the first problem. (I will address possible solutions later)
The second problem, which is related to the first problem, is that too many people go to college. It is estimated that only 10-15% of the people have to ability to achieve B- or better in a classical liberal arts education, i.e. languages, maths, science, philosophy, history and psychology. Today, about 90% of all high school graduates want to go to college and 70% enroll.
The third problem has to do with the top 10%. These are often not challenged by school and college or miss important things besides their professional education. Murray says that these people learn to be nice but not to be good.
What could be done? The first and second problem are related and the answer is choice and individual learning. Murray gave an example of someone who had great dexterity (top 5%) but otherwise was in about the top 30% overall. He could either become a electrician with a median income of about $44k or a manager with a median income of about $88k. At first, the choice seem clear but he probably will be a superb electrician but a below average manager. And now a 25 percentile manager is making about $34k and a top electrician more than $90k. Furthermore, in economic stressful times a bad manager will rather lay off than a great electrician.
But how does this student find the alternative that he could be an electrician? Charles Murray got different parts of the solution.
The first is to discover and focus on abilities and strengths in school. If you realize that some people got strengths and not everyone is the same then you can start and cultivate them. Together with this discovery there's a need for individual learning, that is students who are fast should go as fast as they want. There should be more flexibility in learning. I talked about all this stuff previously.
The last part is the stronger introduction of certifications instead of general college degrees. A favorite example of certifications proponents is the CPA which is acknowledge in the whole US and got a great deal of information about the ability of accountants. I personally think that certifications detached from college degrees are indeed some possibility for the future because knowledge will become more rapidly outdated and jobs will become more and more specialized.
The second part is about the liberal education in college. Some people think that liberal education have to wait till the college. This is pretty much arbitrary. Murray recommends that schools teach about history, science, literature, geography and economics in school, so that everybody will have a solid understanding of it.
The third problem goes in a different direction and Murray proposes that they learn especially about ethics. The main questions should be What is good? and How to live a Good life? It's important because a part of these people will later influence the public as writers, public figures or politicians and they should understand these questions and not just be nice. The second characteristics that should be learned is humility. Lots of clever humanities students that think that they are infallible because they never reached their limits. People studying maths or natural sciences nearly always reach their limits and quite fast but there are lots of people who just rush through the humanities without much trouble.
One would expect that this classic from 1911 is a clear contrast to the last book but actually it isn't so much different. I love reading classics especially in business classics because they most often contain better information that most of new business books. Frederick Taylor was probably the first one who observed production steps and optimized them. One of the most famous of his actions is the optimization of carrying pig-iron and putting it on a car. He improved the productivity enormously by using his methods - the problem is that most people forgot how he did it and where he applied his methods.
How he measured these production steps is quite interesting but I will leave it to you to read it in the book. I want to highlight things that we rediscovered in the last 30 years of so and that Taylor already promoted in this book.
His initial motivation is that he wanted to help the employees and the employer, i.e. there has to be a cooperation between the management and the workers. Both parties will profit by working together. I will take an example where he helped optimizing the inspection of bicycle balls. In this case the employees had to work only 8.5 hours at the end instead of 10.5 hours at the beginning - for the same pay - and the quality of inspection went drastically up. He recognized that the inspectors need breaks and don't have to work for so long. He even said that probably they could work even less and still increase the quality and quantity of the output.
How did he achieve this? Besides of analyzing every step of inspecting these balls, he always began with one worker. This and all the following workers will be taught individually and thoroughly. He says that change takes time. In this case it took him 8 years for 120 people to introduce his new methods. This is remarkable if you think about companies today with thousands who try to change their culture and business model and what not in one to two years.
Sure, there is legitimate critique of his ideas which he addressed by himself. One is that each movement is optimized which isn't psychologically ideal. However, he said that this works best with men like oxen and not for more intellectual jobs. Secondly, he says that his method only works for really easy jobs like carrying pig-iron or inspecting bicycle balls. Furthermore, he said that each worker can suggestions for improvements of the production steps and each suggestion should be tested and if it improves the process the individual should be highly rewarded.
Why did I find this so interesting? Firstly, he clearly says and already complains about people who don't understand the basics of Scientific Management, that is benefits for both parties. In contrast to managers who increase working hours and cut pay.
Secondly, he never said that this could be used for more intellectual stimulating tasks. Some thing which carried into todays management - especially managers who want to micromanagement everything.
Thirdly, the taking of suggestions of actual workers which made Toyota about 50-60 years so famous was by then an old concept which was somehow forgotten.
Enormously interesting piece of management history. It is clearly written, Taylor explains his concepts clearly and demonstrates other people using it. I loved it.
This is one of the books where I just read the title and bought it. Recently, I talked with a friend about rewards and rules and we noticed that they often lead to out crawling from intrinsic motivations. He said "if I have to do something in 48 hours, I will take at least 48 hours - if I can choose my time freely, I probably will do it immediately." You probably had similar experiences.
Some of these observations will be true. Alfie Kohen wrote lots of other books about schooling and the use of rewards, so this bit in the book is especially interesting.
His main objective is a critique of pop behaviorism, i.e. you have to give something to get something or equivalent with punishments. If I want the kids to learn about history, I have to get them grades. If I want my kids to eat healthier I have to reward them after eating. Or in business settings: If I want my employees to get three new accounts I have to pay them extra for each one. It's so inherent in our thinking that it have to be challenged.
So what is Kohn saying about this? I read a great amount of studies and presented his findings. The first and most fundamental is that rewards often don't work and sometimes they worsen the situation. There are some things to understand.
Firstly, rewards punish. A typical setting is some superior (teacher, boss, parent) who compliments you if you did something great. What is if your superior doesn't compliment you? It's basically punishment. Punishment and rewards each side of one coin. There are study that found that even compliments can be bad if they are linked to some objective. That's important! Unexpected rewards sometimes are better than none but as long as you link it so a objective it basically become some form of punishment.
Secondly, rewards distorts your intentions. If you offer your kid a buck for each carrot she eats, she will eat more carrots because of the buck not because of the carrot. The eating of a carrot is the unpleasant thing to do to get the buck. You wanted to promote eating healthy food and instead promoted that healthy food is unpleasant.
Thirdly, rewards crowd out intrinsic motivation. There's some kind of myth that you can add motivations, that is if you are intrinsic motivated and someone gives you money/praise/etc for doing this task that you will be even more motivated. Actually, motivation doesn't work that way. If you are not motivated at all, then of course, extrinsic motivation motivates you to do the task. However, if you already are intrinsic motivated the extrinsic motivation can crowd your complete intrinsic motivation out and replace it with extrinsic motivation. This effect is rather famous in economics and studied in psychology.
You will probably think that extrinsic motivation isn't good but we don't have any alternatives. Kohn himself thinks that it's hard because extrinsic motivators are so easy to create. Just throw some money in and you're done. But there are alternatives which aren't so easy to implement but have a less damaging effect.
The first one is collaboration. Work with your subordinate together to solve the problem or let him work with outer people. Alfie Kohn cites an interesting case where a mother went crazy because her child don't wanted to go to sleep at 9pm. She tried nearly everything but she never tried to understand why her child don't wanted to go to sleep. The same goes for pupils who come to repeatedly to late to school or unmotivated employees. Talk to them and help to solve them the problem. If you're employee doesn't like to work at your place then it's probably the best for both of you that he looks for another job. It's not the easy way but it does solve problems instead of treating symptoms.
Secondly, content is important. It's rather easy in think about it in the schooling field. Don't let kids learn things that are boring. For example, he talked about dates in history and I agree. The interesting thing about the Franz Ferdinand's dead isn't that he died on a Sunday or at June 28 but rather that this coincidence lead to the first World War. You can make probably most things interesting and you should!
The last one is choice. The more freedom you allow the more intrinsic motivated people will be. For example, he shows that for uninteresting work the best one can do is, to let people handle it the way they want. Even for interesting work this has a positive effect and the business literature begins to include it. We let people work from their home or they don't have to be in office from 8 to 5 but rather just have to get some task done till some date. This exactly the choice which helps to increase people's motivation.
This book got so many interesting studies in it that I recommend this book to nearly everyone but to everyone who is some form of authority: Parents, teacher, supervisors.
By now, you probably have guessed that I think institutionalized education isn't that great. Most of my marketable skills are self-learned, I pretty much started this at the age of 13 reading books about computer hardware. It's just was and is natural curiosity.
I'm of course not alone. Lots of people, especially in the IT-sector, are self-learned and they are mostly better than their peers - why? Because they love what they do, they haven't learned programming or security or testing just to get a job but rather because they love to learn about new stuff. One of them is James Bach.
In his book Secrets of a Buccaneer Scholar he told his story about dropping out of high school, living on his own and learning programming. With 21 he was hired by Apple as a software testing manager and today he is an established expert in software testing and gets invited to (academic) conferences. He is happy and loves what he's doing.
He wrote about his life outside of the mainstream and addressed some issues I had recently. The first one and probably one which affects more people is about learning. After the first years of university I thought that you have to learn everything like they do. That is, take a text book, work through most of the exercises and take the next one. In my school time, I just had three or five books laying around and used them more as references if I needed to solve some problem.
James Bach had a similar problem and recognized that you have to use your motivations. If you are interested into something, just learn about it - read books, talk to people about it, watch videos. Use the momentum and satisfy your learning needs.
On the other hand. If you're not really interested in learning anything - just leave it. There will be some time when you're full of motivation again. This was utterly important for me. I was stuck in this situation where I had a book piling up and thought that I have to work through it before beginning the next one. Now, I just left it. When I'm again interested in it, I will work with it.
The next thing concerns the choice of topics and books. His basic structure are topics on which he wants to learn more - often questions, like "why are some countries poor and other are rich?". But he don't have to follow some path. Let your mind wander.
You will discover new areas that you even have thought about in the beginning.
Furthermore, I want to talk about building credibility which will be your disadvantage at first. If you don't have a college or high school degree you're in a bit of disadvantage but only if you haven't done anything presentable.
When I was 15 or so, I fixed lots of computers of friends and their parents and slowly more people heard about my ability which gave me credibility. They come to more to fix the computers I got even paid. This works really fine on a local level and often leads to local job offerings. But it doesn't have to be limited on local opportunities. You can easily make the world your market.
For artists it's pretty standard to have a portfolio with one's works. It's getting also more traction for programmers which is in my opinion great because it doesn't matter how you learned you stuff, it matters how good you are. And the internet is a great accelerator. Present your knowledge on a blog, Q&A sites or start a youtube channel.
I really liked this book because I could relate to so many things and events in this book. I would probably recommend this book to someone who's self-learning for some years. If you are new to self-learning just let your mind flow and learn about things that you're interested in.
An other book by Kieran Egan where he talks about his different methods of approaching a topic and its implementation.
I talked a bit about these different methods and will now deepen it them a bit. His main idea is that knowledge should be deep and linked.
The first one is Mythic Understanding. This includes stories, metaphors, binary structures, rhymes, play, jokes and pattern. Stories are a very important elements, so is story telling. Even for adults story telling is great method for delivering information. Egan talks a lot about story telling and even wrote a book about it. He points out that stories should be made up. For example, if you want kids to teach about the days of week, you could just teach them the names and the order and they should memorize them. Or you could talk about the origin of each week day, what's special about it, etc. Just look up how much information there is on wikipedia on Friday.
The next step is Romantic Understanding. You probably remind the time you were in this phase. You are looking for extremes - the biggest machines or smallest animals, you start to get hobbies and start collecting things, heroes help kids overcome their fear. This can be easily integrated in teaching. This is probably the most commercialized phase with action heroes, card games, books and games.
After that Philosophic Understanding is starting. This phase is quite interested because some people would define it at the final phase. Abstractions and theories become more prevalent. People begin to form theories and try to explain with them specific situations. However, even Philosophic Understanding got some problems.
The final phase, so far, is Ironic Understanding. It's more interesting then you may think. Now there's a difference between what you say and what you mean. Besides that a problem of Philosophic Understanding is that you may try to squeeze everything into a model. Some scholars overreach themselves with generic models and just neglect outliners. Furthermore, it helps you to live a nice live. Sure lot is fucked up but you could either become depressive and/or manic about it or just laugh about some stupid things happening.
The second part talks about a scenario how this ideas could be implemented. I won't go into detail - but it's a nice read.
All in all, it's an interesting book. I know that he explained his ideas more detailed in The Educated Mind - so maybe that's the better choice if you want to learn more about his ideas.
How does the future market of higher education looks like? Andrew Rosen, the CEO of Kaplan, presents his ideas and takes a look in the past of higher education in the USA. At the beginning there were colleges, like the Harvard College. Interestingly, there isn't much known about John Harvard. The most important thing was that he donated his library and half of his money after his dead to the nearby college.
At this time, Harvard was a college where young men could learn about science and the arts. Most, didn't graduate. It was rather so that they stayed two years there and learned about different subjects. Other universities like Brown or Princeton had a similar history. They play be the same rules. Tons of money, highly prestigious, strong in research. Rosen says they use the Ivy-League Playbook.
The next higher education institutions came later when people found out that American agriculture is much less efficient that European because the lack of knowledge. This lead to land-grant colleges which provided knowledge for farmers. The older colleges were strictly against this type of colleges because it would undermine the spirit of higher education. Today, some of those land-grant colleges evolved into Cornell University or the MIT.
A more modern form of these land-grant colleges are community colleges. The offer education for everybody, for people who aren't "college material", who want to improve their skills or who want to learn something new. These colleges play be the All-Access Playbook.
If we move a bit in time a new form of higher education institutes evolves. Like the Kaplan University or the University of Phoenix. These institutions focus on learning and a lead like a company. Basicially they are like All-Access institutions but a bit more advanced. This is the For-Profit Playbook.
Before we go future playbook, I will show why Rosen made this distinction. Lots of decent institutions try to play the Ivy-League Playbook which is called Harvard-envy. Instead of spending money on the education of their students, they spend their money on new buildings or try to buy famous professors. They try to build up their prestige.
A nice example is the High Point University that spend tons of money in building a prestige luxury resort for students. That's nice, sure but you can't argue that these investments are necessary for better learning.
The future playbook is the Learning Playbook. Rosen shows what could be and encourages institutions to try to become a learning institution instead of accumulating more prestige. The Learning Playbook focuses totally on student's learning. It will use modern technology, use new scientific findings to improve the learning. Learning will become more individualist, more mobile and more global.
Andrew Rosen did a great job in presenting the history of higher-education in the US and differentiating it. I don't know if the Learning Playbook will be so institutionalized because we saw more and more small players and micro education platforms like skillshare.com. But of course, it's uncertain but it would be nice if he included that. Great book!
The next title that talks about schooling. Daniel Willingham, cognitive scientist, took the interesting topic of students and school and asks Why don't Students like School?
If you haven't read the post of Dumbing Us Down this is probably a good time because Willingham talks about a lot of statements which were made by Gatto.
Do we have to force kids to learn? No. People are naturally curious, it rather happens that school is destroying this natural curiosity. He talks about the differences in people. Why are some kids good at maths and other aren't? Some part is genetically but not everything. A theory is that e.g. maths feels easier for you, that leads that you want to learn more about maths, maybe join a math club, etc. which in the end leads to extraordinary abilities. The process of deliberate practice was discussed in Talent Is Overrated.
Which brings us to the next point. Deep knowledge is better than shallow knowledge. Firstly, we will need some factual knowledge before going to more difficult tasks. This has to do with working memory. You can only hold up a specific amount of information at a time. However, you can compress this knowledge. For example, it's hard to remember this letters: O, D, E, L, E, W, N, K, G but if you scramble them it becomes knowledge which is quite easy to remember. The same holds for mathematical formulas, design principles and other things. The second important thing is that deep knowledge leads to long term knowledge. Willingham cites a study which tested the ability to do calculus after 5, 10, 15 and 20 years. People how took more than one class and got C remembered substantially more than people how just took one class and got an A.
This aren't the positive things about deep knowledge, furthermore it helps you to connect to new ideas more easily which is named context learning. In conclusion, deep knowledge rocks. Learning in Depth talked about more soft criteria of deep knowledge and is a nice complement to this book for this aspect.
The last chapters talk about some misconceptions like learning styles. Research shows that they aren't existent. There are no auditory or visual learning. Some things stimulate auditory regions and other visual regions.
Why don't Students like School? is my opinion are really great book which shows what's important and why we should recheck our theories after some years. If you are interested in learning and want a nice introduction, this is the book for you. Recommendation.
A better title, but less appealing one, would probably be A history of markets. Matt Ridley tells us about the economic history from the beginning human kind till today. How does it come, that we build cities, have markets for food, internet services or books and can communicate easily over thousands of miles. How come that other creatures can't do this? Ridley begins about 500,000 years ago where some humans haven't just traded equal things but rather unequal things. We can see, for example, for some races of apes that clean themselves mutually. But they don't exchange cleaning for food. When this began, the humans could specialize. We know that specialization leads to efficiencies and surplus.
This was the beginning of our modern history. It was the first time humans really advanced. Ridley states that for millions of years the design of axes haven't changed, because nobody had the possibility to invest time in trying better design and doing everything else, only specialization allowed that. The next thing is exchanging ideas. He tells about a tribe which knew how to build boats and lived in isolation. Some generations, nobody knew how to build boats and they switched back into more primitive technology. That is, without the exchange of ideas, technology will be lost.
The next big thing were traders. For the first time, people haven't produced but rather solely transported goods and traded it with others. Why is this so important? The traders not only transported goods, the transported ideas. The bought ideas from India to Europe and vice versa. Furthermore, they often lead to building of cities which were often later destroyed by people obsessed with power.
So we have specialization, exchange of ideas and traders. What happened in these centuries where our progress seems to stop or even shrink. The same that happened to the tribe with their boat. States decided to become nationalistic and to close their boarders. This stopped trade and with it the exchange of ideas and for some part specialization. Furthermore, this lead to decreasing specialization and people moved back to rural areas and became farmers again.
The last part talks about the Malthusian fallacy which hasn't happened but could if we move back to more primitive technologies, nationalization or generalization. If you haven't informed you about the last 100 - 200 years of economic history, this part is pretty interesting.
In conclusion, I really liked The Rational Optimist. Matt Ridley took lots of time for researching this topic and introduces you to economic history. If you are interested in this, this book is a great choice.


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NEW YORK (AFP) - The New York Police Department (NYPD) already has the long arm of the law. Now, it gets X-ray eyes.
Officers are in the advanced stages of testing a futuristic new weapon in their war against gun-toting residents: a device that can detect the presence of hidden metal from a distance. The device measures terahertz, the natural energy emitted by people and objects.
"If something is obstructing the flow of that radiation, for example a weapon, the device will highlight that object," NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly said in a speech on Thursday.
The boxy machine can be hidden in a vehicle, allowing officers to discreetly scan their target. The device is being seen as a possible alternative to the NYPD's reliance on the controversial tactic of stop-and-frisk, where officers routinely search large numbers of men in high-crime areas.
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Newly Obese- After Graduation
Why fat people? Just please tell me why.
Why don't people ever realize that they get fat and be like "Holy shit I'm fucking disgusting I need to change this now"?
It's a shame to see so many of my beloved peers go from high school supermodels to beached whales barely able to stand up properly. It's actually fucking stupid, do they just look at themselves and say "Oh I've always been a fat disgusting shit, I'm still a good person though so I'll just not do anything different"?
Free reality check coming right up:
You are not beautiful on the inside.
You do not deserve everybody's respect. Nobody will respect your neglect to your own health.
You are not supposed to be comfortable with your body image.(Especially if it's an image of a fat sac of dick shit)
These are the very same assholes that talk for hours with infinite enthusiasm, go out clubbing every weekend, always eat at restaurants, drink heavily, and then cry to you and say their lonely. Wanna know why? It's because nobody wants to pork a baggy eyed, food dump, droopy cheeked fat fuck at the end of the night.
I hope you hate yourself and never find love you fat piece of shit. You take up too much room on this planet, you take up too much resources to keep alive, and people a few blocks away are on the street and starving.
When you learn self discipline on the most basic level of yourself maybe you can join the rest of the population and actually do things with us.
It really isn't so hard.
All you have to do is not eat the synthetic garbage that everyone calls food. If it isn't a fresh fruit, vegetable, or natural meat, it's a dairy or gluten chemical cocktail of cancer, dementia, and diabetes.
But it's okay if you don't want to give up your grilled cheese sandwiches and pizza, just don't take up a bed in the hospital before you die because some people actually need them. Guaranteed any ailment you have can be cured with natural ingredients, stop taking those toxic meds and get yourself educated you miserable whale fuck.


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Sendero de Chile. Though far from complete, the ambitious Chilean Trail will eventually provide a continuous north-south trail running the entire length of the country (8,500 km/5,282 mi). Currently 1,800 km (1,118 mi) of trail are equipped for hikers, bikers, and horseback riders.
Volcán Ojos del Salado. If you're a mountaineering enthusiast, you likely already know about Ojos de Salado in El Norte Chico. The world's highest active volcano, it soars to 6,893 meters (22,609 feet). There are dozens of other challenging climbs all along the eastern border of the country.
Pucón. Chile's all-around adventure destination is the area around Pucón and Villarrica, where everything from rafting and kayaking to climbing and horseback riding is available.
Valle Nevado. Since Chile's seasons are the opposite of the Northern Hemisphere's, you can ski or snowboard from June to September. Most of Chile's ski resorts are in the Andes close to Santiago. With the top elevations at the majority of ski areas extending to 3,300 meters (10,825 feet), you can expect long runs and deep, dry snow.
Southern Coast. Fly-fishermen should explore the trip options in southern Chile. There are numerous places to fish, most of which are much less crowded and much more remote than any place you may have been before.
Natural Wonders
Norway has fjords. Bavaria has forests. Nepal has mountains. Arizona has deserts. Chile offers all these—so it's understandable if you feel disoriented each time you step off a domestic flight that's whisked you from one region to another.
The Andes. A defining feature of Santiago is its proximity to the Andes. They dwarf downtown office buildings, and serve as a convenient way to get oriented. Everywhere else you might go in Chile, the Andes will be there as a defining characteristic, and a reminder of the isolation from which Chile is recently emerging.
Atacama Desert. The most arid spot on Earth is in El Norte Grande's Atacama Desert; no measurable precipitation has ever been recorded there. The region's Cerros Pintados form the world's largest group of geoglyphs.
Volcán Villarrica. This volcano in the Lake District is one of the world's most active—although you shouldn't let this deter you from hiking to the snow-covered summit.
Laguna San Rafael. A cobalt-blue mountain of ice, this 4-km (2½-mi) glacier south of Coyhaique in the Aisén Region is a doubly arresting attraction: it gives off thunderous sounds as chunks of it break off and stir up the water as you pass by (safely on your ship, of course).
Parque Nacional Fray Jorge. This is Chile's only cloud forest, and a great retreat from the relentless sun of El Norte Chico.
Torres del Paine. No photo can ever do justice to the ash-gray, glacier-molded spires of Patagonia's most visited attraction.
The Pleasures of the Vine
Back in the 1980s, when formerly inexpensive California wines started to jump in price, Chilean vintners saw an opening and began to introduce their products to the world. The rest, as they say, is history.
Concha y Toro. Chile's largest winery has a number of different labels—some made exclusively for the Chilean market—that usually offer good value. It's an easy day trip from Santiago, and the tours are extremely popular.
Matetic. If you drive between Santiago and the beach towns of Viña del Mar and Valparaíso—or then again, even if you don't—make time to stop at Matetic, a unique property in the San Antonio Valley. There's plenty to see and do, including eating at the restaurant, bicycling around the property, and visiting the strikingly modern winery.
Tren del Vino. Taste several of Colchagua's best wines by taking this train on one of its Saturday trips between San Fernando and the Greenvic station. In the Colchagua Valley, ultramodern Casa Lapostolle is also well worth visiting. Its Clos Apalta 2005 vintage was named the top wine of the year by Wine Spectator in 2008.
Although there may not be a genre of Chilean music as well known as Argentine tango or Brazilian samba or bossa nova, Chilean musicians have produced a wide variety of high-quality music.
Folkloric music. Los Hermanos Campos and Los Huasos Quincheros are two well-known folkloric groups that include cuecas (music to accompany the eponymous Chilean national dance) among their repertoire. "La Cueca Brava" is a more urban/explicit version of cueca, performed by Los Chileneros, or (in a more modern version) by the female group Las Capitalinas. Chiloé is known for its folkloric music, as is Easter Island. Groups like Inti-Illimani, Los Jaivas, and Illapu mix Andean music and Latin American folklore with other elements like rock, jazz, and even reggae.
The Parra Family. The Parras are a prolific and influential musical/artistic family in Chile. Members include Violeta Parra, perhaps the most important Chilean musician to date, her son Angel (folklore musician), and Angel's daughter Javiera, of the band Javiera y Los Imposibles (pop/rock).
Rock. Los Prisioneros, Joe Vasconcellos, Los Tetas, Tiro de Gracia, Chancho en Piedra, La Ley, Lucybell, Saiko, Los Bunkers, and Los Tres are some of the most important Chilean rockeros.
Hear it Live. For live music in Santiago, try La Peña de los Parras, el Club de Jazz de Santiago, La Casa en el Aire, and El Mesón Nerudiano. Some of the most important annual music events in Chile are the Festival de la Canción in Viña del Mar (February), Santiago's Festival Internacional Providencia Jazz (January), and the Lake District's Semanas Musicales de Frutillar (January and February).
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If there were no Himalayan ranges, what would have been the most likely geographical impact on India?
1. Much of the country would experience the cold waves from Siberia.
2. Indo-gangetic plain would be devoid of such extensive alluvial soils.
3. The pattern of monsoon would be different from what it is at present.
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Non of the above....India particularly the north gangetic plain would have been turned into a large desert.....sans green corn fields sans the net of rivers....sans the rich culture that developed through ages.....Answered by Pradipta pati, 08 Jun '12 10:41 pm
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Screen Gems, the production company responsible for bringing the Resident Evil film franchise to the big screen, has reportedly signed on to deliver a live-action adaptation of The Last of Us. The creative director for the award-winning video game, Neil Druckmann, will write the script for the upcoming project with Naughty Dog's co-presidents Evan Wells and Christophe Balestra joining the production as creative architects.
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AE: So, it's interesting because for as small of a town as it is, it sounds like a really progressive and open artistic community.
ME: It even has a little community playhouse and I used to be an extra in the plays. My mom would write some songs and we had this friend who was a full-blooded Cherokee Indian, who would perform them. He actually just passed away a few years ago – I dedicated my album Sea-worthy to him. Jarrett Washington, he was an amazing pianist. But yeah, getting back to the town, it was a very artistic community. Progressive and unusual for East Tennessee.
AE: So I guess this works well with my next question – at what point did you come out as a lesbian?
ME: I came out in San Francisco. I moved out here with a boyfriend and I was very very very bi-curious. I was in a long relationship with a guy and when I told people from Tennessee that I was moving out to San Francisco they were like, "You're gonna start eating sushi and become a queer," and damn if that didn't happen! [Laughs]
AE: Well once you sit down and order a spicy tuna roll, there's no going back. Spicy tuna made me gay. Do you write your songs based mostly on your own life experiences?
ME: I think the core of what any writer writes is – there's always some emotional truth that is personal. With that said, I like to write about my weird obsessions. Like, when I wrote Sea-worthy I was really obsessed with reading Mutiny on the Bounty so there's a bunch of nautical references and references to the actual story, but I'm using them more as metaphors. Then with Juggler's Progress I had gotten really obsessed with thinking about how Shakespeare and literature are so persistent and how it can affect people. But again, I can think about it and use it as metaphors but music is all about emotion. Like poetry is all about trying to capture a moment and say some kind of emotional truth, like, "I feel s—-y" or, "I'm in love with this girl but I don't know how to say it."
AE: Well, I've always been one to trash my own poetry because it always seemed so cheesy to me in the end. But I find that there's a thin line between cheesy and authentically deep lyricism. How do you walk the line with that? Are you ever like, "Oh God that was so cheesy."
ME: Oh I totally throw so much stuff out. Not to brag but I'm known as a prolific writer around my scene in San Fran, but there are hundreds of songs where I'm just like, "Blaaaaah." For example the song, "Syllable," had so many verses and I was just like "Yuck!" I think you have to wield that carefully, that critical faculty, because just like you can cross the line of being cheesy, there's also a line where if you're too critical, you don't complete your work. So it's important to have that. I've become very self-critical and re-writey. But yeah you don't want to be cornball. We're True Margrit, we want to tell the truth. I just totally ran off a cliff but — have you seen Black Swan?
AE: Not yet, I'm a bad lesbian.
ME: The reason I ask is because – I don't want to give away spoilers – the lesbian scenes were disappointingly short. That one scene scene, it gets kind of hot and they start kissing and then they start doing this thing that instead of getting hot it turns into kind of a lonesome scene and I was like "S–t." The reason I bring it up is because all of those things you were saying about cheesiness, I kind of thought Black Swan was cheesy. I know, everyone thinks it was great and I must be perverse.
AE: Well not everyone loved it. I saw some people on my Facebook feed saying they wished they could have unseen it. But I won't judge until I see it for myself.
ME: It's pretty unrelentingly sad and totally worthy of seeing. Darren Aronofsky is incredibly talented but sometimes he's like, (screams) "I am using a metphor now!" [Laughs]
AE: Well I can't wait to see it now! So, when I listen to your music, I hear definite comparisons to Ben Folds – definitely in your piano and sometimes even in your vocals. Have you been watching his a capella reality show?
ME: I haven't! Wait, what!? Ben Folds has a reality show?
AE: Yeah, it's him, one of the guys from Boyz II Men and that chick from the Pussycat Dolls and they judge this a capella competition — kind of like Glee.
ME: No, I'll have to check it out. I love musicals and Glee is fun.
AE: It's fun but it makes me uncomfortable when the characters sing to each other. The faces they make – make me really uncomfortable.
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Topics: Delivery of Care, Aging, Medicare
Jun 27, 2014
The typical hospice undergoes a full government inspection about once every six years, according to The Washington Post, making it one of the least scrutinized areas of U.S. health care. Meanwhile, more than three dozen hospices and health care groups are protesting a new rule designed to avoid duplicate payments for medications, saying it puts "undue burden" on dying patients.
The Washington Post: Is That Hospice Safe? Infrequent Inspections Mean It May Be Impossible To Know
The typical hospice in the United States undergoes a full government inspection about once every six years, according to federal figures, making it one of the least-scrutinized areas of U.S. health care — even though about half of older Americans receive hospice care at the ends of their lives. By contrast, nursing homes are inspected about once a year, and home health agencies every three years. ... The nature of hospice care makes ensuring its quality difficult. Hospices typically send nurses and other personnel to a patient's residence — whether at a private home, a nursing home or an assisted-living facility. The dispersal of patients makes oversight difficult to begin with, but the infrequency of inspections means shortcomings are even less likely to be detected (Whoriskey, 6/26).
Reuters: New Drug Policy Too Burdensome, Hospices Say
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services met Wednesday with 30 hospice and healthcare organizations after outcry over a new rule. The rule was designed to help avoid duplicate payments for hospice medications but may be having unintended consequences. More than 40 organizations called for the rule's suspension in a letter this week to CMS. Signed by the American Medical Association, the American Society of Clinical Oncology and the American Geriatrics Society, it argues the policy places "undue burden" on beneficiaries -- requiring "dying patients to navigate payer disputes" (Belisomo, 6/26).
Related KHN coverage: Medicare Seeks To Stop Overpayments For Hospice Patients' Drugs (Jaffe, 5/1).
Meanwhile, a columnist explains how hospice works -
Miami Herald: Ask Nancy: What You Should Know About Hospice Care
Q. My mother has been referred to hospice care for end-stage COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease). I understand that prescription medications related to this condition are covered by Medicare hospice benefits. But what about the other medications that she currently takes for conditions including high cholesterol, elevated blood pressure and low thyroid. Will these continue to be covered under her Medicare prescription plan? Allison W., Jacksonville. A.I receive a lot of questions about hospice, so your question offers me an opportunity to provide a more detailed explanation about how hospice works (Stein, 6/26).
This is part of Kaiser Health News' Daily Report - a summary of health policy coverage from major news organizations. The full summary of the day's news can be found here and you can sign up for e-mail subscriptions to the Daily Report here. In addition, our staff of reporters and correspondents file original stories each day, which you can find on our home page.
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text: On a Wednesday off, I told a coworker that I would drive her from New York to Alintown town PA for her Gandmothers Birthday party, because I had the room for her and 3 more of her cusins, in brooklyn, to go as long as they payed for the gas and tolls. Everything was fine because we filled up in jersey($35), I had my Gps from work and My girl in the passanger seat. But this storm rolled in half way throw PA that made it Impossible to drive late at night. But we pushed on anyway, then the Gps that I use for work stopped working. I asked the ladies if they knew there way from there and they did so we cranked up the music and kept it pushing. when we got there everyone was happy to see them and it seemed like a big family. Everyone was thanking me for bring them home. So I asked them how to get back to New York and they told me how to take the parkway But I've never used it before. I look at my girl and she's confident so I'm good. Jump back in the truck and started off home. I didn't check the gas gauge till we hit the expressway and it was a little less then half. So I set the cruise control and let it ride for 2 hours. seen the sign for new york and check the gas again, it was at the last line. With no G.P.S I took the Parkway because I didn't know how to get to rout 1 – 9 that well yet, late night and got my girl in the passager sleeping. 5 o'clock coming around sun is coming up and im hearing the low gas bells I haven't seen city lights in so long I started to get nervis. So I seen the sign for police station ahead and pulled in. Come to find out i was 300 miles away from Albany NY I took the parkway the wrong way. With no money till Friday and no gas. So I asked them to point me in the right direction and got on my way. I set the cruise crontrol to 1500rpm because it would stretch the gas but I was only going 45mph. Sleeping beauty wakes up and askes where we at. I told her we are getting closer… 4 hours later we are outside of sleep hollow NJ turnpike, 2 hour into the redline, we reach manhatton and just before the engine cut off we reached home. I turned the key in the driveway to go to the gas station 2 days later when my check cleared and it got to blocks down and died on the road with enough momentem to coast into the gas station where i pushed it on the pump.


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Czech Embassy participated in CFAB charity fair 2011
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On 10-11 May, 2011 the 52nd international charity fair was organized in Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea. Czech Embassy in London was among 72 participating embassies, offering the traditional Czech products under the auspices of Mrs Jana Žantovská, the Ambassador´s wife. More than 6 000 visitors came during the two days.
The traditional charity event is organized every spring to support the CFAB (Protecting Children And Uniting Families Across Borders), helping children and families in need under the patronage of HRH Princess Alexandra. The participating embassies sell national products and promote their countries to visitors.
James Husband, the Mayor of the RBKC opened the fair and later visited the Czech stall, accompanied by the Ambassadador Michael Žantovský. The Czech products were donated by six companies. Archa Program and Ceeda Cavity and Kouzelné hračky provided classical wooden toys. AG Plus and Czech Bijoux donated the traditional jewellery and the Czech traditional china was offered by Epiag Lofida. Mineral water Mattoni and renowned beer Pilsner Urquell were available for customers, too.
The Ambassador´s wife Mrs Jana Žantovská presented the Czech products to HRH Princess Alexandra who was interested in the ecological beeswax finishing of the wooden toys.
The CFAB international fair became a social event during its more than fifty years of history. Czech Republic´s participation is a very important part of the country promotion in the United Kingdom, as well as towards the international community.


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The creator of Irem's Disaster Report titles has revealed he is working on a new title for PSN. As reported by Kotaku, Kazuma Kujo revealed the game will be available for PS3 and PlayStation Vita download. It will however skip … Continue reading
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Following the announcement of PlayStation Vita's North American launch line-up, Sony has confirmed prices for some of the device's first-party titles in Europe. Prices are as follows: Uncharted: Golden Abyss – €49.99/£44.99 ModNation Racers: Road Trip – €39.99/£34.99 Everybody's Golf … Continue reading
Sony has revealed which titles make up PlayStation Vita's launch line-up in North America on February 22, 2012. First-party titles include: Escape Plan (PSN Only) Hot Shots Golf: World Invitational Hustle Kings (PSN Only) Little Deviants ModNation Racers: Road Trip … Continue reading
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Orchard Park, NY - (Buffalo Bills Release) - The Buffalo Bills announced today that the Verizon Wireless Training Camp schedule will begin on Thursday, July 29, 2010 at the St. John Fisher campus in Pittsford. This marks the 11th year that the Bills will hold their training camp in the Rochester region.
The first open practice to fans is tentatively scheduled for Thursday, July 29 from 3:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. The first night practice will be the following evening on Friday, July 30th from 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Admission is complimentary for all fans. Tickets are required for each of the tentatively scheduled eight night practices throughout training camp.
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The last practice of the Buffalo Bills Verizon Wireless Training Camp is scheduled for Tuesday, August 24.
Details on when and how to obtain the complimentary night practice tickets will be made available at a later date. The daily finalized training camp schedule will also be made available on buffalobills.com at 2:00 p.m. on Thursday afternoon, May 27.
"Verizon Wireless is proud to be the title sponsor of the 2010 Verizon Wireless Training Camp and we're thrilled for the team's return to St. John Fisher," stated Russ Preite, president of Verizon Wireless' Upstate New York Region. "The Bills camp is one of the premier fan experiences in the NFL and a great event for the Rochester community. The Bills are one of the most well-known and respected brands in Upstate New York, and training camp helps strengthen our alignment with the team."
In addition, Bills Hall of Fame quarterback Jim Kelly will host a one-day football clinic for kids ages eight through eighteen at St. John Fisher College on Monday, July 26 to kickoff the return of the Bills to Training Camp. For more information on the Jim Kelly Football Camp and one-day clinic, fans may visit www.JimKellyFootballCamp.com or call 716-204-0900.


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Sunday night was not the best night to watch a Utah Jazz game. The Jazz got rolled by the Golden State Warriors by 28 points. There were some articles put up yesterday around the web about the Jazz, that if you didn't get a chance to read them, you can catch them below in our Monday edition of the Morning Jazz!
Over at SLC Dunk, the wrote an article yesterday talking about the uncertain future of Marvin Williams. Marvin will be an unrestricted free agent this summer and has expressed that he wants to be apart of the youth movement with the Utah Jazz. Although Marvin has expressed that, is it something that should happen? In this article, SLC Dunk explains their thoughts on what Marvin's future could hold. (via SLCDunk.com)
Everyone has talked a lot about the upcoming NBA Draft and how much stock that has been put into it. Another article talking about draft picks is one from the Examiner. In the article, they focus on the potential Jazz draft picks playing in the Final Four this weekend. Everyone knows about Julius Randle and has put a lot of focus on him, but there are quite a few other guys in the Final Four that Jazz fans should really take a look at and get to know. (via Examiner.com)
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Morning Land is actually a form of purgatory.All the eggs in morning land are actually souls, needing to be escorted through Morning Land (a.k.a. purgatory), so they can be reincarnated (hatched), with the fruit acting as purification for the soul's sins. Billy and his friends are actually spirits tasked with guiding them safely through to be reincarnated. In order for the process to work properly though, the land has to be initially purified (in the form of bringing morning). When a soul is sucessfully 'reborn', as a thanks for guding it, it leaves behind a gift in the form of something to help, with the larger gifts (like animals and mounts) coming from those who have had to spend longer being guided/having their sins absolved. As for the chicks and chickens, they're a mix of souls who've stayed in order to help guide others to be reborn, and those who need more time before they can pass on, starting off as chickens, then regressing into chicks, and when they are ready to go - eggs. The Egg Spirits on the other hand, are souls who've dedicated their existence to caring for the Giant Egg, which acts as a local deity/ruler of Morning Land. As for the crows, they are forms of temptation trying to hinder the soul's development, to stop is sucessfully passing through.
Humans are aware of Morning Land's existence.It seems that in the world of Billy Hatcher (aka: the Human World) people are aware that there's a world called Morning Land, or at least it they know that the chickens have something to do with the sun rising everyday and that the crows are evil creatures. Why? if you look closely in the opening cutscene you can see that thare are a lot of items relating to chickens such as
Something big happened 100 years ago.In the game, Menie-Funie and some elders will give away hints that something happened 100 years ago, for example:
The Legendary Rooster Suit is actually NOT that legendary.Menie-Funie describes it as the LEGENDARY Rooster suit, meaning that there must be only one of it. Thou Rolly, Bantam and Chick are wearing rooster suits too, so what's the point of being so legendary?
Menie-Funie is not a God.He calls himself the one who watches over Morning Land, in Sonic & Sega all-stars racing he's refered as "Chicken King" and honestly, for being a God Menie doesn't seem to have a lot of knowledge about his own world, most of his hints are just speculations like "I've heard that there's an emblem somewhere in this place" so...either Menie is actually a king somehow watching over the heavens or he's just a very clueless God.
Morning Land is more complicated than it seems.
Crows are actual soldiers with specified ranks.Crows come in different categories which seem to divided in 3: 3rd,2nd and first rank crows
Dark Corvo is actually a girl.ok this may be a bit exagerated but its quite confusing to figure if Corvo is actually a dude or a dudette, why?
Corvo is not dead.This one is pretty famous and the reason of why some think that if there's a sequel, Dark Corvo will be the main antagonist, in all crows boss fights, after the boss' defeat it dissipates into a group of small crows. However Corvo didn't dissipated, he just entered into a hole that appeared in the ground and faded away, so the answers may be...
Raven is not dead.We all saw how Billy defeated Raven by crushing his heart using an egg. But... didn't Allani said that Raven is a being that rebirths every 100 years, meaning that even if he dies, he'll come back? or maybe crushing his heart will broke the rebirth cycle forever?
Rainbow Gate is not the only way to Giant Palace.The Rainbow Gate is supposed to be the only path to that place so, how did the crows got there before Billy? flying? then what's the point of the rainbow gate exactly? Maybe there's an alternate path that the chickens are unaware of.
The Giant Egg is something completely different.Well, we know its an egg...and honestly not THAT giant (it looks bigger in the map than in the actual stage) and that it holds great power and that it can grant any wish, but that's about it. It was never explained what's the real purpose of it, and why does something like that exist knowing that it can fall into the wrong hands?
Billy is an orphan.Even when running out from his house, there are no hints of his parents being around, he must be taking care of himself.