Sunday, January 10, 2016

Day 32 Utah Vacation

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Friday, January 8, 2016

Day 31 Television Shows



  • MSNBC
    • Your Business
      • http://www.msnbc.com/your-business
  • CNN
    • African Start-Up
      • http://www.cnn.com/specials/africa/african-startup
  • Bloomberg
    • Good Fortunes
      • http://www.bloomberg.com/news/special-reports/good-fortunes
  • CNBC Africa
      • http://www.cnbcafrica.com/tv/
  • It's Africa's Time
      • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlVSr7K1Oho
      • http://www.itsafricastime.org/stories/season-1

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Day 30 C-SPAN TV List

List of C-SPAN Shows to View


Date January 8, 2016

  • Will Davie
    • The Happiness Industry
  • Allison Kilkenny & Jamie Kilstein
    • #Newsfail
  • Katherine Franke
    • Wedlocked
  • Steven Hill
    • Raw Deal
  • Dinesh D'Souza
    • Stealing America
  • Susan Cheever
    • Drinking In America
  • Mehrsa Baradaran
    • How the Other Half Banks
  • Douglas Wilder
    • Son of Virginia
  • John Sedgwick
    • War of Two
  • Malcolm Gray
    • The Brain Electric
  • William Arkin
    • Unmanned
  • Alison Bass
    • Getting Screwed
  • Michelle Malkin & John Miano
    • Sold Out: How High-Tech

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Tuesday, January 5, 2016

Day 29 Slave Trade Research

Research on Slave Trade


  • Jews and the American Slave Trade
    • by Saul S. Friedman
      • Amazon Comment: The Nation of Islam's Secret Relationship between Blacks and Jews has been called one of the most serious anti-Semitic manuscripts published in years. This work of so-called scholars received great celebrity from individuals like Louis Farrakhan, Leonard Jeffries, and Khalid Abdul Muhammed who used the document to claim that Jews dominated both transatlantic and antebellum South slave trades. As Saul Friedman definitively documents in Jews and the American Slave Trade, historical evidence suggests that Jews played a minimal role in the transatlantic, South American, Caribbean, and antebellum slave trades.
  • Slave Trade of Eastern Africa
    • by R.W. Beachey
      • Amazon Comment: 
  • Understanding Global Slavery: A Reader
    • by Kevin Bales
      • Amazon Comment: Although slavery is illegal throughout the world, we learned from Kevin Bales's highly praised exposé, Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy, that more than twenty-seven million people—in countries from Pakistan to Thailand to the United States--are still trapped in bondage. With this new volume, Bales, the leading authority on modern slavery, looks beyond the specific instances of slavery described in his last book to explore broader themes about slavery's causes, its continuation, and how it might be ended. Written to raise awareness and deepen understanding, and touching again on individual lives around the world, this book tackles head-on one of the most urgent and difficult problems facing us today.
  • The African in Latin America
    • by Ann M. Pescatello
      • Amazon Comments: Originally published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1975, this volume is directed toward students of history, sociology and minority studies who wish to gain a fuller understanding of the experience of Africans in the New World and of the contributions they have made to Latin American culture.
  • The Sophists
    • by W.K.C. Guthrie
      • Amazon Comment: The third volume of Professor Guthrie's great history of Greek thought, entitled The Fifth-Century Enlightenment, deals in two parts with the Sophists and Socrates, the key figures in the dramatic and fundamental shift of philosophical interest from the physical universe to man. Each of these parts is now available as a paperback with the text, bibliography and indexes amended where necessary so that each part is self-contained. The Sophists assesses the contribution of individuals like Protagoras, Gorgias and Hippias to the extraordinary intellectual and moral fermant in fifth-century Athens. They questioned the bases of morality, religion and organized society itself and the nature of knowledge and language; they initiated a whole series of important and continuing debates, and they provoked Socrates and Plato to a major restatement and defence of traditional values.
  • The Economics of the Indian Ocean Slave Trade in the Nineteenth Century
    • by William Gervase Clarence-Smith
  • Where the Negroes Are Masters: An African Port in the Era of the Slave Trade
    • by Randy Sparks
      • Amazon Comment: Annamaboe was the largest slave trading port on the eighteenth-century Gold Coast, and it was home to successful, wily African merchants whose unusual partnerships with their European counterparts made the town and its people an integral part of the Atlantic's webs of exchange. Where the Negroes Are Masters brings to life the outpost's feverish commercial bustle and continual brutality, recovering the experiences of the entrepreneurial black and white men who thrived on the lucrative traffic in human beings.  Located in present-day Ghana, the port of Annamaboe brought the town's Fante merchants into daily contact with diverse peoples: Englishmen of the Royal African Company, Rhode Island Rum Men, European slave traders, and captured Africans from neighboring nations. Operating on their own turf, Annamaboe's African leaders could bend negotiations with Europeans to their own advantage, as they funneled imported goods from across the Atlantic deep into the African interior and shipped vast cargoes of enslaved Africans to labor in the Americas.
  • Sweet Water and Bitter: The Ships That Stopped the Slave Trade
    • by Sian Rees
      • Amazon Comment: 
      • In 1807, at the height of the Napoleonic war, ships of nearly all the European nations crowded the malarial wharves of West Africa where merchants traded at the great slaveholding pens and packed their human property into ships’ holds bound for the sugar mills of Cuba and Haiti, and the tobacco plantations of Virginia.  In that same year Great Britain passed the Abolition Act, and the last English slave ship left the African coast with her cargo, shortly to be replaced by the ships and men of the Royal Navy’s Preventive Squadron. For the next fifty years this small fleet patrolled 3,000 miles of treacherous coastline in a determined, unilateral, and only quasi-legal effort to interdict vessels with their human cargoes.
  • Inheriting the Trade; A Northern Family Confronts Its Legacy as the Largest Slave-Trading Dynasty in U.S. History
    • by Thomas Norman DeWolf
      • Amazon Comment: In 2001, Thomas DeWolf discovered that he was related to the most successful slave-trading family in U.S. history, responsible for transporting at least ten thousand Africans. This is his memoir of the journey in which ten family members retraced their ancestors' steps through the notorious triangle trade route—from New England to West Africa to Cuba—and uncovered the hidden history of New England and the other northern states.
  • The African Salve in Colonial Peru, 1524-1650
    • by Frederick P. Bowser
  • Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market
    • by Walter Johnson
      • Amazon Comment: Soul by Soul tells the story of slavery in antebellum America by moving away from the cotton plantations and into the slave market itself, the heart of the domestic slave trade. Taking us inside the New Orleans slave market, the largest in the nation, where 100,000 men, women, and children were packaged, priced, and sold, Walter Johnson transforms the statistics of this chilling trade into the human drama of traders, buyers, and slaves, negotiating sales that would alter the life of each. What emerges is not only the brutal economics of trading but the vast and surprising interdependencies among the actors involved. Using recently discovered court records, slaveholders’ letters, nineteenth-century narratives of former slaves, and the financial documentation of the trade itself, Johnson reveals the tenuous shifts of power that occurred in the market’s slave coffles and showrooms. Traders packaged their slaves by “feeding them up,” dressing them well, and oiling their bodies, but they ultimately relied on the slaves to play their part as valuable commodities. Slave buyers stripped the slaves and questioned their pasts, seeking more honest answers than they could get from the traders. In turn, these examinations provided information that the slaves could utilize, sometimes even shaping a sale to their own advantage. Johnson depicts the subtle interrelation of capitalism, paternalism, class consciousness, racism, and resistance in the slave market, to help us understand the centrality of the “peculiar institution“ in the lives of slaves and slaveholders alike. His pioneering history is in no small measure the story of antebellum slavery.
  • Wives, Slaves, and Concubines
    • by Eric Jones
      • Amazon Comment: Wives, Slaves, and Concubines argues that Dutch colonial practices and law created a new set of social and economic divisions in Batavia-Jakarta, modern-day Indonesia, to deal with difficult realities in Southeast Asia. Jones uses compelling stories from ordinary Asian women to explore the profound structural changes occurring at the end of the early colonial period—changes that helped birth the modern world order. Based on previously untapped criminal proceedings and testimonies by women who appeared before the Dutch East India Company’s Court of Alderman, this fascinating study details the ways in which demographic and economic realities transformed the social and legal landscape of 18th-century Batavia-Jakarta.
  • London, Metropolis of the Slave Trade
    • by James Rawley
      • Amazon Comment: "The recognition that ordinary people could and did trade in slaves, as well as the fact that ordinary people became slaves, is, indeed, the beginning of comprehending the enormity of the forced migration of eleven million people and the attendant deaths of many more."
      • In London, Metropolis of the Slave Trade, James A. Rawley collects some of his best works from the past three decades. Also included in this volume are three new pieces: an essay on a South Carolina slave trader, Henry Laurens; an analysis of the slave trade at the beginning of the eighteenth century; and a portrait of John Newton, a slave trader who became a priest in the Church of England and composer of the hymn “Amazing Grace,” as well as an outspoken opponent of the trade.
  • African and the Industrial Revolution in England
    • by J.E. Inikori
      • Amazon Comment: Drawing on classical development theory and recent theoretical advances on the connection between expanding markets and technological developments, this book reveals the critical role of the expansion of Atlantic commerce in the successful completion of England's industrialization from 1650-1850. The volume is the first detailed study of the role of overseas trade in the Industrial Revolution. It revises other explanations that have recently dominated the field and shifts the assessment of African contribution away from the debate on profits.
  • White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America
    • by Don Jordan
      • Amazon Comment: In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, more than 300,000 white people were shipped to America as slaves. Urchins were swept up from London’s streets to labor in the tobacco fields, where life expectancy was no more than two years. Brothels were raided to provide “breeders” for Virginia. Hopeful migrants were duped into signing as indentured servants, unaware they would become personal property who could be bought, sold, and even gambled away. Transported convicts were paraded for sale like livestock.  Drawing on letters crying for help, diaries, and court and government archives, Don Jordan and Michael Walsh demonstrate that the brutalities usually associated with black slavery alone were perpetrated on whites throughout British rule. The trade ended with American independence, but the British still tried to sell convicts in their former colonies, which prompted one of the most audacious plots in Anglo-American history.
  • The History of White People
    • by Nell Irvin Painter
      • Amazon Comment: Telling perhaps the most important forgotten story in American history, eminent historian Nell Irvin Painter guides us through more than two thousand years of Western civilization, illuminating not only the invention of race but also the frequent praise of “whiteness” for economic, scientific, and political ends. A story filled with towering historical figures, The History of White People closes a huge gap in literature that has long focused on the non-white and forcefully reminds us that the concept of “race” is an all-too-human invention whose meaning, importance, and reality have changed as it has been driven by a long and rich history of events. 70 black-and-white illustrations
  • Royal African Company
    • by K.G. Davies
      • Amazon Comment: 
  • The Shell Money of the Slave Trade
    • by Jan Hogendorn
      • Amazon Comment: This study examines the role of cowrie-shell money in West African trade, particularly the slave trade. The shells were carried from the Maldives to the Mediterranean by Arab traders for further transport across the Sahara, and to Europe by competing Portuguese, Dutch, English and French traders for onward transport to the West African coast. In Africa they served to purchase the slaves exported to the New World, as well as other less sinister exports. Over a large part of West Africa they became the regular market currency, but were severely devalued by the importation of thousands of tons of the cheaper Zanzibar cowries. Colonial governments disliked cowries because of the inflation and encouraged their replacement by low-value coins. They disappeared almost totally, to re-appear during the depression of the 1930s, and have been found occasionally in the markets of remote frontier districts, avoiding exchange and currency control problems.
  • Confronting the Classics
    • by Mary Beard
      • Amazon Comment: Mary Beard, drawing on thirty years of teaching and writing about Greek and Roman history, provides a panoramic portrait of the classical world, a book in which we encounter not only Cleopatra and Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar and Hannibal, but also the common people―the millions of inhabitants of the Roman Empire, the slaves, soldiers, and women. How did they live? Where did they go if their marriage was in trouble or if they were broke? Or, perhaps just as important, how did they clean their teeth? Effortlessly combining the epic with the quotidian, Beard forces us along the way to reexamine so many of the assumptions we held as gospel―not the least of them the perception that the Emperor Caligula was bonkers or Nero a monster. With capacious wit and verve, Beard demonstrates that, far from being carved in marble, the classical world is still very much alive. 17 illustrations
  • Tippu Tip and the East African Slave Trade
    • by Leda Farrant
  • The Dutch in the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1600-1815
    • by Johannes Postma
      • Amazon Comment: Presenting a thorough analysis of the Dutch participation in the transatlantic slave trade, this book is based upon extensive research in Dutch archives. The book examines the whole range of Dutch involvement in the Atlantic slave trade from the beginning of the 1600s to the nineteenth century.
  • A Saint In The Slave Trade: Peter Claver 1581-1654
    • by Arnold Lunn and Peter Claver
  • World of Sorrow: The African Slave Trade to Brazil
    • by Robert Edgar Conrad
      • Amazon Comment: This is a tightly written account of the slave trade between Brazil and Africa, focusing on the 19th century. The seizure of blacks in Africa, their passage to America, and their distribution, mainly to the coffee region, are examined by Conrad, who has already made his mark as a historian of slavery in Brazil. When the British began pressing Portugal to stop shipping blacks to Brazil, the illegal trade began. Conrad's strength is in exploring the political ramifications of the trade. He here recasts materials from his other books into a readable although thin volume. A solid study mainly for undergraduates. Nicholas P. Cushner, History Dept., Empire State Coll., SUNY , Buffalo Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
  • The Slave Ship Fredensborg
    • by Leif Svalesen
      • Amazon Comment: The Slave Ship Fredensborg, Leif Svalesen  The best documented account to date of a working slave ship, fully illustrated.  "Svalesen has turned up quite an amazing depth of sources on this ship! They allow him to reconstruct the tenor of the voyage in engaging, vivid detail, even to develop aspects of some of the personalities on board. It reads, when the sources are rich enough to bring it alive in these terms, like a dramatic narrative of the sea.... the illustrations are often new, mostly well integrated into the text.... They are a significant attraction in the published book...." —Joseph C. Miller, University of Virginia
  • The Door of No Return: The History of Cape Coast Castle and the Atlantic Slave Trade
    • by William St. Clair
      • Amazon Comment: Called one of the best books of the year by The Economist, the London Times, and Publishers Weekly, this is the gripping history of Cape Coast Castle in Ghana, the African headquarters of the British slave trade for nearly one hundred and fifty years—until the legal trade was abolished in 1807.
  • The Exploitation of East African, 1856-1890;: The Slave Trade and the Scramble
    • by Reginald Coupland
      • Amazon Comment: London published African History
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Monday, January 4, 2016

Day 28 Artist

Artist to Research Their Work


http://www.bloomberg.com/shows/brilliant-ideas
  • Xu Bing
    • Chinese Artist
  • Theaster Gates
    • U.S. (Chicago Base) Artist
  • Jaume Plensa
    • Sculptor from Spain
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Sunday, January 3, 2016

Day 27 Beers and Microbreweries List

List of Beers and Microbreweries

Beers
Microbreweries

  • San Diego, California
    • Alpine Beer Co.
    • Green Flash Brewing
    • The Lost Abbey
    • AleSmith
  • San Francisco, California
    • Speakeasy Ales and Lagers
    • Pacific Brewing Laboratory
    • Magnolia Gastropub and Brewery
    • Drake's Brewing
    • 21st Amendment Bakery
  • Central California
Craft Beer Bars

  • San Diego
    • Hamilton's Tavern
    • Urge Gastropub
    • Stone World Bistro
    • Neighborhood (Pub)
    • Pizza Pot (many locations)
  • San Francisco
    • Alembic
    • Monk's Kettle
    • City Beer Stone
    • Toronado
    • Zeitgeist
Utah Brewery




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Day 26 Women's Soccer in Europe





Soccer Leagues in the U.S.

  • Women's Premier Soccer League (WPSL)
    • www.wpsl.info
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Day 25 The Birth of Korean Cool: How One Nation Is Conquering the World Through Pop Culture

Notes on The Birth of Korean Cool by Euny Hong

  1. How old was Euny Hong when she returned to South Korea? 12 yrs old (page 1)
  2. What year did she return? 1985 (page 1)
  3. In what city in the U.S. did she lived before returning to Korea? Chicago (page 1)
  4. Why was Euny Hong mistaken fro Chinese? Answers will vary (page 1)
  5. In 1965, South Korea's GDP was bigger than Ghana and less than North Korea.  True or False (page 2) False
  6. Today, in what place is South Korea's GDP? 5th (page 2)
  7. Euny Hong compares South Korea to which author and his novel? Arthur C. Clarke, "2001: A Space Odyssey" (page 2)
  8. Can you find more information on the "invisible" skycraper that the author is taking about in the book? (page 2)
  9. How many wi-fi hotspots are in subway cars in South Korea? 2 (page 2)
  10. Who makes the iPhone's microchip? Samsung
  11. Samsung is a company from South Korea.
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Day 19 2016 Interesting Businesses

Business Cards

Interesting Businesses


  • Egg and I Egg Works Restaurant
    • Great restaurant in Las Vegas
    • Maybe they can move to Los Angeles.
    • theeggworks.com
  • Robert Davis
    • American Red Cross of Greater Los Angeles 
    • (818) 648-8039
  • Marc Wiweke
    • AAA Travel Agent
    • 818-313-7644
    • wiweke.marc@aaa-calif.com
  • Ines Fourcade
    • Aflac Insurance Agent
    • ines_fourcade@us.aflac.com
  • Ghusin Sleman
    • G.S. Woodworks
    • 12780 Pierce Street, Suite 7
    • Pacoima, CA 91331 
    • excellent carpenter
  • Neil Jackson
    • Soccer Coach
    • www.njsoccerclass.com
    • neil@njsoccerclass.com
  • Bernadine Bednarz
    • Director
    • Southern California Committee for the Olympic Games
    • 350 South Bixel Street
    • Suite 250
    • Los Angeles, CA 90017
    • bbednarz@lasports.org
  • Nick Davidson
    • Program Manager Sisters in Motion
    • Black Women for Wellness
    • nick@bwwla.com
    • bwwla.org
  • Kokopelli Dreams
    • Store in Sedona, Arizona
    • 320 N. State Route 89A
    • Ste R
    • Sedona, Arizona 86336
  • Suren Hovakimyan
    • FIFA Certified Players' Agent
    • Priority Sports Management
    • suren0902@gmail.com
    • http://www.fifa.com/governance/agents/association=usa/players-agents/index.html
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Day 17 Modern Art Research

Day 2 Modern Art Research

After reading "After Modern Art 1945-2000" by David Hopkins, I want to research the following:


1. Are there books that talk about the 1930s U.S. Depression and how that encouraged young artist to adopt left-wing principles?
2. Who were the members of the 1938 group "Towards a Free Revolutionary Art" movement?
a. Creators of movement: French Surrealist Leader Andre Breton, Mexican Muralist Diego Rivera and Leon Trotsky
3. Research Internet to see if you can find art journal "View" from 1945.
4. Who is Zen Buddhist D.T. Suzuki and how did he play a role in the modern art movement in the U.S.?
5. How is Black Mountain College in North Carolina today?
6. Is there a book that chronicles how the 1952-1957 Senator Joseph McCarthy, "McCarthy Reign of Terror," affected the modern art movement?
7. Who was Italian painter Alberto Burri?
8. In the book "After Modern Art 1945-2000" by David Hopkins, he writes on page 52.  McCarthyism correlated homosexuality with Communism.  Then he goes on to say, on page 53, that more homosexuals than Communists ended up losing their jobs in the Federal government during this time period.  Is there a book that talks about this in more detail?
9. Is there a book on Lee Krasner who was married to Jackson Pollock?
10. Research Jasper Johns usage of letters and numbers in his artwork.
11. Who was Italian artist Piero Manzoni?
12. Look for book "The Death of the Author" by Roland Barthes
13. Who was Art Dealer Leo Castelli?  How did he play a part in the modern art movement?
14. Look for book "The Rebel" by Albert Camus
15. Look for book "Twenty-six Gasoline Stations" by Ed Ruscha
16. Look for book "Naked City" by photographer Weegee
17. Look for book "The Society of the Spectacle" by Guy Debord
18. See if Swiss Linguist Ferdinand de Saussuve wrote a book about language being arbitrary.  "Signifier" is the word or utterance and "Signified" is the thing to which it refers.
19. Look for book "The Postmodern Condition" by Jean-Francois Lyotard
20. Look for book "Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism" by Frederic Jameson
21. Who was comic-book artist Robert Crumb?
22. How did the Saatchi Family play a role in modern art?  Is there a book on Charles and Maurice Saatchi?
23. Is there a book on African American artist Lorna Simpson?
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Day 16 January 2016 Notes

I need to do more research on the following:


  1. Real Estate Continuing Education
    1. http://45hoursonline.com/Home.htm
  2. Research "The Art of Skip-Tracing," cyber-tracking, Alex Price, Master Hunter
  3. Research "Language of Desire"
  4. Research "Matching Markets and Market Design"
  5. Look into Chocolate Mamas in Tanzania
  6. Look into SuperGeeks in Nigeria
  7. Gamsole in Nigeria, gaming company, Founder is Abiola Olaniran
  8. Start-Up Lagos, Olumide Olayinka, Organizer, Lagos Start-Up Web
  9. The Tony Elumelu Foundation, Entrepreneurship Programme
  10. Look into Golden, Colorado to retire
  11. Warby Parker Online Eyeglasses
  12. Bonobos, Online Jeans
  13. Look into clearinghouses for money lending like companylendingsolutions.com
  14. Research: The East India Company
  15. XQSuperSchool.org
  16. Bloomberg Show, Brilliant Ideas
  17. stockpickingchallenge.com
  18. Look into Rhode Island School of Design on Creative Practice
  19. What is "critical making"?
  20. What is "Design Thinking"?
  21. Why is this the next competitive advantage?
  22. What is "Asset-Based Thinking"?
  23. What is the "Genome Approach"?
  24. What is the shadow economy?
  25. Any recommendations in books where I can find the definition and characteristics of the American Class System?
  26. In your opinion, if China continues to grow and influence our society, will we adapt their social classes system or will we be a hybrid?
  27. what will social class look like in America in the future?  In the 1960's we knew what it looked like before major globalization.
  28. Look into this website about books www.GlobalReports.Columbia.edu
  29. Look into website "feastly," they do home cooked meals to guest.
  30. Research "mesh economy," "sharing economy," "rental economy," and "collaborative economy."
  31. Look into this practice where people do short term rental space on storefronts.  See if there's a company brokering this type of practice and if it is successful.
  32. Look into this company called "pley," their service is toy rental.
  33. What is "LaLoop"?
  34. Do Dr. Steven Novella and Thomas Keating have a book on open mind and heart?
  35. What is Cifra Club?
  36. Look into treksandtracks.com, they seem like a cool company
  37. Look into draftkings.com and see if there's another model like this besideds fanduel.com
  38. Read more on Rebecca Kramer, Engineering Dept, Purdue University, on her work for Soft Robotics Inc.
  39. Read more on Stephen Lake, Co-Founder, Thalmic Labs in Canada
  40. What is Nadex.com?
  41. Research "aero farms" and "vertical farms"
  42. Read more on Ethan Brown, Founder of Beyond Meat
  43. Read more on Adam Khan, CEO & Founder of Akhan Technologies
  44. What is "Veti Gel"?  Read more on Joe Landolina, CEO & CoFounder of Suneris
  45. What is "HAPS"?  High Altitude Pseudo Satellite ?  Also Zephyr Airbus
  46. Look into mobile makerspace giving hospital patients creative time
  47. Look into Certified College Planning Specialist www.niccp.com
  48. Job Website www.idealist.org
  49. Look into this website for services and jobs www.fiverr.com
  50. Enroll.com website to learn Spanish
  51. Awesome Treasures Foundation look into this foundation 
  52. Book Website bragmedallion.com
  53. Vacation Visits to Flip Flop Ranch www.flipflopranch.com
  54. How to Become a College Planning Consultant
  55. California Community Colleges Board Approves 15 Pilot Bachelor's Degrees
  56. Student Loan Services Business
    1. Sunrise Student Loan Services www.nextstudent.com
    2. Edvisors Network Inc.  www.edvisors.com
    3. Premier Product Placement www.premierproductplacement.com
    4. Student Loan Network  www.studentloannetwork.com
    5. Student Loan Affiliate Program  studentloanaffiliateprogram.com
    6. Student Loan Resolution  studentloanresolution.com
  57. California Triathlon
  58. Girl Power: Self-Esteem Group Curriculum for 5th Grade Girls
    1. Erin A. Camp
    2. Anny Y. Wu
    3. California State University, Sacramento
  59. Interval International
    1. Membership Services 800-843-8843
  60. Profiles of the 16 Personality Types
    1. Briggs Myers Typology
    2. truity.com
  61. Open House cooking offers tourists local homemade food and friendly chat
    1. www.eatwith.com
  62. Create Your Fundraiser
    1. crowdrise.com
  63. Free Online Fundraising
    1. www.youcaring.com
  64. Tours by Locals.com
    1. toursbylocals.com
  65. California Hiking Trail Finder
    1. slackpacker.com
  66. California Alpine Guides
    1. californiaalpineguides.com
  67. Muir Woods Expedition & Sausalito Morning Tour
    1. www.extranomical.com
  68. Silver City Mountain Resort
    1. www.silvercityresort.com
  69. Crowdfunding for Kids
    1. www.piggybackr.com
  70. Life for Mozambique
    1. lifeformoz.com
  71. MOAB Under Canvas LLC
    1. Utah Camping
    2. www.moabundercanvas.com
  72. Potato Ranch Llama Packers
    1. Sierra Nevada Llama Rental
    2. www.llamapackers.com
  73. Paraty Tours
    1. Tours in Brazil
    2. www.paratytours.com.br
  74. Rio Hiking
    1. www.riohiking.com.br
  75. UCLA Latin American Institute
    1. www.international.ucla.edu
    2. Soccer in Latin America
  76. Travel and Study Opportunities for Teachers
    1. The University of Arizona
    2. Global Gradients
  77. "Notes" can be bought and sold just like any other asset
  78. Karen Allen Fiber Arts, Massachusetts
  79. Mi Band- Mi Global Home (Activity Band)
  80. Read about Filmmaker Charles Ferguson, Inside Job
  81. Total Solar Eclipse of 2017 August 21

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Day 15 Ted Talks 2016

Ted Talks I need to watch this year of 2016


  1. Susan Cain: The power of introverts
  2. Jon Ronson: Strange answers to the psychopath test
  3. Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?
  4. TedX Havana (Speakers)
    1. X Alfonso, Musician
    2. Enrique Nunez, Culinary Entrepreneur
    3. George Cespedes, Dancer and Choreographer
    4. Natalia Bolivar, Anthropologist and Writer
    5. Esterio Segura, Visual Artist
    6. Miguel Salcines, Farmer
    7. Claudia Castillo y Orlando Inclan, Architects
    8. Herman J.P. Portocarero, Writer and Diplomat
    9. Heydi Hernandez, Communication Manager
    10. Eugene Jarecki, Documentary Filmmaker
    11. Yudivian Almeida, Computer Scientist-Cybernetics
    12. Richard Pena, Professor of Film Studies
    13. Jose Luis Cortes, Musician
    14. Tomasita, Repentista-Musical Improvisation
    15. Peruchin y Vocal Antinoo, Musical Group
    16. Amaury Perez, Artist
    17. Luis Paz, Repenista-Musical Improvisation
    18. Manuel Vazquez, Lawyer

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Day 14 Book List of 2015

My Book List of 2015

Directory of Reading Wish List
     This is my directory of books that I wish to read before I die.  I know I will not get to most/all of these books.  The books that make my list are books I see at the library.  I read the back cover and if they sound like something I wish to read when I have time; then those books make my list.
     If you are reading this post and you have read some of these books, please post your comments.  You may just save me valuable time on some of these books.

The star rating on the book I got from Amazon.com

A

  • Ackerman, Karen
  • Ada, Alma Flor
  • Addy, Sharon Hart
  • Agee, Jon
  • Agrawal, Miki
    • Dol Cool Shit (4 Stars 8/2015)
  • Alexander, Michelle and West, Cornel
    • The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (4.5 Stars 8/2015)
      • Amazon Comment: Once in a great while a book comes along that changes the way we see the world and helps to fuel a nationwide social movement. The New Jim Crow is such a book. Praised by Harvard Law professor Lani Guinier as "brave and bold," this book directly challenges the notion that the election of Barack Obama signals a new era of colorblindness. With dazzling candor, legal scholar Michelle Alexander argues that "we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it." By targeting black men through the War on Drugs and decimating communities of color, the U.S. criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control—relegating millions to a permanent second-class status—even as it formally adheres to the principle of colorblindness. In the words of Benjamin Todd Jealous, president and CEO of the NAACP, this book is a "call to action."
  • Arden, John
    • Rewire Your Brain: Think Your Way to a Better Life (4.5 Stars 8/2015)
      • Amazon Comment: Not long ago, it was thought that the brain you were born with was the brain you would die with, and that the brain cells you had at birth were the most you would ever possess. Your brain was thought to be “hardwired” to function in predetermined ways. It turns out that's not true. Your brain is not hardwired, it's "softwired" by experience. This book shows you how you can rewire parts of the brain to feel more positive about your life, remain calm during stressful times, and improve your social relationships. Written by a leader in the field of Brain-Based Therapy, it teaches you how to activate the parts of your brain that have been underactivated and calm down those areas that have been hyperactivated so that you feel positive about your life and remain calm during stressful times. You will also learn to improve your memory, boost your mood, have better relationships, and get a good night sleep.

B

  • Begley, Sharon
    • Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform Ourselves (4 Stars 8/2015)
      • Amazon Comment: In this fascinating and far-reaching book, Newsweek science writer Sharon Begley reports on how cutting-edge science and the ancient wisdom of Buddhism have come together to reveal that, contrary to popular belief, we have the power to literally change our brains by changing our minds. Recent pioneering experiments in neuroplasticity–the ability of the brain to change in response to experience–reveal that the brain is capable of altering its structure and function, and even of generating new neurons, a power we retain well into old age. The brain can adapt, heal, renew itself after trauma, compensate for disabilities, rewire itself to overcome dyslexia, and break cycles of depression and OCD. And as scientists are learning from studies performed on Buddhist monks, it is not only the outside world that can change the brain, so can the mind and, in particular, focused attention through the classic Buddhist practice of mindfulness.
  • Bernstein, Joshua
    • The Complete Beer Course: Boot Camp for Beer Geeks: From Novice to Expert in Twelve Tasting Classes (4.5 Stars 8/2015)
      • Amazon Comment: It's a great time to be a beer drinker, but also the most confusing, thanks to the dizzying array of available draft beers. Expert Joshua M. Bernstein comes to the rescue with The Complete Beer Course, demystifying brews and breaking down the elements that make beer's flavor spin into distinctively different and delicious directions. Structured around a series of easy-to-follow classes, his course hops from lagers and pilsners to hazy wheat beers, Belgian-style abbey and Trappist ales, aromatic pale ales and bitter IPAs, roasty stouts, barrel-aged brews, belly-warming barley wines, and mouth-puckering sour ales. There is even a class on international beer styles and another on pairing beer with food and starting your own beer cellar. Through suggested, targeted tastings, you'll learn when to drink down-and when to dump those beers down a drain.
  • Bostwick, William
    • The Brewer's Tale: A History of the World According to Beer (4 Stars 8/2015)
      • Amazon Comment: The Brewer’s Tale is a beer-filled journey into the past: the story of brewers gone by and one brave writer’s quest to bring them―and their ancient, forgotten beers―back to life, one taste at a time. This is the story of the world according to beer, a toast to flavors born of necessity and place―in Belgian monasteries, rundown farmhouses, and the basement nanobrewery next door. So pull up a barstool and raise a glass to 5,000 years of fermented magic.
  • Braun, Adam
  • Brockman, John
    • What Is Your Dangerous Idea? (4 Stars 8/2015)
      • Amazon Comment: The world's leading scientific thinkers explore bold, remarkable, perilous ideas that could change our lives—for better . . . or for worse . . .From Copernicus to Darwin, to current-day thinkers, scientists have always promoted theories and unveiled discoveries that challenge everything society holds dear; ideas with both positive and dire consequences. Many thoughts that resonate today are dangerous not because they are assumed to be false, but because they might turn out to be true.

C

  • Cramer, Kathryn D. and Wasiak, Hank
    • Change the Way You See Everything through Asset-Based Thinking (4.5 Stars 8/2015)
      • Amazon Comment: This brilliantly simple book on the philosophy known as Asset-Based Thinking, instills success-oriented habits in even the most die-hard cynic. Its transformational lessons--conveyed through unique photographic metaphors and inspiring stories from real people--reveal how the slightest shift in perception can lead to monumental results in both business and in life. ABT is not just positive thinking, but rather a systematic observation of "what works." Kathryn Cramer, an acclaimed corporate consultant, and Hank Wasiak, a creative icon of the advertising industry, have produced a work that looks and works like no other business or self-help book-because it IS like no other book. Change the Way You See Everything is a revolutionary approach to every aspect of life that bears not just reading, but re-reading, and sharing with people in your circle. You'll never look at the world the same way again.

D

  • Darling-Hammond, Linda
    • The Flat World and Education: How America's Commitment to Equity Will Determine Our Future (4.5 Stars 8/2015)
      • Amazon Comment: The Flat World and Education offers an eye-opening wake-up call concerning America's future and vividly illustrates what the United States needs to do to build a system of high-achieving and equitable schools that ensures every child the right to learn. 
  • Davidson, Richard
    • The Emotional Life of Your Brain: How Its Unique Patterns Affect the Way You Think, Feel, and Live-and How You Can Change Them (4.5 Stars 8/2015)
      • Amazon Comment: Why are some people so quick to recover from setbacks? Why are some so attuned to others that they seem psychic? Why are some people always up and others always down? In his thirty-year quest to answer these questions, pioneering neuroscientist Richard J. Davidson discovered that each of us has an Emotional Style, composed of Resilience, Outlook, Social Intuition, Self-Awareness, Sensitivity to Context, and Attention. Where we fall on these six continuums determines our own “emotional fingerprint.” 

F

  • Frankl, Viktor E.
    • Man's Search for Meaning (4.5 Stars 8/2015)
      • Amazon Comment: Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 Frankl labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished. Based on his own experience and the experiences of others he treated later in his practice, Frankl argues that we cannot avoid suffering but we can choose how to cope with it, find meaning in it, and move forward with renewed purpose. Frankl's theory-known as logotherapy, from the Greek word logos ("meaning")-holds that our primary drive in life is not pleasure, as Freud maintained, but the discovery and pursuit of what we personally find meaningful.

G

  • Ghosh, Amitay
    • Sea of Poppies (4 Stars 8/2015)
      • Amazon Comment: The first in an epic trilogy, Sea of Poppies is "a remarkably rich saga . . . which has plenty of action and adventure à la Dumas, but moments also of Tolstoyan penetration--and a drop or two of Dickensian sentiment" (The Observer [London]).  At the heart of this vibrant saga is a vast ship, the Ibis. Her destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean shortly before the outbreak of the Opium Wars in China. In a time of colonial upheaval, fate has thrown together a diverse cast of Indians and Westerners on board, from a bankrupt raja to a widowed tribeswoman, from a mulatto American freedman to a free-spirited French orphan. As their old family ties are washed away, they, like their historical counterparts, come to view themselves as jahaj-bhais, or ship-brothers. The vast sweep of this historical adventure spans the lush poppy fields of the Ganges, the rolling high seas, and the exotic backstreets of Canton. With a panorama of characters whose diaspora encapsulates the vexed colonial history of the East itself, Sea of Poppies is "a storm-tossed adventure worthy of Sir Walter Scott" (Vogue).

H

  • Hensbergen, Gijs van
    • Gaudi: A Biography (3.5 Stars 8/2015)
      • Amazon Comment: At the time of his death in 1926, Antoni Gaudí was arguably the most famous architect in the world. He had created some of the greatest and most controversial masterpieces of modern architecture, which were as exotic as they were outrageous. But little is known about the shadowy figure behind the swirling, vivid buildings that inspired the Surrealists.
  • Hitchens, Christopher
    • God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (4 Stars 8/2015)
      • Amazon Comment: In the tradition of Bertrand Russell's Why I Am Not a Christian and Sam Harris's recent bestseller, The End of Faith, Christopher Hitchens makes the ultimate case against religion. With a close and erudite reading of the major religious texts, he documents the ways in which religion is a man-made wish, a cause of dangerous sexual repression, and a distortion of our origins in the cosmos. With eloquent clarity, Hitchens frames the argument for a more secular life based on science and reason, in which hell is replaced by the Hubble Telescope's awesome view of the universe, and Moses and the burning bush give way to the beauty and symmetry of the double helix.
    • The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever (4.5 Stars 8/2015)
      • Amazon Comment: From the #1 New York Times best-selling author of God Is Not Great, a provocative and entertaining guided tour of atheist and agnostic thought through the ages--with never-before-published pieces by Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali.Christopher Hitchens continues to make the case for a splendidly godless universe in this first-ever gathering of the influential voices--past and present--that have shaped his side of the current (and raging) God/no-god debate. With Hitchens as your erudite and witty guide, you’ll be led through a wealth of philosophy, literature, and scientific inquiry, including generous portions of the words of Lucretius, Benedict de Spinoza, Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Mark Twain, George Eliot, Bertrand Russell, Emma Goldman, H. L. Mencken, Albert Einstein, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and many others well-known and lesser known. And they’re all set in context and commented upon as only Christopher Hitchens--“political and literary journalist extraordinaire” (Los Angeles Times)--can. Atheist? Believer? Uncertain? No matter: The Portable Atheist will speak to you and engage you every step of the way.
  • Hollie, Sharroky
    • Culturally and Linguistically (4.5 Stars 8/2015)
      • Amazon Comment: Implement these strategies and suggestions to support culturally and linguistically diverse students. The five pedagogical areas addressed in this resource are Classroom Management, Use of Text, Academic Vocabulary, Situational Appropriateness, and Learning Environment.
  • Hopkins, David
  • Hunter, Lisa
    • The Intrepid Art Collector (4 Stars 8/2015)
      • Amazon Comment: In The Intrepid Art Collector, Lisa Hunter shows you how to start a fine art collection without spending a fortune. This accessible, jargon-free resource contains up-to-date information on the most popular original art—everything from photography and posters to African art and animation—including where to find it and how to buy it at a fair price. Easy-to-use checklists help you evaluate original art and steer clear of clever fakes. In addition, Hunter has interviewed top dealers, curators, arts lawyers, and appraisers to bring you the best advice on:
        • Advantages to buying real art instead of reproductions
        • Determining if a piece of art is fairly priced
        • Predicting if an artist’s work will go up in value
        • Techniques for negotiating a price with a dealer
        • Developing your artistic taste, so you’ll know if you’ll still love your purchase ten years down the road
        • How to preserve art in your home
        • Resources, websites, and magazines that will help you learn more about the market and where to find different types of art

K

  • Kates, Andrea
    • Find Your Next: Using the Business Genome Approach to Find Your Company's Next Competitive Edge (4.5 Stars 8/2015)
      • Amazon Comment: If you’re a manager, an executive, or an entrepreneur, you understand that your business is unique, with its own challenges and rewards. But thanks to the new science of the Business Genome® process, you’ll be surprised to see how many businesses share a similar “genetic” structure. And by understanding what works and what doesn’t for your business’s genomic type, you can play to your strengths, adapt to your weaknesses, and change the course of your company’s future.
  • Knight, Molly
    • The Best Team Money Can Buy (4.5 Stars 8/2015)
      • Amazon Comment: Now Molly Knight tells the story of the Dodgers’ 2013 and 2014 seasons with detailed, previously unreported revelations. She shares a behind-the-scenes account of the astonishing sale of the Dodgers, and why the team was not overpriced, as well as what the Dodgers actually knew in advance about rookie phenom and Cuban defector Yasiel Puig and how they and teammates handled him during his first two roller-coaster seasons. We learn how close manager Don Mattingly was to losing his job during the 2013 season—and how the team turned around the season in the most remarkable fifty-game stretch (42-8) of any team since World War II, before losing in the NLCS. Knight also provides a rare glimpse into the infighting and mistrust that derailed the team in 2014, and resulted in ridding the roster of difficult personalities and the hiring of a new front office.
  • Konnikova, Maria
    • Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes (0 Stars 8/2015)
      • Amazon Comment: We can, says psychologist and journalist Maria Konnikova, and in Mastermind she shows us how. Beginning with the “brain attic”—Holmes’s metaphor for how we store information and organize knowledge—Konnikova unpacks the mental strategies that lead to clearer thinking and deeper insights. Drawing on twenty-first-century neuroscience and psychology, Mastermind explores Holmes’s unique methods of ever-present mindfulness, astute observation, and logical deduction. In doing so, it shows how each of us, with some self-awareness and a little practice, can employ these same methods to sharpen our perceptions, solve difficult problems, and enhance our creative powers. For Holmes aficionados and casual readers alike, Konnikova reveals how the world’s most keen-eyed detective can serve as an unparalleled guide to upgrading the mind.
  • Kozol, Jonathan
    • Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools (4.5 Stars 8/2015)
      • Amazon Comment: For two years, beginning in 1988, Jonathan Kozol visited schools in neighborhoods across the country, from Illinois to Washington D.C., and from New York to San Antonio. He spoke with teachers, principals, superintendents, and, most important, children. What he found was devastating. Not only were schools for rich and poor blatantly unequal, the gulf between the two extremes was widening—and it has widened since.  The urban schools he visited were overcrowded and understaffed, and lacked the basic elements of learning—including books and, all too often, classrooms for the students. 
    • On Being a Teacher (4 Stars 8/2015)
      • Amazon Comment: Jonathan Kozol, National Book Award-winning author and one of America’s foremost writers on social issues, offers a passionate and provocative critique on the role of the teacher in America’s public school system. Writing as a teacher, Kozol advocates an approach to education that is infused with ethical values: fairness, truth, and integrity, and a driving compassion for the world beyond the classroom. Kozol not only sheds light on what it means to be a teacher, but gives constructive suggestions on how teachers can work conscientiously within the system to foster these values in concert with parents, students and fellow teachers.

L

  • LeDoux, Joseph
    • Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are (4 Stars 8/2015)
      • Amazon Comment: In 1996 Joseph LeDoux's The Emotional Brain presented a revelatory examination of the biological bases of our emotions and memories. Now, the world-renowned expert on the brain has produced with a groundbreaking work that tells a more profound story: how the little spaces between the neurons—the brain's synapses—are the channels through which we think, act, imagine, feel, and remember. Synapses encode the essence of personality, enabling each of us to function as a distinctive, integrated individual from moment to moment. Exploring the functioning of memory, the synaptic basis of mental illness and drug addiction, and the mechanism of self-awareness, Synaptic Self is a provocative and mind-expanding work that is destined to become a classic.
  • Liebowitz, Jay
    • Social Networking, The Essence of Innovation (3.5 Stars 8/2015)
      • Amazon Comment: Social network analysis (S.N.A.) is a technique that is used to determine knowledge flows and gaps in mapping social networks for various knowledge types. Social Networking: The Essence of Innovation discusses how social networking and S.N.A. can influence innovation in an organization through the presentation of a broad range of concepts, examples, and case studies. The book's initial chapters deal with developing personal knowledge networks, linking social networking to innovation and strategic intelligence, and exploring synergies among knowledge management, business intelligence, and competitive intelligence. The introduction, an overview of social network analysis, is followed by case studies and an exploration of applications, including knowledge mapping and the analysis of organizations. Software systems devoted to these areas are described, citing results achieved, and a final chapter takes a look at future prospects, making this an essential tool for managers, executives, business analysts, educators, and strategic planners.
  • Littman, Sarah Darer
    • Confessions of a Closet Catholic (4.5 Stars 8/2015)
      • Amazon Comment: Justine Silver's best friend, Mary Catherine McAllister, has given up chocolate for Lent, but Justine doesn't think God wants her to make that kind of sacrifice. So she's decided to give up being Jewish instead.  Eleven-year-old Justine pours her heart out to her teddy bear, "Father Ted," in a homemade closet confessional. But when Justine's beloved Bubbe suffers a stroke, Justine worries that her religious exploration is responsible. Worse, she must suddenly contemplate life without Bubbe. Ultimately, it's Bubbe's quiet understanding of Justine's search for identity that helps Justine to find faith in the most important place of all-within herself.

M

  • Mahajan, Vijay and Banga, Kamini
    • The 86% Solution (5 Stars 8/2015)
      • Amazon Comment: Most global businesses focus nearly all their efforts on selling to the wealthiest 14% of the world's population. It's getting harder and harder to make a profit that way: these markets are oversaturated, overcompetitive, and declining. The Invisible Market shows how to unleash new growth and profitability by serving the other 86%. Vihajan Mahajan offers detailed strategies and implementation techniques for product design, pricing, packaging, distribution, advertising, and more. Discover radically different 'rules of engagement' that make emerging markets tick, and how European and Asian companies are already driving billions of dollars in sales there. Mahajan shows how to understand and manage lack of infrastructure and media, low literacy levels, and 'unconventional' consumer behavior. Learn how to redefine the 'real' competition; tap into the informal economy and unconventional channels; leverage expatriate word-of-mouth; pool demand to reach critical mass; piggyback innovations on local tradition; and price and package to reflect local realities. As traditional markets become increasingly unprofitable, emerging markets become the #1 opportunity for growth.
  • Martin, Roger L.
    • The Design of Business: Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive Advantage (4 Stars 8/2015)
      • Amazon Comment: Most companies today have innovation envy. They yearn to come up with a game—changing innovation like Apple's iPod, or create an entirely new category like Facebook. Many make genuine efforts to be innovative—they spend on R&D, bring in creative designers, hire innovation consultants. But they get disappointing results.  Why? In The Design of Business, Roger Martin offers a compelling and provocative answer: we rely far too exclusively on analytical thinking, which merely refines current knowledge, producing small improvements to the status quo.
  • Meyer, Richard
    • What Was Contemporary Art? (5 Stars 8/2015)
      • Amazon Comment: Contemporary art in the early twenty-first century is often discussed as if the very idea of art that is contemporary is new. Yet all works of art were once contemporary. In What Was Contemporary Art? Richard Meyer reclaims the contemporary from historical amnesia, and gives the contemporary its own art history. By exploring episodes in the study, exhibition, and reception of early twentieth-century art and visual culture, Meyer retrieves moments in the history of once-current art and redefines "the contemporary" as a condition of being alive to and alongside other moments, artists, and objects.
  • Misner, Ivan Macedonio, Mike and Garrison, Mike
    • Truth or Delusion?
      • Amazon Comment: Many books teach the "who / what / where / why / how" of professional networking. Truth or Delusion separates the reality from the fantasy by presenting truths and delusions about networking and then shows why they are either real or fakes. For example: Delusion: The best way to ensure referral success is to treat your referral sources by the "Golden Rule." Treat them the way you would want to be treated. Truth: The best way is to treat your referral sources the way THEY want to be treated. The referral process is more about emotion than facts. Find out how your referral sources want to be treated and how they would like you to treat their referrals.
  • Moskowitz, Tobias and Werthem, L. Jon
    • Scorecasting (4.5 Stars 8/2015)
      • Amazon Comment: In Scorecasting, University of Chicago behavioral economist Tobias Moskowitz teams up with veteran Sports Illustrated writer L. Jon Wertheim to overturn some of the most cherished truisms of sports, and reveal the hidden forces that shape how basketball, baseball, football, and hockey games are played, won and lost.  Drawing from Moskowitz's original research, as well as studies from fellow economists such as bestselling author Richard Thaler, the authors look at: the influence home-field advantage has on the outcomes of games in all sports and why it exists; the surprising truth about the universally accepted axiom that defense wins championships;  the subtle biases that umpires exhibit in calling balls and strikes in key situations; the unintended consequences of referees' tendencies in every sport to "swallow the whistle," and more.

N

  • Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds
    • Shiloh (4.5 Stars 8/2015)
      • Amazon Comment: When Marty Preston comes across a young beagle in the hills behind his home, it's love at first sight—and also big trouble. It turns out the dog, which Marty names Shiloh, belongs to Judd Travers, who drinks too much and has a gun—and abuses his dogs. So when Shiloh runs away from Judd to Marty, Marty just has to hide him and protect him from Judd. But Marty's secret becomes too big for him to keep to himself, and it exposes his entire family to Judd's anger. How far will Marty have to go to make Shiloh his?
  • Newell, Frederick
    • Loyalty.com (4 Stars 8/2015)
      • Amazon Comment: Online retailers like Amazon.com and e-Bay are changing the face of shopping­­much as malls did in the 1970s­­and companies must master new rules to keep customers coming back. Loyalty.com shows companies how to shift their focus from impersonal database marketing to true customer relationship management (CRM), blending CRM and Web strategies to outline a program for lasting customer relationships.
  • Northrop, Michael
    • Tombquest (4.5 Stars 8/2015)
      • Amazon Comment: From the team that brought you The 39 Clues and Spirit Animals comes a brand new epic Egyptian adventure!  Nothing can save Alex Sennefer's life. That's what all the doctors say, but his mother knows it's not true. She knows that the Lost Spells of the Egyptian Book of the Dead can crack open a door to the afterlife and pull her son back from the brink. But when she uses the spells, five evil ancients--the Death Walkers--are also brought back to life.  An ancient evil has been unleashed. Mummies are awakening. New York is overrun with scorpions. And worst of all for Alex, his mom and the Lost Spells have both disappeared. He and his best friend, Ren, will do anything to find his mom and save the world . . . even if that means going head-to-head with a Death Walker who has been plotting his revenge for 3,000 years.

O

  • Osterwalder, Alexander and Pigneur, Yves
    • Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers (4.5 Stars 8/2015)
      • Amazon Comment: Business Model Generation is a handbook for visionaries, game changers, and challengers striving to defy outmoded business models and design tomorrow's enterprises. If your organization needs to adapt to harsh new realities, but you don't yet have a strategy that will get you out in front of your competitors, you need Business Model Generation.  Co-created by 470 "Business Model Canvas" practitioners from 45 countries, the book features a beautiful, highly visual, 4-color design that takes powerful strategic ideas and tools, and makes them easy to implement in your organization. It explains the most common Business Model patterns, based on concepts from leading business thinkers, and helps you reinterpret them for your own context. You will learn how to systematically understand, design, and implement a game-changing business model--or analyze and renovate an old one. Along the way, you'll understand at a much deeper level your customers, distribution channels, partners, revenue streams, costs, and your core value proposition.

P

  • Pope, Loren
    • Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change the Way You Think About Colleges
      • Amazon Comment: The groundbreaking guide to the 40 best colleges you've never heard of—colleges that will change your life Choosing the right college has never been more important—or more difficult. For the latest edition of this classic college guide, Hilary Masell Oswald conducted her own tours of top schools and in-depth interviews, building on Loren Pope's original to create a totally updated, more expansive work. Organized by geographic region, every profile includes a wealth of vital information, including admissions standards, distinguishing facts about the curriculum, extracurricular activities, and what faculty say about their jobs. Masell Oswald also offers a new chapter on how students with learning disabilities can find schools that fit their needs. For every prospective college student searching for more than football and frat parties, Colleges That Change Lives will prove indispensable.
    • Looking Beyond the Ivy League: Finding the College That's Right for You
      • Amazon Comment: The celebrated book that revolutionized the way Americans choose colleges-now fully revised and updated An invaluable guide with virtually no competition, this book helped to establish Loren Pope as one of the nation's most respected experts on the college application process. Now fully revised and updated, Looking Beyond the Ivy League offers a step-by-step guide to selecting the right institution, a checklist of specific questions to ask when visiting a college, the secrets to creating good applications and good applicants, and much more. With as few as one-third of college students remaining at the institution they entered as freshmen, finding the right college is harder than ever before. This book makes it easier for students and their parents.
  • Poundstone, William
    • Rock Breaks Scissors: A Practical Guide to Outguessing and Outwitting Almost Everybody (4 Stars 8/2015)
      • Amazon Comment: People are predictable even when they try not to be. William Poundstone demonstrates how to turn this fact to personal advantage in scores of everyday situations, from playing the lottery to buying a home. ROCK BREAKS SCISSORS is mind-reading for real life.  Will the next tennis serve go right or left? Will the market go up or down? Most people are poor at that kind of predicting. We are hard-wired to make bum bets on "trends" and "winning streaks" that are illusions. Yet ultimately we're all in the business of anticipating the actions of others. Poundstone reveals how to overcome the errors and improve the accuracy of your own outguessing. ROCK BREAKS SCISSORS is a hands-on guide to turning life's odds in your favor.

R

  • Rodriguez, Rachel Victoria
    • Building on Nature: The Life of Antoni Gaudi (5 Stars 8/2015)
      • Amazon Comment: His home is in Catalonia, a place of jagged mountain peaks and silvery olive trees, splashed by the sparkling sea. The wild beauty of this landscape makes a deep impression. He thinks of it as the Great Book of Nature, and he will read from it all of his life.  Gaudí becomes an architect, learning the rules of form and structure that buildings are supposed to follow. But the shapes and colors of the natural world still inspire him, and he works them into his buildings. Leaves climb up walls. Pillars are giant animal feet. A long bench snakes around a playground.  Antoni Gaudí turned nature into art, and in the process he revolutionized the world of architecture.
  • Roger, John and McWilliams, Peter
  • Rooney, Martin
    • Warrior Cardio (4.5 Stars 8/2015)

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  • Schwartz, Jeffrey M. and Begley, Sharon
    • The Mind and the Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force (4.5 Stars 8/2015)
      • Amazon Comment: A groundbreaking work of science that confirms, for the first time, the independent existence of the mind–and demonstrates the possibilities for human control over the workings of the brain.  Conventional science has long held the position that 'the mind' is merely an illusion, a side effect of electrochemical activity in the physical brain. Now in paperback, Dr Jeffrey Schwartz and Sharon Begley's groundbreaking work, The Mind and the Brain, argues exactly the opposite: that the mind has a life of its own.Dr Schwartz, a leading researcher in brain dysfunctions, and Wall Street Journal science columnist Sharon Begley demonstrate that the human mind is an independent entity that can shape and control the functioning of the physical brain. Their work has its basis in our emerging understanding of adult neuroplasticity–the brain's ability to be rewired not just in childhood, but throughout life, a trait only recently established by neuroscientists.
  • Smith, Shawn T.
    • The User's Guide to the Human Mind: Why Our Brains Make Us Unhappy, Anxious, and Neurotic and What We Can Do About It (5 Stars 8/2015)
      • Amazon Comment: Your mind is not built to make you happy; it’s built to help you survive. So far, it’s done a great job! But in the process, it may have developed some bad habits, like avoiding new experiences or scrounging around for problems where none exist. Is it any wonder that worry, bad moods, and self-critical thoughts so often get in the way of enjoying life?  Based in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), The User’s Guide to the Human Mind is a road map to the puzzling inner workings of the human mind, replete with exercises for overriding the mind’s natural impulses toward worry, self-criticism, and fear, and helpful tips for acting in the service of your values and emotional well-being—even when your mind has other plans.
  • Somerson, Rosanne  Hermano, Mara and Maeda, John
    • The Art of Critical Making: Rhode Island School of Design on Creative Practice
      • Amazon Comment: At Rhode Island School of Design students are immersed in a culture where making questions, ideas, and objects, using and inventing materials, and activating experience all serve to define a form of critical thinking—albeit with one's hands—i.e. "critical making." The Art of Critical Making, by RISD faculty and staff, describes fundamental aspects of RISD's approach to "critical making" and how this can lead to innovation. The process of making taught at RISD is deeply introspective, passionate, and often provocative.
  • Spielvogel, Jackson J.

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  • Thoren, Kirsta
    • Start Your Own Staffing Service (4 Stars 8/2015)
      • Amazon Comment: At Rhode Island School of Design students are immersed in a culture where making questions, ideas, and objects, using and inventing materials, and activating experience all serve to define a form of critical thinking—albeit with one's hands—i.e. "critical making." The Art of Critical Making, by RISD faculty and staff, describes fundamental aspects of RISD's approach to "critical making" and how this can lead to innovation. The process of making taught at RISD is deeply introspective, passionate, and often provocative.

W

  • Webb, Tim and Beaumont, Stephen
    • The World Atlas of Beer: The Essential Guide to the Beers of the World (5 Stars 8/2015)
      • Amazon Comment: Got beer? This comprehensive, fully illustrated volume on beer by two of the world's leading authorities is more than just an in-depth history of this delightful beverage--its origins, brewing methods and technologies, trends, and more--from ancient times until the present day. It is also a detailed overview of more than 500 of the greatest beers from around the world, with sections devoted to major beer-producing countries and regions, including information on craft brewing, emerging markets, extreme beers, future-trend forecasts, and more.
  • Wilson, Melissa and Mohl, Larry
    • Networking Is Dead (4.5 Stars 8/2015)
      • Amazon Comment:  Are you...hoping your next networking event will be “the one”?...collecting mountains of business cards?..having countless breakfasts and lunches?...thinking about what you give and get?  Then your way of networking is...dead.  With social networks, teleconferencing, and webinars, you are able to meet more people in more ways than ever before. But that doesn’t mean you’re creating new possibilities through valuable connections.

Y

  • Yang, Andrew
    • Smart People Should Build Things (5 Stars 8/2015)
      • Amazon Comment:  Andrew Yang, the founder of Venture for America, offers a unique solution to our country’s economic and social problems—our smart people should be building things. Smart People Should Build Things offers a stark picture of the current culture and a revolutionary model that will redirect a generation of ambitious young people to the critical job of innovating and building new businesses.


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Friday, January 1, 2016

Day 13 Magazine or Newspaper Articles to Review




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Day 12 Restaurants in Southern California



American

  • Slater's 50/50
  • BLD
    • 7450 Beverly Blvd, Fairfax District
  • Bar Ama
    • 118 W. 4th Street, Downtown
  • KTCHN DTLA
    • 501 S. Spring Street, Downtown
  • The Griddle Cafe
    • 7916 Sunset Blvd, Hollywood Hills
  • Fig
    • 101 Wilshire Blvd, Santa Monica
  • The Kitchen
    • 4348 Fountain Ave, Silver Lake
  • Milo & Olive
    • 2723 Wilshire Blvd, Santa Monica
  • MB Post
    • 1142 Manhattan Ave, Manhattan Beach
  • Cook's County
    • 8009 Beverly Blvd, Beverly Grove
  • Tavern
    • 11648 San Vicente Blvd, Brentwood
  • Citrus Kitchen
    • 10431 Lemon Avenue, Ranch Cucamonga, CA 91737
  • Old School Eatery
    • 975 N. Michillinda Ave, Pasadena, CA 91107
Indian

  • Rolls N Wraps Indian Grill
    • 9658 Baseline Road, Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91701


Mexican

  • Rocio's Mole de los Dioses
    • moleofthegods.com
    • 8255 Sunland Blvd, Sun Valley, CA 91352
  • Luna Modern Mexican Kitchen
  • Cafe Bleu, Korean restaurant that serves delicious tacos
    • 3470 W 6th Street, Ste 8B, Koreatown
  • Candela Taco Bar and Lounge
    • 831 S. La Brea Ave, Mid-Wilshire
  • Te'Kila
    • 6541 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood
  • Kay 'N Dave's Cantina
    • 9341 Culver Blvd, Culver City
  • El Torazo
    • 2801 East 10th Street, Long Beach

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Day 11 Women's College Soccer Camps





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Day 10 Entrepreneurial Stuff



Look into Jan McCarthy's Website to see if she will have any workshops.


How to Determine Your House Payment and Interest Payment




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Day 9 Random Thoughts/Brainstorming/Ideas




College Sports Recruiting
  • (1/1/2016) Look into College Recruiting Group to see if David Stoeckel will conduct a seminar and see about ordering his book: Advising the College-Bound Student-Athlete, The Counselor's Manual $24.95
Events
Interesting Companies

Sports
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Day 8 Education

Depth of Knowledge (DOK) Levels



Reader Response Topics


38 Question Starters Based on Bloom's Taxonomy

Critical Thinking for Life! (Sheets)

Level 1

Level 2


Level 3

Level 4


Level 5


Level 6



SAY, MEAN, MATTER
Say= "Quote"/Reference (Just copy one sentence from text)
Mean= Inference (What does sentence you copied on "Say" mean to you?)
Matter= Reasoning (Explain why that particular sentence that you copied on "Say" is important to you.)

SAY, MEAN, MATTER Across Disciplines


Weird Notes that only make sense to me




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