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Twenty Years of talkSPORT
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Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs
An insider's story of creativity and innovation at Apple under Steve Jobs. Creative Selection shows readers how a small group of people developed an evolutionary design model, and how they used this methodology to make groundbreaking and intuitive software which countless millions use every day.
Mr Five Per Cent: The many lives of Calouste Gulbenkian, the world's richest man
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Silicon Valley has long been at the forefront of innovation, but it is renowned for its archaic sexist culture. Alpha Girls is the inspiring story of how a group of talented women have achieved success in a tech world run by 'bro-grammers' through sheer grit and determination.
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Harder You Work, the Luckier You Get: An Entrepreneur's Memoir
Joe Ricketts
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Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
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Man Who Never Sleeps
Tom Bell, David Walker
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Raegan Moya-Jones
Nothing To Lose, Everything To Gain: How I Went from Gang Member to Multimillionaire Entrepreneur
Ryan Blair
Like many entrepreneurs, Ryan Blair had no formal business education. But he had great survival instincts, tenacity, and, above all, a "nothing to lose" mindset. His middle-class childhood ended abruptly when his abusive father succumbed to drug addiction and abandoned the family., Blair and his mother moved to a rough neighborhood, and soon he was in and out of juvenile detention, joining a gang just to survive. Then his mother fell in love with a successful entrepreneur who took Ryan under his wing. With his mentor's guidance, Blair started his first company, 24/7 Tech, at age twenty-one., He has since created and sold several companies for hundreds of millions of dollars. This is an inspirational guide full of powerful stories and lessons and a road map for entrepreneurial success.
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Malcolm Stewart
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John Sergeant
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Nancy Koehn
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Lifesaving, any activity related to the saving of life in cases of drowning, shipwreck, and other accidents on or in the water and to the prevention of drowning in general.
Drowning involves suffocation by immersion in a liquid, usually water. Water closing over the victim's mouth and nose cuts off the body's supply of oxygen. Deprived of oxygen, the victim stops struggling, loses consciousness, gives up the remaining tidal air in his lungs, and sinks to the bottom. There the heart may continue to beat feebly for a brief interval, but eventually it ceases and death ensues. Lifesaving consists of aiding or rescuing the drowning persons and reviving the apparently drowned.
The act of saving a drowning person is immensely complicated by the panicked struggles of the victim to stay afloat and breathing. The victim may convulsively grip his would-be rescuer, impeding his movements and quite possibly dragging them both down to the bottom in his efforts to stay alive. Contact with a drowning person poses no threat to the trained lifesaver, however, who is skilled in ways of avoiding or releasing the grip of the victim. For the person unskilled in lifesaving to come within the grasp of a drowning person can mean death for both of them. There are ways, however, in which anyone can give effective aid to a victim whether he is a skilled lifesaver or not, even if he cannot swim at all.
So many persons get into difficulty close to safety that the rescuer may often act without entering the water at all. For those very close to the rescuer, a hand reach while retaining a firm position or handhold on dry support is enough. To make contact with a victim just beyond hand reach, an oar, paddle or anything else to serve as an extension may be held by one end while the other end is thrust into the victim's grasp and he is drawn to safety. A drowning victim beyond reach of extensions may be aided by flinging within his grasp ring buoys, life vests, inflated tubes, or anything that has enough buoyancy to enable him to keep his head above water until he can be brought to safety.
A swimming rescue may be made as a last resort by a person who is a strong swimmer, provided he is willing to take the risk involved. The rescuer approaches the drowning person from the rear even though it involves circling the victim. Watching his chance, the rescuer swims to within arm's reach of the victim and assumes an upright position in the water with the legs in stroking position, a little forward of perpendicular. The rescuer then grasps the victim firmly by the hair, collar, or upper body and immediately turns on his side and starts swimming strongly with his legs and free arm. The holding arm is kept rigid. No attempt is made to lift the victim's head above water, because the act of swimming away not only brings the victim's face above the surface so that he may breathe but also planes the victim's body to the horizontal position and thus makes towing him easier.
Lifesaving in the 20th century has been augmented by new techniques involving the use of the life jacket, or vest, which largely replaced the doughnut-shaped life preserver except for use on bridges or waterfronts; and by the use of powered boats and helicopters to rescue the shipwrecked. As the recreation of swimming became popular in the 19th century, a variety of organizations sprang up in the United States and in western Europe that were dedicated to teaching lifesaving and water-safety techniques, as well as certifying persons trained to prevent drowning.
Among the bodies offering such services in the late 20th century were the Royal Life Saving Service, the American Red Cross, whose involvement with lifesaving dates from 1914, and the U.S. Coast Guard, as well as the beach personnel of local and municipal governments and those yacht clubs, marinas, and boating associations which provided training in lifesaving techniques. See also artificial respiration.


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Wilder School Adjunct Nominated for DOD Post
Guy B. Roberts, an adjunct faculty member of the Wilder School who teaches in the Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness program, will be nominated as an assistant secretary of defense for nuclear, chemical and biological defense programs in the Department of Defense.
President Donald J. Trump announced his intent to nominate of Roberts, who is currently president of the national security consulting firm GBR Consulting, on July 17.
As part of his work with GBR, Roberts has provided subject matter expertise on arms control, non-proliferation, international legal issues and strategies to combat terrorism to over 30 international and domestic organizations and institutions, according to the White House.
Roberts is also a senior associate with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and teaches courses on homeland security, international terrorism, non-proliferation, and arms control at the Wilder School as well as Mary Washington University.
Previously, Roberts served as deputy assistant secretary general for weapons of mass destruction policy and director of nuclear policy for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
He also served for 25 years in the U.S. Marine Corps, concluding his career as the staff judge advocate for U.S. Southern Command and retiring as a colonel.
He earned his B.A. in political science, magna cum laude, from Arizona State University, a law degree from the University of Denver, an LL.M. in international and comparative law from Georgetown University, and a master's degree in national security and strategic studies with highest distinction from the Naval War College.
"We will miss Guy while he further serves our nation at the Pentagon," said William V. Pelfrey Jr., Ph.D., chair of the HSEP program. "Given Guy's tremendous background and experiences, he made important contributions to our graduate and undergraduate programs. Our country is once again fortunate to have Guy applying his knowledge to protecting our interests and population."


I've had a hard time recently trying to decide where I should focus my efforts, now that critiques are winding down on my historical romance.
After some deliberation, where I read through every scrap of text I generated for my other novel-length WIPs, I finally decided to go with the mostly completed, extremely flawed SF novel. It's ok to applause – it was a very tough decision.
It's the second of two SF novels I have in the works. The first is set in the far far future. I got about a quarter of the way into it before I put on the breaks. I was dealing with so many futuristic concepts and assumptions, I needed to take a step back in time and suss out how things got the way they did. The result was a new story, the second SF story, that I drafted last summer, set in the not-so-distant future.
It was easier to manage in terms of worldbuilding, where I only had to focus on a few changes from present time, instead of a whole milieu. And good practice. But as my post Exorcising Demons from a while back can attest, the project was not without flaws. Once I completed the first draft, I realized the story had too much of a romantic arc and was more political than I originally envisioned. I also needed to add in a third POV character, which I've since done.
Now the story is a lot closer to where it needs to be, but there's still a ways to go. I've dreamed up new aspects to my characters, more subplots, and a twist on the true villain of the story, which means basically the last third of the draft needs to be thrown out and rewritten. Yay. Not.
But I like this story. I think about it a lot. It's essentially a near-future caper, with a wide cast of characters who keep calling out to me. And I'm having way too much fun incorporating future technology and the like into the storyline to stop now.
Even if it never goes beyond my hard drive, I feel like I have to finish this story properly. The potential is there, and I have to hope my writing potential is up to the challenge.
Good luck! It sounds like a compelling story, and you have to see it through to its end.


There are few things more "New York" than the NY Yankees. Your logo is ubiquitous throughout the city as long as most people can remember. Enjoy a holiday like no other at the Broome Hotel, the boutique hotel in the SoHo District of New York City. Whether you're in New York on business or on a well-deserved vacation, enjoy the comfort of luxury. in New York and Washington DC.
The New York City Football Club is the first Major League Soccer club to compete in the five districts.
The New York City Football Clubs is the first Major League Soccer Teams to take part in the five districts. Founded by the two major sports stars Manchester City FC and the New York Yankees, the side began playing in Major League Soccer in 2015. FC New York City made an immediate impression on MLS, hiring in the first campaign David Villa, Frank Lampard and Andrea Pirlo, all of them international heroes.
Beginning with the NYC logo (designed by Rafael Esquer of Alfalfa Studio), I wanted to create a coat of arms in which every item is connected to the city of New York. Gotham was created by Hoefler & Co. and is inspired by the traditional signs of New York City (Gotham is also a Nicknamed New York City).
Pentangles are the five districts of New York City, and oranges are the precise colour found in the New York flagg. Incorporating the New York City metro station mosaic, the 2015 inaugural campaign embodies the company's vision. It was mainly used as a jock day for the NYCFC home and away jerseys during the club's first year.
The''C'' represents both the city and the captain. The colours were chosen by the subscribers. It was my privilege to design the card cage with all its content before the first 2015 campaign. A blue print of the card opened to show that the owners of the founder members provided the plans and foundations for the clubs continuedness.
It also contained a shawl with the name of 3,000 subscribers, a wristband, stickers, lanyards and - of course - suitetickets.
The" Iove New York Logo" - consisting of a capital letter "I" followed by a central core icon and the capital letter "N" and "Y", which are placed in the American Typewriter round series - was designed by graphics artist Milton Glaser and first used in 1977 to support the town and the state.
Let us delve into the story behind the emergence of this iconsogo. In the 1970' New York experienced difficult periods. Misdemeanor was at an all-time high, and vacation was at an all-time low; in 1975, President Ford refused federally support to secure New York City from bankruptcy, and in 1977 saw a widespread power outage that resulted in bulky lootings and 4,500 arrests. In 1977, the state of New York City was in a state of crisis.
New York because of the bad press that followed. New York State Department for Economic Development has taken the Madison Avenue agency Wells Rich Greene on board to develop a tourist-friendly promotion of the Big Apple's visitor base. There was a tagline ("Iove New York "), a yingle and a TV spot that staged the Broadway Theatre.
Nevertheless, they were missing a logotype. Step into Milton Glaser, whose collection up to that point featured a Bob Dylan portrayal of the singer's greatest hit record, the New York based New York mag, which he created in 1968, and the World Trade Center restaurant's corporate image.
Glazier was enlisted by the Department for Commercial Affairs to interview Wells Rich Greene about the New York City advertising campaigns logos. Today, New York State Empire State in New York (ESD), New York's leading business promotion and promotion company, owns the brand name for the "I love New York" label and licences its use.
A 2011 edition of the BT Telegraph paper reported that more than $30 million in formal goods such as T-shirts and cups designed by Glaser are generated annually, and ESD will receive a significant share of the payoff.


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Madame Vivien V
Madame Vivien V is excited to be back in the theatre in another work by Alice Pencavel. Last summer she made her New York City theatre debut in Pie Shop Play directed by Sivan Battat. Madame Vivien V is the larger than life goddess of New York City nightlife best known as the Resident Drag Queen of House of Yes. She produces and emcees events across the city as well as producing and headlining at national festivals including 2018's Bonnaroo and Electric Forest. An award winning fire performer and alumni of the prestigious Commercial Theatre Institute; she's appeared in Time Out New York, VOGUE.com, and the critically acclaimed web series "So SOHA". She's featured in Planned Parenthood's current cross-platform campaign, and is the only drag queen in history to have performed at New York City Hall.
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Largest Scholarship Distribution Amount In VC Foundation's History
Ventura College Foundation Announces Distribution Of Over $683,000 In Scholarships
Ventura, Calif.—The Ventura College Foundation is awarding scholarships to 248 students totaling $683,748, the largest annual scholarship distribution in the foundation's history.
Students were notified this month of their scholarship awards ranging from $1,000 for continuing students to $4,000 for students who are transferring to four-year universities in the fall. Many students received multiple scholarships.
"This is the largest amount of scholarship funds we've ever distributed in one year to Ventura College students," says Rob van Nieuwburg, Ventura College Foundation board chair. "We are grateful to our scholarship donors. The foundation usually hosts several scholarship awards ceremonies where we honor both the recipients and donors. The ceremonies are an opportunity for both to meet. Because of the COVID-19 crisis, these events were cancelled. While disappointed the ceremonies couldn't take place, our donors were thrilled to know that their scholarships were awarded as planned despite these unprecedented times."
Scholarships were awarded in all academic fields including STEM, art, health and liberal arts. Recipients came from nearly every city in Ventura County, with the highest number from Ventura (92), Oxnard (74), Santa Paula (27) and Camarillo (14).
Angela Calderon, an Oxnard resident and the recipient of three STEM scholarships, has her sights set on becoming a mechanical engineer, working in the space sector of the aerospace industry. Last summer, Calderon, 21, was selected to participate in the NASA Community College Aerospace Scholars (NCAS) program, an accelerated five-week online course. She was then invited to take part in an onsite experience at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama where she competed in a rover design competition.
"NCAS inspired me to continue working hard towards an engineering degree," says Calderon. "The program showed me that any goal is attainable. I've always been concerned about the cost of my education so being awarded these scholarships will help me better focus on my studies." She will be graduating from Ventura College in May and will attend Cal State Northridge in the fall.
The educational path for many students takes a number of twists and turns. Such is the case of Phoenix and Allied Health scholarship recipient Season Chavez. A mother of five, Chavez, 37, is in her second semester of the Ventura College Nursing program and will graduate in 2021.
Chavez, who lives in Newbury Park, has had to juggle school, work, and family. She returned to school full-time after an 11-year break. Her lifelong dream is to become a pediatric nurse.
"I hope to serve children and their families in the community. My biggest joy would be patients and their families letting me know that I've made a difference in their care," says Chavez. "When my own six-year-old son was hospitalized in November with Type 1 diabetes, nurses made a difference and gave me strength to carry on. Being a source of empathy, and having a calm presence is my hope as a future nurse. The scholarship will help me to continue my education. I can't wait to pick up my stethoscope and apply the education I am receiving at Ventura College."
The Ventura College Nursing Program is demanding and faculty members diligently prepare their graduates to enter the challenging and rewarding field of nursing. All Ventura College nursing students in the fall 2019 class received a 100 percent pass rate on the National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX) exam. The national average pass rate for first-time test-takers is 83.5 percent.
"Scholarships are more important than ever," says van Nieuwburg. "Most Ventura College students work while attending school. Many are now unemployed because of the COVID-19 shutdown. The scholarship funds enable students to pay for school expenses so they can continue their studies."
Students are currently attending classes remotely since the college campus is closed. "While the transition has had its challenges, the college stepped in immediately to provide many avenues of support for both faculty and students," says Kim Hoffmans, Ventura College president. "Student services are also available remotely including tutoring, counseling, and financial aid. For students without laptops or internet connections, Ventura College used available funding to purchase 500 laptops enabling students to continue with their education. Ventura College employees are working long hours to make sure students receive the education and support necessary to achieve their academic goals and career readiness, to be prepared when our economy recovers. Our student body is resilient."
Qualified full-time students in the coming academic year will be able to have their tuition and education fees paid by the state's Promise program. Emergency grants and financial aid are also available.
The Ventura College Foundation is grateful for the continuing support of scholarship event sponsors even as events were cancelled. They include Edison International, Miracle Mile Advisors, HZ Main Events Design & Consulting, Searle Creative, DJ's California Catering, Clean Power Alliance, Trinity Wheeler Photography, Bank of the Sierra and individual sponsors Ken and Doris Collin, Ellyn and Jim Dembowski, Dr. Ruth Hemming, Lynne Kada, Anne Paul King, Mary Saputo, Eleanor Tillquist, van Nieuwburg, and Harald and Birgit Wulff.
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