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Arthur Futurus
Lands & Legends
UVU Art & Design
Arthur Futurus Lands & Legends
A Collaborative effort of the students and faculty within Utah Valley University's Art & Design department. part of an ongoing annual series by the art & design department. See past published books Uncommon Ground and The western Front: 100 Years Later
The legend of King Arthur has permeated Western society. Its myths, interspersed throughout the United Kingdom, have influenced international culture. In the spring of 2017, UVU students and faculty explored these fabled lands. Traveling throughout the United Kingdom, they immersed themselves in the legend, creating art inspired by and about the ethos of King Arthur.
Uncommon Ground
Uncommon Ground, The National Park Service – 100 Years in Utah
"Utah is the home to five National Parks: Arches, Bryce Canyon, Canyonlands, Capitol Reef, and Zion. Often, and understandably, lost in the grandeur of what are collectively known as the Big Five. Utah also hosts seven National Monuments, a National Historic Site, and National Recreation Area. In the United States, only two states boast more."
"On August 25, 1916 President Woodrow Wilson signed the National Park Service Organic Act, co-sponsored by Utah Senator Reed Smoot, into law. This act created the National Parks Service to manage existing national parks and monuments and protect future locations as well. One hundred years later, we celebrate the foresight of preserving these national treasures."
"To honor this centennial, Utah Valley University art students and faculty chose to focus specifically on Utah's 13 national parks and monuments managed by the National Parks Service. . . Driving over 7,800 miles and amassing over 50 days in the NPS sites, we were exposed to broad contrasts in topography, weather, and especially visitors. Some were loud, some reverent. Some snapped up souvenirs while others snapped selfies. Languages mixed in a culture of collecting memories of America's best idea. The world came to Utah to experience what we sometimes take for granted."
-Excerpt of the introduction
UVU Journal of National Security
The UVU Journal of National Security is Utah's first student-edited academic journal focused on national security issues. It is published twice annually -- in April and December -- and supported by the Center for National Security Studies at UVU. The JNS publishes timely, insightful articles on critical national security matters, including topics relating to foreign affairs, intelligence, homeland security, terrorism, and national defense.
The Journal of
The Journal of Student Leadership (JSL), a new publication at UVU, is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary academic journal that addresses topics on leadership. The JSL is unique in that it is a peer-reviewed journal that accepts work from all levels of academia, from undergraduate to postgraduate, and is operated by a staff of undergraduates and postgraduates. The JSL provides unique community engagement available to leaders of all standing and experience.
The Journal of Student Leadership is a double-blind, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary, academic journal that addresses ideas, theories, and issues of leadership.
Edited by Katie Schwendiman
100 Years Later
The Western Front – 100 Years Later is a collaborative production of the students and faculty within Utah Valley University's Art & Design department. In concert with the centennial of the start of the First World War, and with assistance from the American Battle Monuments Commission, students and faculty created imagery as they traveled along areas of the western front. They then paired the art with verse that was written by soldiers in the trenches or their loved ones at home during the war. Measuring 10.25 by 10.25 inches, this limited edition fine art book contains 190 photographs and illustrations within its beautifully designed 176 pages.
All proceeds from the purchase of this book will be used to publish similar fine art collections annually. This enables the Art & Design department to continue to provide the highest level of engaged learning opportunities including our current project to celebrate the National Park Service's centennial by spotlighting Utah's uncommon national treasures.
Wild Rides and Wildflowers
Scott Abbott
Wild Rides and Wildflowers: Philosophy and Botany with Bikes
Two university professors set out to repeatedly bike the Great Western Trail, observing and writing about its variations with every season. The accounts of their adventures, however, refuse to be limited to flora and fauna. In Wild Rides and Wildflowers, Abbott and Rushforth share their deeply personal explorations of the male psyche, true friendship, biking, and botany.
One of the world's most famous and influential books, Meditations, by the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (A.D. 121 180), incorporates the stoic precepts he used to cope with his life as a warrior and administrator of an empire. Ascending to the imperial throne in A.D. 161, Aurelius found his reign beset by natural disasters and war. In the wake of these challenges, he set down a series of private reflections, outlining a philosophy of commitment to virtue above pleasure and tranquility above happiness
Reflecting the emperor's own noble and self-sacrificing code of conduct, this eloquent and moving work draws and enriches the tradition of Stoicism, which stressed the search for inner peace and ethical certainty in an apparently chaotic world. Serenity was to be achieved by emulating in one's personal conduct the underlying orderliness and lawfulness of nature. And in the face of inevitable pain, loss, and death the suffering at the core of life Aurelius counsels stoic detachment from the things that are beyond one's control and a focus on one's own will and perception.
Presented here in a specially modernized version of the classic George Long translation, this updated and revised edition is easily accessible to contemporary readers. It not only provides a fascinating glimpse into the mind and personality of a highly principled Roman of the second century but also offers today's readers a practical and inspirational guide to the challenges of everyday life.
Blindspot: Hidden Biases
Mahzarin Banaji
I know my own mind.
I am able to assess others in a fair and accurate way.
These self-perceptions are challenged by leading psychologists Mahzarin R. Banaji and Anthony G. Greenwald as they explore the hidden biases we all carry from a lifetime of exposure to cultural attitudes about age, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, social class, sexuality, disability status, and nationality.
"Blindspot" is the authors' metaphor for the portion of the mind that houses hidden biases. Writing with simplicity and verve, Banaji and Greenwald question the extent to which our perceptions of social groups—without our awareness or conscious control—shape our likes and dislikes and our judgments about people's character, abilities, and potential.
In Blindspot, the authors reveal hidden biases based on their experience with the Implicit Association Test, a method that has revolutionized the way scientists learn about the human mind and that gives us a glimpse into what lies within the metaphoric blindspot.
The title's "good people" are those of us who strive to align our behavior with our intentions. The aim of Blindspot is to explain the science in plain enough language to help well-intentioned people achieve that alignment. By gaining awareness, we can adapt beliefs and behavior and "outsmart the machine" in our heads so we can be fairer to those around us. Venturing into this book is an invitation to understand our own minds.
Brilliant, authoritative, and utterly accessible, Blindspot is a book that will challenge and change readers for years to come.
Dictionary of
Banking Terms
Thomas Fitch
This updated and expanded edition features more than 3,000 terms defined and explained. Topics covered include every conceivable aspect of investment banking and commercial banking practices, finance and money management, and much more.
Vinyl bound
Bruce Barcott
Weed the People: A Journey Into America's Legalized Future
The Future of Legal Marijuana in America
The legalization of marijuana is the next great reversal of history. Perhaps the most demonized substance in America, scientifically known as Cannabis sativa, simply a very fast growing herb, thrived underground as the nation's most popular illegal drug. Now the tide has shifted: In 1996 California passed the nation's first medical marijuana law, which allowed patients to grow it and use it with a doctor's permission. By 2010, twenty states and the District of Columbia had adopted medical pot laws. In 2012 Colorado and Washington state passed ballot measures legalizing marijuana for adults age 21 and older.
The magnitude of the change in America's relationship to marijuana can't be measured in only economic or social terms: There are deeper shifts going on here - cultural realignments, social adjustments, and financial adjustments. The place of marijuana in our lives is being rethought, reconsidered, and recalibrated. Four decades after Richard Nixon declared a War on Drugs, that long campaign has reached a point of exhaustion and failure. The era of its winding down has arrived.
Weed the People will take readers a half-step into the future. The issues surrounding the legalization of pot vary from the trivial to the profound. There are new questions of social etiquette: Is one expected to offer a neighborly toke? If so, how? Is it cool to bring cannabis to a Super Bowl party? Yea or nay on the zoning permit for a marijuana shop two doors down from the Safeway? Plus, there are the inevitable conversations between parents and children over exactly what this adult experiment with marijuana means for them.
101 Things to Do with Peanut Butter
Pamela Bennett
Peanut butter lovers of the world unite and start thinking outside the jar beyond your childhood favorite, PBJ. Update your palate with not only sweet, but savory recipes for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Pamela Bennett grew up in Durham, North Carolina, and graduated from Crofts College and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of Jams & Jellies in Less Than 30 Minutes and Peanut Butter Sweets. She now lives in Provo, Utah.
Jams & Jellies in Less Than 30 Minutes
These jams and jellies are not only yummy on toast and biscuits, but they also turn fish to delish, go neat with meat, and dress up cheese in a breeze!
For the creative cook who has no time to spare, Jams and Jellies in 30 Minutes or Less is the answer. Simple cooking directions and ingredients are the keys to quick and successful refrigerator jams that can be eaten the same day they're prepared, or savored for up to three weeks. No canning required!
Peanut Butter Sweets
Whether you like creamy or crunchy, there's no denying that peanut butter is a favorite pantry staple, and Peanut Butter Sweets offers you 70 tasty ways to enjoy it.
From smoothies, cookies, pies, and cakes to candies, dips, sauces, and toppings, here are recipes to help you create luscious sweet treats for parties and special events, luncheons, desserts, or for eating all by yourself while watching a favorite movie. You can also indulge your creative genius and package up some of these yummy morsels in cute ways for gift-giving.
Whip up a pretty Southern Belle Shake, bake a batch of Peanut Butter Macaroons, create a Peanut Butter Cheesecake, or serve a scrumptious Peanut Butter Soufflé to the delight of your friends and family. Peanut butter lovers will rejoice!
Pamela Bennett grew up in Durham, North Carolina, where she was exposed to an environment rich in the southern culinary tradition. She was educated in business, graduating from Crofts College. Pam has been making signature sweets for more than 25 years and sharing them with family and customers. She owned and operated Black Sheep Baskets in Dallas, Texas, which featured her jams. Additionally, she has worked in the entertainment industry (MGM and Sundance) as well as at three major universities. She now lives with her never-dull psychologist husband in Provo, Utah, and is the mother of two intelligent, compassionate, humorous children. She is the author of Jams & Jellies in Less Than 30 Minutes.
Treating People Well
Lea Berman
Treating People Well: The Extraordinary Power of Civility at Work and in Life
A guide to personal and professional empowerment through civility and social skills, written by two White House Social Secretaries who offer an important fundamental message—everyone is important and everyone deserves to be treated well.
Former White House social secretaries Lea Berman, who worked for George and Laura Bush, and Jeremy Bernard, who worked for Michelle and Barack Obama, have written an entertaining and uniquely practical guide to personal and professional success in modern life. Their daily experiences at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue taught them valuable lessons about how to work productively with people from different walks of life and points of view. These Washington insiders share what they've learned through first person examples of their own glamorous (and sometimes harrowing) moments with celebrities, foreign leaders and that most unpredictable of animals—the American politician.
This book is for you if you feel unsure of yourself in social settings, if you'd like to get along more easily with others, or if you want to break through to a new level of cooperation with your boss and coworkers. They give specific advice for how to exude confidence even when you don't feel it, ways to establish your reputation as an individual whom people like, trust, and want to help, and lay out the specific social skills still essential to success - despite our increasingly digitized world. Jeremy and Lea prove that social skills are learned behavior that anyone can acquire, and tell the stories of their own unlikely paths to becoming the social arbiters of the White House, while providing tantalizing insights into the character of the first ladies and presidents they served.
This is not a book about old school etiquette; they explain the things we all want to know, like how to walk into a roomful of strangers and make friends, what to do about a difficult colleague who makes you dread coming to work each day, and how to navigate the sometimes-treacherous waters of social media in a special chapter on "Virtual Manners." For lovers of White House history, this is a treasure of never-before-published anecdotes from the authors and their fellow former social secretaries as they describe pearl-clutching moments with presidents and first ladies dating back to the Johnson administration.
The authors make a case for the importance of a return to treating people well in American political life, maintaining that democracy cannot be sustained without public civility.
Words Their Way
Donald R. Bear
Words Their Way: Letter and Picture Sorts for Emergent Spellers
Donald R. Bear, Marcia Invernizzi, Francine Johnston, Shane Templeton
We believe that the hands-on word sorting approach to word study is invaluable to you and your students. Broaden your word study understanding and instruction with this expanded word sorting tool for week by week implementation with emergent spellers (ages 1 - 7). This stage-specific companion volume toWords Their Way (R) Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction provides a complete curriculum of assessments, reproducible sorts, and detailed directions for the teacher working with students in the emergent stage of spelling. New! This second edition boasts
• Targeted Learners sections that clarify which students will benefit most from the instruction
• An early bank of assessments to help you evaluate your students and pinpoint the most appropriate instruction
• Literature Connections to reinforce concepts being studied
This first volume introduces the idea of sorting through concept sort for students in the emergent stage of spelling development (Pre-K through Grade 1). The word study lesson plan format of demonstrate, sort, check, and reflect is expanded in this stage to include reading aloud and writing activities. The early concept sorting activities are followed with picture sorts that develop phonemic awareness and include activities for rhyming, syllabication, and sound play. Alphabet knowledge and letter recognition are then covered, along with sorts that look at concept of word in print, as well as poems, jingles and short text selections that can be shared with children. Students are then ushered into sorts that introduce beginning consonants with pictures, laying the foundation for the letter-name stage.
Prophet of Freedom
David W. Blight
**Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in History**
As a young man Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) escaped from slavery in Baltimore, Maryland. He was fortunate to have been taught to read by his slave owner mistress, and he would go on to become one of the major literary figures of his time. His very existence gave the lie to slave owners: with dignity and great intelligence he bore witness to the brutality of slavery.
Initially mentored by William Lloyd Garrison, Douglass spoke widely, using his own story to condemn slavery. By the Civil War, Douglass had become the most famed and widely travelled orator in the nation. In his unique and eloquent voice, written and spoken, Douglass was a fierce critic of the United States as well as a radical patriot. After the war he sometimes argued politically with younger African Americans, but he never forsook either the Republican party or the cause of black civil and political rights.
In this "cinematic and deeply engaging" (The New York Times Book Review) biography, David Blight has drawn on new information held in a private collection that few other historian have consulted, as well as recently discovered issues of Douglass's newspapers. "Absorbing and even moving…a brilliant book that speaks to our own time as well as Douglass'" (The Wall Street Journal), Blight's biography tells the fascinating story of Douglass' two marriages and his complex extended family. "David Blight has written the definitive biography of Frederick Douglass…a powerful portrait of one of the most important American voices of the nineteenth century" (The Boston Globe).
A Book of Quotations
Bob Blaisdell
"The time for compromise has now passed. The South is determined to maintain her position, and make all who oppose her smell Southern power and feel Southern steel." Jefferson Davis.
"Talk! Talk! Talk! That will never free the slaves. What is needed is action, action!" Abolitionist John Brown. "There is Jackson standing like a stone wall! Let us determine to die here, and we will conquer." Confederate General Barnard E. Bee.
More than 700 provocative declarations in this fascinating book constitute a running narrative by many who lived through or died in the Civil War. The voices of the great and famous, the ordinary and unknown, resound in these pages that bear historic witness to key events before, during, and after the war.
Arranged chronologically and divided into sections on specific topics and events, this well-researched volume puts a human face on history and provides a unique perspective on the Civil War and its times. Of interest to Civil War buffs, students, and teachers of American history, this volume will also serve as a handy aid for speechwriters and public speakers.
Donald J. Borror
Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms
One of the outstanding problems of the biologist, whether he be beginning student or specialists, is that of understanding technical terms. The best way to understand and remember technical terms is to understand first their component parts, or roots. This dictionary has been designed primarily to meet the needs of the beginning student, the medical student, and the taxonomist, but it should be of value to all biologists.
It's Critical!
David Booth
It's Critical!: Classroom Strategies for Promoting Critical and Creative Comprehension
All text comes with layers of meaning influenced by the background knowledge and attitudes of readers. This valuable resource examines the power of language and persuasion helps students critically examine and negotiate the underlying meaning in all that they read and see. It asks them to consider the author's purpose, and to appreciate that each text is written from a particular point of view.
Literacy Techniques
Literacy Techniques: For Building Successful Readers and Writers
This revised handbook is even more useful for elementary teachers who want to explore the best techniques for teaching reading and writing. The second edition of this popular guide has been totally rewritten and offers more than one hundred procedures and activities based on the latest research. In this superb collection of proven strategies, teachers will find old favorites as well as new approaches they will want to try-- from using reading comprehension strategies and the writing process to working with information texts and technology.
This overview of best practices for encouraging literacy helps teachers reflect on their own teaching style as they explore innovative approaches to learning. It contains hundreds of practical ideas to meet the particular needs of every student. Each strategy includes a brief discussion of the issues and then focuses on ready-to-use ideas for any classroom. Some of the topics addressed include:
• joining the literacy club--from conditions for literacy learning and gender issues to supporting literacy growth and using parents as partners;
• structures for literacy learning-- from creating a print environment and guided reading to independent reading and tutoring struggling students;
• reading strategies--from tapping into background knowledge and monitoring comprehension to encouraging oral, written, and visual response;
• writing strategies-- from using notebooks and tricks of the trade to writing in genre and applying the conventions of language;
• organizing a literacy classroom-- from timetabling and involving the library to essential classroom resources in all genres.
Poetry Goes to School
Poetry Goes to School: From Mother Goose to Shel Silverstein
Learn how to create a "culture of poetry" that demonstrates the power of words and strengthens the language lives of children. Poetry Goes to School is a comprehensive resource for teachers who want to fill their classrooms with poetry. The authors have expanded the territory covered in their previous book, Mother Goose Goes to School. In this rich collection, they have gathered and classified a remarkable collection of poetry and teaching strategies into a meaningful, manageable program.The book is organized around eight inviting units: patterns, word play, nursery rhymes, ceremonies, images, voices, stories, and information.
Each unit contains:
•	a description of the genre;
•	inviting lessons and tools for using them in classrooms;
•	sample poems to motivate language discussion;
•	ideas for exploring all forms of poetry with children.
Teachers can select from the wide range of response activities that will involve the children in reading, writing, role-playing and the arts. Assessment techniques for supporting the poetry program complement this inviting resource.
Reading Doesn't
Matter Anymore
Reading Doesn't Matter Anymore: Shattering the Myths of Literacy
In this timely, wise, and often witty book, eminent educator and author David Booth argues that teachers must redefine reading as an activity that embraces the needs and interests of students. Reading isn't just about Dick and Jane or great literature any more: it's about the Internet, comic books, technical manuals, graphic novels, iPods, and much more.
Booth outlines twelve simple steps to help teachers and parents alike revolutionize the way they view - and encourage - children's reading in all kinds of genres and formats. He argues forcefully that we must: redefine what reading means; include comics, magazines, manuals, along with novels in our reading programs; understand that technology is part of the new literacy; remember that story is the heart of literacy; help students build strong reading muscles; value the reading responses of young people; view writing as literacy; recognize the different ages and stages of individuals; explore how words work; turn printed texts into active learning; focus on literacy in every subject; welcome youngsters into the culture of literacy.
In some very personal reflections, the author reveals the decisive moments in his life that have shaped his approach to reading and learning. Lively anecdotes throughout the book create a highly readable narrative that makes a compelling case for recognizing the unique value of reading...almost anything.
The book concludes with over one-hundred literacy events that celebrate reading not just in school, but the world beyond.
What Color Is Your Parachute? 2017
Richard N. Bolles
"What Color Is Your Parachute? 2017: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers"
The world's most popular job-search book is updated for 2017 to tailor its long-trusted guidance with up-to-the-minute information and advice for today's job-hunters and career-changers.
In today's challenging job-market, the time-tested advice of What Color Is Your Parachute? is needed more than ever. Recent grads facing a tough economic landscape, workers laid off mid-career, and people searching for an inspiring work-life change all look to career guru Richard N. Bolles for support, encouragement, and advice on which job-hunt strategies work--and which don't. This revised and updated edition combines classic elements like the famed Flower Exercise with updated tips on social media and search tactics. Bolles demystifies the entire job-search process, from resumes to interviewing to networking, expertly guiding job-hunters toward their dream job.
What Color Is Your Parachute?
… Rethinking Interviews
What Color Is Your Parachute? Guide to Rethinking Interviews: Ace the Interview and Land Your Dream Job
By Richard Bolles
The first interview book from the What Color Is Your Parachute? career guru Richard Bolles.
Interviews instill fear in many a job-hunter, but this empowering guide from legendary career expert Richard N. Bolles reveals that interviews are really just conversations to determine if the work—and workplace—is a great fit for both parties.
For the first time, Bolles combines his decades of experience with the latest studies and job-market research to create an all-in-one guide for the whole interview process, from pre-interview research to elevator pitches, "tell me about yourself" questions, and salary negotiation. This slender handbook provides just the essentials: the three most important things you need to know about interviews, the five questions you must have answers for, and an ingenious summary of how to succeed. With this guide in hand, you'll walk into interviews with confidence, armed with the means to impress—and hopefully land your dream job.
… Rethinking Resumes
What Color Is Your Parachute? Guide to Rethinking Resumes
by Richard N. Bolles
Write a Winning Resume and Cover Letter and Land Your Dream Interview
Resumes get an average of eight seconds of attention before going in the trash—or getting on the shortlist. That's just one of the findings reported here, as legendary career expert Richard N. Bolles presents new research about resumes in a guide that summarizes everything job-hunters and career-changers need to know about this essential tool.
This timely resource features the latest research on important resume topics such as key words, soft skills, scanning software, social media, and online posting. Bolles argues that on the basis of what we now know, we need to rethink what a resume is—and how it should be written. He details the words that must be avoided, and the words that must be used, on a resume that wins you interviews.
This slim volume distills a huge amount of information down to its very essence. Armed with tips and shortcuts based on the author's decades of experience, you can craft a resume and cover letter that will stand out to your dream employers—and increase your chances of getting interviews and landing jobs.
What Color Is
Your Parachute? 2014
The world's most popular job-search book is updated for 2014 with up-to-the-minute information and tips for how-to look for work and change careers.
In today's challenging job-market, the long-trusted guidance of What Color Is Your Parachute? is needed more than ever. Published in 22 languages and 26 countries, and with over 10 million copies sold, What Color is Your Parachute? has helped millions discover their unique gifts, skills, and interests and land a job--even in hard times.
This 2014 edition of "[one of] the 100 best and most influential [nonfiction books] written in English since 1923," according to TIME.com, is refreshed with up-to-the-minute statistics, job-field analyses, and advice on social media and search tactics (including Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Skype, Yelp, and YouTube). However, Parachute's core message remains intact: WHAT, WHERE, and HOW.
• What do you most love to do?
• Where do you most love to do it?
• How do you find such a job and persuade those employers to hire you?
Career and business guru Richard ("Dick") N. Bolles, who coined the terms "informational interview" and "transferable skills," demystifies the entire job-search process, from resumes, interviewing, networking, salary negotiation, career coaches, how to start your own business, and more.
And They
Were Not Ashamed
Laura M. Brotherson
And They Were Not Ashamed: Strengthening Marriage through Sexual Fulfillment
The ultimate how-to handbook, written especially for women, is power-packed with hope and help for creating a mutually fulfilling sexual relationship in marriage. As three books in one, this marriage book, sex book, and parenting book uses a fresh and frank approach and shines light and truth on the sanctity of the marital sexual relationship. It provides comprehensive solutions for creating complete ONEness by improving emotional, spiritual and physical intimacy in marriage.
Emotional Intelligence 2.0
Travis Bradberry
In today's fast-paced world of competitive workplaces and turbulent economic conditions, each of us is searching for effective tools that can help us to manage, adapt, and strike out ahead of the pack.
By now, emotional intelligence (EQ) needs little introduction—it's no secret that EQ is critical to your success. But knowing what EQ is and knowing how to use it to improve your life are two very different things.
Emotional Intelligence 2.0 delivers a step-by-step program for increasing your EQ via four, core EQ skills that enable you to achieve your fullest potential:
1) Self-Awareness
2) Self-Management
3) Social Awareness
4) Relationship Management
Emotional Intelligence 2.0 is a book with a single purpose—increasing your EQ. Here's what people are saying about it:
"Emotional Intelligence 2.0 succinctly explains how to deal with emotions creatively and employ our intelligence in a beneficial way."
"A fast read with compelling anecdotes and good context in which to understand and improve."
"Gives abundant, practical findings and insights with emphasis on how to develop EQ. Research shows convincingly that EQ is more important than IQ."
--Stephen R. Covey, author, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
"This book can drastically change the way you think about success...read it twice."
--Patrick Lencioni, author, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
Knowing HER Intimately
Unlock HER Mysteries...! Women have been mysteries to themselves and their husbands for too long. Knowing HER Intimately: 12 Keys for Creating a Sextraordinary Marriage is the ultimate how-to handbook power-packed with hope and help for creating the intimate and passionate relationship God intended. Taking a respectful, yet straightforward approach, this "sex-therapy-in-a-book," helps couples navigate the intricacies of intimacy to strengthen their marriages. Laura outlines 12 key areas (12 T's) of sexual wholeness to take your relationship to the next level...intimately!
The King Years:
Historic Moments…
Taylor Branch
The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement The essential moments of the Civil Rights Movement are set in historical context by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the magisterial America in the King Years trilogy—Parting the Waters; Pillar of Fire; and At Canaan's Edge.
Taylor Branch, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning America in the King Years trilogy, presents selections from his monumental work that recount the essential moments of the Civil Rights Movement. A masterpiece of storytelling on race and democracy, violence and nonviolence, The King Years delivers riveting tales of everyday heroes whose stories inspire us still. Here is the full sweep of an era that transformed America and continues to offer crucial lessons for today's world. This vital primer amply fulfills Branch's dedication: "For students of freedom and teachers of history."
41: A Portrait
of My Father
George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States, has authored a personal biography of his father, George H. W. Bush, the 41st President.
Forty-three men have served as President of the United States. Countless books have been written about them. But never before has a President told the story of his father, another President, through his own eyes and in his own words. A unique and intimate biography, the book covers the entire scope of the elder President Bush's life and career, including his service in the Pacific during World War II, his pioneering work in the Texas oil business, and his political rise as a Congressman, U.S. Representative to China and the United Nations, CIA Director, Vice President, and President. The book shines new light on both the accomplished statesman and the warm, decent man known best by his family. In addition, George W. Bush discusses his father's influence on him throughout his own life, from his childhood in West Texas to his early campaign trips with his father, and from his decision to go into politics to his own two-term Presidency.
Heal Your Headache
David Buchholz
Heal Your Headache: The 1-2-3 Program for Taking Charge of Your Pain
Based on the breakthrough understanding that virtually all headaches are forms of migraine--because migraine is not a specific type of headache, but the built-in mechanism that causes headaches of all kinds, along with neck stiffness, sinus congestion, dizziness, and other problems--Dr. Buchholz's Heal Your Headache puts headache sufferers back in control of their lives with a simple, transforming program:
Step 1: Avoid the "Quick Fix." Too often painkillers only make matters worse because of the crippling complication known as rebound.
Step 2: Reduce Your Triggers. The crux of the program: a migraine diet that eliminates the foods that push headache sufferers over the top.
Step 3: Raise Your Threshold. When diet and other lifestyle changes aren't enough, preventive medication can help stay the course.
That's it: in three steps turn your headache problems around.
Winning the
Money Game
Adam Caroll & Chad Carden
Winning the Money Game: A Rule Book to Achieving Financial Success for Young People
The book is a perfect complement to National Financial Educators humorous, interactive program called The Money Game that has been delivered on over 400 college campuses, hundreds of leadership conferences, and seen by over 150,000 students.
The book details the journey from debt-ridden to debt-free in a matter of two years, and how different choices might have been made to prevent the situation from the beginning. Written at a level that students will appreciate and relate to, WTMG has received praise from school administrators, parents, and most importantly, students from all over the country.
Ron Chernow
A New York Times Bestseller, and the inspiration for the hit Broadway musical Hamilton!
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow presents a landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton, the Founding Father who galvanized, inspired, scandalized, and shaped the newborn nation.
In the first full-length biography of Alexander Hamilton in decades, Ron Chernow tells the riveting story of a man who overcame all odds to shape, inspire, and scandalize the newborn America. According to historian Joseph Ellis, Alexander Hamilton is "a robust full-length portrait, in my view the best ever written, of the most brilliant, charismatic and dangerous founder of them all."
Few figures in American history have been more hotly debated or more grossly misunderstood than Alexander Hamilton. Chernow's biography gives Hamilton his due and sets the record straight, deftly illustrating that the political and economic greatness of today's America is the result of Hamilton's countless sacrifices to champion ideas that were often wildly disputed during his time. "To repudiate his legacy," Chernow writes, "is, in many ways, to repudiate the modern world." Chernow here recounts Hamilton's turbulent life: an illegitimate, largely self-taught orphan from the Caribbean, he came out of nowhere to take America by storm, rising to become George Washington's aide-de-camp in the Continental Army, coauthoring The Federalist Papers, founding the Bank of New York, leading the Federalist Party, and becoming the first Treasury Secretary of the United States. Historians have long told the story of America's birth as the triumph of Jefferson's democratic ideals over the aristocratic intentions of Hamilton. Chernow presents an entirely different man, whose legendary ambitions were motivated not merely by self-interest but by passionate patriotism and a stubborn will to build the foundations of American prosperity and power. His is a Hamilton far more human than we've encountered before--from his shame about his birth to his fiery aspirations, from his intimate relationships with childhood friends to his titanic feuds with Jefferson, Madison, Adams, Monroe, and Burr, and from his highly public affair with Maria Reynolds to his loving marriage to his loyal wife Eliza. And never before has there been a more vivid account of Hamilton's famous and mysterious death in a duel with Aaron Burr in July of 1804.
Chernow's biography is not just a portrait of Hamilton, but the story of America's birth seen through its most central figure. At a critical time to look back to our roots, Alexander Hamilton will remind readers of the purpose of our institutions and our heritage as Americans.
"Nobody has captured Hamilton better than Chernow" --The New York Times Book Review
Behind Our Eyes
A Second Look
Edit by Kate Chamberlin
Behind Our Eyes: A Second Look: The Second Literary Anthology of Stories, Poems and Essays
"Behind Our Eyes: A Second Look" is the second literary anthology by writers with disabilities. The topics range from ridiculously absurd to tragically abusive, from cats and rabbits to guide dogs and even a guiding miniature horse, from medical fiascos to survival tactics, and through pangs of deprivation to heights of success. The vivid tapestry of life these writers weave with their stories, poems, and essays demonstrates what a diverse group of writers they are; yet this tapestry of creative writings showcases how similar they are to each other and to the world. This Behind Our Eyes organization's anthology takes a second look at the intriguing and insightful pieces of sixty-five writers.
Fun Date Ideas
M. D. Chuka
Fun Date Ideas: Discover Romantic, Inexpensive and Interesting Date Ideas for First Dates, Anniversaries, Valentines and Much More
In Fun Date Ideas, you will discover 18 fun date ideas that will ensure your next date is unique, inexpensive and above all fun. After taking out that special person in your life using one of the date ideas highlighted in this book, get ready for affectionate stares and a special place in their heart for many days to come plus they'll look forward to spending more time with you. If you're looking for first date ideas, then there's something here for you. If you're looking for anniversary date ideas, then there's something here for you. If you're looking for unique date ideas, there's something here for you. And it doesn't matter if you don't have the cash to spend on something fancy. It doesn't matter if you don't consider yourself romantic.
Whether you're young, old, rich, poor, Harvard educated or not, you will find fun, cheap, romantic, interesting and unique date ideas that will work for your situation. Get your own copy right now!
The Innovative University
Clayton M. Christensen
The Innovative University: Changing the DNA of Higher Education from the Inside Out
The Innovative University illustrates how higher education can respond to the forces of disruptive innovation, and offers a nuanced and hopeful analysis of where the traditional university and its traditions have come from and how it needs to change for the future. Through an examination of Harvard and BYU-Idaho as well as other stories of innovation in higher education, Clayton Christensen and Henry Eyring decipher how universities can find innovative, less costly ways of performing their uniquely valuable functions.
• Offers new ways forward to deal with curriculum, faculty issues, enrollment, retention, graduation rates, campus facility usage, and a host of other urgent issues in higher education
• Discusses a strategic model to ensure economic vitality at the traditional university
• Contains novel insights into the kind of change that is necessary to move institutions of higher education forward in innovative ways
This book uncovers how the traditional university survives by breaking with tradition, but thrives by building on what it's done best.
10 Things Employers Want...
Bill Coplin
10 Things Employers Want You to Learn in College
A handy, straightforward guide that teaches students how to acquire marketable job skills and real-world know-how before they graduate—revised and updated for today's economic and academic landscapes.
Award-winning college professor and adviser Bill Coplin lays down the essential skills students need to survive and succeed in today's job market, based on his extensive interviews with employers, recruiters, HR specialists, and employed college grads. Going beyond test scores and GPAs, Coplin teaches students how to maximize their college experience by focusing on ten crucial skill groups: Work Ethic, Physical Performance, Speaking, Writing, Teamwork, Influencing People, Research, Number Crunching, Critical Thinking, and Problem Solving.
10 Things Employers Want You to Learn in College gives students the tools they need to prepare during their undergraduate years to impress potential employers, land a higher-paying job, and start on the road to career security and satisfaction.
A Higher Loyalty:
Truth, Lies, and...
A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership
In his book, former FBI director James Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of the highest-stakes situations of his career in the past two decades of American government, exploring what good, ethical leadership looks like, and how it drives sound decisions. His journey provides an unprecedented entry into the corridors of power, and a remarkable lesson in what makes an effective leader.
Mr. Comey served as director of the FBI from 2013 to 2017, appointed to the post by President Barack Obama. He previously served as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, and the U.S. deputy attorney general in the administration of President George W. Bush. From prosecuting the Mafia and Martha Stewart to helping change the Bush administration's policies on torture and electronic surveillance, overseeing the Hillary Clinton e-mail investigation as well as ties between the Trump campaign and Russia, Comey has been involved in some of the most consequential cases and policies of recent history.
A Moving Child is a Learning Child
Gill Connell
A Moving Child is a Learning Child: How the Body Teaches the Brain to Think (Birth to Age 7)
Gill Connell, Cheryl McCarthy
In order to learn, kids need to move! Grounded in best practices and current research, this hands-on resource connects the dots that link brain activity, movement, and early learning. The expert authors unveil the Kinetic Scale a visual map of the active learning needs of infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and primary graders that fits each child's individual timetable.
Teachers, parents, and caregivers will find a wealth of information, actionable tips, and games they can use to support children's healthy development--all presented in a lively, full-color format with demonstrative diagrams and photos. A final section offers easy-to-implement activities geared to the Kinetic Scale.
Downloadable digital content includes printable charts, games, and activities from the book plus a PowerPoint presentation for professional development, parent handouts, and bonus activities. An ideal tool for coaches, mentors, and trainers.
Introducing the Kinetic Scale
•	unique framework encompassing all the elements of movement: reflexes, sensory tools (sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch, balance, and intuition), motor tools (power, coordination, and control), and language.
•	based on six stages of movement development from birth to age 7: snugglers, squigglers, stompers, scampers, scooters, and skedaddlers.
•	designed to foster a balanced diet of physical activity that helps each child move, grow, and learn on the child's individual timetable
Creating Magic
Lee Cockerell
Creating Magic: 10 Common Sense Leadership Strategies from a Life at Disney
"It's not the magic that makes it work; it's the way we work that makes it magic." The secret for creating "magic" in our careers, our organizations, and our lives is simple: outstanding leadership—the kind that inspires employees, delights customers, and achieves extraordinary business results.
No one knows more about this kind of leadership than Lee Cockerell, the man who ran Walt Disney World Resort operations for over a decade. And in Creating Magic, he shares the leadership principles that not only guided his own journey from a poor farm boy in Oklahoma to the head of operations for a multibillion dollar enterprise, but that also soon came to form the cultural bedrock of the world's number one vacation destination. But as Lee demonstrates, great leadership isn't about mastering impossibly complex management theories. We can all become outstanding leaders by following the ten practical, common sense strategies outlined in this remarkable book. As straightforward as they are profound, these leadership lessons include:
• Everyone is important
• Make your people your brand
• Burn the free fuel: appreciation, recognition, and encouragement
• Give people a purpose, not just a job
Combining surprising business wisdom with insightful and entertaining stories from Lee's four decades on the front lines of some of the world's best-run companies, Creating Magic shows all of us – from small business owners to managers at every level – how to become better leaders by infusing quality, character, courage, enthusiasm, and integrity into our workplace and into our lives.
Jennifer Taylor Cox
Family Math Night: Math Standards in Action
Why should your school have a Family Math Night?
• Help students learn essential math concepts
• Give parents a chance to serve as models of motivation, persistence and competence
• Promote math success in a supportive setting
With its step-by-step directions and suggestions for both teachers and parents, this book takes the worry out of planning and conducting a Family Math Night at your school.
How does Family Math Night work?
• Invite parents to accompany their children to school for an evening event.
• Arrange a series of tables ("stations") in a large room or in several classrooms.
• As shown in this book, prepare materials -- easy-to-find and inexpensive -- and set up an activity at each station.
• Parents and students visit some or all stations and engage in the activities together.
• Teachers encourage participation, offer assistance, and promote "math talk."
This book contains 40 engaging and inspiring activities, organized by grade level, along with:
For the teacher
• list of materials
• helpful hints
• connections to math standards
For the parent and student • description of activity and directions
• questions parents can ask
• challenges
The activities in this book align with the NCTM content and process standards for pre-kindergarten through grade 5.
The 7 Habits of
Highly Effective People
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change was a groundbreaker when it was first published in 1990, and it continues to be a business bestseller with more than 10 million copies sold. Stephen Covey, an internationally respected leadership authority, realizes that true success encompasses a balance of personal and professional effectiveness, so this book is a manual for performing better in both arenas. His anecdotes are as frequently from family situations as from business challenges. Before you can adopt the seven habits, you'll need to accomplish what Covey calls a "paradigm shift"--a change in perception and interpretation of how the world works. Covey takes you through this change, which affects how you perceive and act regarding productivity, time management, positive thinking, developing your "proactive muscles" (acting with initiative rather than reacting), and much more. This isn't a quick-tips-start-tomorrow kind of book. The concepts are sometimes intricate, and you'll want to study this book, not skim it. When you finish, you'll probably have Post-it notes or hand-written annotations in every chapter, and you'll feel like you've taken a powerful seminar by Covey. –Joan Price
The Customer Rules
The 39 Essential Rules for Delivering Sensational Service
The former EVP of Walt Disney World shares indispensable Rules for serving customers with consistency, efficiency, creativity, sincerity, and excellence. Lee Cockerell knows that success in business – any business - depends upon winning and keeping customers.
In 39 digestible, bite-sized chapters, Lee shares everything he has learned in his 40+ year career in the hospitality industry about creating an environment that keeps customers coming back for more. Here, Lee not only shows why the customer always rules, but also the Rules for serving customers so well they'll never want to do business with anyone but you. For example:
Rule #1: Customer Service Is Not a Department
Rule #3: Great Service Follows the Laws of Gravity
Rule #5: Ask Yourself "What Would Mom Do?"
Rule #19: Be a Copycat
Rule #25. Treat Every Customer like a Regular
Rule #39: Don't Try Too Hard
As simple as they are profound, these principles have been shown to work in companies as large as Disney and as small as a local coffee shop; from businesses selling cutting-edge technologies like computer tablets to those selling products as timeless as shoes and handbags; at corporations as long-standing as Ford Motors and those as nascent as a brand new start-up. And they have been proven indispensable at all levels of a company, from managers responsible for hiring and training employees, setting policies and procedures, and shaping the company culture to front line staff who deal directly with clients and customers
Chock-full of universal advice, applicable online and off, The Customer Rules is the essential handbook for service excellence everywhere.
Everything I Need to Know I Learned in the Twilight Zone: A Fifth-Dimension Guide to Life
By Mark Dawidziak
Can you live your life by what The Twilight Zone has to teach you? Yes, and maybe you should. The proof is in this lighthearted collection of life lessons, ground rules, inspirational thoughts, and stirring reminders found in Rod Serling's timeless fantasy series. Written by veteran TV critic, Mark Dawidziak, this unauthorized tribute is a celebration of the classic anthology show, but also, on another level, a kind of fifth-dimension self-help book, with each lesson supported by the morality tales told by Serling and his writers.
The notion that "it's never too late to reinvent yourself" soars through The Last Flight, in which a World War I flier who goes forward in time and gets the chance to trade cowardice for heroism. A visit from an angel blares out the wisdom of "follow your passion" in A Passage for Trumpet. The meaning of "divided we fall" is driven home with dramatic results when neighbors suspect neighbors of being invading aliens in The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street. The old maxim about never judging a book by its cover is given a tasty twist when an alien tome is translated in To Serve Man."


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Rathfarnham (gaèlic irlandès Ráth Fearnáin que vol dir "ringfort de Fearnán") és un barri de Dublín, República d'Irlanda. Es troba al sud de Terenure, a l'est de Templeogue, i als districtes postals de Dublín 14 i 16. Es troba a les àrees administratives de Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown i Dublín Sud.

L'àrea de Rathfarnham inclou Whitechurch, Nutgrove, Ballyboden i Ballyroan. Llocs històrics al townland de Rathfarnham inclou: Kilmashogue, Mount Venus, Tibradden i Taylors Grange.

Població
Segons el cens de 2006, Rathfarnham tenia una població de 17.333 – una caiguda del 2,1% des de 2002. La població ha caigut gradualment durant els anys de 17.760 en 1996 a 17.717 en 2002.

El nombre de persones que viuen als veïnats de Ballyroan i St. E ndas ha caigut notablement en un 8% i un 7% respectivament. D'altra banda, hi ha increments mínims a les àrees de Butterfield i Hermitage.

Una cosa que es desprèn de les estadístiques és que Rathfarnham està envellint, amb la jubilació i la marxa de les parelles joves que es traslladen a la zona en la dècada de 1960. Hi ha una manca d'habitatges adequats i assequibles per als joves en Rathfarnham i en conseqüència estan acudint en massa als suburbis veïns de Templeogue, Tallaght i Firhouse.

Característiques
Rathfarnham és llar de nombrosos edificis històrics, incloent el castell de Rathfarnham i Loreto Abbey, quatre parcs: Marlay Park, Dodder Park, St. Enda's i Bushy Park. Padraig Pearse establí l'escola St Enda's School per a nois, que actualment és un museu en honor seu situat a Saint Enda's Park.

Història
El nom de l'indret suggereix que hi havia una fortificació en temps prehistòrics, però la història de Rathfarnham comença amb la invasió normanda d'Irlanda. En 1199 les terres foren concedides a Milo Le Bret, qui hi va fer construir un castell de mota i pati. Sovint fou atacada pel clan O'Toole de les muntanyes de Wicklow, i cap al  s'hi construí el castell de Rathfarnham, que pertanyia als Eustace de Baltinglass i que formaria part de les defenses de la Palissada. El castell fou confiscat per la participació dels Eustace en la Segona Rebel·lió Desmond (1579-1583) i concedit als Loftus, que van estar en el centre de les Guerres Confederades d'Irlanda i en la rebel·lió irlandesa de 1641. Fou assetjat pels reialistes després de la batalla de Rathmines i es diu que Oliver Cromwell hi sojornà de camí al setge de Wexford.

Durant el  es van construir alguns molins per a indústria tèxtil al costat dels rius Owendoher i Dodder. Després de la rebel·lió irlandesa de 1798 formà part del recorregut de la carretera militar, la construcció de la qual s'inicià en 1800. La tradició associa el lloc a Robert Emmet i la seva promesa Sarah Curran. Cap al 1900 Patrick Pearse escollí l'edifici The Hermitage com a seu de la Scoil Éanna.

Personatges nascuts a Rathfarnham
 Damien Duff, futbolista irlandès
 Stephen Gwynn (1864–1950), periodista, poeta i polític nacionalista.
 J. M. Synge, escriptor
 Jim Stynes
 Robert Wilks, actor del segle XVIII

Galeria d'imatges

Referències

Enllaços externs

 Web de Rathfarnham
 Història del comtat de Dublín Sud
 South Dublin County Images

Geografia del Southside de Dublín
Geografia de Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown

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Herend Christmas in Europe
Five Herend Christmas trees in five European capitals!
Carriage Driving World Cup and the Whisperers in Budapest
The FEI Carriage Driving World Cup, counting as the Formula 1 of equestrian sports, is a major sports event every year in the horse racing world, not by chance the Trophy was again from Herend this year!
Violinist János Rolla wins the Saint Martin award in Pannonhalma
On Saint Martin's Day of Pannonhalma Archabbey, 16th November, violinist and concert master of Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra, János Rolla received the Saint Martin Award.
The Jewish Heritage of Herend
The Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives presents a joint exhibition with the Herend Porcelain Museum, featuring the story and art of the Herend Seder Plates.
Cooperation with Czech Moser Glassworks
Herend Porcelain Manufactory Ltd. and Czech glassworks Moser, a.s. concluded strategic cooperation agreement at the Moser Gallery, Prague.
The works of the Herend Porcelain Manufactory showcased at the National Museum of Decorative Arts in Madrid
Since Tuesday the works of the Herend Porcelain Manufactory have been on display at the National Museum of Decorative Arts in Madrid, the first time they have been featured in an exhibition in Spain.
CEO of a Global Company in Herend
The Chief Executive Officer of a Japanese international IT company visited the Herend Porcelain Manufactory.
"Herend: The art of Hungarian porcelain. Timeless elegancy"
Herend Porcelain exhibition "Herend: The art of Hungarian porcelain. Timeless elegancy"
Temerin's Rider wins the Tournament
Arnold Nagy, Temerin's rider won the finals at the 11th Hungarian National Gallop on Sunday evening at Heroes' Square, Budapest and was the proud recipient of the prestigious Herend Trophy.
Herend Porcelain Exhibition entitled "The Legend of Porcelain: Herend"
Great Success in Poland
The exhibit of the Herend Porcelain Manufactory has opened with great success in Poland, in the city of Jaslo.
Art objects from Ostrava in Herend
After two decades, Portuguese success at the Exim Awards
The most prestigious competitive event on Saturday at Longines FEI Nations Cup™ Jumping of Hungary CSIO5* was the 140-160 centimeter EXIM Awards. The 30,000 Euro prize event awarded qualifier points for the final of the 2018-19 world cup series in Goteborg in April, thus the stakes were quite high for the participants. The competition produced a truly international clash; among the ten competing riders, eight different nations were represented, Hungary included.
Awash with awards, this year's Kékszalag (Blue Ribbon) bids goodbye
Sailors who have performed well received plenty of awards at the 50th Kékszalag (Blue Ribbon) Erste Grand Prix at the Awards Ceremony of the Grand Prix in Balatonfüred. The more than 150-kilometer long regatta was won by Safram of Switzerland, so this team was able to take home the Balaton Blue Ribbon and the cup of the Herend Porcelain Manufactory.
Once again, the Herend Trophy goes to Hamilton
The British Lewis Hamilton has won the 33rd Hungarian Grand Prix, defeating his great rivals, Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Räikkönen.
Victoria evolution in Palermo
The Artintavola Exhibition was held at the Palazzo Bonocore in Palermo, organized by Ulderico Lepreri, awaiting visitors between June 30 and July 29.
The Herend Porcelain Museum opened a special international exhibition on the day of the Night of Museums. Last year, Herend Porcelains made their debut within the framework of the cultural mission of the Herend Porcelain Manufactory in the city of Ostrava. Thanks to the partner cooperation achieved, from June 23 onward, the Czech city will be introduced in Herend.
In the capital of dance
Szombathely has welcomed the best of the world for the fifty third time at the Savaria International Dance Festival on Saturday.
Undergoing a transformation at the airport
Following a brief hiatus, Herend Porcelain is once again available at the Ferenc Liszt International Airport.
Herend in the heart of Athens
The exhibition of the Herend Porcelain Manufactory in the capital of Greece is open to visitors until the end of May.

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Malami, EFCC, ICPC and the fight against corruption By Godwin Onyeacholem
August 8, 2017 Columns, Godwin Onyeacholem
Of all the vote-catching strategies laid out by the ruling All Progressives Congress in the lead up to the 2015 general elections, its promise to prosecute an all-out war against corruption was unquestionably the most compelling and believable. This is because its presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, is widely known as a man of integrity with very strong aversion for corrupt practices.
And so, due largely to its promise to fight corruption to a standstill and the credibility of the personality behind the pledge, APC was able to seize the mantle from the old guards of corruption and form a new government. Therefore, to refer to Buhari's government as one of anti-corruption – one hoping to hinge its success in governance on how well it performs in this specific assignment – would not be out of place.
To this administration's credit, the last two years, or at least since one doughty, no-nonsense police officer named Ibrahim Magu became Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the anti-corruption war has been waged in a manner that has never been seen in the history of Nigeria.
Amazing loads upon loads of stolen public funds in various currencies are being recovered and returned to government coffers. Thanks to the whistleblower initiative, more and more disclosures about the hidden loots are being made to the relevant agencies. And unlike what obtained in the past, the big guns of society, hitherto untouchable, are regularly being hauled to the law courts on account of fraudulent activities. But as yet, no conviction of note has been recorded.
As can be seen, it's not been an easy fight. Corruption is refusing to be subdued. Government has lost some high-profile cases, while some others are stalemated. Cynics contend that failure to secure notable convictions is proof that government is shoddy in the way it is prosecuting the war; government officials counter that corruption is fighting back in a virulent manner.
In a way, both are correct. While those who have made corruption a lifetime occupation won't give up easily, it is also true that this administration routinely shoots itself in the foot as far as the anti-corruption campaign is concerned. Take for example, the unhealthy relationship between the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, and anti-corruption agencies like the EFCC and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC).
Sensing that it is being overshadowed by the two agencies, the AGF is angling to show its muscle as the pre-eminent government department in all matters legal, and especially as far as prosecuting corruption cases is concerned. Okoi Obono-Obla, Special Assistant to the President on Prosecutions, man Friday and agent provocateur, is the arrowhead in this needless exercise of power that is clearly aimed at meeting some self-serving political ends.
At every given opportunity, Obono-Obla does not fail to reiterate the fable that the anti-corruption agencies are not co-operating with the office of the AGF. But the more likely position, in the assessment of many observers, is that these agencies are not willing to compromise in some high-profile cases in which the AGF might be interested.
That is why it is widely believed that other than crude, selfish politics, there can be no legitimate reason for the AGF's latest threat, as conveyed by Obono-Obla, to report the heads of EFCC and ICPC to the presidency for refusing to hand over the case files of more than 35 former governors and senators. It is important to ask why the AGF wants these files. Why won't he simply invite these agencies to a meeting to update him on the cases, and then explore ways of assisting in achieving diligent prosecution?
No one is disputing the AGF's status as the numero uno in the circumstance, but he should refrain from bearing down on these agencies as though they don't have a statutory mandate to perform certain roles corresponding with his. To paraphrase a local proverb, the sky is wide enough for every bird to flap its wings.
Instead of requesting cases started by other agencies, the AGF should initiate his own high-profile cases too to show that it not only barks but bites as well. Obono-Obla has accused the agencies of slowing down the anti-corruption war. Well, he has to show concrete proof of how this is happening before the charge can hold water, not by merely pointing to a refusal of the agencies to turn in files of the corruption cases they initiated.
In any case the last time anyone heard of one group of government official publicly expressing misgivings about the other, it was one prominent member of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), also a senior Advocate of Nigeria, berating Obono-Obla's boss for openly disagreeing with Acting President Yemi Osinbajo on the retention of Magu as the chair of EFCC.
This individual stopped short of calling for the AGF's sack. Before then, this same member and another articulate colleague at a forum on corruption organized in Abuja by the Pyrates Confraternity, separately pronounced doubts about the commitment of the AGF to the anti-corruption efforts of the government on account of serial embarrassing defeats handed the government in key cases prosecuted by his office.
In fact, there are speculations – indeed strong belief – that the AGF is working with some equally highly-placed corrupt persons to scuttle the anti-corruption fight. He should rather strive to allay the fears of the public and restore confidence in his office, not perpetually bicker with other agencies over cases he didn't originate.
Godwin Onyeacholem is a journalist. He can be reached on [email protected]
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EFCC hands over forfeited five-storey building to VON
July 17, 2019 Anti-Graft, News, Project
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Wednesday, handed over a forfeited five-storey building to the management of Voice of Nigeria (VON), a Federal Government-owned media organisation. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that […]
Court Remands Ex Gov Babangida Aliyu, Former PDP Candidate Nasko In Prison
April 25, 2017 News, Politics
Former Governor of Niger State Dr. Muazu Babangida Aliyu, as well as the Peoples Democratic Party gubernatorial candidate in the 2015 governorship elections, Umar Mohammed Nasko, are to be remanded in prison. Justice Aliyu M. […]
ICPC arrests poly rector for allegedly forging PhD certificate
June 25, 2018 Crime & Police
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) says it has arrested a polytechnic rector over alleged forgery of a doctorate degree certificate. Spokesperson of the commission, Mrs Rasheedat Okoduwa, said this in […]
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In September 2015, 193 UN member states met in New York to adopt 17 new Global Goals for Sustainable Development, aimed at making our world more prosperous, inclusive, sustainable and resilient.
KPMG International's Global Development Initiative applies member firms' skills, resources and influence in pursuit of the Global Goals (read Our Global Development Initiative Story for more information.
Our member firms' people contribute to all 17 Global Goals through their client work. Our corporate citizenship programs particularly focus on Goal 4 'Quality Education', Goal 8 'Good Jobs and Economic Growth' and Goal 12 'Responsible Consumption'.
• Sustainable Development Goal Industry Matrix: KPMG International and the UNGC are developing seven industry matrices which provide industry-specific practical examples and ideas for action for each Global Goal. They profile opportunities where companies expect to create value for shareholders and for society.
• Boardroom Questions on the Global Goals for Sustainable Development: A two-page summary for management boards of what is happening, the implications and suggested considerations.
• Unlocking the Power of Partnership: A Framework for Effective Cross-Sector Collaboration: A publication providing insights on effective, transformative partnerships to deliver the Global Goals.
• 'Demystifying the Public Private Partnership Paradigm: The nexus between insurance, sustainability and growth': A publication launched at the inaugural UN Insurance Summit in New York in June 2015.


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As part of the National Research Consortium, CIPSRT serves as the Knowledge Exchange Hub for knowledge synthesis, translation, and exchange that relies upon the best contemporary research evidence supporting an overall mission to help current and former public safety personnel, their leaders, and their families to maintain and improve their mental health and well-being.
In its 2018 budget, the Government of Canada identified the treatment of post-traumatic stress injuries (PTSI) as a priority for the country's public safety personnel (PSP). As a result, a new National Research Consortium between the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR) and the Canadian Institute for Public Safety Research and Treatment (CIPSRT) was formed. CIPSRT, under the scientific direction of multi-disciplinary researchers from across Canada, serves as the Knowledge Exchange Hub for the CIHR-CIPSRT National Research Consortium for Post-Traumatic Stress Injuries among Public Safety Personnel. Public Safety Canada (PSC) has provided $5 million to support CIPSRT's role as the Knowledge Exchange Hub for the Consortium with a focus on PTSI in PSP.
Scientific leadership at CIPSRT, which is led by its Scientific Director, is composed of a multi-disciplinary team of Canadian researchers who provide strategic leadership and hold primary responsibility for oversight of all scientific activities at CIPSRT.
The Public Safety Steering Committee (PSSC) includes leadership from Canada's public safety personnel executives and associations and serves to reflect the interests and concerns of the Public Safety sector. PSSC organizations will have an opportunity to share expertise and shape research agendas of the National Research Consortium in order to support the relevance and knowledge translation of research undertaken for the PSP community.
To provide a Canadian Knowledge Exchange Hub for strategic public safety wellness research and analysis by working with public safety leaders and academics from across Canada to translate and mobilize research knowledge that meets the current and future needs of Canadian public safety personnel (PSP), their leadership, and their families.
Through its national network, CIPSRT responds to the identified needs of public safety personnel by producing or facilitating the evidence necessary for engaging strategies and allocating resources to support high quality and easily accessible mental health care for all public safety personnel.
CIPSRT is an innovative organization that engages existing academic research resources and facilitates the development of new research, research capacity, and effective knowledge translation. With a network of academic researchers from across Canada and the support of Canadian public safety personnel leadership, CIPSRT is a hub for collaborations to address the health research requirements of Canadian public safety personnel and their families.
CIPSRT operates as a Research Unit under the leadership of the Vice-President (Research) at the University of Regina.
The National Research Consortium will build the evidence base related to post-traumatic stress injuries and other mental health related concerns among PSP and disseminate this research evidence to public safety stakeholders, knowledge users, and policy makers. As part of the National Research Consortium, CIPSRT will serve as the Knowledge Exchange Hub for knowledge synthesis, knowledge translation, and knowledge exchange.
CIPSRT works to improve the lifetime health and well-being for people directly or indirectly related to public safety personnel, including frontline personnel, support personnel, families of personnel, and retired personnel. CIPSRT research will focus on the unique occupational exposures, experiences, and environment encountered by people directly or indirectly related to public safety personnel. The research results and advancements will support the lifetime health and well-being of all Canadians.
Public Safety Personnel
When hearing the term Public Safety Personnel, or PSP, most people think of the highly visible professions – firefighters, paramedics, and police. But there are many other types of PSP; for example, border services officers, correctional officers, search and rescue personnel, and numerous persons who support all PSP operations. There are also other important PSP who often work out of sight; for example, public safety communicators (e.g., 911 operators and dispatchers) and operational intelligence personnel.