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It was as tough a test as could be conceived and put to flight control . . . if there was any weakness, the team would have crumbled. The teams dealt with IT!! There is no way that you could have a team stand up the way we did. We knew we had IT. It was all built in as we had been working on IT! for years.- Arnold Aldrich (Apollo 13)
Tough and Competent documents the leadership and teamwork principles which emerged from an organization of novice, part-time engineers in NASA Mercury Control. By July 1969, when faced with the stress of the Apollo 11 mission to land Americans on the moon, they had matured into a group of hardened individuals empowered to make the split-second decisions to land with only seventeen seconds of fuel remaining.
What had changed? Team chemistry, IT!, is the unifying soul of operations that emerged from the leadership, working, and social environment to achieve organizational excellence. Mission Control could address quickly the risks and complexity of spaceflight operations. The intangible element, IT!, elevates performance to where the impossible becomes commonplace.
IT! was born in a bare-bones warehouse floor work environment, where learning by doing developed the materials for flight. Controllers spanned diverse backgrounds: Philco tech reps, farm boys, Native Americans, and junior college grads who became self-made engineers. A free exchange of knowledge developed expertise among colleagues. Everyone brought unique viewpoints and skills which coalesced into IT!
In relaying his long tenure at NASA, Kranz narrates the development of IT! and how it began with a watershed moment. When he addressed a stunned team after the tragic loss of Apollo 1, Kranz delivered his Kranz Dictum that Tough and Competent were the new tenants of Mission Control. Tough means we are forever accountable for what we do or what we fail to do. We will never again compromise our responsibilities. . . . Competent means we will never take anything for granted. Moving innovation forward was never simple. From Gemini to Apollo launches, the Skylab program, and the stunning loss of the Challenger crew, Kranz was the face of NASA leadership. His views on lessons learned through decades of Mission Control are valuable for any innovation-based organization.
Zorah is shy and afraid in new places and around new people. But what amazing discoveries could she make if she found the courage to step out of her comfort zone? Join Zorah on an empowering journey as she faces her fears and learns that a little bravery can lead to big rewards!
According to the American Cancer Society, 1 in 8 American women will get breast cancer in their lifetimes. This year alone, an estimated 330,800 women will find out they have breast cancer.
The right nutrition choices could reduce many of these cases. The American Institute of Cancer Research estimates that one third of cancer cases could be reduced if women eat more healthfully, reduce excess weight, and increase physical activity. Survival rates would also improve drastically!
To help in this fight, dietitian nutritionist and best-selling author Rachel Beller has crafted SpiceRack as an action plan for losing excess body weight and reducing cancer risk using the same evidence-based techniques she uses with her A-list Hollywood celebrity clients. The recipes are simple, enjoyable, and creative, and they're designed to help women of all ages live a happier, healthier, and empowered life.
No fads or fasting--SpiceRack is based on real science and delivers meals that are designed to be satisfying. Many cancer health books are clinically stiff and cold, offering unrealistic or time-consuming interventions. SpiceRack celebrates food and health with Rachel's easy-to-follow explanations, hands-on style, and clear graphics. Rachel knows from her work helping women fight breast cancer and achieve optimal health that a boring diet is worthless. We all want to live longer, but we also want to (and need to!) enjoy the ride.
SpiceRack will take you through the simple, all-in-one Beller Method, including Rachel's 10 Nutrition Commandments for losing excess weight and reducing cancer risk:
Dance Alika Dance is a heartwarming children's book designed for young readers aged 4 to 8. Through its engaging story and vibrant illustrations, it aims to nurture self-esteem and self-confidence in children.
The book centers on Alika, a young girl whose mother reminds her the importance of self-worth and pride. Alika learns that feeling good about oneself is crucial and that every child is special just as they are. The story not only highlights Alika's journey but also delivers a universal message that applies to all children: recognizing one's own value and beauty helps in building a positive self-image.
Parents can use Dance, Alika, Dance as a tool to address and alleviate feelings of low self-esteem or inferiority in their children. The narrative encourages kids to see themselves as amazing and capable, reinforcing the idea that their self-worth doesn't depend on others' opinions. Instead, by valuing themselves and their unique qualities, children can confidently face the world and feel empowered.
Overall, Dance, Alika, Dance serves as both an inspiring story and a valuable lesson in self-acceptance and confidence for young readers.
Carey's journey is compelling, humbling, and gut-wrenchingly honest.
No one ever plans on being hit head-on by a drunk driver, being in unbearable physical and emotional pain, nor scheduling the necessary four years of recovery into an already super-busy family life.
I love how you didn't view your situation as a glass half-full or half-empty - but decided maybe what you really needed was simply a new damn glass!
Now living with long-term disabling injuries, Carey has become an expert at breaking through limitations. Join Carey as she shares her journey of self-growth through resilience, determination, and the fine art of attitude adjustments.
Angela Rosenberg journeys from soil to sky in her second book in the Enneagram in Nature series, Being on the Wing: Feathered Reflections on the Enneagram Subtypes.
Dr. Angela Rosenberg's first book in the series introduced and deepened readers' understanding of the Enneagram through flowers and gardening. Being on the Wing views personality through the author's personal stories related to birds and birding. By identifying the Enneagram Subtypes, readers can further refine their appreciation of the basic nine Types, each reflecting a core, divine quality that connects and differentiates us as fellow humans. In her sparkling and well-researched prose, Rosenberg details the characteristics, strengths, challenges, and pathways for individuals to grow and become more resourceful in life and relationships. Along this vibrant and enlightening field trip, she also trains her binoculars on avoiding common pitfalls that often operate unconsciously.
Chapters delve into the qualities and manifestations of the overall twenty-seven Subtypes. Thought-provoking quotes and beautiful, original drawings make this book a must for any reader interested in the Enneagram, and for every nature-lover who seeks to understand their own personality-and fly toward well-being.
What do you get when you cross Abraham Lincoln with Sherlock Holmes? The alchemy of creative genius. Matthews brings us to the intersection of history and fiction in this beautifully written epic full of unfathomable twists and turns. It's elementary: this book is sensational.
- Jim Campbell, syndicated radio host and author of Madoff Talks: Uncovering the Untold Story Behind the Most Notorious Ponzi Scheme in History.
President Lincoln is assassinated in his private box at Ford's!
When those harrowing words ring out during a children's entertainment in Washington on the evening of April 14, 1865, a quick-thinking young chemist from England named Johnnie Holmes grabs the 12-year-old son of the dying President, races the boy to safety, and soon finds himself enlisted in the most infamous manhunt in history.
One Must Tell the Bees is the untold story of Sherlock Holmes's journey from the streets of London to the White House of Abraham Lincoln and, in company with a freed slave named after the dead President, their breathtaking pursuit and capture of John Wilkes Booth. It is the very first case of the man who would become known to the world as Sherlock Holmes, and as readers will discover, it will haunt him until his very last.
At a time when Western history is being reexamined and retold, old heroes cast aside and statues torn down, and even the legacy of Abraham Lincoln, the Great Emancipator, is questioned, One Must Tell the Bees is a timely reminder that our history deserves to be understood before it is entirely undone.
When Zorah's teacher asks the class what they want to be when they grow up, Zorah realizes that she doesn't have a clue. In fact, Zorah thinks the more important question is, what CAN she be? Follow Zorah on her journey to discover all the things she can be, from a lawyer or scientist to a ballerina or even president of the United States!
Parents and children of all ages will be inspired by this tale's message of girl power and the importance of representation.
Elsewhere: An Elegy meditates on the complexities of loss, on how private and everlasting the weight of grief is, how impossible it can feel to find stillness when memory and music continue to pull one back into heartache. Moving between short fragmented answers to the same lingering question, deconstructed haibun dedicated to ghosts and cowards, and dream sequences that ask what it means to lose one's father while one is first learning how to become a father, the speaker in Elsewhere: An Elegy cannot but help see himself as his own father, and his infant son as his own young self still held by innocence and wholeness. The speaker, with a slowly gathering sense of compassion admits, I've still not divined / how to unhusk this steadfast / grief from my poems. Ultimately, he comes to recognize that the most healing way to grieve is to give, is to translate loss into generosity, pain into poetry.
What historical evidence is there of Black Hebrew Israelites in Africa? What Hebrew Biblical references show Africans as part of the 12 Tribes of Israel? Were Black Jews brought as slaves to America? When does the Messiah return? What is the meaning of the prophecy in Daniel Chapter 4 of the 7 Times the Gentile Times? Who is the true Messiah during the end times of the world?
Here is the full story - so that a lost people can be found, who never were told the full story.
From the Line of Shem - to the Seed of Judah, there is a Coming Seed who holds the key to our understanding the final fulfillment of the very first prophecy in the Hebrew Bible, and of the world-shaking events that are soon to take place!
HERE IS THE FULL STORY - as told by historical evidence, ancestral genealogy, language etymology, old world maps, ancient trade routes and historians, Hebrew & Greek scripture texts, archaeological findings, and DNA analysis.
There is an AWAKENING and a REGATHERING taking place right now. Everyone who has been scattered and lost must be located, including descendants of the lost sheep of the house of Israel, BEFORE THE END COMES.
The Evangelical movement in America was the faithful heir of the Protestant Reformation of the Sixteenth Century as mediated to the present through the Puritans of the Seventeenth Century and the First Great Awakening of the Eighteenth. But now it is losing its focus and its very identity. Its faithful remnant prays for Revival and rightly so. But we have got to the point where something even more basic is needed: a second Reformation. Beginning with the five Solas of the original Reformation, this book offers ninety-five theses in nineteen areas where Evangelicals need to regroup, reground, and recommit to their heritage if they are to be faithful to their Lord.
President Lincoln is assassinated in his private box at Ford's!
When those harrowing words ring out during a children's entertainment in Washington on the evening of April 14, 1865, a quick-thinking young chemist from England named Johnnie Holmes grabs the 12-year-old son of the dying President, races the boy to safety, and soon finds himself enlisted in the most infamous manhunt in history.
One Must Tell the Bees is the untold story of Sherlock Holmes's journey from the streets of London to the White House of Abraham Lincoln and, in company with a freed slave named after the dead President, their breathtaking pursuit and capture of John Wilkes Booth. It is the very first case of the man who would become known to the world as Sherlock Holmes, and as readers will discover, it will haunt him until his very last.
At a time when Western history is being reexamined and retold, old heroes cast aside and statues torn down, and even the legacy of Abraham Lincoln, the Great Emancipator, is questioned, One Must Tell the Bees is a timely reminder that our history deserves to be understood before it is entirely undone.
Angela Rosenberg journeys from soil to sky in her second book in the Enneagram in Nature series, Being on the Wing: Feathered Reflections on the Enneagram Subtypes.
Dr. Angela Rosenberg's first book in the series introduced and deepened readers' understanding of the Enneagram through flowers and gardening. Being on the Wing views personality through the author's personal stories related to birds and birding. By identifying the Enneagram Subtypes, readers can further refine their appreciation of the basic nine Types, each reflecting a core, divine quality that connects and differentiates us as fellow humans. In her sparkling and well-researched prose, Rosenberg details the characteristics, strengths, challenges, and pathways for individuals to grow and become more resourceful in life and relationships. Along this vibrant and enlightening field trip, she also trains her binoculars on avoiding common pitfalls that often operate unconsciously.
Chapters delve into the qualities and manifestations of the overall twenty-seven Subtypes. Thought-provoking quotes and beautiful, original drawings make this book a must for any reader interested in the Enneagram, and for every nature-lover who seeks to understand their own personality-and fly toward well-being.
The simple, revolutionary 100 calorie system and cookbook that lets you enjoy all your delicious comfort food favorites!
THE PERFECT PORTION COOKBOOK is the first of its kind, filled with 150 delicious comfort food classics that you can eat guilt free, because each recipe has been crafted in multiples of 100 calories. You can choose the perfect portion that is right for you.
Why Do This? It's easy...WE ALL LOVE FOOD! Especially homemade comfort food. But, it's often hard to know how much we should be eating of the foods we love. And when there is no easy way to know how many calories we are really eating, it's so easy to unknowingly overeat.
Up until now there has been no easy way to create perfect personalized portion sizes, except for learning a complicated calorie-counting system. So here's the idea: create a simple calorie-counting system that's built right into every recipe--a system so easy that you can see the size and quantity of a 100-calorie portion. When you see the 100-calorie size, you can choose the number of units to include in your perfectly portioned meal or snack.
So whether you want 100, 200, 300, 400 or 500 calories, you can build the perfect portions and meals that's right for you. Knowledge is power, so the goal is to provide you with a guide that keeps you in check to still eat the foods you love, yet be aware of the perfect portion that's right for you!
The Goal? To be able for you to eat the foods you love, without feeling compromised! Inside this book you'll find:
Now you can have your cake and eat it too.... literally! Bon appétit!
Zero to 100(TM) The Gold Standard of Global Networking was written by Joseph Luckett as a blueprint to efficient and measurable networking through relationship-building and a focus on the value you contribute. The book has received major endorsements from revered networking leaders including Ivan Misner of Business Network International, Rich DeForest of Networking Today International, Sulaiman Rahman of Urban Philly Professional Network, and more. The Zero to 100 process is validated by participants in a 12-week research study of the book reported:
Our Echo of Sudden Mercy searches for the tenuous places where grief and joy entwine. At turns meditative, irreverent, and tender, the poems trace these threads through multiple forms of loss-personal and familial, cultural and planetary, quiet and violent-by encountering and moving through the everyday.
We have always been the consequence of stories, they intone. Here, attentive to the ode in downbeats of lament, Alluri finds a restorative poetry: that the incantatory in the fragmented can be heard as a form of wholeness, that displacement can become a way of being in the world, one which holds and is held by listening, by care and collaboration.
Once a high school star athlete in Central Indiana, Chuck Gaither, went on to coach high school football and track at White's Institute, now known as White's Residential and Family Services. This biographical account of his journey leading a motley group of inexperienced student-athletes expresses the heart and soul of hometown sports. Miracle at the Tute demonstrates the life-changing power of believing in students so they can learn to believe in themselves.
It was as tough a test as could be conceived and put to flight control . . . if there was any weakness, the team would have crumbled. The teams dealt with IT!! There is no way that you could have a team stand up the way we did. We knew we had IT. It was all built in as we had been working on IT! for years.- Arnold Aldrich (Apollo 13)
Tough and Competent documents the leadership and teamwork principles which emerged from an organization of novice, part-time engineers in NASA Mercury Control. By July 1969, when faced with the stress of the Apollo 11 mission to land Americans on the moon, they had matured into a group of hardened individuals empowered to make the split-second decisions to land with only seventeen seconds of fuel remaining.
What had changed? Team chemistry, IT!, is the unifying soul of operations that emerged from the leadership, working, and social environment to achieve organizational excellence. Mission Control could address quickly the risks and complexity of spaceflight operations. The intangible element, IT!, elevates performance to where the impossible becomes commonplace.
IT! was born in a bare-bones warehouse floor work environment, where learning by doing developed the materials for flight. Controllers spanned diverse backgrounds: Philco tech reps, farm boys, Native Americans, and junior college grads who became self-made engineers. A free exchange of knowledge developed expertise among colleagues. Everyone brought unique viewpoints and skills which coalesced into IT!
In relaying his long tenure at NASA, Kranz narrates the development of IT! and how it began with a watershed moment. When he addressed a stunned team after the tragic loss of Apollo 1, Kranz delivered his Kranz Dictum that Tough and Competent were the new tenants of Mission Control. Tough means we are forever accountable for what we do or what we fail to do. We will never again compromise our responsibilities. . . . Competent means we will never take anything for granted. Moving innovation forward was never simple. From Gemini to Apollo launches, the Skylab program, and the stunning loss of the Challenger crew, Kranz was the face of NASA leadership. His views on lessons learned through decades of Mission Control are valuable for any innovation-based organization.
In Subtraction Isn't Always Less, Ann Hudson examines her father's last several years living with idiopathic Parkinson's Disease, his childhood which he re-participated in as a result of his Lewy body dementia, and his shifting presence as her father. The poems consider his identity as a scientist, as well as the science of his increasing fragmentation. While a grievous loss, his death re-configures how his family understands and experiences him: an endearingly monolithic head of a family, an athlete, a musician, an expert in his field. Through a sharp and tender observation of landscapes both physical and emotional, along with a generous offering of data, curiosity, and awe, Hudson shows us how death might bring someone we love into a more precise and present focus.