![]() Simon's simple but very important idea can be applied to many challenges we have, even the construction of a good presentation. Simon goes in depth with the idea of starting with why in his book Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action. I'm certain if you watch this talk it will get you thinking. ![]() I could quibble over some things in the talk - Apple's success (now) is of course more complex than he implies - but the essence of what Simon expresses concerning the importance of Why is quite true. ![]() But it's always good to get a reminder of what is important. The idea that the presenter Simon Sinek was talking about is very simple and not really new perhaps. ![]() Here is a good recent TEDx Talk that was delivered simply and effectively with nothing but a flip chart and a pen for visuals. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The books are ordered by year and the author's last name (Last name of first author if multiple). These are the books that were nominated for a Red Maple Award each year but were not chosen as a winner. Real Justice: Fourteen and Sentenced to DeathĬhild Soldier: When Boys and Girls Are Used in WarĮvery Falling Star: The True Story of How I Survived and Escaped North Korea Read Puffin Rock book reviews & author details and more at Amazon.in. Thieves!: Ten Stories of Surprising Heists, Comical Capers and Daring Escapades Amazon.in - Buy Puffin Rock book online at best prices in india on Amazon.in. Bright puffling Oona learns how to be a good big sister and a good puffin as she goes about her days on Puffin Rock. Andreas Schroeder was the first to win back to back in non-fiction in 20.Ĭarol Matas was the first fiction winner, while Andreas Schroeder was the first non-fiction winner. Kenneth Oppel was the first to win back to back in 20, followed by Eric Walters in 20. ![]() Friesen was the first to win the award twice, while Walters was the first to win 3 and 4 times. Only seven authors have won the award more than once: Eric Walters (2001, 2007 Fiction, 2008, 2015 Fiction) with 4, Susin Neilsen (2010, 2014, 2020) and Kenneth Oppel (2005 Fiction, 2006, 2012) with 3 each, and Gayle Friesen (1999, 2003), Wesley King (2013 Fiction, 2019 Fiction), Norah McClintock (2004, 2009 Fiction), and Andreas Schroeder (2005 Non-fiction, 2007 non-fiction) with 2 each. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Warning: This m/m love story contains explicit content and is not suitable for young readers. It is the first in a planned post-apocalyptic fantasy series featuring monsters and human men falling in love. ![]() Soul Eater is the debut novel of Lily Mayne. And when I'm the only soldier out of hundreds that the Soul Eater leaves alive, I realise that… something about me has intrigued him.īut what is it? What could a twenty-three year old guy from the south, with no one and nothing in the world, have possibly done to capture the attention of a death monster with horns, blackened fingertips and a face hidden in the dark depths of his hood? ![]() I've only been in the military for six months, but now I'm part of a unit tasked with trying to stop and capture him. He appears every three years, making his way across the country and slaughtering humans randomly, sucking them dry until they're nothing but husks. A lawless, desolate and dangerous place, teeming with monsters that have claimed the land for their own. One where humans live in military-controlled, cramped and dirty cities along the coasts, and the majority of the United States is known as the Wastes. Twenty years ago, monsters rose on earth and began a new age of civilization. ![]() ![]() We have always provided a loving, secure home for him, so why couldn’t he just come and talk to us? JENNIFER SAYS We haven’t spoken about it since, and there’s a frosty atmosphere in the house. We grounded him for two weeks, but I still feel angry about this. We couldn’t believe he could be this inconsiderate, and both of us lost our temper with him. We weren’t reassured - but, sure enough, our son walked in the following morning saying he’d just needed some space for a while. They tried to reassure us, and said he will probably come back of his own accord. Read more: My husband changed his mind on kids so Im considering a contraceptive ‘accident' ![]() We were awake all night, worrying and terrified my husband was out looking for him and I was trying to contact all his friends.Įventually, we decided we had to contact the gardai and gave them lots of details. So when he didn’t come home a few nights ago, it scared us to death. My 15-year-old son has always been an easy-going, sensible boy. WHY WON’T OUR SON TELL US WHAT’S GOING ON? ![]() ![]() Her realizations come just in time, because the Bear will use Konstantin and the dead to sow further chaos and destruction, and war is on the horizon. ![]() Once she escapes Konstantin, she must journey into the dreamlike Midnight country and beyond, where she encounters her great-grandmother Baba Yaga, gains allies old and new, and comes to terms with her own powers. An offer from the demon Medved, whom Vasya knows as the Bear, promises salvation, but Vasya is no one’s pawn. ![]() An angry mob descends and slaughters someone very close to her, and the devastated Vasya ends up in the clutches of an old foe, the mad priest Konstantin Nikonovich, who plans to burn Vasya as a witch. She released a firebird in order to save the life of the Grand Prince of Moscow and inadvertently set the city on fire. Arden’s satisfying conclusion to her fantasy trilogy set in medieval Russia finds 17-year-old Vasilisa “Vasya” Petrovna in the ruins of Moscow. ![]() ![]() SDOG generalizes the Dogs of the Dow strategy to S&P 500 sectors. View Top Holdings and Key Holding Information for ALPS Sector Dividend Dogs ETF (SDOG).Summary. The ALPS Sector Dividend Dogs ETF (SDOG) is an Exchange-Traded Fund that applies the ‘Dogs of the Dow Theory’ on a sector-by-sector basis using the S-Network US Equity WR …Amid that performance the ETF is sending a technical buy signal Monday, having risen above its 200-day Simple Moving Average (SMA) in the morning and sitting at and around both the 200 and 50-day. It simply takes the S&P 500 stocks, breaks them into sectors, and kicks out REITs. ![]() SDOG is one of the ETFs that put that firm on the map, and I think that has a lot to do with its structure.Please dont suspend me (again) please (again)" Sdog SDOG Performance - Review the performance history of the ALPS Sector Dividend Dogs ETF to see it's current status, yearly returns, and dividend history.102 likes, 7 comments - 핬햌햆햙햍햆 햁햎햛햎햆햓 핮햑햆햗햔햘햆 on Instagram: "Hi instagram, im a real human. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Remington and Kalilah met as teenagers and then fell deeply in love one beautiful summer. The Legend is Dylan Allen’s second, standalone book in the Rivers Wilde series, and it’s a riveting, sexy, raw and powerful love story. When August Ends is an insightful, funny and sensual romance, and you’ll want savor every word because you simply don’t want it to end – just like summer. But both of them soon discover that their age difference isn’t the only potential roadblock to happily ever after. ![]() Heather is mature beyond her years, sassy and intensely likeable, so he doesn’t stand a chance. But Noah is adamant that they not get involved romantically, considering how much younger Heather is. ![]() They have instant chemistry and an effortless dynamic, and Heather makes it clear that she wants more than friendship. She rents out the boathouse on their lakefront property, and this summer’s tenant is a sexy and alluring older man, Noah. Heather is 20-years old and has put her college plans on hold in order to stay home and help her mother, who battles depression. I love Penelope Ward and age-gap romances, so it’s no surprise that I adore When August Ends. ❤ When August Ends by Penelope Ward (Feb. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Once settled back on the land and having grown prosperous, the family faces the struggles of the nouveau riche: a son ashamed of their bumpkin roots, Wang Lung's discontent with his plebeian wife driving him to take a concubine, fears of good fortune being snatched away by jealous spirits (or family members). On the streets, Wang Lung witnesses class tensions that boil over into a riot-during which O-lan manages to multiply their fortune. O-lan’s steady hand helps during high times, when Wang Lung purchases land from the great house, and during low, when famine drives the family south to a big city where they live as beggars and Wang Lung runs a rickshaw. O-lan quickly proves invaluable: cooking fancy cakes like those she served to the local lord and lady, sewing clothes, and working the fields alongside her husband, stopping only to bear children. Illustrator Bertozzi ( Becoming Andy Warhol, 2016, etc.) adapts Buck’s ( The Eternal Wonder, 2013, etc.) Pulitzer Prize–winning novel of a man’s fluctuating fortunes and existential crises in early-20th-century China.įor years, farmer Wang Lung has worked the soil, pulling forth bountiful harvests, and now the sale of his excess crops has funded a fateful purchase: a slave from the great house in town to be his wife. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The book doesn't come with trigger warnings, but I assume that secondary school librarians have some process for shielding younger students from books with very detailed drug references and abuse of all kinds. It has the PRC (Premiers' Reading Challenge) sticker on it too, selected for the Years 9 & 10 list, but it is, IMO, very much a book for senior students or for those for whom it is deemed suitable by the judgement of a responsible adult. The book is obviously very popular because it has taken ten weeks for my reserve to come through, and my library has multiple copies of it. In July it was announced that Eleni had won the 2019 Readings Young Adult Prize for Stone Girl. So I reserved it at my library online as soon as I got home. ![]() Her story, as she told it on the night, was so impressive and her passion for lifting the profile of kids in out-of-home care was so compelling, that copies of Stone Girl sold out. Mairi blogged the event so I won't reproduce what's already been said except to say that the event was about 'turning your life into fiction'-and Eleni had mined her own life in state care to write what has now become an award-winning debut novel. ![]() In June this year I attended an author event at the Sandringham branch of Bayside Library with my good friend and author Mairi Neil, and was introduced to a local writer I hadn't come across, Eleni Hale. ![]() ![]() ![]() As the trio at the center of the book does battle with a cabal of drug dealers and crooked cops, they come to learn that their future is inextricably linked with their parents’ history. ![]() Spanning from 1960s Southern California to the recent past, The Kings of Cool is a breathtakingly original saga of family in all its forms-fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, friends and lovers. Now, in this high-octane prequel, Winslow reaches back in time to tell the story of how Ben, Chon, and O became the people they are. Among the most celebrated thrillers in recent memory-and now a major motion picture directed by Academy Award–winning filmmaker Oliver Stone-Savages was picked as a best book of the year by Stephen King in Entertainment Weekly, Janet Maslin in The New York Times, and Sarah Weinman in the Los Angeles Times. In Savages, Don Winslow introduced Ben and Chon, twenty-something best friends who risk everything to save the girl they both love, O. ![]() |