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This book uses a whimsical tale to guide young people and old alike in the adventures of a magical pig, his pet peanut, and his owner, Miranda.

How many encounters do we have with angels in our lifetime? I have lost count at how many times a voice or strong sense has prevented me from making bad choices that could end my life. I have also lost count in the ways the voices of angels have helped me in achieving my goals as well.Angels, Angels Everywhere! is cleverly written from a childs point of view. It describes actual events that occurred in the author''s life in which Angels intervened to come to the aid of the author."If I didn''t believe in Angels before, I do now. It is an enchanting way to introduce the idea of Angels to children!"-Gayleen Dolphin of Medicine Flats AB."A lovely way to share your angel stories with the world"-Sherry Baxter, AB.

This book presents, as a how-to guide, a compelling methodology for improving the operational and financial performance of a firm.The book focuses on the optimum utilization of capital assets and human resources to support the firm''s business strategy and, therefore, gain a competitive advantage. It complements publications on the Balanced Scorecard by providing rather detailed setsof performance metrics applicable to Supply Chain, Customer Relationship Management, and Intellectual Capital improvement efforts.Managers involved in business improvement programs will benefit from the development of performance metrics for intellectual capital. MBA students will find especially useful the concise description of the best practices and issues affecting enterprise performance today.ReviewsFinally, consideration for non-financial assetshandled in a non-financial manner. A coming togetherof several current management concepts, along with away to measure and evaluate their value to thecompany. A useful reference for building,implementing and evaluating a plan of improvedefficiency. L. SehrRA/AVP, Bank of America, San Jose, CaliforniaThis book provides a good overview of importantfinancial and process redesign concepts that caninfluence business performance. This resource covers abroad range of ideas from continuous improvement,business strategies, balanced scorecards and valuemeasurement tools. Non-financial persons will findthis especially helpful, as information is presented in a non-technical manner, a quick read andintuitively links each idea or concept.David BellSenior Manager, Guidant, Inc., Santa Clara, CaliforniaThe High Performance Enterprise is written in a very readable and concise language. The authors manage to explain in a very direct way the relationship between enterprise high performance and each of the four steps to achieving it; all this, without getting bogged down with the details on specific techniques and practices that are generally known in the industry. The discussion stays focused on the importance of metrics and simulation and their link to overall financial/accounting concepts that gauge the value of the enterprise and its performance. Because the book touches on, and gives examples of, all major functional aspects of an enterprise, I would recommend it for use in an undergraduate strategic management or capstone course in business administration program. The book would be particularly useful in an MBA course. George Guim Ed.D. Head of Business Administration DepartmentThe National Hispanic University, San Jose, California

You''re trying to be a savvy, educated HEALTHY consumerbut the"code" is so complex! First, you have the FOOD industry .... Do you feel like you''rereading a secret code when you read a food label or ingredient list?Terms such as "organic" "lite" "kosher" "vegan" "lactose free" "pareve"(or parve). Labels also contain symbols and letters! And whileingredients such as corn starch may be familiar to most, ingredientssuch as butylated hydroxytolunene are not. To confuse you even more (andget your money) manufacturers use different names for the sameingredient! To complicate the "code" furtherthe DIET industry! Wouldn''t it make sense to find out what makes you want to eat more,depletes your energy, and makes you sick? Every day there is anabundance of diet information (and diet foods) available, but Americansare more confused (and less healthy) than ever. Learn how you can STOPbecoming a "slave to the cycle" of dieting, depression, energy depletionand sicknessand start living a life filled with energy overloadand healthful abundance. Potions, pills, diet food, and drinksOh my! Don''t be astatistic any longer. Get ready to crack the code.

Doughnie Jones, one of the most creative story tellers of this generation,delivers one of his greatest characters into a children''s classic. Jones capturesthe spirit of Billy Bad Boy in all of us. This is a wonderful Christmas Storythat all children should grow up with. It is Christmas Eve and Billy Bad Boydecides not to go to bed. He plans on staying up all night until he sees you knowwho. Billy looses his patience and can''t help but get into a little mischief. Onething leads to another and before long Billy is in a heap of trouble. Profitsfrom this book will go to purchase Christmas presents for needy children.

Kids Who Love Lines was written to educate children to the fun and ease of learning the names of lines. Its content assumes that the vocabulary of early geometry must be mastered before higher geometric concepts can be understood. Children in most of our 50 states must know by second grade the names for directional lines: left-to-right, up-and-down, slanted, and lines equidistant apart like the two rails of a railroad track.That''s where Horizontal Hanna, Vertical Veebee, Diagonal Doovie/ Oblique Ollie, Parallel Peetie and Circular Cybil come in. There are 33 wacky illustrations of these five outlandish characters. Their zany lives are described in easy to read rhyme. By the time you''re finished with these kids, you''ll discover that their "teaching" is practical and painless. And you will gain a new awareness and appreciation for the thousands of lines and line segments that fill our world and flood our imaginations. Kids Who Love Lines is just the beginning of someone''s exploration. It could be a child who doesn''t know the concept of diagonal/oblique. However, just one look and laugh at the antics of Diagonal Doovie/ Oblique Ollie and the concept is laid bare. No sweat. And here''s the hope: That child too will find a way into the see-saw world of slope.

The Northern Spotted Owl - An Oregon View tells the story of a battle to save the forests in a backdrop of economic troubles in the Pacific Northwest."The economy in the Pacific Northwest is a disaster," says the author. In January 2003, newspapers in Portland and Salem, Oregon, featured reports on the deplorable financial situation in state and local governments. Funds for social services have been slashed as state tax revenues continue to fall below projected levels on which all budgets are based. School funding is in crisis, with drastic spending cuts in schools, colleges and universities, resulting in cutbacks and even wholesale elimination of many high quality educational programs. Unemployment is at record levels, consistently placing Oregon with the fiftieth highest level of the fifty United States. News stories suggest that greatly reduced timber harvest on national forests may be a contributing factor to the economic problems of the region. Rightly or Wrongly, it was the Northern Spotted Owl that brought about that reduction in timber harvests.This book is the story of the spotted owl and its role in the interplay of environmentalism, the timber industry, the economy and ultimately the quality of life in the Pacific Northwest. This volume traces the battles that were fought and the pain and anguish of affected people from the vantage point of one Oregon state representative, Representative Liz VanLeeuwen, to preserve the forests and protect the owl. The book is based on resource material from 360 different sources, including government reports, news articles, correspondence and letters to the editors, Liz VanLeeuwen used to support her political position.Groups interested in making preservation of all forests in the Pacific Northwest their highest priority needed a means of legally preventing all or most timber harvest. They sought an issue on which to focus their legal battle. The Northern Spotted Owl ended up serving that purpose. Congress had passed the Endangered Species Act in 1973. A young biologist, Eric Forsman, had selected the Northern Spotted Owl for the subject of his graduate research, the conclusion of which was that the owl needed old growth forest for survival. Environmentalists took this conclusion and combined it with the legal power of the Endangered Species Act to stop timber harvests on federal land in the region. This book maps out just how successful the environmental campaign was in shutting down federal timber harvests-and also the devastating effect this process has had on the Pacific Northwest.Citizens in rural communities in western Washington and Oregon and northern California warned against the consequences of reduced federal timber harvest. These communities had developed and grown economically and socially based in large measure on jobs and infrastructure generated by the harvest of timber from the federally owned national forests. State and local governments in these regions also became dependent on the payments in lieu of taxes from the federal government for these timber harvests. The size of those payments was based on the amount of timber harvested. The funds, in the tens of millions of dollars, were used to support schools and build and maintain roads. The economy of the Pacific Northwest was based on this natural resource based economy.Citizens of these so-called timber-dependent communities understood that not only their local economies, but also those of their entire states and regions depended on the natural resource base. In fact, they understood this better than their counterparts in the region''s cities and populous suburbs. While small town residents and the politicians representing them warned of the dire consequences of closing down the timber industry, residents of the more populous areas felt confidant that they were justified in closing down timber. They congratulated themselves for having successfull

WHAT REALLY CAUSES AIDS:AN EXECUTIVE SUMMARYThe AIDS pandemic is likely to become the greatest catastrophe in human history. Unless a safe, effective vaccine is quickly developed, or the preventive strategies outlined in this book are widely applied, by 2015 one sixth of the world''s population will be infected by HIV-1 and some 250 million people will have died from AIDS. Its associated losses by then will be more than those of theBlack Death and World War II combined, the equivalent of eight World War Is.

The New Earth is the sequel to The Story of Love and Creation. It continues the application of quantum psychology with new information and exercises to release us from the human drama. The result will lead us into the twenty second century and a whole new self choosing to live differently in every domain. In a divinely human experience new thoughts, a new way of relating and feeling, and new attitudes and beliefs make all dreams real experiences. It will become a standard text for our universities. Every scientist, doctor, healing technologist and human quest, will want to read it. Every Human will fall asleep with it in their arms and dream their dreams of truth!You will journey through this inner map that will merge your human, your soul and your spirit, in your very own body of love. You will transition from the old to the New Earth, as you explore your own keys to mastering your life and your love. You will turn yourself inside out, lifting the veils of your old stories and old games of your old life. You will turn yourself inside out, and have no doubt, as to who you really are and what you''re doing or will be creating on the Earth at this time.Definitions and Concepts: Terms and definitions needed for merging soul, spirit, and quantum psychology, to splice, recode, and re-imprint your own DNA.Articles of Information: Exploring a sequential transition, from the old to the New Earth, and why you are here at this time; Questions and Answers.Workbook Exercises: The individual and group exercises, follow a sequential transition, from the old to the New Earth using the mechanics of the soul to rebirth the soul and rebirth the spirit in the DNA.Bio References and SourcesRecommendation: Special attention is given to the ordering of ascension symbols by Jayne Chilkes, for recoding the DNA. These 12 symbols directly match the progression of steps in this text to master the soul spirit merge process.

A haunting and often hilarious warts and all account of growing up in a small rural community near the seaside town of Bray,County Wicklow in the days before television;of sheep''s brains for Sunday dinner and senna pods everySaturday to keep you ''regular'';of the curious goings-on in the winter of 1953/54 during aseven month stay a Dublin hospital;of the excitement among the young at the arrival ofthe sensational new music called Rock-n-Roll, and thecomically desperate measures taken to keep adolescenthormones in harness.A wonderfully evocative trip into 1950s Ireland.Praise for Wicklow Gold:"I loved this book...The author is to be congratulated. This is athoroughly enjoyable novel."Anna Cooke, BOOKS IRELAND

PROLOGUE A total of two hundred and eight American soldiers served with the 400th USASA SOD (Abn) between 1962 and 1975. The US Army Security Agency assigned the men of this unit both Top Secret classified and covert missions. Their operations were conducted under surreptitious conditions for security reasons. All of the 400th ASA SOD members were three time volunteers: first of all, they volunteered for their U.S. Army assignments; secondly, each had to volunteer and successfully complete the US Army Airborne Training School; and thirdly, each had to volunteer to serve with the new ASA Special Operations Detachments. A majority of the enlisted men selected for assignment to the 400th ASA SOD were from the top five percent of all U.S. Army enlisted soldiers. Also, each man had to pass a comprehensive personal security clearance investigation conducted by government agents prior to attending any of the classified ASA training programs. The members were physically conditioned from preparing and completing the arduous airborne training and the physical testing required of all special operations units each year. The first Commanding Officer of the 400th ASA SOD (Abn) unit was 1LT Lewis "DEAN" Kirk. One of his first actions was to initiate a tough training program for the first two-dozen 400th SOD troops assigned to the new unit. He started with long forced marches with full rucksacks in the hot and muggy Okinawa spring and summer months up in the northern training area. The unit performed morning runs of up to three miles too. He encouraged his soldiers to participate in a variety of specialized training programs such as the following: the 1st Special Forces Group (Abn) SCUBA course; the Cold Weather and Ski Training Course up in Hokkaido, Japan; the Jump Master training course; the advanced HALO parachute course; difficult infiltration and extraction training from an USN submarine; extensive weapons training with a variety of American and foreign weapons; and serving as Cadre for the 1st SFGA Airborne Course on Okinawa. Extensive participation in volunteer academic training was also encouraged for all of the enlisted troops. Some examples are cross training as Special Forces radio operations specialist; training in various foreign languages such as French and Vietnamese; enrollment in the Special Forces Qualification Training Program; and classified ASA extension courses (off-duty) were taken to enhance their professional military knowledge, skill and efficiency. Their participation in these extensive training programs assisted the enlisted soldiers of the 400th ASA SOD (Abn) in getting promoted ahead of many of their peers. This was especially true in the enlisted ranks up to Staff Sergeant E-6 rank. So these extraordinary soldiers progressed to rate among the most highly trained and proficient enlisted men not only in the U.S. Army, but soldiers in foreign armies. One pertinent fact that stands out about the 400th SOD soldiers is over seventy of the one hundred eighty-eight enlisted troops served with two or more of the four ASA Special Operations Detachments during their careers. Another impressive fact is the large number (over 60 per cent) of 400th ASA SOD soldiers who served six years or more on active duty. Many of these 400th soldiers transferred to the regular Special Forces Groups after their ASA SOD tours were completed. Some took assignments with other airborne units like the 101st Airborne Division and 173rd Airborne Brigade and served in Viet Nam with those units. These enlisted soldiers were proud American warriors and served their country with distinction and honor. A review of their Meritorious Service Profiles included in this book will demonstrate their exemplary service to America. The ASA SOD units suffered only five Killed-in-Action (KIA) deaths from the many hundreds who served in Viet Nam during 1963 through 197