101 Ways to Reinvest Your Life

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You don't have to spend your second half of life twiddling your thumbs.

And you aren't fated for an RV and faded bumper sticker announcing: "Retired, and spending my children's inheritance." Despite the notion that retirement means only fun and frivolity, members of the baby boomer generation view their latter years quite differently--through the eyes of a life reinvestor.

A life reinvestor uses talent, background, and spiritual gifts to follow dreams that have taken a backseat during the busy years of building a career and rearing a family. Rather than contemplating the pursuit of personal pleasure during retirement, a life reinvestor finds ways to invest in the lives of others.

In 101 Ways to Reinvest Your Life, Steve and Janie Sjogren show you specific ways to use your God-given abilities and hard-earned skills to make a difference in the lives of others. Decide to make the rest of your life the best of your life!

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As a parent, you must wear all the hats: doctor, disciplinarian, nutritionist, counselor, coach, entertainer, educator, etc. How about "career counselor?" For most parents, that hat doesn't fit as comfortably. Many parents feel the extent of their career guidance is contained in these encouraging words of wisdom, "You'll be great at anything you do!" While such support is helpful, it lacks the steps, activities, and essential tools that eventually result in a meaningful and successful career path for their kids. This book provides those tools. It offers ideas and insights for parents of a child at any age. It recognizes each of us parent and child as God's creation whose greater purpose can be fulfilled through our vocation. Parents will find its easy-to-read style anything but work. In fact, the book makes the career planning process invigorating and fun just like recess!

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How to Help Your Kids Have the Success We All Want. .......2006-04-04

There is a funny scene early in the movie "The Graduate" (where everyone is asking Dustin Hoffman about his plans) that ends with one well-intentioned relative advising a career in "Plastics!" Funny, but sadly realistic in that many parents, teachers and friends often ignore or avoid discussion of the issue of meaningful work with youngsters - until just about the time he or she needs to enter the workforce.

In late years "Take Your Daughter to Work" Day has, thankfully, evolved to "Take Your Child to Work" Day but participants (employers and employees alike) are still a minority. Career Days at school are enjoyable but often offer only a cursory look at the world of work.

As a career expert, author and speaker myself I read and review a lot of career books and "Having a Job Just Like Recess" fits the description of a certain success in that it "finds an unmet need and fills it." And quite nicely, I might add.

Goals, ideals and visions of success are often set early in life. If you want to help your child to eventually have the gift of a job and career he or she loves, one where the rewards are more than monetary, one where their gifts are fully utilized then you will find this book an engaging and practical resource to help start them on that path.

Today's parents face so many demands that I almost hesitate to add 'guidance / career counselor' to their job description but if you don't do it, who will? Don't you wish your parents did? Grandparents - skip the next soon-to-be-forgotten toy and get this book into your grandchild's household.

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19th century Orchestration

Doesn't cover the "Principles" or basics.

This is really extra reading AFTER you have had a course in orchestration

Excellent work but not for the dilletante

quite good

Principles of Orchestration
Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0486212661

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Great classical orchestrator provides fundamentals of tonal resonance, progression of parts, voice and orchestra, tutti effects, much else in major document. Includes 330pp. of musical excerpts.

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19th century Orchestration.......2007-01-11

Rimsky-Korsakov's treatise deals with many of the common issues of orchestration but is steeped in the music of the 19th century when it was written. The modern student of orchestration needs to study orchestral techniques of the 20th century as well as the techniques of the earlier musical periods. Another failure of this treatise is that Rimsky-Korsakov only uses extracted examples from his own compositions. This limits the breadth of the work and provides no understanding of other composer's methods. Overall this book has some useful information provided by a clever orchestrator but should be seen more as an addendum to the broader, more modern, more detailed and less egocentric works of Piston and Adler.

Doesn't cover the "Principles" or basics........2006-05-01

This book should be entitled "Tasteful Orchestration" or something similar. Despite the title, the book assumes that the student is well beyond the developmental stage of learning the principles of orchestration, the prerequisite theory and arual skills to hear complex examples in the mind by glancing at excerpts of conductor's scores and complex passages for piano, etc. Perhaps I would give it a higher score if the the title matched the text, but I bought the book expecting that its subject matter would match the title, and I was let down.

This is really extra reading AFTER you have had a course in orchestration.......2006-02-12

OK. This is an important book and offers a great deal of interesting information for the right audience. However, there are MUCH better modern books for the working musician trying to learn orchestration or a source to reference for a detail (Kent Keenan, Alfred Blatter, and Samuel Adler come quickly to mind). In order to use this book you will need to know a great deal of the music of Rimsky-Korsakov (the written samples are provided in the back, but you still need to know how it SOUNDS, right?), the differences between 19th century orchestras and the instruments used today, the mechanics of transposition, and a great comfort in reading music.

This is really more about how to create orchestral sound and effects. It assumes that you already have a solid grounding in all the basics of music, notation, and transposition. The text of the book is only about 150 pages and the rest consists of the musical examples.

So, if you have already had your basic orchestration courses, go ahead and read this as a way to understand the thinking of a very talented composer for the orchestra. You will, of course, have to break with his thinking to write your own music. However, Stravinsky did pretty well after studying with this master, right?

Excellent work but not for the dilletante.......2005-12-19

I suppose it would be redundant for me to praise the work of Rimsky-Korsakov like so many have before, and besides it seems above me to judge such an authoritative book. I do wish, however, that Rimsky-Korsakov would have used examples that were not only from his own works.

The format of this book is difficult since all of the musical examples are located in the back--rebinding it into two volumes would be advisable.

Anyone who studies this book should be familiar with the works of Rimsky-Korsakov, as all of the examples come from his orchestral works. It is also advisable to have at least rudimentary skills in sight-reading scores and/or to have recordings readily available so you can listen to the examples he cites.

You will benefit most from this book if you are able to devote a significant amount of time to listening to the examples given for each concept and composing practice sketches based on the principles Rimsky-Korsakov outlines.

The writing is rather dense and requires time to understand; therefore I would not recommend it to someone for whom composition or arranging is simply a hobby.

quite good.......2005-03-24

though quite indepth, Korsakov offers insightful tonal colors with great examples to follow.

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In this richly detailed account of mass media images, David Ruth looks at Al Capone and other "invented" gangsters of the 1920s and 1930s. The subject of innumerable newspaper and magazine articles, scores of novels, and hundreds of Hollywood movies, the gangster was a compelling figure for Americans preoccupied with crime and the social turmoil it symbolized. Ruth shows that the media gangster was less a reflection of reality than a projection created from Americans' values, concerns, and ideas about what would sell.

We see efficient criminal executives demonstrating the multifarious uses of organization; dapper, big-spending gangsters highlighting the promises and perils of the emerging consumer society; and gunmen and molls guiding an uncertain public through the shifting terrain of modern gender roles. In this fascinating study, Ruth reveals how the public enemy provides a far-ranging critique of modern culture.

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Fine beginner's text.......2000-06-20

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21st Century Super Collection of Hurricane Images ¿ NOAA and NASA Weather Satellite Image Files of Hurricanes, Cyclones, Typhoons, and Tropical Storms ¿ A Meteorological Treasure Trove with Over 4200 Image Files and 280 Movie Clips (Four CD-ROM Set)

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A Study of Overhead Rate Behavior at a US Air Force Base in the Context of A-76 Competitions

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This is a AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSONAFB OH report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A972273. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: In an effort to generate funds for force modernization, the Air Force is looking toward the private sector to gain efficiencies and save money. To decide whether it can reduce costs by outsourcing an activity, the Air Force develops a bid for comparison to those of potential private- sector providers. Current policy for estimating the overhead component of its bid is to multiply the direct labor costs of the activity by 12 percent (.12). This policy is controversial because there is doubt as to its accuracy and because it has altered the outcome of a significant number of competitions. This research analyzed overhead rate behavior on a U.S. Air Force base (i.e., Travis AFB) to: (1) determine the accuracy of the 12 percent rule, (2) develop an automated procedure to estimate overhead savings that will result from outsourcing a commercial activity, and (3) identify policies that would increase overhead savings if a commercial activity is outsourced. A brief summary of some of the most significant findings and policy implications is below.

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