I am an elderly black male, who, in my youth, developed a love of reading history; and in that period of time, the late '30s and the early '40s, I found it very hard to locate much literature depicting black presence in American history. Later in life, when this information was publicly made more available, I was overwhelmed with shock, and I questioned as to why all this had been hidden all these years. Black people had not only just existed here, they were also necessary for this country to achieve the success that was attained to push this nation ahead in the following years. This book is detailed to prove this assertion. I also go into great detail explaining why this information has been kept hidden. There is only a glimpse of pre-North American contributions mentioned in the book, but there is a detailed explanation of the making of the United States of America, all the way up until the present time, depicting how the black presence was necessary to bring this country to where it is today. It is also necessary for young and elderly, both black and white, who are aspiring, ambitious American citizens to be fully cognizant of this in order to reap the benefits they will need in keeping this nation as the greatest nation on earth. This book proves that diversity is the main bulwark of our nation.
This North-End Story Never Before Told. The North-End of Springfield, IL grew as the town grew and developed into being the industrial base of the new state capital. With it was the immigration of ethic groups like Germans, Italians and Irish. Thus begins the story of that vibrant community and its high school.How could it be that Lanphier High School has never been written about in detail? Although three-quarters of a century old, Lanphier has been unknown in the entirety of its history-until now. The same can be said about the neighborhood it resides in. Mitchell describes the North Enders as hard-working, lower-middle class people from many ethnic groups who created the hard-to-define "North-End character." In North-End Pride: The Story of Lanphier High School, Its People and Community, you will discover: - The uproar over tearing down Reservoir Park, the Jewel of the North End - The birth of Lanphier High School in the Converse School building - How Pillsbury Mills, the Watch Factory and the Meter Works gave the North End vitality, prosperity and identity - A never-before intimate look at Robert C. Lanphier, co-founder of Sangamo Electric and the high school's namesake - Some well-kept secrets of LHS-from the streaker who saved the school, to a staff member who won the Lottery, to a student who gave his life for a classmate - A look at the sung and unsung sports heroes and their coaches
This book explores a set of concepts that are fundamental for successful leadership of an Information Technology (IT) business. The ideas and concepts explored here have emerged from a ten-year collaboration between the authors in creating professional development programs to support and enhance the remarkable success of a particular IT company - the Information Systems (I/S) Division of BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina. However, the book is about more than one company's success. Anyone facing the challenge of leading an IT company, an IT unit, or IT projects of most any size will find ideas and concepts here that resonate with their experiences and that will provoke them to think in new and more productive ways about the work they do. This book is the third of a three-book series on the art and science of managing an IT company. In the first book of the series, Picasso on a Schedule, a unique IT organizational structure called the Hierarchical Matrix was described and a framework of repeatable processes for its Matrix component was defined. The Matrix component of the structure focuses on producing the quality technical work that IT clients expect and demand. The Hierarchy component of the structure focuses on managing the resources necessary for the production of that work. In the second book of the series, Managing Picasso, the study of the Hierarchical Matrix was extended with a description of a framework of repeatable processes for the Hierarchy (Management) component of the structure. The Hierarchy's mission has two major features. First it must enable the IT organization's current success by creating and managing a technical workforce that consistently produces excellent client value. Second, it must ensure that the organization remains positioned for long-term success. To accomplish this two-fold mission, those in the Hierarchy must have the technical competence to deal with the creative nature of IT work, and the business competence to employ the best-practices under which successful non-IT businesses operate. Managing Picasso is an accessible reference guide to a framework of repeatable IT management processes that enable the accomplishment of this mission. The current book, Leading Picasso, completes the study of the Hierarchical Matrix with a focus on the leadership concepts necessary to enable both the Hierarchy and the Matrix components to be successful in carrying out their respective responsibilities. Both formal and informal leadership are required for this success, and Leading Picasso addresses both types of leadership, offering a conceptual leadership framework and practical techniques for applying this framework to the work of leadership. Just as is true within the day-to-day work of both the Hierarchy and the Matrix, leadership involves a delicate blend of art and science. Indeed, leadership depends heavily on applying the arts of intuition, vision, courage, and steadfastness in setting direction, then guiding and inspiring other people to accomplish a desired result through influence. This book explores how leaders can accomplish this by employing a set of skills and behaviors that constitute the strengths that actually define a Leader and enable the effective employment of Culture and Vision necessary to successfully adapt their organization for success in changing circumstances.
The drug companies in collusion with the FDA, Federal Government, American Medical Association, American Cancer Society, American Diabetes Association, et al, have created a ruthless monopoly on the medical system. They are suppressing natural cures for cancer, MRSA and more. They're inventing fake "scientific" studies and perpetuating myths such as "HIV Causes AIDS" and "Cholesterol Causes Heart Disease", inventing phony disorders such as "ADHD", pushing deadly toxic vaccines and lying about their safety and efficacy + much, much more, all in an effort to maintain their control, push more drugs, increase their sales and maximize profits. The truth is that they are killing millions of people per year under the guise of "healing" people with unnecessary drugs, surgeries and so-called "treatments". Virtually all health concerns are manageable through diet, nutrition and natural supplements, including cancer. This book will provide you with key information needed to become your own doctor and escape the brutal and inhumane medical monopoly where profits come first and the health of the people comes last. This book will show you how to reclaim your power and your health. This book represents the new paradigm of nutrition, not drugs, for health.
Thank you for checking out this book by Theophania Publishing. We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you soon. We have thousands of titles available, and we invite you to search for us by name, contact us via our website, or download our most recent catalogues. The "spiritual life", just like every other kind of life or aspect of living and being and relating, begins in darkness and obscurity, long before any particular awareness has started to emerge. The bonds of living and relating are there long before we become consciously aware of them. And as we do become aware, we begin to explore and cultivate these bonds of living and relating, and then the journey of discovery, the adventure of seeking begins in earnest. Descriptions and studies of the spiritual journey, this adventure, abound, not surprisingly produced for the most part by those who most professionally attend to it, religious men and women and priests. But of course the project is common to all human beings, and, one way or another, more or less consciously and explicitly, we all fumble through it, through the varied ups and downs of a life-time. Some of the authors dealing with this aspect of human existence, particularly in the Christian context, seem to present an ordered progression, with predictable laws governing it and passing through characteristic "stages". But it is a fairly common experience that life is not always so flawlessly organised, that there are indeed ups and downs, twists and turns, and when we have every reason to believe that we are on a consistently ascending path, darkness and disenchantment may hit, and the whole project may come to appear as futile. Or, on the other hand, when all things seem to be going wrong, and the ground seems to have been pulled from under our feet, we are surprised by an unexpected gift of light. We are tempted to try and measure our progress, but we find that we are at a loss for a measure, a yardstick, that comparisons are not helpful, and we are in no position to make sense of the will, or plan, or logic of God with respect to our life. The nature of a posthumous collection of studies and reflections on the various aspects of a life aimed at deepening and realising a contemplative love at the heart of everything we live through, of diverse articles on varied aspects of this often unpredictable journey, perhaps corresponds more closely to the fits and starts of a real spiritual life than what many a systematic treatise would have us imagine. In fact, we shall plunge early on into the puzzling setbacks systematicians of the spiritual life usually place further along the road, after the glow of one's "honeymoon" with God has worn off and the initial euphoria and enthusiasm have run out of steam. We will encounter the "'familiar figure' we all know - indeed whom we meet in ourselves...'the time-filler whose sole effort seems to be to avoid getting down to the job and whose singular joy is a well-stretched coffee break and a long lunch hour.'" Acedia seems to be "the Noon-Day Devil" most pilgrims on the way struggle with for the longest stretches: the fertile ground in which all distractions, temptations, discouragement and habitual sins flourish.
