At the height of the Cold War, the John F. Kennedy administration designed an ambitious plan for the Middle East-its aim was to seek rapprochement with Nasser's Egypt in order to keep the Arab world neutral and contain the perceived communist threat. In order to offset this approach, Kennedy sought to grow relations with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and embrace Israel's defense priorities-a decision which would begin the US-Israeli 'special relationship'. Here, Antonio Perra shows for the first time how new relations with Saudi Arabia and Israel which would come to shape the Middle East for decades were in fact a by-product of Kennedy's efforts at Soviet containment. The Saudi's in particular were increasingly viewed as 'an atavistic regime who would soon disappear' but Kennedy's support for them-which hardened during the Yemen Crisis even as he sought to placate Nasser-had the unintended effect of making them, as today, the US' great pillar of support in the Middle East.

Walk in the footsteps of a small boy as he is passed from stranger to stranger. Aunts, uncles, friends, and neighbors all acted as parents to Bobbie at one time or another- but ultimately each time circumstances necessitate another move to a different family, leaving him feeling rejected.

As Bobbie grew up, participating in youthful escapades during his brief period with his pseudo-grandparents, he continued searching for a feeling of family. Two decades of vying for his father's affections and hoping for parental praise left Bobbie empty but driven-constantly striving for that elusive moment of recognition.

His loneliness drove him, as a young man, to believe that his life is too burdensome for those around him. In his teen years, he found himself confronted with choices that should never have been presented to him, setting in motion life-altering events that would impact many other lives in negative ways. He was forced to learn to accept and live with the past, but he chooses not to nurture it; instead, he focuses on pennies-bright spots in his life that serve as his mantra.

Everyone has their crosses to bear, and everyone has picked up pennies on the road.

This is the second book from the lead author, Raymond Perras. Teaming up with two leadership coaching clients (Marcel Bellefeuille from the world of professional sports, and Bruno Lindia, a CEO and business owner), Raymond has developed a unique and groundbreaking effort to bring forward some issues that do not often get dealt with in a leadership book. Based on the concept of Peak Performance (the right stuff, in the right amount, at the right timeTM), this work provides a leader with insight into how to maximize results while reducing stress. Modern organizations need effective leaders. It is no longer sufficient to have the most advanced technology or systems to achieve maximum performance. There is growing evidence that future gains in productivity will only come from the people that do the work. Accordingly, the emphasis must now be on the human potential and not the hardware and systems. Extensive research by the Zenger-Folkman Group has produced very sobering results showing that organizations that are exceeding expectations and beating competition have a very definite focus on developing their leadership skills and abilities. They enable and empower their workforce to act with initiative, commitment to the goals and harmony in the group. Zenger-Folkman found that organizations that foster effective leadership increased some results over less successful ventures as follows: reduced turnover by 50% 3-5 times higher profits 2-3 times higher employee engagement 150% increased customer satisfaction 4-5 times more employees willing to go the extra mile. Clearly, effective leadership is the key to superior performance at this time. In the 10 Discussions for Effective Leadership, the authors share their experience on ten activities that can make or break a leader. By doing the right thing, practicing empowerment, trusting your team, telling the truth, planning jointly, defining your vision and sharing it, leading by example, asking good questions, thinking like a champion, and remembering that your are "alone at the top," you can ensure that you will be an effective leader. This book aims at providing a no nonsense discussion of activities that make a big difference for leaders seeking to increase their effectiveness and exceed their expectations. It calls for "contemplation" of ways and means to transform the context and content of their leadership activities in order to enable their teams to dramatically improve their results.

This book is the product of the experience gained through many years of working with and leading individuals and teams in their journey to excellence. During that time, I was very fortunate to have managers, supervisors, coaches and mentors who were willing to give me feedback and share their knowledge on how to be the best. I assume that they saw the potential in me and took the time to help me rectify my approach, reduce my inabilities, and improve my focus and skills in putting my talents to good use. It is with that learning in mind that I became a better performer and started recognizing the possibilities for others around me. It did not happen overnight, but in the end I realized that if I could do it, then I could likely help others do it. It's been a long trek. Starting in 1977, I had the privilege to work on TQM (Total Quality Management) with Bill Conway, a man who had worked directly with Edwards W. Deming. That was the start of my journey to reduce wasted effort and maximize result. Over the years, I learned to apply the concepts to assembly lines and other mechanical ventures. However, the real gain came when I understood that the real key to quality was the people who did the work. Since the early 1980s when I reached the supervisory level in my work, I have studied and researched the human factor. I wanted to understand what makes people tick, and consequently, I learned how to raise the efficiency and effectiveness of leadership in the context of teamwork. The real discoveries came in sports where I had the opportunity to watch people dynamics at the speed of light. The knowledge gained there was priceless. Since sports demand quick execution, based on sound preparation, and the time is in seconds as opposed to days and months, the domain was an open lab in observing communication, problem-solving, planning, strategic thinking, leadership, teamwork and the new concept of collective intelligence. But if all that was going to be successful, it required each individual to be motivated, have the skills and knowledge, the capability and competency, and the environment to execute. Throughout my study, I became very aware that mental preparation was the key to performance. The more I observed, and the more I became convinced that there was a way to increase results while reducing stress. For individuals and for teams, that would be the magic ingredient for peak performance every time out. Because once stress is reduced, nearly everyone who has prepared can produce peak performance.

The study of scents and all things olfactory is thriving, a sign of the great interest that our information-based society feels for a sense that seems to offer a direct and immediate experience of reality. But smells resist description and representation, especially given that they are closely linked to individual personal experience, and their perception has changed through time and space in a myriad of ways. This volume aims to contribute to the flourishing multidisciplinary exchanges around smells by examining the question of their mediality, focusing on the mechanisms by which the olfactory experience, as well as the scents themselves, circulate and are diffused, but also by exploring the modes of smell as a medium in itself. Drawing on a wide variety of approaches, cultural zones, and historical periods, this volume gathers the contributions of twenty-one researchers who specialize in this field in order to explore the multiple aspects of olfactory culture, which characterizes and shapes our relations to smells. La richesse de l'actualite en matiere d'odeurs et d'odorat temoigne du vif interet de nos societes de l'information pour un sens qui semble offrir une saisie directe et immediate du reel. Circulant de maniere tres variable a travers le temps et l'espace, les odeurs font l'objet d'une perception qui resiste d'autant plus a la description et a la representation qu'elle reste individuelle et liee a l'histoire personnelle. Ce volume vise a contribuer aux echanges interdisciplinaires sur l'olfaction a travers la question de la medialite, en s'interrogeant sur les mecanismes par lesquels l'experience olfactive et les odeurs sont transmises et diffusees, mais aussi en explorant les modalites de l'odeur comme medium. Proposant une diversite d'approches, d'aires culturelles et de periodes, ce volume rassemble les contributions de vingt-et-un specialistes qui etudient comment la culture olfactive caracterise et construit nos rapports aux odeurs.

Let yourself be captivated by the spirit of Christmas as you decorate your home with wonderful patchwork items and stitched ornaments. Dress up your holiday by crafting placemats, pillows, cuddly blankets, and other special decorative items that will make your home warm and cozy. Create elaborate patchwork pieces like winter wall hangings and a festive tablecloth. Learn 25 simple, stitched projects for beginners, and incorporate more advanced challenges into the plan by reworking them as more complex models. Step-by-step directions and easy-to-follow templates will make working on all of the projects easy. Also included is a basic patchwork and quilting course. Christmas can be magical with these fun projects "

Situated at the confluence of history, media and cultural studies, this book reconstructs the often deeply discordant and highly selective memories of the Holocaust in Italy in the postwar era. The author's core method is one of reception analysis, centred on the public responses to the many films and television programmes that have addressed the Holocaust from the 1940s to the present day. Tied to the heritage of Fascism, antifascism, and the Resistance, public memory of the Holocaust in Italy has changed greatly over the years. Self-acquitting myths of Italian innocence and victimhood, and universalising interpretations grounded in Catholicism and Communism, provided the initial frameworks for understanding the Holocaust. However, the last two decades have seen an increasing centrality of the Holocaust in memory culture but have also witnessed the establishment of a paradigm that relativises other fascist crimes and levels the differences between Fascism and antifascism. Working with the largest corpus yet established of Holocaust film and television in Italy, from the 1948 retelling of the Wandering Jew myth to Roberto Benigni's controversial Life Is Beautiful, from the American miniseries Holocaust to Perlasca: The Courage of a Just Man, Conflicts of Memory probes Italy's ongoing, if incomplete, process of coming to terms with this important aspect of its past.

Carl Peters (1856-1918) ranked among Germany's most prominent imperialists in the nineteenth century. He became known as the founder of Deutsch-Ostafrika, a region many Germans saw as the pearl of their overseas possessions, and his memory was revered in Nazi Germany. This biography reveals his role in Germany's colonial expansion.

Un guide pour implanter la performance optimale: la bonne chose, avec le bon dosage, au bon momentMC. Que ce soit dans le sport, le travail, ou simplement dans la vie de tous les jours, vous etes toujours en performance. Rappelez-vous, nous avons tous la capacite de creer la performance optimale. Le secret est d'utiliser cette capacite en pleine conscience afin de reduire votre perte d'energie et augmenter vos resultats. Ce livre vous donne une recette qui, lorsqu'appliquee avec discipline, aide a la creation de la performance optimale. La cle se trouve dans une prise de conscience habituelle, son interiorisation a votre bagage de connaissances, son integration dans votre routine quotidienne, et une pratique soutenue pour en faire une seconde nature. Voguez vers de nouveaux sommets. Devenez un(e) adepte de la performance optimale Raymond Perras, Coach en performance optimal Pour tout professionnel ..., ce n'est que lorsque "le rythme du jeu ralenti" qu'il peut reussir. Ca, c'est "l'efficacite a moindre effort." Lorsqu'il est frenetique dans son effort de "vaincre l'ennemi," il "s'efforce." "Jouer la partie" est une activite tres differente de "vaincre l'ennemi." La premiere est "la PUISSANCE," la seconde est "la FORCE." C'est seulement lorsque s'installe cet etat d'esprit que le vrai professionnel apparait. Tom Wentz, auteur et conseiller en gestion.

In the turbulent years before World War II, U.S. strategic planners struggled with the question of Canadian security. Franklin Roosevelt took a unique interest in America's northern neighbor and persistently encouraged Canada to do more to ensure its own defense especially through alliance with the U.S. This aspect of foreign policy resulted in a delicate balancing act between U.S. officials who sought to downplay the strategic importance of Canada and Canadian leaders who saw American overtures as a threat to Canadian sovereignty. The first chapter discusses Roosevelt's early efforts between 1933 and 1937 to increase Canadian interest in North American defense. The second follows events up to the outbreak of war. Although Canada had been seen as part of the rival British Empire, Canada now became a natural ally in hemispheric security efforts. Roosevelt's dealings with Canadian Prime Minister W.L.M. King, who would be branded a puppet for these interactions, and the evolution of continental defense efforts are discussed in the third chapter. The fourth chapter chronicles the wartime struggles of two new allies, as Roosevelt became more concerned with Europe and the coming Soviet threat. The final chapter further explains the declining interest in Canada as World War II becomes the focus of American interests.

As a noted Florida singer/songwriter, this book portrays the story behind Eli's trademark song titled, "Mama's Bank Account," bringing an in-depth account of the trials, and tribulations, that she faced while raising her premature, multi-handicapped son Adam, who was born at home, and is currently living today in a group home for the disabled, despite constant health setbacks impacting all odds of his survival.

Dive into the world of the Flask microframework to develop an array of web applications About This Book * Structure, compose, and build powerful Flask HTML-based applications and JSON/XML-based APIs using advanced application design patterns * Integrate third-party Flask extensions for tasks such as social authentication, sending emails, and interacting with databases and cache layers * Build a series of Flask applications of increasing complexity Who This Book Is For If you are a Python web developer who has developed basic Flask applications and now wants to build a series of more complex web applications, then this is the book for you. What You Will Learn * Use the virtualenv Python package to effectively isolate your development environments * Convert a simple one-file Flask application into a more full-fledged multi-package application * Integrate Flask-Login for simple user authentication, Flask-WTF for forms, and Flask-SQLAlchemy for database interactions * Explore URL routing and dispatching in a blueprint structured application * Create your own signals and consume them within your application * Learn to leverage Werkzeug, the WSGI library that powers much of Flask * Implement custom exceptions for handling non-20x response codes * Write your own CLI tools for administrative and development tasks of your Flask application using Flask-Script/Click * Build your Flask extensions to encapsulate reusable behaviors across your applications * Integrate your application with open source JavaScript-based graphing libraries to create simple data visualizations In Detail Flask is a small but powerful web development framework for Python. Though Flask is termed a micro-framework, it is no way lacking in functionality; there are many extensions available to Flask which helps it to function at the same level as other large frameworks such as Django and Ruby on Rails. This book will demonstrate how to develop a series of web application projects with the Python web micro-framework, and leverage extensions and external Python libraries and APIs to extend the development of a variety of larger and more complex web applications. The book will start by explaining Python's Virtualenv library and how to create and switch between multiple virtual environments. You'll first build an SQL database-backed application, which will use Flask-WTF, Flask-SQLAlchemy, Jinja templates, and other methods. Next you'll move on to a timeline application, built using concepts including pytest-Flask, the Blinker package, data modelling for user timelines, exception handling, and creating and organizing CLI tools. Moving on, you'll discover how to implement a photo timeline application where you'll explore topics such as writing and running celery tasks, API error handling and testing, and Werkzeug middlewares. Finally, the book walks you through creating an application which fetches data from GitHub and stores it locally. You will also learn how to install and configure Flask-Click extension. Style and approach This book covers how to effectively use the Flask micro-framework to develop a series of web applications. Each chapter focusses on the development of an application increasing in complexity with easy steps to follow.

This short book intends to suggest to the Reader a practical method to evaluate, making some comparisons, the potentialities of a synastry: as regards love, business, studies and other. This method is based first of all on the teachings of Tradition and after on the contributions that comparative studies have offered to our discipline, for example the statistical study of Carl Gustav Jung and of the Nobel Prize for Physics Wolfgang Pauli about the excellence of the conjunction Sun-Moon in a couple. Personally, for many years I studied also the mid-points between the skies of two subjects, but I did not get valid results. As in all books of mine you will find some or many practical examples and most of all the way to test what I suggest on your personal examples: try this method on yourselves, on your past experiences, on the couples that you know very well and that you have known for a long time. If this system convinces you, use it. Otherwise throw the book away. If I may praise shortly this book, I'd like to add that probably it is the first example, or one of the first examples, of collaboration between an astrologer that practises the Judicial Astrology (or Predictive Astrology or Astrologia Gallica of Morin de Villefranche and of Andre Barbault) and the Astrology of an expert colleague, Danila Madau Perra, who teaches Yoga and is Buddhist, but who accepts, approves of and also practices Aimed Solar Returns. In short: a true example of an attempt to study Astrology in a holistic way.

This book is the product of the experience gained through many years of working with and leading individuals and teams in their journey to excellence. During that time, I was very fortunate to have managers, supervisors, coaches and mentors who were willing to give me feedback and share their knowledge on how to be the best. I assume that they saw the potential in me and took the time to help me rectify my approach, reduce my inabilities, and improve my focus and skills in putting my talents to good use. It is with that learning in mind that I became a better performer and started recognizing the possibilities for others around me. It did not happen overnight, but in the end I realized that if I could do it, then I could likely help others do it. It's been a long trek. Starting in 1977, I had the privilege to work on TQM (Total Quality Management) with Bill Conway, a man who had worked directly with Edwards W. Deming. That was the start of my journey to reduce wasted effort and maximize result. Over the years, I learned to apply the concepts to assembly lines and other mechanical ventures. However, the real gain came when I understood that the real key to quality was the people who did the work. Since the early 1980s when I reached the supervisory level in my work, I have studied and researched the human factor. I wanted to understand what makes people tick, and consequently, I learned how to raise the efficiency and effectiveness of leadership in the context of teamwork. The real discoveries came in sports where I had the opportunity to watch people dynamics at the speed of light. The knowledge gained there was priceless. Since sports demand quick execution, based on sound preparation, and the time is in seconds as opposed to days and months, the domain was an open lab in observing communication, problem-solving, planning, strategic thinking, leadership, teamwork and the new concept of collective intelligence. But if all that was going to be successful, it required each individual to be motivated, have the skills and knowledge, the capability and competency, and the environment to execute. Throughout my study, I became very aware that mental preparation was the key to performance. The more I observed, and the more I became convinced that there was a way to increase results while reducing stress. For individuals and for teams, that would be the magic ingredient for peak performance every time out. Because once stress is reduced, nearly everyone who has prepared can produce peak performance.

This is the second book from the lead author, Raymond Perras. Teaming up with two leadership coaching clients (Marcel Bellefeuille from the world of professional sports, and Bruno Lindia, a CEO and business owner), Raymond has developed a unique and groundbreaking effort to bring forward some issues that do not often get dealt with in a leadership book. Based on the concept of Peak Performance (the right stuff, in the right amount, at the right timeTM), this work provides a leader with insight into how to maximize results while reducing stress. Modern organizations need effective leaders. It is no longer sufficient to have the most advanced technology or systems to achieve maximum performance. There is growing evidence that future gains in productivity will only come from the people that do the work. Accordingly, the emphasis must now be on the human potential and not the hardware and systems. Extensive research by the Zenger-Folkman Group has produced very sobering results showing that organizations that are exceeding expectations and beating competition have a very definite focus on developing their leadership skills and abilities. They enable and empower their workforce to act with initiative, commitment to the goals and harmony in the group. Zenger-Folkman found that organizations that foster effective leadership increased some results over less successful ventures as follows: reduced turnover by 50% 3-5 times higher profits 2-3 times higher employee engagement 150% increased customer satisfaction 4-5 times more employees willing to go the extra mile. Clearly, effective leadership is the key to superior performance at this time. In the 10 Discussions for Effective Leadership, the authors share their experience on ten activities that can make or break a leader. By doing the right thing, practicing empowerment, trusting your team, telling the truth, planning jointly, defining your vision and sharing it, leading by example, asking good questions, thinking like a champion, and remembering that your are "alone at the top," you can ensure that you will be an effective leader. This book aims at providing a no nonsense discussion of activities that make a big difference for leaders seeking to increase their effectiveness and exceed their expectations. It calls for "contemplation" of ways and means to transform the context and content of their leadership activities in order to enable their teams to dramatically improve their results.

This book was designed to provide secondary educators with a practical guide to classroom management practices. Today's educators are confronted by a myriad of complex issues impacting students' behavioral conduct in school. Without adequate training and assistance, problems managing student behavior will result. The Ecological Model system presented in our book offers an integrated approach to succeed with secondary students in any community or school environment.