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Understanding Wall Street
by Jeffrey B. Little, Lucien Rhodes
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These are #books / #magazines that I have read or will read at some point.
The books are mainly non #fiction, #history, #biographies , #autobiographys and #historicalevents I found to be #interesting.
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BILL MOYERS: You say, "…the way the human mind is built, antipathy can impede comprehension." Rationality. "Hating protestors, flag burners and even terrorists makes it harder to understand them well enough to keep others from joining their ranks."
ROBERT WRIGHT: It's a tricky balance to strike because on the one hand, understanding terrorists and how they became terrorists, which is in our interests if we want to discourage the creation of more terrorists, tends to involve a kind of sympathy that in turn can lead you to say they are not to blame for what they did.
And you don't want to say that because as a practical matter you have to punish people when you can when they do bad things. So you don't want to let go of the idea of moral culpability but you do need to kind of put yourself in their heads. And that is really a great challenge in the modern world.
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DeScribe: The Harmony Press Conference August 2nd 2010 at Borough Hall
DeScribe (Born Shneur HaSofer), Crown Heights' Hassidic Hip Hop and R&B artist, will host a press conference at Borough Hall on August 2nd, 2010 at 1:00 pm with NYS Senator Eric Adams and Borough President Marty Markowitz, to premier his revolutionary "Harmony" music video, which celebrates diversity, understanding and harmony amongst the Crown Heights' Black and Jewish communities. This event is presented in collaboration with heads of the Crown Heights community and Shemspeed, an independent recording label and artists' promotional agency based in Crown Heights. The event is sponsored by COLlive.com, one of the most prominent Chabad Hassidic media outlets providing constant up to date information about the movements worldwide news and initiatives and Marley Coffee, owned by Bob Marley's son, Rohan Marley helps promote and support environmental and social justice causes, including aiding Jamaica's poor communities and "going green."
© 2010 Nick Mitha Photography. All rights reserved.
One of the things that really astounds me about GSD's is their intelligence level. I can actually talk to Kelly and ask her something in a form of a sentence and she makes eye contact and understands and responds if necessary. You can see it in their eyes, they understand us quite well.
I wanted a moody shot, so I processed this into BW.
Title: Understanding and painting abstract art : Semi-abstract and non-objective
Author: Elsa Nelson
Publication: Foster Art Service, Laguna Beach, CA
Book description: Red printed paperback, 30 pages (some col.).
Call number: N 6490.N45. Year unknown.
The McGee group is going to the ends of the earth to understand how precipitation patterns respond to climate change. Recognizing that past changes provide unique opportunities to test our understanding of the climate system, the group is building high-resolution records of past precipitation changes in sensitive regions around the world using natural precipitation archives such as lake deposits and stalagmites. In the past two years this work has taken the group to shorelines preserving records of large ancient lakes in the deserts of the western U.S. and subtropical South America, to caves in the Yucatan peninsula and deep inside islands in Vietnam's Ha Long Bay, and onto a drill rig sampling deeply buried lake sediments in the high tropical Andes.
Images courtesy: Nguyen Hieu & Do Trung Hieu
Understanding Leeds Most Common Crimes
Leeds is the largest city in the county if West Yorkshire, that is highly popular and known for its shopping, nightlife, universities, and sport. It is a city also known for its parks and beautiful green spaces that make it a very appealing city for tourists and visitors.
However, in past years Leeds has been known and recognized for its high crime rate. This is something that has reflected negatively on the city, deterring visitors and impacting on Leeds residents’ movements around the city. Despite Leeds’s crime ridden past, the past year or so has shown an overall decline in crimes committed, with a 2.6 per cent reduction in offences in West Yorkshire in 2019/20, and around 7,600 fewer victims, according to the West Yorkshire Police.
What are these crimes that are still being committed?
New police data, obtained by the Yorkshire Evening Post under the Freedom of Information (FOI) ACT, has revealed the nine most commonly recorded crimes in north Leeds wards from April 2019 to March 2020. Here they are:
1. Violence Without Injury
There were a total of 5,335 violent crimes without injury recorded in Leeds within this time frame.
2. Burglary – Residential
There were 2,188 residential burglaries recorded in Leeds from April 2019 to March 2020.
There are three main types of burglary, they are: opportunistic burglary, targeted/planned burglary, and distraction burglary...
Opportunistic www.regionsecurityguarding.co.uk/security-company-leeds/l...
Former Foreign Office Minister Jeremy Browne signs a Memorandum of Understanding between the British Embassy, Beijing and Central Party School with Minister Li Jingtain, Vice-President of the Chinese Central Party School. 26 October 2011.
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- Tricks of Influence - 7 Biases and Psychological Artistry -
September 2012
Hi
A key question for you is what do you think moves people to change behaviour? What are the 7 key biases that we all have which lie behind making decisions and choices?
Being able to answer these questions means understanding influence and decision making processes. Influence is the driving force for us making the most of our resources.
. Introduction
. Choices - The 7 Cognitive Biases
. Standing Out From Countless Distractions
. A Better Show-reel
. Sleight of Mind Set Workshops
. Feedback
. What Is Psychological Artistry?
. Examples of Psychological Artistry
. Other Services
. Contact Me
The ability to influence, appear to be able to dictate and predetermine people's choices and actions lie behind much that we cover in our SMS workshops. We're now very excited to be able to offer to you a number of open workshops dedicated to showing you mind magic and psychological artistry and how to apply it to what you do. We call this these the Sleight of Mind Set Workshops (click here for more information) or visit mindsways.com/SMS/
The ideas and material in this workshop is designed to reinforce and expand upon your delivery and interventions. Following on from the recent successes we are now holding the SMS workshops in Birmingham, Bath, Glasgow and London during November.
CHOICES - THE 7 COGNITIVE BIASES
Our choices are driven by our cognitive biases, 7 of the most important ones that we make use of in Psychological Artistry are:
Availability bias
Conformational bias
Illusion of control
Clustering or patterning fallacies
The Forer effect
Anchoring
Framing effect
There are many more, but understanding just these 7 gives us massive insights on our own decision making processes and also makes a large impact on how we influence other people's decisions and choices. In addition to these other biases come into play that have an impact on our lives and business. Some of these are:
Distinction bias
Egocentric bias
Information bias
Belief bias
We use to psychological artistry to both illustrate and understand these processes in a non threatening yet challenging way.
Mind Magic uses these and other techniques to give you the appearance of being able to accurately direct, dictate and influence people's choices. Being able to apply these techniques and ideas, as well as carry out these effects, increases your understanding of the psychological forces and shows others that you work with them.
These forces have real and practical impact on our lives daily. The SMS day uses mind magic as a lens to focus and clearly illustrate these psychological biases, whilst at the same time equipping you with an approach that is entertaining and engaging. This can prove a powerful way to engage a variety of people.
STANDING OUT FROM THE COUNTLESS DISTRACTIONS
With countless distractions coming at us from all angles, we must be able to stand out from the crowd, grab attention and more importantly, be able to hold attention. The skills and techniques that are embedded within Psychological Artistry are designed to do just that. I have coached and trained with this approach and found that through this, many areas can be dealt with, such as:
Developing confidence
Communication skills
Understanding behaviours
Biases ( social and cognitive)
How we experience the world
Self expression
Thinking skills
We are about uncovering the patterns of human behaviour whilst being
Entertained
Fascinated
Mystified
Enlightened
A BETTER SHOW-REEL
"To win more pitches, you need a better show-reel." John Hegarty - Hegarty on Advertising
We are looking to add to your "show-reel" by teaching you these techniques, routines and effects. A warning though, they must be treated like the special effects we see in films. They are there to enhance and illustrate what you do. A movie that is all special effects and no story makes for a boring film. Sometimes the best special effects are invisible. You will learn to use the Psychological Artistry toolbox of special effects to enhance and illustrate what you deliver.
SLEIGHT OF MIND SET WORKSHOPS
On these days, you will follow us down a path that will capture your imagination, giving you a complete skill set of astonishment, amazement and wonder. You will experience the worlds of Psychological Artistry, Neuroscience, Smart Thinking, Stagecraft and Magic, as well as partake in an experience that defies and twists logic and scientific understanding.
The day will challenge you to think about your delivery in entirely different ways. You will uncover your ability to step out of the logical box and view what you do from an entirely new perspective.
These workshops are all about enabling you to learn, appreciate and apply mind magic and psychological artistry to what you do. The approach is not traditional, but that is where its strength lies, particularly when advertising and adding value to others.
The programme includes two packs of material, the SNT (Show Not Tell) kit and the SMS (Sleight of Mind Set) pack; these include 20 discrete routines, ideas and techniques that allow you to deliver what you learn. The material here is not readily available but is assembled in packs ready for you to take away and use.
We are engaged with a wide range of people and organisations, but all of them have one thing in common; they are all people who work with people. They all want to increase their performance; they are all searching for methods to improve what they do, they are all seeking something different. It is our objective to meet this outcome and we are doing it through using Psychological Artistry. For more information about the workshops please click here or visit www.mindsways.com/SMS/.
FEEDBACK
We have both been very pleased with previous feedback, with people saying it was "mind blowing" and "totally new". We are now seeing that we are meeting your expectations and adding value, which is very important to us. To see what people have said see www.mindsways.com/about/what-people-say/
WHAT IS PSYCHOLOGICAL ARTISTRY?
Psychological Artistry has at its heart Mind magic a tradition that has intrigued, entertained and drawn people in for over a century. We wrap around and mix in the science of social psychology, NLP, neuroscience and smart thinking. We take the building blocks of magic and psychology, and transform them so that you can use them to show people what you do, as well as what makes you different and worthy of their time. This leads us down a path where our focus is on learning by doing and through showing not telling. This produces an approach that is different enough to draw people to your projects or ideas.
We do this by weaving together overlapping areas of delivery such as:
Psychology
Influence
NLP
Presentation Skills
Human Behaviour
Stagecraft
Performance
Confidence
Story Telling
Engagement
Magic ideas and techniques
Today in this society which is rapidly changing and evolving our visibility is vital. You must be able be visible. You must be able to deliver new ideas and present established ideas in new ways. One of the easiest ways to do this is to appeal to novelty.
The skills and experiences you can gain from Psychological Artistry allow you to absorb these new ideas into your world, full of your own experiences and thoughts. Use these for encouraging and illustrating self awareness and the power the environment and our circumstances has in how we think and behave.
This acts as a vehicle for you to stand out and make an impact with your ideas.
AN EXAMPLE OF PSYCHOLOGICAL ARTISTRY
A couple of interesting examples of how all is not as it appears are the McGurk effect and Prof Richard Wiseman's "The Incredible Colour Changing Card Effect". Please take a look here or visit mindsways.com/community. I would love to know what you think. These illustrate both the power and the approach of psychological artistry.
OTHER SERVICES
The SNT kit is available separately. We are currently shipping this worldwide with very positive feedback. If you are curious to see more, please click here.
We've found that on the Workshop, psychological artistry starts to mix itself in with the skill sets of of many different areas.
Please click on the links below to see Mindsways in
Business (www.mindsways.com/business/)
Therapy and Coaching (www.mindsways.com/therapy-and-coaching/)
The Community www.mindsways.com/community)
We also work with a limited number of individuals on a 1:1 mentoring, consulting and coaching basis, where they want to develop the expertise of being a Psychological Artist.
If you are curious or want to know more, or look at ways that we can work together, please look at www.mindsways.com/ or contact me directly.
Thanks
George
PS If you would like to know more about this subject, please take a look at www.mindsways.com/books/ to see some of what has influenced our approach.
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“Sex, Drugs, Money & Fast Cars: Understanding The Television Audience” panel included Joan Gillman, Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer for Time Warner Cable Media during Media Technology Summit 2014 on October 23, 2014. The 7th Annual Media Technology Summit meticulously curates a gathering of global trailblazers, innovators and investors. Landmark Ventures and Shelly Palmer bring together their exclusive global networks of Fortune 500 executives, venture capitalists, entrepreneurs and luminaries; to do business at the nexus of content, hardware, software and brands. The Media Tech Summit 2014 offered a place for the brightest minds to challenge paradigms, forecast trends and innovations, and share their rebellious perspectives in order to establish individual strategies to move forward in this connected world. (Photo: Jeffrey Holmes)
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The understanding, creation and enhancement of SPACE is in the fore front for me as a Landscape Designer. Being from the Midwest the Prairie Style has always influenced my design sensibilities. For all of the times I traveled in, through and around Chicago, including spending time in Oak Park, I don't have a good reason why I never visited Wright's Robie House before. Except that it wasn't meant to be... I wasn't ready to receive the understanding it had to offer (there, know you know I'm a real designer). That changed late October 2011 on a most glorious fall day. I was ready. I received. Enjoy this large photo set (it's only a fraction of images from the day) and gain a little insight into Wright's work. Warm wishes & best regards, Glenn!
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My understanding is that the government wants to sell off this block to developers (that could have been a misunderstanding and it was about the owner/zoning). Residents have hung out flags and banners in protest. The adjacent development project Northern Street pedestrian shopping area, was mostly without tenants in the new high-end retail space and condos.
As of 2010 the nearby Cinema Moscow is also being threatend by redevelopment. Many architectural and urban icons of the city have already been lost, like the Youth House Tower.
L-R: Tom Moran ICPPD, Bronwyn Drury, Dr.Tony Humphreys, Christine Moran, Ber Carroll at the ICPPD event "Understanding Teenagers" A Free Talk by Dr.Tony Humphreys which took place on Wednesday 16th January 2013 in The Sheraton Hotel, Athlone.
Understanding population dynamics is critical to avoiding static perceptions of human and environmental vulnerability. Changes that affect the size, distribution, and composition of human populations also affect both the nature of vulnerability and adjustments in natural or human systems in response to environmental change.
‘The Demography of Adaptation to Climate Change,’ a new edited volume from the United Nations Population Fund, International Institute for Environment and Development, and El Colegio de Mexico explores these themes. Three of the book’s contributors share perspectives on the importance of population dynamics for adaptation, ways to use available population and census data in assessing vulnerability and resilience, and the application of these approaches for urban vulnerability and adaptation in Malawi and Indonesia.
Read more: www.wilsoncenter.org/event/climate-change-growing-urbaniz...
Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs Evan Ryan signs a Diplomatic note, lengthening the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the twelve month Irish Work and Travel (IWT) Program between the Government of the United States and the Government of Ireland.
Photo by: Kelsey Brannan, ECA, U.S. Department of State. Federal Contractor, Async-Nu Microsystems
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DeScribe: The Harmony Press Conference August 2nd 2010 at Borough Hall
DeScribe (Born Shneur HaSofer), Crown Heights' Hassidic Hip Hop and R&B artist, will host a press conference at Borough Hall on August 2nd, 2010 at 1:00 pm with NYS Senator Eric Adams and Borough President Marty Markowitz, to premier his revolutionary "Harmony" music video, which celebrates diversity, understanding and harmony amongst the Crown Heights' Black and Jewish communities. This event is presented in collaboration with heads of the Crown Heights community and Shemspeed, an independent recording label and artists' promotional agency based in Crown Heights. The event is sponsored by COLlive.com, one of the most prominent Chabad Hassidic media outlets providing constant up to date information about the movements worldwide news and initiatives and Marley Coffee, owned by Bob Marley's son, Rohan Marley helps promote and support environmental and social justice causes, including aiding Jamaica's poor communities and "going green."
Listen up, Mom & Dad! Teenagers aren't weird beings from outer space! In fact, YOU were once a teenager!
What is artificial intelligence? And what do we actually know about human intelligence? How intelligent can artificial intelligence be in comparison? And more importantly: what effects will the advances in this field have on our society?
Artificial intelligence offers plenty of room for speculation about the future. What is certain is that this technology has already changed our everyday life in far-reaching ways and will continue to do so. We have already been supported by algorithms in a wide range of areas such as autonomous driving, security technology, marketing or social media for a long time. Artificial intelligence is even used to create works of art. But how many of our tasks do we want to outsource to machines? No other development in our time poses such a clear question about how we want to employ our technological means in a societal context.
Credit: Magdalena Sick-Leitner
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DeScribe: The Harmony Press Conference August 2nd 2010 at Borough Hall
DeScribe (Born Shneur HaSofer), Crown Heights' Hassidic Hip Hop and R&B artist, will host a press conference at Borough Hall on August 2nd, 2010 at 1:00 pm with NYS Senator Eric Adams and Borough President Marty Markowitz, to premier his revolutionary "Harmony" music video, which celebrates diversity, understanding and harmony amongst the Crown Heights' Black and Jewish communities. This event is presented in collaboration with heads of the Crown Heights community and Shemspeed, an independent recording label and artists' promotional agency based in Crown Heights. The event is sponsored by COLlive.com, one of the most prominent Chabad Hassidic media outlets providing constant up to date information about the movements worldwide news and initiatives and Marley Coffee, owned by Bob Marley's son, Rohan Marley helps promote and support environmental and social justice causes, including aiding Jamaica's poor communities and "going green."
[I can't say that I have any understanding of Mr. Stringer's memorial, either the epitaph or the sculpture; but I like it.}
There once was a twin brother named Bright
Who could travel much faster than light.
He departed one day, in a relative way,
And came home on the previous night.
[This shows up in The Oxford Book of American Quotations as anonymously appearing in Newsweek for Feb. 3, 1958. As an epitaph choice, it is most curious. Did Mr. Stringer pen the poem?]