A complete guide for anyone who plays the flute or ever wanted to. Use it along with flute lessons or even to teach yourself! This book covers everything you need and more -- selection and care, flute technique, fingering, playing by ear, reading music, flute history, flutes around the world, and modern folk flutes. "How to Love Your Flute" will appeal to all flutists, from beginning to advanced. ///////////////////////////////////////////////// Mark Shepard is the author of "How to Love Your Flute," hailed by Paul Horn as "a model for our times," as well as the craft guide "Simple Flutes." He has played flute professionally in a folk music trio, as a modern dance accompanist, and as a solo theater musician.  

How to Love Your Flute A Guide to Flutes and Flute Playing

Mark Shepard

Paul Horn

Shepard Publications

A word from Ann "Many years ago, I chose to begin awakening each morning at sunrise. These hours of quiet developed an awareness of the fertile stillness that underlies all things. At the beginning of last year, my husband, Paul Horn, who recorded "Inside the Taj Mahal" in the late 60's, gave me a beautiful small book. Each day for a year I wrote a short passage in the space allocated for the day. It was from these passages that IN LOVE WITH THE MYSTERY emerged. Soon afterward, my dear friend, Courtney Milne, one of Canada's finest photographers who created the award-winning book, "The Sacred Earth", opened his storehouse of treasures to me. From there something beautiful began unfolding." This book do not include a CD.

In Love With The Mystery

Ann Mortifee

Parenting & Relationships

Eskova Publishing

HODABEAST is an anthology of the first several years worth of COOL JERK, the wildly popular comic strip created by Paul Horn. COOL JERK is aimed at the iPod Generation, college folk and anyone with an off-center sense of humor. Since 1998, Horn has continued to offer new content weekly, making it one of the longestrunning regular comics features created exclusively for the Internet. His Web site offers an exhaustive back catalog of archived strips, merchandise and other items of interest with no advertising, banners or pop-ups. HODABEAST contains more than 220 comic strips. It also contains special bonus features sketches, a director s commentary for each strip and a comprehensive index. Every copy is signed by the author. Foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Steve Breen.

Cool Jerk Vol. 1: Hodabeast

COOL JERK is a black-and-white newspaper-style comic strip that follows the diverse denizens of Spittle Beach, California, primarily wiseass hodad (and title character) Armpit Beachhead and his superior-in-every-way girlfriend Puppy Fizgig as they battle the forces of stupidity, inanity and pop-culture horror. COOL JERK Vol. 2: CHICKADOOWA contains more than 210 comic strips. It also contains special bonus features sketches, a director s commentary for each strip and a comprehensive index. Foreword almost by Playboy Playmate Alesha Oreskovich but not quite.

Cool Jerk Vol. 2: Chickadoowa

Cool Jerk Vol. 4: Thinkulus

The ESOP Communications Sourcebook is a book-CD package that includes 8 chapters on communicating your employee stock ownership plan (ESOP), 16 handouts (also provided in Word format on the CD) you can use, and a collection of 38 sample PowerPoint presentations, PDFs, images, and Word documents from a variety of ESOP companies. 
 Explaining an ESOP to employees is difficult. The first challenge is that most employees have little experience with stock, and many do not really understand what stock is, where it comes from, and how it gains or loses value. Second, most employees do not understand how business works. This problem is made worse by the fact that most people either think they know more than they do or don't want to admit that they don't know. Third, ESOPs are not intuitive. At the NCEO, we have a hard time explaining ESOPs to business owners and financial reporters, let alone to everyday employees. One reason is that the terms used to explain ESOPs (allocations, leverage, distributions, vesting, fiduciaries, suspense accounts, valuation, and so on) are usually completely new to most employees. Fourth, employees generally are most interested to know the amount of stock they will receive and when they will receive it. Long explanations of this process can make employees squirm in their seats. 
 Communicating ESOPs is not easy, but it is rewarding. One of the goals of an ESOP is to improve company performance by getting participants more involved. Research demonstrates that an effective communications program, combined with an ESOP that is financially significant and an active employee involvement program, results on average in significantly improved productivity and faster sales growth. Communications budgets are every bit as important as budgets for plan administration to the success of your ESOP. 
 This book/CD package provides a jump start to your ESOP communications by giving you (1) chapters about how to communicate employee ownership and financial issues, (2) templates of short documents (included in word-processing format on the CD as well as in the printed book) you can customize and use as handouts, intranet resources, or newsletter articles; and (3) sample communication documents from ESOP companies in digital form on the CD.

The ESOP Communications Sourcebook

Linshuang Lu

Alex Moss

Corey Rosen

Ginny Vanderslice

Business & Money

National Center for Employee Ownership (NCEO)

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