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Today's Featured Article New Books from Wiley Guide to the LEED AP: Operations and Maintenance (O+M) Exam by Michelle Cottrell published by Wiley in 2012. This account is organized into three parts as a method to break down the information one can expect to see. This book breaks down the difficult information to be retained into a coherent and straightforward approach. It is the resource to prepare for the Leadership in energy and Environmental Design Accredited Professional Operations + Maintenance exam. It is aimed at those professionals seeking more information about the basic knowledge and understanding that is required in order to pass the exam and learn the LEED AP O+M accreditation. This book includes a collection of sample test questions and study tips to reinforce learned material; a brief overview of the LEED Green Associate material; an accessible and stimulating approach that foster quicker retention; the drawings, charts, diagrams to help understand concepts visually, and more. Michelle Cottrell is Vice President and Director of Education at Green Education Services, more. She has more than 10 years of experience specializing in commercial projects as a consultant. How Your House Works: A Visual Guide to Understanding and Maintaining Your Home by Charlie Wing published by RSMeans/ Wiley in 2012. This account offers a unique approach to home maintenance, improvement, and repair. It describes how everything is put together and how each item functions. The illustrations show how the components of a system fit together and how each item is intended to function. You will learn why your faucet leaking, toilet running, why your dishwasher refused to start and what causing your heating system to smell bad or the foundation to crack. This book uncovers the mysteries behind every major appliance and building element in your house. The drawing show how the things should be put together and how they function. Charles Wing is the author of more than 20 books on home repair and improvement. Nudes in Visual Arts Since prehistoric times, the representation of the naked body has been a major theme in the history of art. The Nude in art is a world unto itself; its first appearances coincided with those of the first human representations. The history of the Nude reveals the changing standards of beauty and of society’s morals. It was during the Renaissance that the limits set by propriety began to be transgressed, with eroticism sometimes taking precedence over the ideal of beauty. Defying prevailing morality, certain famous works have marked the history of art such as Gustave COURBET’s cult Origin of the World whose main subject is, for the first time in the history of art, the female genital. Naturally the status of the Nude in the art market is equally important; it is a very popular category and is indeed the most sought-after on the market. For proof of collectors’ appetite for this genre, one need look no further than the most expensive artwork in the world (previous to Edvard MUNCH's version of Cri on 2 May 2012 at Sotheby's New York), Pablo PICASSO’s Nude, Green Leaves and Bust, which fetched $95m on 4 May 2010 at Christie's New York. After this record in 2010, we look at the Nudes that have made the largest impact on the market since then. This ranking shows the logical domination of Pablo Picasso with four works in the Top 10, including one in first place. There is also Francis BACON with three works, respectively in 2nd, 7th and 8th place. We note that the majority of the Nudes in this Top 10 date from the 20th century, generally from the 50s and the 60s, and that the ranking covers a price range of between $8m and $36m. As we find in all rankings of this type, the prices of works by Contemporaries are far behind those of the Moderns.Even if Pablo Picasso is present on numerous auction podiums, the Nude is a type of work to which he made a very substantial contribution. His Demoiselles d'Avignon is the most famous example of cubist distortions applied to nudity. His La lecture is in 1st place in this Top and it is also the oldest in the ranking. Completed in 1932, it corresponds to a turning point in the artist's career when he revealed his new way of painting. The model, his mistress Marie-Therese Walter, who became his partner a few years later, is the same model that inspired a series of portraits to which also belongs his record Nude, Green Leaves and Bust. Acquired for $36m at Sotheby's London 8 February 2011, La lecture is also, to date, the 10th best result for any Picasso work. In 5th position, Les femmes d'Alger, version L, dated 1955, is from a series of 15 variations on the work Femmes d'Alger by Eugène DELACROIX. This series is very popular with Picasso collectors because it was the first series he created around a masterpiece of art history, introducing many other series based on great masters like Diego VELASQUEZ (Las Meninas) and Édouard MANET (Déjeuner sur l’Herbe). 10 versions went to auction between 1988 and 2011. By finding a buyer at $19m (4 May 2011, Christie's New York), Les femmes d'Alger, version L fetched the best result recorded for this series to date. A point of significant interest concerning the other two Picasso works in this Top is that they depict couples. Sold for $8.5m (3 May 2012, Sotheby's New York) Couple à la guitare is a fine example of the female Nude that allows us to highlight a singular peculiarity of the Nude category in general, i.e. that the Nude is essentially - if not almost exclusively - female, which is quite logical given the extremely limited number of women artists before the 1970s, Fetching $20.5m, L'aubade is especially interesting in that the nudity is applied to both protagonists in the painting. This work brought Picasso into contact with a historical theme that became dear to him in the 1960s, that of eroticism and music for which he found inspiration in Jean Auguste Dominique INGRES, TIZIANO VECELLIO and Michelangelo Merisi CARAVAGGIO IL. (ArtPrice.com) New Books from Capstone John Adair's 100 Greatest Ideas for Smart Decision Making published by Capstone Press in 2011. Success depends on your ability to make the right decisions all the time. Behind your practical thinking there lies the most complex thing in the known universe: the mind. There are three forms of applied thinking that we need: decision making, problem solving and creative thinking. This book is about idea. Ideas are all independent of each other. Find an idea that looks interesting and then work your way out from there. This account is one-stop shop of practical advice and tips on problems solving and productive thinking. John Adar is the business guru who invented Action Centred Leadership. John Adair's 100 Greatest Ideas for Brilliant Communication published by Capstone in 2011. Communication skills are essential in learning, managing, and working with others. Great leaders and managers are all effective communicators, both one on one and in larger groups, using their written or spoken word as appropriate. The aim of this book is to help you to improve your competencies and capability in the art of practical communication. It divided into parts and then into ideas. Each idea stands alone, carrying its unique message.This account is all you need to master the skills of speaking, listening, writing and reading. John Adair is one of the best known leadership models in the world. Self-Made Me: Why Being Self-employed Beats Everyday Employment by Geoff Burch published by Capstone in 2012. One of the big mindset changes that the newly self-employed must realize is that he sells outcomes and he delivers outcomes. This is outcomes that the customers want and it is what they pay for. becoming self-employed has never been easier than it is today, with the web, mobile working and endless outsourcing options. Self-employment is a great game and one that you can win but like all games, it has to be played by the rules. This book shows the techniques and tricks, the must-dos, the never-dos, the secrets and the pitfalls of becoming a self-made you. Munch’s The Scream Raises Market Ceiling and Overturns Art Media Hierarchy Artprice.com. Wednesday, May 2, the art market acquired a new all-time record for the sale of an artwork at a public auction when Sotheby's New York sold of MUNCH’s The Scream for $107m ($119.9m including fees). This result substantially outranks Pablo PICASSO’s global all-time record for Nude, Green leaves and Bust which fetched $95m on 4 May 2010 at Christie's New York. In fact, since 1990, only three new global records (in dollars) have been set: $75m for Vincent GOGH van’s Portrait du docteur Gachet on 15 May 1990; $93m for Le garçon à la pipe by Pablo PICASSO on 5 May 2004, who then beat his own record on 4 May 2010 with Nude, Green leaves and Bust ($95m). However, the most astonishing aspect of this result is that the work in question is in fact a drawing! Fifteen years ago, we were still in a world with a clearly defined artistic media hierarchy in which painting and sculpture were the two media favoured by major collectors, institutions and investors. In recent years the increasing scarcity of works by the world’s most recognised artists coupled with the iconic dimension that certain works have acquired in the collective memory has completely overturned the traditional hierarchy. Drawing is no longer and will never more be considered a poor relation to painting. Several years ago, the record result for RAPHAEL’s Head of a Muse ($42.7m on 8 December 2009 at Christie's London) already suggested that this hierarchy was crumbling. The Munch’s record confirms this trend, especially as over the last ten years (January 2002 – January 2012) the price index for drawings has progressed more than 197% versus 161% for that of painting. Art has always been a symbolic value and a work like Edvard MUNCH’s The Scream, which condenses in a single image of just 79 x 59 cm the entire anguish of humanity, can be considered the “Mona Lisa of Expressionism”. In just one adjudication, the Norwegian artist has completely outperformed his 2011 revenue total ($7,645,527 from 82 lots ) and has gained the potential to climb to a substantially higher level in the global ranking of artists by annual auction revenue (219th in 2011). The same day, Christie's held an Impressionist & Modern Art sale at which works by Marc CHAGALL, Wassily KANDINSKY, Pablo PICASSO, Vincent GOGH van, Auguste RENOIR and Henry MARTIN all fetched bids above $500,000. The sale’s best result was for a sculpture by Ernst BARLACH, Weinende Frau (1923). With a winning bid of $938,500 against an estimate of $200,000 - $300,000, this set a new world record for the artist and - after the Munch record - confirmed the current price inflation for Expressionist art. Yanukovych Regime Following Through With Plan To Physically Destroy Yulia Tymoshenko, the Most Influential Woman in Ukraine http://www.tymoshenko.ua/en/article/yulia_tymoshenko_29_4_2012_2 Image: Yulia Tymoshenko, 2010 The story: Batkivshchyna Party leader and former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has been ranked the most influential woman in Ukraine for the fifth year running. The rating was compiled by the magazine Focus, whose six-month audience was nearly half a million people. Meanwhile, the most influential woman in Ukraine has been held illegally in the Lukyanivka prison for nearly three months. On April 11, 2011, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) gave the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine (PGO) a 15-volume case involving gas contracts signed with Russia in 2009. Within a few hours, senior investigator for high-profile cases Oleksandr Nechvohlod issued an order opening a case against Yulia Tymoshenko under paragraph 3 of article 365 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine – excess of authority and official powers that caused grave consequences. That very same day, on the morning of April 11, 2011, under the supervision of officers of the SBU a "Certificate of a Commission Review of Certain Aspects of the Financial Activities of Naftohaz of Ukraine in 2008-2010" was signed in the office of Deputy Head of the Main Control and Revision Office Natalia Ruban. This document was to become the prosecution's key evidence to allege that the deals resulted in 1.5 billion hryvnia in losses for Naftohaz. In opening the case, the investigator failed to examine whether substantial harm was done to national interests and did not provide any evidence of such damages. The pre-trial investigation was carried out in gross violation of the Criminal Procedure Code and Yulia Tymoshenko’s right to defense. During the investigation, the ex-premier repeated complained to First Deputy Prosecutor General Renat Kuzmin about violations of criminal procedure law by the investigator, but her appeals fell on deaf ears. In early May 2011 Yulia Tymoshenko appealed the criminal case brought against her, but Judge Halyna Suprun of the Pechersk District Court refused to recognize as unlawful the order of the PGO. The Kyiv Court of Appeals, continuing to carrying out orders from Yanukovych, in turn confirmed the legality of the Pechersk court’s ruling. On May 24, 2001, investigator Oleksandr Nechvohlod made his first attempt to arrest Yulia Tymoshenko on the basis of an order of the Pechersk District Court from May 23 giving permission for her arrest and delivery to the Pechersk District Court to address the possibility of changing the measure of restraint from a travel ban to detention. But under pressure from the public and international community, the investigator was forced to let her go. On the morning of June 17, the PGO in gross violation of the Criminal Procedure Code and contrary to common sense, submitted the "gas case" to the Pechersk District Court without reviewing nearly 50 petitions by the defense to carry out additional investigative actions, interrogations, confrontations and expert reviews. Hearings in the case began on June 24, with Rodion Kireyev, who only had two years experience as a judge, presiding. Kireyev had been transferred to the Pechersk court from a district court in the Kyiv oblast just three months prior to the ex-premier’s case. The judge continued in the tradition of the investigator to violate procedural law. The trial was held in full breach of Yulia Tymoshenko’s right to defense, with nearly all the motions by the defense ignored, with the judge refusing to call witnesses from the defense and holding proceedings in the absence of representatives of the defense. On August 5, Judge Rodion Kireyev illegally ordered Yulia Tymoshenko’s arrest for alleged "obstruction of the truth, systematic violations of court order, ignoring the judge’s orders, deliberately delaying the trial, showing disrespect to the judge and witnesses." On September 30 the judge robbed Yulia Tymoshenko of her last word in court and on October 11 she was sentenced to seven years in prison, barred from holding public office for three years and required to compensate Naftohaz for the alleged damages. On October 25, Yulia Tymoshenko and her lawyers appealed the illegal verdict. (www.tymoshenko.ua) Continue

In The News New from DOM Publishers Architectural and Cultural Guide Pyongyang by Philipp Meuser (editor)published by DOM Publishers in 2012. Pyongyang is the capital of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, and its architecture provides a reflection of the social and political models upheld by party and state. Also, a carefully monitored group tour is almost the only way of exploring the city's architectural monuments. The two volumes of a book present text and photographs of the city and include urban planning, residential buildings and cultural venues, education and sport, hotels and department stores, transport and monuments. North Korea has one of the most repressive regimes, in which constant surveillance and state propaganda are part of everyday life, as it was in the ex-USSR before Perestroika. The people suffer from shortages and misinformation, while the leadership elite enjoys the luxury. The architecture is steeped in ideology. This account explores the buildings of the city in a historical and theoretical context, providing critical analysis from different perspectives. New Books From DK The Women’s Fitness Book: More than 200 exercises and home workouts for a healthy, toned body published by DK in 2012. This fitness book offers the wide range of choices. The authors have divided exercises into two main categories - cardio and sculpting. To make things easy, this book provides a wide range of tailor-made workouts to choose from and provides you with the information, motivation, inspiration, and practical guidance. To have this book is like to have your personal trainer. It is written by top fitness professionals and shows how to build a fun and achievable home exercise routine specifically tailored to you and your goals. My Pregnancy by Dr. Virginia Bekett (general editor) published by DK in 2011. This book offers a different perspective on pregnancy. You are the expect of your pregnancy. This book, written by two obstetricians, a midwife, a dietaritan, a fitness expert, a psychologist, and a pediatrician, will enlighten you on the realities of pregnancy, it will share with you their combined experiences. This account takes you through all the stages of becoming a mom. The authors-experts bring you extensive professional experiences of all aspects of pregnancy and bodycare. They advise you on every aspect of health and well-being for your baby and you. In this book, you will find the practical, reassuring, up-to-date advise on every aspect of pregnancy, labor, birth, and new parenthood; personal insights, and real-life experiences; detailed advice on health, diet, relationship issues, much more. Fruit, Vegetable, Gardening: The Definitive Guide to Successful Growing by Michael Pollock (editor) published by DK in 2012. Growing vegetables and fruits can be demanding, and does require commitment. However, it brings enormous amount of satisfaction. It is not surprising that interest in growing fruit and vegetables is on the increase. In this book, the reader will find the wide range of fruit, vegetables, and culinary herbs described. Most of the crops can be reliably grown in temperiture climate, however,some produce better quality crops for a longer season under cover. This beautifully illustrated with color photos account is the comprehensive guide that provides an invaluable information for you to help develop your own style of kitchen gardening. Annular Solar Eclipse & Transit of Venus A solar eclipse happens this weekend. The sun's edges peek out from behind the moon, creating the illusion of a ring of fire. This weekend's eclipse begins at dawn in southern China. Venus will be ambling between Earth and the sun in a rare planetary alignment. It might look like a black pimple floating across the face of the sun. Do not miss it, Venus doesn't cross our path again until December 2117! New Books on Management and Innovation Econovation: The Red, White, and Blue Pill for Arousing Innovation by Steve Factor published by Wiley in 2012. This book is a bold response to many questions and explores what next decade of the US economy will bring and the opportunities it will create. Today,it's become virtually impossible to see where government ends and business begins. This book is not how-to book. It is what-to. It helps entrepreneurs, CEOs, and academics think differently about building sustainable innovations for the next decade. This account offers a new perspective on a future we've taken for granted. Like it or not, we are on a trajectory, our future is digital, power shift to Droids, bloggers, doughy MIT brainiacs.This book is a fresh perspective on a future, it empowers readers to think big and dream big. Steve Factor is a popular keynote speaker on future growth opportunities, he leads innovation workshops,and more. Management Rules: 50 New Rules for Managers by Jo Owen published by Capstone in 2011. times have changed, and management has changed. Management becoming harder. In past, managers made things happen through people they control. Now managers have to make things happen trough people they may not control and that changes everything. The old world was straightforward, in new world managers have lost their power. Command and control is over. Commitment, influence, and persuasion are the new skills that managers must master. This book includes50 essential lessons every manager needs to know. Management is about achieving your goals with the resources at your disposal. Written with sense of humour, this account shows you how to stay ahead and get the best results. Jo Owen is the bestselling author, he is a leader, entrepreneur, and speaker. . Eduardo Saverin, the Facebook Co-Founder Gave Up His U.S. Citizenship Last year, Eduardo Saverin decided to renounce his U.S. citizenship. Reason: complicated rules on U.S. citizens holding money overseas. Now, he lives in Singapore. Singapore is a low-tax country. Thus he could save in the longer term. However, he will pay a hefty exit tax for renouncing his citizenship. New Titles on Leadership from Triple Nickel Press 100 Days to Leadership Impact by Casey Reason published by Triple Nickel Press in 2012. Why 100 days? This title suggest that leaders must take their positions with the intention of making a significant impact from the very beginning, establishing the type of leadership culture that can continue to change during the first 100 days and beyond. Think of yourself as an artist, ready to unlock the greatness within the stone. The leaders are expected to make a powerful impact on results. This book shows how you can make a positive first impression' quickly ramp up your understanding of how your organization works;set 90-day goal that move the business forward; increase organizational learning power, much more. Casey Reason has worked with clients throughout the USA, Switzerland, and New Zeland. He is a President of Highpoint Learning, an Arizona-based consulting company. Brainwork: The Neuroscience Behind How We Lead Others by David A. Sousa published by Triple Nickel Press in 2012. If you consider yourself a multitasker or believe the old shibboleth that "knowledge is power", this book is for you. You are in for a few surprises. Every day, the success of your organization depends on your abilities to prioritize, focus, and act. In this book, author compiles the most progressive and provocative brain research to help build a better brain for business. You will learn to deal with information overload; manage the emotions of a crisis; ignore irrelevant information; work most effectively with colleagues; solve problems by thinking differently, more. DavidA Sousa is an author and international consultant. he is a member of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society and conducted hundreds of workshops on brain research across the US and abroad. Jailed ex-Premier Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko Is On Hunger Strike Around 1,000 chanting supporters of the 2004 Orange Revolution leader rallied outside the district court building in the Ukraine eastern city of Kharkiv where ex-premier Yulia Tymoshenko, who is on hunger strike, on account of her failing health has been serving a seven-year prison term since last year. A Ukrainian court adjourned until May 21 on Sunday April 27 the new tax evasion trial of the jailed ex-premier of Ukraine. Fitzwilliam Museum Theft Thieves have stolen from a Cambridge museum the 18 culturally significant Chinese works of art. These items, mostly jade and from the Fitzwilliam Museum's permanent collection, are believed to be worth millions of pounds. This type of offence is extremely rare. A group of people were involved in the break-in on Friday. A thorough investigation of security measures is under way. Ron Paul Is Video Game Superhero Daniel Williams, a supporter of the Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, is developing video game "Ron Paul: Road to REVOLution," which features Mr. Paul fighting the Federal Reserve, and collecting gold and delegates. Daniel Williams is the 27-year-old Texas programmer. He says it's a gift to libertarians. Continue