Does your life matter? How can you make a difference? James Emery White shows how you can live a life of significance at the front lines of what God is doing in the world today.

Serious Leisure offers a comprehensive view and analysis of the current state of the sociology of leisure. Defining and differentiating the way people use their free time, Stebbins divides such activity into categories of serious, casual, and project-based leisure that he further separates into a variety of types and subtypes. Together they comprise what he calls "serious leisure." In this perspective, serious leisure constitutes systematic pursuit of an amateur, hobbyist, or volunteer activity sufficiently substantial and interesting in nature and requiring special skills, knowledge, and experience. Casual leisure, though immediately, intrinsically rewarding, is by contrast a relatively short-lived pleasurable activity, requiring little or no special training to enjoy it. Project-based leisure is a short-term, reasonably complicated, occasional creative undertaking carried out in free time. Stebbins sets out the basic concepts and propositions that make up the three forms, focusing on their essential elements. He takes stock of the serious leisure literature as well as that for casual and project-based leisure. Stebbins sees "serious leisure" realized by way of a set of foundational concepts--organization, community, history, lifestyle, and culture--and several of their component areas. He reviews the history and background of the concept of serious leisure and then adds historical commentary on, first, casual leisure and, then, project-based leisure. Finally, he examines the future and the importance of the serious leisure perspective in a globalizing world, and some of its critical links with other fields of knowledge and practice, notably the nonprofit sector and preventive medicine. Together with its original insights, Serious Leisure offers a single, handy, coherent, comprehensive resource. It will be of interest to sociologists, labor studies specialists, and economists.

In this book I am writing about all the illegal and wrong things that I did from the year 1986 that I was 16 years old forward. I talk about the time I spent in prison which was from 1989 until 2005 just for the reader to see the inside of how people in prison live and do. I also wrote about the time after prison that I got involved in Medicare scamming and it is an insight on how people where thinking at that time and how they were doing it. Everything I am writing in this book is to give the reader an insight of how everything was done and it’s all true.

The times that have been foreseen, foretold and mostly feared have suddenly come upon us. These will prove to be times like no other in all of history. If God had intended for you to live during any other age, He would have arranged it. Yet from the foundation of the world, God has purposed that you would live on the earth during a time of both unprecedented deception and darkness, and yet unequaled grace and glory. God has promised hope and help in troubled times. You may even discover that you were more prepared for these days than you had ever dreamed. Because the times that were to come, have come.

New and updated information on the laws and regulationsaffecting executive compensation Now in a thoroughly updated Fourth Edition, The CompensationCommittee Handbook provides a comprehensive review of thecomplex issues challenging compensation committees that facerevised executive compensation disclosure regulations issued by theSEC, as well as GAAP and IFRS rulings and trends. This new andupdated edition addresses a full range of functional issues facingcompensation committees, including organizing, planning, and bestpractices tips. Looks at the latest regulations impacting executivecompensation, including new regulations issued by the SEC, as wellas GAAP and IFRS rulings and trends Covers the selection and training of compensation committeemembers Explores how to make compensation committees a performancedriver for a company Guides documentation requirements and timing issues The Compensation Committee Handbook, Fourth Edition willhelp all compensation committee members and interestedprofessionals succeed in melding highly complex technicalinformation and concepts with both corporate governance principlesand sound business judgment.

This report describes the development of an implicit, viscous method for the solution of the quasi-three-dimensional flow equations for rotor-stator interaction in transonic turbomachinery. The flow algorithm is described, followed by the implicit time-marching scheme, and the one-equation turbulence model. The algorithm is implemented on an unstructured grid arrangement of locally structured micro-blocks called 'patches.' Solution-dependent adaptation is used to refine the grid in regions containing flow features which require enhanced resolution. An overlapped sliding grid interface is used to transfer flow equation information between the respective blade grids. The resulting computational algorithm has been used to perform a number of validation exercises and has been demonstrated on a modern transonic turbine stage. Where possible, these results are compared with experimental data and show the ability of the method to accurately capture the unsteady flow physics in a robust and computationally efficient manner.