Lost & Found ft Mr Lif & Ayla Nereo

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Ayla Nereo - Life-Bound Friend by Jumpsuit Records

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Why You Should Choose Sprinting Over Jogging for Greater Gains

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Benefits of Sprint Training

In ancient times, sprinting was a way of life and a staple in training protocols. As the centuries progressed, we began to favor dialing down the speed and increasing the distance. Jogging originated in the mid-17th century and became progressively more popular during the 1960’s and 70’s. Jogging gained notoriety when boxers made it a staple during their training camps and from there it quickly sprouted out to other athletes and weekend warriors alike.
The trend to use long steady-state runs to train for sports and to get in shape continues to this day. It is true that one can get in shape from jogging, but you will be conditioned to run long and slow. The problem is that most sports fall in the middle between absolute strength and endurance; if we only train the endurance end of the spectrum, then the burst of speed and quickness may not be there when you need it most.
A study by Hunter et al. found that four weeks of repeated sprint training increased peak running speed and repeated effort sprints. Simply stated; if you need to express a physical attribute, then that attribute needs to be trained; therefore, if you want to get fast then you must sprint. Most athletes would be better off focusing less on the seven mile runs and concentrate on training the energy systems needed for competition; the bottom line is that athletes need less jogging and more sprinting.
Sprint training not only increases your speed, power, and preparation for the physical demands of sports and military preparation, but it can also have metabolic ad- vantages when trained properly. In a recent study in the International Journal of Sports Nutrition, Exercise and Metabolism, the researchers found that 2-minute sprint interval sessions done 3 times a week for 6 weeks elicited the same fat burning effects as a session of 30 minutes of endurance exercise.
If fat burning is the goal for your training, it is more efficient to move faster in less time to get the same affect of longer cardio sessions. I say it is time to get back to the basics and call upon the strengths of the athletes of the Ancient world where sprinting dominated. It is time to start sprinting in order to achieve greatness like the athletes and soldiers of Ancient Greece.

Setting up your Sprint Program

When setting up your sprint programs it is important to ease into it if you are not familiar to this type of training. Sprinting requires much more force production from the muscles and if they are not used to this type of training it is very easy to pull a hip flexor or hamstring muscle. In sprinting you also produce more force into the ground therefore more force will return from the ground and back through the body which places greater stress throughout the bones and joints. Sprinting too much too soon may cause aches in the hips, knees and ankles. Sprints do not need to be performed on a hard track surface. Many times I do my sprints on grass or a turf field to minimize the pounding of my joints.
Performing a dynamic warm up consisting of mobility exercises, skips and light runs will warm the body up and minimize injuries. The sprints do not have to be 100 percent of your maximum running speed. Many times I either build my speed up during the runs or adjust my effort in accordance to the distance; the shorter the distance the faster I run.
Lastly, where recovery is concerned it is best to only perform sprint workouts 1-2 times a week with a few days rest in-between sessions. The sessions themselves should not be too long on time or distance. I usually perform about one mile of sprints in total and it can last anywhere from 15-40 minutes. Below are some of my favorite sprint training routines.

Basic Sprint Routine

In this routine you will start with the longest distance and move down to shorter distances. As the distances decrease, your speed in the runs will increase (I put percentages of running speed for the distances in the chart). I prefer either a walk or light jog of the same distance for your recovery.
A1. 200 meters – 3 rounds @70-75% – walk what you ran for rest
B1. 100 meters – 6 rounds @80-85% – walk what you ran for rest
C1.  50 meters –  3 rounds @100% – walk what you ran for rest

Sprint Conditioning Routine

This session looks easy on paper but it is a tough challenge. You will run 200 meters, rest 30 seconds then run a 100 meter run, rest 60 seconds and then repeat the round for a total of 5-6 rounds. The speed is whatever you can handle. I usually build them up so I am running the second half faster than the first.
A1. 200 meters – 5-6 rounds – 30 sec rest
B1. 100 meters – 5-6 rounds – 60 sec rest

Sprint & Bodyweight Circuit

There are days when I want to run sprints but I focus more on conditioning than speed. On these days I build my run speed up and add some bodyweight exercises in-between. Below is an example of the sprint and bodyweight com- bi-nation circuit I like to perform. Feel free to substitute different run distances and bodyweight drills.
A1. 200 meter run – build
A2. Bodyweight Squats – 25 reps
A3. 200 meter run – build
A4. Push Ups – 20 reps
A5. 200 meter run – build
A6. Sit Outs – 1o reps (each side)
A7. 200 meter run – build
A8. Shoulder Roll to Hip Ups – 10 reps (each side)
A9. 200 meter run – build
A10. Forward Roll to Stand – 15 reps

Kleine Sommersonate (Juni Podcast)

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Café Del Mar Chillout Mix May 2014

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The Most Common Languages Spoken in the U.S. After English and Spanish

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What's the language that the most Americans speak after English? As you'd probably guess, the second-most common language spoken in the U.S. is Spanish. But if you look at the most common languages after English and Spanish, the results get a little more surprising, especially when you parse them by state.

Using data from the American Community Survey conducted by the Census Bureau, where respondents were asked to list the languages spoken in their household, Ben Blatt from Slate made maps of the most commonly spoken language in each state.

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Spanish blankets the country except for two French areas: in a handful of states near the Canadian border and Louisiana. Yupik, a Native American language, is the second-most spoken language in Alaska, and Tagalog is popular in Hawaii thanks to the large Filipino population. Now keep your eye on that German-speaking pocket in North Dakota.

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If we remove Spanish from the mix, we start to see some truly surprising trends. All sorts of ethnic, immigration, and cultural patterns start to reveal themselves. You can see more Native American languages like Navajo and Dakota, lots of Korean and Vietnamese states, and plenty of our original Colonial Era holdouts: Italian, French, Portuguese. Then there are some outliers like Russian, Arabic, Hmong, and French Creole. And I don't think I would have guessed Tagalog would be the third-most spoken language in California.

The most shocking fact to me was seeing all the households that speak German—I can't say it's a language I hear hardly anywhere except when I travel to Europe. However, the prevalence of all those German-speaking states doesn't mean that German is the third most-spoken language by Americans. The third-most spoken language in the U.S. overall? Chinese. Check out the story for plenty more language-based maps. [Slate]

John Mayer's Cover of Beyonce's 'XO' Is Kind of Perfect

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Where Do Googlers Go to College? A Look at Tech Companies' Top Feeder Schools.

 

The next issue of Wired, on newsstands May 27, has an interesting infographic by Lucia Masud and Brittany Everett that looks at the top feeder colleges for seven big tech companies. The magazine gave me permission to reprint it below.

The data are drawn from LinkedIn’s publicly available lists of the most common college affiliations among each company’s employees. The numbers aren’t exact, but they should be a pretty decent proxy—Wired notes that about 95 percent of these companies’ employees have LinkedIn accounts.

Want to work in the tech industry? You don't have to go to Stanford or Berkeley... but it couldn't hurt.

Infographic by Lucia Masud and Brittany Everett / WIRED (republished with permission)

The first takeaway, which Wired notes in its own brief write-up, is that you don’t have to go to Stanford or an Ivy League school to get a job at a top tech company. In fact, the largest pipeline of all is between Microsoft and the University of Washington, a big state school. Microsoft also welcomes large numbers of graduates from Washington State, Western Washington University, and the University of Waterloo. Amazon is not on Wired’s list, but a quick check of LinkedIn shows that Washington grads top the list there too.

IBM, meanwhile, draws heavily on Indian universities, including Bangalore University, Visvesvaraya Technological University, and the University of Pune.

Want to work at Apple? Stanford’s a good bet, certainly—but so is San Jose State, which lies just a few exits east of the Apple campus off of Interstate 280. Granted, San Jose State’s enrollment is nearly twice that of Stanford, so the latter probably still gives you a better chance. But SJSU is certainly the more economical option if you’re just looking at the sheer number of alumni connections to Cupertino. UC-Berkeley, UT-Austin, and Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo also appear to be Apple favorites.

Yahoo taps both the Bay Area, via Stanford and Berkeley, and Southern California via USC and UCLA.

Interestingly, it’s the newer, faster-growing Silicon Valley Internet companies that appear to depend most heavily on graduates of big-name engineering schools. Google’s intimate ties to Stanford are borne out by the data, with more Googlers coming from the Farm than any other institution. Stanford is also the top feeder to Facebook, and it ranks second among Twitter employees on LinkedIn. UC-Berkeley is right there with it in all three cases, ranking second for Google and Facebook and first for Twitter.

Also noteworthy are the numbers for MIT and Carnegie Mellon. Despite enrollments a fraction of the size of the other universities on the list, MIT cracks the top five for Google and Twitter employees, while Carnegie Mellon makes the list for Google and *Facebook. If the figures were recalibrated to control for enrollment size, they might rank even higher.

As for the Ivy League, not one of the ancient eight makes the list for any of the tech companies under consideration.

Guy Spends 4 Years Traveling The World To Propose To His College Sweetheart With Epic Video

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Listen to 31 Tim Ferriss Interviews in One Place

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I’m a fan of Tim Ferriss’ writing and advice for getting the most out of life. He provides great content on life hacking, entrepreneurship, and gaining new skills. Here is a curated this list of every Tim Ferriss audio interview I could find online which equates to over 12 hours of content. Enjoy!

Will Ferrell vs. Chad Smith Drum-Off Has Happened, and It Was Glorious

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Dana White’s First Interview As UFC President

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How the worst moments in our lives make us who we are

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"How to Be a Loser." former UFC champ Rich Frankin ====> worth to watch

While backstage prior to his first meeting with Anderson Silva, former UFC champ Rich Frankin said he prayed for a power outage. It was one of a few brutally honest revelations in his recent TED Talk, "How to Be a Loser." Watch the whole thing here: http://wp.me/p3WzJ0-tKI

5 Habits of People With Remarkable Willpower

Willpower is not something you either have or you don't.
Sure, some people may be more self-disciplined than you. Some people may be better at resisting temptation than you. But that's probably not because they were born with some certain special something inside them--instead, they've found ways to store up their willpower and use it when it really matters.
They have remarkable willpower not because they have more of it, but because they've learned how to best use what they have.
Here's how you can, too:
1. Eliminate as many choices as possible. We all have a finite store of mental energy for exercising self-control.
The more choices we make during the day, the harder each one is on our brain--and the more we start to look for shortcuts. (Call it the "Oh, screw it," syndrome.)  Then we get impulsive. Then we get reckless. Then we make decisions we know we shouldn't make, but it's as if we can't help ourselves.
In fact, we can't help ourselves: We've run out of the mental energy we need to make smart choices.
That's why the fewer choices we have to make, the smarter choices we can make when we do need to make a decision.
Say you want to drink more water and less soda. Easy. Keep three water bottles on your desk at all times. Then you won't need to go to the refrigerator and need to make a choice.
Or say you struggle to keep from constantly checking your email. Easy. Turn off all your alerts. Or shut down your email and open it only once an hour. Or take your mail program off your desktop and keep it on a laptop across the room. Make it hard to check--then you're more likely not to.
Or say you want to make smarter financial choices. Easy. Keep your credit card in a drawer; then you can't make an impulse buy. Or require two sign-offs for all purchases over a certain amount; then you will have to run those decisions by someone else (which probably means you'll think twice and won't even bother).
Choices are the enemy of willpower. So are ease and convenience. Think of decisions that require willpower, and then take willpower totally out of the equation.
2. Make choices tonight that set up tomorrow. It's also easier to make smart choices when a decision isn't right in front of you. So pick easy decisions that will drain your store of willpower tomorrow, and make them tonight. Choose what you'll wear. (Leo Widrich of Buffer found a way to make this decision incredibly easy.) Decide what you'll have for breakfast. (Ditto for Scott Dorsey of ExactTarget.)
Decide what you'll have for lunch--and go ahead and prepare it.
Take as many decisions off the board tonight as you can; that will allow you to conserve your mental energy for the decisions that really matter tomorrow. And while you're at it, decide what you will do first when you get to work. Then commit to...
3. Do the hardest thing you need to do first.
You have the greatest amount of mental energy early in the morning. Science says so: In a landmark study performed by the National Academy of Sciences, parole board judges were most likely to give a favorable ruling early in the morning; just before lunch, the odds of a favorable ruling dropped to almost zero.
Should judges' decisions have been affected by factors other than legal? Of course not--but they were. They got mentally tired. They experienced decision fatigue. The best time to make tough decisions is early in the day. The best time to do the most important things you need to do is early in the day. Decide what those things are, and plan to tackle them first thing.
Oh, I know what you're thinking. What about the rest of the day?
4. Refuel frequently. Although the judges studied started strong, a graph of their decision making looks like a roller coaster: up and down and up and down. Why? They took breaks--and they ate. Just after lunch, their likelihood of making favorable rulings spiked upward. The same was true after midmorning and midafternoon breaks.
It turns out glucose is a vital part of willpower. Though your brain does not stop working when glucose is low, it does stop doing some things and start doing others: It responds more strongly to immediate rewards and pays less attention to long-term outcomes.
Eat healthful meals. Eat healthful snacks. Not only will you feel better, you'll make better decisions--and will be able to exercise more willpower in making those decisions.
And speaking of long-term outcomes...
5. Create reminders of long-term goals. You want to build a bigger company, but when you're mentally tired, it's easy to rationalize doing less than your best. You want to lose weight, but when you're mentally tired, it's easy to rationalize that you'll start tomorrow. You want to better engage with your employees, but when you're mentally tired, it's easy to rationalize that you really need to work on that proposal instead.
Mental fatigue makes you take the easy way out--even though the easy way takes you the wrong way.
So create tangible reminders that pull you back from the impulse brink. A friend has a copy of his bank note taped to his computer monitor as a constant reminder of an obligation he must meet. Another keeps a photo of himself when he weighed 50 pounds more on his refrigerator as a constant reminder of the person he never wants to be again. Another fills his desk with family photos, both because he loves looking at them and to remind himself of the people he is ultimately working for.
Think of moments when you are most likely to give in to impulses that take you farther away from your long-term goals. Then use tangible reminders of those long-term goals to interrupt the impulse and keep you on track.
Or better yet, rework your environment so you eliminate your ability to be impulsive--then you don't have to exercise any willpower at all.
If you can't say no to checking your social-media accounts every few minutes, turn them off and put them away for a couple of hours at a time so you don't have to say no.

thing these crazy successful people do every morning!

What you should do?

Wake up early.

It's just better in practically all regards than sleeping late. It's just the one thing these crazy successful people do every morning!

But get enough sleep.

However, no point in getting up early if you didn't get a full night's sleep.

Maybe.

Not everyone needs a full 8 hours, though — adults who sleep between 6 and 7 hours a night have a lower death rate.

Smile!

You're alive! Ugh, also awake.

Go outside.

Studies show that people exposed to even moderately bright light in the morning had lower BMIs regardless of diet, exercise, other stuff.

Drink water. 16 ounces of water.

It does these things: kickstarts metabolism, rehydrates you, flushes out toxins, plumps the brain, makes you eat less.

Drink warm water with lemon in it.

It really helps flush toxins in the a.m.

Drink warm lemon and cayenne pepper water first thing in the morning.

It super-duper stimulates detox.

Drink green tea.

Better than coffee.

Drink coffee.

But not until 9:30 or 10.

Eat before morning workout.

So you don't feel sluggish or eat too much after.

Just eat fruit.

And only fruit, on an empty stomach, to benefit optimally from the nutrients.

Eat healthy things.

It's what nutrition experts eat first thing.

Just make sure it's actually healthy.

Too many people don't get enough fiber, protein, healthy food, and amount of food in the morning.

Eat within an hour of waking.

The longer you wait, the harder it is to be satisfied later.

Go outside and look at the morning sky.

Because it's nice. (Also drink water: "Turns on the gut.")

Meditate.

Meditation teachers say you should do it "first thing in the morning" because you've just left the sleep state.

Stretch.

Sun Salutations'll do.

Flex and point your feet for 15 to 30 seconds.

To "gently activate your musculature."

Move your body.

20 minutes of cardio upon waking.

Go for a morning walk.

"It's a blessing for the whole day."

Shower.

It gets you clean, but also decreases stress and could increase fertility! Boo-ya! One assumes this means a hot shower, though cold showers are gaining in popularity (among nutjobs).

"Slather your body in lotion SLOWLY."

Not sure how you've got the time, but OK.

Dry-brush your skin.

It's gets the circulation going, among other things.

Do some journaling.

Gets your brain working.

Visualize.

Focus on your success!

Map your day.

Self-explanatory, but not with a literal map.

Eat that frog.

This bewildering phrase means do the most daunting thing on your to-do list for the day immediately.

The Top 5 Reasons to Be a Jack of All Trades

Are the days of Da Vinci dead? Is it possible to, at once, be a world-class painter, engineer, scientist, and more?

“No way. Those times are long gone. Nothing was discovered then. Now the best you can do is pick your field and master it.”

The devout specialist is fond of labeling the impetuous learner–Da Vinci and Ben Franklin being just two forgotten examples–”jack of all trades, master of none.” The chorus unites: In the modern world, it is he who specializes who survives and thrives. There is no place for Renaissance men or women. Starry-eyed amateurs.
Is it true? I don’t think so. Here are the top five reasons why being a “jack of all trades,” what I prefer to call a “generalist,” is making a comeback:
5) “Jack of all trades, master of none” is an artificial pairing.
It is entirely possible to be a jack of all trades, master of many. How? Specialists overestimate the time needed to “master” a skill and confuse “master” with “perfect”…
Generalists recognize that the 80/20 principle applies to skills: 20% of a language’s vocabulary will enable you to communicate and understand at least 80%, 20% of a dance like tango (lead and footwork) separates the novice from the pro, 20% of the moves in a sport account for 80% of the scoring, etc. Is this settling for mediocre?
Not at all. Generalists take the condensed study up to, but not beyond, the point of rapidly diminishing returns. There is perhaps a 5% comprehension difference between the focused generalist who studies Japanese systematically for 2 years vs. the specialist who studies Japanese for 10 with the lack of urgency typical of those who claim that something “takes a lifetime to learn.” Hogwash. Based on my experience and research, it is possible to become world-class in almost any skill within one year.
4) In a world of dogmatic specialists, it’s the generalist who ends up running the show.

Is the CEO a better accountant than the CFO or CPA? Was Steve Jobs a better programmer than top coders at Apple? No, but he had a broad range of skills and saw the unseen interconnectedness. As technology becomes a commodity with the democratization of information, it’s the big-picture generalists who will predict, innovate, and rise to power fastest. There is a reason military “generals” are called such.
3) Boredom is failure.
In a first-world economy where we have the physical necessities covered with even low-class income, Mazlow’s hierarchy of needs drives us to need more for any measure of comparative “success.” Lack of intellectual stimulation, not superlative material wealth, is what drives us to depression and emotional bankruptcy. Generalizing and experimenting prevents this, while over-specialization guarantees it.
2) Diversity of intellectual playgrounds breeds confidence instead of fear of the unknown.
It also breeds empathy with the broadest range of human conditions and appreciation of the broadest range of human accomplishments. The alternative is the defensive xenophobia and smugness uniquely common to those whose identities are defined by their job title or single skill, which they pursue out of obligation and not enjoyment.
1) It’s more fun, in the most serious existential sense.
The jack of all trades maximizes his number of peak experiences in life and learns to enjoy the pursuit of excellence unrelated to material gain, all while finding the few things he is truly uniquely suited to dominate.
The specialist who imprisons himself in self-inflicted one-dimensionality — pursuing and impossible perfection — spends decades stagnant or making imperceptible incremental improvements while the curious generalist consistently measures improvement in quantum leaps. It is only the latter who enjoys the process of pursuing excellence.
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Don’t put on experiential blinders in the name of specializing. It’s both unnecessary and crippling. Those who label you a “jack of all trades, master of none” are seldom satisfied with themselves.
Why take their advice?
Here is a description of the incredible Alfred Lee Loomis, a generalist of the highest order who changed the course of World War II with his private science experiments, here taken from the incredible portrait of his life, Tuxedo Park:
Loomis did not conform to the conventional measure of a great scientist. He was too complex to categorize — financier, philanthropist, society figure, physicist, inventor, amateur, dilettante — a contradiction in terms.
Be too complex to categorize.

very Funny

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52 Must Read Quotes from Legendary Investor – Warren Buffett

Warren Buffett is without question the most successful investor of our time (and possibly of all time).  His savvy deal making abilities coupled with his creative and cheerful personality allowed him to achieve success like no other.
While searching the web for the comments he’s made through the years, I found many insightful comments that truly show off Mr. Buffett’s knowledge so I want to share 52 of these with you below!  Let me know what you think!

1. A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.
2. Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
3. I always knew I was going to be rich. I don’t think I ever doubted it for a minute.
4. I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.
5. I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.


6. I don’t have a problem with guilt about money. The way I see it is that my money represents an enormous number of claim checks on society. It’s like I have these little pieces of paper that I can turn into consumption. If I wanted to, I could hire 10,000 people to do nothing but paint my picture every day for the rest of my life. And the GNP would go up. But the utility of the product would be zilch, and I would be keeping those 10,000 people from doing AIDS research, or teaching, or nursing. I don’t do that though. I don’t use very many of those claim checks. There’s nothing material I want very much. And I’m going to give virtually all of those claim checks to charity when my wife and I die.
7. I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.
8. I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.
9. If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.
10. If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
11. If you’re in the luckiest 1 per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.
12. In the business world, the rear view mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
13. Investors making purchases in an overheated market need to recognize that it may often take an extended period for the value of even an outstanding company to catch up with the price they paid.
14. It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.
15. It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.
16. It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.
17. I’ve reluctantly discarded the notion of my continuing to manage the portfolio after my death – abandoning my hope to give new meaning to the term ‘thinking outside the box.’
18. Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
19. Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
20. Long ago, Sir Isaac Newton gave us three laws of motion, which were the work of genius. But Sir Isaac’s talents didn’t extend to investing: He lost a bundle in the South Sea Bubble, explaining later, ‘I can calculate the movement of the stars, but not the madness of men.’ If he had not been traumatized by this loss, Sir Isaac might well have gone on to discover the Fourth Law of Motion: For investors as a whole, returns decrease as motion increases
21. Most people get interested in stocks when everyone else is. The time to get interested is when no one else is. You can’t buy what is popular and do well.
22. Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good results.
23. Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.
24. Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.
25. Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.
26. Our favorite holding period is forever.


27. Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
28. Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.
29. Risk is a part of God’s game, alike for men and nations.
30. Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.
31. Wall Street is the only place that people ride to work in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.
32. The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
33. The investor of today does not profit from yesterday’s growth.
34. The line separating investment and speculation, which is never bright and clear, becomes blurred still further when most market participants have recently enjoyed triumphs. Nothing sedates rationality like large doses of effortless money. After a heady experience of that kind, normally sensible people drift into behavior akin to that of Cinderella at the ball. They know that overstaying the festivities — that is, continuing to speculate in companies that have gigantic valuations relative to the cash they are likely to generate in the future — will eventually bring on pumpkins and mice. But they nevertheless hate to miss a single minute of what is one helluva party. Therefore, the giddy participants all plan to leave just seconds before midnight. There’s a problem, though: They are dancing in a room in which the clocks have no hands.
35. The only time to buy these is on a day with no “y” in it.
36. The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves-and the better the teacher, the better the student body.
37. There are all kinds of businesses that Charlie and I don’t understand, but that doesn’t cause us to stay up at night. It just means we go on to the next one, and that’s what the individual investor should do.
38. There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
39. Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.
40. Value is what you get.
41. We believe that according the name ‘investors’ to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a ‘romantic.’
42. We don’t get paid for activity, just for being right. As to how long we’ll wait, we’ll wait indefinitely.
43. We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.
44. We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
45. We’ve long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune tellers look good. Even now, Charlie and I continue to believe that short-term market forecasts are poison and should be kept locked up in a safe place, away from children and also from grown-ups who behave in the market like children.
46. When a management team with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.
47. Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
48. Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, “Too much of a good thing can be wonderful”.
49. Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.
50. You do things when the opportunities come along. I’ve had periods in my life when I’ve had a bundle of ideas come along, and I’ve had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I’ll do something. If not, I won’t do a damn thing.
51. You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.
52. Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it’s not going to get the business

His savvy deal making abilities coupled with his creative and cheerful personality allowed him to achieve stock market success like no other.  So it’s really no luck that he’s named the wealthiest man of 2008 and hope that you’ve learned something from these quotes.  Which one is your favorite?  Personally, I really like #30 – Never lose money!

How I Learned to Read 300 Percent Faster in 20 Minutes

How much more could you get done if you completed all of your required reading in one-third or one-fifth the time?
Increasing reading speed is a process of controlling fine motor movement -- period.
This post is a condensed overview of principles I taught to undergraduates at Princeton University in 1998 at a seminar called the "PX Project." The below was written several years ago, so it's worded like Ivy-Leaguer pompous-ass prose, but the results are substantial. In fact, while on an airplane in China two weeks ago, I helped Glenn McElhose increase his reading speed 34 percent in less than five minutes.
I have never seen the method fail. Here's how it works...

The PX Project
The PX Project, a single three-hour cognitive experiment, produced an average increase in reading speed of 386 percent.
It was tested with speakers of five languages, and even dyslexics were conditioned to read technical material at more than 3,000 words-per-minute (wpm), or 10 pages per minute. One page every six seconds. By comparison, the average reading speed in the U.S. is 200-300 wpm (one-half to one page per minute), with the top one percent of the population reading over 400 wpm...
If you understand several basic principles of the human visual system, you can eliminate inefficiencies and increase speed while improving retention.
To perform the exercises in this post and see the results, you will need: a book of 200+ pages that can lay flat when open, a pen, and a timer (a stop watch with alarm or kitchen timer is ideal). You should complete the 20 minutes of exercises in one session.

First, several definitions and distinctions specific to the reading process:

A) Synopsis: You must minimize the number and duration of fixations per line to increase speed.
You do not read in a straight line, but rather in a sequence of saccadic movements (jumps). Each of these saccades ends with a fixation, or a temporary snapshot of the text within you focus area (approx. the size of a quarter at eight inches from reading surface). Each fixation will last one-fourth to one-half seconds in the untrained subject. To demonstrate this, close one eye, place a fingertip on top of that eyelid, and then slowly scan a straight horizontal line with your other eye-you will feel distinct and separate movements and periods of fixation.

B) Synopsis: You must eliminate regression and back-skipping to increase speed.
The untrained subject engages in regression (conscious rereading) and back-skipping (subconscious rereading via misplacement of fixation) for up to 30 percent of total reading time.

C) Synopsis: You must use conditioning drills to increase horizontal peripheral vision span and the number of words registered per fixation.
Untrained subjects use central focus but not horizontal peripheral vision span during reading, foregoing up to 50 percent of their words per fixation (the number of words that can be perceived and "read" in each fixation).

The Protocol
You will 1) learn technique, 2) learn to apply techniques with speed through conditioning, then 3) learn to test yourself with reading for comprehension.
These are separate, and your adaptation to the sequencing depends on keeping them separate. Do not worry about comprehension if you are learning to apply a motor skill with speed, for example. The adaptive sequence is: technique; technique with speed; comprehensive reading testing.
As a general rule, you will need to practice technique at 3x the speed of your ultimate target reading speed. Thus, if you currently read at 300 wpm and your target reading speed is 900 wpm, you will need to practice technique at 1,800 words-per-minute, or 6 pages per minute (10 seconds per page).

We will cover two main techniques in this introduction:
1) Trackers and Pacers (to address A and B above)

2) Perceptual Expansion (to address C)
First: Determining Baseline
To determine your current reading speed, take your practice book (which should lay flat when open on a table) and count the number of words in five lines. Divide this number of words by five, and you have your average number of words-per-line.
Example: 62 words/5 lines = 12.4, which you round to 12 words-per-line
Next, count the number of text lines on five pages and divide by five to arrive at the average number of lines per page. Multiply this by average number of words-per-line, and you have your average number of words per page.
Example: 154 lines/5 pages = 30.8, rounded to 31 lines per page x 12 words-per-line = 372 words per page
Mark your first line and read with a timer for one minute exactly -- do not read faster than normal, and read for comprehension. After exactly one minute, multiply the number of lines by your average words-per-line to determine your current words-per-minute (wpm) rate.

Second: Trackers and Pacers
Regression, back-skipping, and the duration of fixations can be minimized by using a tracker and pacer. To illustrate the importance of a tracker-did you use a pen or finger when counting the number of words or lines in above baseline calculations? If you did, it was for the purpose of tracking-using a visual aid to guide fixation efficiency and accuracy. Nowhere is this more relevant than in conditioning reading speed by eliminating such inefficiencies.
For the purposes of this article, we will use a pen. Holding the pen in your dominant hand, you will underline each line (with the cap on), keeping your eye fixation above the tip of the pen. This will not only serve as a tracker, but it will also serve as a pacer for maintaining consistent speed and decreasing fixation duration. You may hold it as you would when writing, but it is recommended that you hold it under your hand, flat against the page.

1) Technique (2 minutes):
Practice using the pen as a tracker and pacer. Underline each line, focusing above the tip of the pen. DO NOT CONCERN YOURSELF WITH COMPREHENSION. Keep each line to a maximum of one second, and increase the speed with each subsequent page. Read, but under no circumstances should you take longer than one second per line.

2) Speed (3 minutes):
Repeat the technique, keeping each line to no more than one-half second (two lines for a single "one-one-thousand"). Some will comprehend nothing, which is to be expected. Maintain speed and technique-you are conditioning your perceptual reflexes, and this is a speed exercise designed to facilitate adaptations in your system. Do not decrease speed. One-half second per line for three minutes; focus above the pen and concentrate on technique with speed. Focus on the exercise, and do not daydream.

Third: Perceptual Expansion
If you focus on the center of your computer screen (focus relating to the focal area of the fovea in within the eye), you can still perceive and register the sides of the screen. Training peripheral vision to register more effectively can increase reading speed over 300 percent. Untrained readers use up to one-half of their peripheral field on margins by moving from first word to last, spending 25-50 percent of their time "reading" margins with no content.
To illustrate, let us take the hypothetical one line: "Once upon a time, students enjoyed reading four hours a day." If you were able to begin your reading at "time" and finish the line at "four," you would eliminate 6 of 11 words, more than doubling your reading speed. This concept is easy to implement and combine with the tracking and pacing you've already practiced.

1) Technique (one minute):
Use the pen to track and pace at a consistent speed of one line per second. Begin one word in from the first word of each line, and end one word in from the last word.
DO NOT CONCERN YOURSELF WITH COMPREHENSION. Keep each line to a maximum of one second, and increase the speed with each subsequent page. Read, but under no circumstances should you take longer than one second per line.

2) Technique (one minute):
Use the pen to track and pace at a consistent speed of one line per second. Begin two words in from the first word of each line, and end two words in from the last word.

3) Speed (three minutes):
Begin at least three words in from the first word of each line, and end three words in from the last word. Repeat the technique, keeping each line to no more than one-half second (two lines for a single "one-one-thousand").

Some will comprehend nothing, which is to be expected. Maintain speed and technique-you are conditioning your perceptual reflexes, and this is a speed exercise designed to facilitate adaptations in your system. Do not decrease speed. One-half second per line for three minutes; focus above the pen and concentrate on technique with speed. Focus on the exercise, and do not daydream.

Fourth: Calculate New WPM Reading Speed
Mark your first line and read with a timer for one minute exactly. Read at your fastest comprehension rate. Multiply the number of lines by your previously determined average words-per-line to get determine your new words-per-minute (wpm) rate.
Congratulations on completing your cursory overview of some of the techniques that can be used to accelerate human cognition (defined as the processing and use of information).

Final recommendations: If used for study, it is recommended that you not read three assignments in the time it would take you to read one, but rather, read the same assignment three times for exposure and recall improvement, depending on relevancy to testing.

A Healthy Smoothie Recipe for Glowing Skin

Sip your way to a better complexion with antioxidant-packed ingredients.

The ingredients in this healthy berry, apple, and green tea smoothie have anti-aging, wrinkle repair, and collagen forming properties. Drink your way to better skin health.
Strawberries, blueberries, and/or raspberres: The antioxidants in berries encourage collagen production and prevent inflammation.
Mint: This herb is a natural source of salicylic acid, the main ingredient in many topical acne products.
Green Tea: A natural anti-inflammatory, green tea protects skin from environmental damage and premature aging.
Almond Milk: Dairy can cause skin problems for many, so skip cow's milk and use almond milk for your healthy skin smoothies.

Berry Green Tea Smoothie Recipe

Ingredients:
1/4 cup strawberries, raspberries, and blueberries (or any combination)
1/4 cup chopped apple
1/2 cup ice
1/2 cup brewed green tea, chilled
2-3 mint leaves
1/2 cup unsweetened almond milk
Instructions:
Blend ingredients together in a blender. If you like it sweeter, season with Stevia to taste or use sweetened vanilla-flavored almond milk.

Very Interesting stuff about CANADA

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Follow Wired Twitter Facebook RSS 5 New Record-Breaking Rides That Will Terrify You This Summer

This is going to be an awesome summer for thrill seekers. Taller, faster, steeper, and more stomach-dropping amusement park rides are opening across the country. Zip your pockets, take your Dramamine, and check out some of the craziest new record-breaking screamers. We’ll be hiding behind the snack bar.

GOLIATH

Six Flags Great America Gurnee, Illinois

It’s a wooden roller coaster, but steel layers in the track make possible the tallest, steepest drop (180 feet, 85 degrees) and fastest ride (72 mph) among its wooden brethren.

SKYSCREAMER

Six Flags New England Agawam, Massachusetts

This vertiginous version of the swing ride will dangle riders’ legs 400 feet up, spinning them in a circle till they hit 40 mph. Be warned: Six Flags says “only the birds will hear you scream.”

VERRÜCKT

Schlitterbahn Kansas City, Kansas

At 17 stories, this waterslide is taller than Niagara Falls. Four riders hop on a raft and plunge at speeds that could exceed 65 mph, whooshing to the bottom, then up five stories—to drop again. Verrückt? German for insane.

BANSHEE

King’s Island Mason, Ohio

Tear through seven inversions across 4,124 feet of track. It’s the world’s longest inverted coaster, complete with a spiral and a zero-G roll. Hello, lunch! It’s nice to see you again.

ZUMANJARO

Six Flags Great Adventure Jackson, New Jersey

Zumanjaro: Drop of Doom will be the world’s highest drop ride, rocketing riders up 415 feet, pausing momentarily, then releasing them for a 10-second trip to the bottom at the vomit-inducing speed of 90 mph.

AMAZING:

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6 Insights From Tony Robbins That Will Change Your Sales Game

Tony Robbins

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When it comes to helping people improve their lives there is nobody in the game with stronger credentials than Tony Robbins. The “Michael Jordan” of thought leaders, Tony has affected millions of people around the world through his performance coaching. And his words of wisdom has also had a huge impact in the business world.
Through his books, videos and presentations, Robbins provides insight into effective selling.
Here are the six lesssons entrepreneurs can learn from Robbins on the secret to successful selling.
1. Know your purpose. In your day-to-day sales world, you MUST have a sense of meaning. Walking into the office, grabbing a coffee, checking your email and taking your day “on the fly” is just not going to get it done. When you’re at the office everyday you have got to know what you’re going to get done that day. Knowing your purpose will make the biggest impact you can imagine.
Related: Tony Robbins on the Importance of Being Fearless
Give positive meaning to everything. The sales rep’s life is all about risks. The more you take the more you win (and lose). It’s how you respond to the losses that makes you special. Keeping a positive attitude (regardless of the issue) will keep your head in the game and ready for the next opportunity.
3. Realize that everything you do has a consequence. There’s no neutral in sales: A sales rep's interactions with customers will either be positive or negative. Every action you take matters. It’s not just about being on your best behavior, it’s about knowing your strengths and lining them up to reach your desired outcome.
4. Know that everyone is unique, different and amazing. Sales is a competitive world where people put themselves on the line every day. They often get shot down. Looking at the world through the lens that everyone has meaning will positively affect every facet of your performance. Don’t get deflated when buyers and competitors don’t behave like you want.
Related: Tony Robbins on the 7 'Forces' of Business Mastery
5. Be driven by your desire for adventure. What drives you? Your past? Your competitors? Or even your fears? Or are you focused on your successes -- on solving the next client problem and taking the next step for your company? It’s important to know what moves us and makes us do what we do.
6. Expect the unexpected. What are you going to do when something unexpected happens in sales? (By the way, something crazy always happens in sales.) Why do you think we’re always the storytelling life of the party? When any situation arises, it’s important to respond with the right action that helps you solve a customer problem and take the next step.
Tony has coached presidents, celebrities and olympic athletes to perform at their top of their game. Putting the secrets above into action will improve your performance too. The mark of a great leader is one who is highly coachable. So let these ideas guide you to higher commissions, happier clients and ultimate satisfaction.

As piscinas mais desejadas do mundo... exceto a #20 que é assustadora!

1: Piscina infinita do resort Marina Bay Sands (Singapura)

2: Piscina do resort Belmond Jimbaran Puri (Indonésia)

3: Piscina do hotel Hanging Gardens Ubud (Indonésia)

4: Piscina dourada do hotel St. Regis (Tibete)

5: Piscina do Chongwe River House (Zâmbia)

6: Piscina do resort Velassaru (Maldivas)

7: Piscina San Alfonso del Mar (Algarrobo, Chile)

8: Piscina Golden Nugget (Las Vegas)

9: Piscina de Netuno do hotel Hearst Castle (Califórnia)

10: Piscina estrelada do resort Jumeirah Dhevanafushi (Maldivas)

11: Piscina do hotel Cambrian (Suíça)

12: Piscina do resort Nandana Villas (Bahamas)

13: Piscina no terraço do hotel Standard (Los Angeles)

14: Piscina do Santuário Swala (Tanzânia)

15: Piscina no terraço do hotel Skye (São Paulo)

16: Piscina do resort Alila Uluwatu (Indonésia)

17: Piscina no SPA do resort Reethi Rah One and Only (Maldivas)

18: Piscina Oberoi Udaivilas na margem do Lago Pichola (Udaipur, Índia)

19: Piscina do Hotel Caruso na bela Costa Amalfitana (Itália)

20: Piscina The Library (Tailândia)

21: Piscina do hotel Katikies (Santorini, Grécia)

22: Piscina do hotel Chocolat (St. Lucia)

23: Piscina natural (Thassos, Ilhas Gregas)

24: Piscina do hotel Qualia (Ilha Hamilton, Austrália)

25: Piscina na ilha do bilionário Richard Branson (Ilhas Virgens Britânicas)

26: Piscina do hotel Biras Creek (Ilhas Virgens Britânicas)

27: Piscina no SPA do hotel LeCrans (Suíça)

28: Piscina do hotel Purobeach Porto Montenegro (Baía de Kotor)

29: Piscina do hotel Mardan Palace Antalya (Turquia)

30: Piscina do resort Blue Lagoon Geothermal (Islândia)

Keep it Simple _ RamdonStuff: 8 secrets of success

Keep it Simple _ RamdonStuff: 8 secrets of success: http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_st_john_s_8_secrets_of_success

Keep it Simple _ RamdonStuff: 8 secrets of success

Keep it Simple _ RamdonStuff: 8 secrets of success: http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_st_john_s_8_secrets_of_success

Keep it Simple _ RamdonStuff: 8 secrets of success

Keep it Simple _ RamdonStuff: 8 secrets of success: http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_st_john_s_8_secrets_of_success

8 secrets of success

http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_st_john_s_8_secrets_of_success

How great leaders inspire action

http://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspire_action


Simon Sinek has a simple but powerful model for inspirational leadership all starting with a golden circle and the question "Why?" His examples include Apple, Martin Luther King, and the Wright brothers

Rory Sutherland: Life lessons from an ad man

Advertising adds value to a product by changing our perception, rather than the product itself. Rory Sutherland makes the daring assertion that a change in perceived value can be just as satisfying as what we consider “real” value — and his conclusion has interesting consequences for how we look at life. 


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From Milan to Mecca: the world's most powerful city brands revealed

25. Berlin
Excellent infrastructure and attractions and a remarkable safety record put Berlin into the top 25, but the city gets poor marks for climate, and, perhaps surprisingly, lacks much international buzz. All photographs except Chicago: Alamy

24. Milan
A relatively strong economy (one of the few places in Italy to boast this), world-class shopping and fashion and a large number of attractions are Milan's strengths: a poor safety record and climate and disappointing lack of current buzz its weaknesses

23 Melbourne
The capital of Victoria might be a little low-key, but it is thriving economically, particularly for tech startups, and has an enviably low crime rate that has burnished its reputation as a great city in which to live and work

22 Atlanta
MARTA, the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority, is the hub of a thriving transportation system that gives Atlanta's brand a boost, and it has become the world capital of hip-hop. But it remains dangerous in places, and there just isn't enough for visitors to see to make the capital of Georgia competitive with the top tier of US cities

21 Mecca
The birthplace of Muhammad and main site of the Hajj pilgrimage is more popular than ever (Vegas of the east, anyone?) – though its average temperature of 31 degrees is a bit too hot to see Mecca crack the top 20

20 Sao Paulo
It's hell to get aroundand can be very dangerous, but Brazil's largest city is full of attractions, is on everyone's lips and has a rising GDP that is the envy of many other cities

19 Mumbai
Think of Indian economic success and Mumbai leaps to mind, though the climate and so-so infrastructure don't do much for its brand

18 Buenos Aires
Argentina's capital is a must-see city in Latin America and one of the world's top destinations. Fix its safety record and it could soar

17 Mexico City
Similar to Buenos Aires, Mexico City is booming, with great transport and tons of buzz – but the drug war remains a blot on the brand value of the whole country

16 Sydney
Amazing transport, shopping, economic opportunity and climate. So why aren't more people talking about Sydney?

15 Bangkok
Despite a sultry climate that means life can be a series of mad dashes between air-conditioning, Thailand's biggest city appears to be outgrowing its reputation as a backpackers' haven. In 2013 it was the world's top destination for overnight visitors

14 Singapore
Asia's biggest citystate has great climate and infrastructure, a famously low crime rate, wonderful transport and shopping and a booming financial services industry. It's also a major stopover point, and has done a great job converting that into tourism. Now if only it could shake its reputation for being boring

13 Chicago
Full of attractions and history and everything that makes American cities great, the only problem with the Windy City might be just that – the wind and weather. (Though Chicago's patchy safety record isn't helping, either). Photograph: Carolyn Kaster/AP

12 Madrid
Spain's jewel has great shopping and attractions, and is emerging as one of the top cities in Europe, though it has yet to quite match the brand gloss of a certain French capital

11 Istanbul
A top destination in the world for visitors, Istanbul really is where east meets west. Full of history and culture, by 2016 Turkey's jewel will surpass Singapore, New York and Paris in terms of international visitor arrivals, according to Forbes

10 Dubai
Similar to Istanbul, Dubai will outrank Singapore and New York in 2016 and Paris in 2017 in the number of international visitors. With plenty of luxury shopping (second only to NYC), Dubai is doing a pretty good job attracting visitors, and its faintly ridiculous building boom has translated into a ton of buzz. There still isn't much to actually do there, but a place in the top 10 shows Dubai's brand has real strength

9 Las Vegas
Safety and a struggling economy are big problems in Vegas, baby – but the Strip retains its freakish ability to drown out the city's problems in its alluring light. What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas … and the brand thrives as a result

8 San Francisco
The City by the Bay has it all – shopping, jobs, great transport (there's a particularly nice bridge, we hear) and buzz. If only it didn't rain quite so much, San Francisco might be able to take on the really big guns

7 Rio de Janeiro
With the World Cup and the Olympics back to back, the city is humming: massive new investments in infrastructure, tons to see and do, and everyone's talking about it. It still can't shake its reputation for crime, but for now you can't do much better than Rio

6 Barcelona
Everybody loves Barcelona: in technical terms, the brand is a bit like Rio without the crime, though of course without that city's upcoming high-profile world events

5 Seoul
A surprise: South Korea's capital comfortably beats Tokyo (which finished a lowly 28th). Seoul has a reputation for being much friendlier and easy to negotiate, has amazing infrastructure and is one of the safest cities in the world. As a gateway to the far east, is this the moment Korea gets the better of Japan?

4 Paris
The weather may not be great, and it can be a little seedy, as anyone who has enjoyed a late arrival at Gare du Nord will know. But Paris is the premiere mainland European city. And the whole world knows it

3 London
Terrible weather, apparently. But London gets absolutely top marks for pretty much everything else, from transport to attractions to shopping to tourism – though the 2011 riots may have hurt it slightly on the crime-perception front

2 New York City
Very similar in brand profile to London, New York's transit system doesn't have quite the same reputation for brilliance as the tube, but the weather's better, and perhaps we shouldn't be surprised that the New York brand slightly edges London when considered on a global scale

1 Los Angeles
For cultural variety and sheer glitter, however, LA outshines them all. It has stunning weather that New York and London just can't compete with, the amazing beaches to show it off, world-class art, movie history, an endless parade of famous attractions, an improving crime rate and a certain well-known sign in the hills. After years of languishing, the City of Angels has top spot in the brand firmament