Soft Landing

Soft Landing: Airline Industry Strategy, Service, and Safety covers the immediate past, present, and future of the airline industry and its effects on consumers and the economy. Aviation receives a disproportionate amount of news coverage in the popular press—not to mention chatter at cocktail parties and workplaces around the world. And why not? Aviation represents a sector of the U.S economy, for example, exceeded in size only by the real estate, healthcare, and automotive industries. Furthermore, hundreds of millions of people fly each year, including 80 million Americans. So we all have airline stories—experiencing a delay and losing a business deal, spending a night or three in the airport, dealing with ornery airline personnel, losing money on airline stocks, or being involved in a near miss. (Or, as George Carlin more accurately put it, a “near hit.”) But things might be on the upswing. Knocked to its knees by 9/11 and a decade of falling revenue and rising losses, the industry’s “flying cheap” strategy and organizational efficiencies based partly on outsourcing have appear to have helped passengers and profitability return. As this book explains, we can look forward to better technology and infrastructure, speedier—and easier—travel, more effective and less invasive security measures, and more jobs in the air and on the ground. Turbulence is always a possibility. Rising fuel costs, economic uncertainty, and future terror attacks could cause tumult once again. Plus, airline companies intend to charge us extra for everything from the weight of our own bodies to use of the bathroom. But as the industry has discovered, we’ll put up with that—and more—if we can make it to our destinations with bags intact and a smaller dent in our wallets. Soft Landing will: Sort out the promise and perils facing the airlines Analyze and articulate the potential impact of changes in the aviation industry on passengers, airports, governments, the global economy, and the airlines themselves Give airline passengers worldwide an idea of what’s ahead when it comes to airline service, security, and technology

A practical guide for both parents and novice teachers for any language. A bit of theories of experts together with lots of practical ideas on how to play with children and what to do to make their learning more enjoyable and meaningful.

Everything you need to know to ensure you have a "soft landing" as you come off antidepressants A guide to getting off SSRI antidepressants and starting your drug free life again, from Benjamin Kramer, best-selling author of "Brain Renovation". In this clear and concise guide, Benjamin Kramer gives you an easy to implement blueprint for coming off antidepressants such as SSRIs (Selective Serotonin Re-uptake Inhibitors) using a variety of little-known techniques and tips. With a scientifically-designed tapering plan, including the use of certain other drugs and supplements where required, you can avoid coming in for landing too hard and crashing. Done properly, you CAN have a soft landing off antidepressants. If you are reading this, you are probably taking one of the following drugs and have decided that it is time to slowly start tapering down - Prozac (Fluoxetine) Lexapro (Escitalopram) Zoloft (Sertraline) Effexor (Venlafaxine) Cymbalta (Duloxetine) Or one of the other atypical antidepressents such as mirtazapine (Remeron/Avanza), buspirone (Buspar), tianeptine (Stablon) or moclobemide (Aurorix) In his typical balanced style, Kramer does not tell you whether you should or shouldn't be on antidepressants. This is a decision for you and your doctor. Antidepressants help a lot of people around the world get their life back and regain the ability to enjoy living again. However, if the decision has been made to stop taking antidepressants, this book contains all the information you will need to succeed, including - - Planning ahead to maximize your chances of success - Lifestyle changes that may be required during and after the process of quitting - How to minimize the nasty effects of 'discontinuation syndrome', where your body takes time to adjust to life without the drug in your system - The correct nutrition to rebuild your brain - Recommended supplements to assist the process - Potential short term medication options to manage the acute phase ˃˃˃ Kramer doesn't promise it will be a walk in the park. However what he does make clear is that with a little effort and planning, you can regain your drug free life again.

Life is fragile and precious. Death is difficult, sometimes painful, and scary but it can also be beautiful, peaceful and kind. I invite you to get to know me as I share how I became a hospice nurse. I will share with you stories of the amazing people I have met along this journey and the lessons I have learned a long the way. My work is my passion.

An extensive compilation of articles by leading professionals, this reference explains the fundamental principles of mass spectrometry as they relate to the life sciences. Topics covered include spectroscopy, energetics and mechanisms of peptide fragmentation, electron capture dissociation, ion-ion and ion-molecule reactions, reaction dynamics, collisional activation, soft-landing, protein structure and interactions, thermochemistry, and more. The book empowers readers to develop new ways of using these techniques.

"This comprehensive, essential book profiles over 65 perennial native plant species of the Midwest, Great Lakes region, Northeast and southern Canada plus the pollinators, beneficial insects and flower visitors the plants attract ... Readers learn to attract and identify pollinators and beneficial insects as well as customize their landscape planting for a particular type of pollinator with native plants. The book includes information on pollination, types of pollinators, pollinator conservation as well as pollinator landscape plans."--