Thursday, May 31, 2018

Zero to One: Book Review



                             
        Jim Pagiamtzis Review: "Powerful insights on building a great future look are our past history. Leadership is about active and understanding the power fo the human mind and the abilities we have to succeed."          

                          If you want to build a better future, you must believe in secrets.
The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create. In Zero to One, legendary entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel shows how we can find singular ways to create those new things.

Thiel begins with the contrarian premise that we live in an age of technological stagnation, even if we’re too distracted by shiny mobile devices to notice. Information technology has improved rapidly, but there is no reason why progress should be limited to computers or Silicon Valley. Progress can be achieved in any industry or area of business. It comes from the most important skill that every leader must master: learning to think for yourself.

Doing what someone else already knows how to do takes the world from 1 to n, adding more of something familiar. But when you do something new, you go from 0 to 1. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. Tomorrow’s champions will not win by competing ruthlessly in today’s marketplace. They will escape competition altogether, because their businesses will be unique.

Zero to One presents at once an optimistic view of the future of progress in America and a new way of thinking about innovation: it starts by learning to ask the questions that lead you to find value in unexpected places.

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Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Special Magazine Review: Latinos Multicultural Magazine (May 2018)

Amazing magazine articles both in spanish and englisth  



                                                         

Special Post: Letter of Appreciation from Waterfont Awrds 2018


Special Magazine Review; Canadian Immigrant Magazine (volume 15 Issue 2)


                   Amazing magazine featuring article by Murali Murthy

                                       




Special Magazine Review: ON the GO (March 2018)

                   Awesome articles!

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Special cycling post: Cycle Toronto at Coronation Park (Strachan & Lakeshore)

             Tuesday May 29,2018 (evening)

              Bike Month has arrived!

             It was an amazing evening of sharing information about Cycle Toronto and what we are doing for Bike month

             We gave away 100 swag bags full of great items from maps, coupons and information on bike events throughout the city of Toronto.

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Monday, May 28, 2018

Special bike Post: Bike month Toronto May 28th to June 30th


                  Amazing months with lots of activities

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Special movie posters: Amazing movies coming soon in June 2018


            The 6th floor at Yonge and Dundas Cineplex is the place to visit in Toronto.

                                                          




Special food review: Jack's Fried Chicken with Fries


 "Amazing taste with a side of fries" Jim Pagiamtzis review



                                   
Jack's Fried Chicken Sandwich



Yonge and Dundas

Yonge and Dundas Square

Amazing murals in Toronto


   Saturday May 29th

  Amazing murals in the College and Spadina area


                                




Special event post: St George's Hall ( Doors Open)

  Saturday May 26th

  It was great day to walk through the city of  Toronto and enjoy the sights and sounds

  Great to learn more about St. George's Hall ( Arts and Letters club)

   A facility with so much history! Jim Pagaimtzis review
                                                

                                              



Special Photography post: Studio Cozy Photo Session

           Sunday May 27th (morning)

           I saw opporutnityto get some complimentary professional photo and I went to get them done!

     I met some fellow actors taking advantage of the offer. Look forward to sharing soon.



Cycling to photo session
                                      

Smiling Budha at the door
 

getting ready for photo session
                                                   


Jim Pagiamtzis and Sergei
                                     

Special event Post: Art Crawl at Christie pits with Cycle Toronto

    Sunday May 24th

  It was a beautiful day in Toronto for the Art Crawl at Christie Pits Park ( Christie and Bloor)

  Artisan were sharing and CycleTo had booth sharing informaiton on Bike Month (see below), new maps, joining are newsletter and answer questions.

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Vegetarin Hot dog

volunteer Heather being interviewed by CP24


Volunteer Sharing insigth on Map with attendee

volunteers at Cycle Toronto booth

     

                               

Sunday, May 27, 2018

" Solo- A Star Wars Story" : Movie Review




                           


       Jim Pagiamtzis review;
         Ron Howard took over late in the game and created a visual masterpiece on the journey of Han Solo (Alden Ehrenreich)  and where he fit in the Star War Story.  Every character had a story to share but not enough screen time for all them.
           There is lots of insights on how Han got his name and how he met Chewbacca and the journey they went with Lando Calrissian (Danny Glover)
        Along the way they meet some interested friends and foes and plans are made and broken.
         The are lots of great suprises which make the twist and turns even more interesting!
       The end will may leave you little confused and have to do some research to understand what exactly occured. (see links below)
       Overall cool family film to watch and the Star Wars Saga continues...
        7 out of 10 stars
   
 

   Sujit K Reddy Review:
    Good: Acting was believable, great action and visuals
    Bad: Chewbacca Life debt to Han not included
    Ugly: "Kessel Run" was not really defined well
               
KJ Proulx Review: read more
How (spoiler)  Darth Maul is still alive in Solo: Star Wars Story read more
Solo: Star Wars Story (spoiler) review digging into twist and turns read more      
                                             

                 Movie Plot:
                
Young Han Solo finds adventure when he joins a gang of galactic smugglers, including a 196-year-old Wookie named Chewbacca. Indebted to the gangster Dryden Vos, the crew devises a daring plan to travel to the mining planet Kessel to steal a batch of valuable coaxium. In need of a fast ship, Solo meets Lando Calrissian, the suave owner of the perfect vessel for the dangerous mission -- the Millennium Falcon.

                                        

Friday, May 25, 2018

Switch: Book Review





                                  
          Jim Pagiamtzis Review: The Heath brothers write a very compelling book illustrating the power of switch through stories and examples from companies and people wanting to make a difference.

        Why is it so hard to make lasting changes in our companies, in our communities, and in our own lives?

The primary obstacle is a conflict that's built into our brains, say Chip and Dan Heath, authors of the critically acclaimed bestseller Made to Stick. Psychologists have discovered that our minds are ruled by two different systems - the rational mind and the emotional mind - that compete for control. The rational mind wants a great beach body; the emotional mind wants that Oreo cookie. The rational mind wants to change something at work; the emotional mind loves the comfort of the existing routine. This tension can doom a change effort - but if it is overcome, change can come quickly.

In Switch, the Heaths show how everyday people - employees and managers, parents and nurses - have united both minds and, as a result, achieved dramatic results:

- The lowly medical interns who managed to defeat an entrenched, decades-old medical practice that was endangering patients (see page 242)
- The home-organizing guru who developed a simple technique for overcoming the dread of housekeeping (see page 130)
- The manager who transformed a lackadaisical customer-support team into service zealots by removing a standard tool of customer service (see page 199)

In a compelling, story-driven narrative, the Heaths bring together decades of counterintuitive research in psychology, sociology, and other fields to shed new light on how we can effect transformative change. Switch shows that successful changes follow a pattern, a pattern you can use to make the changes that matter to you, whether your interest is in changing the world or changing your waistline.
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Book Review: The Dip





        Jim Pagiamtzis Review: A very very thin book yet a very loud and powerful message!                                    

          In this iconic bestseller, popular business blogger and bestselling author Seth Godin proves that winners are really just the best quitters. Godin shows that winners quit fast, quit often, and quit without guilt—until they commit to beating the right Dip.

Every new project (or job, or hobby, or company) starts out fun…then gets really hard, and not much fun at all. You might be in a Dip—a temporary setback that will get better if you keep pushing. But maybe it’s really a Cul-de-Sac—a total dead end. What really sets superstars apart is the ability to tell the two apart.

Winners seek out the Dip. They realize that the bigger the barrier, the bigger the reward for getting past it. If you can beat the Dip to be the best, you’ll earn profits, glory, and long-term security.
Whether you’re an intern or a CEO, this fun little book will help you figure out if you’re in a Dip that’s worthy of your time, effort, and talents. The old saying is wrong—winners do quit, and quitters do win.   buy book

Thursday, May 24, 2018

" Deadpool 2" : Movie Review


                                                                            
                                                     

       Jim Pagiamtzis review
               " Deadpool is back for a second time. Wade Wilson ( Ryan Reynolds) is non stopping merc is back to his antics but a entire new leve. He continues to get in trouble for all the wrong reason.  Love is the air for just a few minutes until its gone and he trys to get it back

             Cable (Josh Brolin) makes he grand entrance and all sorts of amazing fights scenes happen with some hilarious comments by Deadpool.  All sorts of jokes are made about DC and Marvel throught the entire movie.

                   Some amazing cameos by Brad Pitt (Vanisher) it happens quick!  Stan Lee is als in the movie but as a painting (again it happens quick)

               The centre of the story focuses on the Kidd that Cable is going after. Story does take some time to take shape, have no worries the jokess and antics of Deapool keep it humming along

                 By the time you get to the end act you will find yourself wanting more action. Spectacular fight scene with X-Force uniting to take on the Juggernaut.

                   Stay back to want the end credits. Deadpool does some fixing of his own that is extremely funny!

                     I do hope Wolvie does get resurrected because he eludes to him through the entire movie!

              9 of 10 stars!

 Sujit K Reddy;
   Good: Cable, Domino,Duplinder
   Bad: 4th wall breaking wasn't as effective in the this installment like it was in the previous one
  Ugly: More action with the final XFORCe team against Juggernaut would have been awesome

    KJ Proulx Review  read more

      Movie Plot
           Wisecracking mercenary Deadpool meets Russell, an angry teenage mutant who lives at an orphanage. When Russell becomes the target of Cable -- a genetically enhanced soldier from the future -- Deadpool realizes that he'll need some help saving the boy from such a superior enemy. He soon joins forces with Bedlam, Shatterstar, Domino and other powerful mutants to protect young Russell from Cable and his advanced weaponry.



                                            

Special travel Post: Bora Bora



    A place I want to go!