Why is a business that looks so good on paper today out of business tomorrow? The US Census Bureau reports four hundred thousand new business start-ups every year while 470,000 fold in the same period. Start-ups have increased by 55 percent in the last three years, but 46.7 percent have already failed. What’s going on? After working with hundreds of small companies, one overriding reason that is common to all seems to be surfacing. Very few know that they are failing until it’s too late. This book not only answers the question, but it gives a specific prescription that puts the small business owner in control of the outcome. Now you have a choice to pass or play, to make or lose money, to make something a business or a hobby. Regardless of your decision, you should never again have to say, “I used to love my business, now I hate it.”
If you own a business with one to 30 employees, or are thinking of being in business, you’re uncomfortable with money talk, and just want to do what you are passionate about, this book is for you. Profit is critical or you have a hobby. Profit is fundamental or you created a job for yourself and might earn more working for someone else. But, if you are serious about having a business for years to come, you would do yourself a great disservice by not reading this book. The information in this book is unavailable anywhere else. Not in business schools. Not learned on the job. Not passed down from others. It was gleaned from over a half century of working with global corporations. No one company provided all the material. Executives from seventy-two global companies went the distance to help Mike Wolf prove the outcome of Kanketa.
If you own a business with one to 30 employees, or are thinking of being in business, you're uncomfortable with money talk, and just want to do what you are passionate about, this book is for you. Profit is critical or you have a hobby. Profit is fundamental or you created a job for yourself and might earn more working for someone else. But, if you are serious about having a business for years to come, you would do yourself a great disservice by not reading this book. The information in this book is unavailable anywhere else. Not in business schools. Not learned on the job. Not passed down from others. It was gleaned from over a half century of working with global corporations. No one company provided all the material. Executives from seventy-two global companies went the distance to help Mike Wolf prove the outcome of Kanketa.
You’ve heard of farm to table; now learn how to grow your drinking game from the ground up inGarden to Glass! Garden to Glass: Grow Your Drinks From the Ground Up, written by expert mixologist, Mike Wolf focuses on the movement and philosophy illustrating how to incorporate the natural world into the drinks we love to make, drink, and share with friends. This book offers readers simple gardening tips and instructions on how to use those plants to make dynamic cocktails and delicious cordials and elixirs. Complete with recipes, striking photography, and detailed illustrations, Garden to Glass is as valuable a resource to bartenders and bar owners as it is to home bar enthusiasts. In Garden to Glass you will find tips and insights on: Preserving ingredients for winter Cocktail presentation Methods for making syrups, cordials, bitters, and more Foraging for ingredients Utilizing vegetables to make exciting cocktails Resourcing ingredients locally How to use smoke and flame to create flavors How to make the most of your terroir Drink styles from around the world And much more! We are in the heart of the second golden age of the cocktail in America. Now imbibers of all stripes can take the reins themselves and learn how to grow their own herbs and vegetables, harvest herbs to make their own teas and tinctures, and make cordials, bitters, and elixirs of all kinds, all while learning the basics of making drinks at home. There are cocktail programs in restaurants and bars all over the world that are adapting this local yet worldly approach to cocktails simply by paying more attention to the world around them. Bartenders can now study the micro-climates where their favorite spirits are made, and make use of the botanicals that grow all around them. From the mint in mojitos to the wild botanicals in regional styles of gin, this book will explore the way bartenders, growers and distillers alike are re-shaping the way cocktails are being made, presented and consumed.
After surviving a fierce storm on a windswept mountainside, the last thing Mike Wolf expected was to meet up with another person-especially an eighty-four-year-old Native Elder. Yet there he was: completely at home in the wild with a mischievous smile and a gleam in his eye-the enigmatic Oliver Moon. Little did Mike know at the time that this was the man who would set him on a new path and revitalize his sense of Native identity; that there, on the storm-scoured mountaintop, his worldview was about to change... forever.
Barantined is the ultimate guide to creating your own bar experience at home! Shake, stir, and sip your way through quarantine with more than 80 easy-to-make cocktail recipes, techniques for making cordials, and the best drinking tips from mavericks of the mixology scene. With insights gathered from more than 50 expert bartenders and sommeliers, Barantined provides engaging advice for staying entertained at home—from music playlists, to reading recommendations, to suggestions for drinks to pair with takeout. Compiled by Nashville writer and mixologist extraordinaire Mike Wolf, Barantined aims to catch a unique moment in time when the world spun out of control and came to a halt all at once. In March 2020, the restaurant and bar business shut down for months when a devastating tornado tore through Nashville and a pandemic rocked the world. Join bartenders from Nashville and beyond in Barantined as they share what they miss about being behind the bar and how their approach to their profession has changed, alongside their favorite DIY drinks and activities designed to bring the bar to you.
Los Angeles Holocaust: Mike Barry When a wolf leaves the pack, he lives only as long as he can kill by himself quicker and surer than any pack he runs up against. Meet a man beyond either forgiveness or vengeance. Meet the Man they Call The Lone Wolf. Better meet him now. The way he lives, he can’t live much longer. Los Angeles was not a place but a mental state, the mental state of a severely deranged person. Wulff hated it. Los Angeles and New York were nominally both American cities but while New York was a great, steaming, dying beast, Los Angeles was merely vapor. Wulff was marked, but he was marked for Calabrese. He was Calabrese’s game, Wulff, was, Wulff and his two million dollar cargo. Wulff was scheduled for killing, and it might as well happen in this cheap rooming house for unemployed actors in this suburb in a city that was all suburbs at the ragged-ass end of the continent …
When a wolf leaves the pack, he lives only as long as he can kill by himself quicker and surer than any pack he runs up against. Meet a man beyond either forgiveness or vengeance. Meet the Man they Call The Lone Wolf. Better meet him now. The way he lives, he can’t live much longer. The warpath of Burt Wulff had begun in New York City, taken him cross-country to San Francisco, then in an ever-increasing ring of fire and brutal vengeance to Cuba, Peru and back to the USA for a killing run across the entire nation. But now Wulff’s string was finally running out. Both the syndicate and the official police were gunning The Lone Wolf—and now it was just a matter of time . . .
Mike Catalano grew up in Santa Cruz, California. He learned tracking and an appreciation of nature as part of the California Ecology Corps in the early 1970s. He earned a ministerial degree from Berean College (now Global University) in 1986. From 1995- 1998, he was editor of Melting Trees Review, a poetry journal, in Montgomery, Alabama. He has had over 400 poems published world-wide, including France, Guam, South Africa, Canada, and Great Britain. He is the father of a son, Abe; two daughters, Suzanne and Tammy, and a grandson, Julius. He lives in Aromas, California.
Did you know that a group of wolves is called a pack? This book gives readers an up-close look at life within a wolf pack. Each wolf has a role to play in order for the pack to survive. Wolves are great communicators. They use their communication skills to work together, especially when hunting. Amazing photographs are paired with accessible text to make this book both educational and fun. Fact boxes on each spread provide additional chances for young readers to learn about these incredible creatures.
When a wolf leaves the pack, he lives only as long as he can kill by himself quicker and surer than any pack he runs up against. Meet a man beyond either forgiveness or vengeance. Meet the Man they Call The Lone Wolf. Better meet him now. The way he lives, he can’t live much longer. Burt Wulff was the target, and the way to Wulff was through an old friend named Tamara. Calabrese’s men came for her in broad daylight, abducted her from her home and shot her full of drugs so that she didn’t know a thing until she woke up in Miami. Miami - famous resort town, place in the sun and all that - but not now, not for Tamara and not for Wulff. The trouble was that Wulff was dead set against heroin, and went around breaking up the neat little trade routes that drug runners had set up around the globe. Now Calabrese decided he’d had enough of Wulff. Now he had Tamara, the bait by which to lure Wulff to Miami. In the shadow of those fine hotels and fancy shops, there was something going on along surfside. And that something was called murder.
Raise your holiday spirit (and a glass of your favorite holiday spirits) with Cheer: A Liquid Gold Holiday Drinking Guide. From expert mixologists and the hosts of the hit drinking podcast Liquid Gold comes the most complete holiday cocktail book with 125+ recipes to delight drinking enthusiasts of all kinds throughout the busiest entertainment seasons of the year. The beginner-friendly recipes are perfect for mixing drinks with friends and family, or preparing refreshments in advance to maximize your time spent with loved ones. Enjoy recipes for every season, including: The first chill in the air with whiskey cocktails, apple brandy, and pumpkin spice drinks Halloween cocktails and punches Thanksgiving pairings, wines, and apéritifs Christmas and holiday whiskey cream, eggnog drinks, and ice cream cocktails New Years sparkling wine cocktails and champagnes Dry January non-alcoholic cocktails, and a guide to making cordials that allow you to make beautiful non-alcoholic drinks . . . and more! From alcoholic cocktails of all shapes and sizes to non-alcoholic drinks ranging from seasonal coffees to cider, hot chocolate, and teas, Cheer: A Liquid Gold Holiday Drinking Guide is an invaluable holiday resource and quintessential companion for the holiday season.
When a wolf leaves the pack, he lives only as long as he can kill by himself quicker and surer than any pack he runs up against. Meet a man beyond either forgiveness or vengeance. Meet the Man they Call The Lone Wolf. Better meet him now. The way he lives, he can’t live much longer. Now Calabrese the Kingpin was dead . . . Tamara was dead . . . and the world faced him like a burnt-out fuse. But the war was not over - it could never be over for Wulff. Calabrese’s henchmen were after him, the taste of bloody vendetta in their mouths, their guns aimed an poised to shoot. So Wulff fled to his home turf, holed up in a filthy rooming house on the upper West Side of New York, and began the battle against two fronts - the dog soldiers of the Mob set on bringing his head home as a bounty, and the drug-crazed junkies struggling to feed their habits.
When a wolf leaves the pack, he lives only as long as he can kill by himself quicker and surer than any pack he runs up against. Meet a man beyond either forgiveness or vengeance. Meet the Man they Call The Lone Wolf. Better meet him now. The way he lives, he can’t live much longer. There was nothing you could do, the policeman thought. You just had to seal off your mind. Unless you were that crazy bastard Wulff. He thought for a moment of his ex-partner, ex-cop, ex-combat soldier, ex-narco, who was going to clean up the international drug trade singlehandedly and on the street. Wulff was crazy, he thought that you could really make a difference. The policeman could have laughed but then he thought of what Wulff had accomplished in just a couple of months of single-handed action and he was not so sure. Moving out on his own he had done more damage than a hundred agencies in twenty years. The policeman was still busy with these reflections when the knife entered him, between two ribs, neatly and almost painlessly at first.
When Nina, Joe, and Bob hear about a strange creature preying on residents of a small Florida town, they know it is up to them to track down the digitally realized wolf man before the next full moon. Original.
When a wolf leaves the pack, he lives only as long as he can kill by himself quicker and surer than any pack he runs up against. Meet a man beyond either forgiveness or vengeance. Meet the Man they Call The Lone Wolf. Better meet him now. The way he lives, he can’t live much longer. Burt Wulff found himself in something called the Hotel Crillon in Lima. It was steel and glass, looked like a Hilton, and had beggars living in the eaves. In Wulff’s room there was a small man who wanted you to think he was Peruvian, but Wulff figured he was German if he was anything at all. He wanted Wulff to deliver several million dollars worth of heroin to the States. Several of the most efficient man-hunting organizations in the world—a few of them legal—desperately wanted Wulff dead, and knew where he was. Wulff said, “I don’t think you understand …” One of the other two men in the room both sprawled on the floor, shook, limbs flailing like and insect’s, in his coma. The small man flinched, and said, “Your work is well known. But you will never get out of Peru without my help …”
When a wolf leaves the pack, he lives only as long as he can kill by himself quicker and surer than any pack he runs up against. Meet a man beyond either forgiveness or vengeance. Meet the Man they Call The Lone Wolf. Better meet him now. The way he lives, he can’t live much longer. Memo to Top Echelons Only Subject: Burt Wulff Subject is extremely dangerous and cannot be approached. Upon identification he should be killed immediately, regardless of apparent risk . . . Circumstances creating Wulff’s decision to commence his ''war against the international drug trade'' (phraseology apparently his) trace to personal motives . . . Certain activities of his in New York have shifted the line of succession and created problems out of all relation to the subject’s apparent powers to do so. How Wulff was able to penetrate security is not yet known. Based on certain documents in an attaché case stolen by Wulff from one of our principles whom he murdered at close range, the subject to the beast of our knowledge has emplaned for San Francisco to continue his ''war.'' All parties in the San Francisco area are hereby warned. Details of the bounty on Wulff will follow.
Daisy Ogami holds the key to a dying future's salvation. Powerful interests will stop at nothing to obtain Daisy, but her android bodyguard will do anything to protect her... and the promise of a brighter day. Collects Lone Wolf 2100: Shadow on Saplings; Lone Wolf 2100: The Language of Chaos; and Lone Wolf 2100: Pattern Storm. * Reimagining the classic manga, produced in association with creator Kazuo Koike. * Dark Horse editions of the original Lone Wolf and Cub have sold over a million copies!
When a wolf leaves the pack, he lives only as long as he can kill by himself quicker and surer than any pack he runs up against. Meet a man beyond either forgiveness or vengeance. Meet the Man they Call The Lone Wolf. Better meet him now. The way he lives, he can’t live much longer. Memo to; Chief, NYPD RE: Burt Wulff In New York City he was able to kill at least ten people, three of them at high levels in East Coast drug distribution network. In one case, he blew up a three story townhouse on the east side of Manhattan . . . Subject then proceeded to San Francisco; there is considerable newspaper evidence as to some of his acts there. In a major dock fire a freighter was destroyed and 50 to 60 people were killed, including several law-enforcement personnel. (It is strongly indicated, however, that Wulff considers himself to be aiding the authorities.) According to unreliable sources who cannot be identified, subject saved $250,000 worth of heroin from the ship fire and is now heading with it toward Boston, using it as ''bait'' to move the ever higher levels of responsibility for the traffic. End report.
When a wolf leaves the pack, he lives only as long as he can kill by himself quicker and surer than any pack he runs up against. Meet a man beyond either forgiveness or vengeance. Meet the Man they Call The Lone Wolf. Better meet him now. The way he lives, he can’t live much longer. Burt Wulff was a nice guy, once. A New York cop, narcotics division. But he’s seen too much destruction done by the poison in America’s veins - heroin. Too much corrupted and made foul, and finally one life too many - and too close - destroyed. Burt Wulff has gone beyond fear, beyond love, even beyond hate. He’s simply beyond giving the slightest damn whether he lives or dies, so long as he can kill the killers - thousands of them, all over America and all over the world.
When a wolf leaves the pack, he lives only as long as he can kill by himself quicker and surer than any pack he runs up against. Meet a man beyond either forgiveness or vengeance. Meet the Man they Call The Lone Wolf. Better meet him now. The way he lives, he can’t live much longer. Memo To: Network Subject: Burt Wulff This man must be killed on sight. Details of the bounty will be distributed in a further memo. Subject is a veteran of combat and displays an extremely sophisticated knowledge of explosives, incendiary devices, armaments of all kinds and hand-to-hand combat. He is responsible for at least on hundred and fifty deaths and it appears that his ''war'' is now accelerating. In the twelve years of the interlocking organization and the important supply pact of 1963, no such danger had appeared. Wulff is only one man but for that precise reason retains a great freedom of action. He is a cold, remorseless killer and the danger he represents is not to be ignored.
A short time in the future, but all has changed. The production of all goods has been automated, and most people live a dull and unproductive life, enlivened only by the need to avoid the wild and dangerous animals stalking the city streets. So why have things suddenly got worse? The narrator moves stealthily amongst the disintegrating culture, looking for answers.
FIRST THING YOU DO, IS NEVER UNDERESTIMATE YOUR PREY "A wolf can sleep through a blizzard. He can run over a hundred miles without a rest. He can go days without water. He eats a third of his weight in one meal. He can pick up the scent of a prey for over a mile away. He is a relentless hunter who will wear down his prey until it drops from exhaustion no matter how big it is. A single wolf can bring down a full grown moose. He never gives up once he has made up his mind." Miles Coffin utters these words to a group of businessmen from New York City on a hunting trip in Alaska. Their target prey; wolves. Coffin, an authority on wolves, is hired to guide them into the wilderness. The men are Max Taylor, chairman of a cosmetics company and his sons, Giff and Andy, who are at odds with each other. Although Coffin is their guide he is also a man with a purpose; to hunt and kill Midnight, a large black wolf, with whom he has a personal vendetta.
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