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If you have a question that isn’t answered here or if you need further clarification, we encourage you to call our Admissions team at 212-854-1961 or send an e-mail to apply@gsb.columbia.edu.
The application processes for all of our EMBA options are handled online. We suggest you begin with the Application Requirements.
Can I apply to more than one of Columbia University’s MBA programs at once?
Columbia does not accept simultaneous applications to its MBA programs. Please apply to the program that most closely reflects your professional, personal, and geographic interests and experience. Admissions officers will be happy to offer guidance with your choice. If you wish to explore the possibility of admission to a different program during the application process, it is possible to request that the Admissions Committee discuss your suitability for a different program. We reserve the right to withdraw offers of admission to any candidate who does not disclose a prior application to any other Columbia MBA program.
May I apply to Columbia if I already have an MBA?
If you already have an MBA or similar degree in management studies, you are eligible to apply to the Columbia Executive MBA Program. However, we would not encourage you to do so unless you have a compelling reason. You may wish to review our course offerings and talk with an admissions officer to see how much of the program would be repetitious. Then, if you decide to apply, you should make a compelling case in your application to explain why you want to have another MBA education.
Must I take the GMAT, GRE, or Executive Assessment (EA) before I apply?
Yes. Learn more about the EMBA Program’s GMAT/GRE/EA requirement.
The invitation-only interview is a chance for us to get to know you beyond your written application and for you to ask questions. Once you submit your application, an admissions officer may contact you to schedule a time to meet.
After submitting my application, when will I receive a decision?
Our goal is either to invite you for an interview or deny admission within six weeks of a completed application being received. Our goal for interviewed applicants is to render a final decision within two weeks of the interview report being completed.
Do I need to be sponsored?
Sponsorship is viewed in two ways: Time away from work to attend class, and financial support. At a minimum, applicants for the Friday/Saturday option or EMBA-Americas must submit written authorization from their employer indicating permission to attend class on workdays and to complete the program. Applicants for the Saturday-only option do not require employer sponsorship of any kind.
Many EMBA students also obtain corporate financial sponsorship, which ranges from partial to full support, but this is not required.
Yes. If you are an independent professional or consultant or the head of your own firm, you may write your own sponsorship letter. Applicants for the Friday/Saturday option or EMBA-Americas who are employed by an organization that can endorse their candidacy, but not provide financial support, may meet the financial requirements themselves. In this case, the organization must still provide a letter of endorsement stating that the applicant will be guaranteed time away from work to attend all classes and required program activities. Saturday-only students do not require sponsorship of time off or financial sponsorship.
Can I apply without being gainfully employed?
Employment is a requirement of matriculation in the Executive MBA Program, and candidates are expected to be fully employed at the time of application. Should your employment change during the application process, the Admissions Office must be promptly informed.
If you find yourself unemployed during the program for any reason, you are required to notify the EMBA Program Office immediately. You may use the resources available to EMBA students, including Career Management resources, to aid in your search for employment.
How much does the EMBA Program cost?
Are there scholarships for the program?
There are no scholarships or grants offered directly through Columbia University for the Executive MBA Program. There are, however, free online scholarship search engines that may be helpful in identifying external sources of scholarships.
Financial aid is available through federal and private educational loans. Learn more about student loan options for Executive MBA students.
How much will I be able to customize my curriculum through electives?
Our wide selection of electives allows you to customize your curriculum. Please note: EMBA students take a total of 11 electives, primarily in their second year. Elective offerings are scheduled with the academic divisions. Typically, you are offered a selection of 30 electives over three terms. If your schedule and course capacity permits, you may also take electives from the Full-Time MBA Program or (a maximum of two courses) from Columbia’s other professional schools (Law, International and Public Affairs, Journalism, Medicine, Public Health, etc.). Electives are undertaken after you have completed all core courses. More detailed information about the elective offerings of EMBA-Global Americas and Europe and EMBA-Global Asia can be found on their respective sites.
What career management services are available?
As an EMBA student, the Career Management Center is designed to provide ongoing professional career development services geared to your needs. You’ll find career-related workshops, virtual programs, one-on-one advising, an extensive website, and various networking opportunities and events available. These resources are dedicated to enhancing professional development for both active job seekers and students who intend to continue working with their sponsoring employers. Learn more about career management for EMBA students.
After I'm admitted, can I defer to a future term?
As a matter of policy, Columbia Business School does not defer admitted students to future terms.
What does a typical EMBA calendar look like for the length of the program?
EMBA students are on a rigorous schedule, given that they also hold full-time jobs. View calendars of sample EMBA terms.
Submit a new application fee (US$250).
Update the employment history, activities, educational history, and general information I, II, and III sections of the online application.
Submit a new sponsorship letter, if the previous letter is more than six months old.
Submit transcripts of any additional courses taken since your previous application.
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Submit one new recommendation letter, preferably from your current employer, another colleague in a supervisory role, or a client.
Please note that your new account will not contain any of the information you submitted previously, but you only need to submit the items listed above to reapply. If, as a reapplicant, you have questions, please contact the Admissions Office at apply@gsb.columbia.edu or 212-854-1961.


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Is all that Christmas cheer just a front? As fear intrudes in our holiday planning and security guards keep a round-the-clock watch on our national icons, it seems the political-correctness police are building a case on Santa.
This week some Victorian kindergartens decided that since Santa is the concoction of one cultural-religious arm of Australia, it may be best to stop the jolly bloke from potentially crushing feelings of the others.
Several said they would ban him from their premises.
But as the kinder-management umbrella group Kindergarten Parents Victoria suggested yesterday that the need to respect all religions and cultures meant it was better to go without Santa this year, no less a Christmas spokesman than the Prime Minister stepped in to defend him. John Howard told listeners to Neil Mitchell's 3AW radio show that he was pro-Santa.
"I believe in Santa . . . I'm no longer a child but I believed in Santa when I was a kid and Santa is for children, so therefore I believe in Santa," he said.
He said the anti-Santa lobby "is being foolishly slavish to political correctness. I cannot for the life of me understand that any canon of tolerance in this country requires us to abandon Santa". And proving he must exist, because he has become a political issue, Santa enjoys bipartisan support. A spokesman for Opposition Leader Simon Crean said: "He believes it's just silly to deny children a great Australian tradition because you think some other people might be offended. It's a ridiculous overreaction."
In a veiled reference to Mr Howard, Mr Crean said later: "We encouraged our children to believe in Santa Claus but like most children they grew beyond it. It seems some never did."
John Dalziel, of the Salvation Army in Victoria, which hands out 80,000 Christmas gifts to needy families, said it was wrong that the image of Santa caused discomfort to people other than white Christians.
He said Santa was a symbol of an Australian tradition, and that many Australian Muslim families made use of the Salvation Army's Christmas help to be a part of that tradition.
"It's an Australian cultural event, and is celebrated in two parallel ways: the first is as a cultural event, and then as a Christian event.
"But I have to confess that it's first a cultural and then a Christian event."
He said Father Christmas was not a religious invention, "he's just the spirit of Christmas". He had been criticised by religious people for having Father Christmas appear at Salvation Army events. "My answer was exactly the same: he's the spirit of Christmas."
The corporate affairs spokesman for one of Santa's primary employers, the Myer Grace Bros department store chain, agreed.
"Santa is a symbol of Christmas, which is as much about family and community, and in most cases that goes beyond religious borders or boundaries," said John Gillman.
And nurse Lyn Crellin, the care manager and liver transplant coordinator at the Royal Children's Hospital, confirmed that children from all backgrounds got a lift from Santa.
"I've worked a lot of Christmas days because it's such a great day - it just gives the children a huge thrill, and anyone who's seen the look of joy on the children's faces when he comes around wouldn't even think of banning it."
•Christmas presents for needy families can be donated to the Salvation Army at any Kmart or Salvation Army store.

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text: This well kept condo is in a well maintained complex. Condo fees include water, sewer, heat and garbage and 1 parking stall near the entrance. This top floor unit has had some recent renovations which include newer paint, baseboards, engineered hardwood floors, kitchen countertops, dishwasher, etc.

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We are excited to give our patients private screenings for sexually transmitted diseases at among the lowest std lab test price. Our streamlined, three step process makes it easy to utilize our services. Select from more than 4,000 STD testing Natrona Heights laboratories nationwide and visit whenever you find the time in your schedule.
We recommend that all Natrona Heights residents get regular screenings for sexually transmitted diseases. Don't stress about it, though. We make it easy. You can place your STD testing Natrona Heights order from the comfort of your home and you have the power to decide when and where you get your screening. It only takes 15 minutes and no appointment is necessary, so it's easy to work around your busy schedule. Plus, with among the lowest std lab test prices, it's not too expensive to get your peace of mind.
Those are just the numbers for a single city in the state. Natrona Heights is not immune to this problem. If you live in the 19406 zip code, we can help you get screened for sexually transmitted diseases. Protect your health and well-being with a fast, affordable disease check.
Why choose us for STD testing in Natrona Heights ?
We are proud to serve the 19406 zip code with our services. You can select the STD testing Natrona Heights location closest to you and visit when you are available. It will only take approximately 15 minutes, so you'll be in and out in no time. Not only are our services quick and easy, but It is easy, convenient, and affordable to get checked for sexually transmitted diseases with us. Let us help you protect your health, privacy, and well-being.
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Centro Scuola e Cultura Italiana with Toronto Catholic District School Board is offering Ontario students the unique opportunity to spend the Fall semester, September to December, in Italy. Centro Scuola makes the arrangements with the local authorities and the appropriate residential hotels to ensure a safe learning environment for the students and the Ontario certified teachers who accompany them.
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For the eosin glazing process, see Zsolnay.
Eosin is a name of several fluorescent acidic compounds which bind to and form salts with basic, or eosinophilic, compounds like proteins containing amino acid residues such as arginine and lysine, and stains them dark red or pink as a result of the actions of bromine on fluorescein. In addition to staining proteins in the cytoplasm, it can be used to stain collagen and muscle fibers for examination under the microscope. Structures that stain readily with eosin are termed eosinophilic.
The name Eosin comes from Eos, the Ancient Greek word for 'dawn' and the name of the Ancient Greek goddess of the dawn.
There are actually two very closely related compounds commonly referred to as eosin. Most often used is Eosin Y (also known as eosin Y ws, eosin yellowish, Acid Red 87, C.I. 45380, bromoeosine, bromofluoresceic acid, D&C Red No. 22); it has a very slightly yellowish cast. The other eosin compound is eosin B (eosin bluish, Acid Red 91, C.I. 45400, Saffrosine, Eosin Scarlet, or imperial red); it has a very faint bluish cast. The two dyes are interchangeable, and the use of one or the other is a matter of preference and tradition.
Eosin Y is a tetrabromo derivative of fluorescein. Eosin B is a dibromo dinitro derivative of fluorescein.
Sample of a trachea coloured with hematoxylin and eosin.
Eosin is most often used as a counterstain to hematoxylin in H&E (haematoxylin and eosin) staining. H&E staining is one of the most commonly used techniques in histology. Tissue stained with haematoxylin and eosin shows cytoplasm stained pink-orange and nuclei stained darkly, either blue or purple. Eosin also stains red blood cells intensely red.
For staining, eosin Y is typically used in concentrations of 1 to 5 percent weight by volume, dissolved in water or ethanol. For prevention of mold growth in aqueous solutions, thymol is sometimes added. A small concentration (0.5 percent) of acetic acid usually gives a deeper red stain to the tissue.
It is listed as an IARC class 3 carcinogen.
Jocelyn H. Bruce-Gregorios, M.D.: Histopathologic Techniques, JMC Press Inc., Quezon City, Philippines, 1974.
↑ Its CAS number is 17372-87-1 and its SMILES structure is O=C5C(Br)=C2O C1=C(Br)C([O-]) =C(Br)C=C1C(C4=C (C([O-])=O)C=C C=C4)=C2C=C3Br.
↑ Its CAS number is 548-28-3 and its SMILES structure is O=C5C(Br)=C2O C1=C(Br)C([O-]) =C([N+]([O-])=O) C=C1C(C4=C(C([O-]) =O)C=CC=C4)=C2 C=C3[N+]([O-])=O.
↑ Hitokoto H, Morozumi S, Wauke T, Sakai S, Kurata H (1980). "Inhibitory effects of spices on growth and toxin production of toxigenic fungi". Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 39: 818–22. PMC 291425 . PMID 6769391.

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Flowers are maintained in the farms as per the demand of the seasons. Every variety of flower is available in the yards of the J and F. Whether it’s red, orange, yellow, blue or pink you can find every colour of flowers in the farms. It can be also considered as a one-stop destination for the flower hunters.
Flavourful Baked goods – It produces the baked items like cakes, pancakes, pastries etc with great taste and flavour. These items are highly appreciated by the local people and are always in good demand among the people.
J and F farms seem like a hub for all the basic items necessary for preparing a delicious food in the kitchen. It provides all the products with an affordable price both for the wholesalers and the retailers. This particular farm in New Hampshire eased the work for the shopkeepers by providing everything under one roof. All natural Maple syrup, pasta sauce, pesto, Ravioli, Homemade pasta, Glutten free bread, cheese, Butter, BBQ sauce etc all these items are easily available at the farms of the J and F.

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Telecast Technology Co., Ltd. is one of the leading professional manufacturers of digital TV & Broadcasting system in China since 1998, devoting itself to supply high quality and cost-effective products, as well as solutions to our respectable clients all over the world.
We have independently-developed Conditional Access System, which has been integrated by over 20 professional STB manufactures in China. And the most amazing achievement is that there are over 6 million STB embedded our CAS working online.
Our company has a strong and advanced R&D team, consisting of professional engineers and designers with a wealth of experience. We are cooperating with the University of Electronics Science and Technology of China to develop and manufacture a complete DVB System (including digital cable TVs, as well as digital MMDS transmitting systems) and we already manufacture several unique products in this area.
We are specialized in providing turn-key solution for Cable System, Satellite Uplink (DTH) System, and all kinds of wireless transmission system, especially two way MMDS system, DVB-T2 system, and KU Band MVDS system. Up to now, we have built more than 50 wireless, cable and satellite uplink system in about 30 countries, such as Djibouti State TV Station, Mongolia Local TV Station, Somalia Hargeyas TV Station, Sierra Leone Capital CCNTV, Nepal AVENUES Satellite Channel, Philippine OLD PATH Satellite Channel, etc.
"Growing up with customer"is the philosophy we are insisting. The relationship between TELECAST and her customer is not only trade. We invest and cooperate in system construction with many operators, both domestic and overseas, which brings not only profit to our customer, but also more wonderful and cheaper programs to local people. Meanwhile, the news media of local government has been effectively improved by this way.
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I bought a sewing pattern today for a dress that I like. I'd tried on a similar dress by Calvin Klein but it didn't fit seeing as how it's built for non-short people like me. Fabricland is having a sale this week on their McCall patterns and I bought #5466. This pattern is very similar to the dress I tried on and I think it'll work. I also got some fabric for it (on sale for $5/m, down from $15/m). I've washed the fabric and done all of the pattern adjustments.
I also bellydanced in my marathon 4 1/2 hour bellydance night. She's setting up the schedule for next term, and there's so much I want to take! She might offer an advanced choreography class (that she said I could take) at 4:30pm on Thursdays which might slightly overlap with curling. We'll see. She's also offering several yoga classes, a core stability ball class, and other bellydance classes. If only I had unlimited money!
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Don't you just hate when you find a dress that is lovely... on tall, lanky, skinny minny people?? I'm getting really good at looking at something on a mannequin and knowing whether it will look good or garbage on me. I even bought two dresses last week for a wedding! Granted, there's only one wedding, but one of the dresses was $17 at H&M so I couldn't pass it up. I'm planning to wear the second one to the wedding though because it looks exponentially better. That brings the number of dresses I own up to a whopping 3!

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HCM CITY — The number of Vietnamese women and girls in STEM (sciences, technology, engineering, and math) fields remains low, mostly due to social and environmental factors, Dr Lê Thị Kim Phụng, deputy head of HCM City University of Technology’s chemical engineering faculty, said yesterday at a conference held in the city.
“There are very few senior women ahead on the path, and mentoring opportunities are rare. But just knowing those few women achieved success gives me hope,” said Phụng, who won the ASEAN-US Science Prize for Women last year for her research on biofuels created from agricultural waste such as rubber seed oil, ground coffee and fruit.
Phụng spoke at the Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math 2017 Conference which examined the evolving role of females in Vietnamese society, especially in STEM fields.
Many women scientists and engineers pursue academic careers despite conflicts between their roles as parents and as scientists and engineers, she said, adding that these efforts, however, are often not recognised as a high level of dedication to their careers.
In childhood and adolescence, girls move away from STEM fields because of parents’ expectations of daughters, peer norms, or lack of fit with personal goals, Phụng said.
In emerging adulthood, girls often feel like a misfit in STEM classes, and are outnumbered by male peers. They also lack female role models, which causes them to leave the field prematurely or not enter it at all, she added.
“When we turn our attention to scientific research, we see that only one-fifth of key national science and technology programmes were conducted with women as scientific leaders or with a high percentage of women researchers,” Tarnowka said.
Of more than a thousand Vietnamese patent applications, fewer than 9 percent were from women. At the same time, there’s a glass ceiling for women to gain professorships.
Even though half of all university faculties employ women, only 11 percent gain professorships, with those in the STEM fields considerably lower.
In addition, scholarships for advanced study become increasingly limited for women academics to excel beyond the initial level.
The majority of computer programmers and coders are males creating smart homes, devices and cars, but not from the perspective of women, their primary consumer, she said.
Women account for 85 per cent of all consumer purchases, including 66 per cent of computers and 65 per cent of new cars.
Leaving women out of the product development process will potentially lead to technology companies with little value to their main customer, she said.
Studies and research have shown that companies that employ more women consistently outperform their competitors.
STEM careers offer women the opportunity to engage in some of the most exciting realms of discovery and technological innovation that are also the high-tech, high-wage jobs of the future, Tarnowka said.
As a result, increasing opportunities for women in these fields are an important step towards realising greater economic success and equality for women across the board, she said.

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LEXINGTON, Va. – Lexington, Va., Sawmill Operator George C. Shumate, Inc. violated federal law by allowing a male president and company owner to sexually harass female employees and by firing one of the victims for complaining, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today.
According to the EEOC’s complaint against Shumate Sawmill, Monique Ingram and other similarly situated women were subjected to sexual harassment from around November 2005 until at least January 2007. The complaint charged that the harassment included the owner’s attempts to kiss Ingram and other female employees; rubbing his elbow up against Ingram’s breast; asking Ingram to rub his neck during which time he would make moaning sounds; and offering a female employee $100 if she would show him her breasts.
The EEOC said that Ingram asked the owner to stop making sexual comments and to stop touching her, and that she complained to one of the company's supervisors about the owner’s sexual harassment. However, according to the EEOC, the company failed to take corrective and appropriate action to stop the harassment, but rather discharged Ingram in February 2007 in retaliation for her complaints about the owner’s sexual harassment.
Sexual harassment and retaliation for complaining about it violate Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In the lawsuit, the EEOC seeks compensatory and punitive damages for the affected women, as well as injunctive and other non-monetary relief. The EEOC filed suit, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. George C. Shumate, Inc., Civil Action No. 6:06cv00050), after exhausting efforts to reach a voluntary settlement.


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Previous occupied by the owners, and meticulously maintained, this is a lovely example of a 2 bedroom villa.
This villa is sitting at the back of the block tucked away in its own private corner with a low maintenance courtyard with a new deck.
With polished floor boards in the lounge and kitchen area, its flows into the generous bedrooms both with built in robes and ceiling fans.
The villa has a full sized bathroom with a second toilet located in the laundry. The villa also has a large lock up garage with internal access to the back yard and also a small storage locker in the rear yard.


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The map was posted on Twitter.
The Embassy of Ukraine in France has called on the French news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP) to fix the map where Ukraine's Crimean peninsula is designated as Russian territory.
"Despite repeated explanations and the unambiguously clear position of the international community, some French media continue making mistakes by showing illegally annexed Crimea on maps as Russia's territory," the Embassy of Ukraine in France said on Facebook.
In particular, an incorrect map was posted on AFP's Twitter on February 5.
"The embassy asked the agency's heads to take the necessary measures to fix the situation and prevent such cases in future. We expect an adequate response," the embassy said.

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Polly was born in Logan County, Ohio on September 22, 1925. She was the youngest of 3 daughters to Paul and Ruth Watkins Booth. She graduated nursing school at Christ Hospital in Cincinnati. She met her husband Millard Shaw while working in Louisville as a Registered Nurse. They married on March 13, 1948. He accepted a job in Henderson in the early 50â€™s to work as a local physician. Pauline was a member of First United Methodist Church where she enjoyed volunteering. She was a member of the Womanâ€™s Medical Auxiliary in Henderson. She enjoyed playing bridge and volunteering through Riverview School. She worked at Redbanks Nursing Home for a short period as a Registered Nurse.
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[S27] Watkins family genealogy, Page 18A.
[S446] 1930 Federal Census, Rushcreek Township, Logan, Ohio, ED 46-30, Page 1A, Dwelling 4.
[S449] 1940 United States Census, 1940 United States Census., Rushcreek Township, Logan, Ohio, ED 46-35, Page 8A, Dwelling 167.
[S9] Family Search (Church of the Latter Day Saints), Ohio Marriages, 1800-1958.
[S415] 1920 United States Federal Census, Rushcreek Twn, Logan, OH ED 206 Page 3A Dwelling 49.


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This link is found on the “Administer Case Report Forms (CRFs)” page in the Business Administration module.
The CRF_Design_Template.xls file is included in the download package. It’s in the “conf” subfolder under the Openclinica install folder.
To make it available for download from within OpenClinica, you need to copy this file to the “CRF” subfolder inside “openclinica.data”, which is found under your Tomcat.
This instruction will be included in future installation guides.
"Open Source Informatics for Public Research."


text: This is an excellent opportunity for mature sales driven individuals to join our team as we begin to expand our business. The Sales Executive will be responsible for contacting businesses by telephone marketing in both Ireland & UK to acquire customers.This is a sales driven role that is key to the success of Morgan Fuels growth into both the Irish & UK fuel card markets. This role is suitable for career driven candidate who wants to progress in a dynamic family run business.

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WHAT is HEALTH for YOU? + A LEMON GINGER BLAST juicer recipe!
How I lost 100% of my excess body fat!
It can be very frustrating to begin an exercise or fitness program and run into what seems like a brick wall. This can come in the form of schedule conflicts that get in the way of your routine. Yet if you want better health, you know that it’s necessary to find a way to get beyond these barriers. In order to help you reach a higher level of fitness, we will be covering some ways to overcome some of the common obstacles people often run into.
One common excuse for not exercising is a lack of time. Between work and family responsibilities, it can be hard to find the time to go to the gym, jog or take an exercise class. You may not be making the most of your time, however, which looking at your schedule will show you. One study, for example, shows that the average person in the U.S. spends five hours every day watching television! If that number is cut in half, think of the extra time gained that can be used for fitness related activities. Other time wasters are computer games, trivial phone calls, and text messaging. You can make more time to exercise by cutting back on unproductive activities. Eventually, plateaus happen to everyone who participates in any type of exercise. If you run, for example, you may find that you can’t get beyond a certain number of miles. If you lift weights, you may only be able to lift a certain amount and no more. The best way to get past a plateau is to change up your routine, even in minor ways. Exercising your muscles in a different manner will often get you past your limitations. You will still get the benefits of exercising regularly even if you’re stuck at a certain level.
People use being tired and having no energy as a reason to not exercise, both of which can indicate poor fitness. People who don’t get enough sleep, which is common problem, will obviously feel tired all the time. If you’re sleep deprived, it’s hard to feel like exercising, and it can make physical activity hard to maintain or even dangerous. If you have a serious problem with insomnia you should consult your doctor, but you may be able to get more sleep by changing your routine and diet. It may be easier to fall asleep if you try turning your TV and computer off earlier than usual and avoid stimulants in the evening. Sometimes you need to recognize your problems and obstacles to reach your fitness goals. Even if you’re not making progress as rapidly as you’d like, you should be satisfied and will need to have patience. You’re not competing with anyone else when it comes to fitness. Any movement forward has you heading in the right direction. Keep these tips for dealing with fitness obstacles in mind and they’ll help you stay on course to your fitness goals.
Learn more about Weider Total Body Works 5000 home gym.
Life Wisdom w/ Caroline Secrets of Happiness – Education and Self Improvement This is a series of videos dealing with life wisdom and how to become happy. There are certain factors that contribute to long term happiness. In this video Caroline discusses the factor of continuing to learn and grow as a person and remain active. Caroline discusses points in her life where she lacked purposed, felt bored, lacked meaning and felt unfulfilled. Could these points in our life that lead to depression? How important is it to continue to study, learn, and acquire new knowledge. What role does self improvement have in happiness? There is more to being happy than just taking an antidepressant. To be happy one has to organize their life, take responsibility for their life and do things which lead to happiness. Caroline in a Ph.D. educator who has been training teachers how to teach as professor for many years.
Benefits Of Breathing Right! For Exercise and LIFE!


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Ten students from Y9 went along to Pipers Corner School on Tuesday 12th June to attend a Carnegie discussion morning. The students have been working hard reading, discussing, debating and writing reviews about the books since April. This was an excellent opportunity to discuss the Carnegie Medal Shortlist with students from other schools. The winner of the Carnegie Book Award will be announced on Monday 18th June.
This week, we were lucky enough to be chosen, along with others from Year 9 Book Club, to go on a short school trip to Pipers Corner. We met there with other schools to discuss the shortlisted books for the Carnegie award, before the winner is announced. It is a teen book award, in which 8 books are chosen to be placed on the shortlist. We were placed into groups with students of different ages from other schools. Together we discussed each book, talking about what we enjoyed and what we thought could be improved. Later we each voted on our favourite book on the shortlist, that we thoughtshould win. Our winner was After the Fire by Will Hill – but we'll have to see which one wins according to the judges! A general book quiz had been prepared by one of the teachers at Pipers, and we could choose our teams to complete it – we worked with students from other schools. This helped us to meet students with similar interests, and make friends. We really enjoyed it, and would love to go again next year!


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Reducing the challenges for youth especially young women farmers will require a need for further investment in the agriculture sector to allow them to take advantage of the new and emerging market structures and to have access to the latest in agricultural technology and livestock production systems. Women are the most important actors in the agricultural value chain which begins from farm production, market and intra household distribution of food. They play a lead role in post-harvest activities such as shelling of grains, storage, processing and marketing. They are also becoming increasingly visible in farm tasks which traditionally have been designated as male preserves.
During recent focus group discussions (FGD) conducted for representatives of youth groups in northern and southern Ghana under the theme: Promising Strategies to Address the Localised Needs of Rural Young Female Farmers, a representative from Women in Agriculture Development Directorate (WIAD) shared the view that young women (15 to 35 years) form a major age-group that is actively and passionately engaged in non-farm agribusiness ventures. The representative further emphasised that despite their age and economic limitations young women play essential roles in producing a sound and healthy rural economy. They are prone to having limited access to resources than their young-male counterparts especially in areas of education, effective networks, relevant technical, vocational and business training, and access to credit, all of which combine to restrain their ability to increase their productivity and incomes.
providing highly targeted financing to sustain agribusiness development.
According to the representative this is a proven three-step social entrepreneurship model developed by GYIN that would provide a holistic solution to the challenges that rural young women farmers constantly encounter.


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The dramatic rise in the use of mobile devices is evident all around us: business people on benches in the park scrolling through the latest news articles on their lunch break, new parents using price comparison apps to ensure the weekly nappy spend is within budget, and of course for every street gathering of children or teens, at least one is guaranteed to be checking their phone. Here in Oxford during tourist season, phone cameras have greatly eclipsed regular digital cameras as the method of choice for documenting a rainy summer abroad.
According to a study by Cisco, the growth of internet traffic on mobile devices is predicted to grow by 66% each year until 2017, at which point total mobile internet traffic is anticipated to exceed fixed (or "non-mobile") traffic. Sales of tablets are predicted to overtake PC sales in the next couple of years and more apps are being produced to make viewing online content on mobile devices quicker and easier. The way we view the internet continues to rapidly evolve.
To keep up with the changing way we view the web, most new websites are optimized for tablet and mobile. Existing sites are redesigned and relaunched with mobile-friendly interfaces, and even the kind of information they display - the very purpose of these websites is evolving in order to stay relevant. But how? And do you need to alter your website?
As mentioned before, apps are increasing in number. Popular business networking site LinkedIn was initially designed as an online CV and employer database with embellished functionality. Now it has five mobile apps to carry out different functions to help tailor site experience to various user categories. For example, the 'Recruiter App' was produced to connect job seekers with recruiters. LinkedIn also bought newsreader service app 'Pulse' last year, hoping to increase regular site usage with informative industry and business articles. However, there needed to be an underlying reason for such an expensive takeover and the costly developer time needed to produce these apps. LinkedIn plan to monetize extra page visits by using advertisements.
Mobile devices, are best equipped for information consumption on the move, rather than content creation (mainly due to slowness and inaccuracies of touch-screen keyboards or tiny keys). The commute to London on the Oxford Tube is made much more palatable with a tablet to hand. Engaging daily articles from Pulse and simplified viewing and navigation provided by the other apps should make them much more appealing to this sort of audience. Additionally, regular site updates also improve Google and other search engine rankings and therefore increased 'hits' - the benefits of a dynamic site in the vast majority of cases can't be disputed!
Although LinkedIn is a successful company attaining yearly growth, as things currently stand, their takings are mainly obtained from recruiters paying for database access. When you compare its figures to other popular sites, it is clear there are better revenue models in existence: Facebook boasts over one billion users visiting at least once a month compared to LinkedIn's 200 million (out of more than 300 million members) coupled with a slower rate of income growth. Although LinkedIn has never called itself a 'social network' it realizes that the ad models used by content rich sites such as Twitter and Facebook will increase its growth, allowing it to keep pace as one of the world's most prominent websites. Increased phone and tablet usage from commuters and casual evening and weekend browsing is propelling a web-wide increase in content-driven sites.
Taking mobile development a step further, online photo and video sharing site Instagram, created in October 2010, was one of the first companies to adopt a 'mobile first' ethos; the Instagram website wasn't rolled out until early 2012, having existed purely as an app for Apple and Android products prior to this date. Instagram entered the market with a dynamic, innovative attitude and armed itself with endless quirky, retro photo filters to appeal to a growing hipster community. Its pioneering 'mobile first' approach: primarily designing for small screen access, worked well for the company. Their app pre-empted a genuine need of a public platform to upload and share photos taken on-the-go with phone cameras. However, the 'mobile first' design method is only suitable for certain applications which fulfil similar market demands. In truth, few such companies have achieved great commercial success: it has always been difficult to predict market paradigm shifts in technology development. As the pace of change quickens, predicting the next trend in technology usage is viewed by most as a black art.
Apps are currently only economically viable (and constructive) for large businesses. However, we'll discuss excellent alternatives for smaller companies in later sections of this article. In 'Part 2' of 'How Mobile Devices are Shaping Websites and Software', we expand further on the history of paradigm shifts in technology and discusses the widely criticized Windows 8 operating system.
As the position on search engines improved, the site's popularity gradually grew. But Kate knew that search engine position wasn't the only way of drawing in customers. Some customers would be interested in connecting with the shop via social media channels, or receiving a newsletter which would give them discounts from time to time. So it was time to look at some of these methods.
First of all, Hugh showed Kate a chart of some of the common methods of online communication with customers.
"You've got to take into consideration what suits your customer base too" said Hugh. "Facebook is a consumer oriented medium, and your customers are consumers, so putting up a facebook page and getting "liked" is important. Once you're on people's facebook streams, it would be crucial to maintain a slow but steady stream of special offers and customer feedback. But for the non-facebook users, those offers should probably be repeated in a monthly email newsletter."
Kate agreed, and was also quite interested in setting up Google+, twitter, and pinterest accounts, but realised that she did not have time for everything.
"We've talked about return on investment with the Google ads." she asked; "How does it work here?"
"Although we're working with a digital medium, it's sometimes a bit more like traditional advertising when you work facebook," said Hugh, "but you can measure clicks and buys from social media and emails. So it's really important to do that, and that will give you a very good feel for how much all this work is worth."


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A new project to create an online support network for people with young onset and rare dementias has been awarded a joint grant by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and National Institute for Health Research (NIHR).
Paul Camic, Professor of Psychology and Public Health and Research Director for the Salomons Institute for Applied Psychology, is part of the research group, led by UCL (University College London), who will develop and evaluate a multi-component support group for people living with young onset and rare dementias.
Between 5% and 15% of people living with dementia receive a diagnosis of a young onset or rare dementia, such as frontotemporal dementia or posterior cortical atrophy. Many people affected by these types of dementias are not able to meet others in a similar situation for practical and emotional support because there aren’t people with the same type of dementia living locally. The project builds on face-to-face support group meetings that the research group runs around the country.
Professor Camic said: "I am honoured and excited to be part of this ground breaking, multi-component research project. It will seek to understand the mechanisms of rare dementia support groups and develop new virtual platforms that will allow much greater access to support.
“Led by Professor Sebastian Crutch at the UCL Dementia Research Centre, it will involve hundreds of participants across the UK and in Ontario, Canada. One goal of the research is to help healthcare professionals, policy makers and the public become more aware of the rare dementias in order to develop specific support tailored to several rare dementias including Familial Alzheimer’s Disease (FAD), Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD), Familial Frontotemporal Dementia (fFTD), Posterior Cortical Atrophy (PCA) and Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA)."
Professor Crutch, clinical and research neuropsychologist at the Dementia Research Centre, UCL, said: “We’re thrilled that the ESRC-NIHR have agreed to fund this work looking at the value of support groups by, with and for people with young onset and rare dementias.
The project comes as part of an Economic and Social Research Council announcement of £15 million of funding in collaboration with the National Institute for Health Research for the ESRC-NIHR Dementia Research Initiative 2018. The initiative has funded four projects that will run for five years and start in January 2019.
The impact of multi-component support groups for those living with rare dementias. UCL, Bangor University, Nipissing University and Canterbury Christ Church University.


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text: I agree with the President that Republicans and Democrats need to put politics aside and work together to better our nation. There is broad, bipartisan support to keep the government open and secure our border. We can and will join together and pass legislation to provide for paid family leave, rebuild our infrastructure, protect those with preexisting conditions, and lower healthcare costs for everyday Americans. The President is committed to reaching across the aisle in support of these critical priorities and I will work with him and my colleagues in the House to bolster our national security, ensure our economy remains prosperous for all, and make life better for Americans in communities around the country. Our economy is strong and we are clearly on the right path forward, but the gridlock that has grown to define American politics must be broken so we can do even better.

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Error “ORA-01033 ORACLE initialization or shutdown in progress” plagued me twice, not a third, unprepared!
Since this was the second time this happened to me so I decided I should get all my ducks in a row cause if it happened twice, it will most likely happen a third time, if not to me, then to someone else.
Execute the following commands to get things started.
If another error occurs, because another file is locked, then repeat the same command. Do these two commands until you see a “database is altered” response, and no errors. If there are other errors, they are not covered here. For me I have three database files, so it took doing those two commands three times.
And you should see this response.
To prepare for the test make sure these commands are executed to ensure the instance is properly started.
Now test the connection with the following steps.
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Ed Miliband said his "new generation" would take Labour back to power, in his first big speech as party leader.
In an hour-long speech he pledged to be a "responsible" opposition leader and not oppose every proposed spending cut.
But he said David Cameron offered a "miserable" view of what could be achieved and said Labour were the "optimists" who would change Britain.
Ed Miliband was greeted by enthusiastic applause from delegates in the packed hall at the Manchester Central venue as he arrived with his pregnant partner Justine.
He struck a very personal tone at the start of his speech, talking about his upbringing and how his parents' experience as refugees fleeing the Nazis had shaped his values and paying tribute to his "extraordinary" brother David.
Activists cheered as he said Labour had appeared "casual" about civil liberties and said he would not let the Tories or Lib Dems "take ownership of the British tradition of liberty". And they applauded his comment that Labour's foreign policy should be "based on values, not just alliances".
However his comments about Iraq appeared to annoy his brother David, whom he narrowly beat for the party leadership.
Mr Miliband has only been an MP since 2005 and was not part of the government during the invasion of Iraq - a decision which proved divisive for the Labour Party.
"I do believe we were wrong. Wrong to take Britain into war and we need to be honest about that," he said.
But David Miliband was filmed asking Labour's deputy leader Harriet Harman: "You voted for it, why are you clapping?"
BBC political editor Nick Robinson said it suggested the older Miliband brother, who has returned to London, would almost certainly announce on Wednesday that he was stepping down from front-line politics.
On Tuesday night, David Miliband's aide confirmed the former foreign secretary would make a statement on Wednesday afternoon.
He, Alistair Darling and Andy Burnham all voted for the war in 2003.
Jack Straw, who was foreign secretary at the time of the invasion, told the BBC the new leader was not an MP at the time so had "greater freedom to say we didn't get it right, but I don't agree with his view".
In the wide-ranging speech, Ed Miliband pledged to vote "yes" in a referendum on changing the voting system to AV, said Labour should have recognised concerns about jobs and wages resulting from immigration. He said he supported reducing the deficit but growth should be the priority.
The former energy secretary, 40, was named Labour leader on Saturday having won the ballot of MPs, party members and trade unionists by just 1%.
Since then he has been fending off criticism that he owes his leadership to the unions because his brother David got a higher percentage of votes from MPs and party members.
He got a standing ovation when, referring to the label some newspapers have given him, he said "Red Ed? Come off it," and urged a "grown-up debate" on politics.
And he warned that while he said trade unions were important, he had "no truck with overblown rhetoric about waves of irresponsible strikes" and Labour had to be careful not to alienate the public.
He said the party had to face facts about its general election defeat and go on "our own journey", show humility and learn some "painful truths" about where they had gone wrong.
"This country faces some tough choices and so do we. And we need to change," he said.
"This week we embark on the journey back to power."
Ed Miliband praised Labour's achievements in office, saying Britain was "fairer and stronger than it was 13 years ago" but said that the party had to ask how it lost five million votes between 1997 and 2010 and "shed old thinking".
He said he understood voters' anger that Labour had not stood up to City demands for deregulation and, in what will be seen as distancing himself from his old boss Gordon Brown, "at a Labour government that claimed it could end boom and bust".
Although he is only three years younger than Prime Minister David Cameron and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, he said in ideals and values he was from a new generation.
That generation would now be running Labour with "different attitudes, different ideas, different ways of doing politics".
He attacked the prime minister for offering a "miserable, pessimistic view of what we can achieve" telling Labour members: "We are the optimists and we together we will change Britain."
The speech was welcomed by union leader Derek Simpson as one "worthy of the next prime minister". He said: "Ed demonstrated he can break free from the worst of Labour's past and present a realistic alternative to the coalition's cuts."
But Graeme Leach, chief economist at the Institute of Directors, questioned Mr Miliband's stance on new employment regulations for agency workers and minimum wage increases.
"Both measures would hurt small and large businesses, not support them. It is early days, but we detect a drift away from New Labour's efforts to talk up a pro-enterprise agenda," he said.
Just after the speech David Miliband said he thought it was "really strong": "It was the speech of a conviction politician and also a nerveless speech. His personal qualities came through."
Labour's shadow cabinet is elected by its MPs - and as nominations close at 1700 BST on Wednesday, so David Miliband must enter his name into the ballot by then if he is to stay on Labour's front bench.


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The struggle is real. Have you ever tried to focus on important work with a deadline rapidly approaching only to be distracted by notification after notification from the likes of Snapchat, Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp, Twitter, Texts, etc.? You probably feel the pressure and wonder, “How am I going to get this done!?” Yet, with each notification, you reach for your phone anyway, to see what’s so important. You smile. Someone just shared that they love your last picture of that funny sandwich board outside of your favorite café that read, “Next time you’re afraid to share ideas, remember someone once said in a meeting, ‘Let’s make a film with a tornado full of sharks.’” LOL. We are our own enablers.
Indeed, it’s getting harder and harder to focus on tasks. Just writing this article is a challenge. But what do we do? Do we stop everything and go into a digital detox program? Or, do we learn how to balance all of these new and emerging distractions to get things done? I believe it’s the latter. We face complexities simply living and working in today’s digital economy. But why is this so complicated and what do we do about it?
The truth is that we are all in our own way living an active digital life. That amazing meal. That incredible sunset. That drive where we’re listening to our favorite song. That bathroom mirror that makes us look just right. That ocean just beyond our toes. Those experiences are perfect for sharing with friends in our favorite networks like Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. On the other side of the screen, our friends and followers support us by “liking,” reacting or commenting to these moments. But with each social share and each digital engagement, we are learning how to act and interact in real-time, blurring the physical and online worlds in almost everything we do.
I once said that information overload is a symptom of our desire to not focus on what’s important. It is a choice. But it’s becoming an increasingly difficult choice for a lot of important reasons.
We’re learning to crave engagement, which encourages us to share and engage more. And with each notification, we are compelled to stop what we’re doing to see how people respond to our experiences and in those moments, we in turn respond to the experiences of others. Did you know that there’s a scientific reason why you can’t ignore social media? The answer is dopamine. We crave it and social media consistently delivers. Dopamine causes you to want, desire, seek out, and search. It feels wonderful and we, in many ways, can’t help ourselves. As a result, we are not only becoming an always-on society; connected devices, social networks, apps, etc., are cultivating an always-distracted society as well.
On the other side of the science equation is something we are all too familiar with, FOMO. No, it’s not a Drake song. It’s the real world phenomenon of “missing out” whether in social media or the real world. This feeling is only exacerbated by social media as we see our friends doing amazing things leaving us to feel inadequate or left out. This can lead to anxiety and even depression.
So how do we focus in a new world of deliberate and pervasive interruption?
It’s not easy. The constant switching between apps and real world tasks thin attention, making it difficult to get things done efficiently. Not to mention, that the constant stimulation from social media to your dopamine system can be exhausting.
People, like you and me, who perpetually and intuitively switch between social, e-mail, texts and work are engaged in what’s called “rapid toggling between tasks.” Essentially, we are attempting to interact and progress while interchanging attention and context. Doing so however comes at a cost. For example, Gloria Mark of the University of California, Irvine, found that a typical office worker only gets 11 minutes between each interruption. What’s more, it reportedly takes an average of 25 minutes to return to the original task after each interruption. To the extent of how this affect depth and quality is still largely unknown. But personally, we know the answer. It’s difficult to get to productive depths on demand.
We are all in our own way struggling with the balance between technology and work. I don’t pretend to have the answers. But I do want to share some ways that we can improve our ability to focus and increase productivity, reduce multi-tasking aka task toggling and prolong our real-time need for dopamine fixes or the desire to curb FOMO. It starts by taking control of digital instead of letting digital control you. It’s a mindset. It requires an acceptance that you either are or are not in control. Only you can decide which is true in your world.
It’s highly recommended that you use behavioral principles to wean yourself from your digital devices. You have to plan and allocate time to be off the grid even if in incremental bursts.
Personally, I’m experimenting with the “Pomodoro Technique” combined with a reward system. Based on the Pomodoro kitchen timer, this time management method was developed by Francesco Cirillo in the late 1980s. It uses a timer, or an app, to break down work into 25 minute intervals, separated by short five-minute breaks. I do my best to focus for the full time and in those breaks, I then rush to check email, apps, etc. It helps quite a bit when I can remember to actually use the timer. There are many variations of this process such as the 40/20 rule, where you focus for 40 minutes and take 20 minutes to indulge in distractions.
Another way to focus is inspired by the research of Nathaniel Kleitman. He deduced that our brains work in 90-minute rest-activity cycles while we sleep and also when we’re awake. He suggests that we recharge every hour and a half. Kleitman further suggests that during some breaks, that we refrain from tech and do simple things like take a 10-minute walk, listen to music, look at art, exercise, or meditate. These activities have a calming effect that slows down the overactive brain caused by the stimulation of technology distractions.
Other methods for improving the ability to focus seem logical and even commonsensical. But honestly, we live in a world where common sense is rather uncommon. Even though these tips sound simple, they do help.
Try “single-tasking” when you can. Resist reaching for technology distractions. Also, make sure not to indulge in the things that pop-up as you do try to focus. Instead, make a list of everything that you would have jumped to and hit them later. Personally, I single-task with a tablet because it is just difficult enough to multi-task on them. In fact, I’m using an iPad Pro as my main writing machine when I need to focus on one thing at a time.
Turn off notifications. You don’t really need to know in real-time that you have a new reaction, Like, Tweet, email, or text. Get to them when you can.
Close unnecessary windows, browser tabs and apps. Whether you know it or not, they “pull” at you and prevent you from diving deeper on your primary task at hand.
Set tangible deadlines and reward yourself for achieving them. It’s important to break big tasks down to give yourself a sense of progress and real-time achievement.
Track how you spend your time. This one’s hard because like finances, we don’t actually want to see what we’re doing, but it does help.
Clean the clutter around your workspace. Whether your messy or obsessively organized, when there’s clutter, it too is both symbolic that you’re doing too much (or too little). Press pause. Get organized. Work.
Put together a good old fashioned list of things to get done for the day. Write them down on a piece of paper and take great joy in crossing them off as they’re accomplished.
Try meditation, Yoga or just use Headspace. Whatever your opinion, these, and other things like them, are ways to promote concentration and do help boost your attention span. Headspace is a meditation app, ironically, that helps teach you how to focus. I’m currently experimenting with it.
Listen to classical music or music without vocals (or vocals in a language you don’t understand). Doing so provides an ambiance that promotes focus. Whether we realize it or not, often we unconsciously try to cognitively process the words of the song which makes it harder to reach depths of greater thoughtfulness.
Beat FOMO with YOLO. One way to combat FOMO is with YOLO (yes that is a Drake song). Challenge yourself to do something different or better rather than feeling inferior. Ask yourself what you can do with your time in that moment that is more productive or fruitful…then do it.
Get distraction-free sleep. Many of us take our phones or tablets to bed to wind down with our favorite apps. However, the National Sleep Foundation and Mayo Clinic discovered that the use of blue-light-emitting LED devices is in fact detrimental to your sleep and affects the critical period that helps you retain what you learned during the day. The National Sleep Foundation goes as far to suggest that you don’t have your device anywhere within reach when you go to sleep. Doing so blocks the release of neurotransmitters that energize your brain and instead promotes the release of melatonin, which helps you sleep.
Without embracing other methods and making them part of your everyday routine, it’s easy to lose grasp of progress and instead feel an ongoing sense of defeat. You slowly and then quickly feel like you’re not getting as much done as you could. This ultimately makes you feel less than 100% and as such, you self-sabotage your ability to be productive, which only creates a vicious cycle. I haven’t figured it out either. But I have recently come to the realization that I need to work through many distractions and reevaluate how I value and reward focus, time and attention. We can only benefit from taking over technology and choosing how it benefits our life and the experiences of those around us.
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Nissan confirmed this week that it is expanding the reach of its next-generation Leaf to seven markets in Asia and Oceania by the end of the year.
The automaker made the announcement at its ‘Nissan Futures’ event in Singapore yesterday.
The markets in question are Australia, Hong Kong, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea and Thailand.
Furthermore, Nissan confirmed that it is also exploring introducing the zero-emission car in other markets in the region, including Indonesia and the Philippines.
Nissan launched the new Leaf in September 2017. Deliveries started in Japan a month later and now the new electric vehicle is available in the US, Canada, and Europe.
The Japanese automaker says that it will be in 60 markets this year.
Starting at $30,000 before incentives in the US, it comes down significantly lower than GM’s Chevy Bolt EV and Tesla’s Model 3, especially since Tesla hasn’t started to sell the base version of the Model 3.
After incentives and with leases available starting at $229 per month, the new Leaf can come down to a reasonable price. You can check with your local Nissan dealer for Leaf inventory.
Depending on how the vehicle is priced in those new markets, it could likely take advantage of the same position in the segment.

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industry_corpus2: Travel & Geography


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In the previous blog post about facilitation I talked about what facilitation is and the qualities of a facilitator. They are listed again below and I invite you to spend a few moments looking at each of these and scoring yourself out of 5, with 5 being totally comfortable with the quality and skill – you totally rock at this! and 1 being that it is skill or quality that you don’t feel comfortable or confident in at all.
Next draw yourself a table with 5 columns. Leave the first column heading blank and put across the others the headings for 4 different learning processes: through gaining Knowledge, by Example, through Experience and through Showing Others.
Now go through your scores and in the left hand column write down all of the qualities and skills that you scored yourself between 2 and 3 for AND that you are really interested in developing further.
How you can find the opportunity to teach it or show it to someone else.
You now have a learning plan for the further development of the facilitation skills that you are interested in developing – moving you from an area of strength and interest to where you want to go.


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Link exchange is not the only sphere of the Internet where you have to respond quickly to the changes on the market, but as link building is one of the pillars to site success - this sphere gets huge attention. From search engines and webmasters. That is why what worked few months ago can be a trap for you today.
Ok, let's take a typical situation. You made a site and started to find relevant link partners - and here most of the people can make their first step to frustration. The result of this step is very low response to your link offers, or maybe even complete *ignore* to your offers.
Don't lose your hope. Make sure you did not make this mistake before contacting your potential link partners.
Do you remember that few years ago link partners would not agree to exchange links with you if you don't put link to you directory on the index page of your site? Well, now it is not enough. Now you must make sure that the page where your link partner will have his or her link should be DIRECTLY linked from your index page. This is a normal desire, and it has become a must for most of the webmasters and site owners. I would even say more: some of the automatic link exchange solutions will not accept your offer if don't find direct link from index page to the page where the link is going to be placed.
In practice this problem is solved easily. You just put the links to all categories of your link exchange directory on the index page. Plus it will give your site the looks of more info; this will glue site visitors to your site, because they will see direct shortcuts to relevant info sources on your site.
I know it from real experience. A while ago I was helping one client with link building. Usually I do all the job, and here my client made almost everything and just passed the link building on my shoulders. I started to build links - no response - impossible, it always worked before. I went to index page and saw the mistake: no category links. We made these changes, and it immediately solved the problem.
You are not guaranteed that having category links on your index page will bring you tons of link partners. But you will definitely lose a huge part of your potential link partners if you do not put the category links. So - the choice is yours. I think it is wiser to be proactive and prevent a problem, then losing all hopes to get good partners and increase your web publicity.


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If, despite hours of Instagram scrolling on the daily, you feel like you’re still somehow missing the engagement announcements of numerous starlets, you’re not alone. It was only a week ago that we woke up to discover Amy Schumer married her beau in a beautiful beachfront ceremony, while Alicia Vikander tied the knot with minimal fanfare this past summer. Turns out Emily Ratajkowski is also cashing in on the surprise nuptials trend, unveiling her new relationship status with a simple Instagram post captioned with two diamond rings and a flurry of Instagram story posts. We love the pomp and circumstance of the engagement period, particularly when celebrities and royals are involved, but there is something so effortless and cool about a quiet, private ceremony.
To further prove her low maintenance approach to being a bride, she eschewed a traditional gown in favor of a mustard pantsuit, reportedly from fast-fashion retailer Zara, which she accessorized with a veiled black hat. Given how outspoken the actress and model has been about women having the right to dress how they want, when they want, we’re pumped to see she bucked convention and chose a badass orange suit for the special courthouse event. Congratulations to the happy couple!


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When you know all the names of a particular bird in all the languages, you know nothing about the bird. Nothing. Knowing the name of something doesn't constitute knowledge.
Filed under Blog, Ideas and Thoughts. Tagged knowledge.


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industry_corpus2: Manufacturing


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Will they haunt me through the years?
Is that what we both want?
Is that what we both need?


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FAQ’s contact ARM for secure solution compliance. Compliance with privacy laws and regulations is a concern for every business professional. Over recent years, businesses have become increasingly aware of the dangers involved with handling confidential company, client, patient, or personal information improperly. Increasing government regulation, such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the Patriot Act, Gram-Leach-Bliley Act and revisions to HIPAA (the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act), all affect private individuals, business professionals, healthcare organizations.
It is simple to see that there is a growing need for confidential information to be properly handled and protected. Security and prevention are in the forefront of everyone.
Admiral Records Management pays special attention to HIPAA laws and is sensitive to protecting the privacy of all information under our care. We have policies and procedures in place that are specifically designed for the health care community.
Our compliance doesn’t end with knowledge of the laws that directly affect you, but we go further with our wide variety of services specially designed to benefit you and your clients.
A relocation involving protected information can be laden with potential liability, a company well-versed in secure chain of custody moves can prevent liability & costly problems. Criminals look for weaknesses they can exploit. A partner experienced in secure relocation can minimize weaknesses and ensure compliance.
We would love to help you with any compliance issues or questions you may have. It is always better to be safe than sorry.
We are here to help you achieve compliance and protect your business, clients, employees and stockholders by safeguarding protected information.


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There are times that safety measures are often neglected by others most especially those who are working in a small construction companies. Accident happen any time and mostly it happened when we least expect it to happen. I remember when my Aunt and her husband decided to renovate their house. They hired a contractor to do the renovation and because they don't use safety precautions two of the workers had an accident. Good thing nothing bad happened to them and I hope the accident will serve an eye opener to the contractor and other construction owner to secure the safety of the workers and the work location.
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I am thinking of referring this online store my friends who is a working in construction company and law enforcement. And to those who are into tough jobs or likes to go camping I also advise you to visit the link now.


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When it comes to wine, there are many sports celebrities who own their own vineyards, including famed NASCAR driver, four-time Sprint Cup Series Champion, Jeff Gordon who owns Jeff Gordon Collection wine. While it may seem a little strange to associate wine with race car driving, he grew up not far from the famed Napa Valley wine country in northern California.
Hall of Fame quarterback Dan Marino owns Vintage13 Marino Estates while famed Green Bay Packers cornerback Charles Woodson owns 24 Hour Wines. The results of his dedication can be witnessed both on the field, and in the wine community.
Former New England Patriots’ quarterback, Drew Bledsoe returned to his hometown to purchase his first piece of property, an 80-acre plot of land just outside of Walla Walla Valley in Washington State back in 2003. He had an interest in wine for quite some time, and when contemplating his ultimate retirement he began seriously considering opening a vineyard. Ultimately he succeeded in launching his new career in the wine business with Doubleback Wine.Other well-known athletes with vineyards include pro golfer Greg Norman, former NFL head coach Mike Ditka, Olympic figure skater Peggy Fleming, racing phenom Mario Andretti and World Series Champion Tom Seaver.
As famed sports stars, these athletes are able to be the face of their own products, serving to quickly build brand awareness and increasing sales. If you’d like to help build your company’s brand, an Endorsement Deal with a sports celebrity is one of the best ways to do just that. All it takes is a call to the agents at Athlete Promotions at 888-246-7141, or fill out the online athlete endorsement form to see your business grow to unimaginable heights.
>>> Book an Athlete for a Wine Endorsement.

industry_corpus2: Sports