To benefit from this fresh fruit, you can use the chart below to keep up with the most popular types of fruit like apples, oranges and bananas. You’ll also find useful tips to help you choose the best tasting fruit, and help you keep your fruit fresh for as long as possible. Whether you like to eat fruit for breakfast, as a healthy snack or in a recipe, it pays to have the best of the bunch....
Several recent studies have shown that these devices actually steal sleep from kids and adults alike. What makes this a problem is that more people than ever are using electronics in the bedroom. Here’s a few stats demonstrating the pervasiveness of the issue: The 2014 Sleep in America poll by the National Sleep Foundation estimates that 89% of adults and 75% of children have at least one electronic device in their bedrooms....
But networking isn’t just helpful for a successful life, it’s necessary. In this age of connectivity no employer wants to, or needs to, risk hiring an unknown individual. Networking helps you to form relationships so future employers will see you as a friend instead of as a risk. Here are a 6 tips to help any college student kick-start their lives with networking. Network With Your Career Goals in Mind The career you want to pursue will influence the course your networking should take....
Avoid generic formalities at all costs. It’s been common practice to use formal, non-identifying salutations in a variety of occasions, from resumes and cover letters to addressing potential clients to writing business letters and beyond. There used to be a good reason for that: people writing these types of communications were typically either sending them en masse or didn’t have enough information about the recipient available. But times have changed. As marketing and communications have shifted to a more personalized approach, combined with the research assistance that the internet now provides, there simply isn’t a good justification to use the same old “To whom it may concern” segue....
While this is a pretty simple way to look at it, it’s true. The best managers are the ones that can turn your potential into actuality. To do this, they need to leverage some special skills of their own. As a manager, you undoubtedly have questions about whether you’re doing “the right thing” when it comes to the employees you’re tasked with handling. What if you could learn how to become the kind of manager that your employees look back on fondly and remember gracefully?...
Fonts affect, to a large extent, how your typographic material looks and feels to the audience, so it is important to choose the font carefully for your printing, publishing, web designing and other tasks. Below we have put together a list of the most popular fonts for you to choose from for your printing and design needs. 1. Helvetica (Max Miedinger, 1957) Helvetica is arguably the most famous typeface on the planet....
We forget that we are wonderfully made; we forget that we are unique and have the capacity to bring ideas to life that can change our world. If you don’t yet know how to love yourself and treat yourself well, get started. Here are the top 20 signs you know how to love yourself and treat yourself well and some tips for those who have not yet perfected self-love....
Today, we’re going to reveal the top 5 myths about learning a new language. Myth #1: “I can’t learn a language because I can’t travel…” The requirement to travel in order to learn a language is probably one of the biggest misconceptions we have. Part of the reason is that we see language bloggers putting up photos of themselves traveling the world and interacting with native speakers. This can be a good source of motivation for us to learn the language, but it’s fairly misleading....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVU_eWaFUT8&feature=youtu.be TouchBase uses business cards that are embedded with conductive material that mimics the touch of a finger when tapped on the screen; this is how the magic happens. The contact information, which is stored in the cloud, is then immediately downloaded to the mobile phone. It all happens so quickly that you if blink you just might miss it. As you can imagine, these tap and go business cards will save you a lot of time....
However, the main feature of Web History is to record the sites you visit, ala your browser’s history. Always on the Web The first benefit of using this instead of your regular history is that Web History is web based, hosted by Google. This means you don’t have to delete history records to save space on your hard drive, and your history is accessible on other computers. The second, and more interesting, benefit is that you can actually track your surf history while on another computer....
Today, being much different, I gladly admit that I am the man who initiated that question, and I am the father of an autistic son, named Malik. When that question “What’s perfect about autism?”…arose in my mind concerning his diagnosis, and “…only a monster could ask something so cruel.” Depression instantly took hold, and I pushed the idea into the dark quarters of my mind. Simultaneously, I blocked out the sickening thought whenever it came to light....
You could try killing meetings all together, or try what John Trosko suggests and hold the meetings that aren’t long and strategic with everyone standing up. When I worked in an office briefly, I noticed this was how they held those meetings – and it really worked. Anyone else seen this work? Would you suggest it? Stand Up Meetings – Lose the Chairs and Save Time – [OrganizingLA]
Ingredients: 2 large Yukon Gold potatoes (about 1 pound) 2 teaspoons olive oil 1/2 teaspoon salt 3 tablespoons milk 2 tablespoons butter or margarine 2 tablespoons dairy sour cream 1 tablespoon snipped fresh chives 1/4 cup finely shredded Gruyere or Swiss cheese (1 ounce) Salt Ground black pepper Snipped fresh chives (optional)
Are you depressed? Do you know someone who is? You might lose focus in your job, end an important relationship, suffer a personal loss, or something else. All of these pressures can compound your ailments in being depressed. Everyone goes through minor depression at some time, but this is not always chronic or severe. One out of every four people in the US suffers from depression, and 10 percent of the population take antidepressants....
Look no further – Charles Cave has written a manual for implementing GTD in Emacs using Emacs org-mode. Orginially, org-mode is for keeping notes, lists, and managing projects in a simple text system, but with some creativity, it can be used for GTD. Using Emacs org-mode for GTD – [Charles Cave via 43Folders]
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The chances of your parents meeting, finding each other attractive and enjoying each other’s company, continuing to stay together and having a child is 1 in 2,000. The chances of you being conceived to become who you are (that is, that one particular egg meeting that single sperm; nice imagery for you there) is 1 in 4 quadrillion. The odds of your lineage remaining unbroken long enough to create you: 1 in 10[45,000]....
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1. Focus on long-term success You need a strategy for long-term success in the market. Buffett is always concentrated on finding a company to invest in that he feels will produce long-term results. He is not interested in the latest IPO, or the trendiest stock everyone else is interested in. Buffett possesses a mindset that many investors don’t have – thinking long term. Find the businesses that you believe have long-term growth potential....
