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A newly discovered document, written by one of Europe's most famous philosophers, Thomas Hobbes, reveals a plan that, if successful, could have turned the tide of one of England's bloodiest wars.
In the words of Hobbes, the plan would prevent the "ruine of the English nation." The document was written during the height of the English civil war, a series of conflicts between 1642 and 1651 that saw King Charles I (and later his son Charles II), pitted against his country's parliament.
Hobbes, whose work encompassed politics, history, law, physics and mathematics, was a strong supporter of the king. And in the newfound document, discovered among papers of English writer John Evelyn in the British Library, Hobbes proposes a plan to win the war by getting the head of the parliamentary navy, Earl of Warwick Robert Rich, to defect.
Hobbes had sent his document to Evelyn's father-in-law, Richard Browne, ?who acted effectively as the king's ambassador to France. The handwriting is identical to Hobbes',and the document itself is marked "Proposition. E. of Warwick &ct. T. H." [History's Top 12 Doting Dads]
"We don't have any other document of this kind from Hobbes' pen," Noel Malcolm, a senior research fellow at All Souls College, University of Oxford, told LiveScience in an interview. Malcolm explained that Hobbes' political writing tended to be fairly abstract. "Here, you see him get his fingers dirty in real-life politics."
The document, and Malcolm's analysis of it, are published in the most recent issue of The Historical Journal.
Scots and Swedes
In 1643, supporters of King Charles I, called royalists, were in a good position, controlling a large amount of territory outside London. However, at the end of the year, the Scots intervened on the side of Parliament, crossing the border in January 1644 to help them out. Hobbes' proposal appears to have been written around this time. In it, he fears the Scots will bring Sweden, at the time a great military power, in to aid the Parliamentarians.
Hobbes' writing is in an older form of English then what we see today. The letter "u" is our equivalent of "v" and "ye" is our equivalent of "the."
"It is not likely the Scots will depend on ye will of the [Parliament] for the benefit they [aim] at in this inuasion; and consequently there is no doubt but that they expect support from abroade," Hobbes writes, going on to provide reasons why the Swedes will likely come to Scotland's aid.
Regardless of whether the Swedes poised a risk to England, the fact that a Scottish army had crossed the border was enough to turn the tide of war in favor of Parliament. "That really played a huge part in shifting the balance of power in favor of the parliamentarian forces," Malcolm said.
Hobbes' plan
Hobbes hoped to persuade Rich, the Earl of Warwick, to defect to the royalists, bringing much of Parliament's navy with him.
Malcolm said that the Earl was a strong parliamentary supporter and the chances of him coming over to the king's side were slim to none. However, if it did happen, it could have had a major impact on the course of the war.
"This man could have just brought probably most of the navy with him,? Malcolm said, explaining that in the 17th century soldiers and sailors tended to identify more with their leader than with a specific cause.
To win over Rich, Hobbes recommended restoring the Earl of Warwick's wealth, granting "pardons or other graces for his [friends] and kindred," the means to "allure and reward his officers soldiers and mariners" and a grand title of some sort that isn't specified.
This offer "need be carried very secretly," Hobbes wrote.
It's ironic that in his political writings Hobbes condemned this kind of bribery. However, Malcolm points out that this was a unique situation. While Hobbes would condemn this activity in a "stable state," England was at war. "He thinks that almost any means would be justified to achieve the end of ending the war and putting the king back on the throne," Malcolm said. [The History of Human Aggression]
Why Hobbes thought the Earl could be won over is a mystery; the Earl's record had been one of strong support of Parliament. Malcolm suggests that Hobbes may have arrived at his belief based on personal experience he had when both he and the Earl of Warwick were members of the Virginia Company. They were also both members of the Somers Islands Company, which was in charge of Bermuda.
What happened?
At the time Hobbes wrote the proposal, it appears to have gone nowhere. So far, Malcolm has found no evidence that the Earl was approached at the time or that Browne even forwarded the proposal to royalist strategists in England.
"He was expecting it to be passed on, it was meant to go in some way or other to the king," Malcolm said.
Several years later, in August 1648, an attempt was made to get the Earl of Warwick to switch sides. At this point his brother, the Earl of Holland, had joined the royalists (the king's side).?
At the time, the King's son, Prince Charles, faced off against the Earl of Warwick on the Thames Estuary. The prince's fleet was smaller and an attempt was made to bring Warwick over.
The prince is said to have issued a summons to Warwick imploring him to come under the king's ruling, helping to bring peace to "his majesty's dominions," according to "Memorials of the Professional Life and Times of Sir William Penn," published in 1833.
Warwick refused. Not even the defection of his brother to the royalist side could make the Earl of Warwick turn against Parliament's cause. "It was hopeless," Malcolm said.
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Actually, I take it all back. Because that?s what Amtrak has done, and I curse them for it. Children may not longer take the train alone, I discovered Monday, in a sad bit of news that has wrecked our plans for this February break and made me rue anew our hand-holding, paranoid culture. Amtrak has suddenly decided that Eli and Simon are no longer old enough to be trusted to ride the train by themselves. Never mind that they are a year older and wiser than they were last February, and never mind the nice attendants and the careful hand-offs to designated adults who present identification. Apparently, none of it is enough to keep our dear not-so-little ones safe anymore. Or maybe Amtrak just didn?t feel like dealing. In any case, for no apparent good reason they have changed the rules, which is infuriating and, as is so often the case with switch-ups like this, even worse than it would have been if we?d never had last year?s taste of freedom at all.
Recession and high co-pays tied to fewer colonoscopy screenings among people with health insurancePublic release date: 21-Feb-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Les Lang llang@med.unc.edu 919-966-9366 University of North Carolina School of Medicine
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - The recent U.S. economic recession was the longest and most severe since World War II. During this period, personal spending on health care grew at the slowest rate in over 50 years, suggesting that Americans used less health care.
A new study finds that these cut backs were not limited to Americans who lost their health insurance, nor restricted to unnecessary services. Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine found that during the recession, continuously insured Americans underwent fewer screening colonoscopies, a cost-effective, recommended preventive service. The study appears in the March issue of the journal Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology.
The investigators estimated that during the recession period, dating from December 2007 to June 2009, roughly one- half million fewer Americans covered by commercial health insurance underwent colonoscopy screening for colorectal cancer than expected based on use in the preceding two years.
These time periods were defined by the National Bureau of Economic Research, the nation's leading nonprofit economic research organization and the official arbiter for dating recessions.
The study of 50 to 64 year olds also found a strong link between direct out-of-pocket (OOP) costs for this elective procedure and whether or not patients were more likely to get screened as their doctors recommended.
"We found that patients facing high out-of-pocket costs were less likely to undergo colonoscopy at any time point, especially during the recession," noted Spencer D. Dorn, MD, MPH, assistant professor of medicine in the division of gastroenterology and hepatology at UNC. "Before the recession, these individuals were less likely to get a screening colonoscopy, but the gap in use between those with high and low out-of-pocket costs was narrowing. But when the recession hit full force, the discrepancy in use widened again." Low OOP was defined $50 or less; high OOP, $300 or more.
The researchers led by Dorn analyzed data from 106 U.S. health plans that fed into the IMS LifeLink Health Plan Claims Database. Dorn points out that this is nationally representative of the commercially insured U.S. population, and does not include those served by Medicare or Medicaid.
"These findings reflect the intimate link between socioeconomic factors and health care use," the authors state. When faced with the stress of economic insecurity, otherwise healthy people who are covered by health insurance "may be unable to afford screening colonoscopy, or may perceive it to be less important than competing demands for limited resources."
The findings, say the authors add to the growing evidence that cost sharing is a disincentive for preventive health services. For example, requiring women to pay a $10 to $20 co-pay, has been shown to make them less likely to undergo screening mammography.
"Taken together, these studies argue for strategies to reduce patient cost sharing for colorectal cancer screening," the report states.
The new health care reform act has eliminated Medicare and Medicaid copayments and deductible requirements for all federally recommended preventive services, including colorectal cancer screening. The authors suggest that commercial insurers "follow suit" by exploring new ways to reduce patient cost-sharing.
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Study co-authors from UNC are David Wei, research assistant and Joel F. Farley, PhD at the Eshelman School of Pharmacy; Nicholas J. Shaheen, MD, MPH, Robert S. Sandler, MD, MPH, and Michael D. Kappelman, MD, MPH, at the School of Medicine. Co-author Nilay D. Shah, PhD is at Mayo Clinic, Division of Health Care Policy and Research.
Support from the study came from the National Institutes of Health and the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America.
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Recession and high co-pays tied to fewer colonoscopy screenings among people with health insurancePublic release date: 21-Feb-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Les Lang llang@med.unc.edu 919-966-9366 University of North Carolina School of Medicine
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - The recent U.S. economic recession was the longest and most severe since World War II. During this period, personal spending on health care grew at the slowest rate in over 50 years, suggesting that Americans used less health care.
A new study finds that these cut backs were not limited to Americans who lost their health insurance, nor restricted to unnecessary services. Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine found that during the recession, continuously insured Americans underwent fewer screening colonoscopies, a cost-effective, recommended preventive service. The study appears in the March issue of the journal Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology.
The investigators estimated that during the recession period, dating from December 2007 to June 2009, roughly one- half million fewer Americans covered by commercial health insurance underwent colonoscopy screening for colorectal cancer than expected based on use in the preceding two years.
These time periods were defined by the National Bureau of Economic Research, the nation's leading nonprofit economic research organization and the official arbiter for dating recessions.
The study of 50 to 64 year olds also found a strong link between direct out-of-pocket (OOP) costs for this elective procedure and whether or not patients were more likely to get screened as their doctors recommended.
"We found that patients facing high out-of-pocket costs were less likely to undergo colonoscopy at any time point, especially during the recession," noted Spencer D. Dorn, MD, MPH, assistant professor of medicine in the division of gastroenterology and hepatology at UNC. "Before the recession, these individuals were less likely to get a screening colonoscopy, but the gap in use between those with high and low out-of-pocket costs was narrowing. But when the recession hit full force, the discrepancy in use widened again." Low OOP was defined $50 or less; high OOP, $300 or more.
The researchers led by Dorn analyzed data from 106 U.S. health plans that fed into the IMS LifeLink Health Plan Claims Database. Dorn points out that this is nationally representative of the commercially insured U.S. population, and does not include those served by Medicare or Medicaid.
"These findings reflect the intimate link between socioeconomic factors and health care use," the authors state. When faced with the stress of economic insecurity, otherwise healthy people who are covered by health insurance "may be unable to afford screening colonoscopy, or may perceive it to be less important than competing demands for limited resources."
The findings, say the authors add to the growing evidence that cost sharing is a disincentive for preventive health services. For example, requiring women to pay a $10 to $20 co-pay, has been shown to make them less likely to undergo screening mammography.
"Taken together, these studies argue for strategies to reduce patient cost sharing for colorectal cancer screening," the report states.
The new health care reform act has eliminated Medicare and Medicaid copayments and deductible requirements for all federally recommended preventive services, including colorectal cancer screening. The authors suggest that commercial insurers "follow suit" by exploring new ways to reduce patient cost-sharing.
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Study co-authors from UNC are David Wei, research assistant and Joel F. Farley, PhD at the Eshelman School of Pharmacy; Nicholas J. Shaheen, MD, MPH, Robert S. Sandler, MD, MPH, and Michael D. Kappelman, MD, MPH, at the School of Medicine. Co-author Nilay D. Shah, PhD is at Mayo Clinic, Division of Health Care Policy and Research.
Support from the study came from the National Institutes of Health and the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America.
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What should you know to obtain the best stock to get right today?
Are a person planning to buy the finest stocks to buy today? If you need to know in regards to the best stocks to buy at this time then you have to first become knowledgeable about the newest stock researching the market techniques as well as trends. Without proper currency markets knowledge, you tend to be doomed in order to fail without a doubt. To acquire maximum returns on your own investment also to increase your own profits considerably, you must learn how to perform basic and complex market analysis to discover the finest stocks to buy at this time.
Some of the very important stock exchange analysis strategies are the following
1) Marketplace Analysis
Before trading into almost any stocks, one have to know the warm sectors regarding investment inside 2011. The very hot sectors would be the ones that have the considerable growth with regards to net income and stock exchange growth. The key sectors which will be profitable inside the year 2011 are it, oil as well as gas, banking, finance and also automobiles.
When you will find the ideal sector you?ll be able to focus upon selecting specific companies with regard to further investigation. There tend to be some aspects which should be considered although choosing any organization stock regarding investment for example future earnings potential, revenue development and internet profit prospective, etc.
2) Specialized Analysis
Technical examination has greatest importance whenever performing any kind of stock general market trends. It consists of study of various kinds of chart designs, market styles, etc. With the aid of this evaluation, one will find out one of the most probable time of purchasing stocks and also selling stocks available in the market.
3) Value Analysis
Valuation analysis is known as for share research as it helps investor to discover important ratios for instance earnings for each share as well as price in order to earnings proportions. These ratios enable you to find out there most lucrative and finest stocks to buy today.
4) Earnings Analysis
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Once an individual study as well as perform the aforementioned stock researching the market techniques, then you could start to learn the greatest stocks to buy today in 2011. The pursuing are handful of already explored and popular companies which have been most lucrative and reliable for a number of investors within the year 2011.
Buying as well as selling stocks is called trading. Two simple methods are present for buying and selling Good Stocks To Invest In. The conventional method requires trading about the exchange ground. The next involves buying and selling online. Trading online is achievable through huge networks in which simply complement buyers and also sellers.
A Nate Dogg sex tape featuring the late rapper/singer and an unidentified female lover has surfaced and is being shopped to various media outlets, TMZ reports.
The tape, shot several years ago, is pretty standard by sex tape standards.
Read: There is a lot of sex going on, from various positions, while a sexy Luther Vandross soundtrack plays in the background. Almost sounds romantic, no?
The person in possession of the Nate Dogg sex tape is currently shopping it around to the usual sex tape purveyors/studios. So far, no takers. But just wait.
If nothing else, the private collector that just paid big bucks to snap up the Tupac sex tape might want another addition to his pile of random celebrity porn.
A great internet network marketing business is not only just sitting down in a computer just about all day along with bringing within cash, although some will want one to think that.
Any time first starting out in internet marketing you could spend months, possibly the first year working 6 or 7 days a week, as well as long hours when you see any return in your investment of time and also money.
A lots of men and women enter the internet marketing business using stars inside their eyes and many are unsuccessful inside 3 months of starting. They will amble around acquiring components of info occasionally, and also cobble collectively some type of misguided strategy that is ruined for you to disappointment in the first place.
Internet Network marketing Business Planning
Most internet network marketing businesses are usually manage through home, and a lot of people merely are not able to disciple themselves good enough as a way to target his or her business and avoid distraction. If you have labored in any kind of business just before, especially in an office, there may are actually music enjoying however not really a television about each of the time, nobody would likely be able to concentrate, thus don?t try to do that when a person work coming from home. Go in the bedroom towards the kitchen and have some breakfast and also plan your smashes along with what direction to go from lunchtime, in most cases it will likely be a sandwich manufactured in exactly the same kitchen. After that back in order to work right up until a time you set on your own. It?s not hard to burn out working from home also, because work is obviously there calling for you.
Understand the past three words inside the term ?internet network marketing business? and understand that it consists of networking and also marketing and it is YOUR business and that?s what will pay the actual bills.
Signing up for ?network? along with ?marketing? with each other don?t indicates just acquiring a website together as well as wanting men and women will come. It?s not like that. At first you will need to put a lots of hard work into list constructing and having sales opportunities, and there are numerous methods for carrying out which, some completely useless and others very successful, nevertheless the important thing immediately, is always to possess a system that you can follow, mentors that will help you, along with a certain amount of info with an entrepreneurial heart.
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There are numerous courses on the subject for the internet, therefore it may always be very difficult to select the best one.
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The odds of Terrence Malick?s The Tree of Life being crowned best picture next weekend are slim, but the film has already claimed the Golden Palm at Cannes, a fittingly arboreal award for a film that takes its trees seriously. In Malick?s fifth and most experimental feature,an oak tree towering above a shady lane in Texas is the portal through which the O?Brien family, headed by Brad Pitt and Jessica Chastain, connects to the origins of the universe. Getting the oak prepped for the big screen seems to have been as demanding a task as reproducing the Big Bang. Under a veil of secrecy, tree scouts scoured the county surrounding Smithville, the small town that doubled for the Waco of Malick?s youth, searching for a tree that captured the director?s imagination, while also providing a wide enough spread for the three branch-swinging O?Brien boys to climb. As Terry Hagerty reported in the Bastrop Advertiser, the scouts arranged to excavate the 65,000-pound behemoth of their choosing and transport it across town in an oversized trailer. To ensure safe passage, every telephone and electrical wire in their path had to be temporarily removed as the towering cargo was inched toward the set. This willingness to upend the same natural order the film fetishizes, all while motivating a crew to achieve spectacular results, puts Malick in esteemed company, as many of the cinema?s finest filmmakers have gone to similar lengths to photograph the perfect tree.
Writing is considered one of the most difficult literacy?tasks. Many students with learning disabilities struggle with the process of writing as well as the mechanical componets of the writing task. Technology?can provide support to the mechanical demands of the writing process and is often a welcome tool to students.
When asked about AT?supports for writing there are many, ?however some of the?standard AT tools of mechanical writing?are voice recognition, use of text to speech, word prediction and adaptive or customized writing environments. Although there are others (especially those with text to speech) here are some apps that show good reviews and provide basic features of the standard AT tools for writing. At the present, phonetic word prediction does not appear to be present in writing apps (may be found in more advanced text-based AAC apps such as Predictably). Note taking, story telling, graphic organizing or concept mapping apps are anticipated to be reviewed in?upcoming posts.
Voice Recognition Apps
Dragon Dictation ? Created by Nuance, the makers of Dragon NaturallySpeaking, provides this free voice recognition app for iPod/iPhone/iPad. It requires Wi-Fi service for the translation of your voiced file to text. Dragon Dictation is amazingly accurate given the fact that no training is required prior to its use. It uses some of the standard Dragon NaturallySpeaking voice commands for formating and document navigation. Check out the voice command listing in the previous post,?Dragon Dictation??to help with voice navigation and? punctuation commands?when composing. Options for publishing?the text include?copying, emailing, cutting or sending it to Facebook or Twitter.
Dragon Dictation?minimizes the demands of the mechanical writing demands. I?requires a significant??cognitive component to organization thoughts, speak out punctuation and recall commands for document navigation, editing or formating by voice.???Dragon Dictation however is a boon for those who have significant spelling challenges, difficulty getting their ideas down on paper and rely on scribing to others. Good articulation, Wi-Fi service, and the ability to read your translated text is required to use Dragon Dictation app.
PaperPort App - This is Nuances new free digital?note taking for your iPad?that captures hand written notes, typed text, images, web content and audio. PaperPort Notes even allows you to take advantage of the Dragon Dictates voice recognition software produce your ideas and notes simply by speaking. This is a fabulous app previously reviewed?in a previous post PaperPort App ?- Dragon Dictation on Steroids.
PaperPort app provides a ?scribe-like? tool with additional support of importing pictures into the app. Tools to draw and type are available along with the capabilities of ?speak text? tool to be used to list to the transcribed text. Best of both worlds, this app provides voice recognition?in a note taking app with many tools including ?speak text? capabilities.? Good articulation, written organization, knowledge of conventions for punctuation and capitalization and editing is required to support the writing process. Ability to manually navigate in the app is required to access tools and menus. Great tool for students with learning disabilities to get their thoughts down on paper and review the text using ?speak text? tool offered in iOS5.
Text to Speech to Assist with Editing
Write & Say App ?- This app provides a word processing environment with text to speech, translation and the ability to convert your text to MP3 format. Many languages and voices are?available within the app. Boost high quality voices for its text to speech tool. Compatible with iPhone/iPod and iPad, (9.99). Provides the ability to email your documents.
Word Prediction Apps
Typ-O ? A simple word processing note pad with word prediction and text to speech provided to read your text aloud. Provides the ability to email your work or copy to the clipboard to transfer to another word processing or note taking app. Basic setting options of reading sped, pitch and word prediction vocabulary and spelling skill?options are provided to support the writer?s skill?level.
Typ-O for iPod/iPhone (9.99):
Typ-O for iPad (14.99):
ZenTap ? A word processing app featuring advanced word prediction.??Compatible with iPhone/iPod and iPad provides a free and Pro version (2.99), ZenTap provides a word processing environment with word?presented above the keyboard?for easy presentation and access. Words are predicted using an alphabetic formula, rather than a phonetic or grammatic method of generation.
Spell checking is also provided in the app as well as the ability to translate to other languages. No text to?speech is provided in the app, however if voice over capabilities are enabled, cursory text to speech will be available. Word processed text can be saved, emailed or copied for use in other apps. For its cost, ZenTap provides many features along with its word prediction tool.
Intellipad App - This word prediction and customizable keyboard app provides many options for students with special needs. Compatible only with iPad (19.99). Intellipad provides a word processing environment with?word prediction presented?above the keyboard for easy viewing and selection. Word prediction is generated?alphabetically as you type.?Text to speech is also provided for easy auditory review of the text. This is a great app for elementary aged students with learning disabilities who have difficulty generating written work. Working with the app to become familiar with it I easily customized a math keyboard with math symbols as a solutions for students having difficulty?handwriting simple math problems.
Another outstanding feature of Intellipad is the ability to modify the keyboard and key contents.
Intellipad is a great app providing access and scaffolding of?writing supports for special needs students. For more information visit an earlier post dated October, 2011 on Intellipad.
iMean ? Another app providing word suggestions with?an alternative keyboards?available?with text to speech capabilities. Compatible with the iPad (4.99), this app provides options of?an ABC, QWERTY and?number?keyboards with word suggestions? and text to speech available when the word enter the typing window. Easy switching from keyboard to keyboard is available directly on the keyboard.
Capabilities to change from keyboard to word processing view as shown above?is readily available. Copying capability allows for transferring the written information to a word processing or note taking app.
There are many more mechanical writing apps for students with learning disabilities, however those reviewed provide possibilities for elementary through post secondary aged students with challenges with spelling, writing/typing. Hopefully in the near future phonetic?based word prediction with be provided within apps for those?students or individuals who have not yet acquired transitional or conventional spelling skills.
Have any mechanical writing apps to share?? Please post a comment with any apps you might suggest.
What?s in your OT iTool Kit for writing?
Carol
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Stress is an inevitable a part of our corporate lives. Due to stress, there will be many various health and psychological issues, which may adversely affect our private lives as well. Stress may also hold us back from making use of our professional skills and talents to their fullest. Considering all of the dangerous outcomes of stress, companies are conducting varied programs and trainings regarding stress management on the workplace. With some stress management ideas and techniques, it?s potential to cut back the quantity of stress, with out lowering the quantity of labor performed and productiveness shown. There are some simple techniques that will provide help to get your attention away from stress, thus making you much less harassed out. Let us talk about a few of the simplest guidelines relating to stress management in the workplace.
Suggestions for Stress Management in the Workplace
Laughter and Enjoyable Time Having laughter and a fun time is probably one of the simplest ways to scale back stress in the office. In case you are working for hours repeatedly, it?s fine for those who use some minutes for informally talking along with your colleagues and team members. You?ll be able to crack some good jokes or speak about your funny experiences that you just had a day before. Simply just be sure you don?t make a lot noise and don?t spend an excessive amount of time on this activity.
Hold Your Physique Shifting If you?re working for a substantial period of time sitting in the same place for hours, it?s sure that you are going to experience physical stress. The reply to this drawback is to keep your physique moving. Stretch your arms and body at common intervals, or just take a stroll round for getting coffee to your desk. This is also probably the greatest stress relievers which can be used for managing stress on the workplace.
Wholesome Food and Way of life It?s not obligatory that for stress relief within the workplace, you have to take into account doing issues only on the office. Your private lifestyle also has a very significant affect on how stressed out you can be at work. For reducing or not experiencing stress at workplace, you want to be on a healthy diet first of all. Moreover, you also?1800flowers coupon must keep away from dangerous habits equivalent to smoking, consuming, etc.
Time Management Stress is generally induced on account of pending work. Due to this fact, for decreasing the pending work, you should manage time in a proper manner. Sort out all your each day workplace work according to the precedence, and allot a specific time of each one in every of them. Additionally be sure that to not over commit to tasks and obligations that aren?t prone to be included in your every day timetable. Time management will successfully reduce stress and may even improve employee performance.
Work in a Group and Try to Purchase Knowledge It is a proven fact that working in a group really makes it far simpler for employees to work smarter. If you happen to work in a group, you possibly can divide the work as per the abilities each individual has and get the work done. Moreover, additionally, you will be able to develop your skills and capabilities relating to the job. Another good technique of lowering job stress or letting it go unnoticed is to amass knowledge of your interest. The Web is one of the simplest ways to acquire information in your subject of interest. For example, if you are interested in written communication, you may at all times search the Web for ideas and pointers for enhancing the skill. You?ll be able to then put the acquired ability into use in your on a regular basis office job.
These are some good tips about stress administration within the workplace. Nevertheless, you will need to notice that stress management within the workplace can only be effective when both, the workers and the company management take initiatives for the same.
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I remember distinctly a discussion I had with my mother regarding one of my neighbor?s mothers. I was somewhere around 7 years old and my neighbor and her brother were going to be staying with us for a couple of days because their mother was going to be checking into the hospital for what I now know was a hysterectomy. I was worried about the woman, both because I knew even at that young age that the hospital was no place to go if you were well and also because of my mother?s clear unwillingness to discuss the health problem except in very obtuse terms. My friend?s mother did well, came home several days later, and nothing more was said of it.
I recalled this episode when contemplating the implications of the Catholic Bishops? ultraconservative stance on contraception. My friend?s mother clearly had no medical illness. In retrospect she had a career, did not enjoy the stay-at-home mom life, and wanted to limit her family size to two children. She was not able, under the rules at the time, to request hormonal contraception. She found a physician willing to rationalize an extremely invasive procedure in order to allow her to continue to hold her head high in the community (although as I recall everyone knew what had happened).
98% of Catholic women report use of hormonal contraception at one point during their reproductive life. Contraception, pregnancy spacing, and pregnancy planning save women?s lives. 58% of women report using hormonal contraception for reasons other than pregnancy prevention, such as irregular periods, heavy periods, ovarian cysts, or acne. I am often write for these medications for these indications, discussing the side effect of pregnancy prevention. I do not ask these women whether they are proscribed by their religious beliefs from having hormonal manipulation resulting in temporary infertility. I am only happy that they are not requesting to have their womb ripped from their body in an effort to accomplish control over their reproductive health. It is surprising to me that given the lifesaving potential of increasing access, influential people (Catholic Bishops, candidates for the Presidency of the United States) are suggesting that additional barriers to women?s access to these medications be erected.
In the essay, Charles Lamb speculates that Bo-bo, the main character, discovered the forbidden deliciousness of roasted pig by accident after a house fire. As roasting pig purposefully was illegal, the rate of house fires after the ?sows farrowed? in this town became very high and surprisingly enough these houses almost always were found to contain a succulent pig. Catholic women of my mother?s generation discovered that obtaining a hysterectomy for trumped-up symptoms would result in no further pregnancies.
?Dissertation upon Roasted Pig? ends with the judge ruling that pigs caught in fires were fair game. Gradually the fires were confined to fire houses, and the town was no longer engulfed in flames on a regular basis. I can only hope the Bishops (and others) are as wise.
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February 3, 2012 in Asset-Allocation, ETFs, Headline, Inv, Investments, Mutual-Funds, Portfolios by Young Owl
PIMCO Global Multi-Asset Fund (PGMAX), managed by PIMCO?s CEO?Mohamed A. El-Erian and?Curtis Mewbourne, is designed to avoid tail risk while achieving reasonable returns.?It is a good fund for asset allocation watch, especially for investors who are keen on global and diversified asset allocation in their retirement investment portfolios such as 401K investments, IRA investments or variable annuity investments.
The following shows its breakdown in allocations (see?PGMAX website):
Top Strategies (%)
as of 12/31/11
The following shows its recent allocation correlations on?SmartMoneyIQ Managers:
Date
IntlBond
CASH
USBond
IntlStk
USStk
2012-01-06
0
44.21
13.91
31.05
10.83
2012-01-13
-0
16.17
36.58
28.2
19.05
2012-01-20
0
2.46
47.85
27.22
22.47
2012-01-27
0
0
50.61
28.8
20.6
One can see that it has maintained steady allocations in stocks (about 49%).
The following shows how the fund is compared with two diversified ETF asset allocation portfolios:
Fund Performance Comparison (as of 2/2/2011)
Portfolio Compare Link
Three Year Chart
The fund?s return has been very steady since its inception.
February 1, 2012 By Barbra Murray, Contributing Editor
One commercial real estate services firm?s loss is another one?s gain. CBRE Group Inc. has lured industry heavy-hitter Louis Christopher away from Cushman & Wakefield Inc., tapping the longtime real estate broker to play a key role in the firm?s tenant representation activities as a vice chairman.
Christopher comes to CBRE not only with nearly 25 years of experience in commercial real estate, but also with a clear-cut set of goals which are, as he explained to?Commercial Property Executive, ?to challenge myself, my clients and colleagues to always move the bar higher and never stop improving.?
Before joining CBRE, Christopher served as chairman of Cushman & Wakefield?s tenant advisory gGroup, where he was consistently noticed for stellar achievements. He earned the title of the firm?s top producer in the Greater Washington region for four consecutive years until his departure, and held the position as one of its top 10 brokers globally for three of the last four years.
While Christopher now calls CBRE?s Washington, D.C.-area office home base, his presence in the firm will be far-reaching. He will employ his well-honed skills to provide services for the firm?s current and potential real estate users locally, nationally and globally. ?The services business is constantly changing,? Christopher noted. ?It is trending toward more specialization but also toward more coordination across disciplines. Big is not by itself better, but in this day and age you do need scale to provide all of the resources corporate and law firm clients demand.?I am so excited to be able to offer such a broad service offering with a global footprint.?
With Christopher having successfully delivered for clients through any number of real estate cycles ? the good, the bad and the ugly ? he is well positioned to identify and accommodate clients? specific needs as the industry begins to recuperate from the ramifications of the Great Recession. ?In this economy, nationally and locally, tenants and corporations want to limit capital expenditures and reduce expense,? he explained. ?CFOs want to align their real estate portfolios with their business plan. All challenges can be addressed if a proactive strategy with standards, procedures and protocols is implemented.?
In a prepared statement, John Germano, CBRE executive managing director in the Baltimore/Washington market, said of Christopher, ?Lou is the consummate professional with a proven track record of excellence and a strong commitment to providing his clients with the best real estate strategies and services.? CBRE sees him as a perfect fit for the firm, and the sentiment goes both ways.
?CBRE understands the service business ? specifically where the occupier business?stands today and where it is going,? Christopher said. ?CBRE understands the multi-disciplined needs of clients and has invested in a robust global service platform. Management has done a great job of?incorporating the best practices of Insignia ES Gordon, and Trammel Crow into the CBRE brand. CBRE?s culture is built around ethics and always putting the best team on the field for the client.?
Original abstract paintings are a particular kind of artwork. Numbers of people enjoy the art of abstract painting which other find it quite confusing. If you are eager to make your own item of artwork, in that event you should consider abstract art. Painting is a great means to express your originality and may be an ideal outlet for stress and frustrations of daily life. Abstract art is an exit from realism. When you paint that express your feelings about the scene. You can do a partial abstract or a total abstract. The primary works from the expressionistic age were the starting of the abstract art as painters of expressionist type overstated items, utilized various surfaces and textures and embraced bold colours.
Few of the initial abstract artists were Paul Gauguin, Georges Seurat, Vincent van Gogh and Pail Cezanne.
For developing modern art, these painters had a big role to play. Few of the initial works of modern abstract art were originated in Paris at the beginning of the twentieth century. Few of the original reputed items include the Yellow Curtain by Henri Matisse and French Window at Collier. Cubist paintings which were developed by Picasso are original abstract paintings. Abstract art utilizes bold colour and needs a unique imagination. The primary things of abstract art is the proficiency to blend various shapes, colours and textures together to express a specific thing, irrespective of what being the same. Numbers of artists utilizes various means to begin since they start depending on what comes in their thoughts or what they are feeling at the present moment. For novice persons it is better to concentrate on a particular object.
Once you have selected an object, after that you require thinking about the same and view it in an abstract manner or distort it. Therefore, you may turn that thing blob or twist a part of it. You may imagine about two of those things colliding together. You can utilize music also to help change the object. It is the music rhythm which assists various people. On various occasion while listening to noisy music artists tend to make bring and loud works. Slow tune music will create artwork which is more dull and sombre. For those who are interested in paintings for sale, they should ensure that they have all the items they require on hand. If you like to do this for a prolonged period of time then you should get some quality brushes since they are quite significant and your works are done to make paintings for sale. ?
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