In the vast expanse that unfolds between the administrative headquarters at Rabouni and Dakhla camp, it's like a scene from Ice Cold in Alex. The vista stretches out beyond comprehension.

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Scheiße - und daneben! Olic- Robben - Schweinsteiger Champions League mit Chelsea und Bayern dahin. Daneben ist vorbei. Fast getroffen, ist es aber nicht. Wir waren besser, aber..... Verloren ist verloren! Es kann so weh tun. Bayern hat es leider wieder vergeigt. Wir können lange danach suchen wer Schuld hat. Hilft uns das wirklich? Hören wir doch endlich damit auf die Schuld zu suchen. Wenn es genau um solche Niederlagen geht, was macht man dann? Viele Spitzensportler und Trainer fragen sich das immer wieder. Aufmunternde Worte: - Das wird schon wieder! - Das kann jeden mal passieren! Das nutz fast nichts!!!!!!! Weil wir es nicht wirklich glauben und so verarbeiten können. Es gibt ja auch immer wieder genug, die in die Kerbe schlagen. Mal sehen wer von den dreien Olic, Robben und Schweinsteiger immer noch an die verschossenen Elfmeter erinnert werden. Wahrscheinlich sogar noch bis an ihr Grab. Damit müssen die jetzt nun leben.

Some of the most famous creative works have been accomplished when experiencing the greatest pain. This self development article looks at the connection between pain and creativity. See: Pain And Its Effect On Creativity Does pain make you more creative or less creative? I'd love to receive your feedback so do add below your comments, queries, thoughts, etc. Look forward to hearing from you! Warm regards Joy * Previous Blogs! * Editor & Mentor

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It was a fun afternoon and I'll saw some great classic cars, but this band made us laugh and got the feet tapping. Enjoy! William Buist Follow me >

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"If you find something you love to do, you'll never work a day in your life" ~ Erin Reagan played by Bridget Moynahan  in Blue Bloods Series 2 episode 20 'Working Girls'

SUPER BUSINESS LESSON FROM JEREMY HARBOUR Jeremy has recently published an excellent book on setting up business called Go Do. I am most of the way through it on my Kindle [ I know!] It is full of great stories and practical advice. I encourage you to buy it if you haven't already. One story sticks out because it resonates with what we have been encouraging clients to put into action as we begin the recovery from the second dip. Jeremy had a health club business. One of things the business was really good at was selling memberships [we call that his IP, intellectual property.] Using that IP he created a new product - selling memberships for other health clubs. Straight away he has a new revenue stream from another group of clients - the other clubs. The IP already existed, so no big deal in creating product. The brilliance was in seeing the opportunity and doing something with it.

.style1 { margin-top: 2px; } .style2 { margin-top: 0px; } For a business as small as mine, who would ever think that I'd be able to thrive for over seven years providing the same service and still manage to keep my place despite economic problems that have continued to affect most businesses. I can be considered a minute entity thriving to stay alive amidst the vast competition on virtual solutions here in the Philippines.  It saddens me every time I get to hear sad stories from foreign counterparts of their experiences with fellow virtual solutions providers.  But what can I do?  I supposed the concept of survival of the fittest has been the main game ever since economies took a plunge. It may surprise a lot of you to learn that I've never made efforts of promoting my business.  But I've managed to keep a steady flow of clients over the

My doctors does it. In fact all nurses and doctors do it. I think it's part of their "bedside manner" training. A friend of ours who's looking in on me while Cora's away does it and she used to be a counsellor. There was a time when no one did it but now almost everyone is up to the same trick and I blame CBT if not NLP for this worrying new trend. Can you guess what it is? I shall reveal the answer when you've made fools of yourselves for a while. Question: what face to face conversational gambit or mannerism adds absolutely nothing to the conversation but simply marks time? READ MORE AT TAKE HEART

Time-strapped business owners need to take control of their networking activities by determining which networking events to attend and which to skip. It's all about the return on investment. How will your business benefit by attending these events versus the time and resources it takes to be there. Many people spend a lot of time networking by just chatting away with others and exchanging business cards. By doing this, they expect that the people whom they have met and exchanged business cards with will eventually pass a referral to them. Being proactive and accountable in your business networking is a sure-fire way to get results so take charge of your destiny by building your own network of trusted referral partners - it's called DIY business networking and you can save hundreds of dollars in the process.

and towards the end, they've discovered singing in "harmony" definitely better in stereo after 3: 1,2,3, aaaaawwwwwwww

There are eight million Borscht recipes on the desolate internet and I much choose the best combination of what all the petulant little experts say. This is because I want to impress my nice young Polish friends one day with the Dave Davis/Steve Holmes version of this nutritious dish, and because I am assured that it fends off cancer and increases testosterone production leading to a happier life. It's the beetroot, you know.And no, I will not be surreptitiously adding pomegranate, which also cures cancer and leads to massive attacks. Sorry, I've been lying to you all these years about who I really am. I am a food and health guru in Wanky Creek, New South Wales or perhaps a corporate well-being specialist in Düsseldorf Germany, I forget which...

The suns heat burns with an oven like intensity. The shade from the palms is welcome and tiny splashes from the water pump cool our feet as the line of containers gets filled. This is Dakhla camp, in the Desert of Deserts. Home to 30,000 or more refugees. It's a days drive across the desert to reach here from the other refugee camps. To see these palms and shelter from the sun is rare. In the desert here the trees are sparse to almost none existent. Acacia's dot the landscape like solitary ants in the far off distance.

Review of Ginger Health Benefits A great review by Ann M. Bode and Zigang Dong evaluate the health properties of Ginger (Zingiber officinale) and its components. Ginger has been shown, in many studies, to have Antioxidant and Anti-inflammatory properties. Amongst other benefits, Ginger has been shown to have anti-cancer and cardiovascular benefits.

Learn all about… -Normal feelings after the humiliation of divorce and what to expect from family and friends -Talking over and over again to family and friends and the dangers of doing that -The problems associated with intellectualisation -The benefits of getting support elsewhere Lots of hugs,

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Hello Felow Ecademists and Optimists Mistakes are part of our daily life ... it's only how you treat them that really makes a difference to how you feel and how others rate you . You can ignore your mistakes without a glimp ... you may find this a unique performance ... BUT is it really so ... Aren't you fooling yourself ? Do you learn from it when you ignore it ? I don't know how you all look upon mistakes . For me , the best way is just to admit it and make sure you find a way to get it back on track. Well, that's me. What about you ? Warm regards and have a great evening. Freddy

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No this is not an advertisement for another Forex signal or a Trading education service. I have no current plans to do that and I certainly wouldn't violate Ecademy rules. I am after all an adolescent counselor first and a Forex trader second. That said, I'm pretty new to social media and therefore very prone to experimentation. In fact I'm not really even sure where this belongs, if it belongs on Ecademy. I'll just stick under Business because Forex is after all quite a business. The life of the Forex trader can be a lonely one with its long, bizarre hours filled with seemingly mindless staring at candle stick charts reminiscent of scenes from the Matrix or perhaps looking for Waldo on a "Where's Waldo" poster.

HOW TO BE TIME MASTER MASTER THE ABILITY TO SAY NO IAN COOPER • "Do you know what, I'm right in the middle of other projects at the moment. It's just not a good time for me right now. I may be able to get to it next week or month. Would that be okay?" • "It's kind of you to think of me, I'm really flattered, but I am not taking on any new responsibilities at the moment." • "I'm sorry but the answer has to be "no"." • I have just got too much on my plate at the moment and I honestly don't know when I would be able to get to it. If I can suggest someone else would that be helpful?" • "Before I take this on for you, let me give you a few tips that might help you do it for yourself." • "I have made so many commitments to others; it would be unfair to let them down by saying "yes" to you overstretching myself by taking on too much at this point."

Yesterday I proved how far I will go to make a speech! I was expected in Bournemouth on Thursday night, for the get-together in advance of the Words That Sell Conference on Friday, where I was to deliver the Keynote. A family matter prevented me from going there on Thursday, so I rose at 4:30 a.m. yesterday and drove the 126 miles from Bromley to Bournemouth University's Executive Business Centre. My keynote was "How to Deliver a Winning Message", and the entrepreneurial Brian Jenner had assembled a lively, receptive audience. After lunch I drove the 126 miles back to Bromley. A quick change into my dinner suit and I was off to Canterbury, to speak at the black tie dinner of The Chaucer (Speakers) Club. A completely different speech called "Why do you do what you do?" But it was 58 miles there and 58 miles back afterwards.

So what's in a title? Quite a lot if you're called Mandelson - but that's a blog for another day. Moving swiftly on...... Firstly - apologies for my mauling of spelling/word invention, but I'm guessing that many people can however still identify with my surmising; in that more than a few Ecademy members fall into one of the four groups defined above. Perhaps others have further definitions, perhaps they may feel more 'open to share' if I declare I'm firmly in the 'sick as pants' category. Perhaps they may even hazard a guess as to why I'm in that category or maybe suggest that I should be re-categorised. . I had considered running a poll - but that proved beyond the limitations of both myself and the ecademy poll system, so for those of you who are not members of the 'second pit of the eighth circle' (which btw is not an official Ecademy club, unless of course there is another 'secret') some audio-visual clues follow to help with comments.

This gentleman is an American citizen who believes in real change. Nick Dutch Tarot Entertainer FREE Course on Tarot Interpretation. 22 days, 22 meditations on the Tarot FREE Twitter || Occult Videos || Tarot Reading VideosII Triond Blog

Nothing really matters Anyone can see Nothing really matters Nothing really matters to me If your score on any of the above scoring "mechanisms" (and by the way 2 are real and 1 is made up) really matters then ask yourself how you are converting your score to real business. Mike Segall

A good leader has to show special qualities for being able to lead people and to motivate people. Different positive traits of character have come together to complete this perfect leader profile. A leader has to "step down" onto the step of his followers and has to feel what the followers need. He has to care and support them willingly. There are four essential points that he has to keep in the eye: 1.) Integrity 2.) Responsibility 3.) Forgiveness 4.) Compassion See the infographic to that:

Do you believe in Santa #Klout? Do you believe in this tool who measures people's influence online? You certainly know that there exists another new tool that measures our influence online - Kred. One may easily think that both of them value the same things, but they jugde people and activities very differently. Klout measures influence ........................................ = how PEOPLE respond to YOUR activity. Kred measures influence + outreach .......................................... plus how YOU respond to OTHER PEOPLE' S activities. I think this is a very decisive difference between the two tools. In simple words: Klout values the engagement OF OTHERS with YOU.

This morning I was introduced to a product that contains Ganoderma. This was supposed to be the best part of the product and was told to go and look it up. Well if its true what it is supposed to do it is pretty amazing stuff the list in Wikipedia anticancer effects immunoregulatory effects antioxidant activities liver-protecting effects hypoglycemic effects antibacterial effects antiviral effects antifungal effects reducing blood cholesterol Anyone had any experience of Ganoderma Thanking you in anticipation Kind regards George George Wallace Tel 02034110644 Mob 07944606259 Rejuvenated Cosmetics Araide

Each of us has a special aim in life. Some people recognize their aim in early years, some recognize it very late and some recognize it never. What is the best "engine" in business? Our own passion and motivation! Our own energy! Where does passion come from, where do we get energy and motivation from? From our inner self. This passion must come from the heart not from the brain. We have to stand with our feelings behind our deeds, behind our actions. A rational thinking steered by the head delivers you not the essential power for reaching something special. We have to follow our heart and not too much our head. The head tries to prevent us from taking too many risks in life, from making mistakes, from following an unkown path in life. And this keeps us from the best things in life, from our dreams, from visions, from the best possibilities in life that may make life so exciting. The best chances will never reach us when trusting our head too much.

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I was thinking if London had the highest number of indoor swimming pools compared with other cities around the world. Difficult to count them when they are hidden in basements and gardens throughout central London. You may walk pass several every day of the week. Looking on a web site with houses for sale in London, more than 400 had access to a swimming pool, but that's only the trip of the ice berg.

As some of you will know, I am currently over in Germany attending a 3 day international Joomla! conference called Joomla! and Beyond (any excuse for a gathering of geeks over a few beers if you ask me!) which is being held in Bad Nauheim near Frankfurt. Joomla! is an open source content management system which powers millions of websites around the world (including over 3000 government websites!) which we specialise in at Virya Technologies. I love to travel, and there are loads of international Joomla! events - each country has their own Joomla!Day event each year - although in recent past finances have not permitted it, so this was the first time that I have travelled outside the UK to attend a Joomla! related event in the six years or so that I've been actively working with the Joomla! Content Management System. Couchsurfing ...

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There is a lot of noise on the Internet and most of it you have to pay for in some way (either time, or money, or both). It's refreshing to see that some are still giving something and below are examples of education available to all and free. Well not quite free....you still have to put time into learn so there is some cost! Khan Academy The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit organisation that provides a free world-class education to anyone anywhere. Their resources are available to anyone and free of charge. An excellent resource on a wide range of topics. My current favourite out of the current crop. MIT Openware

My patient wife sits in the shade of the new building. My beautiful daughter watches me mixing the sand to finish off the final details. There's an air of sadness for the build itself, not for its quality, but more for its borrowed location. Our tent has been repaired with new outer cotton for another season, the sun and the wind take their toll upon the fabric, we're lucky to see more than a year with each new covering. Only the poles inside and some of the guy ropes are original, it has served us well none the less.

My oldest friend is visiting soon and I was daydreaming about what I laughingly call my "career" today, it being more or less over, along with life itself. Looks like I've actually been diagnosed after 6 years of severe illness and disability and that I've got an extremely rare "syndrome" with no chance of recovery and with a 5+ year survival rate of 62%. I seem to be still here to annoy you, which I'm sure you appreciate. It's an autoimmune thing that has a very major emotional/asthmatic content so it must have been brought to a head when I spent 3 years nursing my ex wife as she died of cancer, very horribly. Anyway, I'm not moaning, not unless some lucky-life vasthole like Nicky SEO Pilkington or "Doctor" Richard Jones turns up to tell me to shut up because "we all have problems".

See you there... It's likely to be a great day with a lot of classic cars, modern simulators and flypasts. I hope the weather is good. The hashtag will be #ccw - Look out for live tweets on the day @cliftonevents William Buist Follow me >

Are you using Google, Facebook or Linked in for advertising campaigns? What's your typical click through rate and action rate (people doing the call to action on the landing page) from adverts on those platforms? What's the call to action on the landing page for you. I'm currently running she experiments on both Facebook and Linked In which I'll be reporting the results of at ROSEE, Book here > William Buist Follow me >

CHATTOON! HAD THE enormous pleasure of interviewing and cartooning the one and only Les Dennis (@dennis_les) in his dressing room at the New Victoria Theatre, Woking, where he was appearing in Legally Blonde - The Musical.

We are all part of a continually moving narrative that is being played out all around us, and everyone we meet is a different character with their own set of narratives, anxieties and concerns. One of the ways we ameliorate the damaging daily effects of life is through the use of fiction: stories that divert us also allow us to give vent to the sort of feelings our intertwined and busy fleeting lives don't usually allow us to express. We may smile, even chuckle with friends, but in real life we don't often belly-laugh like we would at a comic performance; you would think that crying is reserved for moments of pain or for personal tragedy, but frequently in these situations we cannot cry, the emotion of the moment is too big, even though we may catch ourselves in the next moment openly weeping at some obviously sentimental story or even a reality tv series.

Is anybody on here thinking of, who have you, invested in Facebook shares? I am thinking it would be a very good thing to do because you would probably get a very good return on your money. I just had a bulletin from the Financial Times pop into my email inbox, I signed up to them a short time ago, which reads Facebook shares have just opened on Nasdaq at $43 a share. This values Facebook at $104 billion. I would like some of that money. How about everybody else?

QUESTIONS TO THE PANEL - at a recent business exhibition Along with two esteemed entrepreneurs (both with MBEs - no, not MBAs!), I sat on an Expert's Panel. From the floor a seventeen-year-old lad nervously mumbled his question. "I've just finished at Uni and there are no jobs. None. Not anywhere. I've managed to get a bit of work at the Olympics but that's it. And I only got that because my lecturer told me about it. And my best mate, he's got a law degree, and he can't find any work in legal companies so he's working at MacDonald's. They won't even let him flip the burgers. What is the Government doing to help people like us??" As he finished, a lady stood up and added plenty more:

I heard a pundit on the TV mention that here int he UK we have more protection from any possible fallout from the euro collapsing than we did on 2007 - 8. A question would be: Why do we need to know? Is there a REAL danger that the whole of Europe will return to the dark ages shortly after tea time next Friday? I believe that the answer would be.... No. Nick Dutch Tarot Entertainer FREE Course on Tarot Interpretation. 22 days, 22 meditations on the Tarot FREE

Life's Coincidences One of my newsfeeds shows a study from Iran linking drinking hot tea with oesophagal cancer while I am reliving my own overland experiences of my youth reading Rory MacLean's Magic Bus Checking back on the original link a few days later leads nowhere, but there are several links mainly from 2009 showing increased gullet or oesophagal cancer in the Golestan province of Iran, where tea is drunk very hot. Having heard of a triple point of water and with my own cancer being in the same area plus having learned to drink scalding tea in Iran, I am almost t

There is no difference as they both have drupal web sites. They both have events, and profiles. Does business scene have blogs? (I am just trying to gather information).

The Swedish business consists, according to recent figures of over 1.1 million companies. Of these, 2757 have more than 199 employees, which simultaneously mean that 99.8% of companies in Sweden have fewer than 200 employees. The entrepreneur operates on this arena. Motivated by the previous occasion of International Women's Day, I would like to turn to recent statistics, which unfortunately shows that a too low percentage of entrepreneurs are women.

I keep feeling that maybe I "should" write another blog on here. I have 5-6 ideas sitting waiting for sharing, yet for some reason I'm not feeling the pull to do much with them. Since my skiing holiday my attention here has been sporadic, not helped when on quite a few visits I'm finding not much to excite or interest me, a few great blogs and mainly same old, same old, or repetitive (my opinion) To write more , or to wait until the drive kicks in again?? Happy Friday!

As someone who networks for a living I am continually being asked about the many different networking events and organisations I either belong to or attend. So I thought it might be a good idea to blog a weekly diary starting next week. Please do contact me if you would like further details about any of these events or would like to recommend any networking event. Mike Segall

Have you ever noticed how some people take everything they read on line in blogs absolutely literally? And yet others understand the lateral humour and intent conveyed in the words they see. I continue to be fascinated by the difference between those who read everything literally and those who read laterally. I use a lot of humour in my writing and am continually surprised by those who take everything I write literally! Has anyone got any views on this or an explanation? Mike Segall

We're all out there trying to create change — especially behaviour get people to buy something or to think differently about a product. Social media can disseminate the word to huge amounts of people. And we all know the potential power still inherent in Fabcebook despite the ground gained by others like Google+. But beyond getting "liked," on a Facebook fan page can social media actually influence the way people think and behave? In an article by Woolley and Peterson (Social Marketing Quarterly 18(1) 29-39) they examine the impact of a Health Related Facebook fan page on its followers in terms of Health-Seeking Behaviors. Some recommendations: Post messages 2 times per day 4-5 days per week. Images, Interactive questions, polls and local events work Topics (top 4) of most interest are: - Fitness/exercise - Nutrition/diet - Weight loss - Inspirational, motivational stories

Is your organisation compliant with safeguarding legislation? This article has been created as a quick reference guide to aid navigation through the evolving safeguarding demands placed on organisations of all sizes. It covers child protection training requirements and safeguarding vulnerable adults training needs, whilst highlighting which job roles require Criminal Records Bureau checks. Additionally it outlines best practice safeguarding recommendations. What does my organisation need? If your organisation works with children, young people or vulnerable adults, their parents, carers or families, you will need to comply with a variety of government guidance, legislation and best practice recommendations. Worthy of note is that any adult undergoing medical treatment is defined as a vulnerable adult. Does my organisation need to do anything about Safeguarding Children & Young People?

Every Day in the UK Based on the latest available data and information provided by Credit Action every day in the UK: • 314 people are declared insolvent or bankrupt every day (based on Q1 2012 trends). This is equivalent to 1 person every 63 seconds during each working day. • 1,473 Consumer County Court Judgements (CCJs) are issued every day (based on Q4 2011 trends). The average value of a Consumer CCJ in Q4 2011 was £2,949 . • Citizens Advice Bureaux in England and Wales dealt with 8,518 new debt problems every working day during the year ending December 2011. • 93 properties are repossessed every day (based on Q4 2011 trends). • 104 new people a day became unemployed for over 12 months during the year ending February 2012. • 1,907 people a day reported they had become redundant between December 2011 and February 2012.

So Kenny Dalglish and the Liverpool Football Club have parted company after the Fenway Sports Group (FSG) terminated his contract of employment due to the disappointing results in the Premier League and their ambition "to return this great Club to the elite of England and Europe, where it belongs." Whilst the supporters appear to be split as to whether this was the right decision or not, for me what is more important are what we, as business leaders, can learn from this very public dismissal.

3 Guys in a Pub - A Modern Parable Part 1 There were these three guys sitting in the pub, old friends, having a pint when one said "What was the worst thing that ever happened to you as a child?" One of the friends spoke up and told this story. "I think I was about six when my Mum and Dad moved house. The house belonged to my Granddad who'd died. Well it was a big old dusty house with loads of rooms and even a cellar. I was exploring the rooms when I saw a door off the ground floor hall. Opening it I saw a long flight of stairs going down. It looked creepy but I wanted to know what was down there so leaving the door open wide in case I wanted to escape I went down. At the bottom of the stairs there was another door. It creaked as I pushed it open. It smelled horrible, all stale and dusty and there was strange smell I hadn't smelled before. It made me feel sick."

dear all often people are asking what is the use of social media what is the use of blogging in a way it also looks like what is the meaning of life when you are are questioning yourself what is the use of it it has no sense like and love what you do when you don't love it stop doing it anyway being in contact with people helps you often connect see who people are what they are doing that helps always often these question have a ground

In the news this morning it was announced that the credit rating of Santander Bank had been downgraded. What will be the impact on Santander in the UK? Thanking you in anticipation George George Wallace Tel 02034110644 Mob 07944606259 Rejuvenated Cosmetics