6 hours ago: Very inspirational...when I look back to my life i did not have to face any hardships to go to college ....thanks to my parents and husband......and may be thats why I even dont know where i am going. Hardships makes a person gold but its hard to ask for them.
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classic steve jobs stuff...told as 3 stories...
When you are starting learn jazz impro, there is a great temptation to learn the appropriate scales that fit the chord changes, as with the Jamey Aebersold Scale Syllabus. This approach has some merits, it can be a "kickstart" to improvisation: as long as you remember the scales that fit the chord there is little else to concentrate on. This approach does have some pitfalls, if you’re not careful you will end up with a soloing style that just consists of running up and down scales. To overcome this you need to be aware very early on that there is a lot more to improvising. Ideally the scales should help you to construct interesting and melodic solos, you can use them as a pool of notes to choose from out of which to construct your solo, rather than relying on them to be the solo. So you also need to know the chords themselves. In fact I recommend that you really should learn the chords on your instrument (arpeggios) before you learn the scales to fit the chords.
Worries about Dubai's debt slipped away from financial markets, sending stocks up sharply higher and weakening lower-yielding assets such as long-term government bonds and the dollar. Wall Street looked set for a solid start as global equities rebounded from recent weakness. The catalyst was an announcement late on Monday from Dubai World, centre of the debt storm, that its planned restructuring of some units involved $US26 billion in debt, easing some concerns about the size of Dubai's financial problems. MSCI's all-country world stock index was up one percent while its emerging markets counterpart gained more than one percent. "The market is acknowledging that the Dubai crisis is contained to the region itself," said Heino Ruland, strategist at Ruland Research, in Frankfurt. European shares bounced back from Dubai-triggered falls in the previous session. Th FTSEurofirst 300 was two percent higher, having fallen 1.4% on Monday. Banks were among the strongest gainers, having been hit by fears of exposure to possibly defaulting Dubai debt. The crisis hit last week when Dubai told creditors of Dubai World and property group Nakheel that debt repayments could be delayed. The fear added to investors' desire to lock in some of 2009's market profits ahead of the new year. Reuters polls released showed global investors cutting back on riskier assets even before the Dubai announcement. Yen falls on BOJ The return of relative risk appetite drained the dollar of support, sending it down half a percent against a basket of major currencies. Much attention on the currency markets, however, was focused on Japan where the Bank of Japan fell short of expectations for more aggressive easing measures to support the economy. It said it would introduce a new operation to provide funds for three months at a fixed interest rate of 0.1%, in a bid to enhance monetary easing by trying to bring down longer-term rates. The dollar was up three-quarters of a percent at 87.53 yen, having hit a 14-year low of 84.81 yen last week.
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When a prospect glances at a tradeshow sign, a piece of collateral, or a Web page, you get a fraction of that time and attention to make a powerful connection. Your value proposition has to be clear and succinct enough to succeed in those instances.
New York Times It’s a quarter to five in the morning, and I have a plane to catch in two hours. But why rush out the door if my flight is already delayed? To check its status, I turn to my iPhone, tap on an application called FlightTrack and pull up my flight. It’s on time. Better get out of bed. At the airport, I check for Wi-Fi and update all my newspaper apps so I have something to read onboard. And when I arrive at my destination, I use the iPhone to pull up the Yelp app, and its built-in mapping feature, to find the most highly user-rated bars and restaurants. Sure, I could have easily stumbled across that pizza place on my own and gotten by without the Cantonese catchphrases I downloaded in an appbuying frenzy. But as Apple’s iTunes Store has continued to grow with thousands of apps, I’ve come regularly to rely on the gadget as an integral part of my travel routine. Yes, the iPhone has its glitches, which have all been called out in various tech reviews. And some of those can be particularly frustrating for on-the-go travellers, as when you want to tell your spouse that the plane is delayed another two hours and you can’t get service, or when your favourite app directs you to a restaurant that no longer exists. With those caveats in mind, here is a list of apps that could come in handy on your next trip.
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According to ST soft power comes from a nation telling a story.
How does India progress given the pluralism and the huge diversity? in his view, there is agreement about how to disagree, and maintain consensus about how to "survive without consensus."
Not about the implosion of the credit markets, which I urgently warned about in 2007 and early 2008. Not about the recession, which we shifted to anticipating in November 2007. Not about the plunge in the stock market, which erased the entire 2002-2007 market gain, which was no surprise. Not about the “ebb and flow” of short-term data, which I frequently noted could produce a powerful (though perhaps abruptly terminated) market advance even in the face of dangerous longer-term cross-currents. I expect not even about the “surprising” second wave of credit distress that we can expect as we move into 2010.
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Silvia Lagnado, new group vice-president at London-based Unilever, embodies marketing championship—in particular, the ability to "span silos" by building bridges between marketing and her company's many other functions to generate cash flow. She heads a team devoted to "brand development," including conceptualizing new products and creating advertisements, packaging, and marketing strategies.
Good insights on Brand building and Brand development @ Unilever.
Silvia is a great person. I know her from my time at HBS.
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