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    Are You a Victim of Diploma Mills?

    What You Need to Know About Diploma Mills By Jamie Littlefield, About.com Guide Link: http://distancelearn.about.com/od/accreditationinfo/a/diplomamills.htm A diploma mill is a company that awards unaccredited degrees and provides either an inferior education or no education at all. If you're considering attending an online school, learn as much about diploma mills as you can. This article will teach you how to spot them, how to avoid them, and how to take action if you've been a victim of a diploma mill's false [...]

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    5 Daily Tips, Healthier You = Happier You

                                  Spending eight hours at work every day may affect your health, physically and psychologically. I would like to give you some useful tips in order for you to be healthier, more focused and less tired during and after work. Remember that when you finish your work day, you return to the most important part if your life……your family.   Eat breakfast: You will have the initial [...]

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  • Business Finance Pepsi Tackles Identity Crisis

    Pepsi Tackles Identity Crisis

    After Fielding Biggest Consumer-Research Push in Decades, Brand Settles on 'Now' Global Positioning By: Natalie Zmuda, Published: May 07, 2012 Few people would suspect that what's inside an unmarked building some 30 miles north of New York could change the way consumers view a soda brand, even the entire cola category. But that's what Pepsi's ambitious, high-energy marketers are promising. This unassuming office park houses the Beverage Lab, and inside are the results of months of intense research. Pepsi execs [...]

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  • Media Box Office Shocker: ‘Avengers’ Opens to Record-Shattering $200.3 Million

    Box Office Shocker: ‘Avengers’ Opens to Record-Shattering $200.3 Million

    8:23 AM PDT 5/6/2012 by Pamela McClintock   The Disney and Marvel Studios tentpole makes history in nabbing the biggest opening of all time in North America; globally "Avengers" has earned a massive $641.8 million in 12 days. Joss Whedon's The Avengers has set a new bar in opening to a walloping $200.3 million at the domestic box office, the largest debut ever and kicking off summer 2012 in high style. •Box Office Updates The 3D tentpole — marking a [...]

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  • Everything CBT Feature Preparing for Next-Gen Workers, With Next-Gen Brains.

    Preparing for Next-Gen Workers, With Next-Gen Brains.

    Many of the employees entering the workforce in the next few years will have been raised on the Internet, which has shaped the way their brains are wired. Are companies ready for this generation of workers? By Shelley DuBois | Fortune Some call them "digital natives," and they're everywhere. You may even be raising some right now. They're the next generation of workers, and they include anyone who has grown up with constant access to the Internet. This state of [...]

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  • Everything CBT Feature 8 Core Beliefs from Top CEO’s!

    8 Core Beliefs from Top CEO’s!

    If you have ever worked before then you can relate to these 8 core beliefs that come straight from top CEO's. Check it out: A few years back, I interviewed some of the most successful CEOs in the world in order to discover their management secrets. I learned that the "best of the best" tend to share the following eight core beliefs. 1. Business is an ecosystem, not a battlefield. Average bosses see business as a conflict between companies, departments [...]

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  • Everything CBT Feature Take a different approach to solving your conflicts.

    Take a different approach to solving your conflicts.

    Conflicts are always going to arise in various settings. The hard part is not avoiding conflicts, the hard part is managing how you react to them. People have different tactics and theories. Here is a different approach as adapted by Amy Carroll, www.proverbs31.org/devotions   A New Way To Process Conflict "When she speaks she has something worthwhile to say, and she always says it kindly." Proverbs 31:26 (MSG) It was like we were speaking two different languages. Even though my [...]

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    SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES AND THE INTERNATIONAL STUDENT

    A modern-day guide for students looking to study abroad in a technologically savvy world As our society changes, so do our etiquette graces. We have to keep our rules of etiquette, especially in this day and age, if you want to preserve your integrity and dignity. It’s much harder to do today than it was when we could only really communicate long distance through written letters. That was a LONG time ago. The principles of etiquette encompass most aspects of [...]

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