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Working While You are Studying

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:56:43 +0000

Yes it is possible. Adding task from works to homeworks might not be the ideal way to learn and earn, but when you’ve got no other option but to do it, remember several points below.

Are you ready?

Ask yourself whether you’re really need and ready to do it. Both, study and work would require more of your time, energy and mind. When you’re certain enough that you’re going to do both at the same time, go for it.

Find the perfect job

Make sure that you can combine your work schedule with your schedule at school. If it is possible, tell your bos that you’re still studying. Hopefully your bos can help you in adjusting your work schedule with school.

Work to learn

Mostlikely you can use your work as a form of learning. Perhaps not exactly related to your major of studies, but one day you’ll need to know how to share, cooperate and compete in the healthy way.

Manage your time

Working while studying would make you have less time in almost every aspect of your life. That way you need to manage your time accordingly and stick to the plans you’ve made.

Don’t forget homework

Since you’re a student, then your study still have to come first. You can do your homework after work, or ask your bos if is it okay if you’re doing your homework whenever you’ve got nothing to do in your working place.

When it’s time to refresh your mind

Use holiday to the max. It is time to take a rest or indulge your self with things you want but can not do during working and studying hours. That way, forget anything related to study and work. Go ahead have some fun.

Why Does Violence Occur on Workplace?

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:59:55 +0000

There is no simple reason as to why workplace violence occurs but rather many factors that come together to produce trouble, yet often violence can be prevented by understanding why it occurs. People go to work to earn money to pay their bills and try to live a comfortable life. When most people think of violence, images of movies, television shows and maybe even bar fights may come to mind. The last place they might think of for violence to occur is the workplace. There can be many contributing factors that can result in workplace violence. This article is going to discuss some of those factors.

Poor security systems

Workplace violence that originates from outside the organization is often due to poor security systems. Workplaces are targets for criminals a thieves and without a sound security system employees will be targets for criminals. They may experience physical and verbal violence even risking life while on the job. The violence stems from outside greed that seeks to own resources the employee is tending.

Personal issues

It is said that you should leave your personal life outside of the workplace. That is sometimes easier said than done. No matter how hard one tries, emotional issues are carried with a person everywhere they go. It can become difficult to juggle the personal issues with job responsibilities.

Conflicting personalities

Some people simply cannot get along. Personalities may clash and in some cases, they may end up acting out violently toward each other. It is sad to say it, but sometimes people just do not like each other, for no apparent reason. This is not a reason for abuse, but it does happen.

Lack of control on management

Workplace violence that stems from a manager wielding power over juniors often arises from lack of proper controls on management. Positions of power need to be monitored and scrutinized to ensure that power is not abused. Lack of scrutiny and no system of accountability for managers stimulates violence towards juniors. The violence arises from positions of power being abused.

Stress

Many jobs can be extremely stressful and take a toll on employees. Tempers flare and people can over react to even the smallest thing. When faced with deadlines, multiple projects/duties and cranky clients/customers every time you go to work, it is easy to see how quickly stress can build. When a person does not have a proper outlet to release their stress, they can snap, so to speak.

Understanding some of the main sources of violence in the workplace – internal and external; power and lack of control on power – will help prevent the different types of workplace violence that occur. These are just some of the factors that can cause workplace violence to occur. It is never acceptable to act out violently on someone. No one deserves to be the victim of violence in the workplace or anywhere else

10 Things You Didn’t Know About Hemp

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 11:42:17 +0000

Beside all the hype from the media and government, there are actually things about Hemp that make it very useful to society. Most of us already know that hemp has many industrial, scientific, economic, and energy uses… But this Article will tell you the 10 things you didn’t know about hemp.

Hemp can be used to make over 25,000 products.
A good farmer could grow up to 8 tons of dry hemp per acre of plants.
You could be jailed in Virginia for refusing to grow hemp from 1763 to 1769.
Earliest known records of hemp farming go back 5000 years in China.
In the 1920s government studies reported that 1 acre of hemp equals 4.1 acres of trees grown for paper.
Clothing made from Hemp can help block UV rays.
The hull of every Hempseed is 25%, easy to digest protein. It is used in many different kinds of birdseed in the United States.
Hemp is rich with the amino acid GLA (gamma linoleic acid), also found in mother’s milk.
The U.S. State Department distinguishes the difference between hemp and marijuana.
A 1938 Popular Mechanics article described hemp as a “New Billion Dollar Crop”.

Please share these 10 facts with your friends and family. The sooner more people know the truth about Hemp and Marijuana the better. The idea that legalizing Hemp and Marijuana will help pull the economy out of the gutter is a growing belief. If we’re lucky, this notion will be excepted by the people that write the rules…

With Flexible Work Location, High Productivity

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 12:50:44 +0000

A recent study reveals that the work environment affects employees productivity and happiness. Flexible workplace, significantly improving the health and welfare of employees. According to a new study at the University of Minnesota, employees with flexible work locations have better quality sleep, feel better and have higher productivity than employees who work indoors. The study analyzed data from more than 600 employees in a company, before and after the company started flexible working initiatives. Researchers found that work flexibility makes the energy level maintained, creating a balance of family and work, increased health, psychological stress level of fatigue also decreased. In fact, researchers found that flexible work locations that don’t make employees often feel tired and high stress. Employees who have time for yourself as to make an appointment with a doctor in working hours without secrecy becomes a happier employee. “One of the many benefits of flexible work schedules is an opportunity to control a better time. In turn, can help you to make wise choices,” said Beth Ricanati as quoted by YouBeauty. She added, “Flexible working hours can reduce the stress of the responsibility towards the family. An employee who is happy would be a productive employee,” she said.

The Village Idiot Syndrome

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 02:56:04 +0000

He was born in poverty. All his childhood he heard women complain about the worthlessness of some men and their desire to be with other men. Women who had husbands that worked from dawn to dusk to keep their family in food and shelter attended these bashing parties. He quickly started to feel that there was something wrong with being a man. His mother often scolded him as if he was the one who had mistreated her as a mate. His mother did not treat all men with contempt. Around some men she acted like a silly, school girl until she got her heart broken, then she turned bitter again. Often the bitterness was followed by another child in the house.

Another child meant another visit from the welfare people. Then her female friends were invited back again. Most of them left with an item of food provided by the welfare. He went to bed with an empty stomach on many nights. His empty stomach was often accompanied by the smell of what he would later come to know as weed. Whiskey and beer bottles could be found in the trash and other hiding places.

He soon learned to treat his mother like the men she raved about. So long as he gave her the treatment she was nice to him. She even called him her little man. Her behavior encouraged him to shower her with nice words and tell her how nice she looked. He over heard her bragging to her friends about how he treated her. And how she almost forgot he was her son. Her friends began to look at him with looks he did not immediately understand. Some of them sought to have private conversation with him. They asked him to do little things for them. Some of their eyes drifted to his private parts and they made little effort to cover themselves in awkward situations.

He was naturally curious about females as a budding teen. He was however, resentful of those wide mouth females. Many of them reeked of smoke and alcohol. He did have an interest in girls closer to his age. The young girls he hung out with were careful to avoid body contact and evaded intimate conversation. This behavior made him upset at times, it soon passed and he went on about his life. His peers often bragged about sexual success with girls. It was a topic that had not put much stress on him.

Puberty advanced on him and suggestive posture, baby talk, appealing curves and bulges took their toll on him. A lump came to his throat when one of his mother female friends asked if he could do some chores for her. When he got to her place. He worked so hard try to keep his eyes off her and his mind on the work. He nearly overheated himself. He used to dislike the way she looked at him and liked her lips. Now he found that it excited him.

Perhaps it was the cool refreshing shower she made him take to cool down. The cool drink she brought tasted just a little awkward at first then it began to sooth and relax him. It seemed that every other word was swearing him to secrecy concerning how hard she had worked him. She appeared to be really concerned that his mother would find out and be up set with her. She looked at his clothing and ordered him to take them off so she could wash them while he showered “ She could not let his mother see him like that”. Her concern for secrecy caused a warm glow to start in his private area.

He began to feel an unfamiliar power over this woman. Just as he was beginning to feel that he needed to let her know how he felt. A huskiness came to her voice as she told him to lie on her bed where t was cool until she finished his clothing. The womanly fragrance of he her bed sent his head reeling, but he felt a stronger desire to drift into sleep. Just as he was drifting into twilight sleep the door opened and she stood there with a towel and muscle cream. She had changed clothing and was wearing a bath robe. She again begged him not to tell his mother how she had worked him. The sequence of events had an immediate manly effect on him.

How Poor is Pakistan? By Syed Mohammad Ali

Sun, 06 Nov 2011 05:41:44 +0000

Any attempt to alleviate poverty requires a basic consensus concerning its existing extent, for it is the basis of this baseline that understanding the effectiveness of attempts to lessen poverty must be gauged.

A major controversy was recently unleashed concerning the last available poverty estimates when the deputy chairman of the Planning Commission termed the 17.2 per cent poverty estimate — based on findings of Pakistan Social and Living Measurement Survey 2007-2008 — to be ‘a fraud’.

Such a blunt dismissal has predictably unleashed vocal criticism since it not only discredits findings endorsed by senior officials but also by international institutions including the World Bank and the United Nations Development Programme. The Planning Commission has also been asked to appear before a parliamentary panel to explain its position at the end of this current month. While it will be interesting to see what the commission says in defence of its assertion, one does not need to be a statistician to sense that there was something fishy behind the tall claims of poverty eradication made at the tail end of the previous government.

The tendency for economic managers to manipulate poverty figures to illustrate the success of their policies is hardly surprising. Development economists had already expressed concern that the number of calories required per adult, which provide a basis for measuring poverty, had been reduced, in an effort to show impressive decreases in poverty. Similar concern was expressed when unpaid family workers were being classified as being employed in the Labour Force Statistics in 2005-06 to show rapid increases in employment. Conversely, no effort was made to analyse the structure of consumer-led growth, nor the evident trends in declining real wages or the increasing proportion of expenditures on food in the average household budgets, which would have raised serious doubts about the impressive claims concerning declining poverty in preceding years.The Planning Commission is propagating more focus on stimulating growth instead of focusing on helping the poor. No serious attempts are evident to undo the existing system of regressive taxation and other structural problems that lead to the inequitable distribution of income and wealth in our country. Methodological controversies concerning the prevalence of poverty in the country makes a mockery of the painful circumstances faced by the majority of poor Pakistanis who are unable to fulfil their most basic needs of health, education and even nutrition. This prevailing deprivation is leading to increased hopelessness. The fact that an unemployed man in his twenties, with two young children, belonging to Naushehro Feroz in Sindh, has self-immolated himself outside Parliament House, should serve as a wake-up call for our decision-makers and experts whose efforts to tackle poverty do not extend beyond preservation of self interests.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 3rd, 2011.

What Makes The Perfect Relationship?

Sat, 05 Nov 2011 05:36:00 +0000

I’ve been doing some serious thinking lately. Now the topic is a touchy topic and many people could become offended… but just remember, this is MY opinion on the subject. What makes a good relationship? The question haunts bedrooms after bedrooms and yet… it still remains. After the three month period (honeymoon stage) everything goes downhill… or does it? For many people yes that may be but for others… a lie! How do some people stay together? Well an obvious answer to that simple question is… commitment. Times do get rough and alot of those times… it seems like the end. Many people at that point do, sadly, end their relationship over simple problems. Why?! Why would someone end a relationship over such simple and stupid problems… ? You are probably saying to yourself “Probably because they don’t love each other”. Well my dear friend you are wrong at that. Many people who claim to be in love give up their titles of commitment. It is the easiest thing to do, that is why so many people do it. They do not strive hard enough to make their relationship work. For anyone who wants there relationship to work… follow these simple rules.

1. Talk! – If you dont talk, how in the world will you be a relationship?
2. Love – If you are in the relationship to love than love! Do not waste your energy on fights!
3. Forgive – People say things and do things they don’t mean, so forgive. (Unless its cheating, etc. )
4. Time – Give that special person some of your time. Do not just wait for the last moment to talk to them or hang out with them.

Free Terraria Download!

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 22:23:02 +0000

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10 Reasons I’m Glad I’m Not Job Hunting

Sun, 18 Sep 2011 17:12:09 +0000

I have to admit I am one of the fortunate people in that I make my living as a writer and I get to work from home. It has been three years since I have had to work outside of the home, and I am more and more thankful every day I do not have to do so.

However, recently I thought I might take a small, part-time job, maybe 20 hours a week, just to get me out of the house more often. It’s not so much that I’m lonely or anything as I’m more concerned about my physical health. Sitting in front of a computer for 8 to 12 hours a day can’t be healthy.

So, to that end, despite the lack of jobs out there, I thought I’d do a little job hunting.

And again, I am so glad I don’t have to work outside of the home. With what I’ve seen and read about jobs of late, it’s a nightmare out there.

Here are 10 reasons I’m glad I don’t have to look for a job right now:

Headaches: There’s the most obvious reasons: I don’t have an ulcer from worrying about supporting my family, and from constant concern about how we’re going to pay the bills.
Greed: Frankly, I got tired of working to make other people rich. And for every idiot who says, “I never got me a job from a poor man,” all I can say is, a.) Then you’ve obviously never worked for a small business, and b.) Apparently, you’ve also never been laid off by a rich man.
Wages: I don’t know why the United States and each individual state bothers with minimum wage laws. It’s a waste of time nowadays. No, I’m not screaming for getting rid of such laws, but I am trying to point out the futility of such laws today. During my recent job searches, it seems everything available is either a.) A contract job, which usually pay far less than minimum wage, or b.) Offers so few hours that it’s practically a joke. I won’t even go into online jobs and how little they pay.
Hours: Every place looking to hire someone wants employees who can work all hours, any hours. I understand this. I’ve been management, and I’ve done scheduling. It’s not easy. But come on? You only want to hire people for 15 to 20 hours a week and it’s always third shift? Um, again, glad I don’t have to have a job right now.
Types of jobs: It seems of the few jobs available, nearly all are jobs selling something or serving something. As I was just looking for a little something part time, this is no biggie for me, but these are notoriously jobs that pay next to nothing. Where are the jobs in which workers actually make something, or do something?
Expertise: Geez, it seems you have to have 20 years experience and two masters degrees just to flip a burger nowadays.
The unknown: You take a new job, a few months later you get laid off. Don’t tell me it can’t happen. It happened to me three years ago, so I’m sure it’s more common today. Even if you get a job, there’s no reliability that it will be around in the future. Companies have no long-term goals whatsoever, literally living from quarter to quarter, hiring and firing every so often. That is madness. It is no way to run a business. It’s also not good for those looking for a job.
The indignity: Yes, if you are looking for a job, you are a loser. That’s what a certain portion of society keeps telling everyone. If you couldn’t keep a job, it’s obviously your fault. If you can’t find a job, you must be to blame. Oh, and you want unemployment insurance? No, we have to get rid of that.
Greed, Part II: Millions of people being laid off while the fat cats keep giving themselves hundreds of millions of dollars in bonuses for laying those people off. It’s enough to make you understand why the French Revolution happened in the first place. Perhaps it’s time to bring back Monsieur Guillotine.
Politics: So many jobs that were once fairly decent paying now no longer pay all that well, and they are under consistent political attack, mostly from the Right side. You’re a teacher? Oh, so you think you’ve got a right to a pension and health care and all that comes with it? Not anymore! Oh, you’re a cop, sitting on your butt eating doughnuts all day while your union protects you? Not today! And heaven forbid you’re some uppity college professor or a scientist of any stripe!

Look, people just want to be able to pay their bills and take care of their families without putting up with a bunch of bull! Is that too much to ask? Apparently it is.

Working Memory: Search Engine for The Brain-7

Fri, 16 Sep 2011 13:39:44 +0000

In the O’Doherty study, the brain activity of adults was imaged during

repeated trials of a gambling game. On each trial they were to bet which

of two stimuli was the “correct” one. If they chose the “correct” one, they

were given a simulated money reward; the wrong choice caused them

to lose (in simulation) a portion of their accumulated rewards. Images

showed that one speciﬁc brain section increased activation when each re-

ward was given while a di¤erent section increased activation in response

to each punishment. Not only was activation observed in di¤ering regions

under these conditions, it was found to vary in intensity, proportional to

the magnitude of each reward or punishment.

If the brain can so sensitively react to di¤erent levels of simulated re-

wards and punishment in a gambling game that participants knew in ad-

vance would yield no actual gain or loss of actual money, how much more

does it react to the multiple rewards and punishments that are a part of

daily life? This mechanism by which the brain registers subtle levels of re-

ward and punishment is crucial in many aspects of human living. These

circuits create shifting “equations for motivation” that guide operation of

those executive functions that activate people to work, help them sustain

e¤ort, and coordinate their monitoring and self-regulation.

Mary Phillips and colleagues (2003a, 2003b) have described how

working memory depends on these processes of emotional weighting not

only to ﬁgure out what stimuli are important enough to remember and act

on, but also to facilitate activation of memories from longer-term storage.

Phillips showed that emotional signiﬁcance plays an important role in

culling memories related to speciﬁc tasks and situations as the individual

moves more or less seamlessly from one situation to another. The brain’s

processes of assigning emotional importance are crucial elements under-

lying multiple executive functions.