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Mobile Home Parks - Lessons from the Olympics
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| The 2008 Olympics in Beijing offers an important lesson to the mobile home park industry. Here you have an event where athletes have taken a certain specialty, a certain strength, and turned it into an extremely advanced skill. Some of these people you and I could beat in at least a dozen parlor games, but in their specialty, they are the tops in the world. So that begs the question: What is the specialty that the mobile home park industry has to offer? What can it alone focus on and excel at? |
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Two Simple Ways To Free Up Your Time
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| With demands on our time at a premium, finding ways to free up your time for the most important things in life and work is a must. Here I outline two tips that I've recently found useful for freeing up time. |
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What Do You Do When You Get Up in the Morning?
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| As entrepreneurs who can't "hold down" a nine-to-five job, we often get questions from friends and family who wonder what we do when we get up in the morning. |
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Enthusiasm Makes all the Diferrence
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| In business, as in every venture in life, the common denominator of success is Enthusiasm. No one ever became a success by mistake. Ethusiasm is the key to winning in sales, marketing, sports and all human endeavours. Included in this article is a little excercise that is designed to be read aloud in a group (or alone in front of a mirror) with prizes given to the person who delivers the most enthusiast presentation. |
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II.B. Official Development Assistance and Debt Relief: TRADE AND CAPITAL FLOWS BETWEEN CHINA AND AFRICA
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| China started providing aid to Africa in 1956. By May 2006, it had contributed a total of
44.4 billion yuan (US$5.7 billion) for more than 800 aid projects, according to a researcher at
the Chinese Academy of Social Science (He, 2006). |
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What Drives China’s Growing Role in Africa?
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| China’s fast-growing economic ties with Africa are attracting considerable attention. The
relationship came into the spotlight during the summit of the Forum on China-Africa
Cooperation (FOCAC) in Beijing in November 2006 and the Annual Meetings of the African
Development Bank (AfDB) in Shanghai in May 2007. While the expansion of trade and
investment between Africa and China has been generally welcomed, concerns have been
expressed about how China’s growing presence might affect African development.2 But what
roles exactly has China played? |
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Better Together
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| During the Beijing Olympics, beach volleyball players Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh were undefeated in their second gold medal Olympics, with an amazing record of 108 consecutive wins. Watching the advancing duo during the Olympic coverage, I heard commentators mention that when either woman was asked during interviews which one of them was better, they responded, "We're better together." |
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Golden Goggles
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| Last week I had the privilege of presenting Michael Phelps with the Male Athlete of the Year award. Along with former Olympian Don Schollander, I enjoyed reviewing some of the great moments of the Beijing Olympics. Of course, Phelps and his eight gold epic is one of the greatest achievements in the history of sport. |
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Central Cottage Industries Corporation of India (CCIC) plans to open overseas franchise crafts outlet in China
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| Central Cottage Industries Corporation of India (CCIC) explores the possibility of opening a franchise showroom in the Chinese capital, Beijing, said the CCIC Managing Director Mr. MA Ibrahimi. Indian art objects, especially the Thangka paintings, and hand-made gift items are among the favorites of Chinese people, he added. |
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5 Lessons We Can Learn from Michael Phelps
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| 23-year-old Michael Phelps is the record-breaking Olympic Swimming Champion. He is the first person to win eight gold medals in a single Olympics; the Beijing 2008 Olympics to be precise. Overall, he currently holds 16 Olympic medals; the other eight remaining are six gold and two bronze medals at Athens in 2004. What an inspiring and incredible achievement! |
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China is unmoving on Internet controls
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| China maintains that it has the one and only say in Internet controls in its country. Not Google,or Secretary of State Clinton. China contends that it has the right to punish those that it finds to be using the Internet to subvert the governments Communist Party power and ethnic policies. This puts two majors powers at ends Beijing and Washington who already have a tug-of-war going over trade U.S. weapons sales to Taiwan and human rights |
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Mobile Home Parks - Lessons from the Olympics
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| The 2008 Olympics in Beijing offers an important lesson to the mobile home park industry. Here you have an event where athletes have taken a certain specialty, a certain strength, and turned it into an extremely advanced skill. Some of these people you and I could beat in at least a dozen parlor games, but in their specialty, they are the tops in the world. So that begs the question: What is the specialty that the mobile home park industry has to offer? What can it alone focus on and excel at? |
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Speaking with a Translator: Tips for Success
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| I’ve spoken everywhere from Beijing to Budapest, all across Mexico and Brazil as well as the U.S and Canada. One thing I’ve noticed in working with translators is that is the speaker’s job to make sure the audience understands every word.
Here are nine ideas to help you get your message across when you don’t speak the same language as your audience. |
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