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Defence – Deal signed between Pakistan and Russia. MI-35 helicopters

Defence – Deal signed between Pakistan and Russia. MI-35 helicopters

Russian envoy to Pakistan Alexey Dedov on Wednesday said that the MI-35 helicopter deal with Moscow and Islamabad is "politically approved". In an interview with Radio Pakistan, Dedov said that the Russian Defence Minister Sergey Shoygu will visit Islamabad soon. The report further stated that Alexey Dedov said the deal between Pakistan and Russia will help combat terrorism. While Dedov said the deal has been "politically approved", further negotiations on details of the political-commercial contract are in progress. The ambassador also said that Russian Defence Minister Sergey Shoygu has talks with Pakistani counterparts on his agenda, to discuss the sale…
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Entrepreneur:Things successful people never think

Entrepreneur:Things successful people never think

Successful people think in a healthy way that invites inspiration. From when they wake up in the morning to when they close their eyes at night they’re creating thoughts that bring the best possibilities. Check out this list of things successful people don’t ever think so you can become even more successful: Things successful people never think 1. “How can I blame this on someone else?” Successful people don’t think in terms of where others are failing, but instead lean in to a life filled with opportunities they constantly create. This approach fuels them past failure into becoming a force that…
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Damage caused by sitting – What working long hours does to your body

Damage caused by sitting – What working long hours does to your body

The 9-to-5 workweek has been a standard of American labor law for decades: It’s the standard by which full employment is measured by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, by most economic indexes, even by Obamacare. Unfortunately for American workers, the average employee’s “40-hour workweek” is actually 47 hours,according to Gallup. It’s even worse for salaried employees, most of whom aren’t eligible for overtime pay. The average non-hourly American worker spends 49 hours per week at the office — with 1 in 4 reporting that they spend more than 60 hours per week at work. That’s a 12-hour shift every day, Monday through Friday.…
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entrepreneurs – must-read entrepreneurs books

entrepreneurs – must-read entrepreneurs books

There’s a reason professors assigned required reading in classes. When you encourage pupils to think independently and interpret the week’s lesson via reading outside the classroom, you create an environment of learning. Students become teachers, teachers become students, and learning transcends predetermined roles. Ask any student in college today and I’m confident they’ll prefer seminar environments over lectures. Why stop this in college? Employees who shape an office culture the most are usually the ones who promote learning. They seek being both the student and the teacher bringing value and new skills to their colleagues on a consistent basis. When…
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Ways adult children hurt their parents without realizing it

Ways adult children hurt their parents without realizing it

Most people love and appreciate their parents. We don't doubt that. The problem is, parents can't tell this unless you show it by the way you treat them. Sometimes adult children can bring heartache to their parents without realizing what they're doing. We've boiled it down to five main ways this happens. If you are a parent of adult children, you may recognize some of these. If you're the adult child, you may be in for an awakening. As parents age, their physical needs may change but their need for your love never does. Check to see if you're doing…
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Startup – IT Startups That Will Change How Businesses Innovate In 2015

New products and services are released every month that dramatically change how we can develop products and manage our IT shops. Innovation is everywhere; it can be hard to keep up, but that is part of the fun. To help people get a hold of this rapidly changing landscape, I highlighted seven technologies that will help you innovate faster, beat your competition and deliver outstanding customer service. They each address the common challenges of how businesses operate today, and are setting the stage for a new era of IT. ElasticBox ElasticBox offers IT-as-a-service. Its platform enables IT and developer teams to collaborate so…
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Entrepreneur – ways to stop your business wasting time

Andy Grove, the former CEO of Intel, once wrote, “Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn’t let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.” But we all know that such thievery happens often, even if unintentionally. The situation has worsened since Grove ran Intel. My colleagues at Bain recently used innovative analytics tools from VoloMetrix to examine the time budgets of 17 large corporations. We discovered that companies are awash in e-mails, with many executives receiving 200 per day. Some 15% of an organization’s collective time…
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Entrepreneur – How design changes the way investors see your startup

Entrepreneur Entrepreneur - How design changes the way investors see your startup A few weeks ago during a moment of self-reflection, I noticed a recurring theme throughout the top deals in our pipeline and became suddenly aware of my tendency to value startups with well-formed user experience and user interface (UX/UI) design elements over more technical elements. My initial reaction was to think of ways to weigh this aspect of the evaluation less (don’t be influenced by the pretty). However, perhaps there is a deeper meaning for this gut intuition. A great user experience correlates to a deep understanding of…
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great reasons to give away your precious tech under an open-source license

Earlier this week, cloud provider Joyent did a surprising thing: It shared its finely tuned cloud software, SmartDataCenter, under an open-source license. But while it might seem like the company is giving away its high-value intellectual property at a time when Amazon, Google, and Microsoft have made the public cloud market ultra-competitive, Bryan Cantrill, the company’s chief technology officer, actually has some very smart justifications for the move, which he spelled out in a blog post. The way Cantrill sees it, disclosing core technology with the public can have a direct impact on sales, marketing, and talent. And because every technology…
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things to avoid when job hunting

If you’re a job-seeker and you’re frustrated, I don’t blame you. The hiring process is broken. Black Hole recruiting has been shown to be a dismal failure. Whose bright idea was it to try to hire brilliant people by reducing them to keywords? That’s idiotic. The only surprising thing about keyword-search-based recruiting is that it’s still hanging on all these years later. Is it corporate and institutional leaders’ inability to admit they made a mistake installing big stupid applicant tracking systems, or just inertia? Either way, job-seekers get a lot of sympathy from me, as long as they’re taking responsibility…
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