Friday, June 15, 2012

Some basic steps as to what attracts men to women

There are some basic steps that can be treated as answers to the question as to what attracts men to women. The first step is to have a proper dressing with appropriate amount of make up, so that your feature can glow up sharply. Secondly, it is better use a good scented perfume, which can help to create an alluring impression on your man. Thirdly, it is very essential to carry a positive attitude in behavior while interacting with your man, as the former helps to build a confidence in words that can help you to catch his attention. You should emphasize on the positive aspects to deliver a sense of encouragement to the person concerned. Besides, it is always a smarter option to carry a sense of intelligence in words, as most of the men prefer an educated intelligent woman rather than the dumb ones. The next step that comes is being physically attractive, which is one of the most important factors. If you are physically fit, then you can go ahead to flaunt your best features like legs, hips, eyes and others, which you think are the best in you. This is one that features that also drives the bonding of the women men adore.
In cases of younger women older men dating, few aspects should always be kept in mind. First, you should be aware of the fact that the there may arise difference of opinion due to the difference in age group and it will be smarter on your part if you compromise with the concerned person. Secondly, it is important to show a bit of maturity rather acting childish, as older men mostly like intellectual matured opinions than the childish ones.

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Dueling speeches: Obama, Romney go at it in Ohio

CLEVELAND (AP) ? President Barack Obama cast his re-election race against Republican Mitt Romney as the economic choice of a lifetime on Thursday, seeking to stir undecided voters and asking the nation to buy into his vision for four more years or face a return to the recession-era "mistakes of the past."

Said Romney: "Talk is cheap."

From opposite ends of Ohio, a state vital to both of their political futures, Romney and Obama dueled in economic speeches that set the tone for a fierce, final five months of debate. At the core, the pitches were the political foes' familiar, fundamentally different takes on how get to an economically aching nation soaring again.

"That's really what this election is about," Obama said in his most detailed case for a second term. "That's what is at stake right now. Everything else is just noise."

Romney went first from Cincinnati, a Republican stronghold in the state, and he described Obama's administration as the very "enemy" of people who create jobs.

"Look what's happened across this country," Romney said. "If you think things are going swimmingly, if you think the president's right when he said the private sector is doing fine, then he's the guy to vote for." But he questioned why anyone would do that, saying if the job isn't getting done, pick "someone who can do a better job."

The backdrop was Ohio, seen by political strategists as a state that could swing the election.

It went to Obama last time, and George W. Bush before that, and it remains crucial for both competitors this year ? particularly Romney. No Republican has ever won the presidency without winning Ohio.

Romney gave what amounted to his standard speech, albeit realigned as a prebuttal as Obama was pulling into his event site at the top of the state. Given the tight presidential race and the enormous interest in the economy, the two speeches offered anticipation of a big campaign moment, but the substance yielded little new.

This was Obama in professor mode, filling his speech with budget numbers and history and talk of independent analysts. It was an economics case, yet hardly one of roaring rhetorical lift. The goal for Obama was not to uncork new proposals but to define a contrast. He is still pushing tax credits and other jobs ideas that have awaited action in Congress for months.

On Thursday, he said the election is an opportunity for voters to step in and "break the stalemate."

In essence, Obama said Romney would gut government and cut taxes for the rich at the expense of everyone else.

Romney said Obama is crushing the free market with regulation.

Obama said, "If you believe this economy grows best when everybody gets a fair shot and everybody does their fair share and everybody plays by the same set of rules, then I ask you to stand with me for a second term as president."

He made a concerted push for independent and undecided voters by pledging anew to work with anyone "who believes that we're in this together."

Despite what had seemed to be a speech showdown, the two events were not of the same scope.

Obama spoke for more than 50 minutes, more than doubling Romney's comments, in what his campaign called the first in a series of major economic speeches. The settings offered different optics as well; Romney went coatless with his sleeves rolled up before about 100 people; Obama gave a formal address to 1,500 people.

Romney's reference to Obama's statement about the private sector "doing fine" recalled what was largely seen as a presidential gaffe last week. Even though Obama's aides said he was taken out of context, Obama conceded his misstep on Thursday, joking "It wasn't the first time. It won't be the last."

The president also appealed for more time to let his ideas work. Citing the monster American recession, he said most countries in the past have needed 10 years to recover.

The economic focus came at a grim time in the American economic recovery. The country produced just 69,000 jobs last month. And Europe's financial crisis is eroding confidence around the globe.

Politically, both Romney and Obama used Europe as a foil.

For Obama, it was to say while the economies of many European nations aren't growing, America's is because "we acted fast." Romney said Obama had amassed crippling debt. "You want four more years of that?" he said. "You call that forward? That's forward over a cliff. That's forward on the way to Greece."

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Steve Peoples reported from Cincinnati. Associated Press writers Ben Feller and Kasie Hunt contributed from Washington.

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U.S., India eye closer defense ties and more trade

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Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Israel sees rising instability on Syria armistice line

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Amsterdam-Trip.Com? Blog Archive ? An Effective Leader is Made ...

The level of success and growth of a business depends upon successful leadership of the professionals or other key workers. Leadership isn?t just controlling things. It is actually doing right things at the appropriate time in an appropriate way. Being a good supervisor is, therefore, distinctive from being a great head. However, managing with effective leadership is important. This article allows professionals to understand what makes a successful leader at workplace.

Qualities of a good leader
Distinct leadership qualities should be possessed by A manager to encourage and develop subordinates. This is very much important to promote a suitable work place. Here are some qualities of a good leader:

Great team player
A great leader is always a great team player. Successful execution of a task is feasible only through collaborative or team work. As a successful team player, a great leader knows strengths and weaknesses of the team members. He will have the proficiency to organize and assign the work effectively among the group. In addition, the head plays a role in build a effective team and presents self with respect to the party. The leader will not only test for quality in team effectiveness, but additionally promotes and rewards the people because of their contribution.

Remain true for his beliefs
It is usually hard to stay at one's beliefs when working with a crowd. Several undesirable situations may arise at office that affects these beliefs and values. However, a great leader doesn?t keep his faith in such circumstances. He?ll have self-stated (or organizational) values and beliefs to solve issues at office. A great head delivers whatever is promised preserving his self-respect.

Ability to absorb problems
Risks and challenges are common at any degree of a group. Completing the task in difficult circumstances even under stress is a particular art of good leaders. When people fail, they earn as they have the power to digest issues whenever you want. Their desire and interest towards the work makes them prepared to take the chance and end the job.

Lead by example
Legitimate leaders do lead by example. Their measures and conduct, indeed, influence their associates in workplace. They?ll follow and set the established principles. This motivates team members to follow the ideas. Being a right role model, they develop a positive and professional work setting in the organization.

Concern for the future of the group as well as the team
Good leaders at workplace are more focused on development of the business than their own personal gains. They build-up the perspective of the company's potential and find new approaches to be section of its achievement. They often make an effort to build the business as they know that if it develops, the manager will immediately develop in his career. When it comes to his team members, a great leader knows which they are valuable resources to the organization. So he supports them to perform better and increase in career.

Servant leadership
One of many most significant characteristics of an effective leader at workplace is?servant leadership?. A dynamic leader inculcates the idea 'To guide is to serve' and does not wish to improve self-authority or power situational leadership. His or her key perspective is to primarily serve the business and the team. Such quality brings in important characteristics like credibility, confidence and respect in the team members. Servant leadership challenges on ethical and principled use of energy. Its primary function is to produce the growth of people in the firm and build team work.

Emotionally intelligent
Emotional intelligence is the ability to monitor and manage self-emotions at office. A good leader grows self-awareness, enthusiasm, concern, social and self-management skills to be emotionally intelligent. With such unique behavioral characteristics, he meets the organization?s needs such as glory, challenges, growth and team spirit. It increases the capability to take right decisions and also promotes to keep a good relationship with the associates.

A mixture of these characteristics must be inculcated by way of a boss. With your leadership traits, a great leader makes certain that the following issues are achieved.

Finding best out of the team members
A great leader at workplace finds ways to receive the outstanding output from the team members. He sometimes involves in casual speak to the team members, but at the same time ensures that their production is maintained. He gives appropriate training to the subordinates and helps them build the necessary skills. He motivates the team to achieve the production targets of the projects.

Creating the team members think through the issues
No achievement is successful without team work. A great head needs thoughts and ideas from the team members. He provokes them to find innovative approaches to get better solutions and feel through the work issues. That not merely produces interest one of the team members but additionally promotes their skill development.

Making broad construction in which team members can get their jobs done
A clear and efficient framework is developed by a good leader to support the team members get the job perspective. He makes it simple for the team members to complete the task. He makes them think through the company?s point of view and encourages them to perform whole heartedly for the improvement of the organization. He also inspires them to grow when needed.

Inculcate the above-mentioned leadership qualities to be an amazing head at workplace.

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Tuesday, June 5, 2012

TED Blog | How to dream up a New Yorker cartoon caption

04 June 2012

Guest blogger Deirdre Barrett is a psychologist who researches dreams and sleep ? and explores how dreams can be used to unlock waking-world problems. In this post, she looks at the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest, which recently featured a cartoon involving what might be a TED speaker?s worst nightmare ? It started when, over on New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff?s blog, she threw out a challenge: Can you (literally) dream up a great caption? We asked for more:

The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest targeted TED recently. In early May, the image (supplied by cartoonist Harry Bliss) to be captioned was this:

?Harry Bliss/New Yorker Collection 2012

While The New Yorker hasn?t announced the finalists yet for contest #336 (finalists will appear online June 11), the entry posted by TED speaker Roger Ebert on his own blog gives a taste of what to expect:

I have a blog post of my own over at the New Yorker Cartoon Desk this week challenging readers to dream up?literally?captions for this week?s contest.? I want to tell TED readers a bit about using dreams for cartooning and then send you over there to target them!

I?ve spent more than a decade researching dreams and creativity. But a year after my book, The Committee of Sleep, came out describing art, fiction, scientific inventions arriving in dreams, Bob Mankoff, The New Yorker?s cartoon editor, published The Naked Cartoonist.? It contained the example below example?straight from a dream, and a fascinating description of how cartoons can originate in dreams.? I realized this was one area of nocturnal creativity I hadn?t covered at all. (More on other forms of dream creativity can be found in my talk at TEDxKnoxville.)

?Robert Mankoff/The New Yorker Collection 2012

There are not all that many funny dreams, but at least three elements general to dream creativity can benefit cartooning:
1.? Puns: language use drops in dreams, but the sound of words plays a larger role relative to meaning,
2. The emergence of forbidden impulses: the sex and aggression that escape sleep?s indolent censor are fuel for humor, and
3. Bizarre juxtapositions: what our dreaming mind fails to label as ?not making sense? will strike our waking sensibilities as funny.

Freud wrote in The Interpretation of Dreams of ?visual representation?: the tendency of a verbal phrase to be represented by an image. Of Freud?s many punlike examples, the only one robust in a translation from German to English featured a sexual encounter in a car interpreted as ?autoeroticism.? Many of the amusing dream images I?ve encountered are literalizations of idioms ? a family?s ?black sheep,? an ambivalent dreamer ?straddling the fence,? and another finding herself and her husband ?on the rocks.? A century ago, Winsor McKay?s famous cartoon strips, ?Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend? (so named as the cheesy dish was said to produce weird dreams), illustrated? idioms showing up in dreams ? as in this ?Rarebit . . ? frame of a husband? ending up ?in the dog house.?

A second source of humor ? the covert expression of forbidden impulses, whether sexual, hostile, or regressively dependent ? is represented by cartoonists in the ?dream bubble.?? Sam Cobean?s captionless 1940s New Yorker cartoons are often credited as the first dream bubbles. While some of these represented daydreams,? others did refer to nighttime dreams, such the one below:

?Sam Cobean/The New Yorker Collection 2012

The third element in dreams that strike our waking mind as funny ? the bizarre juxtaposition of incongruous elements ? inspired graphic artist Jesse Reklaw to produce two graphic novels that portray the dreams of other people, as they describe them. The comic potential of these are obvious in a few of the chapter headings from his book The Night of Your Life:

-I was in bed with a monkey doing the newspaper crosswords
-I accidentally got my boyfriend pregnant
-I took a bath in melted butter and forgot to dry off

This same element of bizarre juxtaposition is at the core of the humor in this cartoon by New Yorker cartoonist Joe Dator, who says: ?This cartoon appeared whole in my dream. I woke up, made a quick sketch, and went back to sleep.?

?Joe Dator/ The New Yorker Collection 2012

Bob Mankoff points out that dreams can also begin cartoons: presenting a bizarre image that intrigues the waking cartoonist enough to create captions tying the incongruities together and completing the joke. He describes dreaming simply the visual image for the cartoon below?a bizarrely placed fire alarm.? The image is somewhat amusing by itself, already tied into cartooning by the standard premise of the two castaways and the palm tree, but it became a fully formed cartoon only after Bob?s waking mind came up with the utterance linking the bizarre combination.

?Robert Mankoff/TheNew Yorker Collection 2012

This genre of incongruous juxtapositions has probably reached its apex in the New Yorker?s Cartoon Caption Contest. Bob suggests that the image-creation part of that process is what dreams do best, and I think that is likely. The same neurological quirk that makes our dreaming minds creative ? our restrained prefrontal cortex ? also means that we don?t recognize as easily that such juxtapositions need explaining. The prefrontal area is also engaged when appreciating humor, so we may not ?get the joke? as easily while dreaming. However, as the ?hair? cartoon and pun examples illustrate, dreams certainly can generate funny phrasing.

In my research, I?ve found that people are especially likely to dream solutions to any problem they ?incubate,? or think about at bedtime and ask their dreaming mind to target. I?ve worked with scientists and artists seeking practical help from their dreams and with college students trying to solve brainteasers or just their own homework ? and a significant percentage of each have made breakthroughs after incubating the problem at bedtime.

For the current New Yorker Caption Contest, Bob?s letting me challenge readers to dream their captions. Below are my standard dream incubation instructions, modified slightly to apply to the contest.

1) Place the cartoon to be captioned by your bed.
2) Review the cartoon image for a few minutes just before going to bed.
3) Once in bed, visualize the cartoon image in your mind?s eye.
4) Tell yourself you want to dream a caption just as you are drifting off to sleep.
5) Keeping a pen and paper?perhaps also a flashlight or pen with a lit tip?on the night table.
6) Upon awakening, lie quietly before getting out of bed.? Note whether there is any trace of a recalled dream and invite more of the dream to return if possible.? Write it down.

Here?s the image for this week?s Caption Contest:

?John Klossner/The New Yorker Collection 2012

In order for The New Yorker to collect all the dreamed captions most efficiently, please precede your caption entry with ?#dream.? Entries are due June 10.

And if you return to that same Caption Contest link in a few days and scroll down, the finalists for the TED garterbelt cartoon will be posted and you can vote for your favorite caption.

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