Archive for November 2008
Tongue-Twisters
Posted by: Lasitha Silva on: November 15, 2008
- In: Education
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A tongue-twister is a sequence of words that is difficult to pronounce quickly and correctly. Even native English speakers find the tongue-twisters on this page difficult to say quickly. Try them yourself. Try to say them as fast as possible, but correctly!
A proper copper coffee pot.
Around the rugged rocks the ragged rascals ran.
Long legged ladies [...]
To be Charismatic::…
Posted by: Lasitha Silva on: November 14, 2008
- In: Business| LIfe
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Why is it that some people seem to exude charisma or presence which captivates and influences those around them, while others have the opposite effect? Did you ever wish you could be more charismatic or have more presence – whether it’s while you’re teaching, public speaking, at your work place, or in your day-to-day life?
Presence [...]
How effective are you at using your time?
Posted by: Lasitha Silva on: November 13, 2008
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
~ Carl Sandburg ~
Record and analyse what did you do yesterday?
Take a piece of paper (diary, planner or spreadsheet).
Divide your [...]
Do you know about Urticaria (Hives)
Posted by: Lasitha Silva on: November 12, 2008
- In: Health
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Hives (urticaria), also known as welts, is a common skin condition with itchy, pink to red bumps that appear and disappear anywhere on the body. An individual lesion of hives typically lasts a few hours before fading away, and new hives can appear as older areas disappear.
Physicians arbitrarily divide hives into acute (new or periodic [...]
Lets avoid “Scabies”..
Posted by: Lasitha Silva on: November 12, 2008
Following are some facts on Scabies. This contagious skin disease can be a nightmare for you if you don’t take precautions. This piece of post is to lighten up the world to be healthy.
Scabies [SKAY-bees] is a skin disease caused by a parasitic mite.
Scabies is spread by prolonged person-to-person contact and is [...]
Porter’s Three Generic Strategies
Posted by: Lasitha Silva on: November 12, 2008
Michael Porter argued that a firm’s strengths ultimately fall into one of two headings: cost advantage and differentiation. By applying these strengths in either a broad or narrow scope, three generic strategies result: cost leadership, differentiation, and focus.
Cost Leadership Strategy
This strategy calls for being the low cost producer in an industry for a given level [...]
..:Usain Bolt:..
Posted by: Lasitha Silva on: November 10, 2008
- In: Athletics
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This Usain Bolt guy is a terrible contender in the event. I’ve run the same games with him (junior, but not the same heat) and didn’t even think of such talent within. He was just another athlete.
Now various blogs and news pages talk about human limits and how Bolt out run the earlier math models. [...]
How fast Homo sapiens can go..
Posted by: Lasitha Silva on: November 10, 2008
Amazing as Usain Bolt’s Olympic record-breaking 100-meter victory was, his time of 9.69 seconds is nowhere near what biostatisticians such as Peter Weyand of SMU thinks is the natural limit for the human body. Experts studying the steady progression of records over the past 50 years, see the limit of the world record, with a [...]
Benchmarking competencies and competition
Posted by: Lasitha Silva on: November 9, 2008
When operating in a market it is not the competition that is very different from you that matters – in fact your most dangerous competitors are those that are most like you. This is because for most products and services there will be many features in common which give customers a ‘comfort’ factor and allows [...]
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