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Face it. No matter how much we tell people there’s no such thing as a “magic pill,” we all want it. Well, I don’t have the magic pill, but I DO have something even better — a virtual potion that has the potential to free you up from bothersome obstacles and activate your inner manifester. All you need to do is read the list below, pick the CreativiTea you need the most, and drink deep. Then noodle on WHAT you can do to activate this quality in your life.

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101 CreativiTeas for the Knew Age

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Word Tip of the Week: Using the Thesaurus

People walking in and out, checking their BlackBerry, fidgeting, not paying attention are only the beginning of Bad Meetings! Meetings should be short, no more than 30 minutes, no agenda-no meeting and a lot of other useful rules to make everyone productive!

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Now I Remember why I hate Office Meetings!

The House Science and Technology Committee is marking up today its version of a reauthorization (pdf) of the America COMPETES Act – the act that, when passed back in August 2007, marked the culmination of several years of effort to convince Congress and the Administration of the importance of buttressing support for federal investments in

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House S&T Marks up COMPETES Act Reauthorization Today

AT&T Inc. (T) Wednesday sold its entire 7% stake in Tech Mahindra Ltd. (532775.BY) through two block deals for about INR6.55 billion ($147 million), leaving analysts worried that this could hurt outsourcing business from the U.S. telecommunications major to the Indian software services provider. The stake sale comes just a month after AT&T International Inc., a unit of AT&T, bought an 8.07% stake, or about 9.9 million shares, in Tech Mahindra from Mahindra-BT Investment Co

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AT&T Sells Full 7% Stake In Tech Mahindra For About INR6.55 Bln

The purpose of cosmetic dentistry is to get your teeth to look exactly how you want them to look It goes beyond standard dentistry, which is really just a case of maintenance and damage limitation A cosmetic dentist will do things that a standard dentist is not able to do…

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Cosmetic Dentistry : The Basics Explained

Every startup faces a myriad of challenges that are well beyond the scope of any founder, so you need a few guiding lights to illuminate the road ahead. These should be carefully selected, with a proven track record, willing and available to help, and be completely trustworthy. Make sure they are willing to check their egos at the door. Let’s talk specifics. I recommend that every early-stage startup find three Advisory Board members. These should all be people who bring credibility and value to your company just by their very association with your company name. They should have deep backgrounds and experience in a relevant domain to your startup, and executive experience in running a company. For example, if your startup is building a high-tech software product, a dream team of advisors would be a former CEO or high-level exec in another software company, a former software marketing executive, and a former financial executive.

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An Advisory Board is a Startup’s Best Investment

Last week I got a call from a girl I’m helping start her own business. “I’m stuck”, she said; “I don’t know what to do next.” “OK, don’t freak out. We’ll work it out”, I said. I asked her to tell me what she was stuck with. She said that she needed vendors for her business but didn’t know how to go about it and she was losing it. “Calm down. You’re trying to accomplish a big task. Break it down into actionable steps”, I asked. She then listed these steps: Search the Yellow Pages for coffee mugs wholesalers.

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Why You Need to Get Out of Your Comfort Zone Right NOW

[the first of a series of posts by Inovis CTO, Erik Huddleston] Over the last two and a half years as Chief Technology Officer of Inovis, I’ve had the pleasure to watch the enterprise integration, collaboration, and supply chain space undertake an incredible transformation. As off-shore manufacturing rose, supply chains got longer and more complicated.  JIT , DSD and other acronyms became “normal”. Multi-channel commerce expanded.  Innovation cycles shrunk.  Risk management and data transparency was fueled by economic uncertainty. Rising from these changes was the single most exciting change in B2B integration : the abrupt and dramatic reversal of automation in the supply chain. Yes. A reversal of automation, bringing people back into the process.  Today, I’m kicking off a series of posts on the social supply chain.

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The Five Pillars of the Social Supply Chain

Question-and-Answer SessionOperator [Operator Instructions] And we’ll take our first question from Joseph Vafi from Jefferies and Company. Joseph Vafi – Jefferies & Company, Inc. I was wondering if we could focus a little bit on the top line and dig down into it a little bit. Obviously, we’ve seen…

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Unisys Q1 2010 Earnings Call Transcript

In today’s nano-second, downsized, caffeine-buzzed business world, corporations are increasingly demanding that “their people” redouble their efforts to find new and better ways of getting the job done. If this were the 1950′s, an efficiency expert might be called in, a bespectacled, uncharismatic gentleman with a fascination for predictability, order, and control. His motto? “A place for everything and everything in its place.” It wasn’t a great leap of faith for upwardly mobile managers to buy into this trendy “consulting service” since it seemed like such a safe way to yield increased productivity and reduced costs.

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Go Beyond Your Addiction to Incrementalism!

From the Computing Community Consortium blog (and CIFellows website): The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) and the Computing Research Association (CRA), with anticipated funding from the National Science Foundation, are pleased to announce a new call for Computing Innovation Fellows (CIFellows) for the 2010-11 academic year.  The CIFellows Project is an opportunity for

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CRA and CCC Announce New Call for Computing Innovation Fellows

BPOs & ITES may have to pay more service tax soon Crucial Case To Decide On Input Tax Credit Deepshikha Sikarwar NEW DELHI INDIAS thriving BPOs,ITES and other services exporters could see a much higher outgo on account of service tax if a ruling by a tax tribunal goes unchallenged.The Service Tax Tribunal has,in a recent decision,questioned the very concept of input tax (Cenvat) credit,which means that exporters of services may not be able to claim credit for taxes paid on inputs used by them in providing those services. The Custom Excise & Service Tax Appellate Tribunal decision has come in a case relating to Kbase Tech Pvt Ltd & Others.The judgement can open a can of worms for the industry as field officials can use it as a basis to reopen cases and slap show cause notices on companies to claim tax. The industry will take this up.I am sure the CBEC,which had only clarified the interpretation of the law,will itself take care, Som Mittal,president,Nasscom said.Input tax refunds on services has been a contentious issue for a while.The primary issue in case of service tax refunds has been the proof of linkage between the input services used and the output services exported.

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Threat for IT / ITES sector in india-Service tax credit

As private equity (PE) and venture capital (VC) deal-making gathers pace, PE firms are trying to raise cash, both in India and overseas, to purchase stakes in companies hungry for capital after last year’s downturn in the alternative investment market. Alternative investors such as PE and VC firms also stand to derive tax benefits by using the so-called dual structure, in which they raise separate domestic and offshore funds for investment in Indian firms. The alternative is a unified structure, which requires offshore funds to register in India as a foreign venture capital investor (FVCI) or through the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) and put money in a domestic trust that makes the final investment.

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Firms use dual structure to raise cash, get tax benefits

Private sector lender Yes Bank plans to raise Rs 1,500 crore of capital this financial year, a top bank official said. “We are very well capital-endowed as at March 2010 but we do have a headroom to raise around Rs 1,500 crore of hybrid capital in both our Tier-II and Tier-I structure,” Yes Bank Managing Director and CEO Rana Kapoor told reporters here today. “We will be tapping this window definitely this fiscal because in a rising interest rate environment it is better to raise money sooner than later,” he said. As on March 31, the bank’s total CRAR stood at 20.61 per cent. The bank would be tapping the domestic market for this hybrid capital, he said.

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Yes Bank to raise Rs 1,500 cr capital this fiscal

Ananta Capital, an alternative investment fund set up in August last year, is raising a total of $150 million for its two funds — a pledge fund focused on private equity deals, and an equity fund dedicated to stake acquisitions in publicly-traded companies. Jaganath Swamy, managing partner, Ananta Capital, said both funds had so far drawn commitments of $20 million from limited partners (LPs), high networth individuals and financial institutions. “We are looking at closing $110 million in the next three-four months for both funds. The pledge fund is designed to be LP-friendly and will be focussed primarily on the advanced materials and renewable energy sectors in India,” Swami said.

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Ananta Capital raising $150 mn for two funds

When we have elderly people at home who needs all time medical care we depend on Home Healthcare products rather than rushing to hospital or doctor frequently for a simple check up or any kind of regular medical support Scientific researches have made it easy for us Today we have unlimited ranges of products available to choose from according to our need and budget…

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Medical residency can be a very trying time in your career There’s lack of sleep, lack of money – and the accumulation of student loans It may feel overwhelming to even think about your financial future when you are trying to get through your day-to-day responsibilities…

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When Should Medical Residents Purchase Disability Insurance?

When someone says Intellectual Property (IP), most people think only of patents. In reality, patents are only one of at least seven items that should be in your IP portfolio. Some of the other items may cost a lot less, and may be worth far more in the long run. Here are some specifics: Company name. The company name becomes your intellectual property at the moment you incorporate your startup as an LLC or a Corporation. Sole proprietorships need to trademark the name to protect it

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Intellectual Property is More Than Patents

According to a new Information Technology Research report from Business Monitor International (BMI), the leading, independent provider of proprietary data, analysis, ratings, rankings and forecasts covering, the Russian IT market is expected to start to recover in 2010 from a significant contraction in spending on IT products and services in 2009. In 2010, the Russian IT market is forecast to grow to US$15bn, up substantially on 2009.

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Russia Information Technology Report Q2 2010: Russian IT market is on the Rise