“For today, it is enough to say we are marking a remarkable event for our monarch,” Prime Minister Julia Gillard told reporters in Canberra on Monday. “She is the second person to reach the diamond jubilee anniversary. A truly remarkable event.”

SOT Member Nic uses cvs2bvs to improve his chess game. Nic says:

I have been using cvs2bvs to improve my chess game and as a way of measuring the effectiveness of cvs2bvs. Not only does it help to produce a far higher percentage of successful results it also allows me to notice what my previous strategy was and BVS that too. I have found that by measuring the effectiveness of cvs2bvs builds confidence in it as a tool, and this confidence appears to automatically trigger this switch without conscious effort.

Here’s what Sesame Street has to offer on the subject …

The new video was captured by one of NASA’s twin Grail probes using a novel camera called MoonKAM, which will eventually be used by students on Earth to snap photos of the lunar surface as part of an educational project. The two spacecraft have been circling the moon since they arrived in orbit over the New Year.

Because the moon is tidally locked with Earth, it only presents one face to the planet’s surface (the near side). The side of the moon that faces away from Earth is the far side. Only robotic spacecraft and Apollo astronauts who orbited the moon in the 1960s and 1970s have seen the far side of the moon directly.

In NewSell, the sale “happens” to the salesperson. It is the prospect who does something to the salesperson, not the other way around. The direction of flow is always from the prospect to the salesperson, passive.

I used to call passive flow the “Studio 54 effect.” At that time a New York disco became internationally famous for the way people (prospects) would do anything to get in. It was an extreme, but very sucessful, example of NewSell. Some say that when Studio first opened, the owner, Steve Rubell, played loud music every night but never let anyone inside. Each night as the crowd outside grew and grew it attracted even more attention. Eventually, when he felt the situation was right, he admitted only the “glitterati”; his success is disco history.

DFQ#001:

As a thinker, what is the main point about this post, in your own considered opinion?

Dr Charlie Teo gave the Australia Day Address for 2012 and is acknowledged as one of the world’s leading neurosurgeons. In this 60 Minutess clip he offers the following message for you to consider …
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Here, he does one of his inspired presentations of statistics showing the hopeful development of 200 countries in wealth and health over the last 200 years …

Gathering input by listening to the opinions of others is an important cognitive skill which is crippled in the space glutton. PTV may allow the thinker to wreak such enthusiasm for his or her own ideas that he or she is quite unable to listen to others.

In business, much creativity and productivity is lost in meetings due to those suffering from this condition. This condition is disastrous for those in sales or in management.

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