Apple Mac Option Key

New Apple users are having problems because the instruction booklet does not make it clear where the Option key is. There is one reference to its location tucked away on page 53. This is compounded by the fact that the photo of the Option key on the Apple website shows the wrong key. More: http://www.mwls.com/news.php?n=92

Face-to-Face Ratio

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More Neet youths

The proportion of 18 to 24-year-olds in England not in employment, education or training (Neet) has risen to 18.4%. The figure from the Department for Education is the highest for the second quarter since 2006, and is up from 16.3% last year.

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Skills lack puts school leavers to back of jobs queue

A lack of employability skills pushes school leavers to back of jobs queue, as demand for migrant workers reaches record levels. New research from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) finds recruitment demand for school leavers has fallen since last year, while employer appetite for migrant workers has reached a record high.

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Quote of the Week

'Be gentle, and you can be bold; be frugal, and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others, and you can become a leader among men.' Lao-Tzu (c. 550 B.C.)

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Cheque and PayPal scams

Although money is shown as 'available' in their accounts, many people don't realise that the money can still be 'clawed back'.

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Course Development Times

It is always difficult to predict how long any project will take - the news is full of projects that have overrun and overspent.

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Micro businesses can’t find right staff

Micro businesses want to grow, but struggle to find the right staff, reveals British Chambers of Commerce report.

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Career progression disappointment

A new survey of 2,000 employees released today by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) has found that almost half (42%) of those questioned feel they are further behind in their careers than they would like to be at this stage of their lives. The data goes on to reveal that while individuals are blaming their slow progress on those around them, some have accepted that they have the power to bring about change.

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Profit Vault scam alert

This scam is more convincing than most so I thought it worth warning you all about it.

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Quote of the Week

'Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.' Henry Ford (1863–1947)

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This week's events

Monday 15 August - Assumption (a holiday in many Roman Catholic regions)

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More intellectual property crime convictions

More people than ever before are being successfully prosecuted for committing intellectual property crime in the UK according to a new report published today.

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Teacher training wasteful

A study by Buckingham University found 27,976 (71.5% per cent) of the 39,103 trainees who qualified in the summer of 2010 were in teaching posts in January 2011.

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Pupils should study maths to 18

A report by Carol Vorderman says that school pupils in England should study maths up to the age of 18.

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Business Jargon Generator

The cross-platform, desktop application of this program is now available.

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Quote of the Week

"Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality." Dalai Lama (1935–)

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This week’s events

Tuesday 9 August - Nagazaki Day. Saturday 13 August - Full Moon 18:57 UT.

5 Child Development Tips

Parents should adopt a five-a-day approach, with daily activities to help children reach their full potential. The think tank CentreForum says the government should start a national campaign promoting better parenting. It said that providing children with quality care in their early years was crucial. They recommend that parents should, every day: 1. Read to their child for 15 minutes. 2. Play with your child on the floor for 10 minutes. 3. Talk with their child for 20 minutes with the television off. 4. Adopt positive attitudes towards their child and praise them frequently. 5. Give their child a nutritious diet to aid development.

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Intellectual property reforms

The Government has announced plans to support economic growth by modernising UK intellectual property laws. Ministers have accepted the recommendations made in an independent review which estimate a potential benefit to the UK economy of up to £7.9 billion. Among the recommendations that have been accepted are: - The UK should have a Digital Copyright Exchange; a digital market place where licences in copyright content can be readily bought and sold. - Copyright exceptions covering limited private copying should be introduced to realise growth opportunities. Thousands of people copy legitimately purchased content, such as a CD to a computer or portable device such as an IPod, assuming it is legal. This move will bring copyright law into line with the real world, and with consumers' reasonable expectations. - Copyright exceptions to allow parody should also be introduced to benefit UK production companies and make it legal for performing artists, such as comedians, to parody someone else's work without seeking permission from the copyright holder. It would enable UK production companies to create programmes that could play to their creative strengths, and create a range of content for broadcasters. - The introduction of an exception to copyright for search and analysis techniques known as text and data mining. Currently research scientists such as medical researchers are being hampered from working on data because it is illegal under copyright law to do this without permission of copyright owners.

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Centenarians smoke, drink and are overweight

People who live to 95 or older are no more virtuous than the rest of us in terms of their diet, exercise routine or smoking and drinking habits, according to researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. Their findings suggests that nature (in the form of protective longevity genes) may be more important than nurture (lifestyle behaviours) when it comes to living an exceptionally long life. The research did find, however, that overweight centenarians tended to have lower rates of obesity than the control group. Although male and female centenarians were just as likely to be overweight as their counterparts in the general population, the centenarians were significantly less likely to become obese: only 4.5 per cent of male centenarians were obese versus 12.1 per cent of controls; and for women, 9.6 per cent of centenarians were obese versus 16.2 per cent of controls. Both of these differences are statistically significant. Although this study demonstrates that centenarians can be obese, smoke and avoid exercise, those lifestyle habits are not good choices for most of us who do not have a family history of longevity. Most of the study's participants did not attribute their advanced age to lifestyle factors. One-third reported a history of family longevity, while 20 per cent believed that physical activity also played a role in their lifespan. Other factors included positive attitude (19 per cent), busy or active life (12 per cent), less smoking and drinking (15 per cent), good luck (8 per cent), and religion or spirituality (6 per cent).

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