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May 21, 2012
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How to Pick A Keynote Speaker For A Conference
Whether you are organising an event or conference you may look at hiring a keynote speaker. If you attend an event of conference, you will find there are a lot of speakers. The keynote speaker is the main speaker. A bit like the main band at a gig! read more
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The Vital Importance of Community
I’ve been reading in many different sources about the research involving community and well being. In his best-selling book, “Outliers,” Malcolm Gladwell opens with a study done in a small Pennsylvania town called Roseto. In 1882, Italians who lived in a town of the same name, Roseto, started to come to the U.S. These people worked in the nearby marble quarries or farmed the terraced land. Upon coming to the U.S., they found jobs in a slate quarry in Pennsylvania. Eventually, about 2000 Rosetans came to the U.S. They started to buy land on a rocky hillside and built closely clustered two-story stone houses. Eventually, they cleared the land and planted fruit trees and vegetables. They raised pigs and grew grapes for wine. Schools, shops and factories sprang up and the town thrived. While visiting a farm in Pennsylvania, not far from Roseto, a physician named Stewart Wolf discovered that a local doctor rarely found anyone from Roseto under the age of sixty-five with heart disease. In fact, Rosetans were dying of old age, rather than of degenerative diseases. Curious, he decided to investigate. He looked at their diet and quickly discovered that their nutrition was not particularly stellar. Nor read more
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