World’s Tallest Building

At present, the Burj Dubai, or Dubai Tower, is 1,853 ft. high (564.9 m) with 152 completed floors. That makes the Burj Dubai the tallest freestanding structure in the world, until now a title held by the CN Tower in Toronto. To give American readers a sense of scale, the Sears Tower, the tallest building in the U.S., is 1,730 ft tall, including the antenna. While the finished height of the tower is officially being kept a secret in order to discourage competitors for the title of world’s tallest building, reports indicate that the tower will exceed 2,121 ft., making it the tallest structure ever built.

Innovative Materials: New Type of Diamonds

Perfect single-crystal diamonds of more than two carats (the average engagement ring is less than a carat) churned out in a day. Scientists create the gemstones using a process called chemical vapor deposition (CVD), which grows diamond crystals one carbon atom at a time."

Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) is a chemical process used to produce high-purity, high-performance solid materials. The process is often used in the semiconductor industry to produce thin films. In a typical CVD process, the wafer (substrate) is exposed to one or more volatile precursors, which react and/or decompose on the substrate surface to produce the desired deposit. Frequently, volatile byproducts are also produced, which are removed by gas flow through the reaction chamber.
Microfabrication processes widely use CVD to deposit materials in various forms, including: monocrystalline, polycrystalline, amorphous, and epitaxial. These materials include: silicon, carbon fiber, carbon nanofibers, filaments, carbon nanotubes, SiO2, silicon-germanium, tungsten, silicon carbide, silicon nitride, silicon oxynitride, titanium nitride, and various high-k dielectrics. Well in this case, CVD process is used to produce synthetic diamonds.

Hydrogen Fuel from Sugar using E.Coli Bacteria

By modifying a few genes in the stomach bacteria E. coli, scientists from Texas A&M have made the bacteria capable of producing hydrogen - possibly enough to power vehicles and homes in the future.

A research team lead by Thomas Wood, a Professor of Chemical Engineering, has deleted six of the 5,000 genes from E. coli's DNA. This modification enhances the bacteria's glucose-conversion abilities.

By consuming sugar, the bacteria can generate hydrogen. Currently, the E. coli strain can produce 140 times more hydrogen than is created in naturally occurring processes, and the researchers plan to make the process even more efficient.

The sugar could come from a wide variety of biofuels (e.g. corn), Wood explains. "A lot of people are working on converting something that you grow into some kind of sugar. We want to take that sugar and make it into hydrogen. ... We're going to get some form of sugar-like molecule and use the bacteria to convert that into hydrogen."

This method of generating hydrogen could potentially be much less expensive than the conventional electrolysis technique (splitting water). With E. coli, Wood explains that capturing the hydrogen from the bacteria is easy and inexpensive. Because the gas bubbles up from the bacteria solution, "you just catch the gas as it comes out of the glass. That's it. You have pure hydrogen."

The E. coli technique could also offer a solution to the challenge of hydrogen transportation, which can be dangerous and costly. With the bacteria, hydrogen could be produced on-site, eliminating the need for transporting hydrogen. Instead, the material to be transported would be sugar.

So now, Wood and his colleagues are working on minimizing the amount of sugar required to produce a certain amount of hydrogen - making the process more efficient.

As Wood explains, the current scheme would require about 175 pounds of sugar per day to provide enough hydrogen to power a US home for one day. He's hoping to get that amount of sugar down to 17 pounds, and possibly less.

The researchers say that, although more work needs to be done on the process, they're hoping they're on the right track.

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Reason To Be a Business Owner

With all the uncertainty there is still hope and ways of creating security for the future. The key is finding your passion in life and investing in your self. Starting your own business is one of those ways that can create many benefits. Here are the top ten reasons to be a business owner.

• Job Security. Business owners have job security. They never lay themselves off. As a matter of fact if business slows they have the option of doing what it takes to increase sales.
• Maximum Pay. Business owners choose their wage. They can create more business when they need or want more money. Employees work to make the business owner rich.
• Flexibility. Business owners can choose their work schedule. They can plan around family events such as weddings, ball games and school programs. Vacations can be incorporated into business trips.
• Control. Business owners are free from being told what to do and when to do it. There is no supervisor to answer to, judge them or look over their shoulders.
• Tax Benefits. Business owners have the advantage of more tax savings than employees. There are things that are deductible such as a home office which includes deducting a portion of utilities, insurance, taxes, interest and improvements. These expenses you would be paying for anyway, but if you have a business they can become tax deductible. This is just one example - there are many more.
• Retirement. In today's world, retirement is unsure and risky. People who have worked for the same company plan on a good retirement and then one day it is gone. Creating a business that you love can last long beyond retirement age. Business owners can train others to run their business and when they choose to retire, it can be with a good passive income.
• Product flexibility. An employee has to push whatever product the company says to. Business owners have the flexibility to change products and services according to the market. If a product or service becomes outdated or unpopular it is exciting to move on and keep up with the times.

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Discover The Work You Were Born To Do - Work Ethic Of Joy

It seems ingrained in us to either sacrifice our dreams and our deeper self in return for a regular salary, or follow our heart and do something that inspires us and is meaningful, but holds no hope of financial success or security. The dilemma? Do you go for the money or the love and meaning? You can have both, but you need to move beyond the idea that work is something negative, and must involve sacrifice, pain, or boredom. Too few of us truly understand the vocational dimension of work – that it can be a blessing that we love, and which allows our unique gifts and talents to flow out and serve others. This is the work ethic of joy, and the highest view of work is wonderfully expressed by Kahlil Gibran in The Prophet, “Your work is your love made visible.” When your work is the canvas onto which you express your soul it is the job you were born to do, and is moving beyond sacrifice to inspiration, beyond dilemma to authenticity and leading to a life of meaning and success.

• Through your inspiration, joy and a sense of calling It is the work that would inspire you, you feel called to and your heart calls you to. It is what you are naturally drawn to and curious about. It is what you would most love to do.
• Behind your greatest resistance The twin soul of inspiration is resistance, and often the work you’d most love to do is what you spend most time and energy procrastinating about, avoiding, making excuses why you haven’t done it and talking yourself out of. Most people are beaten by their resistance and never reach their full potential.
• In your shadow life The talents you have disowned become your unlived life, which you can only see in others. You can be close to the work you’d love, but you are more comfortable seeing other people’s creativity and talent – afraid to acknowledge your own. Begin to put own your talents out there and move them towards the centre of your life. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world.
• Under the statement “I don’t know” Often we genuinely don’t know, but with good questions and coaching, we can reach clarity. I don’t know also masks I am afraid to know because then I’d have to change, and that scares me even more. We can confuse I don’t know what with I don’t know how. Don’t deny what you know you’d love to do because you don’t know how you could do it and succeed with it. You can learn.
• Through your naturalness, seen in the eyes of others A great blind spot most of us have is to our natural abilities and talents. We value struggle, not ease, so don’t value or even see what comes easily to us, and can easily dismiss it, missing our own unique brilliance. Notice how others acknowledge and appreciate you.
• In your lost dreams and your underutilized talent Often, as children, we do know what we’d love to do, but we can be actively discouraged from it, criticized for it or somehow abandon our passions to join the grown up world of working for money. You can go back and reconnect with what you loved, and sometimes this can be painful but poignant.
• Behind a wake up call or even a crisis A refusal to listen to our intuition and deeper self could precipitate a full-blown crisis. Things fall apart and we can feel awful, but so many people speak in retrospect about their illness/redundancy/bankruptcy being the best thing that ever happened to them. It got them back on track to a greater and more authentic life, but they needed to be broken open, allowing the phoenix to rise from the ashes.

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Leadership: Top 7 Secrets of Highly Successful Managers

Why do some managers make managing look easy and enjoy major success while others never seem to figure it out?

Effective management is no accident. The best managers have studied success and have learned the secrets.

See how you match up against these seven:

1. Ask lots of questions. Listen, and then listen some more. Great questions open up dialog that you otherwise might have missed. When you listen, really listen. You'll be amazed at what you'll hear and your staff will be thrilled you care.
2. Practice 360 degree learning. Learn something from everyone and everything, inside and especially outside your own industry and business. As Tom Peters says, when you wander around you're sure to find out what's really going on.
3. Be slow to hire, fast to fire. Having the right staff in place is your most important managerial responsibility.
4. Accept less of the credit and more of the blame than you deserve. Enough said.
5. Focus. Pay attention only to high impact issues that matter most. Delegate or eliminate everything else.
6. Lead. Your staff wants to know where you're taking the business. Most of them will follow in you share your vision and values.
7. Recognize and reward. Be lavish, public and prompt with praise and awards for work well done.

BONUS SECRET: Stay humble. You may have the power and the title, but nothing good happens without the dedication, commitment and hard work of your staff.

To Lead

Learning to lead can be pleasant and painful, frightening and invigorating, rewarding and frustrating - all at the same time. The only certainty is that how you lead will be remembered. For better or worse, your leadership becomes part of the legacy you leave behind in your job, your community and your life. Every action you take contributes to that legacy, every day. Have fun, give it your best and enjoy the space between a rock and a hard place. It's where diamonds are made!

Managers Are Made, Not Born

Managers need to be train how to handle and motivate their subordinates.
Successful managers practice :

1. Understand and Negotiate the Right Management Contract
2. Be Yourself
3. Listen
4. Don't Badmouth One Group to Become Accepted by Another
5. Be a Role Model
6. Rely on Your Ability to Support, Not on Your Ability to Do
7. Give Up the Illusion of Changing Anyone Except Yourself
8. Blow Your Team's Horn, Not Your Own
9. Focus on Your Team's Strengths
10. Take Charge of Your Own Growth
11. Be Patient
12. Work on Your Emotional Intelligence
13. Tell the Truth
14. Don't Manage, Lead

Dimensions of emotional intelligence :

1. Self Awareness - knowing enough about our own internal triggers, hot buttons, personality weaknesses and strengths to talk about them openly and comfortably. Self Awareness is the cornerstone to developing emotional intelligence.
2. Self-Regulation - the ability to regulate and control one's own behavioral responses to situations and events.
3. Empathy - the ability to put yourself in someone else's shoes and see things as they might see them.
4. Empathy - the ability to put yourself in someone else's shoes and see things as they might see them.
5. Social Skill - being sensitive to human dynamics and the feelings of others in how we interact with them. Social skill is where emotionally intelligent leaders get to practice all of the preceding emotional intelligence skills.

Do you delegate or do it.

"An effective manager frees himself from parts of his routine job and get others to do it".

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- Assessing Business Risk -
"It is important to recognize that no matter how much you work on your business plan, there will always be unexpected twists & turns".

- Assessing The Capabilities -
"Another basic ingredient of entrepreneurial success is a good understanding of strength & weakness".

- Assessing The Competition -
A product or service doesn't necessarily have to be unique, but you have to think of yourself as providing a distinct set of benefits to customers".

- Building A Team -
"The people you want on your team should be individuals who are willing to put some skin in the game, who are looking to build something and who are willing to take necessary risks".

- Building the Plan -
" Planning is crucial for effective execution. Planning gives you a better command of the details you need to pay attention in order to make the plan happen".