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Yakutsk is known as the city that sees the largest temperature differentials. While its summers can be quite warm, they are also quite short, and cold weather is present for most of the year. The lowest recorded temperature in Yakutsk is -83.9° F (or -64.4°C). Kiun B offers some visual explanations on her Youtube Channel of just how cold things are and what that means for your noodles or your laundry. In this podcast episode we get to understand more about living, growing up in Yakutsk and also her experience studying Petroleum Engineering in China!

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I have to admit that I find social media incredibly toxic but also at the same time extremely powerful as a content creator. I struggle with creating content and being sucked into the platform. The reason that it is so powerful is because it is so addictive, so if you can create content and not be consumed by content then you can have advantage.

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I want to create content and not consume content. But first I need to control my social media addiction

Addiction is an inability to stop using a substance or engaging in a behavior even though it is causing psychological and physical harm.

Continually doing something that is not in your best interests.

The Benefits of Being Free from Social Media Addiction

Being free from social media addiction gives me much more time, and energy. I can get much more done in a day, and have more time to do things that I enjoy. I feel much better and more fulfilled. I sleep and live better.

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What opportunities are there with studying Chinese? Why should you study a new language? What are the challenges to learning a new language and how to overcome them? Do you want to study abroad but need guidance? In this live Q&A session Rich and Saskia answer the questions you have about studying abroad and learning a new language.

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The Pros of Moving to Dubai

• Great Weather. The climate in Dubai is perfect for 8 months of the year. ...
• Job Opportunities. ...
• No Income Tax. ...
• Good Education. ...
• Vibrant Social Life. ...
• Accessibility. ...
• English is Widely Spoken. ...
• High Standard of Living.
• Safety

Dubai is a city and emirate in the United Arab Emirates known for luxury shopping, ultramodern architecture and a lively nightlife scene. Burj Khalifa, an 830m-tall tower, dominates the skyscraper-filled skyline. At its foot lies Dubai Fountain, with jets and lights choreographed to music

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The dictionary defines automation as “the technique of making an apparatus, a process, or a system operate automatically.” We define automation as "the creation and application of technology to monitor and control the production and delivery of products and services.”

Earnings-driven automation can be used to mitigate inflation. It can also be a response to an economic downturn, alleviate talent shortages, and improve operating margins and productivity

Wage inflation is occurring across the western world. At the end of 2021, wage inflation in the UK topped out at 5 percent. The Bank of England's Andrew Bailey suggested that employees should temper their demands for pay raises, and issued a follow-up to firms, requesting they "show restraint" when raising prices. Easier said than done.

Worries that inflation will continue to get worse into 2022 are far from eased by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which, as this article goes to press, has already sent oil prices to an eight-year high.

In the professional and legal services industry, where many organizations I work with have expressed their concerns about spiraling inflation, there's a secondary problem: the battle for talent. Highly skilled professions are seeing the cost of talent increase considerably. For example, city and regional law firms in the UK—who, before the pandemic, were already struggling to compete with US law firms offering higher starting salaries and bigger bonuses—are now having to compete with the likes of Skadden offering newly-qualified employees salaries of £157,000.

With all this going on, what should firms in regulated and competitive industries do? There's no easy answer, but there are immutable principles of business survival. And, when economic pressures coincide with labor shortages, firms need to pay closer attention to those principles.

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I consider being open minded one of the most important traits. It is one of my most important values.

What is the meaning of being open minded? “willing to consider new ideas” to look at things from a blank perspective without any preconceived ideas.

Why is it important to be open minded? Because I believe that the purpose of life is to grow and evolve, and we need to be open minded in order to do that. For these reasons:

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I've lived in China for 10+ years.

I'm leaving China for two reasons:

- 1) To resume my previous life
- 2) To grow my business

You can learn more about my company China Admissions and Global Admissions here:
www.globaladmissions.com
and
www.china-admissions.com

Thank you!

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Five content marketing trends to watch out for in 2022

• Move toward more empathetic content marketing. ...
• Focus on a better content experience. ...
• Optimize your visual content. ...
• Create targeted video short-form content. ...
• Personalization and hyper-personalization approaches.

It was January of 1996. In just a few months, the Spice Girls would dominate our radios, Motorola StarTACs would adorn yuppie belt clips, and the great 2Pac would leave our earthly world.

Little did we know, Bill Gates would pen an essay called “Content is King” for the Microsoft website in January that would live in infamy over 25 years later. The essay opens with Gates predicting content will become the internet’s moneymaker as technology progresses:

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Why are birth rates in decline?
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The United Nations projects that global population will reach 9.7 billion people in 2050, and population growth almost coming to an end at 10.8 billion in 2100.

By 2100, the world's population is projected to reach approximately 10.9 billion, with annual growth of less than 0.1% – a steep decline from the current rate. Between 1950 and today, the world's population grew between 1% and 2% each year, with the number of people rising from 2.5 billion to more than 7.7 billion.

With widespread, sustained declines in fertility, the world population will likely peak in 2064 at around 9.7 billion, and then decline to about 8.8 billion by 2100 -- about 2 billion lower than some previous estimates, according to a new study.

Most of the growth will happen In Africa:

The rapid population growth is the result of declining mortality since the 1950s unmatched by changes in fertility. There are significant socioeconomic and rural-urban mortality differentials in Africa, but as yet only highly educated urbanites have measurably reduced their family size.

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Russian is a beautiful language of literature. Think Dostoevsky, Gogol, Chekov, Rushkin, Gorky, Turgenev, Tolstoy… Ah, you just have to one day read it the way it was written, untranslated, unadulterated.

Korean has the most advanced writing system. You can read and write Korean in about 2 hours if you have the focus and a good teacher. It’s the most effective writing system you can ever learn, and you can use it phonetically to write your own secret diary, as da Vinci had his deep thoughts written in his secret diary in mirror images.

Arabic is usually considered one of the most difficult languages to learn, topped by only a few languages like Japanese in terms of difficulty. Plus, it's even harder (or so they say) if you are a native speaker of English or a romance language.

Unsurprisingly Arabic, Chinese, Japanese and Korean come out as the hardest, requiring almost 2 years to learn. In the past I've tried my hand at the latter three, finding all extremely challenging although the Korean alphabet (Hangul) is far easier to learn than Chinese characters.

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