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Since 2005 we have been training sales teams from all over the world with our award winning sales transformation programmes. We build customer sales training programmesthat fit you like a glove because we absorb your company culture, your team dynamic and understand the natural style of each individual.

Unlike traditional sales training, we dont lock you into our system or bend you to our rules. We are unique in that we start with you. This makes your learning development much more bespoke it looks and feels culturally aligned. Want to know more about our approach?

A rigid methodology can be a straight-jacket when solving specific problems, so we prefer a flexible, ideas-led approach. With years of senior-level experience, our trainers can focus a teams natural strengths, fire their imaginations and ultimately change their behaviour.

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SCHRIEVER AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. --

The Joint Functional Component Command for Integrated Missile Defense hosted five Japan Joint Staff members, July in Colorado Springs. This was the fourth consecutive year in what has become a staple training event for both nations.

JFCC IMD assumed this training event in 2014 following seven years of sponsorship by the Missile Defense Agency. This engagement with the Japanese Joint Staff is part of JFCC IMDs ongoing effort to build, sustain and support partnerships with ally nations through training and familiarization.

Given the increasing global threat, leveraging joint, allied and partner integration is essential, said Lt. Gen. James Dickinson, JFCC IMDs commanding general. We must continue to emphasize and advance interoperability and integration through operations, exercises, foreign military sales and other security cooperation opportunities.

All five Japanese officers said the training improved the partnership between Japan and the United States and that they appreciated the importance of this course in the current climate.

I hope this course grows every year, said Lt. Col. Atasushi Kamata, who is part of the ballistic missile defense operations and plans section on the Japan Joint Staff. Considering the situation around Japan, we need this training and support about BMD.

One of JFCC IMDs key tasks as an organization, is to integrate and synchronize joint BMD training, exercises and test activities. JFCC IMD trains more than 3,400 individuals from around the world, and in this particular instance, the training was conducted under the governance of the Foreign Military Sales training procedures.

Japan has BMD, and we are always looking to improve and learn the ways the U.S. is using BMD, Maj. Takahiro Nakagawa said. Its helpful from a bilateral perspective.

While in Colorado Springs, the Japanese officers also participated in some sightseeing to include the Air Force Academy, Pikes Peak, Bass Pro Shop and a Colorado Rockies baseball game.

While in Colorado Springs, our visitors normally try to participate in a number of our local events and activities, such as mountain climbing and hiking, the zoo, and attending a Rockies game in Denver, Ron Dennison,JFCC IMD Joint Training and Education chief said. They also enjoy our local dining establishments.

Kamata enjoyed his stay so much that he plans to tackle one of the areas biggest outdoor offerings if he makes a trip back.

If I have chance to come back [to Colorado Springs], I will climb Pikes Peak, Kamata said.

JFCC IMD synchronizes missile defense planning, conducts BMD operations support and advocates for missile defense capabilities in support of U.S. Strategic Command, other combatant commands, the services and appropriate U.S. government agencies, to deter and defend the U.S., deployed forces, and its allies against ballistic missile attacks.

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I am always fascinated about companies who dont invest in training.

What if I train them and they leave? a CEO may ask.

What if you dont and they stay? is always my counter. You have an untrained person representing your brand to arguably, your most valued asset YOUR CUSTOMERS.

Lets face it, a company is only as good as the people who represent it. That is a fact. Its people who build the website, develop the process and provide the customer service. Some companies only hire experienced salespeople so they dont have to invest in training. Thats a big mistake and heres why:

Many times, after we conduct our first day of training, people will come up to us afterward and say things like:

Today was great! You know, I used to do all of those things when I worked for XYZ Company. That is how they trained us. I guess, over time, I developed bad habits and started taking short cuts.

Today was a real eye-opener for me. I cannot believe how far I have fallen. I used to do all those things you taught us today. Somehow, somewhere along the way, I guess I just stopped...

So, why train an experienced sales force that you spent good money to acquire?

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

The Woodcutter StoryOnce upon a time, a very strong woodcutter asked for a job in a timber merchant and he got it. The pay was really good and so was the work conditions. For those reasons, the woodcutter was determined to do his best.

His boss gave him an axe and showed him the area where he wassupposed to work. The first day, the woodcutter brought 18 trees.

Congratulations," the boss said. Go on that way!

Very motivated by the words from his boss, the woodcutter tried harder the next day, but he could only bring 15 trees. The third day he tried even harder, but he could only bring 10 trees. Day after day he was bringing less and less trees.

I must be losing my strength, the woodcutter thought. He went to the boss and apologized, saying that he could not understand what was going on.

When was the last time you sharpened your axe? the boss asked.

Sharpen? I had no time to sharpen my axe. I have been very busy trying to cut trees...

And there you have it.

The world is changing at a frenetic pace. The ability to change, requires an ability to learn. Social Selling has replaced traditional cold-calling. Effective questioning has replaced FAB Selling (Features, Advantages and Benefits), and the list goes on.

When was the last time your sales team sharpened their axe?

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As a contractor, you know that making energy improvements to a home can optimize its efficiency and overall comfort and safety. But how do you convey these benefits to prospective clients?Learn great strategies at a FREE training event available to contractors participating in the emPower Central Coast program.Contractors are invited to take part in a half-day Measured Home Performance sales course. This training day will show participants how to best communicate with clients and convince skeptical clients of the many benefits of measured home performance. Contractors goal should be to make customers aware the importance of living in a healthy, comfortable, durable and energy efficient home.Guests will receive a free lunch at the event.Date: Friday, Aug. 25Time: 8 a.m.-noonLocation: Conference Rooms A & B at County of Ventura Public Works Agency Saticoy Operations Yard, 11251-A River Bank Drive, Ventura, CA 93004Cost: FREETo register, visit http://www.empowersbc.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=252. For information about the emPower program, call (805) 568-3530 or email empowersbc@co.santa-barbara.ca.us.

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Umberto Ecos first novel, The Name of the Rose, narrates a telling fictional story of how a medieval religious order tried to protect itself from the subversive power of laughter. It is the story of William of Baskerville, who came to visit a monastery that was disturbed by the mystery of a suicide.

In this postmodern novel, the concept of truth is possessed by the character of a poor woman, who is depicted as harmless, but tempting. But Adso, the novice, succumbs to his basic instinctssex and love. While he is the supreme portrayal of human innocence, Adso is also the inner desire of the young for existential meaning and moral significance.

Modern logic might reveal the story as something about how a reasonable man will attempt to solve a mysterious crime. Yet Eco actually foretells a postmodern twist describing the excruciating end that awaits the innocent when accused as a threat to old norms and tradition. Linguistically, Eco does not present his point by means of the plot. He employs his postmodern device by intertwining texts after texts after texts. While readers would force their way by making love the central theme of the story, the right conclusion can only be that truth is a paradox that is appealing but at the same time dangerous.

We can find a similar theme in Friedrich Nietzsches The Birth of Tragedy. Nietzsche projects a tapestry of human existence, arguing that reason is nothing but a despondent Western autocracy the aim of which is to destroy human passion. It is the latter, not the former, that powers the inner drive of humankind toward personal achievement and glory. Against the Greek idea of a world that is characterized by nobility and order, the dichotomy of the Apollonian and the Dionysian as proposed by the German thinker intends to show that human existence is determined by a mixture of the moral good and the universes dark forces.

Very close to the same decade that Eco published his remarkable literary masterpiece and more than a century after Nietzsches classic appeared, Filipino historian Reynaldo Ileto published his thought-provoking and highly influential Pasyon and Revolution. The monograph, which is an attempt to defy the grand narratives that mostly define the way history is written, inaugurated the birth in Philippine historiography of an idea known to scholars as history from below. For many years, Filipinos have been forced to read their history from the perspective of their colonial masters. In this emerging paradigm, history is read from the point of view of its voiceless victims.

Iletos work, which is comparable in eloquence to Renato Constantinos The Philippines: A Past Revisited, begins with the story of the strange uprising of a religious and political group called Lapiang Malaya. In May 1967, according to Iletos account, the group met its tragic end from the automatic weapons of the police. Scores of its members would lie lifeless on the street. What happened to the group is a tragedy, but hegemonic forces in Filipino elite culture simply painted the struggle of Lapiang Malaya as nothing but a comic disruption of the familiar and explicable patterns in the countrys history.

The vapid and insular interpretation of elite culture obfuscates the grievous in Philippine politics. Masahiro Kitano thinks that as comedy should pursue the ridiculous and the ridiculous is defined as a kind of error, it follows that an error plays a central role both in tragic and comic plots. The comic dimension of social reality is forced upon the consciousness of the people not only by means of the economic leverage of the oligarchy, but also through high culture. In our country, politics is all about entertainment, not substance. This has become the nefarious strategy of societys triangular structure in order to perpetuate the blind yet unchallenged loyalties of the masses to their own oppressors.

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Christopher Ryan Maboloc, PhD is assistant professor of philosophy at Ateneo de Davao University.

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There are any number of reasonable ways to improve your life. Yet when you get right down to it, almost every method of self-improvement out there boils down to learning new things and acquiring new knowledge.

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Before Google, if you wanted to find out about a person, you had to go to a library to pore through newspaper archives and public records. Now a newly-proposed U.K. law may force researchers back to the bookshelves orat leastto the British Librarys website.

New plans from the British government will make it easier for people to delete embarrassing or erroneous information about themselvesonline. U.K. Digital Minister Matt Hancock said in early August the government would introduce new privacy legislation that would expand the right to be forgotten, beyond just search engine results to any personal data held by a third party from social media sites such as Facebook Inc. to forums run by video gamecompanies, like Germanys Bigpoint GmbH, which produces massively multiplayer online game Battlestar Galactica.

The law will bring the U.K. in line with the European Union's existing General Data Protection Regulation, which takes effect in May 2018. But the new privacy rules contain exceptions for some official information, including medical records collected by the National Health Service. Also exempt arethe internet archives maintained by the British Library, which by law is required to collect a copy of all published material in the U.K. Since 2013, the Library has also been required to archive the entire U.K. web domain once per year.

The new legislation will make it far easier for people to expunge unwanted information, meaning archives such as the British Library - home to over 150 million books, manuscripts, and maps may have a more accurate record of online activity than Google, and will be of increasing importance for those looking to trace employment histories or undertake corporate due diligence.

U.K. law already recognizes a right to be forgotten but it has applied primarily to search engine results, such as those generated by Alphabet Inc.s Google and Microsoft Corp.s Bing, and people have generally had to prove that the information they wish to remove has caused damage or distress.

Instead of individuals having to prove damage or distress, material will now be removed on request unless private companies can prove a compelling public interest in keeping it up, said Max Campbell, a privacy lawyer at Brett Wilson Solicitors in London.

In cases where the content was originally generated by the person requesting its removal such as an old blog entry or a post on someones social media page that the person now finds embarrassingor misleadingitwill be much more cut and dry for you to withdraw your consent for data processing and have that data be deleted, Campbell said. You dont have to show that it is causing you substantial distress or damage, or indeed, even any. It is your data and you have the right to say you dont want it there.

The British Library said in a statement that it was pleased the government intends to exempt archiving that is done in the public interest and for scientific, historical research or statistical purposes. This would apply to all of the British Librarys archiving activity, including the UK Web Archive, the statement said.

The Library noted, however, that the government has not provided details of exactly how the exemptionwill be applied in practice. We are in ongoing dialogue with the Data Protection Bill team to ensure that possible risks to the activities of the British Library and similar institutions can be appropriately managed, itsaid.

The Library previously made it clear that it would not follow European regulations to allow people to remove traces of past events of their life from its records.

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The most common reasons people want something removed from the internetis because it is erroneous, said Yair Cohen, a lawyer at Londons Cohen Davis Solicitors, who specializein media and privacy cases. But he also saidpeople with oldcriminal convictions or who simply find some material about their younger selves embarrassing or misleading may wish to have that material removed.

Campbell said the U.K. data regulator is broadly sympathetic to removals from search engines, but that in cases of criminal convictions, especially for serious offenses,they will usually conclude there is an overriding publicinterest in keeping the material up. This is particularly true, he said, in cases involving misconduct or fraud in regulated professions, such as medicine, law, or accounting.

The exemption of these archives probably wouldnt cause any concern for those wishing to expunge unwanted data, who tend to care most about search engine results, Campbell said. In an ideal world,people would want to delete every trace of their past, he said. But practically speaking, having something still available on a newspaper website or library archive wont cause that much concern. What people generally are worried about is going for a job interview or a first date with someone and someone puts their name into Google via their phone and the first thing that pops up is something negative.

In 2014, when Google first announced it would comply with the European Court of Justice ruling that established the right to be forgotten, privacy advocates worried the company would try to get around the rules by inserting a note into search results highlighting the fact that it had removed the link and possibly even directing searchers toarchives like the Wayback Machine. In the end, the company decided not to include such notations.

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College can be overwhelming, especially for incoming freshmen, but resources like the J.D. Williams Library are there to make life a little easier for students.

Whether studying late for an exam or avoiding a noisy roommate, the library offers the perfect escape. But it isnt justgreat for visiting in person; students can also access the library resources online wherever and whenever.

The librarys website offers plenty ofdatabases filled with information studentscan use for research papers or required readings. Anything from science to history and beyond, these resources have got your back.

Greg Johnson, who works in the archives at J.D. Williams Library, said library employees are the best resource for students trying to figure out where to start.

We (librarians) all know the collections well and can help researchers navigate through large amounts of information, Johnson said.

There are librarians familiar with eachmajor and emphasis to help conduct any research or answer specificquestions.

Librarian Savannah Kelly saidthe easiest way to find a qualifiedlibrarian is to click People under the About tab on the website and click on the Subject Librarians option.

To get further acquainted with the library, Kelly said students taking an EDHE 105/305 class or WRIT 101/102 will have a library session in which they canmeet a librarian and learn how to find books. However, Kelly said she encourages all students to reach out to the staff if they need help.

The writing center located on the first floor is another availabletool for students. It opens during select times in the week for students who cant find time to make it over to Lamar Halls writing center. This is especially useful when trying to cram in that paper during midterms and finals.

There are various places for students to study alone, but for group studiers, the library featuresstudent rooms and cubicles with large-screened computers to make group projects a little less stressful.

Students have to find a place that works for them,Kelly said.

One of the most important unwritten rules of the library is the permittednoise level allowed for each floor. Normal talking is allowed on the first floor, the second allows hushed talking, and on the third, complete silence is expected.

Computers are available in the Baxter Room next to Starbucks on the second floor, along with an array of newspapers and magazines. Additional computers are located in the lounge on the first floor, and they are loaded with many of the software programs needed for classes.

Forany video projects throughout the year, the library also offers an easy-to-use film and editing studio available toreserve online for an hour at a time.

Forgot your computer charger or leave atextbook at home? The front desk lendsoutthese items for a few hours free of charge. Studentscan also check out umbrellas, DVDs and CDs for short periods of time.

Cecilia Bortero, dean of J.D. Williams, and Stanley Whitehorn, head of library facilities, encourage students to come and talk about things they want to see in the library.

If there is anything you would like to see, to come and talk about it and share it, Whitehorn said.

Hesaid this year, due to suggestions from previous years, study rooms will now be available to reserve through the library website, instead of the former first-come, first-serve policy.

Whitehorn said any room is open is allowed for study space, except when reserved for meetings.

So, students, take advantage of J.D. Williams. Spend a night studying on one of the floors, typing atits computers orchatting with a librarian, but dont forget to keep it down.

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Community Spotlight is heard quarter past every hour on 97.9 WHAV. Greater Haverhill non-profit organizations are invited to submit news of events, fundraising appeals and other community calendar announcements. Click to use the Submit News Tip form to submit your information.

Book clubs, arts and crafts and much more are available at the Haverhill Public Library throughout the month of September. For more information and an updated schedule, visit HaverhillPL.org. All events are free and registrations can be confirmed online or by calling the library at 978-373-1586.

Sept. 5 at 10 a.m.: Film screening The Asphalt Jungle starring Sterling Hayden. (Held in the Auditorium)

Sept. 5 & 12, 6:30 to 8 p.m.: Two-part Excel workshop taught by Lydia Mitchell of Technology Haven. Participants in this all-ages workshop must have experience using a mouse and keyboard. (Register online or by calling the library; held in the Computer Lab)

Sept. 7, 7 to 8 p.m.: Haverhills Shoe History Buttonwoods Museums Kaleigh Pare presents this talk on the Queen Slipper City and delves into the history of Haverhills shoe factories. (Register online or by calling the library; held in the Auditorium)

Sept. 16, 10 a.m. to noon: Historian and Haverhill High School teacher E. Philip Brown will signing copies of his new book Greeks of the Merrimack Valley. (Held in the Auditorium)

Sept. 18, 7 to 8:30 p.m.: HPL Photography Club meets to trade tips and techniques. (No registration necessary)

Sept. 23, 1 to 3 p.m.: Dr. Allan Hughes presents meditation techniques to reduce stress, improve concentration and enhance mental clarity. (Register online or by calling the library; held in the Auditorium)

Sept. 28, 6 to 8:30 p.m.: The Librarys Thursday Night Book Club meets the last Thursday of every month. (Call the library for more information; held in the Milhendler Room)

Sept. 30, 2 to 3 p.m.: Make a harvest wreath free of charge. Adults over 18 only, please. (Registration begins online Sept. 15; held in the Milhendler Room)

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