The Multi-Fold Opportunities to Discover Gifted Genius

Giftedness and genius is a mark of significant human development that scientists continually seek to understand to help this population grow. While we believe that gifted people are completely genetic in their orientation their manifestation of skill is based in multiplicative factors that allow some to shine through and others to never manifest their skills at all! 

According to a study in the Journal of Education of the Gifted, "the extent that a specific gift operates according to emergenic inheritance and epigenetic development, the complications are already far more prodigious than implied by most dictionary definitions.(Simonton, 2005, pg. 284)"


While people may be born with gifted traits ,many won't perform at their fullest potential. They are restrained by their upbringing, personalities, social environment and opportunities. The complexity involved in the fruition of skill is multi-fold and can't be determined by intelligence alone.

Let us assume for a minute that one person who has the skill was raised in the right environment and supported through exploratory interests. They are more likely to show their skill when compared to someone who never had that level of support.

Likewise, a person who doesn't show right away may become a late bloomer if the right challenges and shifting environment open a window of opportunity. While they may not have shown mastery a few years ago, they may start to show at some other point in their lives.

The right circumstances, life lessons, genetics and opportunities come into alignment and the person begins to display superior skill. That doesn't mean it is invented instantaneously, but learned and earned through years of practice. The skill may be innate but the opportunity to master and show it is another story.


Simonton, D. (2005). Giftedness and Genetics: The Emergenic-Epigenetic Model and Its Implications. Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 28 (3/3), pg. 284

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Adjusting Weightlifting for Greater Fat Loss and Strength Building

Fitness can have two ultimate outcomes in terms of physical changes beyond obvious health benefits; gain muscles or lose fat.  When you first start working out both seem to occur simultaneously until you reach a point of fitness where additional fine tuning is necessary to continue to reach your goals. This is called the plateau and breaking that plateau requires messing up your routine.

The body adjusts and the last 5-6 lbs of fat can be the most difficult to lose as it is thoroughly embedded around your stomach. Muscle building requires extra calories and while you may be getting bulkier you will also find that some fat is sneaking in.

Let us say that you work out 2 hours a day and you want to lose more fat but not necessarily lose any muscle. Your normal routine is 1.5 hours weightlifting and .5 hours cardio. It could be beneficial to switch the ration to .45 hours weightlifting and 1.15 hours cardio.

You can cater your fitness program to your needs such as 1 hour light, high repetition weights and 1 hour cardio. You will need to adjust your workout so that you are focusing on the problems and target areas by forcing your body to adjust again.

There is a need to lower the weight level and do more repetitions. This will help speed weight loss without necessarily depleting your muscles. You are in maintenance of muscle and losing fat mode so you want to make sure you keep your muscles stressed enough so calories are not taken from them.

You may also find that high repetitions allows your muscles to improve strength during these periods because you are creating tightly woven muscle fibers based on the higher repetitions. Your muscles are becoming more endurance with additional strength.

Once you have achieved your weight-loss goals you can readjust your work out back to a pro-growth model.  What you are likely to find in this cycle is that you are creating the best of both worlds. Adjusting your body so it doesn't adapt as well as ensuring that you are thin and have a great physique. There may be a little fluctuation going on but you can control that with the type of workout you are engaged in.

Muscle:

-High protein meals
-High calories
-Low fats
-Higher weights
-Lower Cardio

Weight Loss:

-High Protein meals
-Lower calories
-Low Fats
-Higher repetition weights
-Higher Cardio

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23rd LAS VEGAS International Academic Conference on Business, Economics, Finance and Accounting

23rd LAS VEGAS International Academic Conference on Business, Economics, Finance and Accounting

ORGANIZED by:
International Association of Applied Business Research - IAABR
Jointly with
Academic Organization for Advancement of Strategic and International Studies – Academic OASIS 

DATES: NOVEMBER 5TH – 7TH, 2017
PLACE: LAS VEGAS, USA
The Stratosphere Casino, Hotel & Tower
2000 Las Vegas Boulevard South
Las Vegas, NV USA

The Stratosphere Casino, Hotel & Tower is one of the world's most recognizable icons, located on the Las Vegas Strip. Soaring 1,149 feet tall, our one-of-a-kind Tower defines the Vegas skyline, offering unparalleled, panoramic views of Las Vegas. The Stratosphere is a five-time award winner in the prestigious Las Vegas Review-Journal 2014 Best of Las Vegas Readers Poll, earning these top honors:
- Best Place to View the City - Stratosphere Tower
- Best Lounge – Level 107 Lounge
- Best Fine Dining Restaurant – Top of the World
- Best Restaurant with a View – Top of the World

Special deeply discounted rates, as low as $38 (Monday through Thursday) and $56 on Sunday are still available for the participants in 2017 Las Vegas Conference. In order to reserve a room, participants should call the Stratosphere Group Reservations Department at 1-800-998-6937 between the hours of 7AM to 10 PM PST, and use reference the Group: Academic OASIS and/or Group Code: C-A017, and provide an approved credit card with the appropriate information at the time of reservation to be guaranteed. The cut-off date for reservations at the special rates is October 14, 2017.

Our LAS VEGAS Conference is for people, who want to participate in a major international forum, get published, network with colleagues from many countries and sharing similar or complementary interests, and have fun in one of the most exciting cities in the World! 

LAS VEGAS is an exciting destination with much to offer. There are a wide variety of shows and activities to please any taste. A large number of shopping outlets are located on the strip as well as throughout the city. Gambling is legal in Las Vegas and there are many casinos throughout the city. Hoover Dam, the Grand Canyon, and twelve other national parks are within a few hour drive of Las Vegas. 

The Executive Boards of Academic OASIS and IAABR are very pleased to announce that the Keynote Address at the 2017 Las Vegas International Academic Conference will be delivered by Dr. Detelin Elenkov (Ph.D. MIT), Marist College, New York, USA, recognized as 2012 Outstanding World Multidisciplinary Researcher and the Second Most Prolific Researcher on Emerging and Transition Economies by Journal of International Business Studies. 

DEADLINES:

FULL PAPERS - OCTOBER 18, 2017. All full-paper submissions will be reviewed for publication in one of the double-blind, peer-refereed Journals Sponsoring the 2016 LAS VEGAS CONFERENCE or the refereed Conference Proceedings with ISBN number. The authors of these articles will receive their publications in person while still attending the IAABR/ Academic OASIS Conference in Las Vegas (one copy per a registered participant will be provided free of charge).

ABSTRACTS - OCTOBER 21, 2017: The authors of all accepted abstracts will have the chance to PRESENT THEIR RESEARCH IN PROGRESS at the LAS VEGAS Conference which will also give them the OPPORTUNITY to submit their COMPLETED PAPERS by APRIL 15, 2018, in order to be considered for publication in a later issue of one of the double-blind, peer-refereed IAABR Journals, subject to the timely fulfillment of all editorial requirements. 

REGULAR REGISTRATION DEADLINE: OCTOBER 23, 2017

EARLY-BIRD BONUS: Conference participants, who register by SEPTEMBER 25th will receive FREE Post-Conference Tour on November 7th (Tuesday).

Authors, who could NOT travel to Las Vegas for visa or other reasons, may PARTICIPATE VIRTUALLY in the IAABR conference, and these authors will have the same publication opportunities, as the regular conference presenters.

Journals Sponsoring 23rd LAS VEGAS International Conference on Business, Economics, Finance, and Accounting:
- Journal of Strategic and International Studies (JSIS)
- Journal of Advancements in Applied Business Research (JAABR)
- Journal of Advancements in Economics, Finance & Accounting (JAEFA)
- Journal of Psychology and Social Studies (JPSS)
- Journal of Organizational Advancement, Strategic and Institutional Studies (JOASIS)

Papers related to all areas of Accounting, Banking, Business Ethics, Communication & Media, e-Business, e-Government, e-Learning, Ecology, Economics, Education, Engineering, Environment & Life Sciences, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Gender Studies, Globalization, Human Resources, Information Technology, Innovation and Creativity, Law & Legal Studies, Leadership, Logistics, Management, Marketing, Political Science, Psychology, Security Studies, Social Sciences, Social Work, Sustainable Development, and Women Studies are invited for the above international conferences, which are expected to be attended by authors from nearly all parts of the World. People without papers can also participate in this conference, and they are invited to serve as session chairs or discussants, as well as informal contributors to the academic quality of this international event. 

Please note that all papers and abstracts submitted for publication to any of the above journals (or Conference Proceedings) will be double-blind, peer reviewed before a decision for a journal (or Conference Proceedings) publication is made. To be sure, incorporating reviewer comments will make many submitted papers improve to a journal publication quality! Selected papers will be published in JSIS, the flagship journal of Academic OASIS and IAABR with an acceptance rate of 12% (this information is current as of April 15, 2017). 

To submit your full paper or abstract for this conference, please email it as an attachment (acceptable formats are .doc and .docx) to GLOBAL@IAABR.com (please put "LAS VEGAS CONFERENCE" in the Subject line of your message). 

The regular registration fee is $350 (the reduced registration fee for virtual participants via Skype is $300), and the regular registration fee includes: 1) the popular Academic OASIS 2 FOR 1 ADVANTAGE - 2 OPPORTUNITIES: an OPPORTUNITY to PUBLISH your accepted paper or abstract in a PEER-REFEREED PUBLICATION with ISSN or ISBN number issued by the Library of the Congress + an OPPORTUNITY to PRESENT the results of your work at an INTERNATIONAL FORUM) for 1 LOW FEE; 2) one printed issue of the journal or Proceedings CD containing your paper; 3) an Official Certificate for International Conference participation; 4) the Conference Luncheon, Coffee Breaks, and Keynote Address; 5) Attending all Conference sessions 6) Attending all Social and Networking events; 7) Listing of your presentation in the program; 8) an Opportunity to meet, exchange ideas, and network with your international colleagues in an intellectually-stimulating environment + 9) Explore and Enjoy Las Vegas!

The Social Animal by David Brooks

Great book within insight into how our subconscious pushes people throughout their lives to create patterns of living. We are partly created by our social brains and follows two people, Harold and Erica, from infancy to old age. As they develop you can see these personalities and themes create different paths that manifest through their core needs, actions, and values.

What you should learn from the book are multiple:

-Our Brains are Made from Our Social Environment. We are creatures and products of how people around us act and think. The very formation of our lives is based in many ways on our parents and our first interactions with them.

-Rationalism and IQ are important but so is the process of experiencing oneself and listening to our inner voice. Those themes that come back into our lives can be discovered and enhanced for greater goal achievement.

-People are not always aware of why they act the way they do. They feel upset or happy but sometimes have a difficult time knowing its causes. Some people will be subject to their feelings and others will learn to enhance and own them.

-You will learn about the deep cognitive processes and human behavior. The book uses modern science to justify its propositions.

-If you pay attention to the macro economic side of issues you will find that certain beliefs and interactions on a social scale will have outcomes decades and generations down the road.

Horse Riding and Refinement of Movement

If you ride the same horse long enough you will learn that there is a "bond" that develops between the horse and the rider. A small squeeze of the leg, how a person sits in the saddle, and a slight finger pull on the reigns will tell the horse to do something. As you learn this refinement you can apply them to other sports and to your life.

Consider something like the sport of fencing. A flick of the wrist makes a big difference when using a foil to block an opponents forward attack. It is subtle, fast and barely noticeable by non-seasoned fencers. Horse-riding  can show you that even the smallest movement can make a big difference.

As you are riding your horse around barrels or completing circle-in and circle-out exercises you will begin to understand how a pull to the outside of the reign and a squeeze of the inward leg pushes the horses head outward and his/her hind quarters outward as well.

This is a different movement from simply pulling on the reigns because with experience the horse becomes sensitive to small movements.  If it is well training and accustomed to the actions of that particular rider there is almost no effort. You think it and it does it.

We may also want to consider applying it to our lives. Where people yank and pull on things to get them done sometimes it is too much force and overkill. A soft gesture, a little pressure, and a kind word might do much more than forcing people to do something.

Horse-riding isn't about whipping the horse into shape it is about teaching the horse to act to the needs of the rider. The less pressure and effort that is needed to get the horse to do what you want, the higher the value of the horse. Well trained horses can handle many different riders and act/react to the smallest movement of the rider.

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Maintaining International Competitiveness Through Global Business Curriculum

Colleges have a responsibility to prepare students to think globally and learn how to manage in an international environment. The trend toward internationalism will not abate and as supply chain integration and international treaties increases the need for competitive managers in the U.S.. Our local economies will be part of the global marketplace and cannot escape it and therefore must master the skills needed to maintain competitive companies.

If American schools do not produce enough managers that can think on a global scale and understand complex business systems at play across multiple continents these positions are likely to go to foreigners. While this may be unavoidable, and even desirable in many cases, we should not be forced out of necessity willingly hand over our competitive edge.

Higher education has a responsibility to ensure that we produce globally aware graduates that understand modern business practices at micro and macro levels. Business colleges should consider integrating more international business concepts within their programs.

According to the AACSB's Financial Officer Dan LeClair today's business programs should have global elements such as (Henderson, 2014, pg. 3):

-International management
-Integration of international management across curriculum.
-High quality faculty with practical experience.
-International learning and multi-cultural opportunities.
-Cultural context of information. 

Weaving the concepts throughout the business higher education experience helps students make greater connections between their chosen business fields and its global application. Whether one is working in a small business using existing networks such as Amazon or UPS, or a multinational corporations with their own supply chains, it is beneficial for them to understand how these larger processes operate.

Henderson, N. (2014). Global business education. Foreign Policy, issue 206, pg. 3.

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Is Sitting a Death Sentence?

Are you sitting too much? Modern life offers lots of opportunities to sit. We may be doing so much sitting that even exercise might not be able to help us as we thought it would. According to a study in the Annals of Internal Medicine sitting may actually be killing us.

The study includes 8,000 Americans over than  45 years-old. Over the course of a 16 hour day, sitting made up an average of 12.3 hours. We are spending an average of 77% of our time sitting.

The findings indicate that those who sit for spells longer than a half hour have an increased risk of early death and were in worse shape. There is something going on in the body where prolonged sitting is causing body deterioration.

Their solution...get up every half hour.

Keep the body moving and get up every once in a while to get a drink of water, stand, or move your feet. The blood should be moving throughout your body.

Exercise can go a long way in reducing heart disease and countering the effects of a sedentary life. Yet the study found that getting up in addition to exercise helps use keep us less likely to fall ill.

Their conclusion: "Both the total volume of sedentary time and its accrual in prolonged, uninterrupted bouts are associated with all-cause mortality, suggestive that physical activity guidelines should target reducing and interrupting sedentary time to reduce risk for death."

Click this Link to Read the Study