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Looking to get more from your business? It isnt all work and no play here - studies suggest that you need an employee engagement index of 3.9 or more to have an actively engaged workforce. Employees are an integral part of any company and play a vital role when it comes to deciding your companys success or failure.

Better employee engagement can boost business, while non-performing employees can set it right back. If you are worried about business productivity, dont - GPS tracking is just what you need. From assessing and tracking your employees progress, location and safety to stimulating and gauging their productivity, GPS tracking can help do it all.

The question is, do you need one?

Employee privacy and safety is always of paramount importance. Once employees understand this they will understand that GPS tracking and location sharing will help them throughout their workday to reach their goals more efficiently.

- If you have employees who need to travel a lot, you need one.

- If you want to know how your employees are performing, you need one.

- If your business is spread across various geographical regions, you need one.

With GPS tracking, you will not have to worry about your employees productivity or their time spent in the field - with real-time tracking this becomes a lot easier.

The Top Questions to Ask to Know Whether You Need GPS tracking

GPS Tracking can save your business in many ways if used in the right way.

                       Employee Productivity Increases

GPS tracking can help to increase accountability and reduce workload. For example, employees will know the shortest routes to take and therefore reach their destination quicker.

                         Do You Need Real-Time Position Monitoring?

It helps to track the real-time position of your employees. They can be held accountable for things that happen in the field in their presence. This makes identifying discrepancies that may occur easier, a process that will work both ways.

With real-time tracking, employees would know when and where they need to be. Managers would know the real-time position of these employees and use this to allocate work more professionally.

                       Do You Need Easier Reimbursements?

Track everything from mileage to the time taken, making the process of checking bills and approving reimbursements for fuel easier.

You will have fewer instances, if any, of employees claiming false reimbursements and overall employee efficiency will improve.

                       Are You Looking for Better Employee Safety?

With GPS tracking you can ensure that your employees are not involved in incidents arising from human error, speeding for example.

With the location sharing capabilities of GPS tracking traveling to unsafe remote locations will become infinitely safer; making it easier for you to track employees if something were to go wrong. 

                       Are You Looking for an Overall Reduction in Cost?

Here is how you can offset most costs with GPS tracking.

1.    Offer efficient routes that employees can follow.

2.    Ensure there is no false billing.

3.    Ensure that employees are present at the right location and safe.

4.    Ensure better time optimization.

Lower operating costs translate into higher ROI, enabling more profitability.

The Top Things to Keep In Mind

GPS tracking does offer many advantages but there are a few things to keep in mind before implementing it.

                       Restrictions on GPS tracking

It is important to draw a line between office time and personal time. Do not track your employees outside of work hours. Employees need to know and feel that their privacy is being respected at all times, this will also help to improve your employee retention rate.

                       Employee Consent

As a company, it is important to take the consent of the employees before tracking them. Ensure that you spell out the policies in the agreement. It will ensure that their right to privacy is not violated.

                       Privacy concerns with GPS Tracking

When it comes to GPS tracking, privacy concerns definitely arise. It is paramount to keep in mind your employees rights and privacy at all time.

You cannot track employees when they are on vacation or when they are out with friends in the evening. 

Is GPS Tracking The Right Solution For You?

Around 54% of businesses with field tracking operations track employees in real time. Businesses, where employees have to travel a lot for work, are the ones that would benefit the most from GPS tracking.

However, other businesses do benefit too, even if their primary operations are not on field. Here is how.

                       Helps employers to get a better insight on vehicle tracking data.

                       Helps lower labour costs.

                       Helps improve customer satisfaction; you will know where your personnel is.

Have you thought about investing in a reliable employee GPS tracking system yet?

Now that I shave my head, I love it and I think I will keep on shaving it for a very long time. However, it took me a long time to decide to actually shave it.

The way I decided to shave my head was through a test. I took my hands and pulled the hair back at the hairline on my head, so I couldn't see any hair. This was so I could get a feel for what I would look like with a clean shaven head. Once I did that I decided that I wouldn't look too bad, so I bought a pair of clippers from Wal-mart to shorten the hair before I cleaned it up with a razor.

If you're not quite sure if you want to shave your head, you can always put a guard on the clippers and go down incrementally, so you still have some hair if you decide you don't want to shave your head. This will cut down on the time you have to wait for your hair to grow back.

You can keep on putting different guards that will allow you to cut your hair shorter and shorter. Of course this is going to take some time, but it might be worth it if you decide not to shave your head after all.

Ultimately, to be able to tell whether you like the shaved head look you are going to have to shave your head. Once you do shave your head you may like it, you may hate it or have mixed feelings about the look.

It's similar to when you grow your beard out for awhile. You get used to seeing yourself with a beard. Then once you shave your beard, you look different and are not sure if you like it because you are so used to seeing yourself with a beard. Then after a while you are used to the look of being clean shaven. The same thing applies to your head.

Not everyone is going to like your shaved head. My mother still tells me she likes me better with hair. Other people on the other hand are going to love it. Be true to yourself and decide if you like it or don't like it based on what you think and not what other people think.

As a final note, another major reason why I decided to shave my head was I wasn't doing anything with my hair. I wasn't styling it, I would just get out of the shower and let it dry.

On top of that my hair was starting to recede a little bit(I'm only 24), bummer right? Instead of fighting it and trying to use various products to try to get my hair back I decided to just get rid of all of it.

I hope this article has given you some help deciding whether or not you should shave your head. I do hope you give it a try, I think it's something every man should do at some point in his life to see if he likes it.

P.S.- I just remembered something I wanted to mention earlier. One time I cut my hair really short, using a number one guard. I did not like the look at that point in time. I thought my face was to skinny. A couple years after that I had gained some weight and my face filled out. Then I shaved my head and loved it.

If you shave your head and don't like it now don't discount it completely. Keep an open mind about it. You might end up loving the look in the future.

Can there be anything like friendship between two people of the opposite sex? Many people think that this is impossible but i think that platonic relationship between a man and a woman is very healthy. Many women confess to having spent wonderful time with their male best friends with the absence of their husbands. Their husbands think it is great and i think they are right. A good marriage is based on trust and something like friendships with an opposite-sex becomes completely inconsequential. You must agree with me that this is a new relationship phenomenon featuring in only this generation. The previous generations believed that opposite-sex friendships were a potential bombs to many marriages. Family and marriage therapists believe that the easiest opposite-sex friendships to maintain are the friendships which were established long before someone got married. Such relationships are not threatening since you had them before you were married.

Some of these friends are helpful when it comes to shoe shopping, some offer perfect shoulders to cry on and some good ones are good at both. They respect each others partners a lot. Problems come in if one spouse in marriage does not have friends from the opposite sex. If your husband has some girlfriends he will rarely have a problem with you having man friends. Dramas start when partners create new opposite-sex friendships and keeps it a secret from her/his spouse. It is a clear indication that the person feels romantically attracted to the new friend. Such behaviors greatly interferes with issues concerning trust and harbors romantic jealousy. If one partner is so outgoing and the other one is reserved. The reserved one always thinks that the other one has romantic relationships with his female friends. Such unclear speculations can lead to divorce.

Deep insecurity in a relationship leads to thriving jealousy which shoots form zero to somewhere close to paranoia. You should introduce all your friends to your partner to avoid panic attacks. Couples should establish an honest and open communication about opposite-sex friendships. They are very beneficial. John who maintains a close relationship with females some of who are married including his high school friend, Staicy. They usually meet once or twice a week with staicy who is sometimes accompanied by her husband. John says that he values the perspective provided by married women. They are more knowledgeable when it comes to relationship and are far better listeners. Their advice is always great. It is quiet unrealistic to expect one person to meet all your social needs. Your spouse cannot be everything to you. Well-managed cross-sex friendships are healthy to any marriage.

When people get married they tend to place so many expectations on marriage. They expect the relationship to fulfill all the social needs which might be impossible. People who hang out in mixed gender groups are more happy than those who only interact with people of their own gender. Opposite-sex friendships are more fulfilling. It is described as a spiritual form of love just like sisterly or brotherly love. in most cases the two friends share some interests or hobbies which are not usually shared by the spouse. It is a wonderful feeling to have a platonic relationship. However your partner should always have an open invitation.

Sexual dysfunction is one of the very sensitive and major issues today. A study has revealed that around 8% of females are suffering from sexual dysfunction but they feel embarrassed to consult any doctor or they don't want to disclose their sexual inability to their partner. That's why many of them are finding relationship problems in their marriage life or personal distress. Female sexual dysfunction (FSD) was often underestimated but now women are more concerned about this sexual problem and consulting doctors to get proper treatment. There are many factors that may cause sexual dysfunction in female, such as age, diabetes, heart disease, obesity, hypertension, depression and chronic medical conditions.

Female Sexual Dysfunctions(FSD)

Depending on age it has been estimated that up to 40% of women who are suffering from sexual dysfunction are having lack of sexual arousal, decreased sexual desire and decreased sexual activity including sexual complaints like vaginal dryness, pain with intercourse and difficulty or inability to achieve orgasm. It is an age-related as well as progressive problem. Several biological, medical, and psychological factors are also responsible for female sexual dysfunction. Mainly females have had removed their womb or ovaries or having low level of testosterone hormone, are found suffering from FSD.

Treatment for Female Sexual Dysfunction(FSD)

Intrinsa Testosterone patch is one of the treatments for FSD widely used. Intrinsa patches constantly release small amount of testosterone (a natural sex hormone) through the skin into the bloodstream to regain the required level of testosterone in your body. That helps to regain women's sexual desires and closeness with their partners. Balanced level of testosterone in women improves sexual desire as well as sexual thoughts and sexual arousal. Intrinsa should be used only after obtaining a prescription from doctor.

Who are not recommended to use Intrinsa Testosterone Patches

You should not buy Intrinsa Testosterone Patches if you are allergic to testosterone or any of the other ingredients of testosterone patches. If you have had in the past, currently have, or think that you might have, breast cancer or estrogen-dependent cancers or any other cancer, dont buy Intrinsa.

Take special care before you buy Intrinsa:
If you have a history of heart, liver or kidney disease
If you are diabetic, as testosterone may lower blood glucose levels
If you have a history of excessive adult acne, body or facial hair, hair loss, enlargement of the clitoris or voice deepening or hoarseness

Intrinsa Patches should be used only after obtaining a prescription from doctor.

Side Effects of Intrinsa Testosterone Patches

The part of the skin where the patch is applied may show some visible signs of, rashes, irritation, redness or itching. In addition, one may witness hair loss, acne, insomnia, migraine, increase in amount of hair on the upper lip or chin etc. These side effects usually go away after the use of Intrinsa has been discontinued. These side effects are a result of the increased levels of testosterone in the body.

If these side effects persist or become serious, use of these patches should be discontinued and a doctor should be consulted immediately.

Here we recommend consulting your health care provider before using intrinsa testosterone patches. Because your doctor better suggest you the proper medication and ways to treat the condition.

Urinary tract infections are one of the most common and annoying health issues women face. In most cases, they are not going to cause you any significant harm but they are going to ruin a couple days while you experience extremely painful urination. They are the second most common type of infection in the human body that sends millions of people to their doctors every year throughout the world.

Women suffer from UTIs far more often than men do due to their shorter urethra, meaning bacteria does not have to travel far before it reaches the urinary tract and can cause an infection. Half of all woman will develop a urinary tract infection during their lifetime and a fifth of women will suffer from recurrent urinary tract infections. 

While urinary tract infections may be an absolute pain for some people, this article will help you understand why you're getting them in the first place and offer a solution to treating them quickly.

What caused my urinary tract infection? 
Approximately 85% of urinary tract infections are generally caused by the E.Coli bacteria. When this bacteria makes contact with the urinary tract it can cause an infection if it is not flushed away soon after contact. Intercourse or incorrect wiping are the most common ways bacteria can make it into the bladder. After intercourse make sure you urination to flush any bacteria out before they get a chance to cause harm. Other things that may increase your chance of a UTI are Menopause and birth control diaphragms. 

Some people with medical conditions such as a spinal cord injury may not be able to empty their bladder properly and become more susceptible to urinary tract infections.
People with suppressed immune systems and those with blockages in the urinary tract such as kidney stones or an enlarged prostate.
Pregnant women, sexually active women and those experiencing reduced estrogen levels after menopause are at higher risk. [1]

How do I treat my Urinary Tract Infection?
Typically most doctors will prescribe antibiotics for a urinary infection because its quick and easy and will hopefully get rid of the infection. However antibiotics come with a large number of side effects such as the destruction of healthy gut bacteria which help maintain our general health and wellbeing. Overuse of antibiotics can also result in a resistance where they become less useful and sometimes stop working so it's recommended to only take antibiotics if absolutely necessary.

An upper urinary tract infection or an infection of the kidneys is an example of when antibiotics should be used. These UTI's are serious and can cause long term damage if left untreated. However for the majority of UTIs, when it is just localised to painful urination, you want to try everything else before you destroy all your good and bad bacteria with antibiotics.

Alternative urinary tract infection treatments for lower urinary tract infections include D-mannose, the active ingredient in cranberry which has been shown to inhibit the E.Coli's ability to stick to the walls of the bladder and form an infection. Aside from D-mannose which would be your best form of natural treatment, drinking plenty of water is important to help flush the infection out.

Drinking cranberry juice is often recommended for the treatment of UTIs, as studies have shown that cranberry juice can help promote a healthy flora, thus enhancing the immune system and your urinary tract. Unfortunately cranberry juice can be loaded with sugar and be an unhealthy solution.

Alternative UTI treatments you may not have heard of include D-mannose, the active ingredient in cranberry which has been shown to inhibit the E.Coli's ability to stick to the walls of the bladder and form an infection. Aside from D-mannose which would be your best form of natural treatment, drinking plenty of water is important to help flush the infection out. [2]

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[1] - https://uti.co.nz

[2] - https://www.biospherenutrition.co.nz/urinary-tract-support/

Class trips to destinations such as Washington D.C., New York City, Orlando and other desirable cities are the perfect opportunity for young people to learn and have fun with their peers, teachers and parents. For many parents sending their children on class trips, educational travel can also create anxiety over the unknown. Educational travel companies need to take steps to minimize parents' worries by implementing measures that make them feel secure in putting their trust in others. There are methods to ensure students' safety.

I have been the owner of an educational tour company for over 25 years and I have had an opportunity to listen to parents' concerns firsthand. I am also the father of several children myself, so it's easy for me to empathize. Without proper oversight and planning, one of the main places where problems can occur on student trips is at the hotel. For this reason, Educational Travel Consultants has a standing policy and procedure to guarantee student security while staying at hotels.

I will outline several effective strategies for ensuring security on class trips while student groups are staying at hotels. If these measures are taken, there is less cause for concern.

Let's face it, there is always a possibility something may happen while student groups are on tour. This is why Educational Travel Consultants carries an insurance policy on all student trips. In addition to insurance, I feel strongly that implementing hotel security measures is another way to make certain that students are supervised at all times. Students do not need to be tempted to leave the hotel where they are staying for points unknown, in urban areas that are unfamiliar to them.

Hotel Security Measures for Student Travel Groups

1. The choice of hotel is essential for security on class trips. My company only books student groups at hotels with enclosed hallways. It is easier to monitor students' behavior and make certain they are not tempted to leave the premises in hotels with interior corridors.

2. Students need to have a curfew. An 11 p.m. curfew is standard on trips. If the group for some reason arrives at a hotel after 11 p.m. (which is rare) the curfew begins 30 minutes after arrival.

3. Though it adds an extra expense, a security guard can patrol the hotel hallways after curfew until morning. My company policy is to guarantee a guard on all student trips.

4. Security guards also tape student rooms at curfew. The teacher in charge may take disciplinary action if the tape is ripped or removed.

5. When curfew is imposed at 11 p.m. this means that students must turn televisions and music down, and be quiet. Noise and loud talking may disturb other guests and is not permitted. A teacher may request that lights go out at curfew and that no talking is permitted. In any case, if a student's inappropriate behavior warrants it, this may mean expulsion from the trip, which will also have implications once the student is returned to school and home.

6. Security guards must have clear parameters to work within. When the guard arrives for duty at 11 p.m. he or she is instructed on any last minute room switches and briefed on seeking teachers and chaperones out. Security guards are not permitted to enter student rooms for any purpose. However, they are required to keep a log of all occurrences throughout the evening. The guard will not wake group leaders for minor disruptions -- only if an emergency or problem which requires their input occurs.

If these security measures are taken on class trips, I find that problems can be eliminated before they even begin. Young people need to have clearly defined rules. Similar to the classroom, inappropriate behavior on class trips has serious consequences.

The majority of student groups I have worked with over the years have easily observed these rules and cooperated with teachers, chaperons, tour guides, and security guards. If everyone on the trip observes the guidelines set forth, then the entire group has peace of mind and a good night's sleep so that they can fully enjoy the tours and attractions on the following day.

Have you allays dreamed about spending your honeymoon in a paradisiacal desert island? Or maybe in the most fabulous and modern city that the world has seen?

After deciding to get married, and starting to plan the special day, it is more than logical to start thinking about the honeymoon. When and where to go are the most important questions than a couple has to answer when talking about a honeymoon. Then, there is this other issue that is how to pay for that special trip?

You can resort to your credit card, if you have limit enough to pay for the trip and not leave your card in red. If you do not have that much credit in your credit card, it would be better to reserve it for any other expenses that the trip can have such as extra meals or activities, gifts for family and friends, etc.

Other options may be to use your savings, or to resort to a honeymoon loan. Honeymoon loans are personal loans that are granted to pay for that dreamed trip.

What Are The Benefits Of Taking A Loan To Pay For The Honeymoon?

If you have spent all your savings or you would rather prefer to use those reserves for anything else, getting a loan to finance your honeymoon will be the best option, and, if you are going to get a loan why do not get a special one, meant for these kind of need.

Lenders usually offer reduced interest rates on the first year of repayment for these kinds of loans, which will be more than helpful to your monthly budget if you have also take another kind of loan to finance your wedding.

You will be able to choose from a wide range of repayment periods, which go from 5 to 20 years. Longer terms will imply higher rates, but the monthly payments will be lower. Long terms are a good idea if you need a high amount. Choosing short repayment terms, in the other hand will have lower interest but it will mean higher monthly payments

Where To Start?

First you should start deciding where would you like to go. If possible, consider a second option. Once you have decided when and where would you like to spend your honeymoon, you can visit a travel agency to get more details on your desired destiny. At this point is when it would be helpful for you to have a second option. Maybe the place you want to visit is over your financial expectations, or there may be another kind of limitation to visit that place. There are many touristic destinations that can only be visited in certain time of the year, cause of climate conditions.

After you made a decision and got an estimated cost from your travel advisor, you can start searching for a lender. Ask your friends, and relatives, visit your local bank and search on the Internet. Getting as many options as possible will help you to find the best conditions, according to your situation.

Am I Still Eligible If I Have Bad Credit?

You can still be eligible if your credit score is not as good as you would like to. Depending on the lender you choose, you may find some restrictions on borrowed amount. You may also find higher rates, but you will be able to avoid that if you apply for a secured honeymoon loan.