Pima Community College

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Pima Community College is a comprehensive two-year institution serving students and employers throughout Pima County in Arizona and beyond. We welcome everyone striving to achieve a better life for themselves, their families and their communities.

Students have access to a broad range of high quality programs that prepare them with the skills needed by today’s employers and to transfer successfully into four-year programs. Students benefit from Pima’s lower tuition costs and thrive at the highest levels once they transfer.

Pima is in rapid transition to a high-tech institution serving the needs of our region’s growing aerospace, defense and healthcare industries. Developing Centers for Excellence in key areas such as Applied Technology, Information Technology and Health Professions, Pima is focused on strengthening partnerships and expanding employer engagement in order to ensure that today’s students are prepared now and for many years to come.
Centers of Excellence

Pima Community College’s Centers of Excellence raise the bar on workforce-based education through state-of-the-art facilities and partnerships with employers.

Students preparing in our Centers will have the skills needed today for high-growth, high-wage jobs and will be prepared with the technology, communication and critical thinking skills to adapt to future needs.

The Centers will drive opportunities for students and help fuel our region’s economic growth.
Proposition 481For 50 years Pima Community College has served Pima County, providing affordable, comprehensive educational opportunities to the county’s diverse communities, particularly during these uncertain economic times. Prop. 481 on November’s ballot would provide needed flexibility that would allow the College to continue to support students at the highest level, educate a highly skilled workforce and position the College to jumpstart the economy. For more information on Prop. 481 see PCC\’s Proposition 481 page (also available as a Prop. 481 PDF).

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What Exactly is a Goal?

Goals are the most important of our plan. It defines what we want to become and achieve in future. We can re-direct our plans more confidently and can ignore the ideas that cannot contribute to success of ours.

Our goals can be achieved through proper planning, clarification of goals and goal setting. Each one us have a vision and set of dreams of long-term goals that actually provide strong base for achievement. Goals gets connected with our deepest motivation, mind and purpose.

Types of goals

Actually all the goals are not same. There are certain goals that focus on the outcome while other goals focus on the performances.

Outcome Goals

Outcome goals are the most common type of goals. It focuses on gaining something at a particular point of time. Big goals can be broke down by years, quarterly, month and week.

These kind of goals are really very hard to reach and it is more frustrating and depressing if you cannot achieve them. But one thing, this type of goal provides a crystal clear view of planning and the guidance.

Execution or performance goals

Execution goals are also known as performance goals because it focuses on the duration of the goals. It measures the activity that is to be done on daily basis. It helps in personal growth and helps in gaining concentration. It allows new ideas to flow.

An execution goal create a habit of achieving more clear goals with your potentiality. It makes the tasks easier and simple.

How to set your goals on right track

It is very important to get your goals on right track whatever may the goal type be. Below given are 3 steps of how to set your goals right. Read it down.

  1. Clarification of goals: First of all, you have to set a clear view of goal because goal setting is not that easy task. Choose wisely by taking your time. It should include the various aspects of your life and career. You have known the difference between ‘reality’ and ‘achievable’ goals. Think deeply. For achieving any goal you have to come out of your comfort zone and must be that much confident that you can achieve your dreams.
  2. Start with the end in mind.Choose your goals carefully: Choose your goals very carefully. Choose that goals only where you can be committed and have the confidence that you can give your best not that goals where you are not confident. Better break your goals in short-term and focus on the targets that you want to achieve. You have to specific, clear and target-oriented. One way to depict that your goals are clear is that asking yourself the questions like ‘How to measure success?’ and ‘How to know that you have reached your goal?’
  3. Plan how to reach your goals: focus on everything that is to be done to reach your goal. Divide your goals in small steps so that it become easy. A proper milestone and a structured must be formed to reach your goal. There will many obstacles but you have to overcome like your beliefs, facts, habits and many more. Make a list f all those facts, beliefs and habits that are stopping you from achieving your goals. Task and time management plays an important role in achieving your goal. Plan a deadline for every task of your goal.

Turn your dreams into reality

By practicing your goal setting, chasing your goals is hard, but you can make your goal into reality by doing hard work. Turn your execution of goals into habits. By acquiring a good health, start the preparation of achieving your goals.

There must be a reliable cash flow statement of your day providing you the dream of achieving your goal rather than winning millions of moneys.

Start setting your goals right now

Always be honest with yourself. Think properly that are you really there where you want to see yourself? If not, give a try, sit with a pen and a paper and jot down the plans for your goals and start to act accordingly.

One framework of your setting your plans will help you to achieve your dream one day.

Hope you liked reading this article. Stay connected with us for more updates. Till then goodbye. Have a nice day.

How to Move Forward When You Are Out Of Work and Feeling Lost

There are times in your life, jobs and career when we all feel stuck, lost and discouraged.  We do not how to get back on the right track once again. We anyhow or desperately want to change that life but we fail. We feel like we are shaken from inside. We all feel helpless and get unsure of how to get back to land from boat’s moorings.

It is very natural to suffer setbacks, defeat and failures. Most of us fail more than we succeed, but we learn from it, improve and move forward.

If you are feeling out of work, distressed and lost, here are some tips that can actually help you out to move forward. Scroll it down. Have a happy reading ahead.

  1. Appreciate good things in your life: Enjoy the little joys of your life. Do not think about the loses and negativity of your life. Focus on you goal and achievement of success. It helps a lot to gain confidence and positivity in your life.
  2. Seek people who need help: Go out and seek people who need your help. You will feel better and you will also put your problems and try to solve it and this will help in focusing on your goal.
  3. Take a break: A break is seriously needed. Take a break from your daily life routine. Your mind needs rest. Decompose your old thinking and allow fresh air to enter in your mind. It will give a new way thinking.
  4. Focus on your mental and physical health: It is quite common that when you feel lost and out of work, we all tend to get addicted to excessive taking of drugs, drinking to numb the pain. But do not try this. It hampers the health. Just do the opposite things- focus on your mental health, emotional stability. You can read books, do yoga or meditation or can go for a walk.
  5. Live the current moment: Appreciate the beauty of life and stop thinking negative about your life. Live the current moment fully and to the fullest and enjoy.
  6. Stop watching vacuous shows: Watching these kinds of  vacuous shows can put negativity. Instead of doing this, try something new which will relax you.
  7. Find something that you love most: Find something or the kind of job where you can achieve your success. You can get positive results and morale and reinforcement.
  8. Be true to yourself: It is the most important thing, that is to stay true to yourself. Feel free to take advice and guidance when- ever you need. Do not be too much filled with vanity. Be humble and be honest. It helps a lot.

If you have confidence and faith in yourself, you can do the impossible things possible. You will definitely get success one day. There will be days of your failures, distressed, but you will ultimately succeed one day. It may take time but you will get a better place where you will be happy and leading a meaningful and jolly life.

Hope you enjoyed reading this article. Stay tuned with us for more updates. Till then goodbye and have a nice day.

How to create Multiple happiness streams in your Life

When it comes to increasing financial wealth, many experts have said it’s wise to diversify and create multiple streams of revenue or cash flow. The same goes for increasing happiness.

The reality is most people don’t. Instead they rely on one stream of happiness. Relying on one source creates a dependent relationship and can become troublesome, especially, in the case of a pandemic, if that source becomes unavailable to you.

A way to resolve this is by creating multiple streams of happiness. The following are the three key streams of happiness that will level up your business, well-being, and fulfilment.

Level One: People: People are the easiest source to tap into your happiness. If you are not spending a lot time with anyone but specifically those who make you happy, this will severely impact your happiness, business and eventually healthy. As entrepreneurs are very much aware of the stories of depression, increased anxiety, lower motivation, and lack of physical care-taking, to combat that it is vital to install social connection as a daily practice. Having close connection has proven to lessen susceptibility to premature death, better handle to stressful events. Creating more social engagement, especially during this pandemic, when we are not able to be physically close, has more important than ever. These connections will provide you happiness and joy. Studies have shown ever talking to strangers can make you happier. This is completely opposite of what we have been taught growing up. Yet your business and future are dependent on connection with strangers. If you do not have close relationship with them, having a conversation over zoom or just shooting a test, can improve your health and happiness stream.

Level Two: Places: We have the ability to create or go to environments that bring us joy. During a pandemic, you may feel limited in where those places are. Let’s take a look at three types of environments. The first is inside your home. This could be ‘work from home’, world, it is even more important to have spaces inside your home that are not work-related and specifically designed to make you happy. The second is public and available open-air locations such as parks, beaches or trails. Exposure to these places will ground you and naturally increase your self-esteem and happiness. The third are virtual places. We can use video conferencing tools and each tech platforms such as social media and meet up apps to socially engage. Whether it is attending a virtual concert, yoga or meditation class or pub trivia, finding and knowing you can always have access to these places will virtually guarantee you moments of joy, especially if you have not had those experiences in a while.

Level Three: Things or Experiences: While it is nice to have people around and places to go have fun, what you do to have fun is vital. The more time you experience the moments of your life, the less you worry about the stress that come as an entrepreneur, the more you experience gratitude. Even though combining these three streams create the maximum impact on happiness using them as separate streams will make life happier, more joyful, and in the long term, create more success for you as a well-balanced entrepreneur.

Whether it is through social engagement, environments or experiences, having diversity in creating of joy will create sustainable, long-term happiness even in the most stressful of times.

While being able to rely on a single source creates security in anything, what creates even more security in expanding beyond just one source of reliability. And this applies to virtually everything in life. Your business and soul will thank you.

Hope you have enjoyed reading this article. We will be back with more exciting topic during this pandemic crisis time. But for this you all have to stay connected with us.

Till then goodbye. Have a nice day. Stay at home and stay safe. Always stay healthy and be the sponge that absorb all kinds of negativity and emit all positive vibes.

BIO METRIC Technology

Bio metric is used to determine the person identity on the basis of its physical characteristics.For example, voice recognition systems work by measuring the characteristics of a person’s speech as air is expelled through their lungs, across the larynx and out through their nose and mouth,Fingerprint scanner etc.so how bio metric is useful lets understand.Every time you unlock a smartphone screen with a facial recognition, ask Siri for a weather update, or log in to your online bank account using your fingerprint, you’re using bio metrics. You might use the technology every day to authenticate your identity or communicate with a personal device, but there are plenty of other uses for bio metrics.

bio metric is like two step verification first you need to claim your identity by punching your card then by scanning your fingerprint you need to prove your identity isn’t it amazing!.

Advantages

1 The very first advantage is that nobody can replicate the information. Because every individual has unique characteristics.

2 It provides more security than the old paper work and password methods.

3 Easy to use

4 Its Accountable

Disadvantages

1 cost could be one disadvantage.

2. data breach could be there as hackers can steal the information

The bottom line is that this technology is very impressive as its helps in identification of the person with his unique physical characteristics there are many types of this technology such as iris identification,fingerprint,face,voice.each of the types have their own pros and cons.

Bio metric technology offers very compelling solutions for security. Despite the risks, the systems are convenient and hard to duplicate. Plus, these systems will continue to develop for a very long time into the future

Dissecting the Esports growth in India – Before and after Pubg Ban

On the evening of 2nd September, pubg mobile and Pubg mobile lite was banned including 118 Apps in India. From few months, there was a buzz around Pubg that whether it will be banned or not, how will things unfold, when it will be banned. On Wednesday, Ministry of Electronics and IT department released a press report stating the Ban on these 118 apps. Now let’s take a leap to the growth of Esports in India. In the starting of decade 2010’s, the term Esports was having a little buzz. Those years saw the nurturing phase of Esports, like what it is, how it will be and how big it will be in coming years. Esports now has become a big and recognized field and sector in the world. The esports market was valued at USD 694.2 million in 2017 and is expected to reach USD 2,174.8 million by 2023, at a CAGR of 18.61% between 2018 and 2023. The esports market is expected to grow because of various driving factors, such as increasing popularity of video games and growing awareness about esports. Pubg has played the right ignition for the sector in India for youth and game developers.

History

Few people know that Esports was getting popular somewhere around the 10 years back. Craze for gaming was popular from very early times. But the Esports as a serious filed born somewhere in 2011. It has now become a serious career option in the world. India is also growing as a Research and development center for all the world. India due to its recent interest and its youth population, is attracting the all Esports giants. Quite a few companies are looking at India as its primary testing scenario and manufacture hub. China is already holding the no. 1 ranking in Esports while India is still ranking at 15th position. However, it has just shot up in India after the arrival of battle ground game by krafton gaming & Tencent.  2-3 years down the line, India has shown a huge growth due to some popular games like Pubg mobile and COD mobile. Freefire and Fortnite is also among the few other popular names.

Esports vs Gaming

Most of the peoples may have a clear idea but few forks might find it confusing. So, the generally we can say Esports is more like a physical sport which has its competitive side. Just like that Esports also has its competitive scenario with every game. Esports has competition game wise.  Esports also has skill set to perform in such competitions. However, gaming is kind of casual term for games. Esports and gaming is just like Club cricket and gully cricket. Esports has everything like normal sports like coaches, teams and analyst like other support staffs. Esports has grown just as it has contracts which players sign and play under a professional team.

International Competition

Esports also has same dedication and craze like immersing yourself to win for your team and specially for your country. Somewhere we all know that international Competitions holds the respect of you respective teams and you have to give all the honours possible. Esports player usually practices for 10 hours or more depending on their area of work and their focus on some specific skills or moves. An average Esports player is quite more responsive than an average gaming player who plays for fun. Just like Sports, Esports also demands Some extra efforts to get yourself at some good levels. It involves your Response time and your frequency of taps and clicks. Basically, how fast you are in compare to others. It works in milliseconds. You need to have a good hand eye coordination for better results.

Esports is now being featured in Asian games, though it was a trail but somewhere it is confirmed that it will be a part of international sports championships like Olympics in coming times. Indian gamer Tirth Mehta won the medal for India in trials of Esports in Asian games. It is just matter of time that it becomes a usual part of Olympics like other games.

Pubg the game changer in India

Back in 2018 when pubg mobile got launched in India, it became an instant hit. Whole world including Indian youth grabbed this game as their favourite and became go to game for all the users. It was a common choice for all the users of different ages and choices. The concept of Battlegrounds was fully used by this game and changed the revolution for whole Esports in India. There were some games like CSGO, DOTA2 and COC. But Everything was shattered once Pubg came and it started its some competitive series like Dream hack & PMIS (Pubg Mobile India Series). Now until September 2020 Pubg has organised more than 10 series in India alone. Some Esports team has grossed high no. of fan followings like SouL, TSM, Fnatic, OR and Team IND. The esports has also increased the field of streaming scenario a lot in the whole world and also in world.     

Statistics of Esports in India

According to one statistics website named statista.com, the value of gaming industry in FY2020 is around 87.8 billion Indian rupees. Which is nearly 25.8B Rs more than previous of 62B in FY2019. A rapid penetration and affordability of smartphones, along with cheap mobile data have led to mobile phones being the most preferred device for gaming. The value of the mobile gaming market in India was projected to reach about 405 million U.S. dollars by the year 2022. This marked a significant increase in the sector’s market value from about 266 million dollars in 2016. The total no. of gamer in FY2020 is 365M while in FY2018 was near 269M.

Impact of Pubg Ban

Pubg ban in India has resulted in Tencent loosing approx. 14 Billion Dollars in market. The share of tencent has seen a fall of 2% until now. Pubg is among the topmost downloads in game scenario with 150M downloads. Tencent holds a 10% stake in PUBG’s parent company Bluehole.  Tencent Games is a part of Tencent Holdings, which is a Chinese multinational conglomerate. However, this move by India comes amid fresh border tensions with China in Ladakh when India spoiled repeated attempts by Chinese troops to transgress into the Indian side of Line of Actual Control (LAC) with intentions to unilaterally change the status quo. As most of players belong to Pubg right now, we can literally quote that they have literally lost their job in peak time of market. Lockdown had rightly supported them but now they are completely lost with some diminishing hopes that Pubg makes a comeback soon. Best thing to them is still this that they have support of audience and the fans.

Fau-G: New game

Just after the Ban news of Pubg came out with other 118 Apps, there comes the big announcement by Actor Akshay Kumar of a new game named Fau-G. However, its poster got involved in controversy of copying the poster from an old movie project. Public on the other hand has given mixed reactions to the game. Most of the people are saying that Ban of Pubg has created a large void which is not easy to fill. Audience has high expectation from this game as pubg has set the standards too high. There is also questions over its worldwide Competitive scenario. One thing is sure that International competition is too far and not probable in coming time. We personally as Indian audience don’t want another game like china i.e. “Game for Peace”. This makes them completely distanced from the international experience in competitive terms and in user base.

Pubg unban

Recently pubg announced that he is breaking his partnership with Tencent. Actually, it is specific to India only. Tencent will not be involved in any scenario in India. Pubg was involved in developing its mobile version. So, all the distribution and development will be solely handled by Bluehole and pubg corporation. However, pubg has stake in Bluehole company, which was taken earlier 3-4 months back. Now let’s see how many days it will take pubg to make a comeback in India. It may take 2 weeks to 2 months or more.

Esports as a career

Even though Esports has seen an upper high in few years but still it is bound under a strict bubble. While Pubg and other games are coming but in India Esports is mostly about Pubg mobile. More than 85% gamers are regular player of Pubg mobile both in terms of Pubg mobile competitive and streaming.  Parents in India are now quite comfortable about their children’s career in sports. If you are dedicated and good at it, parents will allow you for sure. But Esports is still not so popular in India around the middle-aged parents. Parents are still unknown to this field and its possibility of being a career. It’s not they are reluctant instead it’s that they are completely unknown to this platform. Still it’s not that difficult to survive in the gaming Community. Hard work can conquer anything to everything, one needs to dedicate soul and work to achieve the fame and gaming is not an exception. There are many opportunities to create in future but there is no professional option in India till now. With the ban of Pubg, everything has come to halt as there is way ahead to even plan the destination. Even established players are mostly pubg players and they have to start everything from scratch again. There is expectation to get streaming service watching a low too due to this decision. So, it has lowered more than it has grown in recent years. This reason is this that no other game has such big fan base like pubg and still it will benefit other games, but it is unlikely to take place of Pubg. However, Pubg would be putting blood and soul to somehow bring it back in action. For now, Esport is just like which is open to many glorious but nothing to offer and accept.