Archive for October, 2008
October 23, 2008 at 4:54 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
I live in a beautiful place.
This is the village of Dowra and the outlying town lands of Corrogue and Moneen. I have this early morning come to sit by the lake of Moneen. She gives me a deep sense of presence. She reminds me there is a deeper place still. This is deeper still than “the homeplace.” This is the place of the heart. It is the place where the “singing bird comes.”
Moneen Lake does not have an inland on it. It has swans. As I gaze out upon the water I wonder how old these creatures are. Maybe they are the “children of Lire come here to remind me of the experience of the timeless.
We in Ireland have a mythology that reminds us of our relationship to time and the timeless. Living in this place around Moneen and this lake there is no sense of urgency. There is only time for being.
This lake is a mirror. It mirrors the depth of any individual heart. I look into it and see the beauty. The lilies are beginning to make their way out of the darkness toward the light, sit upon the surface of the water and then flower. I simply look and see this beauty proceed toward me.
I woke up this morning with St. John of the Cross in my bed. My partner is very indulgent of me. She allows me to fantasize in all sorts of delightful ways and I awake to “banquet moments.” This morning I have taken to the lake to reflect on the writing of St John.
I did not have to ask my heart
What it wanted
Because of all the desires
I have ever known
Just one did I cling to
For it was the essence of all desire
To know beauty.
This is someone who is very focused. There is no room for doubt in this heart. There is no need for belief. There is only the clarity of a pure hearts desire. There is only the requirement to know the essence. When one knows, one is the essence and one is beauty and beautiful. You become “I am” in a real sense. You are at one with it all. You have atoned. You have come home to the true “homeplace.” You are at-one-ment.
St John does not start the day with lists of things to do. There is no asking. There is only certainty. There is no living in fear. There is no thought about what might or might not happen today or tomorrow. There are no regrets for the past or longing for the future. There is only the essence of desire. This is to know the beauty of God.
We do not have this degree of focus. We do not ask our heart what it wants. We cannot hear that still small voice amidst “the noise and the haste.” We do not know how to “Go placidly amidst the noise and the haste.” What we want we are told we want or should want. We do not know our hearts passion. We live our lives more focused on our pension.
We live in our intellect and paralyse our life force with analysis of “what if.” Rather than know beauty our focus is on achieving success. For many this attainment turns to ashes in there mouths.
This lake is beautiful. She sits quietly and simply reflects my mood. She is not intent on achieving an image of beauty. She is not intent on becoming a celebrity. As she is, here and now, she is beautiful. She speaks to me when I allow her too. When I have felt unhappy I have come to her side. When I have felt delight I have come to her side. She is part of my becoming nobody special.
Why not spend time by water. Allow its placidity or flow to enter you being. Allow this still place to keep you centred amidst the noise and the haste of this 21st Century. Be as focused as St John of the Cross. Concentrate on what is essential. Learn to know how beautiful your being is in all its wonder.
Tony Cuckson is an Anam Cara. This Celtic term means “Soul Friend.” He specializes in providing insight for the spiritual journey, Blessings for YOU, words of wisdom and finding inner peace. Visitors to Irish Blessings Matter website and Tony’s Blog get the opportunity to develop a purpose driven life through articles, newsletters and other programs.
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October 22, 2008 at 1:30 am · Filed under Health + More, Living With Medicine
Should dialysis be required, it is important for the most part to control, and monitor the input and output of fluids when trying to treat Acute Renal Failure. If the Acute Kidney Failure is due to a blockage, then the obstruction is one of the first aspects of this condition that must be addressed before further treatment can take place. The fluid intake can also be easily monitored by the insertion of a urinary catheter, and the administration of intravenous fluid can also be monitored by the insertion of a central venous catheter. However, i two of the more serious consequences of Acute Renal Failure occur (which are acidification of the blood, and an increase of high levels of potassium), then sodium bicarbonate can be administered.
In the past, it wasn’t until after the Battle of Britain, did medical professionals truly begin to understand the complexity, the diagnosis, and the possible treatments for Acute Renal Failure. Before this point, Acute Renal Failure was also known as uremic poisoning, which is the contamination, or mixing of the blood, and urine of a patient. This condition was diagnosed in patients with poor, or little urine output. After the Battle of Britain, crush victims who had damage to their renal tubules were the first patients to aid doctors in the understanding of this condition. Nowadays, Acute Renal Failure, also known as Acute Kidney Failure can be easily diagnosed with blood work, and a sonogram.
October 20, 2008 at 2:09 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
What has become of your fondest dreams?
If you were guaranteed success, what would dare to attempt?
We all have dreams, deep inside…those moments when we take a voyage in our imagination, into a world where everything was possible. A world where fear is a strange concept, limits are non-existent and we are at peace with ourselves.
How come our dreams remain just that…dreams?
Why are we stuck in jobs we hate, held bound by the fear of the unknown, if we dare to stand up and walk away?
Every new day seems to take us farther away from our dream. Sometime we get so caught up in the rat race; our dreams seem like a distant memory. Little by little we let our dreams die.
How come our biggest dreams don’t come true?
The answer is not a profound revelation from the east, culled from wisdom of the ancients. It is so simple; you begin to wonder why it skipped you all these years.
Our dreams simply don’t come true because we keep on sleeping after dreaming. We don’t wake up, get out of bed, and do something about it. The best dreams come to pass when you are awake…
Sometimes we actually wake up and take one giant leap for mankind. Then we plummet back to earth, lick our wounds, convince ourselves that it is not feasible, and promptly go back to sleep. Sometime we give it a second or third shot, before we say goodbye and return to status quo avenue. Well, we gave our best shot…
For some, we keep snoring away hoping that one day; we will awaken to a glorious dawn. Oh Happy day! We hope that a unique set of circumstances will propel us to the fulfillment of our dreams. We will simply happen to be at the right place at the right time, and the rest is history…
I had always dreamed of becoming a best-selling author. I wanted to make a home in the serene countryside, close to nature, for inspiration to write my masterpieces, and travel the world with my family in-between.
On the strength of my dreams, I embarked on my first writing project, a fiction novel way back 1982. A year and two rejection slips later, I embarked on another fiction novel. That project got abandoned as I gained admission to college to study Engineering.
How did I end up reading engineering?
I was good in science subjects and I gave a kiss of life to many abandoned electrical and mechanical appliances that my parents had given up on. Conclusion, this boy is an engineer! To make it more compelling, present day realities then dictated that only professionals stood a fighting chance of getting a jobs: sweeter still, it will make my parents mighty proud. To drive the point home, my brother-in-law read Mechanical Engineering, and was doing very well. Don’t I aspire to be like him? It was an ironclad case. The world of everyday reality was closer than my field of dreams. He, who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day. In 1984, I shoved my dreams into a bottom drawer and proceeded to college
My dreams lay dormant for almost 20years. December 2001, I read Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki. I woke up big time. I have been awake ever since then. I am not yet a best selling author, but I am definitely edging my way there, one step at a time, one day at a time.
The only way our dreams can come true, is when we start doing something about it. Start with a baby step, one tiny step after another. With time, you will be amazed how far you had gone. The more steps you take in the direction of your dreams, the bolder you become. Soon you start seeing shafts of light at the end of the tunnel. The closer you get, the more feasible it becomes. Gradually, your fears begin to ebb away.
Taking the first step is a scary business. You can determine the magnitude and direction of that first step. Some folks grab the bull by the horn, quit their day job, and go for it. Others keep their day jobs, and moonlight at sun down, till they get to the point they can comfortably fire their boss. For others still, it means a change of career.
Whichever route you take to the land of your dreams, the starting point is waking up, and doing something. Then keep on keeping on. It is only a matter of time. You will get there…
Usiere Uko is the webmaster of the Financial Freedom Inspiration website and editor of the monthly Financial Freedom Inspiration Newsletter, a free ezine to inspire you to exit the rat race and fulfill your God given dreams. To subscribe or visit the site, please click on the URL below. http://www.financial-freedom-inspiration.com
October 18, 2008 at 8:12 am · Filed under Uncategorized
Get inspired and lift your spirits with these positive quotations that will surely stimulate your soul and perhaps motivate your mind…
- “No bird soars too high if he soars on his own wings.”
– William Blake - “Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.”
— Les Brown - “Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.”
– Thomas Edison - “Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in freedom.”
– Albert Einstein - “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within.”
–Ralph Waldo Emerson - “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson - “Act as though what you do makes a difference. It does.”
— William James - “The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.”
– Ellen Hubbard - “One can make a day of any size, and regulate the rising and the setting of his own sun and the brightness of its shining.”
– John Muir - “It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks.”
— Theodore Roosevelt - “Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”
— Harriet Beecher Stowe - “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams, Live the life you’ve imagined.”
– Henry David Thoreau - “If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it!”
– Jonathan Winters - “What does not kill me makes me stronger. “
– JohannWolfgang von Goethe - “We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.”–
Stevie Wonder
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October 16, 2008 at 11:22 am · Filed under World Of Products
There’s been a big push in the consumer electronics industry lately. It’s been the movement towards satellite radio, but one of the biggest questions being asked is how does this technology work?
How do you get all of these fantastic stations tuned into one satellite radio receiver? There’s a lot more going on behind the scenes then just clicking the on button. How is it possible the signal can be so crystal clear?
Well first off you need to decide on a provider. IN the US there are two main providers: XM radio and Sirius. Each station provides fantastic satellite radio programming, and the way each service works is very similar so there isn’t a big learning curve between the two. How ever the type of programming that each provider offers varies, so depending on your listening habits you should consider this closely. In Canada XS is currently the only provider available. Hence there really isn’t a big choice for you to make there.
After you’ve decided on a provider you need to run down to your local consumer electronics store and pick up a satellite radio receiver, or purchase one online. The Satellite radio itself is the second most important component in the system, and in discovering how satellite radio works.
Different satellite radio receivers are designed to unscramble signals that are sent from satellites orbiting earth. Each satellite radio service launches satellites into orbit; the provider will then send encrypted signals to each satellite. These orbiting satellites send the signals back down to us. When a subscriber selects a particular satellite station their radio receiver the radio decodes the signal sent from the satellite and provides the requested station.
So you can see that satellite radio behaves similarly to traditional radio. A signal is broadcast, and our radios at home and in our cars pick it up. However traditional signals are broadcast over the airwaves while satellite radio is provided via the satellites in space. Unlike traditional radio, which at times isn’t the cleanest sound, satellite radio provides users with a clear sound no matter how far away from their local city they are. There is minimal range limit with a satellite radio signal, so it’s possible to continue to listen to the exact same station almost no anywhere.
For more information on satellite radio providers and equipment check out our site Satellite Radio Roundup.
October 13, 2008 at 9:19 pm · Filed under Software + More
Outsourcing your software development can save you time and money if you know what you need. Too often US companies attempt to outsource without a good understanding of what their software should do, and this is the biggest cause of outsourcing failure. It is unreasonable to expect your outsourcing team to have a menu of software, pre-prepared, so you can just select the items you want.
Ever go to a restaurant with a picky eater? They tell the waiter in excruciating detail how they want their food prepared. And heaven forbid that the food arrives different from what was requested! Back to the kitchen it goes to be “fixed” to make the picky eater happy.
Sometimes US companies hire an outsourced partner as if they were going to a restaurant. They select the cuisine based on the flavor of the technology they require. Chinese .NET or Indian Java? How about some Russian C++? Unfortunately there is rarely a menu for the exact items you might like to order from an outsourced team.
Are you approaching outsourcing your software like you are walking into a restaurant? Are you expecting the outsourcing team to advise you, like an attentive waiter, on the way your software should look, be prepared and presented to your customers?
Instead, bring your own recipe when you start work with an outsourcing team. Unlike your dining experiences, you cannot ask for the daily special. You have to provide a specific description of what you would like to have, and how it should be prepared. Without such a recipe, your outsourced software development efforts can be starved for success.
Poorly specified software is often the result when “subject matter experts” are involved. Subject matter experts, or SMEs, know a lot about a particular subject, like IC design, business process workflow, inventory management, etc., but very little about designing software. SMEs can struggle to get their ideas encoded in the software. They need to work with someone that knows the best way to design and develop software.
Sometimes, there is a fear of getting bogged down in the details. Since some software executives are great with people, they feel much more comfortable hiring a person to handle the details. They know how to manage a person here, better than they can manage an offshore team of programmers in a remote offshore location.
One Accelerance client is in this situation. The CEO wants to outsource the development of a new software product. But there is no specification. In this case Accelerance is acting as a virtual CTO, responsible for the design, and development of the client’s software.
The client is essentially saying, “Design the software for me, and I’ll tell you if it matches what I am thinking.” This can work because the cost of outsourcing is so low that rework and multiple design iterations are affordable.
This type of arrangement only works when paying on a Time and Materials basis. There is no way to offer fixed pricing because the end product is not defined.
Of course, not having a specification may not stop you from asking for a fixed price bid! In this case, you can outsource the creation of a specification that defines your software for a fixed price. Then the resulting complete design specification is used to create a second fixed price bid for writing your software.
Another factor comes into play when you pay a fixed price amount for a software design specification. You usually have to pay at least half up front. This is to protect the outsourcing company from delivering a specification for creating the software and then not getting paid.
Because software design often occurs at the beginning of a relationship, both parties seek to minimize their risk. You minimize your risk by selecting an outsourcing team with a proven track record and great references. The outsourcing team reduces their risk by getting partial (sometimes full) payment before starting.
There are multiple deliverables that should be produced during the design phase of creating your software, whether you do it yourself, or outsource the design:
* Marketing Requirements
* Storyboard Demo
* Functional Specification
* Multiple Release Milestone Schedule
* Detailed Task Schedule for First Release
* Detailed Design Specification (optional)
Unfortunately, software development has not progressed to the point where ready-made modules are available to order and combined to create your software. There is not yet a menu of choices available to anyone that is hungry for new software. Instead, you must provide your own recipe for what you need. The good news is low cost outsourced software design and development resources are now available to create your custom software to meet your exact specifications.
Steve Mezak is a successful Silicon Valley technical entrepreneur and global outsourcing expert. Get your copy of his free report on “The Seven Deadly Dangers of Outsourcing Your Software Development and How Companies Like Yours Can Avoid Them” by visiting his Accelerance outsourcing
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October 13, 2008 at 12:43 pm · Filed under Software + More
Are you tired of the price of greeting cards these days? Does it make you sick to your stomach to have to look at some of the garbage that they pass off as a greeting card? Are you fed up with rushing to the store the last minute and finding that there are no Mother’s Day cards left except the ones that are in Greek? Well, you might want to start creating your own cards. What’s that you say? You’re no artist? You can’t create greeting cards? Well, you may want to rethink that because Print Artist makes creating greeting cards so easy that even a kid can do it.
Print Artist is just one of the many hot titles made by Sierra, a company that is known more for its great games. But Print Artist is no game or toy. It is one serious piece of software for creating greeting cards and you don’t have to have a masters degree in modern or fine art to use it. Just a decent computer and a printer.
There are a lot of programs that can do graphics and will give you a ton of great stock photos to use for your projects. But we all know that the problem with creating greeting cards is that these things have to be folded in a certain way. That makes placing the layout of the photos and text a little tough to do manually. Sure, if you have an artist’s eye and an intuition for this stuff you can probably figure it out and end up getting your front cover, inside cover, inside text and back cover all lined up just fine. But most people would have to go through a lot of trial and error in order to do this.
Print Artist solves this problem with ease.
When you open up the software and load a standard greeting card template, 99% of the work is done for you. What you will be looking at is an actual greeting card. You can switch between all four views with the click of your mouse. From there it’s simply a matter of placing your text and graphics where you want them. And don’t worry about centering your graphics on each page. Print Artist has a centering function that makes it very easy.
As for the graphic themselves, Print Artist gives you tens of thousands of graphics and real photos you can use. They have everything from cartoon graphics to photos of historic landmarks. These are all easy to find through a terrific search function that allows you to view graphics by category. For example. If you want a photo or drawing that has something to do with politics, there is a whole political category. There is virtually nothing you can think of that isn’t in this package. Because of this, Print Artist takes up quite a bit of disk space. So be prepared if you want to store these images on your PC. Of course you can always choose to leave them on the CD.
If you want to create really beautiful greeting cards, banners, posters, certificates and a number of other things, you absolutely can’t go wrong with Print Artist.
Michael Russell
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October 13, 2008 at 4:30 am · Filed under Software + More
Marketing is the buzzword when talking about restaurant inventory software. Marketing starts with the determination of consumer wants and ends with the satisfaction of those wants. The concept puts the consumer both at the beginning and at the end of the business cycle. It stipulates that any business should be organized around the marketing function, anticipating, stimulating and meeting customer requirements. The customer, not the corporation has to be the center of the business universe.
Restaurant inventory software cannot succeed by supplying products and services that are not properly designed to serve the needs of the customers. It proclaims that the entire business has to be seen from the point of view of the customer. In a company practicing this concept, all departments will recognize that their actions have a profound impact on the company’s ability to create and retain a customer. Every department and every worker and manager will ‘think customer’ and ‘act customer’.
The other distinguishing feature of restaurant inventory software is integrated management action. Integrated management action simply means that all the different functions of the business must be tightly integrated with one another, keeping marketing as the pivot. This is essential because every function has a bearing on the consumer, and the aim is to see that all the functions lead to a favorable impact on the consumer. For this to happen, all functions have to be integrated and properly aligned with marketing.
In organizations that do not practice integrated management, the different functions of the organization are preoccupied with the optimization of their specific activities, often at the cost of optimization of the overall result. Consumer satisfaction, which is a major theme of restaurant inventory software, is again not an end in itself. The concept does not preach that a firm must generate consumer satisfaction and forget the other goals of the organization. Instead, it treats consumer satisfaction as the pathway to the attainment of all the goals of the organization.
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October 12, 2008 at 11:51 am · Filed under Shopping Info
There are various ways of predicting the future like dream analysis and presently mind-blowing psychic Anne Jirsch has discovered future life progression. This method is relatively unheard of. The astonishing method is attainable to everybody who can be hypnotised. You might expect to go into a deep trance state and this may happen through hypnosis and you might often be directed to go forward into your current life like 7 tens years. If you love tarot cards you should a reading with Anne Jirsch.
Future life progression is the opposite of past life regression, aka PLR, you can often go directly to a FLP therapist or you might purchase an FLP mp3 from the worldwide web and try it yourself. Future life sessions allow you to see the future with your very own eyes and help you acquire a marvellous destiny. You will use this awesome technique to see your boyfriend or uncover future destiny trends in the workplace.
Anne Jirsch started her wonderful career as a tarot card psychic in the UK and has a career spanning over 19 years. The magnificent premonitions that Anne Jirsch obtains for her customers has made Anne Jirsch one of the most renowned tarot readers in the United Kingdom. Anne has gave future life progression to celebrities for innumerable years and has an extensive client base in the UK and Canada.
October 11, 2008 at 9:47 am · Filed under Software + More
Designing your small business identity when working to a budget that doesn’t stretch to hiring a professional can be very frustrating. Print ready digital artwork files need to be created to a correct size, resolution and color mode. Providing poor artwork files to printers will result in an unprofessional looking final product which wont make a positive impression on your customers and could loose you business.
This tutorial goes over the basics of creating digital artwork files for creating business cards; it can also be used to create other business stationery items including letterheads, compliments slips and label artwork files by simply adjusting the sizes.
Dimensions mentioned are for landscape business cards and should be transposed for portrait business cards.
To create a new artwork file in Microsoft Publisher select the document type Blank Publication > Business Card.
Adjust the size of the document by selecting File > Page Setup. For business cards set the size to 9.5cm x 5.7cm. The dimensions include the bleed of 3mm (8.5pt) business cards.
Make sure that you set the printing options to 1 copy per sheet using the Change Copies Per Sheet Option.
To set print options select File > Print. From the drop down menu choose “Microsoft Office Document Image Writer”. In the print window click on Advanced Print Settings. Under Separations select Composite CMYK as Output and set the Resolution to 300×300. Close the Advanced Print Settings window by clicking OK and finally just cancel the print window.
Safety Margins
To create guides for the safe area in which you can add your design and text, switch on rulers by selecting View > Rulers. Now you can just drag the guidelines out of the rulers to the required position. You can remove them in the same way by just dragging them back into the ruler.
Any time an image or color is printed to the edge of a page, it must extend beyond the final dimensions of your job to allow for cutting. The size for the bleed of a business card must be exactly 3mm (8.5pt).
Text or artwork you wish to preserve must be at least 3mm (8.5pt) inside of the final dimension of your design (Safety Margins).
It is recommended that you set guides for Safety Margins and Bleed. For business cards set the guides to 3mm, 6mm, 51mm and 54mm vertically and 3mm, 6mm, 89mm and 92mm horizontally.
To save the document in Publisher select File > Safe As and save your artwork as a Publisher file. Email your .pub file to technical@goodprint.co.uk, we will convert it into an acceptable format, upload it into a basket for you and email you a link to view the proof and place your order.
Written for Goodprint Ltd, providors of instant online business cards and matching stationery via their website http://www.goodprint.co.uk.
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