Archive for December, 2008
December 31, 2008 at 1:26 pm · Filed under Center For Recreation, Traveling
Telemarking in South America? What type of destination is that? Isn’t Patagonia more about jungles than snowboarding? In truth no. S. America constitutes a continent which extends from the equator all the way to S.Chile not far from the n. of Antarctica. On the spine of S.America are the Andes. They’re amongst the highest ranges of mountains in the planet and even as the mountain range transits the tropical zone, the peaks are amazingly covered in snow.
South America’s top ski destinations are found in Patagonia and Argentina with fabulous skiing deals. In the center of of Argentina and Chile you can locate many snowboarding resorts. The most notable skiing town in Argentina is addressed by some Mini Suisse and should you pay a visit you will imagine that you are in Suisse with the attractive Swiss shacks. The ski town has hotels, a cafe, pubs, and everything else to provide a perfect snowboarding vacation. The most famous ski domain in S America is in Chile. Placed barely 34 mins from the Santiago International Airport one is able to arrive there on a easy trip after flying in non stop from numerous major towns including Manchester, Miami, Rome, Paris and London.
December 31, 2008 at 5:37 am · Filed under Uncategorized
BONZA BOTTLER DAY is any day when the date and the month have the same number. Bonza, I’m told, means “excellent” or “really great” in Australian, and there’s some suggestion that “bottler” means the same.
Bonza Bottler is a “just because” kind of holiday, started a decade or so ago by the late Elaine Fremont who believed the world needed more holidays. On BBD, we are called to let loose, just for the joy of it, and Ms Fremont’s original wish was that we celebrate without alcohol or other artifical stimulants. Celebrate using just our natural ability to be joyous — even in hard times, letting this part of ourselves play out . . . come out to play. Think of Snoopy, dancing madly to music maybe only he can hear. Think of Shrek and Princess Fiona, giggling and roughhousing as they walk through a field.
Wicki, our Boston Terrier, is a great believer in “just because.” She loves to wrestle with Dudney, our 12-year-od cat, and we, in turn, never tire of watching the two of them pouncing and leaping and rolling around. Dogs and cats are not supposed to play together — their styles are too different, says Conventional Wisdom. But for nearly 4 years now, cat-dog play has been a regular and delightful aspect of our family life.
If they can do it, why can’t we? Play, that is. Just because. Take time out from the Tasks of Life, step aside from our accustomed ways of being, and Celebrate. Why? Just because. May you enjoy your own Bonza Bottler Day. This month. This week. Why not today?
Maureen Killoran, MA, DMin, is a Life Coach with a passion for helping people connect their strengths with their vision. Maureen offers dynamic individual and group coaching, work team empowerment training, teleclasses, and a free monthly e-zine, “Seeds of Change.” Her articles are published on over 89 websites, and have been translated into several languages. don’t miss her latest e-book, “Spirit Tickling: A Workbook for Curious Souls” http://www.spiritquestcoaching.com
December 30, 2008 at 3:00 am · Filed under Software + More
Microsoft CRM - Client Relationship Management package from Microsoft Business Solutions was initially designed to be customizable with Microsoft Visual Studio.Net and one of its programming languages - C#.Net or VB.Net. You can use ADO.Net, Web Service, Transact SQL scripting and stored procedures, deploy such SQL Server tools as Linked Server to all ODBC/OLEDB compliant database, including ORACLE, Sybase, Ingress, DB2, Unidata, Pervasive SQL, Ctree and even Lotus Notes/Domino.
In this small article we would like to give you the clue on programming the integration with SQL third party Database.
First - use Microsoft CRM SDK to initiate communication with Microsoft CRM, we have it in C#:
String[] arr1 = coll.AllKeys;
int loop1, loop2;
for (loop1 = 0; loop1 0?1:arr1.Length); loop1++)
{
String[] arr2 = coll.GetValues(arr1[loop1]);
for (loop2 = 0; loop2 < arr2.Length; loop2++)
{
strAccountId = arr2[loop2].Replace(”}”,null);
strAccountId = strAccountId.Replace(”{”,null);
}
}
if (Page.IsPostBack==false)
{
// Server should be set with the name of the platform Web server
string Server = ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings[”ServerName”];
// VirtualDirectory should be set with the name of the Microsoft
// CRM Virtual Directory on the platform Web server
string VirtualDirectory = “mscrmservices”;
string strDir = “http://” + Server + “/” + VirtualDirectory + “/”;
// BizUser proxy object
Microsoft.CRM.Proxy.BizUser oBizUser = new Microsoft.CRM.Proxy.BizUser ();
oBizUser.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;
oBizUser.Url = strDir + “BizUser.srf”;
// CRMAccount proxy object
Microsoft.CRM.Proxy.CRMAccount account = new Microsoft.CRM.Proxy.CRMAccount ();
account.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;
account.Url = strDir + “CRMAccount.srf”;
Then you use ADO.Net for calling stored procedure with parameters to do the integration job:
try
{
string SQLStatement=”ICS_UpdateAccountPrivate ‘”+
strAccountId +”‘ , ‘” + this.TextBoxWorkPerformed.Text +
“‘ , “+doubleEncode(System.Double.Parse(this.TextBoxAnnualRevenue.Text))+” , “+
intEncode(System.Int32.Parse(this.TextBoxNumberOfEmployees.Text.Replace(”,”,”")))+” , “+
doubleEncode(System.Double.Parse(this.TextBoxAverageGrowthRate.Text))+” , “+
“‘”+this.DropDownListOwnership.SelectedItem.Text +”‘ , “+
intEncode(System.Int32.Parse(this.RadioButtonList.SelectedItem.Value))+” , “+
intEncode(System.Int32.Parse(this.TextBoxCredit.Text.Replace(”,”,”")))+” , ‘”+
this.TextBoxComments.Text+”‘”;
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection tmpConnection =
new System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection(ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings[”ConnectionStringICS”]
);
About The Author
Andrew Karasev is Chief Technology Officer in Alba Spectrum Technologies - USA nationwide Great Plains, Microsoft CRM customization company, based in Chicago, California, Texas, Florida, New York, Georgia, Colorado, Oregon, Washington, Canada, UK, Australia and having locations in multiple states and internationally (www.albaspectrum.com), he is CMA, Great Plains Certified Master, Dexterity, SQL, C#.Net, Crystal Reports and Microsoft CRM SDK developer. You can contact Andrew: 1-866-528-0577 andrewk@albaspectrum.com.
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December 29, 2008 at 1:18 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
In the philosophical teachings which form the foundation for the Ninja Warrior’s lifeways, there is a principle known as the ‘law of interdependence.’ This so-called ‘law’ is not a must-do rule which one must follow, nor is it to be confused with dependence or co-dependence as it is seen today where one or more individuals who cannot or choose not to provide for themselves, lean on and ‘depend’ on the work and resources of another for the fulfillment of their needs. Rather, the law of interdependence is something that is to be recognized as a basic ‘truth’ in the world.
Much like the law of gravity or cause and effect, it is something that is ‘going-on,’ always, regardless of whether we ‘believe’ in it or not. In fact, contrary to our need to believe that we are what we are, this principle in action shows us that we are more like others than we know.
Unlike the law of gravity, however, which is difficult to understand and explain; interdependence is relatively easy to explain. Let’s use a simple analogy to understand this ‘goings-on.’ We’ll use something simple, like a Whopper. No, I’m not being paid to endorse a food franchise and you can feel free to substitute this item for any of a thousand others. But, for our purposes, it will do.
Now, most people would agree to the connection between themselves and all of the individuals working in the restaurant at the moment you visited and placed your order for the sandwich. Someone took your order; another was busy making the product; and others made sure it found its way to a tray or bag and ultimately into your hand. In this simple view, there is an interdependent connection between you - the person who ‘wants’ the sandwich, and those who are making sure that you get it.
Of course, seen from the viewpoint of any worker, they are mutually dependent on you, and many others throughout a day, wanting and willing to pay for a sandwich so that they can get a paycheck at the end of the week. For you: no restaurant - no sandwich. For them: no customers, no restaurant, no paycheck.
But, in the words of the enigmatic guru “Morphius” from the popular movie, “The Matrix”, if you really want to see “how deep the rabbit hole goes,” we can look much more closely at that simple sandwich.
Let’s begin with the wrapper. It wasn’t made there at the restaurant. It was delivered, probably by truck. Which means what? Well, where do you want to start? Driver? Truck dealership who sold it to Burger King? Truck manufacturer? Trailer manufacturer? Get the idea?
For now, let’s stay with the driver and truck remaining associated with the restaurant. But, already we’re talking about more than just the employees working in the restaurant, aren’t we. Many, if not all of them have families which will benefit from their paycheck in some way just as the company is benefiting from their desire or willingness to do the job they’re doing.
The wrapper itself is paper which now extends our connection to people working in the logging and paper production industries and their families. The ink does the same along those lines; and so on throughout the rest of the parts of the sandwich like the burger, vegetables, and so on.
“What’s the point?”, I can hear you asking. “How does this relate to personal development, martial arts, self-defense or my life?” After all, aren’t we different than a sandwich?
I don’t think it’s the answer that will drive the point home as much as a question: If a burger can be made up of the materials, effort, energy, intention and connections of so many that it almost touches the lives of every other person on the planet - how can we believe that we, as so-called ‘individuals,’ can be any different? After all, haven’t each one of us been influenced, positively or negatively, by other people, places, and situations that caused us to believe, act, and engage the world the way we do?
Can you imagine how different you would be had those influences been different or not there at all? Just think about what motivated you to take up martial arts training. Regardless of whether it was for self-defense, the allure of Asian culture, or soemthing else - you were first exposed to those ‘other things’ - giving you your reason to take up the arts. The saying goes, “no (wo)man is an island,” and it’s true. No matter how much we would like to be an ‘individual,’ we are nonetheless, tied to every other human being on the face of the planet - if by no other means than the water we drink and the air we breath. The law of interdependence teaches us to recognize the value in all things and to treat everything as though it were ‘me.’ Only then can one be sure that we are not acting in an egotistical, self-serving way that will harm, alienate, or hinder ourselves or others.
What does this have to do with our training? It is the person who recognizes and acts knowing that this is true who builds his or her world rather than isolating themselves as important and in contrast with everything and everyone else that is seen as ‘obviously’ of lesser value. It is the ego who must be “right” and “righteous” that needs to attack others - to fight for ‘right.’
There is an old saying that goes: “the truest measure of a person’s character is in the way he or she treats those least important to them.” Once we understand, and can ’see’, how our every thought, word, and action acts upon the world, we can take control of the process and decide to build a character that takes responsibility for the way it affects others. No longer will we act out of a state of disconnection and isolation, but move purposefully through our world with compassion and disciplined action.
We have a choice. We can be ‘nice’ to others because it’s proper manners to do so, because we expect to get something from them, or because we have to live with them. Or, we can treat others with respect and honor because we recognize that we are already connected to them in some way already.
Jeffrey M. Miller is the founder and master instructor of Warrior Concepts International. A senior teacher in the Japanese warrior art of Ninjutsu, he specializes in teaching the ancient ways of self-protection and personal development lessons in a way that is easily understood and put to use by modern Western students and corporate clients. Through their martial arts training, his students and clients learn proven, time-tested lessons designed to help them create the life they’ve always dreamed of living, and the skills necessary for protecting that life from anything that might threaten it. Shidoshi Miller is also the author of the “Foundations of Self Defense Mastery” eCourse. To learn more about this and other subjects related to the martial arts, self-defense, personal development & self-improvement, visit his website at http://www.warrior-concepts-online.com
December 29, 2008 at 4:48 am · Filed under Uncategorized
In nature, when the season is right, all things flourish and overflow with abundance.
Similarly, any person can also benefit from the abundance of the creative force in life, the quantum soup from which all life arises. If there is an absence of this abundance, then something has gone awry, the connection between you and the source of life has been short-circuited by erroneous thinking, feeling, acting, and believing.
Dr. Joseph Murphy spent his whole life traveling, speaking, and writing about the way we can attain harmony and success, peace and prosperity, happiness and abundance in life. He said that there was a spiritual science to getting rich.
“This is a universe of law and order,” he said, “and there are principles and laws by which all of our experiences, conditions, and events take place. There is a definite law of cause and effect in everything. The science of getting rich is based on the law of belief. If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth. (Mark 9:23)
“The law of life is the law of belief. To believe is to sincerely accept something as true. Believe in the abundant life, the happy life, the successful life, and live in the joyous expectancy of the best, and invariably the best will come to you. It is the belief of man that makes the difference between wealth and poverty, between success and failure, and between health and sickness.
“It is the cosmic law that like thoughts always produce like effects; therefore, any person who boldly claims the riches of the Infinite will receive them.”
The Bible says, I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. (John 10:10)
We are all born rich in life-force. We grow rich in this life by tuning into our interests and desires. When we tune into the intelligence within, we are lifted up out of our lack, limitation, negativity, and scarcity.
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December 29, 2008 at 3:34 am · Filed under Security Hub
There are many types of phone bugs out there. This is because the phone is one of the easiest things to bug. Plus, because phones are practically necessary in our lives, and we use them to communicate on a very regular basis, phone bugs just make sense. In addition to making use of covert listening devices in terms of using a phone bug, it is quite likely that at some point you will become the subject of a phone tap. So, in order to be able to get a good listen when you need to, and to be aware of what might possibly used against you sometime down the line, this article is about the hook switch bypass phone bug. These types of phone bugs are especially useful because they allow you to not only hear what is being said over the phone, but also effectively act to allow you to monitor the entire room. Someone you are keeping watch on, for evidence or for information, may not use the phone for important communications for fear that there is a phone tap. Luckily, if you have a hook switch bypass phone bug in place, you can listen in to everything that is going on in the room. Hook switch bypass phone bugs work by modifying a part of the actual telephone. This can be done to the transmitter (the carbon microphone) or to the receiver (the dynamic earpiece). You make the modifications, allowing the phone set to pick up what is being said in the house. Then, the phone set, because it is attached to the wall jack telephone cord, sends what is heard down the phone line to a listening post. There is no need for the phone to be off the hook for this to work. Even when the phone is hung up, it will still pick up sounds and send them down the line. You can see why these phone bugs are useful. The tough part is getting in and modifying the phone. However, with a little ingenuity it can be done rather quickly, and it is somewhat difficult to detect without the right equipment. If you are worried about being on the other end of a hook switch bypass, you can get a detector designed to find phone bugs to help you ensure the area is secure. (c) 2005 Copyright www.spyassociates.com. This article is about: Phone Bugs.
December 27, 2008 at 11:32 am · Filed under Software + More
There is much economic debate about the corporations in the United States outsourcing and there are a lot of dirty words being hurled at companies and corporate executives. But in the end if Union Employees are upset with outsourcing then they can buy some stock in the company, whose profits will now be higher due to the outsourcing due to economies of scale and efficiency models of costs.
Now upsetting US based labor unions is only part of the problem you see there are also a few problems in outsourcing and those have to do with international patent laws, as often if you outsource to another nation let’s say someone will steal your designs and start making the product and sell those products to the world, cutting you out of the pattern and hurting your market share.
But in the case of a Boeing or HP, these companies are only making components and the component alone is only one piece of the puzzle you see? For instance if General Motors out sources door handles, the company making them in China can compete with GM for door handles but not for the whole car. Here are some global research papers on outsourcing worthy of mention;
http://www.outsourcingresearch.co.uk
Recently I talked with a research student at Brunel University Business School who is currently doing his final year project. His areas of interest is organisational change as a result of outsourcing (impact of externalising business processes on strategic an tactical alignment). In US English that means outsourcing and he is studying all the aspects and believe me it is not just about lowering labor costs or putting Americans out of work to save money. It is literally about efficiency and survival and it is not a bad thing. I hope you will consider all this in 2006.
“Lance Winslow” - Online Think Tank forum board. If you have innovative thoughts and unique perspectives, come think with Lance; http://www.WorldThinkTank.net/wttbbs/
December 27, 2008 at 4:03 am · Filed under Buyers + Consumers, Commerce Marketing, Hints
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December 27, 2008 at 2:10 am · Filed under Better Sports, Center For Recreation, Shopping Info
When you are just starting out playing cricket it is not always easy to decide what you must get. If you go into a sports retail shop and ask them what you require, you will finish up coming out with a significant amount of gear. With this in mind, it is wise to figure out what you may require ahead of you going shopping. That way you are a great deal more likely to get hold of what you need, rather than what the shop manager thinks you require.
Below, is more or less a complete cricket equipment inventory, you don’t have to get everything on this list, as various organisations will loan you equipment especially at junior level:
Cricket whites, cricket bats, balls, helmets, gloves, batting (wicket keeping) inner gloves, wicket keeping gloves, batting pads, wicket keeping pads, box, chest pad, arm guard, inner thigh pad, cricket boots (bowling boots; batting boots), box (groin guard), stumps and bails.
For most cricket games you will ever participate in you will need to have your own set of whites. Cricket whites consist of white cricket trousers & a cricket shirt. It is very important to check that you get hold of a proper pair of cricket trousers & also a nice white cricket shirt & jumper as it can get pretty cold if you are standing out on the pitch for a long time particularly if you are playing in England (the start and end of the cricket season are the coldest).
If you can not rent equipment from your club the other most important items of equipment are a cricket bat & box. A good cricket bat is essential if you plan to score a lot of runs & is a very special piece of cricket equipment, so spend a few hours selecting your bat, if possible you would be advised to go to a shop and pick one up before you buy in order for you to know how it feels to play with. (Once you know what you want you can often get bats online significantly cheaper). You need a good box to protect your groin from the ball, as getting hit down below’ is very painful, so investing in a good box before you start is a defiant must - you can’t bat without one. For the best deals on cricket equipment supplies, take a look at Sportswear-Equipment.com today.
December 26, 2008 at 3:13 pm · Filed under Better Sports, Casino Stuff, Lucky Lotto
Computer accessible sports betting webpages are today modulated by three agencies. These are termed the OSGA (the Offshore Gaming Association), the IGC (Interactive Gaming Council) and the Fidelity Trust Gaming Association (the FTGA).
The Offshore Gaming Association is in fact a nonpartisan agency which presently keeps checks on the overseas gambling trade in an effort to grant gaming buffs an easy way to to quickly discover acclaimed enterprises to play games on, without unease. The agency aims to defend the concerns of wagering afficionados, additionally they don’t impose any joining fees. The OSGA are a well-qualified and neutral third party association who formulate objective points of view, based on customer feedback, unbiased study, calls, inside information also to supply inside intelligence.
The Interactive Gaming Council are a nonprofit council. The council has been set up to furnish an arena for involved individuals to address controversies furthermore to boost collective interests in the international interactive sports betting business, to ensure frank not to mention accountable trade guidelines and habits that raise customer trust in internet based wagering commodities and benefits, and to aid as the trade’s public procedure consultant and in addition it acts as an information hub.
The Interactive Gaming Council have established a distinction for promoting reliability, right behavior and in addition plausibility by virtue of the standards it establishes, and its allure to businesses of exemplary practise. The Interactive Gaming Council regulates overseas sports gambling through advocating an original ten point code of conduct and also bills betting businesses license fees for publishing the council’s logo. Dispirited gamblers may, should they want to, disclose their problems to the Interactive Gaming Council.
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The FTGA has been established in a venture to compose a standard which will upgrade the procedures of internet based sports betting trading operations. The Interactive Gaming Council understand that through affiliating with reputable companies, they are able to mold an affiliation of the most trustworthy and professional offshore gambling businesses all over the globe. So, these are organizations who co-ordinate the transactions practised by machine-accessible sports gaming and which should hopefully serve to take the edge off any misgivings because of apprehension experienced by cynics. Internet based betting sites are entirely safe, since private data are no longer requested also the compensation not to mention the odds are always equivalent to common Vegas-style stake. These websites eliminate the traveling costs, but maintain the underlying ethos, only these days you are enabled to wager at your PC.
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