Wednesday, November 12, 2008

How to Tackle Migraine in A Better Way?

Migraine is very terrible when it attacks. If you don’t know about it, ask someone how it feels when he is attacked by migraine headache.

Since it is related to neurological syndrome, it takes time to get rid of it using medicines. There are people who are using medicines for years to cure their migraine. And before these medicines start curing your migraine, they start causing their side effects. This is the main reason why I don’t recommend medicines to people who are not suffering much from migraine.

As soon as your headache starts, use these techniques to reduce pain instantly. Go to a dark room and lie down with some cool ice bag or wet cloth in place of pain. Drink water or some fruit juice. Avoid noises from music systems, TV sets, etc. Ask somebody to help you massage your forehead and neck. Take medicines if your doctor has prescribed any.

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Are you irritated with unsolicited calls? Then try this

The marketing methods of direct marketing services are very affective as they are measurable. But there are some firms which do not follow ethical rules in these methods. This has pushed entire direct marketing industry into controversy. Even professional and ethical companies are suffering due to these unethical firms.

These methods include spam or junk emails, unsolicited calls, heaps of mails and couriers, substandard advertisements, etc. And of all of those unsolicited calls makes one very irritated. This lead people to criticize and protest for a regulation on these calls. As a reply to this, US Federal Trade Commission has implemented National Do Not Call Registry Act in June 27, 2003; in order to aid the compliance with 1991s Telephone Consumer Protection Act.

So if you are suffering from unsolicited calls, just register your mobile number in this registry to avoid telemarketers to disturb your privacy by calling to your mobile at wrong times. You cannot include your fax number in this directory, though. Even many nations globally provide these lists but call them with different names.

Friday, October 10, 2008

Maintaining Computers in Best Way

Computers are growing to be more common as mobiles these days. We always look out for many things when we buy a computer. But maintenance is also much important issue which some neglect. And the result of this negligence will be showing off slowly. Your PC may run slowly, take much time to run applications, might shut down suddenly, and worst of all may become vulnerable to hackers and viruses. If these symptoms persist with your system, you might need an expert’s help. There are many people running businesses of computer maintenance and repairing around your place. In general these people provide services like,

  • Internet/email trouble shooting
  • Applications or network setup
  • Data recovery
  • Cleaning out disks out of viruses, malware, adware, or popups
  • Hard drive upgrading
  • Installations of memory and modem
And so on. If you are unaware of maintaining your system, you can ask them some tips so that you don’t need to call them up every time and spend more on maintenance than buying.

I’ve some general tips to follow in maintaining computer system
  • Have a branded UPS to help computer from power outages and voltage fluctuations
  • It is wise to maintain a back up of important files and information which you can’t afford to loose. This is done using Zip-disks, CD-RWs, DVDs, etc.
  • Never turn off your computer by switching power off before Windows has shut down.
  • Use a firewall program and also recommended anti-viruses when you are online.

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Substitution Method for Urine Test

Substitution is a method that involves substituting your urine with that of another person or a synthetic sample. This method works for every urine test provided some conditions are met. You simply give them clean urine (not yours) by concealing the urine in container or other Delivery devise that allow temperature monitoring. Sample must be contained so that it is kept at delivery required temperatures of 92 to 100 deg. F. When you are behind closed doors with the collection cup be sure you can quietly open the container.
  • Females can use a 2oz small children's aspirin bottle with aluminum foil rubber banded around opening and pop it open with sharp fingernail.
  • Getting Urine from a donor: You can substitute someone else's urine. You need to trust them and test it with a reagent panel strip available at wall greens. Collect urine fresh and keep it in a sealed, refrigerated container and use within the 48Hrs. as urine will darken and bacteria will grow, when deterioration becomes noticeable the lab may suspect something.
  • Synthetic urine is basically all the same. It is used to calibrate lab equipment and can be obtained in small bottles in liquid form or with a more accurate Delivery Devise. A powdered concentrate form comes in vials so it can be dropped in warm water creating instant urine.

Saturday, May 31, 2008

Google Tries to Make Browser Applications More Powerful

At this time Google has been a leading proponent of Web-based computing software hat is delivered over the Internet and naturally runs inside a browser. But most browser applications cannot do many of the things that more powerful PC-based software can. So now Google has been trying to help close that gap. On 28th May, Google touted the fruits of its efforts on two fronts at the company’s annual conference for software developers, which is taking place in San Francisco.

Google said that it has opened to third-party developers the programming interfaces to Google Earth, the company’s 3-D visualization software. That will allow developers to embed Google Earth on their Web sites, much like they already can do with Google Maps. Now Google noted that more than 150,000 sites have created applications using Google Maps to do things like indicative the locations of crimes or apartment rentals in various cities, displaying the path of airplanes in flight and helping users calculate the distance they travel on their urban walks. Those same sites will be able to improve those applications through Google Earth’s richer visualization software. And other developers will be capable to take advantage of Google Earth’s 3-D imaging to create new applications to run on their sites.

Since the applications will be embedded in the Web sites and accessible through a browser, they will work regardless of whether or not users have installed Google Earth on their PCs. Google also said that MySpace has used Gears, a set of software tools introduced by Google a year http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifago to help developers build browser applications that run like PC-based software, to revamp its mail service. MySpace users will now be able to easily sort and search through their mail messages, rather than having to click through page after page to find what they are looking for. Google executives said the MySpace effort represented the largest use of Gears and would likely encourage other companies to use Gears to enhance their Web applications or create new ones. That includes Google, which plans to use the software tools to make Gmail available to users even when they are not connected to the Internet. Google won’t put an exact deadline on the project but executives said they hope it will happen within a year.

Saturday, May 24, 2008

Fashion Merchandising

Fashion merchandising is the process activities implied in the purchases and the sale of the textiles, clothing, and the accessories and other fashion products at the wholesale levels and the retail, the activities implied in the transfer of the products starting from the hands of the originators and the manufacturers to the hands of the consumers, activities implied by ensuring navigation without clash of marketing and to sell efforts at the wholesale levels and the retail. Activities implied by making sure that the visual aspect of fashion retailer looks at the best in order to attract customers.

You can be successful in fashion merchandising as long as you have the drive and passion to work and travel. You also need to have keen eyes, good sense of design and creativity to become a good merchandiser to impress fashion buyer. There are several specialties in this field that you can choose based on your strengths and interests. You’re not restricted to become a fashion buyer that travels to manufacturing plants, if that's not your interest. Some of the business specialties to choose from are fashion marketing, decorating store windows, decision making on products to purchase, which require high-level management skills.

Friday, May 9, 2008

Renting With Roommate

Before renting the apartments in atlanta together, it's wise for would-be roommates to sit down and draw up a written agreement that covers a number of issues:
  • How much rent is each tenant paying? For instance, someone with a larger bedroom might have a bigger monthly cost.
  • When is the rent due? (It can make sense to set a due date in advance of the actual payment date to avoid penalties.)
  • What is the penalty if one roommate is late with the rent?
  • What happens if one roommate doesn't pay?
  • How much is each party putting up for the security deposit?
  • What happens if one roommate needs to move before the end of the lease term?
  • How will utility bills be divided?
  • To draw up a proper agreement, write out what you want to do and then have the paperwork reviewed by an attorney or legal clinic.
  • In the event that one roommate innocently forgets to pay his share of the rent, that's probably not grounds for instant eviction -- though it may result in a late fee.
  • In the usual case, a landlord will issue a reminder or friendly warning before taking more drastic measures.
The landlord's next step should be to request payment. Most states require that the landlord do so in writing or by using a specific form, called a "notice to pay rent or quit." Once the landlord makes the request and the tenant still doesn't pay, the landlord can then proceed to court, where the landlord can have the tenant evicted.

Landlords, however, logically don't want to evict tenants -- that's just a way to create vacancies. A better approach for everyone is to try and work out the problem -- keeping up the rent and perhaps finding a replacement roommate. So follow the above said concerns when searching good roommates for your las vegas apartment.

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Enterprise Campaign Management

An Enterprise Campaign Manager solution is used to provide advanced management capabilities for the data used to conduct Outbound-dialing campaigns.

Basic Outbound dialing

Not all predictive dialer solutions require customer data (usually referred to as 'call records') in order for them to work. At the most basic sense, these call records are simply a list of phone numbers to dial, however in practice companies will also provide with those phone numbers information such as the customer name, address, account number, and other information about why an individual may be being called. This data has two basic uses:
  • The dialer uses the phone number(s) provided to make the actual calls.
  • To populate the 'screen pop' that is displayed to the agent when the call is connected
In addition the data is also used for the following reasons
  • Filtering: Most predictive dialers allow you to selectively filter which records to dial by using the data supplied in the customer record as select criteria.
  • Desktop Automation/Scripting: Information in the screen pop can be used to automate processing on the agents screen. For example, as part of the screen pop the customer account number can be used as a primary key to bring up the correct record in the customer database.
  • Store results: Dialer will typically add extra information to each customer record that is dialed. This usually consists of the name/user ID of the agent who handled the call, the date/time(s) the customer was serviced, result code(s) etc.
For most users of dialing solutions a basic call table will provide all that they need to run a successful dialing campaign. Most companies, in order to feed their dialer with the data it needs would usually (on a nightly or regular basis) run a small program, which will search their customer database for a list of records to dial. This list is then usually extracted as a basic text file, which is then sent to the dialer for dialing. Once the dialing has completed the results can then be extracted back from the dialer so that the customer database can be updated with the results.

Friday, April 4, 2008

What happens with Aromatherapy oils?

Aromatherapy is the therapeutic use of plant-derived, aromatic essential oils to promote physical and psychological well being. It is sometimes used in combination with massage and other therapeutic techniques as part of a holistic treatment approach.

Aromatherapy oils and the many different forms originate from essential oils, which are the saps and oils of the plant or tree the fragrance comes from. All aromatherapy oil is natural, but the only way to know before you buy that you're truly getting the full benefit of the scent is to check the ingredients on the bottle. If there is no list of the ingredients on your aromatherapy oil product, or if it lists something like "fragrance oil" then it is not made naturally, and you will not get the full benefit of the scent. You can purchase aromatherapy oil at outlets such as Bath and Body Works, or the nutrition section of any generic retail store.

Aromatherapy offers diverse physical and psychological benefits, depending on the essential oil or oil combination and method of application used.
  • Aromatherapy oil is also good if you have an aching muscle and don't want to breathe in the unpleasant smell of ointments.
  • It will soak into your skin the same, and leave a refreshing feeling in the end.
  • You don't have to get away from home to relax.
  • You can as easily wind down your day, your week, and your year in the comfort of your own home by pulling out a bottle of aromatherapy oil, a candle, or a bubble bath solution.
  • Aromatherapy is also a way to bring you and your significant other together, physically and mentally.
  • So let the drone of the day fade, and slip into tranquility with your favorite bottle of aromatherapy oil.
  • Some common medicinal properties of essential oils used in aromatherapy include: analgesic, antimicrobial, antiseptic, anti-inflammatory, astringent, sedative, antispasmodic, expectorant, diuretic, and sedative.
  • Essential oils are used to treat a wide range of symptoms and conditions, including, but not limited to, gastrointestinal discomfort, skin conditions and irregularities, stress-related conditions, mood disorders, circulatory problems, respiratory infections, and wounds.

Friday, March 14, 2008

Process Of Nursing

The nursing process is a cyclical and ongoing process that can end at any stage if the problem is solved. The nursing process exists for every problem that the patient has, and for every element of patient care, rather than once for each patient. The nurse's evaluation of care will lead to changes in the implementation of the care and the patient's needs are likely to change during their stay in hospital as their health either improves or deteriorates. The nursing process not only focuses on ways to improve the patient's physical needs, but also on social and emotional needs as well.
  • Cyclic and dynamic
  • Goal directed and client centered
  • Interpersonal and collaborative
  • Universally applicable
  • Systematic
The nursing process is not something foreign or unusually complex. On the contrary, we use the nursing process method on a daily basis without even realizing it. For example, a trip to the gas station to get fuel requires assessing the various prices and the number of people waiting to get gas among other things. A subsequent decision, or Diagnosis, is made based on the former criteria. This may include pulling into the gas station to fuel up or going down the road for better prices and/or less of a crowd. The price is right and there's not much of a crowd, we're pulling in. Now the Planning can take place. This may include which pump to use, how much gas to put in the tank, whether or not to clean the windows along with other things. We're at the pump and ready to fuel up. We must now implement what we planned prior to pulling up to the pump. We've pulled up on the passenger side because the gas tank resides on this side, part of our plan. We've also given ourselves enough room to exit without getting blocked in by another vehicle, part of our plan also. We now unscrew the gas cap and begin fueling or Implementing what we planned. Things went well. We are fueled up and have exited the gas station without complication. Our Evaluation of the trip to the gas station would be a good one. We may choose to use this method in the future. The Nursing process is that simple in theory. However, as a nurse, the nursing process tool will be used for more complex and difficult situations but is applied the same way as the gas station analogy.

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Radio Advertising

Some advertising people referred radio as a ”Cinderella medium.” It can be spectacularly successful if everything clicks—the right offer, the right message, the right copy, and the right stations. Or radio spots can fall on deaf ears.

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Radio ads require repetition to work. A minimum run of at least fifteen ads on one station during a one-week period is recommended. Furthermore, if your entire advertising run on a particular station will be less than sixty spots during a month, try to keep the ads within a particular time slot. This way you will reach the same listening audience during each spot or often enough to create an awareness and ideally a desire to buy or inquire about your product or service. If your spots run on an erratic schedule, you might reach the full listener ship of the station but you won’t be reaching any one group of individuals often enough to motivate them to take action.

A great way to zero in on the same people and have added impact is to buy a sponsorship of a daily feature, such as news or sports broadcast. A sponsorship guarantees your ad will run at a particular time and typically affords you a brief “sponsored by” message in addition to your ad spot.

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Shortcuts for employee recruitment

Recruiting and selecting the employees can be a drawn out, painful process in the business. To cut down the stress of interviewing thousands of candidates and the selection of right and the suitable employees, there are some shortcuts listed below.

Connect with your local college or training institutes: Instructors of various business-related programs could be invaluable shortcuts to finding good employees. Get to know about the candidates you need to call the instructor of the relevant course or program, introducing yourself, explaining what you need, and asking for recommendations.

Connect with your local college or university’s cooperative training program: Cooperative programs are always looking for employers to provide suitable job placements. You get an employee with current skills and while it’s a temporary staffing solution, you may be able to hire the person as a full-time employee when he or she has completed the program.

Hire through a government program: You’ll find more employment programs listed in my Small Business Grants library. The downside of these programs is the time spent leaping through hoops, such as filling out application forms; the upside is the considerable cost savings.

Hire a student: If you can get by without having a permanent employee fill the job, the various hire-a-student programs available can be a great staffing solution. Watch your local papers or visit the sites.

Use employment agencies or consultancies: Employment agencies can be the most direct route to finding and hiring the employees you need. A good employment agency will take care of all the recruiting and preliminary weeding of applicants for you, sending you only a few qualified applicants to choose from.

Use if Internet: There are many “job board” sites on the ‘Net where you can place a job listing or search for employees. Using job sites can help you get your job posting before a national (and international) audience of job seekers at a low monetary cost. You will have to spend some time

By word of mouth out on the street: Last but never least is to try using word-of-mouth and/or referrals to find employees. Tell all your contacts (both business and personal) about the position you’re seeking to fill and what kind of employee you’re looking for.

Cut down on the time it takes to find the employees you’re looking for and increase the success of your recruitment process by taking one (or more) of these hiring shortcuts.

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Power Generation

A demand of energy is rising faster than before with the consequence of rapid economic growth and increasing living standards in many parts of the developing world. When this growing demand is set against the crucial need to limit climate change, the challenges facing the world’s power-generating industries are only too apparent. Power generation is the process of converting some form of energy into electricity. For electric utilities, it is the first process in the delivery of electricity to consumers. The other processes are electric power transmission and electricity distribution that are normally carried out by the electrical power industry. Electricity is most often generated by electro-mechanical generators, primarily driven by heat engines fueled by chemical combustion or nuclear fission but also by other means such as the kinetic energy of flowing water and wind. There are many other technologies that can be and are used to generate electricity though, with solar photovoltaic being the most significant alternative currently. The demand for electricity is met in several ways. Large centralized generators have been the primary method thus far. Distributed generation uses a larger number of smaller generators throughout the electricity network. Some use waste heat from industrial processes; others use fuels that would otherwise be wasted, such as landfill gas. Wind and solar generation tend to be distributed because of the low density of the natural energy they collect.

Friday, January 25, 2008

Finding An Apartment Online

It is not ironic statement to say that the Internet has made searching for the perfect apartment easy. In this world of unlimited information the Internet has served to increase the amount of information at our fingertips on pretty much every subject, but searching for a place to live has to be tops. It doesn’t matter where you from, like Japan to Chinatown; and doesn’t matter where you want to live, like Miami or Philadelphia apartment search, there are hundreds of apartments out there just waiting for you.

The first challenge is to getting known how to use various apartments finding websites. Most are constructed to search by state, than by city, than once you have an area in mind, you can search by number of bedrooms, location, rent, amenities and lots of other categories. You would be overwhelmed for you if it is for first time, because not only are these sites free, they come with full color pictures and complete descriptions of what each apartment has. You can choose from corporate run apartment complexes or you can rent from an individual. These sites have all of those options and more. The biggest challenge is deciding which apartment you want to go see in person. Remember to keep your budget in mind, it can be very easy to get carried away and before you know it, you’ve agreed to move into a place you really can’t afford!

Thursday, January 10, 2008

Golf- Types of strokes

I recently joined the golf coaching camp, which was organized in the holiday season. It was good and I learned many things, which I would not otherwise about the game. One among them is the type of the shots played in the golf. Strictly speaking, every shot made in a round of golf will be subtly different, because the conditions of the ball's lie and desired travel path and distance of the ball will virtually never be exactly the same. However, most shots fall into one of the following categories depending on the purpose and desired distance:
  • A drive is a long-distance shot played from the tee or fairway, intended to move the ball a great distance down the fairway towards the green.
  • An approach shot is made with the intention of placing the ball on the green. A drive may place the ball on the green as well, but the term "approach" refers to a high-loft, shorter-distance shot (usually from within 120 yards of the pin) that makes its first impact on the green and rolls very little thereafter.
  • A putt is a shot designed to roll the ball along the ground. It is normally made on the putting green using a putter, though other clubs may be used to achieve the same effect in different situations. A lag is a long putt designed less to try to place the ball in the cup than simply to move the ball a long distance across the putting green for an easier short putt into the cup.
  • A chip shot is a very short lofted shot, generally made with an abbreviated swing motion. Chip shots are used as very short approach shots (generally within 35 yards), as a "lay-up" shot to reposition the ball on the fairway, or to get the ball out of a hazard such as a sand trap. A bump and run is a variation of a chip shot, which involves running the ball along the ground with a medium- or high-lofted club using a putting motion.
  • Punch or knockdown shots are very low-loft shots of varying distance. They are used to avoid hitting the ball into the canopy of trees or other overhead obstructions, or when hitting into the wind which causes the ball to climb higher than normal.
  • Lay-up shots are shots made from the fairway similar to a drive, but intended to travel a shorter distance than might normally be expected and/or with a higher degree of accuracy, due to intervening circumstances. Most often, a lay-up shot is made to avoid hitting the ball into a hazard placed in the fairway, or to position the ball in a more favorable position on the fairway for the next shot. They are "safe" shots; the player is choosing not to try to make a very long or oddly-placed shot correctly, therefore avoiding the risk that they will make it incorrectly and incur penalty strokes, at the cost of requiring one or more additional strokes to place the ball on the green.
  • Flop Shot is when a player uses a very open club like a Lob Wedge to get the ball high very quickly over a bunker.

Tuesday, January 8, 2008

2012 Summer Olympics Financing

The costs of mounting the Games are separate to those for building the venues and infrastructure, and redeveloping the land for the Olympic Park. While the Games are privately funded, the venues and Park costs are met largely by public money.

On 15 March 2007 Tessa Jowell announced to the House of Commons a budget of £5.3 billion to cover building the venues and infrastructure for the Games, at the same time announcing the wider regeneration budget for the Lower Lea Valley budget at £1.7 billion.

On top of this, she announced various other costs including an overall additional contingency fund of £2.7 billion, security and policing costs of £600 million, VAT of £800 million and elite sport and Paralympic funding of nearly £400 million. According to these figures, the total for the Games and the regeneration of the East London area is £9.345 billion. Mayor Ken Livingstone pledged the Games Organizing Committee would make a profit.

The costs for staging the Games (£2 billion) are funded from the private sector by a combination of sponsorship, merchandising, ticketing and broadcast rights. This budget is raised and managed by the London 2012 Organizing Committee. According to Games organizers, the funding for this budget broadly breaks down as:
  • 63% from Central Government;
  • 23% from National Lottery
  • 13% from the Mayor of London and the London Development Agency
On August 18, 2007 The Belfast Telegraph reported that the right to stage the Olympic Games becoming more muted as realization dawns on the public of the enormous costs involved in creating facilities for the athletes. Grass root sport cuts will fund Olympics, government figures suggested on August 19, 2007.