Archive for June 19th, 2007

June 19, 2007: 11:51 pm: adminArts & Crafts

Charlotte Bronte (1816 –1855) Novelist and Poet.

Charlotte was the daughter of the Rev. Patrick Bronte,with her sisters Emily and Anne, Charlotte was brought up in a small parsonage in the Yorkshire village of Haworth. Whilst still in her childhood the Bronte sisters lost their mother and as the eldest Charlotte took up the a role of looking out for her sisters Emily and Anne. Charlotte was described as: “the motherly friend and guardian of her younger sisters,”

The sisters had an unusual upringing in that their house overlooked the village graveyard. To escape from these surroundings and the loss of their mother they would often spend time creating stories of fantasy lands. These fantasy stories were often based on the soldiers of their strict, religious aunt, Elisabeth Branwell. Later in a poem Charlotte wrote:

“We wove a web in childhood, / A web of sunny air.”

After various efforts as schoolmistresses and governesses, the sisters took to literature and published a volume of poems under the names of Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell Unfortunately these early publications were a commercial failure. However this did not deter Charlotte and she continued with her novels such as “The Professor” and “Jane Eyre”. Jane Eyre proved to be tremendously popular with the public when it appeared in 1854. The novel has gained status as one of the classic’s of English literature for its originality and strength of writing.

Charlotte was married to her father’s curate, the Rev. A. Nicholls, but after a short though happy married life she died in childbirth in 1855.

Quote by Charlotte Bronte

“Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns. “

Poem by Charlotte Bronte - LIFE

Life, believe, is not a dream
So dark as sages say;
Oft a little morning rain
Foretells a pleasant day.
Sometimes there are clouds of gloom,
But these are transient all;
If the shower will make the roses bloom,
O why lament its fall ?

Rapidly, merrily,
Life’s sunny hours flit by,
Gratefully, cheerily,
Enjoy them as they fly !

What though Death at times steps in
And calls our Best away ?
What though sorrow seems to win,
O’er hope, a heavy sway ?
Yet hope again elastic springs,
Unconquered, though she fell;
Still buoyant are her golden wings,
Still strong to bear us well.
Manfully, fearlessly,
The day of trial bear,
For gloriously, victoriously,
Can courage quell despair !

Written for http://www.poetseers.org

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Written by Richard Pettinger

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: 11:07 pm: adminThe Technology Way

Here are some tips on how to use screensavers:

First of all you should be careful when you use a screensaver on a LCD. A pixel it’s on when it’s dark on a LCD. So if a screen gets black on a LCD like some screensavers do it can be damaged.

After all this problems there were invented CTR’s more resistant to burn-in or with sleep mode. Sleep mode means that the monitor comes in to a state like “turned off”. But also there were invented many other solutions like games that when not being played change the screen time to time or screensavers.

When screensavrs were invented they were very simple. They just blanked you screen setting it to full black. After that there where inserted many effects including sound and animations to make the screensavers more entertainment.

And now we live in an Internet world full of screensavers of all types. You can find screensavers on any theme. If you like it you can just download it.

One of the best things at screensavers it’s that you can usually find screensavers for free and you just need to install them. Then they will be launched automatically.

You should be very careful when you are using any burning devices. The problem is that screensavers are launching by their selves and can create great things on your display but they also use a lot of your CPU. So if the CD is burning an the screensaver is launched meanwhile, you risk to have an improperly burned CD.

When you install a screensaver it will be copied in the system directory. So it’s easy to use them because once there are installed windows will fin them and it will add them to a list of available scrensavers. You can see this list on the display properties dialog.

Every screensaver has a lot of settings that allow you to change it. You can change this settings only trough windows.

So the inventing of the screensavers it’s a very good thing for our “baby-computers”. They can’t harm it and all they do is keeping you monitor safe, so you shouldn’t hesitate to use them.

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: 8:44 pm: adminLiving With Software

Wedding planning isn’t an easy task. A wedding is an incredibly complicated undertaking - unless you plan to elope or just go downtown to the justice of the peace. For a relatively large, traditional wedding there are many activities and events that you’ll need to track to keep the wedding on schedule.

Now there are people who actually choose to become experts in wedding planning. That’s what they do - day after day. While hiring someone to help you with your wedding can be the perfect solution, it’s not always feasible. A professional wedding planner may charge as much as 10% of the cost of the wedding. For many couples this extra charge is quite sufficient for them to take over their wedding planning themselves. Now there is plenty of software available that can help make this decision a smart one.

In looking at wedding planning software, one feature you definitely want is a calendar. Remember that this is not just a function for keeping track of dates. Your planning software should allow you to set notifications for important events. Wedding planning software usually uses E-mail reminders. And if your mobile telephone has a text-messaging feature, the ability to receive e-mail reminders on your cell phone is a great benefit.

Since wedding planning includes a significant number of tasks, being able to coordinate these tasks is essential in a wedding planning software program. After sending out your wedding invitations, you should be able to easily track who has responded and who hasn’t.

Also your tasks aren’t limited to your wedding ceremony. There are also specific tasks that are associated with the wedding reception which you also must track. Since a seating plan is the norm for a wedding reception, your wedding planning software should help you track the seating arrangements. Also think about gifts. No doubt, you’ll receive many gifts from friends and family. Tracking those gifts so you can send a thank you card is a very handy feature.

Along with scheduling and tracking, wedding planning involves money and budgeting. You really don’t need anything as complicated as QuickBooks or PeachTree, but you do want to be able to monitor your spending so that you don’t end up broke before the ceremony.

Another advantage of some wedding planning software is that it allows you to create custom stationary to use for your wedding. This can be a useful overall plus because it can save you a bundle of money. A software program with this feature will usually contain templates that you can use as a guide for creating invitations and any other stationary you might need for your wedding.

The best way to look for wedding planning software is to do a search on Google. You’ll find a variety of options from free online services to low priced online to dedicated software that runs on your PC such as Smart Wedding. You must compare features carefully - free is not always best, so be careful and do some thinking about just what you need and just what you want to do with the software. No matter which wedding planning solution you choose, it’ll make your wedding a lot easier.

Copyright 2006 Richard Keir

Richard Keir - EzineArticles Expert Author

Richard is a writer and educator with a background in clinical psychology, MIS and IT, and more experience with marriage than he really wants to talk about. You can visit Elena’s Completely Weddings at http://Completely-Weddings.com for on weddings and wedding planning.

: 8:35 pm: adminLiving With Software

A major roll of the human resource department is to manage payroll. Relying on your employees to do this by hand costs your company money and resources and is not efficient. Instead of hiring an extra employee to take care of payroll, consider purchasing HR payroll software.

Payroll subjects can be complicated and the more employees you have, the more confusing it gets. HR payroll software is designed to eliminate the confusion by helping you keep track of employees electronically. Each employee may require different payroll options. Some get paid more than others. Some waived insurance. Others contribute to the 401K, but some don’t. HR payroll software offers a way for human resources to keep track of everything and insures that everyone gets paid the correct amount.

To find HR payroll software that fits your needs, you need to first consider how large your company is. Certain HR payroll software packages are better equipped to handle the demands of larger companies. Other HR payroll software packages are designed to benefit small to mid-sized companies. Also consider what benefits you offer your employees to make sure the software can accommodate them.

You will also want to make sure that the HR payroll software that you need is compatible with your computer operating system. If your computers are too old, you may not find a program that will accommodate it. At this point, you may want to update your computers before you purchase your HR payroll software. Budget is another concern, but the right software package will meet your needs without draining your budget.

If you would like your human resources department to be more efficient, consider purchasing HR payroll software to help make their jobs easier. It will help them keep track of employee pay, benefits, and investment options. When your company is large enough, it can be time consuming to do everything by hand. HR payroll software is a great solution to this problem.

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: 9:13 am: adminUniversity of Security

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From Inside To Outside And From Outside To Inside).

How do you stay invisible while surfing? Of course
by installing a firewall. How do I get one free?
That’s the easy point.

You like to stay invisible. But are you?
And how do you know? You could do a test from someone
out there trying to get in. But who can you trust?

Suppose you are doing a test. Do you obtain objective
and reliable information about your PC-vulnerability
(for free)?

Now even if you stay invisible, you will visit websites
leaving cookies in your PC and you will download software.
By doing so you will get spyware, viruses, …

How can you detect them and delete them? That’s also
the easy point: you have to install an anti-virus program
and anti-spyware programs. Research on the internet
makes it clear that you need 2 anti-spyware programs.
Why 2? Because a great fish may be caught by the net
but a small fish can swim through the holes.
Using 2 makes the holes smaller. What are those 2 free
programs you have to download?

Can you prevent spyware to install on your PC? Maybe,
maybe not. There is one free software that might
prevent it (but not with 100% guarantee).

And even then you need an additional freeware program
to prevent a piranha to install itself on your PC
(just enabling itself to start up whenever you switch your
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It gives you also a hint whether some new downloaded
software is good or bad (and thus giving you the chance
to delete it anyway before it becomes too malicious).

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: 5:17 am: adminLiving With Software

The best time to plant a tree is 40 years ago, or today. -
unknown

Ok, if you are like me you have seen all the great stories of
regular people who make $10,000 to $50,000 per month on almost
every internet marketing site. I have no doubt that many are
true. The point of the stories for the aspiring marketer is not
to create a celebrity class of marketers to envy. Rather it is
far better to pursue knowledge and insights into how they
accomplished what they did.

You can never truly simply just copy what someone did, because
there are other variables at play. For instance, you can buy the
Story of Google and try recreating each step, but we all know
that may not result in the same $400/share wonderland for your
company. What you can take away is some best practices - general
things they did and thought. Those two things must go together.
Success in anything is a result of actions that manifest
thoughts. In fact failure is the same thing. How did these
people think, what motivated them, how did they deal with
setbacks, and naysayer’s? Then, how did they implement their
ideas and strategies?

What are the top 3 things that these people did? Well naturally
these are generalizations but these are some great tips:

#1: It’s ok not to know everything. These successful marketers
started with what they had. They didn’t rush things and try to
be a mogul in the first month. They started slow, learning as
they went along. Many had no computer or business experience -
but the human brain is astounding, yours is too! We have the
capacity to learn so much, especially when we avoid the need to
know everything today. Pace yourself, keep reading and trying
things.

#2: One step at a time. The journey of a million miles starts
with one step, and then it takes another and another… The
successful marketers start with one step or strategy. Perhaps
the one they are most confident in - it helps spur them on, and
it allows them to learn faster. Once they have maximized that
strategy, they move on to a new one, increasing the
effectiveness of their site. They may even keep the same
strategies and simply add new sites. As the roll out new
strategies they implement them across all their sites. Remember
they also eventually had multiple sites - it helps to diversify.

#3: They all wish they could have avoided some of the early
rookie mistakes. I know we all learn from our mistakes, but we
can also learn from other peoples mistakes. After the first man
ran off the cliff to try fly like a bird, the rest of mankind
heard about it and decided while it must be possible to fly,
that there must be another way! You can learn from others, and
avoid those mistakes - in fact you can surpass your teachers as
you improve upon what they teach you. Do you have a teacher, or
are you going to tempt fate, and try it alone.

The game ‘Simon Says’ is a good analogy - find someone who can
lead you that way. Someone who can demonstrate how to do profit
online and insist that you copy them for your mutual gain -
that’s the real fast track.

: 2:50 am: adminUniversity of Security

Did you know that fire is the third leading cause of accidental deaths in the United States, yet most people ignore it. More than 150 workplace fires occur every day. So many of theses untimely deaths could have been prevented if they only had a plan.

The number one tip any family can have is, make sure all family members know what to do in the event of a fire. In a fire, timing is very critical. Don’t waste time getting dressed, don’t search for pets or valuables. Just get out! Set up a way for everyone to sound a family alarm. Screaming, pounding on walls, yelling “fire”!

If a fire happens in your home, you have to get out fast! Prepare for a fire emergency by sitting down with your family and agreeing on an escape plan. Be sure that everyone knows at least two escape exits, the doors and windows from every room. Decide on a meeting place outside where everyone will meet after they escape the fire. Have your entire household practice your escape plan at least twice a year.

Smoke detectors can alert you to a fire in your home in time for you to escape the blaze, it’s esp. useful when the family is asleep. Install smoke detectors on every floor of your home, including the basement. Test detectors every month, following the manufacturer’s directions, and replace batteries once a year, or whenever a detector “chirps” to signal low battery power. Make sure your alarm works at all times! A non functional smoke detector can’t save your life or your family’s. Replace detectors that are more than a years old.
Careless smoking is the leading cause of fire deaths in North America. Smoking in bed or when you are drowsy can be extremely dangerous. Provide smokers with ashtrays and soak butts with water before discarding them. Before going to bed or leaving home after a smoker has been smoking, check around and make sure there aren’t any lit buds.

Never leave cooking unattended. Keep cooking areas clear of combustibles. Turn pot handles inward on the stove where you can’t bump them and children can’t grab them and burn themselves. If grease catches fire in a pan, slide a lid over the pan to smother the flames and turn off the heat. Leave the lid on until cool. For more safety tips and products visit www.safetyrus.com

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: 1:30 am: adminMiscellaneous

Solomon gives this advice in the book of Proverbs “Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring”.

I learned the lesson that there is no tomorrow when I was a young boy. My love of boiled peanuts would drive me to a local store. One day the owner had posted a sign that read “Peanuts fifteen cents today ten cents tomorrow”. Upon reading the sign I decided to wait until the next day to make my purchase.

The next day I went to the store and presented my dime to the owner for a bag of peanuts. He looked at my dime and said “Son read the sign.” Once again I read the sign “Peanuts fifteen cents today ten cents tomorrow”. As I pondered on what I had just read it came to me, there is no tomorrow only today.

It is a lesson we should all learn. We only have today. We need to make plans for the future but live our lives as if this were the last day we had.

Jesus tells about the rich man that was very successful and produced an abundance of crops. Having his barns full he decided he would build bigger barns and live a life of ease. He would eat, drink, and be merry because he had plenty for years to come.

God said to him “Thou fool this night thy soul shall be required of thee; then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided”?

Striving to gain the material things of this world without having your priorities in the right place is foolish. You should put God first in your life, your family second then your work.

How many times have I heard that mantra from people who proclaim that to be true in their lives but their lives do not proclaim it? I can not begin to say. Many say it but few truly live it.

How much time have you spent today reading and studying the bible? How much time have you spent in prayer? What did you pray for? Did you petition God to do something for you so you could be “successful” or did you pray for Him to use you for his glory?

We take the time to set goals and work to achieve them in our secular life but often do not give thought to setting goals and striving to meet them in our spiritual lives. Which one do you think is the most important?

We should teach our children the importance of growing spiritually as well as physically and mentally. When is the last time you restricted your child for not studying their Sunday school lesson? How much time do you spend teaching them the rules from the bible compared with teaching them the rules of football, baseball or some other game? How much time do you spend with your family? Do you use the excuse that once you have achieved a certain goal you will spend more time with them? You may never have that chance. Do not neglect your family. You have heard the old story “I never heard anyone on their death bed say they wished they had spent more time on their job”.

Each day God gives us should be used to serve Him in some way. Take the time to help someone in need. Take time to let people know that you love them. Do something for someone even though they don’t deserve it. Let Holy Spirit lead you in serving God every day.

Do not boast about what you have planned for tomorrow. Instead do as James instructs in his letter, say if the Lord allow I will live and do this or that. Determine to use each day serving him and laying up treasure in heaven.

Do not plan for tomorrow but plan for eternity. Know that the Lord Jesus Christ is your personal savior and live you life serving God. Great will be your reward for your faithfulness.

Warren L. Adams is a bi-vocational preacher with a burden for the lost and the Christian. His desire is for Christians to realize they have a purpose only they can fulfill in and for the body of Christ. That they would wake up and begin to live the life that will make a difference now and for eternity.

: 1:16 am: adminArts & Crafts

Azra, Azra,
Wake up Azra.
Wake up Azra,
It is time to go.
Go where you must
But hate to do so.
Azra, it hurts me to say,
But you are the way.
Wake up Azra,
You have to go.

Azra, Azra,
You are made of gold,
But the gold, I cannot hold.

Wake up Azra, you must go.
I know Azra,
The world is cruel world.
This world is not yours or mine.
This world is not the one
We want to be.
This world is not
For you or me.

Azra, my little girl,
Your magical power,
Your ocean blues eyes,
Your smile of innocence,
Your body like a bud of rose
Is what will save us all?
It is your sweet innocence Azra,
That our lives depend on.

I know Azra it is not fare.
I know Azra it is too much
For you to bare.
But you see Azra,
I do deeply care.
For I love you more than you
Will ever know.

It is you Azra
That will save us all.
Wake up Azra
For you have to go.

Oh Mother, must I,
Must I really go?
Oh Mother, don’t you know,
I am only five years old.
Oh Mother, can’t you see
My body aches.
Oh Mother, can’t you hear the screams-
The screams of my soul.
Oh Mother, must I really go?

Azra, Azra, my heart aches for you.
Azra I would love to
Instead of you, go.
You see my child
They do not want me.
They say I am too old, and
They want a little girl like you,
In their arms to hold.

Zora Teofilovic