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Microsoft routinely releases new security updates, many of which are given it’s highest severity rating “critical”. Here’s a typical announcement:

“A security issue has been identified that could allow an attacker to
compromise a computer running Internet Explorer and gain control over it.”

I’m not making this up. Is this funny to anyone else? They do this every
month and they are still the most popular web browser in the world! Don’t get me
wrong, the browser is good, as long as you don’t mind “attackers”
gaining control over it once in awhile. Who are these attackers? Is it a
cyber-geek with coke bottle glasses and an evil glint in his magnified eye?
Could I tell if I saw one on the street? Would he have a lot of pens in the top
pocket of his gangsta leather jacket? Does he have pentagrams sewn into
his polyester leisure suit? I know only one hacker, but he swears he’s a
“Light-Side” hacker. He hacks only for good.

And what if we received these kinds of letters from other
manufacturers? “A security issue has been identified that could allow
a pirate to board all pleasure boats running an outboard Mercury 150 and joy
ride it to Mexico for Cinco de Mayo. Install this jack screw on your rudder immediately.”

So let’s review with an analogy because this is “critical”.
If you had a steel combination safe (your computer) in which you stored precious belongings,
(your data) and you towed this safe around in a wagon through
many of the world’s most dangerous cities (surfing the internet), Microsoft
announced that there are 8 easy ways, and 4 just “so so” ways for thieves to
break in and take everything you’ve got. But let’s stay positive, the good news is,
you can patch it all right up with a click. What could be easier? Maybe
that’s why we forgive them so often. Wouldn’t it be great to get an email from
GM saying your vehicle will soon be stolen but click here and it will be
alright.

It’s nice that they
announce the holes and the patches together, that way I’m not so worried the
whole time before, while I browsed Internet Explorer around care free down the
mean streets of the internet completely innocent. I could have been E-jacked by
I-marauders, demanding that I hand over every E & I in my wallet.

The truth is, the good guys are winning the security battle online,
why? Because they are rich and can hire the best light-side hackers money
can buy. Even hackers known for evil all wind up working for large corporations.
A headline of one going to jail for 18 months is a resume item on the lap of
every CEO in the world with computers to protect. Now they’re a cyber security
expert, with all the dark secrets for sale! The speaking engagements start
pouring in, “Come meet the man (or woman) who sent a KaGillion emails from
a billion computers to Microsoft during lunch break. He did his time at Club
Fed, and now works for the Department of Defense.

So cyber villains may come and critical updates may go, I just click and fix
my way along the information highway and say a little prayer that the world’s
“attackers” never know I exist until they’re on the payroll of the good guys somewhere.

Rick David writes a humor column called,

“Don’t Laugh It Could Happen To You” for
http://sandiego.merchantamerica.com

This is a common concern in our society for single people of any
age; how to make contact with someone that we like on a soft
matter without being forward. The truth of the matter is that we
have the opportunity to meet that special person everyday; at
the bus station, at the grocery store, at church, at a class, at
the gym, at the coffe shop, at the library.

1. Eye contact.

There has to be a little game of eye contact. He looks at you.
You look at him. You look away. You look again. He looks at you
again. You smile. He smiles back. And so on…

And Men, you keep your eyes on her until she looks back…. and
maybe, smiles. Then, approach her and introduce conversation.
The easiest way is to say :” Hi! My name is _______. What is
yours?” And say something nice about her. Something about her
hair, something about the color that she is wearing, or the make
up. Whatever you find nice and femine about her appearance.

Later on, VERY IMPORTANT, say something nice about HER
personality. Not on a physical level, but on a mental level. Is
she intelligent? Did you notice that she is sweet? Did you
notice that she how strong her values are? Do like that? Well
then, go ahead and say it. The impact is worth the effort.

2. Smile. It’s the most simple way to have eye contact softly.

Not many people do this and this transforms that way we are
perceived. I saw once on t.v. a report on some kind of monkey in
the african jungle; two males were fighting to get a female and
to stop the fight, one had to show his teeth to the other one.
For us human, smiling can have an emotional impact that could
lead to dramatic effects on our lives.

Exercice: Smile to at least 5 strangers everyday, even if the
person is not attractive to you. Be careful not to look as if
you were “simple of mind”. Just like a glance, a brief smile by
looking in the eye and let go.

Try to get the habit, you will be surprise of the impact that
you will have on other. Smiling is inviting and soon enough, it
will become a reflex that could let you go far. I know one
co-worker got a promotion because the upper management tought he
was a candidate with the skills to do the job but also because
he seemed like someone with whom it is easy to get along with.

3. Introduce conversation. The easiest way to introduce a
conversation is to ask a question. Then, follow it with a short
amusing story about the situation. For example, if you are at
the grocery store and you see that cute girl near the peas
section, excuse yourself and ask her what she would recommend.
After she has answered, follow by a joke you have seen on TV or
something that happenned to you about peas when you were
younger. Laughing or make a person laugh is a quality that you
have to develop.

One important thing; don’t think of the rejection; it will
paralyze you. If they decline, say to yourself that there must
be a good reason - they are already in a relationship or not
ready to get involved yet, etc..- Move on to the next one. Very
important. Don’t let one or two declines prevent you from
meeting that special person. If you don’t take charge of your
love life, who will?

4. Then you can pass on to the next step: You give your phone
number or ask for it. Simply.

That is the lowest pressure invitation because it leaves the
decision to the other person to call you. Or not. That way, no
one is getting hurt. You can meet tons of people that way and be
a “hot commodity”. The more you will have dates, chances are
that you will feel better about yourself and you will become
more attractive to the eyes of the others.

Say something like ” You seem like a fun person and I would like
to see you again for coffee. I don’t have much time right now so
I am leaving you my phone number and call me next week and we
will arrange for meeting. It was nice meeting you”

You can invite that person early in the conversation and let
that person decide if they will call you. No pressure for
anyone. Imagine if you do that to 3 people per week, chances are
that you will have a busy dating life. You will make all of your
unhappy married friends envious.

Those are just basic instructions to meet people. However, be
creative. Try new method. At worst, somebody will say “no”. At
best, you may meet the person of your dreams…

Isn’t it worth the effort?

Santa Claus, in addition of being one of the most recognizable figures of society, is possibly the single most important consumer. Santa, in fact, is so important for our economy that I often wonder why is it nobody at either the Bank of Canada or the Federal Reserve System has ever thought of putting his effigy on the Loonie or the Greenback. Santa is the quintessential consumer, a real big spender, and whatever he decides to spend his money on not only is vital to a great many small businesses and stores but it sets also the economic tempo for the first few months of the new year as well. Beyond all the gifts and presents Santa is fond to so lavishly shower upon all of us every year for whatever arcane reasons, his greatest impact is to be found in the way his generosity affects the equilibrium between spending and saving. To be more specific, Santa has the greatest say on the most important element of the economy: the domestic pool of capital.

Consumers Spending is one of the basic pillars of capitalism. Its weight is to be felt both domestically as well as in international finance. Nowhere is Consumers Spending more powerful than in the United States. American consumerism works like a gigantic magnet: not only does it affect the domestic economy - it also exerts its huge gravitational pull on countries as far away as Europe and East Asia. In fact, it can be said that were it not for how Americans spend – particularly at Christmas time - a few of those countries would be chronically on the verge of bankruptcy.

In order to realize how powerful American Consumers Spending really is, one has to take a look at Consumers Saving first. Consumer Saving represents quantitatively two-thirds of the pool of capital out of which the U.S. draws its money for investments and capital projects. It is only natural, therefore, that fluctuations in the level of Consumers Saving reverberate throughout the American economic structure. Generally speaking, it can be safely stated that as the level of Consumers Spending increases the level of Consumers Saving diminishes. This is only obvious, since the algebraic relationship between the two – at equal levels of real (spendable) income - is inversely proportional.

What is a little less clear, however, is the fact that under normal circumstances a decrease in Consumers Saving will be matched by a corresponding increase in Corporate and Government Savings. This is so because since consumers spend more (and save less) to buy goods, corporations and firms will earn more by handling more cash while, at the same time, Government will not be pressured to spend or overspend to keep people employed. Practically therefore, the effect of a jolt in Consumers Spending is ultimately to reduce Government Spending or, as they like to put it in High Finance:

[] Consumers Spending (+) = Consumers Savings (-)

[] Consumers Savings (-) = Corporate Savings ­(+)

[] Corporate Savings (+)­ = Government Spending (-)

[] Consumers Spending(+)­=Government Spending(-)

Naturally, very important for the health of the Dollar is where all this consumers’ energies are directed. In years past we have assisted at a situation wherein as a strong Dollar bought more and more imports in the international markets, American consumers developed a taste for inexpensive foreign goods comparative to domestic outputs. This situation was partly due to the politics various Administrations enjoyed playing with the Greenback at different times, and partly due to a weakening of foreign economies abroad. As the pool of domestic capital dwindled and a portion of it left the country because Americans spent more on foreign imports, the pool of American savings diminished as well, so that the U.S. had to rely more and more on foreign savers to fill the gap.

The natural way to attract foreign capital is, of course, to offer higher interest rates, which in turn has the effect of increasing demand for the Greenback thus pushing its value even higher relative to other currencies. As the Dollar increased in value, however, it applied a subsidy on imports while, at the same time, sticking a surcharge on exports. In other words, imports became less expensive in the U.S., whereas American goods were more expensive abroad. This altered the balance of payments in favor of foreign countries and this is why the United States nowadays still runs a trade deficit with practically everybody. This vicious circle has been slowed to a certain extent by the monetarist policies of Alan Greenspan, the outgoing Chairman of the Federal Reserve System. By relaxing the money supply and, to a certain extent, by keeping interest rates artificially low the Greenback has lost value thus balancing the trade deficit somewhat. A reduction in real value of the U.S. Dollar, furthermore, meant a more competitive environment for domestic outputs and a better choice of goods for Americans with a corresponding increase in consumerism.

One can see, therefore, how Santa is important in the context of the economic wellbeing of us all. My suggestion, therefore, is that we all make sure chimneys are clean and well ventilated the night of December 24th, because a very important visitor is coming … Santa is coming to town.

Merry Christmas!

Luigi Frascati

Luigi Frascati is a Real Estate Agent based in Vancouver, British Columbia. He holds a Bachelor Degree in Economics and maintains a weblog entitled the Real Estate Chronicle at http://wwwrealestatechronicle.blogspot.com where you can find the full collection of his articles. Luigi is associated with the Sutton Group, the largest real estate organization in Canada, and is based with Sutton-Centre Realty in Burnaby, BC.

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Every small business owner knows that they need a website, right? Well the truth is what they really need is at least two websites.

One website that is specific to their business, product, service, name, etc. and…

another site that is an educational site specific to the benefits of their service or product.

So JoesBaitShop.com tells all about the various lures and tackle you offer, even more about the charter trips, and eventually how to buy.

CatchFishToday.com (your other site) however is full of informative information, how-to tips, and resources for avid fisherpersons.

Of course this site also has plenty (but not too many) of links back to JoesBaitShop.com.

Here’s the deal. Online people don’t go out searching for companies, They go online looking for solutions, information, answers to life’s persistent questions…you know like what’s the best hat to wear cod fishing?

Your second website gives them the answer and sends them to your first site to go shopping.

It really doesn’t matter what business you are in. An investment banking firm can benefit from the same strategy.

Here’s the reason. The major search engines want to index high quality information. A site about what a person can buy from you doesn’t make that cut but a site with an article about how to cast in windy conditions does.

In addition, search engines take a look at sites that link to you and give your some points for that. A high quality how to site about fishing will draw plenty of related links. This will only help drive that traffic to JoesBaitShop.com even faster.

The cost of putting up a website is so low these days it’s really a crime if you don’t come up with about 10 reasons to have multiple sites.

Think of it this way. You need one site that presells and one site that sells. If this strategy even remotely makes sense to you then there is a book you should read today! It’s called Make Your Site Sell. Go see for yourself

John Jantsch is a marketing consultant based in Kansas City, Mo. He writes frequently on real world small business marketing tactics and is the creator of “Duct Tape Marketing” a turn-key small business marketing system. Check out his blog at http://www.DuctTapeMarketing.com/weblog.php - get these kinds of killer tips weekly by sending an email to mailto:subscribe@ducttapemarketing.com

I’ve spoken to quite a few people over the years who say they have very nice clothes they love but the don’t wear them anymore.

But my question is this: If you value something so much…then don’t you think you should be wearing it?

The reality is we are a society who likes to accumulate and, dating back to the Great Depression, we tend to keep everything we believe has monetary value when, in reality, it really doesn’t.

For example, a pretty dress or a nice suit you bought ten years ago went for what can be considered a lot of money.

And the problem is you haven’t touched it in nine years because, as most clothes do, it went out of style.

Could it come back in style someday? Maybe. Styles do often return.

But this is not a reason to hold onto things you don’t use…”just in case.”

You feel like, because you spent “good” money on it, you are throwing money away. But ask yourself this… is it putting money in your pocket sitting there in the back of your closet with dust on the shoulders?

Is it giving you anything? Do you benefit at all from keeping outdated outfits?

Now ask yourself one more question… will you gain anything by getting rid of it and donating it to charity?

Of course you will!

The benefits?

More space to be able to keep the clothes you are going to wear (we only wear 50% of the clothes we own, by the way.)

I might even suggest buying a new outfit for every three to five you get rid of.

The purpose?

Because new clothes make people feel good. I don’t recommend buying new clothes for the sake of buying new clothes and throwing away your money. But you’ve got to admit putting on a new pair of pants that make us look better is a nice, uplifting feeling.

The thing is the items taking up space, yes, you paid for them.

But by keeping something you no longer wear or use you are not getting anything in return but more clutter and a lack of storage space you could be using for something else.

Here is something you should do right now with items (they don’t have to be clothes) you are holding onto because you paid good money for them.

1. Go find ten items you own for one reason and one reason only… because you paid for it.

2. Grab a piece of paper and make three columns.

3. Write the items you are having trouble getting rid of in the left column. In the middle column, write “why I am keeping this item” and in the third column write “what will I gain by getting rid of this item.”

My guess is you will have a lot more in the right column than you will in the middle.

Be specific with both.

If you can honestly fill up the middle column with more reasons of why you should keep it, and they are good, legitimate reasons, then maybe you shouldn’t get rid of it.

But I’m willing to bet that won’t be the case.

Greg Payette is the founder of DiscoverOrganization.com and created a simple, step by step Home Organizing System so you can end clutter and cut stress out of your home. Visit DiscoverOrganization.com for more information and to sign up for a Free Home Organizing Mini Course

OP911.NET tracks down the latest in video systems. We look at the latest in object tracking, motion detection, image processing and video management.

As security cameras multiply, the ability for people to successfully monitor them declines. Commercial and public agencies are looking at monitoring hundreds of camera feeds with the minimum amount of staff. Many agencies are already surpassed their 1000th video camera install. How do agencies manage and store all that video? Let’s look at how some different techniques to manage video. Smart video systems are sold on the premise that one person can only do so much, and it’s cheaper to have a computer look at the video than the security guard. Simple, right? Well not really. Here we look at several techniques on the market that help you stretch your budget. You may not be able to replace that operator with a machine, but you may not need to hire that other operator. Ok, well that is not what you want to tell your staff, but essentially that is the goal. . .do more with less money.

Video motion detection. . . why do I need it? Digital motion detection is the processing of video images to detect differences between the video frames. Note this might not be actual motion, sometimes it could be that the camera was actually moved by wind or an intruder (like the intruder taking the camera!). But what normally happens is that objects in the scene move, and a system detects the changes. Then you can do two things. That video can be marked as “motion” video. The motion can also be setup to trigger an alarm, or other action. . .say for instance trigger the activation of other recording devices.

There are other uses. What about when you need to go through six hours of video to find the thief? This can make it easier to find scenes in the video where something happened. Or it could be used to delete video scenes where there was no motion. This could be part of an archive procedure to save disk space, only storing video with motion. So we can see that with digital video, motion detection saves money and time.
The only question is when do you want to do it? Since we assume all video is recorded, the motion detection can be done during the capture or later during the day or night when there are more computing resources available.

Object tracking, do I need it? Video object tracking, at its basic, is taking a video into a digital format (or converting analog video to digital), and having a computer process the image. This is similar to video motion detection, but more complex as you will see. The computer can look at objects, events, colors, light levels, anything in the video image that could be classified as an “object”. Object tracking is the ability of computers to track that object in the video. Think of a man walking in from of a camera, then walks out of the picture to the left. From watching the video, you know what happened, but with digital object tracking, a computer tracks the objects and can make certain assumptions without you looking at the video. Let’s talk about an application for video object tracking.

In this scenario, we see how object tracking software follows a person as they move into a certain area, which trigger certain events depending on the person’s movements. First we have a guest entrance for “ToonLand”, with a “firearms” sensor that can sense when people walk through a checkpoint with a gun. (these sensors do exist and uses millimeter wave radar to detect large metal objects carried on the person). Here is the sequence of events:

1. The guest entrance senses a firearm. This activated the video object tracking software. The software now tracks the person exiting the gate and notes the time and exit speed and direction of the guest. This information is stored in software.
The software triggers another high resolution camera on the moving “object” and puts it on the server for the security force. The picture, showing the upper body of the pistol packing teen, is then sent to all the security guards mobile phones via another layer of software.

2. The next video camera is aiming past the entrance and into a large plaza. This is where we need to “track” the person until he moves into another part of the park. Toonlands operating procedures say we don’t want to make a scene in the plaza. But we do want to “grab” the pistol packing guest. This video software detects that the object moved east into the “Oceanic” area.

3. The east guard is alerted that Mr. pistol packer is heading his way. The waiting guard, hidden from view, sees the man that was shown on the video. The video software already had set an alarm for him, and now he moves and takes the suspect, as the guard in the Oceanic area is the only one able to get him without serious disruption of the pleasantries at ToonLand. The security member asks the guest to come with him, allowing for discussion of the firearm or arrest.

This is just one example of the many uses of object tracking. How else is it used? Object tracking software is used to count the number of cars going on a freeway, following a bad egg in a factory, setting off alarms and tracking targets for the military forces. It is also used for facial recognition, where the software identifies the face in the video and is able to use that for access control or intruder detection.

In this issue we covered object tracking and motion detection. Both are key concepts you need to understand in dealing with digital video and surveillance.

Next month we will look at two different systems for storing digital video, two systems for doing object tracking, and then we will interview two different companies that tailor make video systems using custom programming and off the shelf hardware. We will also take a look at the City of Irvine, a growing city in California. The city has 235 cameras and we will look their roadmap for using digital video.

Rod is a communication technology expert currently working at a fortune 500 computer company.

The Night Vision Store & The Opticstore

During the history of warfare, operations at night have always been degraded significantly, if not totally avoided. Typically, soldiers fighting at night have had to resort to artificial illumination, e.g., at first fire and later with light sources such as searchlights. The use of light sources on the battlefield had the detrimental result of giving away tactical positions and information about maneuvers. The advent of new technologies initially in the 1950’s and continuing into the present time has changed this situation. The engineers and scientists at the Night Vision & Electronic Sensors Directorate (NVESD) have discovered ways to capture available electro-magnetic radiation outside that portion of the spectrum visible to the human eye and have developed equipment to enable the American soldier to fight as well at night as during the day in order to “Own the Night”.

Image Intensification: Image intensifiers capture ambient light and amplify it thousands of times by electronic means to display the battlefield to a soldier via a phosphor display such as night vision goggles. This ambient light comes from the stars, moon or sky glow from distant manmade sources, such as cities. A soldier can conduct his combat missions without any active illumination sources using only image intensifiers. The main advantages of image intensifiers as night vision devices are their small size, light weight, low power requirements and low cost. These attributes have enabled image intensifier goggles for head-worn, individual soldier applications and resulted in hundreds of thousands of night vision goggles to be procured by the US Army. Research and development continues today on image intensifiers in the areas of longer wavelength spectral response, higher sensitivity, larger fields of view, increased resolution, advanced displays and image fusion.

Night Vision technology consists of two major types: image intensification (light amplification) and thermal imaging (infrared). Most consumer night vision products are light amplifying devices.

Light amplification technology takes the small amount of light, such as moonlight or starlight, that is in the surrounding area, and converts the light energy (scientists call it photons), into electrical energy (electrons). These electrons pass through a thin disk that’s about the size of a quarter and contains over 10 million channels. As the electrons travel through and strike the walls of the channels, thousands more electrons are released. These multiplied electrons then bounce off of a phosphor screen which converts the electrons back into photons and let you see an impressive nighttime view even when it’s really dark. All image intensified night vision products on the market today have one thing in common: they produce a green output image. In the night vision world there are generations that reflect the level of technology used. The higher the generation, the more sophisticated the night vision technology.

Generation 0 - The earliest (1950’s) night vision products were based on image conversion, rather than intensification. They required a source of invisible infrared (IR) light mounted on or near the device to illuminate the target area.

Generation 1 - The “starlight scopes” of the 1960’s (Vietnam Era) have three image intensifier tubes connected in a series. These systems are larger and heavier than Gen 2 and Gen 3. The Gen 1 image is clear at the center but may be distorted around the edges. (Low-cost Gen 1 imports are often mislabeled as a higher generation.

Generation 2 - The microchannel plate (MCP) electron multiplier prompted Gen 2 development in the 1970s. The “gain” provided by the MCP eliminated the need for back-to-back tubes - thereby improving size and image quality. The MCP enabled development of hand held and helmet mounted goggles.

Generation 3 - Two major advancements characterized development of Gen 3 in the late 1970s and early 1980s: the gallium arsenide (GaAs) photocathode and the ion-barrier film on the MCP. The GaAs photocathode enabled detection of objects at greater distances under much darker conditions. The ion-barrier film increased the operational life of the tube from 2000 hours (Gen 2) to 10,000 (Gen 3), as demonstrated by actual testing and not extrapolation.

Thermal Imaging:

Most objects in natural scenes, as well as human beings and manmade objects emit electro-magnetic radiation in the form of heat. Thermal imagers or infrared viewers (also known as FLIRs) gather the infrared radiation and form an electronic image for the soldier. Since they do not rely on reflected ambient light, thermal imagers are totally light-level independent. They also have significant penetration capabilities through obscurants such as fogs, hazes, and conventional battlefield smokes. There are two varieties of thermal imaging systems: cooled and uncooled. Cooled thermal imaging requires cryogenic cooling. Lower performing uncooled thermal imaging systems require no detector cooling but have sufficient performance to provide the low to medium performance required by individual soldier sights, infantry vehicles, navigation, robotics and missile seekers. Present research and development in cooled thermal imaging are pursuing multi-spectral imaging, improved sensitivity and resolution, and embedded signal processing to aid the soldier in target acquisition missions. Current uncooled research is directed at smaller size packages and power consumption with lower cost and increased sensitivity, resolution and field of view. Small, palm-sized uncooled thermal imagers are now available.

About the Author
C. J. Boedeker provides Night Vision equipment and Consulting for both Professional and Hobbyist applications.
He can be reached at
http://www.nightvisionstore.com
or
http://www.opticstore.com

Using the Physical World as a Game Board.

   This is not Kinky Day Care! SMS stands for Short Message Service.

   If your children carry cell phones, or if you have an extra family phone you can let them borrow for the day. This is a good way to get a break and run the kids all over the neighborhood.

   The Treasure Hunt. Come up with a few locations around the house or the yard and create hints to explain each location. It’s better to have three or four hints for each location. I usually put a card with a number on it at each location. This will help you know if they actually made it to the location. You don’t have to use the cards or “PostIt Note” if you don’t want to. Once you’re setup, get the kids ready.

   Page them with the first hint. It’s always nice to have your hints as short as possible. You should have at least three hints, from hard to easy. This would also depend on the age groups your working with. Now you get to sit back in the hammock in the backyard while you keep the children busy! It’s a great way to take a break.

   You can make up as many location as you want, but sometimes they get a little frustrated after about five or so locations.

   Always have a prize of some kind at the end. Maybe a candy bar or a trip to the ice cream store.

   When they find the first location. They are to page you and give the number you wrote on the card or PostIt Note. (The numbers shouldn’t be in order, i.e. 1,2,3 etc. You can use anything you want. If your child is OK with text paging, you can have them explain the location in the text page, i.e. “Tree in backyard”). At that time, you page them back with a Congratulations and the next hint. If you have more than one cell phone in the group, you will be able to setup teams. You have to be fair as far as which message you send to each group, (hard, medium, or easy hints). If I have more than one group, I’ll send them in different directions so they can’t cheat off one another. If group number 2 is ahead of group 1, and I give group 2 an easy hint. Be fair, when group 1 gets to that hint; give them the easy hint first. If they still need help, I’ll shoot the others to them also.

   I like the easy way to keep kids busy. And it’s even fun for you too. If the children are older, you can have them running all over the neighborhood and you can use up to ten or more locations if you like. If they begin to get tired, you can always skip to the last location where the prize might be. So you might be ready with as many locations as you can think of. You can always use them on the next hunt.

   It all depends on who you’re doing this with. Some kids get bored after 5 locations; others are still ready to go after 10 locations. The age groups don’t matter in this situation. Have fun.

   Email me with any new or better ideas on “Creating your own breaks”. Thank you.

Robert Lett
http://www.robertlett.com

Let me ask you a question: How much is your computer worth when you or your employees are sitting in front of it? Now, how much is that same computer worth when you or your employees aren’t sitting in front of it?

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How a group of physicians were persuaded to manipulation information entrance point of care electronic checkup records to cut costs and increase efficiency. The dream of computerized medical checkup records has been discussed at length by physicians and in the journals. Yet with extensive review of many of these MD entering electronic medical examination phonograph recording programs (PDE-EMRs), we at New to(p) United Mexican States Orthopaedic Associates (NMOA) were not sure that the engineering was ready for the masses of physicians, many who were not willing to spend countless hours in training. And, taking 15-20 minutes of medico-computing device time to create a single medical exam note, as the standard big name products did, was an obstacle that we could not endure. One day in 1995, a local known as us and said that he was involved with ingress electronic health check disk (PDE-EMR) engineering science and wondered if we had the time to return a look at his plan, named the HUB Computing machine Checkup System. It was oriented approximately a health care manufacture modelling the Foresighted Pattern Guideline Modelling (FPG).

The local , Dr. Thomas Naegele, is a Family Praxis workings emergency rooms in Unexampled and Arizona hospitals. References remarked on his excellent aesculapian skills in the ER, so we decided to go ahead and meet with him. Naegele that we rich person two non-negotiable requirements for a PDE-EMR organization: (1) it must be ultimately flexible and adaptable to any of out clinical settings and, (2) capture by the cannot slow the process down. During his demonstration of the HUB Computing device Medical checkup System, we learned that Dr. Naegele is also a college-trained data processor systems analyst. We were amazed that this platform following the FPG modeling, though really simpleton, appeared to handle wholly situations within clinical and the business of . It looked like his system of rules would meet our requirements. Continued from page 1. At present tense, there is alone(p) 1 foresighted simulation and merely I object oriented applied science theoretical account. They the same product- HUB.

The additional forms of hospital order sheets, prescriptions, test request forms, transfer forms, patient education forms, discharge instruction sheets, surgery scheduling forms, revisit sheets, employment slips, medication logs, inventory logs, and many more, altogether freebies. They just get printed at no extra oeuvre for the nurse or the . At nowadays there databases for Family Exercise, Emergency Practice of medicine, Urgent Care Music, Internal Medication and Orthopedical Medicament. There is a nursing database for Urgent Care Medicinal drug. Emergency Medical specialty is in usage and near completion of its second edition.

Under development Psychiatry, Ears, Nose, Throat Surgery, General Surgery, and Occupational Medicate. HUB Data processor Medical examination Systems is located in Albuquerque, NM. This is new and pioneering , so many people trying different approaches with a mixture of products and methods. The most popular computerized electronic disc is the transcriptionist-typed, dictated report. In some of these cases, physicians wealthy person access to these notes for either viewing or manipulation. What Type of Person Can Solve the Physician-Electronic computer Interface.

There is no clear-cut solution for PDE-EMR at represent. But after with the HUB arrangement and Dr. Naegele for the last 3 days, this may be what the diligence necessarily. Through many hours of with Dr. Naegele and his formal education in calculator systems analysis, his industriousness study is real impressive and seems to be the correct way to find the answer to this unsolved problem.

Naegele has been on PDE-EMR since 1983; he has been using computers since 1970. When he entered school in the summer of 1979, he already knew fourteen figurer languages and nine different estimator operating systems. Naegele clearly has superior skills in systems analysis and has the ability to realize big and complicated systems, along with the ability to takings paper/by hand systems and develop them into systems. The FPG Modeling is well thought-out, but it can yield old age to fully realise that it puts the complete power of the into the hands of the at the point of care.

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IBM Lotus Domino or Microsoft Exchange?

The severe competition continues for many years between two main leaders in collaboration solutions - IBM and Microsoft. Whether the choice of a platform influences the ordinary user? The both of software giants put efforts to improve working conveniences for end Internet users. Taking into account that the products value is approximately the same worldwide, new ideas of the platforms integration have appeared. Interesting projects have being realized in the both companies.

Free add-on for Outlook: Notes Connector

Microsoft supports free add-on for Microsoft Outlook client, which allows connection to message/collaboration server Lotus Domino. Office Outlook Connector for IBM Lotus Domino enables using Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 or Microsoft Outlook 2002 to access e-mail messages, calendar, address book, and To Do (task) items on an IBM Lotus Domino Release 5.x or Release 6.x server.

Domino Access for Microsoft Outlook 6.5.1

The new IBM Lotus Domino Access for Microsoft Outlook 6.5.1 provides the solution for businesses looking to migrate away from Microsoft Exchange, but don’t want to retrain their users. Now company employees can continue using their existing Outlook client for messaging, calendar and scheduling, and personal information management (PIM) services, with replacing Microsoft Exchange server infrastructure to Lotus Domino servers, running on the hardware and operation system of their choice, including Linux.

Platforms support

For Lotus Domino 6.5: Microsoft Windows family (95 SE, 98, NT SP6a, 2000 SP3, XP, 2003); Sun Solaris; Linux, United Linux.

For Lotus Notes 6.5: Microsoft Windows family; Macintosh OS X (10.1 and 10.2).

For Lotus Domino Web Access 6.5: Microsoft Windows family; Red Hat Linux, v. 7.2 or 8.0, SuSE Linux, v. 8.0, United Linux, v. 1.0. It supports the following browsers: Microsoft Internet Explorer v. 5.5 and 6.0; Mozilla, v. 1.3.1 Linux-client.

About The Author

Rafael Osipov
Principal CLP IBM Lotus Domino 6 Application Developer
Certified Professional E-commerce Concepts Analyst
RafaelO@albaspectrum.com

Rafael Osipov is a Software Developer in Alba Spectrum Technologies (www.albaspectrum.com), US nationwide consulting and development company, specializing in Microsoft Business Solutions products, Microsoft Great Plains Dexterity, Microsoft CRM SDK programming.
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