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The BlackBerry 8707v has proved a real winner for BlackBerry since its release in June 2006. With this mobile handset BlackBerry have made something which is a bit too basic for the price. BlackBerry have done a outstanding job on the functional design of this handset.

The BlackBerry 8707v is has bluetooth, meaning interactivity with a number of up to date mobile phone devices very convenient. The display type on this phone is a 65K colors. The 8707v has support for 2G GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 and 3G UMTS 2100 . A HTML, compatible browser is also included allowing mobile Internet access. When compared to other mobile handsets the BlackBerry 8707v is average. In terms of colours this handset only comes in Silver,. This phone weighs just 139 g,. A Standard battery, Li-Ion 1500 mAh (C-S2), battery is that comes with the BlackBerry 8707v. The battery usage the 8707v is 4:00 talk time and 400 hrs standby time. The 8707v has Polyphonic, MP3 ring tones enabled including a vibrating tone . Additionally the 8707v has , Built-in handsfree, Java, Organizer, To-Do list and Document viewer (Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint, Corel WordPerfect and Adobe PDF).

This is now quite an old handset, but still does a great job. If you see one, going cheap as an end of line offer you can find yourself a fantastic deal.

Cellular phones are now so ubiquitous that many people do not want to make time even though they end up spending more money. They can so easily identify a mobile handset in a local shop, or possibly even a superstore at discounted prices that it may not seem worth investing the extra time and hunting for the best deals. The thing these individuals have not figured out almost all ofthe really good deals are only available on the web, where significant savings can be got without leaving your home. Using a mobile phone comparison site is not only the easiest but is also one of the chepest method of buying a mobile phone.

The 7 Faces of Leadership

Most people can manage when things go well, but true leadership is how we cope with people when times are tough. Our expectations are often unrealistic and not centered on what leadership is really about. Too often people confuse a strong-willed personality as an effective leader. Leadership is not being strong-willed, rather having a strong sense of purpose and compassion. Too many organizations substitute strong-willed people for ethical leaders and see no distinction, because the people who put them in power don’t know the difference. Effective Leadership involves equipping people to live competently and confidently.

Effective leadership traits are as varied and numerous, not to mention subtle, as the human mind and heart themselves. No list will ever be complete, nor will it be the best suited for each individual reader. The bible gives some insight of the essential characteristics of effective leadership in I Corinthians, Ephesians, and 2 Timothy such as humility, integrity, focus, courage, discipline, compassion, and encouragement. The following paragraphs will place those characteristics into an organizational context.

The Humble Leader

“Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.” (Ephesians 4:2)

Humility is not just about our relationship with God but it’s also about our relationship with other people. Relationships are built on listening, to God’s Word and to each other. The relationship between a leader and follower is only as good as their ability to listen. The effective leader will not be a force of just personality and power plays but relationship oriented, centered on building and mentoring.

From and organizational context humble leaders invite feedback and turn lessons into failures. “The leader that is poor in spirit recognizes that many people know more than he or she does and, as such, shows respect to everyone.” (Winston 2002) Humility is acceptance of our human limitations coupled with the resolve to do something about it I can’t do it alone so I will enlist the help of others. This is the essence of leadership.

The Honest Leader

“Each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to his neighbor, for we are all members of one body.” (Ephesians 4:25)

Honesty is achieved through Discretion and truthfulness. Discretion keeps our minds and focus on sound judgment, giving serious attention and thought to what is going on. It will carefully choose our words, attitudes, and actions to be right for any given situation, thus avoiding words and actions that could result in adverse consequences. Truthfulness means being straight with others and doing what is right.

“It’s after we have contemplated our own actions, measuring how they align with our values, intentions, and words, that we are most likely to make a contribution of integrity to the world.” (Sherman, 2003) Discretion and truthfulness allow leaders to earn trust by being accurate with facts and situations. This doesn’t simply mean honesty, or acting in accordance with a consistent set of values. This also means integrity in the sense of soundness, completeness, and unity. Aligning our personality with our values and not compromising ourselves is the spirit of leadership.

The Focused Leader

Leaders must be willing to carefully explore their values and how they can move their organization in the direction of a vision that is unwavering. Effective Leaders lead with a purpose rather than “run like a man running aimlessly” (1 Corinthians 9:26-27). From the biblical sense this means that we live for His purpose, not ours. As Christians, we recognize that our need for Christ will bring us beyond our failures so we can grow increasingly effective for our Lord. As we grow in Christ, we will become aware of our futility and inadequacy as human beings.

From an organizational perspective, “leaders need to continually put the vision and mission (related to the purpose) in front of followers.” (Winston, 2002) Followers must understand the organization’s vision and know their role in support of the mission. They must know their purpose and how it contributes to organizational success, this is the soul of leadership.

The Courageous & Disciplined Leader

“For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline” (2 Timothy 1:7)

The goal of the servant leader must be to do God’s will. Otherwise we will be too afraid to go beyond our comfort zones to do anything of significance. When we are dependent on the Holy Spirit; then our self-confidence becomes rooted and dependent in Christ working through us. So we are not self-driven but Christ driven; resulting in our will to be in total surrender to God’s will as the driving force for our existence. When we’re aware that we are not responsible for the results of our leadership, but only the obedience to His call, only then can we persevere to press on to serve Him without the fear of failure.

Malphurs (2003) refers to courage as “the strength to lead in these difficult circumstances, meaning that courageous leaders are strong and unlikely to quit.” This kind of courage displays itself in an organization when a leader is willing to admit his mistake, when she is willing to stand up for her beliefs, or when he must challenge others.

Courageous leaders routinely get extraordinary results from their followers because they aren’t afraid to do what’s right. This is evident in Paul’s letter regarding discipline in 1 Corinthians 8:13, “if what I eat causes my brother to fall into sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause him to fall.” Conveying who you are, your goals and what you stand for can have a significant impact on follower performance and attitudes. Controlled discipline, according to Winston (2002), “draws people closer to you, whereas uncontrolled discipline drives them away.” Leaders and followers are two sides of a single coin and the actions of one impact the other. Courage and discipline are the armor of leadership.

The Compassionate Leader

The compassionate leader is rooted and grounded in the spiritual disciplines of faith. “Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes”. (Ephesians 6:11). With the power of the Holy Spirit and the conviction of faith in Christ, when we are modeling His image with love, we become a strong building with the foundation of Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit who gives the realization to be our best for God’s glory.

“Loyalty and devotion to task and grow out of trust and the knowledge of protection that comes from the employment relationship.” (Winston, 2002) Compassionate leadership is acting in the interest of your followers, your peers, and your organization. This is the boss for whom the employees are willing to work their hardest. The employees can feel her support for them and are compelled to give their full support in return. This manager brings out the best in her subordinates by her own example. There is often a line of people waiting to join this department. This is the heart of leadership.

The Encouraging Leader

“Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spiritjust as you were called to one hope when you were called”. (Ephesians 4:3-4)

The effective leader will not be a force of just personality and power plays. Servant Leaders cannot be power seeking controllers of others lives, when it is the Lord who is in control. Effective leaders must be relationship oriented, centered on building and mentoring others.

In an organizational framework, an encouraging leader is a motivator. “Leadership is being able to both motivate and administrate.” (Miller, 1995) A leader’s ability to motivate revolves around his or her ability to leverage power and influence within the organization, among peers, and over followers. Influence involves moving people to change their thinking and ultimately their behavior. Power is the ability to exert control over another person, thing, or event. “Power and influence are intertwined in the leadership process. Most often leaders use both depending on the situation and the people involved.” (Malphurs, 2003) Leaders will sometimes use power to influence followers. Power itself is amoral. However, the use power (abuse or neglect) determines how leaders influence others. The proper use of that power is encouragement, which is the igniter of leadership.

The Call to Servant Leadership

In Matthew 5 Jesus makes us aware of what God expects from not just Christian leaders, but from all Christians. Effective leaders are expected to lead by example. If our actions cause our followers to fail because they followed our example as in 1 Corinthians 8:13 then we should avoid such things because “…those who indulge will become more and more ungodly”. (2 Timothy 2:15) Everything that we do as leaders is under scrutiny by our followers. In the Beatitudes, Jesus gives very specific characteristics: humility, compassion, gentleness, righteousness, mercy, honesty, and perseverance.

In organizations, just as in the Christian community, there are times when leaders fall away from these characteristics through personal loss or personal sin. Building and developing these characteristics is not something we just learn from a book or hear from a sermon. It does not sneak up on us in the middle of the night. It does not come automatically, accidentally, or suddenly. It is a process that comes from living in it. It is a slow process. Many fail to realize they have it until others point it out. Effective leadership is not permanent once it is formed. It requires our continual appreciation and practice.

References

Fields, Bea (2005). The Ten Pillars of Leadership and Business Development. Retrieved electronically. http://www.art-of-leadership.com/index.html

Holy Bible (1985). King James Version Study Bible. Zondervan, Grand Rapids Michigan

Malphurs, Aubrey (2003) Being Leaders: The Nature of Authentic Christian Leadership. Baker Books. Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Miller, Calvin (1995). The Empowered Leader: 10 Keys to Servant Leadership. Broadman & Holman Publishers. Nashville, Tennessee.

Sherman, Stratford (2003). Rethinking Integrity. Leader to Leader, No. 28

Winston, Bruce (2002). Be a Leader for God’s Sake. Regent University, School of Leadership Studies. Virginia Beach, Virginia.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Lieutenant Kenneth Rice is an Active Duty Naval Officer stationed in Norfolk VA. Lieutenant Rice is a graduate of Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia where he received a Masters of Science in Educational Leadership and an Education & Training Management Subspecialty. He is currently enrolled in the Naval War College completing the Joint Professional Military Education Phase I and at Regent University working towards a Doctorate in Strategic Leadership.

Just a while ago it seemed like high performance notebooks were only being made by a few certain brands and were built to spec, not mass produced. They were pretty much like a low qty manufacturing line. Didn’t ship many but made a lot of money on each laptop. I’m pretty sure everybody would have liked to have owned one but could not actually justify it. In my view they were the best laptops available. Laptops for gaming would get everybody excited about what’s to become standard in a couple of years but I don’t think they would buy laptops like this knowing the price is going to go down fast. The future for gaming notebooks is now seen by the massive manufacturers as a prime opportunity for them.

Laptops for gaming are traditionally not affordable by everyone and big companies know they can prosper from the high markup even more with their economies of scale. Its definitely a great way to higher profits. Local resellers are unable compete with them in persuading us to buy laptops. This is a big threat to smaller niche companies. I’m quite certain that the global brands will seek to squeeze the little ones out. Purchasers will additionally have a lot more peace of mind when parting with a lot of money.

The laptops are surprisingly good as well. Still however, for the local companies this may turn out to be promising. The configurability feature is a major plus to the customer. These buyers have the technical literacy and will judge which notebook computers are best. For certain buyers, the specs and power may be lots more significant compared to looks.

All buyers agree that its a beneficial thing. When it comes down to it the price will reduce more and more people would be able to afford such new technology. Things alter so quick in this business that I cannot specifically make any confident predications. Mobile technology is constantly evolving and the new units should usually be pricey when it just comes out. The well known brands have already launched their own gaming notebook line, so all we can do now is sit back and see.

In my view this place http://www.rizeon.com are offering gaming laptops at good prices.

All Mercedes Benzes have a two speed wiper motor with a intermittent feature on them, the wipers are controlled by a switch on the stearing column.

As the switch is rotated the wipers at a slow medium or fast setting, pressing down on the end of the switch operates the intermittant feature and the windshield washer system at the same time on the wiper motor the intermittent relay is mounted.

Mercedes benz wagons have a rear window wiper washer system, it is controlled by three push buttons at the left top corner of the console.

This system Has a low speed only with a intermittent with washer,
Mercedes also comes with headlamp wiper system as well, and is also operated by the windshield wiper switch and the washer operation is activated by the pedal switch,pump action is activatedby a contact switch in the headlamp wiper motor Headlamp glass is sprayed during each wiper cycle.

WARNING: Observe the following precautions on models with Supplemental Restraint Systems(SRS) Disconnect the ten point SRS conector under the passenger foot rest and also the sheild battery ground, models with SRS may be identified by a SRS light below the tachometer.

Testing of the windsheild wiper motor can be done as follows,by conecting positive battery voltage to conector pin no three, and battery ground to pin number six to test low speed testing and positive to pin # two for testing the high speed, intermittent operation is controlled by touching positive to pin # five, if need you can get the Wiper Motor #124 820 07 08.

Testing of the headlight motor by conecting battery positive to the red wire on the motor and ground to the case, If needed the left motor #124 820 07 08 and the right Headlight Motor #124 820 62 42 can be replaced as well, for the 1986 mercedes Benz 300E.

Disassembly of Windshield wiper motor

Remove wiper arms from shafts,remove four rivets and left air grill,Remove two Screws and rivets on center cover, pull linkage from motor crank arm, remove water drain plug from right wiper shaft, disconect wiring and push plug through firewall panel, remove mounting bolts and pull out motor !
To install reverse removal procedure

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Bracelets are an inexpensive way to impress the right people.

We have Friendship bracelets, Family bracelets, donation bracelets, sex bracelets and many more. With companies like Lance Armstrong and Nike jumping in there, is going to be a lot more coming.

What are bracelets?

Bracelets are ornaments worn around wrists or upper arm. These are often called armlets when worn above elbow.

Bracelets have been used since a very long time but the style has definitely changed considerably.

Indian civilization has recorded wearing bracelets since 6th century.

Bracelets can be made using a variety of articles.

Cloth

Metal

Rocks

Wood

Shells

Stainless steel is commonly used.

Nike and Lance Armstrong Companies use silicon now.

Also they are used for medical and identification purposes.
Here is how

Patients with allergies, diabetes or who has a previous history of heart illness wear bracelets. Identifying these patients can be tough under emergencies and these bracelets can be extremely useful in saving a patients life sometimes.

Bracelets are more famous than wristbands and bangles and necklaces.

They can be made at home and commercially they are available for cheap.

Friendship bracelets are more famous among children and teens. They are given as a symbol of friendship. Usually embroidery threads or wool are used. By tradition they are not to removed voluntarily as any intentional removal will mean end of friendship.
They have to fall off naturally.

Another type of bracelets that are becoming popular are sex bracelets.
Various types are coming in everyday and they convey different messages from romance to sex.

Ankle bracelets have been and are used in courts for prisoners. They have been used on ankles of certain criminals on probation especially in the Pima county Superior court.

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Like other Southeast Asian countries, food stalls are everywhere in the streets, markets and festivals of Thailand, providing an endless smorgasbord of aromas, color, sounds and flavors - food in Thailand is a feast for all of the senses.

Picture a barbecue hotdog stand outside a North American sports stadium. Now, instead of hotdogs and buns sizzling on a grill, the food cart is laden with fresh bananas, which are slathered in batter and deep-fried to golden in a giant wok, then scooped into a paper bag like a super-size order of extra thick homecut french fries. That was my first breakfast in Thailand while I watched hundreds of beautifully costumed elephants play soccer and tug-of-war in an annual Elephant Round-up in Surin, in the far northeast of the country!

The next ‘hotdog stand’ does have a grill, placed over a large bin of charcoal, with flattened chicken quarters sizzling on sticks that you eat like a popsicle; next door to that is yet another steel cart heaped with fresh, ripe pineapple, mango and papaya, and sporting a huge mortar and pestle for transforming the greener papayas into a crunchy, sweet-sour-spicy salad with morsels of shrimp or squid, chiles, garlic and sugar.

What makes Thai food so delicious and distinctive among other Southeast Asian food is this unique blending of fresh herbs, spices and other ingredients that combine for a perfect balance of sweet, sour, salt and heat that leaves your mouth feeling clean and your tastebuds popping in the afterglow.

Fresh fruit, salads and even soups and noodles are ladled into plastic bags with a skewer, fork, spoon or straw for eating on the go or perched on a folding chair at a nearby metal card table in the market.

Thai buses and trains become moving picnic grounds, with everyone chatting, eating and sharing the fare hawked through the vehicles’ windows at roadside stops and terminals: Gai Yang, the flattened barbecue chicken on a stick, skewered meat and fish balls and sticky rice wrapped in banana leaves.

Carnivals and markets feature huge woks at knee-height, bubbling with deep-fried critters of all sorts, many unidentifiable. Are they grasshoppers? crickets? spiders? baby birds? small frogs? — my mouth and eyes were constantly wide open in wonder and amazement!

I spent an inordinate amount of time in the fresh produce and night food markets — exuberantly fascinated and often visibly discombobulated, to the great amusement of the vendors and shoppers.

After traveling every aisle of food carts and woks on my mission to find the freshest, most interesting and tasty-looking dishes, I was often met with earnestly shaking heads or “No, you don’t want that - that’s Thai food!” by English speaking cooks or bystanders when I pointed and gestured and tried to ask for a meal I knew I truly wanted. On my first such adventure, I did not know that the custom was for the cook to show the ladle with the amount of the garlic and chili for you to indicate how much you wanted: thinking she was simply asking if I wanted those Thai ingredients, I nodded vigorously at the heaped display, and in it all went! Yes, it was Thai food, and I enjoyed every sizzling touch to my lips under the watchful, laughing eyes of the vendors and bystanders who had gathered.

I spent as much time learning about, admiring and experiencing the food as I did with major tourist attractions, often spending hours strolling through streets and markets taking in the sights and smells and sounds: quiet clucking rising up from a heap of vibrantly coloured roosters or chickens tied together at the feet - a Thai rooster’s plumage is extraordinarily beautiful; plastic tubs and buckets just full enough of murky grey water to keep the fish, frogs or turtles alive until a sale was clinched; mounds and mounds of green and red, and purple and orange; the pleasant stench of durian and jackfruit - pleasant because I was just so thrilled and in awe of it all!

I tried deep-fried grasshoppers at a carnival in Kanchanaburi during a sound and light show of “The Bridge On The River Kwai” that ended with a fabulous fireworks display recreating the Allied bombing campaign that destroyed the bridges of the Death Railway in 1945. I tried a few tiny roasted wood worms offered by a very thin host in a northern hill-tribe village near the Myanmar border, and feared that I was eating his family out of house and home. I discovered countless traditional dishes I had never tasted and savoured authentic versions of some I had had in Toronto’s newly arrived Thai restaurants. As often as I could, I watched their creation so that I could try to replicate them when I got home and got a kitchen again.

Many people are alarmed at how daring I was with my stomach. During two years of round-the-world travel, including six months in Southeast Asia, I only had one tiny bout of queasiness over a couple of days on Sumatra in Indonesia. In fact, I had never eaten so well or felt so healthy in my life. I must have found the perfect balance of common sense and adventure, or, some might argue, I was just lucky.

I don’t recommend trying everything, and I do recommend a few common sense tips for sampling the full range of the food on offer throughout your travels:

• at street and market stalls, do watch the cooking for awhile to ensure that the ingredients are fresh and the food is being cooked thoroughly; if you have any doubts, move on to the next vendor
• choose vendors that have a good steady flow of customers - not only is the food probably very good, but the turnover means fresher food
• ask your guesthouse host and any other residents you meet for their favourite places to eat, and for recommendations on dishes to order
• follow the other safe eating tips you find in travel guides, like recommendations about water, ice cubes, and peeling fruit and vegetables

Of course, you will find an endless selection of sit-down restaurants where you can savour some of the more familiar Thai dishes now found in restaurants around the world: green curry with chicken, red curry with beef, pad Thai and other noodle dishes, and wonderfully aromatic sweet basil dishes.

Whether you plan to sample the fabulous foods from the street vendors and markets or stick to what you know, learn a few tips on deciphering a menu or asking for a type of dish with a few Thai Food Terms.

Many supermarkets are now carrying a range of prepared sauces, curries and other Asian products, but if you enjoy adventure and creativity in your own kitchen, many Thai recipes are fairly easy to create once you’ve mastered a few essentials. Gai Yang, after all, is really just barbequed chicken with a Thai twist! A good food reference guide or cookbook with a glossary of Asian ingredients will help you gain that perfect balance of sour, sweet, salt and heat that is unique to Thai cuisine.

© 2005 recipe-for-travel.com

Carolyn Nantais is a freelance writer, website copywriter, world traveler and culinary xenophile who indulges in temporary retirement from time to time to travel and eat around the world. Her new website, The Recipe for Travel, is a food companion for travel lovers and travel companion for food lovers, with stories, recipes and practical travel planning tips gathered through adventures in round-the-world travel and food.

Online collaboration has begun to evolve from just being the Wow factor to something core that every business has to invest and have a plan for. Internet has changed the way we work and live, it has made virtual offices and work from homes possible. Web conferencing is one big tool that increases the productivity of the employees and the company as such. There are multiple products in this web collaboration segment out there from companies starting with Cisco, Microsoft to PresentPlus.com. These online conferencing products enable live meetings to happen in a virtual conference room. This is a Sci-Fi dream just a few decades ago, now it is a reality in high resolution video beamed across continents. The advent of high speed Internet and fantastic QoS (Quality of Service) implementations in the backbone networks has enabled these highly productive multimedia conferences. Typical conferences has always included a dull one way non-interactive lecture style over the phone meetings, remember Charlie’s Angels. Now it has evolved into something highly feature rich and highly productive.

Web conferences “NOW” enable online sharing of your presentation material and additional documentation that is needed for the meeting. Additionally it provides the collaboration aspects like shared white boards and live synchronized presentations. The other main core components are the audio, video and text collaboration. The traditional PBX audio has been replaced with the reach VOIP audio features and video has evolved from dull one ways to active speaker- grid solutions. Video has evolved so well that now you can have custom views for each person in the conference, each person can choose the endpoints or cameras they want to watch in addition to the capabilities like automatically getting the video from the active speaker in the conference. One of the much used features is the integrated text chats with emoticons. What a fantastic feature this is, along with the public chat modules the users get to have their own private chats. While you are in the online meeting you can chat with your co-worker on specific questions and get something cleared without interrupting the overall meeting. This is one thing that is uniquely possible in online conferences which is really an annoyance in real face to face meetings. How many times have you really wanted the mute button for the private conversation between 2 guys in a group meeting in parallel to the main speaker? This text capability has found really some interesting and useful twists like real time polling and online question submissions. Think about it, you can keep sending the questions you want to be answered in the final Q/A as and when it strikes you. These are typically added to a queue which can feed as the source for the Q/A session that typically follows the preso or meeting. This is very useful in lecture style meetings. Enough said about the features and let’s take a quick look at the business side of things.

Web conferencing products allow the businesses to setup virtual global office ready to meet with business prospects and clients at any time anywhere. When I say anywhere I mean contact any one through these online collaboration products having a rich experience like the face to face meeting without the costly Flight and Hotel expenses. These also present a great opportunity to telecommute without distancing yourself from your colleagues. More so often it happens that folks who telecommute are forgotten by most colleagues, these video and other real time capabilities gets these telecommuters closer to the rest of the team. One of the killer uses is webcasting which is organizing live events and broadcasting these events to employees and customers who are not able to attend the event. This is added with the capability to record these meetings with unlimited playbacks. Without much investment in terms of capital equipment you can get them as online services on a need basis from some of the good companies. One such company with many web conferencing offerings is presented to you below.

Author suggests PresentPlus.com as one of the key enablers for your company to get web conferencing products and web conferencing services. This web conferencing superstore sports many great offerings like the ultimate visual teleconference which you need to take a look to see how these would make your company more productive. Author does freelancing for many great companies and can be reached at “indyan @ gmail .com” for all your content needs.

Do you remember when you were little and it seemed as though sleep overcame you as soon as your head hit your pillow? And you slumbered through the night until morning time? They call it the sleep of the innocent, but don’t you wish you could sleep like that again?

Adult responsibilities, stress, lifestyle and other worries often result in poor sleep habits and once the cycle of tossing and turning begins, it is difficult to return to a decent night’s sleep. Many adults rely on prescription drugs to fall asleep and quite a few are addicted to them! Others ’self medicate’ and use alcohol and other recreational drugs to try and fall asleep. If you are regularly struggling to sleep well, then you probably need to learn to fall asleep again!

So let’s go back to basics!

And who better to consult than babies! After all babies are the experts at sleeping so why not learn a little from them! Apart from their age and body clock, there are specific reasons that babies fall asleep so well. Let’s have a look at a few of them and see if we can’t borrow some of the tricks!

ROUTINE: Most parents try very hard to get their children into a routine. Regular bedtimes, bath times and mealtimes are something to strive towards. Of course, one cannot be too rigid, but a child on a regular routine will feel secure and will be able to ‘predict’ his environment more easily. It also helps his body clock to start the process of winding down before he actually gets to bed. He knows that after supper comes his bath, a story, a prayer and a good night kiss. When his head hits the pillow, he is ready to meet the sandman!

So try and follow this example. Start a night time routine. Make your evenings more or less predictable along the lines of supper, bath and bed. For at least three weeks try and follow this simple routine and go to bed at the same time each night - about 8 hours before it is time to get up. Wear soft comfortable and cozy nightwear, specifically for sleeping (remember flannel pyjamas?)

EXERCISE: This is something kids do lots of! They don’t stop running around for a minute! Now I am not suggesting that you start running around wherever you go, but regular exercise is one of the best sleep aids around! It’s also free and healthy and has lots of good side effects. Take up a sport, go to the gym or start regular walks. You won’t regret it!

HAVE PEACEFUL EVENINGS: How many times don’t you hear parents saying to their kids “Calm down now, it’s nearly bed time”. Or “You’d better stop running around - you won’t be able to fall asleep!” Perhaps you say this to your own children - with good reason! Do you follow your own advice? Or do you sit up watching thrillers (or even worse the news!) or finishing off the day’s work that you brought home from the office? Sound familiar? Try a different approach. Never watch TV while trying to fall asleep. Rather dim the lights while you get into a hot bath and put on some soothing music. Use aromatherapy in your home - in particular lavender for it’s soporific properties. Be quiet and peaceful for the hour before you go to bed and your body will start to get the message!

OTHER HINTS: Avoid all products with caffeine or sugar after 6pm. That means coffee, cola chocolate and all ’soda pops’ (fizzy drinks). Also stay away from heavy meals at night. Your tummy will be too busy digesting to allow you to sleep well! Don’t eat red meat, refined products or lots of cheese. Go for pastas, grains, pulses, potatoes and rice. Good evening or bedtime drinks are warm milk, lettuce extract and chamomile tea (sleepy tea) - all safe and proven sleep aids. If you are really struggling, some herbal remedies to aid sleep are Valerian, Passiflora and Kava Kava. Try to put these simple hints to the test for three weeks only. You will be surprised at the difference they make! Should you do this faithfully and still struggle to sleep, consult your doctor or request an online consultation at www.feelgoodcounseling.com/onlinecounsel.htm

Good night!

About The Author

Michele Carelse is a qualified Clinical Psychologist and Licensed Counselor. Her website at www.feelgoodcounseling.com offers Online Counseling, free Support Groups, Recommended Reading and lots of interesting articles.

“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what you want to achieve and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.”

General George Patton

“If you can dream it, you can do it.”

Walt Disney

“One of the nicest things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imagination”

Steve Allen

“Having fun unleashes creativity. It is one of the seeds you plant to get ideas.”

Jack Foster

“The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you’re atheist, pretend how God would do it.”

Frank Lloyd Wright

“The innovative company understands that innovation starts with an idea and ideas are somewhat like babies - they are born small, immature, and shapeless.”

Peter Drucker

“The hallmark of creative people is their mental flexibility… Sometimes they are open and probing, at others they’re playful and off-the-wall. At still other times, they’re critical and faultfinding. And finally they’re doggedly persistent in striving to reach their goals.”

Roger von Oech

“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange, then you and I still each have an apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each one of us will have two ideas.

George Bernard Shaw

“The Empires of the future are the Empires of the mind.”

Winston Churchill

Excerpted from Business Creativity: Dr. YKK Quotes by Dr. YKK, Ph.D. (Penmarin Books).

I wrote an article on the Importance of a Client Contract. Now, I would like to offer to you the fruits of my labor, compiled from many sources.

These contracts have worked for me in the past - and I have several variations of each to fit a clients needs. I would also recommend that you take the time and money to have your lawyer review these contracts thoroughly.

• Web Design Contract
  
• Web Planning Worksheet
  
• Seo Contract Agreement
  
• Web Development Process

About the Author
Suzanne Fyhrie Parrottowns and operates OneWay Advertising and Design. OneWay is a full-service Christian Advertising agency providing marketing, advertising and graphic design services for on and off the Internet. Email: info@onewayadv.com