Opera Mini 4 Steals iPhone Thunder
Opera has released a beta version, codenamed Dimension, of Mini 4.0 - the company’s mobile browser - bringing the iPhone’s surf and zoom facility (overview mode) to any handset! With a few other goodies thrown in - fuller CSS compatibility and faster (more economical) page loading - both existing users and new alike will be tempted. [...]
Joey Porter vs Adalius Thomas
This offseason, the Dolphins' big splash in free agency was the signing of OLB Joey Porter. Miami loved Porter because he would fill a void at OLB opposite of Jason Taylor in the 3-4 while providing a nastiness that a Miami defense hasn't had since Bryan Cox was down here in south beach. However, the mainstream media has been pretty relentless in ... (Read on Source)
Putative Class Representative Files Objection To Metabolife Liquidation Plan
SAN DIEGO - Willard Westfall, whose renewed motion for certification of a class of Metabolife users was denied by the presiding bankruptcy court on Oct. 10, filed an objection to the April 6 joint plan of liquidation, arguing that the plan intentionally discriminates against his putative class (In Re: MII Liquidation, Inc., et al., No. 05-6040-H11, S.D. Calif., Bkcy.; See April 2007, Page 10). Full story on lexis.com
Telomeres and Heritability of Life Span
Chris Patil notes a point I missed on recent research into human telomere lengths: "The paper's key finding (from my perspective, at least) didn't make it into the title: Telomere length is positively correlated with lifespan. While I'm aware of studies linking telomerase activity in animal species to lifespan, the growing consensus seems to be ... (Read on Source)
PCB dope testing before world Twenty20 meet
The PCB has decided to carry out dope tests on the 30 players in the provisional Twenty20 World Championship squad as part of it's policy to carry out internal dope tests ahead of major ICC events. (Read on Source)
First Indian Loyalty Driven Travel Portal Launched
... travel-industry suppliers. www.FinalQuadrant.com About Pegasus InfoCorp Pvt. Ltd.: Pegasus InfoCorp is a leading professional web design and website software development and programming company in India. Pegasus InfoCorp delivers on end-to-end ...
The Breakdown: Hydrofoil Surfing
Hydrofoil surfing is just one of those things that doesn?t look right when you see it for the first time. These guys are surfing, riding down the face of a wave, and yet the board itself is more than a... (Read on Source)
?Oh, Really?? The Daily Show examines the dining experience at Sylvia?s
Senior Black Correspondent Larry Wilmore does the hard-hitting journalism you won’t see on any other news show: he dines at Sylvia’s, the Harlem restaurant that sparked O’Reilly’s infamous words. Download (6357) | Play (9004) Download (2375) | Play (4720) (h/t Heather) WAITRESS: I’m going to bring you an ... (Read on Source)
Arsenal chairman warms to Kroenke
LONDON, Oct 05 (Reuters) - Arsenal chairman Peter Hill-Wood hopes to get American tycoon Stan Kroenke to join forces with the club's directors to stop a Russian takeover of the club. (Read on Source)
Things to watch out - For Internet Marketers on a shoe string budget
As the online marketing competition gets tougher everyday the already successful marketers seem to make more money and many startup companies and one man operations are struggling to get by. Is there ... cheap dedicated servers
Travel Industry Research Experts launch STR Global
Travel Industry Research Experts launch STR Global.
Top Tourism Operator appointed to Air New Zealand Board
Top Tourism Operator appointed to Air New Zealand Board.
Intel's good news: Record revenue of $9.5 billion (USATODAY.com)
USATODAY.com - SAN FRANCISCO - Intel Tuesday posted a higher quarterly profit as the world's biggest chipmaker was helped by higher sales of microprocessors used in notebook personal computers.
Two Minute Drill: Network Monitor 3.1 OneClick
Hello AskPerf readers! My name is Austin and I am a Technical Lead on the Performance team. In several of our posts, we?ve discussed troubleshooting server performance issues, especially on file servers. Most of you have probably already read our post on Network .PST files, or Windows Explorer and SMB Traffic. We have seen an increase in file server load issue that go beyond some of the obvious issues such as Network .PST files, misbehaving filter drivers, or pool memory depletion. As server environments continue to scale upwards with larger file server needs and thousands of clients connecting to file servers for user profiles and redirected documents, these issues become more common.
The Center of Web 2.0 and tail end of San Francisco Trip
I’ve been back in New York most of the day; still trying to figure out Webmetricsguru.com disparity between RSS Feed traffic stats/ Sitemeter stats and overall, getting the site looked at by Google after the damange Know More Media did to it. (Read on Source)
- Palmer confident in offense
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UNetbootin - Universal Netboot Installer
UNetbootin: "UNetbootin allows for the installation of various Linux/BSD distributions to a partition or USB drive, so it's no different from a standard install, only it doesn't need a CD. It can create a dual-boot install, or replace the existing OS entirely."
Kid’s Purchasing Power
When creating your ideal customer profile, few companies would include the age range of 13-21 year-olds, but a new study conducted by Doubleclick Performics and ROI Research might persuade you otherwise. Children as young as 8 years-old are not just using the internet to chat with their friends on AIM or email grandma - they’re shopping [...] (Read on Source)
Abortion Issue Again Dividing Catholic Votes
A struggle on how Catholics should apply their beliefs in politics is reaching swing cities like Scranton, Pa. (Read on Source)
Gamma-ray Bursts: The Mystery Continues
More than four decades after they were discovered, gamma-ray bursts continue to mystify astrophysicists. Next week, experts from 25 countries will converge on Huntsville, Alabama, to discuss and debate clues to the biggest explosions since the Big Bang itself.
North Carolina Senate
Elizabeth Dole's 'Godless Americans' ad has clearly blown up in her face, as Kay Hagan has now expanded her lead to seven points. The ad may have helped Hagan to get Democrats unified around her, as that's where most of the movement in the last week has come. Where Hagan led only 76-18 within her party a week ago, those numbers have now improved ... (Read on Source)
Ancient DNA damage and phylogenetic histories
It is becoming more commonplace ( example ) of sampling large numbers of ancient individuals from natural populations. Unfortunately, ancient DNA suffers from potential damage, so what appears to be an ancient DNA sequence may contain both differences from current sequences that are due to evolution (changes in the gene pool over time), but also ... (Read on Source)
4 Could Mepis have been Ubuntu?
... and gtk2-engines 2.12.2-1 are now in the MEPIS 7.0 pool." Now I cannot speak for ... everyone, but when was the last time Ubuntu development gave a rats behind about what ... project has opted to return to its Debian roots, the distribution still pulls some code ...
EU seeks to expand energy grids
The European Commission unveils plans to diversify the EU's energy imports and reduce reliance on Russia.
Removing Part Of Brain Controls Girl's Epilepsy
Surgeons told Jessica Nelson one of the scariest things she will ever hear as a parent: they wanted to treat her daughter's epilepsy by cutting out or disconnecting half of her brain. Then something extraordinary happened: it worked.
eXo Portal 2.5 released
We are proud to announce the eXo Portal 2.5 release providing enterprise support for Google Gadgets and support for Right to Left languages.
EPA Should Pursue Cumulative Risk Assessment Of Phthalates And Other Chemicals, Experts Urge
The US Environmental Protection Agency should examine whether combined exposures to chemicals known as phthalates could cause adverse health effects in humans, says a new report from the National Research Council.
Allmendinger tabbed to drive No. 19 for GEM
Lee Spencer, FOXSports.com DAVIDSON, N.C. - AJ Allmendinger will continue his quest in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. Allmendinger will take over for Elliott Sadler behind the wheel of the No. 19 Dodge at Gillett Evernham Motorsports next season. Despite GEM extending Elliott Sadler's contract earlier this year, Allmendinger proved over the ... (Read on Source)
The Power of Intention
I was fried. I had once loved my job leading business-writing seminars. But after too many days standing in front of corporate managers from 8:00 to 5:00, entertaining them, educating them and practically willing them to write betterâ€"well, it had gotten old. And the luxury of room-service had long been overshadowed by an aching desire to sleep in my own bed. It was definitely time for a change.
I had learned through study and personal experience that if you want to do something great, you have to start with a clear intention. So I sat down one day with paper and pen at hand, closed my eyes, and asked myself what I really wanted to do with my life. The answer came easily and quickly: I wanted to speakâ€"not about how to write a better business letter, but how to live a better life. When I opened my eyes, I wrote down my intention: to start speaking to audiences about how to create the life we want. I then launched into designing the flyer that would describe in detail the first presentation I wanted to give on “Women, Power and Happiness.”
A couple of weeks later, my friend and colleague Marci Shimoff was in my office. Like me, Marci taught business writing in the corporate world, and, like me, she was up to her eyeballs in dangling modifiers. We were discussing some fine point of punctuation when she suddenly saw my flyer and grabbed it off my desk. “I’ve been wanting to start a speaking business for the past four years,” she practically shouted. And just like that, our speaking partnership, which we called The Esteem Group, was born.
The first thing we did was to write down our intention. Our mission was “to help women understand and experience their inner power and self-worth, so they can create and live their own vision.” Little did we know what power those words contained.
We began building our speaking business, specializing in self-esteem presentations for women. One of our best resources was Jack Canfield, a renowned expert in the field of self-esteem, with whom Marci had studied. So when his book Chicken Soup for the Soul became a national best seller that year, we immediately got his permission to share stories from it with our audiences.
It turned out to be a powerful combination: women and Chicken Soup. We saw what an impact the stories had, how deeply they moved women and how much they helped them with the changes they were trying to make. So the following January, when Marci approached me with the idea of co-editing a volume for women, I didn’t hesitate. We faxed Jack a proposal. He said it sounded like a good ideaâ€"and then we all got busy and let it drop.
But Marci and I kept getting clearer about our intention: We wanted to touch the hearts of women all over the globe. We wanted to inspire them, uplift them, give them a vision of life lived from the heartâ€"and show them the magnificent support we can be to one another.
We finally flew to Los Angeles and sat down for a meeting with Jack. With our vision clearly in mind and heart, we told him that we wanted to touch the hearts of women around the world through a Chicken Soup for the Soul book just for them. Jack asked us why he should let us do the project, when his office already had a successful track record (they were working on number two in the series). Marci and I looked at each other across the table and simultaneously realized we hadn’t prepared a thing to say!
For a moment, we sat speechless. Then, all of a sudden, the words started pouring out: We both taught business writing and understood the principles of good writing; I had majored in journalism; we understood the “Chicken Soup” genre because we’d been using stories in our public presentations; we were connected with women through our business and felt that we understood what women were hungry for; the women’s market was huge; and finally, Jack and his coauthor Mark Victor Hansen couldn’t coauthor a book for women without women coauthors!
Jack didn’t even hesitate. He said yes, and sixteen months later, Chicken Soup for the Woman’s Soul became a reality. Within two months, it hit Number 1 on the New York Times best-seller list. A million copies had been sold.
But we didn’t understand the real implication of the numbers until the mail started coming in. We soon found we had fulfilled our intention beyond our wildest imagination. We were deluged with letters from women literally all around the globe telling us how our book had affected their lives. Estranged mothers and daughters were reconciled; abused women found the courage to get help, women changed careers, adopted babies, confronted their boss, their illness, their fears, their mother-in-law. We toured all over the country, speaking and signing books, and everywhere women shared their stories with us. Marci and I wept with them, cheered with them, and most days felt we were the luckiest women alive. I still feel that way!
To say that Marci and I worked extremely hard on that first book would be an understatement. The learning curve was steep, and we had to put the book together while still building our speaking business and teaching in the corporate world to earn an income. Even finding days when we were both in town at the same time was challenging! But we knew it was the opportunity of a lifetime. What a perfect vehicle we had found to fulfill our desire.
I believe that Intention is a fundamental principle of success. It is not the same as goal-setting. Goal-setting comes from the mind, while intention comes from the heart. Intention by itself doesn’t make things happen either. But when intention comes from the heart and is coupled with the willingness to work, miracles can happen. We may not know how it’s going to happen, but we don’t need to. We just need to be awake to opportunities and willing to show up and do what’s needed.
Adapted from The Soul of Success: A Woman’s Guide to Authentic Power, Health Communications, Inc., copyright 2005 Jennifer Read Hawthorne, www.jenniferhawthorne.com. Jennifer Read Hawthorne is an international keynote address speaker and author. Her other titles include co-author of:
Chicken Soup for the Woman’s Soul
Chicken Soup for the Mother’s Soul
Chicken Soup for the Single’s Soul
A Second Chicken Soup for the Woman’s Soul
Diamonds, Pearls & Stone: Jewels of Wisdom for
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