A Holistic Integration of Hypnosis and Meditation for Effective Mind Management – Part Two

Following the first level workshops delivered in 2003 and 2008, there has been a consistent demand for further development of the DBM Hypnosis and Meditation model as well as for more entry level workshops.

This workshop is exactly that – new developments and further applications of the highly successful first level workshop to run hand in glove with the new edition of the level one workshop scheduled for February 2009 (see below on this page).

As it is a continuation and further development of the first level workshop it is a requisite for admission that course participants have previously attended one of the prior workshops (2003, 2008 or February 2009).

After experiencing and integrating the first level model this workshop will lead to a much deeper understanding and more advanced practical use of hypnosis and meditation.

Course details:

Dates: 1st – 4th May 2010 (inclusive)
Venue: EADA Business School, Collbató, Barcelona (see picture)
Course fee: Different possibilities and discounts depending on the date payment is formalised prior DBM training and whether application is being made for both workshops at the same time. Please ask.

Accommodation is available on site at (very good) preferential rates.
For more information and application please contact Paloma at info@sctsystemic.es

Or ring 00 34 913666734

Special conditions and bursaries are available check with our office for more details.

Kelblys Inc., long-respected as a producer of benchrest actions and rifles, has expanded its product line. Now Kelbly’s will be offering complete tactical and tactical/hunting rifles. Produced in a wide variety of chamberings from 6.5×47 Lapua all the way up to 300 Win Magnum, these new Kelbly rifles are available as either single shots or as repeaters. To learn more about the new Kelbly rifles, visit Kelbly’s enhanced website.

Shown above is Kelbly’s new Atlas rifle. This rifle’s$2800.00 base price includes premium components: Single-shot Atlas action with 20 MOA or Flat integral scope base, Jewell or Shilen trigger, Krieger or Bartlein Barrel, Kelbly’s HCFB or Hunting stock (with recoil pad and swivels), Double screw rings (30mm or 1″). Available options include: McMillan A5 stock, CDI Magazine w/ 5 round AICS Magazine ($260), 3-Round Blind Mag ($150), Kemper or Vais Muzzlebrake ($185 Installed), Karsten Adjustable Cheek Piece ($75), Barrel Fluting ($120), Long-Action Upgrade ($70), Painted stock ($300), CeraKote Barreled Action ($200).

Kelbly’s new Grizzly II Tactical/Hunting rifle costs $3300.00 before options. Shown above in wood thumbhole stock, this rifle features a single-shot Grizzly II Action with 20 MOA or Flat integral scope base, Krieger or Bartlein Barrel, Jewell or Shilen Trigger, Kelbly HCFB or Hunting stock (with recoil pad and swivels), Double screw rings (30mm or 1″ scope tube). Grizzly II options are the same as for the Atlas model, except that a detachable box magazine is not offered with the Grizzly II. NOTE: The stock in the photo is a prototype wood thumbhole. The production Grizzly IIS will use a Kelbly fiberglass HCFB stock (standard), or McMillan A5 stock (optional at extra cost).

A Holistic Integration of Hypnosis and Meditation for Effective Mind Management

Meditation is the systematic cultivation of resourceful states. Through hypnosis it is easier to activate unconscious processes making active use of the patterning and creative abilities of the non-dominant hemisphere. Through the modelling methodology of Developmental Behavioural Modelling DBM® and thirty years exploring meditation and hypnosis, John McWhirter has developed an integrated process that combines the individual benefits of meditation and hypnosis, creating more than the sum of the parts, offering a development tool to assist in a holistic approach to learning and personal development.

It will make a very big difference to most people from all walks of life and all kinds of professional backgrounds.

Two very useful processes for understanding and developing yourself are hypnosis and meditation. Sadly they are both often carried out ritualistically and without very much sense of exploration. Taken together and developed together they can constitute a very powerful approach to creativity, problem setting and solving, life enhancement, self understanding and many other issues apart from the more obvious stress management and the like.

What’s especially exciting about the DBM modelling of this area is that it goes beyond the myths and the rituals to create an integrated, practical developmental approach to mind management.

Purpose of this training

The purpose of this training is to develop a whole brain approach to thinking, feeling and behaving through developing an integrated use of meditation and hypnosis. Through the training you will learn to use a variety of meditations and levels of hypnosis to explore how you organise and process your reality. You will then learn how to use these processes to facilitate specific changes and overall life development.

More information on the course and background can be found by following the link in the side bar on the right Pages/English/Art and Science of Effective Hypnosis and Meditation.

Course details:

Dates:4th – 7th February 2010 (inclusive)
Venue: Hotel Kaktus, Playa de Albir, Alicante
Course fee: Several options are available. Please contact our office for details.
Accommodation is available on site at (very good) preferential rates.
For more information and sign up contact Paloma at info@sctsystemic.es

Or ring 00 34 913666734

Special conditions and bursaries are available check with our office for more details.

An application of DBM (Developmental Behavioural Modelling to learning, teaching and education that goes way beyond current learning theory.

“Learning is a defining human experience”. In other words one of the central experiences which differentiates humans is the way in which we learn.

With DBM® we can describe the all the processes used in both learning and teaching as well as creating new possibilities. Rather than applying a generic theory we can identify the uniqueness of each individual learner and teacher. We can identify how all the different learning types fit together including “learning to Learn” (Bateson) that greatly improves the ability for future learning. We can also identify in detail the various ancillary processes like motivation and core skills like concentration and memory and improve them.

This workshop is designed to explore the knowledge and skills necessary for effective Learning and Teaching and to assist participants to adapt them to their own style and to any theory they are committed to.

The workshop is most suitable for those seeking to greatly increase their understanding and effectiveness in Learning and Teaching and those wanting to help others to develop and use effective Learning and Teaching.

Course Syllabus

In this workshop participants will:

Learn how ALL main types of learning work and how they all fit together in an integrated learning model.
Learn how all the main ways of teaching work and how they fit together in an integrated teaching model.
Improve their understanding and skill in learning and teaching.
Learn how to identify individual learning processes and styles and how to respond effectively to learning difficulties.
Learn how to utilise emotions, thinking and activity for effective learning and teaching.
Learn how key life skills like concentration, memory, imagination and creativity work and how to teach them.
Learn how motivation and activation work passively and actively and the difference between externally activated learning and self determined learning.
Learn about “life long learning” and learning to learn.
Learn about your own learning and become your own best teacher.

This course, probably the most advanced training available in the subject matter – certainly based on the most advanced and complete modelling – will help you develop the core skills necessary to learn and teach effectively (really) and to help others to do so.

You can find the details by following the link in the right hand side bar, under “pages” then “English” then select the course name.

Dates: 5th – 8th December 2009 (inclusive)
Venue: Hotel Kaktus, Playa de Albir, Alicante
Course fee: Various options are available please contact our office for details.
Accommodation is available on site at (very good) preferential rates.
For more information contact Paloma at info@sctsystemic.es

Tel: 00 34 913666734

MIT School of Distance Education Pune India

Recognised by DEC Govt of India

Diploma in Business Administration (DBA)

Introduction

Management is not only about solving structured problems efficiently and effectively but also about the challenge of transforming a situation into an opportunity in an ever-changing competitive environment in the era of globalization and further, handling human problems in real life to synergize the team effort. Diploma in Business administration equips the students and managers with skills to meet the challenges and opportunities of the corporate world. The greatest advantage of this course is that even undergraduate students can admit to it. Thus you can take course while studying for your degree course. This can prove a value addition to your degree and hence make your job search easy.

It strengthens the leadership capabilities of students. The learning model provides transformational experience that fosters professional, intellectual, and personal development. It is designed to provide a unique, market-relevant combination of a comprehensive business education with real-world applications.

Potential Careers

You can be easily absorbed at the entry level or junior executive level in private as well as government sector. The learning acquired through this course would make your performance and career growth hassle-free. You can outshine exposing your broad range of duties in every sector of the operations. There are many opportunities in the field of management, marketing, healthcare management and human resource management.

Fee Structure –

For Indian Resident: Total Fees Rs. 17000/- (Inclusive of Prospectus Fee, Registration Fee and Course Fee)

For NRI / Foreign Resident: USD 1700/- (Inclusive of Prospectus Fee, Registration Fee and Course Fee)

Exam Fee Per Attempt:  

Exam fees per subject per attempt Rs. 200 / US $ 50 has to be paid by D.D at the time of Examination. For Subsequent attempts the exam fees will be Rs. 200 per subject / US $ 50 Payable at the time of examination. Total Fees to be paid in full at the time of admission in the form of Demand Draft drawn in favour of  “MIT School of Distance Education” Payable at Pune.
Duration: One Year.
Validity of Registration: Two Years.

Eligibility: 12th Std. passed or equivalent (in any discipline).

 Contact for Admission – 09049002620

Philippine Weather, Outer Space and renaming PAGASA

  

The Philippines has a long way to go in weather forecasting. For a long time, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration or popularly known as PAGASA has been waiting for its order of at least ten S-band Doppler Radars. The first delivery being half of the lot. This has not happened. More about this post here. 

 Footnote to Archangel:

I used to be part of the DOST scientific network myself, but I saw how much room there is in the department and its network for expansion and growth. True, on many occasions it used to be the only place in the bureaucracy where talent is clearly rewarded (I used to get as many as eight to ten cheques on certain paydays because of my work in various projects in our division alone), still the accomplishments of the department leave so much to be desired. 

 Satellite Feature For February 2002

The Philippines has a long way to go in weather forecasting.  For a long time, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration or popularly known as PAGASA has been waiting for its order of at least ten S-band Doppler Radars.  The first delivery being half of the lot.  This has not happened.

PAGASA has been relying in part on the steady stream of free inputs with its membership in the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA).  Certain quarters suggested the creation of a Philippine space agency in 2007 and a data communications (satellite) based agency as early as 1988.  No one listened to the proposals.  If the former Sec. Emilia Boncodin of the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) even singlehandedly torpedoed down the creation of the Congress-legislated National Transport Safety Board, much more a space agency. And because of Boncodin’s single act, the whole situation is so fucked up that tragic disasters and crises involving mishaps at sea have been happening left and right and can’t be stopped from happening in the future. There were those who unnecessarily criticized and lambasted the proponent of a Philippine space agency, a retiring engineer at PAGASA, as foolish.

The project proposed to create a functional data communication agency, the Philippine Satellite Communication Operation, Research and Development Council (PSCRDC) in 1988, at the diminishing level of euphoria over EDSA I was probably just thrown in the garbage can.  If real and pseudo scholars will check at the Records Office in Malacañang, there is heavy doubt if the document was even registered as received by the Office of the President, even under the heading of Classified matter.  The project paper had a stamp of SECRET all over it.

The PSCRDC was clearly envisioned to be a Philippine space agency and it preceded the idea submitted by Engr. Bernardo Soriano.  Soriano appears to be an admin man, although he should be equipped with a doctorate after serving more than 30 years in PAGASA.  Why he submitted the idea for PASA could be due to his years of experiencing faulty detection and forecasting at PAGASA.

The Philippine Government should review the PAGASA proposal now and not at any other later time.  S-band Radars are all right.  But is it state-of-the-art in storm detection radars (SDR)?  If the investment to buy 10 radars will not cover the entire archipelago, what is the use of having the Dopplers?

Will it not pay more to have a stronger space agency and to invest more inputs for a mechanism to generate more data from outer space than is available today for the country?  After all, how many end-users are there for satellite data?  Nearly everyone has a use for information from outer space, not the least of which are those in the field of environment management, business, civil and military aviation, shipping, land transport, logistics, defense, law enforcement and just about any Googler and ArcGIS map user out there that includes many students, teachers, professionals who know how to.  And if you count them all, the number runs to millions.

That in itself is already a huge market.  Considering that the Philippine business traffic overlaps with those of many other countries, there is also revenue potential in this area.

For this reason, Cyberpark Telecom, our company has extended its sights towards business that relies on outer space data and possibly to generate a positive relationship with Smart Communications in this regard.

While there is only one Philippine satellite, see data from SatNews below, there is also great good that will come about if the satellite were boosted and fully equipped with new components and gadgetry to increase its sensing capabilities and other functions.  And that is where we come in.  If the Agila II Satellite people will not accept our offer, we can go shopping for other partners.  There are hundreds of satellites, real and artificial orbiting in outer space. India alone has ten satellites.  Or we could opt to launch our own satellites in partnership with the Department of Science and Technology in the near future.

By then, government must have renamed the PAGASA into a Philippine Space Agency as Soriano dreamed of.  But today we urge the administration of HE  PGMA to start pushing its cluster of agencies to map out the strengthening of RP’s capacities for using outer space as a valuable resource in many of its concerns.

As we are advocating in Resource Recovery Movement, there is a need for policy regime change in the area of mapping as it relates to environment, to global warming, to its many applications in engineering, architectural township planning, urban development, agriculture, etc.

The link to information on the Agila II Satellite: SatNews

• Atlas

Atlas is an addon I admittedly rarely use, but one which comes in very handy in the right situation. As the name might suggest, it provides maps for you – lots of maps. You can pull up the layout of any instance, battleground or transportation route, and see, for example, the accompanying bosses and their locations. It’s not necessarily useful in day-to-day life, but when you’re lost in some God-forsaken dungeon (*cough* Razorfen Downs *cough*) it can be a life saver.

Atlas - Left: Transportation Map - Right: Uldaman Map

• AtlasLoot Enhanced

AtlasLoot Enhanced started out being related to Atlas, but has since evolved into an addon of its own. In a nutshell, it allows you to look up all the boss loot in the game, in addition to reputation rewards, gear sets and crafted items, and this is great for things like checking up on prospective loot from the next raid boss.

AtlasLoot Enhanced

• Auctionater

This mod is very similar to the more popular Auctioneer, but it’s more lightweight and the scans take far less time, as it only records average price for each item, instead of doing fancy things with statistics and histograms and moving averages. I use this on all my characters except for my bank alt for general ideas of prices – any selling is done by the banker, who uses Auctioneer.

Auctionater

• Auctioneer

This ubiquitous addon (one of the few which is used by more than 50% of the WoW population, apparently) is a very accurate but heavy tool for collecting information on items at the Auction House by scanning for the data and organising it into different averages and statistics. See how complicated it makes the AH:

Auctioneer

• BankItems

Now, I adore this addon, and whole-heartedly recommend it to anyone. It allows remote viewing of the equipped items, key ring, currency, auctions, bags, bank or guild bank of any character you have, which is obviously fantastic. What’s better is how it alters tooltips to tell you how many of that item you have, and where the items are located, even if you’ve put them up for auction or have them in the mail.

Bank Items

• Deadly Boss Mods

I don’t think I need to say a lot about Deadly Boss Mods, often lovingly abbreviated to DBM. It’s the premier raiding addon out there, providing warnings and notifications for whenever something nasty is about to happen to you. It can also display timers for things like enrages and boss ability cooldowns.

Deadly Boss Mods

• Decursive

Obviously, I don’t run this one on Veliaf, but it’s generally required if you’re a Mage or other decursing class. It creates small boxes (so small I don’t have a screenshot) for each member of your group which light up when the player is afflicted by something bad, and you can then click them, which magically casts whatever decursing spell you have on that player without you losing your target.

• EnsidiaFails

This is essentially Failbot under another name – it tells you in the channel of your choosing (I keep it private so as to avoid spamming party or raid chat) whenever someone fails at something, whether it be dancing on Heigan or moving out of the fire on every other WotLK boss. It’s a useful tool as a raid leader, but is maybe a bit pointless if you’re not one.

EnsidiaFails

• Grid

When raiding, trying to see a unit frame for every single member of the raid with the default UI means dropping and dragging what feels like hundreds of little boxes onto the screen, arranging them, and then remembering to get rid of them later. Hence, a lot of people will use a unit frames addon – popular choices are Pitbull or Healbot, but personally I love Grid. It’s customizable to the point of being silly, meaning I can have it exactly how I want it, and it takes up very little space whilst displaying more information than the default UI ever could.

Grid

• LiveDamage

This little mod does nothing more than display my current spell power in the corner of the screen, so I don’t have to open the character UI. Is this useful? Nope, not really, I just like it.

LiveDamage

• LoggerHead

WoW Web Stats is effectively an online Recount meter, except better. However, it relies on you remembering to turn combat logging on and off – unless you have LoggerHead, which will automatically do it for you!

Tomorrow, we cover M-Z.

Vel.

Yesterday, I discussed the UI Addons I use that are generally visible when I play.  Today, I’m going to talk about most of the other addons that I use.

ArkInventory – ArkInventory allows you to set rules that organize your inventory.  It’s a little hard to explain and a picture is worth a thousand words so here is what it looks like.

As you can see, Arkinventory allows you to create different catagories.  Items are sorted into these different catagories whenever you loot them.  It makes it a lot easier to find and keep items organized.

Clique – Most people are familiar with this addon.  Clique allows you to map spells to mouse clicks.  Clique is generally utilized in conjunction with Grid.  Personally, I only use clique to make buffing a little more efficient.  I utilize mouseover macros to heal.

Deadly Boss Mods (DBM) – Standard raid encounter addon.  Almost everyone uses either this or one very similar such as Big Wigs.

Doom_CooldownPulse – Doom_CooldownPulse provides a visible alert when a cooldown is up.  When a cooldown is ready it places a large icon of that spell/item in the middle of your screen.  I have issues keeping up with my cooldowns this addon helps with that tremendously.  It’s pretty much impossible to miss.

Quartz – Quartz allows you to configure cast bars.  You can relocate, resize or change pretty much anything related to your cast bars with this addon.

Tomorrow, I will discuss my Grid configuration in detail.  As always, please feel free to contact me or leave comments.

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Uma galera da frança que manda muito bem, criou esta HQ, baseada no mangá Dragon Ball (especificamente, a saga Z do anime) e em alguns longas da série.

Vale a pena conferir, esporádicamente (mais ou menos uma vez por mês), vou postando mais capitulos traduzidos.

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Pois é.
Pra quem quiser conferir, a história já está bem adiantada, neste link.
Dentro de alguns dias, posto a continuação em PT-BR (No site original tem em PT-PT, mas a tradução está um pouco estranha, pelo fato de ser no Português de Portugal).

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A seguir:

Militants question P1.1 B billion MMDA budget for Manila Bay clean up

The fisherfolk activist group Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) on Tuesday vowed to question the P 1.1 billion budget allocated by the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) to the Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) in connection with the Manila Bay clean up.

Pamalakaya national chair Fernando Hicap said his group will prepare a position paper opposing the huge public fund allocated by Malacañang and will submit once the House of Representatives discusses the 2010 national budget pertaining to MMDA and the Manila Bay clean up.

“The clean up should be undertaken collectively and separately by local government units situated along the bay, together with concerned government agencies. The MMDA should be taken out of the picture since its functions overlap with the functions of government agencies and local government units. The best thing to do is to abolish the MMDA,” said Hicap.

“P 1.1 billion is P 1.1 billion. This will make the MMDA the government’s super agency in the National Capital Region. Given its notorious records of high crimes of corruption, daily political arrogance and extreme brutality, the proposed budget for MMDA’s Manila Bay clean up will make it an uncontrollable monster in 2010,” the Pamalakaya leader added.

Hicap said the huge budget allocated for the MMDA could be one the compelling reasons why the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) suddenly inked a pact with MMDA, to maximize not only its human resources, but as well the huge funds allocated to it for counter-insurgency operations and urban militarization.

“The P1.1 billion MMDA budget is really a mouth-watering banana for the AFP. The military can exploit the people of MMDA and its resources,” he added.

Pamalakaya said instead of giving MMDA the lion’s share in the budget for Manila Bay clean up, Metro Manila lawmakers and local government units representing all cities and municipalities in the National Capital Region should call for the abolition of the authority.

“National and local candidates who will call for the abolition of MMDA will earn the respect and the desired votes from Metro electorates. It is an electoral agenda voters from all classes A,B,C,D and E will support. It is winning electoral piece for 2010,” the group observed.

DBM Secretary Rolando Andaya said the government has allocated over one billion pesos, P 848 million for MMDA’s solid waste disposal and management and another P 250 million for the relocation of informal settlers on open waterways in Metro Manila for a grand total of P 1.098 billion for the clean up of Manila Bay.

Andaya said, the MMDA will spend P 223-million for operational support, maintenance, repair and rehabilitation of flood control systems, P 100 million for the mitigation of floods in the Gil Puyat Avenue-South Superhighway Area. The authority will also allot P 58 million for flood control and drainage projects in Metro Manila, and another P 50-million for urgent flood control projects.

The P 1.1 billion allocation for MMDA is part of the P 1.6 billion the government had alloted for the Manila Bay clean up. Pamalakaya said the P 1.1 billion for MMDA will be used to demolish fisherfolk and bay people, as well as hundreds of thousands of urban poor families along Pasig River in response to the Supreme Court ruling on Manila Bay. #

Critics see 2010 polls in GMA’s P 12-B subsidy for poor families

Rabid critics of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo dismissed the presidential allocation of P 12-B subsidy for poor families under the Pantawid Gutom program as an early campaign election fund aimed at boosting the chances of Palace favored bets in the 2010 elections.

“P 12 billion is P 12 billion. That’s a lot of money for national and local candidates running under the corrupt and immoral party of President Arroyo in 2010′, said Pamalakaya national chair Fernando Hicap in a press statement.

Hicap added:” The promotional blitz for Malacañang backed national candidates will take a free ride from this nationally orchestrated charity and dole out offensive of President Arroyo to improve their chances of winning in 2010.”

The Pamalakaya leader theorized the electoral target of the Malacañang for potential votes are the 3.7 million poorest families in the country who could constitute between 7.4 million to 10 million votes enough.

“President Arroyo will make avail of all resources available for her disposition to boost the winning chances of her political lapdogs in 2010 elections for her own political survival. And this is the political purpose of the P 12-B fund,” added Hicap.

Pamalakaya said the P 12-billion budget for poor families should be scrutinized during the budget hearings for the Department of Social Work and Development (DSWD) and other related budget items such as the Internal REvenue Allotment.

The group said the House of Representatives should also make an inquiry on how and what are the impacts of previous pro-poor projects of the government, and if these projects consisting of one-time P 500 subsidy really improved rhe quality of life of the people.

Budget Secretary Rolando Andaya last week said the P 12 billion subsidy for poor families is included in the proposed P1.541-trillion 2010 national budget or more than double this year’s allocation of P5 billion.

Andaya said the program targets another 1 million poor families as beneficiaries. Under Pantawid Gutom progam, each beneficiary receives a one-time financial subsidy of at least P500.

In the past, Mrs. Arroyo ordered the grant of P500 assistance to help poor families in Metro Manila and the province pay for their electricity bills.
Last year, senior citizens all over the country get thei P 500 one-time assistance fund from the government. #

Costumer Relationship Management (CRM) é uma plataforma que abriga um conjunto de ações de comunicação para criar e manter a proximidade entre a empresa e os interessados em seus produtos. O objetivo destas ações é fazer com que a marca seja posicionada e fixada no mercado, o que pode ser conseguido através de ações informativas, promocionais ou sazonais.
Segundo Daniela Guarnieri, consultora em marketing de relacionamento da At Mídia, o CRM proporciona um conhecimento do perfil do cliente através de um gerenciamento do banco de dados (Database Marketing – DBM) e, desta forma, pode oferecer produtos e serviços de acordo com o que ele espera e reduzir seus custos de prospecção.
“Um bom exemplo é uma empresa de TV a cabo que possui um DBM ativo e só oferece pacote pay per view de jogos de futebol a torcedores do time que disputará o jogo da noite. Imagine se ela oferece pacote de jogos do Corinthians a torcedores do Palmeiras? Seria uma ação um tanto hilária e onerosa, e o resultado da ação seria negativo, os custos operacionais seriam maiores e o retorno financeiro seria nulo”, explica Daniela.
O projeto de CRM é composto por quatro etapas: captação do cliente através da codificação de um banco de dados, ativação com a emissão de um cartão de fidelidade, manutenção através das ações de comunicação e a fidelização, que é o resultado da ação, ou seja, a preferência do cliente pela marca e a estratégia varia de acordo com o perfil da empresa.
A média de rentabilidade para um projeto bem formatado e ativo é de 30% sobre o investimento e as empresas podem desenvolver este projeto a qualquer momento, já a partir do momento que passa a oferecer seus produtos ou serviços. “Quanto mais cedo isso acontecer, mais cedo ela terá retorno financeiro”, ressalta Daniela.
Para contratar um projeto de CRM é preciso atentar para a experiência do profissional contratado. “Tem agências que vendem CRM como softwares que fazem a mecanização do processo, porém não formatam a régua de relacionamento com conhecimento de produto x cliente x tempo”, observa Daniela.
É um processo que precisa de constante atualização, higienização e enriquecimento do banco de dados e as ações podem ser criadas por períodos, podendo ser mensal, trimestral ou semestral.
Se você pretende contratar um projeto de CRM para a sua empresa é preciso entender com clareza a diferença entre satisfação e fidelização, para tornar um cliente rentável é preciso conhecer suas ações de compra para criar estratégias. “Em um projeto de CRM para pet shops, por exemplo, pode haver a comunicação via SMS informando sobre o vencimento da vermifugação do animal, isso é bem simples com um banco de dados bem formatado”, explica Daniela.
*Por Re Alves

Tactical Rifles (TR), a Florida-based precision rifle builder and parts-maker, has introduced new, ultra-durable bottom metal for Rem 700 and Rem-clone receivers. Why do we need better/stronger bottom metal? Just take a look at photo below. It shows a factory Rem floorplate that failed at the trigger guard.

The TR floorplate/detachable magazine assembly is lighter, yet stronger than factory bottom metal and competitive after-market products: “At it’s thinnest part the TR floorplate assembly is 150% thicker than our nearest competitors’ unit.” That makes the unit much stronger and more durable. In addition the TR floorplate is designed to work with TR’s milspec, dual-stack, center-feed magazines. This center-feed mag design provides more reliable feeding and function.

The photo below left shows a TR floorplate assembly under the wheel of a heavy pick-up truck. As you can see in the right photos, the “overbuilt” TR bottom-metal passes this test with flying colors.

TR floorplate assemblies are now available for purchase as a replacement part for any Remington 700-style rifle. Minimal gunsmithing is required but the end result is, according to tactical rifles, “dramatically increased reliability … without the binding that occurs in some of the other detachable box magazine (DBM) systems available today.” For more info, visit TacticalRifles.net, or call 877-811-GUNS (4867).

The True State of the Nation
By Jojo Binay
President, United Opposition

Ayon sa mga taga-Malacanang, ang State of the Nation Address (SONA) ni Mrs. Arroyo ay hinggil sa kanyang mga nagawa para sa ekonomiya, at kung paano natulungan ng kanyang administrasyon ang mga mamamayan sa gitna ng krisis pang-mundo.

But economic figures alone do not give the true state of the nation under Mrs. Arroyo.

The economic numbers may look good on the charts of the National Economic Development Authority, but it has failed to translate into marked improvements in the lives of the people.

And if the amount of food on our tables shrink every time the numbers on NEDA’s charts grow, the economy is not working at all. It means the economy is being kept afloat by the suffering of our people.

Poverty and hunger remain widespread, and is expected to worsen. There are few job opportunities at home and people are falling in line to work abroad, despite government’s claim that unemployment is going down.

And why would Mrs. Arroyo claim credit for any economic miracle when the economy has been largely sustained by the remittances of the 10 million overseas Filipino workers?
The irony is that this administration is heavily dependent on the remittances of Filipinos who were forced to work abroad because of Mrs. Arroyo’s failure to provide them decent jobs in the Philippines.  These are the same Filipinos who are vulnerable to exploitation and abuses because the administration has failed to match its aggressive policy of deploying OFWs with aggressive welfare protection. Some would not call it irony, but rather a cruel joke on our OFWs.

Distrust

Haharap sa bayan si Mrs. Arroyo –  bago harinawa ay bumaba siya ng matiwasay sa kanyang poder – sa gitna ng labis na pagkadismaya sa kanya ang sambayanan.

Ayon sa mga survey, 48 porsiyento ang hindi umaayon sa kanyang pamumuno, at 53 porsiyento naman ang may maliit o walang tiwala sa kanya.

At ang pagkadismaya ay laganap sa lahat ng antas pang ekonomiya – mahirap at mayaman,  at sa lahat ng lugar – taga Metro Manila, Luzon at ang dati ay pinagmamalaking balwarte ng administrasyon sa Visayas at Mindanao.

Ang bansang muling ipipinta ni Mrs. Arroyo sa kanyang SONA ay isang paraiso para sa mga Pilipino.

Ngunit ano ang tunay na kalagayan ng bansa?

Ramdam na ramdam ang gutom. Marami ang walang trabaho o kaya ay kulang ang kinikita sa araw-araw.

Bukod dito, kabi-kabila ang eskandalong sangkot mismo ang mga namumuno, ginagamit ang mga ahensiya ng gobyerno upang supilin ang karapatan, at nagbabanta ang muling pagbabalik ng batas militar.

Iyan ang tunay na kalagayan ng Pilipinas.

Poverty

Despite government’s claim that it is winning the war against poverty, 47 percent or about 8.7 million of Filipino families consider themselves as poor, while  27 per cent put themselves on the borderline, according to the Social Weather Station in a survey conducted in February 2009.

The same survey also found that 36 per cent or an estimated 6.7 million families consider themselves as “food-poor,” while 34 per cent said they were “food-borderline.”

Hunger

Hunger is felt severely by families of the unemployed, especially those laid off from their jobs.

According to SWS, 16.9 per cent of families of the unemployed experienced “total hunger” at least once in the past three months. Among the families of the employed, 13.9 percent said they experienced “total hunger.”

It also said 12.5 per cent of families of the unemployed experienced “moderate hunger,” in the lat three months, which means they went hungry once or a few times in the last three months.  “Severe hunger,” referring to those who went hungry often or always in the last three months, was 4.4 percent for the unemployed.

The SWS said “severe hunger” was a high 16.7 percent of those who were laid off.

How bad is the hunger situation in the Philippines? In a survey conducted by Gallup International, the Philippines ranks 5^th among 56 countries where hunger is prevalent.

Misuse of taxpayers’ money

Under Mrs. Arroyo, our national agencies have become notoriously injudicious in undertaking projects and implementing programs.

This year, some P190 Billion will be spent by the Department of Public Works and Highways and the Department of Transportation and Communication on infrastructure projects. Some P200 Billion has been allocated to the Department of Education and Department of Health; P55 Billion to the Departments of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform. That’s a P450 Billion investment in infrastructure and human resources – almost twice as much as the Internal Revenue Allotment for all local governments combined. Almost ten times the Development Fund that local governments will get from their share of national taxes.

The amount, had it been given to LGUs, would have been put to better use addressing the real concerns of people at the basic level. Instead, infrastructure funds are being used by the national government to build bridges that lead to nowhere, and to tear up perfectly good roads and rebuild them. The education budget is used to purchase overpriced instant noodles, and medicine is left to rot in the stockrooms of government hospitals even as the poor can not even purchase paracetamol and antibiotics.

Worse, national funds are being treated and spent like it was personal money, like it was Mrs. Arroyo’s personal fortunes to dispense to her allies:

The p728 million that Joc-Joc Bolante diverted from the fertilizer fund. The $503 million for the Northrail project at p1 billion per kilometer. The $329 billion in the scandalously overpriced NBN-ZTE deal that NEDA approved. In all these cases, high-ranking officials of the national government have felt entitled to the funds – and acted as if they did not have to account for them to the Filipino people.

Despite all indication of large-scale fraud, the Ombudsman refuses to prosecute, and the former Secretary of Justice defends their notion that they do not have to explain to the Filipino people.

Kabi-kabila ang mga iskandalong kinasasangkutan ni Mrs. Arroyo, ng kanyang asawa at mga kaalyado sa pulitika, ngunit ni isa sa kanila ay walang naparusahan. Sa kabilang banda, kapag nasa oposisyon, nasa media, o nasa cause-oriented groups, kabi-kabila ang demanda, at walang tigil ang panggigipit.

Repression

Sa katunayan, mula nang maupo si Mrs. Arroyo noong 2001 hanggang Marso ng taong ito, umabot na sa 1,013 ang biktima ng summary execution, at 202 naman ang mga dinukot at hanggang ngayon ay hindi pa nakikita.

Itinuturing ang Pilipinas na isa sa mga pinaka-peligrosong lugar sa mundo para sa mga journalists, at sa United Nations, inilista ang Pilipinas bilang isa sa mga bansang lumalala ang human rights situation.

Eight years is enough

The last eight years under Mrs. Arroyo has been characterized by the administration’s abuse of power to subvert our democracy, to subvert our economy and to subvert our national patrimony.

Aside from record hunger and poverty, Mrs. Arroyo has for the past eight years eroded the people’s faith in the judiciary as our refuge from injustice, and the legislature has abandoned all pretensions of independence from the executive.

The Executive Department, on the other hand, has betrayed its mandate.

We have a Justice Department that prosecutes witnesses to protect perpetrators of graft; a Department of Interior and Local Government that persecutes local officials who dare denounce the abuses of her administration; a Defense Department that sends our soldiers to war with defective arms and ammunition; a Budget Department that disburses public funds as if they were the president’s personal kitty; and a Finance Department that loses three times as much to smugglers as it collects from the Value Added Tax.

The Department of Education has been eroded by corruption and politics, and keeps losing its best and brightest public schoolteachers, and its most dedicated officials, while the Department of Agriculture squanders productivity funds for our farms and relies on imports to feed our people.

This is the same administration that is plotting to keep its grip on power beyond 2010, either through a Constituent Assembly, or failing that, outright martial law.

Ito ang tunay na kalagayan ng bansa.

Harinawa, ito na ang huling SONA sa ilalim ni Mrs. Arroyo.

Buo ang aking loob na malapit nang magsimula ang bagong bukas para sa ating bansa. Kailangan nating mag-bigkis sa simulaing maitatag ang pamahalaan na magbabalik ng ating dangal, at titiyakin na ang biyaya ng pag-unlad ay madarama ng lahat.

Lagi nating tandaan na may pag-asa. May pag-ahon. May bukas pa.

By Francis Allan L. Angelo 

THE Department of Budget and Management (DBM) has ordered the release of P481 million for the repair and rehabilitation of infrastructures in Panay that were damaged at the height typhoon Frank.

The funds were released through Special Allotment Release Order No. A-09-03564 issued last May 29, 2009.

The money will be taken from the calamity fund of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) regular budget this year.

The national government set aside the fund upon request of Rep. Arthur Defensor Sr. (3^rd district, Iloilo) and Presidential Assistant for Western Visayas Raul Banias.

The two officials asked President Gloria Arroyo to allocate money for the partial rehabilitation of Panay while Congress has yet to pass the accompanying revenue source of the P8-billion Paglaum Fund.

Banias said the funds will be used to repair nine bridges, national roads and dredging of Iloilo and Aklan Rivers.

“But this money is not enough, it’s not even 20% of the total amount needed to repair and rehabilitate all damaged structures in Panay,” Banias said.

The Regional Disaster Coordinating Council (RDCC) earlier passed a resolution asking Congress to approve the revenue measure that will become the source of the Paglaum Fund.

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The number of mobile television viewers in South Korea has now reached 22 million, according to the latest figures by wireless carriers Friday, as digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB) functions have become conventional in mobile handsets.

(Source:samsung)

Despite the growing audience, however, a sustainable business model remains elusive for television operators who are reeling from declining average revenue per user (APRU) and weak advertisement sales.

According to TU Media, a unit of SK Telecom and the country’s sole provider of satellite-based mobile pay-TV services, the number of the company’s DMB customers reached 2 million as of Friday, a significant jump from the 1.3 million around the same time last year.

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