EmanoN (名無し) - The road to the unknown.

As our Teens enter the adolescent stage of their lives, many if not almost have encountered life’s issues such as family problems, peer pressures and physical and sexual abuse.  All of them struggle to surpass those issues and overcome pains, confusions and frustrations.  These are the reasons behind why most of our teens become addicted either to drug, alcohol, smoking and sex.  Teens who are strong end up victorious. While others who cannot take the pressure succumb to addictions.  Until now youth drug abuse is still one of the biggest problems we have among our teens.  As parents and adults who cares about our youth’s future, it is very important to support our teens in their day to day struggles.  It is also vital that we should educate ourselves about the prevention and cure of addiction to alcohol or drugs.

Parents should also be aware of their teen’s activities.  If you suspect them smoking, drinking or using drugs, you must act immediately.  For you to fully understand teen drug addictions and how to deal with it, it is best to read some teen drug rehab resources and articles available in your community or in the World Wide Web.   Prevention should start at home.  Thus, involved all members of the family and discuss on how they can help in the prevention.

If the family cannot handle the problem it wise to bring your teens to rehabilitation centers near your area for a teen addiction treatment program. There are several treatment programs most rehab centers are offering.  Common programs includes teen drug rehab, teen alcohol rehab, addiction treatment, adolescent eating disorder treatment and mental health treatment.  Thus, be very critical when choosing a rehab center.  Make sure that the center can help you in giving the suitable program for your teen’s specific needs.  Choose a rehab center that offers quality programs and services.  Rehab centers that can be your partner in helping your teens get well. 

One of Gary Chapman’s 5 Love Languages is the "Words Of Affirmation".  According to GC, "One way to express LOVE emotionally is to use words that build up."  Verbally affirming or appreciating someone makes the person feel good.  Verbal compliments or words of appreciation are powerful communicators of love, said GC.  He said they can be done by simply expressing it in a straight forward statements of affirmations like the following:

1. Wow! You look beautiful.
2. Hmm… You cooked very good.
3. I really appreciate your washing dishes tonight. 

Just as everyone goes mobile, so does coding and development.  With the innovation of the Cloud concept, a breakthrough in application development was born.  A new IDE has been developed in order to aid our developers in their development activity.  Cloud9 IDE is a sophisticated IDE that runs and resides in the Cloud.  Thus giving more mobility to application development.  Cloud9 allows the developer to run, debug and deploy applications anywhere and anytime.  Whether your in your car, in a coffee shop, or in your living room, coding, debugging and fixing your codes is now doable.  With the introduction of Cloud9 IDE,  the way developers develop applications will change forever.  Click here to get to know more about Cloud9 IDE.

With the continuous rapid development in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure, most of the organizations now and even in the previous years had started delegating their information technology-intensive activities to external service providers.  Afraid to be left behind and of the increasing competitive pressures and standards, they have decided evolve with it.   And one of the most common business processes being outsourced is the web site development and maintenance.  Companies want to lessen the routine work of their IT staff, thus they hire service providers to host their web sites.  But how do you choose a web hosting vendor?

First you have to decide on what your web application needs.  Some of the requirements to consider are vendor reliability.  Reliability can make or break a business.  Thus, if your business runs online, then you should be very vigilant in choosing your provider.  You also have to consider costs, performance and more supports.  Various types of hosting providers are also available such as dedicated hosting, managed hosting, collocation hosting, clustered hosting, rich-media hosting and cloud hosting. 

In a dedicated hosting, the vendor provides a dedicated server for the customer with a full control over it.  A managed hosting on the other hand does not only provide the customer with a dedicated server but also with a full range of management services.  For a colocation hosting the customer mount their own servers, networks, and storage equipments inside a facility, alongside hosting infrastructure from other customers.  Clustered hosting virtualizes resources beyond the limits of a single server.    Rich-media hosting provides distribution of high-bandwidth content formats such as video & audio.  And a cloud hosting runs application in a “cloud” or virtual servers. 

Even though, there were a lot of hosting type to choose from, bottom line is choose and decide on the appropriate service approach to adopt.

In the past few days i had been reading a book entitled " The Five Love Languages" by Gary Chapman.  He is a famous author and marriage & family counselor.  As per my opinion, the book was very good.  For those who are struggling with their relationship with their spouse or partner, this book can help you.  According to the author, the primary human emotional need is the NEED to FEEL LOVED.  That each and everyone of us, even a child, has a "love tank" or "emotional tank" that is waiting to be filled.  For those who are happy, their "love tank" are already full.  Others are half-full and perhaps most of us had our "love tank" EMPTY for so many years.  So how do we fill those empty tank or emotional need or empty "love tank", of ours so that we may feel that we are loved?  According to Dr. Chapman, you need to know and speak the appropriate LOVE Languages.  The Five Love Languages are the following:

1. Words of Affirmation
2. Quality Time
3. Receiving Gifts
4. Acts of Service
5. Physical Touch

 I will discuss the details of each love languages and how to speak it on my next post.  So you better keep posted.   

Major League Baseball fanatics always find ways to see their favorite team’s game.  It doesn’t matter whether their teams win or lose.  What matters most is that they get to enjoy the game and show their support.  Whether they are on the road or at home, you will find them surfing a one-stop shop website for baseball tickets such as the San Diego Padres Tickets.  So don’t waste your time in long lines waiting for your turn to buy a ticket for your favorite team’s game.  

Out of the 30 franchises, here are the five most purchased tickets.  First is the San Francisco Giants Tickets which is selling like a hotcake.  The Giants had recently won the 2010 World Series, ranked 5 among the 30 teams and had won 6 titles already, making it one of the most watched team.  The second one is the Pittsburgh Pirates Tickets that also sells a lot.  The Pirates, one of the team in the National League Central is being ranked 7 and had won 5 World Series.  Third was one of my favorites, the Chicago White Sox Tickets.  The team is ranked 10^th and had won 3 series. 

 For the fourth most sought tickets was the Philadelphia Phillies Tickets.  The Phillies had won 2 Series and is being ranked 14^th.   And lastly was the New York Mets Tickets in which the team was also ranked 14^th and won 2 Series.  The last Series they won was last 1986.  So don’t miss it out! Make sure to be there in your team’s game to cheer them up.  So get your baseball tickets today. 

Goals are the vehicles whereby we can become someone more that we already are.  We need goals, not for what they get for us but for what they do for us.

If you have some definite goals in mind, your thoughts will hep to take you there as you will tend to be dwelling on your goals.  If you have no goals, your thoughts will still take you toward what you think about most.  Your mind will take your dominant thoughts and propel you in that direction, assuming that your dominant thoughts are your goals.

- Being Happy 

In my previous blog entitled "Programming Languages in 2011", I have listed down 9 Programming Languages to watch in the year 2011.  And one of it is the Scala Programming Language.  According to its website,  Scala is a general purpose programming language that is concise, elegant and type-safe.  It integrates the features of Object-Oriented and Functional programming languages.  In fact, it is inter-operable with Java. It is an Open Software that developers or even you can participate in its development.  They say that it is easy to learn and there a lot of available resources now like books, manuals, guides and the internet.  A community of Scala users/developers can also be consulted Scala has been used by big companies in building their commercial systems like Twitter, Siemens and others. For more details you can visit their website.

Gold is one of the precious metals hunted by man.  It has been used globally for monetary exchange.  But come to think of it, how much do you think is the price of gold in the world market?  How are they priced?  For gold investors and traders knowing the gold price trend is very important. 

The term spot gold is the commonly used standard for the value of commodity gold. And the rate for a direct transfer of gold for cash is known as spot price of gold.  The spot gold price is different from the current or actual gold price in the market.  Brokers usually use the range from 5 percent above to 5 percent below, but most use the current spot price as a benchmark. 

The gold prices may rise and fall considerably for various reasons. One is the adjustments in the currency market in which gold reacts strongly which further affect the relative value between the different spot markets. Thus Gold investors and active traders  make it a point to fully guard the changes gold spot in the market, that is why they refer to websites that gives a live feed of gold prices all over the world.  These websites are live stream that gives updates every minute.