When you say Siamese cat, most people think of the short-hair seal points, which have a creamy white slender body, brown-black ears, nose and tail. But, there are several variations of the breed as well as crossbreds like the Himalayans, which are a cross of Siamese and Persians. The blue point has a bluish-white body with slate blue points. The chocolate point has more mocha colored points and the flame point has apricot ears, nose and tail. The body of a pure-bred Siamese is sleek and features a triangular head, large ears, and pointed features. Siamese are one of the oldest and most well known breeds. They received their name when they were exported from Thailand in the late 1800’s. At the time, Thailand was Siam.

My relationship with Siamese began when I was one. My mother had me outdoors in a playpen. She was in the house when a distant uncle stopped by. Seeing me for the first time, he ran to my playpen with outstretched arms, only to be viciously attached by Josie, our Seal Point Siamese, who had been guarding me from underneath the playpen. Today, I share my house with several cats. Lucky, is a flame point Siamese mix I rescued from a high traffic area. He pretty much ignores the other cats and follows me everywhere. If I try to restrict him from coming in a room where I’m working, he stands on his back legs and beats on the door and yowls. He will keep this up for over 30 minutes. Every night since I first found him, he sleeps next to my head or stands guard like a sentry. If someone raises their voice to me, lucky will circle in front of me, raise his back and begin “yowling” (loud angry meows) at the person. I’ve been bit twice by a cat. Both times, it was peeling Lucky off a dog that had come too close to me. Fearlessly, Lucky launched an attack. Since he cannot see well, he did not know I had grabbed him. Even though Lucky is a mix-breed cat, his personality is similar to a purebred.

Siamese have personalities that are quiet unique. They want to be your best friend and will walk through fire to be near their guardian. They do not tolerate being alone well. They like to be near their guardian all the time, they are smart and like to play fetch, they can open doors and closets that allude other cats, they love to lay on your lap and hang out near the bathtub when your bathing. Siamese are extremely loyal, affectionate, and smart. They can be trained to travel well, they can be fearless, and they have a long lifespan of 18-20 years. They usually do not like dogs.

If you are thinking about getting a Siamese, you may want to read about them and see if you can volunteer time at a breed rescue site. Plan on keeping your Siamese as an indoor pet since most are cross-eyed and do not see well. If you adopt or purchase a Siamese, expect a cat that demands attention, is highly vocal, and smart. If you want a cat, because you think a cat is low maintenance, you may not want a Siamese. Some people bring their Siamese to a pet shelter because they can not tolerate their demanding nature or vocal qualities. However, if you are the type of person who would love a true companion, but can’t have or do not want a dog, a Siamese can be an ideal match. In addition to their crazy antics, and affectionate nature, you may be delightfully surprised at their constant loyalty and protective qualities.

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We all know that time is precious. Time with our family, time with our pets, time for ourselves.
How do we juggle all that and work too??

That’s a huge question for everyone that runs a household and goes to work. It gets even more interesting when one works from home.

Susan the friend across the street comes by for coffee right in the middle of an important call from a client. Little Annie is chasing the dog around the house after coming in from a mud wrestling match and that call you’ve been waiting for all week has just come in, and you had to put your significant other on hold to take it, followed by Joe who comes in from playing basketball screaming at the top of his lungs that he’s broken his ankle, he’s dying please help.
The last straw has taken its place……….right on your unorganized desk.

How do you get the one’s you love to understand that you are not just “playing on the computer” all day, but running a business, the same business that feeds and clothes them and puts a roof over their heads?

It’s been a problem of mine from the start of my freelance career years ago, and I must admit that there are days when I can’t seem to get anything done no matter how hard I try. We’ve all had days like that, when you have not had a minute’s peace all day and done nothing but work and take care of others and have nothing to show for it. Not another design finished, not another article written, no dinner made or calls returned.

You can “go to work” without interruption if you “put your foot down”, and follow a few simple rules.

Decide on what hours are your “office hours”. Include 15 minute breaks, 1 hour lunches, the whole thing.
Do not let anyone sway you from the routine unless it is an absolute emergency. Tell your family and friends that from 9:00 to 3:00 or whatever time you work you are off limits. They wouldn’t call you, or walk into your office, or scream when you are on the phone if you were in a “real” office. You would get fired, and they know it would be there fault.

Sit down and make a list of rules. Make copies for everyone that is bothering you while you work. Sit them down one by one and tell them in a very nice manner that you are now “going to work” and explain how that works. Tell them you are available on the phone during your lunch hour. Or they may come over for gossip for 15 minutes.

Give them their copy of the rules. Tell them how much you appreciate their understanding, then let it go. Yes let it go, this is the scary part. Do not go against your rules. If someone tries to break one of the rules just tell them “remember, I’m at work now. I would be happy to discuss this, or do this, or whatever it is when I get off work.” This will work if you keep at it. Don’t give an inch. This isn’t to say if Patty is sick and needs to come home from school, you don’t go and get her. You would do that if you had a “real” job too. Just use common sense and see how much easier your days are.

One more thing. When your work day is over, it is over!! Do not take calls or do other business unless it is an appointment you have made in advance. That is like taking your work home with you, and no one likes to do that. Make time for you and your family during your “off” hours.

This takes some practice, but don’t feel guilty, it will take away a good deal of the “work at home” stress and make your life a lot easier.

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All the talk today is about managing change in organizations. Leaders talk about it like it is really something one can ‘manage’. Everywhere I go I see consulting practices with change leaders and much of what comes out the other end, is only slightly better than the snake oil salesmen of time gone by. So what is up with managing change?

The first thing to realize is that you cannot manage change you can only preferably lead or manage people. There is no such thing as organizational change, there is only people change. Organizations are large groups of people, yes organized in a particular way to accomplish a particular task, but they are still people. Right here is where most organizations, especially large ones, stumble when it comes to change.

Imagine with me you are looking straight at an iceberg, a huge iceberg. If you could look straight at it you’d see a small tip on top, above the water and a huge bottom, probably at least three to four times the size of what is floating above the water. Imagine this is your organization, it look a little like an org chart doesn’t it? What if we laid an organization chart over top of what you see of the iceberg?

If you did you’d see the CEO at the top sticking out of the water and his Lieutenants, the senior team as they say, sitting right out there with him. Under them around water level is where you start dropping in to middle management, according to the experts, the scourge of change management. Stick with me now and keep looking at the iceberg with the org chart overlay. Under the water level is everyone else in the organization.

The problem in today’s organizations is the gap that exists between the CEO and the work taking place down at the bottom of the iceberg. The gap has never been greater. Most CEO’s, while personally bright, articulate and politically savvy, don’t have a clue what is happening at the bottom of the iceberg. Not a single clue. And what’s worse is they don’t care. Herein is the issue of managing change, the incredible gap today between worker and boss man at the top.

There of course is the old adage of managing things and leading people and while it sounds trite there is truth to it. When you have a CEO come in like the one did at Home Depot and wreak havoc on the organization, destroy all semblance of customer service and leave with over $250 million you see the problem. He said all along he was managing change. He wasn’t managing change he was changing people to his way of doing business or else. Worked for him, he left an even richer man than when he came. And the gap, the organizational iceberg as I call it, has never been greater.

You see using the iceberg again, there is a way the organization says it does things, and then there is the way they really do things. The way they say they do things is above the line and the way they really do things is below the line. In well run organizations the gap between how you say you do it and how you really do it is small because the leaders, those above the water line, communicate, that means listen as well as talk, with those below the line. In most organizations the leaders make up change plans and simply expect their ‘orders’ to be followed. That is not going to happen in today’s world.
To manage change effectively leaders must be in tune with their organizations and not look upon their people as things, which in most organizations today, that is how they see them. Oh they have their policy manuals that say otherwise, but those manuals are high and dry, well out of the water and the bottom of the iceberg.

If you want to manage change in your organization you’re going to have to get off the top of your iceberg and get your feet wet and understand the work being done at the customer level everyday. You’re going to have to insure that your ’senior team’ does the same. You must insure you know what is going on, really going on in your organization and that you aren’t just getting the fine treatment from your so called team.

To manage change you’ll have to lead, perhaps for the first time.

Ed Kugler

Ed Kugler has been living change since the jungles of Vietnam where he was a Marine Sniper for two-years in the Vietnam War. He came home to a country he hadn’t left and began work as a mechanic and truck driver. Since then he has worked his way into the executive suite of Frito Lay, Pepsi Cola and Compaq Computer where he was Vice President of Worldwide Logistics, a position he achieved with no college degree. Ed left in 1997 to consult and write. He is the author of Dead Center - A Marine Sniper’s Two Year Odyssey in the Vietnam War and five other books and counting. He regularly consults with some o the nations leading companies on organizational change and coaches individuals to make the most of their lives. Ed is the father of three, grandfather to three and has been married to the same woman for 38 years and counting. http://www.nomorebs.com http://www.edkugler.com

If you’re fed up with your phone service, you’re certainly not alone. Phone companies are raising rates like never before and have developed a habit of “accidentally” putting bogus charges on bills in the hope that customers won’t notice. Now there’s a new type of phone service called Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP for short, and it’s being pioneered by companies like SunRocket.

This is a full serviced phone company that relies on revolutionary technology based on the Internet to bring more control over phone service and savings to its users. Originally, VoIP technology was used to bypass long distance fees by taking advantage of the fact that data transmitted over the Internet isn’t subject to long distance charges no matter how far it has to travel to get from one computer to another. Basically, VoIP converts telephone conversations into data that’s transmitted over the Internet and then converts it back to a phone conversation at the other end of the line so that you can call anywhere that you want to within the United States without paying any long distance charges.

It’s still possible to save lots of money on long distance calls using VoIP, but let’s go a step farther and take advantage of this marriage between computers and telephones to give you unprecedented control over how you communicate over the phone. There are two main ways that this is done. First, company provides you with all of the extra features and gives them to you at no added cost to your regular calling plan. These features include the one’s that we’re all familiar with like voice mail, Caller ID, and call waiting in addition to a lot of more exotic features. For example, you’ll be used your caller ID screen to see who’s calling you while you’re on the phone with someone else so you can decide whether or not you even want to use your call waiting feature. You can also dial *69 to be connected to the last person who called you, and do it at no extra charge. If you live in an area with ten digit calling, you can also set up your phone so that it dials the area code automatically and you can just dial seven digits again!

The other way to make your phone experience better is an online feature called the Member Account Manager. You can access your Member Account Manager through an computer that has an Internet connection. Once you’ve logged in, you can use your Member Account Manager to do a wide variety of things that you’ve never dreamed possible. For example, you can block your phone from accepting calls from numbers that don’t supply Caller ID information. You can also block calls from specific numbers that you don’t want to hear from. In either case, the caller will just hear a busy signal and your phone won’t even ring at all! You can also set up your the service so that voice mail notifications are sent to your cell phone in the form of text messages, or you can even have the voice mail messages themselves sent to your email address in the form of sound files that you can listen to on any computer with access to the Internet. You can download voice mail messages to your computer and listen to them whenever you want. It’s also possible to block your phone from being used to make certain types of calls that still do get charged tolls- things like directory assistance calls and international calls.

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How do you pass an IT Certification Exam with Ease? It may not seem this is a possibility to a person preparing to take one. The importance of the Certification process to the career of an IT tech and normal test anxiety are certainly going to make the whole certification process seem daunting. There are some ways to reduce this anxiety and make the entire test taking process much easier. The first thing is to realize is that the entire Certification process is designed for success. It is not meant to fail people or to reduce the number of IT techs. The goal is to create a standard knowledge level for IT techs not to weed out failures. Understanding this simple distinction and knowing that the entire system is designed to help you pass not to make you fail is the first step.

There are several ways to prepare for the test and all of them are important. There are hands on labs and extensive boot camps. There are books and study guides for each specific certification area. You can take a self test to identify your weak areas. All of these methods are designed to give you a contextual knowledge of the subject. A contextual knowledge goes beyond simple memorization of things and gives a complete understanding. It also helps to identify distracters. The idea of distracters is important because the exams are concerned with what is wrong as well as what is right. This is why the exam formats are given as multiple choice. The IT practice exam prepares you for this format.

A distracter is an answer that appears to be right and logical at first glance, but wilts under closer examination. Sometimes a distracter appears almost correct, but an alternative answer emerges as being more correct. The exams are structured this way because this is how the IT field operates. Customers might provide information that is irrelevant, confusing, not exactly correct or that confuses the issues. When you take the CompTia A+ practice exam, you will get a chance to hone your ability to sort through the wrong answers and eliminate them. This process leaves the correct choice.

The CompTia a+ Certification consists of one mandatory test and two optional tests. There is a 2003 and a 2006 version. Make sure that your study preparation is geared toward the correct test. There are separate CompTia A+ 2006 practice exams. These practice exams are extremely comprehensive. When you have passed one of them, you can be fairly certain that you will pass the actual examination with equal ease.

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If you’re feeling constrained by the high fees and limitations place on you by your home phone service, you’re definitely not along, but more importantly, there’s also something that you can do about it. That’s because there’s a new type of phone service provided by SunRocket , and it’s called Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP for short. VoIP is different from other types of phone services because it uses the power of the Internet to save you money on your phone bill and to give you more control over how you use the phone.

There are two ways to save your money. First, you save money because the monthly rates for calling plans are lower than even the basic calling plans offered by conventional phone companies. The second way that these calling plans save you money is by providing you with free long distance calls and all of the extra services that you’ve come to rely on, but the normal phone company insists on charging you extra for.

The free long distance has historically been the real benefit of using VoIP technology, but the real beauty is that you can get all of those extra features while still paying less than a normal phone service fee with its most basic plan. These extra features include tried and true classics like caller ID and call waiting, but also include plenty of others that you’ve probably never even heard of before. For example, the feature called Find Me, allows you to have a call to be forwarded to several different phones in a set sequence so that if you’re at one of those locations, you’ll be able to get the call that you’re expecting. A similar feature, called SimRing will cause phones at three different numbers to ring at all once when your number is called. That’s an even better way to make sure that you get your call.

You can also have extra phone numbers. This can be especially useful if you have more than one person living in your household who regularly gets phone calls. It can also be useful to have a business number that’s separate from your home phone number. Calls to these different numbers can be forwarded to different phones like your mobile phone or the phone in your office, or if you choose to have them all ring through the same phone, you can program each number to have a distinct ring tone. That way, if you get a business call, your kids don’t have to go running for the phone when it would be better to let you get it or to let it go to voice mail.

SunRocket puts a new spin on older types of technology, and voice mail is a great example of this. That’s because voice mail messages that you receive can be accessed online through a special Member Account Manager feature that can be accessed from any computer that’s on the Internet. Using this feature, you can listen to voice mail messages on a computer, download them to your home computer or lap top to listen to later, or you can have the messages forwarded to your email account as attachments. You can even have notification of a new voice mail message sent to you in the form of a text message. The Member Account Manager can also do plenty of other handing things like block phone numbers and forward calls to other numbers.

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The lease payments can be considered part of the purchase price if you decide to keep the car. Yet, you’ll have to make a lump sum payment to the financial institution. The amount for an average car can range between $5000 and $15.000 depending on the purchase price of the car and the terms of the leasing contract. An Unsecured Loan can easily provide such sums.

How Does Purchase Through Leasing Work?

When you lease a car, the financial institution remains proprietor of the vehicle but you can use the car as if it where yours. Since the car does not belong to you, it generates no taxes and the monthly payments can sometimes be deducted. The leasing payments are just like rent payments and are usually significantly lower than car loans’ monthly installments.

The leasing contract lasts for a specific period of time at the end of which, the lessee has different options: he can finalize the contract and return the vehicle, renew the contract and continue leasing the car, renew the contract and lease a newer vehicle or he can request the transfer of the vehicle’s property. This last option will require the lessee to pay part of the purchase prince to the financial institution and the monthly payments of the leasing contract will be then considered part of payment of the purchase price.

Unsecured Loans: Solution For Down-payment requirement

When it comes the time to put money down in order to transfer ownership of the vehicle, cash is not always available and you may want to resort to financing. The best solution for this is to apply for an unsecured loan with an amount high enough to close the deal with the financial institution. Sometimes the same lender that provided the leasing contract will be willing to offer you an unsecured loan to close the deal. But, if not, you can always apply for an unsecured loan with another lender.

Advantages And Requirements Of Unsecured Loans

One of the advantages unsecured loans provide is the fact that the loan amount can be defined by you provided that you can afford the resulting monthly payments. Thus, if your credit score and income let you afford it, you can easily obtain the amount needed to get the financial institution to bestow ownership of the vehicle to you. You can always extend the repayment schedule in order to lower the loan’s monthly payments to make sure you can afford them.

However, if your credit score is too low or if your income isn’t good enough to afford the loan payments (or you can’t prove it) you’ll have difficulties obtaining an unsecured loan. The only solution in these cases is to get the aid of a co-signer that can match the requirements for approval and provide financial aid in case you fail to meet the monthly payments on your loan.

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When asking for loans, insurance, credit cards, and so on, there is always the possibility for you to experience a rejection. The first thing you need to do is that you should check to see if your credit score is the reason for this rejection. The credit report itself is the very one that provides the necessary information for your creditors, but not only. Fortunately, regular people also have access to their credit report. A law called the fair Credit Reporting Act, is in their benefit, and through this law, any institution that might turn down your application for credit, insurance or employment is compelled to provide the client with this report, upon request, within 60 days of being notified the rejection.

There are three nationwide consumer reporting agencies, which compile the credit reports. These can also be purchased form any of these three agencies, or any other company, that offers the credit reports as part of a larger package. The total cost is not high and, those that wish to verify their credit score, are free to do so, thanks to the law, but only once every 12 months are you legally entitled to receive a copy. The initial copy is free of charge, and once you have the report, you can be your own judge, and see whether or not you have a good or bad rating. Any verification for errors of your report is also free of charge, and any discrepancies in your credit can be repaired.

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In addition to all of the features that you use most often, you will also have free access to lots of features that you’ve probably never heard of- or at least never used- but you’ll wonder how you ever lived without them. These features include things like the ability to check your voice mail and listen to voice mail messages using any computer with Internet access. You’ll also be able to easily set up three way phone calls without adding to your monthly bill. In addition, you can have the ability to access caller id information for calls coming in while you’re already on the phone. That way you can see who’s calling and decided whether you want to pick up and interrupt your current conversation or let voice mail take care of it.

The key to all of these great features is Internet based Member Account Manager feature. When you log on to Member Account Manager, you’ll be able to make a wide variety of changes to your account. For example, you’ll be able to set up your account so that calls made to your home number will be forwarded to your office number or to your mobile phone over the course of the day. You’ll also be able to have calls to your phone number forwarded to up to three other phone numbers all at the same time. That way, you can have phones ring in just about any place that you could possibly be in order to virtually guarantee that you won’t miss an important phone call. You’ll also be able to make yourself tougher to contact by blocking calls from certain specific phone numbers from getting through. You can block any call coming from an anonymous number that won’t offer data for your caller id, and you can even put your phone into “Do Not Disturb” mode which will channel any calls into your voice mail, or deny them altogether.

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