Affordable relaxation

For the working class of the society today the word relaxation is not always a commodity. People have to work hard due to the high cost of living and the economic turmoil that affects the global community. During the holidays the working class spend their time at home doing chores and other things they need to do because this is only the time they have to spend it at home. If a person does not have time to relax stress usually comes in and sometimes completely takes over the human body. When this situation comes the person will be weak and unable to efficiently deliver his duties and responsibilities at work and at home.

A company that offers an alternative way to relax at home through affordable and high quality infrared saunas that delivers health benefits such as pain relief and joint stiffness due to wrong ergonomic position while working. These saunas also offers relief on Asthma, menstruation pains, sore throats and sunburns. The carbon wave 360 degrees technology is considered to be the best and affordable way to beat stress. It is quiet affordable and easy to maintain compared to the relief it offers. As a worker we should consider relaxing and detoxifying ourselves and far infrared saunas are the best alternative. It helps the working class relax and detoxify at the pleasure of their own homes. This will allow them to spend more quality time with their own family and help them maintain a good and healthy body.

Affordable travel entertainment

Today's car designs are designed for riding comfort and durability for long road travels. Majority of the major car makers are concentrating on aspects related to driving comfort and engine power. Traveling today with this major changes on car design makes an adult comfortable and satisfied with each brand of cars. A segment in the auto market that is not been fully developed is the entertainment for children as well as adults alike. Automakers usually provides the standard 3 way speakers and car stereo as form of entertainment for long travels. For some adults having these kind of entertainment system for cars is not enough. An alternative entertainment system is made available in the market today for those car owners that requires more that the standard car features. Some examples of these alternative entertainment systems are CD players and Portable DVD which allows children to watch their favorite movies while traveling with their parents. Although having portable DVD are dangerous during driving it has also its positive side if these entertainment system are being utilized properly. To put the concept of safety while traveling the portable DVD should be placed at the back portion of the vehicle where the children rides.

Their are various choices when buying a DVD. It depends on the requirement of the user and his budget. Their are units that are design to satisfy the simple requirements of customers. A DVD unit is also design to meet the requirements of the advance users which requires more that what the conventional entertainment system can offer like players for SUV vehicles. The last option would be the players for the most sophisticated users in the market. It is considered to be the most expensive but these advance players can provide the outermost needs of the advance market segment. For the consumers it will always be what they need and how they will use these beneficial entertainment system. It should be quality and efficiency that is important among all aspects of the purchase.

Terror

Terrorism is commonly linked to people like Osama bin Laden or the Abu Sayaff. It is a commonly use word by powerful government to justify its acts that can also be considered as terrorism. If we deeply look into society nowadays we could see a lot of perception about leadership and struggle among people to take control of the most coveted thing in Earth and it is called " power". It is a sad reality that everywhere around the globe people are fighting for control of the government and the resources it "owns". The great example of this are countries in Africa and the Southeast Asia where military leaders and politicians crush each other using the mandate the people has given them through election. It seems that there is a never ending vicious cycle of violence and distrust among leaders that leads to acts of terrorism. If we only looked at thing as it is we can see terrorism as an act of violence but if we look at things beyond we can see that terrorism is commonly done on emerging economies.Then we start to wonder if this things are done to manipulate an economy and let it submit to the "most powerful ones". Whatever the reason is for this people to do things that waste human life in the end time will catch up with them and maybe they will realize that everything we do in this life is always counted and will be rewarded for the good deeds and be punished with those deeds that are bad.

Music in a touch

Today’s technological advancement has made almost everything available for use. It is quiet amazing to see how constant research and advancement has been providing mankind with equipment that can make almost everything efficient and handy. One great example is the transistor. It started out as an invention that transmitted sound waves then eventually evolved in a radio. On the early 1900’s American homes are filled with radios as the main source of entertainment through music. The transistor has evolved from a big and bulky machine into a small and powerful source of entertainment with increase efficiency and quality.

detailed source of personal entertainment
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In the 20th century society has become more complicated and requires a great deal of personalized products. Although radio have continually worked on better programs some people requires for “personal touch” with their entertainment with this requirement a company ventured into providing customers with personalized entertainment with a bigger capacity for storing information. The IPOD touch is a product that is produced to cater a market segment that requires a personalized music choice and together with a great capacity for information storage.The Ipod Nano is one of the example of a small and powerful object is the most sophisticated and advance material the market can offer for people that requires a very detailed source of personal entertainment.It is also quite affordable and a great gift ideas and gifts for young people that is always active. In the end what matters most is the satisfaction of the user and that is why the IPOD was created. It 's vision is to be in the forefront of the market providing customers with high quality information storage and entertainment affordable and easy to use. There are a wide array of IPod the market can choose from and it varies on prices and capabilities and the company has an online Prices comparison sites for customers that has no time going to stores.

Rain out

For the past few days it has been raining on the plantation and it seems hopeless to continue our operations when this event happens. Agriculture needs rain and we are thankful when it comes. The only problem is that our worker’s efficiency and health are affected when it rains. Their movement is restricted due to the muddy terrain of the area. They cannot perform their duties well due to the fear of getting sick and losing a day of work due to economic reasons. If these things happen the quality of our fruits go bad. There is a direct relationship between quality and workers in relation to efficiency and absences. As a plantation man I am usually in a dilemma when it rains. It is for the reason that I am afraid that our quality will not be acceptable for the export market when our workers miss a day of critical operations. On the other side I am also bent on calling a “rain out” this means that all workers may leave the work site and they will be paid without doing any work for the company. It may sound easy but in the field you get to choose between to evils. You get to choose between a company loss amounting to millions or the feelings of your subordinates and their health. In this situation I usually find the middle ground and make the ends meet. Export quality fruits are very hard to achieve and it takes careful planning, a good amount of rain plus workers efficient and healthy workers.

Quality and Accurate Translation

India is a vast and highly populated country. It is considered to be a major economic hub and trading partner of the major economies of the world. India as a continent plays a major role in industry such as manufacturing. Its heritage and unique people comes from an ancient culture and language. As a major economic player companies in India must communicate globally to other business partners abroad. The Indian language is quite popular but to understand it properly a need for a language translator is necessary.

A company that is considered the best in India specializes in culturally accurate language translations. IAFL translation & Interpretation services is a translation company that specializes on Sanskrit translation http://www.blogsvertise.com/page1.php?u=2 on Indian and west Asian market segments. As a company its major assets is its responsiveness to it clients whether it is a major or minor request in terms of its offered services. The company is proud to of its 95 % responsive rate in just one hour for all emails and inquiries from its customers.

The company offers subtitling, DTP, in Indian and other language and offers its clients a very competitive edge to survive in their respective business. IAFL translation & Interpretation services exist due to its never ending commitment to high quality translation and its goal for customer satisfactions.

Sanskrit Translation

India is a vast and highly populated country. It is considered to be a major economic hub and trading partner of the major economies of the world. India as a continent plays a major role in industry such as manufacturing. Its heritage and unique people comes from an ancient culture and language. As a major economic player companies in India must communicate globally to other business partners abroad. The Indian language is quite popular but to understand it properly a need for a language translator is necessary.

A company that is considered the best in India specializes in culturally accurate Sanskrit Translation offers a wide array of services customized for its clients and customers .IAFL translation & Interpretation services is a translation company that specializes on Sanskrit language translations on Indian and west Asian market segments. As a company its major assets is its responsiveness to it clients whether it is a major or minor request in terms of its offered services. The company is proud to of its 95 % responsive rate in just one hour for all emails and inquiries from its customers.

The company offers subtitling, DTP, in Indian and other language and offers its clients a very competitive edge to survive in their respective business. IAFL translation & Interpretation services exist due to its never ending commitment to high quality translation and its goal for customer satisfactions.

Passion

The year 2008 has ended for us in the banana industry and we are now reconciling what we have achieved for the past year. What was really fascinating is that some of our farms achieved their commitments in a very easy way and some fought for their commitments hard. My farm had the biggest deficit in the beginning of the year but we managed to close the gap by the end of the year. When I think about our struggle this year I have realized that in this job having an experience maybe a plus but it can never be the only weapon to succeed. In every job we also need passion and commitment towards our work and the goal of the company. We need to inculcate in ourselves that the only way to survive the harsh corporate jungle is to adopt and extend our imagination. Everybody in the corporate jungle are equipped with the basic weapon to survive but the person who is passionate and smart will eventually lead the pack and become the leaders of their own groups.

Discrimination

A company that has discriminating officers will never succeed. A team will never be complete if one player is missing. The sacred duty of a company officer is to see to it that all his subordinates are accounted for and he must know the functions of everyone. It is the duty of an officer to look after everyone and weigh everybody in terms of his task and the quality of his task. As a middle manager level man I have seen high ranking and first level supervisors discriminate a subordinate just because he does not like him. I too fell to the same mistakes sometimes but what I have learned is that being impartial will always help us succeed in every task that we do. As leaders we should be professionals and we must always look at things and analyze before we judge. Emotions must never be a tool for managers. Leaders must act according to what is right and lawful. A leader must realize that discrimination should never be allowed in his group or department. I have been assigned to different plantations before and I have dealt with different kinds of people and I have brought the best out of them. My best secret is " love the unlovable, open your eyes". This principles have guided me and showed me the path to success. I hope that we should realize that as leaders we must always be impartial.

Management Succession

I had a brief conversation with my boss about the management succession for our company for the next few years. We started to review the supervisors of different operations with regards to their potential and educational attainment. Upon reviewing the line up of supervisors from different plantation we saw the disparity of the distribution of front liners for every plantation. We immediately noticed that some of our plantations had a very old line up with limited educational background. We call this people “old timers”. These supervisors are considered to be very experience in terms of technical knowledge gained from their long stint in banana plantations. We also noticed that some plantations have literally less experienced supervisors but has the expected minimum requirement of a college degree to become first level supervisors.


If we really analyze the situation of our company we can really see that our manpower pool is very weak. It is likened to a basketball team that has a good first five but has a very shallow bench. The potential problem now is the next generations of supervisors. Our management failed to realize that training and development of people is a major component of a company. I hope that they will realize that we need people that plans and implements. What we have now as of the moment are implementers only. A short term plan should be installed to beef up the knowledge, skills and attitude of our middle management team our else the boat will slowly sink.

Doing things right all the time

The year 2008 has come to a near end. For us “bananeros” our production reckoning ends by October. For the past three years my plantation has achieved its production commitments to the market and this year it has made a 12% increase in production. We have been preparing extensively for our commitments next year and I was trying to review our management strategies that proved to be useful for our organization. I immediately noticed that we never changed anything for the past three years. I realized that our principles as a team and our values as employees are the things that helped us achieved such a feat. The greatest secret of our team is the principle of “doing things right on the first time and all the time”. The said strategy has made our goal easier to achieve and our team a cohesive one. Also a factor that needs to be looked at is communication and consistency. Our team is composed of very young people and lack experience is a common factor but we tried to communicate and carefully implemented plans and monitored our progress every week. On one of our management meeting I was asked by our big boss what is the strategy that we are doing in the field and I promptly replied we are just following one principle of “doing things right on the first time and all the time and a lot of common sense will do sir”

Managing the essentials

For the past 2 days I have been extensively walking around my plantation and reviewing my supervisors strategies and work plan for our production next year. On the first few blocks of the farm that I have visited I noticed a lot of small things that needs to be corrected. I saw a great urgency on correcting everything immediately because I was worried that it might affect the quality of my fruits for next year's harvest. I called up the supervisor in-charge plus the foreman and discussed to them what are my observations about their farm. As I was talking to my subordinates I was amazed by the way they react. It seems to me that they were surprised when I talked to them about the petty things inside the farm. After the meeting I called up my supervisors and we talked about other things outside of work. One of my trusted man open up to me that they were surprised of what I was talking about. He told me that it was the first time that I have discussed small matters to them. I just smiled and realized that maybe he was right. It has never been my management principle to touch on small things that supervisors could handle. It seems so tiring when you look at very small things inside an agricultural plantation. It is like a maze with no end. I realized that my strategy before was working fine. I just look at things that is essential for production and leave the rest to my subordinates. After all everybody in the team must do their jobs.

Financial Storm

The financial storm has arrived in great fashion. It shook the world with tenacity that it spared no one that came against its tide. On September 2008 the most shocking news came and was heard around the globe. Lehman Brothers, a company that has been in existence for more than a hundred years has declared bankruptcy. This investment bank has been ranked 4th biggest in the United States was rocked by the financial storm and was never able to recover. AIG also announced that it will be selling some assets to pay its ballooning debts causing panic among its investors. Merrill Lynch was rescued and sold to the Bank of America. The major banks in Europe have signaled that they are also in trouble and Iceland nearly went into bankruptcy. How did this happen? Will this global phenomenon affect the Philippines? How can we as ordinary worker survive this storm?



An initial study shows that the primary reason for the financial bubble can be attributed to the relaxed banking system of the US and the UK. The current policies of easy credit (1 % US Fed rates) and the commercial banks (Zero down payments) policies are encouraging sub prime borrowers (minimum wage earners) to borrow money and invest on sub urban homes on the premise that home prices will forever increase. Home ownership has been always the dream of the American middle class families. It has been part of the becoming “rich” dream together with a bad financial management concept. Americans are considered to be the world’s biggest consumer of cheap products making China its biggest supplier of cheap goods.


The Philippines is a small country, it is considered to have a stiff regulations on its banking and financial system. Its investors are more cautious due to the erratic situation in the west. Liquidity and Solvency should be manageable for as long as Filipinos continue to Trust the banking system to function normally. The asset of the Philippines is the contribution of OFW’s which help sustain the dollar fund strain. A fearful situation would be a trade cut offs of our trade partner countries that will cause mass lay off of workers on our side.


For the ordinary workers the best thing to do is to control spending and save money as of the moment. The storm has just begun and we don’t know what lies ahead. Our country depends on the financial policies of the west to survive. We must be careful on spending our cash and think a lot of times before buying something we don’t need.

Zero Defects

I have attended a quality meeting with Sumifru Philippines officers last November 4-5, 2008 at Marco Polo Davao. The entire meeting was focused on Quality and with the theme “Strengthening the Basics”. Sumifru as a company is handling about 30 million boxes a year and it exports to many markets such as Japan, Middle East, Korea, China and New Zealand. The company that I am working for is producing around 3 million boxes per year. We are concentrating on the chem.-less market segment. The top man of Sumifru stressed it to us that Quality is the most important thing in the market today. As part of the food business our customers always demands for good quality in terms of food safety, taste and appearance. He emphasized that with the current financial crisis today our customers or the general consumer are withholding their spending and they will prioritize only their basic needs. The banana market has many competitors and we need to protect our market chunk for us to be able to pass thru this storm. It is always a practice for big corporations to put a tolerable level of mistakes for any operations but he told us that his philosophy is that one supermarket is equally important to a single consumer. He does not want to lose any of our customers in all our markets as he personally goes through every single complaint from our market sponsors. In the end we realized why a culture of Quality must be installed in our respective companies as it is most likely that a company with good management foundations will survive the big waves of the financial storm.