Archive for August 9th, 2008

by Alice Sy

Many Filipinos are leaving their native country, the Philippines, to search for a better life, for a better future for their families. Many of these Filipinos end up working as Filipino maids in foreign lands, particularly in the United States, England, Italy, Greece, France, and in practically every country of the globe.

In certain countries abroad, such as in England, only the wealthy and the powerful can afford the services of a female Filipino servant, so having one at home only indicates that that family belongs to the upper class. The rich in Italy have also taken notice of the good qualities of a Filipino servant.

It is a known fact that Filipinos are known for its incomparable traits - hardworking, hospitable, and honest. These simple virtues are the very passport why Filipino helpers are very in demand abroad.No servant ever wakes up at four or five in the morning and sleeps at midnight but the Filipino. Much more, no is content in scrubbing the floor, or cleaning the toilet bowl but the Filipino.

Foremost, Filipinos are highlighted by their loyalty and dedication to their employees. Since they are thousands of miles away from their families, they have no one to channel their emotions and longing for their children. That is why Filipino helprs are so endeared to their employers that they treat them as their family. In return, their boss also reciprocates them and treats them also as part of their family. So, don’t wonder if your balikbayan relative gets home quiet emotional or carrying photo albums with pictures of her employee. Yes, they value family much and to a Filipino, her employees are also her family.

Another advantage that a Filipino servant can have over maids from other nationalities is their knack to speak and understand the English language. Filipinos are generally more learned and educated. They understand English better, and can speak the language with ease and confidence that can be rarely found in maids coming from other countries. Also, they are more easily able to adapt to the speaking dialect of the country they are in, wherever that may be.

Filipino helpers are also known for their ability to establish a close bond with their employers. Being far away from home, they have nobody else but each other, so in many cases, they consider their employers to be members of their own family.

Aside from these, Filipino helpers are generally very warm, sensitive, and affectionate, thus they can easily bond to their foreign employers, considering them as their own families. Because they are so far away from home, they tend to treat their employers as their closest kin. Their employers, touched by this show of affection, also treat these maidservants from the Philippines as part of their family. Because of this, it sort of becomes a habit for these maids to bring pictures and stories of their employers when they go home to the Philippines.

Filipino maids in foreign lands are a pride of the Philippines. They give honor and prestige to their mother country because of their dedication and loyalty in the performance of their job abroad.

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by Ethan Hunter

Computer speed check downloads are available on the Internet which allow you to test the speed of your computer CPU. You could also utilize one of the free versions to check your CPU speed, and there are several which offer web-based computer speed check tools. There are two kinds of speed checks that are performed on computers, one being your CPU and related hardware speed, and the other is the bandwidth speed of your Internet service as related to your PC.

The speed of your computer CPU is measured by the actual performance of the CPU unit in your PC. The software utilized ideally indicates whether your CPU is over-clocked (which means if your CPU is running at a higher speed than that specified by the manufacturer), the CPU is running faster than it is rated for, or if your CPU is running in its specified speed range.

The rated speed of the CPU in your computer can be accessed on any of the Pentium 4 or later versions of CPUs. Under normal circumstances, this is the speed at which the CPU should be operating. Other than this, the CPU may be running at a lower clock rate than the one specified by the vendor. Specific computer speed check software provides detailed descriptions of the different levels of cache that the CPU supports, and the larger the cache size that it supports, the faster is your computer. The speed check tool also measures memory speed in your PC, which is the rate at which data is transferred between the memory and the CPU. This is done by having memory to memory transfer of a large volume of data, and the rate is calculated from the time taken to complete the data transfer.

The speed of your PC does not depend on the clock speed of the CPU in your computer. Computer speed check tools are used for measuring other speed related critical factors which go on to determine the overall speed of your system. They are also used for determining the speed of your network and your Internet access speed. Advanced computer speed check software provides you with a control panel and a separate graphical window in which the speed related parameters of your PC are displayed. The control panel lets you to change the parameter settings to view different test results under different conditions.

The CPU speed and memory timings in your computer are controlled by the settings in your BIOS. There could be several reasons for your PC to slow down. It could be lower CPU speed, or there might be something wrong with your memory timings. To find out the actual speed of the CPU in your PC, computer speed check utility provides the actual measured speed of the CPU. Depending on the features available, the tool also provides you with information regarding the other speed components in your PC. The analysis provided by the utility could be used to find out the reason your computer is running slow.

Most of the present BIOS found in PCs today can automatically detect the type of CPU being used, and it also sets the clock timings for the CPU in your computer. The overall functioning of your PC depends upon the CPU speed, front side bus speed, and the multiplier factor. The “bus” in a computer is all about data transport. If the speed in transporting data somehow gets low, the overall speed of your computer will get slow. There are several computer speed check downloads available on the Internet offering various features from simply checking the speed of your CPU to presentation of a comprehensive report on speed related functioning of the PC.

The clock speed of your CPU could be set from your BIOS. This is done basically by setting the multiplier, which determines the overall CPU clock speed. Take the example of a processor having a speed of 550 MHz with a front side bus speed of 100 MHz. This would mean that the multiplier has been set to 5.5 times the speed of the front side bus, which in effect makes the processor work at 550 MHz. Before you set the CPU speed through your BIOS, you Sneed to find out the various parameter values that are governing the speed factor in your PC. Computer speed check software provides you with all the information that you require for setting the CPU speed correctly in your PC.

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by Paul K. Smith

When online dating was introduced in the 1990’s it certainly seems like a very strange weird concept, and no one would have anticipated the exponential growth of this industry that was about to happen. During that period, not many people have access to the Internet, let alone own a PC. Metaphorically, the tiny little acorn seed grew into the giant oak tree it is today; online dating has indeed come a long way from its humble beginnings back in the 1990’s.

There are many who would testify to the effectiveness of online dating to search for their ideal mate. Feeling doubtful? Ask any of your friends. At this age, it is almost impossible to find someone who has never tried online dating before.

There are many reasons why online dating continues to remain a popular application, and here are three of them.

If you wish, you can remain anonymous. You don’t have to disclose your real name, address or pone number until you feel really sure. There will be a time when you feel safe to reveal such information. You can give your photos only to a selected few. But if you decide to do so, you will get more responses. By remaining anonymous you can surf the site you join.

You can have more choices online. Before the world of online dating came of age, the choice of friends and even of lifetime partners was limited to those we came in contact with through college or work. No more the world is your oyster; you can go through hundreds even thousands of profiles to find the right man for you.

Online dating is very safe. Most online dating sites value privacy as the most important factor. You can choose who gets your personal data and who should not.

These are fast ways to make a man start looking elsewhere if you are in an online relationship. These things are certain to put a quick and final end to any further communications with him.

Do not ever open a chapter and bore him with your life story. You will bore him to death For example, if he asks how many sibling you have, he just wants to know how many you have. He is waiting to hear a number. Keep the answer as brief as possible.

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by Derek Gehl

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And be sure to listen to your “inner radar”.

Do your research and ask lots of questions. If you follow these guidelines, chances are you will make the right decisions and pursue the right opportunities.

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