Enjoy Lucid Dreams
Intermission for Lucid Dreaming
Lucid dreaming is the act of taking control of your dreams to change the world around you and enjoy living out a virtual sort of fantasy within your head. Even the best virtual reality programming is still hundreds of years behind the brain's own ability to create realities both wonderful and mysterious. We spend around one third of our lives asleep. Imagine living an adventure in paradise a third of your life from here on out with our program.Learn Now to Lucid Dream Tonight - Click Here
Our Ultimate Reality is a highly acclaimed book that is changing the lives of thousands of people. Hre you will find out why.
Our Ultimate Reality.
Enjoy Lucid Dreams
Intermission for Lucid Dreaming
Lucid dreaming is the act of taking control of your dreams to change the world around you and enjoy living out a virtual sort of fantasy within your head. Even the best virtual reality programming is still hundreds of years behind the brain’s own ability to create realities both wonderful and mysterious. We spend around one third of our lives asleep. Imagine living an adventure in paradise a third of your life from here on out with our program.
Open Your Chakra
Intermission for Chakra Stimulation
Chakra Stimulation is an ancient art used by Practitioners of Yoga and Meditation experts to heighten spiritual awareness. Spiritual energy is the core of every ability you possess, and Chakras are the factories of this spiritual energy. The Chakras, or energy centers, act as a "pump" which direct spiritual energy through the body. For example, Earth energy is drawn up through your Root Chakra and passed to the Sacral Chakra which is then passed to the Solar Plexus, then the heart, then throat, brow, and finally the crown.
Our Ultimate Reality is a highly acclaimed book that is changing the lives of thousands of people. Hre you will find out why.
Our Ultimate Reality.
Nayaswami Asha delivers sunday sermon at Ananda Sangha temple in Palo Alto, California.
The New Masters Of Spirituality Package
How To Teach Spirituality to Kids
Author: Scott Turansky
No matter how long you’ve been a believer, you can teach your children tremendous spiritual lessons. The key is to first be growing spiritually yourself and then passing truths on to your kids.
Deuteronomy 6:7-9 gives the instructions, “These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.”
Notice that the first job of any parent is to nurture their own relationship with God and to cherish the principles of God’s Word in your own heart. Parenting has a way of forcing you to prayer and the study of the Bible. It’s not too long before any parent realizes that help is needed for raising a child. God is the one who changes a child’s heart, and parents are just the vehicles that God uses in the process. Parents are partners with the God of the universe to bring about heart change.
Some parents make the mistake of delegating the spiritual training of children to the church, believing that they’re doing their spiritual duty by taking their kids to Sunday School and youth group. The church is a great support but it can’t take the place of the home when it comes to passing on a spiritual heritage. Even if you’ve chosen to send your children to a Christian school, you’ll want to retain the role of primary spiritual trainer of your children.
Your spiritual transparency at home will do a lot to help open spiritual windows for your child. Take time to pray with your kids about the challenges they face, and thank the Lord for his answered prayers. You might say, “Son, I’m not feeling well today. Would you please pray for me before I go to work?” Or, “I’ll be praying for you and your test today. I’ll be eager to hear how it goes.” Some parents only pray before meals or at bedtime but you want your kids to know that God is available all the time. Prayer makes that truth a reality.
Be creative in teaching kids the value of their spiritual growth. You might keep a growth chart on the back of a door to measure a child’s physical growth. Right next to it jot down milestones of spiritual growth and development like a child’s first communion, baptism, and when they took opportunity to share the faith or enjoy an answer to prayer.
Informal discussions about God provide children with in-life opportunities to see how faith applies to experience. As children see you talking about the Lord during daily activity they’ll recognize the relevance of their spiritual lives. Also take time to set up some kind of formal spiritual training, but be sure to make it fun. The best devotions in family life don’t usually happen around a table. With young children you might tell a Bible story in the closet with a flashlight. With an older child you might use a science experiment or cooking exercise to illustrate a spiritual truth.
Past Life Regression
Past Life Info Break
Don't repeat the mistakes of past lives! Learn what you may have done wrong in a past life so you may live a life free from these mistakes now. The cycle of life is not a new concept, but has been around for thousands of years. Whether the memories gained from this profound learning experience are actually retained from past lives, or are merely wisdom passed to us from kindred spirits that stay with our minds is still a point of controversy.
Discover Your Past Lives Now - Click Here
One dad said, “We boiled three objects, a carrot, an egg, and coffee beans, and talked about the heat in our own lives and what it does to us. Some people are like the carrot and become more limp and weak with pressure. Some are like the egg and become more hardened to life. And some are like the coffee beans that use the heat to influence their world with a pleasant smell and a nice drink.” They laughed together as they talked around the stove and Dad gave several examples of people he knew that acted like carrots or eggs.
Dad used the story of Joseph in Genesis to talk about the benefits of trials and suffering. Joseph was mistreated by his brothers, sold into slavery, mistreated by Potiphar’s wife, thrown into prison, but he kept coming back. He was able to respond well in the midst of difficult problems that came into his life.
Dad reported that the activity was fun for their family but he continued, “A couple of days later my son came home from school and said, ‘I was like the coffee, Dad.’ I didn’t know what he meant but he went on to tell me that there was a problem at school that he handled well and remembered the coffee beans we’d boiled.”
Even if your mate isn’t working with you on the spiritual training of the children, you do it faithfully and you’ll see great rewards. One mom said, “I used to be discouraged because my husband wouldn’t lead a devotion time in our family. I had to get over that because I knew that my kids needed spiritual training and I could give it to them. The amazing thing was that as I began teaching spiritual truths to my kids, my husband became more interested as well. It wasn’t long before he was also leading spiritually with the kids.”
Creativity can be a challenge sometimes. The most important thing is that you are transparent with your kids. If you are growing spiritually and sharing that with your children it’ll make an impact on their hearts. Don’t minimize the importance of spiritual training. Sometimes sports, academics, and extra activities crowd out the most important things in a child’s life. Remember that teaching spiritual truths to children isn’t optional. It’s part of our God-given responsibility. Many parents work hard to leave a financial inheritance for their kids. Don’t forget to also leave a spiritual heritage for them by training them spiritually.
Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/parenting-articles/how-to-teach-spirituality-to-kids-5066612.html
About the Author
Dr. Scott Turansky and Joanne Miller, RN, BSN are the co-founders of the National Center for Biblical Parenting and Biblical Parenting University. You can learn more about them at http://www.biblicalparenting.org or http://www.biblicalparentinguniversity.com. They have written several books on parenting and have three video training programs for parent development. They teach parenting seminars most weekends in the year and have over 80 trained presenters around the country to also teach parenting seminars on their behalf.
Our Ultimate Reality is a highly acclaimed book that is changing the lives of thousands of people. Hre you will find out why.
Our Ultimate Reality.
11 Resolutions for Business Growth in 2011
Author: Sharon Lane
If your operating budget or your marketing plan looks like it did five years ago, two years ago or even last year, there’s a problem.
With every advancement in technology, with every emerging social platform and with every shift from the desktop to the cloud, the ways people communicate, the ways your customers make decisions and the ways your employees work will continue to evolve. To stay ahead in today’s marketplace, your business growth strategies and tactics must evolve right along with them.
Here are 11 resolutions that you must make for your business to achieve success in 2011 and beyond:
Shed your excess baggage.
You’ll never get ahead as long as you’re the one impeding your own progress.
In today’s economic climate, efficiency is the number one rule of survival. The future of business is leaner, smarter and more responsive. It’s time to take a look at your operating expenses and see what you can reduce or eliminate.
Now that technology has made it possible to do business anywhere and at any time, do you still need to maintain a spacious physical office and everything that goes into supporting and maintaining it: utilities, landline phone systems, servers, furnishings, cleaning services, etc.?
Or is it time to consider shedding that office and all of its outmoded systems in favor of transitioning to a virtual operating model and reaping the benefits of lower expenses, increased efficiency, higher employee satisfaction and – most importantly – greater profitability?
Even if you’re not ready to fully commit to making the virtual leap just yet, there are still plenty of things you can do to lighten the burden of the reoccurring expenses you carry.
A great first step is to look to the cloud. Today there are excellent cloud-based solutions for everything from project management to accounting and even CRM. Google Apps alone added over 60 new business-focused web-based apps in 2010.
These tools are lighter, more flexible and more affordable than their traditional personal-computer-based counterparts, making the business of running your business more efficient and less costly.
From Basecamp for project management to Grasshopper’s virtual phone systems to Skype for voice and video conferencing to Dropbox for online file sharing and synchronization, these systems are designed to promote productivity and facilitate collaboration among your employees, whether they are tethered to a cubicle or working from a home office.
So even if you can’t yet throw away the keys to your office, you can at the very least reduce your dependence upon phone systems, printers, paper, filing cabinets, on-site data storage and back-ups…the list goes on and on.
Bow to the tribe.
Just ask Digg, Toyota, Apple or Gap: What the tribe says can make you or break you.
What is a tribe? At its core, it’s a group of people that connect around common goals, interests or needs.
If you want to grow in today’s marketplace, you must identify, become a member of and lead the tribes that are relevant to your business. Moreover, your products or services must be shaped around meeting the needs of its members and making their lives better or easier.
Fortunately, the evolution of social media has stripped away the communication barriers that once divided companies and their tribes. Take advantage of having direct access to your customers and their opinions and engage them in your business operation.
Keep them informed about what you are doing. Ask for their honest feedback, not just about what you’re doing right but also about what you’re doing wrong and how you can do better. By listening and responding, you’ll solidify their trust and earn their continued loyalty.
For evidence of the power of tribes, look no further than Gap’s disastrous attempt to launch a new logo in October 2010. According the company, the logo was intended to signify Gap’s transition from “classic, American design to modern, sexy, cool.” However, in actuality, it raised the ire of their tribe and sparked a wave of embarrassing publicity.
While a simple logo redesign might seem like just a superficial cosmetic change, when Gap’s tribe saw their familiar brand icon fall by the wayside, they interpreted it as an indication that the company’s traditional style and values would soon follow suit. In response to this vehement backlash, Gap swiftly scrapped the new logo and reinstated the classic blue box, and in doing so, they recovered the trust and loyalty of their tribe.
Get out of your corporate comfort zone.
In order to engage with your tribe and relate to them in an authentic way, your company must be human in every way.
What does this mean? Think about qualities that are uniquely human. These include passion, sincerity and humility, just to name a few.
Humans take the time to understand, so be accessible, responsive and generous with your expertise and assistance.
Humans make mistakes, and they apologize for those mistakes. Don’t be afraid to show the world your flaws. Instead, be honest, accountable and trustworthy.
Taking ownership of a problem isn’t the same as taking blame. Your end game shouldn’t be saving face at all costs; it should be demonstrating that despite the inevitable misstep, you always have your customers’ best interests at heart.
People want to do business with people who genuinely care about them and understand their needs, not faceless corporations whose only concern is the bottom line. When you engage in real, authentic relationships, you create fans who are not only loyal customers but also brand evangelists that do your marketing for you.
Don’t just be likable, be indispensable.
The omnipresence of Facebook has turned the act of “liking” into its own unique form of currency. Brands engage in hot pursuit of being “liked” as if the acquisition of that status in and of itself is the culmination of the company-customer relationship.
However, competing in this rat race makes it easy to lose sight of the bigger picture. In today’s economic climate, customers don’t easily part with their hard-earned dollars – unless, that is, they simply can’t live without you.
It’s time to re-examine your value, not just in terms of price but in terms of what it is that your customers have come to depend on you for and how you can give them even more.
For instance, a Maytag washer might initially cost more than a comparable model from GE or Whirlpool, but their customers also know that they can expect reliable, worry-free service for years to come, which will ultimately save them the time, hassle and expense of repair or replacement.
What aspects of your competitive landscape can you own? Is it service? Is it convenience? It is reliability?
Make sure that you address the needs of your tribe and make their lives better or easier in meaningful ways that no one else can duplicate. In doing so, you’ll transform your products or services from mere commodities to indispensable necessities.
Stop treating your website like a brochure.
What separates the superstar websites from the rest?
It’s not pretty pictures or flowery copy.
It’s not flashy graphics – or Flash, for that matter.
It’s not videos or animation or any of the other bells and whistles in and of themselves.
It’s achieving the right balance of form and function, of design and functionality.
Stop wasting opportunities to grow your business with a website that doesn’t truly perform. It’s no longer enough for your website to sit like a brochure on glass and provide just the basic ABCs about your company.
In fact, the term “website design” itself is a bit misleading. While your site can and should be beautiful, more importantly, it must be useful.
Perhaps there’s no better case for this argument than Facebook. Facebook is hardly the most beautiful website ever built. However, it serves its purpose well, and it’s simple enough to navigate that everyone from your 10-year-old cousin to your 80-year-old grandmother can use it with relative ease.
Remote Viewing
Intermission for Remote Viewing
Using your mind's own innate psychic abilities, you can actually learn how to project your thoughts and see objects far beyond what your eyes can see. Using the remote viewing ability you can increase your awareness to the point of seeing events and locations impossible for you to observe previously. Remote viewing has been a subject of sincere research by the intelligence community of several world governments, including the US for years.Try Remote Viewing for Yourself - Click Here
People love apps and for good reason: they’re intuitive to use, they’re focused and they serve a specific purpose.
You should keep this mentality in mind with regard to the way your website functions. People come to your site for a reason, and they have specific needs that need to be addressed.
When they land on your site, don’t make them think too much. Instead, point them in the right direction. Your goal should be to provide a useful web-based extension of your company that’s available 24/7 and provides the path of least resistance for your customers to reach the resources, information and products they seek.
Go organic.
Once upon a time, it was easy to ensure that whenever someone was searching for the types of products and services that you offer, you’d be in front of them. Every year you’d write a check (albeit a big one) to the Yellow Pages and then just sit back and wait for the phone to ring.
But in today’s marketplace, when people have a question, want information or need to find a product or service, they don’t flip open the phone book, and they don’t scour online directories.
Instinctively, they turn to search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing. As a result, these sites are the gatekeepers between you and prospects who are looking for a solution that you can provide. With over 16 billion searches performed in November 2010 alone, there’s clearly much to be gained from appearing in the first few results when someone enters keywords that pertain to the products or services that you offer.
However, unlike in the days when the Yellow Pages ruled the world, you can’t buy your way to prominence on an organic search results page. Instead, you must commit to an ongoing, dedicated investment of time and resources to work your way up through the rankings of a search using legitimate, proven search engine optimization tactics.
While there’s no easy or instant way to jump from page 10 to page one, over time, your patience and persistence will be rewarded with better ranking, greater traffic coming to your site, more prospects seeing what you have to offer and increased opportunities to convert visitors into customers.
Be everywhere all the time.
To compete in today’s on-demand culture, you need to ensure that you’re available to your customers on their timetable and on the platform of their choosing.
No longer are people usually sitting in front of a computer when they’re searching for answers to their questions and problems. With the proliferation of smartphones and tablets, mobile browsing is on the rise.According to data from comScore, in October 2010, approximately 36 percent of mobile subscribers used their devices to browse the web, while 34 percent downloaded apps and 24 percent accessed blogs or social networking sites.
It’s critical to make sure that when your customers are out and about, you’re in their pocket and along for the ride. The first step is optimizing your site for the mobile Web to ensure that it is small-screen-friendly and that browsing on the go is a pleasant and efficient process. There’s nothing more frustrating for your customers than when they’re in a hurry and waiting for your image-saturated website to load on their Android or struggling to navigate your drop-down menus on their iPhone.
Simply put, mobile web development is a trend that you simply can’t afford to ignore any longer. Your customers won’t understand or tolerate your failure to keep up and will keep browsing until they find someone else who can provide what they want when and where they want it.
Break out of your social bubble.
Social media is about communication and connection, with the ultimate goal of building and nurturing a community around your brand. However, to be successful, you must break out of your own brand bubble and let others direct the conversation.
Wherever you choose to establish a presence – whether that’s on LinkedIn if you’re B2B, Facebook if you’re B2C or on Twitter – you must realize that these sites are not just another place to leave your brochure, nor are they your own personal podium for endless self-promotion.
Instead, think of your social media outpost as an ongoing party where your people can hang out and talk about the things that they care about. You want the atmosphere to feel like your living room, where everyone is free to pull up a chair and join in the conversation at their leisure. The people who congregate there will get to know each other and will form relationships that are founded upon a common interest in your brand and the values it stands for.
Just like any real-world social setting, the more comfortable you make it, the more people will call it home, and the more they’ll look forward to coming back again and again.
For example, if you’re in the business of selling your own custom-made handbags, your people are those who care about fashion and about standing out from the crowd. They’re people who like to be on the cutting edge of trends and gossip.
So there’s no need for the chatter on your Facebook page to constantly revolve around handbags. You could just as easily talk about what Natalie Portman wore to the Golden Globes or discuss the latest episode of America’s Next Top Model. As long as the conversation is happening in your living room, it doesn’t have to be about you.
By contrast, if you put up a Facebook page and do nothing but talk about yourself, you’ll watch the party empty quickly.
Stop keeping up with the digital Joneses.
Because the Internet is public domain, suddenly it’s easier than ever to keep close tabs on what your competitors are doing. And along with this comes the temptation to constantly make sure that you are present anywhere on the Web that they are.
However, just because you can see what you’re competitors are up to doesn’t necessarily mean they’re doing it well or that their tactics are worth imitating.
Just because your competitors are on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Flickr and every other platform in existence, doesn’t mean you should be, too. Just because they have 1,000 followers doesn’t mean that you’re a failure because you only have 200. Just because they have a message board on their website doesn’t mean that you should necessarily have one as well.
While it’s always good to keep your competitors in your crosshairs, don’t let it take your focus away from doing what’s best for your own business. It’s far more important to stay laser-focused on your customers and to gain an understanding of where they live and how they prefer to be engaged.
Focus your efforts not on keeping up but on setting yourself apart. Carve out your own niche in the Web marketing universe, create your own identity, offer something unique to your customers and cultivate your own community of dedicated followers.
Get out more.
With all the buzz surrounding social networking, don’t forget the importance of face-to-face networking.
As one responsible for growing a business, you belong to an expansive community of people who are in the same boat. Collectively, you represent an almost limitless pool of knowledge and experience in addressing the challenges of building and growing a business. Whether it’s a colleague in a related industry or the owner of the shop next door, there’s a wealth of wisdom and contacts just waiting to be shared.
All too often, however, people treat networking as a stop-gap measure when nothing else is working. Networking shouldn’t be approached as an instant fix to a sales pipeline that’s running dry but as a long-term investment.
To be successful, you must apply the principles of trustcasting: be willing to give generously of your own time and expertise, not focused solely on what everyone else can do for you.
Build your reputation as a knowledgeable resource, take a genuine interest in helping others succeed, and eventually you’ll find that opportunities will start to flow your way.
Turn your resolutions into reality.
It’s not enough to set the goals. You must develop an action plan for their execution. Otherwise the coal-shoveling tasks required to keep your business engine running smoothly will always dominate your time and attention.
Simply put, you must schedule time for growth, or all your good intentions will drown in a sea of wishful thinking.
In reality, you probably can’t tackle all 11 of these resolutions at once, so decide what’s most important for your business and set your priorities accordingly.
Break down each big-picture objective into specific, manageable tasks, and establish milestones and metrics by which you’ll measure your progress.
Set aside some time each week to unplug and apply focused effort toward meeting your goals. Treat these tasks with the same level of importance as meeting with a client or filing your taxes, and don’t let anything displace them from your schedule.
Don’t fall into the trap of reactionary business growth planning and wait until there’s a crisis of income and cash flow to get serious about shoring up your competitive position. In today’s marketplace, there’s no room for objectives du jour that only aim to put out whichever fire is burning hottest at the moment.
Establish your goals for the year now, and make a firm commitment – to yourself and your employees – that other projects won’t be allowed to interfere with achieving them. If things don’t unfold as planned, don’t worry and don’t give up. Just adapt and stay focused on the ultimate goal: owning your market.
Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/internet-marketing-articles/11-resolutions-for-business-growth-in-2011-4379170.html
About the Author
Charlotte website design and marketing firm Fame Foundry is the trustcasting agency dedicated to helping businesses grow.
Our Ultimate Reality is a highly acclaimed book that is changing the lives of thousands of people. Hre you will find out why.
Our Ultimate Reality.
Universal Architecture Description Framework
Author: ATI Courses
1. A Brief Trip Through History
Modern structured analysis (MSA) evolved under the leadership of Edward Yourdon, Tom Demarco, and a host of other software developers. It is a functional analysis approach recognizing computer processing in the form of bubbles that are interconnected by directed line segments that route data between processing bubbles and temporary stores to form a data flow diagram (DFD). A data dictionary defines all of the data flows and stores and a p-spec defines the computer processing that must take place in each lowest tier bubble. Requirements are derived from the p-specs and data dictionary. Derek Hatley and Imtiaz Pirbhai teamed to describe a variation on MSA that added a second analytical plane for analysis of control needs expressed in a control flow diagram (CFD) separated from the computer processing plane expressed on the DFD. After Imtiaz’s death Peter Hruschka joined Derek to continue the development of what they now call a Process for System Architecture and Requirements Engineering (PSARE).
The inclusion of PSARE with MSA is deceiving in that it actually can be used for systems, hardware, and software modeling. In this paper PSARE will be recognized as a main element of one of the universal architecture description frameworks identified.
Many software analysts believed that an object oriented analysis (OOA) approach would be an improvement where the analyst first attempted to identify the objects of which the software would be composed followed by a dynamic analysis of each object from a functional perspective using a data flow diagram and behaviorally using a state diagram. An architect Louis Sullivan in the early 20th Century coined a phrase describing how he thought an architect should design a new building with the phrase “form follows function” that many system engineers over the years have accepted as a great truth. This was expressed in “newsletters” Sullivan wrote to his kindergarten (young architects in Chicago) later quoted in ” Kindergarten Chats and Other Writings”. To system engineers the early OOA encouragement of function follows form was simply backwards and wrong headed.
A system architecture description can be said to consist of a comprehensive modeling set that includes coverage of the problem and solution spaces plus a means to capture the requirements derived from the models. The order in which we attack the modeling work is very important but not necessarily always the same as we will see. But for the situation where we are developing a solution for an unprecedented problem most system engineers would agree that Sullivan was right. Many software engineers continue to believe that the early OOA sequence was correct.
The many variations on OOA led some software developers to evolve under the banner of the Object Management Group (OMG) what came to be called unified modeling language (UML) that begins an analysis with use cases that examine the inside-outside relationship of the system with its environment much like MSA does with a context diagram. A set of dynamic modeling artifacts are applied to describe the use case and in the process lower tier static entities are identified down to the object level paralleling the process employed in TSA. A universal architecture description framework could be formed using TSA and UML but it will perpetuate parent-child traceability problems at the boundary.
Congress passed a law that requires any government agency requesting funding for the development of an information system to describe it in an architecture framework. Never slow to encourage continued access to funding, the Department of Defense developed a modeling framework to serve their needs in developing systems to deal with the fantastically complex problems arising in development of systems that must master the union of command, control, communication, computers, intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance (C4ISR) problems. This framework is called the DoD Architecture Framework (DoDAF) involving 26 different modeling artifacts. This framework is not comprehensive as it is not useful in developing hardware entities but the initiative gives us a pattern to apply in a search of a universal framework.
The difficulty in the development of computer software and its interfaces with hardware entities encouraged some software and system engineers to cooperate in an effort sponsored by OMG and the International Council On Systems Engineering (INCOSE) to develop a profile on UML to model the problem space related to systems and hardware entities called system modeling language (SysML).
Throughout this 50-year evolution, groups of very smart people have developed modeling approaches some of which became very popular. It is likely that the stream of new model development will not end at this point in the story. We have been very creative in developing modeling methods and languages but not so effective in integrating and optimizing across these models toward a universal modeling capability. One would find people today using every one of the models but there is some hope that the combination of UML and SysML will continue to mature and merge more tightly together offering a universal modeling approach. Unfortunately, the union of these two as presently defined is not comprehensive. But one can add four artifacts from TSA forming a universal architecture description framework that can be employed on any program no matter the problem space or the intended methods of implementation.
Alternatively, a similar variation on PSARE can serve the same purpose. In the process of investigating these many models and ways to evolve a universal framework, the author became convinced that there is a need for the application of integration and optimization to the current model collection to the end that a system engineer or development organization may select and successfully apply a particular comprehensive collection of modeling artifacts that they find effective and that cover the complete problem space they have to deal with. Thus we find ourselves in the period of adjustment working towards utopia with the modeling capabilities history has provided us.
A subset of all of the modeling methods available that can be shown to be comprehensive is referred to in this paper as a framework within which the architecture of a system can be described and from which all requirements can be derived. This universal architecture description framework should also be characterized by a coordinated means to define corresponding design concepts that validate the requirements derived from the models and a means to collect those requirements into what we call a set of specifications. The frameworks offered in this paper identify a specific set of modeling artifacts that are collectively comprehensive and apply a set of modeling IDs (MID) to those artifacts from which requirements will be derived. The analyst must transform the modeling features identified by MID into requirements of one of four kinds and allocate them to a product entity or product entity relationship (interface) thereby identifying the product entities and relationships as well as characterizing them. A requirements analysis sheet (RAS) is offered as the means to coordinate modeling artifacts identified by MID to requirements and thence the product entities that will be responsible for satisfying them.
The process of applying the method covered in this paper can be distilled into a simple string of tasks ideally applied top-down with functional analysis preceding concept analysis:
a. Progressively apply a comprehensive modeling set to problem space interactively synthesizing product entities and relationships and appropriate requirements for them into design concepts trading between alternative appealing solutions where necessary.
b. Identify the artifacts on the modeling sketches with modeling ID (MID).
c. List the MID in the RAS, characterize each, and allocate to entities and relationships.
d. Publish specifications and subject to a formal approval and release process.
This paper uses models to describe architecture description frameworks so those two words must be clearly understood as a prerequisite. Bran Selic, a respected name in modeling work, described a model by listing its characteristics as follows:
a. The use of abstraction to emphasize important aspects while removing irrelevant ones.
b. Expressed in a form that is really understandable by observers.
c. Fully and accurately represents the modeled system.
d. Predictive such that it can be used to derive correct conclusions about the modeled system.
e. Inexpensive meaning it is much cheaper to construct and study than simply building and observing the modeled system.
The word architecture has many meanings. There was a time when the author applied the word only to the things of which the system consisted but he has been influenced by the content of Eberhardt Rechtin’s book “System Architecting” to go beyond the things in a system. The author has selected the definition included in DoDAF that recognizes a particular collection of things forming a whole combined with a clear understanding of what the things do, how they relate to each other, and the rules and constraints under which they function at a particular point in time.
A system is said to be a collection of things that interact to achieve a specific purpose. A system has an architecture that consists of the things that comprise it, their relationships, and what they are intended to accomplish within the context of a particular environment. offers a view of the way we commonly create systems to satisfy complex needs.
A system can be defined as a process (commonly arranged in a circular sequence in the interest of reuse of assets) that organizes collections of things (A) interconnected in particular ways (I) to accomplish particular functions (F) within a particular environment (E). A is the set of all things in the system while A* is the power set of A containing all subsets of A. The process we select for the system translates the cross product of the power sets noted onto the function set and when we can cover the function set in N revolutions of the process set having used all of A we can say we have a consistent system. We have to develop unprecedented systems based on a little knowledge of the desired ultimate functionality often referred to as the customer need statement. We can instantly associate this functionality with the solution that is the complete system without knowing a great deal about what the system is. We decompose the ultimate functionality, describe it in terms of essential characteristics called requirements, and allocate these requirements to a product entity structure (A) the elements of which are related by interfaces pre-determined by the way we relate functionality to the product entity structure. We model all of these facets of the evolving system because there is no current reality at the time we begin creating it. So, one can say that an architecture description is a way to describe a system using models. In this paper a collection of models forms an architecture description framework. If that collection is comprehensive it may be called a universal framework.
The reader should recognize that problem space modeling is only one facet of the architecture that also should include an expression of the solution space intent as well. As the problem space becomes more clearly understood a synthesis must be accomplished possibly involving trades to determine the best achievable and affordable solution. Simulation work may also be effective in helping to focus on both the problem and solution space descriptions of merit. Finally, a means is required to capture the requirements derived from the models including the traceability between requirements and the driving models. This paper deals only with the problem space description from modeling through requirements capture.
2. Current Problems
Currently software architecting in some development organizations follows a pattern that is sufficiently different from the systems and hardware architecting pattern of work that it is unnecessarily difficult for management and system engineering people as well as hardware and software people to understand and correlate the two processes. This can lead to a frustrated acceptance on the part of management and systems people that the software people know what they are doing and can be left alone motivated by an inability to understand their methods. Obviously, the whole of the system must be brought under an effective integration, optimization, and management influence not just the hardware aspects especially since the hardware aspects are a shrinking subset of the whole and the least complex part of it. It is possible to re-order the software development pattern practiced by some slightly to encourage improved hardware-software integration and management visibility while simultaneously improving the software development process in the opinion of the author.
The author, a long time professional system engineer with a hardware-dominated background, makes no claim to being a gifted software architect but has attempted to fashion an integrated approach that will encourage system and software engineering participation in the final closure of the modeling split that has existed in industry for the past 50 years.
As computer software came to be a reality with the acceptance of a computer design concept calling for use of binary arithmetic and an instruction set to be stored in the computer that would be called from memory in sequence to execute a planned series of steps in a program, the software would be diagrammed in flow chart form by people who understood how the computer hardware worked. These engineers would then transform the flow chart depiction into code using some language that was initially machine language formed of 8 or 16 bit words or strings of ones and zeros based on the design of the binary digital computer hardware and the registers of flip flops and logic gates it used for control, storage, and arithmetic operations. Over a period of several decades including the 1960s through the 1990s, the computer software profession developed a string of new modeling approaches shown.
We have been very successful in inventing new modeling approaches but we have not applied good integrating skills toward unifying the modeling work about a common core. The work that the system engineer accomplishes in the early development period on a program is focused on understanding the problem to be solved and clearly describing it for others. The system engineer stares at problem space through a multi-faceted set of planes each dealing with a particular perspective. Models are commonly crafted using simple graphic images that move into the human mind through vision, the most powerful conduit for information to make the transit from outside to inside. The analyst creates these simple images through hand-eye coordination with pencil and paper or using a computer keyboard, mouse, and monitor screen.
In many modeling approaches we view problem space through a trio of facets. We model the problem space from an object or product entity perspective to discover what the system shall consist of in a physical sense. Ideally, our conclusions about the product entity plane would be based on a prior understanding of the functional perspective such that we could follow Louis Sullivan’s form follows function notion. Finally, we are interested in how the system and its product entities will behave while satisfying needed functionality.
Some of the models we will apply are very simple and the vision mechanism works very effectively but the story transferred to the human mind is not very rich. TSA using functional flow diagramming follows this pattern. Other models involve a lot of black ink, they make the passage into the mind with difficulty but they do convey a very rich message for those who can master them. In any case, the analyst uses some combination of simple graphics to illustrate the intended functionality, behavior, and product entity structure. Over time the problem space dissipates and the system is represented by the simple graphic images that precipitate on the facets of the problem space.
It is necessary to attack the problem space from all three perspectives simultaneously. Traditional structured analysis, modern structure analysis including the Hatley-Pirbhai or PSARE expression, UML, SysML, and DoDAF all attempt to support these several views using different modeling artifacts and rules. Each of these models has useful unique features that are helpful in analyzing problem space but none of them are comprehensive such that a single model can be used as the basis for analyzing problem space to define all of the appropriate requirements for a given problem space. In that the author believes that all requirements should be derived from models and that none of the models are comprehensive, it follows that we must use a collection of models at present. None of these models were intended to be used in association with other models so it has not been easy to establish traceability across the gaps between them especially since they do not all apply the same measures of the problem space.
It is necessary to attack the problem space from all three perspectives simultaneously. Traditional structured analysis, modern structure analysis including the Hatley-Pirbhai or PSARE expression, UML, SysML, and DoDAF all attempt to support these several views using different modeling artifacts and rules. Each of these models has useful unique features that are helpful in analyzing problem space but none of them are comprehensive such that a single model can be used as the basis for analyzing problem space to define all of the appropriate requirements for a given problem space. In that the author believes that all requirements should be derived from models and that none of the models are comprehensive, it follows that we must use a collection of models at present. None of these models were intended to be used in association with other models so it has not been easy to establish traceability across the gaps between them especially since they do not all apply the same measures of the problem space.
In this period of adjustment noted on earlier, the author hopes to encourage a return to the condition of modeling closure that we began this whole modeling story with in the 1950s. During this period of adjustment we should be able to apply a comprehensive subset of all available modeling methods while we work toward the simplest and most effective comprehensive universal architecture description framework. The requirements for this solution in the author’s view should: (1) be comprehensive such that all requirements for all elements of a system (hardware, software, and human procedures) may be derived from the model artifacts, (2) be applied in to a top-down direction for unprecedented development programs and bottom-up, inside-out or outside-in for heavily precedented development programs, (3) enter the problem space from a functional perspective for unprecedented development programs and from the product entity structure perspective for heavily precedented development programs, and (4) encourage hierarchical (parent-child), lateral (requirements to the models from which derived), and longitudinal (requirements to design features and verification artifacts) traceability.
3. Overview of the Recommended Corrective Action
In addition to offering a set of models that can be applied in an integrated fashion as if they were parts of a single great model and suggesting ways this model set will mature over time toward a universal architecture description framework, this paper will support the idea that the models from which such a framework can be assembled already exists and can actually be applied to problem spaces today. This interim universal architecture description framework (UADF) will consist of one or more subsets of all of the modeling methods currently active from which an enterprise or system engineer can select a subset that is comprehensive. The author prefers a subset consisting of UML combined with SysML extended to provide organized methods for identification of specialty engineering/quality requirements, environmental requirements, product entities, and the map between models and product entities the latter (as well as the other three) borrowed from TSA called a requirements analysis sheet. Finally, UADF must be coordinated with a sound requirements management and specification publishing process.
For those managers who feel that their population of system engineers is not yet ready to transition to SysML from TSA, it is possible for their organization to establish their universal or combined set of models using any particular collection of models discussed in this paper while recognizing a technology growth path leading to the terminal point discussed here. One alternative universal model can be assembled from PSARE augmented by the same four TSA artifacts noted above. Some readers will be disappointed that DoDAF is not included in the final mix suggested. With 26 different modeling artifacts it was a daunting challenge to work them all into the mix. The author believes that the picture he has painted of many DoDAF artifacts left outside of the final model is not necessary but didn’t wish to take the time at present to force fit them into the mix. Also, presently OMG is fashioning a way to implement DoDAF with UML artifacts that will push its modeling capability into the final mix in the form of a UML Profile for DODAF MODAF (UPDM). One additional benefit from employing the recommended interim UADF, besides having improved their requirements capability for some period of time, is that the organization will be poised for movement to whatever the final solution is in that their staff will be familiar with just about all of the ways there are to model a problem space.
4. Modeling Methods
In this paper we will take a brief tour of the several models that could be used today, none of which are comprehensive, followed by a description about how subsets of them can be assembled into a universal set coordinated with the content of a universal specification format and a way to establish traceability across the gaps when using one particularly troublesome pair of models.
4.1 A Brief Overview of Traditional Structured Analysis
Throughout the period of the software modeling evolution, the system and hardware engineers remained with TSA or simply continued a habit of employing ad hoc approach. The fundamental approach in TSA involves some form of functional flow diagramming that is used to expand the ultimate function, the customer need, into a life cycle model such as that shown in earlier, and continue the analysis of the use and sustain system functions of the life cycle model into a definition of the operational and logistics functions that will be accomplished by the entities comprising the system. Sullivan’s encouragement of form follows function is respected calling for identification and allocation of exposed functionality to the physical entities that will comprise the system. The functions are transformed into performance requirements that flow into the specifications for the entities that will accomplish the allocated functionality.
The V model is observed by associating the definition function with the down stroke, synthesis with the bottom of the V, and verification with the up stroke. The spiral is observed by cycling through the definition, synthesis, and verification functions several times each time stripping off a lower and finer definition of the system being created.
Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/communication-articles/universal-architecture-description-framework-4541275.html
About the Author
The Applied Technology Institute (ATI) specializes in short course technical training in space, communications, defense, sonar, radar, and signal processing. Since 1984 ATI has provided leading-edge public courses and on-site technical training to defense and NASA facilities, as well as DOD and aerospace contractors. The courses provide a clear understanding of the fundamental principles and a working knowledge of current technology and applications. Boost your career. Courses are led by world-class design experts. Learn from the proven best.
Metabolic Breath (time — about one minute) Research has shown that introducing 3 five-minute segments of daily breathing exercises can substantially increase the metabolic rate. It also improves muscular strength, toning, and emotional outlook. What to do 1. Bend forward at the waist and place your hands on your knees. 2. Take a fast, deep in-breath through your nose. As you do round your back and squeeze your stomach in toward your spine. 3. Force your breath out through your mouth. 4. When all your breath is out, suck your stomach in tight and hold without breathing until you want to catch your breath. 5. Release. Your lungs will fill with air. Reference: Eden Energy Medicine for Women, Donna Eden, 2008
Energy Medicine
Take Advantage of the Chance for New Beginnings
Author: Rose Rosetree
Summer is a time of new beginnings. In your love life, your education, your career—don’t you feel the stirrings of desire for something new?
How can you find something authentically new, however? Unless you release what is old, you may just replay past history with new faces. This article can help you because it includes insights from the leading edge of holistic healing. Deeper Perception can help anyone have deeper healing, deeper beginnings, a better life.
Sure it can seem as though a great love relationship must be right around the corner. But what about moving past old loves and other outgrown relationships? Can a person realistically expect to say "Move on" and, instantly, have the past leave without a trace? To enjoy present relationships, or bring in new ones, it may be important to finish… unfinished business. The advice I’m about to offer may seem counter-culture, but I’ve used it for over two decades, helping clients to make their lives better. What works for them might work for you, too.
1. Take a vacation from psychological healing. If you’ve been involved in therapy for years, but toxic old relationships still bother you, consider supplementing the psychological work with healing on the level of your AURA (the subtle bodies around your physical body). Auras store old pain and fears at a level that psychological work isn’t designed to touch.
2. Stop putting up walls. Understandable though it is to protect your feelings, walls are the kind of solution that causes even worse problems. Did you know that walls show up in auras? Sure do! Sometimes a person can have three or four layers of walls. But even one is counterproductive. It keeps pain in (not out). Walls also make it hard for new people to get to know you. And removing walls is an easy do-it-yourself project. Whatever internal self-talk you use to put up walls, stop it. Find a more balanced way to manage your human vulnerability.
3. Discover the strengths in your aura. Either learn to read auras yourself or consult a professional—not necessarily a psychic, just someone who has learned how to use Deeper Perception. Auras contain information about lifelong gifts of your soul in areas like love, communication, power and sex. By validating the strengths in your aura, you’ll mobilize resources for inner healing.
4. Remove the grime. Besides containing lifelong gifts, your aura also accumulates the equivalent of dust bunnies, like negative thought forms and out-dated façade bodies. Nothing alarming about accumulating this stuff, but it hardly helps a person find love in the present, so resolve to release it. Either improvise a way that works for you or find someone with the training to do heal auras quickly and efficiently. That could be an aura reader, a spiritual counselor, a practitioner of energy medicine, or another specialist in holistic healing.
5. Cut cords of attachment. Every toxic relationship leaves a repeating pattern, technically known as a cord of attachment. Untouched, cords stay with you until the day you die. This is a new field to many within the holistic healing community, but you can find a skilled practitioner to permanently and painlessly cut your cords of attachment. Clearing these toxic cords is the single most important way to get a new lease on your love life.
6. If you’re an empath, get skills. In addition to all the aforementioned problems that can grime up a person’s aura, 1 in 20 Americans is an empath. And empaths can accumulate a whole different kind of unnecessary auric debris.
Empaths may have different gifts—emotional, physical, intellectual, or spiritual—but what all empaths have, by definition, is an inborn ability to directly experience what it is like to be other people. Unskilled empaths constantly pick up pain that way. When looking for love, it’s particularly unhelpful for your aura to carry the imprints of other people’s romantic difficulties. With skill, you can become empowered by empathy, not victimized. If you’re an empath, make it your business to develop skills.
7. Bring your cleaned up aura back to therapy. Energetically balanced, you’ll find that psychotherapy can be so much more effective. You’ll find it relatively easy to question old patterns, develop new habits, and maintain fulfilling love relationships.
Everyone was born loveable, with an aura to match. Don’t be discouraged if some past experiences have caused you to carry around old pain and fears. These forms of auric grime can always be removed, so don’t settle for living with them. You deserve to have a happy, healthy love life. And you can.
Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/self-help-articles/take-advantage-of-the-chance-for-new-beginnings-154822.html
About the Author
