Rainbow

Rainbow Bridge
There is a bridge connecting Heaven and Earth. It is called the Rainbow Bridge because of its many colors. Just this side of the Rainbow Bridge, there is a land of meadows, hills and valleys with lush green grass. When a beloved pet dies, the pet goes to this place.
There is always food and water, and warm Spring weather. Those old and frail animals are young again. Those who have been maimed are made whole again.
They play all day with each other. But there is only one thing missing. They are not with their special person who loved them on earth. So, each day they run and play until the day comes when one suddenly stops playing and looks up. The nose twitches, the ears are up, the eyes are staring, and this one suddenly runs from the group.
You have been seen, and when you and your special friend meet, you take him or her in your arms and embrace. Your face is kissed again and again and again and you look once more into the eyes of your trusting pet. Then you cross the Rainbow Bridge together, never again to be separated.
I have set my rainbow in the clouds,
and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth.

A rainbow in the morning
Is the Shepherd's warning,
But a rainbow at night
Is the Shepherd's delight.

O beautiful rainbow, all woven of light!
There's not in thy tissue one shadow of night;
Heaven surely is open when thou dost appear.
And bending thee above, the angels draw near and sing,
"The rainbow! the rainbow! The smile of God is here."






It takes both the sun and the rain to make a beautiful rainbow.

Rainbow Paintbox

I can see a rainbow,
see it in the sky, see it when the rain has gone away.
All the colors of the rainbow in the sky so high,
I can name them all for you today:
Red there is, a rosy red, a red so bright and bonny,
and orange as a tiger lily leaf, so bold and tawny,
yellow as the blazing sun, that gives us all our light,
and green as grass beneath our feet,
blue as the sky so bright.
There's indigo, as dark as night,
and violet like flowers.
These are the colors nature paints the sky
with after showers.

Hung on the shower that fronts the golden West,
The rainbow bursts like magic on mine eyes!
In hues of ancient promise there imprest,
Frail in its date, eternal in its guise.



Triumphal arch, that fills the sky when storms prepare to part,
I ask not proud Philosophy to teach me what thou art.

Seven roses for seven days!
Now they're over, I go my ways;
With me the thought of a good week goes,
Every day was a rainbow rose.


Walk on a rainbow trail,
walk on a trail of song and all about you will be beauty.
There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.

God put the rainbow in the clouds, not just in the sky. It is wise to realize we already have rainbows in our clouds, or we wouldn't be here. If the rainbow is in the clouds, then in the worst of time, there is the possibility of seeing hope... We can say 'I can be a rainbow in the cloud for someone yet to be.' That may be our calling.


When I Look At The Rainbow


Lord when I look at the Rainbow you have placed in sky so
blue, it reminds me that all your promises are true
Your Rainbow reminds me that those who believe on you
are few, yet you have called us your little Ewe
Lord when I look at the Rainbow I see it's hue, it reminds
me that your love for us true
Your Rainbow in sky so blue, reminds me to keep praying
through
Lord when I look at the Rainbow it reminds me of your
promise to all of your creatures some of whom are of
different features
Your Rainbow and it's many colors reminds me that it
represents some whom are called colored
Lord when I look at your Rainbow and see how it's colors
are bright, it reminds me to do what is right
Your Rainbow I have never seen at night, this reminds me
to stay in the light
Lord when I look at your Rainbow it reminds me of your grief
because of our unbelief
Your Rainbow have no pot of gold, but your wonderful story
of love it has told
Lord when I Look at your Rainbow it reminds that you
promised to never again destroy the World with a flood
Your Rainbow to me is a sign of your love it represents
your Son's life Blood




Rainbow

I raised the elbow
I have seen the rainbow
It is the celebration of sky
My heart vibrates with joy
Rainbow happens on special moment
Busy life misses it in the speed movement
Waiting for rainbow,
In the raindrops Meadow,
Sky is not showing grace
Rainbow is not in trace


Rainbow with seven colors,
Appears to my beloved,
stays somewhere,
melts in the infinite sky!
Heart felts it’s gay
Rainbow is not mirage
It leaves image in my soul!

The world will not end tonight!for my loved ones !

The world will not end tonight! for my loved ones !
I have a fulfilled heart !!
for u !
I have nothing else to offer !!
when you are !
In love with me !!
Whatever I sing !
They will ring your name only !!
You are mine !!
You are the one ! You are the one !
Got you in me ! My final desire !
Sky unbound for you !
No wings for me to fly !
Still we have promised , world will not end !
Either for you or for me !!

100 Keyboard Shortcuts..........Speed up Your Computer Operating Skills

100 Keyboard Shortcuts..........Speed up Your Computer Operating Skills

CTRL+C (Copy)
CTRL+X (Cut)
CTRL+V (Paste)
CTRL+Z (Undo)
DELETE (Delete)
SHIFT+DELETE (Delete the selected item permanently without placing the item in the Recycle Bin)
CTRL while dragging an item (Copy the selected item)
CTRL+SHIFT while dragging an item (Create a shortcut to the selected item)
F2 key (Rename the selected item)
CTRL+RIGHT ARROW (Move the insertion point to the beginning of the next word) CTRL+LEFT ARROW (Move the insertion point to the beginning of the previous word) CTRL+DOWN ARROW (Move the insertion point to the beginning of the next paragraph) CTRL+UP ARROW (Move the insertion point to the beginning of the previous paragraph) CTRL+SHIFT with any of the arrow keys (Highlight a block of text)
SHIFT with any of the arrow keys (Select more than one item in a window or on the desktop, or select text in a document)
CTRL+A (Select all) F3 key (Search for a file or a folder)
ALT+ENTER (View the properties for the selected item)
ALT+F4 (Close the active item, or quit the active program)
ALT+ENTER (Display the properties of the selected object)
ALT+SPACEBAR (Open the shortcut menu for the active window)
CTRL+F4 (Close the active document in programs that enable you to have multiple documents open simultaneously)
ALT+TAB (Switch between the open items)
ALT+ESC (Cycle through items in the order that they had been opened)
F6 key (Cycle through the screen elements in a window or on the desktop)
F4 key (Display the Address bar list in My Computer or Windows Explorer)
SHIFT+F10 (Display the shortcut menu for the selected item)
ALT+SPACEBAR (Display the System menu for the active window)
CTRL+ESC (Display the Start menu)
ALT+Underlined letter in a menu name (Display the corresponding menu) Underlined letter in a command name on an open menu (Perform the corresponding command)
F10 key (Activate the menu bar in the active program)
RIGHT ARROW (Open the next menu to the right, or open a submenu)
LEFT ARROW (Open the next menu to the left, or close a submenu)
F5 key (Update the active window)
BACKSPACE (View the folder one level up in My Computer or Windows Explorer)
ESC (Cancel the current task)
SHIFT when you insert a CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive (Prevent the CD-ROM from automatically playing) Dialog Box Keyboard Shortcuts
CTRL+TAB (Move forward through the tabs)
CTRL+SHIFT+TAB (Move backward through the tabs)
TAB (Move forward through the options)
SHIFT+TAB (Move backward through the options)
ALT+Underlined letter (Perform the corresponding command or select the corresponding option)
ENTER (Perform the command for the active option or button)
SPACEBAR (Select or clear the check box if the active option is a check box)
Arrow keys (Select a button if the active option is a group of option buttons)
F1 key (Display Help) F4 key (Display the items in the active list)
BACKSPACE (Open a folder one level up if a folder is selected in the Save As or Open dialog box)

m*cro$oft Natural Keyboard Shortcuts

Windows Logo (Display or hide the Start menu) Windows Logo+BREAK (Display the System Properties dialog box)
Windows Logo+D (Display the desktop)
Windows Logo+M (Minimize all of the windows)
Windows Logo+SHIFT+M (Restore the minimized windows)
Windows Logo+E (Open My Computer)
Windows Logo+F (Search for a file or a folder) CTRL+
Windows Logo+F (Search for computers)
Windows Logo+F1 (Display Windows Help)
Windows Logo+ L (Lock the keyboard)
Windows Logo+R (Open the Run dialog box)
Windows Logo+U (Open Utility Manager)

Accessibility Keyboard Shortcuts

Right SHIFT for eight seconds (Switch FilterKeys either on or off)
Left ALT+left SHIFT+PRINT SCREEN (Switch High Contrast either on or off)
Left ALT+left SHIFT+NUM LOCK (Switch the MouseKeys either on or off)
SHIFT five times (Switch the StickyKeys either on or off)
NUM LOCK for five seconds (Switch the ToggleKeys either on or off)
Windows Logo +U (Open Utility Manager)

Windows Explorer Keyboard Shortcuts

END (Display the bottom of the active window)
HOME (Display the top of the active window)
NUM LOCK+Asterisk sign (*) (Display all of the subfolders that are under the selected folder) NUM LOCK+Plus sign (+) (Display the contents of the selected folder)
NUM LOCK+Minus sign (-) (Collapse the selected folder)
LEFT ARROW (Collapse the current selection if it is expanded, or select the parent folder) RIGHT ARROW (Display the current selection if it is collapsed, or select the first subfolder)

Shortcut Keys for Character Map

After you double-click a character on the grid of characters, you can move through the grid by using the keyboard shortcuts:
RIGHT ARROW (Move to the right or to the beginning of the next line)
LEFT ARROW (Move to the left or to the end of the previous line)
UP ARROW (Move up one row)
DOWN ARROW (Move down one row)
PAGE UP (Move up one screen at a time)
PAGE DOWN (Move down one screen at a time)
HOME (Move to the beginning of the line)
END (Move to the end of the line)
CTRL+HOME (Move to the first character)
CTRL+END (Move to the last character)
SPACEBAR (Switch between Enlarged and Normal mode when a character is selected)

m*cro$oft Management Console (MMC) Main Window Keyboard Shortcuts

CTRL+O (Open a saved console)
CTRL+N (Open a new console)
CTRL+S (Save the open console)
CTRL+M (Add or remove a console item)
CTRL+W (Open a new window)
F5 key (Update the content of all console windows)
ALT+SPACEBAR (Display the MMC window menu)
ALT+F4 (Close the console)
ALT+A (Display the Action menu)
ALT+V (Display the View menu)
ALT+F (Display the File menu)
ALT+O (Display the Favorites menu)

MMC Console Window Keyboard Shortcuts

CTRL+P (Print the current page or active pane)
ALT+Minus sign (-) (Display the window menu for the active console window)
SHIFT+F10 (Display the Action shortcut menu for the selected item)
F1 key (Open the Help topic, if any, for the selected item)
F5 key (Update the content of all console windows)
CTRL+F10 (Maximize the active console window)
CTRL+F5 (Restore the active console window)
ALT+ENTER (Display the Properties dialog box, if any, for the selected item)
F2 key (Rename the selected item)
CTRL+F4 (Close the active console window. When a console has only one console window, this shortcut closes the console) Remote Desktop Connection Navigation
CTRL+ALT+END (Open the m*cro$oft Windows NT Security dialog box)
ALT+PAGE UP (Switch between programs from left to right)
ALT+PAGE DOWN (Switch between programs from right to left)
ALT+INSERT (Cycle through the programs in most recently used order)
ALT+HOME (Display the Start menu)
CTRL+ALT+BREAK (Switch the client computer between a window and a full screen) ALT+DELETE (Display the Windows menu)
CTRL+ALT+Minus sign (-) (Place a snapshot of the active window in the client on the Terminal server clipboard and provide the same functionality as pressing PRINT SCREEN on a local computer.)
CTRL+ALT+Plus sign (+) (Place a snapshot of the entire client window area on the Terminal server clipboard and provide the same functionality as pressing ALT+PRINT SCREEN on a local computer.)

m*cro$oft Internet Explorer Navigation

CTRL+B (Open the Organize Favorites dialog box)
CTRL+E (Open the Search bar)
CTRL+F (Start the Find utility)
CTRL+H (Open the History bar)
CTRL+I (Open the Favorites bar)
CTRL+L (Open the Open dialog box) CTRL+N (Start another instance of the browser with the same Web address)
CTRL+O (Open the Open dialog box, the same as CTRL+L)
CTRL+P (Open the Print dialog box)
CTRL+R (Update the current Web page)
CTRL+W (Close the current window)

What is a Team?

Teams are not a group of people brought together to manage a project. Teams are not a group of people who are members of the same function in an organisation. Teams are not a group of people who receive emails from their team leader with the salutation, "Dear Team". Teams are not a group of people playing sport for the same organisation, amateur or professional.
Teams are people working together to achieve a common, singular goal.

The goal around which teams form, is not always the goal which is set. I would go so far as to say that teams rarely form around a goal which has been set for them. Teams tend to form around goals which become apparent rather than imposed.

Circumstances change the nature of the goal around which teams form. The nature changes in line with Maslow's hierarchy of needs as the circumstance becomes more acute.

Maslow's hierarchy of needs suggests that unless our base physiological needs such as food, water and shelter are met, then provision of higher levels of needs such as security, social inclusiveness, esteem or self-actualisation will have little effect on our behaviour.

When circumstances change for the worse, people who are motivated by the need for self esteem may tumble down Maslow's hierarchy of needs to the most base of needs, those of food, water and shelter.

In 1972 a group of rugby players, their friends and families left on a flight for Chile from Uruguay. The plane crashed into the snow-covered mountainside, killing 13 of the 45 passengers on-board the aircraft. The outside world thought that all 45 people on board had disappeared.
Without any provisions, some of those left alive resorted to devouring the dead. Those who refused to eat the human flesh died of starvation. After 70 days in the mountains, 16 survivors were rescued and taken home.

In the most gruesome manner, a group of people banded together as a team with a singular goal of survival.

In a less gruesome environment, management, government, the media and the worldwide public and an occasional pop star banded together as a team to do whatever they could to rescue Brant Webb and Todd Russell from the Beaconsfield mine collapse.

The motivation was different for different people. For Brant Webb and Todd Russell it was the base physiological needs, for television reporters, perhaps more self esteem and for the general public, the need to belong.

In times of adversity, the oddest groups of people band together as a team seeking a common goal. Sporting teams, business teams, families tend to band together as teams when they are threatened to repel the threat. Repelling the threat becomes the clear, singular goal.
Banding together when threatened can, of course, be a problem, especially in business. If the workers feel threatened by management, or one function feels threatened by another, separate teams will develop and compete with each other.

To develop one team, the element of threat needs to be negated.
What makes for a team when there is no sense of threat? What kind of goal then results in groups of people coalescing into a team?

It is not the absence of fear, anymore that provides the common goal. A common motivator provided by a common goal is what drives people towards being a team.

Sporting teams that are successful in professional sport are not spurred on by the money. They are spurred on to win by the euphoric sense of the ultimate achievement in their sport. The sense of self accomplishment through a team, knowing that they can not do it alone, spurs them on to work as a team.

When a positive motivator is required to coalesce groups of people into teams, Hertzberg's motivation/hygiene theory of motivation gives us better guidance.

Hertzberg postulates that money, relationships, working conditions and supervision style are hygiene factors. They can be de-motivators if they are not present, but do not provide motivation for people to work as a team.

The type of work, a sense of achievement by overcoming a challenge, promotional prospects, responsibility and recognition are considered to be the positive motivators.
Teams will form around a common goal that provides them individually and collectively, a challenge that they take responsibility for and that can give them increased self esteem and a level of recognition above the norm when they reach the goal.

Developing a common goal around which a team can form needs more thought than developing a goal that is considered to be SMART (Specific, Measurable, Agreed-upon, Realistic and Time based). The goal needs to be expressed in simple language that people can understand and must have a story to tell that motivates people to want to contribute to the goal.

The story needs to evoke in the recipient, feelings, thoughts and a desire to do something that will contribute to the goal.

The story needs to complete a virtuous circle which will give the individual the motivation to contribute to the goal.

For example, assume your goal is to increase repeat business from 10% of turnover to 15% of turnover in six months, as you know the selling cost to repeat customers is one tenth the selling cost to new customers and the margin on repeat customers is 25% higher as they require fewer discounts.

To have a higher probability of success, this clear simple goal needs to connect with all staff so that they are motivated to achieve it. Creating a virtuous circle will help those who are yet to be motivated by company success in reaching a corporate goal.

Tell a story of the increased customer satisfaction that drives increased repeat sales, of the easier selling process with repeat customers, the reduced need to deal with customer complaints, the increased security of employment, the increased ability for the organisation to grow and employ more people, the increased opportunities for promotion and more responsibility in a growing organisation and the increased ability of the organisation to contribute to the local community and indirectly help the families who have people working in the company.
Explained this way, each single contribution to delivering the goal is seen as doing much more than reaching a corporate goal. Contributing as a team has a multiplier effect. The whole becomes clearly more than the sum of the parts.

Setting a goal in this manner and especially if people are involved in the development of the goal and the understanding of the virtuous circle it creates, will not always create a team around the goal. Other environmental factors and personalities may have a strong negative effect.
However, setting a goal which is simple to understand and allows for convincing story to be told of the virtuous circle which impacts people's motivation, rather than hygiene factors, has a much greater chance of success of having a team form around it than a nebulous goal that people cannot connect with, or a goal that is imposed with no clarity about what is in it for me.