Healing With Whole Foods

Paul Pitchford. North Atlantic Books 2002, Paperback, 784 pages, $21.05

Review
“Healing with Whole Foods contains a wealth of information on health, diet, alternative medicine, natural food presentation, and recipes, researched by an expert in the field. Readers will learn how to apply Chinese medicine and the five-element theory to a contemporary diet; treat illness and nervous disorders through diet; and make the transition to whole vegetable foods. The most detailed source book yet published on preparing food and eating consciously, Healing with Whole Foods includes complete sections on Ayurvedic principles of food-combining; the treatment of disease conditions through meals; transition from animal products to whole vegetable foods; micro-algae; selection of waters and salts; the extremely complex varieties of oils, sugars, and condiments; vitamins and minerals; fasting and purification; food for children, food presentation and proportions; vibrational cooking; the physiology of nourishment; color diagnosis and therapy; consciousness in diet changes; plus descriptions of the nature and uses of various grains, legumes, miso, tempeh, tofu, seaweeds, nuts and seeds, sprouts, and fruits. Also featured are sections on chutneys, relishes, pickles, different milks, rejuvelac, yogurt, salads, and desserts.”
—Midwest Book Review

Each event can be organized separately. You can import your attendees data in csv format into FileMaker easily. Whenever the attendees appear at the venue, within a click, the time of attendance is tracked down fast and quick. FileMaker allows you to just send an automatic quick SMS or email whenever the client arrived, so representative will know immediately and follow up with good impression.

This system can be used with barcode or RFID card as well. With the pre-printed entrance card, one barcode scanner can make the job super easy.

Customizable for your need, contact us for more details and customization.

Tips: Sharing your Database with Your Co-Workers

FileMaker can import and/or export files in many formats including Microsoft Excel. With a bit more of customization, your Excel data could be converted into a powerful database.

We receive many enquiries from time to time. Here are the FAQs for your references.

Q: How much do you charge?
A: It varies. What do you want to achieve in the first place?

Q: Don’t you consult me on the cost?
A: We can consult you when you are clear with what you want.
Normally, we ask questions like, what is the revenue of your company, and what percentage of the revenue that you want to spend on your system. This gives you a realistic budget in mind before you draft your plan.

Q: I was told FileMaker is cheaper compared to other database software. That’s why I am here. Is that true?
A: True and not.
Each software has its pros and cons. Excel still can be excellent depends on what you are using it for. Database development is not like buying a hamburger or a bar of chocolate. It’s service orientation. A good system always take longer hours and communication for perfection. No budget doesn’t mean we can’t build any system for you. With budget, both parties know what need to be completed within a framework.

Q: What happen if I find your service not worth the money I spent? Can I get my money back?
A: As we don’t sell product, we are providing services. Both needs to build a mutual understanding before we start any project together. The project will never get going if both parties can’t build a fundamental relationships in the first place.

Q: How should I go about to ask for a quote?
A: We need to have a clear picture what we can provide to our clients. If the things to develop is too vague, we can’t estimate any quote.

Q: You did for other clients before. Why can’t you tell me the range you charge, or your hourly rate?
A: What is important is what you want to do with your database. If we can’t have a clear image from there, it’s very irresponsible to quote any charge.

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• what is the situation of my system now?
• how I want to improve it?
• what will be the aim I want to achieve?

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What happen if you didn’t have a good plan at the early stage? Nothing can be done? No. You just have to sit down to think about the situation that you are in, how you want to change from there. Then you are already on the track to start with you good plan. It’s better late than never.

Picture the size of your world. Scale your strategy to focus on your strength. We are happy to be of service to you.

Plan well, play well. We help you to implement your database management with FileMaker.

Time management with RFID card and FileMaker. With FileMaker application, you can have it customised to your company needs or integrate with your other databases that you are using for payment system. FileMaker makes it easy to adapt with new technology and cheaper cost.

Furthermore, with FileMaker version 10 and above, you can preset to have emails sent to your manager for attendance check so that he/she can manage the job while mobile. And with FileMaker 11, it gives you a good charting for detailed analysis.

It can be used for project management as well. To have FileMaker works with FeliCa, a plugin is needed. We have it ready for you. Contact us for a quote.

There is no end towards the search for spiciness. What is the taste of the chicken, the prawn, or the food? It’s not the food that counts, it’s the spices that make sense. With different spices and ingredients, any dish might bring different surprises to you depends on how you cook. If eating is an art, then cooking with spice is about skill. It’s a skill that we all try to master and yet the learning process doesn’t end, like the search for spiciness. Each day, we find new way of eating, new way of enjoying people’s cooking, new approach towards ingredients. As Japanese proverb says, you have to eat to be a better human being.

For someone from Malaysia, I have been thinking about the so-called “original” in food means. Japan tends to have the Japanese style to cater the so-called Japanese market even with Chinese food. 10 years ago I think it was still ok to say so, but nowadays especially for Tokyo, there are tones of people who have been to overseas and one wonder they prefer Japanese style Asian taste just because they are back to Japan. I ever met Japanese who demanded more chilies at a Singapore hainan chicken rice restaurant than me, so much that I thought it’s really too much! But these Japanese enjoyed chilies the way it was eaten, like when they were enjoying the food in Singapore, Malaysia or any other Southeast Asian countries.

Tokyoites are very open to food. You can find almost all the varieties of international restaurants here. I foresee there would be to come. And the most “high class” Asian local food restaurant will be born from Tokyo.

Somehow, no matter how advanced technology could be, still we feel the need to meet someone in person, to talk to clients not only through phone or email but at least a face to face courtesy visit. There is no doubt face time is still an important aspect in today’s life.

Poken, a digital business card device, gives the virtual connection a different definition. Poke + token = poken. Originated from Switzerland in January 2009, poken comes into Japan in March and after that it’s been widespread throughout the countries.

What is poken? It helps people to get connected between real world networking and online communication. With poken, you exchange digital name card, and connect through social media like facebook, twitter, mixi, glee, and more. It’s a new way of getting connected. With poken, you for sure have to meet in order to exchange your profile. Poken values face time, not virtual connection.

You need to connect to poken to pc. If you think of it technologically, like iPhone Apps or other digital devices, it’s kind of troublesome. Somehow, if you compared to name card, it’s much interesting, and the events that people run for meetup, you would be surprised the numbers of crowds out there who prefer poken. Poken is a tool, but it helps the virtual connection be real, because you only connect with poken in real world.

Meet the local, get connect over the cloud. That’s poken.

Each year, organized by FileMaker Inc, FileMaker Developer Conference gathered thousands of developers from all over the world to learn new techniques and exchange information in the US. This has been going on for the last 15 years.

At DevCon, developers gather to share and to recharge with new ideas. Pre-release announcement of how the next technology FileMaker advancing, where developers could see the future pacing with FileMaker Inc, here at DevCon you see the blossoms of the seed FileMaker community planted, and continue to see it grows. Talk to people around you, anyone who sits besides, you would be surprised what everyone does with FileMaker; from funeral management, thoroughbred horse management, to real estate property investment, you name it. Asked why they choose FileMaker, the most answered one is, because FileMaker is easy to use. Most of all, it’s fun!

With the technology pacing with high speed, business needs to do so as well. If there is a tool that let you catch up easy and fun to develop with, FileMaker would be the one among all the options. Same for us.

Sudden expansion weaken ones business strength, scale your business with strategy planning. We expertise in turning your database to make it more productive. That’s where we come into picture, we concentrate on sales control system management; analyze sales figures by persons, by months, by clients, and by productivity priorities. Visualize your sales figures, you know where to head to next.

Find out more about us or you can contact us to know how we can be of service to you.