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I('s a place to pray â€" complete with pews and a stainedâ€"glass window. What makes this chapel unique is its location â€" at the corporate head office of FaithLife Financial. Opened last December, the prayer room is a place for employees to reflect, worship, reâ€"charge and seek comfort, guidance or inspiration. It may seem unusual to embrace spirâ€" ituality in the workplace, but it‘s part of the corporate culture at FaithLife Finanâ€" cial where the work experience includes devotions at staff meetings, ongoing supâ€" port of Christian churches and their conâ€" gregants and a dedication to helping those in need. New chapel adds to culture of faith at Waterioo office The recent holiday season highlighted the growing reluctance to accommodate religion in business environments. The company proudly displayed a nativity scene in their reception area and largerâ€"thanâ€"life angels graced the front of their building. FaithLife Financial is a notâ€"forâ€"profit organization that offers insurance and investment products to Canadian Chrisâ€" tians. When calamity strikes... Who‘s in charge? What‘s your strategy? Earle@JEarieMcCormick.com www JEarieMcCormick.com J. Earle McCormick Financial Strategist 519 725 4505 Part of its mission includes living your values and that means making it possible for their employees to live their faith at work. Lynda Umbach, a compensation speâ€" cialist, has been working for FaithLife Financial for 10 years and is thankful for the opportunity to share her Christian faith at work. "When we hold meetings, we start with a prayer. It‘s difficult to be negative after the inspiration of prayer." She adds that "FaithLife Financial valâ€" ues integrity, which is very important to me. I always feel good about the work I‘m doing and would never be asked to do anything that would compromise my integrity." Graphic designer Natasha Chamberâ€" lain is a new employee, but she already feels the difference the Christian foundaâ€" tion provides. "I love working at FaithLife Financial because I know people are here to do more than a job. They are here to make a difference in the world and live a Christâ€"like example everyday. We are forâ€" tunate to have each other and our faith in God." Continued from page 18 News sites satisfy the palette many different types of con tent. Many of the news sites that feed (no pun intended) your habit might have their own feeds. Look for a little orange "chicklet" icon that looks like a radio signal coming out of a single dot, a link that mentions subscribâ€" ing, or small images with the letters RSS, XML, RDF or Atom. These most likely indicate the site you‘re readâ€" ing has a feed. Next you will need to choose a reader to pull everything together for you. There are several good websites available to help you out here including Blogâ€" lines.com, Findory.com, Netvibes.com and Rojo.com. There are also PCâ€"based applications like NewsGator that do the same trick. I find the webâ€"based readers are better for me because 1 switch computers often enough during the course of the day and havâ€" ing my reader on just one computer would be incon venient. Google also has a site called Google Reader (which is usable but still incubating in their "lab") that recently received some upgrades putting it closer to the feaâ€" ture sets of its competitors. Some of the features I like include an easy way to star items that you want to read later and the way it marks stories as read as 1 scroll past them. There‘s also the ability to quickly share stoâ€" ries that you read with other people. By clicking the "share" button under a story, Google Reader adds the story to a list and generâ€" ates a custom web page with the stories for others to read. This page (wouldn‘t you know it) has a web feed of its own, and you can easiâ€" ly create a clip of the stories for sharing on your own website by cutting and pastâ€" ing a little bit of code. Putting stories in stanâ€" dard formats not only makes it easier for distributâ€" ing and reading news, but it 7 makes it possible to find, & mix and match the stories 3 that you are interested in. * Yahoo! for instance lets you 5 build your own news feed V based on search terms. 3 Once you subscribe to the 7 feed, Yahoo! does all of the Z2 hard work pulling together 3 new items with the words § from your query, and you & can sit back and watch the $ stories come in. Visit Z http://news.yahoo.com/rss and scroll down to the "creâ€" ate your own RSS news feeds" to give it a try. So why not try and save some time by using one of the many news readers to get your daily news "fix"? Maybe then your online reading won‘t be cutting into your personal or work hours... or maybe you‘ll just read more news with all of the time you save? Visit _ the _ website http://mghiemstra.com! for more "Bits of Life" columns and Michael‘s blog. 122070