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Q. I have planted carrots several times with no luck. Why won't they come up?
A. Do not plant them too deep. Sow the seeds on top of the bed and gently rake them in, covering the seed only about 1/4 inch. Germination will increase as soil temperatures decrease. Keep your planting area moist. Don't crust or harden the soil on top of the bed with direct sprays of water.
Q. What causes the top of my carrots to be green rather than orange?
A. Greening of the top of the carrot is caused by sunlight. Heavy rain can wash away the soil from carrot roots exposing them to the sun. An off-flavor is often associated with this green color. Remove the tops before consuming or canning the carrots.
Q. Why are my garden carrots short and stumpy instead of long and slender like those in grocery stores?
A. The problem is probably variety selection. The Nantes or Chantenay varieties, which are genetically short and thick, are recommended for home gardening. Those sold at grocery stores are the Imperator type and inherently long and slender. Carrot length can be affected by excessive moisture during growth.
Q. What causes my home garden carrots to be tasteless, woody and often bitter instead of sweet and tender?
A. These problems are associated with growing and environmental conditions during the maturing period. Carrots grow best and develop highest sugars when temperatures are between 40 degrees and 80 degrees F. The best carrots are planted in fall for early winter harvest. Carrots are cold hardy, but should be planted so they mature before temperatures drop below 20 degrees F. as damage or death can occur. Plantings can begin in late summer or early fall and continue until about 90 days before temperatures are expected to average 85 degrees F.
Q. Each year my spring-planted carrots send up a seed stalk. What am I doing wrong?
A. Carrots are biennial, growing from seed to flower-producing plants over two years. Carrots or many other biennial crops, such as cabbage, will produce seed stalks the first year if young plants are subjected to cold weather. Carrots which produce seed stalks often lack flavor, are woody and have poor texture.
Q. What causes my carrots to be pale yellow instead of the typical orange color?
A. Although there are varietal differences in root color, this problem could be caused by environmental conditions. Carrots maturing under warm temperatures or high moisture conditions lack good root color. These carrots also have poor flavor and texture. Plant carrots so they mature under relatively cool temperatures that average less than 80 degrees F. Avoid excessive soil moisture.
Q. The foliage of my carrots is infected with brown lesions which cause the leaves to decay.
A. This is a leaf blight of carrots and is caused by two fungi. This can be controlled by spraying with chlorothalonil. Begin at the first sign of the disease and repeat at 10- to 14-day intervals. Extended periods of high humidity caused by dews and intermittent rain contribute to the development of leaf blight of carrots. If not controlled, leaf blight can reduce the yield. Discontinue when weather conditions change.
Q. When I dug my carrots, I found galls or swelling on the roots.
A. These are root knot nematodes. Root knot is a species of nematode which causes galls or swellings on plant roots. It restricts the uptake of nutrients from the root system to the foliage, resulting in a yellow and stunted plant. Root knot lives in the soil and can survive on a number of weed and vegetable crops. It is best controlled by planting a solid stand (close enough for root systems to overlap) of marigolds three months before the first killing frost of fall and/or planting cereal rye (Elbon) for a winter cover crop. Cereal rye should be shred and tilled into the soil 30 days before planting a spring crop.
Q. The foliage on my carrots looks yellow with multiple sprouting at the crown of the root. The roots have numerous small roots on the main root.
A. This is aster yellows, a virus disease of carrots which is carried by leaf hoppers. There is no control for the disease other than a good insect program coupled with removal of the diseased plants once the disease symptoms begin.
Q. My carrots are rotting at the soil line. On close examination, I find the top of the root covered by a white fungal mat.
A. This is southern blight of carrots. It is a soil-borne disease and can be controlled by combining a good foliage fungicide program, deep burial of organic material so undecomposed leaf tissue is not in the upper zone of the garden soil and rotation.
Q. My carrots die rapidly during the warm months.
A. This is cotton root rot and is caused by a soil-borne fungus. It attacks carrot roots causing rapid death of the carrot. On close examination of the root system, you will find it to be completely decayed. The only control for this is rotation. Plant carrots so they will mature in cool months. Cotton root rot requires a hot soil to develop and grow at its rapid stage. Planting carrots in the fall and winter months to mature before the soil warms up will reduce losses from this fungus.
Q. Once I harvest my carrots and place them in the crisper, they soon deteriorate into a slimy, foul-smelling mess.
A. Most often this is associated with bacterial soft rot which enters the carrot at harvest time through cuts and breaks. To control this, wash carrots thoroughly. Broken or damaged carrots should be consumed immediately. After washing, place them in a crisper and keep them at a cool temperature.
Q. What causes my carrots to be forked or double?
A. Damage to the growing tip of a young carrot. Common causes include soil insects and nematodes which feed on the growing tip resulting in branching of the carrot root.


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I had the occasion to use the word dreck the other day (it was perfect!), and in doing so I decided to look it up and learn a little about the word. I had no idea it was a Yiddish word...nor that it comes from a Yiddish word meaning excrement. Perhaps it won't be one of my favorite words anymore!
I do enjoy Yiddish words; they are so perfectly descriptive.
The male form of Yiddish shikse is sheygets, pl. shkotsim. They both come the Hebrew word שקץ (sheqets) 'abomination; unclean thing or person'.
Dreck exists in German also. It means 'dirt, muck'. In tone, it's closer to 'crud' or 'manure' than 'shit'. In Yiddish, drek is 'dirt, filth', and more of a euphemism for 'excrement'. Excrement in Yiddish is der kal 'animal droppings' or di tsoye 'excrement'.
—Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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An elderly acquaintance of mine sends me (and many others) emails quite often. You probably have people who do that. Normally, I just hit delete and go on, but once in awhile I read what she sends, such as this:
I couldn't restrain myself, and I checked it out on Snopes. Sure enough, it wasn't true. However, when I told my friend, she said "So, it's a Bubbe maise." That Yiddish phrase is new to me, meaning, "grandmother's tale," or similar to our "old wive's tale."
[I know...it took awhile to get to the point. ]
A movie coming out, "Dinner for Schmucks," is causing a little uneasiness. Schmuck is not a nice Yiddish word:
The comic Lenny Bruce apparently was arrested for using it onstage.
While the article says it comes from the Old Polish "smok," meaning "grass snake" or "Dragon," in Yiddish it means "penis."
Dinner for "schlemiels" might be better, one Blog writer says. Other great Yiddish words brought up in this article are "shmendrik" and "shlimazl." They do love those "sh" or "sch" words!
By the way, this is the same director (Jay Roach) who directed "Meet the Fockers" and "Austin Powers: The Spy who Shagged Me." He seems to have an attitude!
I had thought it more likely related to the German schmuck, meaning ornament.
it's uncertain
Of the two Yiddish words for penis (shmok and pots, both have had their meanings transfered from genitalia to 'a foolish man'. So that now, if the new forms are used for the actual item: shmekl and petsl. They are both diminutive forms, with the vowels showing the typical Germanic phonological process of umlaut.
—Ceci n'est pas un seing.
While the etymology of schmuck may be uncertain, to those who are familiar with Yiddish, the meaning has always been "penis."
This is a classic joke (though the details vary; I got this version from some Blog):
One day Marvin comes down to the parking garage and the camel is gone... stolen! He calls the police who arrive within minutes. The first question is "What color was your camel?"
Marvin replies he doesn't remember, "Probably camel colored I guess... sort of brownish-greyish."
"And how many humps on your camel?" asks the policeman.
"Who counts humps... one, maybe two, I don't know for sure."
"And the height of the camel, sir?"
"What's with these dumb questions?" Marvin asks. "The camel was about three feet taller than I am. So maybe 9 feet, 10 feet. I can't be certain."
"Just one last question to complete my report, sir. Was the camel male or female?"
"Ah, that I know for sure he was a male."
"How can you be so certain of his sex when you don't remember anything else about your camel?" asks the policeman.
"Well," says Marvin, "everyone knows he's a male. Every day I'd ride the camel through town and people would stop and say to each other 'Look at the schmuck on that camel!'"
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I am reading "The Finkler Question," which takes place in England and is about British Jews. They mentioned a Yiddish word that neither Shu nor I had ever heard: svontz Has anyone heard it? It is one of the many Yiddish words to mean "penis" apparently. Yet I can't find it in Google or Google Translate. Maybe it really doesn't exist? It is a novel I am reading.
I've heard of German Schwanz "tail", I'm sure it's related.
They mentioned a Yiddish word that neither Shu nor I had ever heard: svontz Has anyone heard it?
Yes, it's basically the German term for 'tail' or 'penis': Schwantz. You'd have to ask a native Yiddish speaker, but to my ear the term in Yiddish, shvants sounds a bit daytshmerish 'German' (a term used for more highfalutin' vocabulary items). As for the tail/penis thing, in Latin penis means both, too.
Now (not to leave the ladies out of this) have either you or Shu heard of the Yiddish word shmue?
—Ceci n'est pas un seing.
Now when I told Shu that you'd both heard of "svontz" he said it does sound familiar. I thought it was strange that Google translator couldn't translate it and that there were no cites for it on Google.
We have not heard of "shmue." What does it mean? It also doesn't translate in Google translator, and I can't find it in Google. However, "shmuel" is "Sammuel" in Hebrew. And of course there's Al Capp's " Shmoo ."
What Kalleh said.
shmue doesn't look like the typical way to render a yiddish word in the roman alphabet. I'd expect the ending to be written -oo, not -ue.
shmue doesn't look like the typical way to render a yiddish word in the roman alphabet. I'd expect the ending to be written -oo, not -ue.
Oy vey. I use the YIVO standard method of transliterating Yiddish words from the Hebrew to the Latin alphabet. But let's not beat around the bush, in Yiddish (Hebrew letters), it's שםוע. Harkavy in his 1928 Yiddish-English-Hebrew Dictionary (2nd edition) glosses it 'cunt (vulg.)'. It would be pronounced /ʃmuə/ or shmoo-uh. I'd never really thought of it before, but I wonder if Al Capp was being risque.
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wow. you're not kidding.
to answer your question...
Svantz or Schwantz... yes I have heard of it. My Dad uses it when describing, um, the male member.
He was, according to the Wikipediaarticle Kalleh posted above:
I'd read that Shmoo was a euphemism for schmuck, but Li'l Abner's quote above only makes sense if it's interpreted as shmue.This message has been edited. Last edited by: tinman,
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Well, it had last been revived in May of 2010, so it wasn't too bad. But...welcome back Paleface! We haven't seen you in an age. Would love you to pull up a chair and stay awhile.
Just for fun: remember the old drinking song -- Ach, du lieber Augustine...?
Ever hear the whole thing?
Ach, du lieber Augustin, Augustin, Augustin,
Ach, du lieber Augustin,
Alles ist hin!
Gelt ist weg, Gut ist weg,
Augustin liegt im Dreck,
Ach, du lieber Augustin,
Alles ist hin!
which translates roughly as (second verse; you can reconstruct the rest)
Money is gone, everything good is gone,
Augustine is lying in the gutter.
Oh, dear Augustine,
Everything is gone.
You can picture either usage of Dreck here - muck or shit - depending on whether you think Augustine is simply an unfortunate soul or really a worthless bum...
P.S. Among many versions. From the Wikipedia article on the subject, (which we all know to be authoritative) - "Oh du lieber Augustin" is a Viennese folk song, composed by Max Augustin in 1679.
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I loved this article today reminiscing about the Polk Bros. stores in Chicago. I vaguely remember the stores. The reason I posted it here is because they use one of my favorite Yiddish words - schmata. I also like their description of "pullers." I have to paste it here because apparently links to the Tribune don't work:
I dearly hope that when the Polk Bros. Foundation bought the naming rights to a new park at Navy Pier, the $20 million purchase price was set by haggling.
You know how that works? A seller starts with an asking price more than a little on the high side, and the buyer, shaking his head in disbelief, counters with an offer equally unrealistic. They go another round, maybe more, until they both budge and a deal is struck.
So I can imagine Sol and Sam Polk rolling over in their graves if teams of high-priced lawyers in three-piece suits came to terms on the Navy Pier deal without one side crying: "You're robbing me blind!" The other shouting back: "This is my last offer before I walk!" It would be a travesty to put the Polk name on a deal politely and dispassionately concluded.
A spokesman said the family hoped the Polk name over the park's entrance might set younger Chicagoans to reflect upon what they missed for never having been in a Polk Bros. store, the last of which closed in 1992.
With their string of furniture and appliance stores, Sol and Sam took citywide a tradition of haggling established on Maxwell Street by Jewish merchants from Eastern Europe. There, newcomers would be taken in hand, literally, by a "puller" stationed outside a store. If a passer-by didn't respond to his touting of bargains, the puller would take hold of him, and, more or less gently, steer him inside. The store would reverberate with running commentary appended to bids:
Seller: "This suit, my friend, is a fine example of the tailor's art."
Buyer, fingering it distastefully: "Phooey! It's a schmata." ("Rag" in Yiddish, the street's lingua franca.)
On one store, a large sign boasted (only slightly tongue-in-cheek): "We cheat you fair."
In Polk Bros. stores, the puller's function — grabbing a customer and not letting go — was taken by salesmen clustered just inside the door. They would peel off to follow customers as closely as paparazzi determined not to miss a money shot.
By contrast, if you're looking for solitude these days, a good place to start is a big-box store or discount chain retailer. You can wander the aisles all day, alone with your thoughts — unless, by chance, a clerk breaks your reverie by halfheartedly asking: "Are you finding what you need?"
The Polks' merchandising philosophy forbid saying the word "need" in earshot of a customer. It could trigger her to thinking: "I really love this Mixmaster, but do I really need it, with the bill coming in for our daughter's braces?"
In the Polk Bros. playbook, the name of the game was converting passing fancy into irresistible desire. One way was through reverse leverage, using a customer's sales resistance against her. Many a customer came to browse, only to have her eye caught by a fridge or couch, as a hedonist impulse deep in her psyche whispered: "Don't fret over the price. They give discounts. Think how much it would cost at Marshall Field's."
As if reading her mind, a salesman would offer her a price below that on the price tag — which carried two notations, one in dollars, the other a string of letters. A couch might be marked: "$350 MBV," the latter standing for $290, the minimum price for which it could be sold. The salesman's objective was to make the sale — but for as close to the marked price as possible, since he and management split the difference between the marked price and the sales price.
The customer couldn't read the coded price but, knowing it existed, tried to nudge the salesman toward it. With each drop in the price, her sales resistance crumbled a little more.
For regular customers, the routine wasn't just a way of acquiring stuff. It was a way to keep their minds sharp by honing their bargaining skills, making a Polk Bros. store something more. It was a kind of mental gymnasium where customers practiced the exercise of haggling. For earlier generations, it provided the brain-maintenance opportunities with which Sudoku is now credited.
During late adolescence, I briefly worked at a different furniture store with a kind of theatrical variation on the game. When a salesman encountered sales resistance, he would call: "Oh, Mr. Otto." That signaled the next salesman in the rotation to join the customer and the original salesman, who would give him a role-playing assignment. As at the Second City comedy club, you didn't know ahead of time what improvisation would be required. "This is Mr. Otto, our furniture buyer," the summoning salesman might say. Or you'd be introduced as an interior decorator.
Then you'd wing it, saying something like: "You fine folks and I share a sense of good taste. But frankly, this dinette set hasn't sold as well as I expected. So let's help each other. I'll give you a nice markdown, and your buying it will reduce my overstock."
It rarely failed, no matter how outlandish I should have looked playing adult roles. Greed beats rationality.
Now there are fewer opportunities to practice bargaining. Even Mr. Otto's skills deteriorate, as I discovered in a jewelry store in Jerusalem's Old City. About to return from a stint at the Tribune's Jerusalem Bureau, I spotted a potential present for my wife. When the Palestinian proprietor stuck at a relatively high price, I noted that President Bill Clinton and Iraq's Saddam Hussein were exchanging threats. If war came, I told him, we could both be goners, so why quibble over a few shekels?
"Yes, but I've always wanted to die a wealthy man," he replied.
Like a defeated chess player laying down his king, I handed him the amount he wanted.
The "system" is alive and well in most car dealerships. It always takes two or three salesmen to work you over.
As for the modern stores, when I'm asked, "Did you find everything," which seems the current variation of the article's, "Are you finding what you need?" I reply, "I'm not here to buy everything."
I loved the closing paragraph!
I thought the code for the minimum price was so funny. I have bought from Polk Bros. before. I imagine I went in and just paid the posted price. I've never enjoyed haggling, like some do.
There used to be a Polk's Hobbies in New York. Was it the same family?
Many years ago, before I wised up to dealer one-up-manship, we bought a car and got what we thought was a good price. The salesman promised to have it ready at a certain time when we would sign the final papers and get the car. My wife was excited because she had never had a brand-new vehicle. That night, we sat at the salesman's desk and he congratulated us, told us how great the car was, but then a look of concern appeared on his face (I think he may have been a method actor, part-time). He picked up the papers and excused himself, entering a nearby office.
When he returned, he was apologetic. He pointed to the figures on the contract and said the "girl in the office" had made a mistake figuring out the price and it would actually cost us $400 dollars more than the agreed price.
I should have walked right then, but my wife was adamant that she wanted the car, and it wasn't his fault, was it, and why should the poor salesman suffer the loss for that "silly girl's" mistake, and "I really want that car."
So we paid the "mistake" but later learned it was just one ploy in the seller game.
We had something similar happen to us once. Suddenly there was some $250 fee that he had forgotten to tell us about. My husband told him that we had already agreed upon a price and that was it. We were ready to walk out when, of course, suddenly the $250 disappeared. Apparently we surprised him a bit. He said to Shu, "Are you a LaSalle Street attorney or something?" Shu said, "Well, I am an attorney and my office is on LaSalle Street, so I guess the answer is 'Yes'." Those car dealers are sleasy, aren't they?
My brother used to work manufacturing sealed double glazing units that were sold to the industry to those companies that come rounda nd bother you trying to sell you double glazing you don't want or need.
My friend Roy had an appointment for a salesman to come round and my brother gave him a list of things the sales man would say that were lies, things like:
This offer has been running for two months. It actually finished yesterday but I can still give you the special discount if you sign now.
This kind of window at this price isn't available from any other company.
We particularly like your home. If you give us permission to photograph your windows after they are installed we can give you an extra discount.
He also told him what percentage of the initial quoted price the final quoted price would be.
So Roy sat with the list, ticking them off during the interview, much to the discomfort of the salesman, and the quoted final price was indeed very close to the price my brother predicted.
I don't know if Roy confronted the salesman with it or not but it just shows that you can trust nothing being said by anyone trying to sell you something.
(And in a bit of cross-threading, proof... did I mention that the bridge is made of gold with pearl and diamond inlay?)
"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson.
You're a dentist when you're not teaching English?
I don't usually post anything personal here, but I'll admit my husband has a reputation in my family for serious haggling ability. What counts in my family is cars. My dad was a mechanic & auto parts man; he could make a car out of next to nothing (say, a chassis). His sons, my brothers, parlayed their inherited talents to the nth degree; it was routine to have twin cars (one functional, one a junker for parts), & one went so far as to build a Harley from a $200 box of loose parts. Bottom line: they knew value/price.
Long ago when we had 3 kids under the age of 8, an unfortunate collision left me temporarily disabled & the family without a 2nd set of wheels. So we were in a serious hurry (I thought). But as we rolled up to the dealership (on the hill next to the highway, in a line of dealerships), more than 6 young men in suits ran down the walkway to meet us. My husband slowly grinned. Over the ensuing evenings, I became accustomed to shepherding the kids [from my crutches] away from the hill & the highway to a nearby hotdog joint &... waiting it out. He simply told him what he wanted & what he would pay (30% below list price). It took about a week.
Geoff sent me one that I like - have you heard of veeblefetzer? It's apparently a placeholder name for any obscure or complicated object or mechanism, such as automobile parts, computer code and model railroad equipment. Love it!
As usual, Wikipedia has an article (which uses exactly the same wording for the definition).
Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
Yep, sorry about that. I should have credited Wikipedia.
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So, the woefully infrequent posts, and what we're going to do about it. Most bloggers would tell you that they were "busy," and therefore I guess I will too. Weddings, business travel, and so on. You know, because I'm so important.
But the real problem has been from a format perspective. As you might have noticed, I'd fallen into a "Sunday Notes" style column format, colllecting reams of links and data to comment on for a weekly roundup. Which is excellent if you have several hours per Sunday to write it up. Which I frequently do not. Obviously. Hence the absence.
Instead, what we're going to try is smaller, shorter format pieces with – sorry – a little less of my less my blather. This, in theory, will permit more frequent updates and more timely responses.
In cases where the situation calls for it, of course, I'll still take the time to pump out thousands of words that no one will ever read. But let's see how the new format works once I start (and I've got a bunch of things in the queue). Suggestions are welcome, even if I pay no attention to them.


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No. 1 Alabama steamrolls struggling Arkansas
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — AJ McCarron threw three touchdown passes and Kenyan Drake rushed for 104 yards and two scores to lead No. 1 Alabama to a 52-0 victory over Arkansas on Saturday night.
The Crimson Tide (7-0, 4-0 Southeastern Conference) rolled to a 28-0 halftime lead and easily avoided catching the upset bug that struck other SEC powers. Alabama has won by the same margin over Arkansas two years running.
It's the first time Alabama has shut out an SEC opponent two years in a row since wins over Mississippi State in 1973-74.
The Razorbacks (3-5, 0-4) have dropped five straight games —the longest losing streak of Bret Bielema's head coaching career — and were coming off a 52-7 loss to No. 11 South Carolina.
The Tide outgained Arkansas 532-256 in total yards, getting 352 on the ground.
McCarron was 15-of-21 passing for 180 yards in three quarters, including touchdowns of 4, 30 and 17 yards.
Drake needed just eight carries to reach 100 yards for the second straight week. T.J. Yeldon had 88 yards and a 24-yard touchdown on 12 carries. Yeldon caught four passes for 45 yards.
Freshman Derrick Henry ran for 111 yards on six carries, all in the fourth quarter and most of it on an 80-yard touchdown in the final minute. The Razorbacks had allowed only eight rushing touchdowns in the first seven games, but gave up four Saturday.
Arkansas' Brandon Allen continued to struggle in the team's fourth consecutive game against a ranked team. He completed 7 of 25 passes for 91 yards with two interceptions.
The Tide also managed to contain Alex Collins and Jonathan Williams, who both came in ranked among the SEC's top seven rushers. Collins ran for 77 yards on 18 carries and Williams had 13 rushes for 48 yards.
Alabama has allowed just one touchdown and 16 points in its last five games.
The offense pounded away at Arkansas but also produced some big plays, especially in the first half.
Drake bounced off tight end Brian Vogler at the line and burst outside for a 46-yard touchdown.
Amari Cooper, easily the Tide's best receiver as a freshman, caught his first touchdown pass of the season. He dropped one ball on the sideline then caught a near-perfect throw from McCarron on the next play for the TD.
Freshman tight end O.J. Howard added a 17-yard catch for his first career touchdown in the third quarter.
Defensively, Alabama got one veteran safety back but might have lost another.
Vinnie Sunseri left the game with an apparent leg injury in the first quarter. He limped off the field after helping cover a kick, headed to the locker room and didn't return to the game.
Free safety Ha Ha Clinton-Dix returned from a two-game suspension and picked off a tipped pass for his first interception of the season after Arkansas moved into Alabama territory on its second drive.
Clinton-Dix was reinstated by the NCAA on Friday after reportedly accepting a short-term loan from an assistant strength and conditioning coach.


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Continuing from part one How to live and Die (1) – Sad post on what I think are some of the points that one needs to keep in mind to have a good Life and Die a peaceful death, the first point as I said is health.. as Health is Wealth..
The next point that is equally important is MONEY.. I don't like beating around the bush and I am sure a lot of people will be shaking their heads but believe you me that I do think after Health the next most important is a healthy bank balance: OH Yes this is a must, and If you owe some money to someone then you need enough to pay off that debt and as soon as possible. We humans have this tendency that if we owe someone and even though we have enough money we try to keep it closer to us as much as possible and for as long as possible, I don't know why we don't just pay our debts off at the earliest.
I recently found this out, that I do owe money to someone, I hope I am able to pay it off as soon. Over the time I have also realised that expensive gifts taking-giving need to be stopped, because when relations go sour suddenly that money spent cuts into an already sour relation.
Anyway I am deviating from the point .. One needs to have a healthy bank balance enough to provide a few comforts, and most importantly One should have enough for fun time, small little things like going for movies, eating out, holidays etc etc. Holidays May not be luxury holidays but some that can release all that pressure that builds up, somewhere that relaxes you.. I have a perfect place where I get relaxed the most .. My Village house.. That's one place where I feel happy even when everything around me is falling down. Although saying that I had not been there for so long, so this year when I spent 2 weeks it felt like heaven, I have made my self promise ME.. that I am going to spend at least ONE week each year at home, That definitely means I need that MONEY – a healthy bank balance to do just that, as coming to India is becoming more and more expensive each passing day.
Not having enough money to just have basic recreation is very demoralizing. I was talking to a friend on this , he mentioned that he has a mortgage and some credit card bills, But I would not advice anyone to Live on credit or borrow , as that is far worse , it is demeaning and lowers one in one's own eyes, especially if you are unable to pay the installments.
Now that we are talking about Money PLEASE don't lend money especially to friends, I know I am being horrible but it is truth, you lose friendship and the Money.
As I said we humans have this tendency that we like to hold on to that money for as long, even if we owe. If you ask your friend for the money back, you are suddenly not that good a friend, so friendship lost with that money too,
After Health — Money is the most important thing in life no matter what people say.. even the billionaires need the money..
The Next important fact after Health-Money is Having your own home, and by that I mean the one which you may buy yourself, I am strong believer that if you buy your own with your own hard-earned money you feel more Happy.I know in today's economy it's a big task to buy one's own home and many many of us live in the house that we have got from our parents they probably from their's, It is yours but it is not yours .. If you know what I mean.
Many people these days live on rent , Renting a place never gives you the comfort or security that you get because somewhere in the back of your mind it's always something that you will have to vacate. BUT saying that these days especially in india No one vacates.. If you give your property on rent it seems you have done one of the worst things ever.. this brings added tensions to the owner.. I have burnt my fingers in that too. Use to have a Shop in Chandigarh the normal rent in the sector is at least 60 to 70000, but the gentleman who rented ours paid a measly 2200/- , yeah just 2200Rs. My father was a very soft man, the guy would come and cry how difficult the situation is and my dad would say ok next year we will increase , this carried on for 40+ years. So Last year I sold it off to a friends Uncle at 30% less than the market price, he has enough clout to throw this tenant out on the road, and then I got phone calls every day from him telling me he is ready to up the rent to whatever price I said, but too late for that.
I dont know why we have this mentality if we are having something good we over do it , this guy had all his business , everyone knew him and now when he would have had to set up his work at a different place , at a higher price he realises he was wrong, I remember 4 years ago when i had gone to india I had a chat with him and had told him that , he was wrong, He did the usual sob story and said can afford to increase the rent to 3000Rs. only , I just turned back and said leave it , he can have the 800rs. it will help his family more.. But serves him right.
I got so scared of this tenant business that , the house I had bought a year and half ago , we had given it on rent but now I have got it vacated and I plan to have it like that , we have a care taker who lives in it , the guy who worked our fields has a second wife 🙂 , yeah I know 🙂 .. and one kid, so the other family live in that taking care of the house , it helps both of us he doesn't have to pay for rent , he was paying previously and we have someone looking after the house.


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Richard Wolstencroft, the Aussie behind the classic underground Boyd Rice vehicle Pearls Before Swine (1999) – a movie that any weirdo reading this should stop and watch right now if they never have before – is back with the second installment of The Second Coming, the first volume of which was finished in 2015. Part of an even grander series that Wolstencroft calls the "March on Rome" trilogy, the two halves of The Second Coming comprise a magickal diptych of miscegenated and mutated gleanings from Crowley, Manson, nuclear physics, social Darwinism, Faustian racialism, and William Butler Yeats, whose poem "The Second Coming" provides the inspiration for a nebulous plot involving a global conspiracy of revolutionary dissidents attempting to usher in a new age of unmediocrity through occult, scientific, degenerate, and quasi-fascistic skullduggery. If such a revolt against the modern world is to be successful, The Second Coming indicates, its principal stumbling block will be the mutual distrust of the various elements necessary to bring the new order into being.
This is essentially a no-budget undertaking – the only money spent seems to have been on travel expenses for the mix of dully mundane and dangerously exotic locations – but what makes The Second Coming a must-see film is the assortment of oddballs Wolstencroft managed to assemble to participate in his production. There are too many to name, but readers may be especially interested to know that proto-Alt-Right hate scene legends Jim Goad and Boyd Rice both have small but perfectly cast and hilarious roles as players in the satanic conspiracy. The phone conversation between the two of them, short as it is, is one of the greatest moments ever stitched together for a movie. A gloriously off-the-wall Kim Fowley, Shaun Partridge, and late Feral House publisher Adam Parfrey also have cameos in The Second Coming, in case the foregoing was not already enough to entice the viewer. In my book, I briefly discuss the potential for the emergence of a white nationalist cinema. Is Wolstencroft's The Second Coming the realization of this ideal? Well … not exactly. Wolstencroft is too individual a creator and too perverted a reprobate for that. The Second Coming does, however, gesture vaguely in the directions that such a cinema might undertake to explore if it ever emerged from the wilderness of its online chaos. Both volumes of Wolstencroft's epic can be accessed through Affirmative Right – free to view for a limited time.
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THE IDEA "God's Own Machine" - Always loved this term, not sure who coined it but read it first from Scott's Blog long back. All right - back in Early 2014, I decided to create my own build (custom assembled desktop computer) and I came up with a build that I call "Triga". Follow the link for more details of it. Three years later while using Triga day and night, I started feeling to do an upgrade and create a better build to keep up with the new tech / gadget's trend. Plus, this one was dying or lagging at times, especially when I try to work on Xamarin based stuffs. I believe that it is worth spending money as a programmer if you can save time and be more productive in your work instead of waiting for couple of seconds to few minutes to see your » Read more


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1. Perhaps the most anticipated movie of the summer opens this week: "The Dark Knight Rises," the last in the Batman trilogy from Christopher Nolan. The PG-13 movie stars Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Tom Hardy and Anne Hathaway. Some theaters are playing all the films in the trilogy, so check the newspaper for listings.
2. Friday is the anniversary of the first manned landing on the moon, and libraries, museums and observatories might be holding events. Check the newspaper for details. Apollo 11 touched down on July 20, 1969, and about seven hours later, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon.
3. Friday is a sweet day: it's National Lollipop Day. Head to your favorite candy shop and pick up a lollipop today!
4. The Tour de France ends on Sunday, and you'll be able to catch the exciting conclusion on TV. Check your listings for times, or head to the official website.
5. Monday is Hot Enough For Ya Day, and, boy, is it perfect timing – most of the U.S. is suffering through another heat wave. Cool off this weekend by going to a pool or the beach, playing in sprinklers, eating ice cream or doing something to stay cool.
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The main purpose of the EBN Notebook is to equip readers with the necessary skills to critically appraise primary research studies and to provide a more detailed description of some of the methodological issues that arise in the papers we abstract. In the July 1999 issue of Evidence-Based Nursing, the EBN Notebook explored the concept of sampling.1 In this issue we will provide a basic introduction to quantitative measurement of health outcomes, which may be assessed in studies of treatment, causation, prognosis, diagnosis, and in economic evaluations. Examples of health related outcomes are blood pressure, quality of life, patient satisfaction, and costs.
Health can be measured in many different ways; the various aspects of health that can be measured are referred to as variables.2 For example, in the treatment study by Dunn et al in this issue of Evidence-Based Nursing (p 117), the interventions (known as the independent variables) were lifestyle and structured exercise programmes and the outcomes (known as the dependent variables) were physical activity and cardiorespiratory fitness. In a treatment study, the independent variables are those that are under the control of the investigator, and the dependent variables are the outcomes that may be influenced by the independent variable. In a causation study, the investigator relies on natural variation between both variables and looks for a relation between the 2 variables. For example, when determining whether smoking causes lung cancer, smoking is the independent variable and lung cancer is the dependent variable. In the abstracts included in Evidence-Based Nursing, the independent variables are identified under the "intervention" section for treatment studies and under the "assessment of risk factors" section for causation studies. The dependent variables are identified under the "main outcome measures" section.
Types of variables
Variables can be classified as nominal, ordinal, interval, or ratio variables. Nominal (categorical) variables are simply names of categories. Some nominal variables (referred to as dichotomous variables) have only 2 possible values, such as sex (men or women), survival (dead or alive), or whether a specific feature is present or absent (eg, diabetes or no diabetes); others may have several possible values, such as race (white, black, Hispanic, and others). The actual number of categories can be determined by the researcher; for example, race can be defined as 2 options (black or non-black) or by several possible options. No hierarchy is presumed with nominal data—that is, being alive is not twice as good as being dead (although most patients would argue with us about that one). In contrast, ordinal variables are sets of "ordered" categories.2 For example, patients are often asked to rate the severity of their pain on a scale of 0–10, where 0 is no pain and 10 is unbearable, excruciating pain. Although we can safely say that a pain rating of 8 is worse than a pain rating of 5, we do not really know how much these 2 ratings differ because we do not know the size of the intervals between each rating.2 Ordinal scales have also been used to grade pressure sore severity and to classify the staging of various cancers (eg, stage I, II, or III). Interval variables consist of an ordered set of categories, with the additional requirement that the categories form a series of intervals that are all exactly the same size. Thus, the difference between a temperature of 37°C and 38°C is 1 degree, and between 38°C and 39°C is 1 degree, and so on. However, an interval scale does not have an absolute zero point that indicates complete absence of the variable being measured. Because there is no absolute zero point on an interval scale, ratios of values are not meaningful—that is, 2 values cannot be compared by claiming that one is "twice as large" as another. A ratio variable has all the features of an interval variable but adds an absolute zero point, which indicates none (complete absence) of the variable being measured. The advantage of an absolute zero is that ratios of numbers on the scale reflect ratios of magnitude for the variable being measured.3 To illustrate, 100°C is not twice as hot as 50°C (interval data) but 100 cm is twice as long as 50 cm, and a pulse of 80 beats per minute is twice a pulse rate of 40 beats per minute (ratio data).
The reason for stressing the differences between types of variables is that the type of variable dictates, to a large extent, the method of statistical analysis used by the researcher. It is meaningless to discuss the average or mean value of nominal or ordinal data because they are categories. Thus, the notion of a "mean" or "average" sex or race makes no sense; counts or frequencies of the number of individuals in each category, however, are useful. Conversely, the mean blood pressure (ratio variable) in a sample of patients is more meaningful than a count of the number of patients with each blood pressure measurement. In a subsequent EBN Notebook, we will explore different ways to describe and analyse data.
Issues in measurement
It is important to remember that most measurements in healthcare research encapsulate several things: the "real" or true value of the variable that is being measured; the variability of the measure; the accuracy of the instrument with which we are measuring; and perhaps the position of the patient or the skill and expectations of the person doing the measurement. Some of these elements are within the control of the measurer (eg, ensuring that a scale is at 0 before we weigh someone), whereas other elements are not (eg, a patient's blood pressure varies by time of day; therefore researchers try to assess blood pressure at the same time each day).
Some measures are more objective than others and are less likely to be influenced by human error or bias. Examples of objective measures include all cause mortality (ie, whether one is "dead" or "alive") and serum cholesterol concentrations. In contrast, subjective measures may be influenced by the perception of the individual doing the measurement (eg, patient self reported pain ratings). Most paper and pencil type questionnaires are subjective measures. The Beck Depression Inventory for Primary Care described in the diagnosis study by Steer et al in this issue (p 126) is an example of a subjective paper and pencil questionnaire.
Frequency counts, such as incidence or prevalence, are often used when we want to know the extent of a disease or condition in a population. Others may be more interested in the beneficial and harmful effects of an intervention, such as differences in the rates of sexually transmitted diseases after a behavioural intervention provided to minority women (see the treatment study by Shain et al p 121).
What measurement issues should I look for when reading an article?
These are 2 critically important properties of measurement. Reliability refers to the degree to which a measure gives the same result twice (or more) under similar circumstances, and may relate to the measure being used or the people using it. For example, if a patient's blood pressure is measured every 4 minutes on the same arm, by the same nurse, and the patient is not subject to any intervention such as activity or medication, you would expect to get similar sphygmomanometer readings. The extent to which repeated readings are similar is called reliability. Assessment of the similarity of repeated readings taken by the same nurse provides a measure of intra-rater or within-rater reliability. You would also hope that 2 different nurses measuring the same patient's blood pressure under the same circumstances would get similar readings. The extent to which the readings from 2 different nurses are similar is known as inter-rater or between-rater reliability.
Validity is the ability of a measurement tool to accurately measure what it is intended to measure. There are many different types of validity, but one of the most important is criterion related validity, which requires comparison of a given measure with a gold standard, or the best existing measure of the variable.4 In the study by Steer et al in this issue (p 126), the results obtained from the Beck Depression Inventory for Primary Care were compared with the results of a standardised interview based on DSM-IV criteria and conducted by a physician. The interview results were considered to be the gold standard. Other examples of gold standards are direct central venous pressure readings for sphygmomanometer measures of blood pressure and serum hormone concentrations for the results of a urine test for pregnancy.
There are several potential sources of bias. It is not important to remember what they are called, but you should be able to recognise sources of bias in a study. One way that bias can occur in a study is when the healthcare providers, patients, and data collectors participating in an intervention study are not masked or blinded to the treatment allocation. In an ideal world, studies would be "triple blinded"—that is, the healthcare provider delivering the intervention, the patient, and the research staff measuring the outcomes would not know which treatment the patient was receiving. Although triple blinding is possible in randomised trials evaluating new drugs, it is far more difficult to achieve in evaluations of most nursing interventions. Often, neither the nurses delivering the intervention nor the patients receiving the intervention can be masked (eg, nurses know that they are providing a patient education intervention and patients know that they are receiving it). In such studies, it is often possible, however, to mask the person measuring the outcome. By ensuring that the person measuring the outcome is masked to a patient's group allocation, researchers try to minimise the bias that could be introduced by unconscious adjustments assessors might make if they were aware of a patient's group allocation. For example, in the study by Dunn et al (p 117), which compared 2 interventions to increase physical activity, the people who assessed blood pressure, pulse rate, and body fat did not know which intervention participants had received. If they had known, this might have influenced their perceptions when they were doing the measurements, particularly if they had a clear opinion about which intervention was most effective. Similarly, participants reporting their own level of activity might alter their reporting of actual behaviour depending on whether they enjoyed or if they wished they had been allocated to a different group. Beginning with this issue of Evidence-Based Nursing, we will specify in the description of the design, whether the study was unblinded, single, or double blinded and who was blinded.
Another common type of bias is social desirability bias, in which people's responses to questions may reflect their desire to under report their socially unfavourable habits, such as the number of cigarettes smoked, illicit drug use, or unsafe sexual practices. Conversely, people may overestimate what they perceive to be socially desirable practices, such as exercise participation or daily intake of fruits and vegetables.
A third type of bias is recall bias, which acknowledges that human memory is fallible. Reports of seat belt use 5 years ago or fibre intake last month, for example, are not as accurate as concurrent or prospective measurements, where seat belt use or diet diaries are recorded on a daily basis.
Investigators often use strategies to try to overcome these potential biases. These strategies include having outcome assessors who do not know the purpose of a study nor which intervention the patient received; having study participants complete self report questionnaires in a private area, ensuring that their responses to sensitive or potentially embarrassing questions are confidential; and collecting information on a prospective basis (ie, as it happens), rather than on a retrospective basis (historically).
In summary, readers of research reports need to consider the type of measures that are used, the reliability and validity of the measures, and methods used to minimise bias in the measurement of outcomes. These are some of the elements considered when selecting studies for abstraction in Evidence-Based Nursing. In the next issue of the journal, the EBN Notebook will address how study outcomes are analysed and the appropriateness of the statistical test for the type of data collected.


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Hello subscribers and Burton Blog Bash hoppers! Thank you for taking the time to check out my blog today as we celebrate the genius that is Tim Burton and the release of Miss Pereguine's Home For Peculiar Children. Some of you may have learned to like his work later on in life but for me.. his work has effected me since back when it was "weird" to like the types of things he created. Especially for a little girl.
When I was 7 years old Beetlejuice came out and it instantly drew me in. I remember some kids being scared of Beetlejuice. I was one of those kids yelling his name hoping he would make an appearance. Envious of how cool it would be to live in Lydia Deetz's shoes. I guess you can say I still admire her. I have her tattoo'd on my arm. My dad even walked me down the aisle to the Beetlejuice intro music because not only did my Dad introduce me to the movie but my husband and I bonded over it when we first started dating (he now has the rest of the cast tattoo'd on his arm). It was a very important part of our ceremony and so symbolic. Who better then Danny Elfman to set the mood for our Halloween Masquerade reception.
When Edward Scissorhands came out, I remember thinking whoever made these films was some sort of genius. When you are younger you really don't get into who made what when it comes to movies. You just watch them, love them or hate them. However Tim Burton's films were like nothing I had ever seen and when I found out the same man made Beetljuice it clicked that this man was different. When I found out he did Pee Wee's Big Adventure my mind was blown. He was talented and he had something no one else had when it came to making movies (I was a smart kid ehh ha ha). When I was really little, Jim Henson was always my hero as far as fantasy movie makers were concerned. As I was beginning to get older, Tim Burton crept his way into my heart as well. He had this way of bringing macabre visions to life but making them whimsical which amazed me (and still does).
Which brings us to when the previews came out for Nightmare Before Christmas when I was 12 years old. I still have the newspaper clippings I cut out of the newspaper in anticipation for the movie to come out. The fact that it was clay animated completely awed me and the characters seemed so intriguing. I guess you can say I was a little like Jack when I saw the previews… "What's This?" "What's This?" 🙂
Not only did I have these clippings because I was excited about the movie, but I used them to draw the characters as well. Stashed away with the clippings are my sketches from back then. They make me smile to look back at. So not only did Tim Burton entertain me, he also inspired me to create!
The great thing is he still does. Over the years all of his movies have continued to draw me in. These are just a glimpse of some of the things I have conjured up over the years inspired by him. Click on any of the images to see them on a larger scale.
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Tea-Bowls 40-45
Tea-bowls 29-32
I found a bit of Ruststone clay in my studio that was frozen and thawed multiple times. It doesn't work well for pinching unless you have unreasonable strong hands, so I paddled these into form instead. This claybody is much darker than the others you've seen in the 100 tea-bowls project and I'm excited to see the differences.
Tea-Bowls 27 and 28
With this Wabi-sabi style approach to the tea-bowls, I'm trying different approaches for the foot (base of the piece.) With these two I gave them 3 little feet which add a bit of height, stability and visual breathing room between the pieces and the surface they rest on.
Tea-Bowl 26
Tea-Bowls 20 – 23
I really enjoy the variety of this group. I formed #20 with legs from a single slab of clay (a nice change of approach and a good challenge on keeping it loose) #21 is an actual tumbler with a rounded bottom (webble-wobble and all) #22 is really tight, clean, and symmetrical and #23 is the largest I've stretched the size of the tea-bowl with a soft bulge of silhouette and hint of a lip. Having this much variety in such a small group of tea-bowls makes me anxious to see how far I can push the form for the remaining 77! For those curious, the white powder you see on the forms is actually cornstarch; I use it as a barrier so the clay doesn't stick to surfaces when i'm hand building.


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The LDS Chapel on Longfellow Park in Cambridge, Massachusetts started on fire this morning. Various eyewitnesses have emailed alumni/ae of the wards that meet and have met in the building over the years. As of 12:34 EST, none of us knows anything about cause. While I'm sure that the details will soon be sorted out, I wanted to open this post as a space to remember that chapel. While I know this sounds melodramatic, I'm feeling really quite sad about this and suspect there are others mourning today. Go ahead and share your memories.
Updates: FPR had initial Blogdom coverage, the roof has collapsed but the brick walls still stand, many though not all of the library books are being preserved, area churches have graciously offered their support, and the current best guess is an electrical fire that started in the attic. One memorable moment was the retrieval, intact, of a painting of Jesus counseling with the rich man, by firefighters.


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For a complete view of Windows 7 resources, articles, demos, and guidance, please visit the Springboard Series for Windows 7 on the Windows Client TechCenter.
For a downloadable version of this document, see the Deploying Windows 7 from A to Z in the Microsoft Download Center (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=180725).
As the enterprise operating system deployment guy, I often get requests for a "one-page" article about performing enterprise-scale desktop deployment or how to migrate hundreds or thousands of computers running Windows® XP to Windows 7. Although I have seen full-length books printed on the head of a pen, I don't think it is possible to explain the entire set of desktop migration tasks when moving from one operating system version to another within one page. If you are upgrading one computer from Windows Vista®, or performing a clean installation on your personal computer (coming from any recent version of Windows), there is one-page guidance available on the Microsoft Web site: Installing and reinstalling Windows 7. But it probably won't satisfy you if you want to perform these tasks more than a few times.
Let's start by stating a few assumptions:
You are an IT professional looking to move multiple computers or users from Windows XP or Windows Vista to Windows 7.
The computers you are transitioning to Windows 7 have user data, settings, and applications that somehow (either partially or completely) need to be migrated to Windows 7.
You don't want to manually transfer user files through file copy or use manually-operated consumer tools (such as Windows Easy Transfer) from the legacy computer to Windows 7.
You would prefer to have applications be part of the customized operating system you install or automate application installation as part of the total deployment process.
In the best case, you would prefer that the entire process is as automated as possible.
You have some previous experience with operating system installation, deployment, or system imaging.
You might be thinking, "What about using the common processes of hard-drive cloning or sector-based imaging to duplicate a reference installation?"
The good news is that with advances in system imaging, you no longer need to spend hours saving user data off an old computer, cloning the hard drive of a reference computer, and then taking the time to restore the data you saved in the first step. Although the hard drive cloning process is probably the most common practice used, it has several disadvantages, including:
The time required to clone each system.
A proliferation of hard-drive images based on various hardware types.
Large image sizes and the corresponding storage space consumed.
The potential cost of hard-drive cloning software.
The excess time spent rebuilding and maintaining multiple images.
Manual processes for activating end user licenses.
You have a few options when migrating from Windows XP, and many of them depend on the size and complexity of your environment. We highlight four primary options for migrating from Windows XP to Windows 7 (or Windows Vista) in the Choosing a Deployment Strategy article on Microsoft TechNet. In fact, that article goes into greater detail than this document, and it does a great job of pointing to tools and resources.
I'm using quite a few terms interchangeably throughout this document. When I use the terms like "migrate from Windows XP" or "operating system deployment" or "transition from Windows XP", I am talking about the following major steps we cover in any operating system deployment:
Collecting existing user data and settings (if they exist)
Installing the operating system
Installing drivers and applications
Activating the operating system
Joining a domain (if necessary)
Restoring user data and settings
Providing the flexibility to customize which applications we install by user role, and applying language preference, locale, time zone, and so on based on user needs
I usually refer to this collective process across multiple computers as "deployment," and there are a few other terms we'll define before concluding this introduction. Subsequent sections will refer to installation scenarios, so let's define the main ones:
Refresh Computer. This is when a user has a computer with files, settings, and applications. We will be installing the new operating system to that existing computer and assuming the same user keeps that computer. In this case, we try to keep user files and settings locally on that computer to save time, storage, and network bandwidth. Some refer to this as an "in-place wipe and load" (without actually wiping the user's data) or loosely as "upgrading" a computer.
Replace Computer. This is when the user is getting a new computer or a computer is reassigned from another user and the user data and settings need to move off the old computer through some method and onto the new computer. This scenario tends to take the most time compared to Refresh Computer and New Computer. Some refer to this as "side-by-side" migration, but it isn't necessary for the computers to be physically near each other or otherwise connected in this scenario.
New Computer. This is when there is no requirement to migrate pre-existing user data or settings. New Computer is used for a new hire or for a secondary computer, or if an old computer was lost or damaged and user data was not previously backed up. Some refer to this as "bare metal" deployment, but in most cases there is some OEM preinstalled operating system we will be replacing.
Now we have listed the assumptions for this document, listed a few reasons why you may want to look at your existing deployment process if it involves hard-drive cloning, roughly defined the all-up operating system deployment process, and defined the primary installation scenarios. So far, I've gone over a page in length, but this provides the backdrop for the upcoming sections. In the next section, I'll describe the options and recommendations for user data and settings migration when moving from Windows XP to Windows 7.


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KEEP - Keeping Emulation Environments Portable
I recently attended a workshop of the KEEP project (Keeping Emulation Environments Portable) in Rome. KEEP is an EU funded project to develop software that virtualizes old computer hardware and software environments. This allows you to run old operating systems and the applications that were designed for them on modern computers. The KEEP project is multi-partner project that than includes a consortium of national libries (BNF, Koninklijke Bibliotheek), the University of Portsmouth, a computer history museum (Computerspiele Museum), commercial partners (Tessella), and the European Game Developers Association.
The project is scheduled to end in February 2012 and has already released software version 1.0.0 on SourceForge ( http://emuframework.sourceforge.net/ ). This version supports:
* 5 platforms: x86, C64, Amiga, BBC Micro, Amstrad
* 6 emulators included: Dioscuri, Qemu, VICE, UAE, BeebEm, JavaCPC
* 22 file formats supported: PDF, TXT, XML, JPG, TIFF, PNG, BMP, Quark, ARJ, EXE, disk/tape images and more
* Integration with format identification FITS
* Web services for software and emulator archives
The development team is currently working on some significant refinements of the interface that are scheduled to be released at the end of the current project in February 2012. The current list of supported platforms and operating systems and can be expanded. In addition, the framework is designed so that you can add support for legacy applications if you have the software and licenses to do so.
The KEEP emulator UI has a wizard mode that allows the end user to select the disk image or application file and then let the software guess the correct platform, OS and application using FITS. There is also support for the end user to manually choose the platform, OS, and application if the wizard isn't able to determine the requirement environment.
I am very excited by the potential of the KEEP emulation framework. I envision it potentially satisfying multiple SULAIR use cases for providing access to legacy applications (games) and older digital manuscript materials (Word Perfect files, old operating systems). In the coming months we hope to test the KEEP framework to determine its suitability for our collections.
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Portico Quartet
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ElectronicExperimental, ElectroModern Jazz
Les anglais de Portico Quartet sont de retour avec un nouvel album intitulé Monument, la suite électronique de leur très acclamé album ambient-minimaliste Terrain, présentant le groupe sous son aspect le plus direct.
Tracklist :
1. Opening
2. Impressions
3. Ultraviolet
4. Ever Present
5. Gateway
6. Monument
8. Warm Data
9. Portal
10. On the Light
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VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Canucks have inked restricted free agent Brock Boeser to a three-year contract.
The team announced the 22-year-old right-winger's new deal on Monday, saying it carries an average annual value of $5.875 million.
Boeser missed training camp in Victoria over the weekend as negotiations continued. He posted a photo of himself in a Canucks jersey on Instagram after the deal was announced, with the caption: "Excited to be back, can't wait to get going! See you soon .cominghome."
The Canucks opened their pre-season schedule Monday night against the Calgary Flames Monday in Victoria and will host the Edmonton Oilers in Vancouver on Tuesday.
Canucks GM Jim Benning said before Monday's game that he was "extremely excited" to get a deal done.
"We're very happy an excited to get Brock in here and up and going." – GM Jim Benning discusses the details of Brock Boeser's 3 year #Canucks contract. pic.twitter.com/GQ0iFFG0x4
— Vancouver Canucks (@Canucks) September 17, 2019
"We've been working on this for the last three to four months," he said. "We found we had a lot more in common doing a short term deal."
Benning said the two sides discussed a long-term contract but the three year package was where they settled.
Boeser now has three years to prove he's a dominant player and consistent goal scorer, which will likely result in a bigger future contract, said Benning.
"He's one of our core young players we want to build our team around," he said.
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Benning said Boeser will be in Vancouver Tuesday.
The native of Burnsville, Minn., was the club's third-leading scorer last season with 26 goals and 30 assists in 69 games.
Originally picked 23rd overall by Vancouver in the 2015 draft, Boeser was an NHL All-Star Game MVP in 2018 and a finalist for the Calder Trophy in the same season, despite a broken back cutting short his rookie campaign.
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