There was a time when if you wanted to read while travelling you had to think about what amount of books to take with you and what ones to leave behind. Now with electronic readers you can have hundreds of them available to you. In order to get the most from your electronic reader you need suitable accessories such as the Kindle USB cord.
Over time these can become worn and so may need to be replaced. In some cases the electronic reader may not come with this kind of cord. Therefore you
Sunday, May 06, 2012
Advice For Buying A Kindle USB Cord
Advice For Buying A Kindle USB Cord
There was a time when if you wanted to read while travelling you had to think about what amount of books to take with you and what ones to leave behind. Now with electronic readers you can have hundreds of them available to you. In order to get the most from your electronic reader you need suitable accessories such as the Kindle USB cord.
Over time these can become worn and so may need to be replaced. In some cases the electronic reader may not come with this kind of cord. Therefore you
Book News 06May12 - More Mire on Murdoch
Ah well it had to happen. No sooner the scandle than the book deal. I take a very jaundiced view about Mr Watson et al., MP's in general have been proven to be a pretty sleezy lot. This scandle has driven the new expenses revelations into touch and just after they all clammered about having their phones hacked. The shame of having an un hacked phone.The muck here seems to be spread thinly across all partys and ranks equally the motto being ... "Oh a trough lets get our
Book News 2012-4-5 Abe Books
I wondered what was happening over at Abe Books. Here is there declared Bestsellers List for April. Funnily enough apart from George R.R. Martin there was not a lot to interest me personaly. Have a look. See what you think. Let me know. Anyone from Abe Books reading?
Abe Books bestsellers April 2012
Top 10 bestselling signed books on AbeBooks
1. City of Bohane by Kevin Barry
2. Sacre Bleu by Christopher Moore
3. The Lifeboat
Saturday, May 05, 2012
AMD News 5May12
Nice to see a woman geeting on in the IT Industry.
AMD Appoints Colette LaForce as Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer
AMD announced today that Colette LaForce, 39, will join the company as senior vice president and chief marketing officer, reporting to President and Chief Executive Officer Rory Read. In her new role, LaForce will lead global integrated marketing for AMD, including marketing strategy, branding, internal and external communications,
Booki News 7May12
Here is the first of several review I found by Admiral Naismith. Its nice to see before you purchase
Bookpost, April 2012
Red Harvest, by Dashiell Hammett
The city wasn’t pretty. Most of its builders had gone in for gaudiness. Maybe they had been successful at first. Since then the smelters whose brick stacks stuck up tall against a gloomy mountain to the south had yellow-smoked everything into uniform dinginess. The result was an ugly city of forty
Book News - 5 May12- Writers and royalty payments
I think this is self evident. I too think it important and am echoing it in full. All Writers or Authors please read. Incidentally I would love to publish replys from Authors, Writers, and especial Editors and Publishing houses. Wghat have they to say in rebuttal to this foul ...........
Kris Rusch is having issues with malware attacks on her sites, and I find her post important enough to echo it here and over at Mad Genius Club.
The Business Rusch: Royalty
Wednesday, May 02, 2012
IT News 02May2012 -The newest line of enterprise-grade Pentium processors
Todays news is a release from Intel. It plans to release two enterprise grade Pentium Processors. So its up to AMD to ramain at the top.
Intel Plans Two Enterprise-Grade Pentium LGA1356 Processors
Intel is planning to launch its newest line of enterprise-grade Pentium processors. A little later this year, Intel will launch Xeon E5-4600 processors which are built in the LGA2011 package, and support quad-socket servers, followed by Xeon E5-2400, which will be built in
Book News 02May12 - Wine Women and D’Artagnan
I hate latin tags but I suppose in this case it works. Beethoven's B-flat major leaves me totally unmoved but whatever rings your bell.
The Juice: Vinous Veritas by Jay McInerney
Jay McInerney can almost be forgiven for bragging about wine, women and car
Wine's a tease: it makes you want to talk about it and then a lot of what you say is nonsense. That's understandable, excusable, even
Book News - Self Publishing with Awesome Indies and Rock*It Reads
Book Publishing is as most of us know a lottery. It's much simpler standing out in a sunny day waiting for lightining to strike.
Author collectives signal a new chapter for self-publishing
With online groups working to sift out the hidden gems, and a New York co-operative instituting a 'seal of quality', is the world of independent publishing finally getting organised.
Novel idea … author Amanda Hocking, who has sold over a
Tuesday, May 01, 2012
IT News 01may12 - Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook
I publish this for those of you who for some reason don't want a ACER5560G. I use one so so should you..
Dell Says it Can't Build Enough XPS 13 Ultrabooks
by Kevin Parrish - source: CNET
Dell is having trouble metting the high demand of its XPS 13 Ultrabook.
Sam Burd, vice president of Dell's Consumer and SMB (small and medium business) product group, said that
Book News 1May 2012 - The Barnes & Noble-Microsoft tie-up
Did I tell you about the time Microsot threatened to sue me? I should have let them and got my $300 Million!!
Microsoft invests $300m in Barnes & Noble's Nook ebook business
Barnes & Noble shares soar as deal with software giant eases fears that bookseller lacks capital to compete with Amazon
The Barnes & Noble-Microsoft tie-up sent the bookseller's shares nearly 80% in US morning trading. Photograph: Spencer
Book News Harry Potter 1 May 2012
I found an entire page of links for the Harry Potter fanatics. Have a look at some of these
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Book Review
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Movie Review
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Trivia Quiz
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Computer Game Profile
Compare Prices for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Best Young Adult Books for
Monday, April 30, 2012
Technical IT - a dual-GPU GeForce GTX 690
A rival for the AMD's Radeon HD 7800 series has to be seen first. I myself will happily bet on the Radeon. What are your thoughts on the matter.
Third GK104-based Single GPU Graphics Card SKU Detailed
After GeForce GTX 680, which has all components of the 28 nm GK104 enabled, a dual-GPU GeForce GTX 690, which features two of these chips, and the GeForce GTX 670, NVIDIA is readying its third single-GPU GK104-based SKU. We
Book News 30April2012 - Exxon Mobil and American Power
Many thanks to the NYT - The Times for this mention of what I'm sure will be a best seller across the globe. We have all wondered. Did you see that profit figure Thirty Six BILLION!! Can this be healthy within any state.
‘Private Empire,’ Steve Coll’s Book on Exxon Mobil
By DWIGHT GARNER
Published: April 26, 2012
The cover of “Private Empire,” Steve Coll’s new book about the Exxon Mobil
book news 30Apr12 - Moonwalking With Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
Now I found this by accident whilst trolling the internet. This sounds like a must get book for us wrinklies who keep forgetting nouns etc.,
In Moonwalking With Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything, author Joshua Foer writes about how he went from being an internet journalist assigned to cover this event to becoming a competitor in one, one year later. This is one of the most interesting accounts of participatory journalism ever told.
But the book is much much
Sunday, April 29, 2012
CPU's This Weekend
This Sunday an excert from anandtech.com for you. This looks like it could be a very tasty piece of kit for the serious player .......
The Monster 1.0 isn’t just about stuffing the latest and greatest parts into a small form factor. Intel’s new Ivy Bridge processor is socket compatible with Sandy Bridge chips, and since there are no dual-core IVB offerings right now Eurocom offers the Monster with either dual-core SNB or quad-core IVB—though you’ll
Book News 29Apr12 Sara A Hoyt and Baen Books
Looking thru as I do I found a list of free chapters going as tasters. I haven't reproduced them in full here as I haven't the room. Full credits are show below. Sara A Hoyt is well worth watching. The same goes for Baen Books. Follw the more reading for er... more reading
Darkship Renegades
Sarah A Hoyt
Baen – December 2012
Out of the Frying Pan
I was a princess from Earth and he was a rogue spaceman from a mythical world. He saved my life three
Saturday, April 28, 2012
AMD & Intel News
Some interesting reading for the investment clubs. More on the Ivy Bridge as and when it hits the news. Remember you heard it here second!
Recently, Intel (INTC) has proven itself to be a leader in its field, in more aspects than one.
In order to move with the times, Intel has created a new generation of chips, and very recently it announced that these chips would be available in its new PCs. The chips, referred to as "Ivy Bridge"
Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden
It had to happen --- A book on arch criminal and allround hate figue bin Laden. I'm not sure that I wish to hear anymore about this man so it is unlikely that I will purchase it myself but, in the interests of fairness for which he was well known, here is a review. Enjoy ... or not.
Not only was family life a source of solace for Osama bin Laden, the former al Qaeda leader strongly believed polygamy was a religious obligation. These are two of the revelations in Peter
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Book News 25 April 12
Three Books of totally different styles and subjects. The first is fairly typical Guardian choice. Personally I feel sorry for Don Bartlet but it would appear that he did a good job!
Do you really wish to 'get skinnier than all your friends'? If so then our second choice (another Guardian) is for you .....
Number three Gone by Michael Grant - review is my choice for the day. I just love a fantasy with a touch of .... and a jot of
IT News - 25April12 - Ultrabooks Without Optical Drives?
HP, Dell and Asus Consider Ultrabooks without Optical Drives
6:30 AM - April 25, 2012 by Douglas Perry - source: Digitimes
Notebook makers are anticipating the launch of the next generation of MacBook Pros and apparently are planning their product strategy around Apple's success or failure.
Rumors suggest that Apple will eliminate optical disc drives from the standard feature set and offer external drives as an
Book News 25 April 12
Three Books of totally different styles and subjects. The first is fairly typical Guardian choice. Personally I feel sorry for Don Bartlet but it would appear that he did a good job!
Do you really wish to 'get skinnier than all your friends'? If so then our second choice (another Guardian) is for you .....
Number three Gone by Michael Grant - review is my choice for the day. I just love a fantasy with a touch of .... and a jot of
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Book News
Now. Born in Yorkshire quite near Leeds I remember it from fifty years ago. This is the story of the man responsible for a large part of its change.
The story of a city by its modest modern guardian
John Thorp has not been able to prevent all carbuncles from wrinkling the face of Leeds. But his role as the UK's last Civic Architect shines through a long-awaited boo
John Thorp's elegant
Intel News
Is this yet another Intel OOps. It wouldn't be the first. Anyone remember the chip that had trouble doing maths?
Rumored Ivy Bridge Production Woes, Intel Denies Shortages
April 23, 2012 by Douglas Perry - source: Digitimes
Today's Intel Ivy Bridge launch has been accompanied by rumors that production issues may be responsible for a very limited supply of processors initially.
The
Intel News
Is this yet another Intel OOps. It wouldn't be the first. Anyone remember the chip that had trouble doing maths?
Rumored Ivy Bridge Production Woes, Intel Denies Shortages
April 23, 2012 by Douglas Perry - source: Digitimes
Today's Intel Ivy Bridge launch has been accompanied by rumors that production issues may be responsible for a very limited supply of processors initially.
The
Book News
Now. Born in Yorkshire quite near Leeds I remember it from fifty years ago. This is the story of the man responsible for a large part of its change.
The story of a city by its modest modern guardian
John Thorp has not been able to prevent all carbuncles from wrinkling the face of Leeds. But his role as the UK's last Civic Architect shines through a long-awaited boo
John Thorp's elegant
Monday, April 23, 2012
World Book Night
This is mandantory for all our readers. Random House have been very good to us. Support them and World Book Night.
World Book Night
Will you be joining in with the festivities of World Book Night? Thousands of volunteers across the UK, Ireland, Germany and USA will be sharing their passion for reading and books by helping give out 1,000,000 books. This year, 25 titles have been chosen in total and many great Random House authors are featured such as Terry Pratchett, Sophie
World Book Night
This is mandantory for all our readers. Random House have been very good to us. Support them and World Book Night.
One Million Books!
Will you be joining in with the festivities of World Book Night? Thousands of volunteers across the UK, Ireland, Germany and USA will be sharing their passion for reading and books by helping give out 1,000,000 books. This year, 25 titles have been chosen in total and many great Random House authors are featured such as Terry Pratchett, Sophie
Book News
Book Review: Intruder by C.J. Cherryh
In Intruder, the political machinations continue as Bren works toward creating a lasting trade agreement (and hopefully peace) between the Western Association and the Marid, and the Marid and Ilisidi’s Eastern district. This is a very complicated tangle made even more complicated by Machigi, the lord of the Marid giving Bren a letter revealing a number of things about what had been going on behind the scenes in Deceiver and Betrayer.
Sunday, April 22, 2012
AMD
More news on the video card front. This from Ryan Smith on 4/16/2012 7:50:00 PM. This is unsurprising since the launch of the Gforce GTX 680
Radeon HD 7000 Series Price Cuts & Promos Announced
For those of you in the market for a new video card, some price relief is on its way. Earlier today AMD sent out an announcement that they’ll be dropping the price on half of the Radeon HD 7000 series lineup, bringing prices down at both the top and
AMD
More news on the video card front. This from Ryan Smith on 4/16/2012 7:50:00 PM. This is unsurprising since the launch of the Gforce GTX 680
Radeon HD 7000 Series Price Cuts & Promos Announced
For those of you in the market for a new video card, some price relief is on its way. Earlier today AMD sent out an announcement that they’ll be dropping the price on half of the Radeon HD 7000 series lineup, bringing prices down at both the top and
AMD
More news on the video card front. This from Ryan Smith on 4/16/2012 7:50:00 PM. This is unsurprising since the launch of the Gforce GTX 680
Radeon HD 7000 Series Price Cuts & Promos Announced
For those of you in the market for a new video card, some price relief is on its way. Earlier today AMD sent out an announcement that they’ll be dropping the price on half of the Radeon HD 7000 series lineup, bringing prices down at both the top and
World Domination now aim for Google
Look what came our way this morning. Google having learnt how it's done from Microsoft is after another victim. Not capitalism at it's best. Good luck to AMD and the worried workforce.
AMD and Google in Race to Buy Out MIPS
AMD and Google are locked in a race to buy out MIPS, an application processor architecture designer competitive to ARM. AMD comes from a decades old presence in the microprocessor industry, while Google is a satrap with smartphones, tablets, and
ASUS Motherboards
This may or may not be bad news. What do you think??
ASUS To Completely End Manufacturing of its Motherboards, Notebooks by Pegatron
ASUS and Pegatron are headed for a complete split as far as motherboards and notebooks are concerned. Following reports of ASUSTek divesting in its former part and partner after split, Pegatron, ASUS plans to end manufacturing of its motherboards by it. ASUS will find other ODMs, such as Cal-Comp, ECS, Global-Brands
London in the Eighteenth Century by Jerry White
If there was ever a Review that strongly told me to go out and buy a book then this is it. The Review itself reads like as fast paced novel. First go to the Guardian and read the whole review. Then buy the book. Then leave a comment for all to see.
London in the Eighteenth Century by Jerry White - review
London lives, magnificent and squalid
Engraving of shipping on the Thames near London Bridge, circa 1750.
ASUS Motherboards
This may or may not be bad news. What do you think??
ASUS To Completely End Manufacturing of its Motherboards, Notebooks by Pegatron
ASUS and Pegatron are headed for a complete split as far as motherboards and notebooks are concerned. Following reports of ASUSTek divesting in its former part and partner after split, Pegatron, ASUS plans to end manufacturing of its motherboards by it. ASUS will find other ODMs, such as Cal-Comp, ECS, Global-Brands
Book News
Rodney King's book The Riot Within: My Journey from Rebellion to Redemption is due out on April 24th. In anticipation of the book's publication and the 20 year anniversary of the L.A. riots, King will sit down and talk with KPCC radio host and L.A. Times columnist Patt Morrison at the LA Festival of Books this weekend.
If King has become a symbol in L.A.'s long and complicated history of race, justice and social change, then Morrison could be the lexicon where
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Biographies of Persian Poets
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by theSale Price:$13.85Read
Biography amd Poetical Remains of the Late Margaret Miller Davidson
This book, "Biography amd Poetical Remains of the Late Margaret Miller Davidson", by Washington Irving, is a replication. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible.Sale Price:$35.95Read
Sir Robert Peel: In Early Life, 1788-1812; As Irish Secretary, 1812-1818; Amd As Secretary of State, 1822-1827. from His Private Correspondence, Volume 2
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,Sale Price:$25.22Read
Die Kriege Friedrichs Des Grossen: Th. Der Siebenjährige Krieg. 1756-1763. 1. Bd. Pirna Und Lobositz, Amd Atlas of Maps. 2. Bd. Prag. 3. Bd. Kolin. 4. ... Leuthen. 7. Bd. Olmütz Und C (German Edition)
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,Sale Price:$19.02Read
Nila and Bill
This is the real life story of Nila and Bill, two high tech spies who took process technology, including the state-of-the-art Pentium, from world-class chip makers Advanced Micro Devices and Intel Corporation and distributed it to Cuba, the SovietSale Price:$12.00Read
World Domination now aim for Google
AMD and Google in Race to Buy Out MIPS
AMD and Google are locked in a race to buy out MIPS, an application processor architecture designer competitive to ARM. AMD comes from a decades old presence in the microprocessor industry, while Google is a satrap with smartphones, tablets, and other mobile computing devices thanks to its Android operatingsystem. With Microsoft opening up to ARM architecture with Windows 8 RT, it is in Google's interests to hedge its bets on an
New Books on Harry Potter
I'm afraid my addiction to all things Potter is showing. Even so perhaps an encyclopedia is taking things a bit far. What next a Guardian sponsored BA in Magical Means? Still here is the latest from the Guardian. Read More
Harry Potter encyclopedia in progress, says JK Rowling
Flummoxed by flobberworms? Fear not, the author has started work on the long-promised encyclopedia of Harry's world, with royalties to be donated to
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
AMD
More news on the video card front. This from Ryan Smith on 4/16/2012 7:50:00 PM. This is unsurprising since the launch of the Gforce GTX 680
Radeon HD 7000 Series Price Cuts & Promos Announced
For those of you in the market for a new video card, some price relief is on its way. Earlier today AMD sent out an announcement that they’ll be dropping the price on half of the Radeon HD 7000 series lineup, bringing prices down at both the top and
Monday, April 16, 2012
Keyphrases used
We had PM asking what search phrases people were using to find information within the site.
Here is a list from yesterdays's logs. I wouldn't take them too much to heart as they change daily and from month to month and season to season.
For instance at Xmas its going to be books on how to cook a Turkey or gifts for loved ones.
books like perfect chemistry
restaurant cutlery presentation
best food presentation book
books like perfect
14 nm "Broadwell" A True System-on-Chip
Intel strike again and lead the field . The race for total integration continues. What next the "Posiotronic Brain" Not in my lifetime but perhaps in yours ....
14 nm "Broadwell" A True System-on-Chip (SoC)
With the 14 nm "Broadwell" architecture, Intel will take a new step towards integration of the platform-controller hub (PCH) with the CPU, by designing it to be a multi-chip module (with the CPU+northbridge in one die, and PCH on the other).
It began with transfer of memory controller from northbridge to CPU die (45 nm
14 nm "Broadwell" A True System-on-Chip
Intel strike again and lead the field . The race for total integration continues. What next the "Posiotronic Brain" Not in my lifetime but perhaps in yours ....
14 nm "Broadwell" A True System-on-Chip (SoC)
With the 14 nm "Broadwell" architecture, Intel will take a new step towards integration of the platform-controller hub (PCH) with the CPU, by designing it to be a multi-chip module (with the CPU+northbridge in one die, and PCH on the other). This would make
Pottermore opens to Muggles
And look what I spotted whilst trawling thru the net. It would seem to be official athough your author had no luck first thing this morning. Still. Senior Citizens often have to queue....
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ReadEdge.asyncLoad();
Pottermore, The Harry Potter Official Website,
Tech News
I don't think this need much of an intro good news/bad news depends where or even if your money is invested. After the fuss in the UK over Bankers Pay one wonders what will happen if they get to hear about pay within the top American Technical groups?
Its a week to keep your eyes open!
A Complete Checklist For This Week's Big Earnings Announcements
Eric
Sunday, April 15, 2012
Book News
Its the weekend so I have the time to look for jems amongst the news. "First Book" always catches my eye at least within the main niches I support. Available here
Nocturnal Origins is the first book in the Nocturnal Lives series. When I was shopping it around to agents and publishers, I had to try to figure out how to frame it. Was it urban fantasy (now called contemporary fantasy by some)? Was it mystery or suspense? Was it paranormal romance or just
AMD Radeon HD 6950 to HD 6970
AMD Radeon HD 7900, HD 7700 Series Price Cuts En Route:
Despite losing its competitive edge to NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 680, for various reasons AMD was rather slow in adjusting prices of its Radeon HD 7900 series SKUs, the HD 7970 and HD 7950. We are now learning that AMD is preparing the first round of price cuts for its flagship lineup, since the advent of NVIDIA's Kepler architecture.
A Kitguru report pits price cuts of
Saturday, April 14, 2012
The latest AMD FirePro professional graphics cards
I'm not sure that I understand this, but I think it means that AMD once again has the edge on its competitors in the high performance graphic card market. I havent seen any prices. I don't think I will be testing it unlesws AMD send me a test card. (Hint Hint)
AMD and PTC Team Up to Provide Advanced Graphics Performance in Creo Parametric 2.0
AMD today announced its collaboration with PTC, a leading provider of product development software
Thank God Vista is dead.
Its official Vista dies today.
Microsoft Ends Mainstream Support for Vista Today, Support for XP will end in 2014
Microsoft Windows Vista is out of "mainstream support " from today. Users will continue to have free access to security updates, but those without a commercial support contract will have to pay for bug fixes or other patches.
This phase between end of mainstream support and end of all support is called "extended support", and for
News 14 April2012
And again from the Guardian an excellent review of the books surrounding the Titanic anniversary. I myself get a little fed up with the amount of coverage given. Certainly within televison programming. Cheap TV. Still that does not count where the newspapers are concerned. There is still a chance for us. Comment away and follow the link below to the origional and full article.
Titanic Lives by Richard Davenport-Hines – review
A survey of some of the many
The Apple ebook price-fixing lawsuit
And where are you in this argument? It will ultimately effect all of us who read or write books. Wether you love them or hate them now is tthe time to add your comments below.
The Apple ebook price-fixing lawsuit has terrifying implications
If Apple loses the US case for alleged price fixing, Amazon will be left in sole charge of the publishing industryIt's easy to see the positive in the Department of Justice's decision to file a lawsuit against publishers
Intel® Processors - In General
It should be remembered that when Intel say "family" they mean a collection of processors not Mother Father and two children. Some chips in an Intel family cost a breathtaking FIVE THOUSAND POUNDS. Fortunately there are others ( the majority ) that cost a good deal less....
To save time effort and money (for you) most of the data text etc on this page is blatantly stolen from Intel@ with only minor alterations by myself to improve readability.
Intel and AMD have always had a somewhat up
Intel® Processors - In General
It should be remembered that when Intel say "family" they mean a collection of processors not Mother Father and two children. Some chips in an Intel family cost a breathtaking FIVE THOUSAND POUNDS. Fortunately there are others ( the majority ) that cost a good deal less....
To save time effort and money (for you) most of the data text etc on this page is blatantly stolen from Intel@ with only minor alterations by myself to improve readability.
Intel and AMD have always had a somewhat up
AMD 1( Click Here)
This is the page that I have been waiting for, or at least it was until I found out how many there were to do.
The SHORT List:
Dual-Core AMD Opteron (16)
AMD Athlon II X4 (11)
AMD Opteron (10)
Six-Core AMD Opteron (10)
AMD Athlon II X3 (9)
Quad-Core AMD Opteron (9)
AMD Phenom II X6 Black (7)
AMD Opteron 6100 Series Processor (6)
AMD Athlon II X2 (4)
AMD Phenom II X4 (4)
AMD Phenom II X6 (4)
AMD Sempron (4)
AMD Dual-Core A4-Series APU For Desktops (3)
AMD Opteron 4100 Series
Gigabyte Motherboards - The G1 Sniper
G1.Sniper - 1366 Socket - X58 Chipset - ATX (Ref: G1.SNIPER)
I've been thinking a good deal about motherboards recently. Its sometime since my personal (Midi Tower) computer was built. Probably four years now. Asus were my favorites for may many years and I have no real reason for looking at another manufacturer. When we were dealing with "live" products we used to sell an awful number of Gigabyte of all shapes and sizes. Many in bundles and many at rock bottom prices.
Not so with
Western Digital
I confess I haven't used many Western Digital Hard drives during my career. One tends to stick with a manufacturer one trusts especially when spending thousands of pounds of a clients money.
The usual stories abound for those who wish to search for them. Western Digital are the finest hard drive manufacturer at large to Western Digital hard drives suck. The truth has to be somewhere in the middle for them to have been in business for the length of time that they have. I would love to see
Friday, April 13, 2012
LinkedIn - Worth it for you?
When it comes to building a presence online there are a good number of reasons why you should create a business profile on LinkedIn.
Firstly, LinkedIn is a business-focused social networking site. The majority of its members are online entrepreneurs, business owners, marketers, and all sorts of business-oriented individuals. This alone makes the social site a must-have. If you are not building your presence on it, then you are missing out on a lot of business opportunities.
Whether you
The Easter SF Conference
Of course no one told me it was at the Radisson Edwardian hotel in Heathrow or even when it was. Perhaps someone will tell me in time for next years show. You have to admire George RR Martin with his money most would not have his down to earth flair and be as friendly to his fans. Rumor has it that there are still TWO more books to come yet. Watch this page
"Eastercon is the biggest date in the UK SF/fantasy convention calendar, and moves location each year
Apple and the email scandle
Apple accused by US of colluding with publishers to fix price of ebooks
The News of The Day has to be the truely amazing story of Apple, the US Justice department and ebooks. As a major purchaser of ebooks thse days I'm not amused to hear that one of the biggest companys in the world is ripping me ( a senior citizen) off.
But it isn't just Apple Hachette SA, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin and Simon & Schuster are all
Vampires Dracula and The Guardian no less.
Yessss I know I keep quoting from the Guardian but this is too good to miss....
The first mention of Bram Stoker's Dracula in The Guardian came in its Books Of The Week round-up on 15 June 1897. It's worth quoting in full:
Dracula
by Bram Stoker
Buy it from the Guardian bookshop
Tell us what you think: Star-rate and review this book
A writer who attempts in the nineteenth century to rehabilitate the ancient legends of the were-wolf and the vampire has set himself a formidable
Its Friday the 13th Sci-Fi
Something borrowed something blue... I think we've had the blue so here is a short borrowed. Follow the links for more info on the shorts described below. Review Authors info in the Bio
So, on to the stories…
Summary of Story #1: No Earthly Ship -
This is a simple sci-fi adventure/romance. The action apparently takes place on an alien planet where blood is blue, people come in different colors, and shape-shifters hide in plain sight. There are two different
Book News - Sword & Blood
Don't you just love freebies and free vampire stories at that. This one courtesy of Sarah J Hoyt is well worth a read if you are into the genre. Nothing better to start the day and get the blood moving.
Sword & Blood: The Vampire Musketeers
*If you don’t read vampires, please don’t read further. Also, fair warning because this blog is normally PG — there is EXPLICIT sexual stuff in the prologue (not quite sex) — so if you
Friday, November 09, 2007
Senior Citizens Health - Why Watch Birds
Senior Citizens Health - Why Watch Birds?
Because its Healthy. Bird watching has proved a pastime for senior citizens all over the world. Historically, they were considered to be omens and it was usually the most senior of senior citizens who was called upon to pronounce wether the omen was good or bad. Our ancesters believed that the flights and calls of birds could foretell the future.
Today, senior citizens are still used for this purpose but now modern thought takes changes in bird populations as a reflection of the health of the environment.
Birdwatching fulfills another basic instinct.The quest for knowledge. Birdwatching is about scholarship. Not just about birds' names, but about their songs, their behavior, and how they relate to the diaspora.
Amateur birdwatchers make real contributions to scientific knowledge. Much of what ornithology knows about birds has come from the observations of ordinary but dedicated birdewatchers. Some birds can be indicator species, like the USA's national bird, the bald eagle. They forecast environmental conditions.
Birds can be fascinating creatures. If you’ve never watched them before, just try for a few moments in the early morning light. Look at how they soar through the air. Listen to their morning songs. You can find great peace and great enlightenment in birds. How would you be able to truly enjoy these creatures unless you watched them? It’s time to get started in bird watching! Senior Citizens unite. Get healthy. Go birdwatching.
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Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Senior Citizens Health - Choose to be Healthy the Natural Way
Senior Citizens Health - Choose to be Healthy the Natural Way
As a Senior Citizen your body looks after you, well most of the time.. It behoves us well to as Senior Citizens to return the favour and look after our body.
Natural is about being pro-active. You need to be dedicated to making and keeping your body healthy.
Natural medicine does not cause drowsiness and works with the body to help you.
Natural medicine, made from natural ingredients, because of its anti-bacterial effects, is used by many senior citizens in place of traditional medicine to assist in the cure their ailments.
Natural is not about being a health freak, but more about being a health-conscious person, making the natural health lifestyle work for and with you. It seems unlikely that you as a Senior Citizen will have been living a junk food and quick meal life, but, if you have, you will need to consider incorporating a series vitamins into your regime.
Natural means incorporating more natural solutions in your life. The best way to prevent, treat, and in many cases cure illness is to give your body the right tools and let it go to work reduce the amount of processed food you eat keep the salt and alcohol down and take more exercise and get more sleep..
Recent studies seem to have confirmed that an increased intake of water and the proper immune enhancing nutrients offer the best defence against most infections. Water please note! Not alcoholic drinks. In fact one of the most common causes of headaches is lack of proper hydration.
Even back pain can be caused by a lack of fluids. Spinal discs which are filled with fluid act as shock absorbers in our spinal column and when they are not hydrated they deflate and provide less absorbsion placing the load on the shell of the disk instead of using fluid . Another effects of the fluid level in disks can be lack of movement, moving your head around and moving your upper body around while sitting at a desk can help alleviate this and allow the discs to become rehydrated.
High blood pressure or hypertension an be caused by a lower blood volume from dehydration. Its a bit obvious but since our blood is over 80% water it can be, from a volume point of view, very susceptible to changes in hydration.
As a senior citizen you will be able to enjoy the pleasures of life with a body that functions at its optimum for a good few years yet, once you start living a natural life, you start feeling better; and that is crucial in dealing with the everyday stresses and strains of the senior citizen growing ever older.
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Sunday, October 14, 2007
Garden Insects: Not part of your landscaping?
Garden Insects: Not part of your landscaping?
Do small animals dig up your lawn? It is entirely likely that if you have a lawn, you risk the chance of having pests, such as the gopher or a mole or a squirrel or rabbits. Even wasps bees ants and other insects can invade and set up home. The reason these these creatures and insects are attracted to your lawn is the seed of their downfall?
Most private home lawns are not big enough to attract enough pests so that major trouble will be caused, nevertheless, they can be a nuisance and damage areas of grass. Insects are too small to be easily spotted, but, their presence can be deduced by dead, brown patches of grass. Moles gophers rabbits and squirrels are a bit more obvious- mole hills on the top of your lawn, and, beneath the lawn, tunnels and caverns. If you can identify your pests, you can then have a go at dealing with the problem.
The first option, always, is to call an expert. Try your Yellow Pages local directory or a referral from someone you know that had a similar problem.
However most people today want to do it themselves. And, if you are a DIY'er, the first thing you need to do is size up your situation, and what you are up against. Let’s look at insects first.
There are many many thousands of species of garden insects, far too many to list here. Borrow a book on insects from your local library, or have a look at several entomology websites or even keep an eye on our blog to learn more about what their role is in the destruction of your garden. But please be careful, you don’t want to kill off any allies!
When dealing with insects, the number one rule is not all garden insects are bad guys. We've probably killed them at some point in our lives if they have annoyed stung or bitten us, but, most garden insects can actually act as assasins against othergarden insects. Its a dog eat dog world out there in the garden. You can subdivide the problem into two types of insects. Above and below ground.
Above ground, insects usually feed on your grass, and can be seen fairly easy. Some examples of these can be chinch bugs, green bugs and armyworms. The below ground teams are just that, they feed on your lawn through the root system, which means they can be the most destructive. They are also difficult to identify since they are er below ground and not easily seen.
There are five groups of weapons against garden insects: chemical insecticides, biological insecticides, botanical insecticides, insecticide soaps and predatory insects (The Assassins are our friends. In fact in this case any enemy of our enemy is our friend!). Keep an eye out for specific types for specific insects. Be prepared to be disappointed and have to make repeated attempts.
In the garden its the war we want to win not individual battles.
Moles and gopher are two of the most common animal pests. Both animals build tunnels under your lawns, but that does not mean they are the same. These two have many things that set them apart from one another. Moles are smaller than gophers, and have pointed snouts and large front claws. They do not feed on your lawn, but the insects that dwell within. Sounds like they are good guys? Perhaps, but the moles’ tunnels leave mounds of dirt on the ground above, and their shallow tunnels cause uneven ground. Gophers, the largest of the two, have buckteeth and small ears. These creatures love to eat your grass and plant roots. Gophers also leave mounds of dirt, but they do far more damage underground, causing sinkholes. Getting rids of gophers and moles leads to one solution kill them. There are less drastic methods, such as trapping or driving them away. Each to his or her own. If you have young children or grandchildren you may have to put up with the little charmers for a few years.
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Sunday, September 09, 2007
Bourbon The Making
Bourbon In The Making
It is a truism that the Scots have the market sewn up as far as the best product on the planet; however there are a few studs in other stables worth a mention. Bourbon has long been associated with Kentucky and for good reason as it is the state where this craft was first developed Elijah Craig a Baptist minister in the late 18th century in Georgetown Kentucky unveiled to farmers and townsfolk alike the first Bourbon whiskey where the trend just took off. It is said that even the father of the great Abraham Lincoln got into the action.
European settlers brought this trade secret with them to North America and in turn shared it with their new neighbors. Giving way to a boom in production. 1791 was the time of the whiskey rebellion in Pennsylvania where the government elected to impose tax on whiskey and whiskey sales.
This did not sit well with distillers so they made their way to the Kentucky Mountains to avoid the collectors of said tax. Eighty percent of all Bourbon today is distilled in the state of Kentucky. A royal family of French decent carried the name that now brandishes the bottles of this Kentucky gold. The name was introduced in 1758.
The attempt of American independence from British rule saw the French giving support so as the independence grew new land developments in America were named in French as tribute. In the year 1785, Kentucky was known as the Kentucky district of Virginia and not a separate state.
Through some of the river ports in Kentucky the whiskies were shipped down the Ohio River to New Orleans. Northeastern Bourbon county and Limestone county combined in 1789 to forge Mason county Virginia.
Although Bourbon is less restricted than Scotch, there are some regulations in place today. State regulation on Bourbon distilling requires the brew to be made from 51% corn; however barley wheat and rye may be used for blending purposes. It must be between 80-160% proof.
The soft texture and sweet taste come from the corn itself. After it is distilled in a continual still, it is then transferred to casks made of oak for maturing for a much regulated minimum of no less than two years. These regulations make Bourbon what it is today, a very popular whiskey among all who drink it.
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A WILD-FLOWER GARDEN
A WILD-FLOWER GARDEN.
A wild-flower garden has a most attractive sound. One thinks of long tramps in the woods, collecting material, and then of the fun in fixing up a real for sure wild garden.
Many people say they have no luck at all with such a garden. It is not a question of luck, but a question of understanding, for wild flowers are like people and each has its personality. What a plant has been accustomed to in Nature it desires always. In fact, when removed from its own sort of living conditions, it sickens and dies. That is enough to tell us that we should copy Nature herself. Suppose you are hunting wild flowers. As you choose certain flowers from the woods, notice the soil they are in, the place, conditions, the surroundings, and the neighbours.
Suppose you find dog-tooth violets and wind-flowers growing near together. Then place them so in your own new garden. Suppose you find a certain violet enjoying an open situation; then it should always have the same. You see the point, do you not? If you wish wild flowers to grow in a tame garden make them feel at home. Cheat them into almost believing that they are still in their native haunts.
Wild flowers ought to be transplanted after blossoming time is over. Take a trowel and a basket into the woods with you. As you take up a few, a columbine, or a hepatica, be sure to take with the roots some of the plant's own soil, which must be packed about it when replanted.
The bed into which these plants are to go should be prepared carefully before this trip of yours. Surely you do not wish to bring those plants back to wait over a day or night before planting. They should go into new quarters at once. The bed needs soil from the woods, deep and rich and full of leaf mold. The under drainage system should be excellent. Then plants are not to go into water-logged ground. Some people think that all wood plants should have a soil saturated with water. But the woods themselves are not water-logged. It may be that you will need to dig your garden up very deeply and put some stone in the bottom. Over this the top soil should go. And on top, where the top soil once was, put a new layer of the rich soil you brought from the woods.
Before planting water the soil well. Then as you make places for the plants put into each hole some of the soil which belongs to the plant which is to be put there.
I think it would be a rather nice plan to have a wild-flower garden giving a succession of bloom from early spring to late fall; so let us start off with March, the hepatica, spring beauty and saxifrage. Then comes April bearing in its arms the beautiful columbine, the tiny bluets and wild geranium. For May there are the dog-tooth violet and the wood anemone, false Solomon's seal, Jack-in-the-pulpit, wake robin, bloodroot and violets. June will give the bellflower, mullein, bee balm and foxglove. I would choose the gay butterfly weed for July. Let turtle head, aster, Joe Pye weed, and Queen Anne's lace make the rest of the season brilliant until frost.
Let us have a bit about the likes and dislikes of these plants. After you are once started you'll keep on adding to this wild-flower list.
There is no one who doesn't love the hepatica. Before the spring has really decided to come, this little flower pokes its head up and puts all else to shame. Tucked under a covering of dry leaves the blossoms wait for a ray of warm sunshine to bring them out. These embryo flowers are further protected by a fuzzy covering. This reminds one of a similar protective covering which new fern leaves have. In the spring a hepatica plant wastes no time on getting a new suit of leaves. It makes its old ones do until the blossom has had its day. Then the new leaves, started to be sure before this, have a chance. These delayed, are ready to help out next season. You will find hepaticas growing in clusters, sort of family groups. They are likely to be found in rather open places in the woods. The soil is found to be rich and loose. So these should go only in partly shaded places and under good soil conditions. If planted with other woods specimens give them the benefit of a rather exposed position, that they may catch the early spring sunshine. I should cover hepaticas over with a light litter of leaves in the fall. During the last days of February, unless the weather is extreme take this leaf covering away. You'll find the hepatica blossoms all ready to poke up their heads.
The spring beauty hardly allows the hepatica to get ahead of her. With a white flower which has dainty tracings of pink, a thin, wiry stem, and narrow, grass-like leaves, this spring flower cannot be mistaken. You will find spring beauties growing in great patches in rather open places. Plant a number of the roots and allow the sun good opportunity to get at them. For this plant loves the sun.
The other March flower mentioned is the saxifrage. This belongs in quite a different sort of environment. It is a plant which grows in dry and rocky places. Often one will find it in chinks of rock. There is an old tale to the effect that the saxifrage roots twine about rocks and work their way into them so that the rock itself splits. Anyway, it is a rock garden plant. I have found it in dry, sandy places right on the borders of a big rock. It has white flower clusters borne on hairy stems.
The columbine is another plant that is quite likely to be found in rocky places. Standing below a ledge and looking up, one sees nestled here and there in rocky crevices one plant or more of columbine. The nodding red heads bob on wiry, slender stems. The roots do not strike deeply into the soil; in fact, often the soil hardly covers them. Now, just because the columbine has little soil, it does not signify that it is indifferent to the soil conditions. For it always has lived, and always should live, under good drainage conditions. I wonder if it has struck you, how really hygienic plants are? Plenty of fresh air, proper drainage, and good food are fundamentals with plants.
It is evident from study of these plants how easy it is to find out what plants like. After studying their feelings, then do not make the mistake of huddling them all together under poor drainage conditions.
I always have a feeling of personal affection for the bluets. When they come I always feel that now things are beginning to settle down outdoors. They start with rich, lovely, little delicate blue blossoms. As June gets hotter and hotter their colour fades a bit, until at times they look quite worn and white. Some people call them Quaker ladies, others innocence. Under any name they are charming. They grow in colonies, sometimes in sunny fields, sometimes by the road-side. From this we learn that they are more particular about the open sunlight than about the soil.
If you desire a flower to pick and use for bouquets, then the wild geranium is not your flower. It droops very quickly after picking and almost immediately drops its petals. But the purplish flowers are showy, and the leaves, while rather coarse, are deeply cut. This latter effect gives a certain boldness to the plant that is rather attractive. The plant is found in rather moist, partly shaded portions of the woods. I like this plant in the garden. It adds good colour and permanent colour as long as blooming time lasts, since there is no object in picking it.
There are numbers and numbers of wild flowers I might have suggested. These I have mentioned were not given for the purpose of a flower guide, but with just one end in view your understanding of how to study soil conditions for the work of starting a wild-flower garden.
If you fear results, take but one or two flowers and study just what you select. Having mastered, or better, become acquainted with a few, add more another year to your garden. I think you will love your wild garden best of all before you are through with it. It is a real study, you see.
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Friday, August 17, 2007
The Guide To Making Big Money By Screening Your Stocks
Making Big Money By Screening Your Stocks
This report should get your head buzzing
with tons of great ideas for finding profitable stocks
and choosing the right investment companies to work
with.
Let's start with the basics....
When it comes to stock performance and choosing a
great investment, many have looked for the ‘perfect
system’ to screen out and identify the big
opportunities. One dramatic example of how fickle the
market is and how inaccurate some stock analysts are
at predicting stock behavior, was an experiment
someone conducted, having chimpanzees throw darts
at a list of stocks and making a selection for
investment. The chimpanzee was more profitable than
the analysts!
Do-It-Yourself or Not - One of the first items you
need to decide is whether you will invest directly or
through an investment firm. If you are investing on
your own, then you will need to secure all of your own
screening information about the stocks that are of
interest. The investment company provides that
service for you.
You can choose to be an active investor with your
company, meaning you want to be included in stock
buying and selling decisions.
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Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Container Gardening Tips for Senior Citizens
Container Gardening Tips for Senior Citizens
Container gardens can create a natural sanctuary in a busy city street, along rooftops or on balconies. Senior Citizens can easily accentuate the welcoming look of a deck or patio with colourful pots of annuals, or fill window boxes with shrub roses or any number of small perennials. Whether Senior Citizens arrange pots in a group for a massed effect or highlight a smaller space with a single specimen, you'll be delighted with this simple way to create a garden.
Container gardening enables Senior Citizens to easily vary a color scheme, and as each plant finishes flowering, it can be replaced with another. Whether Senior Citizens choose to harmonize or contrast colors, make sure there is variety in the height of each plant. Think also of the shape and texture of the leaves. Tall strap-like leaves will give a good vertical background to low-growing, wide-leaved plants. Choose plants with a long flowering season, or have others of a different type ready to replace them as they finish blooming.
Experiment with creative containers. Senior Citizens might have an old porcelain bowl or copper urn to use, or perhaps you'd rather make something really modern with timber or tiles. If Senior Citizens decide to buy containers ready-made, terracotta pots look wonderful, but tend to absorb water. You don't want plants to dry out, so paint the interior of these pots with a special sealer available from hardware stores.
Cheaper plastic pots can also be painted on the outside with water-based paints for good effect. When purchasing pots, don't forget to buy matching saucers to catch the drips. This will save cement floors getting stained, or timber floors rotting.
Always use a good quality potting mix in your containers. This will ensure the best performance possible from plants.
If Senior Citizens have steps leading up to the front door, an attractive pot plant on each one will delight your visitors. Indoors, pots of plants or flowers help to create a cosy and welcoming atmosphere.
Decide ahead of time where pots are to be positioned, then buy plants that suit the situation. There is no point buying sun lovers for a shady position, they will not do well. Some plants also have really large roots, so they are best kept for the open garden.
If there is plenty of space at the front door, a group of potted plants off to one side will be more visually appealing than two similar plants placed each side. Unless they are spectacular, they will look rather boring.
Group the pots in odd numbers rather than even, and vary the height and type. To tie the group together, add large rocks that are similar in appearance and just slightly different in size. Three or five pots of the same type and color, but in different sizes also looks affective.
With a creative mind and some determination, Senior Citizens will soon have a container garden that will be the envy of friends and strangers alike.
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Friday, August 10, 2007
Senior Citizen Golf - Tips for Teeing Off.
Senior Citizen Golf - Tips for Teeing Off.
Once you have decided on your clubs, go to the first tee. You have the option of teeing your ball anywhere between, but not forward of, the markers. Don't forget that you can also tee it a maximum of two club-lengths behind the line of the markers.
Before you stick the peg in the ground take a good look at what is in front of you. And know what you are looking for. Almost every hole has more trouble on one side of the fairway than it does on the other. This trouble may be obvious: a string of white out-of-bounds stakes, a fence, or a pond. It may be more subtle: longer rough on one side than on the other, or a fairway trap on one side. It might be just a line of small trees, or a hidden ravine, or it might be one big tree with spreading branches out there in the rough about 220 or 230 yards from the tee.
Whatever the trouble is, make this your rule: Tee up your ball on the same side of the teeing ground as the trouble lies, and shoot away from it.
If the worst trouble lies on the right side, tee up on the right. Aim for the left center of the fairway and let fly. This way you will be at least starting your shot away from the danger zone. If, playing from the right side, you slice badly enough to bring the ball back into the trouble, you will still have two sources of satisfaction: The ball won't be as deep in the trouble and you will know that you at least tried intelligently to avoid it. There is always the chance, of course, that you will hit the ball across the fairway and into the rough on the opposite side, but then you have been caught by the lesser of the two evils and the advantage is still yours.
Something else in teeing your ball. Take advantage, if there is any to be taken, of any unevenness of the ground. Often there are little depressions on a tee. If there are in the area you choose, tee your ball on the forward edge of one. This will give you a slightly uphill lie, the lie most golfers like to play from. This is especially important if you are playing with the wind behind you. It will get your ball a little higher. But wherever you tee, be sure there are no obstructions of any kind behind the ball. These might be worm casts, which could deflect the club slightly as it is brought back, or they could be loose, dead grass, the movement of which might distract you. Whatever they are, get rid of them.
Another point to be sure of is that your feet are on level ground, that there is nothing under them which disturbs you, like a stick or a small stone or a clod of mud. Be sure also, especially in wet weather, that your feet aren't resting on muddy ground or loose earth from which they might slip.
All this may seem to be making mountains out of those worm casts we warned you of, but such observation, inspection, and reaction should become automatic. We assure you they are with the good player. Any little advantages which may exist are even more valuable to you than they are to the pro or the low-handicap player.
Handling the Wind
One of the great and variable hazards of golf is the wind. Few players actually like the wind, because it is an unsettling factor, though sometimes more imaginary than real. It is a fact, though, that an appreciable number of yards are lost when you hit straight into a wind, even though it is a light breeze, and just as many yards are gained when the wind is directly with the shot.
It follows, then, that in playing against the wind the ball should be kept as low as possible, where it is less exposed, and that when the wind is behind us we should get the ball up so the movement of air can exert a greater and longer effect. To get a low ball, play it back farther than normal, toward the center line between the feet if it is the tee shot, back farther for a pitching iron. Keep more weight on the left leg than normally and try to have your hands ahead of the ball at impact. It is also advisable, against the wind, to take one club stronger than you would use in still air, grip it shorter, and use a shorter but firmer swing. Most of these alterations should be reversed in a following wind.
The ball should be played a shade farther forward than usual to get it up quickly, and one club weaker than normal should be used. It, too, should be gripped shorter and swung with a shorter and firmer action. Let the weight movement and the hand action be normal; fooling with them is too dangerous.
Playing in a crosswind from the tee, the ball should be played from the same side the wind is blowing and played for the windward side of the fairway. This way you are
letting the wind help the ball just a little, instead of fighting it as you would be if you started the ball even slightly against it. This formula playing from the side of the tee the wind is blowing from holds in a quartering wind too, whether it is with or against you.
You will be faced with a slight conflict if the trouble is on one side of the fairway and the wind is coming from the other. When you find yourself in this dilemma, let the trouble be the determining factor.
One more thought while we are on the teeing ground. Most short (par 3) holes are played with an iron. When you play them, use a wooden tee. This is the only chance you ever have to get a perfect lie for an iron, so why not take it? But remember, the higher you tee the ball, the less distance you will get.
You can make this knowledge work for you. For instance, you may come to a hole which is a little short for the 5 iron you feel you should use but not short enough for a 6. Your feeling is that if you use the No. 6 you will have to hit the ball very hard to get there. In this case use the 5 but tee your ball a little higher and use your normal swing. The higher tee will take distance off the shot. You can vary the height of the tee in the wind, too, teeing a shade higher if you want the help of a following wind and lower if you want a low, boring shot into the wind.
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Thursday, August 09, 2007
Senior Citizen Herb Gardening
Senior Citizen Herb Gardening
Herbs have been around since time immemorial and served different kinds of purposes. They have been used to treat illness and flavour cooking; they were even believed to have magical powers. Do you want to have your own herb garden? Here are a few ideas on how to establish an herb garden.
Plan your garden.
Consider the herbs you want to plant. Think about their types. Would you like annuals, biennials or perennials?
How much space will they occupy in your garden? If you want, you can purchase a book that can give you the right information on what specific plants you are planning to grow.
List or draw your garden on paper first. Separate the annuals from the perennials so when the time comes that you have to pull out the annuals, you won't be disturbing the perennials. Perennials can be planted on the edge of your garden so when it is time to till your garden they won't be in danger of getting dug up.
Another thing to remember is that you have to plant the tall ones at the back and the shorter ones in front. Also, provide your plants with enough space to grow. Proper position shall help you in this area.
If you would rather keep herbs out of your garden (and some are quite invasive) you could have herb pots. These are large containers with three or more outlets for the herbs. Fill the pot up to the first outlet and plant it before continuing on with the filling and planting process. Usually, the herb that requires the most water is planted in the bottom hole, while the variety that requires the least, goes in the highest hole.
Some Design Ideas
You can consider having a square herb bed. You can have your square bed divided into four by two paths crossing at mid point measuring 3 feet. You can border it with stone or brick. A wooden ladder may also do the trick. You can lay it down on your garden and plant your herbs between its rungs. You can also choose to have a wagon wheel bed. Planting here is like planting with the wooden ladders. Plant your herbs in between the wagon wheel's wedges.
Get Your Plants Growing
Of course, different plants have different needs, but many of them require alkaline soil. This is the reason why you have to determine the herbs you want to plant in the planning stage. This can more or less help you find out how you should care for your plants. If you germinate your herbs from seeds, remember to follow the directions on the packet for soil, watering and temperature.
Herbs are some of the easiest plants to grow. You just have to provide them with an effective drainage, sunlight, enough humidity or moisture and fertile soil. Even with just minimally meeting these requirements they will be bound produce a good harvest.
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Monday, August 06, 2007
Senior Citizens Health - Alzheimers Disease
Alzheimer's disease What is it?
Alzheimer's is a progressive, degenerative disease that destroys brain cells, causing death. The disease is the most common cause of dementia which is the deterioration of a person's mental faculties. The causes of Alzheimer's are still not known.
The symptoms of Alzheimer's disease.
Alzheimer's disease causes the loss of intellectual ability use of memory, thinking, reasoning, judgment, orientation, and concentration, and it can cause drastic changes in personality, mood and behavior. In its early stages, it has symptoms similar to those of depression such as withdrawal, apathy, loss of concentration and interest, memory failure, anxiety, agitation, and delusions. Alzheimer's is a disease and not a normal part of aging.
The diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease.
Alzheimer's is difficult to diagnose and is often misdiagnosed. It is made primarily from the symptoms reported by the affected person, by the family members and by a series of tests that evaluate a person's mental function. No brain scan or blood test can make the diagnosis, although the CT scan or MRI may show degeneration of brain tissue that is characteristic of the disease. An important step in diagnosing Alzheimer's is to rule out other possible causes of the symptoms which include depression, adverse effects from some medications, excessive consumption of alcohol, thyroid disorders, liver failure, kidney failure, a vitamin deficiency, bleeding inside the skull, and infections that can effect the brain.
There is NO treatment for Alzheimer's disease!
There is no cure for Alzheimer's disease. Treatment primarily involves caring for him or her and dealing with the worsening symptoms. Most people in the early stages live at home and are cared for by the family members.
What should the family of an Alzheimer's person consider?
Get a diagnosis early
Take care of legal and financial planning
Learn about the disease
Learn how to protect your loved one
Look for adult day-care programs, in home assistance, visiting nurses, and delivery of meals
Don't neglect your own needs
Talk to a support group to try to overcome the difficulty of grieving for a person who is still alive
Care at home.
In the living quarters hand bars (especially at the tub and toilet), ramps and other aids should also be installed. Occupational and physical therapy should emphasize using the effected limbs and to help improve walking, mobility, eating, dressing, toilet functions, avoiding bed ulcers and improving other basic needs.
Bear in mind Alzheimers is a one way ticket to misery for all concerned.
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Saturday, August 04, 2007
Senior Citizens Gardening - The Soil
THE SOIL
The chances are that you will not find a spot of ideal garden soil ready for use anywhere upon your place. But all except the very worst of soils can be brought up to a very high degree of productiveness--especially such small areas as home vegetable gardens require. Large tracts of soil that are almost pure sand, and others so heavy and mucky that for centuries they lay uncultivated, have frequently been brought, in the course of only a few years, to where they yield annually tremendous crops on a commercial basis. So do not be discouraged about your soil.
Proper treatment of it is much more important, and a gardenpatch of average run down, --or "never-brought-up" soil--will produce much more for the energetic and careful gardener than the richest spot will grow under average methods of cultivation.
The ideal garden soil is a "rich, sandy loam." And the fact cannot be overemphasized that such soils usually are made, not found. Let us analyze that description a bit, for right here we come to the first of the four all-important factors of gardening food. The others are cultivation, moisture and temperature.
"Rich" in the gardener's vocabulary means full of plant food; more than that--and this is a point of vital importance--it means full of plant food ready to be used at once, all prepared and spread out on the garden table, or rather where growing things can at once make use of it; or what we term, in one word, "available" plant food. Practically no soils in long inhabited communities remain naturally rich enough to produce big crops.
They are made rich, or kept rich, in two ways; first, by cultivation, which helps to change the raw plant food stored in the soil into available forms; and second, by fertilizing or adding plant food to the soil from outside sources.
"Sandy" in the sense here used, means a soil containing enough particles of sand so that water will pass through it without leaving it pasty and sticky a few days after a rain; "light" enough, as it is called, so that a handful, under ordinary conditions, will crumble and fall apart readily after being pressed in the hand. It is not necessary that the soil is sandy in appearance, but it should be friable.
"Loam: a rich, friable soil,". That hardly covers it, but it does describe it. It is soil in which the sand and clay are in proper proportions, so that neither greatly predominate, and usually dark in color, from cultivation and enrichment. Such a soil, even to the untrained eye, just naturally looks as if it would grow things. It is remarkable how quickly the whole physical appearance of a piece of well cultivated ground will change.
One instance came about last fall in one of my gardens, where a strip had contained onions for two years, and a little piece jutting off from the middle of this had been prepared for them for just one season. The rest had not received any extra fertilizing or cultivation. When the garden was plowed up in the fall, all three sections were as distinctly noticeable as though a fence separated them. And I know that next springs crop of carrots, before it is plowed under, will show the lines of demarcation just as plainly.
Philip Jubb
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Friday, August 03, 2007
Senior Citizens Gardening - Planting Plan
To make the Planting Plan take a sheet of white paper and a ruler and mark off a space the shape of your garden--which should be rectangular if possible--using a scale of one-quarter or one-eighth inch to the foot. Rows fifty feet long will be found a convenient length for the average home garden. In a garden where many varieties of things are grown it will be best to run the rows the short way of the piece.
We will take a fifty-foot row for the purpose of illustration, though of course it can readily be changed in proportion where rows of that length cannot conveniently be made. In a very small garden it will be better to make the row, say, twenty-five feet long, the aim being always to keep the row a unit and have as few broken ones as possible, and still not to have to plant more of any one thing than will be needed.
In assigning space for the various vegetables things should be kept in mind in order to facilitate planting, replanting and cultivating the garden. Thesecan most quickly be realized by a glance at the plan. Crops that remain several years--rhubarb and asparagus--are kept at an end.
Next come those that will remain a whole season--parsnips, carrots, onions and the like. Finally, those that will be used for a succession of crops-- peas, lettuce, spinach; Tall-growing crops, like pole beans, are kept to the north of lower ones. In the plan the space given to each variety is allotted according to the proportion in which they are ordinarily used. If you have a special weakness for peas, or your mother-in-law an aversion to peppers, keep these tastes and similar ones in mind when laying out.
Do not leave the planning of your garden until you are ready to put the seeds in. Do it in January, as soon as you have received the New Year's catalogs and when you have time to study over them and look up your record of the previous year. Every hour spent on the plan will mean several hours saved in the garden.
The Planting Table is the next important system in the business of gardening, especially for the beginner. In it one can see at a glance all the details of the particular treatment each vegetable requires-- when to sow, how deep, how far apart the rows should be, etc.
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Wednesday, August 01, 2007
Senior Citizens - Tips for a Cheaper Retirement
Senior Citizens - Tips for a Cheaper Retirement
Everyone is looking for ways to save …here are a few ways to save when it comes to retirement.
Review your life insurance needs. The main reason to buy life insurance is to provide income for anyone who is dependent on you such as children or a spouse. If your kids are grown or you are divorced, you may want to reconsider making payments. You can also think about how much coverage you need.
Drive your car longer. Hold onto your car even after you have paid it off. There seems to be a desire to buy a new car for three or four years after you pay the loan off. Don’t give in! Drive the car for at least three or four years after the loan is paid off, but continue to make the monthly payments (which you have in your budget), to yourself. For instance, if your loan payment is $350 monthly, place that money into a savings account. That money will add up, especially if you keep it invested.
The average interest rate for a credit card today is 8 percent. If you are running a credit card balance and paying a high interest rate, cutting your rate, or getting the balance down will really save you some money. That money you can use to pay off your mortgage or invest for retirement.
Try to raise your Home and Car Insurance deductibles. You can reduce your annual premiums by 20 percent or so if you boost the deductibles. If you happen to have a low deductible and make a lot of claims, chances are pretty good your insurer will either boost your premium cost at your next renewal, to "get back" the money they paid out to you, or, even worse, they can choose to cancel your coverage. The bottom line is that you only want to make insurance claims for big-ticket problems. So boost those $250 and $500 deductibles to at least $1,000. If you have an old car, you should also look into whether you still need collision coverage. There's no need to pay for it if your car's market value - what your insurer would pay you should your car gets totaled - doesn't amount to much minus the deductible.
Any more tips for the Senior Citizens? Drop us a line or add a comment here
Philip Jubb
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Thursday, July 19, 2007
Alaska Ski Vacations
Alaska Ski Vacations
Alaska, which has always been a source of awe and
mystery, has some of the best skiing in the world,
and the Alyeska Resort is one of the finest resorts
in the state. With a top elevation of 2751 feet and a
2501 vertical drop, the area gets an average of 631
inches of snow annually.
Although this is some of the best skiing in the world,
you won’t find the slopes overly crowded, and there
are no long lift lines. There are nine lifts, including
six chair lifts and two surface lifts, and one cable
car line. There are 68 trails for beginners,
intermediates, and experts, with the majority of the
trails designed for intermediate skiers.
Night time skiing is allowed, which makes your ski
experience more adventurous and thrilling. You will
see snow capped mountains, hanging glaciers, and
of course, the famous Northern Lights. This resort is
ranked number nine of the top twenty-five killer ski
trips by Skiing Magazine.
The season begins at the Alyeska Resort in mid
November, and runs through mid April. This area of
Alaska boasts the longest daytime areas in the
United States, with approximately sixteen hours of
daylight each day during April. During December,
however, there are only about seven hours of daylight
– which makes night time skiing necessary if you
are going to get in the time that you want to spend
on the slopes.
The Alyeska Prince Hotel is the place to stay! Here
you will enjoy elegant rooms and fine dining. Nightly
entertainment is available as well. There are other
nightlife spots in the area as well, that are not
associated with the Hotel.
If tubing interests you, then visiting the Glacier
Tubing Park is an absolute must! Featuring two
lanes of terrain and a surface lift, everyone in the
family will enjoy spending time at the tubing park.
The Alyeska Terrain Park is a must for
snowboarding enthusiasts. Other winter activities
that can be enjoyed in and around the Alyeska
Resort include flight seeing, helisking, ocean
cruising tours, dog sledding, ice climbing, back
country skiing, mountaineering, and polar bear
viewing.
At the Alyeska Resort, the ultimate winter vacation
can be experienced. Brave the elements, then return
to the Hotel for some pampering. Get a taste of what
Alaska is really like, and what skiing is meant to be!
There are activities for the entire family to enjoy, and
there are many area sights and attractions to be
enjoyed as well. This really is an awesome winter
family ski vacation!
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Sunday, May 06, 2007
An Effective Treatment For Thrush
An Effective Treatment For Thrush
Are you looking for some inside information on Thrush? Here's an up-to-date report from Thrush experts who should know from
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The more authentic information about Thrush you know, the more likely people are to consider you a Thrush expert. Read
on for even more Thrush facts that you can share.
What is gentian violet?
Gentian violet sounds like something that is very sophisticated but actually it is not. It certainly is not a color but rather
gentian violet is just a quite popular treatment for thrush. Thrush occurs because of infections on the skin or mucous
membranes inside the mouth and may infect both infants and adults.
People at special risk for developing thrush are the following: newborn babies, denture users, adults with diabetes or other
metabolic disturbance, people undergoing antibiotic or chemotherapy treatment, drug users, people with poor nutrition
and people with an immune deficiency. These people or the people around them, whichever is applicable, should be extra
observant so that any signs or symptoms of thrush can be detected and then treated right away otherwise the condition
has a chance of worsening.
It is a belief of many that gentian violet is the most effective treatment of nipple soreness for breastfeeding mothers. The
mothers who have used gentian violet can attest that relief is rapid so meaning it usually works right when you need it
meaning as soon as possible but make sure that the dosage is right. To be discussed in the paragraphs to follow are some
of the suggestions to people who use and about to use gentian violet for thrush. These next items will indeed be very
useful to gentian violet users.
Gentian violet can be messy so timing, though not everything in this case, of the application of this treatment is essential.
Most mothers prefer to doing the treatment just before they get a good night’s sleep because during those house they can
keep their nipples exposed thus no need to worry about staining their clothes while the application is in progress.
The effect of the gentian violet for thrush is sort of immediate and in most cases thrush is one hundred percent gone by
the third day if not then consider applying affected areas for a few more days. If problem persists then it is time to consult
your doctor.
If baby is irritable while being nurse by a mother who uses gentian violet for thrush then the mother should stop using the
gentian violet immediately and then go see a doctor instead for other possible suggestions for the treatment of the thrush.
There are other ways to cure thrush but gentian violet is still the one thing that people readily look for when thrush occurs.
In this case there is a need to make sure that it is the genuine gentian violet for thrush and not some rip off medicine that
you have in hand. This is so because some people are questioning the credibility of gentian violet and some attribute the
failed times of gentian violet to fake products that do not have same ingredients as the real gentian violet.
These are just some of the things that users of gentian violet for thrush should be aware of. The notes are just easy to
remember. It is now possible for you to recall how and why gentian violet should be used for thrush. If unfortunately one
day you wake up and discover that you have thrush then you can use the information in this article for your own good.
Otherwise you can always provide the information you have read to a very worried mother whose kid has thrush but who
knows nothing about gentian violet.
Sometimes it's tough to sort out all the details related to this subject, but I'm positive you'll have no trouble making sense
of the information presented above.
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