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W_I needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 749 designs submitted by 171 freelance designers.
Winterthur Instruments
We are a high-tech company developing innovative measurement systems for non-contact and non-destructive testing of coatings.
Winterthur Instruments develops measurement systems for fast non-contact and non-destructive testing of industrial coatings. This measurement systems can be used to determine coating thicknesses, material parameters (e.g. porosity) and contact quality (e.g. to detect delamination). The system is based on optical-thermal measurements and works with all types of coating and substrate materials.
Our measurement system provides the unique opportunity of non-contact and non-destructive testing of arbitrary coatings on substrates. The industrial requirements for a robust and continuous control of production processes (inline monitoring) are fullfilled by our measurement system.
We close a gap on a market ranging from protective coatings for motors, turbine blades and heavily used parts in industrial and chemical production processes and multi-layer coatings for airplanes, road and railway vehicles towards protective and anti-fouling coatings of exposed objects like ships, harbour facilities, retaining dams and pipelines. In addition to inline-monitoring for process optimization and quality control, fast spot testing forms an important field of application in industrial environments.
non-destructive & non-contact testing of coatings
With our measurement system we want to target customers with a need for non-destructive and non-contact testing of coatings for quality control in production. Our target audience is the coating Industry including thermal spraying, lacquering, coil coating.
* Need a vector graphic format (AI)
* The primary logo can be full color but we also need a monochrome version for silkscreening, etc.
* The logo must appeal to our target audience (coaters of industrial parts).
* Must be suitable for web site, business cards, letterhead, signage, brochures. Please provide a business card design and PPT layout. They can share the same look.
* Please do not use any stock images or clip art in the logo.
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


text: Little Giraffe was founded with the mission of creating the most luxurious, modern and exclusive baby apparel on the market. Each product was designed with minimalist style, featuring lush, playful colors and prints. With a comittment to quality, Little Giraffe products are crafted using only the highest quality fabrics and ultra soft finishes. After their huge success and due to popular demand, the company launched their home collection to offer products for adults and families. From adorable giraffes plush toys for the little ones to oversized throws for YOU, Little Giraffe has everything you need to cuddle up in comfort with the ones you love the most.

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SAP: Anyone who's fiddled with an Apple device understands the importance of design and its impact on the user. But does business software have to be as intuitive as an iPhone?
Dan Rosenberg: To achieve SAP's goal of touching 1 billion users by 2015 as well as our revenue and growth targets, we need to make design a central theme and a core competency. Apple's success rests in their ability to market "design" as part of their brand. Their "iSomething" products generally offer a highly intuitive user experience, but more importantly, they delight their customers. Apple's design team delights users by doing exactly what they want in the way they least expect it.For example, zooming visualizations is not a new idea; the delight came from the introduction of multi-touch.
However, it is important to recognize, as your question indicates, that we are not in the same business as Apple. We build products which make people more productive. Whether it's a complex product for a specialty user or a simple iPhone app for a CEO, both need to leave the user with a sense of accomplishment – without frustration – and the security that their task was completed. So we need to be as good as Apple, but our design solution, and the way it increases the SAP brand value, will not be achieved just by copying Apple.
SAP: There's no shortage of design buzzwords circulating today. Among them: design thinking, beautiful UIs, user experience, gamification, mobile first. What's the essence of what people need to know about good product design?
Rosenberg: First, people need to know that "beauty" is a subjective assessment relating to works of art. When speaking about design, I prefer the term "elegance." It is possible to recognize elegance with clear design intent in well-designed products without making a subjective judgment.
For example, it is possible to feel this way about automobile design, as is my case with BMW. The prior generation of BMWs was very angular, and people generally either loved or hated them. But I really appreciate the fact that Chris Bangle had the guts to make such a strong branding statement. It clearly worked from a financial perspective, and that is the goal of design – to make money, not art.
Regarding gamification, I think the jury is still out on whether this is a passing trend or whether SAP can use it to increase delight in our products without compromising productivity. I recommend that anyone interested in this topic read Jane McGonigal's book, "Reality is Broken." As she points out, playing games is voluntary and work is not. Therefore, simply adding gaming on top of existing UIs is likely to backfire.
Lastly, the PC era is over, so mobile first! Developing for mobile devices and expanding on that for the corresponding desktop application is the obvious choice considering the growing number of mobile devices. There is an advantage to starting with a smaller screen because it can help force prioritization of functions and lead to simplicity. Having said that, we still see too many cases in our own Usability Lab where our apps are over-featured with functions not appropriate for mobile consumption, and this immediately lowers usability.
SAP: Should SAP then forget the redesign of its on-premise products and concentrate on the consumer-grade design of our mobile apps and on-demand solutions?
Rosenberg: We cannot afford to forget about our on-premise products, particularly now that maintenance has been extended to 2020. We have some great improvements and innovations coming in the next SAP Business Suite release. Bernd Leukert, head of Application Continuous Innovation at SAP, has done a great job making this a focus. Fortunately, there are a number of innovations underway, like the mash-up Side Panel UI, available in the latest SAP NetWeaver Business Client, which can quickly enrich existing applications in a flexible, context-specific, and non-disruptive way.
In customer meetings, CIOs have told me time and again that mobile is not the antidote to a bad desktop user interface. In the words of a top executive from a large food maker: "Mobile is not a deodorant for bad desk top UI." Customers like our mobile user experience approach, but they want to see that same level of design quality brought back to the desktop products they already purchased.
SAP: Business software is increasingly compared to consumer software, but how does the design of SAP products compare to competitors?
Rosenberg: I honestly don't care how we compare to other applications, even though I led the User Experience team at Oracle for 11 years. As we move to the cloud and mobile, the buying decisions are made not by the CIO, but rather by end users or department managers. These customers compare SAP SRM to Amazon.com and SAP Travel Management to their favorite vacation booking website. For this reason, we baseline the SAP usability KPI against Amazon, Google, iPhone, MS Outlook, and MS Excel among other consumer product experiences.
We do care, however, about the products from Microsoft, such as Excel, which are the de facto standard in their class. A key part of our SAP user interface strategy is to deliver SAP content into the standard environments where people are already spending their day. It is particularly important for the SAP BusinessObjects portfolio and SAP HANA to deliver finely tuned usability inside Excel with functionality that only we can provide. This is how we meet user expectations.
SAP: What role does design thinking play in product development at SAP?
Rosenberg: Design thinking plays an important role at SAP because we are a starting to substitute it for traditional product management approaches. But we are not the only company doing this. Intuit, for example, has integrated design thinking into their development process under the title Design for Delight, which is the same thing by a different name.
Design thinking is about meeting customer needs but not purely on the user interface. Thus, the method can be used just as easily to create a healthier menu in a cafeteria. The goal of this method is to make sure we "do the right thing" which is not the same as "doing things right." In my 30-year career as a designer and design manager I have encountered many instances where a team built a highly usable product that was a market failure because it did not solve a meaningful problem for the customer. Avoiding this situation is SAP's prime motivation behind the broad adoption of design thinking methods in combination with Agile programming.
SAP: What's your favorite app from a design perspective and why?
Rosenberg: You probably expect me to name something on my iPad, but my favorite app is a digital music workstation program called Studio 1 made by the German company PreSonus. It's the backbone of my home recording studio and like all DWAs takes time to learn. I spend hours using this program every week. I love it because it lets me focus on the music and not the engineering process of recording, mixing, and mastering a CD.
SAP: How do you think SAP can continue to improve the design and usability of its products for the benefit of customers?
Rosenberg: This is simple. I would tell employees to get out of the office and go observe real users in action, feel their pain, and understand their needs before making product content decisions. Don't just talk to them. Follow them around and watch what they do and what work artifacts they create. This is the essence of design thinking.
About Dan Rosenberg:
Daniel Rosenberg looks back on over 33 years as a professional in the area of user experience for enterprise software. Prior to joining the SAP in 2005, Dan was vice president of R&D for user interface design at Oracle. Previous corporate positions include user interface architect for Borland International and Ashton-Tate. Dan has authored and co-authored 40+ publications in the field of human-computer interaction. He was also one of the founding editors NetWorker Magazine from the Association for Computing Machinery. He is also the only "industry" board member of interaction-design.org.


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Tuesday, 15 February 2011
Now the green blade rises
At last. I'm not ready for it, but life is stirring again. Above, a green blade of garlic. Hopefully the cold winter has done it good. Below, the blackcurrant bushes are budding. I keep meaning to prune out some of the old wood, but the branches are so sturdy that I need the loppers and I keep forgetting to take them with me when I go to the plot.
But another weekend has gone by without any allotment gardening. Looking ahead on the calendar I can see that we don't have too much time in hand. I try to comfort myself by thinking of the Scandinavian and North American gardeners who have to wait until the snow melts each spring.
At home I'm planning a new border, a very small one, but I'm deep in catalogues and websites and lists of long-desired plants. What variety of clematis should I have? Can I fit in euphorbia, bergamot, astrantia, asters, rudbeckia...? Meantime I content myself with snowdrops. Every year they take me by surprise. One day there's nothing, and the next they're in full bloom.
20 comments:
- Mark Willis said...
Linda, they say that it is better to travel hopefully than to arrive...
Savour the POTENTIAL of all those plants you might buy while you can.
- 15 February 2011 at 20:55
- Ali said...
Linda I lust after those gorgeous snowdrops and have wanted to get some of my very own for ages... alas Brisbane is not quite the climate for them. For garlic either for that matter.
Lucky lady :)
- 15 February 2011 at 21:33
- Jo said...
Spring is definitely springing. Another month or two and we'll be in the thick of it.
- 15 February 2011 at 22:03
- GretchenJoanna said...
Three lovely pictures of perfect and potent buds and sprouts - I love them! I think I'll go outside and study all the swelling buds in my garden... When the sun comes out, that is.
- 15 February 2011 at 23:11
- L. D. Burgus said...
My goodness that is refreshing to see that there is life under the snow.
- 15 February 2011 at 23:39
- Ashley said...
that is COOOOL!!!! i want to learn how to garden So bad!!! but i live in AZ... soil and weather are no good for planting!
- 16 February 2011 at 01:49
- 黄清华 Wong Ching Wah said...
Beautiful beginnings ...
- 16 February 2011 at 05:49
- Happyone :-) said...
Oh that is wonderful to see. It will be awhile here yet before we see that.
Thanks for giving me hope that this cold winter will end one day. :-)
- 16 February 2011 at 21:24
- Kenneth Larsson said...
Springtime! Yes! :-)
Have a nice day!
- 17 February 2011 at 20:25
- Peggy said...
We gave garlic a miss this year as we have had so many problems growing it.It is great to see so many little green shoots appearing. I keep thinking we will run out of time but everything gets done at some stage.Seedlings going into warm soil will surely do much better?!
- 17 February 2011 at 20:48
- Why I garden... said...
Lovely photos. I'm trying to enjoy the leisurely Feb as soon it will be work, work, work in the garden!
- 17 February 2011 at 21:21
- fer said...
welcome spring! so cool to see so much life on your garden
- 18 February 2011 at 17:01
- Randy said...
I love your photos on this blog too. The Snowdrops are lovely. I have never seen anything like it.
- 20 February 2011 at 16:00
- Oakland Daily Photo said...
It's always a thrill to see new green popping up from the earth. Chases the blues away to see the renewal.
- 20 February 2011 at 20:25
- Fay McKenzie said...
All looking hopeful and getting ready for the onset of spring.....!
Hope the garlic had a great nap over the winter - bet the cold will make it produce hefty bulbs for you...........:)
- 21 February 2011 at 21:12
- The Barefoot Crofter said...
Looking good. I see our garlic has managed to nose it's way out of the hebridean turf.
- 22 February 2011 at 21:57
- donna said...
Snowdrops are my most favorite of all the early spring blooms. You have buds and green blades of garlic and I only have 20" of snow covering the landscape. We are going south for a few days....but only 4 hours south to Chicago. I need a rest and am looking forward to it.
- 24 February 2011 at 01:32
- Jenn Jilks said...
Thank you for visiting My World !
So glad you are into catalogues, we are still in below zero temps. Little promise of spring, but I know it is coming!
- 26 February 2011 at 23:21
- Corner Gardener Sue said...
My garlic is starting to come up, too. I never see snowdrop bulbs at the nursery. I'll have to order some. I love those early blooms!
- 27 February 2011 at 00:49
- saverio otranto said...
mi piace la prima foto
trasmette speranza
- 2 March 2011 at 17:20


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Tuesday, May 23, 2006
Kinder Egg
I've been looking for this kooky little novelty chocolate item for a while. Kinder is a widely distributed confection brand that also makes the intensely addictive Kinder Bueno (which is a must-try for any hazelnut lover).
I found a new candy source in Los Angeles (posting tomorrow about that) called Mel & Rose's on Melrose Avenue. They have EVERYTHING that you might want from Europe or Australia. It's not a big shop, but they had an excellent selection and decent prices. In fact, my little Kinder Eggs were less than a dollar each. I was led to believe that these were not permitted to be sold in the US because of the "choking hazard" of the toy surprise inside, but after opening one, I'd have to wonder what child could (or would want to) eat that toy-filled capsule.
Think of these as those toy eggs that you get in the gumball machines at the mega-marts. Except instead of being a plastic egg, it's a chocolate egg.
The egg is pretty much the size of a regular chicken egg. Inside the white and red foil it's a rather lack-luster milk chocolate with a distinct seam. I wasn't quite sure if there was a way to open it, so I just pressed my finger into the top and sort of tore it open. On my second egg I found that if you sqeeze about halfway along the seam the whole thing pops apart rather neatly.
Inside the egg it's "white chocolate" (I say in quotes because it says on the label that it's actually a "milky white lining" which doesn't even sound edible). It smells sweet and rather like powdered milk. Inside the egg is a yellow plastic capsule that contains the Kinder Suprise (kinder means children in German and is pronounced with a short i). The chocolate is passably edible, nothing I'd want to buy by itself.
The yellow capsule holds a little plastic toy (usually one you have to put together). I'm not really sure what the one is in the picture. It's a little baby in a crow's nest with a crab crawling up the mast ... I think. There's a little wheel on the bottom of it and if you roll it around it wiggles the mast and crow's nest. The second prize (in the other egg) was a little metronome on a wheel with a funny little anthropomorphic musical note riding on it.
As a candy/toy, I find these much more compelling than Pez. I have poked around and have seen that some prizes can be rather sophisticated and you can collect theme prizes. (See other prizes in this flicker kinder pool.)
If you're traveling someplace where you can pick these up, they're usually pretty cheap (about 50 cents) and make great little stocking stuffers or gifts. It's too bad they can't sell them in the States.
Kinder is part of the Ferrero family of companies/brands. They also make the Ferrero Rocher, Bueno, Mon Cheri, Nutella & Pocket Coffee, among other things.
If you've had Kinder Eggs before, what sort of prizes did you get in yours?
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by Terri Winder
Timid but determined, the young boy approached the secretary at the elementary school. He waited patiently for her to acknowledge his presence, then he confided, "I need one of those bags."
"One of those bags?" she asked, puzzled.
"Yeah, the bag with food in it. I need one of those."
The school secretary motioned for him to come with her. She opened a closet and then showed him a backpack provided by Transitions Food Bank. "You mean this?" she asked, kindly.
"Yeah," the boy replied, an audible sigh of relief carrying the word from his lips. "My dad left us, and my mom doesn't have any money to buy food. I'm the oldest kid so I have to help her. Can I please have it?"
The school secretary knew that the boy needed more food than what one backpack held. That wouldn't feed his mother and four siblings. She helped make a referral so the family could get food.
"It used to be that we would mostly get low income or homeless people coming to the food bank," director Sandra Asbury says, "but more and more we are seeing middle class families, mostly young couples, who are having an increasingly difficult time making ends meet in this economy.
"Presently we serve about a thousand families a month; 300 of them with the mobile pantry. Most of the people who come to us wait until they are desperate.
"A lot of pride usually gets swallowed before people are able to bring themselves to ask for a handout. The majority of the people are truly needy and very appreciative of what they get."
Transitions Food Bank began about a half dozen years ago, formed from a wish made by Gina Hunt. Gina had lost purpose in life and was basically a recluse.
One day, Sandra visited her and asked, "What's important to you, Gina? What would it take to get you away from your soap operas and back into real life?"
Gina thought for a moment and then answered, "I want to start a food bank in memory of my friend." Gina's friend had died of status epilepticus, a seizure that would not end.
"We can do that," Sandra promised. At that point she wasn't quite sure where to begin, but lack of knowledge had never stopped her before, and Sandra was determined to help Gina.
As it turned out, Sandra was the right woman in the right place at the right time. Utah Food Bank was delighted to have someone volunteer to oversee an outlet in San Juan County, where there was immeasurable need coupled with limited resources.
Now, Gina proudly calls the program her food bank, recognizing that it has made a world of difference in her life as well as the lives of so many others.
Gina and other Transitions clients with food handler's permits — as well as community volunteers, and even a few workers who would not ordinarily volunteer but who need community service hours — help stock the shelves, sort food into boxes, and deliver it.
Currently, Transitions Food Bank manages regular donations from not only the Utah Food Bank and USDA (United States Department of Agriculture), but also frequent local contributions, specifically from Blue Mountain Foods and Clark's Market.
The Boy Scouts of America does an annual drive, as does the U.S. Postal Service. Transitions can apply for help from Feed the Children, if their supplies are running low.
They recently welcomed a semi-truck shipment from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Humanitarian Services, the second such delivery they have received.
"A lot of people help us collect the food and then get it to where it needs to go," Sandra says, noting they partner with entities throughout the Four Corners and programs like Early Intervention, the diabetes clinic, and senior centers.
They distribute food from Transitions day treatment centers in St. Christopher's Mission, Monument Valley (where residents of Navajo Mountain pick it up) and Montezuma Creek, as well as the pantry that is open five days a week in Blanding.
The mobile pantry makes deliveries to Monticello, Eastland, Dove Creek, and Mexican Hat. Transitions clients hand out boxes. "It makes them feel important," Sandra explains. "They love helping."
In the schools, backpacks of food (like the one the boy was asking for) are given to students that have been referred by principals or teachers. The backpack program is intended to help feed children over a weekend or holiday when they can't eat school breakfast and lunch.
"We get different guidelines from different programs," Sandra says of the eligibility requirements and their reporting responsibilities. "Recipients have to fill out an application. Their income needs to be at least 25 percent below the poverty level standard as set by the government.
"However, if someone comes to us hungry, we don't turn them away. We have special boxes made up from donors who understand these people's situations. If they are willing to show ID and sign a receipt, they don't leave without some kind of assistance.
"As far as I know, we have not had anyone abuse the system. And a lot of people who get food from us come back to volunteer. "
They also often bring back anything they aren't going to eat. According to Sandra, "One time a woman brought back cans of tuna and said, 'I don't know what this is or how to use it.' I took her back into the kitchen and showed her how to make a tuna sandwich. I also explained how to use it in a tuna casserole."
"But sometimes we get stuff we don't know what to do with, either," Ed Hawkins, manager of the Blanding site admits, laughing. "Some of what we get may be stuff that's not moving from the store shelves.
"For example, I remember getting bottled sushi in marinade sauce. Another time we received a case of diet Dr. Pepper ice cream syrup. When we get that kind of thing I put it out front and let those who think they'll use it take it."
And as for the little boy who asked for the backpack? Transitions helped his mother with the family's immediate needs until she could get help from government programs.
"There is often a waiting period after signing up for church welfare or food stamps," Sandra explains. "We are here to bridge that gap."


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Consumer Confidence Rebounds in February
Americans seem to be more confident in the economy than they have been in the past few months. But that doesn't mean they're willing to spend more money.
Consumer confidence rebounded in February, reversing three straight months of declines, according to The Conference Board, a private research group. But analysts and economists say that doesn't necessarily mean that they're going to be more likely to open up their pocketbooks and wallets.
"Consumers are feeling better, but they don't feel a whole lot better," says Mark Vitner, an economist at Wells Fargo.
The way Americans feel about the economy has gone through peaks and valleys as they've tried to reconcile improving stock and housing markets with new financial challenges. They've had to deal with a 2 percentage point increase in Social security taxes that started last month, rising gas price and worries that lawmakers won't resolve a budget impasse in Washington that threatens to trigger automatic $85 billion in spending cuts.
The Conference Board's consumer confidence indicator shows that Americans are feeling a little better about the economy, but they're still skittish. The index is closely watched by economists because consumer spending accounts for 70 percent of U.S. economic activity
The figure is well below the 90 reading that indicates a healthy economy, but at 69.6 is up from the revised 58.4 in January and the 60.5 analysts polled by research firm FactSet expected. It was the highest reading since November 2012 when the index was at 71.5.
The Conference Board's survey, which was conducted from Feb. 1 through Feb. 14 on a preliminary sample of 2,300 shoppers, shows that Americans are feeling better about the job and income prospects.
The number of people anticipating more jobs rose to 16.7 percent from 14.4 percent, while those expecting fewer jobs declined to 21.5 percent from 26.7 percent. The proportion of consumers expecting their incomes to increase rose to 15.7 percent from 13.5 percent, while those anticipating a decrease fell to 19.6 percent from 23.3 percent.
The more positive outlook comes amid a mix of good and bad economic news.
Some major retailers reported that sales last month rose higher-than-expected. But a string of big stores, including Wal-Mart Stores Inc. to Zales Corp. have signaled that shoppers already have been pulling back in recent weeks because of payroll tax increase.
At the same time, the stock market is still rallying. And the job market, while still tough, is rebounding. In January, employers added 157,000 jobs. And annual revisions included in the Labor Department's January employment report showed the economy added 600,000 more jobs in 2011 and 2012 than previously thought. But the unemployment rate rose to 7.9 percent in January from 7.8 percent in December.
Whether or not Americans will spend remains to be seen. Many economists think consumer spending has slowed in response to higher tax burdens but will rebound later in the year. But they also worry that the budget fights in Washington will persist for much of 2013 and drag on economic growth.
(Copyright 2013 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)


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If you've been around for a while, you've probably worked with the Windows Automated Installation Kit (Windows AIK), Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT), Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit, Windows Deployment Services (WDS), Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT), and Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007. The release of Windows 8 introduces many new deployment tools, as well as feature enhancements to some of these existing ones.
Revisiting the Old Tools
In case the tools that I mentioned earlier are new to you, here's a brief explanation of each:
- Windows AIK contains several (mostly) command-line utilities such as Deployment Image Servicing and Management (DISM), User State Migration Tool (USMT), Volume Activation Management Tool (VAMT), Copype, Oscdimg, and ImageX.
- ACT keeps track of applications that exist in your environment, allowing you to categorize, prioritize, and analyze application compatibility for Windows 7. Applications that don't run properly on Windows 7 can be mitigated to run as well as possible, by applying ACT shims. ACT requires agents to be installed on each client machine, to gather application information.
- MAP accesses hardware to ensure that minimum OS requirements are met. These minimum requirements can be defined to reflect your corporate standards. MAP provides information about which machines need to be upgraded or replaced prior to the deployment of Windows 7.
- WDS provides Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) boot services, Windows Preinstallation Environment (WinPE) to boot, deployment of OS images, and multicasting. WDS is commonly integrated with MDT and Configuration Manager for PXE boot and multicasting functionality.
- MDT provides a unified, simplistic usage of the Windows AIK tools. Most of these tools are command-line only, and each has a unique syntax, which can make them time consuming to learn and difficult to use. MDT removes the complexity of the Windows AIK tools by providing friendly wizards that ask simple questions. Under the hood, MDT takes care of all the detailed and varied syntax of each tool.
- Configuration Manager 2007 can perform Zero Touch Installations of OS deployments (OSDs), even on computers that don't have the Configuration Manager client agent running. Integrating MDT into Configuration Manager 2007 provides the most flexible and robust deployment solution available from Microsoft. One of the most powerful features of integration is the ability to completely design your deployment wizard by using the user-driven interface. This interface lets you design (beginning to end) how your deployment wizard appears and the order in which the pages are presented.
New Deployment Tools
With the release of Windows 8, Windows AIK is being retired. In its place is a new toolkit, Windows Assessment and Deployment Toolkit (Windows ADK), which helps to ensure that your applications, hardware, and drivers are compatible with the new OS. In addition, Microsoft Security Compliance Manager (SCM) helps you quickly and easily manage your Group Policy Object (GPO) security settings. A long-awaited improvement to WDS 2012, which now includes the Expected Deployment Results Wizard, is the ability to filter drivers based on the model of client machines. MDT 2012 Update 1 now supports System Center 2012 Orchestrator runtime books as a task in a deployment. And last but not least, Configuration Manager 2012 gets a complete facelift, embracing the System Center management framework. If you aren't quite ready to deploy Windows 8, don't worry: You can still enjoy all the new tools and features when deploying Windows 7.
Windows Assessment and Deployment Toolkit
Windows ADK can be installed on Windows Server 2012, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, and Windows Server 2008. The only requirement is that .NET Framework 4 is installed. The documentation for Windows ADK states that if .NET Framework 4 isn't installed, the installation process will automatically install it. However, this didn't happen when I installed Windows ADK. I purposely left .NET Framework 4 uninstalled so that I could test the Windows ADK installer. I was a little disappointed to see that the installation failed until I manually installed .NET Framework 4. Once .NET Framework 4 was present, the installation continued without a hitch. (The machine on which you're installing Windows ADK does need Internet access.) Installation of Windows ADK can be a bit intimidating if you find the 10-page Microsoft document that explains the different ways you can perform the installation (i.e., from the Internet, by downloading adksetup.exe and running it locally, or by using command-line switches). During the installation, packages are downloaded from Microsoft, based on the Windows ADK features that you chose to install (as shown in Figure 1). Table 1 lists the Windows ADK features and their functionality.
Figure 1: Installing Windows ADK
Security Compliance Manager 2.5
SCM 2.5 makes managing GPO security settings during deployment a snap. You can do everything from using the default baselines to creating custom GPO Packs for deployment to machines that might never join a domain yet need to be as secure as domain-joined machines. The ability to document your existing GPO settings in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet in less than 15 minutes is just one SCM feature:
- Get access to a great educational tool that explains GPO setting details, vulnerabilities, potential impact, and countermeasures.
- Export GPO security settings from a domain-joined machine and document existing GPOs.
- Create GPO Packs that can be deployed to all newly deployed machines, whether or not they join a domain.
- Compare GPO settings from two machines to determine the differences.
- Merge two GPO security settings, carefully selecting the desired setting to create a more solidified set of GPO settings.
Some new deployment tools deploy GPO Packs by default, based on the OS that's being deployed. For example, MDT 2012 Update 1 has four GPO Packs that can be deployed, based on the OS: Win7SP1-MDTGPOPack, WinVistaSP2-MDTGPOPack, WS2008R2SP1-MDTGPOPack, and WS2008SP2-MDTGPOPack. These GPO Pack settings are documented on The Deployment Guys blog.
Windows Deployment Services
WDS has some nice new features, including better driver management, pre-staging new devices, the Expected Deployment Results Wizard, and support for standalone WDS servers that don't require Active Directory (AD). New WDS features and enhancements include the following:
- When importing drivers into WDS, the new auto-detection of duplicate drivers is enabled and prevents importing the same drivers into multiple driver groups.
- Pre-staging devices can be done in the WDS snap-in. In the past, pre-staging was performed in Microsoft Management Console (MMC) Active Directory Users and Computers snap-in.
- The Expected Deployment Results Wizard helps to identify which driver groups will be applied to pre-staged devices if a deployment is performed.
- Standalone WDS servers are much easier to implement with the new built-in PXE providers and multicasting.
- You can add .vhd images through the WDS snap in. In the past, a Wdsutil command was necessary.
- Now, .vhdx image formats are supported and provide sparse dynamic representation.
- You can now assign a priority to boot and install images, to determine the order in which the images are presented during deployment.
- TFTP and multicasting of images over IPv6 is supported.
- Actual deployments are faster. In the past, images were deployed in two steps: Download the image to a target machine, and then apply the image. Now images are applied as they're downloaded.
- Deployment of ARM clients is supported.
- One of the best new features is the ability to filter drivers based on model, as shown in Figure 2.
- Pre-staging computers makes them known to WDS, one of its strongest security features. My favorite security setting is to set the PXE response to Respond to all Known and Unknown Computers, but administrative approval must be given for unknown computers. The new Add Prestaged Device Wizard, which Figure 3 shows, lets you set from which server the PXE client will PXE boot and retrieve its PXE prompt policy. You might be wondering what a PXE prompt policy is and what it does; I certainly did. A PXE prompt policy defines what happens after a network boot is initiated -- settings such as whether someone needs to press F12 to continue the PXE boot process, whether client machines automatically PXE boot unless Esc is pressed, or whether to boot a custom PXE network boot program.
Figure 3: Add Prestaged Device Wizard
- The Boot Image option lets you specify the default boot image (WinPE) to boot when PXE boot is completed. You can also set the unattend answer file to be used for this client when an installation is performed, as well as the settings for joining the newly deployed machine to a domain.
Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2012 Update 1
MDT isn't new to the deployment world. This free deployment tool from Microsoft performs Lite Touch Installation (LTI), which simply means that a human must touch the target machine even if only to initiate a boot. The newest version, MDT 2012 Update 1, offers new enhancements:
- Capturing user state in-use files is no longer an issue. Files that are used by programs such as Outlook (e.g., address books) can be opened by the program upon boot to help ready it for use. These open files previously had locks that prevented them from being included when users' data and settings were captured, but this issue has been resolved.
- Windows PowerShell 3.0 scripts are now supported.
- The Microsoft Diagnostic and Recovery Toolkit (DaRT) 8 is supported, to provide remote control of target machines during deployment in the WinPE phase and additional tools to assist in troubleshooting failed deployments for Software Assurance (SA) clients.
- The Zero Touch Installation and user-driven interface task sequences have been combined.
- Orchestrator runtime books are supported in task sequences. A couple features offered by Orchestrator are the ability to move a computer during deployment from one organizational unit (OU) to another and to create a service request in the event of a failed deployment.
- The Microsoft Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP) now gathers more information about how MDT is being used than it did in the past.
- A user-driven interface has been added to MDT and lets you fully customize your deployment wizard to fit your environment's needs.
Configuration Manager 2012
Configuration Manager 2012 has a completely new look: the System Center management framework. The major changes in Configuration Manager 2012 are the UI, site hierarchy, state-based application deployment model, and terminology. The OSD feature hasn't changed much; when integrating MDT 2012 Update 1 with Configuration Manager, the MDT OSD task sequence hasn't changed drastically.
- The new UI uses the System Center framework as the administrative console (Microsoft.ConfigurationManagement.exe), instead of using the MMC interface that Configuration Manager 2007 and 2003 used. Embrace the Ribbon and Wunderbars, shown in Figure 4. The Wunderbars are at the bottom-left corner of the UI and control configuration of Asset and Compliance, Software Library, Monitoring, and Administrations. Selecting a Wunderbar determines the features that you can configure and monitor and the reports that you can create.
Figure 4: New Administrative UI
- Applications can be deployed in a state-based manner. You can identify an application as always being installed. Then, based on scanning intervals that you define, Configuration Manager clients are scanned and any missing applications are installed. You can also specify that an application should never be installed; based on your scanning interval, any such applications that are detected will be removed.
- There's a new type of site: central administration. Only large or geographically dispersed companies will need a central administration site; most companies will be able to create a standalone primary site. A central administration site by itself can't deploy applications or perform OSDs; in fact you can't even designate management or distribution points. Mainly, a central administration site is designed to link multiple primary sites. If you're in a small to midsized organization or setting up a lab environment, start with a standalone primary site.
- There are two changes to terminology. Instead of advertising a task sequence to a collection, you now deploy the sequence. Also, mandatory OSDs are now referred to as required OSDs.
- The configuration of client monitoring in a WinPE phase for Configuration Manager 2012 has been streamlined.
- Distributing content for an entire task sequence is now much easier. Typically, an OSD task sequence has multiple packages that need to be distributed to distribution points. In Configuration Manager 2012, you can highlight the OSD task sequence and choose Distribute Content. All packages that are associated with that task sequence will be updated on your distribution points, as shown in Figure 5.
New Tools, New Features
I hope that this article helps you understand the new Microsoft deployment tools and what you can do with them. Look for future step-by-step articles on these new tools and features. And as always, I would love to hear from you about deployment issues that you're having or enhancements that you'd like to see made to the new tools.
Table 1: Windows ADK Features
New to Windows 8
Gathers application data running in your environment;
tracks, prioritizes, categorizes, and mitigates applications
Application Compatibility Manager is the central tool;
inventory collection is now available for x64 clients
Deployment tools
· Windows System Image Manager (Windows SIM)
· Oscdimg, DISM API, Bcdboot, WIMGAPI
· Help and Support
· Captures and applies images using PowerShell cmdlets; support for mounting and servicing .wim and .vhd images
· Creates unattend .xml answer files
· Additional deployment tools and accompanying APIs
· Customizes the Help and Support pages: Home, Escalation, and Browse
WinPE 4.0
Scaled-down version of Windows 8 used to boot a computer with networking capabilities to capture or apply an OS image
Makewinpemedia.cmd creates a bootable WinPE, which can be placed on a USB flash drive or used as an ISO that can be burned to CD; supports .NET Framework 4
Windows Assessment Toolkit
Measures performance, reliability, and functionality
Assesses performance of one or more computers; measures system startup and shutdown, media streaming, out-of-box experience (OOBE), system idle time, overall energy efficiency;
offers a Results database tool
Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT)
Records system events and analyzes performance data in a GUI
Replaces Xperf, Windows Performance Recorder, and Windows Performance Analyzer;
new Issues window lists detailed information; offers full-text search capabilities
Migrates users' data, settings, and application settings
/Verify switch verifies status of each file in an existing migration store; /Extract switch can extract files from a compressed migration store; improved error management provides more detailed summary information in ScanState and LoadState logs
Manages activation of OSs and Microsoft Office products
New UI; computer information is now stored in SQL Server (SQL Server 2008 R2 is recommended but SQL Server Express is also supported); five new Volume License reports


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It's As Perfect As it Gets
The world and its leading trends are what it is all about. Every person wants to possess everything the person next to him acquired. Whatever the trend is set on, the public run after it like it is a piece of meat. Experts in the area of sociology have affirmed trends go on for about a 20-year cycle, people find sticking to a trend for a certain period of time helps them feel more presumptuous and pertinent. Being a trend follower is not always a bad thing, there are times when I even feel happy wearing or doing something that the trend sets on just for my sake; but there are other times where I just want to express myself and let my heart do the thinking. Society may be all about staying on top of what's occurring, but occasionally it feels like a hoard of armies running after what seems to not be there.
"Our Sprawling, Supersize Utopia" titled by David Brooks, an author for The New York Times, states in his work, that Americans are doing whatever it takes it get to the ultimate position that will guide them to be prosperous in life. Brooks claims Americans are secretly crazy, "At the same time the suburbs were sprawling, they were getting more complicated and more interesting, and they were going quietly berserk" (Brooks 2). Life is a game for most people, it is to cross the finish line in a race while coming in 1st place. With this knowledge, it can be considered that trends are what keep peoples lives running.
My parents have always told me stories on their generation portrayed to my generation. In their time, when they needed reliable resources for research they would turn to books and libraries. In my generation, everybody relies on smartphones or ipads. It seems that people are plagued with electronics and high-tech instruments for their own benefits. The world has let technology through their doors and let it take control of them. No one talks face to face anymore, it has slowly perished into lifeless text. Knowing the lifeless communications between one another acknowledges "Suburban America as a comfortable but somewhat vacuous realm of unreality: consumerist, wasteful, complacent, materialistic and self absorbed" (Brook 5). This fad will last for an extensive time evolving around artificial gatherings and love.
When I was in elementary school, I would hang out with my friends regularly and go to parks and movie theaters. I look at my younger sisters now and realize their whole "hang out" world revolves around Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. There's a small glitch in this scene, I am realizing the younger the kids are the more they crave social network media. They find themselves locked up in their rooms in a little corner typing away at their phones or laptops, I find this irritating now and then. The future of the world shows that people will run after material things more than the real nature of life, "Despite all the claims that American culture is materialist and pragmatic, what is striking about this country is how material things are shot through with enchantment" (Brooks 7). Computers and social networks make the world think alike with no other eternal feeling aside from the ones the networks offer, the common "like" button comes in handy on Facebook for millions of people as well as the famous "follow me" button on Twitter. Covertly the world is being hypnotized and abused by social network media, they post the comments they post for others to comment on, then the whole chain continues. Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World, clearly depicts this idea in his novel along with his utopia. He shows the misconception in a broad point of view from the novel. People are starting to be manipulated by the trends and fads polluting the nature of life, "All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny" (Huxley 16). People are turning into human robots, and not even being aware of it happening.
Tiger Woods is an American Professional golfer who cheated on his wife for a numerous amount of times. When his wife Elin Nordegren discovered this affair Woods had been covering up, she was utterly hurt and disgraced. Scandals like this happen all the time in my generation, and the fun has just begun. People think it's fine to just walk around and have affairs with anyone at anytime they wish. No one realizes the truth of love anymore, it has slowly diminished into betrayal, deception, and dishonesty. "Four months of Henry Foster, without having another man- why, he'd be furious if he knew…" (Huxley 41) My generation is finding it relevant to cheat on each other spouses and live accordingly. It is not frowned down upon them, but rather more exciting and adventurous. In Huxley's novel, he states that a utopia considers this as a normal outcome. If people don't start getting their act together, our future awaits a rude and humiliating awakening.
I can describe a utopia as the place where everything creates natural happiness and love, not some robotic controlled, mind boggling, medicine or assemble line. So if this is the case, I don't think a utopia is possible; the world we live in is as perfect as it gets. There may be some minor glitches, but those can be sorted out as best as possible in the time being. If the idea of a utopia is attempted, it will be a major fail, considering it is not possible as viewed by Huxley, nothing will work out or fit to the capacity of the knowledge the human brain can endure. Advantages of a utopia are access to easier lives, less worries, and more "happiness" after taking a medication referred to as soma. Disadvantages are as such: false emotions, betrayal, and no conformity. I think a dystopia is relevant to what the human brain can make out to help live a healthy and happy life, that is, a real life. These questions pertain answers to why the world we live in is as close to perfection as it can acquire. Life runs on a steady rope living in a dystopian society, whereas a utopian society people will be controlled and demanded to do things at specific times due to the reason of defining the word perfect in this type society.
Works Cited
Brooks, David. "Our Sprawling, Supersize Utopia." New York Times. 4 Apr. 2004. Print
Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2006. Print.
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In 2016 Karwa Chauth Vrat will be observed on Wednesday, October 19, 2016.
Moonrise On Karwa Chauth Day = 20:14
Chaturthi Tithi Begins = 22:47 on 18/Oct/2016
Chaturthi Tithi Ends = 19:32 on 19/Oct/2016
Karwa Chauth Dates 2015-2020
Chaturthi Tithi Ends = 06:25 on 31/Oct/2015
Chaturthi Tithi Ends = 14:16 on 9/Oct/2017
Chaturthi Tithi Ends = 16:54 on 28/Oct/2018
Chaturthi Tithi Ends = 07:28 on 18/Oct/2019
Chaturthi Tithi Ends = 05:14 on 5/Nov/2020
"The Karwa Chauth Vrat" is of significant importance in India."The Karwa Chauth" is a ritual of fasting observed by married Hindu women seeking the longlife, well-being and prosperity of their husbands. Married women keep a strict fast and do not take even a drop of water. It is the most important and difficult fast observed by married Hindu women. It begins before sunrise and ends only after offering prayers and worshiping the moon at night. No food or water can be taken after sunrise. The fast is broken once the moon is sighted and rituals of the day have been performed. At night when the moon appears, women break their fast after offering water to the moon.
Newly married brides celebrate this fast with great rejoice in their first year of marriage. Nowadays unmarried girls also keep this fast to pray for a good husband.
First Karwa Chauth
Karva Chauth is of great importance for married Hindu women but the festival is seen as a big occasion for women undertaking their first Karva Chauth fast after marriage. A newly married woman is given utmost importance by relatives and immediate family members when she observes her first fast for the long life of her husband. She is showered with blessings of blissful married life and loads of Karwa Chauth gifts especially by her mother-in-law.
First Sargi
Mother-in-law prepares an elaborate Sargi (the pre-dawn Karwa Chauth meal) when her daughter-in-law observes her first fast. She wakes up much early to prepare a sumptuous and lavish meal inclusive of sweets and other delicacies for daughter-in-law. Saasu-ma blesses her bahu with an ashirvaad of 'Sada Suhagan Raho' which means, 'may you always enjoy a blissful married life' when the latter touches her feet with reverence. She also presents her daughter-in-law with gifts, which may be a piece of jewelry or a heavy saree on the first Karva Chauth.
Sargi includes various food items like fruits, sweets etc and clothes and is given in the form of good luck and prosperity. Married women eats this sargi before the sun rise. On this day married women wears special clothes, adorn themselves with jewelry, colorful bangles, bindi and vermilion on the forehead and apply design patterns of heena (Mehendi) on both hands.
First Baya
Baya is a gift given to a daughter's mother-in-law by the bride's mother on the occasion of Karwa Chauth. It usually consists of :-
* salted mathris,
* dry fruits
* gifts for all her family members.
* some utensils are also included in the baya which are to be distributed amongst women who join the newly-wed on her first Karwa Chauth Puja.
Elaborate Puja Preparations
Elaborate preparations are made for the customary evening Karva Chauth Puja in a family where a newly wed daughter-in-law observes her first Karva-Chauth. Married female relatives are invited to participate in the puja. The newly married woman often wears her bridal lehanga or a heavy saree and adorns herself with lot of jewelry and make up. After the puja ceremony she seeks blessings for happy married life from all elder women. The newly wed woman distributes mathris and utensils amongst the ladies that were a part of baya.
The Tradition of Henna Mehndi
Henna Mehandi has its own significance in India and middle-east. It is like a tradition in India, and women used to adorn their hands and feet by using Henna Mehndi. Henna Mehandi is basically a paste that is obtained from the leaves of henna plant. It has a special place in the lives of married women (suhagans) who usually apply this on the occasions like Karwa Chauth.
Gifts from Husband
Husband of the woman who observes her first Karva Chauth feel proud and great to see her better half observing such a rigorous fast for him. He gets overwhelmed with love and respect for her wife and pampers her with loads of Karva Chauth gifts. These days husbands also takes her wife out for a dinner to save her from the drudgery of day's cooking work.
One Day before Karwa Chauth –
One day before Karwa chauth mother-in-laws gives 'sargi' (a festive breakfast consisting of Jalebis, milk and Fenis etc.) to their daughter-in-laws .A sargi contains sari, sindoor, bangles, biridi, mehendi, red ribbon, coconut, a gift and seviyan which is eaten in the morning of Karwa Chauth.Women observing the Chauth vrat wash their hair and apply mehendi on this day.
On the day of Karwa Chauth -—
Women wake-up before sunrise about 5 am, eat food from sargi (sent by mother-in-law) and drink water. They dress up in their fineries. The menu is as per preference of each house. One has to eat seviyan normally with milk as shagun.
Karwa Chauth Katha
There are many versions of Karwa Chauth story :-
Karwa Chauth Vrat Katha - No. 1
A long time ago, there lived a beautiful princess by the name of Veeravati. When she grew up, she was married to a king. On the occasion of the first Karva Chauth after her marriage, she went to her parents house to do the vrat.
After sunrise, she observed a strict fast. However, Veeravati was very delicate and could not stand the rigours of fasting. By evening, Veeravati felt very weak, and fainted. Veeravati had seven brothers who loved her dearly. They couldn't stand the plight of their sister and decided to end her fast. They made a fire at the nearby hill and asked their sister to see the glow. They assured her that it was the moonlight and since the moon had risen, she could break her fast.
However, the moment the gullible queen Veeravati ate her dinner, she received the news that her husband, the king, was dead. She was heartbroken and rushed to her husband's palace. On the way, she met Shivji and Parvati Mata. Parvati Mata told her that her husband the king had died because she had broken her fast by watching a false moon. However, when
Veeravati asked her for forgiveness, Parvati Mata granted her the boon that her husband, the king would come to life but would be still very ill.When the Veeravati reached the palace, she found the king lying unconscious with hundreds of needles inserted in his body. Each day she managed to remove one needle from the kihg's body Next year, on the day of Karva Chauth, only one needle remained embedded in the body of the unconscious king.
The queen Veeravati observed a strict fast that day and when she went to the market to buy the karva for the puja, her maid removed the remaining needle from the king's body. The king regained consciousness, and mistook the maid for his queen. When the real queen Veeravati returned to the palace, she was made to serve as a maid.
However, Veeravati was true to her faith and religiously observed the Karva Chauth vrat. Once when the king was going to some other kingdom, he asked the real queen Veeravati (now turned maid) if she wanted anything. Veeravati asked for a pair of identical dolls. The king brought back the dolls for her.
The queen Veeravati always used to chant this song " Jo Rani thi wo Goli ho gayi.....jo Goli thi wo Rani ho gayi (the queen has turned into a maid and the maid has turned into a queen).". On being asked by the king as to why did she keep repeating that song, Veeravati narrated the entire story. The king repented and restored the queen Veeravati to her royal status. It was blessings of Goddess Parvati and the queen's devotion and her faith that won back her husband's affection.
Karwa Chauth Vrat Katha - No. 2
In a village, seven brothers and one sister were staying with their parents. The sister was youngest among them. That's why everybody adored her. When she was very young they got her married. After marriage on first Karwa Chauth, she came to her mother's house. Her mother-in-law affectionately sent sargai for her. She put mehndi on her hands along with her mother and her brother's wife and did sargai in the morning before sunrise and kept Nirjala fast (without taking water). By the evening the brothers got worried that how can their small sister live without food and water till night. They consulted among themselves and decided that we will create artificial moon for our sister. Two brothers went to the forest and burnt cow dung coal. The other two brothers went home and said let's go sister the moon has risen. All her brother's wife's kept quite. Sister said, "let's go Bhabhi the moon has risen, lets worship the moon and offer ark (water is offered to the moon) to it. All the Bhabhi's said, "So early only your moon could have risen, you go."
She was not only young but also simple hearted; she really thought everyone's moon rises separately. She hurriedly took the pooja material to the terrace. There in the forest one brother was standing with a sieve in front of the cow dung coal fire, so from distance she thought that the moon is rising from behind bushes. She offered her worship and ark to the moon .As soon as she started eating; she received a message from her in laws that her husband has become seriously ill suddenly. On hearing this, the Girl's father and brothers along with her rushed to her in law's house. There her husband was seriously ill. Every body was worried. The Ayurvedic doctor was called but nobody could understand the illness.
Then the family inquired from priests and Astrologers. They told them that this has happened because the girl has eaten food, after seeing the artificial moon. Now the only solution is that till the next year Karwa Chauth, the girl takes good care of her husband, then keep fast on Karwa Chauth and exchange Karwa with Gauri Maata and make her say "le suhaagan karwa le","de suhagaan karwa de". Then her husband will be well and will live long. On hearing this, the girl decided to take good care of her husband for one year. Next year Karwa Chauth arrived, her mother sent sargi for her. As per the tradition, she did sargi and kept fast. Her mother also sent material for baya, karwa and money. In the evening, all married ladies dressed up wore chunari, making preparation for the pooja, she waited to exchange Karwa with Gauri Maata.
When the first Gauri Maata arrived. The girl held her feet and pleaded her, " O'Gauri Maata, Please exchange karwa with me."
After lot of pleading Gauri Maata sat with her and said :-
"Sister of seven brothers karwa le",
"Jo bhukhi naa reh sake (who can't stay hungry) karwa le",
"Jo payasi naa reh sake (who can't stay thirsty) karwa le",
"Jo Chalni meh chaand dakhe (One who see moon in sieve) karwa le."
She begged her again and again to say "Le Suhaagan Karwa Le" Gauri Maata said, "I won't say this. My other sisters will come, you make them say." And after saying this, she went away.
After some time the 2nd Gauri Maata came and she also went away saying what the earlier one had said. In this way they came one by one when the 9th Gauri Maata came, the girl was worried. When she begged her again and again and held her feet, then Gauri Maata said," when my youngest sister will come, you ask her, I will not say. My sister is scary looking but good at heart, don't let her go, make her say it."
After some time 10th Gauri maata came. She had dark complexion, had big teeth, horrible face and was wearing lot of jewelry. When she heard the small girl pleadings, she sat down with her to exchange karwa and like other Gauri Maata's said :-
"Sister of seven brothers karwa le",
"Jo bhukhi naa reh sake (who can't stay hungry) karwa le",
"Jo payasi naa reh sake (who can't stay thirsty) karwa le",
"Jo Chalni meh chaand dakhe (One who see moon in sieve) karwa le."
The girl fell on her feet and said "O' Mother please forgive my mistakes, Please say "Le suhaagan karwa le". If you will say this, my husband will live. I will always worship you. Please bless me.
On girls repeated pleading, Gauri Maata felt pity for her and said-Let it be so and said "Le suhaagan karwa le"
and the girl said "de suhaagan karwa de".
Then, the same thing was repeated by both of them in reverse order. When they said this ten times the girl's husband was well again. Everybody touched Gauri Maata's feet".
Karwa Chauth Vrat Katha - No. 3
A money lender had seven sons and a daughter. All the sons were married. The daughter who was married came to her father's house to observe her first Karva Chauth Vrat. On the fourth day of Kartik Krishna Paksha, the money lender's wife, the seven daughters-in-law and the daughter kept the Karva Chauth Vrat.
The seven brothers did not like the idea of their sister starving, so they invited her to have food with them. But she did not accept the invitation and said that she will only eat after sighting the moon and after doing the needed pujas.The brothers decided to trick their sister, so that she will break her fasting.
They used mirror reflection from a fire place to convince the sister that the moon has appeared on sky.
The wives of the seven brothers who came to know about the trick informed the sister about the trickery. But the sister was not ready to listen to them and she accepted the words of her brothers and broke her fast by offering pujas to the reflection of fire thinking that it is the real moon. She also consumed food along with her brothers.
A couple of hours later she received the news that her husband is terribly ill. She rushed to her husband's home. She had to undergo several troubles but illness of her husband showed no respite.
Soon she realized that all this was due to her not observing the Karva Chauth Vrat properly. She prayed to Lord Ganesh for forgiveness. She observed the Karva Chauth Vrat properly and soon her husband was cured and she was blessed with prosperity.
करवा चौथ व्रत कथा -1एक साहुकार के सात लड़के और एक लड़की थी। सेठानी के सहित उसकी बहुओं और बेटी ने करवा चौथ का व्रत रखा था। रात्रि को साहुकार के लड़के भोजन करने लगे तो उन्होनें अपनी बहन से भोजन के लिए कहा।
इस पर बहन ने उत्तर दिया- "भाई! अभी चाँद नही निकला है। उसके निकलने पर अर्ध्य देकर भोजन करूँगी।" बहन की बात सुनकर भाइयों ने क्या काम किया कि नगर के बाहर जाकर अग्नि जला दी और छलनी में से प्रकाश दिखाते हुए उन्होने बहन से कहा- "बहन! चाँद निकल आया है, अर्ध्य देकर भोजन जीम लो।" यह सुन उसने अपनी भाभियों से कहा कि आओ तुम भी चन्द्रमा के अर्ध्य दे लो परन्तु वे इस काण्ड को जानती थी उन्होने कहा कि "बहन! अभी चाँद नही निकला, तेरे भाई तेरे से धोखा करते हुए अग्नि का प्रकाश छलनी से दिखा रहे है।"
भाभियो की बात सुनकर भी उसने कुछ ध्यान नही दिया और भाइयों द्वारा दिखाए प्रकाश को ही अर्ध्य देकर भोजन कर लिया। इस प्रकार व्रत भंग करने से गणेश जी उस पर अप्रसन्न हो गए। इसके बाद उसका पति सख़्त बीमार हो गया और जो कुछ घर मे था उसकी बीमारी मे लग गया। जब उसे अपने किए हुए दोषों का पता लगा तो उसने पश्चाताप किया। उसने गणेश जी की प्रार्थना करते हुए विधि विधान से पुनः चतुर्थी का व्रत करना आरम्भ कर दिया।
श्रद्धानुसार सबका आदर करते हुए सबसे आर्शीवाद ग्रहण करने में ही मन को लगा दिया। इस प्रकार उसके श्रद्धा-भक्ति सहित कर्म को देखकर भगवान् गणेश उस पर प्रसन्न हो गए और उसके पति को जीवन दान दिया। उसे आरोग्य करने के पश्चात् धन-सम्पति से युक्त कर दिया। इस प्रकार जो कोई छल-कपट को त्याग कर श्रद्धा भक्ति से चतुर्थी का व्रत करेगे वे सब इस प्रकार से सुखी होते हुए क्लेशों से मुक्त हो जायेगे।
करवा की पुकार सुन यमराज ने कहा- अभी मगर की आयु शेष है, मैं उसे अभी यमलोक नहीं भेज सकता। इस पर करवा ने कहा- अगर आपने मेरे पति को बचाने में मेरी सहायता नहीं कि तो मैं आपको श्राप दूंगी और नष्ट कर दूँगी। करवा का साहस देख यमराज भी डर गए और मगर को यमपुरी भेज दिया। साथ ही करवा के पति को दीर्घायु होने का वरदान दिया।
Karwa Chauth Song
Punjabi Customs :-
* The Karwa chauth song is sung when the women get together to perform pooja add sit in a circle with their puja thalis (containing baya).
* Each fasting woman lights an earthen lamp in her thali while listening to the Karwa story. Sindoor, incense sticks and rice are also kept in the thali.
* They take a karwa ,decorate it with kharia, colours, laces and roli and then tie mauli around it. Then they fill this karwa with water.
Usually the karwa is an earthen pot but now-a-days steel kalash or special silver karwas are used.
* The baya is covered with beautifuly decorated cloth. During the puja the thali is kept on the karwa.
* Depending on region and community, a version of the story of Karva Chauth is narrated, with regular pauses. The storyteller is usually an older woman or a priest, if one is present. In the pauses, the Karva Chauth puja song is sung collectively by the women as they perform the feris (passing their thalis around in the circle).
"Le Veero Kudiye Karwada,
Le Sarv Suhagan Karwada,
Le Karwada Vataaiye,
Javinda Jholi Paaiye,
Ai Katti Naa Ya Teri Naa,
Kumbh Chrakhra Feri Naa,
Gwand Pair payeen Naa,
Sui Ch Dhaga Payeen Naa
Ruthda maniyeen Naa,
Sutda Jagayeen Naa,
Patda Seeveen Naa,
Mailda Dhoveen Naa,
Bhain Pyari Veeran,
Chan Chade Te Pani Peena
Le Veero Kuriye Karwara,
Le Sarv Suhagan Karwara....... "
Meanwhile the story or katha continues,
In this way 5 or 7 pheras (circles) are completed.
Baya Manasna
During this time, they also chant the following prayer ,which is for the well being of the husband and for marital bliss:
"Addey-addey Krishna pakshe var
Tith Karva Chauth
Manse hain apne suhag ke liye
Yeh karva, mattri, halwa, sari, nagdi
Apne suhag ka liye rani ka sa raj dena
Gaur ka sa suhag dena Shri Krishna nimant."
* The puja ends with the women showering rice and vermilion on Parvati and seeking her blessings. The younger women touch the feet of the elders, seek their blessings.
* After the puja, the women seek the blessings of their-mothers-in-law by touching their feet and offering almonds, saree and gift to them as a mark of respect.
Karva Chauth song sung by women while offering water (Ark) to moon.
After sunset, with the sighting of the moon, the women go up to the terrace with their puja thalis, light deepak and through a sieve look at the moon while simultaneously offering Ark from the glass. They offer water and sweet mathri 5 (or) 7 times to the moon after saying a short prayer for the husband.
" Sir Dhadi,
" सिर धड़ी,
A parikrama for moon is done each time after offering ark. For parikrama, the lady turns a full circle standing at one place.The fast is broken by first taking a piece of the mathri and a sip of water, which was offered to the moon.
After the puja, one touches the feet of the husband and elders in the family.
North Indian Customs :-
In Uttar Pradesh :--
* In Uttar Pradesh the women exchange karvas seven times between themselves. * A priest or an elderly woman of the family narrates the story of beejabeti or Veervati.
* Women make Gauri, Ganesh and Shankar idols with mud and decorate them with colourful and bright clothes and jewellery.
* While exhanging Karvas seven times, they sing -
" ...Sadaa suhagan karve lo,
Pati ki pyari karve lo,
Saat bhaiyon ke behen karve lo,
Vrat karni karve lo,
Saas ki pyaari karve lo... "
* Thereafter, the women offer baayna (a melange of goodies like halwa, puri, namkeen mathri, meethi mathri, etc.) to the idols (mansana) and hand over to their mother-in-law or sister-in-law.
Offering Ark to moon :-
* The fera ceremony concluded, the women await the rising of the moon. Once the moon is visible, depending on the region and community, it is customary for a fasting woman, with her husband nearby, to view its reflection in a vessel filled with water, through a sieve, or through the cloth of a dupatta
*. Water is offered (arka) to the moon (som or chandra, the lunar deity) to secure its blessings. She then turns to her husband and views his face indirectly in the same manner.
* In some regions, the woman says a brief prayer asking for her husband's life.
और मुझे व परिवार वालो को भी |
हे चौथ माता सौभाग्य पुत्र और अचल लक्ष्मी सबको देना |
मंगल करना ,कल्याण करना ||
It is believed that at this stage, spiritually strengthened by her fast, the fasting woman can successfully confront and defeat death (personified by Yama).
RajasthanI Customs :-
In Rajasthan :-
* In Rajasthan the women exchange karvas seven times between themselves. * Stories are told by older women in the family, including narratives of Karva Chauth, Shiv, Parvati and Ganesh. In earlier times, an idol of Gaur Mata was made using earth and cow dung, which has now been replaced with an idol of Parvati. Each fasting woman lights an earthen lamp in her thali while listening to the Karva story. Sindoor, incense sticks and rice are also kept in the thali.
Offering Ark to moon:-
* The women say:-
"Like the gold necklace and the pearl bracelet, just like the moon may my suhaag always shine brightly".
* In Rajasthan, before offering water seven times the fasting woman is asked "Dhai?",
to which she responds, "Suhaag na Dhai".
* The husband now takes the water from the thali and gives his wife her first sip and feeds her with the first morsel of the day (usually something sweet).
Karwa Chauth Thali Decoration :
Thali Decoration with Oil
1. Take a plain Thali, dip ear bud in any oil and draw desired auspicious pictures on the Thali.
2. Drop some powdered sindoor/Haldi/any rangoli color on it and shake well.
3. Now turn the Thali upside down to remove excess color powder.
4. You will find design embossed on plain Thali.
5. Floral desigsn looks great.
6. You can wipe this and keep the same Thali for next pooja.
Thali Decoration with Velvet
1. Take a plain steel thali.
2. Cover it with a velvet cloth of any colour.
3. Keep your pooja material on it.
4. Decorate a diya with golden color and place it on your thali.
5. You will get a adorably stylized velvet pooja thali.


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Our first stop upon arriving in Williamsport, Pennsylvania was the St. Boniface Cemetery. Regular readers may remember that this was also our first stop on our trip last year.
Last year I was looking for the tombstone of my favorite ancestor, Valentine Blitz. After another year of research and obtaining the St. Boniface Church Records on microfilm from the Family History Library, I was able to find the married names of two of his daughters. Now I have the whole family pieced together. This years cemetery trip was to find the tombstones of the rest of the Blitz family.
Lena Gaus 1864-1926
Frank J Gaus 1863-1932
Charles L Snyder 1858-1934
Margaret Snyder 1861-1934
While slowly making our way out of the cemetery, we discovered a few interesting markers. The one below was cast around bricks that are now visible at the bottom.
Genofeva Kunkel (born Raible)
Her children
Maria 1867-1875
Adam 1873-1875
Her children
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Following the cemetery trip, we dropped off my stuff at my aunt's house (where I was staying) and visited my grandparents next door. Then we went to another cemetery.


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Bill Engvall comes to NJ
Blue Collar comedian talks of his love of stand-up
If you go...WHO: Bill Engvall.
WHAT: Comedian.
WHEN: 8 p.m., Friday, Sept. 12.
WHERE: Mayo Performing Arts Center, 100 South St., Morristown.
HOW MUCH: $59 to $99.
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MORRISTOWN — Long before he was dancing his way to the top, Bill Engvall was hitting the stage with his comedy routine. Bringing his tour to the local area, the Blue Collar veteran will be performing Friday, Sept. 12 at the Mayo Center in Morristown.
"I try to write my show in a sense of I don't even really like people to think they are going to a comedy show," Engvall said in a phone interview. "I want them to think that we are in their living room and I am just the funny neighbor talking."
Over the three decades of comedy Engvall has tackled everything dancing to fourth place in ABC's "Dancing with the Stars" to hosting numerous television shows including the game show "LINGO" for GSN, "Country Fried Videos" and "Mobile Home Disasters," for CMT as well as several award shows. He has also starred in a few television shows and was part of the successful Blue Collar Comedy concert films and tours.
Secret to a long career
Engvall's secret to keeping the laughs coming has to do with his relatable and funny tales about everyday situations.
"I found over years that people laugh at the same stuff in New Jersey as they do in the south or north west or California... I kinda been able to write my act that transcends any regionality... I've tried to keep my act to where everyone can relate to it and I think that is one of the keys that has kept me in this business so long."
Fellow comedians agree with his tactic.
"Jay Leno told me one time, 'Don't do jokes about things you don't know about,'" Engvall said. "So for me to do fat jokes would be stupid because I've never really been overweight. For me to try and do divorce jokes would be stupid because I have never been divorced. There is plenty of material for what you need."
And no one is exempt from his jabs.
"I have been blessed with a really understanding family, they all know there are lines I won't cross," Engvall said. "I think the only one who has said anything was my daughter in high school. She came to me one day and said 'OK that's enough.' I said, 'What are you talking about?' And she said, 'I was walking down the hall and a kid I don't even know said I heard your dad talking about your underwear on the radio.' I think as a girl in senior in high school she didn't appreciate it."
However, his relatable comedy routine doesn't appeal to all networks.
"I was blessed early on in this business to know if you work clean and you work relatable, you work a long time," Engvall said. "I have been passed over a lot of times for HBO specials because they said I wasn't 'edgy' enough but in the long run I have outlasted all of them so its like, I guess that's the proof. But also I am not a prude I like a good dirty joke as much as the next guy but I don't want to take my wife to a show and sit through an hour and a half of it. Because after a while you go, 'Do you do anything else?'"
Dancing with the Stars
In 2013, Engvall competed in the 17th season of "Dancing with the Stars" paired with professional dancer Emma Slater.
"It was the hardest thing I've ever done. I almost turned it down. My wife was the one who said I think you oughtta do that... It turned out to be one of the best things I have done in my career."
Engvall made it all the way to fourth place and danced countless hours — 13 weeks, six hours a day for seven days a week. He ended up losing three pants sizes. Getting to the top, Engvall credits his fans.
"It wasn't my dancing that got me there, I think I became everybody's next door neighbor... I have great fans I have the most amazing fans stick with me thick and thin. I think women were more impressed that I was dancing with this 24 year old British Blonde Bombshell but at the end of the dance I ran over and kissed this 53 year old woman who I have been married to for 32 years."
New comedy tour
Pulling from his dancing experience, Engvall's current comedy tour will focus on that and a new aspect of his life.
"My whole career has been made by me talking about being a father, husband and all that," Engvall said. "Well now the kids are grown and moved on so now I have to go back to writing when I didn't have kids which is really fun, We have covered a number of subjects — the fact of me getting older, we talk about whole 'Dancing with the Stars' experience, talk about me and my wife being empty nesters, just general stuff been really fun because I am having a blast with this show."
Despite doing television, movies and dancing, Engvall will always return to standup.
"I always loved standup because in Texas there is an old saying that says, 'You dance with who brung ya,'" Engvall said. "And stand up has always been there for me, it's got me to what I am doing. I love the fact that when you are on stage and in sync with the audience and the jokes are just flowing along and effortless. I always thank people for buying CDs and DVDs but the live show is the only thing to see."
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Tuesday, March 29, 2011
I don't get this either...
10 comments:
Explain why people shouldn't do it. Not that I have done it but if people can afford it – let them. There are people working in that business and if they make their living from it, then let them.
Its a fine line between adventure and dining. I didn't see anything wrong in it. Its not like bank calls that annoy anyone.
- March 29, 2011 11:43 am
- Rupert Neil Bumfrey said...
Your post yesterday got innumerable remarks when posted on twitter, truly time you went there!
As for this, my first concern was of a lavatorial nature! :-(
Was this not originally down at Emirates Towers as a charity initiative, or something along those lines?
- March 29, 2011 11:56 am
- Seabee said...
MM I didn't suggest that people should't do it, I simply said I don't understand why they would want to.
Rupert, yes I know, I followed a link back to Mich's twittering about it. But I still can't get the hang of Twitter.
- March 29, 2011 12:35 pm
- Mich said...
I'm with you on this? Why???!!!
- March 29, 2011 2:08 pm
- DaddyBird said...
Is anyone *actually* doing this? Can't imagine that it would be a big draw.
Perhaps there is one attractive facet though: suspended 50 meters in the air like that, it would be impossible for the waitstaff to ignore you. Might be worth the price right there. ;-)
- March 29, 2011 5:00 pm
- Emjay said...
As George Mallory said, - "Because its there!"
- March 31, 2011 4:11 pm
- Emjay said...
For the privilege of doing it. I guess its the same reason that someone would pay AED 350+ for a cup of coffee in Atmosphere at the Burj Khalifa...
- March 31, 2011 4:13 pm
My name's Mark McConnell been reading your blog and given me much food for thought. I live out here and I'm putting together a documentary on the growth of Dubai for the Media department at my Uni in Scotland. Trying to avoid the well worn shock horror expose route but get more of a multi narrative thing going on. I'm trying to cover as many angles as I can and would love to speak to you as an expat, especially since you have a better sense of perspective than most. Got Nasif Kayed, Jim Krane and others on board and would be great to hear from you if you could spare half an hour of your time some evening.
- April 01, 2011 4:15 pm
- Seabee said...
Mark, send me an e-mail (address on my Profile). I'm heading off to the UK for three weeks early Sunday morning but I'll check the e-mails every so often while I'm away.
- April 01, 2011 4:49 pm
- Babymoselle said...
I think living in Dubai forces some people to try everything new and crazy even if it was not fun just to brag about it :) Or, if not to brag then to give oneself the feeling that they belong to this city in which everything is new and crazy and outstanding and out of the norm! It is just another story that you go to work tomorrow and tell your colleagues while hearing the familiar "oh" and "wow" sounds!
- May 03, 2011 12:24 am


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CPS Technology Group needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 91 designs submitted by 23 freelance designers.
CPS Technology Group (http://www.cpstg.com)
The CPS Technology Group has established itself over the last 17 years as a leading Australian developer and integrator of advanced Voice and Data Technology.
Corporates, Tech Audience, Sales and Marketing people.
We are currently redesiging our website (http://www.cpstg.com) , you can get more information about us and our activities on the website. You are also free to work with the current design and provide a fresh, new look to the website, we do not need a logo. We are looking for clean design with good eye for detail. You must understand modern design with corporate principles in mind.
You need to cater for the following components of the website:
News & Events
an area of free space to advertise current promotions / product of the month
Flash Animation (or Bell Media person?) something fresh and engaging
Tabs for 5-7 categories
Corporates, Tech Audience, Sales and Marketing people.
http://www.1300record.com (the bubble animation that comes in bit by bit)
WE ABSOLUTELY MUST HAVE (or we dont want to see) THIS IN OUR DESIGN
- our purple and green (per attached)
- Please dont worry about the Logo, we already have a logo (http://www.cpstg.com)
- The site should be able to attract and retain the target audience
- We need to see fresh, engaging and professional designs, not dull boring ones.
edit: -> We are also going to include a media player to show an introduction video about the company, can you please factor that into the design too please.


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migya wrote:TMC wrote:migya wrote:TMC wrote:migya wrote:xbay wrote:I'd think the Spurs, a playoff team, would hate the idea of Maggette going to the Rockets, another playoff team.
That's why a straight up trade of Maggette for RJefferson is the way to go
And... just saying, but considering that Jefferson is the worst player in the deal, why not go Maggette for Battier straight up???
Haven't checked, when does Battier's contract end? If, like RJefferson's, it's after next season and he makes at least what Maggette makes (which is some 4-5 million less than RJefferson), then I'd do it, but I'd prefer trading Maggette and filler, like Bell's expirer, for RJefferson and then trade him as an expirer this offseason
One more year than Jefferson's (which means he's an expirer next season) and he's the cheapest of the three, at only a bit over 7 million. And let's remember Battier is the most complete player of the deal... which is basically why Houston would be crazy to go for this deal.
Then I wouldn't go for him, not if he's got two more years left after this season. He would have to come over with a filler for Maggette to make that deal work as well.
I don't think Battier is doing that much right now anyway, not this season. He has been decent and plays his role, but he is nothing major and wouldn't be that valuable on the team that's here I think
lol are you serious? He's the glue that keeps that team together. Ive seen a number of Rockets games this year and he's been huge. Also guards the oppositions best player, night in, night out


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I suppose the mature thing may have been to just let things lie with Mariah Yeater, the woman who falsely accused Justin Bieber of impregnating her backstage at one of his concerts in 2010. But what fun would that be?
The Biebs was on a roll last night during his #RANDOMTWITTERHOUR. From random thoughts like, "Thank god madagascar 3 is coming out. Just didnt get the closure i needed with the first 2" to "did anyone ever find out who let the dogs out?", he was tweeting up a comedic storm. Then he let loose on Yeater:
"Dear Mariah Yeeter (sic) ...we have never met...so from the heart i just wanted to say..." and then he posted a link to the clip from Borat in which Sacha Baron Cohen taunts, "You will never get this. You will never get this. La la la la la."


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Junior Scouts can earn the Aerospace Badge while attending this fun program, sponsored by the Girl Scouts of Central & Western Massachusetts Council at WPI in Worcester on Saturday, March 27 from 1 to 4 p.m.
Junior Scouts (and Juliette Scouts in grades 4 & 5) will learn about NASA, design a space station, visit the wind tunnel lab, launch mini rockets and have a fun paper-airplane contest. All this and more, while being led through the activities by these terrific student mentors.
This is another popular WPI program that fill up quickly. (Registration ends on March 5 or when 60 Scouts register.)
Badges are not included. Badges can be purchased at the Worcester council store.
Event #4938
Registration fee is $9 per Scout.Leaders and adult chaperones are free.
Adults may be asked to assist in the program.
Safety-wise rules apply.
Register online at the Girl Scouts of Central & Western Massachusetts Council Web site.