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Galaxy Evolution during the Epoch of Reionization
Steve Finkelstein, University of Texas at Austin
Abstract: The advent of the Wide Field Camera 3 on the Hubble Space Telescope has heralded a new era in our ability to study the earliest phases of galaxy formation and evolution. The number of candidates for galaxies now known at redshifts greater than six has grown to be in the thousands. This allows us to move beyond mere counting of galaxies, to endeavor to understand the detailed physics regulating the growth of galaxies. I will review the recent progress our group in Texas has made in this arena using the exquisite datasets from the CANDELS and Frontier Fields programs. Specifically, our detailed new measurements of both the evolution of the stellar mass function and rest-frame UV luminosity function now allow us to probe the effect of feedback on low-mass galaxies, the star-formation efficiency in high-mass galaxies, and the contribution of galaxies to the reionization of the universe. Our most recent result comes from the Frontier Fields, where we have used an advanced technique to remove the light from the cluster galaxies to uncover z > 6 galaxies as faint as M_UV=-13. Our updated luminosity functions show no sign of a turnover down to these extremely faint levels, providing the first empirical test of reionization models which require such faint galaxies, and is in modest tension with simulations which predict a turnover at brighter levels. I will also discuss our spectroscopic followup efforts, which have yielded two of the four highest redshift confirmed galaxies, and also provide further insight into reionization, by the scattering of Lyman alpha emission by neutral gas in the intergalactic medium. I will conclude with a look ahead to the problems we can expect to tackle with ALMA, JWST, and even more future facilities.


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"All-new, prettier, roomier, more powerful, more fuel efficient."
Sport Utility Vehicles
Editor: Sam Moses
$34,320 Base Price MSRP
$40,305 As Tested MSRP
Model Lineup: "Acura RDX FWD ($34,320); RDX AWD ($35,720); RDX FWD Tech Package ($38,020); RDX AWD Tech Package ($39,420)"
Standard Engine: 3.5-liter SOHC V6
Engine Options: 273-hp 3.5-liter SOHC V6
Standard Transmission: 6-speed automatic
Transmission Options: 6-speed automatic with paddle shifters
Basic Warranty: "4 years/50,000 miles"
Assembled In: Ohio
Model Tested MSRP: "Acura RDX AWD Technology Package SX Special Edition ($39,420)"
Standard Equipment: "leather interior, dual-zone automatic climate control, heated power front seats, heated outside mirrors, steering wheel controls, 360-watt sound system, power moonroof, rearview camera, 18-inch alloy wheels"
Options As Tested: "Technology Package, including navigation with voice recognition, multi-view rear camera, ELS 10-speaker surround-sound system, power liftgate, HID headlamps, foglamps"
Standard Safety Equipment: "six airbags, electronic stability control, anti-lock brakes with electronic brake-force distribution and brake assist, tire pressure monitor, rearview camera"
Optional Safety Equipment: all-wheel driveDestination Charge: $885
The 2013 Acura RDX features a new 3.5-liter V6 engine making 273 horsepower (up from 240), and a 6-speed manual automatic transmission (up from a 5-speed), both so smooth they feel flawless. Fuel mileage is an EPA-rated 20/28 mpg City/Highway, for an EPA Combined 23 miles per gallon with front-wheel drive.
A new all-wheel-drive system is available, simpler and lighter than Acura's SH-AWD in other models, designed for fuel mileage. In about 400 miles of driving in our RDX AWD, mostly at 72 mph on the freeway but with some hilly city runs, we averaged 21.6 mpg. The EPA rates the 2013 RDX AWD at 19/27 mpg.
The sheetmetal has been reshaped for 2013 to be sleek and aerodynamic, looking more like the larger Acura MDX. The hood is longer and sculpted than before, the grille tidier, sides cleaner, and roofline way more elegant. The wheelbase is 1.4 inches longer and the track widened a bit, and handling remains taut and precise. The center of gravity is lower despite the roof being 1 inch higher, and there's electronic power steering replacing hydraulic.
The suspension has been thoroughly redesigned on the 2013 RDX, with 18-inch wheels standard. Acura engineers in Japan worked hard to make the 2013 RDX ride and handle well, and it does, maybe even better than the smaller and sportier 2012 RDX. The steering technology breaks new ground, with what Acura calls Motion Adaptive Electric Power Steering, which goes to the next step beyond speed-sensitive power steering, by increasing or reducing the amount of effort needed to turn the wheel in either direction, based on the same sort of traction measurements that stability-control sensors receive; by instantaneously weighting the steering wheel, it makes it harder for the driver to over-correct.
The suspension also features something called Amplitude Reactive Dampers, sophisticated shock absorbers designed to offer the best of all worlds. They got most of the worlds, but the dampers transmitted too many sharp bumps to our spine. These things can be tuned out, so it's possible that this flaw might vanish in later 2013s, you never know.
The new interior has sweeping lines and uses rich materials. It's very quiet in the cabin; over harsh freeway surfaces in particular, you can't hear the tire buzz thanks to more sound-deadening materials. The door openings are large, and the rear seats fold down with one touch. Leather is standard, along with heated front seats, power moonroof, 360-watt audio system, and rearview camera. A Technology Package has all the tricks, including a power liftgate and HID headlamps.
Competitors for the Acura RDX include the BMW X3 and Mercedes-Benz GLK-Class."
"The 2013 Acura RDX comes in just two models: RDX front-wheel drive ($34,320) and RDX all-wheel drive ($35,720). Either way, RDX is powered by a 3.5-liter V6 and 6-speed automatic transmission with paddle shifters.
Standard equipment includes leather-trimmed sport seats, satellite radio, driver's 10-way power seat, heated front seats and sideview mirrors, Bluetooth, remote entry, power moonroof, and 18-inch alloy wheels. The optional Technology Package ($3,700) adds navigation with voice recognition, real-time traffic with rerouting, dual zone climate control, ELS premier sound system, 60GB hard drive, power liftgate, projector beam HID headlamps, and foglamps.
Safety equipment on all models includes six airbags, electronic stability control, anti-lock brakes with brake distribution and brake assist, and tire pressure monitor. Optional all-wheel drive can improve handling stability in slippery conditions."
Walk Around
"Acura says that the RDX has gone from looking sporty to more formal, elegant and sophisticated, and we confess we doubted it, until we looked at photos side-by-side. Styling changes to SUVs that we see every day aren't the kinds of things that register. But sure enough, it's all true. It's still a medium-sized Acura SUV in your mind (technically it's a compact), like all the others you've known, but the sheetmetal is indeed more elegant and sophisticated.
The hood on the 2013 Acura RDX appears long, extending downward to an arc before the grille begins with a touch of black mesh over the wide band of wing-shaped silver, Acura's emblem. Not just Acura, but other carmakers have backed away from the in-your-face grilles of recent years (e.g. Mazda3 toning down its big dopey grin). Below the grille, the front fascia is clean, stylish, and aerodynamic, rounded at the edges, with sleek, sharp, exotic-eye headlamps and two tidy trapezoidal air intakes at the bottom corners.
The blocky round fender flares aren't changed, but the sides are sculpted cleanly now, with rounded rockers instead of cladding, and mirrors improving their looks by losing an edge. Most notably, the roofline and window outline is, yes, elegant, reminiscent of the Lexus RX 350. Tinted door glass. The new lines on the 2013 RDX make the old RDX look like its square roof was just slapped on.
At the rear, the changes for 2013 are slight but effective, with sharp horizontal edges removed, again to bring a more formal look, and smooth downward diagonal edges added, to make the back look less blocky.
The 2013 RDX has grown 2.8 inches in overall length, with half that in wheelbase, and it is 1 inch taller. There's .6 inches more rear legroom, .7 cubic feet more cargo area, and it's 100 pounds lighter."
"The interior of the 2013 RDX matches the exterior, with sweeping lines replacing angular ones. The new analog gauges and graphics are clean and beautiful, high contrast in white and LED backlit at night. The front doors open wider and the center console is larger, with a relative gaping 8.2 liters of space (5.6 liters in the glovebox).
We spent a week in the RDX, and found it to be sweetly quiet over all pavement and at all speeds, a result of attention and insulation. We also especially liked the lighting that brightens and dims progressively. Switches are illuminated in the dark, including the switches on all four doors. The RDX features theater dimming set by the driver to three speeds.
Acura leather seats are always clean, classy, and smooth, and the RDX is now all Acura. They fit well, with good ergonomics and bolstering, because Acuras corner well and are driven with spirit. The driver's seat has two-way adjustable lumbar. We ran a hard 200 miles down from Seattle during spring break in the rain, and the seats get an A for comfort and support.
However, the navigation and radio, part of the Technology Package, don't come close to an A. The navigation system was consistently inaccurate and hopeless with voice recognition (although, after our passenger repeatedly fooled with it while we were driving, the system did manage to find the nearest of 320 Big 5 sporting goods stores in the Northwest, and led us off the freeway and to the store); and the radio was difficult to tune, taking time and concentration off the road. It made us long for the simplicity, accuracy and clarity of the Volkswagen Tiguan.
The leather-wrapped steering wheel holds audio and cruise controls on its three spokes, as well as a button for the Multi-Information Display, along with navigation, voice recognition and more. Controls for standard Bluetooth are on the lower left corner of the steering wheel.
The MID window is located on the face of the speedometer, and shows temperature, odometer, average mpg, instantaneous mpg, range, tire pressure, average speed and elapsed time. We use range, or distance to empty, the most, and like with many information displays (exceptions include the VW Tiguan), we think it takes too many clicks to find it on the RDX. It's still better than the 2010 Acura ZDX that was like falling into Alice's rabbit hole to find how many miles to go before empty.
The RDX features a one-touch turn signal system for lane changes, as with an increasing number of cars. When the driver moves the lever just a touch, the turn signals flash three times.
The rearview camera is viewed on the 5-inch LCD display on the center stack. Solid yellow guidelines indicate the vehicle's width, but we found them to be unclear and weren't willing to depend on them if scraping a fender was a possibility.
With the Technology Package, you get an 8-inch display with three rearview camera angles: normal 130 degrees, wide angle 175 degrees, and downward at the rear bumper for close parking or backing up to a trailer. Also a new 360-watt 7-speaker audio system, with the works.
At the rear, the door openings are wide for easy access, and the legroom is an okay 38.3 inches. The 60/40 rear seats drop nicely with one touch, as they all should but don't. With the seats down there's 76.9 cubic feet of cargo space, a whopping 16.3 cubic feet more than before, and a best-in-class total interior volume, increased by 2.1 cubic feet. The power rear hatch is 48.8 inches wide, expanded by 6.5 inches.
If dual-zone climate control isn't enough, the Technology Package offers a GPS-linked, solar-sensing, automatic climate control system. The nav system determines the position of the sun and, using the solar sensor on the dashboard, the climate control automatically adjusts the heating and cooling inputs, fan speed, and vent position from side to side as to compensate for asymmetrical solar heating and maintain the set cabin temperatures. All we can say is: whew. Kind of like having your own house robot to draw the blinds and open the windows for you when it's too sunny in the room. We're fine with the standard dual-zone automatic climate control.
The Technology Package also includes internet radio interface and a SMS text messaging feature that works with certain phones and plans. It can read incoming texts aloud over the audio system, and allow the driver to reply without touching his phone, with one of six messages: Talk to you later, I'm driving; I'm on my way; I'm running late; OK; Yes; No. We'll resist the temptation to suggest more messages."
Driving Impressions
"The 2013 RDX is smooth, stable and comfortable 99 percent of the time, but when you hit sharp bumps they're transmitted through that nice bucket seat. It's a shame the ride delivers jolts, because otherwise it's all good. Later we tested a larger 2013 Acura MDX, and it was better, but still had traces of the jolt. It appears to be how Acura sets up their SUV suspensions, on 2013 models, at least.
Acura has flip-flopped with the 2013 RDX, by using a 3.5-liter V6 while abandoning the 2.3-liter turbocharged 4-cylinder engine that was in the RDX when it first came out in 2007 (last making 240 hp and 17 city/22 highway mpg). Back then Acura pioneered V6 power with I4 fuel mileage; ironically, today, six years later, Ford follows along with the twin-turbo EcoBoost 4-cylinder in the Escape (240 hp and 22/30 mpg).
The RDX V6 makes 273 horsepower and an EPA-estimated 20/28 mpg with front-wheel drive, 19/27 with all-wheel-drive. It produces plenty of smooth acceleration. It's a 60-degree single overhead camshaft design with 24 valves, actuated by iVTEC, or intelligent Variable Valve Timing and Lift Electronic Control. Aluminum block and heads with iron cylinder liners.
In addition to 33 more horsepower, the V6 brings better fuel mileage, gaining 3 city/6 highway mpg, boosted by a new 6-speed automatic transmission with a tall sixth gear, and the Variable Cylinder Management system, which uses 3, 4, or 6 cylinders depending on need. It's totally invisible, we never once felt it. We got 21.6 miles per gallon, running mostly at 72 mph on the freeway with our all-wheel-drive model, which is EPA-rated at a Combined 22 mpg.
If the previous RDX handled like a sports car, the all-new RDX still handles really well. It's accessible to more buyers, without the aggressive sportiness of the turbo four. The all-wheel drive enhances cornering by moving torque to the rear wheels when needed, although it's not Acura's SH-AWD (super handling all-wheel drive) as used in the TL.
Motion Adaptive Electric Power Steering is the next step in electronic controls. Sensors detect understeer or oversteer, and the stability control does its thing by braking an appropriate wheel. But next, if the driver is turning the steering wheel too much in one direction or the other, the weight of the steering is increased by reducing the electric assist to the power steering, making it harder for the driver to continue his or her imperfect pursuit of control.
The new 6-speed automatic transmission is as smooth as the engine. There are two automatic modes, plus Sequential SportShift with well-designed paddles. The first five gears are relatively short, for sharp acceleration; sixth gear is tall, for lower rpm at freeway speeds and thus better highway fuel mileage. The transmission has all the latest technology, including a multi-clutch lock-up torque converter, Grade Logic Control, Shift Hold Control and Cornering G Shift Control. None of those little brains in the transmission intruded, in the time we had the car."
"For Acura lovers, the all-new V6 RDX is perfect, with Acura's best engineering technology and efficiency, responsive handling, traditional silky powertrain with new 6-speed automatic, clear gauges, classy leather, class-leading interior volume, easy seat flop for cargo. Fuel mileage so-so at 22 mpg combined, base price $35k ain't hay, sharp bumps ain't fun.
Sam Moses filed this report to NewCarTestDrive.com after his test drive of the Acura RDX in the Pacific Northwest."
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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Monday, September 11, 2006
A Sound of Thunder
In yesterday's Toronto Star, columnist Rosie DiManno writes:
In Ray Bradbury's famous short story, A Sound of Thunder, a time traveller changes the course of evolution by stepping off a designated tourist path and crushing one little butterfly underfoot.
Cause and effect — extraordinary what-if possibilities, conjecturing about the known and unknown — are as much the purview of imagination as science.
One is driven to speculate: what if ... 9/11 had never occurred?
"It's an interesting parlour game, but the fact is it did happen," says Peter Bergen, the bin Laden biographer and adventuresome university professor who is more widely recognized as CNN's terrorism analyst.
"On some levels, they [the terrorists] got some lucky breaks. But history is made by the lucky and inflicted on the unlucky."
A TI list member recently requested that I show a certain early 50's illustration to a Ray Bradbury story from Collier's magazine. Though I didn't have that particular image in my collection, it got me thinking about doing a week on science fiction illustration in mainstream magazines of the 50's.
As luck would have it, I came across another illustrated Ray Bradbury story: A Sound of Thunder. When I first read the story in Mr. Jackson's grade 7 English class, it profoundly affected my world view. If you've never read it, I encourage you to seek it out - strip away the trappings of science fiction and you're left with a thought-provoking examination of cause and effect - of choice and consequence. In light of the sad events on this day five years ago and DiManno's reference to the story I thought it would be the most appropriate choice to begin this week.
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SOUND OF THUNDER was one of the first Sci Fi stories that I read. I remember finishing it, and then, the next day, reading it again. I did not see the recent movie which, as far as the reviewers were concerned, was crap.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the repros of the great illustrations!
You're most welcome, Mike - its my pleasure to share all these great illustrations from my collection with others who enjoy seeing them - and are, hopefully. inspired and educated by these long-forgotten treasures!ReplyDelete
"Sound of Thunder" affected me deeply when my Grade 7 teacher, a passionate SF fan ( who collected old pulps ) gave it to us as an assignment in English. I went on to devour Bradbury's writing because of that story. He made me want to become a writer - but illustration won the day. ;-)


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Following the United States' stunning 2-0 win over Mexico for the fourth-straight time at Crew Stadium, Sports Ilustrated's Grant Wahl (as he typically does) broke Earth-shattering news via Twitter:
Waiting on the field in Columbus for the Honduras-Panama finish (2-1 HON now). Frankie Hejduk is break-dancing for the fans.— Grant Wahl (@GrantWahl) September 11, 2013
Soon after Wahl's tweet, the above video was posted to YouTube by user RyanRosenblatt. And for that, we are forever grateful.


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The FL Studio Guru has posted his top 10 picks for new features added to FL Studio 9.1
The 9.1 update will be released the week starting April 12.
You can download the 'What's New' document with the full list of new features and the FL Studio 9.1 users manual here in Looptalk.
If you have Lifetime Free Updates (or you are a Boxed user who bought FL8 or FL9) then you can download the FL Studio 9.1 update when it's available (see above).
If you don't have Life Time Free Updates, then you can upgrade to them them from versions below FL8 for $49 USD from our shop, that's a great deal.


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The climate in Jakarta is a tropical monsoon climate, which is hot and humid with year-round rainfall. There is little fluctuation in temperature throughout the year: in summer (June to September) temperatures average around 82°F (28°C), while winter (December to February) has an average of 80°F (26°C). The wet season officially runs from November to June, while July to September is the driest and is considered the best time to visit Jakarta.
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Thursday, July 12, 2012
How to find old life insurance policies (and other unclaimed property)
"Makes me wonder how many policies go unclaimed," she said.
A lot. According to the New York Times, hundreds of millions of dollars each year.
So how do you track down a relative's old policy?
Gather as much information as possible: name, insurer and any relevant documents. Try to find the policy itself, which will have a number on it. Make sure you have a copy of the death certificate.
Tip: If you can't find the company, try going through the person's financial records, looking for payments made to an insurer. Also, look through old mail -- the company may have sent periodic statements or billing reminders. If you know which company they had their auto= or homeowners coverage with, consider contacting that company. People often use the same insurer for life insurance.
Then, make sure the company still exists, or if it merged with another company. If you live in Washington state, we can help with this, for free. Call us at 1-800-562-6900. If you live in another state, call your state's insurance regulator for help.
If you can't find any information, even the name of the company, you may want to pay a search company to run your relative's name against insurance industry databases or to contact a large number of insurers directly. Examples include companies like MIB Solutions or The Lost Life Insurance Finder Expert. (Note: mentioning a company or product on this blog ≠ endorsement.)
Other places to check:
If the policy goes unclaimed for a long time, insurers are supposed to turn the money over to state unclaimed property funds. Run your relative's name through these free, state-run online search sites. There are companies that will offer to do this for you, but you can easily and quickly run the checks online yourself. Here's Washington state's official unclaimed property site. And here's a list of similar official unclaimed property websites in other states.
Tip: Online companies can also search for unclaimed property for you, but with a little time at your computer and the sites listed above, you can do the same thing, for free, yourself.
As for that life insurance case, we helped the woman figure out the current company holding the policy and file a claim.
"This is incredible," she wrote. "We can't thank you enough."
Bonus round: Here are our tips if you're buying life insurance or an annuity.
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Featuring: fitted at the shoulders and bust, semi fitted at the waist and hips. Offered with cap sleeves, short sleeves with or without bands, 3/4 and long sleeves and straight bottom hem (hemmed or banded) or a curved hip length hem. Choose from a wide range of necklines: crew neck, scoop neck, boatneck and wide boatneck (off shoulder). Great choice of option to create an outfit for any occasion an season. Very beginner friendly and will work perfectly as a first sewing project in knits.
Comes with a detailed tutorial with step by step instructions and photos.
1. PDF tutorial with pictures (26 pages)
2. A4/Letter gradable pattern in sizes XS-XXL in REGULAR/PETITE/TALL height (32 pages to print)
3. A0/Copyshop multisized pattern in sizes XS-XXL in REGULAR/PETITE/TALL height (2 pages)
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The pdf pattern is a beginners one (3/10), easy to follow detailed tutorial.
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Active holidays in the Saarland
Cycling tours in the Saarland are all about variety and the all-round cycling experience – from family-friendly routes along river valleys and cross-border tours into France and Luxembourg to challenging climbs in the Hunsrück hills. The Saar River Cycle Route is the first international long-distance route to be awarded four stars by the German Cyclists' Federation (ADFC).
Unspoilt nature and top-quality trails – the Saarland has an extensive network of premium walks. In the last years, four of Saarland's premium trails have won the title of 'Germany's most scenic walk'. And in 2009, the 218km Saar-Hunsrück-Steig was voted the country's most beautiful long-distance trail. Why don't you discover the Saarland on these award-winning walks?
Golfers are spoilt for choice in the Saarland and just across the border. The scenic and immaculately tended courses have everything a keen player could wish for.
Top tip for culture!
Imagine it – breakfast in a Roman villa, lunch at a medieval festival, tea in a baroque palace and an evening of jazz against a backdrop of gigantic blast furnaces at Völklinger Hütte, an UNESCO World Heritage Site. In the Saarland you can discover 2,000 years of history in just one day. There is also a broad choice of cultural events, in which up-and-coming talents give it their all and international stars thrill the audience. First-class museums and a vibrant arts scene continually bear testament to the Saarland's cultural riches.
The Saarland cuisine
Good food has a strong pedigree in the Saarland. Whether it's hearty home-cooked fare – from schwenkbraten pork to potato delights – or three-course gourmet meals and innovative creations, chefs in the Saarland cook with locally sourced products of the highest quality. The Saarland inspires its kitchens to great achievements and the region has more Michelin stars per capita than anywhere else in Germany.
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text: Canbex Therapeutics Raises $ 3.2 million to Develop Treatment for Debilitating Muscle Spasms Associated with MS April 9, 2013 The National MS Society is pleased to report that Canbex Therapeutics Ltd. has completed a $3.2 million (£2.1m) fundraising round that will enable it to finish the early development of a potential therapy for the debilitating muscle spasms known as spasticity in MS. Merck Serono Ventures led the financing for this round. This success leverages an initial investment in Canbex in 2010 by the National MS Society's Fast Forward drug development arm, validating the concept of seeding early development to speed therapies to people with MS. Spasticity is a common and often painful symptom of MS that involves feelings of stiffness, tightness or sudden movements caused by a wide range of involuntary muscle spasms. Many of the current treatments for spasticity can cause significant side effects, such as muscle weakness, sedation or mood alteration that can limit their application in MS. Canbex aims to develop a new therapy called VSN16R in hopes of creating a better treatment for spasticity affecting people with all forms of MS, including progressive MS. Canbex is a spin-out of University College London (UCL) and was founded by a leading scientific and clinical team including Dr. David Baker and Dr. David Selwood, who were later joined by Dr. Gavin Giovannoni, a practicing MS clinician who is a global leader in MS drug development and clinical research. Drs. Giovannoni and Baker were also research leaders in the Society's Promise 2010 Nervous System Repair and Protection teams. Other participants in the current financing round included UCL Business PLC, and the Wellcome Trust, through release of funding from a 2011 Translation Award.


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Summer is officially over; celebrate the new season with these delicious cocktails perfect for fall!
Fall Ciderhouse Sangria
24 oz Sandeman Founders Reserve Porto
3 oz maple syrup
2 Granny Smith Apples
24 Oz Apple Cider
3 oz Rye Whiskey
Dice apples and set aside. Mix remaining ingredients together in pitcher. Add apples. Lit sit for at least 12 hours (or overnight).
Rosé Cranberry Sparkle
1 oz Absolut
.75 oz Cranberry Juice
.25 oz Hiram Walker Triple Sec
Squeeze of Lime
Fill with Jacobs Creek Sparkling Moscato Rosé
Add Absolut, cranberry juice, Hiram Walker Triple Sec and squeeze of lime to a mixing glass, and shake with ice. Strain into a cocktail glass, and top with Jacobs Creek Sparkling Moscato Rosé. Garnish with a lemon twist.
Festive Fall Cocktails
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Brady Bombs Broncos
Denver Coach Mike Shanahan, carefully directing a third-string quarterback, Danny Kanell, guided the Broncos to the one-point lead they carried into the last half minute Monday night at Mile High Stadium.
Then New England Coach Bill Belichick's first-string quarterback, Tom Brady, one of the NFL's great bomb throwers, won it, 30-26, with a deep sideline shot to young wide receiver David Givens, last year's last-round draft choice from Notre Dame, who faked the Bronco coverage into the end zone before ducking away to catch the perfectly placed pass.
Earlier Brady bombs, measuring 48 and 66 yards, kept New England in a rousing game.
It was a rare prime-time matchup of top-level NFL strategist-philosophers, Shanahan and Belichick, both recent Super Bowl winners and both pass-offense enthusiasts. And Shanahan led at the half, 17-13, after patiently nursing the Broncos along on a 55-yard touchdown drive with Kanell's small repertoire of passes, including very frequent throwaways.
This suggested that Shanahan might have won if he'd had his first-string quarterback, Jake Plummer, who missed the game with a broken foot. Though Plummer will likely return to lead the Broncos' last-half-season playoff charge, the Monday nighter belonged to Belichick and his bomb-thrower.
Chiefs NFL Team of Half Year
THE PARITY SNARE, so-called, is now so all-embracing in pro football that, with few exceptions, 21st-century teams don't open the season with nine-game winning streaks. The Kansas City Chiefs (8-0) can be one of the exceptions.
After two months of pro ball, with two months left, the Chiefs are the NFL's Team of the Half Year. And if they win their Week 9 game against Cleveland Sunday, the Chiefs will be one step closer to the playoffs and a showdown with, possibly, the Indianapolis Colts (7-1).
They aren't scheduled against Indianapolis in their next eight. But if it's Chiefs vs. Colts in the AFC title game, one question is whether Chief quarterback Trent Green can hold his own with the flashier Colt quarterback, Peyton Manning.
Otherwise, these teams' running backs are about even (though Edgerrin James is faster than Kansas City's Priest Holmes) and the defenses are about even.
In the whole of that conference, only three other clubs have a championship chance: Tennessee (6-2), New England (7-2) and Denver (5-4). Food for thought: All three can outpass Kansas City: the Titans with Steve McNair, the Patriots with Tom Brady, and the Broncos if Plummer recovers fully from injury.
No Defense Can Rule Every NFL Minute
PRO FOOTBALL'S DEFENSIVE teams are almost all so powerful these days that most games are a struggle for even a quarterback like Peyton Manning, who is favored at Jacksonville Sunday, true, but who had to throw 37 times last Sunday, completing 23 for 266 yards, to get a 23-17 victory over new Miami quarterback Brian Griese, who was 18 for 29 for 231.
Manning moved the Colts repeatedly against Miami's sound defensive team, covering no fewer than 65 yards on each of six drives, but could only drive them all the way twice. That matched Griese's two-touchdown output for the Dolphins.
Actually, Griese's big plays were more impressive than Manning's. A well-placed Griese bomb set Miami up for a 7-0 lead in the first quarter, and in the second half his 23-yard touchdown pass to Chris Chambers was the longest of the game by anybody.
When good pro clubs get together — two dozen of them are playing this year in the 32-team NFL — that's often the way it goes:
The league's many superior defenses are in charge most of the time, but not — in a 60-minute game — on every play.
And when NFL offensive teams execute ideally, which happens once in a while, their many superior passers, earning or setting up a few touchdowns and field goals, can beat the great defenses.
For numerous reasons, the NFL is in balance now. But it's a balance not of mediocrity but of good teams and good players, the best football players there are.
Bears Have a Real Quarterback
TWO OF THE bottom eight pro clubs, Chicago and Arizona — neither of which has seemed to be in a class with the NFL's top two dozen — will, surprisingly, put two-week winning streaks on the line Sunday in two winnable games: the Bears at Detroit and the Cardinals at Pittsburgh.
The Cardinals face the tougher hurdle after doing the most in their last two games with upsets over top-24 clubs, San Francisco (in overtime), 16-13, and Cincinnati, 17-14.
Arizona's job on the 49ers had warned Cincinnati's plucky new coach, Marvin Lewis, who, even so, couldn't handle the Cardinals' new twin-threat tandem, young runner Marcel Shipp and old passer Jeff Blake. With Jon Kitna, the Bengals can match Blake, but they don't always run well enough with aging, injured Corey Dillon and his teammates to take the pressure off Kitna.
As for the Bears, it's possible to say they have the best players on the NFL's eight worst clubs. Nonetheless, restricted by conservative leadership, Chicago has been all-out to win its last two from worst-eight peers, Detroit, 24-16, and San Diego, 20-7
On defense, the Bears, not so long ago, were the talk of the league. And on offense, they're attacking at present with a real quarterback, Chris Chandler, who is a young 38, and with a power runner with speed, Anthony Thomas, who at 26 is an established good one.
Two Chicago problems are that Thomas has been injured this year and that Chandler keeps getting lost on the coaches' depth charts. Now that Thomas and Chandler are together, it will be up to their coaches to think of a way to again topple 2-6 Detroit, which doesn't have much but a quarterback, Joey Harrington.
49er Rattay Hasn't Been Hit Yet
HERE ARE FOUR reasons why new San Francisco quarterback Tim Rattay might not perform as effectively every time hereafter as he did the other day when he completed a long series of nearly perfect passes to rout the St. Louis Rams, 30-10:
He isn't big enough or strong enough to be a great pro quarterback in this era. At 6 feet and 200 pounds, Rattay can, of course, play awhile. The question is how long. The son of a coach, he looks like most coaches' sons: studious, informed, proficient. That was enough to overthrow the Rams.
Rattay hasn't been hit yet. On 49er pass plays, the Rams never once punished him the way the 49er defense repeatedly attacked Ram quarterback Marc Bulger, who was sacked five times and smashed continuously. The only time the Rams sacked Rattay, they took him down gently, as if he were one of theirs in a training-camp scrum.
It's a given in pro football that every quarterback, no matter how wondrous he seems at first, is a different man after he's been knocked around by blitzing cornerbacks or rough-and-tumble linebackers or 300-pound linemen or all of the above. It has been truly said that every pro quarterback is jumpy, that he's never wholly free of worries that the next big hit he gets will be his last. The NFL will evaluate Rattay after he's been hazed.
Although the Rams have seen Rattay a few times in other years, they have never been properly introduced. They don't really know him, so, in this game, that hurt. Every quarterback is different and the Rams aren't familiar with Rattay's particular deportment and nuances. They know what San Francisco's first-stringer, Jeff Garcia, can do because they've played against him so often. Rattay is something else.
Against the Rams, Rattay's teammates were executing confidently and eagerly and sometimes spectacularly and hoping for the best. On the 49er team, that hasn't always been the case this season. Something deeper than pass-offense trouble has been amiss.
Saints Tell Defenses What They're Up To
IN NEW ORLEANS, the Saints are a top-24 NFL team with, it often seems, bottom-8 leadership. There may be another and better way to explain New Orleans' inconsistent behavior. But when an opponent can outscore the champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers three times in a row — as the Saints have done, last year and this — it must have competent playing talent.
And every time you see them, the Saints are showing off one of the NFL's fine quarterbacks, Aaron Brooks, as well as one of the most powerful of the game's running backs, Deuce McAllister, who combined to upset Tampa Bay again last week, 17-14, on Brooks' 142 passing yards and McAllister's 110 rushing yards.
So why don't the Saints do something like this more often? Why do they keep losing to, among others, Seattle (27-10), Carolina (twice) and Indianapolis (in a 55-21 rout)?
One explanation, I'd say, is that New Orleans Coach Jim Haslett and his offensive brain trusters don't properly integrate their three great threats, Brooks, McAllister and Joe Horn, who, in his eighth season as an NFL receiver, continues to be underrated though he's in his NFL prime.
The Saints, for example, on a typical offensive series, run McAllister twice. Then on third down, they put Brooks in shotgun formation to throw the ball. In other words, the New Orleans coaches are telling their opponents that 1) when Brooks is under center, they're going to run, and 2) when Brooks is in a shotgun position, they're going to pass. That makes it easy for any defense.
McAllister Misused in New Orleans
WHAT BILL WALSH advocated when, some time ago, he developed the West Coast offense — which most NFL teams are trying to operate today — is an integrated double threat (run and pass) on every play.
The Saints are therefore giving up one of their most threatening weapons, McAllister, whenever Brooks is in position as a shotgun passer on, say, third and five (or six or seven or even nine). For it's much harder to get a big run after a deep handoff than after taking the ball close to the line of scrimmage.
Against an opponent playing pass defense, McAllister, with Brooks under center, could get a quick handoff and run a mile on third and anything. That's much less likely for a shotgun ballcarrier.
The best thing about a successful running play on third and five (or nine) is that, next time, the defense must respect Brooks and McAllister both on third-down plays. Next time, the defensive coaches will reason that if they overload with blitzing pass rushers on third and long, they'll be playing with fire. McAllister can burn them. Few NFL coaches today seem to understand that there's a place for shotgun plays on, maybe, third and 20, but almost never on third and eight.
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Place count in area: 130,
OSI/LPS Maps: 28B, 49, 50, 55, 56, 61, 62, AWW
Highest place:
Lugnaquilla, 925m
Maximum height for area: 925 metres,
Maximum prominence for area: 905 metres,
Places in area Dublin/Wicklow:
Ballinacorbeg 336m
Ballinastraw 284m
Ballycurry 301m
Ballyguile Hill 188m
Ballyhook Hill 288m
Bray Head Hill 240m
Carrickgollogan 276m
Carrigeen Hill 298m
Carrigoona Commons East 242m
Cloghnagaune 385m
Corballis Hill 258m
Cupidstown Hill 378.6m
Downs Hill 372m
Dunranhill 342m
Eagle Hill 296m
Killeagh 249m
Killiney Hill 153.5m
Kilmichael Hill 267m
Kilnamanagh Hill 217m
Knockannavea 400.8m
Knockree 342m
Mount Kennedy 365.9m
Slieveroe 332m
Westaston Hill 270m
Dublin Mountains:
Corrig Mountain 617.1m
Glendoo Mountain 586m
Kippure 757m
Knocknagun 555m
Mountpelier Hill 383m
Prince William's Seat 555m
Saggart Hill 396.9m
Seahan 647.3m
Seefin 620.6m
Seefingan 722.9m
Tibradden Mountain 467m
Two Rock Mountain 536m
Wicklow Mountains:
Annagh Hill 454m
Ballinacor Mountain 531m
Ballinafunshoge 480m
Ballineddan Mountain 652m
Ballycumber Hill 431m
Ballycurragh Hill 536m
Ballyteige 447m
Baltinglass Hill 382m
Barranisky 280m
Benleagh 689m
Black Hill 602.2m
Brockagh Mountain 557m
Brockagh Mountain NW Top 548m
Brockagh Mountain SE Top 470m
Camaderry Mountain 698.6m
Camaderry South East Top 677.3m
Camenabologue 758m
Camenabologue SE Top 663m
Carrick Mountain 381m
Carrickashane Mountain 508m
Carrig Mountain 571m
Carrigleitrim 408m
Carriglineen Mountain 455m
Carrignagunneen 561m
Carrigshouk 572.5m
Carrigvore 682m
Church Mountain 544m
Cloghernagh 800m
Collon Hill 238m
Conavalla 734m
Corriebracks 531m
Corrigasleggaun 794m
Croaghanmoira 664m
Croaghanmoira North Top 575m
Croghan Kinsella 606m
Croghan Kinsella East Top 562.1m
Cullentragh Mountain 510m
Cushbawn 400m
Derrybawn Mountain 474m
Djouce 725.5m
Duff Hill 720m
Fair Mountain 571.2m
Fananierin 426m
Gravale 718m
Great Sugar Loaf 501m
Kanturk 523m
Keadeen Mountain 653m
Kirikee Mountain 474m
Knocknacloghoge 534m
Lakeen 357m
Little Sugar Loaf 342m
Lobawn 636m
Lugduff 652m
Lugduff SE Top 637m
Luggala 595m
Lugnagun 446.2m
Lugnaquilla 925m
Maulin 570m
Moanbane 703m
Moneyteige North 427m
Mullacor 657m
Mullaghcleevaun 849m
Mullaghcleevaun East Top 795m
Muskeagh Hill 397m
Preban Hill 389m
Robber's Pass Hill 508.9m
Scarr 641m
Scarr North-West Top 561m
Seskin 344m
Silsean 698m
Sleamaine 430m
Slieve Maan 547.8m
Slieve Maan North Top 546.1m
Slievecorragh 418m
Slievefoore 414m
Slievemaan 759m
Sorrel Hill 599.5m
Spinans Hill 409m
Spinans Hill SE Top 400m
Stoney Top 714m
Stookeen 420m
Sugarloaf 552m
Table Mountain 701.7m
Table Mountain West Top 563m
Tinoran Hill 312m
Tomaneena 682.4m
Tonduff 642m
Tonduff East Top 593m
Tonelagee 817m
Tonelagee NE Top 668m
Tonlagee South-East Top 546m
Trooperstown Hill 430m
War Hill 684.8m
White Hill 631.1m
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Log an Lá
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(Ir. Log an Lá [logainm.ie], 'hollow of the [obscure element]')
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Longitude: -6.283449, Latitude: 53.105111
, Easting: 315013, Northing: 207403
Prominence: 110m
, Isolation: 2.1km
, GPS IDs, 6 char: Lugala, 10 char: Luggala
Bedrock type: Granite with microcline phenocrysts, (Type 2p microcline porphyritic)
Also known as Fancy, from Ir. Fuinnse [PNCW], 'ash-tree', and Cloghoge. Price's interpretation of this name as Log an Lágh, 'hollow of the hill', is doubtful. There is no evidence in dictionaries for the existence of a word lágh with this meaning. The second element does not appear to be lá, 'day', either. Luggala is the 301st highest place in Ireland.
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Picture from group : The delight of many a tourist
The delight of many a tourist
Dramatic cliffs, dramatic views
Short Summary created by simon3, wicklore 5 Apr 2013
Luggala is one of the more well known mountains in Wicklow. This is because it has dramatic cliffs plunging to Lough Tay, visible from the R759 which connects east and west Wicklow via the sally Gap. Luggala, its cliffs and Lough Tay probably feature in more tourist photos than most other views in Ireland.
There are a number of parking spots along the R759 such as at
. Head NW along the road and strike out across the bog in the region of
for a gradual climb across bog.
Another approach, from the west, would be to park at
and head 1.5kms SE across bog to the summit. Cars at this parking spot may be more vulnerable to break in – the other parking spots above Lough Tay usually have more tourists around and may be less vulnerable.
To complete the walk it's possible to descend to the Cloghoge River valley (e.g
). A road leads out of the valley to the 'Pier Gates' which are near the various parking spots above Lough Tay. There is public access to this valley, although locals will severely challenge any owners of loose dogs.
The summit area of Luggala has been quite eroded due to its popularity. It has great views of surrounding hills and mountains such as Djouce, Ballinafunshoge Hill, Knocknacloghoge and Loughs Tay & Dan. Lough Tay resembles a pint of Guinness with its white beach and dark brooding waters. It would be easy to drop off the sharp cliffs just metres from the summit. Take care.
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Picture from kernowclimber : Cliffs of Lough Tay
Cliffs of Lough Tay
A long, sublime approach route
31 Aug 2010
Appreciating mountains isn't always about standing on their summits. Sometimes it is just as uplifting to traverse their hidden glens, to follow the course of babbling brooks that meander through woods, lush meadows and bogs into loughs hemmed in by jagged cliffs; to quietly wander in their shadows savouring the chance encounter with wildlife. A truly sublime landscape experience can be had by parking at Old Bridge (
) and following the paved road NW towards Lough Dan. A green sign marks the start of a trail leading to Kanturk via a wooden gate. This rocky path weaves its way above the lough through dense bracken slopes passing rowan trees dripping with scarlet berries. Past another gate the track runs steeply downhill to the valley floor. At the bottom is a copse of trees where the wind sighs heavily in the boughs spread out over the shattered shells of stone cottages, a serene but lonely place.
Beyond, the Inchavore River snakes its way past grassy meadows to deposit a perfect crescent of sand on the lough's north shore (
). A rough track leads towards this golden sandy beach shaded by oak trees; a small boat bobbing about on the shoreline made it feel like a tropical island. The warm sunlight dancing on the deep blue surface of the lake and the mesmeric lapping of tiny waves on the shore made it hard to leave this little piece of paradise in Wicklow.
We doubled back across the meadows to cross the Inchavore River via some stones at
and then traversed the north shore of the lough enjoying entrancing views of the river and tree shaded beach beyond. The path weaves through bracken and some gorse between giant granite boulders flung down the slopes of Knocknacloghoge above and is boggy in places. It then swings NE up the Cloghoge Valley past a deserted whitewashed cottage partially shaded by a Tolkienesque sycamore just above the Cloghoge River. Running between rustic dry stone walls, an old cart track then traverses the edge of a sweeping expanse of meadow fringed by broad leaf trees, above which tower the slopes of Sleamaine bedecked in vibrant purple heather. Against this idyllic backdrop were herds of grazing deer.
Past the bridge crossing the Cloghoge Brook, a footpath on the left leads up the steep lower slopes of Luggala. Fine views now ravish the eye: the Cloghoge Valley, Lough Dan beyond and below, the circular deep blue Lough Tay steadily creeping into view in its heathery amphitheatre with precipitous granite cliffs. There is no cairn on Luggala, but an impressive expanse of heath undulates towards the distinctive peaks of Djouce, Kippure, Mullaghcleevaun and Tonelagee. We then bore NW descending gently over periodically boggy ground towards the R115 where we had parked a second car in a layby (
). Although we only climbed one summit, this memorable 13.5 km 6 hour walk took us through mountain scenery that would utterly enrapture a poet.
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simon3 on Luggala, 2003
3 Jan 2003
Luggala (aka Luggelaw or hollow of the hill in PW Joyce) is a granite and quartzite scarp, a cliffy side of which drops into Lough Tay, while the western side slopes north eastwards towards the Military Road. Luggala's summit has suffered in recent years from considerable walker erosion. The photo, taken in 1998, shows Luggala from the east, with Lough Tay to the left.
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Picture from wicklore : Lough Tay and Luggala
Lough Tay and Luggala
Cliffs plunge to a brooding lake
23 Jul 2014
I was surprised to discover that this particular wide view of Luggala (Fancy Mountain) taken from the north has not been added here before. It includes the famous "Guinness Lake" (Lough Tay) which resembles a dark pint with a creamy head to some. The photo was taken from the R759 road that links the Sally Gap and the R755 road to Roundwood and Glendalough. Several small gravel car parks are carved out along this sometimes narrow and winding road. The feeling of a sheer drop down to the lake below just over the little stone wall adds a thrill for those motorists unfamiliar with the road.
The view is looking south over Lough Tay with Luggala and its cliffs to the right with Scarr Mountain rising to its apex in the background. At other points on this road the flat top of the artificial lake on Turlough Hill (Toomaneena), Lugnaquillia, and a host of other Wicklow hills can be seen. The carparks along this road give access to the Wicklow Way which passes through this area, as well as providing an opportunity for a loop walk taking in Luggala, Knocknacloghoge, Lough Tay and various other permutations. Beware that the residents of the valley around Lough Tay do not allow dogs off the leash and can be very strict about this. Also be aware that thieves also know it is a popular area and break-ins of cars are not unknown.
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Picture from murphysw : Lough Tay from Luggala
Lough Tay from Luggala
murphysw on Luggala, 2005
21 Mar 2005
Definitely a lot of walker erosion on Luggala, espeicially at the top of the cliff where a myriad of little paths have been created. This is in addition to the mucky path which leads up the mountain from the carpark at
. But what views! From every angle, the views over Lough Tay and Luggala Lodge with Djouce towering behind, just take the breath away. The summit itself is fairly ordinary - no cairns or anything, but there is the butt of a signpost. Wonder what that said in its heyday.
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Picture from CaptainVertigo : Living at the edge. Navan Hill Walkers on Luggala 3.4.05
Living at the edge. Navan Hill Walkers on Luggala 3.4.05
CaptainVertigo on Luggala, 2005
6 Apr 2005
Worried about GLOBAL WARMING? Scary isn't it? Violent storms. Melting ice caps. Killer sharks swimming up your toilet to nibble your re-marriage prospects. Ouch!! Such were the thoughts that occupied the fragile mind of Captain Vertigo last Saturday night during the long hours of darkness prior to the attack on Luggala. ( At this point I wish to state clearly that the Captain does not recognise the expression "Fancy Mountain". There is something effete, jejune, self-indulgent and decadent about this casual designation. There's something …French about it. Too close to "Fancy Woman". "Well fanceeee that!" How apt the rubric "Luggala". Like an Irish cop in New York: Lugs O'Law. The deformed ears of a tight head prop come to mind. How manly and vigorous !) In any event, the NAVAN HILLWALKERS eschewed a frontal advance on Luggala. That'd 've been too easy! Nope! General Hudson had issued orders from his sick bed that we advance from the rear . Thus it was, ably led by the General's batman, Sergeant-Major Michael Spillane, that we crept up the long and winding staircase to the top of the Djouce, before moving on to the summit of War Hill from where we did a "recci". There the Captain spotted a little heap of malodorous black balls and concluded sheepishly that they were the manifestation of an unseen enema. Clearly, caution was called for. But the traverse from War Hill to the northern slopes of Luggala took place in gorgeous sunshine. Oh blessed Global Warming! The Mother of all Fine Days! May your Ozone Layer be depleted by the methane gases of a thousand baked bean eating Boy Scouts! Shine on ! Shine your ultra violet light on the bracken hairy hills of Wicklow. Rid the land of that evil stubble! Continue to give us Summer days in early April!! We grazed contently on double rations by a babbling brook . Sergeant-Major Spillane, encouraged by the sunshine, marched us, single file, in double quick time, up Luggala, till we reached the rim. There we once again stood silently and pondered the work of the Unseen Hand . The Captain, not for the first time enraptured, had to be restrained from diving into the dark waters below. "Not on my watch lad!" muttered the Sergeant Major. The tranquil moment shattered, the platoon moved on. During the descent the Captain implored a passing nurse (sadly not attired in full white Nightengale regalia) to perform an emergency hip replacement for him. She demurred. The sight of the Captain dragging his lifeless limbs up the fierce hill to the car park cheered the hearts of the Company. Great praise was heaped on Gen.Hudson for having the foresight to leave the best wine till last –a true walking challenge in the sweltering heat!
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This chapter provides information that you must know before installing your Oracle software:
This chapter contains the following sections:
Section 1.2, "Oracle Enterprise Repository Sizing Guidelines"
Section 1.8, "Running the Oracle Enterprise Repository Product Installation"
The installation program provides a complete framework for the installation and uninstallation of your entire Oracle software product, or individual components, as desired. You can install Oracle Enterprise Repository using the default option, which enables you to install Oracle Enterprise Repository and its examples.
The following sections provide an overview about:
You can use the Oracle Products installation program in one of the following modes:
Graphical-mode installation is an interactive, GUI-based method for installing your software. It can be run on both Windows and UNIX systems. For installation procedures, see Section 2.2.1, "Running the Installation Program in Graphical Mode".
If you want to run graphical-mode installation, the console attached to the computer on which you are installing the software must support a Java-based GUI. All consoles for Windows systems support Java-based GUIs, but not all consoles for UNIX systems do.
Note:If you attempt to start the installation program in graphical mode on a system that cannot support a graphical display, the installation program automatically starts console-mode installation.
Console-mode installation is an interactive, text-based method for installing your software from the command line, on either a UNIX system or a Windows system. For instructions for using this method, see Section 2.2.2, "Running the Installation Program in Console Mode".
Silent-mode installation is a noninteractive method of installing your software that requires the use of an XML properties file for selecting installation options. You can run silent-mode installation in either of two ways: as part of a script or from the command line. Silent-mode installation is a way of setting installation configurations only once and then using those configurations to duplicate the installation on many computers. For information on running the installation program in the silent mode, see Section 2.2.3, "Running the Installation Program in Silent Mode".
This section describes the Oracle Enterprise Repository sizing guidelines:
Oracle Enterprise Repository offers greatest capacity on a 64-bit architecture. Oracle Enterprise Repository is essentially a single java process. With a 32 -bit architecture any process is limited to 4GB (a little less on Windows), regardless of how much memory is in the system. With a 64-bit architecture the processes are limited to the amount of memory in the system and the JDK is more tunable. This enables you to make much larger amounts of memory available to the application server, which includes the cache that the assets load into.
Treat virtualized environments just like actual hardware when sizing your environment.
Minimum Configuration
32 -bit architecture
Application Server
Supported Platforms
For the list of Oracle Enterprise Repository supported platforms, see http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/soa/repository/index.html.
Minimum 2GB RAM available for application server usage (dependent on the number of assets expected within the Oracle Enterprise Repository). Creating large numbers of assets and complex taxonomies consumes memory.
Initial RAM size for application server: 1GB
Initial Disk Space usage for application server: 2GB (Including Eclipse)
Minimum CPU Speeds: 1.8Ghz (Recommended 2.4Ghz Dual Core processors)
Minimum Network Speeds connecting Application Server and Database Server: 100Mbit (Recommended 1Gbit)
Large Configuration
64-bit architecture
Multiple CPU cluster
Isolated development and test environments
Typical Database Configuration
Using Oracle 11g
20MB for Data (including blob data)
20MB for Index
Rule of thumb on DB drive size is 10 X physical table and index size for 100K tables and index at 1.1GB so figure 10 or 11 GB for DB drive space. This varies based on how the DBAs have configured the drives.
A properly configured database server has enough drives to optimize disk usage. Oracle's performance testing database server for Oracle Enterprise Repository has 6 drives.
Note:Oracle Enterprise Repository has not been tested with HA databases.
The Oracle Enterprise Repository design is one of the most important performance components and the following can impact performance:
Number of assets (Oracle Enterprise Repository is easily capable of storing hundreds of thousands of assets. There are however some limitations with the GUI.)
Number of asset types
Nested taxonomies (Complexity of the taxonomy can have a huge impact on performance, not to mention decrease the usability for asset consumers)
Number of relationships
Number of active users
Using the Oracle Products installation program, you can install the following components on your system:
For additional information about:
The features and capabilities of Oracle Enterprise Repository, see Section 1.3.1, "Oracle Enterprise Repository".
Operating systems and hardware supported by your software, see Oracle Products Supported Configurations.
Oracle Enterprise Repository manages the metadata for any type of software asset, from business processes and Web services to patterns, frameworks, applications, and components. It maps the relationships and interdependencies that connect those assets to improve impact analysis, promote and optimize their reuse, and measure their impact on the bottom line.
Oracle Enterprise Repository consists of the following subcomponents that can be installed on your system:
Core Repository with Examples: Installs everything necessary for Oracle Enterprise Repository. The evaluation customers should choose just this option.
Oracle Enterprise Repository Plug-in for Eclipse: This plug-in allows access to the repository from Eclipse. The Repository Access View supports browsing, searching, and retrieval of assets from Oracle Enterprise Repository.
Oracle Enterprise Repository Plug-ins
The Oracle Enterprise Repository Plug-in depends upon the OEPE plug-in for Eclipse. The OEPE Plug-in depends on the Eclipse WST project, therefore making WST a transitive dependency for Oracle Enterprise Repository. You can retrieve the WST project from the following location:
The following list describes the plug-ins available in Oracle Enterprise Repository:
Development Environments (IDEs)
Oracle JDeveloper
Service Registry
Oracle Service Registry
UDDI v3.0
Version Control Systems
Clear Case
Workflow Engine
Oracle BPM
Harvester Plug-ins for
Oracle Enterprise Manager Management Pack Plus for SOA
Defect Tracking Systems
Your Oracle software is distributed on the Oracle Web site.
You can download your software from the Oracle Web site at http://www.oracle.com/technologies/soa/enterprise-repository.html.
In the Downloads panel, click Oracle Enterprise Repository to go to the Oracle Enterprise Repository Downloads page. From the list of operating systems, choose the appropriate operating system to download the installer to your local computer.
Note:You must accept the license agreement, before you download the installer.
The following sections specify the installation prerequisites:
Note:For more information about the Oracle Enterprise Repository sizing guidelines, see Section 1.2, "Oracle Enterprise Repository Sizing Guidelines".
The system requirements for your installation are given in the following table.
Platform configuration
A supported configuration of hardware, operating system, application server, JDK, and database is required. See Oracle Products Supported Configurations.
The Supported Configurations documentation specifies other prerequisites and recommendations, such as recommended versions of the JDK.
2-GHz CPU recommended
Hard Disk Drive
A complete installation requires approximately 1.2 GB of disk space.
A minimum of 2 GB RAM
Character Encoding
UTF-8/Unicode character encoding must be configured for your supported database and application server.
Color bit depth display and size
For graphical user interface (GUI) mode installation, 8-bit color depth (256 colors) is required.
For console-mode and silent-mode installation, there is no color bit depth requirement.
The Oracle Enterprise Repository installation program requires a Java run-time environment (JRE) to run.
To run the .jar installation programs, you must have the appropriate version of the JDK installed on your system, and include the bin directory of the JDK at the beginning of the PATH variable definition. It is important that you use a JDK because the installation process assigns values to JAVA_HOME and related variables to point to the JDK directory.
The Oracle Enterprise Repository installation program requires the location of supported JDBC driver file(s) to communicate with a supported database server.
Ensure that the JDBC driver file(s) are compatible with your application server's JDK/JRE version, before proceeding with the Oracle Enterprise Repository installation.
When using the IBM WebSphere application server, the bundled JDK/JRE does not support JDBC drivers that are compiled using a newer JDK. For example, the Oracle 11g JDBC driver, ojdbc6.jar, does not function within a WebSphere 18.104.22.168 installation, however, the ojdbc5.jar driver would be appropriate.
The Oracle installation program uses a temporary directory into which it extracts the files necessary to install the software on the target system. During the installation process, your temporary directory must contain sufficient space to accommodate the compressed Java run-time environment (JRE) bundled with the installation program and an uncompressed copy of the JRE that is expanded into the temporary directory. The extracted files are deleted from the temporary directory after the installation process. As a general rule, installation programs require approximately 2.5 times the amount of temporary space that is ultimately required by the installed files.
By default, the installation program uses the following temporary directories:
Windows platforms: directory referenced by the TMP system variable
UNIX platforms: system-dependent temporary directory
Note:If you do not have enough temporary space to run the installation program, you are prompted to specify an alternate directory or exit the installation program.
To ensure that you have adequate temporary space, you may want to allocate an alternate directory for this purpose. To do so, follow the instructions provided in the following table.
|To allocate more space in the temp folder
|Do one of the following:
|Enter the following option on the command line when you start the installation program:
The database administrator must create an empty database for Oracle Enterprise Repository to install its files into. A user for this database must also be created (for example,
OER_USER) and that user must have database owner privileges on the Oracle Enterprise Repository database.
This section contains the following topics:
Section 1.6.2, "Oracle Real Application Clusters Database Installation"
Appropriate administrative privileges are necessary to complete this process. This section contains the following topics:
Connect to the database as a DBA.
From a SQL Plus command prompt, run: select * from nls_database_parameters where
The output has two columns, Parameter and Value. The most common Values are:
UTF-8 Encoding: AL32UTF8 (International support)
ISO-8859-1 Encoding: WE8ISO8859P1 (U.S. English Encoding)
You must verify the following database prerequisites before beginning the Oracle Enterprise Repository installation process.
A login with database administrator privileges
The name of the supported JDBC driver for Oracle: You could use either ojdbc5.jar or ojdbc6.jar depending on the JDK used by your application server. The supported Oracle Database versions are - 10.2.0.4.0, 22.214.171.124.0, and 11.2.
For supported Oracle Enterprise Repository JDBC Drivers, see Table 2-1, "Oracle Enterprise Repository 11g Supported JDBC Driver Information".
Note:The Oracle Database driver that you use should be based on your application servers JDK.
JDK 1.5.x or higher on the current workstation/server
SQL *Plus Client tools
Follow these steps to create the necessary tablespaces before installing Oracle Enterprise Repository:
Log in to Oracle (system or DBA privileges are required).
Create a data tablespace named
OER_DATA with at least 300M of available space.
Create an index tablespace named
OER_INDEX with at least 300M of available space.
Example Tablespace Creation Script
The following example scripts show how to create the
OER_DATA and
OER_INDEX tablespaces.
Note:These scripts are for a UNIX/Linux based DataFile. For Windows, a file path value of c:\oracle\...\file.dbf is appropriate syntax.
CREATE TABLESPACE OER_DATA DATAFILE '/opt/oracle/oradata/oer/oer_data.dbf' SIZE 300M AUTOEXTEND ON NEXT 10240K MAXSIZE UNLIMITED EXTENT MANAGEMENT LOCAL AUTOALLOCATE LOGGING ONLINE SEGMENT SPACE MANAGEMENT AUTO; CREATE TABLESPACE OER_LOB DATAFILE '/opt/oracle/oradata/oer/oer_lob.dbf' SIZE 300M AUTOEXTEND ON NEXT 10240K MAXSIZE UNLIMITED EXTENT MANAGEMENT LOCAL AUTOALLOCATE LOGGING ONLINE SEGMENT SPACE MANAGEMENT AUTO;
CREATE TABLESPACE OER_INDEX DATAFILE '/opt/oracle/oradata/oer/oer_index.dbf' SIZE 300M AUTOEXTEND ON NEXT 5120K MAXSIZE UNLIMITED EXTENT MANAGEMENT LOCAL AUTOALLOCATE LOGGING ONLINE SEGMENT SPACE MANAGEMENT AUTO;
Follow these steps to create the necessary database user before installing Oracle Enterprise Repository:
Log in to Oracle (administrative privileges required).
Create a user and password.
Ensure that the user has the following privileges:
Privilege to create sessions
Ability to create tables
Default tablespace is
Assigned quota of 300M for
Assigned quota of 300M for
Assigned quota of 300M for
The following example script show how to create a user for newly created Oracle Enterprise Repository Tablespaces.
The Oracle Enterprise Repository 11g Release 1 (22.214.171.124.0) Installer does not support the installation into Oracle Real Application Cluster (Oracle RAC) environments, but supports Oracle RAC postinstall configurations. The Oracle Enterprise Repository installer requires a standard SID to connect and create relations, and also to insert the sample data for use with the initial installation of Oracle Enterprise Repository.
The Oracle Database administrators should assist in the database configuration of Oracle Enterprise Repository when the migration from SID to an Oracle RAC environment is required. Once the Oracle RAC environment is configured and verified by the Oracle Database administrator, then the database.properties file in the Oracle Enterprise Repository application contains the appropriate values for the db.url property, as mentioned in the following example:
db.url=jdbc:oracle:thin:@(DESCRIPTION = (load_balance = true) (failover =true) (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = db_host1)(PORT = 1521)) (ADDRESS =(PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = db_host2)(PORT = 1521)) (CONNECT_DATA = (SERVICE_NAME = siprc)(failover_mode = (type = session) (method = basic) (retries = 0) (delay = 0))))
Appropriate administrative privileges are necessary to complete this process. These instructions assume the use of Enterprise Manager. This section contains the following topics:
SQL Server is automatically configured to support UTF-8/Unicode character encoding. No additional configuration is necessary.
You must verify the following database prerequisites before beginning the Oracle Enterprise Repository installation process.
A login with database administrator privileges (Usually the SA account).
The name of the supported JDBC driver for SQL Server 2008: sqljdbc.jar (driver version 1.1.1501.101)
Follow these steps to create the necessary database before installing Oracle Enterprise Repository:
Open the SQL Server 2008 Management Studio.
Right-click the Databases folder and select New Database.
In the New Database window, enter Oracle Enterprise Repository as the database name.
In the Database files section, change the Logical Name of Oracle Enterprise Repository to
OER_USER as the database owner (or choose a Windows login account as appropriate for your security policy).
Click Add to create a Filegroup, as follows:
In Logical Name, enter
Click the Filegroup cell and select
<new filegroup>.
On the New Filegroup for Oracle Enterprise Repository page, enter
INDEX for the name.
Click OK.
Click OK again to create the database.
Follow these steps to create the necessary user before installing Oracle Enterprise Repository:
Note:This step is only necessary if you are using SQL Server Authentication for the Oracle Enterprise Repository application installation.
Open the SQL Server 2008 Management Studio.
Expand the Server tree to open the Security folder.
Right-click Logins and select New Login.
OER_USER as the Login name (or choose a Windows login account as appropriate for your security policy).
Select SQL Server Authentication.
Enter a password that meets your password policy into the Password and Confirm password fields.
Change the default database to Oracle Enterprise Repository.
Select a page list, select User Mappings, and then in the Map column select the Oracle Enterprise Repository database option.
Grant database roles for public and db_owner.
Click OK to create the user account.
Appropriate administrative privileges are necessary to complete this process. This section contains the following topics:
Connect to the database as a DBA.
From a DB2 shell command prompt, run the following:
get db cfg
The output should include the line Database code
set = UTF-8. If this line does not appear, it is necessary to create a UTF-8 database.
You must ensure a successful login to the database using the administrator privileges, before beginning the Oracle Enterprise Repository installation process.
To create the required database before installing Oracle Enterprise Repository, perform the following steps:
Open the DB2 Command Editor.
db2 -tv to start the DB2 shell command prompt with semicolon command termination.
Create a database named OER that includes bufferpools and tablespaces.
Name the bufferpools as: OER32kDataBP, OER32kIndxBP, OER32kBlobBP, and OER32kTempBP.
Create three large tablespaces named: OERDataTS, OERIndxTS, and OERLobTS with at least 300M of available space.
Create one temporary tablespace named: OERTempTS with at least 100M of available space.
Note:The tablespace names OERDataTS, OERIndxTS, and OERLobTS are necessary for the Oracle Enterprise Repository installation process.
Example 1-1 Example Database Create Script
CREATE DATABASE OER USING CODESET UTF-8 TERRITORY US; -- Connect to the OER database -- Replace <user> and <password> with the user who would own the OER schema. CONNECT TO OER USER <user> USING <password>; -- Create the OER 32K Buffer Pools CREATE BUFFERPOOL OER32KDATAbp SIZE 1000 PAGESIZE 32K; CREATE BUFFERPOOL OER32KINDXbp SIZE 1000 PAGESIZE 32K; CREATE BUFFERPOOL OER32KBLOBbp SIZE 1000 PAGESIZE 32K; CREATE BUFFERPOOL OER32KTEMPbp SIZE 1000 PAGESIZE 32K; CONNECT RESET; -- Same <user> and <password> replacements as before are required. CONNECT TO OER USER <user> USING <password>; CREATE LARGE TABLESPACE oerdatats PAGESIZE 32 K MANAGED BY DATABASE USING(file '/opt/IBM/DB2/data/oerdatats.dat' 300M) extentsize 512k BUFFERPOOL OER32KDATAbp; CREATE LARGE TABLESPACE oerindxts PAGESIZE 32 K MANAGED BY DATABASE USING(file '/opt/IBM/DB2/data/oerindxts.dat' 300M) extentsize 512k BUFFERPOOL OER32KINDXbp; CREATE LARGE TABLESPACE oerlobts PAGESIZE 32 K MANAGED BY DATABASE USING(file '/opt/IBM/DB2/data/oerlobts.dat' 300M) extentsize 512k BUFFERPOOL OER32kBLOBbp; -- Create the OER Temp Tablespace CREATE TEMPORARY TABLESPACE oertempts PAGESIZE 32 K MANAGED BY DATABASE USING(file '/opt/IBM/DB2/data/oertempts.dat' 128M) BUFFERPOOL OER32KTEMPbp;
To configure the tuning parameters, perform the following steps in the Configuration Advisor Wizard:
In the DB2 Control Center, click Tools, Wizards, and then select Configuration Advisor. The Configuration Advisor Wizard - Introduction page is displayed.
Select the new Oracle Enterprise Repository database, and click Next. The Configuration Advisor Wizard - Server page is displayed.
Select a percentage of memory to allocate to the Oracle Enterprise Repository database in DB2, and then click Next. The Configuration Advisor Wizard - Workload page is displayed.
Select the Mixed option in the Optimize for Workload Type list, and then click Next. The Configuration Advisor Wizard - Transactions page is displayed.
Select the More than 10(long transactions) option in the Average Number of SQL Statements Per Unit of Work list. Take the default number of transactions per minute.
Click Next. The Configuration Advisor Wizard - Priority page is displayed.
Select a database administration priority. The default option is Both.
Click Next. The Configuration Advisor Wizard - Populated page is displayed.
Select No, as the database is not yet populated with data. Then, click Next. The Configuration Advisor Wizard - Connections page is displayed.
Note:On all future visits to this wizard for the Oracle Enterprise Repository database, select the answer as "Yes".
Select 0 local and 25 remote as the average number of connected applications, and then click Next. The Configuration Advisor Wizard - Isolation page is displayed.
Select the Cursor Stability (many locks of short duration) option, and then click Next. The Configuration Advisor Wizard - Results page is displayed.
Accept the suggested modifications, and click Finish to apply changes to your database.
Note:Since many tuning parameters are data dependent, this Wizard can be re-run following the load of significant amounts of data, or after a designated period, for example, monthly or quarterly.
During the installation process, you must specify locations for the following directories:
During the installation of the Oracle software, you are prompted to specify an Oracle home directory. This directory serves as a repository for common files that are used by various Oracle products installed on the same computer. For this reason, the Oracle home directory can be considered a central support directory for all the Oracle products installed on your system.
The files in the Oracle home directory are essential to ensuring that Oracle software operates correctly on your system. These files:
Facilitate checking of cross-product dependencies during installation
Facilitate Service Pack installation
The default Oracle home directory where these files are installed is:
All files related to the application installation are found under this Oracle home directory. In the case of a WebLogic Server installation, the application domain template file is found in the $ORACLE_HOME/wl_server11.x/templates/applications directory.
On some UNIX platforms, the installation program does not install the JDK. During installation of your Oracle software, you are prompted to choose an existing Oracle home directory or specify a path to create a Oracle home directory. If you choose to create a directory, the installation program automatically creates it for you.
Oracle recommends that you do not exceed a maximum of 12 characters when naming your Oracle home directory. If the name of this directory has more than 12 characters, or if there are spaces in the directory name, the
CLASSPATH may not be resolved properly. You can install only one instance of each version of an Oracle product in a single Oracle home directory.
If the Oracle home directory is populated and it does not contain
registry.xml, or if any of the other installation directories are not empty, the following messages are displayed. You are then prompted to continue installation, or return to the directory selection task with the one of the error message as shown in Listing 2-1:
For Oracle home directory selection task: Oracle_HOME directory is not empty. Proceed with installation?
For product installation directories selection task:One or more installation directories are not empty. Proceed with installation?
The product maintenance level of the current installer must be compatible with the maintenance level of the product already installed. If not, an error message is displayed and you must obtain the compatible installer or perform maintenance to achieve compatibility.
The product installation directory contains all the software components that you choose to install on your system, including program files and examples. You are prompted during your initial installation to choose a product installation directory. If you accept the default on a Windows system, for example, your software is installed in the following directory:
ORACLE_HOME is the Oracle home directory and
repositoryXXX is the product installation directory for the Oracle Enterprise Repository software. However, you can specify any name and location on your system for your product installation directory; you need not name the directory
repositoryXXX or create it under the Oracle home directory.
This section describes the steps to run the Oracle Enterprise Repository product installation:
If you are planning to use a Generic Application Server (Tomcat, JBoss, Jetty.), then a supported JDK is required to be installed before the installation of Oracle Enterprise Repository.
Use of the JDK that is installed with WebSphere or WebLogic Server as your
JAVA_HOME environment variable and the JAVA_HOME/bin directory being prepended to your PATH environment variable.
Run the following command-line option to start the Oracle Enterprise Repository installer:
java -jar OER1111xx_generic.jar
If you launch the installation from the command line or from a script, you can specify the
-log option to generate a verbose installation log. The installation log stores messages about events that occur during the installation process, including informational, warning, error, and irrecoverable messages. This type of file can be especially useful for silent installations.
Note:You may see some warning messages in the installation log. However, unless a irrecoverable error occurs, the installation program completes the installation successfully. The installation user interface indicates the success or failure of each installation attempt, and the installation log file includes an entry indicating that the installation was successful.
To create a verbose log file during installation, include the -log=full_path_to_log_file option in the command line. For example:
$JAVA_HOME/bin/java -jar OER1111xx_generic.jar -log=c:\logs\OER_install.log
JAVA_HOME represents the path the users java.
The path must specify a file. You cannot create a folder simply by including a name for it in a path name; your path should specify only existing folders. If your path includes a nonexistent folder when you execute the command, the installation program does not create the log file.
Note:For information about upgrading your software, see the Oracle Fusion Middleware Upgrade Guide for Oracle Enterprise Repository.


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Built in 1796 and reportedly home to at least 12 ghosts, The Myrtles Plantation is often considered one of America's most haunted properties. Supposedly, a mirror encases the trapped spirits of former resident Sara Woodruff and her two children, who leave fingerprints on the glass and occasionally appear in the mirror. As one TripAdvisor traveler said, "We heard phantom bootsteps in the gentleman's parlor around 1:30 a.m. and a chair being slid around the floor. I also caught a ghost photo of a man riding a horse around the pond."
7. Stanley Screamer: Stanley Hotel, Estes Park, Colorado - Average nightly rate $160
You aren't likely to find Jack Nicholson or Shelley Duvall at this grand old hotel, but you may see ghosts similar to those featured in "The Shining," the movie that made the Stanley Hotel famous. Built by F.O. Stanley, inventor of the Stanley Steamer, in 1909, the fourth floor, once the servant's quarters, is supposed to be particularly ghost-friendly, as guests have reported hearing children's voices in the hallway, despite none being present. Said one TripAdvisor traveler, "Sure it's haunted, too, but that only gives you a nice story to tell when you get home."
8. Queen of the Dead: Silver Queen Hotel, Virginia City, Nevada - Average nightly rate $85
Located in Virginia City where Mark Twain wrote, "A Ghost Story" for the local newspaper, the Silver Queen Inn, built in 1909, has some of its own eerie tales. Many visitors to the hotel claim to have heard the same dispute between a man and woman, who shout obscenities at each other throughout the night. As one TripAdvisor traveler recounted, "At about 2:15 am, my husband shook me awake 'Listen!' he said, 'Do you hear that?' We heard a couple arguing outside our door. He opened the door slowly, the arguing continued but no one there. A pounding on the door an hour later woke us up. Again, no one there."
9. Egads-den!: Gadsden Hotel, Douglas, Arizona - Average nightly rate $70
Named after the Gadsden Purchase, the Gadsden Hotel, built in 1907, was the lodging of choice for ranchers, cattlemen and miners in the early 1900s. Since 1991, the "Gadsden Ghost," often seen in army-style attire, allegedly stays at the hotel, particularly during Christmas and Lent, with additional appearances throughout the year. As one TripAdvisor traveler said, "We've had ghost experiences every time we've been to the Gadsden Hotel, but it hasn't been anything dreadful, but rather pleasant and entertaining."
10. 835 Reasons to be Afraid: Inn at 835, Springfield, Illinois - Average nightly rate $162
Bell Miller, the former owner of the Inn at 835, built in 1909, was so proud of her dream home that she never left. Apparently, her ghost still enjoys chatting with guests, removing books from the bookshelves and keeping the place pristine by making small repairs around the house. As one TripAdvisor traveler said, "I got into my room and I just had this odd feeling like someone was watching me."
"With many of these historic and charming properties hovering around a century old, they may not be the perfect choice for modern amenities, but are great for a good story and perhaps a fright," said Michele Perry, director of communications for TripAdvisor. "Apparently, these hotels just can't escape their past, or passed guests."
America's Spookiest Hotels
America's Spookiest Hotels


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How to Make Snow Cones With Snow: A Fun Kids Project
Do your kids love eating snow?
Do you want an easy way to turn snow into a delicious winter treat?
Make your own flavored snowballs at home!
Many people think of snow cones or shaved ice as summer fare, but they're even better when you can make them out of real snow in the wintertime.
In this article I'll show you and your kids how to make backyard snow cones, a flavored snowball snack that's totally chillicious.
Why Make Flavored Snowballs?
Snow is fun… and there's so much you can do with it. You can make snow forts, have snowball fights and build snowmen. Snow can also be a unique yummy treat you can make as a family. Besides, why wait until summer to indulge in a delicious, icy delight when it's right outside your door!
If you live in a warm, snow-free climate, don't worry. You can make flavored snowball treats too! Just use crushed ice instead of snow.