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|This overview of one of the larger pits at the Banpo Neolithic site in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province shows several features of the Yangshao culture and architecture.
The Yangshao Culture developed along the Wei River and parts of the Yellow River from 5000 BC to 3000 BC. Neolithic cultures are distinguished by pottery making, group living, and well-formed stone and bone implements. The Yangshao were not alone. Among the many other Neolithic cultures in China at the time were the Xinle (5300-4800) in the northeast, Beixin (5300-4500) and Dawenkou (4300-2600) around the lower Yellow River, Daxi (5000-3300) around the middle Yangtze, and the Dapenkeng and Fuguodun (5000-3000) in the southeast. Each has distinguishing features and similarities. Neolithic cultures were also dotted through Europe, England, Korea, and the Americas. Wanderlust seems to have been built into our make-up. There would have been occasional contact between cultures and between different villages within a culture, but the distances make regular trade and contact unlikely.
The Banpo site lies on the Wei River just on the edge of Xi'an. It was discovered when excavations were begun for a new factory in October 1953 by the Banpo work group. It gets its name from the work group. Once the find was identified, the work group changed occupations and became diggers for the archaeologists. Eventually, the dig was turned over to the Institute for Archeological Research at the Chinese Academy of Science. It became the first large scale dig of post-revolutionary China.
The site is spread over 12.5 to 17.5 acres and includes over 100 houses, pottery kilns, and burial grounds. The site was occupied from around 4800 to about 4000 BC. The early era lasted until around 4300 BC. During the last three hundred years of occupation, the designs of homes changed and tools became more sophisticated.
In the picture above you can see the outlines of a circular house. All early houses were circular and had sunken floors up to a meter deep. The earth from the depression may have been used to fashion the walls. The walls were supported by timber beams and topped with a thatched roof. In some areas of the village there is evidence of multiple layers of foundations, showing successive generations building within the confines of the village.
A couple weeks before I saw the Banpo site for the first time, I was visiting the Natural History Museum of Chicago. They had an exhibition of some early Native American artefacts and had reconstructed a hut that was very similar to that found in Banpo. There was evidence that the Native Americans also dug pits within the house to store food below the insect line, as did the Banpo.
The village was surrounded by a trench, or moat, as a protection against animals and snakes. The loess soil was easy to dig and yet it dried hard as adobe when piled to make walls and to support posts. Firing the clay made it water resistant and durable. Posts were footed on a large rock or stone and then held in place by a mud footing. Walls and floors were of fire baked clay. Some of the houses had multiple rooms built on different levels. The largest had five levels. Houses had covered porches in front of a single door. A nice convenience during a rainy day when you want to take the air as well as a protection from the heat of the sun when you are cleaning vegetables for dinner.
The late Banpo period saw the addition of a few square houses with rounded corners. During the last part of the occupation a large rectangular building was constructed. The roof was supported by 12 posts measuring 5.90 to 8.66 inches thick. The building itself was 41 feet wide and about 65 feet long with three foot thick walls of fire baked clay. It was divided in the middle by an east-west wall and there is some evidence that wooden planks may have served as flooring. The door was on the south side and the building was used for storage and probably gatherings.
Storage of food was accomplished by digging pits down past the insect layer. The pits were wider at the bottom than at the top. American Indians did the same. The Banpo were an agricultural community and grew millet, a grain, in addition to several types of vegetables. Bones of dogs, sheep, and pigs showed they had domesticated some animals. They also hunted and fished for food. They created arrow points, spear points, balls to use in slings, and fishhooks.
They had quite an assortment of stone tools, including axes, scrapers, grinders, adzes, and cutters. A wide range of pointed objects of various materials were used as awls, spears, plows, and needles. Many of their needles were very fine and had a very small eye. What appears to be woven cloth was pressed onto the surface of some pots, although no fabric was recovered at the site.
Over a thousand pieces of pottery were found that were either complete or had minor breakage. The pottery was either tan and rough or smooth and fine. The fine pottery was red and often had very thin delicate walls. Lids on pots were most often of red ware. The shapes varied from large open flat bowls, to pointed amphora, to flat-bottomed ovals, to open pots. Surface decoration included ridges built up with clay, rope indentations, fingernail indentations, and painted designs.
They decorated their pottery with ink drawn designs of fish and people, primarily. The ink was ground on special stones. They wore jewelry made from clam shells and animal teeth. In at least one grave a jade ornament was found. Its placement indicated that it was an earring. That tomb also contained a belt of matched clay disks on the corpse. Ornaments may have been worn as necklaces or sewn to clothing. A lot of time and effort went into boring holes into the shells and teeth.
Much of what we know about the culture comes from the burial sites. The adult cemetery was outside the village confines. Almost all individuals were buried alone, in an east-west orientation with the head pointing west. Most of the graves had five or six covered pottery containers of various foods and implements. The size, number, and shapes of the pottery varies from grave to grave. Millet was first identified in one of these jars. Men and women were buried separately. In the few group graves, the separation by gender was maintained.
Children were buried in a very different manner. They were buried within the village outside the walls of houses. They were placed in special pottery jars that were pierced at the bottom. The pots were often rough, but the lids were fine red ware. The belief system that lay behind the differentiation of a child's death from that of an adult is open to speculation.
Another area of speculation is the fate of the Banpo. Other groups in the area, such as the Qijia culture (2400 BC - 1900 BC) near Lanzhou to the west, made the transition into the early Bronze Age, but the Banpo Village was abandoned around 4000 BC. The large rectangular building had been damaged by flooding, but there is nothing to tell whether that happened before or after the people had moved on to another location.
Last update: March 2010
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Alan Barnes played on Bryan Ferry's As Time Goes By album. he played: Tenor Sax & Clarinet On The Way You Look Tonight, Easy Living, When Somebody Thinks You're Wonderful, Love Me Or Leave Me Alto Sax & Clarinet On Sweet And Lovely, Just One Of Those Things Tenor Sax On Time On My Hands, Tenor Sax & Alto Sax On Lover Come Back To Me
He also performed at some of the live shows for this album 1999-2000.
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1977-80 Alan studied saxophone, woodwinds and arranging at the Leeds College of music.
In 1980 he moved to London, playing with the Midnight Follies Orchestra and the following year was with the Pasadena Roof Orchestra, touring Europe until 1983. In that year he left to join the hard bop band of Tommy Chase where he attracted considerable attention on the UK jazz scene for the first time.
He left Chase in 1986 to co-lead The Jazz Renegades with rock drummer Steve White travelling as far afield as Japan and recording four well received albums. In 1988 Alan was asked to fill the chair recently vacated by Bruce Turner in the Humphrey Lyttleton band where he stayed until 1992. 1987-97 he also found time to lead the Pizza Express Modern Jazz Sextet with Gerard Prescencer and Dave O'Higgins. Since leaving the Lyttleton band, Alan has concentrated on his freelance career.
Alan has enjoyed a prolific career as a sideman, playing and recording for many bands. He broadcast regularly over a ten-year period with the BBC Big Band and Radio Orchestra and has toured and recorded with big band leaders, Dick Walter, Kenny Baker, Bob Wilber, Don Weller, Stan Tracey, Mike Westbrook and John Dankworth. Other bands he has toured and recorded with include the Tina May Trio, Bill LeSage's Genetically Modified Quintet, Spike Robinson's Tenor Madness, Clare Teale, and a sextet with Don Weller playing the music of Cannonball Adderley. Alan has also toured the U.K. with Freddie Hubbard. Alan has long associations with pianist David Newton, going back to their college days, and with blistering be-bop trumpeter Bruce Adams, with whom he has co-led a quintet since the early nineties.
Alan has been featured on many jazz recordings from his first record date as co-leader in 1985 with Tommy Whittle and as leader of his own quartet in 1987 right up to recent record dates with Scott Hamilton, Warren Vache and Harry Allen. He has appeared on the Concord, Fret, Miles Music, Nagel Hayer and Specific labels with various projects.
Alan has recorded a large number of sessions with pianist Brian Lemon on the Zephyr label. Amongst these sessions are duet, quintet, sextet and octet sessions with Warren Vache, Tony Coe, KenPeplowski, Gerrard Prescencer and Mark Nightingale.
Alan has performed as a member of Clark Tracey's 'Tribute to Art Blakey' and was featured on the David Newton/Clark Tracey recording Bootleg Eric. He has also appeared as a session musician on albums by Selina Jones, Bjork, Van Morrison, Bryan Ferry, Clare Teal, Jamie Cullum and Westlife and can also be found on film and television soundtracks including 'Chicago' and jingles such as the Tetley Bitter series of adverts featuring his solo baritone. Alan has appeared regularly as a member of the Laurie Holloway orchestra on television's Michael Parkinson show and Strictly Come Dancing.
In 1999 Alan toured America and Europe with Bryan Ferry's band, returning to the U.S.A. in early 2000 to record and tour for ten weeks with Warren Vache's eleven-piece band- a project for which he had written most of the arrangements. He returned to Kansas City in 2001 to perform as a guest soloist at the Topeka jazz Festival. That November he featured on Baritone and clarinet at the Blue Note Clubs in New York and Tokyo with the Charlie Watts Tentet and followed this with a stay in South Africa as a solo artist.
Over the years Alan has won many British Jazz awards in alto, baritone, clarinet and arranging categories. In 2001 and 2006 Alan received the prestigious BBC Jazz Instrumentalist of the Year award and in November 2003 was made a fellow of the Leeds College of Music
2003 also saw the inception of Alan's own record label Woodville Records.
Compositions and commissions include 'The Sherlock Holmes Suite', two series of jazz songs written with playwright Alan Plater 'Songs for Unsung Heroes' and 'The Seven Ages of Jazz', 'The Mabella Suite', and settings of E.E. Cummings and other poets arranged for Jazz octet. Latest projects include a clarinet led trio with Jim Hart on vibes and Paul Clavis on drums and an all star octet playing the music of Duke Ellington.


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I love books. I am obsessed with Mean Girls. This was a book tag waiting to happen. Whether you are a Book Blogger, or Booktuber I encourage you to do this tag. Let's make it happen, let's make it catch on like Fetch. Oh, wait.
Mean Girls Book Tag
- "It's pronounced like Cady" - Which fictional character's names did you get completely wrong?
- "She doesn't even go here!" - Which character would you like to place in a fictional world from another book or series?
- "On Wednesdays we wear pink!" - Repetition. Repetition. Which book gave you dejavu of another book whilst reading it?
- "You all have got to stop calling each other sluts and whores. It just makes it okay for guys to call you sluts and whores." - Which book gave you the complete opposite of girl power feels?
- "You go Glen Coco!" - Name a character you felt like you wanted to cheer on whilst reading.
- "Get in loser, we're going shopping!" How long do you typically spend at a book shop?
- "It's not my fault you're like in love with me or something!" - Which character would have to get out a restraining order on you, if they were real?
- "I can't help it that I'm popular." - Which overhyped book were you cautious about reading?
- "She's a life ruiner. She ruins peoples lives." - We all love Regina George. Name a villian you just love to hate.
- "I'm not like a regular Mom, I'm a cool Mom." - Your favourite fictional parents.
- "That is so Fetch!" - Which book or series would you love to catch on?
- "How do I even begin to explain Regina George?" - Describe your ideal character to read about.
- "I just have a lot of feelings." - What do you do when a book gives you a bad case of 'the feels'?
- "Nice wig Janice, what's it made of?" "Your Mom's chest hair!" - Which characters one liners would you love to claim for your own?
- "Boo, you whore." - Name a time a characters decision has made you roll your eyes
I hope you enjoyed it! Feel free to leave your links below in the comments if you do this tag on Booktube or your blog! See you later, love ya!


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This week CCS celebrated stories! Numbers and statistics always seem to be woven into the stories I tell about our library. Students learned the winners of the two Vermont kids' choice awards. The Red Clover Award winner is the Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Deywalt; ill. by Oliver Jeffers. Our CCS K-4 voters were so happy with this news! This book won here with 42 votes – a landslide!
4th-8th graders who read enough Dorothy Canfield Fisher Book Award nominees started their day today with a celebration! They got a sneak peek at the titles on next year's list, enjoyed a few breakfast munchies, and were able to "build a bag" with DCF goodies. Congratulations to Schuyler Edgar-Holmes, who read ALL 30 of the titles this school year! And congratulations to the winning book, Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library by Chris Grabenstein. This won 34.6% of our student votes here at CCS!
6th graders began learning about primary sources this week in USkills classes as a way to prompt their thinking and questioning of images & other media. They are currently reading the book Counting on Grace by Elizabeth Winthrop, and will be researching photographs taken by the investigative photographer Lewis W. Hine. The Library of Congress holds 5,309 of his photographs, taken at the turn of the 20th Century. One of these photographs inspired Winthrop to write her story. Students will turn their wonderings and research into writing of their very own during Language Arts classes. The strategy we used to think critically about primary sources is called "See, Think, Wonder". Ask your 6th grader about the strategy! If you're curious about these photographs, you can take a look at our pathfinder.
Finally, I have one last story about numbers. 4th graders are investigating what it means to be a Vermonter. Today, we used Google Forms to create a survey for their families to complete in order to gather data about the qualities they think are most important when defining what being a Vermonter means to them. This data will be analyzed and added to the eBooks they are creating. I can't wait to see the numbers.


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On this day in 1947, the actor Richard Dreyfuss, who will rise to fame in Hollywood in the 1970s with starring roles in such movies as American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and The Goodbye Girl, is born in Brooklyn, New York.
Dreyfuss, who registered as a conscientious objector to the Vietnam War and worked at a hospital instead of joining the military, began his acting career in the 1960s, working in theater and television. His first big movie role was in 1973's American Graffiti, directed by George Lucas (who four years later would have a massive hit with Star Wars). American Graffiti told the story of two young men (Dreyfuss and Ron Howard) who spend a final night cruising around their California town with their buddies before they are both scheduled to leave for college the next morning. In 1974, Dreyfuss played the title role in The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, about a poor Jewish boy growing up in Montreal who becomes obsessed with owning his own land.
In 1975, Dreyfuss co-starred with Roy Scheider and Robert Shaw in the director Steven Spielberg's breakthrough film, Jaws, about a killer shark that terrorizes a beach community. Jaws, in which Dreyfuss played the marine biologist Matt Hooper, was the first movie to gross more than $100 million. Dreyfuss went on to star in Spielberg's next blockbuster, 1977's Close Encounters of the Third Kind, in which he portrayed a man contacted by aliens. That same year, Dreyfuss starred in the director Herbert Ross's The Goodbye Girl, which was based on a Neil Simon screenplay about a struggling actor who unexpectedly ends up sharing an apartment with a woman and her young daughter. The Goodbye Girl was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and Dreyfuss won the Best Actor Oscar.
In the early 1980s, the unconventionally handsome actor's acting career cooled amidst a drug arrest and several box-office disappointments. However, in 1986 he co-starred with Nick Nolte and Bette Midler in the well-received comedy Downand Out in Beverly Hills and in the director Rob Reiner's hit Stand by Me. In 1988, he teamed with Danny DeVito in the writer-director Barry Levinson's Tin Men, about two aluminum-siding salesmen.During the 1990s, Dreyfuss was featured in such movies as Postcards from the Edge (1990), with Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLaine; What About Bob? (1991), with Bill Murray; Another Stakeout (1993), with Emilio Estevez and Rosie O'Donnell; and Mr. Holland's Opus (1995), which earned him a Best Actor Oscar nomination for his performance as a high school music teacher.
In 2001, Dreyfuss played Alexander Haig, the U.S. secretary of state under President Ronald Reagan, in the TV movie The Day Reagan was Shot. Also that year, he starred as a college professor in the TV series The Education of Max Bickford, which was cancelled in 2002. In 2006, he was part of the ensemble cast of Poseidon, a remake of the 1972 disaster movie The Poseidon Adventure. More recently, in 2008, Dreyfuss played Vice President Dick Cheney in writer-director Oliver Stone's W., about President George W. Bush.


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This summer, a lot of celebs took advantage of their downtime to explore braided styles.
Some got their hair braided while going on vacation and others did just for fun.
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Holly Robinson Pete in waist length individuals. Kelly Rowland in box braids.
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Real-time video has taken off. Here are three ways to tap into this emerging channel and its devoted and rapidly expanding audience.
Livestreaming has been around since the early 1990s, but it has exploded in popularity due in large part to significant cultural and historic events highlighting the feature.
"The Ferguson riots were mostly broadcast on UStream," says Andrew Grinaker, content strategy director at the digital agency Possible. "This brought a civil rights movement directly to our cellphones with raw, on-the-ground coverage. It showed people that real-time video could be powerful in telling all sides of a story."
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"The fight was streamed by multiple Periscope users for others to view and avoid the outrageous pay-per-view cost," says Grinaker. "The event drew record downloads and views for Periscope, and brought real-time video to the mainstream."
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- Avoid common mistakes. Failure to share a teaser is the most common mistake PR pros make when first livestreaming, Grinker says. Others include:
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- Capturing content on livestreams that people can already access; and
- Livestreams that are too short (usually less than two minutes). "It takes time for people to notice a livestream, and most people are willing to engage for a minimum of five minutes," Grinaker says.
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As a foreword, it is necessary to say that this post is written by an Indonesian. Thus, the following paragraphs will contain what is most likely relevant only to Indonesians and those who are interested in the south-eastern country's educational system -and, optimistically speaking, those whose countries' scholastic structures are plagued with similar issues. With that out of the way, let us begin a short discussion regarding the assessment of the quality of essays written by Indonesian pupils, from the university-level and so on.
Mainstream Indonesian schools participate in the standardized national exam with the moniker of "UN." Any Indonesian adolescent willing to obtain a degree that is considered acceptable by their country's universities would have to one day take this test -the UN is Indonesia's equivalent of the US's SATs. Though there have been times where the test's aesthetics were slightly altered, they always consist of multiple choice questions. There is a problem with the UN's simplistic attempt of measuring the populace's intelligence however: Students do not have to think critically of their answers, and need only to memorize the materials presented in their nationally-regulated textbooks.
Intelligence should never be considered as a mere storing of oft unhelpful scraps of information. A smart man may be able to comprehend the formulas and theories presented in his physics textbook, but a true intellectual would be able to create new stipulations based on preexisting data. Take for instance Isaac Newton's formation of differential calculus, which is a whole new toolkit for the mathematical field, granting natural philosophers the means to better understand gravity and the motion of objects. What I am trying to say is that the title "smart" should not be given to fact memorizers, rather to those who are able to add into whatever scientific, or non-scientific field the individual is willing to invest in.
At this point, the solution to the UN conundrum seems obvious. There are few more effective ways to glimpse and bring into light the thought process of a person, other than by compelling him to write. Writing is a robust expression of an individual's thoughts, of the ideas that randomly springs about in his mind, and how he conveys these abstractions both to himself and unto others. Academic essays will always be a better alternative, for educating and measuring a person's intellect, to the multiple choice questions currently forced on Indonesian students. Although essays might now seem like a cure-all, there are of course issues about the system that still need to be addressed.
Essays may accurately portray the goings-on of a person's cranium. However, each and everyone of us harbor different talents from our varying genes, and from the environments we are partially molded by. Some could be amazing speakers but horrible writers. Others could perhaps compose paragraphs that when read feel more whimsical than academic. Even with its potential to represent the innermost ideas of a person, the essay fails to be the much needed representation of literary-impaired minds.
Yet what I've laid out above is not the issue with essays. Another problem arises when a person is tasked to judge whether an essay is excellent, abysmal, or mediocre. How does one -and only one- objectively judge the quality of an essay? I personally think that the writings of Marx, Nietzche, and a few other worshipped philosophers are the mumblings of madmen. Yet obviously there are many who would stone me to the point where my pores excrete blood in place of sweat for my heretical thought.
Objectivity is the penultimate reason for debating the integrity of academic papers. For instance, on the comments section of Reddit.com, a commenter once conducted a very easy-to-do experiment. In his high-school days, the Reddit commenter wrote various essays for his unspecified classes. Among the many teachers he wrote for, one stood out in particular due to his compulsion for handing out relatively low scores. The commenter thought that his papers were being marked too harshly, and that he deserved to get better marks for his work. A few years later, during his university days, he turned in one of his high-school papers for a class project. Surprisingly enough, his paper was granted an A-, whereas previously it was only worth a passing C.
Was it the high-school teacher, or was it the university professor who was correct in assessing the quality of the commenter's paper? This is a question with enough implications to warrant a revamping of the judging process of essays.
Each teacher, lecturer, professor, is a human being with his own preferences, opinions, beliefs, and so on. No matter how much a person tries to keep his personal side from interfering with his work, it is an impossibility to detach your humanity from, well, the human that is you. Therefore, even if it is only on a marginal level, your persona and your current state of mind will affect how you perceive the value of the text presented to you; be it your preference for certain ideas, sentence structures, analogies, et cetera. When a man is given the power to place value according to his own whims, objectivity becomes an illusion tailored for the naive. As the Reddit commenter has brilliantly demonstrated, a paper might be a sparkling A to one person, but a whimpering C to another.
How should essays be handled, so that objectivity could be brought closer to reality? An Indonesian campus by the name of Bina Nusantara offers one potential solution: An excellent essay must be worthy enough to be published in a newspaper or a magazine, or popular enough on a student's personal blog to gather a previously agreed upon number of supportive commenters. I find this solution to be quite compelling simply because the judging process is handled by more than just one person. Then again, it is a bit too hopeful to expect about sixty students to all be capable of producing news-worthy material. Again, everybody's writing skills and styles are wildly different.
Perhaps since grades largely affect a student's future career path, -when a person has no previous professional achievement or experience, his GPA and speaking skills are all the weapons he has in a job interview- a more feasible fix is thus in order. Rather than forcing professional-level standards on inexperienced students, an implementation of more than one campus ordered judge should be efficient enough.
Grading essays is clearly a chore. An educator has to spend hours and hours poring through mostly bland pieces of text, whilst very rarely catching sight of a thought-provoking paper. Plus, not everyone has the kind of patience essay-demanding professors do. However, this weight should not dissuade students from demanding more than one person to judge the quality of his work. Educators must, after all, follow the noble goal of encouraging the development of young minds and accurately keeping track of such growth. It is the responsibility of teachers, and the right of students, to demand a fairer system; one where value is placed not by one, single beholder, but by many whose standards of quality are variable enough to induce multiple, and contradictory perspectives. A good or bad grade needs to be based on the consensus of multiple individuals, thereby somewhat diminishing the effects of subjectivity, and creating a more "accurate" measuring setup.
The solution I offer today is not guaranteed to be without holes. There is always room for improvement, and maybe a cleverer person than I could come up with a much more useful answer for the essay conundrum. But I firmly believe that as long as quality is deemed by only one person, the possibility that brilliance could be overlooked, and idiocy worshipped, is far greater than when multiple voices are brought into the fray. A prerequisite for objectivity is the introduction of clashing viewpoints, and that is only possible when we allow more than just one person to have an effective say in things.


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The ultimate upgrade for classic Ford IDI diesels is a Sidewinder turbocharging system. Banks'wastegated Sidewinder turbo unleashes gains of up to +82 hp and +143 lb-ft of torque. you'll hardly recognize Ol'Betsy; With Banks'turbocharging technology onboard, she'll tow up the grade 53% quicker, and provide up to a phenomenal 29% fuel economy improvement at that. And she'll do it without a lick of smoke!
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MyUninstaller is a simple, portable and lightweight alternative to the standard Windows "Uninstall a Program" Control Panel applet.
It provides much more information about the various programs you've installed, everything from their installation folder and source, to the author's web site (if available), various Registry keys related to the installation, and even details on the type of installer your program users (Windows, InstallShield, Nullsoft, whatever it might be).
You have more options available for individual programs, too.
If you spot an entry for an application that you know you've uninstalled, for instance, then it can be deleted in a couple of clicks.
You're also able to open REGEDIT at a particular application's Registry key for further investigations.
And there's the option to produce an HTML report on your installed programs, which could be useful for troubleshooting at a later date, as you'll be able to compare two reports and see what's changed.
Version 1.76 brings:
•Fixed bug: MyUninstaller failed to remember the last size/position of the main window if it was not located in the primary monitor.
It's a little short on features by NirSoft standards, but MyUninstaller is still useful for simple tasks like removing orphaned entries from your Add/Remove Programs list


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Welcome to The Ramblers Den!
This is where I, the eternal procrastinator and rambler, will post the short stories and serials that I will eventually release.
Check out Titans Rising: Hyperion, a completed work based on a Reddit prompt, now released as an eBook and paperback!
Or check out The Last Assassin with magic and sarcasm and assassins, if you're into that sort of thing.
If you've finished Hyperion, you can also check out the sequel, Titans Rising: Northmen that picks up the story!


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Pound for pound, minute for minute, track for track, I think Exile on Main Street is my favorite album of all time. From the opening riff of Rocks Off to the final wails of Soul Survivor it's just packed with energy and terrific songs.
Of course it lacks the polish of a Sgt. Pepper's or the unmitigated excitement that you get when you listen to a 'new' band's debut album ( eg - Arctic Monkeys, etc).
As a kid, I was blown away by Sgt. Pepper's with 'how did they do that?' amazement.
With the Arctic Monkey's debut for instance, the sheer 'how good are these kids? and what will they do next?' excitement was immeasurable.
But this. This is a record by a mature band, recorded in relatively low fidelity that straight out rocks. The happiness with which it appears the band was playing is contagious. This is a monster band playing at the absolute height of their powers, and you can almost sense the fact that the entire extended band was living together and recording this at the oddest of hours. There are a ton of moments left in this album that would have been recut by other bands in persuit absolute perfection. And that's why it works. This record wasn't about the persuing the most immaculate production (ala, say Dark Side of the Moon). The stones were never really about that. This record seems to have been about capturing the essence of these songs with the knowledge that with each incremental take there would be an erosion of energy. Repetition would drain the performances of spontaneity. You leave some of the rough bits in for the greater good - the not quite quantifiable energy and aura.
Back in the day, my roommates and I would sit around listening to CDs and generally being too lazy to get up and switch songs or discs too often. I've never really thought about it too much, but I guess this was either before remote controls were standard, or more likely, because ours was broken. Anyway, this was the CD that beyond all others allowed us to be as lazy as possible. You put this one on, and you were good for at least two hours. That's tough to find in a CD that's not some sort of 20 year retrospective greatest hits nonsense.
It's an original, and there's really nothing else like it that I can immediately think of. This record (to me at least) lives somewhere in between a studio and a live recording. You know it's not a concert recording, but you can imagine everyone in the band playing / clapping etc along together. There's not much studio trickery and everything is infinitely reproducible. To me, this will always be the Stones at their finest.


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So many hotels in Tel Aviv and yet, only one has the best of pools. Say hello to the Hilton Tel Aviv! Located right next to the port of Tel Aviv, the Hilton lets you in their pool for a price of 215 shekel (60$). It is not the cheapest price but definitely worth it if you are planning to stay the entire day.
The Pool
The pool consists of an excellent service with a pool bar and a restaurant where you can have lunch. There is a meat and dairy restaurant, one next to the pool and one upstairs which has the nicest beach view. And because I'm sure you all love to munch on some snacks, Hilton Hotel thought of everything. From ice cream, watermelon and smoothies, you can snack off of anything at the Hilton's pool so don't worry about that!
Once in the water, you will feel refreshed and guess what? Your bathing suit will never get ruined since the pool is based on salt water and not chlorine!
If you are not a pool person, you can always head to the Hilton beach which is right down the hotel. The beach is quiet on certain days but very busy on Saturdays. The restaurant down there is not quite the best so I highly recommend you eating back at the Hilton Hotel.
I went there last week with my family and some friends; we really had the best of times! With the GoPro in hand, I made sure to capture some original shots which I hope you all like! XX
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text: Yosemite--a place we fall in love with over and over again. One recent visit was in January, 2015, to celebrate my 60th birthday. Sadly, we were in the fourth year of a drought and things are very dry. Happily, it was perfect weather for hiking and photographing. We visited again in January 2016--what a difference a year makes. Snow was on the ground and on the mountaintops and the falls were once again flowing. We had a magical couple of days of snowshoeing and photographing. What a glorious place.Read More


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The description tag not only supplies keywords for Google page ranking, but it also catches the interest of the person searching. Make sure every page on your site has a clear, concise, and interesting description that will entice people to click through. You work so hard on making the content worth reading, show it through your description!
Starting a blog for your online business will help you to have discussions with your customers. Readers will be able to comment on your articles. Those who comment on your articles are potential customers. Comments are great, and will help you to be able to discuss things with your customers or potential customers.
Unless you are marketing a well-known national brand, you may only have one chance to convert a site visitor into a paying customer. Check all links on your site to ensure that there are no breaks in navigation or info transmission; this is especially true if you are marketing luxury goods or high-dollar items.
Remember the old adage "Keep it simple, stupid"? That adage is true for your email marketing tactics. Keep your design and layout simple. You don't want a bunch of flash to distract or annoy your readers. You should keep the information simple as well. Don't bury the important facts under a pile of junk.
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Every day, new technologies are appearing, which an internet marketer can take advantage of. Continue to read about new ideas and then, implement them into your marketing strategies and you will find great success in this career. Someone who is always bettering themselves can turn that into bettering their business, too.


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Construction Season in Sioux Falls to Begin Early
If you live in western Sioux Falls those summer orange construction cones will be like Easter eggs coming in April and hanging around until the fall season.
The City of Sioux Falls will have a public meeting for the Ellis Road Reconstruction project on Thursday (March 15) at Prairie West Branch Library, 7630 West 26th Street, Switchgrass Room to discuss the South Ellis Road construction project. City Engineering staff, consulting engineering staff, and a contractor representative will be present to answer questions beginning at 6:00 PM.
South Ellis Road will be reconstructed this year from just north of West 41st Street to south of West 12th Street. The project will be constructed as a full closure to northbound and southbound traffic. Residents living west of Ellis Road will have access maintained at all times. The intersection of 26th Street and Ellis Road will remain open at all times during construction phasing. The other intersections will close and open as construction requires.
If you remember the reconstruction of 41st Street from Sertoma Avenue to the Tea Ellis Road a few years ago then get ready for similar snarls in your daily commute.
The project consists of reconstruction of a two-lane rural section into a four-lane concrete urban section with turning lanes. The intersections at 26th Street and at 32nd Street will have traffic signals.
Work is anticipated to start early April and open to traffic the fall of 2018. Restoration work will be completed in 2019.
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13. Plants vs. Zombies
Released: 2009
Developer: PopCap Games
Publisher: PopCap Games
Quite honestly, any number of PopCap games could have filled this spot. Take your pick -- Bejeweled, Bookworm, Zuma, Bejeweled 2, Chuzzle, Peggle, or (our favorite of the bunch) Plants vs. Zombies. Whatever the case, they all have one thing in common: They made casual gaming cool. And boy, are these games addictive. Yeah, we've been assigning games joke nicknames like EverCrack and World of Warcrack for years... but PopCap's creations are the most ruthless, insidious time-sinks we've ever run across.
To us, the thing that makes Plants vs. Zombies (which started out with the working title Lawn of the Dead) so special is its presentation. At heart, it's a tower-defense game -- you build guns, cannons, and traps to deter hostile invaders from compromising your command center. Only, the invaders are undead, the firepower is an array of plants and saplings, and the battlefield is a suburban yard, all designed with a sort of laser-guided cuteness that makes for one of the most unique art styles ever presented in a video game. The disarming art direction belies the chaos laying just underneath the surface; at its greatest heights, Plants vs Zombies is a cacophony of pea-shooters and kernel-pults, rattling off endless streams of vegetation, dairy products, and thorns at ever-persistent zombies whose invasion tactics continue growing more and more complex. In those later levels, you're spinning innumerable plates, cleaning up messes just long enough to get through that one last wave of zombies before they finally manage to tear everything apart.
And then you do it again. And again. For hours.


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A little girl's Christmas wish is coming true after a letter to Santa soared 684 miles on two little pink balloons, landing on a rural California ranch.
When the girl asked for toys and clothes for Christmas, her mother wasn't sure how the family could afford it. She is out of work and her husband only recently found a job, with a paycheck to cover the overdue electric bills.
The rancher, who recognized the tattered letter written in Spanish as a note to Santa, traveled 50 miles to the nearest shopping mall on one of the busiest days of the holiday shopping season to battle the crowds and find gifts for the little girl. He planned on shipping the presents overnight on Friday hoping to get them to the Washington family by Christmas.
(WATCH the video below, or read the story at KOMO-TV)


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Friday Round-up | Long Island Family Photographer
Spring is here, you guys! The other day we pulled the stroller out of the trunk of my car for the first time in months and I took the kids for a walk - it was SO nice! I also did a bit of snooping in the backyard as the snow has started to melt and I spied a few flowers starting to come up from some bulbs we planted ages ago. Yay!
And now for some links!
Some suggestions on how to boost your milk supply. This week I've been working on mostly night weaning Logan, so I plan on making some lactation cookies to keep my supply in check.
Understanding depth of field.
Tips on freelensing. I want to give this a try!
Some awesome ideas for kids' birthday gifts.
The hardest part is all of it.
I want to start drinking lemon water every morning.
I'm reading Lynsey Addario's book right now. Here she talks about the photos that impacted her the most.
I haven't watched this yet, but I'm excited about it - a webinar about Final Cut Pro for Photographers.
Lots of good tips in this post about how to use an Expodisc to achieve correct white balance.
Tips for documenting family life.
6 tips for storytelling photography.
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Have a great weekend!


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Biographical entry Porges, W.L.
- Occupation
- Veterinary scientist
W. L, Porges was in the Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Sydney in 1965.
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Published resources
Online Resources
- 'Porges, W.L.', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1473695. Details
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Hello David,
Congratulations! Your story 'Avoiding Gagarin' has been accepted for publication …
That makes me a very happy old builder. Second acceptance for the month … year … century … Details to follow …
Hello David,
Congratulations! Your story 'Avoiding Gagarin' has been accepted for publication …
That makes me a very happy old builder. Second acceptance for the month … year … century … Details to follow …
Any one else remember "Urgh! A Music War"?
We're all Devo.
How can you live
with the fact
a child died
for your cartoon pleasure?
You did him no favours
taming him,
accustoming him
to humans.
Oh yes,
he is a friendly ghost,
and you may count that as
an accomplishment,
but what does it mean?
He craves companions,
he desires contact,
he is less without you.
He is your summer novelty,
your holiday hobby.
Better you had perfected
a coin flourish,
or studied German grammar.
Instead you made a freak.
A bird that cannot fly north for the winter,
a dingo habituated to camp garbage cans,
a politician kissing babies in retirement.
The life of the ghost is meant to be harsh.
It is a fierce path, not lightly chosen.
Yet here we have this bobble head,
trapped in his haunt,
unable to seek that which he desires,
waiting like a puppy dog for his victims.
We all avoid the olde manor now,
his tricks have worn thin
and eagerness is uncool.
It is for the best.
The living are butterflies,
colourful, vibrant, but
good for a season at most.
We move away, we die.
What you have made remains,
Are you pleased with yourself?
Mission statements, aspirational goals, EAP, policy compliance. On the one hand, box ticking.
On the other, reality.
It is very hard to suffer from a disease that doesn't officially exist in your country, and is mostly ignored by the medical profession.
Sniff of chlorophyl
whiff of ether
Look down
see fronds part and unfurl
leafy embrace
cool breeze
tugs you in
moss is velvet
you sink the green
plant yourself
lean in and
skin unfurls to mask you
kissing inside and out
you are draped
try to make sense
of distant calls
lose yourself in
the wind blowing
through her branches
are you dead
or are you
loving the alien?
lost on mars
lost on venus
You have your compass
it doesn't lead you home
spoiled forever
for earth girls now
spoiled like meat.
Press up against
foreign atmosphere.
Do you lose yourself
if you love the alien?
RIP Ray Bradbury
new sneakers hitting the pavement
My grandfather sits in the ruin of his house. It is always night when I am here. The sky is my skull, a low dome seen from the inside. His jaw is strong and held hard, grinding the fossils of his teeth. (Even if he still smoked, he could not. His pipe stem could not be forced between those lips. It would be snapped by those teeth. The end of it would stay in that mouth a hundred years, preserved.)
Wind sweeps the ash. I do not feel the cold. I stare at the strength of that head. I remember bending and kissing that head, like a child's, as it lay on a pillow. The man I never kissed, who always shook hands. The skull beneath the skin.
That he came back to sit here, among the ruins. He does not decay, instead the house does. Each time I come, it has deteriorated further, taking his place in the grave. The elements do not bother him. If the wind wears him, if water drips him away, leaching away the minerals of him a drop at a time, perhaps it is for the best. Perhaps it is what he desires. As he weathers, mountains are ground down, oceans rise, seas fall. Forests grow and are consumed. The constellations shift, all sped up for him. He is the Time Traveller, he is Rod Taylor in his chair, encased in stone, then freed again. In my visits, I am a shadow. I am the flickering ghost. It is I who am death, I am mortality. We are worn down around him.
He gulps sometimes. The throat works, the jaw moves and clenches. He is biting deeper, getting a better grip on the world. Once or twice he has looked towards me. I stand close. He does not stop me. I am calm in his presence, calm with the nostalgia of grief. The longing for those other worlds I can never visit. Childhood. The past. The lives of others. The drowsy warmth of everything will be alright. The knowledge of grief to come.
That he has returned, and so far, not the others. Preserved in his pride, his inflexible ideas of proper behaviour. The feuds that burned silently within, in his room as he read, as he listened to talk back radio.
It is monochrome here. It suits the grey hair, slicked back along his scalp.
My aunt, white gowned against the window, arms raised and pressing the glass. Could only I see her? Were the adults pretending it was otherwise? My other grandmother, from the other side of my family, smiling, her lips uncertain, her eyes betraying an unease. She knew. We mourned when my aunt left, why did no one tell me she was back? Kept inside, a secret.
All the dead are kept inside, a secret that no one else wants to know. We are all haunted, and sometimes they stare out from the windows of our eyes. They come back, but they are not the same.
My grandfather sits amongst the exposed beams, the drooping wallpaper having outlasted the plasterboard beneath. He has made himself comfortable in the chair that was thrown away long ago. Its return is as great a miracle as his. He is silent. Why do we protest? Why do we bother to rage? The brave new world was always coming, and there was nothing we could do about it. We shall consume the whole world, we shall eat our young, the forests will die, the skies will burn.
There is no moon, no stars, no electricity, no peasant mob brandishing torches, but I see him clear in this night. I cannot think how I first found him here. I think I just knew. He cannot be in this house. It was sold years ago, and rebuilt, and another family lives here. Still, it is where I found him. Perhaps we are in one of those other twenty four dimensions of folded string. I do not know. I just gaze upon him and sit in his quiet presence.
The dead stare. What vision is imprinted on their eyes? We fear what they have seen.
His wife is not there. Will she come? Nobody told me my grandmother was in hospital. I could not answer the phone. I was freezing in a bath of ice, sitting with a child who refused to be comforted unless someone was in there with him, trying to bring his fever down. Later, when I finally was told, in emergency as she, unconscious, clawed at the air, as though prematurely buried and scraping at the coffin lid, I prayed and prayed into her ear, a hundred Hail Mary's to calm her down, and then those arms rested, they allowed themselves to stop. Thank you God for that.
The dead are all inside. How many skeleton arms drag torsos forward through the mud of my mind, skulls drooping, exposed spines drifting away to nothing? How many more bony arms are yet to come? When shall I join them? What shall I see?
Or will death be banished forever, and we infested us with nanobots that work constantly to keep us fit, keep us happy in our jobs, content in the hell we have made?
These are thoughts I think, when I awake after my visits.
Cancer too is a prize
You don't have to queue at the newsagent's
to buy a ticket.
They slip it in with the teddy bear,
the Beatrix Potter china setting,
the first photograph album,
The final draw may be foreshadowed
in the missed stitch in the booties
grandma made
put aside, only used at your Baptism.
("It was her last pair. Do you think she knew?")
Unlike the contents of your bowels
or your most recent projectile vomit,
it is not discussed in polite company.
It may stick its head around the corner at 3.30am,
pop into Dad's thoughts as he tries to settle you
and sees his own mortality as he pictures his own father
rocking him 30 years ago,
and his grandfather walking the floor twenty years before that.
A link in the chain between first and last
Somewhere between the savanna and the heat death of the universe.
You can buy more tickets later on,
or be the lucky recipient of a random allocation.
Just like a five million dollar lottery.
You say you'll keep working,
but you'll find that you can't.
Your colleagues no longer look at you,
well, not the same way.
Early retirement regardless.
And lots of time to think.
Don't read this blog expecting latest updates on anything or commentary on what is happening now. I've started season 2 of Breaking Bad, I won't get to watch the new seasons of Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead until next year, and I've never seen an advance review copy of a book in my life. I'm behind on everything.
"Guns, Germs and Steel" by Jared Diamond was a very important book for me, and I can even still remember standing in the store and purchasing it 15 years ago. His "The World Until Yesterday" has been out forever, and I finally obtained a copy the other day and look forward to reading it. Rather than make a comment on something I haven't read, I include an off-putting quote from his previous book:
In 1849, hungry gold miners crossing the Nevada desert noticed some glistening balls of a candy-like substance on a cliff, licked or ate the balls, and discovered them to be sweet-tasting, but then they developed nausea. Eventually it was realized that the balls were hardened deposits made by small rodents, called packrats … Not being toilet trained, the rats urinate in their nests, and sugar and other substances crystallize from their urine as it dries out … In effect, the hungry gold miners were eating dried rat urine laced with rat feces and rat garbage.
– Collapse by Jared Diamond
Don't say I'm no hep cat, I'm hip to where the youngsters are at. I keep myself youthful by staying in touch with my inner child and staying alert to the latest jive. Wanna stay young, have to keep with it, dog! Been listening to Katy Perry singing Roar …
(Do you get the feeling that Poe has lost it since he … well, since he died? Sold out perhaps? Have you read "The Bloody Red Baron" by Kim Newman? Poe becomes the biographer of the Red Baron who is indeed bloody.)
(Thanks to Rachel Stanford)
Am I the only person in the world to give up a coffee addiction after watching South Park? Watching Tweek treat his anxiety with coffee I thought, I don't need the jitters or the upset stomach any more. Yet there I was this morning, having my second cappuccino in two days (I think my sixth cup for the year), and I could feel my nervousness rising. It was the combination of the coffee and reading this article by Greg Ray in the Sydney Morning Herald over breakfast. Ivan Macfadyen sailed across the Pacific and compared to an earlier voyage, found a silent wasteland. The fish are gone, and with them, the birds. I closed my eyes and pictured the massive factory boats, the huge industrial centres floating across the seas, destroying everything in their wake like a Fred Saberhagen Berserker or a city block sized Terminator. Out of sight, this gargantuan wasteful destruction going unchecked. I could not finish the article over breakfast, though I have now.
The work of these ships is described clearly in horrifying detail in George Monbiot's "Feral", where he sets out how nothing in the ocean escapes, as the machines even turn over boulders weighing tonnes on the sea floor. Day and night they work, sending us closer to the edge.
I struggle with this. I don't want to turn a blind eye, yet I need to get through the day, and I cannot do that if I despair. How easy an excuse that becomes to turn away. Yet Monbiot, who has seen more of the world's environmental horrors than many people, does not fall into this trap. If this was a proper article, I would give you his quote on why we should not despair, that despite the problems of this age, we have previously unavailable opportunities to act individually and collectively to change the world for the better, though we must have courage. However, I misplaced my note. But what I will give you is the final paragraph in an article he has on his website giving career advice which deserves to be repeated all over:
You know you have only one life. You know it is a precious, extraordinary, unrepeatable thing: the product of billions of years of serendipity and evolution. So why waste it by handing it over to the living dead?
Read "Feral" by George Monbiot


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NYU Langone Medical Center Welcomes Neurologist and Author Oliver Sacks, MD
Dr. Sacks' Move to NYU Langone Made Possible By Generous Gift from The Gatsby Charitable Foundation
NYU Langone Medical Center announced today that Oliver Sacks, MD, neurologist and renowned author, has been appointed clinical professor of neurology. NYU Langone received a generous gift from The Gatsby Charitable Foundation to support Dr. Sacks in this new role.
"We are thrilled to have Dr. Sacks join our world-class team of neurologists," said Robert I. Grossman, MD, dean and CEO at NYU Langone. "From a lifetime of dedicated clinical and literary work, he brings a depth of specialized expertise on neurological syndromes, and we are very excited to welcome him here."
Dr. Sacks has long-standing ties to NYU Langone, where for many years he has collaborated on unusual neurological conditions with his colleague Orrin Devinsky, MD, professor of neurology, neurosurgery and psychiatry, and Director of the NYU Comprehensive Epilepsy Center. Dr. Devinsky is one of the dedicatees of Dr. Sacks's bestselling book Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain.
Dr. Sacks recently completed a five-year residency at Columbia University in New York, NY, where he was professor of neurology and psychiatry. He also held the title of Columbia University Artist, in recognition of his contributions to the arts as well as to medicine.
Dr. Sacks was born in London, England. He earned his medical degree (MD) at the University of Oxford (Queen's College), followed by residencies and fellowships at Mt. Zion Hospital in San Francisco, CA, and at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). He holds honorary degrees from a dozen universities, including Gallaudet University, University of Oxford, and the Karolinska Institute. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and has been a fellow of The New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU for over twenty-five years. In 2008, Queen Elizabeth II named him a Commander of the British Empire.
Dr. Sacks's work has been featured on CBS's "Sixty Minutes," PBS's NOVA and on BBC television, as well as WNYC's Radiolab. He is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books, and is the author of 12 books, mostly neurological case histories, including The Mind's Eye, Musicophilia, Awakenings, and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. The New York Times has referred to Dr. Sacks as "the poet laureate of medicine," and his work has inspired many films and dramatic adaptations, including the Academy Award nominated feature film Awakenings with Robert De Niro and Robin Williams.
In addition to his position at NYU Langone, Dr. Sacks will also serve as a visiting professor at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom.


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I guess it was more fun in 1987
Yes, I did play Leisure Suit Larry (this exact same game) which came on a floppy disc. Back then, this was a big deal. Nostalgia drew me to buying it a second time. Yes, it plays the same, although the graphics have improved. I guess my expectations for games has also improved. Story is just as crude as it was in 1987. To those who want to experience 80's computer gaming, this is an excellent example. Enjoy!


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Elevation Place is Canmore's indoor playground and the hub of the community. Elevation Place offers something for everyone including an aquatics centre, indoor climbing gym, fitness facility, community library, art gallery and community gathering spaces.
Welcome to the ultimate indoor, aquatic playground. Lounge in the lazy river, rip down the water slide or raise your heart rate in the lane pool. If you are in the mood to relax spend some time in the hot tub or the steam room.
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Ken Bensinger of the Los Angeles Times reported that: For GM, pickups and SUVs have been deeply problematic for some time. But by far its worst division has been Hummer. Through April, Hummer was the worst-performing vehicle brand in the country, with sales down 29.6% from a year earlier, putting it below runners-up Mercury, Chrysler and Bentley.
"At this point, we are considering all options for the Hummer brand," Wagoner said. "Everything from a complete revamp of the product lineup to partial or complete sale of the brand."
No possible buyer has been named for the division, which was for a few years -- when gasoline cost less than $3 a gallon -- one of GM's strongest. Last week, GM stock hit a 26-year low, falling to $17.38. At 11:15 this morning [June 3, 2008], the stock was unchanged at $17.43.
This is straight out of necessity because the sales slump that the Hummer brand hit will ultimately strike GM very hard if it continues to worsen. And it came at a highly inopportune time – the release of the 2008 Hummer H2 and the highly-anticipated debut of the 2009 Hummer H3T and the Hummer HX, which was one of the attention-catchers during the 2008 NAIAS. But it's inevitable.
According to a press release on Al Jazeera online, Earlier this year GM reported a $38.7 billion loss for 2007, the largest ever annual loss for an automotive firm, following a slump in the North American market due to US economic turmoil.
It also said it was to offer voluntary redundancy or early retirement options to about 73,000 unionised workers in a bid to cut labour costs.
And in September last year more than 74,000 GM workers went on strike over healthcare costs and job security, returning to work after a deal was struck between the company and the United Auto Workers union.
The four plants to be closed are in Oshawa, Ontario, in Canada; Moraine in the US state of Ohio; Janesville in the US state of Wisconsin and Toluca in Mexico.
An estimated 2,500 workers at each of the four facilities will be affected, Wagoner told AP.
GM's sales during the month of May dropped about 28%, and the decision to close four truck plants in order to focus on more consumer-friendly cars is a step in the right direction, albeit a highly disappointing one for Hummer fans.
Mark Fellows of the Michigan Business Review wrote: The moves will save the company $1 billion per year starting in 2010. Combined with previous efforts, GM will have cut costs by $15 billion a year, Wagoner said.
"From the start of our North American turnaround plan in 2005, I've said that our goal is not just to return GM to profitability, but to structure GM globally for sustained profitability and growth," Wagoner said in his announcement.
"Since the first of this year, however, U.S. economic and market conditions have become significantly more difficult. Higher gasoline prices are changing consumer behavior, and they are significantly affecting the U.S. auto industry sales mix," he said.
It seems the effect of the rising oil prices as well as the weak economy is snowballing. First there was Ford, and now GM. Chrysler and even Toyota is not far behind. The damage can no longer be averted. All they can do is a lot of damage control.


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Last month I introduced you to a new hotel apartment concept by Paris Boutik, where I discovered their new grocery store location. Today, I want to take you through their original hotel apartment called the Library Boutik.
Discovering Paris Boutik
As someone who travels frequently, I love submerging myself into the culture and living like a local, even if it is only for a few days. That is why I was so excited to meet with the Paris Boutik team.


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It's now six months since I became the parish priest of S.James Garlickhythe. It's gone ludicrously quickly. I will dwell more on how it has gone in my report to the APCM.
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Globally, Deaths From Measles Drop Sharply
SOURCE: World Health Organization, American Red Cross| The Washington Post - November 30, 2007
Friday, November 30, 2007
Worldwide deaths from measles have fallen by two-thirds since 2000, the result of stepped-up immunization efforts and the distribution of vitamin A capsules in developing countries, a partnership of five health organizations said yesterday.
Africa, which has long had the most measles deaths, has seen the biggest drop, 91 percent. In many villages, measles shots, polio vaccines, deworming pills and insecticide-treated mosquito nets for malaria prevention are all being given out together.
Measles mortality has fallen less steeply in India and Pakistan, but campaigns are now starting there.
The dramatic results are the product of a little-known project, the Measles Initiative, launched in 2001. The news comes as the better-known Global Polio Eradication Initiative is struggling to complete its job, nearly eight years over a self-imposed deadline.
Measles is a potentially eradicable disease, as well, but experts said yesterday that is not their goal now. The initiative hopes to cut annual worldwide measles deaths by 90 percent by 2010.
"At the moment, there is really not the political commitment to embark on another global eradication effort," said Peter Strebel, an epidemiologist at the World Health Organization, one of the measles partners. "It is an unwise strategy to, as it were, fight on two fronts at the same time." Only one disease, smallpox, has ever been eradicated.
Measles is among the most contagious diseases in the world, spread through the air in droplets coughed out by infected people. Symptoms include fever, cough, rash, pneumonia and diarrhea.
In developing countries, mortality rates are 5 to 15 percent of its victims, sometimes higher during epidemics. Most children recover fully, but a few are left blind or deaf. Children deficient in vitamin A, which is essential for robust immunity, are at especially high risk.
In 2000, global measles mortality was 757,000. In 2006, it was down to 242,000 -- a drop of 68 percent. In 1990, there were about 1.06 million measles deaths, more than four times the current annual total.
"This is a major achievement in global health," said Kathy Bushkin Calvin, an official of the United Nations Foundation, one of the partners.
Luis Gomes Sambo, Africa region director of the World Health Organization, one of the other partners, said "individual communities, and especially women, played a very, very important role" in reducing the deaths so much.
The other partners are the American Red Cross, UNICEF, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The initiative has cost $470 million to date, with $130 million provided by the Red Cross.
The measles vaccine is one of the standard immunizations recommended for all children. The initiative is working to ensure all babies get one shot by their first birthday and have an opportunity to get a second one later. The theory is a second round will reach children who missed the first one and further boost the immunity of those who got it.
Africa has been the focus of efforts so far. The portion of African children receiving the first dose of measles vaccine on time has risen from 56 percent to 73 percent in the last five years. It is now higher than in South Asia's 65 percent. Worldwide, coverage has gone from 72 to 80 percent, an unprecedented high.
Coverage among American kindergartners last year was 96 percent.
In addition to better routine coverage, nearly half a billion supplementary shots have been given since 2000 as part of the measles initiative.
Although injectable vaccines are harder to deliver than oral ones (such as polio), they are preferred in many developing countries.
"What we have actually found is that mothers want injections, the community wants an injection, because the feeling is that it has greater potency and efficacy," Strebel said.
Research in Indonesia in the 1980s showed that vitamin A supplementation cut childhood deaths from all causes, but especially from measles. It also functions as a drug in children already severely ill with measles, reducing their mortality by about half.
In terms of cost-effectiveness, few health measures can rival measles vaccination. In a group of southern African countries where "catch-up" vaccination was done in 2001, the average cost of a life saved was $319.
The initiative is the first mass health project in the developing world to use hand-held computers in coverage surveys conducted to measure the success of interventions. Normally, that work is done with pen, paper and clipboard, and tabulating data takes weeks or months.
In October 2005, surveyors in tsunami-struck Aceh province of Indonesia figured out immediately after a vaccination campaign that as many as 70 percent of children had been missed in some districts. Vaccinators, who had not yet dispersed, were sent back to vaccinate in those areas.
More recently, surveyors in Africa have been using pocket computers loaded with an open-source program, EpiSurveyor, developed by a Washington-based nonprofit, DataDyne, to track coverage after supplemental measles vaccination campaigns.


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With release of EM12cR2, it has MTM pages to manage the Enterprise Manager more effectively.
These MTM pages contain monitoring and diagnostic info for the EM itself. Using these pages, one can
-view the health of EM and its various components like OMS, repository, services etc
-track the performance (notification, upload etc.)
-view diagnostics info
-manage agents
Health Overview Page
Select Setup ->Manage Cloud Control-> Health Overview
All major areas of Enterprise Manager are shown here. It has:
Overview: Provides key information for active Management Services such as the Management Agents, the WebLogic Administration Server, total number of monitored targets, number of administrators, and server load balancer (SLB) upload and console URLs, provided SLB is configured. If configured, the SLB upload and console URLs are also displayed.
Repository Details: Provides physical information about the Management Repository and the host on which the database is located. You can drill down into the database home page for more information and carry out administrative operations.
Job System Status: Displays key operational parameters of the Enterprise Manager Job service. For detailed information, you can click on the status icon to drill down into the Enterprise Manager Job Service home page.
Console Activity: Displays the overall load on the Enterprise Manager console through the average number of requests per minute and the average time required to process those requests.
Alerts: Provides details on the metric errors recorded and when an alert was triggered. In-context links to Incident Manager are also provided.
Performance Charts: Upload Backlog and Upload Rate, Backoff Requests, Notification backlog. One can drill down into any chart to view detailed metric information.
One can also see diagnostics metrics.
Repository Page
Select Setup ->Manage Cloud Control->Repository
The Repository page provides you with an overview of the status and performance of the Repository DBMS Jobs that handle part of EM's maintenance and monitoring functionality. These DBMS jobs run within the Management Repository and require no user input. Charts showing the key Repository Details and Backlog in Repository Collection are provided. The Scheduler Status region provides the status of the scheduler and the number of Job Queue Processes.
From the Repository Details region, one can expand Management Service Repository Sessions details to view the exact number of repository connections per individual Enterprise Manager sub-component such as the event system, console, job system, or connector framework.
The Repository Scheduler Jobs Status region provides details of the DBMS Jobs regarding their status, throughput, processing time, the next scheduled run and the last scheduled run.
Advanced Queuing (AQ) provides database-integrated message queuing functionality that allows application messages to be stored persistently and propagated between queues on different machines and databases. The Management Services AQ Status region list the details of DEQUEUE and ENQUEUE status for messages specific to the Management Services AQ.
Agents Page
Select Setup -> Manage Cloud Control-> Agents.
The Agents page lists all Management Agents within your monitored environment. This page also includes misconfigured, blocked and upgradable and non- upgradable Agents.
From here one can navigate to any agent's homepage.
Management Services
Select Setup -> Manage Cloud Control->Management Services
The Management Services page displays the list of Management Services, their status, incidents, the loader throughput , CPU usage, and the JVM memory usage metrics. In addition, the Management Services displayed can be filtered by Normal Mode, Console Only, PBS only and Standby Management Services.
Viewing Enterprise Manager Topology and Charts
To view EM topology
Select Setup-> Manage Cloud Control ->Health Overview
Select OMS and Repository menu ->Members-> Topology
The Enterprise Manager Topology page provides a graphical representation of the Enterprise Manager infrastructure components and their association. Each node in the hierarchy displays key information about the member type, the host on which it resides, and the number of incidents, if any. The incident icons on each of the nodes expand to display a global view of current status for each node in the hierarchy.
To view EM charts
Select Setup-> Manage Cloud Control ->Health Overview
Select OMS and Repository menu ->Monitoring -> Charts
The Enterprise Manager Charts page displays eight charts representing key areas that together indicate the overall health of Enterprise Manager. These are Overall Files Pending Load -Agent, Job Step Backlog, Job Step Throughput (per second), Request Processing Time (ms), Database Time (centiseconds per second), CPU Utilization (%), Pages Paged-in (per second), Pages Paged-out (per second). Data can be viewed for the Last 24 hours, last 7 days or last 31 days.
For more details, refer http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E24628_01/doc.121/e24473/mtm.htm


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I have3 stunning boy puppies left.They are all lovely,mum is rough haired chocolate Jack Russell & dad is blue/grey Chihuahua.They are all full of fun & very playful,great with children.
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