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Do you know how many absinthe cocktails are in the Savoy Cocktail Book? According to the Real Absinthe blog, there are 104. One hundred and four recipes that geeks like me couldn't easily mix in this country, thanks to the cost and difficulty of acquiring absinthe from overseas.
Now that Lucid is available domestically, those sad days have ended. Hm, 104. If I mixed up one absinthe cocktail a week, I'd have blog fodder for the next two years. I can't guarantee that I'll mix them that frequently, but I am damn well going to try all 104 of those drinks, as long as legal absinthe and my liver hold out.
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Hi I just signed up and am a noob to this sport. I have been doing a lot of research since i moved to the bay area in august. The weather is getting warmer and I really want to start in this sport. I was wondering if I should try playing with a trainer kite before I spend the $500 for a lesson or will the lessons teach me all I need to know to get me started or at least have a solid foundation to learn more. If I do need a trainer kite where would I fly these. I live in san jose and my work is right across from the launching in 3rd ave. I would also like opinions on teachers for lessons. I have hear that ovi at kite415, KWS, and WOWkit is good, but which one? I am hoping to join the kitesurfers on third avenue since it is so cloe to my work. Any help is much appreciated
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Spend a lot of time on the trainer kite. Without good kite control your lessons with an instructor will be a waste of money.
There are a few things you need to know to do with a trainer, like flying blind and doing eights. This gets your control of it to muscle memory, like when you drive a car without thinking.
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Do you guys have any suggestions of spots to fly a trainer kite? Can I just fly a trainer kite in the 3rd ave spot or will I get ran off by the pros there? I have been reading that a 3m training kite is best at $200, but i will not be using this again will I if I am not going to land board at all? Could I deal with a 2.2m trainer kite and learn from it?
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agreed, spend as much time on the trainer as possible first.
there's a cheap trainer kite right now on craigslist. or maybe someone on this forum could help you out? sorry, i borrowed mine.
also, i think there is plenty of room beyond the upper launch at third where you could be out of people's way. i've seen lessons being given there.
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Yea imma go check out the third landing and hopefully fly my trainer kite without getting hassled or causing injury there. If anyone can chime in about this that would be great.
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Just use the upper launch. Stay inland from the folks rigging and launching kites, and well upwind of the path, and you'll be fine. There's plenty of room at the upper launch. (upper launch is the one about 1000 feet northwest of the lower launch, on the other side of the driving range)
PS. The recommendations of spending time on a trainer before taking lessons is spot on--you'll get much more out of the lessons that way.
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I'm going a little against the grain here, but I would not rush out and buy a trainer unless it's cheap. While flying a two line foil trainer is beneficial, there is only so much you can learn with one and most people master them relatively quickly. Most lesson plans incorporate the use of a trainer, and a good instructor will advance you to the next stage by observing how quickly you master the trainer. There was a recent thread on this subject if you are interested in checking it out:
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Re: Trainer kite bfore lessons?
I agree with Evan that a trainer is of limited benefit. Of course everyone has a different learning curve and you should definitely start on a trainer, but I think the control skills learned on the trainer are easy to pick up for most people.
As someone relatively new to the sport I think one of the most important lessons is learning to control and harness the power of a full size kite, and personally I don't think a trainer provides much in that regard.
All of the schools you listed are good, and will start you on a trainer, then progress from there. Another suggestion - if you plan to kite mainly at 3rd, Helm provides lessons onsite, and the local knowledge may provide you a little extra comfort.
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Give Jeff a call at WOW. He will hook you up with a trainer kite to borrow before your lesson. He is local to your area and teaches from Jet skis off of Coyote point and at 3rd. He has a really good program with top instructors. One of the truly dedicated professionals around.
Mastering the trainer kite will help you get more from your lesson. It's not mandatory and they can be pricey but on the other hand, I know that it has always been nice to have a trainer kite around to loan to a friend, girl, or kids.
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Re: Trainer kite bfore lessons?
I have been talking with emily at KWS and also jeff and nichole at WOW. KWS says to get a trainer kite to maximize my lessons, while jeff and nichole say that the lessons they provide with teach me all that without me having to buy a kite. So confused whether to buy one or not. Does anyone have a trainer kite I could borrow or any used ones I can buy? I will try to e-mail jeff about a trainer kite. Thanks for all your inputs guys. I will hopefully see you guys out on 3rd or alameda soon!
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SPARTANBURG, S.C. --- Freshman Erin Barcal (Wilmington, N.C.) opened her collegiate account with a goal and an assist to lead the Lees-McRae College women's soccer team to a 3-0 win over Converse College in Conference Carolinas play on Wednesday evening.
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Darby Boyd led the way for Converse with two shots, both on frame, as Olivia Grose added two attempts of her own. Gabie Chamberland, Christen Evans, and Aubrey Andersen-Baker combined for three saves between the pipes for the Valkyries.
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Converse quickly countered with a burst of pressure, forcing a pair of saves by Briggs within a 15-second span midway through the 20th minute. Mahar answered with the Bobcats' second in the 29th, redirecting a cross from Thornton into the back of the net for her fifth of the campaign to give Lees-McRae a 2-0 advantage heading into the interval.
Allen and the Bobcats then hit the ground running in the second half, pushing the margin to 3-0 just 35 seconds into the period when Allen delivered the first-time finish past the keeper after Barcal's initial effort struck the woodwork and fell straight to Allen.
Joy Keith and Grose would combine for a trio of late chances for the Valkyries, as Keith forced a skillful stop by Briggs in the 68th minute before Grose sent a pair of efforts inches wide of the woodwork in the final moments.
Lees-McRae returns to the pitch on Saturday when the Bobcats travel to Bristol, Tenn. to take on King University in league play at 1 p.m. as King hosts Kick for the Cure.


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Beth was the most remarkable person I have ever met. I first heard of her in spring 1991 in an article in the Sunday section of the Marin Independent. At the time, I was living with my partner, Jim, in an apartment in Tiburon, California, on the edge of Richardson Bay with a view from the Bay Bridge to the Golden Gate Bridge. In the evening we could sit on our deck and admire the view of San Francisco while waves lapped against the beach beneath our feet. Life was good for Jim and me. We had satisfying work and a wonderful group of friends. Yet with all this, I remained angry that I had been infected with HIV.
I don't mean by anger an emotional response to an insult that was to plague me beginning in 1994 as a result of my developing HIV Associated Dementia, which I have written about in earlier blogs -- a soul-deep anger at the Universe that seemed to have violated its contract to treat me benevolently. Before my HIV diagnosis, I believed that we lived in the best of all possible worlds and that behind all the blessings of this world there was a loving and kind god. My HIV diagnosis in September 1984 was a deathblow to that belief system. I became very depressed, which in some ways is anger directed internally.
An HIV diagnosis in 1984 when I was diagnosed was a death sentence. In 1991 when I read about Beth in the Marin Independent, the local weekly gay newspaper, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, had a four page spread in each issue that listed the names of those who had died of AIDS that week. Our doctors gave us no hope of treatment soon enough to save us.
In the Marin Independent article, Beth recalled that as her husband of forty years lay dying in 1985, he told her he had lied to her about having cancer. He said he was bisexual, that he had AIDS, and that likely so did she. At this news, Beth said she became very hurt and then very angry; but, nevertheless she felt she had an obligation to continue to tend her husband, who was blind from Cytomegalovirus (CMV) retinitis and was suffering from a toxoplasmosis infection of the brain.
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RE: "I love understanding the size and scale of things, the motions of the Universe, the interaction of objects through gravity, electromagnetism, and collisions."
REALLY? How about addressing REAL data & issues such as presented in the Looonnnngg input on the previous blog comments section?? There's a lot of really odd things being observed with the sun & its interaction with the Earth's magnetic field & ionosphere, including an observation that, prior to being observed, was thought to be impossible.
Or we can stick to the pretty pictures (which, by the way, weren't accessible…at least when this blog entry was posted) and other fluff.
K, he spends the entire blog discussing the nitty-gritty of space travel. As he said in the post, "I choose the pictures for beauty, for scientific interest, for both or for neither."
Astronomy creates some of the most beautiful images that mankind has come up with. The whole point of the Top Ten Pictures is to highlight the best.
Wow. I know someone that needs to relax a little bit. Put some brandy in your egg nog, light a fire, and chill out.
Great collection, as usual!
Quibble on #4: There *are* more stars in spiral arms, but the contrast between the arm and the inter-arm region isn't as striking as it appears because of the young stars.
I wouldn't normally, but in the circumstances…
"I love understanding the size and scale of things, the motions of the Universe, the interaction of objects through gravity, electromagnetism, and collisions."
Word. Thank you, Phil, and here's to 2009.
Some of them I don't agree with, but I'm completely in alignment on number 1 – an amazing achievement.
It's about time you posted this with all the twitter teasing you've been doing about it!
Thank you, and inspiring as always. And to think, some people don't like science for whatever reason. They don't know what they are missing!
Another amazing top ten. Every year it seems it will be harder to top. But while the pace seems slow sometimes, every year there are new discoveries that will continue to spark our imagination. Looking forward to 2009!
Thanks Phil.
"Galaxies, moons, supernovae, planets, nebulae, dust… all of it. The Universe is saturated in beauty, and our technology is starting to catch up with it. We can capture the glowing glamor of the cosmos, and stare in awe and rapture."
What makes me most excited of all is the knowledge that technology improves (more or less) monotonically, and at an ever-increasing rate!
These images are amazing and wonderful to behold, but I can never refrain from wondering… what new images will we see next year?
Beautiful, Phil. Absolutely fantastic!
NGC 7331 (Number 4: Spiral Art) looks like it's interacting with something. There is more than one axis of symmetry there. Cool!
Great selections, Phil!
Awesome. Waycool. Number 4 looks like a painting or an artists rendition instead of a photo. My reaction when I saw it was, "No way." But, Way. Its cool to see that real life can be so beautiful.
Best.Image.Ever. That image makes me shiver with pride and wonder everytime I look at it. Simply Amazing!!
@ Richard:
I was wondering about that, too. Very obvious undulations across the disk. Someone must be getting a bumpy ride as they zip around that galaxy.
I love picture number 5 and pictures like that. Although they are all lovely, its pictures of multiple galaxies that really hammer home the vastness of our universe, especially since it may in addition also just be one of many realities.
I do crack up though whenever someone says something like 'we're clever, we humans'. For multiple reasons. The most obvious one is that the sentence should read 'a tiny handful of us humans are clever, the rest is mediocre to extremely stupid (and sometimes enforces its stupidity on the smart ones to boot!).' But also because humans have nothing else to compare their intelligence too. For all humans know the average intelligence for a sentient species is well above that of the average intelligence for humans. We don't really know if we're clever, because we don't know anything comparable we can really honestly be compared to. For all we know human technological progress is actually slow as hell for a technology using tooluser.
Humans = Vastly overrated, clever individuals amongst them or not. (I mean those individuals are pretty cool, but the species on the whole not so much. To many morons.)
Awesome list! Number 8 (the pretty galaxy one) is my new desktop!
Fantastic – I love the top ten every year, for the pictures I missed seeing and for the ones I may have forgotten (the HiRISE avalanche on Mars I had forgotten…. and it's wow all over again.)
I use images like these in lectures, and I have to think they're infinitely more inspiring to the students than some dry recitation of factoids — and it's even more fun when they ask questions about images they've seen online outside of class.
I do science because I love the intellectual discovery – and sometimes part of that is staring slack-jawed at fantastic images like these… and then figuring out what we're seeing and what that means for astronomy (or geology, or atmospheric physics, etc. etc.). So thanks for the not-so-fluffy piece – I can't wait for next year!
Thanks Phil, wonderful, inspiring choices. You do link-bait the way it should be done!
I nominate #1 for Best of the Decade. A snapshot of an event in the 5-billion year history of Mars that lasted for 5 minutes. An event of our making. A robot photographing another robot on a different world.
Yeah, we humans are clever. I'd go with us over any extra-solar species you'd care to name.
Oh snap!
Soooooooo cool. Thanks Phil. I like the images, I like 'em all. And I totally appreciate that you took the time to explain them (which increases their wow factor appreciably).
My 2 runners up are the Martian landslide and Fomalhaut B. "The Descent of Man" though- it's just epic. It's really not that "pretty", it doesn't look like much really, but it is absolutely frackin awesome in what it represents.
Great list. I knew for sure the fomalhaut pic would be on there, and it's still my favorite.
So, what happens when an even cooler picture come out next week? Isn't it really the "top ten astronomy pictures of the first 50 weeks of 2008"?
Gotta agree that #1 isn't much to look at, but taken in context of "the whole story" it's pretty cool. Even better than the Martial rovers on the surface as seen from orbit, due to the transitory nature of the image.
And, while clicking "next" under the image does take me to the next image, the "start here" link in the main text is 404-compliant.
That should, of course, be "Martian rovers". Where's that darn "edit" button?
How dare you give us beautiful pictures and enjoy what our technological advances allow us to see! Science isn't about fun or beauty! It's about numbers and mind-numbing calculations!
For Shame!
Saurons eye and spiral galaxies,,,so,,,fraking,,,COOL!
Tanks Phil,,
Gary 7
What? No cosmic middle finger (carina nebula)?
Surely a photo of God flipping off Pat Robertson is worth a mention.
#3 "Marsalanche" is actually a detail block from a HIRES image that captured "at least four" (according to the source website) avalanches. There's another one caught in progress in the same picture here: http://preview.tinyurl.com/2xebjp
I like the picture of Mercury's stretch marks because they indicate expansion tectonics and planetary growth beyond any reasonable doubt.
But my favorite picture has got to be NGC 7331 because the spiral shape of galaxies defies the Newtonian God's allgeed universal so-called "law" of gravitation.
According to Newtonian divine gravity, galaxies should be sphere shaped since gravity is alleged to act equally in all directions.
However, the galaxies are spiral shaped and flat in the plane perpendicular to the magnetic field of the quasar thus proving that gravity is a myth.
P.S. There was no Big Bang.
This is the post I look forward to most each year. Inspiring images, information written so even I can understand it about each of 'em. Thanks Phil!
Also, love the new gallery thingie.
I love #1 because it all had to be scheduled ahead of time, due to communication delay times.
@OilIsMastery: Ahem.. ever heard of "angular momentum"?
I like the picture of Mercury's stretch marks because they indicate expansion tectonics and planetary growth beyond any reasonable doubt.
Apparently you missed this little line in the description of that picture:
the overview of Mercury showing the rays from impact craters blanketing the entire planet that made me sit back in wonder.
So, there is some doubt as to whether or not it is "expansion tectonics" causing the rays.
BTW, still waiting for that answer to my question over on the Enceladus thread.
Wow, the more I read from OIM, the more concerned I get for humanity. Mick summed it up pretty good if you take OIM as a datapoint. Seems that some human beings are clever, the rest just like to leech of the clever ones!
Mercury's scarps are from shrinking, not expanding.
Ahhh…thanks for the correction. I hadn't gone back to read the original post on that picture and just skimmed the description under this one and picked up the impact crater bit.
In response to "ever heard of angular momentum"?
Yes actually. It requires the Newtonian God. Ever heard of Isaac Newton and fixed stars?
The spiral shape of galaxies defies the alleged law of gravity.
As far as astromony prior to 1950, I wish people were ignorant of astornomy prior to 1950 because most astronomy prior to 1959 is pre-Space Age and belongs in the garbage can.
"Books written about the solar system before the advent of the space age could as well have been written in Latin or Greek, so dated do they appear to a contemporary reader." — Zdenek Kopal, astronomer, 1973
My new favorite word for the next 24 hours. Crank!
OIM is a crank. Cranks have these virtually universal characteristics:
1. Cranks overestimate their own knowledge and ability, and underestimate that of acknowledged experts.
2. Cranks insist that their alleged discoveries are urgently important.
3. Cranks rarely if ever acknowledge any error, no matter how trivial.
4. Cranks love to talk about their own beliefs, often in inappropriate social situations, but they tend to be bad listeners, and often appear to be uninterested in anyone else's experience or opinions.
5. No discernible sense of humour.
In addition, many cranks
1. seriously misunderstand the mainstream opinion to which they believe that they are objecting,
2. stress that they have been working out their ideas for many decades, and claim that this fact alone entails that their belief cannot be dismissed as resting upon some simple error,
3. compare themselves with Galileo or Copernicus, implying that the mere unpopularity of some belief is in itself evidence of plausibility,
4. claim that their ideas are being suppressed by secret intelligence organizations, mainstream science, powerful business interests, or other groups which, they allege, are terrified by the possibility of their allegedly revolutionary insights becoming widely known,
5. appear to regard themselves as persons of unique historical importance.
Cranks who contradict some mainstream opinion in some highly technical field, such as mathematics or physics, almost always
1. exhibit a marked lack of technical ability,
2. misunderstand or fail to use standard notation and terminology,
3. ignore fine distinctions which are essential to correctly understanding mainstream belief.
Oh lord, may there be a rain of brain!!
(probably this is miserable english, but I didn't know how to give it a proper translation)
Oh, wonderful pics indeed! Sometimes it is just relaxing to look at such photos and consider the beauty of the universe (even the scariest things have some kind of beauty, do they not?) and just forget about the stupid human beings running over this tiny planet. I love physics!
OIM- Do you think that gravity can bend light?
Do you think any kind of radiation from the sun (or other celestial body) can cause earthquakes on earth?
IIUC, OIM does not believe that gravity exists.
OMG, who'd have thought that the web's #1 skeptic would choose a picture of a UFO (from a Martian's viewpoint) as his top astro photo of 2008? See, they do exist! ;< )
@ DrFlimmer:
"Oh lord, may there be a rain of brain!!"
Haw haw! My new catchphrase!
Thank you for responding to my questions. I was just wondering what to make of your theories. I've definitely made up my mind now. Thanks.
If there is no gravity, then what causes objects to fall?
A slideshow? Bad Phil, bad. Slideshows are a pox on the internet.
Has anyone seen the blurb over at Scientific American about the Catalina Sky Survey? They noted a telescope in Tucson Arizona was able to find and track the small asteroid before it entered the atmosphere over the Sudan. That's a nice step in the right direction.
How come Saturns rings are in single plane perpedicular to Saturn's magnetic field?
The Saturn shot in 2006 is so worth a revisit! I just saw that again from your top 10 in 2006. And Mira, in 2007, is just a bruiser!
For your source, you cite a toy?
As to your other questions, I'll let the physicists answer.
Here's a question, if the Earth is such a powerful electromagnet, then how can a magnet that is many times smaller than the Earth, made of materials in the Earth, counteract the Earth's pull?
If like charges repel, then why aren't things just flying off the Earth?
Your arguments are starting to sound so silly, that I wonder if you aren't just a Poe.
OilIsMastery's comments here are analogous to the groaning noises made by some adolescent punk(s) in the audience at a cinema during love scenes on the screen.
Oh, and by the way, I'm still awaiting your answer to my question on the Enceladus thread.
Carina nebula images come out all the time.
Here is an HST press release less than a month old, and it contains the middle finger:
It shows up nicely in Image 2.
OilIsMastery – at this point (and many other points, in many other threads, I might add), you're just making yourself sound like a nutcase by going against what nearly every other BABloggee holds true, without adequately supporting your claims.
Now, if you're a scientist in any "hard" field, be it physics, mathematics, astronomy, or whatever, please let us know. Also, if you could cite some papers backing your claims, that would be nice. Or if you could provide a reasonable motive for scientists the world over to ignore these obviously crucial concerns about accepted theories of cosmology, that would do much to settle my doubts.
As it is, though – and don't take this personally – I think you should try to get access to either a better education or a mental institution.
Best wishes!
Wait, so your explanation for why a small magnet can counteract the Earth's supposed magnetic pull is because like charges repel. But things don't go flying off the Earth because opposite charges attract. So, when a small magnet is involved, what, according to you, is happening. Please explain in detail with appropriate citations to back up your claims.
I am suspecting Poe's Law, except that I may also be getting lulled by the notion that no one could conceivably be this big a loon… It's so frightening!
I think it's incredible that such a post like this, which we should all be happy to see because of the wonderful images in it gets thorn apart due to a couple of moronic comments. Isn't it possible that -just for once- we may have ONLY comments from normal thinking people? What's with these guys? Gravity is not real? The earth is a magnet and the moon is moving away because charges repel? Geeesh!
Oh, and wonderful work Phil. The pictures are really amazing! Happy 2009
Phil, these images are great. I love this entry. There's something wonky in your code, though – an open image alt tag or something. Hover your mouse over one of the pictures to see what I mean.
The Moon is made from green cheese and as we all know green cheese is least magnetic of all known cheeses. While all other cheeses have a magnetic constant of +1 Rennet (which is just enough to keep them on your table or fridge shelf), green cheese have a magnetic constant of -3.14159 Rennet which not only makes it round but also repels it from earth.
At the risk of actually commenting on your pictures , Phil…
I don't envy you the task of picking only 10 photos.
Still, once again you've given us staggering, awe-inspiring, humbling, exciting, provocative, images complete with explanations and observations that boggle the mind. Looking at these pics and concentrating on what they are – what's going on in our universe even our own solar system, can be a life changing event.
I've just looked at all 10 and now I need to lie down for a bit.
Excellent work, Phil.
(and what is that crazy, gyro-scope looking galaxy to the left NGC7331!? The whole picture looks like a CG image for a Star Wars movie!)
(As for OIM and the rest of his ilk, I'll save some space on the server and refrain from dignifying his silliness with a reply.)
Quite amazing. There where so many photographic achievements this year, to narrow them down to just ten, is not a job I'd envy or try. Can't say I agree with your choice, but that is normal. I really liked that you gave solid explanations for each of your choices.
P.S. There was no Big Bang.
Of course there was. I saw it just this past Monday night, 8PM on CBS.
Ken B:
It's just a theory.
I was just startin' laughin' about OIM 😉 He reminded me of the South Park episodes about the Mormons:
"OiM thought he was clever, dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb!
He thought he was a scientist, dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb!"
@Tarrkid: A scientific theory!
To anyone who thinks OIM has Poed us all, check out his blog. Now that's a lot of effort for a prank.
So, OilIsMastery, if indeed you are made of delicious satire, I salute you!
Awwww…but I was looking forward to reading OilIsMastery's explanation of how magnets work, not to mention seeing his evidence that the Earth is expanding.
Oh, and I almost forgot the most important thing: Great selection, Phil!
OIM should move from "Bad Astronomy" to the "Expelled!" web site, thereby raising the IQ on both sites.
Thanks Phil!
Back to the images: GAAAAAAWK!
That edge-on spiral art image is just incredible! I've seen most of the other ones in the list, but not only have I never seen this one before, I think it deserves a higher rank! Holy moly!
Beautiful beyond words is right: here I was trying to say something about this stunning image, and what comes out is holy moly. I'd be annoyed at myself if I wasn't still transfixed by this picture…
Yes, I'm typing this comment blindly, while looking at the picture… I guess I'll scroll down and submit…
That's it!
I call Poe's Law on OiM.
Oh, good! I like scientific theories much better.
All that research and data and peer-reviewed papers gets me all tingly inside…
Check out these videos on the Spitzer Space telescope from UCTV.
Tombaugh stumbled on Pluto (only to have its status reduced decades later).
*eyeroll* WTF is up with this widespread planetist discrimination against plutinos?
The pic of the W5 nebula made my day. Considering turning it into a christmas card. Thank Phil!
Now that the fly is out of the ointment, I love the pictures.
As much as I am awed by the achievement of #1, I gotta say that #4 is my personal favorite. Incredible.
I know the universe is relieved to hear this. 😉
@ Phil Plait,
According to O.I.M.'s web-site, he has already been banned from these forums which he refers to as "20th Century Thought Police":
SciForums.Com (Banned)
TheScienceForum.Com (Banned)
BAUTForum.Com (Banned)
PhysicsForums.Com (Banned)
ILovePhysics.Com (Banned)
ChemicalForums.Com (Banned)
Chemicool.Com (Banned)
PeakOil.Com (Banned)
Looks like you got rid of one troll to make room for another.
How very, um, Christian of you…not.
Big Brother's watching. What does 2+2 equal again?
Thomas Siefert, you spoke too soon; another fly has landed in the ointment!
@Phil Plait and IVAN3MAN
Truecristian seems to be a rather busy little spammer. He's apparently got posts over at History Channel and HBO, a MySpace page and so forth. I also found this little bit at librarything.com:
This user has been suspended for being 12 or younger. If you are the owner of this account, we need an email from your parent or guardian, confirming that you are thirteen or older and permitting you to use this site. Email firstname.lastname@example.com
And I found that stuff on just the first google page of his name.
Same fly I'd say, just seem to be to much of a coincidence.
@ Todd W.,
Todd W:
Big Brother's watching. What does 2+2 equal again?
*For sufficiently large values of 3.
@ Truechristian
Not the words of a true christian.
Awesome pictures.
I want OilIsMastery back! At least he was funny.
@ Todd W.,
Well, that figures!
I was planning on showing some of Nova's Origins to my middle school science class tomorrow, but I think they're getting your slideshow instead. Beautiful.
Out frackin standing. Everytime I see a galaxy on it's side, I think how odd it looks. Like the galaxies inhabitants are all on worlds that are on their side. Ah, the universe.
At first I was enjoying them but none were particularly special, well they all are really, but not in comparison to each other as they are all pretty special. However, like you, The descent of Man is also the one that stands out for me and for much the same reasons. My only regret is that I won't live long enough to be able to personally watch a similar type of sight from orbit.
I think we on on our sides too. Of course it is all relative in space (does that even need to be said?). But if I am not mistaken, the plane of our solar system does not align with the plane of the Milky Way. Nor does our rotational axis align with that of our galaxy. Everything is topsy turvy.
Great selections, Phil. Pics like these put an absolutely stupid grin on my face.
about the martian landslides. if youlook at the high res image and follow the link in the text showing multiple slides, it would appear that there are two slides happening at exactly the same time. they are caught in the same larger frame. and they would appear to be a few kilomters appart.
so, to all you geologists out there, what are the chances of two slides happening at the same time, lets say 2 miles appart, on the side of a cliff? To me this would suggest that perhaps there is a reason why they are happenig concurrently, like pershps an earthquake? although all i have read suggests Mars is not geologically actve. could this be proof to the contrary?
AH, Trolls, ya gotta luv 'em. All day long they sit under a bridge, asking rediculous questions and making equally ludicrous statements about the nature of reality,,,such lonely critters,,,
,,,too bad they eat people,,,
GAry 7
I think it may have been the #1, or maybe the avalanche on Mars. But somehow, my admiration and hunger for science has just grown deeper. It really hit me differently after viewing the top 10.
So.. Thank You!
sigh… I think I just might break down in tears when the first human steps foot on Mars.
and yes, those are tears of joy I speak of
Thanks for spending the time to look at all the many images necessary to find these and for presenting them in a fashion that connects human dreams, ingenuity and technical finesse so plainly to all of the spectacle around us.
[grin] It all makes me feel so special, finding myself right here in the middle of it. [/grin]
Actually, it all makes me feel so special to belong to the specie I do at the time that I do in the place that I do. This makes it possible to celebrate the wonder of human achievement at the same time of year that I celebrate the wonder of the human compassion. So what if they are damn near the same thing?
Happy crimble, Phil. Here's looking forward to a new year with you.
I actually made the 😀 face when I saw the Phoenix picture XD There's a reason I printed it out and stuck it on to my whiteboard – it's inspiring! We made it. We sent it to another pattern. And as it descended, another robotic probe we made – IN ORBIT – took a photo of it. It may not be visually stunning, but DAMN.
And if I didn't already have Enceladus as my desktop, I'd totally make number four it. The Mars landslide, too, is amazing – this is why I want to study planetary science! I want to be a geologist… on Mars! (Areologist?) And, of course, Fomalhaut B is just epic!
So – fantastic, amazingly gorgeous photos, Phil Let's hope 2009 brings even more spectacular images!
There are a fair number of pics here that are far off and away not on my favourite pic list. I don't even like some of them. But those 2 galaxy pics and the Phoenix pic are 3 of my favourite space images ever.
Beautiful. Thanks Phil, and thanks for posting this stuff throughout the year.
I am still awed by GRB080319B. I wish I'd seen it with my naked eye.
Phil Plait: "TRUECHRISTIAN is now considered a troll as well. Ignore him, and I will mark his comments as spam."
About time, Phil!
Anyway, I guessed that you would select the "The Decent of Man" (wait until the fascist-feminists hear about that: "Man?! Man?! It's PERSON!" ) as your #1 Astronomy Picture of 2008, because of the excitement about it that you displayed on your "TheBadAstronomer" YouTube channel.
Next year, Phil, how about offering a prize to whoever can guess your top 3 or 4 selections for Astronomy Picture of 2009 in the correct order?
Nice pics. Gotta say though, ranking the first image of a planet outside the solar system #2 is laughable. Yes, I know there is evidence for exoplanets from many other sources (wobble, dimming, etc..), but not nearly as direct. Some of the other pictures are more attractive, but come on. This is one of the most important pictures taken. Ever.
If "a monster elliptical galaxy over 300 million light years away" so, then the image we could see now in the picture was generaed 300 Millions years which was captured by hubbble telescope by now as light in that image travelled 300 million years.
What could be the current state( as of today)? that galazy absorbed some more fellows or had big bang or any such things. But sadly we'll get to know that only after 300 million years after. is it not?
When I see those huge planets I feel so small… lol
Good job!
I posted in my spanish blog, thnx!
Thanks Phil. The Phoenix descent is my fave too. But also #10 Mercury (I've been following that mission very closely. Also #7 the galaxy field, it gives you a real sense of perspective.
Beautifully done there.
But, the psychics would win every time! Or, then again, only as often as educated guessing and change would allow.
@ Todd W.,
Ah, the only thing that psychics' can pick successfully is their own noses.
Er… 4:27 am? I presume that you reside in the U.S., so are you up early or up late?
Superb pick of pics, Phil!
Haven't we got a brilliant set of telescopes out there right now? And not even one Cassini image!
Still, we have pics from Swift, Deep Impact/EPOXI, MRO, Spitzer, Hubble and Messenger. And two ground-based scopes. BTW, not liking the gallery format so much, as the firewall where I work is extremely tight and it takes ages to move from one pic to the next.
Are you João Magueijo? As in "professor in Theoretical Physics at Imperial College London" João? I'm guessing yes because that isn't a common name to begin with and you obviously are into Astonomy/Cosmology.
To any BABlogees out there- his book "Faster Than The Speed of Light" is really interesting (and kind of funny too). He also had a neat show on Discovery or National Geographic (I can't remember) about the origins of the universe.
Man, got some intellectual heavies around here (although, of course, I could be completely wrong. But I'll bet a buck I'm not).
Thomas Siefert said:
…green cheese have a magnetic constant of -3.14159 Rennet …
I have to take issue with you here, Thomas. It is widely understood that only pies can have magnetic constants with modulus 3.14159. This is a schoolboy error. Shame on you!
Nigel Depledge:
BTW, not liking the gallery format so much, as the firewall where I work is extremely tight and it takes ages to move from one pic to the next.
So, Nigel, are you also goofing off at work like Larian LeQuella?
Up early, before work, east coast of the U.S., so add 2 hours to my posting times.
João is not all that uncommon. It's the Portugese version of John.
I have to take issue with you here, Thomas. It is widely understood that only pies can have magnetic constants with modulus 3.14159. This is a schoolboy error. Shame on you!
Au contraire, edam and gouda wheels can also have a constant of 3.14159, but only when the researcher is eating a pie. I'll have to agree with you, though, that green cheese does not have that constant, nor do cheddar blocks.
Regarding the green cheese, I'm right and you're *NARF!* wrong. Can you provide any links at all to back up your claims (I will *NARF!* disregard any pre-lactic acid theories as they are all rubbish)?
"I know someone that needs to relax a little bit. Put some brandy in your egg nog, light a fire, and chill out."
Please, don't be giving that guy matches. Who knows what he'll do.
@Thomas Siefert
Pinky, your head contains more cheese than the moon.
(It's Pinky, Pinky and the Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain.)
Im wandering if NASA can actually slam an automatic drilling machine into a comet then imbed a telescope into it that will transmit pictures taken from a view of the comet…hmmmm
pwede kaya?
That's a pretty neat idea.
What about comet holmes exploding?
@ thomas siefert:
"It is widely understood that only pies can have magnetic constants with modulus 3.14159. This is a schoolboy error."
I believe the Wallace-Gromit experiment proved with some degree of certainty the cheesy properties of the moon. The only ones who deny the attractive nature of cheese are crackers.
Teh Wallace-Gromit Moon eXpedition WAS faked! Teh WENSLEYDALE Dairies lead by Peter Sallis was behind this HOAX with Mr. Sallis HIMSELF voicing one of the SO-CALLED Lunar travellers.
How people can be fooled by this is beyond me, it looks like STOP-motion animation for FSM's sake!


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The time was right for two friends to open a restaurant together on Main Street in downtown Evergreen.
Kitchen at the Creek has been open for almost two weeks, offering American cuisine with a French influence. The restaurant is open for dinner six days a week, with menu items including seafood, pizza, pasta, steak and chicken ranging in price from $10 to $16. There are also gluten-free and vegetarian menus.
Evergreen is getting a new Mexican restaurant at the end of March.
Tequila's Family Mexican Restaurant is moving into the space vacated by Fiesta Jalisco in the Marketplace at Bergen Park.
Owner Rodrigo Sanchez has four other restaurants in the Denver area, and he will add Evergreen to the list as soon as the restaurant's liquor license is approved.
Why would a new furniture store in Bergen Park be named 7801 Home Furnishings?
Because Bergen Park's elevation is 7,801 feet, of course.
That's the name that owner Richard Schaefer came up with for his store, which opened in mid-December.
The store in Bergen Village has packed beautiful new furniture, accessories, paintings and home-decorating gifts into a small space. Schaefer says customers can buy items off the floor or order custom-made items.
A new name and a short move are in the works for Caffe di Lucca.
The coffee shop, which bills itself as the "Cheers" of Evergreen, will soon be called EverBean, and in April it will move three doors down to the eastern end of the Lakepoint Center.
It's time for some changes for the coffee shop, according to owner Cheryl Pankonien, who with her husband, Alan, bought the shop in September 2010. The Pankoniens want to make the shop their own.
A couple with ambition, imagination and a healthy supply of entrepreneurial instinct have purchased the historic Brook Forest Inn and are determined to turn it into a destination hotel, restaurant and wedding venue.
Jon and Melissa Barton of Barrington, Ill., 41 and 40, became the new owners of the national historic location on Aug. 9 and immediately closed it for two months and began a massive kitchen renovation.
An Evergreen nonprofit foundation became the victim of a common form of corporate identity theft after a member of the board of directors altered the foundation's listing on the secretary of state's website.
The Rocky Mountain Academy of Evergreen Foundation, like dozens of entities in Colorado and elsewhere, was unwittingly victimized by a flaw in the online process that takes advantage of a third party's ability to change information on the secretary of state's website without using a password.
Chilo Dominguez, who worked at the recycling station behind King Soopers for years, is opening his own recycling business in Evergreen.
Called Dominguez Services, it will offer recycling pickup to residences.
Right now, he's keeping his routes in Evergreen, but he hopes to expand to Conifer soon.
Dominguez said customers don't need to sort the recyclables, and he will provide the containers. He will pick the recyclables up every other Tuesday or Friday and cart them down the hill to a recycling station.
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She settled on "relax."
The Relax Salon and Color Studio opened in early October at 6941 Highway 73 in the space vacated by Stefano's Bakery and Deli. It's decorated in what Larzalere calls a modern Southwestern style. She very concerned with how people feel when they are in the salon, so she plays a relaxing, eclectic mix of music and burns scented candles.
A popular North Evergreen restaurant has celebrated its 10-year milestone, and its owners are happy to be part of the Evergreen community.
"I love the restaurant business," said Tuscany Tavern owner Rick Egloff. "I love the people. The restaurant venue has come to be a community."
The restaurant opened on Aug. 28, 2000, offering moderately priced Italian fare. Egloff wanted it to be a place where families could come to celebrate special occasions and for people to just get a good meal.
The Tuttle Family Foundation has donated $30,000 to the scholarship fund for users of Evergreen Park and Recreation District facilities and programs.
The scholarships, which are open to park district residents, are made available through the Evergreen Recreation and Park Foundation, a separate nonprofit affiliated with the district. Since the program started, it has made available individual grants totaling $10,000, said Kit Darrow, president of the Recreation and Parks Foundation.
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Besides covering basic differentiations, this article could serve to improve the quality of the Wiki by avoiding repetition. How many articles say: "edit in ~/.bashrc, or zhrc (if you're using zsh) -- Alternatively, edit /etc/profile.bash for system-wide changes" or something to that effect? And even though it sounds counterintuitive, expanding this article makes the Wiki better for advanced users as well, since they won't be presented with the same old information they're accustomed to skip.
We could have a basic run down of common file locations and what they mean, instead of explaining them in every article. As a result, editors can just say "add the following to the shell's configuration" and readers would then decide whether they want it system-wide or not, etc.
Just like article:ABS is referred to in every page that involves compiling, this page could serve the same kind of utility.
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The International Cycling Union (UCI) has called on Lance Armstrong to testify before its independent commission on doping in the wake of the disgraced cyclist's interview with Oprah Winfrey.
Media reports claim that Armstrong, who was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and banned from cycling for life following an investigation by the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA), confessed to doping during his career in the pre-recorded interview, taped on Monday.
However, discussing the interview on American television, Winfrey revealed that Armstrong "did not come clean in the manner I had expected".
Cycling's governing body set up the independent panel to investigate claims in the USADA report that it covered up suspicious samples from Armstrong and his US Postal Service team-mates, accepted financial donations from him and helped him avoid detection in doping tests.
It has since ratified the removal of Armstrong's results in professional cycling dating back to August 1, 1998, but the investigation into whether or not the UCI was complicit or negligent in failing to identify the American as a doper continues, making Armstrong's confession a key turning point in the saga.
"If these reports are true, we would strongly urge Lance Armstrong to testify to the independent commission established to investigate the allegations made against the UCI in the recent USADA reasoned decision on Lance Armstrong and the United States Postal Service team," said a statement from the UCI.
Discussing the interview with Armstrong on American television, Winfrey revealed that the broadcast will now take place over two nights on her OWN channel as she felt unable to shorten it from two-and-a-half hours to 90 minutes.
"I think the entire interview was difficult for Lance Armstrong," Winfrey admitted. "I would say he did not come clean in the manner I had expected. It was surprising to me."
Winfrey confirmed that Armstrong did not have any lawyers present during the interview, as per her request, but did have a team with him and "certainly had prepared himself".
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Garfield, without Garfield, becomes, in the author's words, "a comic about schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life ... a journey deep into the tortured mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against loneliness and methamphetamine addiction in a quiet American suburb."
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Cottage baby Mike, Farmington State Normal School, ca. 1939Item 69632 info
Mantor Library at UMF
One of the most unique aspects of Home Economics education in the United States was the "practice baby." For students to truly understand the science of home economics and be prepared to teach others, they needed real life experience managing a household and caring for a child. Babies were used at some colleges as early as 1918.
F.S.N.S. did not have its first practice baby, known as the "Cottage baby," until 1927. Little is known about many of the babies.
The campus newspaper and yearbooks indicate some babies came from the Maine Children's Home for Little Wanderers.
The Home Ec director and the Cottage supervisor retrieved a baby from the home and took the child to the Cottage. Several babies were adopted after their stay in the Cottage.
Others babies came from local families and were returned to their homes after their Cottage stay.
Home Ec students with Cottage baby, Farmington State Normal School, ca. 1939Item 69633 info
Mantor Library at UMF
At the start of the practice baby program at F.S.N.S., the baby was cared for by two senior students who lived in the Cottage and four others who were housed in the dormitory but spent their days in the Cottage.
By 1930, the Cottage was used exclusively as a "practice house" with the students sharing the four bedrooms and all of the students doing their Cottage rotation were able to live in.
The small group of students in residence each semester was meant to approximate the experience of the home life of a family of six people.
Some babies remained in the Cottage for most of the academic year; others had shorter stays. Turnover meant there were sometimes two babies in the Cottage during the course of the school year.
Home Economics class with nurse, Farmington State Normal School, ca. 1930Item 69692 info
Mantor Library at UMF
Practical experience was an important part of the Home Economics classroom curriculum as well. Students learned about child care, including infants. The school nurse was a key part of providing students with these skills.
Students learned the proper way to bathe a "baby" under the watchful eye of Nurse Ingeborg Johansen, who was the school's nurse from 1928 to 1945.
Home Ec Cottage Living Room, Farmington State Normal School, 1936Item 59810 info
Mantor Library at UMF
The students took pride in the Cottage and throughout the years raised funds to make improvements, redecorate or purchase furniture and other small items. The Home Ec Club raised funds for a library that was housed in the Cottage.
The students became quite attached to the Cottage baby in their care and often made clothing or knitted items for the child.
Cottage baby with student nurse, Farmington, ca. 1947Item 59814 info
Mantor Library at UMF
For many girls, their stay in the Cottage was their first experience caring for a baby, and they found it very challenging - especially those 5 a.m. feedings!
Students with "Cottage Baby," Farmington, ca. 1950Item 59817 info
Mantor Library at UMF
The students shared responsibility for running the Cottage household, including budgeting for and preparing meals, planning and hosting luncheons, teas, and dinners for special guests, maintaining the house, and caring for the baby.
This group of students are relaxing in the Cottage living room with their baby.
Miss Benjamin and Cottage Baby Linda, Farmington State Teachers College, ca. 1952Item 69490 info
Mantor Library at UMF
In 1944, there was a moratorium on Cottage babies because there was no practice house director. There was no baby until the new director was hired the following year.
In 1945, Mrs. Marion Stover Leighton became the practice house adviser and her son Terry was the cottage baby. She and Terry lived in the Cottage for a year while her husband was away in the military. Miss Helen Wheling was in charge of the Cottage from 1945 – 1949.
Miss Evelyn Benjamin took charge of the Cottage in 1949. Like her predecessors, Miss Benjamin cared for the baby while the students were in class.
Here she is with one of the Cottage babies from 1952-53, Linda.
Baby Peter learning to walk, Farmington State Teachers College, ca. 1951Item 70565 info
Mantor Library at UMF
Students on Cottage duty spent time helping their little charges learn new skills, such as walking and talking.
Here is Peter learning to walk with the assistance of student Pat Hurley.
Cottage baby Joy with "Mimi", Farmington State Teachers College, 1950Item 70579 info
Mantor Library at UMF
In addition to the care they received in the Cottage, the baby were also provided with play time experiences that a typical baby would enjoy.
This is Joy, bundled up for a sleigh ride, with F.S.T.C. student "Mimi."
Baby John and Miss Benjamin, Farmington State Teachers College, 1950Item 70583 info
Mantor Library at UMF
One amusing account written by a cottage student in 1950 tells of the arrival of baby John (just two month old at the time), brought from Bangor by longtime Home Economics program director Mabel Hastie and Cottage Director Evelyn Benjamin.
Miss Hastie was invited to dinner, and "due to some mishap in the kitchen, John's milk was served as a beverage! At about nine o'clock that evening, Miss Benjamin was preparing to feed him and lo - no baby formula! The formula had traveled from Bangor in an ordinary milk bottle and upon arriving in Farmington it found its way to our refrigerator among many other ordinary looking bottles. It was labeled, but no one saw the label!"
Cottage baby John, Farmington State Teachers College, 1951Item 70567 info
Mantor Library at UMF
Here is little John at age 7 months. He certainly has grown under the watchful eyes of the students. John remained in the Cottage until June 8, and then left for his new home.
According to a Home Ec diary letter by one of the girls, "the students were sad to see John go—who wouldn't be? His blond curls, blue eyes, his laugh, and everything about him that made him John will never be forgotten by us."
Home Ec Christmas, Farmington State Teachers College, 1957Item 69689 info
Mantor Library at UMF
Over the years, the students hosted many social occasions in the Cottage, including formal dinners, Halloween and Christmas parties, and informal teas for the next Cottage group.
This group of students is enjoying the Cottage Christmas tree with baby Judy in 1957. The students pictured here include: Meg Skillings, Wilma Meyers, Ellen Dunn, Carletta Nevers, Jackie Cox and Shirley York.
Cottage baby Brent with students, Farmington State Teachers College, 1959Item 69688 info
Mantor Library at UMF
The Cottage baby practice continued for many years at F.S.N.S., with successions of students caring for babies as an integral part of their Home Economics education.
By the late 1950s, the tradition of a baby in permanent residence at the Cottage was waning. An infant living in the Cottage was slowly replaced by the use of a "day baby."
The infant of a college employee or from a local family would be delivered to the Cottage in the morning, cared for throughout the school day by students, then collected by the parent and taken home for the night.
The last baby in the "Cottage baby" program at University of Maine at Farmington was in 1971.


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Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Middle Fork American River Hydroelectric Project
Project No. 2079-069
Issued: February 22, 2013
Commission staff prepared a final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the relicensing of Placer County Water Agencys (PCWA) existing 223,753 kilowatt Middle Fork American River Hydroelectric Project (Mid Fork American Project). The project analyzed in the document is located on the Middle Fork of the American and Rubicon Rivers and Duncan and North and South Fork Long Canyon Creeks in Placer and El Dorado Counties, California. The project occupies 3,268 acres of federal lands administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture - Forest Service.
PCWA used the Integrated Licensing Process and filed the license application for the Mid Fork American Project on February 23, 2011. In its license application, PCWA proposed: (1) pulse and higher minimum instream flow releases to project reaches; (2) defined ramping rates; (3) scheduled whitewater boating releases; (4) measures to protect sensitive species; (5) measures to maintain and enhance project recreational opportunities; and (6) development and/or implementation of management and monitoring plans that cover a range of resources, including: (a) geomorphology; (b) water quality; (c) fisheries; (d) benthic macroinvertebrates; (e) vegetation; (f) wildlife; (g) recreation; (h) transportation (project roads); (i) fire prevention (j) cultural resources; and (k) aesthetic resources. On November 30, 2011, PCWA filed Alternative 1, which represents a complete project alternative. Although PCWA supports Alternative 1, it stated that it does not replace its licensing proposal. Commission staff evaluated PCWAs proposal, Alternative 1, recommendations made by state and federal agencies and non-governmental organizations, and comments on the draft EIS in the final EIS.
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