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Nick and Jake set out to handle a delicate situation; the Ranch prepares for a threat greater than any they've faced before.
Following the rekindling of an old friendship, a mission is launched to replenish the Ranch's water supply by seeking the help of another community.
With the Ranch dangerously low on resources, Madison and Walker leave in search of a solution. Nick and Alicia struggle to keep the peace.
In the aftermath of the Clark family's actions, new leadership assumes control of the Ranch. Daniel assists Lola in the distribution of water.
Madison must negotiate the terms of an agreement in the midst of ranch-wide turmoil. Nick and Alicia challenge their mother's motives.
A new threat reveals itself to Madison and Troy as they search for answers. Alicia must reconcile with her past decisions.
A new arrival sows a divide within the ranch. Meanwhile, Alicia forms a new relationship in the hopes of maintaining peace.
For those of us with the DX6i, DX7, or JR's that don't have a data port - we have to send our radio's in for the DSMX upgrade (if we feel it's worth while for our flying environment) at a cost not only in shipping but for the software upgrade itself. This again is a feature that was first introduced on the DX8 but has filtered both up and down the full line of Spektrum's SD Telemetry equipped computerized radios. The DX8 started it all!
Power On Indicator Light - Another First On The DX8 To Later Be Followed On All Models
I know, this is a very minor thing, but it certainly made my eyes light up and was a long time coming. Not sure about any of you, but I have left my transmitter turned on by mistake more than once and only when the low battery alarm started beeping, did I realize it.
I have since put a small LED in my DX7 and then in my JR X9503 when I got it to provide an easy to see visual aid that the radio is turned on when I am too far away to see if the display is on. The Spektrum DX8 already has that simple little "power on" LED installed and using it to light up the patented Spektrum bar graph symbol is a nice touch.
Final Thoughts...
I like most people am so impressed with the Spektrum DX8; making me second guess my JR X9503 purchase certainly confirms that. The DX8 has incredibly easy programming just like the DX6i but of course way more features not to mention long lasting and precision quad ball raced gimbals.
Oh, Cost? Sorry, I never mentioned that – are you sitting down? The DX8 transmitter only is going for about $300 bucks! Not sure if Spektrum wanted to kill its DX7s sales, but the DX8 will certainly have a huge impact. I did end up getting a DX8 for a backup radio to my JRX9503. If I was doing things again, I would have definitely got the DX9, but the 9 was not available yet.
The DX8 was no doubt the first in a new generation of Spektrum radios that all support both telemetry and SD cards. As I predicted three years ago, some very exciting and interesting product built on the DX8's features would evolve into this next generation of Spektrum radios.
Lastly, I will leave you with a DX8 review done by Bert Kammerer. He really dives into the different programming menus and telemetry options so it's certainly worthwhile watching the entire video if you are thinking about the DX8.
Opening Statements
After the judge gives the preliminary instructions, the attorneys for the parties give their opening statements to the jury. During opening statements, the lawyers outline the issues in the case and tell the jury what they expect the evidence will prove during the trial. The purpose of the
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Usually an attorney will present her opening statement as a story, giving a chronological overview of what happened from the party's viewpoint. Although the attorneys will present the case in the best possible light for their clients, the opening statements should be factual, not argumentative. The opening statements are not evidence, and the attorneys should not offer their opinion of the evidence. Attorneys are not permitted to make statements that cannot be supported by the evidence they expect to present during the trial.
Cases in Chief After the opening statements, the plaintiff, who has the burden of proving his allegations, begins his case in chief, in which he attempts to prove each element of each legal claim alleged in the complaint (civil) or indictment (criminal). After the plaintiff has concluded his case in chief (and assuming the judge does not dismiss the plaintiff's claim for lack of proof), the defendant presents his case in chief. The defendant presents evidence to refute the plaintiff's proof and establish any affirmative defenses . The defendant may also present evidence to support claims he has against the plaintiff (counterclaims) or third parties (cross-claims).
During the case in chief, a party may offer evidence of any type in any order it wishes. Before the evidence may be presented to the jury, however, it must be admitted into evidence by the judge. If a party objects to the admission of any evidence, the judge must rule on the objection. The admission of evidence is governed by the
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During their cases in chief, the parties have four possible sources of proof: witnesses, exhibits, stipulations, and Judicial Notice . The parties elicit proof from a witness through an examination. The party who calls the witness conducts the initial examination, known as the direct examination. The party's attorney asks the witness questions designed to elicit testimony helpful to his case. After the direct examination is completed, the opposing party may cross-examine the witness. During cross-examination, a party will often attempt to discredit the witness's testimony by questioning the truthfulness of the witness or raising inconsistencies or weaknesses in the witness's testimony. In most jurisdictions a party may only cross-examine the witness about the subjects discussed in the testimony given during the direct examination. The party who originally called the witness may continue to question the witness following the cross-examination. This is known as redirect examination and is usually used to clarify or rebut issues raised during the cross-examination. The other party could then recross-examine the witness concerning the testimony offered during the redirect examination. In some jurisdictions the judge may ask the witness questions, and a few jurisdictions permit the jury to ask the witness questions, usually written questions read by the judge.


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After the success with the recent knitting projects, I began a search for a glove pattern that would work with the James Brett Marble Chunky yarn, so that I could make a pair of gloves to match the hat n cowl. I found Surley Sheep on Etsy and purchased her pattern and these are the result.
To achieve a coordinated look so that the gloves would tie in with the cowl and hat, I modified the pattern so that instead of the pearl at the top n cuff, I added some rows of moss stitch. I over did it a bit at the thumbs but its ok, I've got quite long fingers and thumbs so it worked out ok.
The James Brett Marble chunky is a lovely yarn to knit with and its also cozy to wear. My dexterity isn't great and my joints really feel the cold, so I wear gloves much longer than perhaps most people do. There's another lovely colour they do that I've got my eye on, it has shades of blue in it. Hmmm another one for the wish list, me thinks 😉
Best wishes and thanks for reading, see you soon
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March 21, 2008
The Bisons completed their first sweep of the season, defeating conference foe, Gardner-Webb on Friday by scores of 8-4 and 6-5.
In game one of the double-header, Gardner-Webb grabbed an early 1-0 lead with a run in the first off of Bisons' starter, Brandon McClurg.
However, it did not take the Bisons long to respond, plating seven runs in the bottom of the second against the Bulldogs' Webster Beal. Shane Simpkins got Lipscomb started with an RBI single to center. After Ben Williams drove in the Bisons second run with a sacrifice fly to center, Jorge Gutierrez increased the lead to 3-0 with an RBI single. Allen Bolden followed that up with a two-run double to right center, before scoring on a single by Caleb Joseph. Blake Bratcher completed the scoring for the Bisons, driving in Joseph on a double to left to give the Bisons a comfortable, 7-1 lead.
Gardner-Webb scored a run in both the fourth and fifth innings to pull within four, but Ryan Wilkins helped expand the Bisons lead back to five with a sacrifice fly in the sixth.
The Bulldogs attempted a rally, plating a run in the ninth and putting two more runners on base against Bisons' reliever, Paul Piennette, but Piennette managed to escape the jam, giving the Bisons an 8-4 victory.
"They are a team that everybody in the league struggles with," Bolden said. "They play up with everybody. It's always tough to come out with a win. That first win in the double-header was huge."
McClurg was credited with the win for the Bisons. In seven innings, he gave up three runs, two earned, on seven hits while striking out nine. With the win, McClurg improved his record to a perfect 3-0.
Piennette threw the final two innings for the Bisons, allowing one run on four hits.
Joseph led the Bisons on offense with three hits and an RBI. Bolden also had a good game on offense, contributing two hits and two RBIs.
In game two, the Bisons wasted no time getting on the board, using a single up the middle by Bratcher to take a 1-0 lead.
However, the Bulldogs got to game two starter, Mike Dunn, plating two runs in the second and another run in the third, to bring the score to 3-1.
The Bisons got one of the runs back in the fourth, when Justin Sanders scored on a bunt by Jay Moreland.
The Bulldogs plated another run against Dunn in the sixth, before right-hander Charles Williams came on in relief. In 5.2 innings, Dunn gave up four runs on seven hits while striking out two in the no-decision.
"I though Dunn pitched pretty well," Charles Williams said. "I came in with the bases loaded and I didn't want any of those runs to score. I just tried to keep us in the game and execute my pitches, and it worked out."
After the Bulldogs scored another run in the seventh to take a 5-2 lead, the Bisons got their bats going again in the bottom of the inning. Bolden got the scoring going with an RBI single to left field. Later in the inning, with two outs, Sanders walked with the bases loaded to bring home another run. The next batter, Simpkins brought home two more with a single to right, to give the Bisons their first lead since the first inning, and bring the score to 6-5, the final.
Charles Williams pitched the final 3.1 innings for the Bisons, giving up just one run, which was unearned, on two hits. He was credited with the victory to improve to 1-0 on the season.
Simpkins led the Bisons on offense with a perfect 4-4 game, while also contributing two RBIs. Gutierrez added three hits, while Bolden recorded two hits and an RBI. The Bisons, who have been offense-driven this season, had 12 total hits in the game.
"We are a veteran team and we have some guys who have been through some big situations," Bolden said. "They are seasoned guys. That's what comes with it. Big time hits from big time players."
The Bisons will be back in action when they welcome Murray State to Dugan Field on Tuesday, March 25 at 6 p.m. Right-hander Josh Smith is expected to take the mound for Lipscomb. On the season, he is 0-2 with a 5.94 ERA.


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Detroit is sounding more like a post-apocalyptic landscape from the Book of Eli with its dwindling population and dearth of civilized amenities like functional plumbing and law enforcement. Now the once-bustling manufacturing hub teems with packs of wild dogs.
Bloomberg reports the city's postal workers now arm themselves with pepper spray. Some have stopped delivering to certain neighborhoods altogether to avoid packs of vicious once-domesticated Chihuahuas. Twenty-five mail workers suffered dog bites between October and July, the same month the pound stopped accepting canines.
One officer on the police department's skeletal animal control staff says he found a pack of dogs splashing away in a basement flooded with water after thieves ripped the pipes out.
"The dogs were having a pool party," Lapez Moore, 30, tells Bloomberg. "We went in and fished them out."
The city, strapped with $18 billion long-term debt and a $400 million immediate shortfall, budgets just $1.6 million for animal control. It has one dog bite investigator – down from three – just as the problem continues to spiral out of control.
Some 1.8 million people used to inhabit Motor City. Today, it's home to 700,000. About 70,000 buildings within the city lie vacant, many of them now home to the estimated 50,000 homeless dogs. Twenty-three animal control officers rescue about 40 dogs a day. But there's nowhere to put them. Discovery Channel tried producing a show about the proliferation of strays, but the city's film office shot down the idea.
Thankfully, non-profits are out there trying to tackle the stray dog problem. Detroit Dog Rescue is a no-kill shelter that aims to rescue dogs, especially during freezing winter months.
A Detroit rapper named Dan Carlisle posted a video last year about the strays, showing footage of collarless dogs wandering the icy streets. In one frame, a bony pit bull gnaws away on the remains of a frozen-to-death puppy.
Rolling Stone wrote the sheer number of abandoned dogs strikes a chord because it's a glimpse of a world in which we've lost control.
"The image of wild dogs overrunning neighborhoods of a major American city is more than just a disturbing metaphor for our national decline – as with much of what's happened in Detroit, it's also a warning from the future for the rest of the country … Part of the reason the dogs have such free rein is that so many humans have left," Mark Binelli wrote.
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The #falcons may have lost, but the birders won Twitter with #Superb_Owls vs. #Superbowl
Was fun yesterday watching all the punny posts about #Superb_Owls. I really love owls. I posted some too and also made a Storify of some of the posts of the day. Here are mine:
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By Mike Lehman, Tennessee Tech Sports Information Coordinator
COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – After a very successful inaugural year of hosting its own tournament at Sevierville Golf Club, the Tennessee Tech golf teams will play host to the second annual Bobby Nichols Intercollegiate Monday and Tuesday, once again convening in Sevierville, Tenn.
The women will play 36 holes over two days, competing on the par-70 Highlands Course. Spanning 6,372 yards, the course features four par-5 and six par-3 holes. Thirteen teams will make up the field for the women's side of the tournament, accounting for over 65 participants.
Schools taking part in the event include Austin Peay, Belmont, Eastern Kentucky, Evansville, Indiana State, Marshall, Murray State, two teams from Northern Kentucky, Presbyterian, Tennessee State, Tennessee Tech, and West Georgia.
The Golden Eagles will look to match last year's success at the event as the Tech squad took home first place in the inaugural tournament. Current Golden Eagle Maddi Everts led the team to the victory, tying for second place with a two-round score of 150 in rough weather conditions.
"Coming off a good finish in Vegas, the girls have built some good momentum leading up to their title defense in Sevierville," said head coach Polk Brown. "The girls have made some good strides in recent weeks, and we look forward to giving ourselves a great opportunity to repeat."
Here's a look at the lineup for the Golden Eagle women's team:
- Whitney Robertson (Fr.)
- Maddi Everts (So.)
- Megan Williamson (So.)
- Lydia Triplett (Fr.)
- Allison Geer (So.)
- Haley Davidson (Fr.) - Individual
The men's teams partaking in the Bobby Nichols Intercollegiate will compete over 54 holes on the par-72 River Course, extending over 7,155 yards and featuring four par-5 and four par-3 holes. Monday will feature 36 holes of continuous play while Tuesday will feature the final 18 and any carry over from the previous day. Twelve teams, as well as four individuals from another university, will make up a field of over 65 participants.
Included in that field are teams from Detroit, Eastern Kentucky, Evansville, Longwood, Murray State, Northern Kentucky, Tennessee, Tennessee State, Tennessee Tech, UT Martin, West Georgia, and Wright State, as well as four members of the Chattanooga Mocs competing as individuals.
The Tech men's team enters the tournament coming off its fourth top five finish of the season, and highest since 2012, after taking second at the Grover Page Classic hosted by UT Martin. Sophomore Adam Cunningham led the Golden Eagles in the event, tying for fourth place to nab All-Tournament honors with a three-round 215.
"After a very strong finish at UT Martin's event, we anticipate a run at another championship this upcoming week in Sevierville," said Brown. "Expectations are very high for our tournament, and we are excited about competing against a very strong field. We look forward to giving ourselves a chance come Tuesday."
Here's a look at the lineup for the Golden Eagle men's team:
- Adam Cunningham (So.)
- Mitch Thomas (So.)
- Lee Whitehead (Jr.)
- Mason Griffin (R-Jr.)
- Bryce Kendrick (So.)
- Maxx Verble (Jr.) - Individual
- Tanner Garland (Sr.) - Individual
Named in memory of legendary Tennessee Tech coach Bobby Nichols, the Tech event enters just its second year of existence. The Golden Eagles captured first place on the women's side of the tournament last year while Ohio Valley Conference foe UT Martin took home first on the men's side.
Nichols took over the Tennessee Tech men's golf program in 1979 and was responsible for establishing the Golden Eagle women's team in 1986. A Hall of Famer for both Tennessee Tech and the OVC, he lost his battle with cancer in 2008 at the age of 66.
Current head coach Polk Brown played for Nichols from 2001-2006 and was named Tech's head coach in 2011.
"It means a lot to have it named after coach Nichols," Brown said. "He did so many great things for golf here at Tennessee Tech and for the state as well. When I became the coach here, one of the things I wanted to do was have a tournament in his name. It's an honor to do this for the University and for him."


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Grayville police reported another busy weekend in the city with another tavern brawl and a domestic battery.
Chappy's Bar was once again the scene of a fight between at least two women and possibly a third.
Grayville police reported another busy weekend in the city with another tavern brawl and a domestic battery.
Chappy's Bar was once again the scene of a fight between at least two women and possibly a third.
A Grayville Police Department incident report said an officer responded to the bar around 12:15 a.m. Saturday on a report of a fight. Once there, the officer interviewed a number of witnesses who accused Jennifer M. Batteese, 22, Carmi, of being involved in a fight with Whitney K. Brock, 21, Grayville.
The witnesses reported Brock and Batteese started out in a verbal dispute before Batteese struck Brock. The officer noted in the report Brock was injured, with apparent cut lips and a knot on her forehead, however, she refused immediate medical attention.
An Edwards County sheriff's deputy and the Crossville police officer arrived on scene to assist the Grayville officer. They entered the tavern and walked Batteese outside where she allegedly admitted she had struck Brock. She also said she was involved in an immediate second altercation with another woman identified as Emily Madden of Carmi.
The report indicated Batteese will likely pursue a formal complaint against Madden, however, officers were called to a second incident in progress at the Casey's General Store.
A White County sheriff's deputy that had now arrived on scene took Batteese to the City-County Jail in Carmi where she was booked on a preliminary charge of battery pending $150 cash bail.
The Grayville officer responded to Casey's where he met with an employee who said a female was inside the kitchen and hiding. The female had told the employee she did not want her husband to know where she was hiding and the husband had driven through the parking lot a couple of times before the officer could get to the scene.
The hiding female was identified as Angela G. Starnes, 33, Grayville. She told the officer her husband had beaten her and she had suffered a head injury in the scuffle. An ambulance was requested but she later refused transport to a hospital. The officer noted in his report Starnes had a large knot on her forehead and cuts, as well as bruising on both arms. She alleged her husband had beaten her with a television remote control.
The officer and other officials searched for her husband, identified as Ricky A. Starnes, 36, Grayville, with plans to jail him on a preliminary charge of domestic battery.
Officers were unable to locate Starnes throughout the night, despite checking at relatives' homes in other communities.
The downtown tavern has been the scene of a number of arrests over the last few years as evidenced by the following stories in The Times' archives:
Two women were hurt and one was arrested during a fight at Chappy's in July 2012.
A Grayville officer was injured when escorting a suspect to a squad car following an incident at Chappy's with an unruly patron in April 2012.
A rural Browns man was arrested at Chappy's in January 2012 after he allegedly pulled a knife and threatened to kill everyone in the tavern. Two knives were recovered.
Two women were hurt in a scuffle in the tavern in August 2010.
An intoxicated man was arrested in August 2011 after he allegedly stole a flag from in front of the tavern.
A man armed with a knife was arrested at the tavern parking lot in December 2010 after he allegedly threatened the Grayville police chief.
Two people were arrested on the tavern parking lot in December 2011 after they were seen getting into a vehicle with open beer containers.
A man's dentures were broken in a fight at the tavern in November 2011.
A Ridgway woman reported being beaten with a beer bottle by another woman inside the tavern in March 2012.
A woman was arrested in September 2010 after being in an altercation with her ex-husband inside the tavern.
A Burnt Prairie man faced charges of disorderly conduct, trespass and battery following an incident at the tavern in July 2010.
The parking lot of the downtown taverns was the scene of a stabbing in January 2013 that sent one man to a hospital ICU and another to jail.


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With only about 100 breeding pairs remaining in the wild, the Spoon-billed Sandpiper (Eurynorhynchus pygmeus) is in crisis. To help save this species from extinction, SOS – Save Our Species, in which IUCN is a partner, is supporting an innovative conservation project to boost the numbers of juvenile Spoon-billed Sandpipers at their summer breeding grounds in Chukotka, Russia.
Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT) an IUCN member, working in partnership with Moscow Zoo and Birds Russia has achieved incredible success by hatching, rearing and releasing nine Spoon-billed Sandpiper chicks, a species listed as Critically Endangered on The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™.
The nine chicks hatched from 11 eggs carefully taken from breeding grounds on the tundra of the Chukotka region in eastern Russia. Next they were carefully monitored, hatched and nourished in the nearby village of Meinypil'gyno before being released. This intense phase in the project required constant attention and coordination from the team as they worked ceaselessly to give the hatchlings every opportunity for survival. Fledglings gained strength living in a purpose-built open-air aviary designed to shelter the birds from predators with the added protection of a guard who kept vigil night and day.
From Russia the birds will begin an 8,000km migration to South East Asia to their inter-tidal wintering grounds. This pioneering work is all the more remarkable considering that in the wild just three Spoon-billed Sandpipers, out of every 20 eggs laid, survive long enough to start the migration.
"We worked around the clock to keep the chicks alive and healthy," said Roland Digby, project manager, Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust. "It was wonderful to release them and watch them as they found their way into the wild, but it was definitely tinged with anxiety, knowing the terrible threats they face."
Their journey is made more difficult by the loss of inter-tidal habitats along the route which provide important re-fuelling points. Arriving in Southeast Asia, the Spoon-billed Sandpiper faces further threats from human hunters forced by economic pressures to hunt shorebirds. WWT and partners continue to work on strategies to develop longer-term economic and environmental solutions to help people in the South East Asia region give up their reliance on such destructive forms of hunting while extending protection to the Spoon-billed Sandpiper across its range.
A further 20 eggs destined for a Spoon-billed Sandpiper conservation breeding programme were brought from the breeding grounds to WWT's facility at Slimbridge in the UK. It is hoped that these eggs will add to the stock of laid by these birds can one day be carefully relocated back to Russia for hatching in their natural habitat, boosting fledgling numbers that will make the long trek south for the winter.
Meanwhile, with nine out of 11 eggs hatching, the success of this first season of "headstarting", demonstrates how innovative conservation and international collaboration can work to deliver measurable and meaningful results, although more funding is required to run the project again in 2013.


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Friday night I visited Sourbrot (Belgium), one of my favourite dark sky sites, together with 7 other observers from the local astronomy group. As I got out of the car, I immediately noticed that the sky was very transparent. The constellation of cancer was completely visible to the naked eye, with at its heart the big star cluster M 44. I got out my 7x50 binoculars and ........... follow this link to read the full story
Among my favorite deep sky objects are open clusters and asterisms. A few weeks ago I ordered a new book on open clusters, globular clusters and asterisms: Star Clusters by Brent A. Archinal and Steven J. Hynes. Last Saturday I received this magnificent book.
It covers, in just under 500 pages, everything an observer would like to know about these beautiful objects. It contains data on 5045 individual clusters, not only in our own milky way, but also in the Andromeda Galaxy, the Magellanic Cloud's and the Fornax Dwarf Galaxy. Besides the catalog data like magnitude, size, distance, Ra, Dec, etc. there are extended notes on hundreds of these objects.
You will also find chapters on the history and astrophysics of open and globular clusters. Finally there is a chapter devoted to the observation of these objects. This book, with the most up-to-date catalog of star clusters, is published by Willmann-Bell Inc. ISBN 0-943396-80-8. If you are an observer of open clusters, globular clusters or asterisms, this book should be part of your library!
For some sample pages, and the table of contents please follow this link to Star Clusters.
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If you are interested in comets or need some info on observing them be sure to visit these two links:
First of all go to Gary W. Kronk's Cometography.com. Here you will not only find info about comets that are visible at the moment, but also information on all periodic comets, sungrazers, links and many more interesting things on comets and their discoverers.
Another good site on comets is JPL's comet observation home page., with recent news, images and observations, the ephemerides for current visually observable comets, and a lot of other information and links.
When logging your deep sky observations, try to log the seeing, transparency and sky darkness of the night of observing. For the seeing you can use the Pickering seeing scale. The scale is based on what a bright star looks like in a small telescope, using high magnification. It is a 1 to 10 scale, where 1 is very poor and 10 is excellent / perfect. As the scale is made using a 5-inch reflector, the results for other telescopes could be different. You probably have to modify the Pickering scale for your personal use. Visit Damien Peach's website where you can find an animated version of the Pickering's seeing scale. This will give you a very good idea of the different types of seeing you can expect.
I love to observe the night sky with binoculars. I use a 7x50 Bresser and a 15x80 Vixen together with the Sky Window, a binocular mirror mount. If you want to know why I like binocular observing, especially in combination with a binocular mirror mount, just go to Sky Window and Binoculars page. It has has been completely rewritten. A lot of images and useful links have been added as well. Enjoy!
If you are interested in observing planetary nebula, be sure to visit the Planetary Nebulae Observer's Home Page. You will find an introduction to planetary nebulae, over 200 images, more than 1200 observing reports, data on 1143 planetaries. There are also tips on observing planetaries, the use of nebula filters and some pages with Seasonal Best Planetaries, a page for each season with 25 planetaries for beginning but also for very experienced observers.
Last but not least there are some interesting files available for downloading (word or excel). One of them is an excel file containing data on 1143 planetaries, including the common name(s), catalogue number(s), RA, DEC, Size, magnitude, surface brightness, type, distance, magnitude of central star, constellation and more.
A very informative site! Be sure to check it out.
As an observer, I like to get as much information as I can get on the objects I am observing. The moon is one of my favorite observing targets. There ar many great sites on the internet about earth's satellite. Exploring the Moon is one of them.
On this site you will find a timeline of lunar exploration with photos and capsule histories of scientists, discoveries, publications and space missions, an online photographic lunar atlas, a comprehensive catalog of lunar craters, complete texts of critical early papers and other interesting lunar information.
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- Coordinates perfectly with the flat washbasin: bathtub with flat rim
- Classic rectangular bathtubs
- Freestanding or drop-in double bathtub with central waste outlet
- Made from warm, skin-friendly acrylic for sanitary applications
- Optional integration of Villeroy & Boch whirlpool systems.
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Legato – Unique, both day and night
The clearly defined shapes of the bathtubs in Villeroy & Boch's Legato collection are sure to impress design aficionados. The rectangular tubs feature a practical, extra-wide rim. The central waste outlet allows very easy installation and positioning of taps and fittings. The low inner height of the acrylic tub also makes it water-efficient.
- Centrally located waste fitting: ideal for taking a bath with a partner
- Extra-deep basin (480 mm) for added comfort
- Also available with a whirlpool system
- Tubs availabile in four different sizes
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Rectangular bathtub – Ideal for all kinds of bathrooms
Traditional rectangular bathtubs are both attractive and practical. Villeroy & Boch's rectangular baths guarantee maximum length with lots of space to stretch out – after all, a relaxing bath is the ideal antidote for stress.
- Easy installation in almost any space – a good tub choice for small bathrooms
- Wide selection of bathtub models
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- Also a good choice for guest bathrooms or other small bathrooms
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- The extended length is ideal for tall people
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Villeroy & Boch offers a wide selection of high-quality sanitary acrylic products. Since 1748, the traditional family business has stood for innovative strength and design expertise combined with stringent quality standards. Acrylic offers a wide range of advantages for bathroom and sanitary applications. It can be used for both shower trays and bathtubs and impresses with its easy cleaning and pleasantly warm texture.
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A bathtub can be so much more. Villeroy & Boch's innovative whirlpool systems transform regular tubs into whirlpools. The jets can be installed in different types of bathtubs – including corner baths and shower baths. A full range of features for exclusive whirlpool baths.
- Integration of air jets, water jets or a combination – for relaxing whirlpool baths
- All systems available in two versions: Entry and Comfort
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Atmospheric background music is part of a relaxed bath. Villeroy & Boch's ViSound bath sound system transforms your tub into a sound resonator, thanks to the excellent acoustic properties of our materials. You can control the music using a smartphone, tablet or any other Bluetooth-enabled device. For relaxed a bath experience.
- Compatible with any Bluetooth-enabled device for easy wellness experiences
- Invisible speakers – vibration transducers transform the bathtub into a sound resonator
- Outstanding sound quality, regardless of the tub material or the level of water
- Consists of two tweeters and two woofers
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Optional grab handle
Bath handles provide extra safety when getting into or stepping out of the tub. Villeroy & Boch's easily installed bath grips can be used as a hinged support rail or grab bar.
- High-quality, resistant bath handles made from brass with chrome
- Bath grips provide assistance in the bathroom for people of all ages
- Grab bars offer support when sitting down or standing up from a seated bath
- Added safety in the bathroom
Optional accessory
Profibox 2.0 – Panelling for rectangular baths
The Profibox 2.0 bath panelling from professional manufacturer Villeroy & Boch is opening up new horizons for the installation of bathtubs and whirlpools. These panels are compatible with many collections of corner or rectangular bathtubs. Advantages: a perfect finish and easy cleaning.
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Optional accessory
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By ANDY KIRKALDY
VERGENNES — After making a few last tweaks to new zoning laws and rejecting another suggested change, Vergennes aldermen last week set another public hearing that could bring the five-year process of writing new zoning close to an end.
Residents may learn about and comment on the latest council zoning draft at a Tuesday, June 13, hearing that will be held at the city's Green Street fire station and get under way at 7 p.m.
Aldermen will hold at least one more hearing after that, and could call for more public meetings if they make more changes based testimony given on June 13.
By CYRUS LEVESQUE
MIDDLEBURY — Extra credit in schools normally comes in the form of a few more grade points. But for Shelby Laframboise of Middlebury and Kayla Whittemore of Whiting, both eighth-graders at Middlebury Union Middle School, extra credit in one class came in the form of a $50 U.S. savings bond from the Vermont Council on Economic Education (VCEE).
Laframboise and Whittemore, both 14, posted the highest return on investment in the statewide Vermont Stock Market Game, in which 141 teams of middle schoolers used fictitious money to trade real stocks. The online simulation, sponsored by VCEE, is aimed at educating Vermont students about personal finance and the stock market.
MIDDLEBURY — May 29 through June 2 is Middlebury Hunger Awareness Week, which serves to raise awareness about hunger in the area.
The MiddSummer Camp Summer Lunch and Recreation Support Group, which sponsors the week, said there will be activities throughout the week highlighting some of the many ways hunger and food insecurity are being addressed locally. The week's activities include:
• Refreshments and information about MiddSummer Camp '06, an adventure-based experience for fourth- through sixth-graders, will be available in Middlebury's Triangle Park on Monday during the Memorial Day Parade. MiddSummer Camp, based at Mary Hogan Elementary School, provides fun and learning along with nutritious breakfasts and lunches each day.
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Linus Goes for 7 on Linux 3.5 as CentOS and LibreOffice Move Forward
On the Linux Planet, releases come out when they're ready. That's not always on a schedule and it's not always as fast some would like.
1) Linux 3.5 RC 7
Case in point for the slow open source release is the Linux 3.5 kernel. Linus Torvalds had wanted the 6th release candidate to be the near final one. The reason is that Torvalds and many other developers are now moving toward summer vacation mode.
As it turns out, Torvalds did not get his wish.
"Last week I thought that making an -rc7 was not necessarily really required, except perhaps mainly to check the late printk changes," Torvalds wrote in a mailing list posting. "But then today and yesterday, I got a ton of small pull requests, and now I find myself releasing an -rc7 that is actually bigger than rc6 was. Not cool, guys. Not cool."
If testing goes well the final Linux 3.5 would likely debut next week.
"Make sure it's all good," Torvalds advised. "Because I really wish I won't have to do an -rc8."
2) CentOS 6.3
CentOS is a clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Like Torvalds (slightly) delayed Linux 3.5 release, CentOS has had its fair share of delays in recent years. The CentOS 6 release was months late . Not one or two months mind you, but 8 months later than the upstream RHEL release.
Since then though, CentOS developers have really picked up the pace. This past week, CentOS 6.3 was released, which is within a month of Red Hat's official RHEL 6.3 release.
3) LibreOffice 3.55 and 3.6.0 rc 1
LibreOffice also is diverging from its legacy past. Well it's legacy in the form of the OpenOffice.org project which also had more than its fair share of slow and lengthy release cycles.
This past week LibreOffice pushed out its latest stability fix with the 3.5.5 update. Looking beyond stability updates is the 3.6 release which is now at the RC 1 stage with a final release set to debut in the 'coming weeks' according to the Document Foundation. The LibreOffice 3.6 release introduces a long list of new features and will be the second major LibreOffice release so far in 2012. LibreOffice 3.5debuted in February.
Sean Michael Kerner is a senior editor at InternetNews.com, the news service of the IT Business Edge Network, the network for technology professionals Follow him on Twitter @TechJournalist.


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text: Home- Academics- Departments and Programs- Educational Studies- Master of Arts in Teaching Master of Arts in Teaching Graduate Program Colgate offers an exciting and highly individualized master of arts in teaching degree (MAT) on a small scale. The program is open to both Colgate graduates and graduates from other institutions at an 80% tuition reduction. Menu Menu Teacher Preparation Graduates, 2017 Congratulations Jared Goldsmith (MAT) and Jessie Nuthmann! Jared secured a full-time secondary math position at Discovery School in the Bronx. Jessie will be teaching full-time in Brooklyn at Utrecht High School in the ELA department. MAT Program Vision We've founded the program on the premise that as a prospective teacher you will need a socially critical liberal education, thorough knowledge of your chosen discipline, knowledge of educational theory and practice, and a complex understanding of social institutions. You will also need habits of mind that include life-loving spirit, a willingness to move beyond personal comfort, and a desire to be challenged in all aspects of learning. MAT Program Overview Our MAT program challenges you with advanced coursework in a selected discipline and in educational studies, working toward secondary school teaching certification. We offer certification in the following subject areas: English Mathematics History Natural science (biology, chemistry, earth science, and physics) As an MAT student at Colgate, you will work closely with departments to integrate increased knowledge in your discipline with field experience in education. You will accumulate 100 hours of classroom observations before student teaching. For one full term of your program, you will student teach in a local or regional classroom, supervised by an Educational Studies faculty member — typically your adviser. Curriculum To earn an MAT degree from Colgate, you will complete: Three or more courses in your chosen discipline Between four and eight courses in educational studies (depending on previous experience and coursework) Two of your educational studies courses should be at the 500 level A special project or thesis and workshops on child abuse and violence prevention Fingerprinting, as required by New York State If you are already certified at the secondary level, you may substitute two other education courses. Courses that you take as an MAT student for degree credit in your specialization discipline will be assigned 500-level numbers consecutively, beginning with 591. For each undergraduate course taken toward the MAT degree, a student must submit a Graduate Credit Agreement form prior to registration. This form is available from the registrar's office. 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Today, I am going to share a quick & easy (and very tasty) dinner recipe that used to come into rescue during weekdays, while I was still working at a 9-to-9 job. Here's how it goes, minute-by-minute: You've come back home from work feeling exhausted and have just taken off your clothes. Now, before jumping into the shower to get rid off the day's drowsiness, cut the tomatoes, ...


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Notebook I (pp. 1-48) published, in part, as 1.284 (pp. 35-36). Unpublished: the classification of both men and the sciences in terms of prattospude (discovery for the sake of doing), taxospude (discovery for the sake of applying knowledge), heurospude (discovery for the sake of discovery). The three divisions of heurospude or pure science become mathematics, philosophy, and idioscopy. The dependence of the special sciences on philosophy: CSP's disagreement with the empirical philosophers, e.g., Comte and his followers, who make philosophy dependent upon the special sciences. The principles of common sense are indubitable it is impossible to be consistently dissatisfied with them. The normative sciences. Esthetics, or axiagastics, treats of the ultimate aim, or the sammum bonum. The relationship of ethics to esthetics. Ethics as the science of self-control has the double task of describing the operation of self-control (but not in psychological terms) and determining the conditions to which conduct must conform in order to be right. The second of the two tasks belongs to critical ethics which is distinguished from casuistry by reason of its avoidance of specific cases. Logic as an application of ethics to the realm of thought and as a science of signs. Logic is more than the theory of the relation of symbols to their object it stands as the general theory of signs of all kinds. Notebook II (pp. 49-59): doctrine of signs (continued). The branches of logic: stecheology, logical critic, and methodeutic. Tritocenoscopy and taxospude.
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La Cucina's Fresh, Made-to-Order Pasta is Just Like a Trip to Italy
What makes La Cucina so unique is that Don Truong makes all of his own pastas and prepares each dish to order, one plate at a time.
Trenette norcina (left) and vongole pasta (right).
La Cucina Italiana is like the little Italian restaurant you've always dreamt of, with just one person, ideally an Italian grandmother, running the kitchen.
Except instead of a spot in the base of the Italian foothills, it's a nook at the bottom of a condo building. And the person in the kitchen is a young Vietnamese cook who studied business in college.
But what makes La Cucina so unique is that Don Truong makes all of his own pastas and prepares each dish to order, one plate at a time.
Hear the pounding in the back? That's him flattening out the veal right before he cooks it and serves it to you. He is basically a one-man operation, in the same vein as Angry Korean Lady a few doors down.
Scan the Yelp reviews, and you'll find raves about the food, with varying degrees of acceptance about the time it takes for it to arrive.
But nobody complains about the pasta. All of them are fresh and made in house; semolina in the dough makes them extra firm. Unique to La Cucina is trenette, a wide, flat noodle similar to tagliatelle, but with a slightly ruffled edge. It captures bits of sausage perfectly, as in the trenette norcina, with a deeply savory sauce of meat and mushroom. The hints of clove and star anise call to mind Chinese food, a reminder that spices—and possibly noodles—flowed from China to Italy for hundreds of years.
Truong also makes a tagliolini, almost like spaghetti but slightly flatter, with a bite that pairs well with tender clams in the vongole pasta.
But remember, dinner at La Cucina is best enjoyed with lots of time, just like a trip to Italy.
Pastas $12 to $21, La Cucina Italiana, 725 Kapiolani Blvd c112, (808) 593-2626, lacucinaristoranteitaliano.com


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The latest research from The NPD Group shows specific food or beverage ingredients do not significantly influence consumer choices of restaurant and menu items, although consumers express the desire for more nutritional information.
According to the study, consumers are making a conscious effort to live a healthier lifestyle and are looking for products made with less fats/oils, sodium, and sweeteners.
However, these attitudes have little influence on a diner's choice of restaurant and menu item, with only a small percentage of consumers seeking nutritional information such as calories (20 percent) and fats/oils (13 percent).
Of those surveyed, 10 percent identified sweeteners as a concern.
(Visit QSR's Facebook page for more information on the study!)
"Pick up a menu today at any popular family restaurant and you'll see nutrition facts to meet the need of rising consumer awareness around healthier eating," says Aron Levin, associate professor of marketing and director of the Marketing Research Partnership Program at Northern Kentucky University. "However in the moment of truth, consumers really don't avoid the foods they say they will."
The study shows that sodas, sugars, and fats/oils are among the foods people avoid.
As for concern over the type of sweetener, consumers did not express concern for any one specific type. In fact, HFCS was mentioned by fewer than 1 percent of those surveyed, and only 4 percent of respondents specifically visit a restaurant because it has removed high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) from menu items.
"Restaurant owners should consider these results before investing substantially in revising recipes or revamping menus," Levin says. "This especially holds true when making considerations at the ingredient level, as specific as the type of sweetener."
The research, which surveyed 2,829 adults who visited family-dining and casual-dining restaurants in the past three months, was commissioned by the Corn Refiners Association and conducted by The NPD Group.
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Publishizer needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 479 designs submitted by 77 freelance designers.
Hi 99designers!
Thanks for your interest in designing an iconic logo for our eBook publishing platform, Publishizer!
About us:
Publishizer is an ebook publishing platform focused on community, collaboration and premium content.
Simplicity, elegant design and 'playful professionalism' are the key values sought after for this logo.
Publishizer is geared towards its authors. It is a place to produce and consume premium content.
We will be targeting mostly non-fiction authors; experts in niche, narrow fields. Over time, I hope to encourage Publishizer's authors to produce locally-tailored content.
eBooks are categorised in broad topics such as:
- Social media
- Eco
- Branding
- Technology
- Cities
- Entertainment
- Spirituality
- Design
- Food
- Travel guides
Our eBooks target niche interest topics, such as:
- PhotoShop for Beginners
- Video Production for the Internet
- Advanced Digital Photography
- HTML/CSS Web Design
- User Interface Design
- Advanced Final Cut Pro Techniques
- Gen Y Guide to Living Green
- Nonprofit Marketing Strategies
- Melbourne Travel Guide
- Piano Improvisation for Beginners
- Learning to Speak Swahili
- Programming in Python
- And so on...
Hopefully this gives you a feel for our targeted audience.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me!
The winning design will include a HOOK: a simple icon that represents 'eBooks', combined with or incorporated into the word 'Publishizer'.
Other design requirements are: a creative imagination, simplicity of thinking, witty humour and an eye for aesthetics.
I would like to invite you to explore 'eBooks' in new and innovative ways. They're interactive, social, eco-friendly and helpful. How do you see the future of eBooks?
Here are the key requirements for the Publishizer logo:
- Bold, instantly recognisable logo
- Bright colours and clean typeface
- Clever, quirky and cool
- A clever design feature that communicates 'interactive eBooks'
Logos that I like (see attached below):
- Fast Company
- Apple
- Squarespace
- Zendesk
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|System: Wii (WiiWare)
|Review Rating Legend
|Dev: Ambrella
|1.0 - 1.9 = Avoid
|4.0 - 4.4 = Great
|Pub: Nintendo
|2.0 - 2.4 = Poor
|4.5 - 4.9 = Must Buy
|Release: Nov. 16, 2009
|2.5 - 2.9 = Average
|5.0 = The Best
|Players: 1-4
|3.0 - 3.4 = Fair
|ESRB Rating: Everyone
|3.5 - 3.9 = Good
It's been over a year since Pokémon Ranch released on WiiWare, so it's a safe bet starved fans will appreciate the latest side dish Nintendo has served up for the platform. Pokémon Rumble doesn't offer traditional RPG gameplay like the main series of Pokémon games, but it does contain most of the key elements Pokémon aficionados find so alluring.
Like Nintendo's other mammoth license, Mario, there's never been a heavy requirement for story in a Pokémon game. Keeping with tradition, the player is given merely the basics about the Pokémon toys they'll be controlling, along with a goal of becoming the Battle Royale champion. Oddly enough, it's all the excuse you'll need to progress through the game, since collecting 'em all is still the focus here.
Yup, you're not actually controlling Pokémon, but rather wind-up Pokémon toys. You'll begin the game by taking control of a Rattata, and by battling through a series of dungeons, you'll befriend new Pokémon toys, as well as earn Poké money. There are four ranked areas, each with six dungeons to explore. The actual gameplay is simple and repetitive, yet there's some hidden depth here that gives the game a surprising amount of weight.
The actual gameplay in Pokémon Rumble is sort of a simplified hybrid of Diablo and a typical beat'em-up - a crawl and brawl, if you will. Combat is simple, yet the variety of Poké powers helps to keep things interesting as you stroll along straightforward paths, fighting horde after horde of enemy Pokémon toys. As you defeat the other Pokémon, they turn into Poké money, which you can then spend on various things back at the terminal.
Occasionally, you'll knock a Pokémon toy out, and this will allow you to walk up to it and befriend it, adding it to your roster of playable Pokémon toys. It isn't difficult to see where Nintendo's going with all this. The entire process of entering a dungeon, collecting Poké money, befriending Pokémon, defeating a boss, and then heading back to the terminal to buy new powers and/or recruit new toys to your roster is every bit as addictive as any diehard Pokémon fan could hope for.
The dungeons are very plain, and that's probably the biggest issue with the game. Though the combat is repetitive, collecting Poké money, befriending new Pokémon toys, and the variety of attacks are all very satisfying. But secret items and areas hidden within each dungeon would have been nice, and multiple paths, along with generally more interesting areas to explore, would have added so much to the adventure. There are only six dungeon types total in the game. Each time you move up to a new rank, there are new Pokémon to encounter, but for the most part, there's not much new to see.
Once you've completed all six dungeons for a particular ranked area - or befriend a powerful enough Pokémon - you can head into the Battle Royale. You're pitted against a slew of other toys at once, and you'll have to defeat specified Pokémon before time runs out. Win the competition, and you move on to the next rank. Upon completing the game, you'll unlock an Advanced mode, which offers the same gameplay and dungeons, but with new Pokémon and a stiffer challenge.


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Two Christian Coptic Girls Disappear in Upper Egypt, Muslim Youth Believed Responsible
Two Coptic Christian girls have disappeared under mysterious circumstances in the Minya village of Ezbet Ayoub in Upper Egypt. The families of the two girls have accused two Muslims of inciting them to leave home.
The girls' fathers submitted two complaints to the police station Thursday, about the disappearance of 18-year-old Hana Nemr Gad and 17-year-old Erine Samir Naguib. The complaints accused two Muslim youth of using the girls' emotional relationship with them to lure them out of their houses.
The girls' fathers, Nemr Gad Saad and Samir Naguib Guirguis, said that the girls went to school Wednesday, but did not return home. They said that neighbors and relatives had no information regarding their current whereabouts.
Mohsen Saad Gad, fiancee of Hana Nemr, told MCN that they were all shocked that the girls did not return from school. Gad said he spoke with the residents and one told him that two Muslims had been following the girls and begun harassing them as well.
They then issued a formal complaint, and gave formal testimonies to the local authorities, in the hope they would investigate the two men on charges of kidnapping.
The families have warned that they will soon stage a sit-in in front of the governorate building if their daughters are not found.
Gad told MCN that there were no issues at home with the girls, and that he and his fiancee had just spent the previous day visiting the Al-Muharraq Monastery of the Virgin Mary in Assiut.
Gad said this rules out any doubt that the girls left of their own will. He added that in accordance with the law these girls must be found and returned to their families.


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Asked about his plan to use the post, Lady Bruins coach Tom McGunnigal said, "We felt we had an advantage in there. I thought they'd come in with a little bit of a 2-3 zone, and I told the girls you can't just stand out on the perimeter and bomb all night figuring you were going to do something good. We stayed with our offense. Moved (and) dribble penetrated with the ball. We especially stuck with our defense and tried to get some points off of that. We had nice bounce and good distribution."
St. Bede's second highest scorer was Whitley Funfsinn with 16 points. The Lady Bruins' Raley Mauck, Haley Dzierzynski and Lydia Stariha assisted the effort with 10 points each.
"In the first quarter we tried to play man to man and Mo Dean got the ball inside and scored. We played some zone in the second quarter and hung around a little bit. They made three or four threes right before the half. So, it's kind of a pick your poison, it's either double down on her or hope they miss the threes," Hall coach Mike Struna said. "And so that was the story of the first half. The second half was more of the same I guess. I though we handled the press well in the first half, we broke it well. We just didn't score. That's kind of been our story all year, offensively. We struggle to score. Kind of the same story another night."
The first half was tough for the Lady Red Devils as they only managed to put up 10 points. Meanwhile, St. Bede kept moving the ball around and making baskets. There was not much change in the following quarters.
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Ubuntu's Merry Mobile Machinations
Jan 7, 2013 5:00 AM PT
The Linux community may not exactly be known for its glitzy launch events, but last week saw one the likes of which has rarely -- if ever -- been seen in these parts before.
Splashier even than the blogosphere's New Year's Eve festivities, most agreed, the Ubuntu for phones announcement on Wednesday might well have been a Cupertino production, so loud were the trumpets and fanfare, and so elaborately choreographed the various pieces.
Linux bloggers had gotten carefully placed word ahead of time that "disruptive" news was on the way, of course, so speculation had naturally been running wild for some time.
Now that we have the official news, are bloggers thrilled? Will Ubuntu for phones change the mobile world as we know it? That, it turns out, depends very much on who you ask.
CNN, TechCrunch, the Verge, and PCWorld have all expressed doubt.
Linux Girl headed to the blogosphere's main downtown to take the pulse of the blogging masses.
'They Could Have a Solid Product'
"This move by Canonical was far from unexpected, but based on what little I saw of the phone version of Ubuntu, it looks like they could have a solid product," began Google+ blogger Linux Rants. "They could have succeeded where Microsoft failed and created an interface almost entirely different from the more traditional icon-driven interface and have that interface not suck."
Of course, the effort's success will depend on support from hardware manufacturers, app developers, carriers and consumers, Linux Rants pointed out.
"Canonical could hugely bolster their chances for success by following in the footsteps of RIM and including the capability of running Android apps in the OS," he suggested. "Ubuntu native applications would run faster and more smoothly, but that would solve the app problem out of the gate."
'I Wish They'd Have Waited'
In any case, "I'm not a fan of how early they've announced it and how long the customer is going to have to wait to get their hands on a device," Linux Rants added. "That's something we've already seen companies like HP pay dearly for.
"I wish they'd have waited until they had a completed product, some app developers on board, hardware manufacturers with devices already ready, and carriers willing to use them," he explained.
"Maybe that's asking a lot, but I worry that a product that could be a very good option for a lot of people will suffer because it was announced too soon," he concluded.
'How Does Canonical Get Traction?'
"I don't begrudge Canonical the attempt, and quite possibly this will bring good things to the ecosystem of mobile," Google+ blogger Kevin O'Brien agreed. "More competition is frequently a good thing."
At the same time, "I have my doubts as to whether there is room in the marketplace for yet another mobile OS," O'Brien added. "Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 has gotten good reviews, but I don't think anyone is rushing to buy the phones.
"So how does Canonical get traction here?" he wondered.
'Ubuntu Is Playing Catch-Up'
"Surely there must be a better way forward than to replicate Microsoft's mistake of trying to shoehorn the same interface onto tablets and desktops," suggested Hyperlogos blogger Martin Espinoza.
"Ubuntu is playing catch-up to Android, poorly," Espinoza opined. "Perhaps in three or four more revisions their interface will be as good as Android's has been for years."
Indeed, "I wish Ubuntu would leave the phone alone," offered consultant and Slashdot blogger Gerhard Mack. "I know the desktop is not cool, but some of us still need a working desktop, and no, we do not need it to be touch-centric.
"Attempting to claw into the already crowded market is just a waste of time," Mack concluded.
Similarly, "I am very old fashioned and still think my computer is and should remain something different from my phone," Google+ blogger Gonzalo Velasco C. said. "See, outside the Manhattan island it is hard to make your phone make a call; imagine me trying to view Web pages and edit spreadsheets online in South America!!"
'I See the Same Problem'
Robin Lim, a lawyer and blogger on Mobile Raptor, said he has "no doubt Canonical can make a good phone operating system. The problem really is who is going to build a phone with Ubuntu Phone on board?
"If you get some manufacturer to actually use Ubuntu Phone, its success will depend on getting a 100,000- to 200,000-app store up and running as quickly as possible," he told Linux Girl.
"Linux's weakness has never been the operating system, but getting it pre-installed on hardware and the absence of apps," he suggested. "I see the same problem for Ubuntu Phone."
'There Seem to Be No Takers'
Then, too, there's the question of demand, Lim pointed out.
"The most interesting feature that Ubuntu Phone brings is the ability to plug it into a laptop dock or monitor and keyboard and run the full x86 PC version of Ubuntu," he explained. "But how many people really want to run Ubuntu? Canonical has been offering this under its Ubuntu for Android project for nearly a year, and there seem to be no takers.
"If an Android phone with an Ubuntu desktop operating system inside has no demand, why would an Ubuntu phone with an Ubuntu desktop operating system inside fare any better?" he asked.
In short, "the mobile phone operating system market seems a bit too crowded," Lim opined. "Instead of focusing on a new mobile operating system, Canonical should spend their time and money launching an actual Ubuntu Phone -- you know, some hardware: a nice mid-level quad core device powered by Android 4.2 with Ubuntu 12.10 on board."
'The Buzzword Bandwagon'
Slashdot blogger hairyfeet took it even further.
"Give it up, stick a fork, Canonical is done," hairyfeet told Linux Girl. "Here is a perfect example of 'no positive indicators,' yet the company is going full stupid ahead on the buzzword bandwagon."
After all, "what sells phones and tablets? Apps," hairyfeet pointed out. "What does Ubuntu not have? You guessed it. The VAST majority of the big apps are NOT FOSS, so you can't just recompile them.
"Look at the billion plus that MSFT has thrown away basically paying for the porting of the most popular apps, yet they STILL can't get any traction, because Apple and Google have 10,000 apps to every one at MSFT's app store," he added.
"Final prediction? Canonical dead in 2, MSFT dead in 5," hairyfeet concluded.
'It Can Do Anything'
Blogger Robert Pogson, however, wasn't so sure.
"GNU/Linux has proven it can do anything," Pogson pointed out.
"The challenge that Canonical has accepted is to have one OS serve anywhere from a single build," he noted. "It's not clear that this is technically superior to having multiple specialized versions except that incompatibilities should be hard to create."
The biggest challenge, however, "is not the technology, but trying to make any dent in Android/Linux's huge lead with developers, OEMs, retailers and consumers," Pogson added. "Replacing XP, '7' and '8' on PCs is a much easier goal as Wintel crumbles under its weight."
'It's the Right Thing to Do'
Still, "Canonical should do this even if it only brings in a little revenue," he opined. "It's about time Ubuntu GNU/Linux became commercial in every sense. If embracing mobile helps the goal be achieved, it's the right thing to do. Once GNU/Linux takes some share of mobile, it will be much easier to convince OEMs, retailers and consumers to move GNU/Linux everywhere."
Besides, "GNU/Linux should have an edge over Android/Linux in performance because native code should run faster than interpreted code," he pointed out. "That can either be used to reduce cost by requiring fewer cores, to reduce power consumption or to increase the quantity of software available."


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James Gandolfini spent years playing Tony Soprano and other thugs in films like "Killing Them Softly." It's hard to think of him as a big teddy bear of a guy at the center of a sensitive romantic comedy. But that's where he lands as Albert in "Enough Said." It's one of the final roles in his remarkable acting life cut short by his untimely death in June.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus is at the top of her game as Eva. She plays a middle-aged woman who becomes Albert's love interest. They are both divorced single parents of teenage daughters. Eva is a masseuse who unknowingly has Albert's ex-wife Marianne as a massage client. As Marianne describes the many faults of her ex-husband, Eva realizes she is talking about her own new boyfriend, Albert.
In Hollywood, a setup like this usually results in contrived comedy and phony dialogue. But writer/director Nicole Holofcener ("Friends With Money") overcomes that trap. She creates a mature yet playful look at grownups in love. The interaction and banter between all the characters rings true as real people in real relationships.
'Rush' provides a real one
Few directors have mastered as many film styles as Ron Howard. He easily serves up warmhearted fare like "Splash" and "Cocoon." But he also excels at Oscar-worthy dramas like "A Beautiful Mind" or "Apollo 13."
He combines these talents in the heart-pounding "Rush," an exhilarating tale of Formula One racing. It's based on a true story of the rivalry between two European race car drivers in the 1970s. Chris Hemsworth ("Thor") plays buffed English playboy driver James Hunt. Daniel Bruhl ("The Bourne Ultimatum") plays the methodical Austrian driver Niki Lauda.
The conflict between the two men is simple but compelling enough. Their animosity and very different lifestyles provide the dramatic tension with a nice touch of humor. But the real star of this movie is cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle. He captures the chaotic turmoil of the race track in riveting, detailed action. It will make your head spin and should please the NASCAR fans in the audience.
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The family of Afzal Guru, who was hanged last week for his role in 2001 Parliament attack, welcomed the Centre's decision to hand over his belongings, but said they would come to Tihar only if the government agrees to hand over his body.
"They are mixing the two things, we don't understand what they mean. We can pray even from here. We want the body to be handed back, nothing less than that," Mohammad Yasin, a cousin of Afzal from Sopore told PTI after Home Secretary R K Singh said in Delhi that the family will be allowed to visit Afzal's grave inside Tihar jail here.
Singh also said all belongings left behind in Tihar jail by Afzal will be handed over to his family. But Yasin said, "We welcome handing over the belongings but it should not be mixed with the issue of handing over the body. They are different.... If they are so concerned, they should hand over the body."
Yasin said they would go to Tihar only if the body is returned. "We will go to Delhi on our own, if it comes to that. We do not want any largesse from the Government. The only thing we want from them is to return Afzal's body," he said.
On Afzal's belongings, he said "they are the real treasure left now." The belongings, according to Yasin, include his writing material, religious and other books and a radio set.
"Either they tell us to come there or we can come on our own to collect the body and the belongings," said Yasin, adding the family wants to give him a "proper burial".
Yasin said the family has written a letter in this respect to Tihar jail authorities as well as Deputy Commissioner Baramulla.
Fourty-three year old Afzal was hanged and buried in Tihar jail in Delhi on February 9.
Asked about Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde's statement that government can consider allowing the family to offer 'fatiha' (prayer) on Afzal's grave, Yasin said it was of no use.
"Where will we offer faitha? We want to bury him here (in Sopore)," he said.
He termed as "cruel joke" the letter received yesterday from Tihar Jail authorities informing the family about Afzal's hanging.
"The arrival of the letter yesterday was like rubbing salt into open wounds of the family...the wounds which may never heal," Yasin said. He alleged that the leaders of the country were playing politics over the death of Afzal.
"Afzal was hanged -- rightly or wrongly, we don't want to go into that -- but politicians should stop playing politics," he said.
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