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The Night Sky Lite is a magical new app that enables you to identify the stars, planets, galaxies, and constellations you can see above. Just stand anywhere and hold your Android Phone or Tablet up to the sky and The Night Sky Lite will display the names of the stars, planets and other objects you are able to see, just like magic!
Even if your view is obscured by clouds or daylight, The Night Sky Lite app will know which stars, planets, galaxies, and constellations are hiding from your view! You have to use this app to realize just how amazing it is!
The Night Sky Lite does this by using your location data provided by the GPS and compass built in to your device. It then cross references your location data with its inbuilt map of the sky and overlays the stars, planets, galaxies, and constellations names on your screen. It really is magical and will amaze you, and anyone you show it to!
So next time you're gazing up in to The Night Sky and wonder the name of a star, planet, galaxy, or constellation, just get out your Android Phone or Tablet and let The Night Sky Lite app amaze your gaze!
The Night Sky is a #1 selling app because it really is simply magical!
What's New
Sky Map
Find us elsewhere:
http://goo.gl/XWjRg (Google Plus)
Keywords: planetarium, astronomy, skymap
Sky Map of Constellations
The Moon Info (the menu item) shows the date of phases of The Moon and the action of gravity on the human body. The strong gravity can cause problems to someone when he is sensitive to it.
You need Internet connection, only if You want to get help from the Wikipedia.
Install software and scroll the map as You needed.
To change of map use a MENU North Sky, South Sky.
Have fun.
Sky Objects
Sky Objects turns your Android-powered device into a window on the night sky.
The Plus adds the new ability to track any near earth objects with a NORAD Id in real time. Follow satellites, the international space station, and more!
Sat Locks My take up to 1-2 minutes over cell networks!
You can get predictions for Iridium Flares for the next 7 days. Think shooting star like flares.
Based on code Open sourced and donated by Google.
Inspired by
Predictions By
Tracking data is courtesy of www.n2yo.com
Anyone interested in helping? Fell free to email.
SkyView® Free
***An AppsZoom Best Android App 2014***
• Simple: Point your device at the sky to identify galaxies, stars, constellations, planets, and satellites (including the ISS and Hubble) passing overhead at your location.
• Night Mode: Preserve your night vision with red or green night mode filters.
• Augmented Reality (AR): Use your camera to spot objects in the sky, day or night.
• Sky Paths: Follow the sky track for any object to see it's exact location in the sky on any date and time.
• Time Travel: Jump to the future or the past and see the sky on different dates and times.
• Social: Capture and share beautiful images with friends and family on social networks.
• Mobile: WiFi is NOT required (does not require a data signal or GPS to function). Take it camping, boating, or even flying!
• Supports Space Navigator™ binoculars, spotting scope, and telescopes.
What a fun way to teach yourself, your children, your students, or your friends about our wonderful universe!
Star Tracker - Mobile Sky Map
It's the mobile planetarium in your pocket, designed for astronomy fans to explore the universe. Just hold up and point your device at the sky and StarTracker will tell you exactly what stars, constellations and deep sky objects you are looking at in realtime. Full utilization of the build-in gyroscope, digital compass and accelerometer drive the best user experience.
What our users said:
-- "Best star gazing app I've ever used. Very well put together and great visuals!!! From end to end this app is a must-have for anyone interested in astronomy!!"
-- "This app is a marvel of technology, art, and science. Super smooth operation, great graphics and a great merging of the devices capabilities. Having grown up using star charts and compasses, this app feels like science fiction come to life. Great job!"
-- "Looking at the sky was never this incredible!"
-- "If you download only one app, make sure it's this one!! This is one of the best apps I've ever seen, period! Its quality is unmatched among star gazing apps!"
★ All data is offline!
★ Fit all screen size from 3.5 inch to 12 inch for any resolution!
★ Sun, Moon, Planets in Solar System, 88 Constellations and 8000+ stars visible to the naked eyes.
★ 12 Zodiac Constellations Art & 6 famous deep sky objects with magnificent graphics.
★ Location auto set by GPS, or set manually.
★ Auto hide all menus and enter AR track mode when lift up the device and point to sky.
★ Smooth motion flow and quick response which is realized by cutting edge signal processing technique.
★ Superb high quality graphic display by enabling the retina display of the device and the full screen anti-aliasing technology employment.
Pro version:
★ Full 88 Constellations & 100+ deep sky objects with magnificent graphics.
★ Search and guide you to stars, constellations, planets and deep sky objects.
★ 3D compass in AR mode, indicate position of objects your searched.
★ Time Machine menu and location menu to let you explore more on time and location dimension.
★ Night mode switch, protecting eye when doing star gazing outdoor.
★ Top Left: Location Menu, choose location from a world map.
★ Bottom Left: AR Compass indicator in AR track mode, pan the screen to enter un-track mode and click track button to back.
• When under un-track mode, just lift up the screen and point it to the sky to enter AR track mode.
Star Chart
You can now have a virtual planetarium in your pocket! Look through the eyes of your Android device to see a virtual window into the whole visible universe.
All you have to do is point your Android deviceº at the sky and Star Chart will tell you exactly what you are looking at.
Using state of the art GPS technology, an accurate 3D universe, and all of the latest high tech functionality, Star Chart calculates – in real time - the current location of every star and planet visible from Earth and shows you precisely where they are; even in broad daylight!
Want to know what that bright star is called? Point your device at it – you might just find out it's a planet!
Want to know what the night sky looks like to people on the other side of the earth? Well just point your device down!
Want to know where your star sign is in the sky? Star Chart will tell you all this and more.
Star Chart's features include:
- Just point and view. No need to scroll around the screen to find out what you are looking at*.
- Alternatively, look around the sky using finger gestures – perfect for armchair astronomers!
- Voice Control: Explore the solar system with commands like: "Fly me to the Moon" / "Go to Saturn" / "Tour Mars" / "Look at Andromeda" / "Where is the Cigar Galaxy?"[English only]
- Supports dynamic device orientation viewing. Allows you to view the night sky whilst holding your Android device at any angle.
- Accurately depicts all the visible stars of the northern and southern hemispheres - a total of over 120,000 stars!
- Fly to and explore all the planets of the solar system, their moons and the sun all rendered in beautiful 3D with state of the art visual effects.
- Displays all 88 constellations, with constellation imagery based on the beautiful artwork by 17th century astronomer Johannes Hevelius.
- Includes entire Messier catalogue of exotic deep sky objects.
- Using the powerful Time Shift feature allows you to shift up to 10,000 years forward or backward in time.
- Tap on anything in the sky and get the facts on what you are looking at, including distance and brightness.
- Very powerful zoom function, lets you view the sky in extra detail, using intuitive finger gestures.
- Fully configurable. Star Chart displays only the sky objects that you are interested in.
- Allows you to view the sky underneath the horizon. So now you can see where the sun is, even at night!
- Manually set your location to find out what the sky looks like from anywhere in the world.
- Full search feature
So point your Android device at the sky and see what's out there!
Star Chart is published by Escape Velocity Ltd and developed by Escapist Games Ltd. We update Star Chart regularly, so please send us your feedback and feature requests to firstname.lastname@example.com.
And thanks for all your feedback so far!
Like us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/starchart
Follow Star Chart on Twitter: StarChartApp
º Augmented Reality (AR) mode only available if your device supports it, as this feature requires a built-in compass. Manual scrolling is supported on all other devices.
* Star Chart does not require internet access for normal usage. Internet access is only required initially to verify the license and subsequently when accessing the support page and external links.
Night Sky Tools - Astronomy
The calculations are of a high enough accuracy for almost all amateur astronomy applications.
Due to the fact that astronomy is often best when far from civilization where mobile signal may not always be reliable. Therefore, this app is (almost) completely self-contained and does not require any internet connection for most of the information available. The only exceptions to this are the SOHO solar images and NGC/IC, Messier, Caldwell and Binary star images and weather forecast which are loaded dynamically, as well as the refreshing of satellite, comet and near-earth asteroid data.
Night mode turns the display red for night observations without having to ruin your night vision.
The Sky Map makes use of the direction sensors of the device to show the sky above (or below you). Most of the features can be toggled in the settings. The Sky Map also allows you to turn on the device's camera to see the view behind the device with the sky map superimposed over it.
The direction sensors of the device may need to be calibrated if the map appears to be pointing in the wrong direction. To calibrate the device's sensors wave the device in a figure-8 pattern. If the direction is still off, then the direction calibration can be adjusted manually by changing the setting in the Settings screen.
The observation log, allows you to save observations in the applications, as well as manage a list of astronomical equipment and observing locations. This equipment is also available for use in the Telescope Calculator.
Most of the data screens have an option to share the data via email, or other similar apps able to accept HTML content.
The Astronomical Time is also available as a Home screen widget. To use the widget, the app needs to be installed onto the internal storage instead of the SD card, otherwise it will not be available.
The Russian translation of the application is courtesy of Lirvux.
Some permissions are required for correct functioning of the app:
Location - used to determine user location throughout the app
Camera/Microphone - used to allow camera background in skymap. The microphone is never used but this permission is bundled with camera.
Photos/Media/Files - used to allow proper functioning of the full screen images and caching of images
Network access - used to do online searches, and downloading comet, asteroid and satellite data, object images and geocoding.
The app is jam-packed with features:
- Observe the sky with the skymap, planisphere, aurora forecast, polar finder, weather forecast, daylight map, SOHO images, Jupiter and Saturn's moons, Moon and Sun calendars and what's up.
- Detailed object information on the planets, constellations, comets, exoplanets, meteor showers, near-earth asteroids, satellites, as well as the full NGCIC, Caldwell, Messier, 6th catalog of Visual Binary Stars by the USNO and General Catalog of Variable Stars catalogs, as well as a SIMBAD search.
- Calculate angular separation, atmospheric refraction, magnitude, coordinate conversions, visual limiting magnitude, precession, redshift, and telescope airy disc, f-ratio and magnification
- Astronomical references, glossary, HR diagram and stellar classification.
- Astrophotography tools for exposure time, CCD resolution, Untracked exposure time and optimal f-ratio.
- Emphemerides for eclipses, equinoxes, conjunctions and oppositions, the sun, moon and planets
- Observation log
- Astronomical time
NASA App
- Over 14,000 images (and growing everyday)
- Latest news and features stories
- Latest on demand NASA videos from around the agency
- Current NASA mission Information
- Live streaming of NASA TV
- Live streaming video from the High Definition Earth Viewing (HDEV) experiment on the ISS
- Launch information & countdown clocks
- Current visible passes for the International Space Station (ISS) and notifications
- Current visible passes for other missions (Fermi, Hinode, Hubble...)
- ISS and Earth orbiting satellite trackers
- NASA Twitter Feeds from around the agency
- Facebook® Connect and integrated Twitter™ client for easy sharing
- Schedule for NASA TV and NASA-Related Programming on Other TV Channels
- Map, information and links to all of the NASA visitor centers
- Featured content and program sections
- Earth as Art image collection and interactive map
- Third Rock Radio (alternative rock radio station)
- Favorites & image bookmarks
- 5 star rating system for images and videos with top rated list
Stellarium Mobile Sky Map
The sensor control will also enable you to identify a star in just a few seconds, just by pointing the phone at the sky!
This award-winning astronomy application is finally available on Android featuring:
* a catalog of over 600,000 stars displayed as a real time zoomable sky map
* a catalog of many nebulae and galaxies, with pictures for some of them
* asterisms and illustrations of the constellations for several sky cultures
* artificial satellites, including the International Space Station
* realistic Milky Way
* realistic landscape and atmosphere with sunrise, sunset and light pollution simulation
* accurate simulation of stars extinction, and atmosphere refraction
* 3D rendering of the major solar system planets and their satellites
* night mode (red)
* GPS positioning, accelerometers control of the direction of view in the sky
Stellarium mobile Sky Map is created by two of the original developers of Stellarium, the Desktop version of this famous astronomy and planetarium stars chart app.
SkyView® Explore the Universe
***An AppsZoom Best Android App 2014***
• Simple: Point your device at the sky to identify galaxies, stars, constellations, planets, and satellites (including the ISS and Hubble) passing overhead at your location.
• Night Mode: Preserve your night vision with red or green night mode filters.
• Augmented Reality (AR): Use your camera to spot objects in the sky, day or night.
• Sky Paths: Follow the sky track for any object to see it's exact location in the sky on any date and time.
• Comprehensive: Includes thousands of stars, planets, and satellites with thousands of interesting facts.
• Time Travel: Jump to the future or the past and see the sky on different dates and times.
• Social: Capture and share beautiful images with friends and family on social networks.
• Mobile: WiFi is NOT required (does not require a data signal or GPS to function). Take it camping, boating, or even flying!
What a fun way to teach yourself, your children, your students, or your friends about our wonderful universe!
Star charts are from IAU and Sky & Telescope, detail info is from Wikipedia.
Developed with Apache cordova. App needs no permissions but lists internet access as required for the webview UI.
To view a bigger version of the star chart (in case pinch zoom is still not working) turn to landscape mode.
Star Hoppers
With its digital star chart, you will find that people from the ancient Chinese and Western cultures created different constellation and asterism system due to their different associations with the stars. The star chart has 3 different operation modes: the Virtual Reality (VR) mode simulates the star field according to the location and orientation data obtained from the device to help you identify celestial objects and constellations; the Augmented Reality (AR) mode marks the celestial objects, constellations and asterisms on your camera image in real-time by employing the augmented reality technology; the Manual (M) mode allows you to navigate the star chart at will. Tapping on any constellations, planets, the Sun, Moon or Three Enclosures and Twenty-eight Mansions, you can listen to the recorded stories of the constellations or celestial objects.
Star Hoppers also introduces the basics of stargazing to promote the proper manner of stargazing as well as to help the novice to identify the constellations.
You may also select the Calendar function to receive the latest information of various astronomical events and activities provided by the Hong Kong Space Museum. You may use the Share function with third party apps to invite your friends to join the activities and share the fun of stargazing with you!
Features of the app:
* Help users to learn and identify celestial objects and constellations with the realtime generated digital star chart at any locations in the world.
* Display unique ancient Chinese star chart with the complete ancient Chinese asterism system including the Three Enclosures, twenty-eight lunar mansions and more.
* Playback more than 200 bilingual audio recordings of basic information of celestial objects and asterisms in the Western and ancient Chinese cultures.
* Employ augmented reality technology to label celestial objects and constellations on your screen instantaneously when you point the camera of your mobile device to the sky.
* Provide the latest news on the coming Hong Kong Space Museum events such as astronomical films, lectures, stargazing activities etc.
* Share astronomical events and activities information to your friends easily and invite them to join with you.
The application has a night mode so that you can use on your observations.
Also available pro version: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.domobile.messiercatalogpro
Satellite AR
See "Developer's website" (linked from this page) for more information, including the full changelog. If you find bugs or have questions, please report by email, as there is no mechanism for us to respond to comments left as reviews. Thanks!
Deep Sky
are visible using a small amateur telescope.
Maps of all the constellations visible in the northern hemisphere with the location of all the Messier objects marked.
Links from the maps to the information pages and to neighboring maps. Apologies to those of you down under. Hope to get there eventually.
Sky News
Delve deeper with image galleries, live blogs, graphs and interactive pictures, all optimised for your Android smartphone.
You can read all the top stories from the newsroom with sections for UK News, World News, Politics, Business, Entertainment, Strange News, and a new Technology News section.
Key Features:
• Enjoy a whole new level of depth on the main stories of the day
• Headlines, showbiz and weather bulletins
• A new technology news section
• Send your breaking news story directly into the Sky Newsroom via Your Report
• Swipe between articles and categories
• Share articles via Facebook and Twitter
If you encounter any problems in using this app please contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com and we will try to resolve your issue as quickly as possible.
Sky's privacy notice explains how Sky uses your information. You can view this notice at: http://www.sky.com/privacy
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The Night Sky
The Night Sky - Simply Magical
The Night Sky is a magical new app that enables you to identify the stars, planets, galaxies, constellations and even satellites you can see above. Just stand anywhere and hold your Android Phone or Tablet up to the sky and The Night Sky will display the names of the stars, planets and other objects you are able to see, just like magic!
Even if your view is obscured by clouds or daylight, The Night Sky app will know which stars, planets, galaxies, constellations and satellites are hiding from your view! You have to use this app to realize just how amazing it is!
The Night Sky does this by using your location data provided by the GPS and compass built in to your device. It then cross references your location data with its inbuilt map of the sky and overlays the stars, planets, galaxies, constellations and satellites names on your screen. It really is magical and will amaze you, and anyone you show it to!
So next time you're gazing up in to The Night Sky and wonder the name of a star, planet, galaxy, constellation or even a satellite, just get out your Android Phone or Tablet and let The Night Sky app amaze your gaze!
The Night Sky is a #1 selling app because it really is simply magical!
(Please see http://www.iCandiApps.com/iCandi_Apps_LLP/The_Night_Sky_-_Licensing.html for licensing information.)


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The U.S. Census Bureau today released a 2010 Census brief, Housing Characteristics: 2010, that shows the homeownership rate is the second highest on record, behind only 2000, since homeownership data collection began in 1890. However, the rate decreased by 1.1 percentage points to 65.1 percent between 2000 and 2010. The decrease is the largest since the period from 1930 to 1940
The U.S. Census Bureau today released a 2010 Census brief, Housing Characteristics: 2010, that shows the homeownership rate is the second highest on record, behind only 2000, since homeownership data collection began in 1890. However, the rate decreased by 1.1 percentage points to 65.1 percent between 2000 and 2010. The decrease is the largest since the period from 1930 to 1940
Other findings:
Housing Inventory Grew the Most in South and West
Metro Areas Have More Homeowners while Major Cities Have More Renters
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Few, if any, information technology subjects have garnered more attention over the past two years than Big Data. It's a savior. It's evil. It's the killer app of killer apps. And now, according to Gartner analyst Svetlana Sicular, "Big Data Is Falling into the Trough of Disillusionment."
This disillusionment is giving me a little bit of Big Data fatigue - at least in the sense that so much buzz is focused on what Big Data can do for marketing and business intelligence departments. Lost amid all the hype and hoopla is the story of how predictive analytics can help IT teams better understand and support the business applications that are the very lifeblood of their enterprise. After all, predicting the right service to offer your online customer won't help if the customer experiences sluggish application performance.
And Big Data is not going away. Big Data begets Very Big Data, and so on. Analysts are projecting that astronomical amounts of money will be spent on analyzing and using information. This includes projections that millions of data scientists are going to be hired to make sense of all this. You and I know that few if any of those data scientists will be monitoring application or infrastructure performance.
Application performance monitoring is a critical job that can substantially impact a company's brand and bottom line. The fact is that this is an incredibly tough assignment because of all the variables that can negatively impact performance. It is like telling an Ops pro, "You don't have to find a needle in a haystack; you have to find an unspecified number of needles in an unspecified number of haystacks." As databases and other apps get bigger and more distributed, this is almost impossible to do with human intelligence and traditional tools.
The good news is that predictive analytics for IT solutions are far simpler and increasingly more affordable than their Big Data counterparts. It is important for all of us to bang the drum louder about the business value that predictive analytics can provide for IT, not just for application performance, but for people performance too. The industry needs to discuss the risks of fielding powerful and complex applications without arming IT Ops and Support with similarly powerful tools to ensure their availability and performance.
Why Predictive Analytics for IT Is So Cool - and Worth Talking About
Most currently available analytical tools that can forecast human behavior give users exactly what they ask for - and that is part of the problem. The more variables you have in an equation, the more relationships exist. It's getting more difficult all the time to know what questions to ask.
The cutting edge of predictive analytics for IT uses advanced machine intelligence to scan data patterns to detect anomalies and other relationships that human analysts cannot see, at least not see quickly or without the help of data scientists. Using machine intelligence as part of IT performance management is like having your own personal R2D2, or an android like Star Trek's Lieutenant Commander Data. In fact, pairing machine intelligence with human intelligence is the future of problem solving and prediction - you can see it working today to identify root causes of performance failures and limit unplanned downtime. It is quite cool. There is hope for the disillusioned.
Additionally, the list of use cases for predictive analytics in IT is growing. We see organizations using it all the time to predict and prevent service disruptions. If something does go wrong, users can often find the source of the disruption much faster than they can with just human analysis. I have found that in some cases, machine intelligence can identify root causes of performance failures up to 90 percent faster than human intelligence alone can.
We can already see innovations on the near horizon that will make predictive analytics powered by advanced machine intelligence even better equipped to serve IT Ops' needs. Integrating performance management with security threat management is a good example. All of this is good news for IT Ops pros because their jobs are increasingly vital to an organization's success in this era of widely distributed infrastructures.
This is why companies have to emphasize the business value of predictive analytics for IT in conversations about application and infrastructure management. If you forget about IT Ops' needs when contemplating the deployment of data-heavy business applications, you put your network and your organization as a whole at risk.
Predictive analytics in IT is a breath of fresh air in the Big Data conversation. It gets me excited - far from being disillusioned.
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Need help pruning a yew!
I have some hideously ugly yews planted in front of my house along the foundation. I'm not sure what kind they are exactly but they are maybe 4 feet tall and several feet wide. The growth mainly starts a foot or so off the ground. They suffered terribly from last year's drought. The insides are very dry and brown.
The previous owners trimmed them into a square shape, which I think looks horrible in front of my four-square home! It's much too severe of a look IMO. There is another lone yew on the side corner which this summer my MIL trimmed into a more rounded shape but I still don't care for it. I really prefer a more natural form as opposed to something that has been been obviously shaped.
I'd like to cut them back by about half but my husband is afraid that will kill them (which would be fine by me because I'd probably replace them with some azaleas or some other softer looking shrub!) They have completely taken over all the space along the foundation so it's impossible to do any other plantings, which means I have zero color in front of my house. I'm coming from Georgia where everyone has gobs of flowers in their yards so my problem may be that I'm having a hard time adapting to the evergreens-and-hostas look of the Midwest (no offense to Midwesterners as I adore being back "home" but I'd forgotten that it's more common to do containers in the front rather than beds & I do a terrible job keeping containers watered!). I do like that the yews are evergreen but otherwise I despise the way these things look! Please help me! :-)
I guess my questions are... when I can I prune these babies? Rumor has it that we could still get a frost as late as Memorial Day, but it's been 70's for several weeks and things are blooming/growing already. How severely can I wack them back? Does the dead growth inside pose any problems we need to consider while pruning? If I cut them way back, will they eventually adopt a more natural look? Where do I prune them? From the inside? I am thinking if I wack the tops & edges off, they will still be square so that would defeat one of the main reasons for pruning? I am so clueless I really need help!
Any advice will be incredibly appreciated. Thanks so much!
I have cut each of my four yews right back to about six inches high, and each has come back beautifully. The first year is ugly, but that year I just put a container in front of the stub. They fill in so well and you can prune them more judiciously as they grow. I shape them a little whenever I want, from early spring when they first come out of dormancy right up until late, late autumn.
If you never cut them they will indeed have a much wilder look, but they get enormous and unruly, so I like to guide mine a little.
I don't really like yews that much, but they are the very devil to remove, and they were here when I got here eight years ago, so I have made them into livable companions. You can prune them very hard and they will still live.
Just a suggestion-when I cut my yews way back and expose that ugly naked interior, I like to plant a clematis or other vine right in front of the yew to crawl over them. Ususally the vine will cover most of the ugly part of the shrub and also add color and visual interest. Yews are the devil to remove so I have tried to adapt..
Thanks... I consulted my gardening-savvy neighbors and they didn't seem enthusiastic about a severe pruning. I think their hesitation was that the entire interior is devoid of needles so they are going to look even more awful when cut back. I really need to do it at some point though because they are crowding the sidewalk and they aren't getting any shorter! Maybe I'll work in stages so DH doesn't freak out... wack the tops this year and make them skinnier next? At least that way you'll still see green from the street this year...
If they are already getting new growth on tips, is it too late to cut them back?
Also, newfiewoofie, do things grow well under the yews?! I haven't tried planting anything because I assumed the soil pH would be messed up from the needles. If I were able to cut them back and get some flowers growing underneath, I'd be much happier with them!
Thanks again! Sorry for late response but I have been babying some raspberry bushes which we transplanted this weekend. It's raining today so I don't have to work so hard! LOL! ;-)
No, just cut them back right down near the ground. This year will kind of stink, it is true, but you can start fresh. As they grow you can prune them properly so that you don't get this green-on-top/bare-underneath look. The one I did last year looks like a little baby yew, and the ones I did three years ago look like nice, bushy, healthy, well-maintained shrubs that are a little over two feet high.
You can do it now, it's not too late.
Another thing to do that takes quite a bit more patience than I have is to cut about 20% of the limbs right down to the ground. Next year do another 20%. In five years you will have done the entire plant and never get the "bare stump" look.
I have alpine strawberries growning under mine. They like the acid.
Thanks so much! I am going to make DH read your comments; he may agree to a 5 year plan. He is convinced I'm going to kill them. I am threatening to pull them out because they are so awful IMO. What shape do they naturally take? I have no idea.
Do the berries get sun?! There are some tulips planted under ours that are having a hard time because they only get a bit of filtered sun in the AM. I was thinking lily of the valley because it's low and does OK in shade but I'd like something other than white...
I'm telling you, cut them right back to short bare stumps. You will thank me. In two years you will have lovely small, neat, full shrubs. In five years you will have a nice hedge, which of course you will prune narrower at the top and wider at the bottom to avoid that look you have now.
You could always plant an annual fast growing vine like morning glory to cover the stumps this year.
Don't try to take them out. They are a whole lot of work to take out.
The berries get a lot more sun now that I have cut back the yews!
You know, gardening is a process that takes some time. If you buy new shrubs and you are on a budget like me, you have some empty space for a while, but before you know it things have grown and filled in. Cutting back a yew will leave an ugly stump, yes, but in the end you will have what you really want, which is a nice healthy shrub, and it will probably happen sooner than you think.
I tried to google an image of an unpruned yew but I couldn't find one. Search this forum and you will get many hits. Some of them have images.
I have unpruned yews and they are the ugliest things! I really hate them, but I was afraid to prune them, for fear of making them look worse, if that's even possible. I would love to take them out, but they've been there for 20 yrs, so it would be a huge, huge job. I ended up planting some flowers in front of them, in the hope that the eye will be drawn to the flowers and away from the awful looking yews. So, this thread really interests me. My husband will probably freak out if I prune the whole bush back, but I think I will do the 3 yr plan. I've suffered through 15 years of them looking bad, so I can handle 3 more years until they're nice again. I do have a garden book that advises against heavy pruning, saying they won't grow back well. (Better homes and gardens complete guide to gardening) It says that they seldom fill in when you cut out branches. But, the general consensus here is that they will fill in again, so I may try it anyway.
I decided to just go for it and prune those yews. I opted for a 3 yr plan, instead of 5 yrs. I took about 1/3 of the canes and pruned them back hard. It was all I could do to keep myself from cutting them all down, the only thing that stopped me was the fact that my husband would say that I killed them. (He hasn't even noticed they're trimmed yet) If they do start to grow back well from the cut branches, next year I may just finish the rest of them too. They can't look any worse than they do now anyway.


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A new low-key announcement from Beijing is hinting at a quiet struggle taking place behind the scenes in China's promising but embattled solar panel sector, with the regulator saying it will stop the building of most new manufacturing capacity. On one side of this struggle are local government officials, who may be encouraging solar panel makers in their areas to add capacity that will benefit their local economy but is the last thing the industry needs. On the other side of the battle is Beijing, which is trying to show the world it doesn't unfairly subsidize its solar panel sector as it also tries to rationalize a bloated domestic industry that is stifling global development. Continue reading


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December 29, 2014
By Eugene Dushime
There are things that are sometimes left undone and there are things that are sometimes left unsaid. But, using the magic word "Thank you" is something that can't ever be forgotten at MindLeaps. This year, we celebrated Christmas with our students, who are homeless, and gave out presents while saying "Thank you for your hard work and fight against poverty."
On Friday, December 19th after Dance class, our kids had a short meeting with me. We evaluated our progress in each program. I acknowledged the change they have shown in the last nine months and they promised to achieve even more next year. I also announced to them that Dance, IT and the English program will be suspended for two weeks because it was time for them to take a break and get more energy for 2015. I told them that MindLeaps doors will remain open for those who want to come to shower and wash their clothes during the break.
After my meeting with the kids, our little party started. MindLeaps' staff, including Fulbrighter and English teacher Keilah Creedon, shared soft drinks and bread with the children and our volunteers from Agahozo Shalom Youth Village.
December 20, 2014
By Eugene Dushime
What makes November a great month for MindLeaps is that this period always brings new energy, ideas and changes. Since MindLeaps (formerly RDDC) opened its doors in Rwanda, at least a new project or a program is implemented each November. Last month was charged with so many activities accompanied with great emotions and intercultural exchange. It is difficult to describe all activities done last month in only one blog post, but here is a summary of three main ones in three short stories.
Story 1
First, Rebecca Davis and Nicole Corea arrived in Rwanda in the beginning of November carrying very big and heavy suitcases. As I know how much both Rebecca and Nicole love Rwanda – especially the climate and the children – I thought they had decided to pass the rest of their lives in the country of a thousand hills with that luggage! But I was wrong; they were carrying computers (laptops) for our IT skills program as well as other materials needed to serve children at our center. WiFi was also installed and more children were excited to learn computers skills.
October 29, 2014
Eugene Dushime
Boys smile and laugh as they chaine turn and pas de chat across the dance floor. This is not a typical dance class in a small dance studio; it is a safe space where street children and vulnerable youth learn social values and are prepared to reintegrate into their community. Why dance and IT training? What do these boys feel that they are gaining from their time spent here? What sort of change are we creating?
Through our dance curriculum, children develop eleven cognitive skills: memorization, commitment, teamwork & collaboration, respect & tolerance, retention & recall of information, physical strength, self-esteem, creativity & self-expression, coordination, language, and concentration. There are a number of ways we could teach these skills, but we believe that dance is a particularly powerful way to help the children master and own these skills because dance is an expressive art form that integrates the mind, body, and spirit. Physically and mentally, the boys are challenged to follow instructions, exercise consistently, and stick to a routine.
October 2, 2014
By Eugene Dushime
Omar is five years old.
He never went to the street like other kids served by RDDC, but he wished he could just to escape from being tortured by his father. One day, he was taken from his home to the hospital after he was beaten unconscious by his father.
After medical treatment, Omar didn't have anywhere to go. Omar was brought to FidesCo's Centre for Rehabilitation of Street Children in Kigali, and this is where I met this sweet kid while I was supervising the IT Class. Omar was one of the newcomers at the Centre. I approached him and asked his name. Then I sat down and this conversation started:
"My name is Omar," he replied.
Omar asked me my name in return.
"My name is Eugene," I responded.
September 24, 2014
Since 2011, RDDC has been running an annual program called "Train The Trainers" in Rwanda. This past August, the annual program was held again. It was divided into two categories: training RDDC/Rwandan dance teachers in contemporary technique; and training Rwandan staff in fundraising and grant writing.
The goal of Train The Trainers is to improve the results achieved by our local staff through RDDC's different activities that serve vulnerable kids.
This year, the dance training introduced new elements of contemporary dance technique to RDDC teachers in Rwanda. Contemporary will serve as an additional genre of dance for our teachers to use while working with diverse groups of children. In this training, we also examined how the methodology used in dance classes carries over to the IT training, which is also offered by RDDC to street youth. Together, this provides a systematic approach to behavioral change. Special attention was given to the eleven cognitive skills targeted by RDDC and considered essential to re-integrate children into the formal education system.
My team, the street youth and I are deeply grateful to Caitlyn Casson and Grace French for their energy and time invested in this year's Train The Trainers. This was their first trip to Rwanda, and they both did an amazing job!
Eugene Dushime is the Country Director for RDDC Rwanda. He is a former contemporary dancer and assists with the RDDC program in Guinea as well.
September 10, 2014
By Caitlyn Casson
When preparing for my trip to Rwanda, I decided to bring some small parting gifts with me to give to my students when I left. I wasn't sure what would be the right gift for adolescent boys who live on the street, but I knew where to go to look for it: my favorite store, FIVE BELOW. One can pretty much find anything that is trendy and considered "cool" by teens around the world at FIVE BELOW. And indeed, I found something…
The organization I worked for in Rwanda, RDDC, is building an IT Classroom alongside the community dance center to help these street children develop their vocational skills in one of the fastest growing industries in Rwanda today: computer science and information technology. As these teens start to learn in a formal setting, they will need the typical "back to school" supplies that we buy every year in the USA.
So, I decided to give these street youth something that would prepare them for their new school challenges and also be "cool": brightly colored pencils, pencil sharpeners and paper from FIVE BELOW.
The boys' reaction to this gift had both the shock of receiving a gift and the joy of ownership, something they could call their own. Naturally, their joy brought me joy, but it was not until my return to the USA that I realized the impact of this simple gift.
To most American children a single pencil, even with the addition of a really cool, neon colored sharpener, is a "standard" gift. But, to most of my students in Rwanda who have never held, and maybe never even seen a pencil sharpener before, this simple object symbolized the opportunity to "learn" and be "normal" – no longer an orphan or an outcast living on the street.
I never thought a pencil could suggest an end to poverty.
Caitlyn Casson is an instructor with RDDC and has traveled with the company to Bosnia-Herzegovina and Rwanda. She holds a BFA from University of South Florida and now works as a freelance contemporary dancer in New York.
July 31, 2014
By Eugene Dushime, Country Director for RDDC-Rwanda
"Everyone can fall anytime but it is the courage to rise up which opens doors to new life" - (Eric Mugiraneza, one of RDDC's former street children now enrolled at boarding school)
As I wrote a long time ago, the first day RDDC met Eric, he was so hopeless. Eric was always thinking that he was going to die soon, so for him, there was no reason to work hard. His mother died beside him. This is how Eric interpreted the feelings of his memory to me two years ago: "When my mother died, I was so young and so terrified, thinking that I was going to die the following day – just a few hours after her," said Eric.
Eric is now attending one of the best boarding school in Rwanda (Sonrise Boarding School). July 24th was the end of the second term for primary and secondary schools in the country.
Eric was so excited when I saw him on the last day of the term.
I asked, "Why are you so happy?"
Eric took the report card from his suitcase and gave it to me.
"What?!" I exclaimed. "Wow, Eric, congratulations!"
Eric said, "You see? I told you that this term I will progress!"
Eric moved from 51% to 61%. (Now, remember this is a child who was living on the streets and practically illiterate less than two years ago.) Eric once hated any kind of activities because he was so desperate and hopeless; now, he is happy about his progress.
I asked Eric how he can make such a dramatic change.
July 5, 2014
Eugene Dushime
Since RDDC started its partnership with FidesCo Rwanda, a lot of kids have gone through our program. At first, it was one of the hardest challenges that we faced. We couldn't imagine how the first group had to exit the program in order for new kids to join. We would receive a new group of kids just as our former students were beginning to show true cognitive improvement. The new kids were totally different from the previous – new faces, different attitudes and unknown behavioral patterns.
When a new group comes, we try to explore the life they have come from – street life. We learn how to handle each one of them. It's pleasant and interesting to interact with them and discover their different personalities. That doesn't happen immediately; it takes a lot of work to get them to open up to you – and smile. Few at first respond, and others don't seem to understand what you are up to, so you have to keep on doing it sincerely because some of them think that people smile only when they want something from you. Some think they are not worthy; they cannot amount to anything at all. However, through our dance classes, I came to realize that personal change is not only brought by big things; if compliments and encouraging words come continuously and patiently, change can be achieved if one is willing.
In her TEDxFulbright Talk at the US Chamber of Commerce in Washington, DC, Rebecca Davis outlined how she transitioned from a high school student who loved literature to founding an organization that teaches dance to street children in Africa.
TEDxFulbright Talk at US Chamber of Commerce, April 2014
June 11, 2014
By Eugene Dushime
FidesCo Rwanda is a non-profit association that takes care of street children in Kigali by providing a full rehabilitation process, leading to the reunification of children with their families. RDDC is in partnership with this local organization since the end of 2011. RDDC programs (Dance and IT) are integrated among other rehabilitation programs. Kids at FidesCo Centre are attending dance class three days a week and IT class two days a week. Once the rehabilitation process is completed, which is after just 4 to 6 months, kids are reintegrated into social communities.
Before I became informed that some kids are leaving soon, my team and I were surprised to find some of our top students crying in the corner of our dance space after class. We asked them why they were crying, and the kids gave us different reasons. Mainly, they were wondering when and how they could find such opportunities to learn again.
"I never thought that I could do a complete split in my whole life. It is time for me to go home now, but I wish I could stay much longer so that I could keep dancing and learning," said Samuel Birukundi holding my hand and crying.


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Grief, devastation and mourning aren't supposed to keep showing up like this.
The horrible news that women's basketball coach Kurt Budke and assistant coach Miranda Serna had died Thursday in a plane crash brings more sadness to Oklahoma State, a campus that has known more than its fair share of it.
It brings more sadness to college sports -- on the heels of the Penn State scandal -- in one of the most gut-wrenching months in memory.
And it brings more sadness to women's basketball.
When Pat Summitt announced in August that she had been diagnosed with early-onset dementia, Alzheimer's type, it was a punch in the gut. It took more than few moments to catch your breath and process what you had heard. It hurt.
To be hit, first thing Friday morning, with the news about Budke and Serna, sends us all back to the mat, dizzied and disbelieving.
Budke and Serna were returning from a recruiting trip. And they leave behind a devastated team and a stunned college basketball community that will spend the rest of this season absorbing their loss.
As difficult as Summitt's news was, she was returning to the sideline. She has been able to turn her terrible diagnosis into a cause, something to be conquered if not by her, then by those who come after her. Her legendary coaching career, which could well end in the next couple of years, is getting the recognition and tribute it demands. She is here to hear it.
Budke and Serna will not be. Their untimely, shocking deaths are simply, unbelievably sad. That their deaths happened just more than a decade after Oklahoma State mourned the deaths of 10 members of the men's basketball staff, who also died in a plane crash, seems utterly unfair.
Sadness engulfed the women's basketball community Friday morning.
Texas A&M coach Gary Blair said in a statement Friday that Budke was the coach he was closest to among his Big 12 colleagues. They both had been assistants at Louisiana Tech.
"I talked to him two weeks ago about general stuff on recruiting and possibly continuing to play after we went to the SEC," Blair said. "We both agreed it would probably take a few years, but we were both going to miss the games we've had over the past years."
"The man upstairs doesn't tell us when," he said, "and it's just a tremendous tragedy and loss for Oklahoma State and their families.
"Life is precious. We must enjoy it and we must respect it because it can be taken away at any time."
Baylor coach Kim Mulkey, who also had a close relationship with Budke from his time coaching at her alma mater, Louisiana Tech, said she was "devastated" by the news of his death when she received the call Friday morning.
"I just looked at my son and started crying," Mulkey said in a statement. "It just hits home with all of us in this profession that truly we just coach a game. There's a bigger picture out there, and it's not a basketball game. It puts life in perspective. I feel for the Oklahoma State community. How many more tragedies can they endure? I told [Oklahoma State associate head coach] Jim Littell this morning: Whatever we can do, please allow us to do it."
This coaching life is familiar to many: strategizing and directing players in a game one night and hopping on a small plane to see a recruit the next morning. You don't get the benefit of doing only one thing at once. You coach the team you have and build the team you'll have next year and the year after that.
But on Friday morning, everything stopped.
This women's basketball season will be played under a veil of sadness.
There will be great games. There will be great performances. New players will vault into the national scene and give us all reason to be excited and enthusiastic.
Even though it's only November, this was going to be a big weekend in the game, with No. 1 Baylor and No. 2 Notre Dame playing in the championship of the Women's Preseason NIT on Sunday. And on Monday, fifth-ranked Stanford travels to play No. 4 Connecticut in one of the biggest early-season matchups of the year.
Now there will be a heaviness that will accompany all these teams onto the floor. Every team in the country is going to feel it. There's just no way around it. It hurts.