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On the road, in the sky, or on the rails, "Move It!" is your guide to transportation in the Alamo City and beyond.
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Streetcar standoff
San Antonio's downtown streetcar system may be years away from completion, but controversy about the rail project is already rolling into town. On Wednesday, notorious anti-rail expert Randal O'Toole took his anti-streetcar report all over San Antonio. VIA Metroplitan Transit, which will build and maintain the streetcar system, quickly fired back. You can read about the brouhaha here. A lot has […] [Read More]
Tangled transit web
It really is a small transit world – or is it all about jumping from a big pond to the next biggest pond? Last week, I reported that, after three years in San Antonio, VIA President and CEO Keith Parker is a finalist to direct Atlanta's public transit agency, the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority […] [Read More]
TIGER IV grants announced-VIA did not make the list
The U.S. Department of Transportation announced the 4th round of TIGER grant funding this morning, and VIA Metropolitan Transit's proposal did not make the list of funded projects. VIA had requested funding to rehab its Robert Thompson Transit Center on the East Side, housed at the Alamodome. Money to redevelop the facility has already been […] [Read More]
Rolling out Bus Rapid Transit
Bus rapid transit: You've heard about it. I've written about it. Folks at VIA Metropolitan Transit have talked about it, a lot. And Friday, VIA unveiled what the new BRT, aka VIAPrimo, buses will look like, just before the North Chamber of Commerce State of the County luncheon at the Omni Hotel at the Colonnade. The buses, 16 […] [Read More]
UPDATED BLOG: SA gets partial grant for bike share program
***IMPORTANT NOTE*** This is a blog updating a post (included below) that I wrote earlier today, regarding the city's receipt of a federal grant for its bike share program, B-Cycle. I just spoke to Laurence Doxsey, director of the city's Office of Environmental Policy. He told me that yes, the city did receive a $324,000 […] [Read More]
VIA proposes changes to fare rates & routes
VIA Metropolitan Transit will decide later this year whether to change its fare rate structure for all riders and also whether to eliminate or alter some bus routes. This blog highlights some of those possible changes. Please keep in mind, these are all proposals, so the changes listed below may not happen. VIA will hold a […] [Read More]
VIA's number one!
Awhile back, I wrote about the local VIA Metropolitan Transit bus ROADeo, in which bus operators and maintence workers competed in a series of competitions to determine who was the best of the best within the transit authority itself. Last month, the VIA maintenance team proved to be the best in the entire country after they placed […] [Read More]
VIA triumphs at the bus roadeo
In a previous post, I talked about VIA Metropolitan Transit employees participating in a local bus roadeo. The bus roadeo is like a bike rodeo, only instead of weaving your Schwin through an obstacle course, drivers park buses and look for safety problems on said buses. The big ole' state Bus/Van/Maintenance Roadeo took place in San […] [Read More]
National Work Zone Awareness Week
Take a good look at the picture of the traffic cones below. See that? Those cones represent the number of traffic fatalities that happened in TxDOT work zones in 2009: a total of 108 across the state, and nine in San Antonio. That year, there were more than 15,000 crashes in work zones statewide. The […] [Read More]
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By Jon-Michail
Being constantly online doesn't do a lot for your profile unless you are using the right words. That sounds pretty obvious, doesn't it? But many people are simply wasting their efforts. They're not 'meeting' the right people or getting themselves noticed by them.
Start by exploring and using the main social media outlets – LinkedIn, Twitter and personal blogs. Professional blogs are critical to personal branding efforts. A blog gives you the opportunity to differentiate yourself to the point where it may land you unintended opportunities ie. employment, investment, etc. Additionally, when it is linked to a Twitter or Facebook account you become part of a wider network, radically increasing your networking power.
LinkedIn is particularly good for professional networking, giving users the opportunity to make a huge range of contacts. When you write recommendations for your contacts, the goodwill is often reciprocated, widening your profile still further. Serious Twitter users need to add some context to their 'tweets'. Rather than giving a pointless thumbs up, add a comment that will promote discussion. Open-ended questions give others the opportunity to join the discussion and to give varied viewpoints. Both LinkedIn and Twitter offer a means of gaining a wide media profile, along with other major contenders such as Facebook, Posterous, Pintrest, YouTube and Tumblr. Examine each site carefully before deciding which to use, as the object is to boost your "profile quality" rather than to socialise.
How do writers get people to their blog or website? We advise writers to put their name in the title tag of their home page and then to use it as often as possible in the page itself. This increases a searcher's chance of seeing the page near the top of search engine results when they type in the writer's name. It's also important to use real names when commenting on other people's blogs or pages. Merge your personal and work personas. It's a waste of time and energy having two or more online identities unless you work for the CIA.
Having established an online presence, it's important to be yourself. Be personable and positive. Be authentic! Work hard at eliminating negativity. Avoid any anti-social comments or off-colour jokes. Even if you quickly remove the offending comment, the damage may already have been done. It's all too easy to lose a potential client or the prospect of a job without even realising it has happened.
It may be tempting to badmouth other companies or products, particularly when others are indulging themselves. Again, it's not a risk worth taking. Who knows what is going to happen in a year or two? You may be in the position of seeking employment with that very same company – and people have very long memories. If you are in the awkward position of regretting an impulsive comment that can't be removed, the only way forward is to bury it in a stronger media profile so that it is "lost" by search engines. Don't let your online personal brand ruin your job prospects or your client base. Always think first and BE PROFESSIONAL.
Be real yet respectful. Your online profile is an increasingly important part of your business career and personal life, and used wisely, will create a strong network and give you opportunities you have never reached before, this is the power of online personal branding.
Let us know what other methods you are using to build your online brand.
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Windows 8 Explorer returns to XP roots, picks up ribbon UI on the way
- By Sebastian Anthony on August 29, 2011 at 5:06 pm
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We have good news and bad news. The bad: In possibly the longest blog post ever, Alex Simons from the Windows 8 management team has spent over 3,000 words justifying the addition of the infamous ribbon UI to Explorer in Windows 8. The good: Microsoft, either to soften the blow of the ribbon or simply to prove that someone at Redmond cares, is bringing back the much-loved Up button which, for some reason or another, met its untimely demise between XP and the release of Vista.
Those are the two biggest changes, but citing a ton of telemetry from Windows 7 and iterative testing, Microsoft has gone to town and made a metric ton of modifications to Windows 8 Explorer. For a start, the switch to the ribbon really does seem justified: users wanted more keyboard shortcuts and more of their most-used features front and center in the UI — and that's exactly what the ribbon does. In Windows 8, there will be something in the region of 200 commands available from four ribbon tabs — and every single one of them will have a keyboard shortcut.
Windows 8 also heralds the return of customizability. Windows XP Explorer could be almost entirely rejigged — but Vista and 7, except for context menu add-ons, are virtually unchangeable. While the ribbon interface itself isn't customizable, its buddy the Quick Access Toolbar is: just minimize the ribbon, add your favorite functions to the QAT, and voila: a customizable interface that looks like a spit-shined Windows XP.
The rest of the changes — and there a lot — nearly all revolving around the ribbon. As you can see in the screenshot below, there are context tabs depending on where you are in the file system, or what you're trying to do. If you type in a search, the Search Tools tab is focused. From My Computer there's a Disk Tools tab that exposes Disk Defragmenter, Cleanup, Format, eject, and so on. If you select an image (or a group of images?) the Picture Tools tab comes into play. There are probably other context tabs, too.
Microsoft also touches upon the ramifications of using the very fat ribbon on widescreen displays: over 40% of Windows 7 installations are on laptops with 1366×768 screens, and at some 115 pixels tall, the ribbon takes up an inordinate amount of real estate. To this end, the Windows 8 team has removed a lot of the cruft from the bottom of the Explorer window, and the pointless header bar from the top. Instead of that fat "Image Properties" pane at the bottom, it's now on the right. The bottom, in actual fact, is a return to the Windows XPesque single-line status bar. The end result, as you can see below, is a bit more vertical space than Windows 7 — but still a fair bit less than Windows XP. If you want to see all of these changes in action, there's a demonstration video at the end of the story that's worth watching.
Finally, power users will overjoyed to hear that Open Command Prompt (and Open Command Prompt as Administrator!) are now available from the File menu. These functions open a command prompt with your current folder as the active directory; very, very handy if you need to do a quick bit of CLI-fu. Do all of these changes make up for the addition of the much-maligned ribbon? You tell us.
Alternatively, the Microsoft Build conference is now just two weeks away, and ExtremeTech is attending — so hopefully we'll be able to get some hands-on experience with Windows 8 and tell you whether the ribbon rocks or not.
Read more at Building Windows 8, download the demo video in MP4 format, or check out our Windows 8 coverage
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mori bund
Good news!
Finally the end of the "Apple-ification" of Windows and the return of customizability.
What annoys me most about Vista/7, is that MS thought they have to conform to a 5-10% competitor and take away choices and options from us users.
This "We know better what the user wants than the user himself!"-mentality is one reason why I never would buy an Apple-product.
http://www.mrseb.co.uk Sebastian Anthony
Hrm, I don't think 'more choice' is _always_ correct. If anything, Apple has proven that if you engineer something properly, a lot of people will use it without complaints.
There will always be people who want more choice, more options, more variety — and I agree, it's good that Windows caters to that crowd.
mori bund
Of course there's a target group for everything, so also for people who don't like to too much choices.
Look at the market share of Apple and you know how big this group is: on desktop Apple will never grow more than 15% – 20% of the market and on smartphones they will end up with the same numbers in 2-3 years, while the "more choice"-system android will have a market share of ~80%.
BTW: I think "more choice" is always better, when it's integrated in the gui in the right way – and for people who don't like "more choice" there are always the "default options".
There's no point in talking about market share. A report in 2008 showed that Apple alone sells about 66% of computers above $1000. The market share argument is great for the low priced market, but most PCs of any capability cost… $1000+.
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There's no point in talking about market share. A report in 2008 showed that Apple alone sells about 66% of computers above $1000. The market share argument is great for the low priced market, but most PCs of any capability cost… $1000+.
Profit is what counts when selling computers, not market share.
The market share of Android is more than iOS… but phones aren't sold only on choice. They are sold as incentives for contracts. Most people who choose iPhones gladly pay more for the contracts. The same can't be said for Android phones. The race to the bottom, which is what it amounts to with the free OS Android, is all theirs to have.
Choice is not a good thing at all times. Some examples.
Car pedal arrangements. If there was a "choice" here, there would be more accidents caused by pedal confusion.
Ethernet vs Arcnet vs Token Ring. IPX vs TCP/IP.
VGA, DVI, HDMI and now DisplayPort.
Firewire vs USB.
NTSC vs PAL vs SECAM vs NTSC-J VCRs.
The list goes on… All "choices". All confusing. None helpful. The end result is about the same in performance and quality.
Why do you believe computer users should have to go through the same nonsense like these examples just to satisfy your desire for "choice"?
DVD has ONE standard. Everyone can use it. No "choice". A DVD is a DVD.
The extra "choices" do little to help the end user, and rarely are the different "choices" any better than the most common item. I have yet to see a "choice" that helps anything other than cheating people out of their money.
mori bund
@ "Profit is what counts when selling computers, not market share."
My point wasn't about who makes more profit. My point was about what users prefer: choice or no choice.
@"Why do you believe computer users should have to go through the same nonsense like these examples just to satisfy your desire for "choice"?"
First, it's not just _MY_ desire for choice. This was the point, that my previous comment was about: Apple's market share will never go over 20%, because 80% prefer "more choice".
Second, as I've written in my comment above (have you actually read it?), for people who don't like "more choice" there are always the "default options". They won't be bother by "more choices" when they are integrated in the gui in the right way.
@your DVD-comparison.
You can't compare industry standards like a media standard or car pedals with the possibility to adjust your pc to your individual needs.
Sorry, but that ridiculous!
Henry Ford once said "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse."
People have proven to be the most unreliable when deciding what they need. No matter how many people say they want it, a choice that adds confusion or reduces productivity is not good.
If one guy uses the ribbon, and another doesn't, can the guy who uses the ribbon help the guy who doesn't use the ribbon?
"How do I delete this folder?"
"Just click where it says delete."
"I don't see that. Where is it?"
"It should be on your screen, right above the files."
"All I have above the files is …."
And that's just one brief scenario. Now imagine trying to help a guy who has customized his ribbon to include his favorite commands, but with none of the standard ones in the standard place. How do you help him when he needs it?
Do you think IT departments like wasting their time fixing software because some idiot decided to "customize" it? I hated doing it in 1996, and I hate doing it now! This ribbon nonsense will only mean more wasted time.
There should be one or two ways to access a command. Not ten million. This is not something R&D should be wasting their time on.
mori bund
As Henry Ford said this, he doesn't mean "Choices" so it's quite unfair and questionable to quote him out of context.
And it's arrogant to deny people their ability to choose. (You could bring the very same arguments against democracy!)
So you want ignore all the people who want a delete-button for a few beginners who are unable to find this button on their first time with a new interface.
As I said already a few times. For these people is the default interface or the default options. Others should have the possibility to change it.
Remember the Windows Explorer in XP: you had your default interface for the people you're talking about.
But power users could change the bars and the buttons. Both sides had what they wanted.
And BTW: those IT-department earn good money with us "idiots".
You "hate doing it now"? Well, this isn't about you!
Where did the desire for the ribbon come from? Feedback from customers. The very kind of feedback that Henry Ford was talking about. Arrogant to deny choice? Well, he was arrogant then. And people had the choice to not buy his cars… What happened?
Do you get to choose your car in hot pink from a car dealer? No? How arrogant of them to deny you your choice of colors.
Do you get to choose the brand of car stereo in a car you buy? No.
Do you get to choose the location of the ignition switch in your new car? No.
Do you get to choose the switchgear for your car's windows? No.
Do you get to choose the size of the sun visors? The size of the mirrors? No.
How about the location of the switches for the wipers? No.
How arrogant of them to deny you the choice to have what you can have in a car you're paying tens of thousands for. It's undemocratic? Who are they to tell their customers they can't have what they want? Oddly enough… people never complain about it. They learn how to accept and use what is provided. They don't generally try to customize it.
Choice? Right!!
If you think IT departments "earn good money" for the company, it shows you really don't understand what is important to businesses.
IT departments are cost centers. Nothing more. They do not improve productivity, nor do they generate income for the business. They are there mostly to restore the productivity lost when a device breaks. Just like auto mechanics. Ever notice that companies buy cars that require less and less maintenance? Well, computer reliability is a similar issue.
If I see increased IT costs when a new OS is deployed, I have no choice but evaluate whether the upgrade was the right choice. I could care less about the features of the OS when it's losing my company money.
mori bund
There 's a good reason why car/Computer-comparisons almost never work.
While you can only choose between 3 desktop-OS you're able choose between a gazillion different car models in all shapes, colors, etc. So again you have lots of choices.
BTW: what happened with Henry Ford? Great example! Thank you!
The competitors started to bring a lot of new car models every year, so the costumers – always happy when they can choose – started to buy them and Fords market share declined.
So he also had to produce new models every year to stay in business – you know: people wants to choose! Nowaday every car company presents news models to choose from every year.
Once again: thank you! Great example! :-))
Of course: businesses can always decide to provide no choices.
Like Apple does it. This is why Apple's market share is under 10% on the desktop and it's decreasing on the smartphone sector.
You want to tell me what's important to business?
Well, costumers don't care what's important to business – they care about what it's important to them!
And the market shares tell rather explicitly what's important to them. ^^
Choices you keep saying.
In the beginning of the car boom, Ford Model T was not the only choice. But it was the top selling car for almost 20 years. It took that long for the market to catch up. Once it did, Ford couldn't satisfy everyone any more, and the market changed. Just like it is today.
Attacking the Henry Ford quote by talking about the end of the Model T reign is fruitless because it misses the whole point. He was not talking about longevity. He talked about choices people make. And at the time the statement was made, the choices most people had were a Model T Ford, or a horse. All other cars were too expensive for the general man.
The same thing is true of the Citroën 2CV, VW Bug, Fiat 500, Mini, Robin Reliant, Lada, Trabant. These represented the only available cars most could afford in their countries.
As the car market matured and other manufacturers cut costs, their prices came down, and more choices were then affordable, and therefore viable. The reign of the Model T was over.
Ford made new models, but people wanted more than Ford was offering or could offer.
Microsoft is in the same boat here.
Today, there's a choice of a Windows PC, or a smaller, lighter device. The Windows PC is the Model T Ford of the computer industry. As new methods of computing come along (smart phones), new dynamics are created. Adding features to Windows doesn't make it more desirable to anyone but Windows lovers. And guess what. Most people aren't Windows lovers. Users, yes. Not lovers.
Do you think all the Model T owners were Model T lovers? notice they all abandoned their Model Ts for other car models.
I was a Windows lover at one point. Then I worked in IT and realized how bad Windows was. We had tons of problems with Windows, but none with our Macs or Unix systems. But there was no viable alternative. There is now.
And right you are. People don't care what's important to business. They care what's important to them. Which is why XP is still more popular than Window 7. And why the iPad is more popular than Windows tablets. And iPhone is more popular than Windows Mobile 6.5 or 7, or Symbian. And people and businesses are now choosing tablets over PCs in many applications now.
Microsoft can work on new "ribbons" and frilly stuff for Windows all they want. The market is moving away and they're ignoring it in arrogant dismissal.
Finally, a bit of history.
Apple had less than 10% of the computer market in 1986. Before Windows. You really think Windows is the reason they have a smaller market share? I would have sworn it had something to do with IBM. In 1983, IBM PC was introduced, attacking Apple's growing PC market. IBM PC, from the well known name in computers, took off. Apple answered with the Lisa and Mac. Businesses didn't care about GUIs. They cared about the software they could run, which was not on the Mac.
I'm not going to continue. Read up on Computer history and learn about when and how Windows became relevant.
mori bund
You are right!
Ford's model T was so successful, because it was cheap enough for the masses to buy.
It was the first car achievable for the middle class.
As soon as other cars in various shapes, colours etc were achievable Ford had to embrace the fact that people want choices.
"Adding features to Windows doesn't make it more desirable to anyone but Windows lovers"?
I think you are wrong here. Adding features makes it more desirable for all Windows-users. (I'm not a Windows-lover at all, but it makes more desirable for me.)
There are many reasons why 90% are Windows users and not Apple users. You have explained some with your lesson in computer history (Thank you, teacher! ;-)) That doesn't make the reasons I've mentioned less true. When you ask 10 people if they prefer more choices, 9 will agree. (The 10th is probably an Apple user.)
Look at the developement at the smartphone market nowadays: Apple with his "almost-communist one-model-with one-interface-for-all-philosophy" had the advantage of being the first, but in an amazing short time Google has passed Apple.
You went from Windows to Apple?
Well, we really have a different taste in our software, becaus I'm about to change from Windows to Linux with KDE4. :-)
Ever tried KDE4? I'm pretty sure you would hate it! ;-) Too many choices!
I agree with you that the ribbon is not the most elegant way to manage the Windows Explorer.
But the article says users are able to minimize it and have an Xp-like customizable interface.
That's what I hope for.
OK, this was an interesting debate, but I understand that you don't want to continue: I don't think I can convince you and of course you can't convince me.
So see you in another thread. ^^
I went from Windows to Linux. Back in 1999-2005 I was mostly on Linux. I refused Windows installations at work, and used only Linux there, with StarOffice. Loved it. HP Omnibook 6000 with Linux was sweet.
Linux was great. Stable, always worked, no crashing… And no software. The things I wanted to do were too tiresome to deal with on there. Video codecs (I hate VLC), printer drivers, games, scanners, and more. I could not get them working without long protracted sessions of installing, modifying scripts, testing and such. It's great that it was stable once installed, but moving from one system to another was also laborious.
But… On a laptop is was even worse. Moving from one hotspot to another wasn't as simple as it should have been. And then the driver issue came up again as printing to new printers was again a pain. My HP Omnibook went from desk to bag and back to desk. I never used it outside the office.
The Linux debate:
Which distro do you pick? Slackware? RedHat? CentOS? Debian? Ubuntu?
Can you easily change distros?
Can you easily upgrade a Linux system?
And let me not forget… Which WM do I choose? Gnome? KDE? GnuStep? Xfce?
Honestly, Linux was worse as a desktop OS than Windows. I went back to Windows in 2005, including my main home system. And was greeted with all the Windows headaches I was dreading.
Yes, I could have run Windows in VMWare, and I did. Although Windows under VMWare was MUCH more stable, with almost no driver issues, that still didn't fix the problems.
When Apple moved to Intel, the only barriers I had were my own views about Apple.
Before Apple switched to MacOS X, I would never even have looked at one. Co-operative multi-tasking? Really? Then Mac OS X was announced, and I paid attention. Unix stability, pre-emptive multi-tasking. It looked interesting, but the PowerPC thing didn't help. The Intel announcement changed that. Then the ability to run Windows virtually made it a most viable option. I bought a second-hand MacBook in 2006. And I have never looked back.
OS X has the stability I wanted, but with an ease of management no Windows machine could ever match. All my devices were plugin and go. No driver issues, no dealing with configuration issues. Just… Using it.
I cannot believe how stupid I was before, believing that computers were complicated and needed special skills to use effectively. Now, I USE my computer, rather than having to manage it.
Even upgrades have been a breeze. What's a clean install again? I haven't done one in 5 years. I've gone from 10.4 Tiger to Leopard to Snow Leopard to 10.7 Lion. All in-place upgrades. No data loss, and no hassles…. But one.
The only hassle I had was switching from FileVault in Tiger to FV in Leopard (sparseimages vs sparsebundles). The hassle was… Waiting for FV to decrypt my 250GB of data, then pressing the button to encrypt in the new FV. Now, I have to do it again with Lion as FV here is full disk… I haven't switched yet, but I may soon. As hassles go though, this is… nothing.
Lion, on a 2006 MacBook. And it's smooth, faster than Snow Leopard, and Safari is a bit better. (Yes, Safari sucks, but now I can kill just the web content thread to clear memory instead of the whole browser.) There are some interface changes I don't like, but they don't get in my way.
Back to Linux… Been there done that. Great for LAMP servers, rotten for desktop. Windows. Loathe it, and have since about 1999.
I do like a good debate, but I think these ones regarding Windows/Mac get tiresome, and "I'm too old for this shit!"… It's like Ford vs Chevy. At least there, the difference is simply religious, not logical. With Windows/Mac/Linux, there are logical reasons for choosing either, but most arguments are with loyalists with the same religious fervor for their product as in the Ford/Chevy arguments.
On that note, if you had asked people in 1916 who had Model T Fords if they would drive a Packard, they would probably have told you without fail that they have either never heard of Packards, or that they are too expensive. In 1927, that story was probably different.
It's the same with Macs. If you ask 100 people on the street (maybe 6 years ago), about 85% would have said that they have never used a Mac, will never buy a Mac because they're too expensive, or that they've never heard of them (Silicon Valley not withstanding). Computers are not a big part of most people's lives. Most couldn't tell you what 1600×1200 is, what HD really means, or even what a hard drive is (most think it's "the box on the floor"). With that level of ignorance, what makes you think they would even know there was a choice?
This ignorance also means they don't know to upgrade Windows, or even what an upgrade is. And if there is any trouble, they have to pay for it to be fixed. They would rather just leave well enough alone. It works. They turn it on, do what they want, then turn it off. Why mess with it? Why pay more money? Most Windows 7 installations are only there because users bought new PCs, not because of upgrades. It's been over two years since Win 7 was released, but XP is still more popular. This isn't the same on the Mac. Most upgrade. The $30 price point is a good driver there. Plus upgrades are generally not threatening on the Mac.
In the UK, most people I've encountered (no rich folks here) had never even heard of Macs. The few that have have never used one, and claim that they're too expensive. Computer courses here are simply how to use Windows. There's no mention of Mac, Linux, Unix, or anything else. For most people, Windows is what comes with the PC, not a choice they can make.
That's the real reason 90% are Windows today. There's no choice for most people.. In the UK, I'm sure the Mac market share in 2005 was less than 1%.
The Apple Store is the thing that opens people's eyes to other choices (well, Apple choices). It's why most new Macs are purchased by those who have never owned a Mac. Other computer stores, especially here in the UK, have a few old Macs, but they don't highlight them. They are separated and shown as a "different system". Heck, even Fry's separates Macs from PCs. A small aisle for Macs, but the rest of the store dedicated to PCs. Apple needed the Apple Store to change that. Placed in prominent locations, it's done quite well.
On the Android front…
Without IBM's PC, Windows would not have taken off so quickly. Maybe not at all. The reverse in terms of hardware and software is true with smart phones. Most of today's smart phones would not have been without Android. Samsung was never a smart phone leader, but Android propelled them to that height.
Android was a quick entry to market for these new smart phone manufacturers.
Android is a cheap easy answer to iOS, just like Windows was to Macs in the 1990s. The difference is that handsets have traditionally been throwaway devices. PCs weren't/aren't. Handsets are normally changed once every 2-3 years (I'm on my second iPhone – Original is too outdated.) with little or no loyalty. People buy what's on offer, what looks neat, or what they hear is good. The financial incentive of a reduced price or free phone is a major driver. iPhones are rarely free, unless you pay a butt-load for your contract. Android phones are a dime a dozen. Calling that market share a win is ignoring the reason behind it. iPhone buyers mostly do so to buy an iPhone. Android buyers mostly do so to get a phone.
The manufacturer loyalty to Android isn't solid either. Once Windows Phone 7 Mango arrives, lookout. (Did I just say that?)
Tablets don't have the same type of market. There are no price subsidies, so price incentives don't influence the purchases. iPad sells at least 10* that of the nearest competitor, and that's without any kind of financial incentive. Will Android ever be able to compete? Not as long as tablet makers just slap together machines like they do phones, where they vanish from the market after a month or so.
And yes, I'm a stubborn mule. I know it. But I am open to good debates where personal feelings of correctness are not the driving force. We all have opinions, but I try not to ignore the facts surrounding my opinions.
I like Ford better than Chevy, but that's just my preference, with no logical reason. They both do the same thing, are just as reliable as each other, and have similar feature sets. There look and feel apply, but it's not logical, and I know it. Honestly, I like Audis better than anything, in the 1984-1993 range. Why??? Will I ever change my car choice? Not sure. Will financial incentives help? Maybe.
My Mac choice is a logical one though. The stability, lack of constant management, and the fact that I have not had a hassle, even with my 5 year old unit, are great reasons to stay right here. I now use zero Windows apps, and I love it. I have no Linux desires any more either. Back in 2005, I didn't have the choice of Macs. 2006, I did.
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One word: "Screenshots".
Problem solved.
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There's no point in talking about market share. A report in 2008 showed that Apple alone sells about 66% of computers above $1000. The market share argument is great for the low priced market, but most PCs of any capability cost… $1000+.
Profit is what counts when selling computers, not market share.
The market share of Android is more than iOS… but phones aren't sold only on choice. They are sold as incentives for contracts. Most people who choose iPhones gladly pay more for the contracts. The same can't be said for Android phones. The race to the bottom, which is what it amounts to with the free OS Android, is all theirs to have.
Choice is not a good thing at all times. Some examples.
Car pedal arrangements. If there was a "choice" here, there would be more accidents caused by pedal confusion.
Ethernet vs Arcnet vs Token Ring. IPX vs TCP/IP.
VGA, DVI, HDMI and now DisplayPort.
Firewire vs USB.
NTSC vs PAL vs SECAM vs NTSC-J VCRs.
The list goes on… All "choices". All confusing. None helpful. The end result is about the same in performance and quality.
Why do you believe computer users should have to go through the same nonsense like these examples just to satisfy your desire for "choice"?
DVD has ONE standard. Everyone can use it. No "choice". A DVD is a DVD.
The extra "choices" do little to help the end user, and rarely are the different "choices" any better than the most common item. I have yet to see a "choice" that helps anything other than cheating people out of their money.
Wow, this is all actually pretty nice…
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_EOFSMSYQJ2MHK7KGY236T5K5IQ Saturn
I've loved the Ribbon since day one, end of story
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THEY SERIOUSLY need to do it like Apple, put the medium sized icons in the ribbon. Look at how messy it looks, the ribbon has big icons, then little icons with no padding on the bottom, it's just messy as F***!!!! They should have just put medium sized icons like Apple did, then when you click on the icon, a little menu pops up… IS IT REALLY THAT HARD TO MAKE A PRETTY INTERFACE!?!?!?!?! Damnit!!!! I have windows 7 on all my machines, but I'm seriously considering switching to Apple because Windows is just so damn ugly, and windows 8 doesn't look like much of a makeover.
If aesthetics are really that important to you I'm surprised you're not already using Mac
Stephen Herfst
That's not a valid argument. By that rationale, you'll be perfectly accepting of an ugly interface just because they designed it that way? Hey, I can design ugly easily .. pretty (and useful) take effort
This is good news. Now will we get the classic windows GUI as well? Sounds like MS finally listened to why many of us still use XP.
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I really don't like the mac versus windows jive, I work on both and at the end of the day they are great machines, but to fuel the fire i can say that I can work faster on a windows machine. I know most of all shortcuts on both machines and windows 7 is by far the best platform for working with a keyboard and with files and folders.
Here is the biggest flaw in Finder. If you say "replace" to a folder on folder paste it will replace everything in the folder. If you do this in windows it only writes over files that are the same name within the folder. The next biggest flaw is window management in Snow Leopard: It has none. I hear that Lion i s better.
Finder and mac dialog popups have zero standardization when it comes to keyboard shortcuts. Try navigating through system preferences with just a keyboard. When your bluetooth mouse goes out on your mac pro try doing anything productive.
Windows and all first party apps can easily by controlled by only a keyboard.
The best thing about finder and Mac os is spaces. Nothing can beat this gem of a tool.
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Thanks for the input :)
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SJIKIPVFNIURHLGFKKV6H43XUA Mark
"the ribbon takes up an inordinate amount of real estate"
It looks like the Office Ribbon which can be set to Minimize and get out of the way until needed: the up arrow on the right top corner of the Ribbon. Also if it's like the Office Ribbon, the icons and display likely resize according to the window size and screen resolution. It's nice that it adapts, but it kind of goes against the whole idea of the Ribbon being consistent in the first place.
http://www.mrseb.co.uk Sebastian Anthony
Yep, it can be minimized to just the headers (File, Home, Share, etc.)
Wayne Collins
It seems most of these comments regarding windows explorer come from power users or users that spend alot of time getting into the nitty gritty of every explorer function. Don't forget that most users of computers don't have the need or the inclination to get that involved with the workings of a computer, they just want to get things done. The ribbon has been a godsend to those same people who use MS Office and I'm sure it will help regular users get more fuctionality out of Explorer.
Wayne Collins
It seems most of these comments regarding windows explorer come from power users or users that spend alot of time getting into the nitty gritty of every explorer function. Don't forget that most users of computers don't have the need or the inclination to get that involved with the workings of a computer, they just want to get things done. The ribbon has been a godsend to those same people who use MS Office and I'm sure it will help regular users get more fuctionality out of Explorer.
Chris Ed.
It looks messy and ugly as hell.
I'm not saying it's a bad thing (actually seems like a very useful feature), but it could have a better overall design.
David Cardona
But I still don't understand why they don't put tabs. it's a no brainer.


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Sokaku Takeda Biography (2)
by Tokimune Takeda
Aiki News #75 (August 1987)
The following article was prepared with the kind assistance of Jocelyn Dubois.
The Four-Day War
On January 1, 1868, the Emperor ordered Shogun Yoshinobu Tokugawa who was entrenched in Osaka to enter the capital of Kyoto with a small army. However Yoshinobu suspected that the Satsuma and Choshu clans planned to trick him and entered Kyoto from two different towns, Toba and Fushimi with about 10 000 soldiers of the Aizu and Kuana clans as the spearhead. This lead to a four-day war which broke out on the third of the month. At one point, the Satsuma and Choshu clans encountered difficulty against the artillery attacks of the shogunate army and proposal was even made to transfer the Emperor to another location. On the fourth, the armies of the two clans appointed Yoshiaki Shinno (member of the imperial family) as the commander-in-chief of an expeditionary force. This resulted in the shogunate army be forced to take the opposite side with respect to the emperor's army. The former thus lost their fighting spirit and took flight into Osaka Castle.
Among the members of the security guard which accompanied Shogun Yoshinobu were the «"yugekitai"», literally the «"flying army"» (swords experts from the kobusho including Kenkichi Sakakibara), and the commander Mononoi Shunzo, a sword expert of those times. However Mononoi had a tacit under standing with the royalists and set fire to a room near the sitting room of the Shogun "taking advantage of the confusion in the Osaka Castle. He betrayed the shogun and sought refuge in the mansion of the Tosa clan after being pursued. Thus the situation worsened. The entire shogunate army was placed under Kishu Family care. Both the Aizu and the Kuana clans and the Shinsengumi (special force of the shogunate, see AN#74) replaced them as escorts. Yoshinobu was subsequently ordered to proceed immediately to the eastern province and returned to Edo (former name of Tokyo) by sea.
Threat to Edo Castle
By the morning of February 6, 1868, some 22 clans including the Satsuma, Choshu and Owari clans raised an army to cover three roads: the Tokai, Tozan and Hokuriku and Arisugawanomiya. Taruhito Shinno received the imperial standard and a sword as the commander-in-chief of the eastern force. They marched off in high spirits agreeing that they would all attack Edo castle simultaneously on March 15.
Kaishu Katsu, a vassal of the Shogun, sent Tetsutaro Yamaoka (Tesshu Yamaoka) to Sunpu (former name of Shizuoka City) as his messenger and proposed stopping the attack on Edo to Takamori Saigo. Katsu also met Saigo when the latter entered Edo. Yoshinobu retired and was confined to the city of Mito (in Ibaragi Prefecture). He stressed the importance of rescuing citizens in Edo and asked Saigo to stop the attack on Edo. Saigo accepted. The new government decided to appoint Kamenosuke Tayasu as the successor to the Tokugawa family and demonstrated that it had no intention of destryoing it before the public in an attempt to inspire confidence among the people. Yoshinobu Tokugawa entered Ueno Kan'eiji and tendered his resignation.
However, those who felt indebted to the hereditary Tokugawa organized the «"Shogitai"» with Hachiro Amano as their head and entrenched themselves in the Ueno Kan'ei temple. Their number increased to some 2 000 persons but on May 15, the government forces opened fire from Kashu mansion in Hongo (present-day Bunkyo ward) all that once and stormed Uenoyama. The Shogitai was defeated in this one-day battle being at a loss against the newly-manufactured guns of the government forces and fled.
Edo Save
The government forces issued an order with five conditions which included quitting Edo castle. A deputy, Tayasu humbly accepted this order. On April 11, the evacuation of Edo castle took place without bloodshed due to the loyalty of Saigo, Katsu and Yamaoka. This prevented Edo from becoming a sea of flames saving the lives of thousands of citizens and homes.
This is how the warrior of yesteryear, our forbearers protected Japan to the end exhibiting the Yamato spirit in a broader sense avoiding the trap of the eastern invasion and colonial policies.
The fundamental factor was devotion to the ideal of self-sacrifice for the sake of the country. One can see the undercurrent of true Japanese tradition, born in the age of the kamisama (deities). The way of training of Sokaku Takeda Sensei was also rooted in this spirit and he revealed his respect for it during his life all through the Meiji, Taisho and Showa periods. His sense of justice manifests itself everywhere and his unique, dauntless spirit was evident in his acts and these qualities inspired the youth of later generations.
Aizu War
The head of the Aizu clan, Lord Katamori Hatsudaira (see AN#74) who was defeated in Toba and Fushimi showed his penitence and sent Michitaka Kujo, head of the pacification force in the Ouu region, to offer a petition of apology through the Sendai clan as well as the numerous clans of the Ouu region more than ten times. However, a member of the general staff, Shuzo Sera of the Chosu clan wrote a secret letter to the effect that a decision had been made to destroy the clans situated in Ouu in order to establish the Satsuma and Choshu clans in this region. The existence of this letter became known to Segami of the Sendai clan and Sera was assassinated in Fukushima. On April 23, the chief vassals of each clan of the Ouu region assembled and formed a "Union of Ouu". Learning of this, the Satsuma and Choshu clans raised an army against this union and marched along the Shirakawa and Echigo roads.
Keisuke Oshima and several others of the shogunate army who escaped from Edo fought in such places as Utsunomiya and Nikko. The Shinsengumi also fought in several locations before being defeated in Koshu. Some 300 men including soldiers of the shogunate army, the Mito clan and the Shinsengumi joined the Aizu army and participated in the battle of Shirakawaguchi.
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St. Stephen's invests leadership, volunteer time and financial resources in a number of organizations in the metropolitan Richmond area, providing a broad array of services. Our principal commitment is to the East End of Richmond, particularly its children and elderly, as demonstrated through our involvement in Fairfield Court Elementary School, Peter Paul Development Center and Anna Julia Cooper Episcopal School. To learn more about any of the following local outreach efforts, please contact Deb Lawrence.
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Each year it is our joy to help East End students begin a new school term with the supplies they need. There are a couple of ways to help. (Remember that the first weekend in August is a tax-free weekend in Virginia, when you can purchase school supplies without paying sales tax.)
> Purchase supplies for middle school students of Anna Julia Cooper Episcopal School. AJCES requests the following. You may bring any of these items to church for distribution to AJCES students.
> Purchase supplies for Fairfield Court Elementary School students, and bring them to St. Stephen's for sorting and distribution. A list of needed supplies is available here.
Thank you for supporting these students!
A brief story about one of our volunteers:
Feeding the hungry
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Examples of opportunities with community partners
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HANDS Ministry: Hammers and Nails in Devoted Service builds on our experience with the annual Rebuilding Together of Richmond day. Participants complete a few light construction projects throughout the year. In addition to our neighbors in the East End, recipients of these efforts might include some of our own elderly or homebound parishioners who need a few things done in their homes. Please contact Deb Lawrence if you would like to participate.
Community Garden: Last year, parishioner Dan Lette generously provided land on which St. Stephen's planted a vegetable garden to serve clients of our food pantry. We are grateful to be able to to supplement our shelf-stable foods with fresh produce. Would you like to work in the garden with other St. Stephen's volunteers? Please contact Deb Lawrence in the parish office.
After-school program
Peter Paul Development Center has an after-school program at Fairfield Elementary School (both are among our outreach partners) and volunteers are needed! Volunteer opportunities include classroom assistant, homework assistant, mentor, and room "parents."
Special annual events
St. Stephen's annually hosts a number of homeless people in our parish house, providing hospitality, meals and a warm, dry, safe place to sleep, in partnership with CARITAS, Congregations Around Richmond Involved to Assure Shelter. This ministry usually takes place in the fall. Volunteers help with various tasks, such as preparing dinners and bag lunches (all food provided), spending the night at church (CARITAS staff will be here too), and helping unload and load cots on both Saturday mornings.
Turkey Box drive
Each year, members of St. Stephen's provide turkeys and food staples to families from our East End partners, allowing them to partake of the kind of festive holiday meal that we take for granted, but which might be out of their reach if not for our assistance. Many parishioners like to decorate a box in which to place the items they purchase for these families, as well. Instructions for participating in this ministry, which takes place in November, are available here.
A one-day helpfest
Project Homeless Connect is a one-day, one-stop event that connects individuals experiencing homelessness with on-site medical care and a variety of social services. It is held at the Richmond Convention Center in the fall. More than 300 volunteers are needed to staff this event.


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The facility, which will handle CFM International CFM56 engines, was originally slated to be operational in 2008, but the process was delayed due to issues associated with the Beijing Olympics and earthquakes in China, says a P&W spokesman.
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P&W Global Service Partners and China Eastern in December 2005 disclosed they had signed a memorandum of understanding to establish an engine MRO centre in Shanghai that would initially focus on CFM56 engines.
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China Eastern has been struggling financially of late. The carrier is to receive a cash injection from its state-owned parent, CEA Holding, through the issue of new shares to help it cope with growing losses.
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Nautical Weddings by or on the water are a perfect summer celebration. My Wedding Favors offers nautical wedding favors and decor that will beautifully accent a wedding by the sea. Not getting married on the water but love the timeless quality of a nautical themed wedding? Bring the water to your guests by inspiring their imaginations with favors reminiscent of the sea featuring anchors, shipwheels, or intertwined ropes.
Brides and grooms have increasingly turned to the photo booth as a fun and easy way of commemorating their day. Guests have a blast taking silly photos and are left with a tangible item to take home with them. Keep costs down and add to the nautical party decorations at your reception by opting for a photo backdrop instead of a full photo booth. The personalized nautical photo booth backdrop from My Wedding Favors, which features the couple's initials in an anchor detail and navy and white stripes, adds an impeccable touch of style and class for a nautical-themed wedding. It doubles as complementary decor. Provide your guests with a nautical picture frame favor, such as the "tied with love" frame, to complete the experience.
In addition to being a special momento for guests, cute nautical wedding favors add charm to wedding reception tables. And with a nautical themed wedding, brides have a variety of sea symbols that hint at eternal love. Anchors away and ships sailing remind guests that the bride and groom are beginning an adventure of love together. Knotted ropes symbolize a couple's tight bond. Brides will be delighted with our variety of unique nautical wedding favors. The anchor bottle stopper and "set sail" shipwheel pourer are practical favor choices with a stylish design. Guests will think of you and smile at the memory of your wedding when they enjoy a glass of wine.
"Anchors away" soap bars, another great choice, are imprinted with an anchor and carefully packaged in a blue and white box. Many of our favors and decor, like the nautical 9 oz. stemless wine glass and nautical table runner, can be personalized.
Designing your nautical-themed wedding or reception has never been easier! Whatever your choice of favors and decor, we know that you will love the quality and design of our wedding products.
If you are looking for unique wedding favors to fit your wedding theme, My Wedding Favors is the best place to shop for favors and finishing touches that celebrate your style!


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Morton win League One title
Morton were crowned Scottish League One champions as they recorded a 3-1 come-from-behind victory over 10-man Peterhead.
The Ton fell behind but Scott Ross' dismissal proved crucial as the hosts rallied, with Michael Miller and Mark Russell both scoring in four first-half minutes and Declan McManus adding to the tally late on.
The home side's promotion party did not look like materialising when Gary McDonald headed in Steven Noble's 17th-minute corner at the back post.
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One of the great attractions about Thailand in general is the incredible open air markets that are all over the place. The Thai people, in general, think nothing of setting up a shingle on a sidewalk and selling something. When they get organized and clump together or somebody throws money at the problem, the markets […]
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A friend found us some accommodation in Bangkok after we left Chiang Mai. It was centrally located and the price was more or less right. We flew into Bangkok went to the taxi stand, explained where we were staying. Since it's not a well known hotel, we told the taxi stand operator what the nearest […]
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An arrest has been made in a burglary case reported earlier this month on June 6th.
The burglary occurred at a home currently not being lived in, but which was being used primarily for storage.
According to Investigator Darren Scarborough with the Elbert County Sheriff's Office they received a call late last week on where the stolen items might be located.
He said the information proved to be accurate, and that they recovered several items.
"We recovered about five guitars, an old time record player, an electric heater, a shotgun, a lot of plumbing fittings and fixtures, and a backpack filled with various tools among other items", said Scarborough.
As a result of the findings, 30-year-old Daniel Clark Neal of a Fort Creek address in Bowman, GA was arrested and charged with first degree burglary, Misdemeanor Possession of Marijuana, and Possession of Drug Related Object.
After questioning, Scarborough says that Neal confessed to committing the burglary.
According to Scarborough the investigation continues, and he expects that more arrests will be made in connection with this case in the near future.
Bond has not yet been set for Daniel Clark Neal, who is currently in custody at the Elbert County Detention Center.


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The countryside surrounding Amanbagh reveals the ruins of an ancient empire. Excursions to a variety of sites are usually within 30 kilometres of Amanbagh and provide an opportunity to travel through breathtaking scenery year-round.
In the countryside surrounding Amanbagh there lies evidence of a lost empire whose historical ambition still echoes in the remains of grand architectural ruins. Excursions on a cultural trail within a 30km radius of Amanbagh include visits to the nearby Ajabgarh Fort and Temple which were built in 1635 and are connected by an underground passageway. Nearby, the Baba Kapoor Shah Mosque was erected in the 17th century in memory of the great Sufi mystic, Baba Kapoor Shah. Bhangarh, built in the mid-1600s, is 15km from Amanbagh and is of great archaeological importance. It is a national heritage site comprising an entire city of bazaars, palaces, gardens, temples and bathing pools deserted overnight by inhabitants who feared a curse.
Ajabgarh is named for its founder Ajab Singh Rajawat, the grandson of Madho Singh, founding ruler of Bhangarh. Moghul Emperor Akbar the Great is said to have stayed in Ajabgarh during the inauguration of Somsagar, a reservoir lake in the hills behind Ajabgarh.
Shah Jahan, famed creator of the Taj Mahal, was entertained here at a chhatri erected specially for him by Ajab Singh when the former was passing through this valley to join his son, Aurangzeb, on a campaign against the Maharajah of Orchha. Ajab Singh's grand-aunt, Jodha Bai of Jaipur was married to Akbar, the grandfather of Shah Jahan.
In the 1930's, the dam which borders Amanbagh was built. Garh is the Hindi word for 'fort' and in this part of Rajasthan there are three (Ajabgarh, Pratapgarh and Ramgarh) all named after their founders who were brothers.
Ajabgarh's finest present day attractions are the fort and the old temple, dedicated to Shri Raghunathji. Built in 1635 AD, it features a 24-pillared open courtyard and a marble façade. This temple once housed a statue a Lord Rama and the Goddess Sita, bejewelled with precious stones. It was unfortunately stolen. The temple and Ajabgarh fort are connected by an underground passage originally designed for use by the royal ladies so they could enter the temple in complete privacy.
Excursions to Ajabgarh from Amanbagh can be organised to Ajabgarh during the day on foot and by camel, or in the resort's open jeeps. During the warmer months you can travel via camel or open jeep to a candle-lit dinner for two (or more) in a chhatri ruin near Ajabgarh. This overlooks the lake and mountains with the fort perched above.
This 'Mazaar' (mosque) was erected in the 17th century in memory of the great Sufi mystic, Baba Kapoor Shah. The celebrated mystic devoted his life to meditation, devotion to Allah and the welfare of society. His disciples still visit his favourite meditation spot, a small chhatri at the top of the hill, to practice the peaceful art of inner reflection.
Bhangarh is a medieval site of great archaeological importance, 15km from Amanbagh. According to local villagers, the splendid ruins are haunted and it is famously named the 'Bhangarh of Ghosts'. The township was built in the 1600's by Diwan Madho Singh of the Jaipur royal family. He was the younger brother of Maharajah Man Singh, the General of Moghul Emperor Akbar.
Legend has it that this now uninhabited city of magnificent bazaars, palaces, gardens, temples and bathing pools was deserted overnight (only a generation after its completion), after being cursed by an evil court magician, Selu Sewra, who had unsuccessfully attempted to seduce Bhangarh's virtuous and beautiful Queen.
Bhangarh is a national heritage site and whilst many travel guides recommend it as one of the top 10 sites in India, very few travellers manage to include it in their itineraries which means that you will largely have Bhangarh to yourself during your visit.
Mornings and late afternoons are a perfect time to visit this deserted city that is marvellously well-kept with green lawns and age-old ficus trees – home to many langur and macaque monkeys. It is an amazing setting for photography, meditation and yoga. Visits can be organised from Amanbagh to simply view Bhangarh, to experience yoga or meditation, and for picnic breakfasts or lunches. Transport is via car or jeep and takes approximately 15 minutes.
With its history dating back to 1058 AD, Narayani Mata is as sacred to the Rajasthani as Pushkar or Ramdeora. It is located 14km from Amanbagh, on the edge of Sariska National Park. The legend of the site began when Narayani and her husband were returning to their village. Along the way, while taking a rest in the shade of a Banyan tree, her husband was fatally bitten by a snake. While the cremation was taking place at this fateful site, Narayani, already renowned for displaying supernatural powers, chose to immolate herself on her husband's funeral pyre, asking the villagers whether she could assist them in any way.
Villagers wished for water which miraculously sprang from the ground. The same spring continues to flow to this day. Sparked by her prayers, the funeral pyre ignited and consumed them both. Narayani, of the Barber caste, became one of the oldest known and best revered Sati in Rajasthan, one with the power of truth.
A Meena tribal priest conducts the Aarti (prayer in the form of songs) in the evenings which, with bells and gongs resounding, can be an intense experience.
For a trek to Narayani Mata in the same tradition as the local villagers, depart from Amanbagh by jeep to the start of the welltrodden trail up over the hill and down into Narayani Mata. Here guests can view the temple and adjacent spring of holy water and enjoy a chai stop with the locals before being picked up for the return to Amanbagh.
Neelkanth, meaning the blue-throated reincarnation of Lord Shiva, is located inside Sariska National Park, 45 minutes from Amanbagh. The view is spectacular as one climbs up the last stretch of road to the plateau where it is situated.
Lost in a high valley, encircled on all sides by mountains, this ancient temple town is home to the ruins of more than 80 beautifully carved temples dating back to the 6th century. Its most famous temple, Neelkantheshwar, predates even these. Neelkanth is also the site of the remains of the 7th century Jain temple of Naugaza, where there is the massive 25ft tall pink sandstone statue of Shri Parshavanath-ji – the 23rd Jain Tirthankara. Transfers from Amanbagh are organised by jeep or car in the morning or afternoon. Depending on the weather, a picnic lunch can be organised.


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Endless Summer (AI Serial Number 4279) was a "smart" AI attached to the UNSC excavation team on planet Onyx, Zone 67.
He was sent to replace the AI Deep Winter after it reached the end of its operational life span in 2552. He took the form of a tall, red Cherokee Indian chief, bare-chested, wearing buckskins, and with a feathered spear in hand.[1]
Unlike Deep Winter and Eternal Spring before him, Endless Summer was aloof and did not care for Camp Currahee to the south of him. He barely tolerated the staff there, namely Spartan-051 and his Spartan-IIIs. Endless Summer never initiated communication with them, unless in times of dire need.
Less than a year into his life, he was confronted with the attack on Zone 67 and Camp Currahee by Onyx Sentinels. Endless Summer ordered the Spartan-IIIs to defend Zone 67 after the defenders of the area were all killed by the Sentinels. He was contacted by Dr. Catherine Halsey once she arrived, who convinced him to use the planet's Slipspace COM launcher to alert Earth so they could send forces to save them. The Sentinels then found and destroyed the launcher.[2] Although Endless Summer escaped the destruction of the COM Launcher, he was most likely destroyed when the planet disintegrated, later in the Battle of Onyx.
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- Halo: Ghosts of Onyx (First appearance)
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Doppler • Durga • Déjà • Endless Summer • Eternal Spring • FitzGibbon • Iona • Jerrod • Juliana • Kalmiya
Lackluster • Loki • Lorelei • Lysithea • Mack • Mama • Melissa • Mo Ye • Pallas Athena • Phoenix
Orlin • Rebecca • Roland • Sekmet • Serina • Sif • Solipsil • Superintendent (Vergil) • Toran • Watchmaker • Wellsley


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Sixty & Single in Seattle
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Williams to seek re-election to Abilene City Council
Abilene City Council member Anthony Williams announced Monday he will file to run for a fifth term for Place 3 on the City Council.
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