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|Lady Dragons go 1-1 in regional tournament action
|Written by Darci Tomky
A 41-36 win over Rye Friday, March 8 started off the Lady Dragons' regional basketball tournament on a good note at Fountain Middle School, south of Colorado Springs.
Unfortunately, they ended their season the next day with a 41-51 loss to Vanguard Charter.
"What a great regional performance, and what a great season for these Lady Dragon basketball players," said coach Arlan Scholl, noting the team finished the 2012-13 season with 15 wins and nine losses, ending up in the "sweet sixteen" in the state in 2A. That's just one win away from being in the final eight and going to the state tournament in Pueblo.
"This group of players continued to work hard throughout the season and showed improvement from week to week and game to game," he said. "They battled through some injuries and adversity and continued to come out and play hard each game."
Scholl thanked and recognized his assistant coaches Kia Kassman and Dave Rice for their "fine help and expertise this year," noting they were a big part of the successes the Lady Dragons accomplished this year.
"And also a big thank you to all the parents and great Holyoke fans and supporters for all you do for our student athletes. You are much appreciated," added Scholl.
He said the team will lose some key players to graduation, but the future remains bright for Holyoke Lady Dragon basketball.
Holyoke 41, Rye 36
In Friday's game against Rye, Holyoke kicked off with a 13-point first quarter over Rye's seven. Both teams put up 11 in the next eight minutes, giving the Dragons a six-point lead at halftime.
Rye's shooting in the third gave them the 10-9 advantage over Holyoke for the quarter. And again, both teams tied fourth-quarter scoring at eight, giving Holyoke the 41-36 win.
This win kept the Lady Dragons alive and advancing to the second round of regional action on Saturday.
Senior Erin Vieselmeyer led Holyoke scoring with 19 points including six two-pointers, two three-pointers and 1-for-2 in free throws. She also had three blocks for the Dragons.
Maddie King brought down eight rebounds, and Audi Peña had four steals. Both girls also had four assists Friday night.
Holyoke 41, Vanguard 51
Holyoke stuck right with Vanguard during first-quarter action Saturday, March 9, tied at seven points at the end of the first eight minutes. They were outscored by three in the second period, giving Vanguard the 22-19 lead at halftime.
A slow third quarter for the Dragons let Vanguard build up their lead to 12, and Holyoke's fourth-quarter 16 points over their 14 was not enough to challenge them for the win.
Vanguard's 51-41 win over Holyoke earned them the regional championship and a spot at the 2A girls' basketball state tournament.
In Dragon team stats, Erin Vieselmeyer was the top scorer with 16 points including five two-pointers, one trey and 3-for-4 from the line. The 16 points plus 12 rebounds gave the senior a double-double in her last game as a Dragon.
King had five assists and two steals in the regional matchup.
Akron, Yuma advance to state tournament
Akron and Yuma girls' basketball teams will play in the 2A state tournament this weekend, going in with the No. 1 and No. 6 spots, respectively. Also competing are Lutheran, Vanguard, Sangre de Cristo, Peyton, Simla and Ignacio.
Holyoke Enterprise March 14, 2013


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Cody Cervantes had four separate cars ram into his SAAB 900 this past Saturday night.
The 27-year old Glenwood Springs resident was dodging oncoming vehicles all night while sloshing through a sloppy mud pit. And by the time he was finally hit head on after driving for 10 minutes, all of the extra dents and dings in the car he was driving were capped by a big plume of smoke coming from the engine.
As much as such an experience would steer most people away from the road forever, that wasn't the case for Cervantes. He hopped out of his dilapidated car with a big smile on his face, acting like he'd just had the time of his life.
"Absolute insanity," Cervantes said. "If it wasn't for that big plume of smoke coming from my engine, I would have kept going until I saw sparks."
The insanity Cervantes was speaking of was the annual demolition derby, held at the Garfield County Fairgrounds in Rifle as part of the county fair. It's an event that features sparks, smoke, the smell of gas and burning oil, an occasional engine fire and dozens and dozens of crashes. The prospect of a $2,000 grand prize drew drivers from Delta to Glenwood Springs to the mud pit, and the prospective car wrecks drew a big enough crowd to fill the arena grandstands.
"Every year we clear a profit," said Roger Coombs, 41, who has volunteered to help run the county fair event for the past four years. "With this event, they can fill the grand stands with very minimal effort or expense.
"I grew up around here," continued Coombs, who participates in demolition derbies but won't compete in the one he helps run. "With this kind of crowd, I'd like nothing more than to see it continue."
That likely won't be an issue. Coombs didn't have exact attendance figures, but he estimated the derby's crowd was comparable to the rodeo, another popular annual fair event.
But instead of seeing cowboys flying off the backs of horses and cattle, spectators got a chance to see some vehicles flying through the air. Along with the demolition derby in the rodeo arena, the event included timed runs on the surrounding dirt race track by ATVs, snowmobiles and four-wheelers.
The primary draw, however, were the vehicles ramming into each other in the "last-man standing" derby event. The crowd of well over 1,000 spectators saw the engine of Grand Junction's Kody Wilson catch on fire after another Grand Junction resident, Jason Powell, hit him. Another driver, Duane Bloom of Delta, had engine coolant gushing from his radiator in the initial round that forced him to withdraw.
"I saw that coming and said to myself, 'Boy, I'd better hang on!'" Wilson said.
"This stuff is always fun," Wilson continued. "Every time there's a demolition derby it packs the grandstands. People love this sort of stuff."
Turns out that luck loved Grand Junction's Tommy Shannon, who came away the winner after the final round of six cars. He outlasted Stephen Gully of Whitewater, whose car nearly burst into flames about five minutes into the final event, but was still running well enough to continue another five to 10 minutes.
Jesse Merry of Parachute made a go of it in the final round. His team fixed his vehicle up enough for him to continue on, but his engine failed not long after the round began. Also making a final run was Fruita's Anthony Creamer, who didn't last much longer than Merry.
"Most people enjoy the demolition derby," Coombs said. "Traditionally, it's very easy to get people out for this, and you can see why."

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WASHINGTON,D.C. (WUSA) --- The Treasury Department told Congress Monday the federal government will reach in about one month the limit of its ability to borrow money, the so-called debt ceiling.
In what was billed as the last press conference of his first term in office, President Obama urged congress to raise that debt limit without tying the increase to spending cuts, as many Republicans have argued they will attempt to do.
"I want to be clear about this. The debt ceiling is not a question of authorizing more spending. Raising the debt ceiling does not authorize more spending. It simply allows the country to pay for spending that Congress has already committed to. These are bills that have already been racked up and we need to pay them.
"So while I'm willing to compromise and find common ground over how to reduce our deficits, America cannot afford another debate with this Congress about whether or not they should pay the bills they've already racked up.
"If congressional Republicans refuse to pay America's bills on time, Social Security checks and veterans' benefits will be delayed. We might not be able to pay our troops, or honor our contracts with small business owners. Food inspectors, air traffic controllers, specialists who track down loose nuclear material wouldn't get their paychecks. Investors around the world will ask if the United States of America is, in fact, a safe bet. Markets could go haywire. Interest rates would spike for anybody who borrows money -- every homeowner with a mortgage, every student with a college loan, every small business owner who wants to grow and hire. It would be a self-inflicted wound on the economy. It would slow down our growth, might tip us into recession, and ironically, would probably increase our deficit.
"So to even entertain the idea of this happening -- of the United States of America not paying its bills -- is irresponsible. It's absurd. As the Speaker said two years ago, it would be -- and I'm quoting Speaker Boehner now -- "a financial disaster, not only for us, but for the worldwide economy."
"So we've got to pay our bills. And Republicans in Congress have two choices here: They can act responsibly, and pay America's bills; or they can act irresponsibly, and put America through another economic crisis. But they will not collect a ransom in exchange for not crashing the American economy. The financial well-being of the American people is not leverage to be used. The full faith and credit of the United States of America is not a bargaining chip.
"And they better choose quickly, because time is running short. The last time Republicans in Congress even flirted with this idea, our AAA credit rating was downgraded for the first time in our history; our businesses created the fewest jobs of any month in nearly the past three years; and, ironically, the whole fiasco actually added to the deficit," President Obama said.
Even as the president spoke, Speaker of the House John Boehner released a statement saying "The American People do not support raising the debt ceiling without reducing government spending at the same time.
"The consequences of failing to increase the debt ceiling are real, but so too are the consequences of allowing our spending problem to go unresolved," Boehner said.
The National Taxpayers' Union says the debt ceiling debate provides an opportunity to reduce spending.
"Members of Congress need to own up for their own responsibility for over spending here and say if we're going to raise the debt ceiling we're going to make sure we don't get into this situation again. We're going to hold the line on spending in the future. It's up to them as well as the president," said NTU vice-president Pete Seppp.
"Washington doesn't treat the debt ceiling like a game of chicken. It's a game of chicken little. It's who can cluck the loudest about pending disaster. The truth is both sides need to face up to their own failures here and move forward constructively. That means approving the debt ceiling with ironclad reductions in spending this year, not down the road," Sepp told 9News Now.
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|Locals inducted into NJC honor society
|Written by Holyoke Enterprise
Six local students were inducted into Northeastern Junior College's Zeta Theta Chapter of Phi Theta Kappa in a Feb. 26 ceremony at NJC in Sterling.
Phi Theta Kappa is the international honor society of two-year colleges.
Inductees included Brittany Durbin, Connie Ferguson, Kaylee Groshans, Sherilyn Knight, Tiffany Maelzer and Janna Smith.
Smith was one of two students identifed as Colorado All-Academic Team members. She was a recipient of a $500 Presidential Campus Scholarship.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (WUSA9)-- Starting Tuesday the Supreme Court of The United States will begin hearing oral arguments in the debate over gay marriage rights.
It's wildly popular debate and the line outside the SCOTUS of people wanting a front row seat is growing. However, not all in line are doing it for themselves many are getting paid to do so. They are called "Place Holders".
"Dwayne" is one of the place holders and said ,"According to the economy right now this is better than not doing nothing."
He is out of work he says and had no qualms with waiting in line in the cold, wet elements for some side cash. He said "we are in a country right now where it's a privilege to have a job, so this is a little hustle coming through."
Although he didn't tell us how much he was making, other place holders said the gig pays between 10-36 dollars an hours.
Ashley Miller, a South Carolina native who came to the nation's capital to witness the arguments and stand in line for herself, the people who pay place holder have deep pockets that she can't compete with.
She said mostly those paying are "congressman, lawyers who aren't a member of the bar. The bar right now is almost entirely of paid people who are the line for lawyers."
Miller tells us she has a bone to pick not with the people cashing in but those paying the money for place holders.
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Lady Sailors in win column
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After two losses and a tie in its first three games, Oceanside got in the win column for the first time in 2012 with a 1-0 victory over Conference AA-I girls' soccer rival Kennedy on Sept. 19.
Senior Dana Sevcik, who switched from an outside midfield spot to the center, cashed in a rebound at the 32:46 mark of the first half for the game's only goal. Junior Marissa Colascco's direct kick was stopped by Kennedy keeper Nicole Liotta, but the ball ricocheted off her hands and was blasted into the left corner of the net.
"Hopefully the momentum switched for the whole year," Lady Sailors coach Marianna Winchester said. "We battled hard the first three games but came up short. I told the girls to approach this game as if we were down a goal or two. I wanted them to be more aggressive."
Senior goalkeeper Emily Doherty made seven saves for Oceanside (1-2-1), which came off a 4-1 defeat to Calhoun five days earlier. "Calhoun's a strong and physical team," Winchester said. "They push opponents off the ball. Next time we play them, we have to play the whole game the way we played in the second half."
Winchester is counting on a mix of senior leadership and talented youngsters to lead the Lady Sailors to a successful season. Doherty, who has Temple on her collegiate radar, is a captain along with senior central defenders Kelly Backus and Sam Longo. Doherty had 16 saves in a 1-1 tie with Farmingdale in the opener. "Emily's an outstanding goalie in every sense," Winchester said. "She's got great ability and is very vocal. It all starts with her."
Backus, who started at fullback last season and earned All-County honors, and Longo, who distributes the ball well to the midfielders, control the tempo in the back. Backus is expected to miss a handful of games in early October but should return for the stretch run. Longo scored in the Farmingdale game. "We'll be losing a main plug when Kelly's out, but everyone else just has to step up," said Winchester, who asks senior Meghan Wallace, junior Kristen Paczkowski and sophomore Angelica Cafiero to do most of the work at fullback.
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They are people imbued with a purpose greater than profits made, copies sold or pages viewed. People who believe in playing with a straight bat, doing the right thing, making the world a fairer place.
And they understand, know and care about the people and communities they represent.


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Your Guide to Bogota Hotels
Nature lovers also have a number of options for finding the right Bogota hotels. You can opt to stay at a hotel within easy driving distance of Mount Monserrate. It simply is the place where you'll find the best views in the city. If you love the beach, you might chose to stay at hotels in Bogota by the Laguna de Guatavita - a location that is not only home to a stunning beach, but is also a historical landmark. Visitors staying at an airport hotel can easily travel from their beautiful rooms to Parque Central Simon Bolivar for a picnic lunch or head to Parque Natural to enjoy some bird watching.
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Lovely Central Room in Quiet Street
Size12 m²
Floor No.
- Kitchen
- Internet/WiFi
- Baby cot
- Family/child friendly
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- Lockable room
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This double guest room is in a centrally located apartment in idyllic location close to the lakes between Østerbro and Nørrebro.
On the first floor there are two bedrooms, this one has a double bed and the other room has two twin beds (see my other listings). This quiet and cozy room has a comfortable double bed, a wardrobe, a cupboard with a TV, two wicker chairs and a coffee table and near the window you will find a counter with two high benches where you can have your breakfast before explore the wonderful city of Copenhagen.
The room is bright and spacious and you can always count on a fresh bouquet of flowers on the table and you also have a nice view of the street and Copenhagen everyday life. There is a small kitchen for cooking and a fridge and freezer (Tea-kitchen and coffee maker are provided). The bathroom is right next to the room on the same floor.
The flat is at walking distance from the city center with shopping and food shops. Although for being so central it is a quiet and friendly street with very little traffic. The four lakes in the city are located only 10 minutes' walk from the main square of the city "The city hall square". This location provides a great opportunity to experience this piece of green city on foot. The States Museum of Art is also within walking distance and is definitely worth a visit. Bus 14 to Nørreport Station and the bus 14 and 40 to Central Station.
Grocery stores are located within 20 meters of this rental flat. This flat is a good place to go on family holiday, since it is possible to borrow a children's cot.
Make yourself at home!
If you stay only 1 night then an extra fee of 50 dkr will be added per person.
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Prefect location in this beautiful city. Ulla was very friendly & helpful. The house and room are very nice, bed and room were good. Bathroom wasn't the cleanest we've seen. That's the only point for improvement.
Se trata de una pequeña habitación con derecho a cocina y baño compartidos. La zona es preciosa y el edificio una monada pero resulta algo justo para una pareja. La cocina es muy insuficiente y todo está bastante atrotinado y sucio. Eso sí, el baño es grande y agradable. Ulla de entrada es muy amable pero prefiere que no cocines: como vea una mínima salpicadura de aceite te da la bronca y te riñe por no abrir la ventana. Por cierto para abrir la ventana hay que subirse a una escalera, y la limpieza de la cocina de entrada era muy insuficiente para tantas exigencias. En definitiva, mejor no cocinar, más allá de prepararse unos bocadillos.
March 2016
My daughter and I took a trip to Copenhagen. We had a wonderful 1-week-stay and we enjoyed the time we could spent and relax in the holiday apartment-room Ulla offers.
It´s a light, clean and cozy place - and we could use the small kitchen to have comfortable breakfasts and even little dinners at home.
Our host Ulla has been very friendly, charming and caring. She gave us "Copenhagen-Newbies" good recommendations for interesting places to visit.
The apartment is located in a very nice, small and quiet street near by the water and pretty close to the center of the city. All public transport, shops, cafés and restaurants can be reached within easy walking distance.
Enjoy your stay!
Cora & Angelika
Angolo cottura e bagno non era specificato che sono in comune con un'altra stanza.
Cucina senza cappa.
Nel complesso buono.
очень приятная хозяйка разрешила заехать сразу при раннем прилете, на кухне чисто и все есть можно в любое время попить чай или кофе. комната маленькая и уютная с выходом на кухню туалет чистый с теплыми полами есть шампуни и даже зубные пасты вид из окна на улицу из зданий 19 века очень тихий квартал недалеко от центра.рядом частная булочная кафе и магазин овощей . все что нужно для хорошего отдыха есть
It is a perfect place to stay in and visit Copenhague. 10 min walking to metro and down town. Lovely house in a quiet street near to shops, coffes and restaurants. Ulla, owner of the house so nice and warm! She will make you feel you are at home. Just excellent!!
Ulla es muy agradable y acojedora , fue muy atenta en todo lo que necesitamos. La casa estaba muy bien muy hogareña, hacia mucho calorcito, todo muy limpio y cerca del centro. Recomendable 100%.
We had a great stay at Ulla's place and really enjoyed the nice and cosy scandinavian room. The house is in a beautiful and quiet neighborhood but also very close to the centre. She is a very warm-hearted and uncomplicated host! We especially loved speaking danish with her :)
Lovely place: the room, the house, the neibourhood....everything! very good location and easy to find. Ulla is friendly and helpful; very nice host. The room is comfortable and very nice and clean. It is a very recomendable place to stay.
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The kingdom of heaven vs. the fiefdom of man
Except for inflation, the economic indices were good as Salvador Allende took power late in 1970. Copper prices were strong and unemployment was about 3 percent. Allende moved quickly to socialize the economy by seizing some foreign firms and taking over banks. He also encouraged tomas (seizures) of farms; French writer Suzanne Labin described one: "A band armed with clubs and rifles forces its way onto a farm, orders the whole of the owner's family to pack their bags, pushes them out into the road, gathers together all those who work on the farm, tells them that it is their property from now on, and sets up a banner with the words, 'This property has been seized by the people.'"
Allende explained his objectives in a 1971 interview with France's Regis Debray: "As for the bourgeois state at the present moment, we are seeking to overcome it. To overthrow it [and ...] expropriate the means of production which are still in private hands.... To open up the road to socialism. Our objective is total, scientific, Marxist socialism."
Food output fell sharply. In December 1971, thousands of Chilean women marched in the streets of Santiago, banging on empty pots and pans to dramatize the growth of shortages and skyrocketing prices. Leftist counter-demonstrators threw rocks at the marchers and attacked with clubs, carabineros came with tear gas, and Allende imposed a state of emergency that allowed him to censor newspapers, close radio stations, and ban demonstrations. He soon announced that the government would be in charge of all food distribution, and "neighborhood vigilance committees would watch for black-market or other non-approved activities." He seized control of the Kennecott and Anaconda copper mines and provided no compensation to their owners, with the obvious result that foreign investment in Chilean industries decreased sharply.
As the economy shrank while government spending increased, currency printing presses worked overtime and inflation leaped. The consumer price index, which stood at 100 in December 1970, was at 122 a year later and 322 in December 1972; in September 1973, it was at 942. Money in circulation soared from 3.7 billion pesos when Allende took office to 74 billion in September 1973. Runaway inflation received the most attention early in 1973, along with Education Minister Jorge Tapia's announcement that the government would establish a single nationwide curriculum, modeled on East Germany's, that would include compulsory courses on Marxism.
The current government's plans are much more modest, and do not involve doing away with the relaxed relations of church and state. That understanding is evident in lunchroom signs at municipal Escuela Rayen Mapu, a 584-student public school several blocks away from the Fundación Miguel Kast's center in Buin; one sign reads, Dejad que los ninos vengan a mi, por que de ellos es el Reino de los Cielos. That picture of Jesus letting the little children come unto him, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven, is diminished in force by a picture of the four food groups drawn in exactly the same shrine-like, reverent style.
Students at the municipal school as part of their school week have two hours of religion classes (Catholic or evangelical), and all pray for people who are sick. And yes, the school has a sick look, with dirty walls distinguished largely by graffiti. Bathrooms that were officially cleaned 15 minutes before are still dirty. "Yes, we have a problem," acknowledged school official Jose Quiroz. "The bathrooms were cleaned badly. No supervision." But problems go beyond the janitorial, Mr. Quiroz said. The school has a sports teacher, but he is old; besides, the government has sent no sports equipment. The school has a good library room has no books in it, because the government provides books for classes but not for libraries. The government gave the school Ping-Pong tables but they were left out in the rain because the government did not supply a convenient storage room. The government does not allocate money for repairing broken things.
That litany from Mr. Quiroz is common, said Maria de los Angeles Santander Meersohn, a specialist in education policy issues. "The government gives money but doesn't let schools decide how to spend it. A powerful teachers union has pushed for municipal schools to receive a 20 percent supplement to their regular funding if they are failing; the result, Mrs. Meersohn said, is that schools have "incentives to be the worst." But Mr. Quiroz says his hands are tied: "We cannot get better teachers because they do not want to come to this school. They say the students do not have clean habits. They know that some are violent."
As municipal school leaders complain about students, so private school leaders complain about governmental education officials-but students can change, and bureaucracies rarely do. Heard repeatedly: The government doesn't have good standards, just bureaucratic content requirements. The government gives free books, but they are at times politically loaded, and in small municipal schools government is god and a book from the government is treated like a saint. Since parents do not receive the vouchers directly, they feel that education is free and they don't have a right to ask for something different. Government officials say they want only a minimum curriculum under their direction, but their minimum may not allow time for anything else.
But back to the municipal school in Buin: It is owned by "the people," but the people do not seem pleased by it. "Last week we had people cleaning all our roofs," Mr. Quiroz said. "During the weekend people came here and threw more stones on the roof." Mrs. Milevsic smiled sadly upon hearing that and said, regarding the Fundación Miguel Kast building, "The best sign of what we're doing with people here is that they do not destroy the place. We don't have guards and night watchmen, for the community sees the place is for them." She added, "In government programs, no one has ownership. But a private program is like our houses. We take care of our houses."
In a sense, those center-left government slogans-ASI CRECE DE CHILE 2002-2006 ("Chile grows up like this with you")-are an attempt to make Chileans think that the government's house is their house, the government's office is their office. But few are readily fooled: The office is that of the person who sits in it. Salvador Allende three decades ago deliberately said that the government's house was no longer for the middle class or the affluent: "I am not the president of all Chileans." Since, in Allende's Marxist faith, "the existence of classes and social sectors with antagonistic and opposing interests" is irrefutable, he declared that the government's house was now owned by the working class. Allende and his associates would now take care of it, and anyone who threw stones on the roof would be shot. Furthermore, he deemed a fool anyone who thought that rich and poor actually needed each other, could help each other, and could visit each other in their own houses.


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DENVER (AP) — It's time for those Super Bowl bets.
The mayors of Seattle and Denver have a friendly wager with some good eats on the line. Seattle Mayor Ed Murray is putting up salmon and Dungeness crab.
Should the Seahawks win, Denver Mayor Michael B. Hancock will send green chile, Denver's favorite fiery stew to Seattle.
The Denver Broncos and Seahawks meet in the Super Bowl this coming Sunday.
Super Bowl betting boom
With the Super Bowl approaching, fans are talking trash, buying snacks, and, more than ever, placing bets.
Fans bet an unprecedented $99 million on the Super Bowl last year, and Nevada sports books collected record amounts of football wagers during the tail end of 2013.
All of this is changing the role of the humble sports book, which casinos used to see as an amenity that kept customers from going next door, but now expect to turn a profit.
Odds makers alike attribute the rise in betting to the increase in televised games, and the ubiquity of sports analysis.
Amateur gamblers are more likely to bet on a game they can watch, and the proliferation of sports podcasts, blogs and websites have all made them feel more confident in their opinions.


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Hartford Hospital is committed to providing the best and safest patient experience.
We believe that actively involving patients and families in their own care improves the patient's experience of the hospital and overall patient safety.
When patients are engaged as active participants in their own care, they are more informed of treatment choices and possible complications.
Patients and their families can be an important source of feedback because, with their unique perspective, they often observe things that are important to support care and patient safety.
This "Patient Health Care Journal" is a tool that we have developed to improve communication among staff, patients and families.
This journal provides a vehicle to enable the hospital to share important information with patients and families. In addition, it provides
a place for patients, families and staff to write down questions, important care points and share information among family members. This journal will encourage you to become more involved in your care and partner with the hospital staff to identify priorities in daily care.
You will receive a copy of the journal as a patient at Hartford Hospital, but anyone can download and use it.
(The Institute of Living Patient Care Journal can be found here.)


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5 things to know for Friday in Indiana
1. Construction worker killed on Notre Dame campus
Mark Ellsworth, 22, of Mishawaka, was struck by a falling tree and killed as he worked on a construction site on the east side of Notre Dame's campus.
The incident happened near Twyckenham Drive and Bulla Road. He was employed by an area excavating company contracted by the university.
2. Crash on John Weaver Parkway leaves one man seriously injured
A man was taken to a South Bend hospital with serious injuries after a one-car crash on John Weaver Parkway near Aeroplex Drive.
The man's name had not been released as of late Thursday night. The Elkhart Truth is updating the story as it develops.
3. Man accused in double homicide says he's ready for December jury trial
One of the two men accused of the September shooting and killing of Jagtar Bhatti, 55, and Pawan Singh, 20, in the parking lot of Saleh's Market, 401 Middlebury St., said he is prepared for his trial scheduled for Dec. 9, 2013.
Richard Gross, 22, is charged with two counts of murder. If convicted, each murder charge carries a sentence of 45 to 65 years in prison.
4. Elkhart girl wins top honors at 4-H livestock judging competition
Marissa Lorenz, a former Fairfield student, earned top honors Nov. 19 at the North American Livestock Exposition 4-H Livestock Judging Contest. She was named the champion for the competition after earning first place honors in oral reasons and sheep, third place in cattle, and fourth place in swine.
She earned honors in three of her four sets of oral reasons talking a 49, 49 and 48 out of a possible 50 points and a score of 45 points in the fourth set. Lorenz, who competed with teammates on the Elkhart County Livestock Judging Team, won oral reasons by a four point margin with a total score of 191.
5. Pancake breakfast todayAll you can eat pancakes and sausage for only $6. Need we say more?
The Salvation Army is holding its 50th annual all-you-can eat pancakes and sausage breakfast from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. The Salvation Army uses the money earned from the breakfast to help the community.


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UPDATED: Acts of Valor
UPDATE 9/27, 2013: Today I rekindled my RedState membership. After the disappointment of the 2012 elections, I let my blogging and political social media go, and took a breather. I have had to square myself with my belief that my God is in charge, and His plan is perfect. Because it sure doesn't look like it on the surface. I could trust Him, or not. | Read More »


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Surprise, AZ (Sports Network) - Ian Kinsler went 3-for-3 with a two-run home
run as the Texas Rangers took an 8-2 win over the Kansas City Royals in spring
training action.
Julio Borbon was 3-for-3 with two RBI and two runs scored and Mitch Moreland
had two hits, two runs scored and an RBI for the Rangers, who had 17 hits in
the game. Derek Lowe pitched three innings and gave up just three hits and a
walk along with three strikeouts.
Brandon Wood hit a two run double while Lorenzo Cain had two hits for the
Royals, who saw starter Ervin Santana was pounded for six runs on 10 hits over
four innings of work.
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ATLANTA -- A 21-year-old man was shot early Wednesday morning as he stood on the front porch of a southwest Atlanta home.
Police Capt. Adam Lee III said the man, who has not been identified, was shot in the back. Officers believe the round was fired from inside the home located in the 1,500 block of Mozley Place SW. Police found shell casings inside the home and broken glass on the porch.
Capt. Lee said the victim was not talking to officers about what happened. The man was transported to Grady Hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
No arrests have been made.
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January 29, 2013 | 1149 views
Beloved Carey coach mourned
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Football in Franklin Square will never be the same without Fred Cucciniello, who left behind enough memories to last a lifetime for the countless people he mentored in nearly 50 years of coaching.
Cucciniello, a beloved longtime coach in the Franklin Square Warriors youth program and a longtime volunteer assistant coach at Carey High School, died Jan. 14, of pancreatic cancer. He was 77.
Services were held Jan. 17-18 at Franklin Funeral Home.
"I worked with Fred for 23 years, and he was the most unselfish human being I've ever met," said Matt McLees, who coached the Seahawks from 1991 to 2006 before taking over as Carey's athletic director. "He was a great motivator, and had tremendous passion for football and Carey High School, but most of all he loved the kids. He was a grandfather figure to every kid that played here, and all the kids adored him."
Cucciniello, who was known as "Cooch," played football, basketball and baseball at Sewanhaka High School, graduating in 1954. He began a nearly 20-year affiliation with the Franklin Square Warriors in 1965, and then joined the staff at Carey in 1984. His proximity to Carey — he lived on Goldenrod Avenue — allowed him to walk to practices and home games. He never missed a game in 29 years, home, away or otherwise, said Mike Stanley, the team's head coach since 2007.
"Fred did anything he could to help our program," Stanley said. "His goal was to make sure every kid had a great experience in football. It's hard to imagine starting next season without him. He was a great friend and family man."
Cucciniello had a soft spot for the defensive line, Stanley said, and spent a lot of time working with the players who led the Seahawks in the trenches. Nonetheless, Stanley added, "Fred treated all players equally. He found a positive in anything someone did."
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text: I am having a weird issue where when I release messages from our Barracuda spam firewall, they never show up on the Zimbra mail server. When I look at the log files, I can see everything in the log showing a successful delivery, but the message never arrives. It's really odd because the Barracuda is relaying regular mail just fine without any problems. And I see that it is making the connection and relaying messages released from quarantine fine. I even see where the messages pass through ClamAV as CLEAN in the log file. I just don't know what is happening to the actual message.


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Butch Rambish
State of the Art Monitoring Technology Provides Cost Savings
Butch Rambish 060000TMQ8 email@example.com Tags:  zos monitoring omegamon tivoli management system performance 1 Comment 1,127 Visits
In today's challenging economic times, everybody is looking for ways to cut costs. One way that many IT shops have been able to do this is through more efficient ways to monitor and trouble shoot performance problems. A poorly performing system can cause significant performance problems and user disatisfaction but perhaps even more important, it leads to waste and if not solved, can lead to premature acquisition of more capacity. This short video is a great start to better understand how the Omegamon products can help to drive greater efficiency for your z/OS environment.
Not Growing up z; Just Growing Up
Butch Rambish 060000TMQ8 email@example.com Tags:  others tivoli helping zos 3 Comments 1,478 Visits
I hope you'll indulge me a bit but I want to take a break from writing about software and software careers. Today I want to write about something much different. I want to talk about an opportunity I had to help other people. I'm not here to imply that others need to do this to grow up but I do feel this is something that is a result of me growing up a bit. My motto has always been "Growing older is mandatory; growing up is optional". This was a bit of my optional growing up.
Last week I had the privilege of going to Cedar Rapids, Iowa with a group of people to help people rebuild their homes after last years disastrous floods. Where the Iowa river is about 100 yards wide in downtown Cedar Rapids, we were told that it was as much as 2 miles wide at the crest of the flood. Needless to say, the results were disastrous for many people. You need only to drive through the neighborhoods to see home after home that is vacant because the people cannot afford to rebuild. More than a year later you don't hear about it but the devastation is still there and help is really needed.
We did a lot of different things to help. We had people from 12 years old to 56 years old with a variety of skills. Actually, I should say we were largely an unskilled crew relative to the skills required to rebuild a house. However, we were willing to work and while a few of us know enough to be able to install a few windows, doors and trim, and others could paint, many of them just helped clean up from the flood so that homes would be ready to be rebuilt.
This is the 4th year I've been able to do this. The first 3 years I went to the Gulf Coast to help after Katrina. I don't go into this to receive kudos. I only bring this up to say that this is an opportunity that is available to many people because the recovery from these disasters takes years and just because it may be old news you need only to ask and you will find out there is more to do.
Can't go for a whole week? How about a weekend in your hometown? I know of a friend that took a group of people he works with and worked with Habitat for Humanity in our town and helped to build a home for a family that would not otherwise ever be able to have their own home. There is need for help of all kinds for people in your own town. You could get a group of buddies together and contact Habitat for Humanity or many other charitable service organizations to help others who need work done around their home but cannot afford nor are they able to do the work themselves.
I hope that many that read this will consider how they might be able to help their neighbors.
Growing up z - 2nd Installment
Butch Rambish 060000TMQ8 email@example.com Tags:  management tivoli system zos 4 Comments 2,454 Visits
This is the second installment discussing observations over my 30 years in the business. Early in my career I was a System Programmer for 5 different companies, each in different industries. What was true early in my career is that what I did and how the companies used the computer systems were virtually identical. This is less about my experience with the z platform and can be applied more generally to all platforms.
Each of these organizations, primarily, used the mainframe computer to deal with back office application such as payroll, accounting, Human Resources and other equally exciting applications. While important to the survival of the business and clearly a valuable asset to the company, the computing systems and staff, for the most part, did not deal directly with the "real" activities of the business.
Now, there were some exceptions to this but I am speaking in very general terms. From industry to industry there were a few exceptions to this observation but at a macro point of view the vast majority of the hardware, software and personnel assets were not dedicated to revenue generating activities. In addition, for most businesses, the customers would never know if the computer was up or down.
Now I'm sure that the next thing I'm going to say is going to be one of those duh statements. Your general reaction might be to say that I'm stating the obvious and that it is not a new idea or very profound. However, that being said, I'll say it anyway. Over time we have seen the use of computing systems continue to be more and more aligned with the actual business activities of the company. Again, as mentioned above, the degree that this has happened varied greatly by industry.
The kind of interaction I'm trying to describe is not just revenue generating activities but activities where the customer interacts with the technology directly. Thirty years ago banks had computer systems and the tellers used those systems. So, you would say the computer system was used in generating revenue. However, the kind of interaction I'm referring to is where it is the customer that is using the computer system directly. In the case of banking we would be talking of online banking through the internet or use of the ATM network just to name a couple of examples. If you consider retail, in many stores today, the customer is the one who executes a credit card or debit card transaction. Many stores even have self-checkout registers where the customer completes the entire purchase without the aid of an employee.
These are examples of how the use of computing technologies has changed from back office type work to customer facing activities. Where as the interface our customers were used to 30 years ago was the smiling face of an employee, it's not uncommon for customers to be interacting only with the computing systems.
At a recent conference I attempted to describe this change graphically. If you think of the computing systems and customer interactions with the business each as a circle that is part of a Venn diagram. In 1978 when I started my career as an application programmer, these two circles would have overlapped very little if at all. The amount of overlap would have varied by industry just as it does today.
(I apologize for the missing graphic. I will upload the graphic as soon as my technical problem is resolved.)
This is a very rudimentary graphic but I think it demonstrates why it's important that companies change the way they look at their computing systems and personnel. This is a very aggregated view of IT and within this view there are myriad hardware, software platforms and applications. It's important that companies find a way to make the customer interaction with their company just as delightful as it was when they interacted with professional and smiling employees. If companies fail to manage the intersection of these two areas properly they will struggle to meet their customers' demands.
In my humble opinion, companies need to make organizational and management changes to manage their critical IT resources in a cohesive manner that addresses the needs of their customers. Managing their IT resources as islands of technology will fail to address these needs because the customer facing applications are ahead of the organizations and are being deployed across the various islands of technology. Until we learn to manage the applications in the same way they are used, that is from the customer's perspective, we will continue to struggle with the reputation of IT as being a stumbling block to business instead of a driver of business.
Comments welcome. I'd love to hear from you. Did you find this helpful?
Growing up Z
Butch Rambish 060000TMQ8 firstname.lastname@example.com Tags:  sysprog mvs zos 6 Comments 1,462 Visits
Growing up z
Can it really be 30 years since I began my career fresh out of college as a COBOL programmer? After a short stint as an applications programmer I moved into the Systems Programming field in the early days of MVS (for you newbies that was several generations before z/OS). I saw the revolution that was MVS/XA and then MVS/ESA and the large scale changes to the computing environment brought about by the improvements in each of these new releases of the operating system.
This blog isn't as much about the improvements in technology. While that is very interesting and probably warrants coverage in a future blog, this entry is largely about my musings about the last 30 years. No, I'm not going to give year by year coverage. I'd bore myself to tears writing it and I'm sure readers would not expend the effort to read it. However, it is interesting to me to consider the skills that were required of me and my peers and to wonder are those skills that are still being taught.
Will there be a next generation of Sysprogs? Will skills like REXX, SMP/E and my all time favorite Assembler programming diminish in the work place and just go away. If they don't go away, will the younger folks find these skills as fun and challenging or are they more enamored with web GUI'S and other such pretty innovations? Will sub second response for things like TSO and CICS be in demand or pretty pictures and 5-10 second response from a web console?
Better yet, will there be a demand for old guys like me? Maybe I can retire and then double dip and do some free lance Assembler programming!! I'd be interested to hear from other Sysprogs, both younger and older. How do you see the field shaping up in the future?


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Thanks Guys!
Husky B&C min is 110 but with deductions I am not sure if it will make it. I will be trying tho I kno SCI and P&Y both are under the 80" mark I wanna say 65" or 70 for some reason
This is a giant buck. I'm absolutly obsessed with hunting these little tiny deer and have been doing it for years and havent killed a buck of this caliber. Have missed bucks this big. You should post up a story on coueswhitetail.com and lets all of the other coues enthusists take a look at ur buck. a load of guys that are just as obsessed with hunting coues as I am. They would love to check it out. Congrats again Shaun.
Shane I will do that! Thank You!!!
awesome buck
I don't know a whole lot about coues deer but that looks like a monster. Congrats!
Wow! Nice buck for 32. Congrats!!!
I dont know a lot about coues either but that is one thick deer. It looks like you have more than 5 points of deductions just from eye balling it. It doesn't matter if it doesn't book B&C, that is one hell of an accomplishment with a bow!
You should send a story in for Eastmans' Bowhunting Journal.


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refractor best for doubles?
Posted 24 September 2012 - 08:36 PM
Posted 24 September 2012 - 08:54 PM
1. Collimation, if that was off, dimmer stars sometimes couldn't be viewed, and the primary stars airy disk isn't as well controlled.
2. The components tended to hide from me in the diffraction spikes of the spider assy.
Other than that, if glare or separation was an issue, that was easily solved just by increasing magnification. Doing that increased separation to aid in getting dim components further away from the primary's glare.
Jon Isaacs gave a good summary on this a year or so back IIRC, in a thread about resolving Epsilon Lyra. He explained that the larger the scope, the higher the magnification needed for the same resolution. It's not about magnification so much but about exit pupil. To achieve the same exit pupil and resolution, a larger scope needs higher magnification than a smaller scope. Perhaps he or might pass by to help explain, especially if I'm misquoting him or got something wrong on the explanation.
Posted 24 September 2012 - 11:32 PM
there are considerations that cut both ways, and you will hear technical arguments for one side or the other. i've come to believe that it is mostly personal perferences and esthetics that determine these choices.
the problem you describe with iota cas illustrates the tradeoffs. because a reflector has a central obstruction, it pushes some of the light in the airy disk into the rings around the airy disk, making them brighter. as you found, this can obscure a faint companion if the companion falls within the rings. on the other hand, a smaller aperture produces an airy disk that is larger in angular width, which can overlap a very close companion.
the airy disk in a 4" (~100mm) scope is about 2.3 arcseconds in diameter, but in a 10" (250mm) scope is only 0.9 arcseconds in diameter. a matched double star that was separated by 1.5 arcseconds would appear as an elongated fat rod in the 100 but as two cleanly separated small discs in the 250, if viewed under equal magnification. the size of the airy discs is the reason that the rayleigh resolution in the 100 is about 1.4" but in the 250 is 0.56".
(digression on steve's version of jon's recommendation ... the basic principle is that the angular interval that can be resolved gets smaller with larger aperture. to see that smaller interval, you need greater magnification (because it's smaller). because the airy disc also gets smaller in larger apertures, you'll also need greater magnification to see the airy disk clearly in a larger aperture. but if two stars are separated by a specific interval (say 2 arcseconds), then the first issue is just the magnification that makes that separation visible to your eye; the second issue is whether you will see a rod or two small disks with the aperture.
(magnification depends on your personal naked eye resolution, looking at a dim image with a dark adapted pupil. the usual quoted dark adapted resolution is about 120 arcseconds; i've measured mine, and it's 115 arcseconds. the magnification required for an observer to clearly see a resolution interval R, given an eye resolution of X, is X/R. so assuming steve has a resolution of 120", he will need 120"/1.4" = 86x with the 4" but 120"/0.56" = 214x in the 10".
(exit pupil EP is the ratio of aperture over magnification. once you determine your resolution EP then that applies to all telescopes. so 100mm/86x = 1.17, and 250mm/214x = 1.17, and steve at 120" eye resolution will need an EP of about 1.17; i would need 1.22. the common recommendation is that you need an exit pupil of 1.0 to clearly see a split at the resolution limit of your telescope, although the airy disk can be visible at about twice that, or an EP of 2.0. i think jon was making the point that the necessary exit pupil for visual resolution is a constant across all telescopes, but that the necessary magnification depends on the aperture.)
to the extent that glare is part of the telescope image, then magnification does little to mitigate it. a good eyepiece does nothing to alter any aspect of the image per se; it only makes it visually larger. however this does make the image fainter, because detail is spread over a wider area of the retina; this makes the sky darker and therefore (paradoxically) faint stars more visible -- up to a point. it also shifts the image brightness in relation to the eye's contrast sensitivity, so that if Sirius B is just slightly brighter than the glare from the primary, there will be an optimal magnification to make that slight contrast easiest to see.
coming back to iota cas, i'd recommend you go back with the 10" and try piling on the magnification. bright double stars (those bright enough to create distinct airy discs) can tolerate pretty much all the magnification you can throw at them. and at high magnification the disks can actually appear through atmospheric turbulence, like headlights through a heavy rain. otherwise, a "just right" magnification somewhere between EP 1.0 to 0.5 can adapt the image brightness to your contrast sensitivity in a way that can make the star visible within the diffraction rings. it's the ability to achieve really high magnification that would make the 10" a much more attractive choice for me. in fact, i have a 250 ƒ/20 dall kirkham that can get me up to 1500x ... i just love popping really close pairs under mediocre seeing.
Posted 25 September 2012 - 10:05 AM
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Posted 25 September 2012 - 09:56 PM
The test you did with the 4" versus the 10" is really only comparable when the power per inch of scope is identical or nearly so. Under those conditions, provided the reflector is collimated, cooled and high quality, the little 4" won't have a chance. Horrendous seeing might temporarily favor the smaller aperture but in mediocre to good, the ten will show stars utterly impossible through the refractor u mention. Too, the list of doubles available to the ten swamps those available to the 4.
Posted 26 September 2012 - 01:47 AM
If you want to split doubles with less than 1.2" separation and fainter doubles as indicated above you will simply need the greater aperture.
Posted 26 September 2012 - 02:50 AM
Posted 30 September 2012 - 12:03 PM
I recently got the SW102AR acro and love it for doubles! Lots of CA in daylight, but none for night work with stars only views. It works right down to the Dawes Limit for resolution also, sharp clean images, pin-point stars and splits. The reason I got this over possibly the ES152 is that the 152 would be too heavy on the Voyager mount. You would need a stronger mount with the ES152, like the CG5-ASGT, etc.
However, when I want to get serious and split close doubles, then it's the C8-EdgeHD that does the job nicely. If I had to choose only one scope for doubles it would be the C8. And the Voyager mount does carry the C8 with less vibration settle time than the SW102 because the tube is shorter, weight being nearly identical.
Posted 30 September 2012 - 06:48 PM
Sky Tools 3 says Iota Cassiopeiae looks like this:
AB: 4.53+7.09 mag PA 229° Sep 2.61"
AC: 4.53+8.5 mag, PA 116° Sep 7.40"
In my experience it's a relatively easy split in most scopes as long as the mag 8.5 companion is visible. There have been lots of great posts but I have not seen much said about the basics:
When it comes to splitting double stars, to get the most out of a Newtonian, it's got to be cooled down. I am not talking about setting a 10 inch outside for an hour and waiting, I am talking about setting it outside for an hour with a good fan cooling the mirror and then observing for another hour as it further cools. And this is in San Diego. If it's a Dob, take care with touching the OTA, your hands setup tube currents, wear gloves...
As Bruce and others mentioned, crank up the magnification, your eye just does not resolve Airy disks at 2mm exit pupils, those 4 inch refractor views look nice at 100x because it's a small 1mm exit pupil, in the 10 inch it's 2.5 mm and doesn't see it, crank it up to 250x and things begin to show...
I have a variety of scopes, from my backyard, my NP-101 gets in a lot of double star viewing but there is no doubt that my journeyman 10 inch F/5 GSO Dob does the number on the NP-101 when it comes to double stars if I have taken the time to prepare it... Stars that are at the limit of the NP-101 are easy splits in the 10 inch... if it's ready.
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Posted 04 October 2012 - 08:08 PM
First clear night in more than a week. Aimed at iota cas, increased the power on the 10" dob to 214x (never went above 175x before tonight)and the close companion came out of the primary's glare. At 250x, it was even better. Thanks for the optics lesson.
Posted 04 October 2012 - 08:32 PM
Back in the mid-90s I spent a period near San Diego, and observed many of the northern doubles I can't see from my normal south of the equator location. Regarding the star that started this thread, my notes indicate I had a very nice view of Iota Cass as a triple one night with a C8 - the wider pair obvious at 80x, with the closer companion just seen - at 135x clear separation, a beautiful triple. So, as Ed Whitney remarked, a C8 "does the job nicely".
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Posted 08 October 2012 - 01:20 AM
If anyone cares to bring their big dobs or newts over to my place my 10" R30 Istar refractor is lookin' for an easy KO! Mike
10" refraktor, wow. This is an achromat - right?
No problem with colors when splitting close doubles?
Posted 08 October 2012 - 06:19 AM
If anyone cares to bring their big dobs or newts over to my place my 10" R30 Istar refractor is lookin' for an easy KO! Mike
If somebody brings a big dob and the seeings good, your going to be sorry you made the offer.
Posted 08 October 2012 - 03:46 PM
If anyone cares to bring their big dobs or newts over to my place my 10" R30 Istar refractor is lookin' for an easy KO! Mike
If I lived a bit closer I would be happy to bring over my 4.25" Schiefspeigler, or my 4" f/12 or 4.5" f/16 Schupmann or 3.6" off axis newtonian and see about that easy KO Remember the movie Rocky?
- Dave
Posted 08 October 2012 - 07:59 PM
Aimed at iota cas, increased the power on the 10" dob to 214x (never went above 175x before tonight)and the close companion came out of the primary's glare. At 250x, it was even better. Thanks for the optics lesson.
glad it helped. magnification is very effective on many double stars, especially in mediocre seeing. it's remarkable that isn't more widely known ... maybe the planetary observer's rule ("no more magnification than the seeing allows") is inhibiting.
Posted 09 October 2012 - 07:27 AM
When you've got various unobstructed apertures, I expect aperture to win, unless seeing is very very bad.
Wilfried - no problem with achromats - most of the classical observers, right up to quite recent years, used large achromats by preference for discovering and measuring doubles.
Main problem for those of us who like refractors is the unavailability of larger sizes for most amateur observers. So we go to other designs for bigger scopes - perfection isn't necessary. Though I do find, for close unequal pairs, the unobstructed scopes perform beyond their aperture compared to those with central obstructions. Given high-grade optics all round, of course.
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Very nice article.
I think of the Dorpat 9.5" achromat used by Struve or the Bedford 5.75" used by Smyth, of which he said " It will bear, with distinctness, a magnifying power of 1200 " or my little Telementor for that matter and I know your argument is solid!


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Frenchies Julie Coin, Alizé Cornet, Nathalie Dechy stood along side Patty Schnyder, Francesca Schiavone, Tathiana Garbin, Alisa Kleybanova and Flavia Penetta while watching a video highlighting her many achievements. Elena Dementieva offered some special words for the 2-time Grand Slammer saying, "I feel sad today. Amélie, you're one of the very best, and you're leaving. Younger players will always remember 'the Mauresmo years.' And I'm not even sure that anyone can replace you here." You can hear the full speech in French here.
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Ohhh...Amelie. You are such a beautiful person, inside and out. I will miss you so much.
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Thanks so much for the video, Richie.
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Oh yes, and one more thing, Amelie? Now that you have time on your hands...I'm not a lesbian, but I'm willing to try anything once. Twice if it feels good. ;)
You will be when she's through with you natch. Imma bet on it.ReplyDelete
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Why, thank you very much, Richie!
It's the gift that keeps on giving. ;)
*re-reads Richie's post*
Hmm...if YOU didn't put this in there...I wonder how it got there??
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