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The Government securities (G-Sec) remained higher on consistent demand from banks and corporates, while the call money rates at the overnight call money market ended stable as demand from borrowing banks matched supplies.
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Pluralism throws in the towel before the argument starts
Pluralism, my dictionary says, is "the theory that reality is composed of a multiplicity of ultimate beings, principles, or substances."
Which, on the face of it, is both absurd and repulsive-not only for any thoughtful Christian, but for anybody at all who engages in rigorous, logical thinking. To talk about holding to a "multiplicity of ultimate beings [or] principles" is to argue that 2 + 2 = 4 and that at the very same time 2 + 2 does not equal four. It is to argue that a light switch is on and off at the very same time, that a budget is both balanced and out of balance at the same time, that you have engaged in sex with another person but that you also have not engaged in sex with that person. The essence of pluralism is that contradictories are possible. And who can deny that such is near the core of the society we live in today?
So it's valuable to remind ourselves again of the important distinction between such "pluralism" and what our society used to call "tolerance." In too many people's minds, the two are the same. In fact, they're vastly different.
Pluralism, as it's embraced by so many today, suggests that everybody's ideas and values are equal. Tolerance says that other ideas and values will be permitted even if they're deficient. The two concepts are miles apart-and our society's continuing collapse finds its roots partly in our leaving the wisdom of tolerance and moving toward the delusion of pluralism.
But pluralism, of course, is hoist by its own petard. For how can one argue that pluralism is the proper societal structure without also allowing that there's room for someone who argues strenuously against pluralism?
I'm here to argue strenuously against pluralism, and for a return to mere tolerance.
With a pluralism model, a society throws in the towel before a good argument ever gets started. One idea is as good as another. In theory, a dictatorship is as good as democracy. A crackpot cult leader is as much to be listened to as is Billy Graham. Geraldo Rivera is as good a source for the news as is Edward R. Murrow. The medicine man who sits next to the tattoo artist down the street is as good a source for advice about your cancer as is the oncologist at the university's medical center. It doesn't really matter, you see, for all ideas are of equal value.
Carried to its logical conclusion, pluralism not only cuts the heart out of competition as a basic human drive, but suggests that the improvement of society in general is a pointless exercise. Better ideas? More humane understanding of the human condition? A step ahead for humanity? But who's to say? All is relative.
A generation ago, such a description of our society would have been a parody. Now it's dismayingly accurate. And it's because we've moved from tolerance to pluralism.
But if, on the other hand, we were still merely tolerant rather than pluralistic, we'd leave room for people to espouse dictatorships, to push their cultish ideas, to cheapen the media, and to propagate quackery-but we'd only rarely dignify their varied efforts by pretending that all their ideas were of equal worth. While pluralists would keep enlarging their big round table to make sure everyone had both a chair and a microphone, we tolerationists would insist that the right to rant and rave out on the parking lot shouldn't be denied to anyone who keeps a few basic rules, but that a place at the table is something to be earned.
Take, for example, this basic assertion by David the Psalmist: "Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord." That's an exclusivistic claim that makes no sense of any kind for a pluralist, who by definition is required to hold that all "ultimate beings" can make parallel truth allegations simultaneously. There's no way I can be a pluralist and say something like that at the same time.
I can, however, resonate with David's claim and still show civility and kindness toward a Hindu, a shaman, or even one of the witches who demonstrated on the city-county plaza in my hometown last week. "I've got virtually no respect for what you say you believe," I can say to such a person in good conscience, "but I still value you as a person made in God's image."
Christians in America need to learn, far better than we've demonstrated in recent years, how to make that important distinction.


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Not too long ago, President Obama and the First Lady disclosed their financial assets publicly. Their balance sheet showed no liabilities — the First Family is debt-free. Additionally, the financial disclosure includes money made on book royalties, as well as information about where the Obamas are investing some of their cash. When you look at the numbers, provided by CBS Moneywatch [3], it becomes evident that you can learn a few things from the Obamas.
Some things that Obamas are doing, like investing in a low-cost index fund, make sense. Other items the Obama family are doing, though, like parking a large chunk of capital in a bank account that yields very little interest, aren't the best ways to maximize your money. After reading about what President Obama is doing with his money, I've come up with a few lessons that I can learn.
One of the best things you can do is cultivate income diversity [4]. This way, you aren't relying on only one source of income — just in case your primary source of income is lost. The Obamas have passive income in the form of book royalties. If you can do something creative like that to earn passive income, go for it. President Obama earned millions from book royalties.
You don't have to write a book to build up passive income, though. I earn passive income through residuals on articles written in the past, traffic bonuses from some of my clients, and from AdSense. This money that keeps coming in — without me having to do any more work for it. I'm also working on building up an income portfolio with help from dividend stocks and other income investments. While these things take work at the begin, eventually, the earnings become passive.
According to the CBS Moneywatch article, the Obamas earned less than $1,000 in interest on an account with at least $250,000 in it. If that number is right, they are earning a horrifyingly low yield on their account. Sure, savings yields are really low right now. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't be getting what you can. The Obamas may not need to be earning a great deal in interest, but they should be trying. Instead of sticking with such low yields, they could shop around for better savings rates [5]. The same is true of the rest of us. My emergency fund is in a high yield account, and while I wish the yield were higher, it still beats the rate at my local bank.
I like that the Obama family is preparing for the future. The President invests in a SEP IRA [6], and in a 529 plan [7] for each of his daughters. You should always prepare for the future, since you don't know what might happen next. The earlier you start saving, the more time compound interest has to work on your behalf. It's also great that the family doesn't have any debt. There are few better ways to prepare for the future than to pay off your debt as soon as you can. And to stay debt free. While the Obamas clearly have more means than many of the rest of us, it's still admirable that they are living within them.
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By Jeff Davis. The challenging task of trying to educate inner city blacks is not just an obsession for liberals, it's an industry with billions of dollars at stake.
The Huffington Post reports: "Teachers spent nights huddled in a back room, erasing wrong answers on students' test sheets and filling in the correct bubbles. At another school, struggling [black] students were seated next to higher-performing [White] classmates so they could copy answers. Those and other confessions are contained in a new state report that reveals how far some Atlanta public schools went to raise test scores in the nation's largest-ever cheating scandal. Investigators concluded that nearly half the city's schools allowed the cheating to go unchecked for as long as a decade, beginning in 2001."
Huffington goes on: "Administrators – pressured to maintain high scores under the federal No Child Left Behind law – punished or fired those who reported anything amiss and created a culture of fear, intimidation and retaliation, according to the report released earlier this month, two years after officials noticed a suspicious spike in some scores. The report names 178 teachers and principals, and 82 of those confessed. Tens of thousands of [black] children at the 44 schools, most in the city's poorest neighborhoods, were allowed to advance to higher grades, even though they didn't know basic concepts."
"For teachers and their bosses, the stakes were high: Schools that perform poorly and fail to meet certain benchmarks under the federal law can face sharp sanctions. They may be forced to offer extra tutoring, allow parents to transfer children to better schools, or fire teachers and administrators who don't pass muster."
"No Child Left Behind" was an attempt on the part of conservatives to compel teachers to teach something and make the public education system something besides a black hole that consumed endless billions of dollars with little to show for it in the inner cities. Obviously it was doomed to fail just as current attempts under Obama to educate negroes are failing. No one can. The best teachers in the world can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, not even with billions of dollars at stake. So you see the problem.
The Huffington article continues "In Georgia, teachers complained to investigators that some students arrived at middle school reading at a first-grade level. But, they said, principals insisted those students had to pass their standardized tests. Teachers were either ordered to cheat or pressured by administrators until they felt they had no choice, authorities said."
"One principal forced a teacher to crawl under a desk during a faculty meeting because her test scores were low. Another principal told teachers that 'Walmart is hiring' and 'the door swings both ways,' the report said."
"Another principal told a teacher on her first day that the school did whatever was necessary to meet testing benchmarks, even if that meant 'breaking the rules.' "
You see the way this article is subtly slanted, of course? In the first place, the entire issue of race is never mentioned at all, even though the entire country knows who lives in Atlanta and who staffs the Atlanta public school system. In the second place, the blame is subtly shifted to some outside party—in this case mean old principals and beyond them mean old Republicans. The mostly black and female teachers are subtly relieved of blame for lying and stealing from the government.
Now, what they're angling for—and I wouldn't be surprised to see something like this come out of this "scandal"—is for the states to drop all testing, period, so that blacks do not consistently score lower than Whites and "feel bad about themselves."
The truth is that blacks have scored 15 percent below White people on intelligence tests for over 100 years. If the government and the media simply admitted the truth, then all these teachers would not be blamed for failing an impossible task (to make the scores for blacks equal to Whites) and black students would not be blamed for their lesser performance in school.
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- 1 cup (150g) plain flour
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- 2. Place all ingredients into an electric mixer and mix until all ingredients form a dough.
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"Laodicean," which means lukewarm in religion or politics, was the word that won the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington last Thursday. (The name of the winner was Kavya Shivashankar, which should be on next year's list of stumpers.) Spelling Bee words are hard words because of the fact that they are not much used---somehow have never made it into or have dropped out of the working vocabulary of the general population. No one would know "Laodicean" except a few Jesus freaks.
It's interesting when expressions that used to have concrete and well-known references become paler and paler until no one is around who remembers their original meanings, and all that remains is the smile on the Cheshire Cat. ("Don't throw out the baby with the bathwater" was once an actual, if tongue-in-cheek, caution referring to the filthy tub water that the last on the family totem pole had the dubious honor of bathing in, after Dad, Mom and the older siblings had taken their turns.)
It's most interesting when the linguistic extinctions are from the biblical word stock. In 1913, The New York Times compared a new income tax to a "rock of credit from which abundant streams of revenue will flow whenever Congress chooses to smite it." I would wager that more people 96 years ago recognized that as a cute allusion to Moses smiting the rock in the wilderness than do now.
My brother, who lived in France for a quarter century, once told me there is a fancy school for future diplomats in the Paris area where a survey produced the results that many students could not name the three Persons of the Trinity (Joseph, Mary, Jesus?)
I personally don't worry very much that fewer and fewer people can trace to the Bible such casually flung expressions as "good Samaritan," "walking on water," "stumbling block," "my brother's keeper," "being all things to all men," "you can't serve two masters," "patience of Job," "turn the other cheek," "shibboleth," "a house divided cannot stand," "plague of locusts," "the first shall be last," "the meek shall inherit the earth," "Armageddon," and "the skin of my teeth" (Job 19:20).
But I do find it passing strange---and not a little significant---that in the quest to produce well-educated graduates of fine universities, our educators have eliminated from consideration the one book that, more than any other, created Western Civilization.
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Thompson powers WBS Penguins past Bridgeport
As much as any other player, second-year winger Paul Thompson has helped the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins leave behind a slow start that saddled them with an 0-4 record two weeks into the season.
On Sunday afternoon, he was at it again.
Thompson scored a natural hat trick in the second period to lead the Penguins to a 5-3 victory over the Bridgeport Sound Tigers at the Webster Bank Arena.
It was the first pro hat trick for Thompson, who moved into a tie with Eric Tangradi for the team goal-scoring lead with six in nine games. The most dramatic of those six came Oct. 26, when he scored on a breakaway in overtime to give the Penguins their first win of the season.
The Penguins are 4-1 in their last five games since Thompson helped end the season-opening losing streak.
The score was tied 1-1 in the second period when Thompson took over.
First, he gathered a puck in the neutral zone, skated up the left wing and fired a shot past goalie Kevin Poulin to give the Penguins a 2-1 lead at the eight-minute mark.
Next, less than five minutes later, he skated into the offensive zone 2-on-2 with Brian Gibbons, pulled up in the high slot and snapped a shot past Poulin's glove at 12:41.
Finally, with 37 seconds left in the period, Thompson gathered a puck at the right half-wall and whipped a shot to the back of the net.
The game was played in front of a sold-out crowd of 8,525. The Sound Tigers offered free admission to a pair of games this weekend in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, which took a toll on the Connecticut coast last week.
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We have the famous Ride Your Age challenge every year (well, two years running now), and we've discussed at length Irma's famous pie (or equivalent) and how delicious it is at the end (perhaps during?) a longish ride.
So here's the question: What's your minimum acceptable distance for a real, honest-to-goodness, man, that was one helluva ride "Ride for the Pie" ride? You know, one that both makes you really EARN that pie, and, on the other hand, feel completely guilt-free eating it.
For me, at my stage of training, any RIDE for the PIE has to be at least 50 miles. You?


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We are now in the final week before the State Budget must be on the governor's desk for his consideration. We have until Friday, May 10, at 6 p.m. to accomplish this. Conference Committees have been appointed to reconcile the differences between the spending plans passed by the House and Senate. One bright spot that developed late is an unexpected increase in state revenues the past few months. Even though the revenue estimate on which the budget was crafted was decided months ago, any sign of a recovering economy is encouraging. This year's budget totals $24.7 billion and is the culmination of a process that began in early January.
In the Senate, we spent a considerable amount of time debating legislation that would allow the Public Service Commission to intervene in some legal proceedings regarding utility companies. Basically, this legislation would allow utility companies to more easily pass along surcharges to their customers in order to pay for infrastructure updates such as wires, poles, pipes, pumps, etc. Currently in order to do this, companies first have to get the permission of the PSC through a traditional rate case. However, House Bill 432 would allow these utility companies to bypass this step and implement an Infrastructure System Replacement Surcharge, commonly referred to as ISRS, to fund new infrastructure projects.
As I have publicly stated earlier, I understand and support the need for companies to be able to maintain and upgrade their generation and delivery systems. My concern was that there weren't enough protections in the legislation for the rate paying customers, both at the residential and business levels. I, along with several other senators made a commitment we would put the well being of the customers first and foremost. When the issue was raised during a late evening session we were ready to discuss the bill at length to make our point. After much debate, this measure was set aside. There are still two weeks left in Session, so the issue could certainly come back at any time. However, given the number of Senators opposed to subjecting so many Missouri residents and businesses to higher utility rates, it appears unlikely to pass this year.
More than 20 Senate bills were passed out of the General Assembly and delivered to the governor for his signature. Senate Bill 16 was one such piece of legislation. It would exempt farm work performed by children under the age of 16 from certain child labor requirements, including prohibited hazardous jobs, such as operating and maintaining power-driven machinery, climbing ladders, operating vehicles and working with certain chemicals. The legality of farm kids doing routine chores was never an issue until the Federal Department of Labor tried to prohibit it in early 2012. Under the bill, these future farmers would only be able to work on their own family farms unless they have the permission of their parents, in which case they could then work on other farms as well. It's important for our next generation to be able to learn valuable life lessons, many of which can only be experienced from direct hands on work.
'Nothing is Politically Right Which is Morally Wrong'
If you have any questions or comments regarding issues in state government or within the 28th Senatorial District, please feel free to contact my office. Senator Mike Parson, State Capitol Building, Room 420. Phone: 573-751-8793 or 800-752-8256. Email: email@example.com.


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Thank God the Piranha Plant is Not Real
Jamie Margary has a talented, yet horrifying imagination. He somehow took a simple character from the cute Mushroom Kingdom and made it as evil as he could. Up top is his vision of what a Piranha Plant would look like in real life and is made out of acrylics, clay and some wire. Sure, the carnivorous plant is only included in the game to kill our beloved plumber(s), and it is not some attractive videogame star. But why does it have to be so scary?
Destructoid were the guys who found the frighting images of the 80s icon, but they told their readers it wouldn't give them nightmares. I for one can't lie, and I'm pretty sure you're gonna have a hard time sleeping the next time you lay down on your bed. With all that said, I really love the uvula is in a position like the plant is screaming, it gives it a much more terrifying look.
After the jump, check out the rest of the pictures and a quick movie on how Jamie made the plant.


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$300 Astrophotography Bundle Challenge
Posted 26 November 2012 - 06:31 PM
I decided to start with a scope. I figured it was probably the single largest purchase. If I was going to get to guiding I would need a computer scope. I also decided that a refractor would be the best for a beginner. No collimation to worry about and easy to use. I found a gently used ETX80 on Ebay for $145 shipped. It meets my goals for a computer scope and a refractor. It stores easily in a backpack so it'll be easy to keep in a closet. It should be here in time to get under the tree for him. Up next will probably be a DIY wedge. Any ideas for a low cost imager would be appreciated.
$300 Challenge Items
Meade ETX-80 AT TC Astro Telescope $145 Ebay shipped
Xbox 360 Live Vision Guide Camera $10 Gamestop
Posted 26 November 2012 - 07:03 PM
- Scope
- Mount
- Tripod
- Camera
- Software for calibration
- Software for post processing
- Field Flattener
- Cable release (if it's a DSLR)
- Guide scope/Finder
- Guide camera
- Glue, duct tape, fasteners of various kinds, and plenty of creativity
I can imagine with some creative solutions and looking at used equipment that you could come up with something workable in the $1,000 to $1,500 range for a total system cost, but I don't see how to get it much below that without the project moving from the "challenging" category into the "frustrating failure" category. Regardless of age of the astronomer, it takes a reasonable amount of tracking accuracy and platform stability to get a basic image of each of the Messier items. Frankly, I think it might be a better idea to get your son started with some visual observing with a 6" Dob or even with some binocular viewing. I know that nobody wants to hear that advice since it's not glamorous and exciting, but it is quite practical. If you son has his heart set on astrophotography, then I would recommend star trails, piggyback photography, constellations, or even something like the Vixen Polarie. He'll be more successful and you'll stay closer to your budget.
Posted 26 November 2012 - 07:05 PM
Posted 26 November 2012 - 07:54 PM
Posted 26 November 2012 - 08:40 PM
I agree though; it's gonna be tough.
Posted 26 November 2012 - 08:58 PM
Although...you ain't gettin' guiding for 300 bucks unless you find some old lady selling her passed husband's gear.
EQ Mount that will track - 125$
Nikon lens to EOS Adapter - 16$
Canon Eos-30d - 150$ - but it don't work right...
I found a Canon EOS XS for 125 on local cragslist but I had to look for about 6 months.
That setup will capture all of the Messiers at 200mm but planets will have no detail, you could swap the lens for a scope, but finding a scope for 40 bucks will be hard. At 200mm you can get the polar alignment good enough to get 2 or 3 minute exposures.
The little ETX cannot be auto-guided and you will have nothing but heartache if you try to hang a DSLR off the back of it. I have also read it has issues in polar mode with a wedge, the motors were not designed for that kind of stress, or the little plastic gears.
That's all I got...anyone got a better idea?
Posted 26 November 2012 - 09:16 PM
Posted 26 November 2012 - 09:42 PM
Posted 26 November 2012 - 10:56 PM
So this leaves guiding. Right now I'm leaning to a webcam and finderscope combo. I've got a spare 9x50. My first guider was this combo and it worked fine on my C6-N. I dropped about 50% of my subs but it worked. I'm going to look for some other smaller finders that might work. Fyi for those wondering you can autoguide the etx80. I do believe it might require a hand controller upgrade.
Posted 27 November 2012 - 01:15 PM
I see that you are in Austin which makes your challenge a little easier. Have you been out to Mansfield Dam with the Austin Dam Astronomers? If not, look up their yahoo group and join up. There's a guy that is a regular at the Dam who puts together these amazing electronic eyepieces made from cheap security cams he buys overseas. I'm not sure if you'll stay under $300 but you might get pretty close if you check him out (he doesn't sell them but you can see how he does it). His name is Johnny. Join the yahoo group to find out when they're going out next.
Posted 27 November 2012 - 02:46 PM
OK so today I ran out and purchased an XBox 360 Live Vision camera from Gamestop for $10 used. It's one of the few low cost CCD type webcams still readily available. I've modified it by removing the IR blocking filter, base, and 4 LED ready lights. This is a very easy DIY modification that anyone could do. I still need to add a little fan to the rear to keep the CCD cool. My previous guide camera was a Logitech 4000 CCD webcam mounted to a 9x50 Finderscope. With that I also removed the IR filter to make it more sensitive in low light. It worked well at F5 so I'm hoping to have the same result with this camera. I have a 9x50 ready to go so I need to get the two mated. I'll figure out a good price for the 9x50 I have and add that to my list also.
Posted 27 November 2012 - 08:02 PM
Posted 27 November 2012 - 09:44 PM
I should be outside. It's a beautiful night.
Posted 28 November 2012 - 06:23 PM
Posted 28 November 2012 - 08:45 PM
Link here
(I'm not connected with them but sure do like the next day service to Austin!)
Posted 28 November 2012 - 09:30 PM
Posted 29 November 2012 - 12:08 AM
John, I'd love to see those photos and thanks for the advice on the wedge.
Ok so the scope came in... I'm not sure what I was expecting. Somehow I thought it would be better quality than it is. Functionally it does what it's supposed to do. Easy align on two stars and find targets. Moon was very bright so the first two stars were difficult from my location. Deneb was just behind some leaves so I guessed and calibrated on it. Calibration stars were 10-15 degrees off in altitude. i wish meade made a red dot or some crosshairs/gunsight to fit in the eyepiece holder to help with alignment. The compass/bubble level is worthless. The slews were VERY loud and I didn't expect that however they got on my three targets no issue. I was actually concerned my neighbors would come out. I chose Jupiter, moon, and Orion. Is it me or is the meade controller difficult to use? It's not intuitive at all. I finally figured it out and I suppose it will be fine. The views were nice. I could clearly see three bands on jupiter and orion was clear with slight aversion. A moonless night should provide nice views. Focus popped right in.... after 140000 turns of the knob. Is this a cruel joke meade played on us? You really do a lot of cranking. Go between Barlow and no Barlow and get ready to crank all over again. Speaking of the Barlow.. Wow I thought someone had me looking through a coke bottle! Finally the mount is very shaky. A deep exhale will send the shivers through it. So will it work for AP? Hmmmmmm. I think so? The key here is keeping the weight down and a lot of luck. If it were "my" scope and not a gift for my son I'd take the mount apart and try and improve it but for him and most beginners I don't see this as an option. So we'll keep plugging along and see how it goes.
Posted 04 December 2012 - 10:32 PM
Posted 04 December 2012 - 11:16 PM
Moon - 1/29/2012 0h UT ETX-60
Telescope: Meade ETX-60, #497 Controller, #884 tripod, AC adapter
Luminance: 50x0.0005sec, Meade DSI Pro III, Baader Semi-Apo Filter
Color: None
Guide scope: None
Software: Envisage, Registax 6, Photoshop
Since it only takes a few minutes to get my ETX-60 set up and ready for imaging I had a bit of time to burn waiting for it to get fully dark, so I slewed over to the moon and took a quick set of images. Aligning and combining the images in real-time works fine, but to get the best results I saved all of the uncombined source images and stacked them offline using Registax to take care of the little bit of field rotation.
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Posted 04 December 2012 - 11:18 PM
Telescope: Meade ETX-60, #497 Controller, #884 tripod, AC adapter
Luminance: 28x5sec, Meade DSI Pro III, Baader Semi-Apo Filter
Color: 16x10sec, Meade DSI III, Baader Semi-Apo Filter
Guide scope: None
Software: Envisage, Autostar Imaging Processing, Photoshop
M35 is a rich patch of stardust lying in western Gemini. The object is a great match for the wide field of the little ETX-60. Note the open cluster NGC2158 just to the right of M35.
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Posted 04 December 2012 - 11:18 PM
Telescope: Meade ETX-60, #497 Controller, #884 tripod, AC adapter
Luminance: 23x5sec, Meade DSI Pro III, Baader Semi-Apo Filter
Color: 12x10sec, Meade DSI III, Baader Semi-Apo Filter
Guide scope: None
Software: Envisage, Autostar Imaging Processing, Photoshop
This is my best picture of M42/43 yet with my little ETX-60. I caught just a bit of the outer loop (swinging around to the lower left) as well as NGC1977 (upper right). The Baader Semi-Apo filter did a great job reducing the violet halo around the brighter stars.
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Posted 04 December 2012 - 11:26 PM
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Posted 05 December 2012 - 10:57 AM
Oh yeah, speaking of setup time... with the ETX-60 in altaz mode there's no polar alignment or guiding to fool with. You're generally limited to 5-15 second exposures anyway, so this kinda forces you to keep things simple.
Posted 05 December 2012 - 05:36 PM
OK guys I had a chance to check the flange distance on the Xbox Live Webcam converted to C Mount and I'm right at 17mm with 2-5mm adapters. The C Mount specs at 17.5mm so I should be good with infinity focus here. Now for the lens. I'm going to need about 100mm in focal length to get this going right. That should put me at about 10 arc seconds per pixel which is double the ETX80/DSI of 5 arc seconds per pixel. I've run this as high as 3 times with no issues on other setups so this gives me a little headroom for a better imager if one comes available.
I've got the mount for the guider all figured out. It will be made out of aluminum and should work fairly well. It will allow me to move the guidescope in AZ to help find stars. I figure the entire setup... Aluminum mount, Guide Camera, and Guide Lens should be below 1/4 pound. I'm thinking about removing the built in Barlow and mechanics to save some weight. It's not a good barlow anyway so I don't see myself using it. I figure I'll be close to a wash in weight if I do this.


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As far as I remember, I've never really paid attention to how many hours of gameplay certain games have. I've always read from reviews if the game is long or short. Recently, buddy of mine described that Skyrim is epic game with huge amount of content and places to explore. This was enough for me to describe the fact that Skyrim can provide hours of gameplay. I don't know if it's 10 or 20 or 152 hours, but something pretty big. I know my buddy, and when he says that there's tons of stuff in game, I know what he means.
Portal 2 on the other hand is relatively short game. People describe it as short and that's enough for me. Short, medium, long are pretty close to the accuracy I can accept for games. To me, seeing that game has 20 hours or 100 hours of gameplay doesn't tell much about length of those games. If one game is 8 hours and other 16 hours, which one is larger? I doubt that 8 hours game is half as short as the other game. I doubt that very much.
It's different with movies and books. Movies can be 2 hour long. Books can have 400 pages. These tell you something about how much stuff there is.
But for games, the "game is 12 hours long", in my proud opinion is:
- Very subjective figure given by developers, and doesn't really tell much about how much stuff there is.
- While time as unit is quite same to all of us (who don't travel as fast as light), then 60 minutes to you is pretty close to 60 minutes to me. But, when you and me play game X, you might say that it provides 7 hours of gameplay and I say 14 – we both are right.
- Accompanied with other information (ranging from game budget to different reviewer's opinions to filesize to whatever factual information), we can get some idea whether game is "2 hours long" or "perhaps closer to 30 hours long".
Bottom line is, these estimations are given by developers.
The same developers who say that "adding feature X is no biggie, I'll knock it together in 2 hours" and when you come back 3 days later they say "I'm 90% finished, but there's some bugs that appeared after adding feature. This might take couple of hours more".
To summarize: I never paid attention to "hours" listed. I don't see much idea why they are used or generally accepted as a way to tell "how big game is".
What you think?