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- Bing Maps Guides Public Transit - Softpedia
- Guide's tips can help plan your hunt - Raleigh News & Observer
- Telescopes Up! A Guide to the Night Sky's New Stargazing Season - msnbc.com
| Bing Maps Guides Public Transit - Softpedia Posted: 17 Sep 2010 12:29 AM PDT Bing Maps added transit guidance to its directions options, for every one of you Eco-friendly public transportation users out there! So now, you can continue taking the bus, the subway or whatever local rail you want, without risking of getting in the middle of nowhere, because you can turn to Bing Maps and establish the best route in advance. This feature is actually a very important one, as the interest in public transportation is continuously growing, and the networks are developing to accommodate more and more people. In the United States alone, there are over 10.7 billion public transit passengers a year! As this is the first release of Bing Maps transit directions, the service will cover only 11 cities, but no need to worry as more will come, and quite soon apparently! For now, the new Bing Maps service will be very useful to you if you take public transportation in: Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New Jersey, New York City, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington DC, and Vancouver. As it can be seen on the screenshot, every route option features transit information on the side, so that users would easily compare route options depending on what transit they know and which one they prefer. Bing made transit options available for bus, subway, local rail and light rail and information about the transit routing can be found on Bing's AJAX site. Besides the transit novelties, Bing maps has also made major improvements on business details and information about landmarks. You also can open movie house detail pages and see movie listings added to the Nearby panel, besides many details on hours of operation on these listings. Still, the best way of understanding why Bing is excited about the new services is to explore Bing Maps yourself and try out all the new features, and to help you out, click here! This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
| Guide's tips can help plan your hunt - Raleigh News & Observer Posted: 29 Sep 2010 11:02 PM PDT COURTESY OF MIKE HOOPS - DULUTH NEWS-TRIBUNE/MCT Mike Hoops, who retired as a state park manager in Minnesota, has been a Montana guide for five years. Mike Hoops made his first trip to Montana to hunt elk in 1997 and began guiding for an outfitter in 2006. This will be his fifth season as a guide for Wilderness Connections in Gardiner, Mont. Hoops, 62, retired as manager of Minnesota's Crosby-Manitou State Park and previously served as park manager at Tettegouche State Park. "I love hunting in Minnesota, but I really love the mountains," Hoops said. "It's so much bigger in scale, and, of course, it's the opportunity to hunt elk. But it's also the things you see - you're seeing grizzlies, you're seeing mountain goats and full-curl rams. It's the diversity." Hoops shared some thoughts about western elk hunting for hunters new to the experience. Q: Should a hunter use the services of an outfitter or hunt on his own? It all depends on their level of expertise and how much time they have to invest in it. With the Internet, hunters have more options than they used to. They can do map searches. Every state has its way to find a place to hunt. But if you have time constraints, or you're the kind of person who wants to jump on a plane, have someone pick you up, if you have a week off and five days to hunt, that's when it's imperative to book a hunt. Q: How much does a guided, weeklong hunt with an outfitter run? It'll vary from state to state, unit to unit. Probably a five-day guided hunt, with accommodations, is in the $3,500 to $5,000 range. There are always people willing to make deals, especially in this economy. Q: What are some tips for choosing an outfitter? Don't just call someone you read about in a magazine. It's like a marriage. It's a short-term marriage. You're living in each other's faces for five days. Call several. Check references. That's imperative. Talk to them in person. There are a lot of folks who don't have the best intentions. The respectable ones will have a list [of references] for you to call. Q: How much does physical conditioning matter in a western elk hunt? I always remind hunters: We're going to make this as tough or as easy as you want. It's harder to get into areas where elk are hanging out. Be in the best physical condition you can be in. Even if you haven't started until Sept. 1, six weeks of walking and working out on machines will give you a lot of conditioning. Q: What kind of expectations should a hunter have? They need to look at the number of licenses sold and the number of kills. It's [success rate] typically one in four, one in five. And we're not all going to be able to kill a 400-inch [Boone and Crockett scoring system] bull. What's a trophy to you? Q: How much does rifle size matter? Anything from .270 [caliber] up is good. A .300 short mag is a good gun, or a .30-06. Shot placement counts a lot more than having a big gun. Q: How about clothing? You need good-quality clothing, a quiet outer layer, and bring enough stuff. Your clothing should be wicking. Dress in layers. Make sure you have plenty of clothes so you can change 'em out. It can be 70 during the day, and the next day a front will be blowing with a blizzard, and you're wading through 10 inches of snow. Have good boots, well broken in, and have them to match varying conditions. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
| Telescopes Up! A Guide to the Night Sky's New Stargazing Season - msnbc.com Posted: 29 Sep 2010 02:48 PM PDT The end of September marks a transition in the night sky. With the bright stars of the Northern Hemisphere summer disappearing in the west, even brighter stars of winter will rise in the east in a changing tapestry of deep sky objects. The shift in Earth's seasons is a good time for skywatchers to prepare for the next round of stargazing. This sky map shows some attractive targets in the Northern Hemisphere as September passes to October. New skywatching season tour For skywatchers with good weather, there is a wealth of potential targets to hunt for at night. Here's a night sky tour for the new skywatching season: First you'll need some clear weather away from city lights. Granted that, the Milky Way will appear in the western sky, arcing up overhead. [ Great Milky Way Galaxy Photos ] Looking beyond the big constellations of the Summer Triangle, we find the neat little constellation of Sagitta, the Arrow, which is surrounded by interesting objects. Just above the Arrows tail is Brocchis Cluster, popularly known by the more prosaic name of the Coat Hanger" because of its appearance: a straight line of stars topped by a very obvious hook. Above the point of the Arrow is the Dumbbell Nebula, one of the brightest and largest planetary nebulae in the sky. Moving away from the Milky Way, we spy two of the richest globular clusters in the sky, to which 18th century French astronomer Charles Messier gave the numbers 2 and 15 in his catalog. Look a bit farther south and you are in the watery constellation of Aquarius, where you can find two more planetary nebulae. The Saturn Nebula is very small and very bright, so it can be easily be mistaken for a star; its easy to see how Messier overlooked this object with his poor-quality telescopes. The Helix Nebula is the opposite of the Saturn Nebula: very large and very faint. It is probably the nearest planetary nebula to the sun, 700 light-years away, and is nearly half as big as the moon in apparent diameter. You will likely need a telescope equipped with a narrow band or OIII filter to spot it, unless you are blessed with really dark skies. Beyond the Milky Way When we get well beyond the plane of the Milky Way, we begin to see more distant galaxies. Two of the brightest galaxies in the sky are just above and below the two chains of stars that mark Andromeda. Above Andromeda is the large, bright Andromeda Galaxy, visible even in the centers of our cities. With a telescope you can easily see one of its satellite galaxies, Messier 32. Its other satellite, Messier 110, is much more difficult to spot in urban skies, and may require a trip to a dark sky site. Both satellites are farther away from the main galaxy than most people expect because photographs of the Andromeda galaxies are often overexposed, making the Andromeda Galaxy look much larger in pictures than it appears in our telescopes. Just below Andromeda is a much more challenging galaxy, the Pinwheel Galaxy, in the constellation Triangulum. Although almost as bright as Andromeda on paper, the Pinwheel Galaxy is much more difficult to spot in the sky because it lacks any central condensation and fades away to nothingness in all directions. Its easy to sweep right past it in anything but the darkest country sky. Be sure not to overlook the interesting galaxy NGC 253 known as the Silver Dollar Galaxy in the little-known constellation of Sculptor. Tucked underneath the constellations Cetus and Aquarius, this constellation and its many galaxies are virtually unknown to observers in the Northern Hemisphere. Astronomers in the Southern Hemisphere know these sky targets well, especially the treasure that is NGC 253, one of the brightest edge-on galaxies in the sky. Although difficult because of its low altitude for northerners, the galaxy is still a fine object and worth searching for. Although 10 million light-years away, it is one of the brightest galaxies in the sky. This article was provided to SPACE.com by Starry Night Education, the leader in space science curriculum solutions. © 2010 Space.com. All rights reserved. More from Space.com. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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