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- Bing Maps Guides Public Transit - Softpedia
- Hanny's: An insider's guide - AZCentral.com
- 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 |
| Hanny's: An insider's guide - AZCentral.com Posted: 04 Oct 2010 03:39 PM PDT by Mindy Lee - Oct. 4, 2010 08:22 AM Hanny's is a shining star in downtown Phoenix, a gorgeous, ambitious restaurant and bar from AZ88 owner Karl Kopp and Scottsdale-based artist and designer Janis Leonard. They've created a modern and compelling space from a trashed former retail building with lavender couches shaped like tongues, a vertigo-inducing elevator-shaft art piece, and a glossy minimalism that's as seductive as it is icy. It's the curving concrete and glass building that used to be Hanny's Department Store, which carried stylish men's fashions for almost 40 years. The store closed in 1986 and reopened in 2008 as the chic bar and restaurant that we know it now. The scene: Low-key sophistication mixed with an urban vibe. Hanny's has an appeal in its minimal and effortlessly cool design. It's a place to be seen, but it's not pretentious. Instead it's a space where the design makes guests feel as though they're on display. The second-story takes up only a portion of the building, leaving the first story feeling open. Black leather booths and chairs contrast against greige walls and white-and-gray stone tables. Although the fashions Hanny's once sold are passe, the distinct concrete building is not. In fact, the International Style building is architecturally significant, with curves and bands of windows. Décor is minimal. Leonard refurbished the original antique world maps. On the upper north wall, a restored sign advertises such designer labels as Christian Dior and Nino Cerruti. The sign for menswear designers Hart Schaffner and Marx is missing Schaffner's first "f." The cool kids know: Downstairs is where you eat and drink. Upstairs is where the fun happens. The second story houses a small bar and interior balcony. Grab your drink and head up there to get a bird's eye view of the space. The unisex bathrooms, also located on the second floor, are accessed through a mirrored corridor which opens into an all-white space with unmarked doors. One is for men and two are unisex; the rest aren't labeled, leaving users to infer that inside the periwinkle-tiled rooms are mirrors, toilets and sinks. Back downstairs, the empty elevator shaft has been finished with mirrors on the floor one story below; and the ceiling three stories above. Guests stand on a see-through floor and shriek and laugh with vertigo and fear. The crowd: On any given night, it's downtown locals, young professionals and people fresh off the Metro Light Rail, which stops nearby. Hanny's gets busy on game and concert nights as people fill in to grab a bite to eat before a show or event. The deal: Hanny's does not have happy hour specials, but you really can't go wrong with the $5 Classic martini, made with Smirnoff vodka or Beefeater gin, vermouth and olives. A rotating $2.50 petite martini goes on special at midnight every night. The pizzas, salads and sandwiches are priced between $8-$13 and offer generous portions. The drink: Hanny's carries an extensive collection of hard liquors. They have everything from Absinthe to a wide array of scotches and whiskeys to a 3 oz.-pour of Remy Martin Louis XIII cognac for $350. But most signature cocktails, and there are many, range from $8 to $12. Details: 40 N. First St., Phoenix, 602-252-2285, hannys.net. Megan Finnerty contributed to this article. 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 |
| A guide to the night sky's new stargazing season - msnbc.com Posted: 29 Sep 2010 02:33 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. The sky map (right) shows some attractive targets in the Northern Hemisphere as September passes to October. New skywatching season tour
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. 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 Arrow's tail is Brocchi's 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; it's 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 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. It's 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. Gallery — Amazing Milky Way Photos 'Super' Harvest Moon Marks Earth's Changing Seasons © 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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