Listen up Monkeys, Keep your eyes peeled on Tuesday from midnight into the wee hours of the morning as the second total lunar eclipse of 2007 takes place. On August 28th, sky watchers in North America will witness an event where the Sun, Earth, and Moon form a nearly straight line in space. The total lunar eclipse is expected to last for about 1 hour and 31 minutes, Sky & Telescope astronomers say.

The last total lunar eclipse, on March 3rd, favored eastern North America and Europe. While the next one, on August 28, 2007, will be placed in the sky to give virtually everyone in the Americas a good view of it.

Lunar Eclipse Forecast

The farther west you are, the better. In the central daylight time zone, the partial eclipse begins at 3:51 a.m. CDT. The Totality, with the Moon completely in shadow, runs from 3:52 to 5:23 a.m. CDT.
The last partial stage ends at 6:23 a.m. CDT.

If you are a sky watcher in the Midwest, you’ll see the Moon approach the horizon and become lost in the light of dawn while totality is still in progress. And in New England the Moon will be low and the sky quite bright before totality even starts.

Why Does it Happen?

With almost perfect alignment in space, the total lunar eclipse happens when a full moon passes through Earth’s shadow, which blocks the sun’s rays on the moon’s reflective surface.

Unlike a solar eclipse, which requires special equipment to observe safely, you can watch a lunar eclipse with the naked eye. However, binoculars or a telescope will enhance the view dramatically, Sky & Telescope magazine suggested.

The outer part of Earth’s shadow, called the penumbra, creates only slight dusky shading on the lunar disk.

But as the moon begins to move into the central and darkest part of Earth’s shadow, the umbra, there’s an obvious and ever-larger “bite” in the full moon. The partial eclipse is then under way.

On Tuesday’s morning wee hour, the Moon likely won’t disappear completely, astronomers said.

As it usually glows as an eerie, coppery red disk in the sky, as sunlight scattered around the edge of our atmosphere paints the lunar surface with a warm glow. This is light from all the sunrises and sunsets that are in progress around Earth at the time.

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So we all want to have the highest RSS feed subscription don’t we? Well we do, it’s the blogging equivalent of having the biggest banana around! But this banana isn’t god given, it depends on your planting and growing skills and this post I hope will give you the tips and tricks needed to grow such a great RSS banana! To be honest we need to practice this stuff ourselves, don’t you just hate when you readers bounce up and down then up and then down again! Here are some tricks against it:

• Use Feedburner: This gives many features and attributes to RSS Feeds also allowing convenient plug-ins and the like! This monkey recommends it highly!

  

• Be Seen Not Heard: RSS feeds need to be seen so readers can click if you say subscribe without giving a readers a place to click there will be no use! Therefore See Evil. Don’t just hear it.

• Guest Blog: Guest blogging can also make readers appreciate your style of writing, which always isn’t the highlight when people visit your actual site. For example if you see a post of mine on shoemoney.com it will definitely stand out and maybe more eye catching and entertaining than shoemoney’s actual content therefore generate readers in that manner!

• Start a Podcast: This always helps readers get familiar with you and YouTube itself can help generate tons of traffic, so if you create a great viral then you can always link it back to your site! I was really nervous i hope you can’t tell!

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• Full Summary RSS Feeds: This sometimes can get quite tricky if it isn’t implemented the right way! So tread softly monkeys, if you need help with that then please feel free to contact me or check out related posts!

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Not only does the banana taste wonderful, it also has an abundance of sucrose, glucose, fructose and potassium. Plus your favorite monkey’s favorite food! Today we will be giving you a taste of the true and varying uses of bananas tell your friend parents and all the important monkeys in your jungle! So here is a few reasons why you should have a close relationship with the banana and this blog!

• Mosquito Bites:

  Rub the inside of the banana skin on the affected area. In most cases it will reduce swelling and irritation.

• Exercise:

  Bananas give an instant, sustained boost of energy. Eat two bananas to produce enough energy for a 90 minute workout.

• Nervousness:

  Eat a banana to help calm nervousness, they are high in B vitamins.

• Boosting Brain Power:

  Research has shown that the potassium in bananas can help in learning and brain stressing projects by making one more alert.

• Stop Smoking:

  If you are trying to quit smoking, the potassium, magnesium, B6 and B12 in bananas can aid in the recovery of nicotine withdrawal.

• Overweight:

  Studies show that if you are in a high pressure job, chances are you tend to binge on comfort food caused by panic induced food cravings. Try eating a banana every two hours to control blood sugar, keep levels steady, and keep the cravings away.

• Morning Sickness:

  You can keep your blood sugar up to avoid morning sickness by snacking on bananas between meals.

• PMS:

  The banana contains enough vitamin B6 to raise blood glucose which in turn should affect your mood.

I hope i gave you a couple reason to reconsider buying the next time you pass by the banana section in your local grocery store!

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As the wide use of vista today became more and more popular, thousands of software and hardware out there facing wide variety of problems and bugs dealing with it which is considered programmers nightmare. I happen to be studying in the field of programing, so we are being taught programming in many different types of languages, levels, and compilers. Today’s bug deals with this software called BlueJ which is an environment developed by the University Kent as learning tool for object-orientation students.

Bug symptoms:

while having windows visa and Java Runtime Environment (JRV 5.0), BlueJ appear to not function normally when it come to project menu navigation where users would usually create or open projects. In a sum, project menu becomes unclickable due to the look-and-feel of Java failing to cope with windows vista (unless you have JRV 6.0 or newer versions)

Solution:

You have to set the look-and-feel of BlueJ to “crossplatform”, don’t worry this is simple just follow these simple steps below:

1. Open the file “bluej.defs” by Notepad which is located in this directory “c:\BlueJ\lib\bluej.defs” .

2. Press and hold Ctrl and F and type “lookAndFeel”.

3. now just delete the “#”as highlighted in the image below and save your changes.

If you are considered why, by doing that you are erasing the sign “#” which make the code executable instead of being just a comment.

4. just to recheck run BlueJ and try to click on open a project and you shall see something like the image below:

Now you are done!

Source:

BlueJ FAQs.

I would proudly like to announce the winner of our contest who is Eliza Ferree who’s favorite type of monkey is ape . I would like to congradulate you for the prize and please contact us for your shipping address so we can proceed in delivering the prize.

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What is the one thing that king kong loves to share!? Any guesses? Bananas? Queen Kong? Kongtests, and letting my readers know what’s going around the blogosphere, and giving them each a chance at playing there cards with lady luck! There are several contest running and deadlines coming up every day! So here is our ROUND UP!

• Internet Marketing Guru Gary Lee is giving away a free iphone this contest should be ending soon but Gary is waiting for PR results from the women in the bathroom over a Google! Check out because you never know when Gary just might decide he doesn’t want to wait! Act now!
• CASH for COMMENTS is holding a sneaky bastard blogging contest to get paid a free 24? wide screen LCD monitor. The contest is being sponsored by Elite Baseball Instruction dot Com which gives baseball training videos in hitting, pitching, infield defense, and outfield playing. He is also giving away a free 4-Hour Workweek Book to enter early and the winner will be updated on the same blog post to drive traffic to their own site. Click here for more details the 24 inch LCD giveaway. Haha you made it too easy for me! MONKEY SEE MONKEY DOO!!!
• John Chow dot Com is holding another evil blog contest. He’s giving away a 24 wide screen LCD monitor and a signed copy of the best selling book, The 4-Hour Workweek! Find out how to enter here. The contest is being sponsored by The Million Dollar Wiki. Use coupon code John Chow to save $10 on a page. You guys really need to stop giving out sample entries!
• While you guys are down here! You might as well check out Contest Blog the blog were the contests never stop and everyday someone is a winner! This was obviously pointed out by the one and only Nate Whitehill! It’s like he is dropping golden nuggets of wisdom wherever he goes! If you haven’t heard of him, you aren’t listening!
• And Definitely Last but not least our own special contest has just wrapped up and we will be setting up the drawing soon enough!

This has been a Kongtest Round Up! We repeat a Kongtest Round Up! Kong..test..round…up!

Now here is a picture of what you could potentially win if you subtracted the monkey factor in the picture and multiplied the coolness ( personal results may vary do to math skills and imagination!):

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