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The evasi0n jailbreak tool has now been updated twice since its initial release on Wednesday. The latest version which sees it hit the 1.2 release mark contains some reasonably important enhancements. If you have been holding off jailbreaking and decide to do it today or in the near future, make sure you get the latest version.
Since release, the evad3rs team have fixed various issues with the jailbreak some of which include long reboot issues, timezone problems and the strangest one of all, the weather app appearing on iPads. A lot of people had been experiencing that last issue when jailbreaking your iPad all of a sudden the Apple stock weather app appears on your home screen.
Another important feature of the latest 1.2 release is the option of disabling OTA (Over The Air) software updates. This will prevent you from accidentally updating your iOS software when a new version gets released which would subsequently lose your jailbreak.
If you have already jailbroken your iOS 6.0 or 6.1 device with earlier versions of the Evasi0n jailbreak, there's really no need to do it again. Each of these updates are available through Cydia as an update on your device. The Evasi0n jailbreak has certainly proved popular; we heard a few days ago that Cydia had received visits from over 7 million devices since the evasi0n jailbreak release.


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From winter to spring... Finally
Southeast Wisconsin moves from snow showers to 70s
Clouds around earlier today with morning temperatures in the 30s. Clouds scour out with light northwest winds offering drier air. Highs reach about 50 today and will hold to about 50 for Thursday as well.
A cool front passes late tonight and clouds return with the front this evening. A good chance for light rain or a mix after midnight. We may even see a snow shower or two. The cool front moves quickly and most of the moisture exits before 6am. Clouds are sticky early tomorrow morning before we clear by mid morning.
Warmer air finally begins to invade Friday. There is a chance for a few clouds and even a spotty shower with the warm front Friday. Highs hit 60 for Friday and low to mid 60s for your weekend. Upper 60s to 70 on deck for Monday and Tuesday. Best chances for rain head our way again later Tuesday into Wednesday.
I'm waiting for my daffy's to bloom-I think the buds are frozen shut! We'd be happy to see some of your spring flower photos! Send your pics to ulocal on www.wisn.com, our WISN Facebook page or Twitter.

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BillionGraves is a database of records and images from cemeteries around the world, all tagged with GPS locations, making the gravesites easy to find. The BillionGraves site includes images of the headstones as collected by an amazing group of volunteers.
The search tool for the Billiongraves website is very user friendly. Once the names are found in the database at familysearch, the actual image can be found at BillionGraves. The search tool allows the researcher to filter by name, location and years. I performed a search for Abraham Katz who I knew was buried in New York.
The results for Abraham Katz included the person I was searching for. He died on 25 August 1931 and is buried at the Mount Zion Cemetery in Maspeth, New York. The quality of the image of his headstone was very good.
The BillionGraves database is a great addition to the FamilySearch site, and is another valuable source for those researching their Jewish ancestors.


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Ambrx Secures $15M Payout From Bristol-Myers Squibb
Monday, May 6, 2013
La Jolla-based biotech Ambrx Inc. secured a $15 million payout from Bristol-Myers Squibb, with milestone payments tallying as much as $97 million.
Ambrx received $15 million last month from Japanese drug maker Astellas Pharma Inc., which could bring in $285 million in additional research, development and regulatory milestones.
Ambrx, a privately held company, employs 55 in the San Diego area. It has similar drug discovery collaborations underway with Merck & Co. Inc., Eli Lilly and Co. and several other companies.
This is the third agreement between Ambrx and Bristol-Myers Squibb. In September 2011, the companies penned two separate research and development agreements, which are still underway today.
"Bristol-Myers Squibb is a global biopharmaceutical leader with expertise developing and commercializing novel medicines for the treatment of cancer and other diseases, and we are pleased to enter into a third collaboration with the company to include another aspect of our technology platform," said Lawson Macartney, the chief executive officer of Ambrx. "We look forward to working together to further utilize Ambrx's technology to discover and advance these antibody drug conjugates for oncology indications."
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We have sung kinetic machine artist Arthur Ganson's praises often and loudly here, before, but this particular work jumped out at me while I was combing for concrete-themed content. Machine with Concrete is a gear train consisting of twelve pairs of worms and gears, each of which reduces the rotational velocity of the system by 1/50. The input shaft is constantly driven at 200 rpm, and the output shaft thus turns at (1/50)12 of that speed, at which rate, Ganson writes, "it will take well over two trillion years before the final gear makes but one turn."
The punchline, of course, is that the final gear is embedded in a block of solid concrete.
I haven't been able to figure out where Machine with Concrete currently lives; many of Ganson's works are at the MIT Museum, but I couldn't find any definitive information about this one, and would be glad to hear from anyone who knows.
Wherever its home, I wonder about its duty cycle: Has it been running continuously since completion? If it's in a museum, is it only run during museum hours? And though it's easy to calculate how long it will take the final gear to turn a given distance, a more interesting question, to me, is a bit trickier: How long until it sticks? And, given that each 50-fold reduction in speed is also a 50-fold gain in torque, will it stick at all, or just slowly grind through the concrete?
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q-BH-tvxEg]
Update: As of April 17, 2013, Machine with Concrete is on indefinite loan to the Exploratorium, and is currently on view. My understanding is that it still belongs to Ganson himself. Thanks to tipster Adam Ringel and to Jericha Senyak at the Exploratorium.


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Deploy Anywhere 🌍
Deliver messages anywhere in the world through SMS & voice channels, IP messaging apps and social media platforms.
Gateway services like Twilio and Nexmo are the cheapest and most reliable way to deploy RapidPro in most countries. They provide SMS, voice and MMS-enabled virtual phone numbers and short codes that send and receive messages on behalf of your RapidPro account. Additionally, they generally work across all carriers in the country which means less for you to worry about. The process is simple and quick: create an account with a gateway service, rent one or more numbers for just dollars per month, then plug your API token into RapidPro. You'll be sending messages in minutes.
Choosing a Gateway
Toll-Free NumbersSome gateway services provide toll-free virtual numbers that can be SMS and/or voice-enabled, and will list these numbers as products on their pricing pages. Toll-free numbers prevent your contacts from being charged when they send an SMS or make a call to your number. They're especially useful for programs working with low-income populations.
Once you've opened a RapidPro account, navigate to the channels page. There we'll recommend your local gateway and list the global gateway services we support. For example, if you're located in the UK, USA or Canada we recommend Twilio. If you're located in Kenya we recommend Africa's Talking. If we don't already recommend a local gateway service for your country, let us know and we'll see if we can't locate one for you.
You might also want to visit each global gateway service's pricing page where you can view pricing information as well as its product offerings for your country. We recommend starting with Twilio, Nexmo and Clickatell in that order. If you aren't able to find virtual numbers for your country, let us know. We'd be happy to help you identify the best channel for your use case.
Adding more Gateways
We're always extending our network of local gateways. If you don't see an option for your country, let us know. We'd be happy to help source a local gateway that we can integrate with RapidPro for your country.
Gateways and Short Codes
If you need to send more than a few thousand messages per hour, we recommend acquiring a short code. If a local gateway service provides them, it's best to go that route. Short codes can take a few months to acquire due to the application process but gateway services will facilitate the process.
SMS Gateway Best Practices
RapidPro encourages users to review proposed use cases with qualified legal counsel to make sure they comply with applicable laws. The following are general best practices:
- Your SMS campaigns should support HELP/STOP messages in your contacts' local languages.
- Only send messages or make calls during your contacts' daytime hours unless you have their approval.
- Get opt-in consent from your contacts before sending them marketing or other non-essential messages.
- Don't send messages to contacts on do-not-call or do-not-disturb registries.
SMS works differently in every country, so Twilio and Nexmo provide guidelines that include information on everything from message routing to best practices. Twilio's country-specific guidelines can be found here, while Nexmo's can be found here.
Non-Profit Discount
Twilio provides a 25% discount on messaging and voice fees for qualified non-profits through its counterpart twilio.org. They'll even grant you a $500 credit to get started. These non-profit Twilio accounts are easy to connect to RapidPro, and we'd be happy to help you get started with this great program.
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RapidPro's Android channel enables you to send and receive messages anywhere you can acquire a local SIM card. Simply download the RapidPro Android application on your phone and follow the instructions to connect it to your account. When the app is active, anytime your RapidPro account sends a message it will notify your Android phone. The phone will then send the message from your local number on your behalf. If somebody responds to that message, the phone will relay it back to your RapidPro account. You can add as many Android channels as you like, and even enable IVR (voice) functionalilty.
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We recommend that the phone you use for RapidPro be dedicated to that purpose only. The good news is that Android phones are among the most inexpensive and capable phones available today.
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If you already have a local SIM just pop it in your android phone. Otherwise, you'll want to aquire a SIM card from your local carrier of choice. Not sure which to pick? OpenSignal provides detailed coverage maps for each carrier in your country. We recommend acquiring a data-enabled SIM, though you're welcome to rely on Wi-Fi instead. You can set up a post-paid plan–so you don't have to top it up-or a prepaid plan which you can top up on a custom schedule using our airtime-transfer functionality.
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In some countries it's possible acquire reverse billed SIM cards, which make it free for anyone to send messages to that number while you pay for both incoming and outgoing messages. This configuration is especially useful for programs working with low income populations.
You can download the free Android app from Google Play. Once the app is installed it will give you a 6 digit claim code that you then enter on the website. And that's all there is to it. From then on, that phone will handle sending all the messages for your RapidPro account.
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Android phones are great because they can be used in even the most challenging environments. Simply store it in a place in the country where it will have a reliable power source and a strong signal. You will need either a Wi-Fi or GSM data connection, but if you can get both, even better. The phone will be smart about which network to use if one connection isn't working well.
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For projects that need to send more than a few thousand messages an hour and are deploying in a country where a gateway service provide short codes or even exist, it may be worth looking into a direct connection with the local carriers. When your project is ready for it, your RapidPro account can be coverted over to an SMPP connection. This is the most expensive option, but certainly worth the money and effort for high volume projects.
Our goal is to enable you to reach your contacts where they live: their mobile phones. Sometimes this doesn't mean SMS & voice, as IP messaging apps have gained a tremendous amount of traction around the world. We offer Facebook Messenger, Viber and Telegram channels so that you can reach those contacts who prefer them to SMS.
Adding more IP Messaging Apps
We're always looking to support more channels. If there's an app you'd like us to support but you don't see it listed, let us know. If it provides a bot API we'd be happy to look into adding it for you.
RapidPro with IP Messaging Apps FAQ
RapidPro's Twitter channel enables you to send and receive direct messages–commonly referred to as DM's–through any Twitter account with direct messages enabled. What's more, you can tell RapidPro to trigger flows when you gain a new follower, allowing you to send them a welcome message, add them to a group, or kick off an automated conversation.


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Dear RIM Blackberry Playbook People,
Thank you for sending me a Playbook. i like it very much. i didn't very much like the steps involved to put my work on the device, though. It was the most needlessly complicated thing i've had to do in all my life. i'd like to see the Playbook succeed, but you need to put more effort into helping your developers succeed first.
Here are a few of the issues i ran into while porting my game Heads to your platform:
- i had to download Many Things, and sign up for Many Accounts. Each Thing and each Account came with 15 pages of legalese with an "I Agree" button at the bottom. I Agree … that this stinks.
- One of the Many Things i had to download was Adobe AIR 2.5. i followed the link on your site to Adobe AIR 2.6, which i downloaded instead. When i tried to follow your workflow, i was told that only AIR 2.5 would work, so i had to cast about the Internatz to find the 2.5 download, which wasn't made immediately and obviously available on the Adobe site. If i'm creating something for your platform, everything i do should ideally be immediate and obvious.
- i downloaded VMWare and your VMWare Playbook profile so that i could run a virtual Playbook. But the emulator stalled at the startup screen for a very long time. i checked message boards, and found two possible solutions:
- Leave it overnight.
- Alternatingly restart your computer or VMWare multiple times (some reports said "six or seven") until it works.
i opted to restart VMWare and my computer multiple times until it worked. This was very frustrating. i'm not the only one who experienced this problem, as evidenced by this web comic by my Twitter pal @IQAndreas:
- In order to deploy my game to the virtual Playbook, i had to know its IP. To get that, i had to swipe the "development" option into the "on" position and punch in my password. i had to use the software keyboard to punch in my password, because my computer keyboard didn't work. And worse than that, it took about 4-5 tries swiping the slider and punching in my password before the Developer hammer icon would appear on the home screen … for whatever reason, that slider kept undoing itself.
Somebody call Jerry O'Connell, cuz this slider be busted.
- When it came time to bundle my files together in a .bar file, i was dismayed to find that since i don't use Flash Builder (but, rather, FlashDevelop), i would need to use the command line to continue. i hate the command line. HAATE it. i know that eggheads love it, and that you employ Many Eggheads at RIM, but you have to understand that even though the command line is useful and powerful and 1337 and everything, i absolutely can't be arsed with it. Like, not at all. So knock it off.
Here is what i had to type into the command line in order to bundle my project into a .bar file:
C:\dev\BlackBerryTabletSDK\blackberry-tablet-sdk-0.9.3\bin\blackberry-airpackager -package MyGame.bar -installApp -launchApp MyGame-app.xml blackberry-tablet.xml MyGame.swf blackberry-tablet-icon.png -device 192.168.58.128 -password 123456
This is not a fun thing to have to type. Know what i want to do? Click a button. Can you make it so that i just click a button? Buttons good, typing bad. It may not be 1337, but it also doesn't eat up my entire afternoon.
- i am currently rocking three Blackberry accounts: one to develop my game, one to sell my game, and one to talk about my game on your forums. This is Too Many Accounts. Know how many there should be? One. Know why? Because it's easier. Know what's not easy? You.
- When i signed my application, i had to download a file that you sent to me two days after i emailed you and asked you for it. That's Too Many Days. That's because you also took two or three days to approve my vendor account. Why not do this in one step instead of two? Clearly, a vendor is always going to need the application signing file. See how you don't make things easy, when you potentially could?
- Then i had to use the command line (which, as we've already established, is bad) to create a file that i could send to you so that my computer could sign files. At least i think that's what i was doing. Here's what the command looked like:
blackberry-signer -csksetup -cskpass DesiredCSKPassword
Then i had to use the command line (bad. BAD!) to send you my .csj file to receive permission to sign my other file. i think. i'm not quite sure what was going on, because it was tough to interpret the command, which looked like this:
blackberry-signer -register -csjpin PinEnteredWhileRequestingCSJ -cskpass PasswordEnteredWhileGeneratingCSK client-RDK-XXXXXXXXXX.csj
Next, i had to create a .p12 certificate using this command:
blackberry-keytool -genkeypair -keystore DesiredCertificateName.p12 -storepass NewPassword -dname "cn=MyCompanyName" -alias author
Then i had to get you to sign the file using this command:
blackberry-signer -verbose -cskpass CSKPassword -keystore CertificateName.p12 -storepass StorePassword BarFileNameForRIMToSign.bar RDK
Then i had to sign the file myself using this command:
blackberry-signer -keystore CertificateName.p12 -storepass StorePassword RimSignedBarFile.bar author
- When i finally went to upload my file, in the web form you asked me for an additional icon in some bizarre size (243×717 or something like that). i went away and produced that icon, and by the time i returned, the web form had timed out. Know what would be easier? A checklist!
- A swf
- An xml file called whatever.xml – download it HERE!
- A thumbnail icon – download a template HERE!
- A second icon – download a template HERE!
- A brief description of your application – max X words
- A long-form description of your application – max Y words
And HERE'S an image of how all this stuff looks when it's in the Blackberry App World! We've LABELLED everything for you, so you know where the descriptions and icons appear and how they'll look to the user.
Really, though – how long does that kind of thing take to set up? An afternoon? Why does this not exist yet?
- To add insult to injury, my game was initially rejected because it did not contain the icon.png. i figured i must have forgotten to include the .png filename when i created the .bar file, so i went through all of those horrible steps again. For a second time, my game was rejected. Same reason.
Know what the problem was? i hadn't added this to the xml file:
<icon> <image>whatever.png</image> </icon>
i didn't enjoy doing this, and i don't want to have to do it ever again. Know what i want? i want a big blank area where i can drag and drop my file, with a huge shiny juicy button that says "GO BITCH GO" which, when i click it, does all the bullshit i just described above. Please get your eggheads on that.
In addition to all of the brilliant software and hardware engineers you employ, you simply need to hire more people to evaluate this process. An egghead will tell you that using the command line is cool and awesome and that everyone loves doing it. A person will tell you the actual truth: using the command line blows, and you need to put that shit on a button.
Please let me know if and when you plan to put that shit on a button, and i'll gladly continue developing for your device, because it's pretty cool.
Ryan Henson Creighton
President, Untold Entertainment Inc.


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Are you ready to embrace the cloud? Gird your loins, for Google's Cr-48 (or Chrome OS Notebook, laptop prototype or whatever else you want to call it) is itching to drag you kicking and screaming up to the cloud and into it.
Google Cr-48 Notebook With Chrome
Caps-lock key re-imagined as a search button. Nifty instant-on capabilities. Beautiful, bright display. Epic battery life.
Useless without wireless connection; only moderately useful with one. Requires massive buy-in to the Googleverse. Printing via cloud connection to another PC is erratic at best. Touchpad — "it's all one big button" — requires lots of retraining. Keyboard feels clammy.
How We Rate
- 1/10A complete failure in every way
- 2/10Sad, really
- 3/10Serious flaws; proceed with caution
- 4/10Downsides outweigh upsides
- 5/10Recommended with reservations
- 6/10Solid with some issues
- 7/10Very good, but not quite great
- 8/10Excellent, with room to kvetch
- 9/10Nearly flawless
- 10/10Metaphysical perfection
Google's Cr-48 is, as many Google projects are, a brazen experiment in laptoppery that's so crazy it just might work. Might not, either. For the Cr-48 — or whatever it ends up being called -– is really a notebook only in the sense that it has a keyboard and a hinge which lets it fold in half.
The sell here is that the Cr-48 runs Google's new and long-anticipated Chrome OS. Based on a skeletal Linux build, it is virtually instant-on and instant-off, and its simplicity is hard to overstate. That's because Chrome OS really is almost nothing but the Chrome web browser.
And be assured: None of this will work if you're not online. The Cr-48 supports every kind of Wi-Fi, and it packs a Verizon WWAN system with a killer hook: Users get 100 MB of free bandwidth every month. That's not much, but it can get you through the dead zone between Starbuckses. (Additional bandwidth costs up to $50 for 5 GB a month.) It won't, however, do you any good on an airplane without Gogo: You can open a few cached web pages on the Cr-48, but mostly it's a 3.6-pound brick when you're offline.
Under the hood the Cr-48 has netbook guts: a 1.66-GHz Atom CPU, 2 GB of RAM and integrated graphics, all powering a 12.1-inch, 1280 x 800 screen. Battery life is impressive: at least 8 hours with the wireless on (because you'd never turn it off). You also get a sole USB port (for input peripherals mainly) and VGA output. And there's a grainy webcam.
Sure looks like a laptop. But is it really? Consider the evidence: The 16-GB SSD drive is not user-accessible, and you can't store any files on the machine. Want to type a letter? You'll need to go to Google Docs (which, oddly, is not a default icon). Want to write an e-mail? You'll have to visit Gmail. Want to view a picture or video on your camera's SD card? Well, er, you'll have to upload it to the web from someone else's real computer: The Cr-48's SD slot is nonfunctional. Remember: You are not allowed to access local files, period!
Hackers are surely going to start finding a way to mod these things to overcome their limitations –- I tricked the machine into downloading a Firefox setup file, but had no way to open it — but for now the Cr-48 is really more of a tablet masquerading as a laptop. It even has its own app store, already full of the usual suspects. Weatherbug FTW!
See Also:
- Five Things Google's Chrome OS Will Do for Your Netbook
- Chrome OS Netbooks For Under $400, Says Google
- Google Chrome OS Not Ready for Primetime Yet
- Google's Sexy Nexus One Pushes Android to New Limits
- Google's Newest Android Device Makes a Giant Leap Forward
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Mission Control Center
With its systems checked out in excellent shape, Space Shuttle Discovery with its seven-person crew that includes the Expedition Two crew, is set to return home at 11:46 a.m. Central time to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, wrapping up a five and a half month stay on the International Space Station. A second landing opportunity is available an hour and a half later at 1:23 p.m. CDT.
Leading the station now by more than a thousand miles, Discovery's aero surfaces and maneuvering engines were tested early today by the shuttle's Commander Scott Horowitz and Pilot Rick Sturckow while the remaining crewmembers busily prepared the cabin for the high-speed reentry.
Late in the day, the reclining seats that will be occupied by Expedition Two Commander Yury Usachev, and Flight Engineers Jim Voss and Susan Helms were put into position on the orbiter's middeck. The reclined position has been proven to be the most comfortable method of return to Earth from space by long duration crewmembers.
Weather forecasters are predicting favorable conditions in Central Florida for Discovery's return to Earth, prompting mission managers to forego calling up support at the backup landing site in California.
To prepare for deorbit and landing activities, the shuttle crew will awaken at 3:10 a.m. Wednesday and start deorbit preparations about 6:45 a.m. The payload bay doors are to be closed at about 8 a.m. with the deorbit firing of the twin Orbital Maneuvering System engines on the tail of Discovery targeted for 10:37 a.m.
While Discovery was readied for the trip home, the Expedition Three crew of Frank Culbertson, Vladimir Dezhurov and Mikhail Tyurin activated one of the two scientific racks delivered by Discovery's crew. The crew also prepared for the undocking of a Progress supply vehicle docked to the station since late May. The undocking is set for 1:05 a.m. Wednesday to make room for the next Progress already on its way following launch at 4:24 a.m. today from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. As was its four predecessors, the 5 Progress is loaded with fuel, food and other equipment for use by the Expedition Three crew.
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As expected, the heat wave ranging from southern Arizona west and north to Sacramento, Boise, and Seattle has first responders working overtime, water slides and public swimming pools crowded, and zookeepers hosing down the elephants and feeding frozen trout to the tigers.
The blistering heat appears to have caused at least one death so far: an elderly man living without air-conditioning in Las Vegas, where temperatures were expected to reach 116 degrees F.
At least seven people have been found dead in the last week in Arizona, likely tied to the brutal desert heat. Personnel were added to the border patrol search-and-rescue unit because of the danger to people trying to slip across the Mexican border, officials reported.
Temperatures hit 127 in Death Valley, Calif., Saturday and were expected to reach at least that high again Sunday. (The record there – the highest ever recorded on Earth – is 134 degrees, set in 1913.) At Furnace Creek, in Death Valley National Park, nighttime lows only dip down to the mid-90s.
Overnight temperatures remained high inland from the Pacific in California because cooling ocean breezes hadn't wafted as far east as usual.
"We have more work than we can handle," Max Ghaly of Cathedral City Air Conditioning and Heating in Palm Springs, Calif., told CNN. "We're running all over the place trying to do what we can."
US Airways canceled 18 flights Saturday when the temperature in Phoenix inched past the 118-degree maximum for take-off.
In northern California, record-breaking temperatures were recorded in Sacramento, where the high was 107 degrees; Marysville reached 109 degrees; and Stockton saw 106 degrees.
Cooling stations were set up to shelter the homeless and elderly people who can't afford to run their air conditioners. In Phoenix, Joe Arpaio, the famously hard-nosed sheriff who runs a tent jail, planned to distribute ice cream and cold towels to inmates this weekend.
Brush fires are a particular concern to firefighters – more so now because Fourth of July fireworks have gone on sale in many places.
Officials said the extreme heat will continue until at least Tuesday.
"It's early in the heat season. Usually our hottest months are August and September. We're not even in July yet, but this is a massive high-pressure system and it's just smothering," Bill Patzert, a climatologist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge, told the Los Angeles Times.
Some saw the heat wave as an opportunity to notch personal records.
Dan Kail was vacationing in Las Vegas from Pittsburgh when he heard that the temperature at Death Valley could approach 130 degrees this weekend. He didn't hesitate to make a trip to the desert location, which is typically the hottest place on the planet.
"Coming to Death Valley in the summertime has always been on the top of my bucket list," he said. "When I found out it might set a record I rented a car and drove straight over. If it goes above 130, I will have something to brag about."
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Eliza Allen (1862-1945), wife of Sullivan J. "Sovin" Knight
Bryan Shaw has written about the life and family of Eliza Allen in the Shaw Family Newsletters. She was a daughter of Barzilla Allen and Rachel Moore Allen and sister of John Levi Allen and William Barzilla Allen. "She was born October 31, 1862, four months after the death of her father, Barzilla Allen, who had died of measles while serving with the Confederate Army in Charlottesville, Virginia."
Her mother remarried in 1866 to Francis Marion Shaw, a veteran of the Civil War who had lost his right arm in a skirmish near Cedar Key, FL in 1864, and who raised Eliza and her brothers as his own children. Eliza grew to womanhood on her step-father's farm at the community of Lois near Ray City, GA. "She was educated in the rural schools of the Lois, Georgia community, and attended the Pleasant Primitive Baptist Church with her mother and siblings…. At the age of 17, on June 6, 1880, she married Sullivan Jordan "Sovin" Knight, son of John W. Knight and Candacy Leaptrot." Sovin's brother was Primitive Baptist minister, Aaron Anderson Knight, of Ray City. The marriage was performed in Berrien County by William H. Snead, Justice of the Peace.
In 1878, Sovin Knight was a young farmer who owned 50 acres of land in section 375 of the 10th district, on the northeast bank of Cat Creek, about four miles north of Rays Mill (now Ray City), GA. This was probably part of his father's holdings. The land was valued at $250 and he had livestock valued at $100. Bryan Shaw describes the land dealings of Sovin Knight in detail in his Shaw Family Newsletters.
After marriage Eliza and Sovin moved just southeast across Cat Creek to the adjacent land lot 408, to a 113 acre farm situated on Indian Camp Branch. Within a few years Sovin was farming 412 acres slightly farther to the northeast on lots 364 and 365 on the north side of Indian Camp Bay, about six miles northeast of Ray City. Sovin worked this farm on Indian Camp Bay for the next twenty years on his own account or on behalf of his father, John W. Knight. Nearby were the farms of Levi J. Gaskins, John A. Kirkland, and Joe S. Clements.
Children of Eliza Allen and Sullivan Jordan Knight
- Marion Mansfield Knight – born May 9, 1881, Berrien County, GA; married November, 1906 to Mollie Gaskins, daughter of Levi J. Gaskins ; died March 20, 1940
- Effie J. "Sissy" Knight – born August 15, 1882, Berrien County, GA; married Eldrid "Dred" Guthrie on October 17, 1900; died September 25, 1935
- Lillie C. Knight, – born February 2, 1885, Berrien County, GA; died March 12, 1885.
- Infant son Knight – Born and died about 1887
- Leland Thomas Knight – born July 17, 1888, Berrien County, GA; married Lillie Sirmans on September 23, 1909; died May 8, 1949
- Ada Virginia Knight – born January 31, 1889 Berrien County, GA; married Joseph Redding "Buddy" Gaskins September 1, 1907; died March 5, 1964
- Fannie E. Knight – born November 14, 1890, Berrien County, GA; married Sanford Gideon Gaskins about 1908; died May 16, 1969
- Rossie O. Knight – born August 28, 1892 Nashville, GA; Never married; Served in France during WWI and with the Army of Occupation in Germany; died November 16, 1963; buried Pleasant Cemetery, near Ray City, GA
- Ida Lena Knight – born October 22, 1898, Berrien County, GA married Edgar Ezekiel Hickman June, 1914; died February 17, 1977
- Rachel Knight – born May 1, 1901, Berrien County, GA; married Robert Talmage Chism about 1916; died January 7, 1985
- Ora Kathleen Knight – born May 16, 1904, Berrien County, GA; married Henry Alexander Swindle November 24, 1920; died June 2, 2003, at Savannah, GA.
Eliza and Sovin suffered a serious setback when the Knight house burned down in January 1909 while they were attending the funeral of Sovin's aunt Rhoda Futch Knight.
In January, 1911 Sovin J. Knight sold the remaining farm property in Berrien county to Dr. Pleasant H. Askew, prominent physician, businessman and landowner of Nashville, GA, and moved Eliza and their four youngest children to Brooks county, near Barney, GA.
Shortly after their move to Barney, "on April 16, 1911, just 26 days after the purchase of the new farm, Sovin suffered a severe heart attack and died in his new home. He left his wife of 31 years, a widow with three children, a survivor once again." Sullivan Jordan Knight was buried at Pleasant Cemetery, near Ray City, GA.
After settling the estate of her husband about 1914, "Eliza and her two daughters returned to Berrien county, where she moved into her parents' farm home just outside of Ray City. She joined the newly constituted New Ramah Primitive Baptist Church at Ray City by letter of transmission.
About 1917, she moved with her aging parents into town to a new home located on the north side of Jones Street and just east of Ward Street.
Eliza lived with her parents in their Ray City home, raising her last two children, until November, 1920, when her youngest daughter, Kathleen was married to Ray City merchant Henry A. Swindle.
Henry and Kathleen took Eliza into their home on Main Street, Ray City, GA, where she resided for the following 25 years… She spent most of those years involved in the social and religious functions of the New Ramah Primitive Baptist Church in Ray City, an association which she dearly loved."
Ann Eliza Allen Knight, passed away on November 4, 1945, at the age of 83. She was buried next to her husband at Pleasant Cemetery, near Ray City, GA.
Special thanks to Bryan Shaw for research, content and images contributed to this article.


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The First 70 is an inspiring journey through California to visit the majestic state parks slated to close due to budget cuts. Experience the beauty and history that may be lost forever, and meet the people who are working to preserve the places they love for everyone to enjoy.
The First 70 Filmmakers Win the Grassroots Champions 2012 Award from CSPF!
The California State Parks Foundation Honored Heath Hen Films with the State Park Grassroots Champion Award given during annual Park Advocacy Day where citizens lobby lawmakers to protect and support state parks.
The First 70 screens at Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival!
We're so excited about The First 70 screening at the Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival this year. The trailer premiered at the festival a year ago, and we're honored to be a part of their 2013 lineup. The film will screen Friday, January 11th at 7:00pm at the Center for the Arts in downtown Nevada City and again on Saturday evening at 7pm at the Miners Foundry Stone Hall. VISIT BLOG


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Celebrate National Sandwich Day With 10 Delicious Creations
Happy National Sandwich Day! Today marks an official foodie holiday that celebrates all the glory that comes in one of America's favorite foods. The reason we celebrate on Nov. 3 every year? John Montagu, the fourth Earl of Sandwich, and the world's first recorded sandwich-maker, was born on this very day. Here are 10 delicious sandwich creations that will have you and your taste buds celebrating in no time at all.


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Reclaiming Your Teacher Mojo
The moderator asked a real softball of a question of the teachers on our panel: "What can administrators do to better support teachers?" Easy, right? I should have whaled that one out of the park. But I didn't. It was a swing and a miss as I stumbled over my words. My tired brain fizzled out, right there on stage, in front of dozens of parents and colleagues.
I needed to make some changes.
I wasn't sure how or what, but I knew I'd think of it while sweating it out on the trails. I committed to a series of hikes over break and on weekends, visiting a different Florida state park each time. And 32 miles later, having trekked through cypress swamps and scrub, I had come up with some strategies to reclaim my teacher mojo. Here they are:
Schedule stop times. Identify your work curfew: a set time when you have to put the MacBook down and take a break. Call it quits. Break up with the iPad. Schedule a date with someone else … even if it's just yourself. (Can you tell I'm recently divorced?)
Set goals for yourself that don't involve work. Teachers tend to be goal-minded individuals. A novel concept for me: working toward a purpose that doesn't relate to work. My goal? Reading for 15 minutes each evening so I can fall back in love with books. (I guess you could argue that's teaching-related … am I cheating?)
Be comfortable with saying "no." This is difficult. Here's why. Those of us who are the busiest are that way for a reason. We don't want to let people down or miss an opportunity. We think everything is doable. But at what cost?
Learn to weed. At work, try to eliminate tasks that are not priorities. Think about what is important to you. I've narrowed this down to a list of a few go-to questions: Will students benefit? Does this fit with my priorities as an educator? Will I enjoy it?
Pay attention to pace. Even though teachers are capable of great deeds, we can't fly at 120 mph every waking moment. We must slow down.
Embrace those around you. Don't be an island. Bridge out. Have conversations. Be present. Do it! It's good for the soul. Happy soul = happy teacher. Happy teacher = happy students.
Get creative with work space and place. Mix it up. Find ways to make work feel less like work. Grade papers outside on the front porch. Read professional articles at the beach. Or write an article while hiking!
Take a rest. Force yourself. Don't think you have time? Here's a little trick from the pre-K classroom: Set a timer for five minutes and just sit. Be still.
Rethink your to-do list. I nabbed this jewel from an amazing teacher leader and life balancer. His secret? Set two or three tangible goals a day. Don't overwhelm yourself with a monster to-do list. That's not productive! Pick a small handful of daily goals. Thank you, Michael Flynn.
Hit the ground running with your list. Another trick is starting your to-do list with something easy that you can cross off right away. I call it a running start. Momentum.
Know that sometimes the journey can be messy. This is a literal lesson I learned in one Florida state park: Your life isn't over just because you stepped in a little horse poop. Finding balance can be a tricky path, but don't give up hope just because you have a little poo on the bottom of your shoe. Keep on trudging!
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Long Island Miracles Chapter (NY)
The Long Island "Miracles" Chapter has gotten off to a strong start. They lead the Winthrop Hospital ICD Patient Support Group and invite all those patients to join SCAA. Their steering committee is also reaching out to other ICD support groups at area hospitals. The chapter will learn more about AEDs and CPR, as well as distributing SCA awareness and prevention materials to cardiology clinics across Long Island. Members will also communicate the need for greater AED access.
Manhasset-Lakeville F.D. Receives Two Life-Saving AED's
By Kirk Candan
On Friday June 3rd, 2011, the Manhasset-Lakeville Fire Department received a donation of two automated external defibrillators (AED's).
The AED's were donated by the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Association as well as the Louis Acompora Foundation.
Both AED devices will be placed on the first due fire apparatus from Manhasset-Lakeville Companies 1 and 5 to ensure rapid defibrillation in the event of a sudden cardiac arrest at the far ends of the Manhasset-Lakeville fire district until more advanced care arrives from the Ambulance Unit.
On hand to receive the donation were Chief of Department James Dillon, Deputy Chiefs Farrone and Garrigan, Ambulance Unit Captain Lee Genser, Ambulance Unit President David Slotnick, as well as representatives from the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Association and Louis Acompora Foundation, including someone whose life was saved by a defibrillator.
"Do You Know How to Save a Life?"
Robert Schriever, Chairman of SCAA, delivered a lecture entitled, "Do You Know How to Save a Live?" on June 1 at Winthrop's Community Outreach Center. Schriever is a former college football official, so the discussion focused more on saving the lives of young athletes, with the use of automated external defibrillators (AEDs).
The pics below show the Long Island Miracles donating an AED to the Robbie Levine Foundation.
On April 26, Long Islanders celebrated the 4th Annual Robbie's Run in Merrick, NY. The run raises money to purchase and place AEDs in the community. There were hundreds of people, and we did a short presentation discussing Winthrop, SCAA, the chapter, and then donated the AED. It was really great. The AED is going to the North Bronx Youth League. Enjoy!
Posing with the AED
Quite a crowd in Merrick
Hello, AED
Practicing public speaking skills
Donating the AED
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Points become priority in winless drivers' bid to make Chase
LONG POND, Pa. — Chase for the Sprint Cup berths were tied more heavily to wins this season, but the playoff picture seems heavily predicated on points as the regular season wanes.
With Sunday's GoBowling.com 400 delivering 2014's eighth repeat winner in the past nine races and 10th overall, five provisional spots in the 16-driver Chase are occupied by winless drivers trying to make the grid on points.
Each had an eventful afternoon at Pocono.
The biggest gainer was Greg Biffle, whose team turned a late-race strategy gamble into a fifth.
After inheriting first during a green-flag cycle, Biffle elected to stay on the track when the caution flew on lap 140. He led 11 laps before yielding to winner Dale Earnhardt Jr. but still hung on for his best finish since a second at Talladega Superspeedway in May.
"It was still a tough day," said Biffle, who signed a three-year extension with Roush Fenway Racing last week. "We had a 20th-place car and got track position and drove our butt off. We had a good strategy, and we might have been able to sneak (a win) out."
That would have guaranteed him a spot in the Chase, but he still has a fighting chance at making the 10-race title run with five races remaining in the regular season.
With his sixth top 10, Biffle gained three spots to 13th in the standings with 590 points, just ahead of Kasey Kahne (589) and Austin Dillon (588) for the current final Chase cutoff.
That could change if there's another first-time winner, but it's unlikely to affect the status of Matt Kenseth's No. 20 Toyota, which remained a solid fourth in the standings despite getting caught in a 13-car crash and finishing 38th at Pocono.
Kenseth still is 26 points ahead of fifth-place Ryan Newman, who maintained a hammerlock on the second provisional Chase spot among winless drivers with an eighth Sunday in his No. 31 Chevrolet.
Also solidly positioned is Clint Bowyer (ninth), whose fourth at Pocono marked his No. 15 Toyota's best finish in nearly two months.
Bowyer, who is trying to qualify Michael Waltrip Racing in the Chase for the third consecutive season, is 27 points ahead of Biffle.
"We've just got to keep doing what we're doing," Bowyer said. "There are some things that we need to work on. All these guys work so hard. It's the work during the week that makes the difference."
It was more of a mixed result for rookie Kyle Larson, who started from the pole position for the first time in his career but didn't lead a lap and faded to 11th after running in the top five with 30 laps remaining.
He didn't take a hit in the standings, though, hanging onto 12th in the standings and within Chase territory.
The news wasn't as good for Brian Vickers, who had been lurking on the edge of making the Chase on points. The No. 55 Toyota driver ran as high as fourth but was 37th after being collected in the race's largest pileup. With three straight finishes outside the top 15, Vickers' only pathway into the Chase is a victory in the next five races.
"It's tough because everyone on this team just did an awesome job," he said. "We had a really good car. I thought we had a shot at a great finish."
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3-story 'female man-cave' burglarized in Texas
THE WOODLANDS, Texas — Whoever broke into businesswoman Theresa Roemer's house in The Woodlands Friday night knew exactly what to do and exactly where to go.
After taking out a window in a downstairs restroom by first using a glass cutter and then a patio umbrella to break it out the glass, the thief headed straight for Roemer's three-story closet, which was loaded with millions of dollars' worth of jewels, bags, furs, shoes and clothing.
The suspect took three Birkin travel bags worth $60,000 each and filled each of them with jewelry.
Roemer and her husband had gone out for a quick dinner about 9:30 p.m. She said she did not set the alarm or lock her closet.
"Normally, I keep this locked because this is my safe," she said pointing to the closet door. "If this would have been locked it would have been much harder to break because this is an inch-and-a-half thick."
One of her security cameras recorded the suspect, who was dressed head to toe in a jumpsuit, hoodie, mask and gloves.
Roemer said the thief was inside her Woodlands mansion for 40 minutes and Montgomery County authorities do not believe it was an inside job.
"They say it doesn't look like an inside job at all. They said it was very professional, like too professional," Roemer said. "The police said it could have been somebody that, like I said, saw all the publicity, Google Earthed it, figured it all out, flew in here, who knows?"
Roemer and her famously lavish closet have been in the news lately because she hosts charity events in it. The closet even has a champagne bar.
Roemer has helped raise millions for organizations like Texas Children's Hospital and Child Legacy International.
She said some of what was taken is irreplaceable.
"He took heirloom items that were passed to me from my husband's mother that has passed away," she said through tears. "I mean I don't care about all this crap. I really don't care about this crap. I care about the stuff that was passed to me."
Roemer said the feeling of violation victims have after having their belongings stolen, cuts across all income levels.
"No one deserves this. I don't care if you're wealthy. I don't care if you're poor. Your personal belongings are your personal belongings," she said.
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by Claude Tate
This is not something I normally put out for public consumption, but maybe the time has come. I'm a space nerd, and have been since I first became aware of rockets.
I can't remember when I was first introduced to rockets, but I do remember seeing the launches of the first manned flights in the auditorium of my elementary school. I remember our teacher taking us to the auditorium where a single TV was placed on a stand. It was a small country school with few resources, so while I don't remember whether it was the only TV in the school or not, it may well have been. At least it was the only one I was aware of. Our class and a number of others would sit there staring at the rocket sitting there on the pad on that small, grainy, black and white television way down there on the stage. The early Mercury flights always had delays, so often it would take some time before the big moment happened. But it always happened. The rocket would come alive and lift majestically for the heavens. It only lasted for ten seconds or so, but what a magnificent ten seconds. I was hooked. A fire was lit that still burns today.
Last year, politics dominated our news. John King is probably doing something to torture that touch screen election map he stood in front of every day, day in and day out, week in and week out, month in and month out. I hope he got extra pay for that. I was listening to NPR one day and they had a story about a 5 year old being shown a picture of President Obama. When they asked him if they knew who that person was, he said "I'm Barack Obama and I sponsored this message".
But while everyone seemed to be focused on every word that was uttered in the political arena, there were some significant things happening on the final frontier; some of which received attention, some did not. While the following does not comprise a comprehensive list of everything that happened, these four events stood out for me. One was a milestone, two signified the passing of an era, and the other was a WOW! event for NASA.
The Voyager Interstellar Mission
First, a milestone was reached as the two Voyager spacecraft began leaving the solar system.
Their mission can be broken down into two parts. The first part was to increase our knowledge of the solar system. Voyager 1, launched in September of 1977, did flybys of Jupiter and Saturn. Voyager 2 was launched in August of 1977, and in addition to flybys of Jupiter and Saturn, also flew by Uranus and Neptune. The second part, the Voyager Interstellar Mission or VIM began after Voyager 2 passed by Neptune. The VIM consists of three phases, the termination shock phase, the heliosheath exploration, and the interstellar exploration phases. Both are now in the heliosheath exploration phase. We do not know how thick this environment is, so we cannot determine exactly how long they will be in this phase, but it will probably be several years. After that, it will be interstellar space. They are still operating like champs and have enough power to last until around 2020. After that they will drift. And providing neither are hit by anything, Voyager 1 will come within 1.6 light years of a star called AC+79 3888, and Voyager 2 will pass within 4.3 light years from Sirius. And then, who knows.
The Retirement of the Space Shuttle Fleet
The next two events signaled the passing of an era. First was the retirement of the Space Shuttles and their final trips to their respective exhibition sites.
The Space Shuttle flew 135 missions and was the face of the American space program for 30 years, from 1981 to 2011. The accomplishments of Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavor are far too numerous to list here. But two things that really stand out to me were the contributions it made to the construction of the International Space Station, which would probably have been impossible without the Shuttle, and the placing into orbit of the Hubble Space Telescope.
Enterprise was the first orbiter built, and while it never flew in space, was essential to refining the technology and design for the other Shuttles. It has been moved from the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum to the Intrepid Sea, Air &Space Museum in New York City.
In October Endeavour was moved to the California Science Center in Los Angeles. Shuttle Atlantis has been moved to the Kennedy Space Center Visitor's Complex in Florida and will be placed on display in 2013. Discovery replaces Enterprise at the Smithsonian. It was heart-warming to see so many people turn out to see the shuttles make their final voyages to their respective retirement destinations.
The Death of Neil Armstrong
The other event that signified the passing of an era was the passing at of the first man on the moon, Neil Armstrong, at the age of 82 from complications following bypass surgery.
Armstrong, a Navy pilot during the Korean War, served as a civilian test pilot until being selected as part of the second 'class' of astronauts in September of 1962. He was one of two civilian astronauts (the preference was for military test pilots) and the first American civilian to go into space when he commanded Gemini 8 in March of 1966. He was selected as commander of the Apollo 11 crew in December of 1968. The other members of the crew were Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin.
Apollo 11 left on its voyage on July 16, 1969. His coolness under pressure was legendary; a trait that would serve him well in those last few seconds over the moon. In the final seconds, as the lunar module, Eagle, descended to the surface of the moon, the landing computers became overloaded. When Armstrong saw they were headed for an unsafe landing site, he took over and manually flew the Eagle to a safe touchdown some distance away. The folks at NASA were worried, but they should not have been. As it turned out, while estimates of the amount of fuel left has varied over the years, the number most often cited is that they had under 20 seconds of fuel left when they landed.
The landing took place on July 20, 1969. I was among those millions around the world who were glued to the television and listened to the NASA audio and animations as the Eagle approached the moon; heard Armstrong describe the descent to Mission Control in Houston; and felt that feeling of pride as he said, "Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed." I was still there when after several hours of rest and preparation, Armstrong opened the hatch of the Eagle, attached a TV camera to its leg and descended the latter to the moon's surface. And I watched and listened on live TV as his first boot touched the moon and he uttered those famous words, "That's one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind." In 1960 our rockets were blowing up on the pad and just nine years later, we were walking on the moon. Words simply cannot fully capture what America accomplished in July of 1969. The closest I can come is to say it was beyond extraordinary.
After the moon landing, Armstrong could have cashed in and made untold millions of dollars. Instead, he chose to return to Ohio and lead a quite life. He taught aerospace engineering at the University of Cincinnati from 1971 to 1979, worked on his farm, served on several commissions including the investigation of the Challenger explosion, accepted membership on several boards, and took a few jobs as a spokesman for companies he believed in. But until the end, he insisted he was no hero. He was only doing his job and was one of many who were responsible for the moon landing. NBC had an excellent story of his death and also those first steps on another world.
His family released a statement after his death responding to the many who had asked what they could do to honor Neil. It stated that in addition to honoring his service, accomplishment and modesty, when you look at the moon, think of Neil Armstrong and give him a wink.
The Curiosity Mission
The other event may not equal the moon landing, but I would still classify it as a WOW! event, the landing of Curiosity on Mars.
Curiosity, which was launched from Cape Canaveral on November 26, 2011, made a powered soft landing on Mars August 6, 2012. The landing used a technique never before attempted and was nothing short of amazing. The following description is taken from the Mars Science Laboratory/Curiosity Fact Sheet.
Engineers designed the spacecraft to steer itself during descent through Mars' atmosphere with a series of S-curve maneuvers similar to those used by astronauts piloting NASA space shuttles. During the three minutes before touchdown, the spacecraft slowed its descent with a parachute, then used retrorockets mounted around the rim of an upper stage. In the final seconds, the upper stage acted as a sky crane, lowering the upright rover on a tether to the surface.
And it all worked perfectly. We have sent a number of unmanned missions to Mars; missions that have yielded a great deal of information about Mars. But Curiosity is by far the most sophisticated unmanned probe we have ever launched, and has the potential for advancing our knowledge of Mars exponentially. For more information on this amazing mission, go to NASA's homepage for the Mars Science Laboratory Mission. A good place to start when you reach the page is the Fact Sheet I referenced above. It is under Mission Resources located on the right side, and it provides an excellent overview of the mission. The scope of Curiosity's abilities is nothing short of amazing.
We will not be sending men back to the moon anytime soon. And I was disappointed when our new moon program was cancelled. And presently we have no vehicle to send astronauts to the International Space Station. But we are moving forward into that final frontier. Private U.S. companies are developing the vehicles that will soon be sending Americans back into in a few years. SpaceX has already developed a rocket and capsule that has begun making supply runs to the space station, and will soon have the capability to send men into space. NASA, in addition to continuing to send men to the space station and someday to an asteroid and Mars, will be undertaking missions that will increase our knowledge of the earth and unlock the secrets of the solar system. And hopefully in the near future, the James Webb Space Telescope will be ready for launch. The James Webb Space Telescope may not sound as exciting as some of the other missions, but it should extend our vision to the edge of the universe. And of course, Hubble continues to make discoveries that prove the universe is far more magical and wonderful than we ever imagined.
Our future in the final frontier is bright. And for this old space nerd, it's going to be exciting.


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The Nets Draw First Blood
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The atmosphere at 620 Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn was nothing like anyone had seen before. The Nets were cheered in their home arena, Knicks fans were drowned out, and Carmelo Anthony was showered in boos just 3 miles from where he was born. It wasn't something unique and isolated in history; rather, something new.
A rivalry? Deron Williams tried to downplay the hype. "It's one game, it was a good win for us…we can't just be excited like we just won a championship. We didn't win the championship of New York."
"I guess you could say this was the start of something," said Carmelo Anthony. He, too, was reluctant to portray the opposition as equals. For a true rivalry features two teams on the same level. It's fair to say that's the case between Brooklyn and New York; a star player; a dominant big-man; veteran presence; a rising shooting guard. Monday night displayed the leveled playing field that's now a product of the Knicks-Nets meeting.
The Nets had to win this one at home. "Taking care of home court is the most important thing," noted Joe Johnson. Brooklyn came out of the gate up to the task, hanging with the 9-3 Knicks for the duration of regulation. When both teams traded missed game-winners, the Nets surged ahead. Fans were able to see what the absence of Gerald Wallace had done to the squad's play, as he attacked the rim time and time again, frustrating Carmelo Anthony to the point where he threw an elbow in the final minute of the game. Maybe this was why the man was paid so much.
It didn't stop there though, as Brook Lopez and Reggie Evans were ferocious down low, creating problems for the Knicks in the extra session. And when the Knicks started to pressure Brooklyn in the paint, Jerry Stackhouse let it rain from three.
"Stackhouse…what more can I say…every three was at the right time," Coach Avery Johnson said postgame. "I knew he was going to be ready, not this ready though."
The thrilling nature of the game will only fuel the rivalry more. Every rivalry has to start somewhere, and there was no setting more perfect than the Barclays Center. The "Brook-lyn" chants were in full-effect, all the stars were out, and the team showed up. They managed 96 points against a defensive-minded Knicks squad, and that's despite the fact Deron Williams and Joe Johnson combined for 24 points. Once those two begin to score like they can, and the Knicks get healthy, we're going to see some games for the ages.
Brooklyn's locker room was full of smiles and relief, the Knicks' full of gloom and disappointment. It was truly a rivalry game. You can only imagine what it'll be like the next three times these two sides meet in the regular season – and don't rule out the playoffs, either.


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