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Daypuck missed a chance to extend the lead early in the 2nd half as his penalty attempt was off target. Ten minutes later the Rock scored the try of the game when fly-half Patrick Parfrey's chip kick was collected in mid air inside the Blues 22m line by flanker Toni Wodziki. The ball was quickly moved left to prop Frank Walsh and center Geoff Warden who hit winger Robert Wilson on the fly to score in the corner. Hearn's conversion attempt missed making it 14-13 for the Blues.
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Posted: Thu 07 Jan 2010, 18:02
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Acer laptop backlight gets dimmer with each boot
Subject description: Solved with newer kernel?
As I have only a laptop since one year (Acer emachine with AMD64 2 GB RAM HD 160 GB, 2 USB plugs, no FD) I test and test one puppy after the next
because all Puppy's beginning with 4.31 have the same bug and I hope to find one without the bug:
the backlight of the screen is not correctly managed and the screen become more dark after a few restart (with upup 4.54 is the screen completely black now
) and the special keys of laptop don't work to in- or decrease the brightness don't work
I see a problem in the kind how the developer of Puppy are working:
a/ I miss a crew of testing contributers with divers (difficult) hardware to test the new puplet's before more work is done with them. probably all new puplet's would have been without bug if puppy 4.31 would be tested correctly
b/ dark background picture are more imposant...
... but only if you can see somewhat
. not all puplets offer the possibility to chance to white or light grey or really light blue background
Last demand: Swiss people produce a great number of new small Linux (actually SliTaz and Debris but it was more in the last years). I find, a reason is that existent distributions like Puppy don't give access to minimum commodity like keyboard configuration (the main keyboard configuration proposed in SliTaz is ch_fr
!); you can't work so you cock your own solution... The ch-keyboard design is probably the map covering the most European languages! All West-European languages can be written about correctly with it excepted renversed Spanish question mark and one or two Danish signs. Possible special letters: with the signs äáàãã ç éêèë iíîìï ñ oóôòö ß uúûùüũ yýÿ !
And the
US map would be better...
Thank you for the attention.
That problem is now really good solved by the publication of Quirky Linux 0.0.8, a very good new Linux! Thank you Barry for that development!
As usual we have now to find out which packages we can use in Quirky Linux 0.0.8, and I will try to give as follow some indications about my experience with some existent packages for other distributions used with Quirky 0.0.8.
My first tested download is following:
available here:
- it works immediately after installation without restart!
- it is possible to transfer you bookmarks from seamonkey 1.1.18 at the first start
- I use it also in a remastered version of quirky and I suppose it is from the same pet but I am not certain (the pet was already in my repertory "pets" on my harddisk)
I did spend a lot of time to try to use
as proposed in the distribution!
But it will not work on my PC
; only IRC chat but that can Seamonkey! I don't need an extra IRC chat tool at all...
I did help me with
. It is easy to install:
download in /usr/lib, click on it in the
rox filer
, mark all, and click on "extract"...
To start, rename ayttm in /usr/bin and install a link
ln -s /usr/lib/instantbird/instantbird /usr/bin/ayttm
and change the text in /usr/local/bin/defaultchat from
exec ayttmshell "$@"
exec /usr/lib/instantbird/instandtbird "$@"
erase the downloaded file instantbird.....tar.bz2 in /usr/lib !
miss a library to start!
(you will see that if you install and try to start from the
terminal emulator
! You find an clear error message in the terminal emulator! If you directly try to start by clicking on the appearing icon in the
, you see nothing: nothing happens...)
get the library package libXss-1.0.0.tar.gz
and install it as you did do with instantbird
when finished, please move the file contained in the new subdirectory in /usr/lib (/urs/lib/libXss-1.0.0) directly into /usr/lib !
then install a skype package.
I did insert following lines in
Option "XkbLayout" "ch,ro,in"
Option "XkbVariant" "fr,,"
Option "XKbOptions" "grp:alt_shift_toggle"
and mark the existent XkbLayout line with "#" at the line head,
and I did add fonts directories in /usr/fonts/default/TTF
I always load in that directory new subdirectories copied from Debian or Ubuntu with
- ttf-devanagari-fonts to write in hindi language
- freefont
- ttf-dejavu (large)
- ttf-liberation
- ttf-lucida
after that folling by restart X through the
I can now write with keyboard layout swiss roman, indi and romanian and change it within the same document by shifting and pushing the ALT key at the same time!
MAJOR TOOLS FOR DIFFERENT PURPOSES: Java, Flash, Wine, qemu:
- adobe_flash_player-10.0.22.87.pet
- java-1.6u17.pet
- wine-1.1.23.pet
- qemu-0.91.pet
qemu usage:
Short instruction for the usage of qemu (adapted to play old windows 95 games):
makes errors if writing in complex languages (for ex. Hindi; AbiWord don't write correctly the short signs marked using the "virama" for example in the word "hindustani" itself, where the first "n" and the "s" have to be shorted) I did spend a long time to find, download and install diverse existing PET-packages. but I did find a SFS-file on my hard disk with a development version of OO-3.2.0 being free of above error!
you will find the download information at the food of following wiki page:
and the installation's instructions on this page:
after the first start of OO, you have to set up the OO-system for writing in CLT (complex language mode) if you want to do that!
CLT usage:
- > tools >> options >>> language settings >>>> languages
at the food of the little window mark:
- enabled for Complex Text Layout (CLT) and enter your wished CLT-language!
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Posted: Sat 09 Jan 2010, 14:55
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Did you try puppy 41x & 42x series as well, and do they have the same problem ?
Don't poop it down... Pup it Up !
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Posted: Sat 09 Jan 2010, 16:01
Post subject:
I am yet using puppy 4.2 now and I also use different puppy's 4.1. they don't have the problem. the only one difference with Ubuntu is that Ubuntu notice the brightness and restarts with the best possible brightness.
Puppy 4.0 did have the same problem as puppy 4.31 and the new puppy 5alpha.
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Posted: Sat 09 Jan 2010, 16:04
Post subject: Re: all new Pupet's have the same bug...
oui wrote:
a/ I miss a crew of testing contributers with divers (difficult) hardware to test the new puplet's before more work is done with them. probably all new puplet's would have been without bug if puppy 4.31 would be tested correctly
Puppy Linux project is not ran by some big company. People who come here like you report bugs if they want, so I guess we have one more tester with different hardware now heh?
Report bug to
appropriate thread to puppy version
puppy.b0x.me stuff mirrored
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Location: Finland
Posted: Sun 10 Jan 2010, 14:37
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I dont think it is bug. kernels after 2.6.25 uses acer-wmi kernel module to change brightness and other things too. It is unfortunately not very good module. Kernels 2.6.25 and before uses acer_acpi and it works...Unfortunately it is not developed anymore. For historical reasons it is left downloadeable and I downloaded acer_acpi source package.
See info on this link:
Cut from the link:
The backlight brightness control is available on all acer-wmi supported
hardware. The maximum brightness level is usually 15, but on some newer laptops
it's 10 (this is again autodetected).
The backlight is exposed through the backlight subsystem, and can be found in:
Link to check your acer compatibility:
Well my acer laptop was supported but at real life that was not the case with brightness. Bluetooth light came on nevertheless
So without acer-wmi support the brightness changes randomly with every boot, mostly it is not too dim, but ...
Nobody so far has told me what I can do to get brightness work.
Gposil has tried to help me and so on. If it is possible to add module acer_acpi to recent kernels I would do it. But I dont know how should I do it or is it possible without compiling whole kernel. Compiling the module from source might be possible with my skills. Dont know what I would need. Dev sfs and kernel headers and kernel source and ....?
So far I use (right now) Puppy 431 with retrokernel 2.6.25 and Choicepup 4.12 when I need best brightness like image editing ...
Acer-wmi is under development, so maybe newest kernels works better with newer version of acer-wmi.
I would like to have Puppy with sfs4 compatibility and brightness control. Not possible right now.
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Posted: Sun 10 Jan 2010, 14:52
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Sounds like a bug to me... I think you mean it isn't really a bug specific to Puppy bug, just to the kernel module.
Is it actually a bug that has been reported somewhere?
Do you know a good
program? Please post a link
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Posted: Sun 10 Jan 2010, 14:56
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Yes, I meant it is not bug in Puppy but yes you could say it is bug in acer-wmi.
I dont know where I could find relevant info of official bug reports. But with google I found that with acer-wmi kernels there is a lot of reports by acer laptop owners, that they dont have brightness control. With different distros also.
Is it possible to use newer acer-wmi with Puppy, if I find it somewhere without needing to compile it or is it possible to use it after compiling just the acer-wmi module ?
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Posted: Sun 10 Jan 2010, 15:07
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But with google I found that with acer-wmi kernels there is a lot of reports by acer laptop owners, that they dont have brightness control.
Not having brightness control is one thing, but it is a lot worse if it gets darker each time you boot and there is no way to fix it.
It will need to be compiled for Puppy. You shouldn't need to recompile the whole kernel, but I think you will need to download the whole kernel source...
Do you know a good
program? Please post a link
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Posted: Mon 11 Jan 2010, 02:15
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I contacted acer-wmi maintainer and he asked me to send him my dmesg. I send him kernel 220.127.116.11 Puppy version dmesg. And also dsdt file. Lets see if he finds out why acer-wmi does not work. I report if he contacts me and has found something relevant.
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Posted: Sat 06 Mar 2010, 17:37
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Quirky008 has been the first which supports backlight brightness since Puppy 4.3.1 retro in my acer laptop !!!
Newer kernel maybe has done the trick.
Great news to some acer laptop owners !!
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Posted: Mon 08 Mar 2010, 12:18
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Hi, same thing for me too, Acer Aspire 5315 with intel graphics...quirky controls perfectly laptop backlight...it's just that I'm using puppies 4.31 and I find myself comfortable with it, I didn't want to change it....
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Posted: Mon 08 Mar 2010, 13:00
Post subject:
pretty cat! really good...
thank you Barry!
but we have to find out which packages are able to really work fine with it
a/ after installation
b/ in remastered catlet's
I propose to write it here to centralize the information in this discussion!
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please see message 1 !
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Posting from Quirky008. I have problems with it. Ext filesystem errors all the time. And wireless works and dont ...X crashes even after fsck check. I have it in my menu.lst with every puppy. But right now it works. Probably not with next boot.
So I am telling that this version is not stable enough. But kernel 2.6.33 is the way with brightness control and that is good news. Maybe next Quirky is more stable....
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Posted: Tue 09 Mar 2010, 17:54
Post subject:
Hi Pemasu
I have also problems but only with an extra big (about 500 MiB) remastered version. The invoqued problem concerns also the memory management, but I did not write the exact error message.
I habe also 2 non remastered versions:
- the same scope as the extra big remastered version, and
- a light one version only with seamonkey 2.0 at this time,
both in frugal installation in my vfat partition. it works. the only one actual problem in the light one is that it did not resize the personal file by request.
how did you use that Quircy?
good luck!
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Elizabeth V. Walter to Dorothy Webber, unit in Turtle Creek condominiums, $119,500.
Paulette B. Mann to Blanche P. Mann, 3.750 acres at South Lego Farm, gift.
Michael J. and Susan L. Charback to Eleanore F. Walker, Trustee, 1880 Tinkers Cove Road, Hollymead, $220,400.
Eleanore F. Walker, Trustee, to Igor N. and Natalya V. Olekhnovich, 1880 Tinkers Cove Road, Hollymead, $244,900.
Daniel D. and Stacy C. Light to Brendan F. and Leah M. Sherlock, 104 Guilford Lane, Hessian Hills, $247,000.
RJR LC to Redlands LLC, lot in Highlands at Mechums River, $65,000.
John E. and Susan L. VanHoomissen to Matthew and Barbara Treece, 2946 McLane Road, McLane Ridge, $280,000.
Charles V. and Sallie C. Darnell to Jason E. and Amy H. Life, 938 Fairwinds Lane, Western Ridge, $295,000.
Paul N. and Shannon H. Clark to James D. and Laura L. Ottaway, 1795 Owensfield Road, $629,000.
Gardens Investors LLC to Castle Gardens Shopping Center Ltd., six parcels at the Gardens Shopping Center, $4,990,000.
Michael A. and Pamela T. Johnson to Linda B. Caliga and Olivanne Coughlin, 1906 River Inn Lane, Still Meadow, $464,500.
Kevin L. and Sharon K. Keller to Neal S. and Thea M. Donaldson, 2042 Acorn Hill Court, Acorn Hill, $275,000.
Woodbriar Associates to Stephen T. Fryers and Sherrill M. Brown, 4740 Bluejay Way, Briarwood, $177,725.
Branchlands Professional Center to Karin M. and Robert Gest III, lot on Incarnation Drive, $122,980.
Angelee G. Poindexter to Marc A. and Jennifer A. Bergin, 2.810 acres on State Route 640, Scottsville, $30,000.
James R. and Marjorie M. Paul to Richard L. and Nicole E. Grevious, 4605 Briarwood Drive, Briarwood, $179,900.
Margaret Marshall Lindsay to Hugh Ragsdale, 720 Exton Court, RiverRun, $147,000.
Graham P. and Carol L. Stewart to Eleanor V. Finger, 935 Nether Springs Road, Wavertree Hall Farm, $210,000.
Heinz J. and Edith Adam to Everett W. and Sally D. Fortner, 363 Normandy Drive, $540,000.
R.D. Wade Builder Inc. to John F. Gaffney, 3309 Merrick Court, Springridge at Forest Lakes, $182,450.
Quarries LLC to Scott O. Zeitlin and Jeh-Ping Liu, 102 Fontana Court, the Quarries, $72,000.
Sandal Inc. to Stephen A. Willing, 3.373 acres at 445 Burchs Creek Road, Crozet, $439,000.
Ming-Jay Jeffrey Wo to Brian Shott and Dinka Masic, 1209 Chatham Ridge, $156,000.
Joel M. and Ruth L. Harp to William A. Kittrell and Melissa S. Morrison, 1.232 acres at 5964 St. George Avenue, Crozet, $227,500.
Mary H. and Donna E. Ballard to Leonard E. and Ina E. Hofland, 1252 Fox Crest Way, $210,000.
James B. Spence III, Trustee of the Burton Family Land Trust, to Oludotun Akinola, 170 Deerwood Drive, Deerwood, $275,000.
Wendall W. Gibson Inc. to Ramakrishnan and Sangeetha Subramaniam, 829 Swan Ridge Drive, Redfields, $250,000.
Karen J. and Alex M. Johnson Jr. to Christopher I. and Catherine C. Shaffrey, 3325 Rosedell Lane, Rosemont, $835,000.
Brass Inc. to New Era Properties LLC, 4.516 acres on State Route 631, $2,800,000.
William G. and Dorothy W. Wood to Jesse L. and Dorothy W. Sexton, 2.171 acres at 3553 Pritchett Lane, $100,000.
Ken Wen how Houang to Michael S. and Mary-Jo D.Toms, 1372 Dunlora Drive, Riverwalk at Dunlora, $360,000.
Patrick S. Snell to Eleanore F. Walker, Trustee, 200 Alpine Court, Mill Creek, $179,700.
Eleanore F. Walker, Trustee, to Dew LLC, 200 Alpine Court, Mill Creek, $197,523.
Robert A. and Patrice B. McKeel to Jason H. Daniel and Brenda L. Doremus-Daniel, 1010 Still Meadow Crossing, Still Meadow, $395,000.
Nancy P. Bagby to Jeffery C. Thomas, 4113 Earlysville Road, $157,905.
Karen J. and Alex M. Johnson Jr. to Christopher I. and Catherine C. Shaffrey, 3325 Rosedell Lane, Rosemont, $835,000.


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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A possum drop that attracts thousands of people to a tiny town in western North Carolina each New Year's Eve may have had its last hurrah after a judge ruled Tuesday that a state agency didn't have the authority to issue a permit for the event.
"Citizens are prohibited from capturing and using wild animals for pets or amusement," Judge Fred Morrison wrote in his ruling. "Hunters must afford wild animals the same right Patrick Henry yearned for: 'Give me liberty, or give me death!"
The ruling would end a 19-year tradition of suspending a possum in see-through box covered with holiday tinsel and lowering it to the ground at midnight. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals had sued the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission, which issues the permit for the event, saying it's illegal and cruel.
The commission has 30 days to appeal Morrison's decision to Superior Court. A spokesman said the agency will decide whether to appeal after reviewing the 18-page ruling.
Clay Logan, who owns Logan Corner store, manages the event, which attracts 2,000 to 3,000 people annually to the tiny hamlet. The commission "had no authority to issue any permit to Logan for the unlawful public display of a native wild animal" at the drop, Morrison wrote.
Logan said the possum drop will continue in some form, although he won't break the law. This challenge by PETA marks at least the third time that someone has challenged the drop, he said.
"I figured sooner or later they'd get somebody to rule on their side," he said. "It's like a football game. If you play somebody long enough, you're going to beat them eventually."
He started the drop 21 years ago, but only family and friends from the store attended the first two events. He said he got the idea after someone suggested that since the possum is Brasstown's mascot of sorts, the town should have a live animal drop similar to the dropping of the ball in Times Square.
"This thing is more of an opinion than anything," he said. "If's harming the possum in any way, it's just an opinion. Evidently, they got a judge that had the same opinion they did."
Logan didn't meet the requirements for a captivity license or permit so the commission circumvented its duty and invented a new permit called a "temporary possession and release permit," the judge said.
Morrison wrote that although the commission claims to have issued such permits in the past, it produced no evidence to prove that it had. The temporary permit allowed Logan to keep the possum for several weeks and to exhibit the animal before it was release.
Logan's sportsman license only allowed him to take the animal, not possess and exhibit it, Morrison wrote. He was in possession of a wild-captured animal from at least Dec. 15, 2011, through Jan. 1, 2012, Morrison said.
PETA was pleased with the ruling. "Compassionate citizens can now look forward to a kinder celebration at Clay's Corner this New Year's Eve," PETA spokesman David Perle said in an email.
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Above all, global design studio HEKLA consists of four distinct personalities - Antoine Gervais, Thomas Pujol, Johan Luciano, Kevin Auger - and four sets of expertise in architecture, furniture design, graphics and web design.
Based in Bordeaux and Paris, the studio brings together four friends impassioned by design in all its forms. The idea of the studio was born at their first meeting on the benches of the École Boulle. Each of them having successfully gained experience in their chosen fields, they sketched out the contours of HEKLA in 2013.
The diversity of the four designers and their complementarity are a major asset of the global nature of their creative approach. This melting-pot offers a unique, transversal view. The richness of their chosen career paths and the experience derived from them enables them to analyse requirements and expectations and to devise entirely coherent projects. They marry their identities and expertise with the same rigour whether working on furniture, architecture or visual identity. The strength of a project, for them, resides in the dialogue and meeting of materials and the mastery of details, whether formal, technical or functional.


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Student or Learner
I am doing a project on slang and i need to know if slang has change the way the world has began to lose its kids though the way they talk
Slang has always been around and there have been people saying that the language was dying for centuries. There are concerns about the impact of texting and other such forms of communication on the language ability of some younger people, but I think that slang is not the core of the issue here. I think it's more to do with some of them lacking the ability to create coherent connected texts than the use of slang or abbreviations- slang is a surface issue, while the problem lurk underneath in the mechanics of creating sentences, paragraphs and whole texts.
Also, while there are growing concerns about literacy, and we have got people coming out of our schools illiterate or semi-literate, talking of losing our kids suggests that it is universal and seems over-the-top and sensationalist to me. We could profitably add the tendency for hyperbole and sensationalism that affects much of the media and web discourse to the list of communication issues instead of heaping all the blame on young people.


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Four Hope players have been voted to the Michigan Intercollegiate
Athletic Association (MIAA) all-conference football teams.
Senior offensive tackle Erik Ladomersky of Grandville (Grandville HS)
has been voted to the All-MIAA first team for the third consecutive
year. He is just the second Hope offensive tackle in school history to receive All-MIAA first team recognition three straight years, joining Craig Groendyk (1977-78-79).
Sophomore Kyle Dietrich of Gobles (Gobles HS) is being honored as an
All-MIAA second teamer at two positions, wide receiver and return
specialist. Dietrich led the MIAA in all-purpose yardage, catching 40
passes (league games) for 606 yards and averaging 25.3 yards on
kickoff returns (12). For the entire season he had the fourth best
pass reception total in school history with 64 catches for 966 yards.
Also named to the All-MIAA second team are junior tight end David
DeBoer of Grosse Pointe (GP South HS), and junior linebacker Chris
Batterbee of Gladwin (Gladwin HS). DeBoer caught 44 passes for 462
The Flying Dutchmen tied for third place in the MIAA standings posting
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NASA / JPL-Caltech / Ken Kremer / Marco Di Lorenzo
The Mars Curiosity rover's robotic arm takes aim at Mount Sharp in a mosaic that combines navigation-camera imagery from Sols 2, 12 and 14 (Aug. 8, 18 and 20). The shadow of the rover's camera mast is visible in the center foreground, but a significant portion of the mosaic still has to be filled in.
If you want to know where NASA's Curiosity rover is heading, all you have to do is look where its robotic arm is pointing in this picture. The Martian mosaic was pieced together like a jigsaw puzzle by Ken Kremer and Marco Di Lorenzo, using black-and-white pictures from the rover's navigation camera system.
The robotic arm was raised into what looks like a pointing position as part of this week's checkout for Curiosity's $2.5 billion mission. When fully extended, the arm can stretch out for 7 feet (2.1 meters). About 66 pounds' (30 kilograms') worth of scientific instruments, including a camera and an X-ray spectrometer, are mounted on the end of the arm.
The arm is pointing at a 3-mile-high (5-kilometer-high) mountain known as Aeolis Mons or Mount Sharp — a mound inside Mars' Gale Crater whose layers of rock could reveal a geological record going back billions of years. During its two-year mission, Curiosity is expected to make the 12-mile (20-kilometer) trek to the mountain's flanks for one of the most sophisticated scientific investigations ever conducted on Mars.
But first things first: After testing the robotic arm, Curiosity is ready to roll its wheels on Mars for the first time, more than two weeks after its high-stakes landing. For more about that, check out today's report from mission managers as well as the Curiosity files on NBCNews.com.
Bonus round: Here's another view of the rover and Mount Sharp, pieced together by Kremer and Di Lorenzo from an assortment of navigation camera imagery and "colorized" to reflect Mars' reddish tones:
NASA / JPL-Caltech / Ken Kremer / Marco Di Lorenzo
A colorized view of the Curiosity rover's surroundings draws upon navigation camera imagery, with the Martian sky filled in.
Scientists from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Dawn Sumner, a geology professor at UC Davis, describes the area where the Mars rover landed, and where it goes from there.
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I'm trying to create a login system for an Android app, looking for the best way to do this. Very new to Android development so struggling a bit to get my head around this.
App Background:
The app is to be used for small businesses, so:
- An admin will create the user accounts via the web for each user in their company. Users are given their login details (so there is no need for registration within the app).
- App will behave differently depending on the company they are in, so will need to read custom fields from a database.
- Preferably, users will only need to login once. So some kind of authorization token is saved to phone?
- I don't really want the login system to use any third party login (Google, Facebook etc.).
Currently, what i've done is, send email / password (encrypted) from a login form on the app as a http request within a url query string. I've then got a php page that will use email / password as a sql statement to see if the user exists and returns any user data back to the app.
I believe this will work, but not sure that it is a secure way of doing it? If anyone knows of better ways it is really appreciated!


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FBI Opened Investigation Into Whether Trump Was Working On Behalf Of Russia
By Bill Galluccio
January 12, 2019
According to a report from the New York Times, FBI officials became so concerned that President Donald Trump was secretly working with Russian agents that they opened an investigation to look into the matter. The drastic move came in the days following Trump's decision to fire FBI Director James Comey.
Officials were concerned over Trump's comments tying Comey's firing to the Russia investigation and were worried that ousting him was a means to impede their investigation into Russian collusion and interference during the 2016 presidential campaign.
A few days after the FBI opened their initial inquiry it was taken over by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. It is unclear whether Mueller is still pursuing the matter and no information has been made public that shows President Trump met with or took direction from Russian agents.
Trump responded to the report in a series of tweets on Saturday morning. He blasted "the corrupt former leaders of the FBI" and said that they had "no proof" to open the investigation. He went on to defend his decision to fire Comey, pointing out that "everybody wanted him fired, Republican and Democrat alike" and said that his "firing of James Comey was a great day for America."
Trump then pivoted his attack on the Mueller investigation and said that it should be focused on looking into the "Real Collusion" committed by Hillary Clinton.
He then defended his policies with Russia, claiming that he has been"FAR tougher on Russia than Obama, Bush or Clinton." The president finished his tweets on the matter by calling it a "witch hunt" being run by "losers that tried to do a number on your President."
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Pont Alexandre III
View from the Alexander III bridge of the Eiffel Tower.
Paris - From the Tour Montparnasse
View from the Tour Montparnasse after sunset.
Deportation Memorial
Memorial des Martyrs de la Deportation - A hidden gem behind Notre dame
Westminster Bridge by night
Westminster Bridge and Big Ben
Tower Bridge
Tower Bridge
Trafalgar Square at night
The National Gallery and St. Martin in the Fields
Kensington Palace
Kensington Palace - London
Reflections of St. Paul
St. Paul Cathedral
The Louvre Pyramid
The Louvre Pyramid at night in the main courtyard of the Louvre Palace in Paris.
The Musée d'Orsay
The Musée d'Orsay and Eiffel Tower at night.
Greenwich Campus - The Old Royal Naval College
John Michael Rysbrack's George II (1735) in the Grand Square of the Greenwich Hospital
St.Paul's Cathedral at sunset
St Paul's from the south-east with the tower of the destroyed Church of St Augustine to the right.
Millennium Bridge and St.Paul's Cathedral
Millennium Bridge and St.Paul's Cathedral at sunset
Keizersgracht at night.
Keizersgracht Canal at night.
Damrak reflections
Damrak at night
Amstel Houses
Houses on the Amstel canal
Plaça de Catalunya
Fountain and statue in Plaça de Catalunya


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Mike Pegg over at Google Maps Mania had an interesting post the other day on 4 ways to use YouTube to promote your mashup. As Mike notes "Harnessing the power of YouTube alongside your Google Maps mashup can help build interest and usage, as well as drive new users to your site." He goes on to outline examples of people who demonstrate, explain, blog and boast about their mashups on YouTube. For example, the mashup Mainbase has lots of features and so benefits from this demo video on YouTube and a local Chicago TV news clip is a good promotion for Walk Jog Run. Or take the "funky" demo, as Mike aptly calls it, of Sneaker Store Finder below:
Speaking of YouTube, there are now 115 YouTube mashups listed here.


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Iran Politics Club supports the fight to establish Freedom, Secularism, Federalism, Human Rights and Democracy in Iran.
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Darvish wrote:Hey X,
Did U notice, "to whom it may concern"? Does it concern "the United States of America Room"? I told U once that this Sassan must be ARMENIAN and he surly is playing with your short fuse, isn't he?
And, would U kindly enlighten the inquiring minds about your personal and intimate relation with this Madam GOL, I mean LOG. I am so glad she fixed her boob. How much money does she have? She comes across as a Republican. U think she will be interested in putting me in her will?
A friend wrote:If U come across my old-old Kurdish friends, ShekolEslami brothers who were at Alborz give them our best, especially the younger ShekolEslami who was at the dorm in Alborz. Please tell him, if he remembers the knife which he gift me after Norooz brake? I for sure won't forget!
Free Kurdestan!
Jaff Sassani wrote:Hi Darvish
We believe the Turkish nomad never was able to come across the Iranian border before the "Alexander the Great in 332 B.C." concurred our country. There were no differences between our nations during The Medes Empire, The Achaemenids Empire, The Seleucids (312 - 6 B.C.), The Parthians Empire, The Sassanids Empire (226 - 651 A.D.). The people was called by name of the Empire (They are called Medes, Achaemenids, Seleucids (?), Parthians, Sassanian (Eranshahr people). The names of separations between our people come after the Arab Imperialist took over our country. They destroy our people and implanted the seed of Farsi, Kurdi, Azari and so force.
Well said, fkn Turks have murdered and exterminated every kneibor who was week enough not to be able to resist them. After their alliance with Nazis, I am puzzled why the fkrs are given an undivided nation to run? And what is that ass wipe "Turkish way" which they run their country?
We have to liberate our people from that thinking. The only way to get united has to be under the economic union method.
We believe most of the people from Azarbaijan are Aryan by blood, the wave of Turk come during the Seleucids era and continue after the collapse of the Sassanian Empire in the hand of the Arab Imperialist under the pretext of the Islamic teaching.
We have to remind Azari people that they are part of us. Let have DNA test to prove that they are part of what they are called now a day Persian, Kurd or other original inhabitants of our land. We are related one way or another by blood.
Forget about a DNA test, it costs too much! An anal probe will convert Azari or whatever to pure Aryan and will make them sing BOLBOL Farsi too! We need Aryan-Savak !
The Turk in Turkey not have any other alternatives but to join us in the future, just like they want to join Europeans Union.
Turks have strong manufacturing based economy. EU manufacturing, due to low cost of labor, manufacturing such as BOSH, MB, VW, etc. are already there. What the hell does Iran have, short of dick-what Molas and Oil? When oil run out in the next 100 years or so, Iranian economy will be based on AFTABE, SANGAK, and rugs. Logically, joining will be the other way around?
The Islamic Shitte and Sunni problem will be solved when we have power to re-teach our people the true history of Islamic Arab real agenda and then changing the teaching of Islam to mach the humanity on earth. The Arab nationalist changes the Islamic religions. We can challenge the Islamic Arab by updating the Quran and Hadith and deleating all none since text in both book and come up with new books to believe in God only. The freedom of religion will bring other religion to our land then we are will be liberated from the terrorist ideaolgy of Islam.
Did U say "problem"? U know who stands before GOD for 95% of Iranians who are Muslem, HASAN, HOSAYN, and ALI? These deities distinguish Iranian ideology from Arab ! I dare U to walk in downtown Tehran and try to convert one person to your way and against his beloved HOSAYN. U will be lucky, if get away alive or your nads attached. So, cut the nonsense of "Education" and instead use the word "Mindwash"! The question is what kina bomb do U intend to use for such wash? I favor a Neutron Bomb, since it is ecology friendly!
This is our thinking to solve problems facing our nation in the future. Please read more and thing positive to solve problems. The force won't solve our people's problem; we are been corrupted for thousand of years by other nations. Our revivals need time and energy to change what they made out of us.
"The Medes
Ancient Media consisted of Azarbaijan (Atropatene), Kordestan, the region around Hamedan, the areas of lake Hoz-e Soltan and the Salt Lake (Daryacha - ye Namak), the regions of the Qara - su and Qomrud Rivers, the northern part of the Kavir Plain, Isfahan (Paraitekene), Kermanshah and Lorestan. The vassal countries of the Median Empire included Pars, Armenia, a part of Assyria (Harran and northern Mesopotamia), Ilam, Drangiana (Sistan, Kerman, part of Makran and western Afghanistan as far as Qandahar), Parthia, Hyrkania ( Gorgan), Areia, possibly Khwarazm and probably Soghd.
In the year 647 - 3 B.C. the Medes, the Cimmerians and the Mannaeans revolted against Esarhaddon, the King of Assyria, under the leadership of Kashtaritu (Khshathrita). It is probable that Kashtaritu is the same
The Achaemenids (559 - 330 B.C.)
The Achaemenid Empire included the following regions: Pars of Parsa, which probably included Kerman (Carmania or Karmana); Media; Lydia of Sardis (Sparda); Cappadocia (Katpatuka); Ionia (Yavna); the land of
<<the Scythians from the other side of the sea>> (Saka paradarya), located on the northern plains of the Black Sea; There (Skudra); the land of <<the Ionians wearing the Petasos cap>> (Yavna takabara), which was probably the region of Phrygia near the Dardanelles (the Hellespont); Caria (Karka); Armenia as far as the Black Sea; the lands of the Kushaya (Abyssinia); Lybia (Putaya); Egypt (Mudraya); Arabia (Arabaya); Babylonia (Babaitush); <<the Assyria on the other side of the river (the Euphrates)>>, which included Syria, Phoenicia, Palestine and Cyprus; the lands of the Saka homavrga (Amorges); the Indus valley (Hindush); the lands of <<the Sakas with the pointed hats (or helmets)>> (Tigrakhoda or Orthokoybantioi); Qandahar (Gandhara or Parvparaesenna: << the land on that side of the mountain>>); Sattagydia (Thatagush); Makran; Arachosia (Harahuvatish: the valley of the Helmand River as far as Qandahar): Drangyana (Zaranka);
The Seleucids (312 - 6 B.C.)
The Seleucid Empire at the time of its founder, Seleucus Nicator, included the greater part of both the Achaemenid Empire and the territories of Alexander. Seleucus ruled over all of Iran. Babylonia, Assyria, Syria, Phoenicia, Palestine, Asia Minor (with the exception of Armenia, Pontus, Paphlagnia and Bithynia) and Alexander's European territories. Atropatene (Azarbaijan) was independent, and
The Parthians
In the first half of the third century B.C. a confederation of nomadic tribes called the Dahae lived in the northern plains of Hyrcania (Gorgan). One of these tribes, an Iranian people called the Parni, separated from the confederation under the leadership of two brothers, Arsaces and Tiridates, and set out for the valley of Tejend (Ochus). Diodotus, the Satrap of Bactria, blocked their path, and they were forced to head for Hyrcania - Parthia. The Satrap of this province, Andragora, was killed in a resulting war. Arsaces and Tiridates are considered the founders of the Parthian (or Arsacid) dynasty. The <<Arsacid Era>>, which began on April 1, 247 B.C., was apparently calculated from the coronation of the first of the Parthian kings
The Sassanids (226 - 651 A.D.)
Ardashir I, the first of the Sassanids, was the son of Babak, the king of Estakhr. In the year 208 A.D. Ardashir succeeded his father and went on to occupy all of Persis (Fars) and Carnania (Kerman), afterwards taking Susiana (or Elymais), Mesene (or Characene) and Isfahan. In the year 224 a battle took place at Hormozdgan between Ardashir and Artabanus V, the Parthian King. As a result Artabanus was killed and Ardashir hence forth considered himself the legitimate heir to the Parthian Empire and the king of kings of Iran. According to Noldeke's calculation Ardashir was officially coronated in the year 226. In the following year he occupied Ecbatana (Hamedan), Atropatene (Azarbaijan), Hyrcania (Gorgan), Abrashahr (Khorasan) and
That is all cool, if U are teaching Iranian History, good to write on paper for some to get a hard on over it and for others to wipe their asses with it! Lets be pragmatic and move to 2008 and address the facts as they are, since regurgitating that which happened in A.D.s sound no different that siting GORAN.
Jaff Sassani
Jaff Sassani wrote:We are preaching the formation of the Aryan Economic Union (AU) with other Aryan (Iranian nations) to protect ourselves as one united people in the region to survive the Arab Imperialist ambitions east and northward and the Turk Imperialist ambitions west and southward. Our survival will be impossible alone as the Kurdish nation in the middle of two Empires. We need to get united with other Aryan (Iranian) nations in the region otherwise it will be impossible to survive.
I can understand the need for allies but there are few small issues:
1- There is no Kurdish nation last I checked. Kurdistan for now is part of Iraq (not that I do not favor Kurdish independence). Deep pockets of Iraq , the oil fields, are in Kurdistan, so it is in no ones interest for the foreseeable future to have a Kurdish Nation. However, I think it is long overdue and Kurds deserve their own country.
2- The other Aryans which U reference, I assume Iran's Kurds, are considered a state within the Islamic Republic. Independence endeavors of Iranian Kurds was suppressed by extreme prejudice by Shah and I do not think will be tolerated by the Islamic Re pubic Regime or whatever follows it.
3- The other Aryans (Azaies etc) which U are counting on, US has his mighty $-arm so far up in their asses that he can practically do political tonsillectomy on them from their anus.
The European Union, The USA, The Chinese and Russians are looking after the interests of their own people. They are prepared to deal with realities. Whoever has the power on the ground will be the ones they are going to do business with. We are a small and hopeless people, alone in the world with nobody to care about us in the future.
U got it. Free Kurdistan is in the interest of no one, much less Iran and fkn-Turks!
We Kurds helped the Ottoman Empire in the battle of Children in 1514 between the Safavids Empire and the Ottoman Empire. We fought against the Iranian people for the greed of a few tribal chiefs to make money. We created the Ottoman Empire (Turk sunni Empire) and later we helped the creation of the Safavid Empire (the shitte Empire) too. For the selfish reasons of a few tribal chief, we caused our nation's divisions after the battle of Children.
History informs us when we are united with other Aryan (Iranian) nations we Kurds are very successful. Please look at the Nader Shah, Founder of Afshar Dynasty shah of Iran (1736–1747), Karim Khan Zand (1705-1779), Founder of the Zand dynasty in Iran and Dr. Karim Sanjabi (1904-1995), an Iranian liberal political leader of the 20th century. So we need to think again that our survival is connected to the survival of other Aryan (Iranian) nations in the region.
Forget about history! What U did means nothing! Free Kurdistan will mean big trouble for fkn Turks, big problem for Iran, and very big economic problem for Iraq and consequently for the entire region.
If there was no oil in Kurdistan, ye U had a chance, but for now deceleration of a Kurdish Nation, will lead to regional Civil War and I don't think U can count on US, under Obami or Hilly as President,
With that assessments are on the table what you are waiting for. Think about it and join us in the campaign to get united one more time. We did get united in our history before. During the Medes Empire we got united against the Assyrian Empire. During the Parthians Empire we got united against The Seleucids Empire (312 - 6 B.C.).
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The Aryan Economic Union (AU) will get us united with other Iranian nations, and then outside forces will respect us and count our opinions in the region. It will bring us the respect we deserve when we are united. The Kurds alone are not going to get anywhere. It is wishful thinking that the Arabs, with over three hundred million, and the Turks, with over one hundred million, plus their military power and wealth will be traded for the Kurdish favor. The Kurds do not have a country, military or wealth so how we can get respect equal to the Arabs or Turks in the region?
The bright side is that Russians will trade even with the devil, if he has assets, if trade is in your mind and not wet dreams of imperialism based on ancient history.
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Mom 86s fear of our family's fatal birthday curse
My sisters, Sally and Nancy, and I assured Mom that our family has no deadly 86th-birthday curse. Mom, an intelligent, well-read, modern woman, knows the idea of a curse is complete bunkum, a silly superstition, something best left to delusional Cubs fans who blame the "curse of the billy goat" for the Cubs' century of failure. Still …
In the year leading up to Mom's 86th birthday on Jan. 28, the curse crept into our conversations. When we would talk about plans for 2013 and beyond, Mom would beg off.
"Well," she would say, "let's just wait and see."
She didn't say, "Well, let's just wait and see if I die because of our family's deadly 86th birthday curse," but that is what she meant. For Mom, the brief journey from age 85 to 86 came with an ominous history.
Mom's mother died less than a month before she would have turned 86. A woman knows when she's approaching the age when her mother died. It's a milestone. If her mother dies a month before her 86th birthday, what right does the daughter have to make it past her 86th birthday?
Nonsense, we kids told Mom. Just because Grandma Schembs died in the month before her 86th birthday doesn't mean that you will die in the month before your 86th birthday. Grandma died during surgery for an aneurysm. You are in much better shape than Grandma was at this age, we told Mom.
Then Mom reminded us of her oldest sister's death.
Frances died of cancer just 26 days before she would have turned 86. Two female relatives dying on the cusp of turning 86 is a coincidence, nothing more, we said.
Then Mom reminded us that her sister Harriette died of heart problems in the month before her 86th birthday. That's all three deceased women in Mom's immediate family dying in the month before their 86th birthdays. In the newspaper world, three of anything is a trend.
Still not a curse, as there is no such thing as a curse, we reassured Mom. But I suspect Sally and Nancy started doing the math in their heads to figure out exactly when they'd be a month short of turning 86. We couldn't help but wonder if Mom's family carried a gene that automatically pulled the plug before a woman reached 86. If automobiles and toaster ovens can break down the day after their warranties expire, why not Schembs women?
Wait, it gets worse, Mom said. Actually, the family curse crosses family and gender lines. Mom's mother-in-law also died shortly before she would have turned 86. Her sister-in-law Betty died right before she turned 86. And this July, our Uncle Frank, Mom's last surviving brother-in-law, died a few months before he would have turned 86.
We reminded her that her oldest brother, our Uncle Spud, is 93. We floated the theory that even if the Grim Reaper were scheduled to pay a visit right before Mom turned 86, she had managed to confound the warranty agreement by getting new body parts. While Mom took a nearly half-century hiatus from hospitals after the birth of my little brother, Bill, in 1962, she's been living a "new and improved" life as an octogenarian.
The pig valve that keeps her heart working is less than 5 years old. The artificial knee is only 4. The lenses put in her eyes after the cataract surgery are less than 2. The plate holding her once-broken wrist in place is just a few months old. November's carpal tunnel surgery on her left hand was so successful that she was able to return to her role as a drummer in the community band in time for the Christmas concert, so she had the surgery on her right hand before her 86th birthday. Throw in all the new body parts and some dental work, and Mom's composite age drops so far below the curse age she might no longer qualify for an AARP card.
My sisters, as has become a custom in recent years, flew into town to take Mom out to a fancy dinner the weekend before her birthday. I drove to the farm Monday on Mom's actual 86th birthday, during which she drove 44 miles round trip to pay the farm taxes and treat me to lunch. Mom is 86, looks great, remains active and is going to another birthday dinner later this week with her younger friends.
Now that she has vanquished our family's 86th-birthday curse, Mom, always a trendsetter and a leader in the local arts community, might want to start a new tradition. Maybe she can be the first woman in our family to celebrate her 100th birthday, perhaps while wearing a Cubs World Series Champions hat.


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Bob Hughes has started a new Gn15 facebook group called Gn15 railway modellers.
The group address is https://www.facebook.com/groups/114811365587118/
Here is the outline of what the group covers: G scale ultra narrow gauge railway modelling only please, that's anything from 1:29 through to 1:22.5 (G being a bit vague) so we can include Gn18, Gn20 and other similar variations. We are primarily a Gn15 group (using HO track) but also happy to accept Gnine modellers (using N track) of course.There are existing groups for other modelling genres and we are not trying to poach their traffic. No buy/sell, that's also catered for amply elsewhere. Other than that, as any Gn15 modeller knows, this is for fun. We do not do deadly serious in this scale/gauge combo.
The group started tonight. Have a look if you like,
best regards
Geoff Potter


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As soon as she came walking in I was crying. I just could not control the tears. After she sat down she sent me a text say, "stop crying". Yes she was texting me during her graduation. Gotta love her. But I was just so proud. I was going through in my mind all the struggles she went through and all the prayer and encouraging it took to get her here. It was just an overwhelming and wonderful feeling seeing her sit there. When she was done and I got to give her a big hug and all I could do was hug her and put my arms in the air and say YOU DID IT!!!! YOU DID IT!!!! As I sit here typing this I am still crying. I always think I can never feel more proud of my children with each goal they accomplish but the feelings just get stronger and stronger with each accomplishment. Well, here are a few pictures of her big day.
Commit to the Lord whatever you do and your plans will succeed. Proverbs 16:3
I have 2 years to get my emotions back in check.
She made it and I am one proud momma.
Congratulations Alyssa. Now for the next chapter in the wonderful life God has given you.


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1. Strappy dress:
All girls desire to Look HOT-off-the-catwalk, I am sure you too desire the same. With minimal effort this is one dress which will not only bring style but also comfort. Wear a cotton strappy dress with high heels for party or with chappals for hangout or on beach. This will feel light on your body giving utmost comfort and will make you look appealing as well.
2.Printed Jumpsuit:
Jumpsuits are not new in the list of trends, they have been with us last year and will continue to be with us this year as well. Because its summers, lots of colors and prints make you look younger. This year you can try out offshoulder look and wear this carefree dress. But remember girl just three things before you wear them:
*If you wear a Jumpsuit which has less background showing then you will look smaller. So do scale the print acording to your body type.
* If you are bottom heavy and do not want to look huge then skip the full legged harem pants.
*Add a solid jacket over it to break the look and add little more style.
3.Summer tunic:
This is one thing which will steal your heart away! Yes because to wear this you do not need to be slim and in perfect shape. Styling this needs minimal effort and you are just ready in two minutes(Excluding makeup time) . All you need is denim and this tunic top, styling it with chappals or loafers or sandals or shoes etc and a nice bracelet, you are ready!
4.Floral Maxi
They look feminine and flattering, they make you look prettier. Yes they have been a part of the trend last year and this year they promise to stay in form of big bold floral prints. A care free dress to put on and you are ready to flaunt, what are you waiting for? Go grab one!
5.Crop Top:
This is one stuff from this list I don't have in my wardrobe and I am buying it. This summer Crop top will be talk of the town as they not only look cool on you but also help to beat the heat. There ate many ways to style them, either with denims or high wasted maxi dress or with skirt etc. Our darling celebs will be your inspiration to style them.
6.Tank Top:
This which never go out of my wardrobe and I don't think I need to talk about it as you hot girl already know it....Am I right? or am I right!
7.Crush shrug:
If you wish to style stuffs outside the big box then yes this is what you need a crush shrug. This is effortless way to add style and look fabulous.
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With the space shuttle program over and private companies launching their own spaceships, it's clear that nongovernment organizations are making a stir in America's space race.
Now the private sector is getting into the space telescope business, too. The first official entrant into this arena wants humanity to locate and avoid asteroids, helping us dodge the fate of the dinosaurs.
The nonprofit B612 Foundation announced Thursday plans to raise money to build an infrared space telescope that would go around the sun, with an orbit similar to that of Venus. It would be about 170 million miles from Earth at its farthest.
The goal: Find and track asteroids with enough accuracy to see if they would collide with Earth in the next century or so. It's looking for about half a million uncharted asteroids. The plan is to launch in 2017 and operate for 5½ years.
"What we're really talking is affecting human evolution, by reshaping the solar system ever so slightly," Rusty Schweickart, chairman emeritus of B612 and an astronaut with NASA's Apollo 9 mission, told reporters at an advance press event Wednesday at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. "We're literally beginning to affect and change the solar system to enhance human survival. That's the capability of which this is a central part."
Sounds cool, but it's still in the fund-raising stage. Representatives from B612 declined to discuss the details of the funding situation for the space telescope mission, called Sentinel, but told reporters they were looking to raise a few hundred million dollars.
The announcement joins a wave of privately funded space milestones. Just last month, the company SpaceX launched a successful mission to the International Space Station, making it the first private company to do so. Also in May, Virgin Galactic got clearance from U.S. regulators to test its suborbital tourism craft SpaceShipTwo. And several other companies also are working on spacecraft.
Sentinel would locate and map asteroids, including determining their size. Ground-based telescopes would follow up, making further analyses about composition and other details. Specifically, the telescope would aim to find 90% of asteroids bigger than 140 meters (about 460 feet).
The organization is working with Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., which also collaborated with the teams that developed the Spitzer and Kepler telescopes.
The data from the mission will be made available to the scientific community, B612 representatives said, and the organization will not try to monetize the data. B612 said it has not asked for funding from NASA.
The B612 Foundation, which sounds like a vitamin but actually pays homage to the home asteroid in the novella "The Little Prince," started 11 years.
"We all came together because asteroids were being found, but no one knew anything about what happens if they had our address on it," Schweickart said.
Today, scientists are aware of three ways to deflect an asteroid, said Ed Lu, chairman and CEO of the B612 Foundation.
One is kinetic impact, or running into it with a spacecraft. Another is a nuclear standoff. The third, called a "gravity tractor," would involve sending a spacecraft to hover near an asteroid and throw it off course through the force of gravity. In practice, a gravity tractor would probably be used in combination with a kinetic impact, Lu said.
In the first month of operation, Sentinel would have found more asteroids than have been found in all of human history by other telescopes combined, Schweickart said.
"That will be the seminal moment in human history, which goes from civilization that is subject to the threat - all civilizations that live in planetary systems have this threat - to ones that have graduated and passed the test that says: You can now protect your home planet," Lu said.
Lu, also a former NASA astronaut, added, "We are finally at the point where we are capable of passing the test. The question is, will we?"
Whether the money will be raised also remains to be seen.
Related: Private space travel: A new era begins?
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You just need a 5-hour energy thats all...funny...you wont see anybody important saying there ready to go...I sure as hell aint ready...plus i got kids...how in gods name can you explain that scenerio to a kid..."oh by the way you see that ball of fire in the sky...ya were all phucked!!!"...if it does happen...well...I.m going out like Bruce Willis..."Were with you Grace"....BOOOOOOOOM!!!!!.
I don't know about you, but I'm ready. So tired of waking up, working, sleeping, waking up, working, sleeping, waking up... If the world does end, I hope it's this year. And I hope the view is spectacular.
That'sso wierd I feel like I wrote that! I feel the exact same way! I'm ready! and to be honest I think it would be a great honour to be one of the last of mankind.
I agree 100% It would be spectacular. It may sound morbid, but it would be both scary and amazing. And a honour!
I've often said that if a meteor is going to hit the Earth, I want to be at ground zero. I couldn't agree more with the original post. I've had an OK life. Could have been better but could have been worse. I've had some great moments and done many amazing things. But now mainly I feel like I have been there and done that. Nothing is new and fresh anymore, and lifes burdons have become oppressive. So bring it on. I am ready.
Well said, Anon. Ground zero for sure.Until that times comes, have a great day.
I think about killing myself everyday. It is my problem and I don't burdon the taxpayers with it. I have paid more taxes than the evaerge person. I live with a very small footprint. I try to minimize my driving, often ride my bike instead of driving, and produce most of my electricity to run my home. I have made significant engineering advancements to cancer therapy and other areas, so I feel like I have made the world a better place. While I have devoted my life to improving the world, geedy, selfish, lazy people have made the world worse every year. My optimizm has faded and I just don't see any hope for mankind. We are on an unsustainable path, and I don't see it ever changing. The average person easily accepts lies as facts if it means they don't have to change. So Dena, what have you done to make the world better off because of your existence?
You have lost yourself. If your life had meaning you wouldn't feel that way and you would fight for life.
This society we live in emphasizes all the WRONG things and the WRONG reasons.
We don't have daredevils and role models any more, we have idiotic reality TV stars that people worship. Why?
Our government is destroying our potential dreams by sapping the space program. How many minds would be lifted with the goals of space in mind? How many new chemists, physicists, astrologers, scientists, mathematicians would come to be? Instead........... we have idiots wearing baggy pants trying to be "cool".
We work ourselves to the bone, get minimal vacation "self/life time" (meanwhile Europeans take 1-2 months off a year). We don't even have time to eat properly so we just get something fast on the go. Hello mcdonalds, and hello obesity.
Instead of developing energy independence and redirecting military funds towards education, infrastructure, and the future, politicians bicker each other like children in the sand box "he did it! no he started it! wahhhh" and thrust our country into war over and over and over again.
Homeless people starve, but violent murdering raping prisoners get 3 squares a day and a roof over their head. HUH?
Everything is wrong. Everything needs to be fixed.
what we should do is not fear it but become knowledgeable in a way to control its movement and rape it for its minerals and leave it on the moon
The Earth can't "dodge asteroids". Can't anyone put forth a simple, factual statement in a headline anymore? Nor are we "reshaping the solar system, ever so slightly". The shape remains the same. The fact that we add bits of trash to it, affects us not at all. The idea that we can affect the trajectory of an asteroid enough to cause a sure-hit to become a near-miss is conjecture only. It's an idea, and a good one, with no evidence to back it up. Further, even if we changed it once, there's no guarantee that on the next orbit it wouldn't hit us anyway.
If aliens were to find us, study us, they'd likely conclude we're a disease...a plague upon the universe. They'd be wise to innoculate the universe against us.
Or they could be amazed at our progress over the past 100 years. That we harnessed the power of the sun and had the restraint to only use it as weapon twice. Have attempted to improve our society with education and medicine and constantly trying to improve ourselves. Achieved spaceflight, developed high speed computing, installed worldwide infrastructures.... And we could have done it way better than their civilization. Or maybe we're a planet full of jerks.
this is a mute point seeing as how the world ends in december
Ironically it will be an asteroid that does us.
It's always the one you don't see that gets you...
Interesting...from the looks at the picture, it looks like they plan on placing it near the L3 lagrangian point. I thought it was very difficult to put a satellite there due to gravity influence from other celestial bodies?
But once you do get it in place, it's very stable, which is the idea. It'll bounce around a bit within the sphere of influence between the Earth and Moon but overall stay in one place in an orbit relative to the earth and moon both.
One thing that concerns me is we are rapidly approaching the day when some nation will be able to steer an asteroid at some enemy and label it as a natural disaster. If not an asteroid they could sit on the moon and launch rocks. They would hit the earth at 25,000 mph
The incoming rock(s) would hit with the force of a nuclear weapon. The only way to tell the difference would be the lack of radiation. By then it might be too late; many would jump to the conclusion it was a nuke and the rockets would fly.
Pick up a copy of "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" by Robert A. Heinlein. He predicted such a scenario back in 1966. Doesn't take much to get them off the moon but they land on earth with a big bang...
That was my first thought as well. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is a great book on so many levels.
Larry Niven uses the concept in Footfall. Although, it is an alien species that moves the asteroid.
Niven's rule "Anything that can be done in space can be used as a weapon."
wouldn't it be much easier to just use a nuke?
The nation launching rocks off the moon or steering an asteroid at an enemy might not what it known that this was a deliberate act. If it is thought to be a natural disaster there would be no retaliation.
What good does a nuke do? You turn a bullet into a shotshell, and the total mass hitting the earth is the same, less the few that burn up in the atmosphere. People fail to realize the true size of some asteroids. A 100 mile wide rock, hitting the Earth with it's leading edge, would still have it's trailing edge in space! Depending on the angle of impact, the collision could be from 1mph to 50,000 mph, perhaps greater if for some reason the rock was moving at greater than orbital speeds. At 1mph, the rock would nudge the Earth and possibly just become an appendage of it. At 50,000 mph, that leading edge would burrow in while the trailing edge kept pushing forward. It'd crack a continent or vaporize an ocean. And a nuke would just irradiate part of it.
what differnece would it make if it was a nuke, asteroid, or a projectile shot at the earth from the moon at 25,000 km/h (or whatever). The result is pretty much the same; large amounts of debris in the sky the rest of us would get to suffer through.
If you can dodge a wrench you can dodge an asteroid
One disadvantage of earth based systems is we would never see an asteroid approaching from the inner solar system. We are blind sighted by the sun. A survey telescope in solar orbit would help fill that gap
I would love to believe that we could make some device to destroy an incoming meteor, but because of all the mistrust of the worlds' nations it will not be built. Because they would believe it would be used on them.
The proposed gravity tractor would not be a threat to any nation. Its drawback is that the incoming object would have to be detected years, if not decades before the impact. Also the tractor does not even exist on paper, thus there would be a long R and D period before it could be launched.
Not to mention the technology doesn't yet exist. Ignore R&D – you can't just say, let's invent a gravity gizmo when you don't have the base theory TESTED to begin with.
maybe you should learn how to spell sacrifice and interested before you say that people who are educated are brain washed –thanks for restoring my belief that the world is this way because ignorand bafoons are taken seriously..opps I'm sorry too big a word for your soimple mind curt
What is a "soimple"?
You do use big words. "ignorand" is so big, it is not in the dictionary. I bow to your supremacy.
"maybe" should be capitalized. Brainwashed is one word, not "brain washed". The hyphen is not appropriate, just start a new sentence. "washed -thanks" should be "brainwashed. Thanks". An ellipsis is three periods (...) not two(..). Not really an appropriate use of ellipsis anyway. Just end the sentence and start a new sentence with Oops. And oops is not spelled "opps". The last sentence needs some punctuation. Try "Oops, I'm sorry, too big of a word for your simple mind Curt". Notice that Curt is capitalized. "ignorand" and "soimple" were already pointed out. There is more, but I don't want to overwhelm you.
It appears as though you're fond of the comma splice. There are at least two examples in your writing, "word, not," and "appropriate, just." If you feel compelled to join these thoughts, I recommend the use of a semicolon. Otherwise, if there is no urgent need to connect these independent clauses, just start a new sentence. Please take not that the punctuation is always placed inside the closing quotation mark.
* s/b note.
I need an editor!
Oh the irony of the irony. Well, at least I have commas and periods. A+ to the 4th grade student. I'm actually an electrical engineer, not a 4th grade teacher. I'm a better engineer than I am a writer. Still, I wouldn't swap my ability to write with Ash's.
Sorry 4thGradeStudent; but, you've certainly lived up to your pseudonym. 4thGradeTeacher used those commas appropriately and did not need to be corrected. His/Her use of a period after his quotation was inappropriate.
According to most of what I have read on these blogs from CNN readers (term used very loosely), this telescope is useless because science has done nothing for civilization ever and invisible men & talking snakes are going to rescue us in the event a big rock tries to hit our flat planet that the sun revolves around.
Ahh, yes... but the giant rocks will not come to this earth-plane unless the invisible man sends them toward us for listening to the talking snake too much! So it's all good! 🙂
I understand how you can deflect an asteroid, but how does a planet dodge one?
25 comments, and not one person noticed that the word "asteroid" was spelled incorrectly in the headline.
So helpful. Thanks.
you want a cookie?
Glad to see some space professionals interested in funding and tracking potential incoming asteroid threats. If anyone thinks they have a problem raising $$$ for the telescope and launch, wait until something is actually detected heading this way. The same groups that accept / deny global warming (Democrats vs Republicans / scientists vs politicians / environmentalists vs industrialists, etc.) will argue fiercely from each of their respective POV until it's physically impossible to avoid collision. Mankind has a TERRIBLE record of doing anything about public problems until AFTER a disaster. Why do you think *** NO *** rockets, lasers gravity tractors or other equipment has been tested to date, but instead a USN rail-gun is in development for the "next war"? I guess they plan to use it, the littoral combat ships, and the next submarines against individual suicide terrorists who don't own aircraft carriers, cruisers or manned bombers but simply put fertilizer and diesel fuel in trucks to make effective IED's.
Sentinel is a great idea. It'll warn us all just in time to have last suppers while the powers with the control, money and resources won't actually agree towards mounting any defensive capability until it's too late. But, hey? What ever made us think that man (Americans) would STILL be going to / from the moon or have colonized it by 2012 once we got started in 1969? Who's brilliant idea was it to interrupt America's ability to get people to the ISS until / unless the private sector came up with it's own technology to do so and what was the reason given in justification?
how funny, so we see an asteroid that is going to hit Earth in 4 years ,.. then what? " ok everyone off and push".. just a little to the left..
I was wondering about that too. It's not like we can shoot anything out in space with enough force to do more than land on an object, so what do you do? Get the harmonic convergence people on board and yoga our way off to the side?!
Perhaps they will use one of the methods discussed in the article above to alter its trajectory slightly.
If we have several years, then a few inches a month could make all the difference.
4 years??? How big are we talking? If it's anything more that a mile in diameter, we are toast!
No need to fend off asteroids–Earth needs a reboot. God, seeing the error of His ways, will do a better job next time around.
"Dang–tried oceans full of fish, then dinosaurs, then large, large mammals and now humans. I am beginning to think this thing will never work."
Why would the general population want to try to fend off asteroids when they have no interest in fending off Global Climate Change? It seems to me that both of these problems are within our abilities to solve, are expensive to implement, and require sacrafice. I'm interested in solving these problems, but I am not intesested in having to first debate the brainwashed masses that don't operate from a scientific base. If the profits of the large pollution contributing industries are more important that the quality of life for future generations, then I don't care if an asteroid hits this planet. Hitting the reset button might leave the planet in a better place a million years from now.
since global warming is a fabrication why should we waste money on it?
Please read my message. I said "I am not intesested in having to first debate the brainwashed masses that don't operate from a scientific base".
Have you been watching the news? Much of the US has been/is in record high temperatures and summer just began. In NY, we had numerous 80 degree days in January and February. They had more snow from 1 storm in AZ than we had all winter. And you're telling me that Climate Change doesn't exist? You're still in denial? Let's add in all the flooding along the Mississippi River and the drought in TX last year. Shall I go on? Your ignorance astounds me.
Correction. It is not global "warming". That term is not valid. The process we are undergoing is global "climate change" which accurately describes the process. Disbelief or belief will not the facts in the least. Large bodies striking the Earth are not myths or imagination. It happens. The last major strike occurred in 1917 C.E. in Siberia. It will happen again.
My main concern about this story is that the folks planning this telescope are asking for many dollars and refuse to be transparent about their finances. That is a giant red flag in anyone's book. Sounds like an investor scam to me.
"Disbelief or belief will not the facts in the least" should read "Disbelief or belief will not CHANGE the facts in the least." Sorry.
We don't need to have a climate change debate here. We have scientists for that.
Curt, they just do not get it , do they? Well, at least I read it. I agree. hahahahaha. Wow.
How can we receive data from 170 million miles away. But I drop a cell phone call depending on what side of the bed I'm sitting on?
Because you require latency that's not prohibitive enough to make conversation uncomfortable and are paying roughly 1/100,000,000th of the cost of said technology.
Your comment needs to be close captioned for the humor impaired.
It's all futile really I mean something is bound to get us sooner or later. The human race has the potential to be around for a long time but do you reallysee us being around forever in any shape or form? Heck, even the universe is going to end one day and there will be no life whatsoever that we know of that could survive that. I say we should do what we've been doing for past thousands and just let the chips fall were they may...
Where would we be if everyone held such defeatist ideologies?
Doesn't matter where we would be point is is that we can not defeat nature or time. Our species is intelligent enough to adapt to nature and to fight against it to a certain extent, but we will never overcome it. We weren't always here and there will be a day when we are not here be it a 100 years from now of a trillion. It's inevitable.
So, I should stop taking the medication that controls high blood pressure, since I am going to die some day anyway?
Why fix the breaks on my car, since I am going to fie some day anyway?
Potentially making the difference between humans going extinct in 2137 and existing long enough to colonize Mars and the asteroid belt seems worth while.
If we are able to colonize the solar system, that might buy us enough time to develop some form of hyperspace / warp drive / lint drive that will get us to nearby planets. There is the potential to increase our species existence for a thousand years to millions of years.
Yeah, I'd say that's worth it.
everyone calm down. Lets all just take a deep breath and watch Armageddon.
"Lint" drive? Line up deep belly button people ( you know who you are), we're going to develop a Lint drive and you are going to power it! (please don't let misunderstanding or ignorance get it the way of my humor)
If you wash a pair of pants, as soon as you take it out of the drier, what's there? Lint. How? It's THAT fast.
Every SciFi uses some form of convenience drive to explain traveling faster than light. Lint drive was used in the animated version of "The Tick".
That's right. No stinking asteroid is going to mess up our Earth. It's OUR job to do that!
Telescopes track – they do nothing to stop or alter the course of rock. They will be a nice tool to tell everyone they are about to be a grease spot before we can invent anything that would save them. (Especially since the oil and gas industry will tell you there is no saving mankind without their help).
Actually the article touches on at least three methods that people agree would likely word to deflect an asteroid. You can also read up on the subject from other sources. Plenty of information out there so there's really no need to make things up.
The key point of course is early warning. The sooner you know about a threat the better. As it stands, many of the close passes and impacts that occur aren't detected until they're imminent; a month or less, sometimes only a day before they happen. The point of a telescope dedicated to early detection is to change that.
word=work. My kingdom for an edit button.
Sentinel is an excellent idea, even if the amateur astronomer in me is a little jealous of a space telescope finding all those rocks. Ah, well. Still plenty of comets and exoplanets to go around!
I think we should begin building a large orbiting space station that has a huge laser beam to obliterate any incoming asteroids. We can call it a "Death Star" or something to that effect as we declare war on the Stars, and if we should happen to have more than one we can call them Star Wars...
Well, huge laser beams that "obliterate" enormous, massive chunks of iron is strictly a Hollywood image. In the real world a laser would deflect the asteroid's path over time, quite gently in comparison to what Star Wars has taught you.
Needed but how do we actually deflect an asteroid?
That is addressed in the article, or at least touched on.
Simple. We PUSH it!
If we have enough time, there are theoretically many ways to alter an asteroid's orbit (even the old standby - use nukes - is being looked at again as possible after a decade or so of 'that won't work' dismissal). The more lead time you have, the easier it is. That's why we need an accurate and complete asteroid census as soon as possible.Humanity gets an accurate census of potentially threatening asteroids, and industry gets a map to all the mineral-rich asteroids within easy reach.
We can shrink them with Preparation-A.
The Sentinel Project may be worthwhile - but the rest of it is just streetcars.
A streetcar named desire, perhaps, but we need it.


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By MARCY GORDON
AP Business Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) – Banks may be allowed to hold a smaller stake in the mortgage investments they sell if those loans are made to homebuyers with stronger finances.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., the Federal Reserve and other agencies on Wednesday proposed loosening an exemption to rules intended to prevent the types of risky investments that caused the 2008 financial crisis.
The rules are still being finalized. And the broader requirements still would have banks hold at least 5 percent of the securities on their books.
But banks now could exempt mortgages issued to borrowers who have debt that doesn't exceed 43 percent of their annual income. Regulators had proposed exempting mortgages in which buyers put down 20 percent. But banks complained that would exclude too many buyers with solid finances.


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