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All Blacks close in on Test in USA
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The All Blacks enjoyed a lucrative trip to Japan at the end of 2013 © Getty Images
The All Blacks are hopeful of teeing up a Test against the United States prior to their end-of-year tour to Europe.
The Kiwis reaped the benefits of a similar venture to Japan at the end of 2013 as it generated a $NZ 850,000 (£440,000) windfall which helped them reach a $NZ 2.9m (£1.5m) profit for the past financial year.
While the trip offered All Blacks coach Steve Hansen a chance to blood some of his younger players, New Zealand Rugby Union CEO Steve Tew was impressed with the financial benefits.
"It was much more successful than initially we thought it might have been commercially," Tew said. "We had set up a profit-share situation once our costs were covered, and that was our share of it."
And after seeing the on and off-field benefits of their trip to Tokyo, Tew is close to finalising a similar deal for the All Blacks to travel to America. "We're not far away," he said. "We're not yet able to make an announcement because there's still some details to be tied up, but we're still working hard to put in place a similar game on the way to Europe."
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I was invited to attend a fund-raising event for a boys' baseball team this past weekend. The team is called Full Throttle, and they are a mixture of young boys ages 9 and 10.
The event was held at Hartman's Dairy Queen on Perryville Road, directly south of the CherryVale Mall, last Saturday (April 21) afternoon and early evening. The store agreed to donate a portion of their sales to help the team. I also noticed several customers leaving tips for the boys and putting money into their donation jar.
The boys and their manager were all neatly dressed in their bright orange uniform shirts, hats and matching white pants. The hats and shirts were emblazoned on the front with the Full Throttle logo. Their last names and numbers were proudly displayed on the backs of the shirts. They looked sharp.
A number of the boys were assigned to hold the front doors open and welcome the customers upon arrival. They were very friendly and polite. I saw a couple of boys carrying trays of food and drinks out to the awaiting customers at their tables. I did not see one french fry or a single drop of pop spilled.
Other team members were charged with cleaning off the tables and throwing away any trash that may have been left. As soon as someone got up to leave, those guys were right there with the spray bottle and towel making sure it was clean and ready for the next customer. There was also a crew of two manning a broom and dust pan making sure the floors were kept perfectly debris-free.
After watching the operation for about 30 minutes, I must say I was thoroughly impressed with how smoothly things were operating. Everyone on the team seemed to be "pitching in" and doing his part to help. They even rotated duties among themselves so no one was stuck doing the same job the entire time.
I must say I have no idea how successful this type of fund-raising event is in comparison to the old-fashioned candy bar sales or car washes I remember doing when I was in little league. But one thing I do know, it looked way more fun.
Kudos to Dan Hartman and his entire crew at Dairy Queen and to the Full Throttle baseball team. I hope you raised a lot of money and have a great season. One thing is certain, you knocked it out of the park last Saturday!
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Ben Kay
September 20, 2012
Can Quins' Mike Brown further his chances of claiming the England No.15 shirt for the end of year internationals? © PA Photos
The start of the 2015 Rugby World Cup is now less than three years away and one story that caught my eye as organisers marked this milestone was the possibility of England playing games away from their traditional Twickenham home during the tournament. I am hoping that this comes to fruition because, in my opinion, it is very important that they take a game to the north.
We know what a huge boost playing at Twickenham can be for England but having said that, the excitement that would be generated means it is well worth the gamble - and I'm not just saying that because I'm a northerner. The passion for the World Cup around the country as a whole would be a lot stronger if the north had a game they could look forward to, rather than having to travel south, and I'm sure that the atmosphere would be electric. There's a big rugby union following in that area and they'd have absolutely no problem in filling Old Trafford for a group game.
The club game might not be as strong at the elite level as it is down in the south west or the Midlands, for example, but the region has produced some amazingly talented players so it makes sense to take England up there at some point in the tournament. It's an excellent idea and makes sense off the back of the Olympics that also managed to engage the entire nation.
But while the future looks bright for the World Cup, there is still massive uncertainty surrounding the Heineken Cup. It's unfortunate that all the talks seem to be about posturing for position. The truth of the matter is that everything that has been discussed in the press by the various parties should've been kept private. We've seen it in the past when the players took on the Rugby Football Union that matters such as this should be kept under wraps as it inevitably gets to a stage where one side or the other feels that the only way to get any sort of serious negotiation done is to get their viewpoint public.
Premiership Rugby seems to have made its bed already but the key players in these negotiations are the French. I think it's reached the stage with the Premiership clubs where they've made a decision that they would rather not be in Europe than continue with the current set-up. An Anglo-French league as they have proposed with the best sides in the Top 14 playing their Premiership counterparts may not have the pan-European appeal of the Heineken Cup but it appears they may well favour that.
But it is the French sides that hold all the trump cards when it comes to deciding the future of the tournament. If they decide to side with the English then the Welsh - due to their own financial troubles - would probably have to join that party as well. There's still a long time to run but this has brought it all out in the open.
Thankfully we still have another season of the Heineken Cup in the pipeline but one man who looks certain to miss out, on the early stages at least, is Northampton Saints fullback Ben Foden. It is really sad for Fodes - the ESPN cameras were at The Rec when he limped off injured and he's done nothing wrong. I rate him very highly and he has played well for England for the last few years and will clearly be missed.
He got shifted out to the wing to try Mike Brown at fullback while on tour in South Africa and his Quins rival has been a fantastically consistent player in the last few years. It looks like he will now get his opportunity to impress in an England shirt come the autumn without Foden set to be an observer.
I think Foden has got that international x-factor and it's time for Brown now to show that he can transfer his impressive club form onto the Test stage. If England had been able to call on some sensational wing options over the summer then I don't think they would have shifted Ben out on to the flank but the fact that they haven't got these cast-iron choices on the wing meant they could make that change.
We will have a close look at Brown this weekend when ESPN cover Quins' trip to Welford Road to tackle the Tigers. But Brown is not the only one in contention with another candidate for the England No.15 shirt set to come into focus on Sunday when we travel to Sandy Park for Exeter's clash with Saracens.
Sarries' Alex Goode is another one who probably needs an opportunity to show that he can transfer club form into international form. England's desire to see him play at fly-half certainly impacted on his place in the Saracens pecking order last season and he must come back from that. He's gone the right way about it with some quality performances in the Premiership but he is still playing catching up to the likes of Foden and Brown.
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The major cloud platforms defy a simple, side-by-side analysis. Each of the major IaaS public-cloud platforms offers their own unique strengths and functionality. Options for on-site private cloud are diverse as well, and must be designed and deployed while taking existing legacy architecture and infrastructure into account. Then the reality is that most enterprises are embarking on a hybrid cloud strategy and programs. In this Power Panel at 15th Cloud Expo (http://www.CloudComputingExpo.com), moderated by Ashar Baig, Research Director, Cloud, at Gigaom Research, Nate Gordon, Director of T...
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Explosive growth in connected devices. Enormous amounts of data for collection and analysis. Critical use of data for split-second decision making and actionable information. All three are factors in making the Internet of Things a reality. Yet, any one factor would have an IT organization pondering its infrastructure strategy. How should your organization enhance its IT framework to enable an Internet of Things implementation? In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, James Kirkland, Chief Architect for the Internet of Things and Intelligent Systems at Red Hat, described how to revolutioniz...
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Technology is enabling a new approach to collecting and using data. This approach, commonly referred to as the "Internet of Things" (IoT), enables businesses to use real-time data from all sorts of things including machines, devices and sensors to make better decisions, improve customer service, and lower the risk in the creation of new revenue opportunities. In his General Session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Dave Wagstaff, Vice President and Chief Architect at BSQUARE Corporation, discuss the real benefits to focus on, how to understand the requirements of a successful solution, the flow of ...
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The security devil is always in the details of the attack: the ones you've endured, the ones you prepare yourself to fend off, and the ones that, you fear, will catch you completely unaware and defenseless. The Internet of Things (IoT) is nothing if not an endless proliferation of details. It's the vision of a world in which continuous Internet connectivity and addressability is embedded into a growing range of human artifacts, into the natural world, and even into our smartphones, appliances, and physical persons. In the IoT vision, every new "thing" - sensor, actuator, data source, data con...
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"BSQUARE is in the business of selling software solutions for smart connected devices. It's obvious that IoT has moved from being a technology to being a fundamental part of business, and in the last 18 months people have said let's figure out how to do it and let's put some focus on it, " explained Dave Wagstaff, VP & Chief Architect, at BSQUARE Corporation, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held Nov 4-6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
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Focused on this fast-growing market's needs, Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation (Nasdaq: VTSS), a leading provider of IC solutions to advance "Ethernet Everywhere" in Carrier, Enterprise and Internet of Things (IoT) networks, introduced its IStaX™ software (VSC6815SDK), a robust protocol stack to simplify deployment and management of Industrial-IoT network applications such as Industrial Ethernet switching, surveillance, video distribution, LCD signage, intelligent sensors, and metering equipment. Leveraging technologies proven in the Carrier and Enterprise markets, IStaX is designed to work ac...
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"There is a natural synchronization between the business models, the IoT is there to support ," explained Brendan O'Brien, Co-founder and Chief Architect of Aria Systems, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at the 15th International Cloud Expo®, held Nov 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
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C-Labs LLC, a leading provider of remote and mobile access for the Internet of Things (IoT), announced the appointment of John Traynor to the position of chief operating officer. Previously a strategic advisor to the firm, Mr. Traynor will now oversee sales, marketing, finance, and operations. Mr. Traynor is based out of the C-Labs office in Redmond, Washington. He reports to Chris Muench, Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Traynor brings valuable business leadership and technology industry expertise to C-Labs. With over 30 years' experience in the high-tech sector, John Traynor has held numerous...
Nov. 20, 2014 06:00 PM EST Reads: 1,276
Bit6 today issued a challenge to the technology community implementing Web Real Time Communication (WebRTC). To leap beyond WebRTC's significant limitations and fully leverage its underlying value to accelerate innovation, application developers need to consider the entire communications ecosystem.
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The 3rd International @ThingsExpo, co-located with the 16th International Cloud Expo - to be held June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY - announces that it is now accepting Keynote Proposals. The Internet of Things (IoT) is the most profound change in personal and enterprise IT since the creation of the Worldwide Web more than 20 years ago. All major researchers estimate there will be tens of billions devices - computers, smartphones, tablets, and sensors - connected to the Internet by 2020. This number will continue to grow at a rapid pace for the next several decades.
Nov. 20, 2014 01:00 PM EST Reads: 1,513
The Internet of Things is not new. Historically, smart businesses have used its basic concept of leveraging data to drive better decision making and have capitalized on those insights to realize additional revenue opportunities. So, what has changed to make the Internet of Things one of the hottest topics in tech? In his session at @ThingsExpo, Chris Gray, Director, Embedded and Internet of Things, discussed the underlying factors that are driving the economics of intelligent systems. Discover how hardware commoditization, the ubiquitous nature of connectivity, and the emergence of Big Data a...
Nov. 20, 2014 12:30 PM EST Reads: 1,752
Almost everyone sees the potential of Internet of Things but how can businesses truly unlock that potential. The key will be in the ability to discover business insight in the midst of an ocean of Big Data generated from billions of embedded devices via Systems of Discover. Businesses will also need to ensure that they can sustain that insight by leveraging the cloud for global reach, scale and elasticity.
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SYS-CON Events announced today that Windstream, a leading provider of advanced network and cloud communications, has been named "Silver Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 16th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 9–11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York, NY. Windstream (Nasdaq: WIN), a FORTUNE 500 and S&P 500 company, is a leading provider of advanced network communications, including cloud computing and managed services, to businesses nationwide. The company also offers broadband, phone and digital TV services to consumers primarily in rural areas.
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SYS-CON Events announced today that IDenticard will exhibit at SYS-CON's 16th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. IDenticard™ is the security division of Brady Corp (NYSE: BRC), a $1.5 billion manufacturer of identification products. We have small-company values with the strength and stability of a major corporation. IDenticard offers local sales, support and service to our customers across the United States and Canada. Our partner network encompasses some 300 of the world's leading systems integrators and security s...
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IoT is still a vague buzzword for many people. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Mike Kavis, Vice President & Principal Cloud Architect at Cloud Technology Partners, discussed the business value of IoT that goes far beyond the general public's perception that IoT is all about wearables and home consumer services. He also discussed how IoT is perceived by investors and how venture capitalist access this space. Other topics discussed were barriers to success, what is new, what is old, and what the future may hold. Mike Kavis is Vice President & Principal Cloud Architect at Cloud Technology Pa...
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Cloud Expo 2014 TV commercials will feature @ThingsExpo, which was launched in June, 2014 at New York City's Javits Center as the largest 'Internet of Things' event in the world. The next @ThingsExpo will take place November 4-6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center, in Santa Clara, California. Since its launch in 2008, Cloud Expo TV commercials have been aired and CNBC, Fox News Network, and Bloomberg TV. Please enjoy our 2014 commercial.
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STORY WRITTEN FOR & USED WITH PERMISSIONPosted: July 31, 2012 In a $2.5 billion gamble, a nuclear-powered Mars rover the size of a small car will attempt a pinpoint landing near the base of a 3-mile-high mountain overnight Sunday to search for the building blocks of life and evidence of past or present habitability.In so doing, the Mars Science Laboratory rover, dubbed "Curiosity" in a student naming contest, will climb layer by layer through vast eras of the red planet's enigmatic history, possibly shedding light on the transition from a warmer, wetter past to the drier, frigid world of more modern epochs. This artist's concept shows Curiosity shooting its laser at a rock target. Credit: NASA/JPL-CaltechDoug McCuistion, director of Mars exploration at NASA Headquarters in Washington, said the mission "could arguably be the most important event in the history of planetary exploration.""It truly is a major step forward, both in technology and in potential science return and science capability to unlock the mysteries of Mars in places that have never been accessible to humankind in the past."But getting there will not be easy.The Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft must first endure entry temperatures of up to 3,800 degrees Fahrenheit, crushing deceleration of up to 15 Gs and the 65,000-pound jerk of a huge parachute inflating at supersonic velocity.After slowing the spacecraft to a bit less than 200 mph, the parachute will be cut away and a rocket-powered descent stage, carrying the Curiosity rover bolted to its belly, will fall free for a nail-biting one-mile plunge to the surface.Controlled by the rover's main computer, the descent stage will slow to just 1.7 mph, four of its eight rocket engines will shut down and Curiosity will be lowered on the end of a 25-foot-long tether like a bobber on a fishing line.With the descent stage maintaining its slow fall, the rover's six wheels are expected to touch down on the floor of Gale Crater around 1:17 a.m EDT (GMT-4). Confirmation will be relayed back to Earth in near realtime by NASA's Mars Odyssey satellite.But because of the distance between Earth and Mars — about 154 million miles — it will take 13.8 minutes for confirmation of a successful landing to reach anxious engineers and scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. That translates into 1:31 a.m. on Aug. 6, Earth-received time."MSL holds the potential to look for evidence of habitable environments, if they existed, on Mars in the distant past," said NASA science chief John Grunsfeld, a veteran shuttle spacewalker. "The Curiosity rover has the potential to discover the building blocks of life on Mars, if life ever existed on Mars."However, the Curiosity landing is the hardest NASA robotic mission ever attempted in the history of exploration of Mars or any of our robotic exploration. This is risky business."Curiosity's novel "sky crane" landing technique has dominated news coverage, in part because it seems so outlandish compared to past missions and because it appears riskier given a full-up, end-to-end test was not possible in Earth's atmosphere and gravity.But engineers are confident the entry, descent and landing system will work as advertised, the first act in the most complex, expensive and scientifically significant robotic Mars mission ever attempted."This rover, the Curiosity rover, is really a rover on steroids," Colleen Hartman, a senior NASA manager, said before launch. "It's an order of magnitude more capable than anything we have ever launched to any planet in the solar system. It will go longer, it will discover more than we can possibly imagine."Over the course of a planned two-year mission, Curiosity will act as a robotic geologist, using high definition cameras to photograph its surroundings in exquisite detail, beaming back wide-angle high-resolution panoramas as well as close-up microscopic views through what amounts to a geologist's hand lens.Equipped with 10 state-of-the-art instruments and a sophisticated robot arm, the rover will drill into rocks and soil, use a rock-vaporizing laser to assess more distant targets and collect rock and soil samples for detailed chemical analysis. The landing target on the floor of Gale Crater will leave the Curiosity rover near the base of a 3-mile-high mountain of layered terrain. Credit: NASAThe initial phases of the mission will be focused on the crater floor and an alluvial fan visible from orbit where scientists believe water may have pooled in the distant past.But the long-range objective is Aeolis Mons, dubbed Mount Sharp by NASA, a huge wind-eroded mound of sedimentary rocks in the center of Gale Crater that rises more than three miles, higher than Mt. Rainier above Seattle.The instruments aboard Curiosity were not designed to look for signs of life. Rather, the primary goal of the Mars Science Laboratory is to search for carbon compounds and evidence of past or present habitability."We are not a life detection mission," Grotzinger said. "The first and important step toward that is to try to understand where the good stuff may be."Grotzinger would not give odds on finding carbon compounds in Gale Crater, but "the information from orbit looks so darn good … I'd be surprised if we landed on the surface and didn't find something that looked like it could have been a formerly habitable environment."But if you're trying to get me to say what are the chances of finding organic carbon, I'd say it's like looking for a needle in a haystack, and the haystack is as big as a football field."Searching for carbon compounds is only part of Curiosity's mandate. As it works its way up the 15-degree slopes of Mount Sharp and passes from older to younger layers, the rover is expected to cross over beds marking a geologically sudden transition from a warmer, wetter past to a drier, less hospitable age.In so doing, hundreds of thousands to tens of millions of years of the planet's evolution will be brought into focus."The really cool thing about the Gale stratigraphic succession to me is it's a tour through nearly the entire history of Mars where we can begin to understand these major changes in the environmental history of the planet," Grotzinger said in a more recent interview. "And I can't think of another place on Mars where you can go do that."To get a sense of the landing site's potential, Grotzinger said the layers making up Mount Sharp are three times thicker than those in the Grand Canyon, which "takes you … through 300 million years of Earth history, from the origin of animals to the origin of dinosaurs.""If you were to have remote sensing data from an orbiter around Earth, looking at Earth and the Grand Canyon 150 years ago, nobody would have ever predicted that that's what you would discover if you went there one day," Grotzinger said. "I don't know what it is that we're going to discover about Mars. But I have to believe it's going to be something really good."The high-stakes mission comes at a critical time for NASA's planetary exploration program as budget pressures threaten to sharply reduce the scope of the agency's robotic missions.The Obama administration's fiscal 2013 budget request calls for $17.7 billion for NASA, but it cuts $300 million from planetary science, most of it from the Mars program. The Curiosity rover, right, dwarfs its predecessors in this photo showing a Mars Exploration Rover on the left and the diminutive Mars Pathfinder. Credit: NASAAs a result, NASA has backed out of a 2008 agreement with the European Space Agency to share the costs of two ambitious Mars missions known as ExoMars, which called for launch of an orbiter in 2016 and two rovers in 2018.Along with searching for signs of past or present life on Mars, the missions also would have tested technologies needed for a long-sought sample return mission."Tough choices had to be made," NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden said when the budget was unveiled earlier this year. "This means we will not be moving forward with the planned 2016 and 2018 ExoMars mission. … Instead, we'll develop an integrated strategy to ensure the next steps in Mars exploration will support science as well as human exploration goals and potentially take advantage of the 2018 and 2020 exploration windows."In the wake of the budget's release, Bill Nye, chairman of the Planetary Society, said the "priorities reflected in this budget would take us down the wrong path.""Science is the part of NASA that's actually conducting interesting and scientifically important missions," he said in a statement. "Spacecraft sent to Mars, Saturn, Mercury, the Moon, comets and asteroids have been making incredible discoveries, with more to come from recent launches to Jupiter, the Moon and Mars. The country needs more of these robotic space exploration missions, not less."In a rare show of bipartisan agreement, Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and John Culberson, R-Texas, whose states include NASA field centers, wrote in Space News that without congressional action, "the administration's cuts to planetary science would devastate America's planetary program.""The robotic Mars program, one of our nation??s science jewels, faces the most severe cuts, including a rover mission to Mars in 2018 identified as the highest priority in planetary science in the most recent decadal survey," they wrote. "This would be a tragic loss for a program that has made major scientific discoveries and captured the interest of people around the world."The Curiosity rover is the only so-called "flagship" mission currently in the Mars pipeline and it takes years to plan, design and build new spacecraft. Aerospace engineer Robert Zubrin, president of the Mars Society and author of "The Case for Mars," said in an interview that the fate of NASA's Mars program rests firmly on Curiosity's shoulders."This is a superb mission, if it succeeds," he said. "On the other hand, if it fails, it's the flagship out the window. That would be serious enough. But the stakes were upped this past February when the Obama administration canceled the 2016 and 2018 missions, and thus completely scrambled the program, completely set it adrift."If Curiosity fails, he said, "not only do you lose this mission, but I think we lose the rest of the decade. On the other hand, if this succeeds, it will be a brilliant mission, it will be the best Mars mission ever flown and I think we have a real chance of not only reversing the missions that were cut but moving on towards sample return."MSL Project Manager Pete Theisinger said in an interview that he was aware of the outside scrutiny and pressure to chalk up a success. But he said the MSL team was not distracted."Down in the trenches where the work's actually accomplished, people love what they do, they're very professional about it and they want to do the right job and so that's all they think about," he said. "It wouldn't matter whether it was this two-and-a-half-billion-dollar thing that's on the national stage or it was a $100,000 thing in the lab. They feel the same."When you get up to the top of the food chain, yeah, there's a feeling that this is a very visible mission, we know that, people like you don't call me if it's not a very visible mission. And so, we know that. But once again, the job is to get the job done and to do it in the best balanced, prudent approach that we can. I don't think we feel it, we just know it's there."MSL gets underway Nov. 26, 2011, atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket. Credit: Justin Ray/Spaceflight NowLaunch originally was planned for 2009, but in 2008, the flight was delayed two years to verify the integrity of the myriad actuators used in the rover's mobility system and robot arm, a delay that added $400 million to the project's price tag.Curiosity's journey finally got underway on Nov. 26, 2011, when a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket boosted the craft into space. The spacecraft has performed in near flawless fashion during the long cruise to Mars and now the stage is set for entry, descent and landing Aug. 6.Acting as a robotic geologist, Curiosity is well suited for its trailblazing mission, dwarfing the hugely successful Spirit and Opportunity rovers both in size and scientific capability. The instruments carried by each of the earlier rovers weighed about 11 pounds. The 10 aboard Curiosity weigh 165 pounds.Not counting its robot arm, Curiosity is 10 feet long, nine feet wide and seven feet high measured to the top of its main camera mast. Its mobility system is similar in design to that used by Spirit and Opportunity, but its six 20-inch-wide wheels are twice the size of the earlier models. Each wheel has its own drive motor and the four corner wheels are independently steerable.Top speed is over hard, flat ground is about a tenth of a foot per second, although the rover typically will move at half that velocity when operating autonomously and using hazard avoidance.The earlier rovers were solar powered, forcing them to shut down at night and to hibernate in winter months to conserve power and heat. MSL is powered by a radioisotope thermoelectric generator, using the heat produced by the decay of radioactive plutonium dioxide to generate electricity. Excess heat is used to keep electronics and other sensitive systems from getting too cold.Curiosity is equipped with redundant computers, using one at a time and keeping the other as a backup. The computers feature radiation-resistant PowerPC 750 processors operating at 200 megahertz with two gigabytes of flash memory storage, about eight times more than Spirit and Opportunity.The system was designed from the ground up to use the orbiting Odyssey and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter satellites to relay engineering and scientific data back to Earth.Independent of the weather and the sun, Curiosity is designed to operate for at least one martian year — two Earth years — and to rove at least 12 miles. But engineers expect it to continue operating well beyond its design specification, both in time and distance."You're asking a project manager how long it's supposed to live and you expect an answer?" Theisinger laughed. "We test these things, the mechanical or moving parts, we test for either two or three times life, usually three times life. So if we know a wheel is supposed to run for 20 kilometers, we'll test it to 60 kilometers."We don't test them to failure. All that we know is that we've tested the mechanisms for two or three times life and they all passed that test program. The RTG is good for a decade, 12 years, 15 years, something like that, before we really get into power issues. The battery is probably good for eight years. The electronics are high reliability electronics, but some of it is single string."It could last a long time if we haven't made a mistake," he said. "If Mars doesn't get us, it could last a long time."The heart of the spacecraft is the most sophisticated instrument package ever sent to Mars. The Curiosity rover, on the move in Gale Crater. Credit: NASA/JPL-CaltechThe Sample Analysis at Mars, or SAM, instruments will be used to analyze soil and rock fragments delivered by the lander's robot arm. It includes a gas chromatograph, a mass spectrometer and a laser spectrometer to look for carbon compounds and measure isotope ratios, which will shed light on the history and distribution of water and the evolution of the martian atmosphere."You've got to have water for life as we know it," Grotzinger told CNET in an earlier interview. "The second thing is you need a source of energy. … And then the important thing is, you need the fundamental building block, which is carbon."Whether or not life originated on Mars "verges more on philosophy, really," he said. "We don't know how life originated on Earth. I'm really focused on the question, not if life evolved, but if it did evolve where would it be preserved? And where are the places we need to go to find the best potential records of things that could be clues that would lead us on future missions toward the discovery of biosignatures?"Another instrument, called CheMin, uses X-ray diffraction to identify the minerals in collected rocks and soils. The Mars Hands Lens Imager, mounted on the robot arm, will take close-up photos of selected samples while the Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer, also on the arm, measures the abundances of various elements.A camera mounted on a mast atop the rover will take high-resolution stereo pictures as well as high-definition video. Another mast-mounted instrument known as ChemCam will use a laser to vaporize the surface layers of nearby rocks, a spectrometer to measure the types of materials present in the debris and a camera to photograph the site.A Radiation Assessment Detector will will characterize the radiation environment at the surface, a key factor in planning for eventual crewed missions, while a suite of Spanish instruments called the Rover Environmental Monitoring Station monitors the martian weather.An instrument provided by Russia, the Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons experiment, will look for signs of water or ice below the surface."We've got this feeling now of Mars as a much more dynamic planet," Grotzinger said. "The thing about this mission is, it's really going to confront the whole problem of the origin of sedimentary rocks on Mars and what they mean. Sedimentary rocks on Earth, they are the overwhelming storehouse of organic materials in the history of life. If you want to explore for those organic materials, you've got to know how these damn rocks formed."Climbing Mount Sharp may help answer that question, and undoubtedly raise many more, including what to do next."There are two major decision points for the science team in this mission," Grotzinger said. "We've done one, which was to pick Gale over the other three landing sites. … The second big decision is going to be when we get up to a boundary (on Mount Sharp) where you can see that the hydrated minerals go away."There are some people who are going to want to go to the top. And there are other people who are going to say, why don't we just go across that boundary and do a bunch of work on the other side, maybe spend a year doing that, and then let's go down again and work on the wet kind of rock types that we saw on the way up."I think the team will divide into two groups on that one. 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Donald Wright Meek(1932 - 2013)
Donald Wright Meek, 80, passed away on Sunday, Sept. 1, 2013. Memorial service: 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 14, at Grace Episcopal Church, Georgetown. Memorials: In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorials be made to Grace Episcopal Church. Donald enjoyed living in Fort Worth many years before relocating to Georgetown in 2012. He was born to the late James Hiram and Ruthy Wright Meek on Dec. 16, 1932, in Houston. Donald attended Lamar High School in Houston and Shriner Institute in Kerrville. He graduated from the
University of Texas
at Austin where he was a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity. He went on to earn his law degree from South Texas College of Law. He was married to the late Ann Garland Meek. Survivors: Don is survived by children, James Meek of Fort Worth and Lucy Meek Polos of Georgetown; son-in-law, Stephan Polos; five grandchildren; one great-grandchild; extended family; and friends.
Published in Star-Telegram on Sept. 8, 2013


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Chrysler added two new trims to the Sebring family in 2002. The new GTC was a sport-focused addition to the convertible lineup, and the LX Plus sedan offered a longer list of standard equipment than the base LX. The price of LX convertible has been lowered to reach more potential buyers, but it now has a less powerful engine and fewer amenities.
Otherwise, the Sebring trim levels are unchanged. The convertible is offered in LX, LXi, Limited, and GTC styles. Both the sedan and the coupe are offered with the LX or LXi finish. All Sebring models are front wheel drive.
Chrysler has made some engine changes, but the same power plants return. The 2.4 liter inline four, found in the LX Coupe, LX Sedan, and LX plus sedan, is now under the hood of the LX Convertible. This engine generates 150 horsepower and 167 pound-feet of torque on all models except the LX Coupe. The Coupe is supplied with 142 horsepower. The LXi Coupe continues as the only model to house the 3.0 liter V-6. This engine produces 200 horsepower and 205 pound-feet of torque, and is paired with a five-speed manual transmission. The LXi Convertible, Limited Convertible, and LXi sedan are powered by the 2.7 liter V-6, which makes 200 horsepower and provides 192 pound-feet of torque. Mixed driving MPG is in the mid-20s on all models, regardless of the engine.
Owners have been impressed with the power and the features they get for the price on most models. A 2001 redesign brought forth a bolder and more attractive looking car, and design is often cited by consumers as a favorite feature. The Sebring's handling is also at the top of the list.
Chrysler vehicles have continued to be plagued by build quality issues. Consumers have reported numerous nagging problems, which include brakes, HVAC, electrical systems, gauges and fuel injection. Owners have also been disappointed with poor service and a surprising low resale value.
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