31 July 2009
wtf is wrong in alberta???
Four-year-old girl dies after caught in elevator in southern Alberta home...
31 Jul '09
By The Canadian Press
NANTON, Alta. - A four-year-old girl has died in hospital from serious injuries she received when she got caught in an elevator in southern Alberta.
RCMP say emergency crews were called to a home near Nanton that was equipped with the lift.
They say the child had been partially inside the elevator when it was activated by another person on another level of the house.
She was flown by air ambulance to Calgary, but could not be saved.
Police are investigating and notifying next of kin.
Copyright © 2009 Canadian Press
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2 Alberta children die in separate horrific accidents
Grievers have placed a pale pink rose and a plush Mickey Mouse on the front step of the southeast Calgary home, where a toddler died last night...
Photograph by: Sherri Zickefoose, Calgary Herald
CALGARY — A four-year-old girl was killed Friday while playing near an elevator inside her great-grandmother's home in Alberta.
The tragic incident in Nanton, Alta., about 100 kilometres south of Calgary, was the second disturbing death of a child at home in the province in two days.
A day earlier, a three-year-old girl died after becoming trapped in some exercise equipment at her Calgary home.
The elevator death, meanwhile, happened while the elderly woman was babysitting the girl, and her two-year-old brother, in the morning.
Police said the woman started the elevator down, not realizing the child was peering down the shaft.
The girl was crushed.
In critical condition, the girl was flown by air ambulance to the Alberta Children's Hospital and died later, with her mother beside her.
The incident is "absolutely brutal", said Nanton RCMP Cpl. A.J. Mand.
"Grandma didn't want to push the elevator down, thinking the two-year-old might get out of the crib and be under, so she went around the house to go through a basement door, there's no stairs in the house, to get the two-year-old.
"When she got the two year-old, she thought, I'll take the elevator up.
"So she went to put the elevator down, but the four year-old put her neck down there, and is peeking down," said Mand.
The great grandmother is devastated, he said.
On Thursday, a Calgary girl became caught between the bars of an elliptical machine.
The three-year-old child was apparently unable to breathe while she was trapped, and although she had been freed by the time paramedics arrived, the girl was declared dead in the emergency room.
"It was really a horribly regrettable accident," said Emergency Medical Service spokesman, Stuart Brideaux.
Police said no foul play was suspected.
The exercise machine death was reminiscent of the high-profile accident in May, that claimed the life of the daughter of former boxing champion, Mike Tyson.
Tyson's four-year-old girl died after her neck got caught in a treadmill cord at her Arizona home, according to media reports.
© Copyright (c) Canwest News Service
stupid parents! GRRRRRR
31 Jul '09
A young Calgary girl died after becoming tangled in exercise equipment in her home.
Girl dies in exercise equipment mishap...
1 hour, 39 minutes ago
A young Calgary girl died after becoming tangled in exercise equipment in her home.
A spokesperson for emergency services said the incident happened about 6:30 p.m. Thursday, at a home in the southeast neighborhood of McKenzie Towne.
The girl was about three years old, and exactly what happened is still unclear, Stuart Brideaux said.
Police aren't [???] investigating.
Copyright © 2009 CBC
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31 Jul '09
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki speaks during the weekly Friday prayers at Tehran university.
Mottaki has fired a fresh salvo against Britain and Western countries, saying they were accomplices in crimes and murders committed in the post-election violence. Photo:Behrouz Mehri/AFP
Iran blames foreign governments for Tehran killings...
2 hours, 17 minutes ago
TEHRAN (AFP) - Irani leaders, Friday, lashed out at foreign governments, accusing them of complicity in crimes and killings in the aftermath of the disputed re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
The fresh anti-West salvo by Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki comes a day after violent clashes between thousands of mourners and riot police in central Tehran, as the Islamic republic prepares to put about 30 protesters on trial on charges of rioting and vandalism.
"Western and European countries, with their overt and covert capabilities, interfered in Iran's election... the worst among them being Britain," Mottaki was quoted as saying by the state broadcaster's website.
"The countries who interfered through their television networks by telling how to instigate riots, build explosives and other tension creating activities are accomplices in all the committed crimes, murders and are held responsible."
Iran has consistently blamed foreign countries for fueling the post-election violence in Tehran, in which officials say about 30 people died and several hundred were wounded.
The ISNA news agency, meanwhile, said "about 30" people will be put on trial in a revolutionary court on Saturday, alleged to have "participated in riots" and accused of "acting against national security, disturbing public order and vandalizing public and government property."
Some 2,000 protesters, political activists, reformists and journalists were initially detained as authorities cracked down on opposition groups protesting against the victory of Ahmadinejad, whom they say won only due to massive rigging of votes.
Most of the detainees have been released, but about 250 remain behind bars, and their continued detention has become a rallying point for the anti-Ahmadinejad movement.
The Islamic republic is engulfed in its worst crisis in its 30-year existence, as anti-Ahmadinejad groups led by former premier Mir Hossein Mousavi refuse to acknowledge his victory in the 12 June poll, and regularly launch protests.
In the latest opposition show of force, thousands of people mourning the slain protesters clashed with riot police at the Behesht-e Zahra cemetery and in central Tehran on Thursday, witnesses said.
They said riot police hit mourners with batons and belts at the defiant graveside commemoration at the cemetery south of Tehran as they marked the 40th day since the death of Neda Agha-Soltan, a young woman who came to symbolise the public uprising over Ahmadinejad's victory.
A graphic Internet video of Neda bleeding to death was seen around the world and triggered an outcry over the sometimes brutal crackdown on demonstrators.
Police forced Mousavi out of the graveyard minutes after his arrival, but although they initially surrounded fellow campaigner Mehdi Karroubi, he was able to give graveside readings from the Koran.
Ayatollah Ahmad Janati, Iran's hardline cleric and head of the Guardians Council, the powerful electoral watchdog which upheld Ahmadinejad's victory, on Friday blamed Mousavi and Karroubi for the deaths of the protesters.
"You led people to this path and now you go and read the Koran at the graveyard," he said in his Friday prayer address.
"Yes, go and apologize to them, and tell them we started a mutiny, but you were killed.
"Accept this blame, because if there were no riots, nobody would have died."
Ahmadinejad, meanwhile, said on Friday his relation with Iran's supreme leader is similar to that of "father and son", in his first comments since hardliners warned him to obey Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Mehr news agency reported.
"... the kind of relation between the supreme leader and me goes beyond political and administrative forms.
"It is made of love, belief, and is like father and son," he added.
Iranian hardliners warned Ahmadinejad Wednesday to obey Khamenei, after a series of a series of controversial political decisions.
Also Friday, Iranian former president, Mohammad Khatami, visited families of some dead protesters.
"It would have been nice if the tradition of the 40th day was held in a big way where hundreds of thousands could have participated.
"Unfortunately it was prevented.
"Iranian people are brave and will not give up their demand," he said.
Copyright © 2009 Agence France Presse.
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America's Healthiest Frozen Scoops...
We’re all for ice cream in the summer, especially when it’s cool and low-cal.
By Susan Hall, Health
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We've scoured America's scoop shops (tough job, but somebody had to do it) for the tastiest (and healthiest) ice creams, yogurts, and sorbets that will satisfy your sweet tooth without hurting your waistline.
Our criteria: superior taste, stellar nutrition, and countrywide availability.
Here, the five winners. (A standard scoop is about 1/2 cup, or 3 to 3.5 ounces.)
Häagen-Dazs Mango Fat Free Sorbet
- A blend of juicy, tropical mangoes
- 120 calories, 0 grams fat, 20% RDA vitamin A, 10% RDA vitamin C
- $3
"If you love mangoes, you’ll enjoy this sorbet.
"It’s very satisfying—you only need a little to feel content, and it’s very refreshing on a hot summer day," judge Christine Palumbo, RD, says.
And judge Kara Nielsen, a former pastry chef who now follows food trends, says, "It’s shocking there is no fat.
"This sorbet is so creamy and totally indulgent."
Ben & Jerry’s Black Raspberry Swirl Low Fat Frozen Yogurt
- Black raspberry yogurt with thick black raspberry swirls made with real black and red raspberries
- 140 calories, 1.5 grams fat, 15% RDA calcium
- $3.50
"This has a serious raspberry flavor and a beautiful creaminess.
"It feels like you’re eating a full-fat ice cream, not a healthy frozen yogurt," Palumbo says.
She and the other judges also like the ingredients, including hormone-free milk and fair-trade flavors.
Nutrition pamphlets are available at Ben & Jerry’s counters, and there are lots of healthy choices—sorbets, frozen yogurts, and even full-fat ice creams like the next winner.
(The vanilla, chocolate, and coffee flavors have 200 or fewer calories, too.)
Ben & Jerry's Strawberry Ice Cream
- Strawberry ice cream with real strawberry pieces
- 170 calories, 9 grams fat, 15% RDA vitamin C, 10% RDA calcium
- $3.50
"It is delicious in taste and in feel—very honest and fresh," says judge Gale Gand, a pastry chef and co-owner of Tru in Chicago.
Palumbo loves it has only eight ingredients—all natural.
Ask for a kid-size cup to cut calories.
Baskin-Robbins Light Aloha Brownie Ice Cream
- Light chocolate ice cream with ribbons of fudge and chunks of macadamia nut toffee
- 160 calories, 5 grams fat, 10% RDA calcium
- $2
"Rich, fudgy, chocolaty, and delicious," Palumbo says.
"If you need a chocolate fix, this will do the trick!"
Baskin-Robbins’s BRight Choices flavors—like Cappuccino Chip, Premium Churned Light Raspberry Chip, and various sorbets—are healthy takes on their classics.
We did have one beef: Baskin-Robbins’ products had more artificial ingredients than the other contenders.
Häagen-Dazs Cranberry Blueberry Fat Free Sorbet
- A blend of tart cranberries and sweet blueberries
- 100 calories, 0 grams fat, 8% RDA vitamin C
- $3
"This has a nice flavor, is very refreshing and tart—but not too tart," Gand says.
Häagen Dazs shops aren’t overflowing with low-fat ice creams, but they do have other amazing fat-free sorbets besides our two winners.
Our judges like that HD offers small cup sizes for portion control and that you can request nutrition information, which is kept behind the counter.
If you add a cone …
- Cake cone: 17 calories, 0 grams fat
- Sugar cone: 40 calories, 0.5 grams fat
- Waffle cone: 121 calories, 2 grams fat
Copyright © 2009 Health Media Ventures, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Sacrifice In Afghanistan
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GEORGETOWN, S.C. - He was standing at the counter when I entered the store. As he paid the clerk, he turned, and I noticed, in this order, his beard, his T-shirt, which had "Marines" emblazoned on the front... and his cane.
His prosthetic foot still was masked by the counter when I said, "Semper fi, leatherneck."
He smiled and replied: "Semper fi to you, too, Colonel.
"You were embedded with my unit in Afghanistan last year."
We spoke for a few minutes.
He had been wounded by the favorite weapon of radical Islamic terror, an IED.
He's minus some of his body, a little less mobile, preparing to re-enter civilian life and permanently proud of having served his country.
As he moved to leave, he said: "We did our part.
"Sure hope the crowd in Washington doesn't screw it up."
His concern is particularly relevant at a time when the American welfare state is the only growth industry in our country.
At its core is socialized health care.
The Obama administration and Democrats in Congress are pushing legislation to make health insurance mandatory for every American and to allow government to dictate what services will be provided to us.
It is an expansive, expensive proposal, requiring the most productive among us to carry the cost of medical care for all others.
That's relevant to the young wounded Marine because the O-Team's compassion czars first suggested that some of the cost of health care for illegal immigrants and "disadvantaged" citizens be borne by America's combat-wounded service members.
The administration's bean counters and medical magistrates discerned charging veterans' private insurance companies for treatment of service-connected injuries, wounds, or sickness could save ...
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stupidities unbound...
Police: US tow truck driver was texting and talking, on two cellphones, when he hit car, pool...
30 Jul '09
By The Associated Press
LOCKPORT, New York - Police say a tow truck driver was texting on one cellphone while talking on another, when he slammed into a car and crashed into a swimming pool.
Niagara County sheriff's deputies say 25-year-old Nicholas Sparks admitted he was texting and talking when his flatbed truck hit the car Wednesday morning in Lockport, which is outside Buffalo.
The truck then crashed through a fence and sideswiped a house before rolling into an in-ground pool.
Police say the 68-year-old woman driving the car suffered head injuries, but was in good condition.
Her 8-year-old niece suffered minor injuries.
Sparks was charged with reckless driving, talking on a cellphone, and following too closely.
It couldn't be determined whether he has a lawyer.
Copyright © 2009 Canadian Press
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With competition for a decreasing market heating up, the rival bikers increased their violence to maintain their share.18
Intimidation was followed by confrontation, which quickly became physical.
Matt's boys lost.
~2009 laughingwolf
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Gods...
All forms of worship have evolved over the years, phallus and vagina worship seemingly a practice of all primitive societies.
The sky was seen as the father figure, the 'giver of seed', to the earth, the mother figure, 'receiver' of that seed.
More powerful and a threat to male vanity, vagina worship was soon marginalized.
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Against the Hard to Suit [*]
Were I a pet of fair Calliope,I would devote the gifts conferred on me
To dress in verse old Aesop's lies divine;
For verse, and they, and truth, do well combine;
But, not a favorite on the Muses' hill,
I dare not arrogate the magic skill,
To ornament these charming stories.
A bard might brighten up their glories,
No doubt. I try,—what one more wise must do.
Thus much I have accomplished hitherto:
By help of my translation,
The beasts hold conversation,
In French, as never they did before.
Indeed, to claim a little more,
The plants and trees,[^] with smiling features,
Are turned by me to talking creatures.
Who says, that this is not enchanting?
"Ah," says the critics, "hear what vaunting!
From one whose work, all told, no more is
Than half-a-dozen baby stories.'[#]
Would you a theme more credible, my censors,
In graver tone, and style which now and then soars?
Then list! For ten long years the men of Troy,
By means that only heroes can employ,
Had held the allied hosts of Greece at bay,—
Their minings, batterings, stormings day by day,
Their hundred battles on the crimson plain,
Their blood of thousand heroes, all in vain,—
When, by Minerva's art, a horse of wood,
Of lofty size before their city stood,
Whose flanks immense the sage Ulysses hold,
Brave Diomed, and Ajax fierce and bold,
Whom, with their myrmidons, the huge machine
Would bear within the fated town unseen,
To wreak on its very gods their rage—
Unheard-of stratagem, in any age.
Which well its crafty authors did repay....
"Enough, enough," our critic folks will say;
"Your period excites alarm,
Lest you should do your lungs some harm;
And then your monstrous wooden horse,
With squadrons in it at their ease,
Is even harder to endorse
Than Renard cheating Raven of his cheese.
And, more than that, it fits you ill
To wield the old heroic quill."
Well, then, a humbler tone, if such your will is:
Long sighed and pined the jealous Amaryllis
For her Alcippus, in the sad belief,
None, save her sheep and dog, would know her grief.
Thyrsis, who knows, among the willows slips,
And hears the gentle shepherdess's lips
Beseech the kind and gentle zephyr
To bear these accents to her lover....
"Stop!" says my censor:
"To laws of rhyme quite irreducible,
That couplet needs again the crucible;
Poetic men, sir,
Must nicely shun the shocks
Of rhymes unorthodox."
A curse on critics! hold your tongue!
Know I not how to end my song?
Of time and strength what greater waste
Than my attempt to suit your taste?
Some men, more nice than wise,
There's nothing that satisfies.
[*] Phaedrus, Book 4, 7
[^] The plants and trees.—Aristotle's rule for pure fable is that its dramatis personae should be animals only—excluding man.
Dr. Johnson (writing on Gay's Fables) agrees in this dictum "generally".
But hardly any of the fabulists, from Aesop downwards, seem to have bound themselves by the rule; and in this fable we have La Fontaine rather exulting in his assignment of speech, etc., not only to the lower animals but to "plants and trees," etc., as well as otherwise defying the "hard to suit," i.e., the critics.
[#] Half-a-dozen baby stories.—Here La Fontaine exalts his muse as a fabulist.
This is in reply to certain of his critics who pronounced his work puerile, and pretended to wish him to adopt the higher forms of poetry.
Some of the fables of the first six Books were originally published in a semi-private way before 1668.
See the Translators Preface.
La Fontaine defends his art as a writer of fables also in Book 3. (Fable 1. ); Book 5. (Fable 1. ); Book 6. (Fable 1. ); Book 7. (Introduction); Book 8. (Fable 4. ), and Book 9. (Fable 1).
~Jean de la Fontaine
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30 July 2009
vulnerable...
How to hijack 'every iPhone in the world'...
by Andy Greenberg, Forbes.com
29 July 2009
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If you receive a text message on your iPhone any time after Thursday afternoon, containing only a single square character, Charlie Miller would suggest you turn the device off.
Quickly.
That small cipher will likely be your only warning that someone has taken advantage of a bug Miller and his fellow cybersecurity researcher Collin Mulliner plan to publicize Thursday, at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas.
Using a flaw they've found in the iPhone's handling of text messages, the researchers say they'll demonstrate how to send a series of mostly invisible SMS bursts that can give a hacker complete power over any of the smart phone's functions.
That includes dialing the phone, visiting Web sites, turning on the device's camera and microphone and, most importantly, sending more text messages to further propagate a mass-gadget hijacking.
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"The only thing you can do to prevent it is turn off your phone," Miller told Forbes.
"Someone could pretty quickly take over every iPhone in the world with this."
Though Miller and Mulliner say they notified Apple (nasdaq: AAPL) about the vulnerability more than a month ago, the company hasn't released a patch, and it didn't respond to Forbes' repeated calls seeking comment.
The iPhone SMS bug is just one of a series the researchers plan to reveal in their talk.
They say they've also found a similar texting bug in Windows Mobile that allows complete remote control of Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT)-based devices.
Another pair of SMS bugs in the iPhone and Google's (nasdaq: GOOG) Android phones would purportedly allow a hacker to knock a phone off its wireless network for about 10 seconds with a series of text messages.
The trick could be repeated again and again to keep the user offline, Miller says.
Though Google has patched the Android flaw, this second iPhone bug also remains unpatched, he adds.
The new round of bugs aren't the first that Miller has dug up in the iPhone's code.
In 2007, he became the first to remotely hijack the iPhone using a flaw in its browser.
But while that vulnerability gave the attacker a similar power over the phone's functions, it required tricking the user into visiting an infected website to invisibly download a piece of malicious software.
When Miller alerted Apple in July of that year, the company patched the vulnerability before Miller publicized the bug at the Black Hat conference the following month.
The new attacks, by contrast, can strike a phone without any action on the part of the user and are virtually unpreventable while the phone is powered on, according to Miller and Mulliner's research.
And unlike the earlier exploits, Apple has inexplicably left them unpatched, Miller says.
"I've given them more time to patch this than I've ever given a company to patch a bug," he says.
The Windows bug he and Mulliner plan to reveal hasn't been patched either, says Miller, though he admits he and Mulliner discovered the Windows flaw on Monday, and hadn't yet alerted Microsoft of its existence.
The attack, developed by Miller and Mulliner, works by exploiting a missing safeguard in the phones' text messaging software that prevents code in the messages' text from overflowing into other parts of the device's memory where it can run as an executable program.
The two researchers plan to demonstrate how a series of 512 SMS messages can exploit the bug, with only one of those messages actually appearing on the phone, showing a small square.
(Someone could easily design the attack to show a different message or without any visible messages, Miller cautions.)
The entire process of infecting an iPhone and then using the device to infect another phone on the user's contact list would take only a few minutes, Miller says.
The vulnerability of SMS to that sort of attack will likely be a hot topic at this year's Black Hat and Defcon cybersecurity confabs.
Two other researchers, Zane Lackey and Luis Miras, say they plan to present other vulnerabilities in major vendors' SMS applications, though they declined to discuss which vendors or the specifics of the vulnerabilities before the companies had issued patches.
Lackey and Miras argue that SMS demands far more attention from the cybersecurity community and device vendors. "Like a lot of mobile phone software, it's been relatively unexplored in the past," Lackey told Forbes.
"Only recently has there been proper debugging and development tools available.
"SMS exemplifies a common trend: once it was a simple technology.
'Now it's being used in devices far beyond its original purposes, and security is still playing catch up."
The researchers' concerns aren't merely theoretical.
Finnish security firm, F-Secure, says it's found nearly 500 different variants of mobile phone malicious software since 2004, mostly using Bluetooth to hop between phones in close proximity.
But in the last 18 months, cyber criminals have begun using text messages to send links to malicious websites that infect the phone with malware, says Mikko Hyppönen, an F-Secure researcher.
One seemingly Chinese variant, known as "Sexy View", and currently targeting the Symbian operating system, is far more threatening than an iPhone attack, given that around 50% of cellphones use Symbian, Hyppönen says.
"After years of the security industry wondering why we aren't seeing text message worms, it's starting to happen now," he says.
While many of those ongoing attacks are merely hacker experiments, some have used phones to text premium numbers that generate revenue for cyber criminals.
"Mostly it's still about curiosity and fun, but eventually the criminal guys move in," says Hyppönen.
"We're probably on the verge of that right now."
As dangerous as his iPhone attack sounds, Miller argues it's important to expose flaws in SMS software before they can be exploited by more malicious actors.
Texting applications' insecurity isn't due to the software's complexity so much as the security community's inattention and the expense of sending thousands of text messages to test a phone's security, Miller says.
"The bad news is, SMS is the perfect attack vector, but the good news is it's probably possible to build it securely," he says.
"As a researcher, I can only show Apple the bugs.
'It's up to them to fix them."
ewww...?
30 Jul '09
In this image from NASA television, Endeavour astronaut Julie Payette, of Canada, speaks alongside other astronauts during a news conference while in space, 26 July 2009. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/NASA TV)
Where no man has gone before (we hope): Astronaut wears high-tech undies for a month, straight...
26 minutes ago
By Marcia Dunn, The Associated Press
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - In what might embarrass less adventurous souls, astronaut Koichi Wakata is returning to Earth with the underwear he kept on for a solid month, during his space station stay and scientists will check them out.
They're experimental high-tech undies, designed in Japan to be odor free.
The Japanese spaceman described his underwear test Thursday as shuttle Endeavor and its crew aimed for a touchdown the next morning.
The astronauts released some mini satellites, their final job before Friday's re-entry, and said it was time to come home after more than two weeks aloft.
Wakata has been off the planet for 4 1/2 months.
"I haven't talked about this underwear to my crew members," Wakata said in an interview with The Associated Press, drawing a big laugh from his six shuttle colleagues.
"But I wore them for about a month, and my station crew members never complained for about a month, so I think the experiment went fine."
The Japanese underwear, called J-Wear, is a new type of anti-bacterial, water-absorbent, odor-eliminating clothing designed for space travel.
The line includes shirts, pants and socks as well. Wakata tested all of them during his mission; he had four pairs of the silver-coated underwear, a cross between briefs and boxers.
"We'll see the results after landing," Wakata said.
J-Wear is billed as being antistatic and flame retardant, which is especially important for spaceship wear.
The cotton and polyester clothes are also seamless, making them lighter and more comfortable, according to the Japanese Space Agency.
The goal is "comfortable everyday clothes for life in a spaceship".
Another Japanese astronaut wore some J-Wear items during a shuttle flight last year, but had only 16 days in orbit to try them out.
NASA's space station program manager, Mike Suffredini, stressed the importance of testing new products, especially those aimed at improving astronauts' quality of life.
There's no way to wash clothes in space.
Station residents simply ditch dirty outfits, along with other garbage, in no longer needed cargo ships sent plunging in flames through the atmosphere.
"Eventually, we're going to do exploration.
"We're going to go to the moon.
"We're going to go beyond the moon someday, and little things like this will seem like really, really big things when you're far away from Mother Earth," Suffredini told reporters.
Good weather was forecast for Friday's late morning landing attempt, with the rain expected to hold off until afternoon at NASA's spaceport.
On Thursday afternoon, NASA cleared Endeavor to come home, after analyzing wing and nose images beamed down by the crew Wednesday in one final sweep for micrometeorite damage.
"I'm ready to get back ...I think I have a landing in me, so don't want to get anybody on the ground worried about that," commander Mark Polansky told the AP.
In one of NASA's longer shuttle flights, Polansky and his crew put a new addition onto the international space station - a porch for Japan's massive $1 billion lab - and freshened up the place with batteries, experiments and spare parts.
They rocketed into space 15 July.
Thursday marked Day 15 in space for Polansky and all but one of his crew.
For Wakata, Thursday marked Day 137.
He flew to the space station back in March, becoming the first person from Japan to live at the orbiting outpost.
Wakata said he's longing for sushi.
"That's the first thing I'd like to have and also a hot spring in Japan sometime in the near future," Wakata told the AP.
Earlier in the day, the shuttle astronauts released a small canister containing a navigation and rendezvous experiment.
Five hours later, the crew launched an atmospheric density experiment so scientists can better understand how orbiting objects move and eventually come down.
Over at the space station, meanwhile, the major air-purifying system on the U.S. side failed again, and the crew spent the day trying to fix the equipment. Engineers suspect a heating element is causing a short.
A carbon dioxide-removal system on the Russian side is still operating properly, and the six astronauts have backup methods for cleansing the cabin atmosphere.
But the American system is critical for long-term space station operations.
It overheated over the weekend and shut down, but flight controllers managed to work around the problem, at least for a few days.
As for NASA's next station visit, officials are targeting an 25 Aug. launch of Discovery, provided a few remaining tests of the fuel tank shows the insulating foam is attached properly.
An unusually large amount of foam broke off Endeavour's fuel tank during liftoff.
Deputy shuttle program manager LeRoy Cain said dust or other debris may have gotten on the tank and not been cleaned off prior to the foam application.
Some of the workers may not have been familiar enough with the job, he noted.
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On the Net:
NASA: http://www.nasa.gov/mission(underscore)pages/shuttle/main/index.html
Copyright © 2009 Canadian Press
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[a neat idea from kj (link in my sidebar)]
#333 blogland lane
The new built-in Sub-Zero refrigerator incorporates a unique microbiological water filter reducing any contaminants, viruses and bacteria in household water, while preserving the fresh taste of clean water and ice.
Refrigerator water filters typically reduce only chlorine and sediment.
As of now, only Sub-Zero incorporates this type of water filtration technology in built-in refrigerators.
Seafood and Corn Beach Barbecue
The two-faced salmon
The salmon is an amazing fish.
Not only can they return to the very river they were hatched, they also swim up stream and up even waterfalls to get back.
Add to that their ability to survive both fresh and salt water, and you've got a very special fish.
Too bad for them we find them good to eat.
Not only do they taste good, but they pack a healthy punch as well, being rich in protein and Omega-3 fatty acids (good for the heart, those) but relatively low in harmful fat.
There is some concern Salmon may be high in toxic substances, but the benefits still outweigh the risks.
[Recipes by Stanca Stratowski]
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