81, that ain't bad. I'm going to eat me some more sausage.RICHMOND, Va. - Jimmy Dean, a country music legend for his smash hit about a workingman hero, "Big Bad John," and an entrepreneur known for his sausage brand, has died. He was 81.
His wife, Donna Meade Dean, says her husband died at 7:54 p.m. Sunday at their Henrico County, Va., home, south of Richmond.
She tells The Associated Press that he had some health problems but was still functioning well, so his death came as a shock.
Born in 1928, Dean was raised in poverty in Plainview, Texas, and dropped out of high school after the ninth grade. But he went on to a successful entertainment career in the '50s and '60s.
In 1969, Dean went into the sausage business, starting the Jimmy Dean Meat Co. He sold the company to Sara Lee Corp. in 1984.
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Sunday, June 13, 2010
Jimmy Dean, singer, sausage businessman, dies at 81; known for 'Big Bad John' song
Hayabusa sample capsule photographed on the ground in Australia - Asteroid Return Mission
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By Emily Lakdawalla
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Hayabusa sample capsule photographed on the ground in Australia
Jun. 13, 2010 | 19:23 PDT | Jun. 14 02:23 UTCOh my wonderful little flying saucer, you have been to an asteroid and back -- and you were burning like a star last night! And there you are, sitting quietly in the desert, just waiting to be retrieved...
Clearly I've been affected by reading so many automated translations of Japanese text over the last 24 hours. But this is such a welcome sight. To be perfectly honest, while I knew Hayabusa was going to crash to Earth, I don't think I ever believed the parachute and beacon would work, after the 3-year delay; I figured the battery wouldn't work and at best we'd have Genesis on our hands again, with the capsule crashed into the desert and broken open. I really never believed it would work so well. I'm sorry, Hayabusa mission and JAXA, for my lack of faith! You really have accomplished something amazing.
On June 14, 2010, following its dramatic, fiery reentry the night before, the Hayabusa sample return capsule sat on the ground in the Woomera Prohibited Area, Australia, waiting to be retrieved. Credit: JAXA
U.S. Discovers Over $1 Trillion Worth of Minerals in Afghanistan
via nytimes.com
" WASHINGTON — The United States has discovered nearly $1 trillion ( This is what the are telling the Afghan Gov right now ) in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan, far beyond any previously known reserves and enough to fundamentally alter the Afghan economy and perhaps the Afghan war itself, according to senior American government officials. " How Convenient, I wonder if the billion dollar spy satellites more powerful than Hubble orbiting the region like gnats after 9/11 took any notice, hmmmz indeed!
Rab C. Nesbitt Syndrome is Spreading Throughout Scotland
According to a recent study
" Almost the entire adult population of Scotland (97.5%) are likely to be either cigarette smokers, heavy drinkers, physically inactive, overweight or have a poor diet. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Public Health also found a strong association between the presence of several of these risk factors and low income. "
This can only mean one thing, and one thing only. Rab C. Nesbitt is back in production after an 11 year hiatus. The impenetrable Glaswegian accent of our favorite Calodonian scalawag is back and the whole of Scotland is taking part in the largest scale Reality TV/Sitcom fusion show ever.
Anti-Gay Attack by Real Life Bert and Ernie from Sesame Street
JAXA's Hayabusa Asteroid Collection Mission on the Homestretch to Earth
Written by Nancy Atkinson
Hayabusa's sample return capsule descends under parachute toward the Woomera desert, Australia. Credit: Corby Waste and Tommy Thompson for NASA / JPL
After overcoming multiple serious glitches, and a three-year delay in its four billion miles (six billion kilometers) round-trip journey, JAXA's Hayabusa spacecraft is expected to land in Australia around 14:00 UTC on Sunday, June 13; (midnight local time in Australia, 11 pm in Japan and 11:00 a.m. ET in the US). Scientists and space enthusiasts alike are hoping there is some precious cargo aboard in the sample return capsule: dust from an asteroid.
The latest word from JAXA, as of this writing, is that all systems were doing well on Hayabusa. The teams assessed the trajectory of Hayabusa and confirmed that everything was nominal.If all goes well, Hayabusa will release a canister that will land in the Woomera Prohibited Area in the outback of South Australia; Hayabusa itself will follow, putting on a show over Australia as it breaks up and incinerates in Earth's atmosphere.
You can follow the landing in several ways. A NASA team will be attempting to observe the re-entry of Hayabusa in a DC-8 plane, and they hope to have a webcast at this link.
There will be a "Hayabusa Live" website and a Hayabusa blog will be updated frequently, plus this Hayabusa Twitter feed.
Here's a link to a finder chart and more from Paul Floyd at his website, Night Sky Online.
The Hayabusa spacecraft, formerly known as MUSES-C launched on May 9, 2003 and rendezvoused with the asteroid Itokawa in mid-September 2005. Hayabusa studied the asteroid's shape, spin, topography, color, composition, density, and history. Then in November 2005, it attempted to land on the asteroid to collect samples but failed to do so. However, it is hoped that some dust swirled into the sampling chamber. You can listen to Universe Today writer Steve Nerlich (from Cheap Astronomy) tell the story of Hayabusa's trials and tribulations on this 365 Days of Astronomy podcast.
The aim of the $200 million Hayabusa project was to learn more about asteroids and to help in our understanding of the origin and evolution of the solar system.
If Hayabusa is indeed carrying samples from the asteroid, it would be only the fourth sample return of space material in history — including the moon matter collected by the Apollo missions, comet matter by Stardust and solar matter in the Genesis mission.
We're all hoping for the best for this first sample return from an asteroid, and it should be an interesting time in Australia. Dozens of scientists will be watching and waiting to see the return.
A view of Woomera from the Ghan train. Credit: Col Maybury
Plus, as Col Maybury from radio station 2NUR in Australia tells me, all traffic around the area will be stopped, including the Ghan train, one of the world's great trains that travels from south to north across the continent of Australia, and it happens to be passing through Woomera right at the time Hayabusa should be returning. Col said he called the train company, and was told that the train engineers are to keep a look out for the entry trail."So a mighty train named after Afghan camel drivers may have to halt for a small spacecraft or be hit by a flying object," Col wrote me in an email. He will have a live report on Radio 2NUR-FM on Tuesday the 15th at 10:20 am in Newcastle, 12:20 GMT, talking with the Woomera officials for a follow-up of the Hayabusa event.
Preliminary analysis of the samples will be carried out by the team in Japan, but after one year scientists around the world can apply for access to bits of the asteroid material for research.
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Tags: Asteroids, Hayabusa, sample return
Mossad agent arrested over Dubai murder will be extradited to Germany
Israel is going to be paying the salaries of half the PR firms in the world with all their recent fuck ups. No amount of cheap diplomatic tricks will be bringing détente to the severely strained relations Israel has with the vast vast majority of the world. What Israel risks in refusing to acknowledge its intelligence and tactical failures is decades of strategic cold war as they pout like spoiled 40 year children in their single parent's basement. This tragicomedy stars the US as an Archie Bunker-like bigot who will never admit their child can do any wrong as they fill the crawlspaces with the bodies of dead Palestinians and Hippies. Maybe Cartman can have a cameo?Mossad agent arrested over Dubai murder
By Allan Hall
Last updated at 12:28 AM on 13th June 2010
An Israeli Mossad agent allegedly involved in the assassination of a Hamas leader in Dubai has been arrested in Poland.
The agent, named as Uri Brodsky, could now be extradited to Germany, which has accused him of obtaining a false German passport used by one of the killers.
Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, one of the founders of Hamas’s military wing, was found dead in a Dubai hotel on January 20.
The Mossad mission triggered international condemnation when it was revealed that stolen passport information – including that of 12 British nationals – had been used to allow the agents to enter Dubai.
Polish authorities said Brodsky, an Israeli citizen, was seized last week on a European arrest warrant as he flew into Warsaw airport. Germany claims he managed to obtain a passport under the name Michael Bodenheimer in June last year from officials in Cologne.
Fake picture: The German passport of Michael Bodenheimer allegedly used by Uri Brodsky
It is alleged that Brodsky managed to trick staff by claiming he was a relative
of a Jewish family named Bodenheimer, who had been thrown out of their home by the Nazis in the Thirties.
Under German law, relatives of those disenfranchised under the Third Reich’s race laws are entitled to claim citizenship of the modern state.
In a report due to be published tomorrow, German magazine Der Spiegel will revealthat international police agencies tracked Brodsky entering Dubai several times before January. German officials also claimed there is evidence that the home address given by Brodsky had been faked by Mossad and was near their base.
‘The agency must have counted on the fact that the citizen registry office in Cologne would have someone from the German Embassy check Bodenheimer’s background,’ the report in Der Spiegel says.
Brodsky is alleged to have been involved in logistics, providing paperwork, safe houses and other back-up for the 20-strong execution squad.
His arrest could pose serious problems for Israel, which has denied assassinating al-Mabhouh.
This agent with the help of Mossad faked a family history involving the holocaust to obtain a German passport, that should make the holocaust deniers giddy tonight. Israel faking entire families that were killed in Shoah, how low can they go?
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