I am not a blogger. But I apparently will be shortly as I try to attempt to do what my wife does so well.
What I am good at is barbecue. And apparently when you combine a spouse who writes professionally and incorporates our combined passion for barbecue you get… samples?
Yes, I recall the first time Mary received her first sample bottle of wine, the excitement, the giddiness that came from the acknowledgement that someone out there was paying attention to this one voice of many on the web.
Boy did I learn a thing or two.
Championship BBQ Secrets for Real Smoked Foods, by Karen Putman and Judith Fertig, is a (very) comprehensive summary of not only BBQ techniques, but also of so many variations on sauces, sides, pork, beef and specialty meats that it can almost overwhelm anyone when you first open it.
While lacking in photo quantity, which (in my humble opinion) is so important for a cookbook for the masses, it makes up for it in the volume of pork and beef options. Imagine waking up one day saying, I want to try seven different ways to make brisket; well this book is for you. Let's break it down by major category before the final verdict.
You have lots of them in this book, from rubs, to pastes, to beef and lamb to several other meats in between; this book takes a look at your appetite and definitely has a lot to offer. The technique section is good, though not Myron Mixon good (and if you follow bbq, you know who he is).
Sometimes when I experience so much variation it can be overwhelming. The choices combined with lack of photos, which as I mentioned were lacking. Plus, why not break out the options into different books? Hear me out… when you go for something so comprehensive, I tend to get a little questionable whether they truly can nail every single recipe. From my attempt at a small sample, some were perfect, others needed tweaking.
Side Dish: Smoked Deviled Eggs – The verdict, a winner for the concept but the portions of the deviling seemed off, I went back and adjusted back on some of the ingredients for a richer texture.
Rub: Flower of the Flames Rib Rub – The verdict, ok. For something that says "flame", I expected more heat, but the flavor was there.
Sauce: Flower of the Flame Raspberry BBQ Sauce – The verdict, too sweet, but there was flavor. My goal with anything sweet is to balance with heat and this one didn't balance the heat.
Poultry: Cornish Game Hen – The verdict, not so much. I didn't get the crackling exterior and the honey glaze wasn't working for me.
Pork: World Championship Ribs – The verdict, a winner. Even with the flower of the flame rub and raspberry sauce, the flavor was there.
Lamb: Cherry Smoked Rack of Lamb with Fresh Herb Paste – The verdict, a winner and our favorite of all the recipes we tried from the book. I haven't smoked lamb before and this turned out great, especially with the addition of the paste. We've also included this very recipe below!
If you are experienced on the BBQ looking to branch out for options, yes this book is for you. If you are a novice, I say stick with books focusing on technique and why it's important to brine, inject, rub, mop and glaze your meats. This book has a lot of options for following along, but I really love the books that teach why so you can experiment on your own.
So what else did I learn? A lot goes into writing a blog post and even more respect for the time taken for any serious blogger to stay focused. It's a lot of work! So next time I see boxes that may be something other than wine, I think I might just keep my mouth shut.
Excerpted from Championship BBQ Secrets for Real Smoked Food by Karen Putman & Judith Fertig, page 346, © 2013 www.robertrose.ca, Reprinted with permission.
This recipe took first place in its category at the Kansas State Fair barbecue contest and helped me win the Kansas State Grand Championship at the National Lamb-BQ Contest.
TIP: "French" the bones by scraping the bits of fat and flesh off the ends with a sharp knife (or have the butcher do this).
Prepare the paste: In a food processor, process oil, thyme, basil, mint, seasoned salt, rosemary, garlic and shallots for 1 minute, or until mixture becomes a loose paste.
Place lamb in a large sealable plastic bag and pour in paste. Seal bag, toss to coat and refrigerate for 2 hours.
Remove lamb from paste and pat dry. Discard paste.
In a small bowl, combine mustard and honey; brush onto lamb. Set aside.
Place lamb directly on the smoker rack, add wood to the coals and close the lid. Smoke at 225ºF to 250ºF (110ºC to 120ºC) for about 11⁄2 hours, or until a meat thermometer inserted in the center of a rack reaches an internal temperature of 145ºF (63ºC) for medium-rare, or until desired doneness.
That lamb looks so good! We will have to try that in our household.
I enjoy the excellent guest blog post, "Hubby"!! You did good!
The "Flower" of the Flames was Karen Putman. The first Female Executive Chef in the United Stars if my memory serves me correctly.


Beach Automotive Group is honored to share this fantastic news involving some really special kids.
Here's some really great news from Michigan! Ford awarded more than $20,000 in prizes and scholarships at the end of May. This took place at the annual Ford Freedom Award Scholar's Experience. The ceremony celebrates kids and teens who develop methods that encourage diversity. The function was held to coincide with the 19th annual Ford Freedom Award ceremony. Present were over 1,700 students from across Michigan. These students all submitted essays telling how they could use their interests and talents to bring people together. Hosting this event with Ford was the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History. Detroit Newspapers in Education was also a host.. It was for students in fourth grade through eighth grade. We have to agree this contest was a big success!
The first place scholarship winner was Mohammed Muntakim. He's an eighth grader at Davison Elementary-Middle School in Detroit. Mohammed won $5,000 for his essay. His work focused on his enthusiasm for increasing respect and understanding through Academic Games. Rod Bead, who is the assistant executive director of the Michigan League of Academic Games also shares this passion. With his great attitude, Mohammed will go far in life. This award will certainly help!
Jillian Lesson, 8th grade, West Hills Middle School; Nafisa Chudhury, 6th grade, Dickinson East Elementary School; and Jackson Huff, 8th grade, Trinity Lutheran School each received honorable mention ($500 each).
This is some pretty terrific news! Of course we send our congratulations to all the scholarship winners. We're proud of you! Ford wants to make sure that our future generations understand the importance of community. It's people from all walks of life coming together. Not only does Ford develop some great cars, it also helps to develop great people.


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Spirit of Challenge
May 13, 2016 July 13, 2018 ewuerffe
A 4-part series about Captain Hanadi Al-Hindi, Saudi Arabia's first female pilot.
Part 1: Looking for Value
"My voice was so little, nobody heard it. I started screaming."
Transcript for Part 1: Looking for Value
Part 2: First Female Saudi Pilot
"Oh my God, what trouble did I put myself in?"
Transcript for Part 2: First Female Saudi Pilot
Part 3: Beyond My Dream
"I trust you. Just do what you learned."
Transcript for Part 3: Beyond My Dream
Part 4: Spirit of Challenge
"Now we have a voice, we can talk, and we can say it, loud and clear."
Transcript for Part 4: Spirit of Challenge
Looking for Value
I was born and grew up in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. I think everyone knows Mecca is like the holy city for Muslim people, where we have the holy mosque. It's crowded all around the year, because we have people come from all around the country, the world, to visit the holy mosque. This is make us, like the people in Mecca, more open and more exposed to others because used to communicate, to have a lot of people from different countries and different cultures all the time. This is kind of the most privilege that Mecca people have, to have connection with another people.
I was in the middle school; I was so quiet. It didn't give me this value in the classroom amongst all the girls because the more you're active, the more you're outgoing with the teacher, you get better grades, you get better treatment from teachers. I was so quiet – so smart – but I was so quiet. So that is, okay, you pass your exams, you have high grades, but you don't have value. The teacher doesn't remember your name.
I started talking so much, very loud. My voice was so little, nobody hear it. I started screaming until now. My voice is just like, go to higher volume.
When I was in high school, they started asking us – the teacher: "What do you want to do, what do you want to be, after university?" I don't know if you know her name, Miss Hanan Ashrawi. She's a Palestinian politician. She was very famous at that time. She was on all over TVs and she acted like men.
I used to look at her, just like, I want to be like her, very strong, very powerful. Like men. I was like, "I want to be like Miss Hanan Ashrawi." She's like, "Why?" Like, "Because she's a female, working with male, and she doesn't have a problem. And she's able to do it." She's like, "You're not allowed to do this in this country."
Then I went to my dad, 'Dad, I want to do something different. I want to work with men, competing with men." I don't like competing with women, actually, especially in my country.
We grew up knowing that men have the most authority; they have the rights of everything. I didn't like that. I love my father. I love my brothers. I love my uncles. I don't have a problem with men. But why they are like they look at them as stronger than women? They're not. We're equal.
I said to my dad, "I want to compete with men. I don't want to compete with women." He said, "Why?" Just like, "I just want to do this. Do you think I'm able to do it?" He's like, "Um, I don't know, just leave it like this. You don't need to talk about this in front of everyone." And he left me about four years without even discussing these things. And suddenly he just like, he came to me, said, "What do you think if you become a pilot? This is, would be, really competing with men." I said, "Okay, why not? I love traveling, I don't have a problem to do it." He's just like, "Are you able to do that? You will be with men all the time." Just like, "I don't have a problem with men. I will be with them. I will succeed, I'm sure."
First Female Saudi Pilot
I am the first female Saudi pilot, officially.
To be a pilot you just have to have high school certificate. Then you apply in an academy or aviation college to get a license, which is commercial. There is like many different license: private pilot's license, then commercial and instrument which allow you to work and get paid for what you're doing as a job. And that processing there is like a theory section. You have to pass it before doing the practicum training. That would take… the average is about 1 year and… 18 months to do everything.
The first thing I had to do that to get a permission from the government to do it, but they said, like, "We cannot say no, but we cannot say yes as well. Because we cannot guarantee a job for her. She's doing it, and we cannot give her a scholarship for sure, because she's a pilot, and we do not support this. If you want," they said to my dad, "If you want, you pay everything for her. We're not getting involved."
At that time, we don't have academy for pilot training for Saudi Arabia. Even if we do have, they would not let me in because I'm a female, because it's only for men. So I had to go to Jordan to do my training; I couldn't do it in Saudi Arabia anyhow.
In Jordan, they were so very, very supporting. I cannot forget how they were cooperating with me as a female from Saudi Arabia, from the first day I arrived to school. They used to have even female instructors. This is the first thing convinced me that I can do it, because they have female instructors.
When I applied first, at the academy in Jordan, I didn't know that I was the first. Then the manager and the instructors in the school, they told me, "You are the first, because there's no other female pilot did in Saudi Arabia registered in any other countries. Maybe they had a private pilot's license, they do it for fun, but there is no female pilot to have a commercial license. So you will be the first." I was like, "Okay, this is like, exciting, I want to do it."
I have to say, I have to admit, I wanted the title so badly. I want to do it. I want to get the title. To be the first is something different. But afterwards, I was like, "Oh my God, what trouble I put myself in?" It's a huge responsibility. It's like no way to give up at any point, because if I was to give up at some point, no other female in Saudi Arabia would be a pilot ever.
Because especially when the media started to have the press saying, "There is a female pilot in Saudi Arabia. And she's the first, and she broke all the rules. She's challenging her society." I don't want to be in trouble with my country, but I'm doing it for myself. I'm not asking for something in my country.
At the first, I wanted just to get a license, picture with my uniform, and give it to my dad, put it in his office saying to people that my daughter know how to fly. This is the only thing at the beginning. And then, when I started actually training, and I knew I was the first female pilot, I said to my dad, "Dad, I want this as my career. This is my job, forever. I want to work as a commercial pilot. Would you let me do that?" He's like, "I was dreaming to see you a commercial pilot. But I don't want to put this load on you. But if you want to do it, I'm behind you."
The journey started from then that I had to finish. I have to succeed. I have to prove to the country that I'm able to do what a man can do.
Beyond My Dream
I was so amazed to the response by the Saudi press, how they took it. The day, all Saudi newspapers, they just announced there was the first Saudi female pilot. It was so positive. I was surprised, really. I didn't expect that.
Already the media helped me so much in Saudi Arabia to get me known by the government, by the royal family, that there is a female pilot. And they was announcing and saying I needed support, I need to be supported in the country because I'm doing it for my country.
In 2004, I had the big support from one of the royal family in the country. His name is Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal. He's a big name for a royal family member who is really supporting women in Saudi Arabia very much. Then he gave me a job in his company, which is like a private pilot in a VIP company. Just be his pilot for his family. So that was like, "Oh, my God, this is a big thing."
He hired me in 2004. I graduated from Jordan, I get back to my country. They refused my license in the beginning because I'm a female. And then I had to do more training in England, more training in America, to get the FAA license. It took about 9 years to approve me as a pilot, to give me the Saudi license.
I had a big doubt in my mind that the Prince would never fly with me. How would he believe and trust women to fly him? I wasn't the only one who was flying. I was first officer, so I had my captain and he was a man. Still, I'm the first officer; I have a lot of responsibility to do many things. And then, the Prince, when he came up to the plane, he said, "Oh, I'm going to fly with you now." He's so friendly and he's so normal. He's like, "I'm going to fly with you, finally." "Okay, are you sure you want to fly with me? If you want to change your mind, I don't have a problem." He's like, "I trust you. Just do what you learned." Okay.
I couldn't be emotional at that time. I couldn't cry. Because I'm so emotional; I couldn't cry. I had to be strong. I had to take him. The airplane wasn't that big. It's a jet, but it's for eight passengers. And he was in the front. Our cockpit doesn't have a door, so it's not closed. I could hear him, and he said, like, "Okay, Hanadi, go, go, go, go!" when we did the first takeoff.
When I landed, I did the landing. It was manual, obviously. So I did the landing and he started applauding. And he asked the people to applaud for me. Ah! At that time I had to be emotional; I had to cry. This is just like – it goes beyond my dream, very much.
I got permission from him to flew with my parents, just like to take them for a tour. My mom was kind of afraid. Even when I was doing the training, she was like, "Ah, I don't want to put any pressure on you, that's why I don't want to fly with you," when I was doing the training. I was just like, "Mom, I have the license now, I'm approved by the government in Saudi Arabia, you have to fly with me. You have to believe in me. We're not going to die." So just like, "You have to come."
She was crying when she saw me in my uniform. And I took them on the plane. Just like, "Okay, have your seatbelt, you'll be fine."
My dad, when we landed, he said, "I don't – I wouldn't dream anymore. This is what I dreamt of, and that's it. It goes much, much beyond. I wouldn't be able to sleep and dream about you flying again." Just like, "That's it."
This is the most important days of ever, in my career. I would never forget it. Never.
My parents give me the confidence in myself. Even before doing, being a pilot, my parents, when we used to travel in the summer and we had our summer trip, my dad used to give me the authority to lead them. Just like, to put this inside me, just like: you're a leader, you're a leader. This positive energy being strong and leading others.
I think my power, the power I got, I got it from the people I love, from my family, from my brother, from my nieces, nephew. I couldn't be weak in front of them at all. Sometime I am, I do it, I cry a lot. Most of the time I try not to show it that much because I want to give them this energy of being strong, and being fighter, and do whatever, be a successful people in the society.
It took me so much time to prove myself. Ages. I sacrificed a lot of things in my life just to prove that I'm capable.
This is the… most costly thing I had to pay to be in this position in my journey. I had to pay it. I had to pay this. Not to have a family, not to have a normal life. I knew it in the beginning. I want it. But when you get older, things is changing in your mind, just like, "Okay now time is to have children, now time is to have fully established in your social or emotional life." And that is what is missing right now.
When I first started they told me, like, "You will never find a Saudi man who will accept your situation or accept your work." I said, like, "No, I will find one day. I'm not going to give up on this. I will find a Saudi man who accepting my situation and he will supporting. He will be supportive."
My last training was with a female instructor. She's a pilot; she's a captain in Delta Airlines. She's a female and she has a family, she has daughters, and her life was normal! She's instructing and she flies normally. She doesn't have to worry about being a female at all!
Sooner or later, the women has to get their right to do whatever they're able to do, if they want. I'm not asking her to go outside and work, and get involved in other things, rather than what she's doing, because it's her choice to be with the house, with her children, her husband, at house. But I'm saying for the women who wants to do something in their life, like do work, or vocation or something. Why? What's the reason why we're not allowed to? Because we're women, like any other women around the world? We don't have disability. But the opposite! We have this spirit of challenging, because we're kind of forced for a period of time not to doing many things. Now we have this spirit of "we have to do it, we have to prove that we're able to do it." This is, I could see it for at many Saudi female, that we cannot be abandoned for the rest of our life, we have to do something. And now we have a voice, we can talk, and we can say it, loud and clear.
I'm so loyal to Saudi Arabia, very much. A lot of things in my mind, I'm like, I want to do it for Saudi Arabia, because I love this country, it's my country. This is where I was born, where I was raised. So when I hear some girl saying, "Thank you very much, you inspired me that everything is possible. It's not about only being a pilot, but you've done something, it was not permitted to do in the country, but you did it." So this is what makes you feel like: Okay, I'm able to do more and fight more.
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Addiction, Mental Health Deal Gets Push as Time Ebbs in Congress
Credit: Bloomberg Government, Alex Ruoff
Lawmakers are pushing to attach bills to address addiction and mental health to a must-pass federal spending bill, hoping to reach a year-end deal before Congress adjourns.
With the November midterm elections in the rear-view mirror, the bipartisan push in both chambers seeks agreement on a measure to make it easier for doctors to prescribe addiction medication and expand federal mental health programs. In January, the new Congress, with Republicans taking control of the House, would have to start from scratch.
US drug overdose deaths have risen steadily in recent years, and suicides increased in 2021, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The House passed a package of mental health and addiction bills (H.R. 7666) earlier this year by a vote of 402-20. The Senate never considered the measure.
"These should be bipartisan wins—we all win here," Rep. David Trone (D-Md.) said. "The message we got back from the Republican side when we passed this was: you're going to have to wait until after the election." Now that voting for the Georgia Senate seat is complete, there's no fear of either party benefiting politically from passing the legislation, he said.
Trone said Democratic leaders told him they support adding the package to the next spending bill, but Republican leaders in the Senate have yet to agree.
A spokesman for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) didn't respond to a request for comment.
Congressional leaders are still negotiating the broad outline of how they'll fund the government beyond Dec. 16, Richard Shelby (Ala.), the top Republican on the Senate Appropriations Committee, told reporters Tuesday. The two sides remain tens of billions of dollars apart, he said, on how much money should be directed to federal agencies.
Congressional leaders can't agree on which riders could be attached to such a bill until they get this broad outline, Shelby said.
In the meantime, key lawmakers are making the case for including legislation to combat addiction.
Reps. Frank Pallone (N.J.) and Cathy McMorris Rodgers (Wash.), the Democratic and Republican heads of the Energy and Commerce Committee, are both lobbying their party leaders to get the legislation into a year-end spending package, according to committee aides familiar with the discussions.
Eyes on Senate
McMorris Rodgers faulted the Senate for the legislation languishing.
"This is very important legislation to help address the mental health crisis in our country," McMorris Rodgers said. "It passed the House with a strong vote, so it's more about the Senate right now. They need to look at this work more seriously."
The legislation would reauthorize and expand several federal mental health programs, increase access to medications for addiction treatment, and increase mental health parity enforcement.
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle say not enough has been done in response to the record number of overdose deaths in 2021.
"We have a mental health crisis," McMorris Rodgers said. "This is the number one I'm asked about when I talk to people."
In the Senate, key committee leaders say they've been working on their own legislation to address matters such as insurance parity for mental health services and expanding the number of mental health professionals.
Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said his staff have been drafting mental health legislation in hopes of getting it into some kind of year-end package. He declined to say if Senate leaders had agreed to add it in.
Personal Connection
Lawmakers who've been pushing to get addiction-related legislation passed this year have been frustrated by a lack of action, Trone said. The issue has become more salient for lawmakers as overdose deaths rise across the country, but it hasn't been enough to prompt a significant response, he said.
"Clearly Congress hasn't addressed the issue enough," he said. "But it's changing. Everyone in Congress now has a close family member, a neighbor, a friend, an employee that's died from an overdose."
Trone's nephew died of an overdose in 2016.


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Impulse buying: a meta-analytic review
Gopalkrishnan R. Iyer, Markus Blut, Sarah Hong Xiao, Dhruv Grewal
Impulse buying by consumers has received considerable attention in consumer research. The phenomenon is interesting because it is not only prompted by a variety of internal psychological factors but also influenced by external, market-related stimuli. The meta-analysis reported in this article integrates findings from 231 samples and more than 75,000 consumers to extend understanding of the relationship between impulse buying and its determinants, associated with several internal and external factors. Traits (e.g., sensation-seeking, impulse buying tendency), motives (e.g., utilitarian, hedonic), consumer resources (e.g., time, money), and marketing stimuli emerge as key triggers of impulse buying. Consumers' self-control and mood states mediate and explain the affective and cognitive psychological processes associated with impulse buying. By establishing these pathways and processes, this study helps clarify factors contributing to impulse buying and the role of factors in resisting such impulses. It also explains the inconsistent findings in prior research by highlighting the context-dependency of various determinants. Specifically, the results of a moderator analysis indicate that the impacts of many determinants depend on the consumption context (e.g., product's identity expression, price level in the industry).
Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science
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36th All Colorado Juried Art Exhibit
Sunday, August 11, 2019 @ 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Depot Art Gallery — 2069 W. Powers Avenue, Littleton
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Exhibit and sale of juried, original artwork by prominent and accomplished artists from all over Colorado. Juror is national award winning fine artist, Joan Kresek. This public exhibit of artwork includes paintings, photography, ceramics, jewelry, glass, sculpture, fiber, wood, and more! The exhibit is free and open to the public.
We offer free and easy parking, artwork for all generations, for all occasions, for all prices. Come and experience art at its finest!
The Depot Art Center and Gallery is a restored Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe train station originally built in 1888. It was retired in 1965 and eventually relocated to its current location at The Depot Art Gallery Powers and Court in Littleton. In 1969 the Depot was designated as a historic landmark. In June of 1977, The Deport Art Center and Gallery opened. In 1979, it was enhanced by the addition of a renovated 1890's caboose just north of the red and green Depot building. Located just east of the railroad tracks, the Depot is a successful and unique center in a marriage of community spirit and the arts.
Cost Free Admission
Sponsor(s) Littleton Fine Arts Guild
Contact Depot Art Gallery
Website http://www.depotartgallery.org
Depot Art Gallery
2069 W. Powers Avenue - Littleton
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Love Notes from a German Building Site, Adrian Duncan
In Berlin, an old building is being repurposed for use as a computer store. In the middle of a bleak winter, the construction workers have inadequate time, inadequate resources, speak many different languages and have managers fresh from the Celtic Tiger building boom. Nothing can go wrong.
Pirate Queen, Tony Lee and Sam Hart
The indomitable Grace O'Malley, pirate queen, is the heroine of a new graphic novel that will entertain and inform children from nine years upwards.
A Short History of Drunkenness, Mark Forsyth
A Ukrainian proverb can be taken to illustrate our human attraction – and perhaps our occasional uneasiness about that attraction – to alcohol, its pleasures and dangers. "The church is near," it goes, "and the tavern is far. It is snowing heavily. I shall walk carefully."
Silence is Part of the Problem
Enda Wyley
Sarah Henstra's novel about rape culture in the fraternity of an American Ivy League college can at times be a messy, difficult and violent read, but ultimately it is an important book, one that demands to be read and is not easily forgotten.
Then Again, Pat Boran
In a poem about O'Connell Street's Spire, the monument becomes a dagger, a skewer, an extended middle finger. None of the names are inclusive of us, the citizens; the Spire is the 'we' reduced to 'I', which might be seen as the opposite of Boran's project, to expand the 'I' to 'we'.
How Perfectly the Parts Fit
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
Michael Coady's poems revolve around his home town of Carrick-on-Suir, where the river and the countryside are as essential to living as the air, but it is the presence of people, alive and dead, their relationships, memories, agreements and disagreements that fills them with life.
Stepping Into The Light
Susan McKay
Sinéad Gleeson is already known as a generous literary critic and anthologist, who has rescued the work of some shamefully neglected writers and whose perceptive author interviews are celebrations of the imagination. Now she has stepped out to shine with a luminosity all her own.


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Mars 2020: ULA launches 20th mission to the red planet
Photo by United Launch Alliance
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket carrying the Mars 2020 mission with the Perseverance rover for NASA, lifted off from Space Launch Complex-41 on July 30 at 7:50 a.m. EDT.
ULA and its heritage rockets have launched every U.S. led mission to Mars, beginning in the 1960s. The launch of this mission marks ULA's 20th trip to the red planet and the 85th successful launch of an Atlas V rocket. The Atlas V has previously launched four missions to Mars, including the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in 2005, the Curiosity rover in 2011, the MAVEN orbiter in 2013 and the InSight lander in 2018.
"Thank you to the ULA team and our NASA mission partners for diligently working through an ever-changing environment to successfully launch this historic mission," said Gary Wentz, ULA vice president of Government and Commercial Programs. "The complexity of the Mars 2020 mission proves ULA's acceptance of the most challenging launch requirements and we work together with NASA to achieve them. Our guidance accuracy for interplanetary missions is unmatched, and the Atlas V is the only vehicle certified to launch payloads with nuclear power sources."
Relive the countdown and launch in our Mars 2020 Launch Blog!
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My Very First Blog: Help Me To Decide!
A lot of readers have been asking me how many more posts would I be writing on my holidays in Guilin, China. I am afraid I have barely scratched the surface. I went to China for 10 days, and so far I have only managed to blog on 2 days out of that 10-day trip! I hope you guys are not bored!
I started with the first day in Guilin, where we checked into Backstreet Youth Hostel and then we visited the Elephant Trunk Hill on a raft.
After that, instead of continuing with what we did on the remaining part of the first day, I decided to fast forward to the fifth day where we went on the fantastic Li River Cruise to Yangshuo.
Of course, a lot of interesting things happened between the first and fifth day, so I shall return to the first day again in future posts. I thought it will be more interesting to blog in this manner instead of following in sequence from Day 1 to Day 10.
On reaching Yangshuo, we followed the tour bus and visited five famous tourist attractions namely Jian Shan Temple, Big Banyan Tree, Moon Hill, Ju Long Tan Cave and Exotic Stone Palace.
After that, we had a thrill riding on a bike in Yangshuo street to reach Xi Jie Youth Hostel.
During that evening in Yangshuo, we visited the famous West Street and had a good time.
Now that I have brought you up to date regarding my China trip posts, let's continue from we left off, shall we?
However, I know some of you are waiting for the conclusion as to whether we paid the tour company for the Li River Cruise and tour around Yangshuo. All I can say is that during the two days that we stayed in Yangshuo, they did not contact us. We also did not hear from them the following day when we visited Xingping. On our return to Yangshuo on the 8th day of our China trip, we had already forgotten about them!
But I would like to hint that something happened to us on the 9th day when we were back in Guilin. Now shall I fast forward to the 9th day? Or shall I continue blogging from where we left off in Yangshuo?
I really don't know. Maybe you can help me decide. Tell me what would you like me to do. I think I will follow the majority. Thanks for following my story, dear readers!
erk?? what happen on the 9th day??
You got me hooked on the payment that was why kena twice FC. 9th day Méiyǒu problem.
As long as it is a post with a lot of nice photos, I will read it as I will know more about Guilin even I have not been there before.
It doesn't matter whether your story is in sequel. For me, I am more interested in your information sharing.
Whatever you want to write lah... If I get bored then I just keep quiet and don't leave comment.
just reveal the price...then continue with your post... otherwise my curiousity will turn into anger... hahahha... this is not 1001 night story la, just reveal :) ok?
wah... really just SECOND day ar..
hahaha.. because it's your blog ma..
I'm okay with both choices.
fast forward to 9th day!
on the other hand, it's your blog. write whatever u want. if the post doesn't interest me, i'll just leave without giving any comments.
Foong, go with whatever works for you though my choice would rather be reading the adventures sequentially. This not only gives the travel a smooth flow, it makes for a better record of events. Your choice, of course. Just my two cents.
Also, it's really up to you of how detail you want your record/posts to be. A detailed narration with the necessary info would make for a great reference for future travellers, plus may be good in terms of SEO.
Thanks for sharing your adventures. It's been wonderfully insightful and interesting.
Hmm....I thing you guys did pay. LOL :p Anyway just be yourself bro.
Have a nice day! And yeah I have replied your email!
There would be many posts on your China trip and I want to read about it. We might have different experiences to share.
Follow your heart, Foong! Tickets done?
9th day...got any meaning or special event for u?
I am also an impatience person like most blogger friends, haha. I am curious also what happened on the 9th day.
I am learning to give more than one comment too!! See, never too old to learn. Eh, am I that old? haha.
I feel so wan to go China now!
well, i don't.. i like suspense :P. i say just go on with it. afterall i want the post to be in sequence.. else later get confuse how? hahaha.
besides, i want to see more o the trip and places you went and things you did :).