Endeavour STS-127 crew begin complex mission to expand JAXA's Kibo, space-exposed Lab

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Continuously exposed to space environment. Astronauts exchange experiment payloads or hardware from the Pressurized Module...

Image: Cutting-edge Technology by JAXA

To monitor, control & analyze experiment data, as well as support & carry out on-orbit experiments from ground

Flight controllers in Japan work in cooperation with controllers at NASA's Mission Control Center in Houston, Texas, the Russian Mission Control Center near Moscow and the Payload Operations Center, Huntsville, Ala...

Endeavor to dock at ISS; in about 6 hours...Endeavour's 16-day mission includes 5 spacewalks and will complete the station's Japanese module.



Experiments in Kibo focus on: Space medicine, biology, Earth observations, material production, biotechnology and communications research. Kibo experiments and systems are operated from the Mission Control Room at the Space Station Operations Facility, or SSOF, at Tsukuba Space Center in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, just north of Tokyo.

The STS-127 crew members: Here.
Commander Mark Polansky, Pilot Doug Hurley and Mission Specialists Dave Wolf, Christopher Cassidy, Tom Marshburn, Tim Kopra and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Julie Payette. Kopra will join the space station crew and replace Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata. Wakata will return to Earth on Endeavour to conclude a three-month stay at the station.

Space Flight Systems Related Clocks: Timers, & Countdowns
NASA Int'l Community of Missions: Here.

Astronauts on twitter...
ASTRO 127: (Polansky) On twitter (Enroute to ISS)
Astro_Mike (Massimino) our hubble hero
On "Late Late Show" with Craig Ferguson, will air tonight
Astro Sandy (Magnus) just arrived in Kuwait
NASA_Astronauts: Here... And the site: View.

Explore: Guardians of the Sea (Hawaii)

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View a great film tribute to the Guardians of Sea
From: Explore...
VIEW VIDEO:
BIG SCREEN
Winner of awards from Maui Film Festival, Alaska Ocean Film Festival, and the Santa Barbara Film Fest.
[ENLARGE] Image: Misty Rainbow, Waialu Valley, Molokai, Hawaii

VIDEO: About Explore Mission-
And founder: VIEW.

Grants Awarded: $200,000 to the Hawaii Lifeguard Association, the North Shore Lifeguard Association and the Eddie Aikau Foundation.
Explore.org
Based on a concept developed by & advanced under leadership of Charles Annenberg Weingarten, w/ support of Annenberg Foundation.

Today's Links...
VIDEO Surviving A Big Wave Wipe Out:
Know the dangerous types of waves... Beware, & be safe.

Jamba Juice offers amateurs a spot in Duke's Legends:
Global Surf News - ‎4 hours ago‎
Hawaiian Airlines Duke's Legends Surf Classic features sponsored teams of four amateurs and Hawaii surf legend, such as Ben Aipa, Buffalo Keaulana.

Ocean Sports Bond Hawaii and Japan:
KGMB9 - Lisa Kubota - ‎
"I think there's more surfers in Japan than we have population in the state of Hawaii so go figure that," said professional longboarder Bonga Perkins..

Arnie vetoed fiscal budgets, took on public employee unions; & stood for low tax

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I was there when Schwarzenegger did an historic Veto of Dem controlled Ca. Budget. He also forced Dem majority to view the impact of higher taxes; by holding a tax-vote. We said, no... But it wasn't he, who favored more tax!

He stood against 'Flawed' Legislature... #
He made Bold Moves toward Reform - amidst Dem Majority Stalemate!
Remembering...
(R) Schwarzenegger's announcement, "I have been very clear this entire year that I would be unable to sign a budget without meaningful budget reform," the governor wrote, stressing that spending cuts were needed."

"When they send me the budget, I will veto it," Schwarzenegger said at a Capitol news conference, the Los Angeles Times reports.

"If my veto is overridden," he said, "Hundreds of bills will be vetoed." more.

The veto will mark the first time in modern history that a California governor has rejected a state spending plan...

He has always Stood for California...
(Found this at AceHQ!)


Schwarzenegger's position of free market principals, and tax- cuts, and fiscal control, date way back to the days of Milton Friedman... His ventures toward alternative clean energy, can be seen everywhere in the state, in the form of as solar buildings, clean transportation; and many projects that will improve the efficiency of our State... As a bipartisan success.

Now all he has to do is improve creative cooperation that can turn this all around. :) And I still think that this can be done...

Today's Links...
We built Liberty, with spirit & form
(California’s Lesson for Obama) read.

Article says: California would be the world's eighth largest economy if it were an independent nation...read.

Calif tax officials:Legal pot would rake in $1.4B: (too crazy)
A comment said, "Maybe you'll forget to reelect Pelosi." read.

White House pressures AZ on stimulus (Style of tactics, are stark reminder)

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The top of the Obama bailout list still looks like "who's who' of the (sub-prime) economy destruction; amidst more "Chicago-style loan pressure."

[Enlarge] Image: HERE (wsj)

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has received letters from Obama cabinet secretaries reminding her how much money her state stands to lose if stimulus spending is halted as Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) called for on Sunday saying it hasn't done what the administration promised it would. read.

Reminds me of Freddie and Fannie; despite minority GOP's 17 formal attempts to reign them in; while Democrat sponsored ACORN, pressured banks... And now, today's BIG PUSH for dependency (not stimulus.)
So that handouts can "kick-in" by (vote-time) 2010!

Worth another glance...


Also remembering (July 14, 2008) as Barney frank (in his own words) insists that "Freddie & Fannie" was not insolvent...VIDEO.
Dems always blame the other guy for not stopping them, as affirmative action banking backed by false voter registration in 75 different parts of the country; bought up all the lobbyists to keep the GOP out... Pretty hard to blame Bush, as Obama bailout recipients are direct organizations which Led to melt-down!

Back to today's pressure...
White House tells Arizona:
"However, if you prefer to forfeit the money we are making available to your state." more.

From ABC News' Jake Tapper
"In a coordinated response to comments made by an Arizona Republican senator calling for a the stimulus bill to be halted, the Obama administration this week coordinated a series of letters to the governor of Arizona, with the implicit message: put up or shut up...Arizona Republicans responded that the White House was bullying their state."

The GOP believes that the constitution is a valid document that actually limits the scope of federal government... Six months and 2 trillion dollars ago, Minority GOP discovers that "fraud-ridden" ACORN has been re-named; and still 'top-dogs' for the Obama Team...
But if the Majority Blue Dog Democrats don't put a stop to this unsustainable spending... One can run their dog against them in (2010)!

Ed Driscoll: "New Medium is the Message"

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Nice presentation, as Ed Driscoll hosts the newest edition of "Silicon Graffiti." Old Media is still here, but rapidly finding the 'rising star' of 'New Media'. Ed Driscoll explains how new & old media will eventually converge.

Image: At the Smithsonian


From Ed Driscoll.com
Scott Baker and Liz Stephans of Breitbart.tv’s daily B-Cast join Ed, for the newest edition of Silicon Graffiti. After a brief flashback to a period when television really was a Brave New World, they look at the future of Internet television.

Truly African welcome is not "unprecedented"; they're gracious to all

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ht: From Noel at Newsbusters
Check the look on the left newscaster's face, when he found out that Africa is a gracious country, and this was their standard welcome...



According to the US "media-brass" one look at their Messiah, should have been enough to warrant unprecedented welcome...Certainly more than THIS!



Speeches are not enough... After speech, Ghanaians want action...

Also posted at: Ace.
And weaselzippers

Still on travel at a wonderful resort!
(more later)

Perspective: Marine Ballet (Belize)

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A Southwater Caye Ballet
Uploaded by g6uiw7i2

Duration: 14:47

Beautiful underwater video, shot in a single weekend at spectacular Southwater Caye, Belize - set to Ravel's Bolero...

Image Above: "Two ways of looking at a fish" (By tone)

Quick post, as I'm on travel today...
Keep good thoughts, as stay creative...

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VIDEO: Underwater Nursery: BIG SCREEN.
(More later.)