A few do’s and don’ts for Fourth of July
Here it is, another Fourth of July and time to plan the picnics, the barbecues and of course, the fireworks. I am a veteran of many Independence Day celebrations, having attended them my entire life – well, except for that brief period when I lived in Canada and shockingly, nobody celebrated the Fourth of July. I think it was because a) they are a different country; and b) it’s too cold there in July to have outdoor celebrations.
Scientific literacy made the American Revolution
As you and your friends and family get set for the Independence Day celebrations here in the South Valley, I hope you’ll take a moment to think about the great American experiment we are a part of today. The word “experiment” to describe our republic is a fitting one. Many of the leaders who founded our nation were scientifically astute and understood the principles of carrying out tests to prove or disprove revolutionary ideas – including political ideas.
Marty: With space it’s go baby, go
I was watching the terrific series “Moon Machines” on the Science Channel. It’s about the Apollo Program that put man on the Moon July 20, 1969. Much was human interest – vignettes showing who did it and how. They ranged from engineers at MIT designing inertial guidance systems, to the “LOL” system of computer programming. LOL stood for the “Little Old Ladies,” the operators, almost all mature women, who physically wove wires and doughnut-shaped magnets to program computer memory. The show eventually got to the Saturn V, the 6.2-million-pound, 363-foot high, 3 million part, behemoth multi-staged rocket system used to propel Apollo. As they ran the launch films, I found myself talking to the TV – feeling the same feelings and saying the same thing I said during launches more than 40 years ago. “Go baby, go!”
Results from 79th Saddle Horse Show & Rodeo
The following are results from this past weekend's Saddle Horse Show & Rodeo at Bolado Park:
South Bay Polo debuts and is open to all interested in ‘hockey on horseback’
Sitting horseback in an open, neatly mowed field that spans 300-yards long and 160-yards wide, eight people, each holding a long mallet, wait patiently for a man dressed in a black and white striped shirt to toss a white plastic ball onto the grass.
Rodeo spurs youth movement at Bolado Park
It was a long wait for Cash Robinson coming into the final day of the 79th annual San Benito County Saddle Horse Show & Rodeo at Bolado Park on Sunday.
HOCKEY: Sharks draft Herdl, five others over the weekend
The two-day 2012 NHL Entry Draft in Pittsburgh concluded over the weekend and the San Jose Sharks emerged with six players, including first-round pick Tomas Herdl of the Czech Republic.
