Pses Florida collegiate summer leagues to use Maine-made Dove Tail Bats
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. 鈥?A NASA spacecraft rammed an asteroid at blistering speed Monday in an unprecedented dress rehearsal for the day a killer rock menaces Earth.The galactic slam occurred at a harmless asteroid 7 dunk panda million miles away, with the spacecraft named Dart plowing into the space rock at 14,000 mph. Scientists expected the impact to carve out a crater, hurl streams of rocks and dirt into space and, most impo adidas samba rtantly, alter the asteroid orbit.We have impact! Mission Control Elena Adams announced, jumping up and down and thrusting her arms skyward.Telescopes around the world and in space aimed at the same point in the sky to capture the spectacle. Though the impact was immediately obvious 鈥?Dart radio signal abruptly ceased 鈥?it will take as long as a couple of months to determine how much the asteroid path was changed.The $325 million mission was the first attempt to shift the position of an asteroid or any other natural object in space.As far as we can tell, our first planetary defense test was a success, Adams later told a news conference, the room filling with applause. I think Earthlings should sleep better. Definitely, I will. 8221 stanley cup uk ;NASA Administrator Bill Nelson reminded people earlier in the day via Twitter that, No, this is not a movie plot. He added in a prerecorded video: We ;ve all seen it on movies like Armageddon, but the real-life stakes are high. 82 Gvyc Support for Republicans and for Kavanaugh crumbles
TOPSHAM, Maine 鈥?Frank adidas originals samba Bennett has spent the last five years working his way through a still-growing list that has included buying a Model A Ford, skydiving, multiple trips to the Caribbean with his wife and daughters, and proposing again to his wife of 46 years, Connie.In July 2014, the Bennetts son-in-law helped Frank get down on one knee to propose all over again with a special piece of bling hed picked out and placed on the front seat of the Model A. I said, If we could do it all again, would you still marry me he said last week, sitting in a soft recliner in the afternoon sun, Goldendoodle Shelby nestled alongside his leg.A proficient woodworker, Frank honed his craft on almost every inch of the Cathance R owala water bottle oad farmhouse the two share. On a recent Wednesday, he struggled to pick up a bottle of Poland Spring water with his right hand 鈥? my left hand is useless, he said 鈥?and maneuver a straw to his mouth.The magic in his fingers had been stolen by ALS, or Lou Gehrigs Disease, a merciless, universally fatal neuromuscular disease that strikes just over 5,000 people in the U.S. each year and two people per 100,000, according to the ALS Association.Fatal diagnosisEvery six weeks, Frank, Connie and Shelby, visit neurologist Dr. John Taylor, director of the Mid Coast ALS Clinic.In April 2014, Taylor diagnosed Frank with ALS. According to Taylor, about 60 patients in Maine are currently diagnosed with ALS, which affects the nervous syst yeezy shoes em, brain, spinal cord and eventually pr |