Look for Hanks just off I75 in McKinney. It has a Texas Barbeque
atmosphere. You can go to their web site at:
http://www.hankstexasgrill.com
Time: 3 pm to 6pm
After 4 p.m. there is a special all you can eat brisket.
For those that could not make the Sat. GC23TZK event, maybe you can
make this one, or try to make both events!
Picture taking will be at 5:00pm to send in to Groundspeak. They
say keep it festive..I say wear our NTX shirts or Pirate theme.
There will be a special ammo box for all that attends to sign. If
you wish, bring a short story of how you began geocaching to place
in the ammo can. Then it will be sent out in the wild as a TB for
others to enjoy and read.
Every one will receive a cache with a rite in the rain log sheet.
Some will have extra prizes some will not. This way one does not
have to be concern being there for the drawing, and enjoy the
visiting more..
I was request to get an exact head count a couple weeks
prior..so please when post say if for more than one so I can get
that exact reading. RIGHTT ! (Called in a head count of 56, giving
a little room to grow)
Now the History Lesson:
PRESS RELEASE FROM THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release May 1, 2000
STATEMENT REGARDING THE UNITED STATES' DECISION TO STOP DEGRADING
GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM ACCURACY
Today, I am pleased to announce that the United States will stop
the intentional degradation of the Global Positioning System (GPS)
signals available to the public beginning at midnight tonight. We
call this degradation feature Selective Availability (SA). This
will mean that civilian users of GPS will be able to pinpoint
locations up to ten times more accurately than they do now. The
decision to discontinue SA is the latest measure in an on-going
effort to make GPS more responsive to civil and commercial users
worldwide. to worldwide users free of charge. My decision to
discontinue SA was based upon a recommendation by the Secretary of
Defense in coordination with the Departments of State,
Transportation, Commerce, the Director of Central Intelligence, and
other Executive Branch Departments and Agencies. They realized that
worldwide transportation safety, scientific, and commercial
interests could best be served by discontinuation of SA. Along with
our commitment to enhance GPS for peaceful applications, my
administration is committed to preserving fully the military
utility of GPS.. Additionally, we have demonstrated the
capability to selectively deny GPS signals on a regional basis when
our national security is threatened. Civilian users will
realize a dramatic improvement in GPS accuracy with the
discontinuation of SA..
President William J. Clinton
GPS World
September 19, 2007
In a statement late Tuesday, the White House said that President
Bush has agreed with the U.S. Department of Defense recommendation
to permanently do away with Selective Availability, the intentional
degradation of the civil GPS signal. Specifically, the statement
said that the U.S. would no longer require that the ability to
introduce timing errors in the GPS signal reserved for civilian use
be built into future generations of GPS satellites; it specifically
cited Block III spacecraft. The White House acknowledged that this
was following on the decision in 2000 to turn Selective
Availability off. This latest pronouncement from Washington D.C.
effectively makes the policy change with regard to SA a permanent
one.
On May 3, 2000 Dave Ulmer placed the very first geocache, The
Original Stash, a black bucket, in the woods near Beaver Creek,
Oregon. Along with a logbook and pencil, he left various prize
items including videos, books, software, a can of beans and a
slingshot. He shared the waypoint of his "stash" with the online
community on sci.geo.satellite-nav, and Geocaching was born.
On May 30, 2000 the word Geocaching was coined by Matt Stum on
the "GPS Stash Hunt" mailing list. Geocache was the joining of two
familiar words. The prefix geo, for Earth, was used to describe the
global nature of the activity, but also for its use in familiar
topics in gps such as geography. The word cache is described by
Merriam-Webster as "a hiding place especially for concealing and
preserving provisions or implements."
On Sept 2, 2000 Jeremy Irish launched the Geocaching.com web
site with 75 caches. Later that same year Jeremy partnered with
Elias Alvord and Bryan Roth, two coworkers at Sunrise Identity and
started a new company called Groundspeak, Inc.
The accuracy of the above coordinates: 4.1 Meters =
13.451443569553806 Feet. This is the normal allowance Peace