Get Out on Tuesday Night, Benlysta Proves its Might and a New Traffic Light

Good Thursday, Rockville!

The hot, hot, heat (a fine Canadian indie band, as well as a way to describe our extreme temperatures) will be back for at least for one day—Friday—according to our friends at the National Weather Service.

It should be hot enough to try , but not hot enough to do .

Here’s the “car omelet” edition of “The Rundown”:

• National Night Out is Tuesday.
  The county police have posted a list of community events around the county, including one at North Lake Center in Rockville, which is presently the home of .
  If you have details of events around the city, let us know by posting a comment below and/or email sean.sedam@patch.com and we’ll post a list early next week.
• Rockville . Cyclists will have a reason to celebrate and get out “around” the city on Saturday as the State Highway Administration opens a new hiker-biker trail connecting Needwood Road and Emory Lane.
• Earlier this month, we wrote that Benlysta, the landmark lupus drug developed by Rockville-based and GlaxoSmithKline PLC, had been . Last week, The Street reported that the drug is meeting sales expectations.
• The boys of summer are sliding badly. (Not safely—much like Julio Lugo in the bottom of the 19th in Atlanta the other night. I feel your pain Pirates fans.) The Marlins completed a sweep of the Nats this afternoon to position the DC Nine (vs. the DC9) solidly in last place in the National League East.
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• He works in “the land down under”—well, under Rockville on the map at least—and he has a cool Twitter handle that conjures up song lyrics about Vegemite. Yesterday, Ken Hartman, director of the Bethesda-Chevy Chase Regional Services Center, used Twitter to provide an early traffic alert on a new light on Rockville Pike near National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda.
  Click here to see where the light is.
  Has the light made a difference in your rush hour commute? Let us know.
• Ken Hartman follows @RockvillePatch on Twitter. You can too! Or be our “friend” at Rockville Patch on Facebook.