NOTE: Names of people in this story have been slightly altered for privacy.
I ordered my amanita muscaria mushrooms through the internet. I was a little skeptical at first because I wasn't sure if what I was about to ingest was deadly stuff or not. Then I did some research which reassured me.
The mushrooms were intimidating. I wanted to do them immediately but I had two full days of busy work ahead of me at the candy store I work at so I took a deep breath and remained patient.
During the time before my trip, I was feeling very good. I have been taking Zoloft for 10 years now (150 mgs) and so I was a little worried that maybe I just wasted my money and the zoloft would prevent any of the amanita effects. In preparation, I stopped taking my zoloft three days ahead of time. I know for a fact that there would still be some zoloft still working on me though.
I had read a lot about Amanitas before and that glorious, god- like, Super Mario / Alice In Wonderland, phallic of a psychedelic thingy was sitting in my house...It was sitting in a tin coffee can...Stinking of that dry shroomy smell...OH MY GOD!
7:21 -- I step outside and have a smoke. My attitude towards tripping out has now changed to something more serious. It was no longer something silly but I was actually starting to think that something major could come out of this...In many ways I was right. It was at this time when I noticed that the smoke coming out of my mouth was extra beautiful. It was smooth, and I realized that it was dancing. Within a couple of minutes I felt very happy. I knew something was going on. It was something slightly beyond a placebo effect. I knew this was the light beginning. I went inside my apartment and sat down on my couch.
7:27-- I begin to see the shadows in my living room take different 3 dimensional shapes. It was all very smooth and I felt relaxed. I looked down at a Pepsi can and got a huge gust of energy. I picked it up and jammed it in a coffee mug and then attached a string to it, climbed up on my coffee table, and hung that new born baby on my ceiling! As I stood on the coffee table, I felt like an invincible giant. 'This is awesome!' I said out loud! Then a whole slew of stupid thoughts turned on in my head. It was like I had one brain acknowledging these stupid thoughts and then the other brain was nothing but wrong, incoherent stupid thoughts that I would say 'HEY YEAH!' to.
7:43pm (ish)-- I feel great. I'm happy as hell that I'm tripping out and having fun. I start working on a sculpture. At this point, my friend, Betty Spaghetti, text messaged me asking if I was tripping. Eagerly I wrote back something like 'HELL YEA!' Then I had a strong urge to actually talk to Annika on the phone so I called her up. IT was soooo good hearing my friend, Betty Spaghetti. I told her how these semi-legal mushrooms were awesome and that I'm gonna buy more and blah blah blah.
7:50 (ish/MAYBE? Time was CRAZY on these things!) -- I step out into my apartment hallway. Everyone is standing outside of it, including my landlord. I didn't really care though. I felt confident. I talked to my neighbor a bit and then went outside to chain smoke more. At this time I talked to my friend, Ronny Donny, again and we decided to meet up for a walk.
8:00 (????) -- I get my nice winter sweater on, gloves, and head out for a one mile walk. Now this walk just flew by. I felt great! I came to a stop sign in front of Rudolph's Bar and looked at the people and thought to myself 'Well...These still are a horrible group of people but what the hell!' At this point I saw a bus drive by. It was a school bus but it was painted pink! I think it was real though!
8:10(?????) -- I find myself running down the street, running with nature, happy as hell, pain free! I had a huge smile on my face and I knew it! I smiled at passerby and felt like Jesus when he ordered Amanitas off of the internet. I began thinking about customers from my store and a joke about them trying to trade a Border's Rewards Card for a small bag of cheese caramel pop.
8:SomEthiNG?!?!?! -- I see Ronny Donny running towards me. I feel so much happiness build up inside of my arms and legs which were starting to feel really strange and loose. I pat Ronny Donny on the back and smile and we walk into a Walgreens to look at the goods they have to sell to fine, society contributing people like myself.
8 WALGREENS WORLD TIME -- Ronny Donny and I are having a ball. I feel so stupid and everything is hilarious at this point. My legs and arms were morphing around like spaghetti. It was insane! Then I realized I better play it cool and buy something. The best thing I could find was root beer...vanilla flavored A&W. I thought this was great because I never drink root beer! Soon I found myself laughing at this group of young guys who were joking around. One of them said 'You're already down on your head!' and then they all started laughing. 'What the hell does that mean?!' I asked Ronny Donny. He thought it was a different language. Then I started listening and laughing to the people in the aisle over. This is something I would normally do but this time their voices were in a sea of nothing. It was just their voices, no other sounds. Time had stopped and only their voices had existed. Then time started up again and I started laughing. I remember touching a shiny, disgusting, school folder in the aisle I was standing in and Ronny Donny pointed out the Canned Celebrity Ham from Italy that sat on the shelf in front of us. Again this was nothing new. I would have loved that whether or not I was on drugs. In fact I would have loved it even more if I weren't on Amanitas.
9 ish something? -- Ronny Donny and I step outside of Walgreens and then take a little walk. Everything I talk about at this point is just obvious stuff. I couldn't stop stating the obvious but I was for some reason (oh wait that reason is drugs) I was a little too blown away by the obvious.
9:30 -- Ronny Donny and I go to his dad's house. I start feeling awful and lay down on Ronny Donny's bed. My head is spinning. Ronny Donny doesn't like me being on his bed and I knew this so while he stood there awkwardly, not sure how to tell me to get off of his bed, I say 'Oh, I'll lay on the floor.' He thanked me and said that was okay. So I did that he went and made me some PMS tea. While he did this, I went into his bathroom and tried gagging up what I had consumed into his toilet...Nothing came out though.
9:45 -- Ronny Donny comes upstairs with the tea and a picture book of water to look at. This cheers me up and takes me out of the little hell that I am now spinning in. We begin to talk about how this is no normal trip and how it's stupid and it seems like I've just been poisoned and that's it.
10:00 pm--I get up and head home telling myself how this is so stupid. I look down and see the little bit of snow on the ground begin to morph around. I continue to talk about how stupid all of this is.
10:15pm -- YES! I see my apartment in the distance! It's about damn time! There is hope! I remember being so happy...Ready for this stupid trip to end and to go relax and get some sleep! BOY WAS I WRONG!
9:35 PM -- I feel so sick and I'm starting to worry that maybe what I ate was deadly, maybe I am dead, maybe I should go to the hospital and tell them I went to a little no-name Indian Restaurant that poisoned my Dal Soup! I HAD TO GET A HOLD OF MYSELF! I kept telling myself everything is gonna be alright! I decide to keep close eye on my clock to reassure myself that within a couple of hours, I will be better.
9:37 pm -- Minutes feel like hours. I lay on my couch listening to semi-relaxing music. At this point I'm twitching and sweating, my vision goes in and out of blurriness. I'm too sick to be scared. I just want it all to FUDGING end! I call up Betty Spaghetti and tell her how these mushrooms are nightmare mushrooms that make me stupid! (THIS I WILL COME BACK TO).
9:43pm -- I get into my shower... I'm a total slob. I can't stop drooling. I feel drunken but spinny and colors are flashing everywhere. I have almost no energy. I can barely stand up...But then I do. I just had to see what I looked like in the mirror. Funny ...I looked horrible but my pupils were not even dilated! I fall into the shower and curl up into a ball moaning to myself ...Then I closed my eyes and things got even crazier! It was like these giant marbles were rolling around in my head and bumping into each other every once in a while. Disturbing images and thoughts raced through my head. There was a tiny part of me that was able to say 'this is okay!' Then it happened! I SHRUNK! I shrunk and entered a different dimension with native women pressing their faces on me and technology and colors swirling all over the place! This went on forever! Then I felt water hitting my back and I realized I was back to my normal size. I kept my eyes closed and colors still moved around inside my head. The water was coming down on me so hard and at this point it felt like something just a little harsher than eating too much weed mixed with gallons of vodka/ Mousillini wrapping my brain up with wire and twirling it on the wheel of fortune spinny wheel thing. AYE AYE AYE! WHAT DID I TAKE?!?!?!?!?!?!!
10:00PM -- I lay down on my couch and turn on some music. I closed my eyes and entered that dimension again only this time it was brief and a little more peaceful. I had a bucket next to my couch but I could only dry heave. I continued to twitch and sweat. I felt like I was only drunk now mixed with twitching and sweating. I called up my friend, POLLY POCKET, and told her what was going on and she laughed and then I laughed.
8:15 AM -- I wake up. I am still pretty dizzy but I'm pretty sure this isn't the afterlife. I step outside and look around. I FEEL GREAT! Mentally cleansed and connected with nature! Everything is breathing! That's when I realize that I'm still tripping out! I went back inside and then fell back to sleep.
4:15pm -- I wake up again and I am slightly more sane. I feel very burnt out. My stomach is empty so I go and get a piece of pizza, milk, and almond butter cups. I take it back home and try to relax but unfortunately I am not 100% of course and I am still thinking in stupid, slow, tripped out patterns.
9:40 pm -- I meet up with Betty Spaghetti, Marcus, and Richie Rich. When we got out of the movie I continued to feel detached and slow and in a trance. Little things like colors and textures continued to catch my eye too much. Was I going to be like this forever?! Sure hope not!
10 something/ MAYBE 11pm? I head back home.
I go to work and I am slow and stupid. I sure hope I get my wits back! Out of anything I have ever done which includes regular psyclocybin shrooms and LSD and cocaine and ritalin and too much zoloft and too much weed butter, this was by far the craziest thing I have ever experienced. I think some things are only meant for Shamans who walk around in fields all day talking to things that are only existing in their minds as a result of poisoning themselves. There are much better ways to seek creativity and enlightenment than through heavy intoxication. If you want to feel happy and smart, I don't know if I can recommend this one. It only boosts my confidence in the positive effects of daily meditation and reassures that drug obsessed 15 year old in me that this is not what I'm really into. It's a tricky one...If you want to do it, you must have someone who is not intoxicated or highly judgmental watching over you...As I observe it all today in retrospect, I think I see it as a horrible nightmare.


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Spotlight on Sevenhill Cellars
Want to stock up on some award-winning South Australian wines? Find out more about Sevenhill Cellars in the Clare Valley – a winery with a religious heart – from General Manager Jonathan O'Neill.
Sevenhill Cellars, Clare Valley SA
Located in the picturesque Clare Valley, Sevenhill Cellars was settled by the Jesuit priests in 1851, making it the oldest winery in the Clare Valley, South Australia. The settlement includes the magnificent Anglo gothic St Aloysius Church, the Jesuit residence as well as the historic Winery complete with underground cellar. The buildings are surrounded by vineyards and a large lawn area, perfect for picnics and relaxation.
The initial purpose of the cellars was to provide sacramental wine for religious use. In the 1930's, they began producing table and fortified wines and now have a large range of both which can be sampled at the historic Cellar Door. Sevenhill has over 90 hectares of vines, growing 17 different grape varietals in all. Our most common varietals are Shiraz, Cabernet Sauvignon and Riesling. Our oldest vines are of the Shiraz varietal and they are over 160 years old, planted by the original Jesuit settlers.
Our Cellar Door has just been awarded by Gourmet Traveller Wine Magazine – Best Large Cellar Door in Clare Valley in the Australia's Best Cellar Door Awards 2020. We are thrilled to be recognised in our region. We also won Cellar Door of the Year in October 2018 at the Langtons Clare Valley Wine Show. Our team continually strives to offer exceptional customer service and a memorable experience to every customer that visits Sevenhill.
The Jesuit Connection:
Owned by the Jesuit Society and a not-for-profit organisation, Sevenhill Cellars is a unique business in a retail environment. All our proceeds from our successful cellar door are donated back to the Jesuit Society to enable them to assist others in need. Funding goes towards projects both internationally and within Australia. Some projects are refugee assistance, livelihood training in international countries, homelessness, education, poverty reduction, natural disasters, medical care and empowerment projects.
With four Jesuits living here at Sevenhill, we are privy to seeing the work they do in our local community. They run the five local parishes in our region, The Sevenhill Spirituality Retreat Centre and provide religious guidance to the local Catholic School.
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Anti-Semitism Will Sink the Democrats Just Like Corbyn's Labour Party, Says Nigel Farage
Kurt Zindulka
Anti-Semitic messaging from the Democrat Party in America could spell political doom for the left as it did in the UK for the Labour Party under the leadership of radical socialist Jeremy Corbyn, Brexit leader Nigel Farage said on Monday.
Mr Farage pronounced that the Democrats risk alienating the "patriotic" voters in their own party by moving to the far-left on issues such as Palestine, adding that he believes the conflict in Israel would not have even re-emerged if Donald Trump was still in the White House.
The Brexit leader said that the anti-Israel stance taken by the Labour Party in Britain was a major factor in its political downfall despite there being a relatively small population of Jewish people in the UK because the average voter in Britain is "fair-minded and decent" and will not tolerate anti-Semitism.
"I think that Jeremy Corbyn taking that party in the pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel but clearly also anti-Semitic direction… Middle England said we don't like this kind of extremism and it did hurt the Labour Party," he told Fox News' Maria Bartiromo.
Mr Farage, who is currently on tour in America, said: "I think there are many instances here in the USA of members of congress who are supporting these Palestinian protests and frankly not condemning the attack in New York yesterday in strong enough terms."
He added that while there may 3,000 miles separating the United States and the UK, he believes many of the underlying political issues are the same and therefore the Democrats may face a similar electoral fall from grace as befell the Labour Party in 2019 and 2021.
"The whole of the left, right across the western world as they have gone further left have openly supported a Palestinian cause that behaves more like a terrorist organisation," Farage said.
"Whilst it makes us all angry to see it, I think it gives us an opportunity because decent people don't like this sort of thing," he said.
Labour Antisemitism Report Found Borderline 'Neo-Nazis' in the Party https://t.co/ItUKwGXsF9
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The arch-Brexiteer said that conservatives in the U.S. who are in despair due to issues such as election integrity and President Biden's leftist policy agenda should take heart from the Brexit movement in Britain, which faced years of institutional attempts to derail the pro-sovereignty push, but ultimately succeeded in freeing the UK from the shackles of European Union bureaucracy.
"We were in terrible trouble two years ago and we fought back and won and that actually when the Labour Party and the Democrats in America start supporting cancel culture, start to be a deeply un-patriotic party, they alienate their millions of their own voters."
Following her betrayal of Brexit,
2 years ago today @theresa_may resigned as Prime Minister.
It was a victory for democracy led by the Brexit Party.
— Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) May 24, 2021
"That is the real opportunity for Republican candidates in these mid-terms and if they get that messaging right, they can come surging back, take the House, take the Senate, and get ready to be back in the White House in 2024."
Farage warned that the Democrats are making "huge mistakes" in their alienation of "lots and lots of families who always voted Democrat, who are patriotic."
"It was the patriotic British people who wanted Brexit and didn't want globalism and socialism with Labour. You've got literally a mirror set of conditions here, so cheer up everybody and get fighting," he said.
"My message is: we looked to be in trouble, we saved the day, and you are going to do the same," Farage declared.
'Socialism Is Dead in England, Hurrah!' – Farage Hails Downfall of 'Open Borders' Labour Party https://t.co/jaTPNUpNiY
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Before hockey, there was golf for Scottish-born Korol
Growing up in Scotland, Michael Korol was handed a golf club before he ever touched a hockey stick.
Born to a Scottish mom and Canadian hockey player dad — making him a dual citizen to both the home of golf and home of hockey — Korol spent his first 10 years of his life in the United Kingdom before moving over to Canada, where he settled into Saskatoon and took on the sport of hockey more seriously.
"Golf is the first sport I ever played — before I played hockey, I played golf," says Korol, who is into his second season with the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League's Humboldt Broncos.
His dad played hockey in Europe for 13 years and he found his way to the U.K. Eventually that's where he met his wife, Dawn, and they got married.
"So I grew up there," says Michael. "The first 10 years of my life I spent in Scotland, playing hockey there."
His dad, Bob, is originally from Rosetown and, in 2008, the family moved back to Saskatoon.
"Obviously, it (hockey in Scotland) is probably not the best," admits Korol, "but it's something that people are really passionate about and hopefully over time hockey can become more popular. I definitely think the people over there have the passion for it."
Korol, 18, has three goals and three assists for six points this season. He had nine goals and 17 assists for 26 points in 56 games last season as a rookie.
"We're expecting big things from Michael," Broncos head coach and general manager Darcy Haugan says of the 5-foot-11, 180-pound Korol. "He's a very smart hockey player, very intelligent. He's doing a lot of things well. He's a real student of the game. He wants to win. He's the first guy at the rink and the last one to leave a lot of the time.
"Good things are on the horizon for Michael."
After moving to Saskatoon, Korol joined the Flyers zone.
By joining the Broncos, he is with a team with a rich hockey history and success. However, the Broncos have been stickhandling through the rebuilding process in recent years. Their past two head coaches (Dean Brockman, Ryan Smith) have moved up to the Western Hockey League, both of them leaving late in the summer so the Broncos have had to scramble to put things into place.
"Personal success definitely falls behind team success," says Korol. "Team success is what we're all about here. We want to do be winning hockey games here. We want to have a long run here. Last year definitely wasn't what we wanted as a team. We're looking to improve on that.
"Hopefully it works out here."
CJHL rankings
Only the Battlefords North Stars and Melfort Mustangs remain among the top 20 ranked teams in the 131-team Canadian Junior Hockey League.
Battlefords moves up to No. 13 from 17, while Melfort slips to No. 14 from 10.
SJHL Players of the Week
It was a no-brainer for SJHL player of the week.
Kindersley Klippers forward Landon Gross, from Pincher Creek, Alta., put up five goals and two assists for a seven-point effort Sunday in Humboldt as the Klippers posted a 9-3 win.
Gross scored his team's first five goals and then had a hand in their last two. He also had two goals, including the overtime winner, against Melfort on Wednesday.
D-man of the week Sam Houston, 19, of the Melfort Mustangs. The Boissevain, Man., native played a big part in a come-from-behind victory in Notre Dame on Saturday by scoring his first goal of the season to go along with two helpers. He finished the week with four points.
SJHL goaltender of the week is 1997-born Taryn Kotchorek, a homegrown product for the Battlefords North Stars. Kotchorek was credited with three wins last week on his way to posting a 0.78 goals-against average and .969 save-percentage, as well as a shutout, in blocking 62-of-64 shots overall.
Kotchorek picked up wins over league leaders Melfort and Weyburn.
SJHL rookie of the week is 1997-born La Ronge Ice Wolves goalie Dakota Kenyon from Lloydminster.
Kenyon posted a 36-save shutout Saturday afternoon against the Yorkton Terriers.
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Lunar Hoverslam
Posted on November 25, 2017 by johnhare
I suggested in the middle of a couple of recent posts that the hoverslam techniques pioneered by SpaceX with the Falcon9 be used for Lunar landings. It was a kind of throwaway thought along with several other suggestions. As I think about it though, it seems to me that there might be a serious possible schedule and reliability gain from adapting the technique to Lunar development. That's why I'm putting it up as a separate post.
I didn't think hoverslam was a viable technique until it had been demonstrated. I was wrong. Now that it has been demonstrated multiple times, it may be time to see if there are more applications in which it might give an advantage. Lunar landings being the application under discussion recently, I want to lay out a few possibilities.
First thing would be a discussion with the team that is already using the technique in operational vehicles. From the outside looking in, it appears that hoverslam is a software solution to landings that was previously considered a hardware development problem. If this thought is accurate, then it may not be necessary to develop engines and control systems that allow an empty tank vehicle to hover in 1/6 gee. It seems that it is a requirement to bring velocity to zero at the instant that altitude is zero with thrust/weight being far less relevant than most of us previously thought possible. It seems that the SpaceX team is landing with thrust/weight levels of well over two on Earth, which would be well over a dozen at the Lunar surface.
If a Lunar lander is at 20 tons at touchdown, then the hovering that most of us consider a requirement would need engines capable of throttling to 3 tons for a gentle descent at very low velocities. The experience of Apollo 11 finding a clear landing area validates this opinion. This is however, not 1969. The Lunar surface is not only far better known now, but any potential landing sites could be imaged to near centimeter precision at relatively low cost. So hovering while making sure of a clear landing zone may not be a requirement. Navigation to the clear areas is also much less of a challenge than a half century ago. So it may be possible to go straight in to a site on near side without even orbiting first. It may be possible to land that 20 ton vehicle with engines that will only throttle down to 50 or 60 tons.
Doug believes that getting funding authorities to sign off on Lunar hoverslam would be a nonstarter. He is right unless the technique is fully validated just as it was on Earth/barge. I suggest the first step would be an RFI to SpaceX to confirm that it would or would not be possible to use the technique in this manner. If the answer is affirmative, then a test mission could be envisioned. For a test mission, perhaps an upper stage of the Falcon9 could be refueled by a Facon9 tanker in Earth orbit to validate tanker technology as well before sending it on to the Lunar surface.
The Falcon9 upper stage with one refueling should be able to place well over 5 tons on the Lunar surface during the test mission if the concept is valid. Depending on the flight backlog and the interest of both NASA and SpaceX, this could fly by Q4 2018. I doubt any other system could land a comparable payload in anything close to that time frame regardless of interest. Cost would be for two Falcon9s plus payload and Lunar operations. 5 tons in useable condition on the Lunar surface would go a long way towards convincing a funding authority to further use the technique for unmanned payloads.
Central to acceptance of the concept would be the failure modes. Obviously a high enough speed impact would destroy the stage and cargo. Hitting a rock with a landing leg and tipping over could be almost eliminated with a good survey and navigation. A sideways vector on landing that tipped the stage over should not be a factor with the current experience level. The most likely failure modes would seem to be engine failure at altitude from fuel depletion, and excess velocity at touchdown from software or navigation error.
Payloads on the first flight(s) should be very robust as well as being useful so that good work can be done even with a less than successful landing. During an excessive velocity landing, the stage propellant tanks provide a crumple zone if done right. An impact at 100 m/s (200 mph) in the vertical orientation could subject the payload to under 10 gees which is survivable to most hardware. It should be expected that the first payload may have to cut its' way out of the wreckage before deploying solar panels and starting the primary mission. If the stage soft lands but with a side component that tips it over in the 1/6 gee, the payload should also see less than 10 gees.
The spectacular failures we saw from the early Falcon9 barging attempts were almost all from residual propellant exploding. Though technically not detonations, the burns were fast enough that most of us would call it a good boom. The vertical and horizontal vectors on most of the early Falcon9 barging attempts would have been payload survivable without the propellant reactions on impact. In the vacuum at the Lunar surface there would be no reaction from residual propellants in a crash other than fast evaporation and site contamination. All of those spectacular RUDs on the barge would have been stage lost and payload delivered on the Lunar surface.
I suggest that this concept be considered at some low level to see if there is any merit to it. If there is, it could speed up Lunar development by several years and save a few Dirksens.
25 Responses to Lunar Hoverslam
Egad says:
Is it known what F9 uses for an altimeter? Do they do everything with augmented GPS, or is there a radar or other supplementary altimeter?
jccooper says:
F9 has radar altimeter and GPS and probably also involves some INS. The landing pads were recently coated with an iron-bearing paint (you can see the rust colored clouds kicked up in recent landings) to make the radar altimeter work better.
Within 3 years Lunar CATALYST will have supplied NASA with a choice of lunar landers. As a proof of concept NASA could buy one and reprogram it to perform a Lunar hoverslam. The small lander would be at TRL 9 and applying the hoverslam landing procedure to a large lander at TRL 5/6.
peterh says:
With the ability to throttle to T/W less than 1 you have some luxury in last second adjustments in landing point. With a hover-slam landing you need to know coming in that you have a good landing point, and =exactly= where you are relative to it. I don't see how that would be possible without a prepared and precisely mapped landing point, ideally with navigation beacons. So not a viable option for a first landing on the moon. But potentially attractive for later visits to a site that a earlier crew has prepared.
Bob Steinke says:
I'm beginning to wonder about what the purpose and benefit of hoverslam would be in this context. I can see three reasons to do a hoverslam:
1) You have an existing system that can't throttle below T/W of 1.
This is the situation that SpaceX found themselves in, and they made it work. If we want to get a jump on things by using some existing stages, then ok, but if we are designing new stages this isn't a constraint.
2) It's harder to develop a propulsion system that can throttle so low.
Based on the experience of Armadillo and Masten, I'm not sure this is true. Being in vacuum where you can never be overexpanded makes it even easier. And if you design for this from the start you can create system flexibility such as multiple combustion chambers that you can turn some off.
3) Minimize gravity losses
Hoverslam does minimize gravity losses by reducing the amount of time you spend thrusting, but on the moon, gravity losses are just 1.6 m/s^2. If you hover for 30 seconds, that's 50 m/s. Not too much added on to the 1600 m/s delta-v from lunar orbit. If you top up on LOX/LH2 propellant (Ve 4400 m/s) from a depot in lunar orbit your mass ratio goes from 1.44 to 1.46. If you develop a lander with deep throttling, you can still do a hoverslam landing if you need that extra slice of performance for one particular payload while keeping more safety margin for most payloads.
If you want to do a crash program with existing stages you shouldn't let T/W greater than 1 deter you, but if you are designing new stages I don't see any reason not to make them capable of throttling below T/W of 1. Then hoverslam is a solution in search of a problem.
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This is ultimately a control problem. Your structural guys give you a survivable maximum velocity for your vehicle, and the control system has to produce a solution that stays within that velocity envelope at a particular point in space.
That requires being able to bound the error of the eighteen degrees of freedom associated with the vehicle's translational and rotational position, velocity, and acceleration. On Earth, the sources of error are considerably different from those on the Moon.
1) Radar altimetry yields only an average value for the z-axis distance and speed. The smoother the surface, the more accurate the values. On Earth, the surfaces are pretty close to perfectly smooth, although a barge landing has a "roughness" associated with the pitching of the deck. (I suspect that the ASDS can send information about the pitching to the vehicle to null most of this out.) On the Moon, the roughness of the landing site could be significant, leading to errors in both z-axis position and velocity.
2) The x and y components of position and velocity on Earth can be determined via some combination of inertial, optical, GPS, and fixed beacons surrounding the landing area. On the Moon, they can only be determined inertially and optically, and dust at touchdown will make the latter difficult.
3) Finally, there's the error associated with the throttling outputs, which in turn lead to acceleration errors. A given z-axis thrust error results in a larger acceleration error in lower gravity, and the error will become even worse as the thrust drops.
Ultimately, it's the accumulation of these errors that dictates whether you can hoverslam on the Moon. They dictate the possible range of velocities at which you can reach the surface. Remember: gravity may be lower, but inertia isn't. The buckling force for a given vehicle is determined solely by how fast it hits the ground, not how much the wreckage weighs when it finally comes to rest.
Bob, I think you nailed it pretty well. I see it as mostly #1 with some possible #2 or new systems. I see it as having some possibility to "run what you brung" instead of endless development cycles to target a particular capability. If software could get a Centaur or Antares stage on the ground with payload intact NOW instead of whenever, then there could be a significant advance of the timetables.
TRM, it would be fairly easy to set up site reflectors, transponders and such. Delivery could be on precursor vehicles learning the unaided technique for use on unimproved sites.
John, prepared landing sites make perfectly good sense for non-exploration missions (e.g. to a base that's being built up), but they seem kinda weird if you're off trying to find the best place for a base, or just doing a one-off science mission to a particular surface feature.
That's pretty much been my skepticism around using BFS for lunar exploration: It's way too top-heavy to do a small-payload hoverslam to unprepared ground, but it works fine if you can deliver 50 t to a prepared landing site. Not only does it give you the full gamut of navigational aids needed to get the errors within spec, but you can then hit T/W=1 with two Raptors at about 20% throttle. I just don't see it on unprepared ground.
I finally realized that I should have figured and added a few more numbers in the post. The 100 m/s survivable impact that I mentioned in the post would imply that engine stop at zero velocity would be over 3 kilometers above ground level. Just over 60 seconds of acceleration at Lunar levels to hit the 100 m/s averaging 50 m/s for that altitude. That would imply a navigational issue well beyond what most of us would consider likely. The other way of getting that velocity impact is engine cut off while still descending with substantial velocity. So 100 m/s impact would be from massive navigational error, engine cut off error while still moving fast, or fuel depletion.
I do agree that landing huge reusable vehicles under high risk conditions should be a non-starter. I see first landings at un surveyed locations as restricted to expendable, though not necessarily disposable vehicles. Payload limits are likely something under 20 tons for a barely modified existing stage. Recommending BFS for high risk landings on unprepared sites should lead to unscheduled unemployment of the parties involved.
More realistic numbers for the concerns that most of us have involve lack of accurate feedback from the landing zone. Uneven ground and believable altitude errors bring the impact numbers way down. For early landings, it seems likely that high quality orbital survey could almost eliminate targeting a high hazard spot with large boulders and holes big enough to cause tip over. If this thought is wrong though, and the payload is at the top of a 20 meter (+-66 feet) vehicle, then 5 seconds of acceleration would give an impact of around 8 m/s or about 16 mph. Should be survivable by any payload with some minor planning for possible mishap. Equivalent of a 3.3 meter (11 foot) fall on Earth. Unpleasant but survivable.
Early engine shut off at zero velocity at 20 meters would give that 8 m/s impact on the landing gear which should result in zero damage on a robust system. 80 meter altitude shut off error would be a 16 m/s impact which would more likely cause some damage. I think most would agree that an 80 meter altitude error is unlikely even on a totally new site.
Engine cut off while still falling at significant velocity would be the largest worry to me. A control error or fuel depletion while moving could give impacts well above that survivable by any realistic vehicle. This would affect any landing system and not just the hoverslam.
I'm a lot less concerned about the payload than I am about the vehicle. If the vehicle is sufficiently pranged, the payload is undeployable, whether it survived or not.
I haven't run the numbers, but my guess is that it's a lot better to have a low-structural coefficient vehicle with an engine that's capable of T/W<=1 than it is to have a high-structural-coefficient vehicle that has to survive a hoverslam.
I'm not competent to compute the Euler buckling loads on a pressurized tank, but remember that you're basically converting the kinetic energy of the vehicle at touchdown/impact to some force, using a stopping distance comprised of some amount of compression of the lunar surface and some amount of compressive strain distributed throughout the vehicle.
Just to give you some idea of the naive forces involved on a 20 tonne vehicle at some example impact velocities and compressive distances:
1 m/s, 1 cm compressive distance: 1 MN
1 m/s, 10 cm compressive distance: 100 kN
15 m/s, 1 cm compressive distance: 225 MN
15 m/s, 10 cm compressive distance: 23 MN
Odds are that you can think of this as nearly a pure Euler buckling problem. If you exceed the Euler load during impact, tankage is going to fail laterally, which is going to generate wreckage from which it's highly unlikely that the payload will emerge intact.
John, one other thing: Remember that the essence of these kinds of control problems is to make sure that the various sources of error damp themselves out, rather than amplifying and causing oscillations. It's been a long time since college, but IIRC you tend to have fairly sharp thresholds on the level of errors you can tolerate before your system becomes over-controlled. Once that's happened, the point where the engine shuts down in the state space is unlikely to be in the survivable range.
Your 15 m/s would require a 70 meter free fall. An engine cut out at that altitude is a problem that has nothing to do with landing mode.
Hi John Hare, If the BFR goes into orbit it can drop a probe on the proposed landing site and on the next orbit home in on the probe. Cubesats have shown that a radio and camera can mass less than 1kg. The delta-v is about 1.87 km/s.
Unless you wind up with a positive velocity–from which there's no way to recover if T/W>1, short of cutting the engine as soon as it's detected. It's all about the errors.
It took me about 15 seconds to figure out how a competent team would have programed the vehicle to recover from the positive vertical velocity at altitude. Care to try again?
"the stage propellant tanks provide a crumple zone if done right. An impact at 100 m/s (200 mph)"
No. Except for bulk-mass, no cargo is going to survive a 200+ MPH impact. A fuel tank isn't a "crumple zone", it won't deform in a controlled way. The cargo will simply punch it's own hole straight through and slam into the thrust-frame/engines.
"It took me about 15 seconds to figure out how a competent team would have programed the vehicle to recover from the positive vertical velocity"
I assume you meant to use sideways motion to cause cosine losses large enough to reduce the vertical acceleration below T/W=1. However, that merely adds to the complexity of landing that, by definition, you've already borked.
I'm not sure why you're so adamantly against having the capacity to hover. SpaceX has Raptor, by any reasonable margin. If they were being funded to do a lunar lander before BFR was ready, they'd develop a lander around Raptor. RL-10 can throttle, so a lander based on Centaur will be able to hover.
Having hover-capability doesn't mean the lander is going to hang above the ground for minutes at a time. It just means you "hoverslam" with a target altitude well above the ground, then taper your deceleration as you get close enough verify the accuracy of your landing. It's just that the final deceleration is less than the main deceleration. It would be a rare landing that an actual "hover" occurred (zero velocity at altitude.)
OK, I'll bite. I can think of three things you can do:
1) Per Paul above, you can slew the vehicle to get to effective T/W<1 to kill the velocity. But if you assume that min T/W=2 (which is about what the F9 S1 has) then you'd have to pitch to 30° off of vertical, then figure out a way to precess to remain over your landing site.
2) You can shut the engine down, then try a restart. Probably reasonable for a pressure-fed engine, not so much for a turbo-fed one. And for both of them, you'd have to assume very large command errors at startup–not exactly what you want during terminal control.
3) You can abort.
Also, note that you're not necessarily looking at positive velocity at altitude. You can wind up with positive velocity at any location where the engines are still on–including sitting on the ground.
Obviously, you'd program a shutdown the moment you detected a positive velocity. But my whole point is that your control precision is dictated by your measurement and command errors. If you've got a good measurement system (as F9 does on Earth), then this isn't an issue. But if you're 1 m off the surface and you get an altimetry dropout from dust, you're stuck with whatever rates you detect when the altimetry kicks back in. (Note that a rate requires at least two reliable measurements of altitude or a clean doppler return.) 15 m/s is probably a bit extreme, but 8 isn't, and that'll still generate forces well over 1 MN.
If the strategy is to shut down the engine and restart, and you need a certain amount of time to do that, and to get that time you boost back to a safe altitude, then you've got to have reserve propellant for that so you might as well spend that propellant hovering.
As far as I can tell, most people seem to miss the point that hoverslam would be a way of getting around waiting for a vehicle with hover capability. Obviously it is better to have one that can hover and shift around when the vehicles that can come available. It should be equally obvious that waiting for that capability can add years to the schedule. If it is important to go, then using a capability that exists makes sense. I don't understand people adamantly opposed to using technology that exists, even if it's not optimum.
If we care about the sustainable development of the Moon to the point of starting settlement then how does a Falcon hoverslam fit into that? Could the Falcon be refueled from the lunar ice and reused? My Plan for Sustainable Space Development envisions the development of a reusable lunar lander that could serve as the foundation for ongoing, cost-effective development. This lander could be the modification of a Centaur upper stage to land belly down (e.g. the Xeus). Since the Centaur already exists it's development wouldn't take long. And besides, for sustainable lunar development we need to develop the ice-harvesting telerobots and the UniHab. So we have the time necessary to develop a proper, reusable lander.
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Actually, I didn't specify Falcons doing the hoverslam. ATK, Lockmart, Russia, China, Japan, India, Brasil, ESA, Israel, and others I have certainly forgotten may wish to place a payload on the Lunar surface. If they can accomplish that with landing legs and a software purchase instead of a lander program, it sounds like a win. A NASA centric development may spec the Centaur. Other players may not be willing or able to jump through the hoops. There's another tool in the toolbox now and some will use it if they both wish to do something Lunar, and are not part of the approved in crowd. For a serious development effort, several players and approaches are needed.
John, could you enumerate some of the actual vehicles you think could be modified to do this that wouldn't be able to hover? Seems like the set of engines you could use vastly exceeds the set of existing vehicles. Engineering the vehicle to the engine would seem like a pretty obvious thing to do.
As for the Centaur, RL10's are already deeply throttleable, so I don't really see the need to do a hoverslam if you want to land one tail-down. Seems like getting down into the 10 kN range would be easy (AJR has demonstrated well below this), so with a 2.3 t Centaur dry mass, you'd be able to hover a 3.9 t payload. (I'm pretty sure that an existing Centaur SEC, fully fueled in LEO, could get that size payload to the lunar surface. I get about 6200 m/s delta-v to the lunar surface needed, and the Centaur should have about 6500 m/s.)
Every restartable upper stage in the world can now become lunar capable without having to deal with the rl10.
There are no landing-capable upper-stages as of yet. And it takes more than welding on a few legs and writing some software. There's not a single upper-stage in the world that has the prox-ops package necessary to do a landing. [Nor are there refuelable upper-stages yet.]
Whatever base vehicle you start with, you will need a program to turn it into a lander. Whether that's ULA, SpaceX, ESA, ISRO, or the Russians. (Although I wouldn't trust Fregat at the moment.)
If you insist on "existing" technology rather than "waiting", surely Centaur-as-Xeus is the only option? At least they're part way into the development. But it's the one you're outright rejecting. Why?
I haven't been rejecting Centaur/Xeus as an option. I have been rejecting the idea that there is only one way to get the job done. One thing I think should be clear from history in general and spaceflight in particular is that depending on a single vehicle or technology is far more expensive and risky than having backups available. The backup plan, technology, and even hardware does not have to be up to the standards of the primary. Without options though, you get the decades long, get it perfect, development programs. Or you have multi-year stand downs after one accident.


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Executive Briefing: From Palo Alto to Punta del Este
Last week I escaped frigid NYC for Palo Alto, where LAVCA teamed up with the NVCA and Silicon Valley Bank for the third year to host a gathering for LAVCA and NVCA member firms, "Latin America in Silicon Valley". NVCA chairman (and Mohr Davidow Partner) Josh Green kicked off the program by challenging some of the current myths about the state of the VC industry in the US.
Josh is confident that VC will continue to add long-term value that other investors such as angels or hedge funds can't. But he is concerned about public policy and its impact on the VC and entrepreneurial ecosystem, including issues such as immigration, patent reform, and cybersecurity. The NVCA is clearly making engagement with government a top priority, and last year they recruited Washington insider Bobby Franklin as the association's new CEO.
Whatever challenges venture investing is confronting in the US, Silicon Valley is still a critical reference point for Latin American entrepreneurs, fund managers, and policy makers. In a panel discussion following Josh's presentation, Andy Tsao of SVB and Du Chai of Horsley Bridge Partners were optimistic about the long term evolution of the VC industry in Brazil and other LatAm markets, but recognized that ultimately it will be important to see the kind of success stories and role models that have driven the development of venture investing in the US, Israel, and China.
In reality there is a short but growing list of LatAm start-ups and tech companies that have been gathering real momentum over the last year or two, along with some under-publicized exits, such as Insight Venture Partners sale of Brazilian software company Folhmatic to Sage for US$200m in 2012. In a vote of confidence for Brazilian e-commerce plays, this week Tiger Global invested US$500m in publicly traded B2W Compania Digital, a Brazilian online retailer.
Eduardo Henrique, co-founder of Movile, also took part in the panel and did a great job of presenting an entrepreneurial role model for his LatAm peers. Movile is the largest mobile platform for content and commerce in Latin America, and Eduardo relocated to the Bay Area two years ago to lead the company's US expansion. Naspers took a major stake back in 2008, and today Movile sells mobile entertainment to end users via the Apple Store, Google Play and in partnership with more than 40 carriers.
Mexico was represented on the panel by Alex Rossi of Latin Idea Ventures, who brought along Serge Elkiner, co-founder of portfolio company YellowPepper, a fast growing mobile financial network for LatAm banks, Mobile Network Operators, merchants, and consumers.
Prior to the NVCA-SVB program, my colleagues at LAVCA and I had been tag-teaming the many events focused on LatAm start-ups, entrepreneurship, and venture capital, with recent trips to Medellin, Miami, and Punta del Este.
There is a great group of new and legacy players to partner and engage with, and it's been an opportunity to get input on how LAVCA can support our growing membership among VC and seed investors. We recently launched an Angel and Seed Investors category which opened the doors to new members including 21212 Digital Accelerator, Grid Investments, NXTP Labs, South Ventures, Venture Club Panama, Venture Partners (Mexico), and Wayra.
Back in November LAVCA hosted a program in Medellin together with Ruta N, a local business and innovation center, as part of Medellin Innovation Week. LAVCA brought start-up investors from across LatAm to share first hand experiences with the growing community of Colombian seed and VC funds. Amongst other discussions, LAVCA advisor Ariel Muslera interviewed Rogelio de los Santos of Mexico's Alta Ventures on how to raise capital from family offices, and talked with Francisco Mira of Promotora about his experience selling a portfolio company to a strategic acquirer in the US.
Back in the US, Miami has been asserting its position as a hub of entrepreneurship for the Americas, with Juan Pablo Cappello, Manny Medina, and others spearheading events with support from the Knight Foundation. In December I took part in SIME MIA, an eclectic gathering of angel investors, business leaders, and entrepreneurs. Several of the entrepreneurs I met there have launched start-ups targeting cross border populations across the US and Latin America.
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Lindsay and Ariel kicked off 2014 by attending the PuntaTech Meetup in Punta del Este, Uruguay, a beachside meetup hosted by LAVCA member firm Riverwood Capital and portfolio company Globant. Many of the leading VC players active in LatAm made the trip to Punta this year, including LAVCA member firms Alta Ventures, Monashees, Redpoint e.ventures, Ideaisnet, NXTP, and DMGT – it was good to see brasileiros mixing with the argentinos and uruguayos this time around!
Internet start-ups from Brazil, Mexico, Peru, Colombia, and Argentina were finalists in the LatAm Start-up Challenge, a PuntaTech competition in its second year. First place went to Brazil's Love Mondays, a career community that gives job seekers free access to reviews of companies (the Glass Door of Brazil).
Keep an eye out for Ariel, Lindsay, and me at VC and entrepreneurship focused events in 2014, including LAVCA events in Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico.
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The following email message and attached PDF were received by me very recently from a long-time mediator and leader in the mediation field. This complaint about Mediation.com follows a number of other complaints that Mediate.com has received about the practices of Mediation.com, a Florida based company with which we have no affiliation.
As the mediator who shared this information with me has now been threatened with litigation by Mediation.com, I am taking it upon myself to further share this information. I think it important to do the right thing here and to disclose these fraudulent practices. May the chips fall where they will.
Here is the email message that I received from a long-time colleague. This same email was sent to a number of other leaders in the field of mediation as well.
I took a call from what I though was Mediate.com (Jim Melamed's group) today only to find out that it was a cold call for a new mediation "directory".
What I learned disturbed me a bit. So I'm letting you know what I found on you while trying out this "directory" fairly randomly in various parts of the country. I am also copying leaders of reputable mediation groups in case this affects their members or panelists.
Mediation.com has apparently populated a database with over 300,000 "profiles". Yours and mine were among them. So Google searches would presumably pick up these "listings". But the interesting part is that users are then given the illusion that they are contacting us (or other "listed" mediators) and those messages are apparently being redirected to people who have paid to be listed on Mediation.com.
I have asked that my "listing" be removed so messages intended for me are not redirected to others who pay to receive them. The email exchange with Mediation.com is listed below. I have also attached screenshots of the sequence I went through for each of you too.
I would want to know if this happened to me, so I'm passing along this unfortunate news.
These same people run Arbitration.com. A quick review of that site also reveals the same practices.
I encourage everyone to review the attached PDF document as it traces exactly what Mediation.com and Arbitration.com are doing.
When someone writes in for help, especially to several mediators or attorneys as you did, we pass it on to other listings in the area to try and get them answers to their problem. You wrote to people who are not active in our base, so we forwarded it on to people who were so we could help the client.
As a final note, if you search Google for "Tom Pronesti," it is perhaps not surprising that you will find allegations of fraud in other business transactions (see attachment below).
In sum: Beware of Mediation.com and Arbitration.com!


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Georges Hamard, né le  à Villevêque (Maine-et-Loire) et mort le  à Saint-Georges-du-Puy-de-la-Garde (Maine-et-Loire), est un sculpteur français, lauréat du prix de Rome en 1922.

Biographie

Georges, Louis Hamard naît le  à Villevêque (Maine-et-Loire), où son père est cultivateur.

Admis à l'École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris, il est l'élève de Jean-Antoine Injalbert.

Il meurt le  à Saint-Georges-du-Puy-de-la-Garde.

Œuvres

 « L'arracheur de pommes de terre » : plâtre (120 cm x 200 cm), au musée des Beaux-arts d'Angers ;
 « Sérénité » : buste en plâtre daté de 1924 (h.57, 50 cm) que l'artiste présenta au Concours de la tête d'expression;
 « Saint-Christophe et l'enfant Jésus » : plâtre ;
 Buste de Fernand Lutscher : plâtre daté de 1914, au musée des Beaux-arts d'Angers;
 Buste de Jeanne Hamard : buste en plâtre daté de 1933 au musée des Beaux-arts d'Angers;
 Buste de jeune femme peulh : buste en bronze présenté au Salon des artistes français de 1927 ; il est exposé au Musée des Années Trente à Boulogne-Billancourt ;
 Tête d'homme : terre cuite (h. 31 cm).

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Références

Sculpteur français du XXe siècle
Naissance en mai 1894
Naissance en Maine-et-Loire
Décès en novembre 1961
Décès en Maine-et-Loire
Décès à 67 ans


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Varèse Sarabande is currently accepting pre-orders for Star Trek Nemesis: The Deluxe Edition, which priced at $24.98. Pre-orders will begin shipping on January 6, 2014.
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In the wake of a joyful wedding between Riker (Jonathan Frakes) and Troi (Marina Sirtis), Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) receives another reason to celebrate: the Romulans want peace and the captain will be the Federation's emissary. But as the Enterprise heads toward the Romulan Empire, a brilliant villain awaits — harboring a diabolical plan of destruction and an unimaginable secret that will give Picard his most fearsome challenge.
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Q: Enter data in EditText and respond without pressing enter I have an editText with a listener.
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    public boolean onKey(View v, int keyCode, KeyEvent event)
    {
        // If the event is a key-down event on the "enter" button
        if ((event.getAction() == KeyEvent.ACTION_DOWN) &&
            (keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_ENTER)) {

            // Perform action on key press
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }
});

Now I want to use the data entered in the textBox by the user in my program without the user pressing enter. (If I remove (keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_ENTER) then the program hangs for some reason).
What should I do to identify that the user has entered some character in the textbox?

A: I think you want to implement functionality like whenever user enter any character you want to check , if this is the case then there is a TextWatcher class for you. In which you can override its 3 methods: afterTextChanged, beforeTextChanged and onTextChanged.
mPasswordLength = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.password_length);
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    public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {
    }
    public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count, int after) {
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Danny O'Donoghue
The Script stop Dublin concert mid-song and call in security as Danny hits out at crowd members
An unimpressed Danny said: "We're going to have to stop now and get security in, that's not what tonight's about."
Danny O'Donoghue looking forward to first family Christmas back home since Covid-19 pandemic hit
The Script singer said he can't wait to get back to Dublin and experience the Christmas spirit of his hometown
Emotional Garth Brooks says 2014 Croke Park concert controversy 'felt like death in the family'
It comes as Garth Brooks said the 2014 concert controversy felt like 'a death in the family' and admitted he has been too hurt to return to Ireland since
The Script singer Danny O'Donoghue gifts free tickets to Hard Rock Hotel employee who told sister he wasn't a fan
One trainee got more than he bargained for when serving Andrea O'Donoghue
The Script's Danny O'Donoghue says 'too much' drinking and takeaways led to lockdown weight gain
The Hall Of Fame hitmaker says he has since shed the pounds
Croke Park residents raise concerns in meeting with stadium bosses and promoters over Garth Brooks concerts
Dublin City Council has granted country star Brooks a licence for three September gigs
The Script's Danny O'Donoghue says 'I'm super in love' as he lifts lid on life with secret girlfriend
The singer also told how he completely changed his life during lockdown
Meghan Markle was a Deal or No Deal briefcase girl but what happened to the others?
Chrissy Teigen, Meghan Markle and Amanza Smith from hit Netflix show Selling Sunset are just a few of the household names who appeared on Deal or No Deal over the years
The Script's Danny O'Donoghue trains with Conor McGregor's striking coach Owen Roddy
The head coach at SBG Charlestown uploaded a snap with The Script's frontman at the Dublin gym
The Late Late Show line-up: The Script, Blindboy Boatclub, Fionnula Flanagan and Francis Brennan among this weeks guests
All of this and more on The Late Late Show, Friday November 1st at 9.35pm on RTÉ One
The Script's Danny O'Donoghue says he's 'proud' none of the band have needed rehab
"It's the only way I can deal with it. It's the only way I can deal with heartbreak or the loss of a loved one"
Script singer Danny O'Donoghue reveals secret battle with rare illness Wilson's disease that poisons his blood: 'I could die'
Danny added there is a chance he could die if he doesn't take tablets to curb the condition every day
The Script star Danny O'Donoghue no longer speaks to 'friends' who didn't call when his mum died
"That was the time I wanted them to call. And like I said, things become very sharp-focused around times like that"
Irish model Emily MacKeogh posts touching tribute to fiance Killian Roche after tragic death in Dubai
'I'm never going to stop loving you and I want everyone to know just how amazing you were'
Tributes paid as The Script frontman Danny O'Donoghue's mum Ailish dies suddenly
Her funeral took place today
The Script's Danny O'Donoghue cracks a rib after being kicked in the chest by bandmate Mark Sheehan
The band reportedly warms up for gigs by sparring with each other
The Script's Danny O'Donoghue splits with Brazilian model Anne De Paula as his sister hit outs at her online
His sister hit out at her after she posted a selfie with the caption 'Looking at bae...'
The Script suing X Factor winner James Arthur over ripping off 'Say You Won't Let Go'
The Irish band are reportedly suing the UK star
The Script's Danny O'Donoghue says visiting Temple Street Children's Hospital made his Christmas happy again after dad's death
The Script's Danny O'Donoghue admitted the festive season hasn't been the same since his dad died in 2008
Niall Horan, Danny O'Donoghue and Ronan Keating lead the Irish celeb Twitter tributes after London terror attack
The stars were clearly moved by the latest in a long line of atrocities
X Factor star Ella Henderson's father WILL face trial for 'fraud-related charges'
The 20-year-old singer' dad Sean Henderson previously appeared at Sheffield Crown Court
Irish wedding crashed by Danny O'Donoghue and Robert Pattinson
Danny was in Belfast ahead of his band's Tennent's Vital performance on Sunday night and R-Patz - as he is affectionately known to fans - is in Northern Ireland filming The Lost City of Z.
The Script's Danny O'Donoghue finds love with Brazilian model Anne De Paula
The stunning brunette even flew into Dublin to catch the band's Croker sellout in June after starring in one of their videos
Myleene Klass shows off smokin' bikini body as she soaks up rays in pure paradise
Myleene Klass
The TV presenter might have made a name for herself in a white bikini, but that shower scene is nothing on these snaps


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Accompanied by a letter of authentication provided by Dr. Mark Levy, Senior Art Historian, California State University.
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The males of the Fox Moth are generally more reddish-brown than the females, which are slightly larger and greyer.
The species is well distributed over much of Britain, and common in places. Its preferred habitats are open woodland, moors and commons.
The caterpillar is covered with blackish and tawny-coloured hairs and feeds on heather (Calluna) and bramble (Rubus), amongst others.
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The people of Chicago, must not fear coming forward and to bring these people to justice. I need coffee you need a shut the fucup cake shirt I know they are afraid they will seek them out if they tell on someone. Where are Barry and Michelle in all this? Do they not care about their own hometown. Oh, that's right, they're too busy organizing resistance to Trump all around the country and the world. I need coffee you need a shut the fucup cake shirt Democrats resisted and formed the KKK and we got into the civil war. He's coming to Chicago. Keep the same people in the office tomorrow and you'll see the same results you are seeing today. I need coffee you need a shut the fucup cake shirt Do some research on yet another lie from the ego maniacmike Aimone Maybe he just changed his mind and decided to let them get rid of the riff-raff themselves since Obama had 8 years to do something and didn't.


Double Chocolate Chip Banana Bread!! Get ready – you guys are going to be obsessed.
You already are WELL aware of my obsession with the All-Clad Dutch Oven right? I mean, if you watch my FB Live or Snapchat show, it's basically my favorite pan for all things on the stove. Well… guess what. All-Clad just launched a new Prep&Cook and it's basically every single kitchen appliance you could need in 1 device. Genius. The All-Clad Prep&Cook is an all-in-one-appliance that revolutionizes cooking and replaces almost all of your kitchen gadgets. You can use it to make sauces, soups, simmered stews, steamed veggies, pastries and desserts. Naturally, I made Double Chocolate Chip Banana Bread because I'll go for any excuse to work more chocolate into my daily life.
Let's get down to business shall we. This new all-in-one kitchen electric saves time, space and creates one million menus at the touch of a button. All the ingredients go into the mixing bowl, the bananas are whipped into the batter, chocolate chips are stirred in perfectly and in just a few minutes, you have the perfect double chocolate banana bread stuffed with plenty of chocolate chips. Then it's just into a loaf pan and into the oven for about an hour and voila! Easy right? It's genius if you ask me. And word on the street is these multi-cookers are huge in Europe and Australia, so if you're a reader and live in that part of the world – this is probably already your jam.
But… if you're not already aware of these bad boys, I'm giving one away and it's worth about $1000!!!! You're welcome.
(contest closes April 4th at 9am PST – open to US residents only) Congratulations to #27 Heather!! I emailed you so you can collect your brand spanking new Prep&Cook!
Spray a 9×5-inch loaf pan with a nonstick baking spray.
Place the butter, sugar, egg, and chocolate extract in the bowl fitted with the kneading/crushing blade. Launch the P3 pastry program. Peel and roughly chop the bananas.
At the end of the program, add the bananas, flour, baking soda, salt, cocoa powder and all of the chocolate chips except 2 tablespoons. Mix at speed 6 for 40 seconds. Scrape down the sides of the bowl and mix at speed 6 for an additional 10 seconds.
Pour into the prepared loaf pan and bake for 55 to 65 minutes. Let cool for at least 30 minutes before running a knife around the perimeter of the loaf pan and inverting the banana bread and transferring the loaf onto a cooling rack. Slice and serve as needed.
If you don't have a prep&cook or prefer to make this from scratch - here are directions: In a large stand mixer, combine the butter and sugar and whip for 2 minutes until combined. Add the egg, scraping down the sides of the bowl to make sure everything is evenly combined. Add the extract and the bananas and mix for 30 seconds. The batter will look a little curdled, this is normal. Add the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt and mix for a few seconds until the flour is evenly combines. Add the chocolate chips and give it all a quick stir. Then follow the directions as needed for baking.
I can't even imagine the ways to use this miracle device. I think I'd start with rustic bread.
Pastries! When I think of a food processer, I think of cutting butter into flour-one of my least favorite things to do!
What a fun giveaway! I think I would use it to make meatballs and of course all my baking favorites. Fingers crossed, would love to win this!
Salsas, guac and every other dip!!
I would make macarons! My favorite!!!
Wow. Sounds wonderful. I'd probably start with something like Sunshine Bread.
All Clad comes up with the best ideas for new products. Great giveaway!
I can't wait to try this recipe – chocolate AND banana? Fuhgettaboutit!!
Preparation will sure be easier with this new addition to the kitchen.
I want to make that banana bread. It looks so yummy and I love my chocolate.
Wow!! I would love it for soup.
Meatballs just because my grandkids love them!
Wow!!! I've never seen anything like this!!! What would I make ? ……. hmmmmm one in each category!!! Love to cook and bake!!! I'd start with that delicious soup! Onto steamed fish with rice!!! All of n the same pit!!! Amazing!! And the delicious banana bread!!! Endless possibilities!!! Thanks for the chance to win one!!!
What IS this sorcery!? I think I'd use use a combo of the soup, slow cooker and blender functions. It would be so nice to come back to a smooth and creamy soup!
As a legally blind professional Baker, I would love to simplify my time in the kitchen with a Prep&Cook of my very own to aid in making pastries and desserts. I'm obsessed with kitchen gadgets that will make my time in the kitchen productive with the aid of advanced technology. Being legally blind and working in the kitchen as a profession can be challenging. But, with the right kitchen tools and appliances, I am able to breeze through recipes as well as create amazing desserts. I'd love the chance at winning one of these beauties for my very own.
I'm a working single guy, I need one! I love banana bread but meatloaf would be the first thing I would try to make..
I would make indian naan bread and a lot lentil soups !! I need this machine in my life it is like a second chef in the kitchen !
Not sure exactly what this is capable of butI think but Meatballs come to mind. Watch out onions!
Wow! That looks amazing. I'd go with breads – sweet and savory – and probably lots of veggie soups.
Hmm, so many possibilities! I'd really like to try making some soups and also some breads to start with, though. 🙂 Thanks for doing this awesome giveaway. Fingers crossed!
I think I would try rye bread, I think that machine is top notch and your chocolate banana bread looks luscious. I would have to put a batch of that to a test in there.
I baked it for over 80 minutes and still undercooked and mushy! Should the oven be hotter?
do you have a little oven thermometer that you can use to see if you oven is running true to temp?
What difference does it make if salt is kosher or not?
I would love to try making swiss meringue in this baby.
Hi gabby! Love your recipe especially on the choc chip banana bread! Would it be possible to add 4 tsp on milk to this recipe just like the choc chip banana bread recipe?
How much banana in cups do you use. I think my four bananas were a bit too big and my bread is a little too dense. Still tastes amazing!!