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Today in the "Religion of Peace?"
On September 30th, 2000, Mohammad al-Durrah was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers as he crouched with his father behind a large cement culvert.
Except that it was all a hoax.
Numerous "Palestinian" "reporters" were present and recording events at the Netzarim Junction on that day. Highly edited snippets of the film provided by "Palestinian" "reporter" Talal Abu-Rahma showed a man and a boy hiding behind the culvert pipe. They appeared agitated and fearful. At some point, someone apparently fired a weapon at the wall behind them. There was then an image of the boy laying almost motionless next to his father, at which point the France 2 reporter Charles Enderlin claimed that the boy was dead, intentionally shot and killed by the Israelis.
Muslims around the world, including Osama Bin Laden, used the iconic image of Mohammad al-Durrah to justify their jihad attacks.
But nowhere on the tape do we see al-Durrah's death; at the end of the tape, he is seen playfully peeking out from behind his fingers to look at the cameraman, long after he has been pronounced dead. Nowhere is any blood seen, on either father or son, or the walls or the ground. Nowhere is either of them seen actually being hit by any bullets. All we have to rely on is the word of the "Palestinian," Talal Abu-Rahma, about what happened that day, and he has already been caught in numerous inconsistencies and prevarications.
Eight years later, France 2 has defied numerous calls to release the complete raw footage, even ignoring a direct court order. The few who have been allowed to see the entire tape say that it does not show the death of Al-Durrah, contrary to the claims of Talal Abu-Rahma and France 2 reporter Charles Enderlin. What the tape does show is staged scenes of "Palestinians" feigning injury. What it does show is "Palestinians" laughing and relaxed as phony "battles" take place for the benefit of the "reporters" while passersby nonchalantly go about their lives.
Footage from other networks on the scene that day confirm the fakery. This and other cases of "Palestinian" manipulation of the media have spawned a phrase, "Pallywood." An entire industry exists to manufacture anti-Israeli propaganda, and our media falls for it, hook, line, and sinker. Not only do they give a patina of respectability to the propagandists, the major news organizations actively protect the "Palestinian" "news makers" from any scrutiny. Richard Landes documents their deception:
Pallywood II: Al Durah: The Birth of an Icon
Pallywood III: Icon of Hatred
Pallywood Strikes Again
From the burning tire dump, to the phony rocket attack on a Red Cross ambulance, to green-helmet man, to the wailing woman who keeps losing her house to the Zionist terrorists, there has been a litany of hoaxes perpetrated on us.
Previous Days in the "Religion of Peace™":
Sept 29: Cervantes, jihad survivor
Sept 27: Emir of Kuwait begs UN for help
Sept 25: Assassination of Aqila al-Hashimi in Iraq
Sept 24: Abbasid Caliph al-Hadi
Sept 23: Gulf Air Flight 771
Posted on 09/30/2008 11:40 PM by Artemis Gordon Glidden
The Hollywood Blacklist Wasn't The Only One
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Hecht
"Keep those lights burning, cover them with steel, build them in with guns, build a canopy of battleships and bombing planes around them and, hello, America, hang on to your lights, they're the only lights in the world." Foreign Correspondent (1940)
Who Gets Shelf-Space In The Marketplace Of Ideas?
At littlegreenfootballs:
From Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit, an email from a reader who works in a mainstream media newsroom:
"Off the record, every suspicion you have about MSM being in the tank for O is true. We have a team of 4 people going thru dumpsters in Alaska and 4 in arizona. Not a single one looking into Acorn, Ayers or Freddiemae. Editor refuses to publish anything that would jeopardize election for O, and betting you dollars to donuts same is true at NYT, others. People cheer when CNN or NBC run another Palin-mocking but raising any reasonable inquiry into obama is derided or flat out ignored. The fix is in, and its working." I asked permission to reprint without attribution and it was granted.
A Musical Interlude: Io Conosco Un Bar (Trio Lescano)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxSaCNMT2os
Italy's Interior Minister, Or, Take That, Sarah Palin
Do Not Forward This - Not a Joke
by Esmerelda Weatherwax (Oct. 2008)
I received this e-mail a few weeks ago - Fwd: Important info..... NOT a joke!
And the person who sent it to me and about 25 other women urged us to "Read right to the bottom" more>>>
Posted on 09/30/2008 5:23 PM by NER
A Funny Thing Happened On My Way To The Twenty-First Century
by John M. Joyce (Oct. 2008)
Oh, don't get me wrong – as centuries go the twenty-first is not too bad, so far; I've known worse, but I've also known better. Take the nineteenth one, for example. Now that was a good century. Hoi polloi knew their place and even the street urchins touched their forelocks as I walked past (well, in some cases they touched where they fondly imagined their forelocks to be). Respect was solid coin back then, something to be earned, not enforced by a sharp knife. A man knew where he stood and what he stood for – and, frequently, what he stood in, but the urchins would be soundly thrashed until they lay down and let gentlemen such as me have something clean, well cleaner, to walk on. Being as how they were proper English urchins I am sure that they enjoyed it – well, the thrashing, at any rate. more>>>
The Long and Short of It
by Mary Jackson (October 2008)
"I am sorry this is so long. I didn't have time to make it shorter."
This apology is attributed by turns to such fine minds as Blaise Pascal, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, Voltaire, Benjamin Franklin and even Marie Curie. Between them they must have a point. Here are some brief thoughts on length: more>>>
The Jabotinsky Legacy
Democracy and Individual Freedom for Israel
by Jerry Gordon (Oct. 2008)
On September 14th, the 68th annual yahrzeit (memorial) for Ze'ev Jabotinsky z"l (of blessed memory) was held at the Edmund Safra Synagogue on Manhattan's Upper East Side. The event was co-sponsored by American for a Safe Israel (AFSI) and the Nordau Circle. Former Israeli Likud Defense and Foreign Minister Moshe Arens gave an impassioned yet nostalgic speech about what Jabotinsky stood for and represented. Arens was a young member of Betar who knew Jabotinsky before his untimely death in New York in 1940. The current edition of the Jewish Press has an article by Fern Sidman about the memorial and Minister Arens speech. more>>>
Women, The Olympics & Islam
by Tina Trent (Oct. 2008)
Atlanta, 1996
At the Opening Ceremonies of the 1996 Olympics, one hypnotically hot day in July, I stood on the pavement outside Atlanta's Olympic Stadium as two Middle Eastern men angrily snapped photographs of me. Five thousand miles from Iran, a few blocks from my home, five years before 9/11, I came face-to-face with Islamic extremism on a crowded Atlanta sidewalk. more>>>
Literature's Most Misunderstood Novel
by Norman Berdichevsky (Oct. 2008)
No foreigner who has been in Spain more than a few days will fail to recognize them. Statues, portraits and images of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza stare out at you from tiled murals on the walls of schools, museums, shops and cultural centers. The familiar figures of the tall, lanky and gaunt knight-errant with his rusty sword, crooked lance and broken helmet, perched on his emaciated old plough horse turned charger, Rocinante, towers over the pudgy peasant Sancho Panza sitting astride his mule. more>>>
Vanishing Christianity
by Rebecca Bynum (Oct. 2008)
Despite what seems to be incessant criticism of Christianity today, the reality is there is really very little real criticism of specific Christian doctrine, criticism that would help to correct the course of modern Christianity. Growing ranks of militant atheists rail against religion as a whole and call for its complete abandonment. Religionists in turn find themselves forced to defend religion in its entirety and are distracted from what might be profitable religious self-criticism. In addition, many Christian congregations have taken up social causes as they have gradually abandoned the cause of religion as such. Furthermore, the general decline of religion has led to an increase in superstition even among the highly educated and more than a few congregations are directly involved in fostering superstitious thought. more>>>
Neither A Lender Nor A Borrower Be
by Theodore Dalrymple (Oct. 2008)
The day after I arrived in New York, Lehman Brothers, the investment bank that had been in business for 158 years, collapsed. By the time I left a few days later, Merrill Lynch had undergone a distress sale and the American government, given the choice between apocalyptic financial panic and the bottomless pit, had chosen the bottomless pit and bailed out (and taken over) the giant insurance company, AIG. more>>>
A Musical Interlude: Heart And Soul (Bea Wain)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQIc0ruL_HY&feature=related
Is Al-Qaeda Winning?
This is the intensely irritating title of a BBC Radio 4 programme, which I have nearly missed, but which will be repeated and which overseas listeners can also get. (I will explain how when Alan, who kindly told me about this, gets back to me.)
The title is irritating because it suggests that the programme will blather on about Guantanamo and how America has "squandered the world's sympathy". It is irritating, too, because it implies that Al-Qaeda, rather than Islam itself, is the problem. As long as we have Islam, we will always have Al-Qaeda, Hamas, Wahabis, "extremists", "youths" and so on.
On past form the BBC is idiotically pro-"Palestinian" and often, but by no means always, anti-American. Occasionally, however, it surprises us with a fair and balanced analysis, and sometimes important facts and arguments reach the public in spite of, rather than because of, the bias of the reporter.
This may be one such occasion. I will listen at some stage and report back.
Pseudsday Tuesday
There is something mysterious, almost romantic, about the term "Poste Restante". Think of Jane Eyre, alone in the world, calling at Lowton Post Office for the letter that would summon her to Thornfield Hall and Mr Rochester. Think of Jane Fairfax in Emma, picking up secret love letters from the Post Office at Highbury. Think of those lonely travellers calling for those letters that can only make them more homesick. Poste Restante – letters left on the shelf when deliveries have been made to those with homes to go to and a place in the world.
So much does the term smack of classic novels that I was recently surprised to discover that this service is alive and well and living in Islington. From Wikipedia:
Mail is addressed to POSTE RESTANTE (or TO BE CALLED FOR), which is written after the full name of the recipient (as appears on the identification to be presented ie. the passport, if abroad), then the name and full address of the destination post office, thus:
Mr. John Smith
Islington Post Office
116 Upper Street
London N1 1AE
If only addressed to a town name, for example POSTE RESTANTE, LONDON (there are currently 115 crown offices in LONDON[1]) mail will go to the closest main post office branch.
Fancy that. Perhaps I was reading too much into a rather banal feature of Post Office life. But nothing like as much as Derek White:
Poste Restante is a collection of text and image fragments (postcards, if you will, sent from the subconscious) by Derek White. From the forward:
Whenever I dream about "home," it's never where I am residing at the time. For that matter, whenever I dream of a place, say, Maldives or the Plaza de Toros in Seville, it's never the place but an idealized concept of one, perhaps amalgamated with other places, including absurd ones I have never been to or that might not even exist. Yet. The same is true of people. Say, Madonna or Captain Beefheart. Or even elementary particles such as quarks or gauge bosons. Or the relationships in between.
The nocturnal histories contained here were transcribed in the dark, in the wake of sleep when I couldn't always see what, in fact, I was writing. These are merely the residuals, in translated words and images, that clung to my feet as I woke up and walked across the floorboards of where I was living at the time. This is all I can say with any degree of certainty without sacrificing knowledge of place for where I was going with it.
When a letter or parcel is addressed and postmarked, you are assured that it pas through human hands and physical devices to reach its intended destination. It is a validation. A proof of concept. A collapse of its wave function. Poste Restante (literally, 'post remaining' or 'residual mail') is an ad hoc destination for mail sent to recipients who are just passing through a place they do not permanently reside. It's what you say when you don't have a place you call "home."
When it comes to waxing lyrical about Poste Restante, Derek White can't hold a candle to Hélène Cixous, "insightful and unbridled" admirer of that French man of letters, Jacques Derrida:
What holds my attention is the taste of death in poste restante. What holds me in poste restante is the taste of death, the dream taste of death.
- In post resisting. In post-resistance.
In the USA, Poste Restante is called General Delivery, a prosaic term that puts paid to Post Office posturing.
Waiting For The EESA
In the wake of the worst financial panic since the Great Depression, Americans and the world are anxiously awaiting passage of the allegedly vital Emergency Economic Stabilization Act (EESA)of 2008. An act of Congress that might maintain confidence and liquidity in our tattered banking system until the next train wreck occurs.
At its core is a simple fact about this latest financial debacle. Government created a moral hazard in the housing bubble culminating in the sub prime mortgage credit crisis. It did that by eliminating customary underwriting standards for mortgages made to normally unqualified applicants to purchase homes. These applicants couldn't possibly repay the mortgages. The originators of these sub prime mortgages were betting that escalating housing prices would bail them out. Disaster followed naturally in the wake of this human folly. The magnitude of that moral hazard can be seen in the more than 18 million 'new home owners' created during the peak of the bubble. Not so long ago President Bush and those low income housing advocates in the Congress trumpeted 'the great home ownership society.' Scam artists like Countrywide and other mortgage origination companies and the corrupt leaders of Fannie and Freddie Mac made sure they got paid off handsomely, while exploiting the moral hazard. The old dictum: "bulls make money, bears make money, but pigs get slaughtered' has been proven once again by this latest disastrous caper.
Then, where were Congress, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission doing nothing to control the ballooning derivatives and credit default swap markets trading trillions of dollars every day? Back in 2003, Buffet called these complex, not very well understood financial instruments, 'financial weapons of mass destruction.'
One illustration of that is the demise of AIG because of the trading in this toxic stuff out of the unregulated London market. Just imagine that a group of less than 377, out of 120,000 employees were able to generate one quarter of AIG's income through these virtually naked trades. Amazing! Then they got greedy a few years ago and succumbed to the siren-like suggestions by both Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan Chase about underwriting credit default swaps (CDS). Poof went AIG. The major international insurance group was saved from extinction by an $85 billion dollar bridge loan the proceeds of which will be used to cover the losses of the defaulted CDS trades. Witness this comment from Joseph Cassano, the head of the AIG derivatives trading unit at an August, 2007 industry forum in a front page story on the AIG demise in the Sunday New York Times:
"It is hard for us, without being flippant, to even see a scenario within any kind of realm of reason that would see us losing one dollar in any of those transactions."
What's the line from the novel and film Forest Gump?: 'stupid is, as stupid does."
Markets are not perfect. However markets are generally better than governments at setting asset prices. In this crisis the markets can't price defaulted mortgages, collateralized debt obligations and credit default swaps - a toxic brew. On top of that we lack transparency, accountability and oversight. What's the old saw - "who is watching the watchers?" No one was watching the watchers in this debacle.
Stock markets, as Warren Buffet said last week, are very emotional in the short run. However, Buffet said that they may in the long run enable one to weigh values. Buffet learned well from the fabled Ben Graham at Columbia Business School, that value investing, not gambling on earnings forecasts, pays off. That insight was the product of the Great Depression. It has minted a veritable fortune for the 'wizard of Omaha' and some others who follow the dictates of the 'bible', "Security Analysis," originally authored back in 1933 by Graham and Dodd.
Watching the folks down here on the Gulf Coast scrambling this morning after Wachovia 'merged' with Citigroup, another winner, has got to make them all very uneasy about who and what will be next on the list of 117 'troubled' banking institutions being watched by the FDIC.
One of them may be BB&T a middle-Atlantic and Southeastern regional depository institution with 138 billion in assets, 1,500 branches and a troubled $8.6 residential mortgage and construction lending book. The chairman, John A. Allison, IV had the ultimate chutzpah of sending the bank's depositors a blitz email via the branch heads excoriating the subsidizing of failed major banks under the proposed EESA, while trumpeting his group as being allegedly well run and well capitalized. That was Friday morning. Friday afternoon, I received a Bloomberg.com news alert indicating that Merril Lynch had downgraded BB&T because of its questionable loan book. Go figure.
There is an old industry joke that was I fond of retelling at moments like this when "schaden freude" (joy at the anguish of others) occurs in the Calcutta of Wall Street (I lived through black Tuesday in October, 1987 just after a number of us had purchased via an LBO, a regional broker dealer and small investment bank) comes to mind.
The scion of a wealthy New England family graduates from Harvard College with what we called a 'gentleman's C average'. In a family wainscoted drawing room speaking in quiet anguish with his dad, a Harvard alum, he says: "I can't get into the law school, business school, even the graduate school of education-what am I going to do, dad???"
His father attired in a quilted smoking jacket, hands curled around a brandy snifter turned to his son and said: "Don't worry, there's always banking and insurance."
Posted on 09/30/2008 9:05 AM by Jerry Gordon
The Law May Not, But We Do, Care For Trifles
The phrase "de minimis non curat lex" appears in a libidinous limerick of the kind famously collected by Gershon Legman ("There was a young maid from Pawtucket"):
There was a young law student named Rex,
· Who had very small organs of sex.
· When charged with exposure,
· He said with composure:
· De minimis non curat lex
And there are others that exploit both the same lex-sex rhyme and the implied rhythm imposed on the Latin tag.
A Musical Interlude: Let's Face The Music And Dance (Adam Aston)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qY2XIhgUUDU&feature=related
Exploding custard lorry
The incident described in Esmerelda's post happened on the A382 near Changford, Devon. It was therefore a lorry - let's have no truck with these Americanisms.
The case came to court, but the judge said: "De minimis non curat lex," or, "The law pays no attention to trifles."


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AC/DC Guitarist And Co-founder Malcolm Young Has Died At 64 - GENRE IS DEAD!
Sad news to report for AC/DC and rock music fans. Malcolm Young, co-founder and rhythm guitarist of AC/DC has died at the age of. The rocker had been suffering from dementia and passed away surrounded by his family and those who cared about him.
In 2014, Young took a leave of absence from the band due to his dementia before retiring altogether in September of that year. He is survived by his wife Linda Young and their two children, Cara and Ross.
Young was a great talent that brought us one of the world's best rock bands. He will be missed.


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Chippendale Part Three
Continued from Part Two...
To Mr. Smith, whose unlovely productions were being bought by the Prince Regent, the noblity and gentry, it would have been a great surprise to learn that "Chippendale" styles, which he deemed buried beyond resurrection, would be equally pleasing a century after his own were deservedly forgotten. It is remarkable that Chippendale might never have existed so far as Mr. Smith's generation was concerned. Eighteen years later, he find the he himself has become antiquated, but takes comfort from the face that perfection has at last been attained! Describing with some accuracy the sequence of styles in English furniture since the close of the carved-oak period, he says:
"At this period (Louis XIV.) the whole system seems to have given place to a style completely Arabesque, although blended with much grandeur peculiar to this taste, and brought to great perfection by the artists then employed in its manufacture. The importation of it into England changed the whole feature of design as it related to household furniture. This taste continued almost unchanged through the reign of George II. and the earlier part of George III. The elder Mr. Chippendale was, I believe, the first author who favoured the public with a work consisting of designs drawn from this school, with great merit to himself, however defective the taste of the choice might be. To this work succeeded that of Mr. Ince in the same style. From this period to the time of Messrs. R. and J. Adam, the same species of design continued, with little or no alteration, until the researches of these scientific gentlemen in architecture and ornament were made public. A complete revolution in the taste of design immediately followed: the heavy panelled wall, the deeply coffered ceiling, although they offered an imposing and grand effect, gave way to the introduction of a light Arabesque style and an ornament highly beautiful. But the period for the introduction of not only a chaste style in the architecture, but likewise of ornament (and which extended to our domestic moveables) was reserved for the late Mr. James Wyatt, whose classic designs will carry his name to posterity with unimpaired approbation. Here it would appear almost unnecessary for invention to have gone farther, but perfection, it appears, was reserved for this present period."
Apart from this book, which brought him into temporary prominence, Chippendale seems to have been an obscurely prosperous tradesman who catered to the tastes of the day. His biographer in the exhaustive Dictionary of National Biography can find little more to say of him than that he flourished circa 1760. He was not the only successful member of his craft in London during the first half of the eighteenth century, if we may believe the following advertisement in a New York paper in 1771:
"To-morrow will be sold at public vendue at the Merchants' Coffee house at twelve o'clock by John Applegate, a very neat set of carved mahogany chairs, one carved and gilt sideboard table, and a Chinese hanging bookcase with several other things. N.B. The back of the chairs is done after the pattern of some of the Queen's; a sketch of which chair will be shown at the time of the sale. The Chairs and other things were made by a person in the Jersies who served his time and afterwards was eleven years foreman to the great and imminent cabinet-maker William Hallet, Esq.; that bought the fine estate of the Duke of Shandos, called Cannon's, in Middlesex; was afterwards a master for about twenty years in London and hath been two years in the Jersies. He will receive any orders for furniture, viz.; Plate cases or best Chinese hanging book-cases or on frames; French elbow chairs, ribbon back, Gothic or any sort of chairs, likewise carved, glass frames, gerrandoles, bracket branches, etc."
By D. Lawless Hardware - April 06, 2020
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Q: Почему стили на bootstrap не подключаются правильно, фреймворк laravel
Использую navbar-toggler, но стили не все используются, почему. Ответ, если можно поточнее

A: Подключение стилей bootsrap в laravel в файле resources/assets/sass/app.scss :
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@import "~bootstrap-sass/assets/stylesheets/bootstrap";
Если Js и CSS собраны корректно(https://laravel.com/docs/5.6/frontend), то кнопка navbar-toggler в bootstrap 4 согласно вашей верстке должна появиться при ширине экрана меньше 768px.
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Support Syrian Refugees, Get a 3D Printed Author from Riverhead Books
By Frannie Jackson | June 21, 2016 | 4:36pm
Photos by Riverhead Design Labs Books Galleries
Thanks to Riverhead Books, bibliophiles can support Syrian refugees and get some literary swag in the process. Throughout the entire month of June, you can make a donation of $250 or more to Libraries Without Borders and receive a miniature, 3D printed Riverhead author of your choice. The collection, which was designed by Benjamin Denzer and printed by LeBlox, includes nine contemporary writers: Junot Díaz, Anne Lamott, Khaled Hosseini, Elizabeth Gilbert, Marlon James, Lauren Groff, Nick Hornby, Emma Straub and Dan Pink.
Libraries Without Borders is "a nonprofit that works to bring books, computers and learning resources to the refugee and migrant populations in Europe." Donations made through Riverhead's fundraiser will pay for Ideas Boxes, which are portable media centers with Internet access and their own power source.
We've gathered several photos of the mini authors in the gallery above, and you can view the rest and learn more about the fundraiser here.
1 of 5 Junot Díaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and This is How You Lose Her
2 of 5 Lauren Groff, author of Fates and Furies and Delicate Edible Birds
3 of 5 Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns
4 of 5 Marlon James, author of The Book of Night Women and A Brief History of Seven Killings
5 of 5 Emma Straub, author of The Vacationers and Modern Lovers
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Q: Failed to load Native ad: 0 Error I am implementing code for native ads that is given by google. That is working okay with google
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But when I replace with my id its not showing ad and execute onAdFailedToLoad method and got   Failed to load native ad: 0 error .
I tried two different ad unit id but it didn't load ad.

so what should I do??please help me

I tried below code
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A: Please add at least one testing device and try, It may be help you like following,
AdRequest adRequest = new AdRequest.Builder() .addTestDevice("SEE_YOUR_LOGCAT_TO_GET_YOUR_DEVICE_ID") .build();

A: this could be lately answered but expecting to help for others having similiar problem.One of the major cause for this is incorrect dimension
In my case before it was
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I was making the mistake in giving the adSize ,so i just changed the add size with the below dimension and got fixed. Thanks.
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I'm in a baking mooooooood today!!!! My pup, Ernie, is sick today so being the overprotective PupMama that I am, I am sticking around the house today to keep an eye on the poor guy. That's the only excuse that I need to put on my baking pants!
With the four brown bananas in our fruit bowl, I already whipped up some banana muffins. My Mom was famous for her muffins and I try to replicate hers the best that I can. She was known as the Muffin Lady by a few of my friends growing up… every Saturday morning she would whip up muffins and the banana ones were always my favourite (her blueberry ones are a very close second…) The muffins are so moist, soft and delicious…. every bite you get a mouthful of banana muffin, chocolate chips, coconut and raisins! Does it get better than that!?
I'm also slow cooking a teriyaki, pineapple chicken dish that I am winging and plan to serve it with steamed broccoli, rice and a salad to start. On a Wednesday night! We rarely ate like this mid-week in Canada! John offered to BBQ some big, fat juicy pork chops that are currently marinating, but I have an inkling he'll get home late tonight and the last thing he'll want to do is go up to the rooftop to BBQ.
Add in honey, water and as much molasses as your heart desires. Mix until all blended in together and forms easily into a ball of dough.
Roll dough between two large pieces of parchment until ¼ inch thick. I used a pizza cutter to cut into rectangles but you can use cookie cutters too. Place crackers on a parchment lined baking sheet. Re-roll remaining dough until all of dough is used up.
Bake at 350ºF for 15-20 minutes, until slightly darkened around edges (they will harden as they cool). Remove crackers to a wire wrack to cool.
Devour as s'mores, spread pb or chocolate on top, or just eat them plain jane!
Hope you enjoy them as much or "s'more" than we are!
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History of the United States
War and Military History
US Civil War
What were the NOrth and the South fighting for at the end of the Civil War?
In the beginning of the Civil War the North was fighting to join the South back into the Union. While to the South the war was about defense, to protect their new country Confederate States of America(C.S.A). By the end of the war the North was fighting against the 'Peculiar Institution in other words slavery, while the South was fighting to save it.
Why were poll taxes created
What is a graduated income tax
What sparked the beginning of the Civil War
When Abraham Lincoln was elected president what was the result for the southern states
Q: What were the NOrth and the South fighting for at the end of the Civil War?
Who were fighting on the Civil War?
The North and the South were fighting (Union and Confederacy)
Who is fighting in the civil war?
South or The Confederacy and the North or The Union
Who was fighting in the civil war?
The South and the North sides of the US.
Why were the north and the south fighting during the civil war?
Lincoln was fighting in the civil war to reunite what?
The north and south
What did the north and south do to prevent fighting a civil war?
What? They did not prevent a civil war, they fought one .
What was the North's reason for fighting in the Civil War?
To keep the North and the South together.......
What side was Clara Barton fighting for in the civil war north or south?
the north.
What is the difference between the South and the North in the Civil War?
The South was fighting to keep slavery. The North was fighting to abolish slavery.
Was Abraham Lincoln on the North or South in the Civil War?
He was fighting against the south so he was with the north fighting against slavery.
Was America north or south in the civil war?
They were "the Civil War". The North and the South were going against each other. They were fighting against slavery (the North). And the South wanted slavery.
Why was the north fighting in the civil war and why was the south fighting in the war?
The South was fighting to keep its independence - and retain the cotton revenues. The North was fighting to restore the Union - and regain the cotton revenues.
Who were the sides that were fighting in the civil war?
The North, Union, and the South, Confederates.
Why were the north and south fighting during the civil war?
Because of slavery
What is the two name of the sections fighting in the civil war?
North and South!
What was the original reason for the North fighting the Civil War?
The original reason for the North to fight the Civil War was to prevent the South from seceding.
Why were they fighting in the civil war?
They were fighting because they made many disagreements between the north and south.
What political and economic changes occurred during the Civil War?
When the south and north were fighting for freedom in the civil war
Which side won the Vietnam civil war?
The North. But it was not a civil war. The north and south were completely separate nations. In a civil war, one nation is fighting itself.
What was Lincoln's goal in fighting the civil war?
To prevent the south from seceding from the north.
What groups fought in the Civil War?
In the US Civil War, the north and the south were fighting against each other. The North being the Union, and the South being the Confederacy.
What was the political impact on the North after the civil war?
1. The North and South where fighting over slavery
What did the north and south disagree on?
The North and South disagree upon slavery. The South was fighting for slavery and the North was against it. Leading to the Civil War.
Why were the confederates fighting in the Civil War?
The Confederates were fighting in the Civil war to be free from the Union and be their own country. the most important reason they were fighting in the Civil War is because the North and South had many Dissagreements over the years.
What happened after the firing on fort Sumter?
The north declared war on the south and the fighting of the Civil War started
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Der jambische Vierheber (auch steigender Viertakter) ist in der Verslehre der Sprachen mit akzentuierendem Versprinzip wie dem Deutschen ein aus vier jambischen Versfüßen bestehendes Versmaß. Er zählt nach dem jambischen Fünfheber in diesen Sprachen zu den verbreitetsten Versformen.

Das Schema ist in metrischer Notation

und in hyperkatalektisch verlängerter Form:

Dieses Versmaß wird in zahlreichen literaturgeschichtlich wichtigen und bis in die Moderne beliebten Strophenformen verwendet. Zu diesen zählen:
 Ambrosianische Hymnenstrophe
 Otfridstrophe
 Vagantenstrophe
 Lindenschmidstrophe
 Schweifreimstrophe
 Lutherstrophe

Literatur
 Ivo Braak: Poetik in Stichworten. 8. Aufl. Bornträger, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-443-03109-9, S. 114–116.

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The United States Federal Trade Commission voted this week to approve a roughly $5 billion settlement with Facebook Inc over a long-running investigation into the company's privacy missteps, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. The 3-2 vote by FTC commissioners broke along party lines, with the Republican majority lining up to support the pact while Democratic commissioners objected, according to the WSJ report, citing a person familiar with the matter. (https://on.wsj.com/2NQm16F)
A settlement is expected to include other government restrictions on how Facebook treats user privacy, WSJ reported. FTC and Facebook declined Reuters requests for comment.
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Be sure and check the KPC finals week schedules to make sure you know where to go!
Final exams are required to allow 2 hours and 45 minutes. To meet this requirement, a special schedule is created for final exams for the last week of fall and spring semesters at KPC.
Please consult these schedules to see the days and times final exams will be administered.
For questions or more information, call KRC at 907.262.0330, or KBC at 907.235.7743.
KBC Fall 2019 Finals Schedule
Course CRN Course title/Instructor Final Exam Date, Time, Location
BIOL A111 73194 Human Anatomy & Phys/Landess Dec. 9, 9:00-11:40 a.m., P201
BIOL A111L 73198 Human Anatomy & Phys Lab/Landess Dec. 9, 9:00-11:40 a.m., P203
BIOL A423 73211 Ichthyology/Goldman Dec. 9, 10:00 a.m.-12:45 p.m., P202
BIOL A490L 73218 Ichthyology Lab/Goldman Dec. 11, 1:00-3:45 p.m., P203
BIOL A430 73212 Marine Mammal Biology/Tobin Dec. 11, 4:00-6:45 p.m., P201
BIOL A481 73216 Marine Biology/Tobin Dec. 10, 10:00 a.m.-12:45 p.m., B104
BIOL A490L 73220 Marine Biology Lab/Tobin Dec. 12, 7:00-9:45 a.m., P203
COMM A111 73272 Oral Communications/Calhoun Dec. 9, 1:00-3:45 p.m., P202
HIST A101 73382 Western Civilization/Meyers Dec. 9, 1:00-3:45 p.m., B104
HIST A341 73400 History of Alaska/Meyers Dec. 10, 10:00 a.m.-12:45 p.m., B104
HIST A401 76506 History of Warfare/Meyers Dec. 11, 10:00 a.m.-12:45 p.m., B104
MATH A105 73452 Intermediate Algebra/Johnson Dec. 12, 7:00-9:45 a.m., B102
MATH A151 73465 College Algebra for Calculus/Johnson Dec. 11, 1:00-3:45 p.m., P212
MATH A251 73477 Calculus I/Johnson Dec. 12, 1:00-3:45 p.m., P212
PHYS A123 73514 College Physics I/Veh Dec. 11, 10:00 a.m.-12:45 p.m., P202
PS A101 73556 Intro to American Government/Meyers Dec. 10, 1:00-3:45 p.m., B104
PSY A111 73563 Intro to Psychology/Partridge Dec. 10, 10:00 a.m.-12:45 p.m., P201
KRC Fall 2019 Schedule
ABE A004 I10 73102 Math Lab Dec. 9, 7:00-9:45 a.m., BROC 190
AKNS A101 I10 73112 Elem Central Yup'ik Lang I/Peterson Dec. 9, 4:00-6:45 p.m., WARD 116
AKNS A250 I10 73115 Elem Dena'ina Lang I/Williams Dec. 10, 10:00 a.m.-12:45 p.m., WARD 116
ART A160 IBL 73126 Rise of Civilization/Boraas Dec. 9, 10:00 a.m.-12:45 p.m., WARD 118
ART A105, 205, 305 Painting/Choy Dec. 9, 1:00-3:45 p.m., BROC 194
BIOL A102 I10 73189 Introductory Biology/Miller Dec. 9, 1:00-3:45 p.m., WARD 102
BIOL A111 I10 73193 Human Annatomy & Physiology I/Gardell Dec. 10, 10:00 a.m.- 12:45 p.m., WARD 102
BIO A480 IV1 Marine Biology/Tobin Dec. 10, 10:00 a.m.-12:45 p.m., WARD 109
CHEM A103 IV1 73234 Intro to General Chemistry/Long Dec. 9, 10:00 a.m.-12:45 p.m., WARD 116
COMM A111 I11 73265 Fund Oral Communication/Messick Dec. 10, 1:00-3:45 p.m., KRES MPR
COMM A11 I20 73267 Fund Oral Communication/Pothast Dec. 12, 4:00-6:45 p.m., WARD 118
CS A109 I10 77574 Computer Porgrammin: C# Langu/Storms Dec. 9, 10:00 a.m.-12:45 p.m., CTEC 205
EMT A130 I10 73316 Emergency Med Tech I/Perry Dec. 9, 1:00-3:45 p.m., GOOD 144
ET A102 I10 73345 Basic Electronics: AC Circuits/ Kochis Dec. 10, 1:00-3:45 p.m., CTEC 205
ET A175 I10 73350 Tech Intro Computing Systems/Kochis Dec. 11, 1:00-3:45 p.m., CTEC 205
ET A240 I20 73352 Computer Systems Interfacing/Kochis Dec. 10, 4:00-6:45 p.m., CTEC 205
ET A241 I10 77575 Digital Control Systems/Vroman Dec. 9, 1:00-3:45 p.m., CTEC 205
HCA A105 I30 73378 Certified Nurse Aid/Standerfer Dec. 13, 7:00-9:45 a.m., GOOD 149
HUMS A223 Intro to Paraprof Counseling I/Kipp Lavea Dec. 10, 4:00-6:45 p.m., WARD 106
HIST A101 IV1 Western Civilization I/Meyers Dec. 9, 1:00-3:45 p.m., WARD 118
HIST A401 IV1 The History of Warfare Dec. 11, 10:00 a.m.-12:45 p.m., WARD 118
HIST A341 IV1 73398 History of Alaska/Meyers Dec. 10, 10:00 a.m.-12:45 p.m., WARD 118
LING A101 IW1 77764 How Language Works/Bowie Dec. 9, 1:00-3:45 p.m., WARD 116
MATH A054 I20 73430 Prealgebra/Leaders Dec. 12, 4:00-6:45 p.m., WARD 109
MATH A055 I11 73436 Elementary Algebra/Leaders Dec. 9, 4:00-6:45 p.m., WARD 119
MATH A105 I10 73445 Intermediate Algebra/Farrell Dec. 11, 1:00-3:45 p.m., GOOD 151
MATH A105 I10 73446 Intermediate Algebra/Reza Dec. 12, 10:00 a.m.-12:45 p.m., WARD 104
MATH A105 I20 73447 Intermediate Algebra/Kochis Dec. 11, 4:00-6:45 p.m., CTEC 205
MATH A151 I11 73464 College Algebra for Calculus/Weaver Dec. 9, 10:00 a.m.-12:45 p.m., WARD 120
MATH A151 I20 73459 College Algebra for Calculus/Veh Dec. 11, 4:00-6:45 p.m., BROC 188
MATH A151 IV1 Algebra for Calculus/Johnson Dec. 11, 1:00-3:45 p.m., WARD 116
MATH A251 Calculus I/Johnson Dec. 12, 1:00-3:45 p.m., BROC 193
PER A113 I11 76618 Beginning Pilates/Stinson Dec. 9, 4:00-6:45 p.m., WARD 118
PER A120 I20 73490 Beginning Yoga/Schaeffer Dec. 12, 4:00-6:45 p.m., KRES MPR
PETR A240 I11 73497 Indust Process Instrument III/Kovac Dec. 11, 10:00 a.m.-12:45 p.m., CTEC 206
PHYS A115 I10 73503 Physical Science/Veh Dec. 12, 10:00 a.m.-12:45 p.m., MCCB 181
PHYS A123 IV1 73513 College Physics I/Veh Dec. 11, 10:00 a.m.-12:45 p.m., WARD 109
PRT A101 IBL 73524 Intro to Process Technology/Laube Dec. 9, 1:00-3:45 p.m., WARD 120
PRT A140 I20 75866 Indust Process Instrument I/Howell Dec. 10, 4:00-6:45 p.m., CTEC 106
PRT A160 IBL 73540 Oil/Gas Explor & Product I/Haney Dec. 10, 1:00-3:45 p.m., CTEC 206
PRT A230 IBL 73542 Process Tec II: Systems/Haney Dec. 10, 10:00 a.m.-12:45 p.m., CTEC 206
PRT A231 IBL 73545 Process Tech III: Operations/Haney Dec. 9, 10:00 a.m.-12:45 p.m., CTEC 206
PS A101 IV1 73554 Intro to American Government/Meyers Dec. 10, 1:00-3:45 p.m., WARD 116
PSY A111 I11 73562 Introduction to Psychology/Landen Dec. 10, 10:00 a.m.-12:45 p.m., KRES MPR
PSY A150 I10 73567 Lifespan Development/Landen Dec. 10, 1:00-3:45 p.m., GOOD 151
PSY A168 I10 73572 Human Sexuality/Landen Dec. 9, 1:00-3:45 p.m., KRES MPR
PSY A261 I20 73575 Research Methods in Psychology/Sellers Dec. 12, 4:00-6:45 p.m., WARD 120
PSY A370 I20 73585 Behavioral Neuroscience/Bock Dec. 11, 4:00-6:45 p.m., GOOD 151
WELD A103 I10 73609 Arc Welding/Aamodt Dec. 10, 1:00-3:45 p.m., WARD 101
WELD A104 I11 73611 Arc Weld-Low Hydrogen Elect/Keisling Dec. 10, 7:00-9:45 p.m., WARD 101
WELD A108 I10 73616 Wire Welding/Keisling Dec. 9, 1:00-3:45 p.m., WARD 101
WRTG A110 I20 73620 Into to College Writing/Redmond DeVolld Dec. 11, 4:00-6:45 p.m., WARD 106
WRTG A111 I11 73627 Writing Across Contexts/Messick Dec. 12, 10:00 a.m.-12:45 p.m., WARD 120
WRTG A213 IV1 73647 Writing & the Sciences/Calhoun Dec. 9, 1:00-3:45 p.m., WARD 109


DAVIS--Entomologist/integrated pest management specialist Frank Zalom, professor of entomology at the University of California, Davis, will discuss the identification and biology of the light brown apple moth (LBAM) at the next meeting of the Northern California Entomology Society, set for Thursday, Feb. 3 in Sacramento.
The meeting begins at 9:15 a.m. with registration and coffee in the California Department of Food and Agriculture's Plant Diagnostic Lab, 3288 Meadowview Road, Sacramento.
Zalom, who will speak at 9:45 a.m., is the first in a line-up of five speakers.
Zalom, who directed the UC Statewide IPM Program for 16 years, is a newly elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for "distinguished scholarly, educational and administrative contributions that have significantly advanced the science and application of integrated pest management in agriculture nationally and internationally." He is also a fellow of the Entomological Society of America and the California Academy of Sciences.
Zalom focuses his research on California specialty crops, including tree crops (almonds, olives, prunes, peaches), small fruits (grapes, strawberries, caneberries), and fruiting vegetables (tomatoes), as well as international IPM programs.
1:15 p.m.: "Recent Developments in Controlling Olive Psylla, Euphyllura olivina (Costa)," Charles Pickett, Environmental Research Scientist, Biological Control, CDFA.
2 p.m.: "Impacts of Scale Insects on Humanity," Gillian Watson, Senior Insect Biosystematist, Plant Pest Diagnostics, CDFA.
The Northern California Entomology Society is comprised of university faculty, researchers, pest abatement professionals, students and other interested persons. Newly elected president of the society is Leann Horning, an ag technician with the CDFA Biocontrol Program since 1990.
Luncheon reservations ($15 for a chicken meal from Poco Lollo) should be made by Feb. 1 with secretary-treasurer Eric Mussen, Extension apiculturist with the UC Davis Department of Entomology faculty. Mussen may be reached at ecmussen@ucdavis or (530) 752-0472.
The entomology group meets the first Thursday in February at the CDFA complex, Sacramento; the first Thursday in May at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility; UC Davis; and the first Thursday in November at the Contra Costa Mosquito and Vector Control District office, Concord. Membership dues are $10 per year.
(Between I-5 and Hwy 99. Look for CDFA sign and gate.


Booming property prices have lifted sales of cars such as the Ferrari California T, shown, in Australia.
SYDNEY -- Ferrari and Porsche are among automakers benefiting from a booming Australian car market.
Sales of new vehicles in Australia increased 3.8 percent to a record to 1.16 million last year, helped by a property boom.
Sales of Ferrari cars rose by 48 percent to 167 sales in 2015, while Porsche sales jumped to 4,090 from 2,812, according to a report released Wednesday by the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries in Australia (FCAI).
Demand for Audi, BMW and Mercedes-Benz brands also surged.
The Reserve Bank of Australia, which has cut interest rates to record lows, last year found a strong link between home-price increases and rising car sales.
Sydney house values climbed 12 percent last year, extending a three-year boom that has pushed the median price in Australia's largest city to A$935,000 ($670,000), according to CoreLogic.
"People are looking at the value of their home," said Craig James, a senior economist at the securities unit of Commonwealth Bank of Australia. "Home prices have been recording good gains, so they've seen their wealth levels rising. That's also rationalizing their choice in going a little bit upmarket [in vehicle purchases]."
"Property has been a driving force for us," said Herbert Appleroth, CEO of Ferrari for Australia and New Zealand. "It's people who are investing, it's the developers, it's the specialized trades who are also benefiting."
A typical Ferrari costs between A$500,000 and A$550,000 and about 60 percent of last year's buyers had never owned one before, Appleroth said. Low borrowing costs have put Ferraris within reach of more people, he added.
Toyota was the top selling brand in Australia last year with 17.8 percent of the market, followed by Mazda with 9.9 percent, Holden with 8.9 percent, Hyundai with 8.8 percent and Mitsubishi with 6.2 percent.
Australia's best-selling car in 2015 was the Toyota Corolla with 42,073 sales, FCAI said in a release.


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Human rights and the extractives industry
Engaging with companies: five key insights
Human rights issues in the extractives sector
Engagement summary
Engagement against objectives: response to human rights incidents
Engagement against objectives: human rights commitments
How did companies in the human rights and extractives engagement embed human rights into corporate practice?
Engagement against objectives: human rights risk assessment
Engagement against objectives: business relationships
Moving the laggards, the middle and the leaders
Rooted in a risk-based approach, investors tend to focus on portfolio companies that have a poor human rights approach and performance. However, it was highlighted in engagement dialogues that investors should consult not only with laggards but also the leaders. This can help ensure that senior management understand the importance of the topic for investors and make sure it does not slip off the radar if the company is assumed to be quite mature. As the findings demonstrate, even the mature and leading companies in the group need to improve their approach to and implementation of the UN Guiding Principles.
Better traction with closer proximity
Investors highlighted that having a lead investor closer to where the company is headquartered or have their key operations is beneficial. This also enabled more in-person meetings than phone calls, which in turn may have helped build a stronger relationship between investors and companies. This is reflected in a recent academic study7 which highlighted that success rates were enhanced when the investor is headquartered in the same region as the target firm. Supporting investors also play a crucial role as they can help influence and leverage because of their scale, ownership and geographic breadth.
Connecting with the relevant people and commitment from the top
Investors highlighted it is crucial to speak to company representatives that are sustainabilityminded in order to raise awareness of investor expectations on the topic. Unsuccessful dialogues were often because of the fact that target companies had consistently failed to put investors in touch with the relevant people within the organisation.
In cases where companies did not have a real commitment from the top, it was difficult for investors to motivate companies to deliver on engagement asks and move towards the expected improvements requested by investors. However, where investors had direct access to C-suite level representatives, the engagement dialogues were often more impactful.
Company collaboration through multi-stakeholder initiatives
Active participation in and dialogue around complex issues such as those addressed in this engagement is intrinsically beneficial to participants given that companies are often exposed to the same type of risks. Actively participating in human rights working groups led by industry associations such as IPIECA and ICMM allow companies to engage with peers and benefit from knowledge sharing platforms. Companies may learn from leading companies' best practices and potentially showcase their own. Investors emphasised the value of this as it can take the spotlight off individual companies and may contribute to company engagement dialogue by demonstrating industry momentum.
It all drills down to company culture
Company culture is key to managing and responding to human rights risks effectively. Where a company can show it can respond adequately and in a timely way and provide remediation where relevant and learn from mistakes, it can help inform investors about the potential and actual human rights risks to consider in their processes and due diligence, selection of portfolio companies and ongoing monitoring and reporting.
Digging deeper: human rights and the extractives sector
Human rights due diligence and modern slavery: the case for investor action
This webinar will explore how investors can play a role in pushing for more and better human rights due diligence and will focus in particular on efforts to tackle modern slavery and human trafficking. Speakers from the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights, the World Business Council for ...
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A blueprint for mobilizing finance against slavery and trafficking
Finance Against Slavery and Trafficking's Blueprint provides a collective action framework for the whole financial sector and professional service providers to accelerate action to end modern slavery and human trafficking.
Building the conversation around social issues in infrastructure investing
By Simon Whistler, Senior Manager, Real Assets, the PRI
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Webinar: How to prevent child exploitation online
The PRI hosted a webinar to explore the issue of child sexual exploitation online and how investors can engage with ICT companies on this issue. During the webinar speakers took the opportunity to discuss the issues related to the governance of ICT companies and their role in protecting users, of ...
How and where will millennials invest?
Modern portfolio theory is core to finance and how we invest, but in its practical application ESG factors are merely "externalities," therefore how can responsible investment ever become "investment" if education treats responsible investment as a module – or does not feature at all?
Levers, levels and learning: how can investors respond to economic inequality?


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I wish the NHL made a simple schedule with all the events. Anyway, I'm looking forward to watching Vladimir Tarasenko in tonight's skill competition, 6:00 p.m. Hopefully this helps you out.
Tonight is the fun part of All-Star weekend. Most tickets to the skill competition are about three times the amount of the actual All-Star game tickets. Why? Well, the players don't really try in the game. At least we see guys having fun during the competition (see photo above).
I'm disappointed that only one Blues player will be reppin' the Lou tonight, and I'm pissed that he isn't in more competitions.
Vladimir Tarsenko will be a passer for this challenge (should be a shooter).
Vladimir Tarasenko will be a contestant in the first round.
Shea Weber, P.K. Subban, and... John Scott? Uh, well. Yeah, those guys will be competing.
First off, Shea Weber is a tank. His one-timer has busted open several shin pads during games, and players are afraid to hop in front of his shot. Keep an eye out for him tonight's one-timer and hardest shot.
Honestly, I don't know why they put Tarasenko in with the one-timer shooters. Have you seen his wrist shot? It's unreal. I mean, he has the best wrist shot in the league, yet he will have to show off his one-timer. It will still be fun to watch a Blue up there.
I think Alexander Steen should have been picked for this. The Blues have some silky mitts that won't get a chance to prove themselves tonight. Steen is the most underrated player in the league—hands down.
Once again, Tarasenko could be thrown into this one.
Each team will provide one goalie to participate in this challenge. Each shooter will attempt two shots, and teams will alternate after each shot. Style, creativity, and flair are encouraged. NHL penalty shot rules do not apply.


The webcast will review the historical background and current applications of video projection technology in live theater. Beginning in the early '90s, slide transparency projection gave way to video technology as the primary method for adding electronic visual media to a stage production. On Broadway and on the road, numerous productions rely on video projection technology to support the narrative, enhance the scenic design and provide visual effects.
Using recent Broadway productions as case studies, the webcast will review the practical issues, from technical to cultural, that influence projection applications in the theater and explore how today's state-of-the-art large venue projectors are used to maximize the audience experience.
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DDPA
Sustainable Density
Dublin's Density Targets
Ministerial Directives
SHDs
Agencies, Legislation and Guidelines
and Key Objectives
Building Better Communities
EMPOWER THE DEVELOPMENT PLANS
We believe that the planning system of local authority Development Plans leads to the best outcomes for citizens. We aim to push for legislative changes to re-instate the primacy of Development Plans.
As set out in the Planning Act 2000, the Development Plan system enables the democratic implementation of spatial plans through the involvement of inhabitants and elected representatives.
This system has the values of "subsidiarity" built in to it and was a core value of the original 1963 Planning and Development Act. Over the years, as demands changed, there was pressure to limit the remit of development plans as they were seen as restricting development that was considered to be in the national interest. There was also a desire to use a finer brush for particular areas.
These needs led to the development of Local Area Plans and other smaller area programs such as on-statutory masterplans and SDRAs - Strategic Development and Regeneration Areas. They also led to the creation of SDZs - Strategic Development Zones - for particular areas.
The difference between the normal Development Plan decision-making process and the SDZ process is that, when the SDZ Plan is made, provided the developer complies with the Plan, the Local Authority decision is final - there is no appeal to the Planning Appeals Board (An Bord Pleanála). This restriction on the right to appeal is made on the basis that, because of substantial public consultation in making the Plan and the strategic importance of the development, it is in the public interest and the common good. The Dublin Docklands and Adamstown are examples of this process.
STRENGTHEN THE LOCAL DEMOCRATIC VOICE
We believe that a planning system with stakeholder participation and engagement are crucial for sustainable communities and developments. We aim to strengthen the local democratic voice of Dublin residents.
There is no evidence that the planning system has delayed the supply of housing in Ireland. There is, however, plenty of evidence that, if the voice of the citizen is either unheard or ignored, the resulting social alienation leads to poor outcomes.
There have been some criticisms of the localised nature of local development plans and that they could ignore national policy. This has led to the current system where central government has effectively limited the remit of the local planning system through centralised directives and the Strategic Housing Development process, both of which neglect the local voice in development decisions.
We have seen in areas such as Adamstown or with the Ballymun Regeneration project that engaging the local community at an early stage leads to new development that has the approval of the communities into which it is made.
This process of participation and consultation is central to the social acceptance and integration of new development in any community.
We think that the trust of the citizen has been lost in the new processes of centralised planning and that it is fundamentally wrong.
We believe that engaging with local communities to agree development is the best method of guaranteeing sustainable communities at a scale that is appropriate to the needs of the people and the existential needs of the planet.
The solution to this issue is to have meaningful engagement with communities in the drafting of Development Plans and giving those plans the power to determine the scale, type and nature of development in the area. It goes without saying that any development planning is made in the context of national policy.
SCRAP STRATEGIC HOUSING DEVELOPMENT LEGISLATION AND MANDATORY MINISTERIAL DIRECTIVES
Strategic Housing Developments and Mandatory Ministerial Directives have damaged citizens' faith in the planning process and are a danger to the quality of our city. We advocate for the abolition of this legislation.
We fully support the development of affordable housing and secure rental in our communities that meet the needs of our citizens, supports existing and new communities, and address climate change and biodiversity.
Introduced at the behest of the property industry, the current system of Section 28 Mandatory Ministerial Directives and Strategic Housing Development (SHD) legislation, both of which override the democratic mandate of the Development Plan, will not provide affordable housing, secure rental or sustainable developments for our current and future population and will destroy the quality of the places we call home.
We do not support the Strategic Housing Development process of developer-led design, ministerial directives and planning decisions solely made by An Bord Pleanála. We consider this process to be anti-social and to have a fundamental democratic deficit. This system does not hear our voices as communities, nor does it take any cognisance of our concerns about the destruction of the quality of the places in which we live.
Through reviewing the 250 decisions made already, we believe that many of the buildings granted permission by An Bord Pleanála will irrevocably damage their areas in social, spatial and visual terms and will not provide any affordable housing for our population. We believe that the SHD process will play a large part in developing future problems. It is also very clear that the SHD process is not delivering the housing supply that it promised.
The concept of "subsidiarity" is enshrined as a core value of the European Union. This is the principle that the best decisions are made at the most local level that can support the best decisions. The SHD process is the antithesis of this approach, being entirely centralised.
The Planning Acts set up a system of democratically based area planning through Development Plans. These Development Plans are approved by elected representatives after public consultation.
This process has been subverted through Ministerial directives, under Section 28 of the Planning Acts. Over a series of Ministers, these directives have down-graded space standards to facilitate "Build-to-Rent" schemes and allowed for heights far in excess of anything permitted by local development plans.
It has been further subverted by removing planning decisions from local Planning Authorities through the Strategic Housing Development (SHD) Regulations of 2017. For large housing developments, planning decisions are no longer made by the Local Authority, but are made directly by An Bord Pleanála and there is no right of appeal against a decision by the board. By forbidding the right to appeal, another democratic balance has been removed. The only review available to the citizen is Judicial Review, a complex and expensive process.
These Regulations were to be a temporary measure for a two year period, which was extended by a further two years. It is due to expire in December 2021. They were intended to speed up the planning process for developers, in an attempt to facilitate the speedy construction of more housing stock. This was on the basis that they were being delayed by the normal planning process.
There is no evidence that the planning system is to blame for the shortage of housing, and plenty to suggest that leaving local communities powerless in the face of developers seeking financial returns will lead to poor results.
As well as eliding the local planning authority's decisions, this process is not transparent. The entire application is managed by the developer and there is no way of seeing what commentaries are made during the process by any interested parties. In our opinion, this effectively nullifies the right of citizens to information that is of vital interest to them. It is also very difficult to see the overall pattern of applications on An Bord Pleanála website. It is telling that the best record is being produced on a voluntary basis by a firm of solicitors – without them, there would be no clear view of the process.
When the decisions are made, the documentation is difficult to access, as very little of it is on-line. In these days of COVID, it is hard for people to get to the offices of An Bord Pleanála to review boxes of paper files and is a risk to themselves and the staff of An Bord Pleanála.
When reporting on extending this process in 2019 for a further two years, In its own report, the Review team noted that: "while the SHD arrangements have generally been a success in providing a fast-track development consent process for developers of large-scale housing developments, the number of SHD permissions that have commenced development is less than might have been expected, given the public resources put into the arrangements and the benefits provided for developers in terms of time-savings and consistency of decision making."
In practice, the drive to higher densities and faster planning has not delivered anything of what we need – affordable housing for a generation denied of it. What appears to be happening is that developers are seeking higher and higher returns as the rules change, and that the process is actually impeding the delivery of housing.
AN BORD PLEÁNALA
The Board was set up by the 1976 Planning and Development Act, which removed the Planning Appeals process from the Minister of the day to the newly instituted Board. Under Section 14, its role was defined as determining planning appeals, including references under Section 5 of the 1963 Planning and Development Act, amongst other tasks. It was not intended under that legislation to be the first and only decider of any planning application.
Its role expanded over the years to its current role as the sole arbiter of Strategic Housing Developments. We do not understand why it has this role nor do we understand how its functionaries are monitored to assess their competency to make these decisions, without the background of a fully processed planning application through the Local Planning Authority.
In reviewing the planning permissions granted, the results, if built, appear to be the wrong homes in the wrong places at the wrong price, at an enormous future cost.
There is nobody tasked with assessing the overall impact of the cumulative effect of these Strategic Housing Developments. They are assessed solely on the basis each application. The result will be uncoordinated development, designed at densities that are far in excess of anything that has ever been built in our country, including the tenements of the late 19th century.
PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE AND AFFORDABLE DEVELOPMENT
Plentiful supply of affordable housing for our citizens through a wide variety of models can solve the housing crisis. We advocate for development and funding models that can provide for long-term affordability, community sustainability and high-quality placemaking.
Development models such as converting existing underutilised buildings, flexible sub-division of existing dwellings, intensification of existing housing development and new development at a scale that improves existing areas, by the private, public and voluntary sector. Funding models, such as State- and approved housing body-led social housing, cost-rental and affordable purchase are proven to provide affordable housing for sustainable communities. Long-term and low-yield private investment for high-quality housing should be encouraged over the short-term speculative investment that exists today.
We believe the affordable 15-minute city is in reach, in which population densities sustain social and physical infrastructure, as well as addressing the existential crises of climate change and biodiversity. We support appropriate development driven by social needs and empirical evidence. We do not support the current system of random, profit-driven, developer-led planning. This will lead to poor outcomes for housing as noted below.
WRONG HOUSES
The types of apartments that are being proposed may serve some of the current demand for one-bedroom units, but they are generally in gated compounds with little potential for diversity and flexibility. They have high carbon footprints in construction and use and will be complex to maintain. It is unlikely that the fill the need of an entire generation who cannot get access to affordable housing, either as secure tenants or as owner occupiers.
WRONG PLACES
There is no strategic plan as to where these SHD developments should be located within existing communities. They acknowledge neither the qualities of the communities nor the places in which they are located. With the densities being granted – all far in excess of those permitted by development plans – the permitted schemes are of a scale that overwhelms their localities. There is no longer any over-riding vision of how we want our cities, towns, suburbs and villages to look and function.
WRONG PRICE
The permissions granted by An Bord Pleanála on recent applications have guideline prices for the 10% of the units that must be sold to the local authority. These range from between €500,000 to €775,000 per apartment, to be paid for by the local authority. Not only are those figures unaffordable for the local authority (at around €10,000 per square metre), but they are also unaffordable for the ordinary citizen. These prices show just how expensive these apartments are to build.
As an approximate guide, the rental for the two bedroom apartment would be in the order of €60,000 per year and a mortgage at 3% for someone who had saved the €77,500 deposit would be in the order of €45,000 per year. These figures are based on the "at cost" figure which is required of the Part 5 apartments. They do not include any of the commercial costs.
Our goal is to remove the democratic deficit that is now in the planning system, which is leaving communities behind. We want to work with civic society to address Ireland's needs for housing. and development that supports communities and complies with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The diagram below gives a summary of our approach.
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Estonia: The detailed results of Eesti Laul 2020
March 2, 2020 /0 Comments/in Estonia, Eurovision, Eurovision 2020 /by Eurovision fun
The official results of televoting in the Eesti Laul 2020 final have been officially announced shortly through the Estonian public television website. Uku Suviste didn't just win, but he did triumph, gaining about 70% of Estonia's preference in the super final!
A horse race finally proved to be Esti Laul this year, as Uku Suviste was never threatened by his rivals.
In the semifinals he had more than double the votes of the favorite and finally finished second in the final standings, Jaagup Tuisk and the song of Beautiful Lies.
He had 16,880 votes in the final round of voting, with Jaagup Tuisk receiving just 5,259. In the super final between the three candidates, the difference was struck, as within just 15 minutes of the telecast of Uku and "What Love Is" by Dimitris Kontopoulos and Sharon Vaughn received 33,582 votes, with "Beautiful Lies" marginally finishing second, receiving just 7,944 votes. Uku Suviste's song was voted with 68% to be Estonia's entry in Eurovision 2020.
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Many things may be accomplished for clients conducting child custody investigations in NJ. One may establish a parent not meeting the terms agreed to in court such as co-habitation, neglect or domestic violence, and possibly that the home environment is unstable. Simply put, our firm will document and record everything that occurs while the child/ren are with the other parent. If anything is happening that should not be, what we gather may become useful evidence in court.
Besides obvious issues such as abuse and neglect, there are other things that can be documented to build your case. All of these things should be discussed with the investigator when meeting to put together your case.
What are the terms of your current plan worked out with the courts?
Do you know of the other parent violating any of the terms?
Is the other parent's household reasonably stable?
If we can present evidence that a parent has a history of not cooperating with the court's plan, abuse/neglect, or an unstable home environment, the judge may grant custody to the other parent.


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Louisiana Supreme Court Rejects Governor's Appeal of LGBT Executive Order Ruling
Andrew P. Burnside
Hal D. Ungar
On March 23, 2018, in a 4–3 decision, the Louisiana Supreme Court refused to consider Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards's appeal of the Louisiana First Circuit Court of Appeal's November 1, 2017, decision holding that Governor Edwards lacked the constitutional authority to issue an executive order protecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) state employees from discrimination. More specifically, the Louisiana Supreme Court let stand the First Circuit's ruling that Executive Order JBE 2016 – 11, which sought to protect the rights of LGBT individuals and other protected classes from discrimination by Louisiana agencies, departments, and contractors was unconstitutional.
We previously reported that Governor Edwards had filed a writ for review to the Louisiana Supreme Court, asking the court to hear arguments challenging the First Circuit's affirmance of a lower court decision. The Louisiana Supreme Court declined to hear the appeal. The court's refusal is the final decision on Executive Order JBE 2016 – 11. The order is unconstitutional as a matter of law.
In a written statement, Governor Edwards expressed disappointment after his narrow loss: "I, for one, do not think discrimination of any kind has a place in our society, much less the workplace," he said. "Unfortunately, this puts us on the wrong side of history."
Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry—Governor Edwards's opponent in this dispute—heralded the ruling in a written statement: "We commend the Supreme Court on its decision . . . regarding the Governor's unconstitutional Executive Order, JBE 2016-11. Hopefully, this will end the Governor's waste of precious taxpayer resources in defense of his unconstitutional actions. The Governor should live within the Constitution; and I will continue to stand for the separation of powers and the rule of law."
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The Roots 'Game Theory' 10th Anniversary
Release date: 29th August 2006Label: Def Jam
Producers: Owen Biddle, J Dilla, Richard Nichols, The Randy Watson Experience, The Roots
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"Game Theory is the seventh studio album by American hip hop band The Roots, released August 29, 2006, on Def Jam Recordings. The group's first release for the label after leaving Geffen Records, the album was recorded by the Roots mostly using the Apple-developed software application GarageBand. A darker, grittier album with minimal emphasis on hooks in comparison to their previous work,Game Theory features a stripped-down sound similar to the work of Public Enemy, with lyrics that concern sociological themes and the late hip hop producer J Dilla.The album debuted at number nine on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart, selling 61,000 copies in its first week. It produced two singles and achieved moderate sales success. Upon its release, Game Theory received acclaim from most music critics and earned a Grammy Award nomination for Best Rap Album. To date, the album has sold over 200,000 copies in the United States."
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J. Frank Kinsel, Jr. came to Cantey Hanger from a large law firm in Waco, in 1990. He practiced in Dallas for a period before that. As the son of an attorney for Texaco, Inc., Jeff lived in New York, South America and Belgium as a child. When younger, Mr. Kinsel's first legal experience was as an oil and gas contract attorney for a Texas oil drilling company. In that capacity he lived, worked and traveled extensively in the Middle East negotiating contracts. He later evolved into an insurance litigation lawyer with clients such as medical care providers, bus companies, ambulance companies and manufacturers. Mr. Kinsel handles cases involving first party insurance coverage, employment litigation, medical malpractice, product liability, bad faith and legal malpractice. He has expertise in personal injury litigation including product liability, premises liability, toxic torts and environmental matters.


You wish to rent a bike in order to discover Amsterdam? Amsterdam Velo has a fleet of bicycles for its tours and visits, and can provide advices in english.
Our bikes of the Batavus brand, high-quality products, are very confortables and have good breaks. No basket in the front, but they have turnbuckles on the luggage rack to help you carry your bags.
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New York City organist/pianist, Brian Charette, has established himself as a leading voice in modern Jazz. Charette is a Grammy-nominated, Hammond-endorsed artist who was the winner of the 2014 Downbeat Critics' Poll Rising Star: Organ award and has climbed to 4th place in The Critic's Poll main organ category. In 2015 Brian also won The Hot House Magazine's Fan's Decision Jazz Award for Best Organist in New York. His last Positone Records recording, Once and Future, reached #17 on the Jazz Week chart and was on the iTunes new music Top 20 list. This summer, Brian released his new Circuit Bent Organ trio recording, Kürrent, featuring Ben Monder and will have a traditional Jazz organ trio release coming out on Steeplechase Records in Fall 2017.
Charette was born in Meriden, Connecticut in 1972, and was introduced to music by his mother, Catherine. By the age of 17, he was playing with jazz luminaries, Lou Donaldson and Houston Person. Since graduating on the Dean's List from UConn in 1994 with a BA in Music, Charette has been performing extensively in Europe and the USA with his home base being the East Village, NYC. Brian is a staple of the downtown NYC scene working with virtually everyone who plays with an organist.


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This paper explores the intricacies of an Initial Coin Offering and how it differs from an Initial Public Offering, specifically in terms of its process, regulations, utility, performance, and risks. The paper begins with an introduction to cryptocurrencies that includes the development of Bitcoin to more recent developments, in order to give readers the proper background knowledge to understand Initial Coin Offerings. The paper then describes the differences between a coin and a token. Finally the paper lays out the characteristics of an Initial Coin Offerings and then compares those characteristics with that of an Initial Public Offering.
Jones, Adam, "Illustrating the Contrasts of Initial Coin Offerings and Initial Public Offerings" (2018). Finance Undergraduate Honors Theses. 50.


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National COVID-19 Update
Current Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) figures show more than 1.06 million confirmed and presumptive positive cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. in 55 states and U.S. territories, with 62,406 deaths. New York state leads the nation with more than 299,000 cases, followed by New Jersey which has more than 118,000 cases and Massachusetts which has more than 62,000 cases.
The CDC launched the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) COVID-19 Module Data Dashboard showing the percent of inpatient hospital beds occupied and the percent of intensive care unit (ICU) beds occupied by state. These data were reported by acute care facilities participating in the Patient Impact and Hospital Capacity pathway of the NHSN COVID-19 module. Approximately 80 Illinois hospitals are participating in this effort.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) clarifying requirements and considerations for hospitals and other providers related to the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) during the COVID-19 pandemic. The FAQs address questions around patient presentation to the emergency department, EMTALA applicability across facility types, qualified medical professionals, medical screening exams, patient transfer and stabilization, telehealth, and other topics.
Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), awarded $20 million to increase telehealth access and infrastructure for providers and families to help prevent and respond to COVID-19. The funds will increase capability, capacity and access to telehealth and distant care services for providers, pregnant women, children, adolescents and families, and will assist telehealth providers with cross-state licensure to improve access to health care during the pandemic. Among the recipients is the Illinois-based American Academy of Pediatrics, which was awarded $6 million.
The latest WHO situation report shows more than 3.17 million COVID-19 cases globally, with over 224,000 deaths. The European Region leads the world in cases and deaths, with more than 1.46 million confirmed cases with over 138,000 deaths. The Region of the Americas (includes the U.S.) follows, reporting more than 1.29 million cases and more than 69,000 deaths.


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SpaceX Ready to Launch 60 More Starlink Satellites Monday Morning
By Ben Evans, on November 9th, 2019
Falcon 9 at Launch Complex 40 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station this evening, counting down to its fourth launch scheduled for Monday morning Nov. 11 with the next batch of 60 Starlink satellites for SpaceX. Photo Credit: SpaceX
Three months since the roar of a Falcon 9 booster last shook Cape Canaveral Air Force Station—and almost twelve weeks since Florida's last rocket launch—SpaceX stands primed to soar again on Monday, 11 November, to deliver 60 of its home-grown Starlink internet communications satellites into low-Earth orbit.
Liftoff of the organization's 11th mission of 2019 is targeting 9:56 a.m. EST, and will mark a new personal best for SpaceX, as rocket 'B1048' becomes the first Falcon 9 first-stage core to make a fourth launch, as well as reusing the payload fairing from last April's Falcon Heavy mission.
The fairing supporting this mission previously flew on Falcon Heavy's Arabsat-6A mission pic.twitter.com/iTgqqtl1pW
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) November 5, 2019
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Last Wednesday, B1048 and a sparkling-new second stage were returned to historic Space Launch Complex (SLC)-40 at the Cape for a customary static fire test of the nine Merlin 1D+ engines. "Static fire test of Falcon 9 complete," SpaceX tweeted. "Targeting 11/11 for launch of 60 Starlink satellites from Pad 40 in Florida."
Weather conditions for Monday morning's opening launch attempt are expected to be favorable, with an 80-percent probability of acceptable conditions during the relatively short window. "Sunday should begin with noticeably cooler and drier air with easterly winds, which will remain in place through the launch window Monday," explained the 45th Weather Squadron at Patrick Air Force Base in its L-2 briefing. "The primary weather concern is cumulus clouds with the onshore flow."
60 Starlink satellites for launch, marking Falcon 9's heaviest payload to date, first re-flight of a fairing, and first Falcon 9 to fly a fourth mission for SpaceX. Photo: SpaceX
In the event of a 24-hour scrub to Tuesday, the outlook deteriorates slightly to 70-percent-favorable. "On Tuesday, winds will become southerly with a bit more cloud coverage and isolated coastal showers ahead of the next cold front, which is forecast to push into the area Wednesday," it added. "The main weather concern remains cumulus clouds."
It has been a long and launchless three months for the Space Coast; SpaceX itself last flew on 6 August to deliver the Amos-17 communications satellite to geostationary altitude, whilst the most recent mission was on 22 August when United Launch Alliance (ULA) executed the swansong of its long-serving Delta IV Medium fleet of boosters to loft the second Block III Global Positioning System (GPS) payload to low-Earth orbit. With many eyes on the arrival of the pathfinder core stage for the Space Launch System (SLS) at the Cape for fit-checks and with dates for the first piloted Commercial Crew missions slipping inexorably to the right, the roar of the nine Merlin 1D+ engines in the Upgraded Falcon 9's business end and a booster at long last spearing for the heavens will come as a welcome relief.
For almost three years, SpaceX has awed the world with its capacity to fly first-stage cores on multiple missions, returning them back to alight smoothly on solid ground at either the Cape or Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., or (sometimes not quite so smoothly) atop the Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS) in the Atlantic or Pacific Oceans. The first orbital-class first-stage booster ever to fly a second launch did so back in March 2017 when B1021 hauled the SES-10 communications satellite, whilst the first to do so on a third occasion took place last December when B1046 transported the SSO-A SmallSat Express multi-payload into space. Four Upgraded Falcon 9 cores—B1046, B1048, B1049 and most recently B1047—have so far chalked up three missions apiece, boosting seven payloads to geostationary orbit and a half-dozen to lower altitudes.
For its part, B1048 pulled its first duty back on 25 July 2018, when it provided the first-stage muscle for the second-to-last instalment of ten Iridium NEXT global mobile communications satellites. Flown out of Vandenberg's Space Launch Complex (SLC)-4E, B1048 returned to land on the West Coast-based ASDS "Just Read the Instructions" in the Pacific Ocean and survived the worst oceanic weather conditions ever experienced at that time. Seventy-five days later, on 8 October, B1048 was back in business, again roaring away from SLC-4E to transport Argentina's SAOCOM-1A into a Sun-synchronous orbit. It returned to land on Landing Zone (LZ)-4 at Vandenberg and, in doing so, became the first Upgraded Falcon 9 to alight on solid ground at the West Coast launch site. Four months later, on 22 February 2019, it launched from SLC-40 on the East Coast, boosting Indonesia's PSN-6 Nusantara Satu communications satellite to geostationary altitude and Israel's ill-fated Beresheet lander to the Moon.
Falcon 9 first stage supporting this mission previously launched Iridium-7, SAOCOM-1A, and Nusantara Satu pic.twitter.com/FKtpZPeWlP
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) November 10, 2019
Returning to LZ-1 at the Cape, B1048 became the first Falcon 9 core to achieve ASDS landings on both the East and West Coasts and a ground-pad touchdown. With its Monday launch, it is expected to return to the East Coast-based ASDS "Of Course I Still Love You".
On Thursday morning, the ASDS was drawn out of Port Canaveral for what will hopefully represent its 20th successful landing on the East Coast drone ship since April 2016. And B1048's record-setting fourth mission will loft 60 Starlink satellites as part of a $10 billion SpaceX campaign to emplace thousands of these small Ku-, Ka- and V-band communications hubs into low-Earth orbit. The overall aim is a promise to boost data-speeds and increase the availability of internet access worldwide, specifically underserved and rural regions of the United States. Under the announced Starlink plan, the fully-deployed network—expected to be in operation by early 2024—could have the bandwidth potential to carry up to half of all backhaul communications traffic and a tenth of all local internet traffic in high-population-density cities.
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November 9th, 2019 | Tags: ASDS, Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Elon Musk, Falcon 9, Live Coverage, Rocket Launch, SLC-40, Space, SpaceX, Starlink | Category: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Falcon 9, SpaceX
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2 comments to SpaceX Ready to Launch 60 More Starlink Satellites Monday Morning
60 more? With all the satellites they're putting in orbit, Al Gore is going to start warning us about global shading!
Just think KC, there's only 11,940 to launch in the first constellation not counting the first 60 v0.9 and then only 30,000 more if they get approved.
Sure gonna be a bit squeezy up there
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This was inspired by the simplicity of the instrumentation and complexities of the message conveyed in 'Only A Child'. The stark contrast in the music and the overall aesthetics of Gracie and Rachel immediately brought to mind the works of Ingmar Bergman. The opening moment of the film 'Persona" became a jumping off point to push the project into full speed. Other great artists who have manipulated projections like Guy Sherwin and Stan Brakhage began to bleed into the conversations. The idea built up to create a space of reflection where Gracie and Rachel would be looking back onto earlier memories in an attempt to grasp those emotions of childhood once again. Together Chris, Gracie, and Rachel designed a visual language where moments of time and the literal space being explored could be experimented upon.
Chris Boniello is a writer, director, and editor living and working in Brooklyn.
He creates video and audio content for commercial clients which include ESPN, Nike, Coca-Cola, Vice, and Sotheby's.
projects he became the Creative Director for the podcast network The Podglomerate.