Ottawa has thrown down the carbon tax gauntlet and local politicians are not happy about it.
Park representatives at both the provincial and federal levels are speaking out against the Liberals’ announcement on Thursday to enforce a federal carbon tax on Alberta come Jan. 1, 2020.
“We need to move forward to tackle climate change,” Environment Minister Catherine McKenna said in Ottawa before the June 13 question period. “We see the impacts of climate change through extreme weather, including in Alberta where there are forest fires that are burning earlier than ever before, that are burning stronger, and that (are) having serious impacts on the lives of Albertans as well as on their economy.”
The Minister underlined the importance of Alberta having a carbon plan since the province produces the highest emissions in the country.
This comes on the heels of the United Conservative Party’s provincial carbon tax repeal just a week prior.
The federal carbon tax is expected to see 90 per cent of the revenues funnelled back to Alberta taxpayers in rebates. An average family of four can expect to get a $888 return in 2020. The other 10 per cent will go towards constructing more energy efficient buildings.
The federal carbon tax would be $20 a tonne and would increase to $50 a tonne by 2022.
Premier Jason Kenney criticized the move, saying McKenna’s department previously stated the carbon tax could climb up to $300 a tone to meet the Paris climate target and if a government believes a form of carbon tax, to be truly effective on consumption, it would have to cost between $200 and $300 at the minimum.
Sherwood Park-Fort Saskatchewan MP Garnett Genuis doesn’t believe the carbon tax would be revenue neutral and views it as more of a tax grab, rather than an environmental step forward.
“What will happen to Alberta? Well, Jan. 1, 2020 will be after the election, so Albertans have a clear choice in knowing that if Liberals are re-elected, the federal government will try to impose a federal carbon tax on them, even though they clearly did not vote for one in the last provincial and federal election,” Genuis said. “If the Liberals are re-elected, they will likely face that carbon tax and if Conservatives are elected, they will not. They will see engagement on the environmental issue through a very different sort of plan.”
Along with 194 other countries, Canada committed to the Paris Agreement in December 2015. The agreement aims to limit the global average temperature rise to well below two degrees Celsius and pursue efforts to limit the increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius. This would mean a transition to a lower-carbon economy and lower greenhouse gas development. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau went to that Paris summit with the same emission targets set by Conservative PM Stephen Harper; a 30-per-cent reduction in emissions from 2005 levels by 2030. The Paris Agreement was entered into force by Canada on Nov. 4, 2016.
“The Liberals’ so-called plan is not moving us towards those targets,” criticized Genuis.
The Conservatives are expected to release their environmental plan this week, Wednesday, June 19.
“It will be the most comprehensive environmental policy, period, that you’ll see from an opposition party in terms of the detail and specificity. It will be something to look forward to. The broad outline will be there are more effective ways of responding that are not punitive. The resources and incentives that appropriately regulate industry, you’ll see details about that when they come out. Caucus has been actively engaged in providing feedback throughout that process, so it’s been a good collaborative process throughout that I think will be a very good plan that people will be able to be excited about,” noted Genuis.
Not surprisingly, following Ottawa’s announcement, Strathcona-Sherwood Park MLA Nate Glubish did not back down from his party’s election promise.
“We’re very pleased that we were able to get Bill 1 passed and we were able to repeal the provincial carbon tax. That was a commitment to Albertans, that we would kill that tax — and that’s what we did,” Glubish told The News on Friday. “In reaction to the federal move, we’re committed to standing up against the federal effort to punish Albertans for heating their homes and driving to work. Our government plans to issue an immediate constitutional challenge against this federal tax grab through a juridical reference through the Court of Appeal.”
He believes the province has a strong case, backed by the Energy Minister and the premier who understand the file.
“Their leadership will guide us through this constitutional challenge,” he said, adding no date has been set yet for that court case.
Glubish hinted this could be a big hit to the Liberals in fall’s upcoming federal election and will be a major ballot box issue; “I think that this federal election will be determined in large part by Canadians’ views on the carbon tax.”
Genuis added the province’s legal arguments are “quite strong”.
“It’s meritorious to say that the federal government should not insert (itself) in provincial jurisdiction by using a jurisdiction-specific tax as a penalty for not doing what the province wants. If we start down that road, then it undermines the freedom of action that provinces are supposed to have,” explained the local MP. “Imagine if the federal government said if you don’t do want we want in the area of education, healthcare, infrastructure, registries, then we’re going to impose extra taxes on people in those provinces. The reason why we have provincial governments is the reason why we have provincial elections. We think it’s reasonable for governments that are a little bit closer to the people to be making certain decisions in certain policy areas. We think that’s a reasonable argument and we’ll see how the court decides.”
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An Intimate Note to the Sincere Seeker is a compilation of excerpts of talks by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar in the year 1995 - 1996. While these talks often discuss the state of the world at the time they were written, because they discuss human life on the most basic levels - love, hatred, trust, peace, silence, happiness, they are still valuable today. They give us an insight into this knowledge that is so deeply profound, yet so simple, the knowledge that does not just remain in the intellect but is beautifully and effortlessly integrated into daily life. Sri Sri avoids lengthy discussions about the deeper philosophy of life, yet his talks reflect these values to their very core. This book is specially compiled to help readers going through an emotional phase or who need guidance in life. The reader can go through anyone random page (365 chapters for 365 days) for help or can follow as per one's discretion.
Once upon a time, a milk ocean was churned for the nectar of immortality to obtain amrita and several divine boons emerged from the milk ocean, in the same instance such luminous drops of divine wisdom shower from the infinite firmament, epitomized by His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar are born as Weekly Knowledge Sheets !. Like the prodigious Ganges flows benevolently from the cradle of the Himalayas to far-flung thirsty lands, knowledge pours from the Master to yearning souls - knowledge that is deeply profound, yet so simple; knowledge that does not just remain in the simple; but is beautifully and effortlessly integrated into daily life. Just as the river unites with the ocean or the soul that unites with the God, week after week, amidst celebration, laughter, and serenity, wisdom surges forth from the Master on every subject conceivable to the human mind. Week after week, millions the world over, experience how the Weekly knowledge was exactly what they needed to hear at that point in time - the perfect answer to a harbored question; the unmistakable feeling, “ Sri Sri wrote this just for me!”. This is the Ultimate knowledge, Supreme Wisdom, straight from the Source. Just for YOU... An intimate note from the Master to a sincere seeker.
Print length - 452 pages
Publication date - 1st Jan 2010

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England’s poorest areas have been hit 16 times harder by cuts than richer parts.
Government figures show Whitehall has slashed town hall budgets by nearly £800 a household in the 10 most deprived areas – all Labour-supporting.
In the 10 richest areas, all Tory, cuts average less than £48.
Labour’s Hilary Benn blasted: “The Tory-led Government has chosen to take most from those who have least.”
Some councils have lost up to a quarter of their cash, leading to drastic cuts in vital services.
Scores of libraries, leisure centres and care homes have closed. Sure Start centres have shut and even lollipop ladies have been fired.
Mr Benn said it was “unfair and unjustifiable” that the poorest areas have been targeted by David Cameron and Eric Pickles.
He added in a letter to council leaders: “The Prime Minister and Local Government Secretary say tough times involve tough choices, but they have forgotten tough times demand tough choices that are fair.”
The 10 most deprived councils are down an average of £782.10 per household since 2010. At the other end of the scale, the 10 least deprived councils have lost just £48.
Some councils in the South East have seen budgets rise.
But Local Government Minister Kris Hopkins insisted: “Local government, which accounts for a quarter of public spending, was strangled in red tape by Labour who turned a blind eye to massive waste and inefficiency.
“Councils need to do their bit to help pay off the deficit.
Councils can save through more joint working, better procurement and cutting fraud.”
The Coalition claims councils in poorer areas can bear spending cuts because they had more money to begin with.
But Labour says Tory areas are being spared because strategists fear mass closure of libraries and other key services will drive supporters to UKIP.

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I am super excited to be kicking off the tour for THE BROKENHEARTED by Amelia Kahaney, which releases tomorrow, October 8th from HarperTeen. I’ve been anxiously awaiting its release since I first saw its dark and intriguing cover and read its even more fascinating description.
The writing is beautiful and captivating and haunting and the story is dark and incredibly addictive. It’s a book that you just won’t want to put down. If you don’t believe me, just check out this nice long exclusive excerpt from Entertainment Weekly and see for yourself. Fortunately the wait for its release won’t be very long.
But in the meantime, if you’d like to know a little bit more about the author, there’s some information below, along with a few places you can find her online. And if you’d like to know what five books – although one of them is a series – Author Amelia Kahaney loved, just check out the guest post I have for my stop on the tour.
And because I think this book is awesome and I am super thrilled that there will be an action-packed sequel, I am offering up a copy for giveaway. So if you’d like a chance to win, just check out the details and enter in the Rafflecopter below.
There are four other stops on the Mundie Girls Tour for THE BROKENHEARTED, a few of which will be sharing excerpts from the book. So if you don’t get the chance to grab a copy on release date be sure to head over to the other stops on tour for a longer look inside this fantastic book.
But before all that, here’s some information about the book on tour.
About the Book
A teenage girl is transformed into a reluctant superhero and must balance her old life with the dark secret of who she has become.
Prima ballerina Anthem Fleet is closely guarded by her parents in their penthouse apartment. But when she meets the handsome Gavin at a party on the wrong side of town, she is immediately drawn into his dangerous world. Then, in a tragic accident, Anthem falls to her death. She awakes in an underground lab, with a bionic heart ticking in her chest. As she navigates her new life, she uncovers the sinister truth behind those she trusted the most, and the chilling secret of her family lineage…and her duty to uphold it.
The Dark Knight meets Cinder in this gripping and cinematic story of heartbreak and revenge. From Alloy Entertainment, this inventive new superhero story is sure to captivate any reader.
Publication Date: October 8, 2013
Formats: Hardcover, Audio, eBook
Five Young Adult Books I Loved
by Amelia Kahaney
The Basic Eight by Daniel Handler
The Basic Eight is a psychological thriller in the vein of Fight Club and Gone Girl, only set in high school and full of even more black comedy. Written by Daniel Handler, a.k.a. Lemony Snicket, it’s one of the best portayals of dark, obsessive high school friendships I’ve ever had the pleasure of devouring. My friends and I passed this book around when we were in our early 20’s, and we all found it hilarious and deeply poignant. I think I might have to go reread it right now, just to sink back into Handler’s perfectly sinister clique and relive the shocking plot twists all over again.
Not a Drop to Drink by Mindy McGinnis
I read this book in two feverish days, rapt and anxious about how the narrator, a hard-bitten girl named Lynn, would defend her meager water supply in a world where there’s not enough of the stuff to go around. The stakes here are impossibly high throughout, and everything feels so real because of how well McGinnis knows the techniques of wilderness survival. A gorgeous and all-too-plausible dystopia.
Here Where the Sunbeams are Green by Helen Phillips
This middle-grade adventure story is about so many things: endangered birds, a creepy fountain of youth, first kisses, volcanoes, magic, sleuthing. But it’s the sometimes-strained relationship between sisters Roo and Mad that made this one of my favorite books of last year. Roo and Mad each have their own path to hack through the jungle as they put together clues about their missing father and a scary eco-resort called La Lava, but in the end, we know they couldn’t possibly solve the mystery alone.
Bunheads by Sophie Flack
For anyone who’s into the dark underbelly of professional ballet, Bunheads goes way beyond The Nutcracker and tutus. Sophie Flack was once a professional ballet dancer, so she nails all the juicy details—the starvation, exhaustion, passion, and broken bones—of her former life. This is the book I go back to when I need to re-immerse myself in the raw hunger of young women willing to do anything to survive in the cutthroat microcosm of a ballet company.
The Pure series by Julianna Baggott
I’m reading this action-packed series right now, and I’m so glad I finally picked it up. Baggott’s poetry background shows on every page—I’ve never seen such grotesquely beautiful imagery in a story told with so much heart. In Pure, detonations have altered people’s cellular makeup and fused them with objects, the earth, even each other. There’s a boy with birds stuck to his back, babies fused forever to their mothers’ hips, a man who joins the underside of a car engine. This book will leave you shaken and terrified and desperately wanting to know how the main characters, Pressia and Partridge, will survive and maybe even fix their post-nuclear world.
About the Author
Amelia Kahaney grew up an easily sunburnt child in San Diego, CA and Hilo, HI. At age 12, self-exiled from surf camp due to lack of coordination, Amelia sought refuge in her local library and spent the rest of her summer filling up yellow legal pads with her first attempts at fiction. After graduating from UC Santa Cruz with a degree in English, she lived in Portland, Oregon and Quetzaltenango, Guatemala before landing in New York City with a giant suitcase and high hopes.
Nine apartments and a dozen jobs later, she began to study fiction writing at Brooklyn College. Her short stories have appeared in Best American Nonrequired Reading, One Story, Crazyhorse, and other literary magazines. She wrote most of The Brokenhearted in a coffee shop that has since gone out of business, and is currently testing out new locations in which to dream up superpowers for book two.
She is still a fan of libraries, and is also partial to bicycles, art, cars, fire, hermit crabs, voices harmonizing, flash mobs, hot springs, and voracious readers of all ages. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and son.
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A hardcover copy of THE BROKENHEARTED – to ONE WINNER
- Must be 13 or older to enter
- There will be ONE winner
- Giveaway is International to wherever The Book Depository ships
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October 7th – Fiktshun – Guest Post
October 8th – Page Turners – Excerpt
October 9th – Two Chicks on Books – Interview
October 10th – Mundie Moms – Excerpt
October 11th – Fangirlish – Review

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Disclaimer: This post contains spoilers for Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
Star Wars: The Last Jedi was an interesting film in that, as a second film in a trilogy, you’d expect them to hold things back for the impending sequel. Not on Rian Johnson’s watch. For better or worse, he closed a lot of doors that we didn’t expect him to, answering the question Rey’s parentage, ending the involvement of Luke Skywalker, killing off Snoke, and killing off secondary baddie Captain Phasma.
Let’s take a moment to pour one out for poor Phasma. While she was built up to be a cool villain in the trilogy, her role ultimately ended up being little more than a glorified Boba Fett role. When last we saw, she fell into a pit of fire and flames, pretty much ending any possibility about her being alive. But that didn’t stop outlets from asking actress Gwendoline Christie about whether or not she’d be back for the next film.
Speaking with The Times, here’s what she had to say:
“In truth, I don’t know. And that scares and upsets me because I really want to see this character explored. I’m actually very invested in the character now. And that’s genuine. That’s not just chat. It has opened up a chain of stories and events in my mind about who Phasma is.”
What a shame. I don’t know about you, but I’m fairly confident there isn’t much one can do from falling into a pit of fire on an exploding ship. Unless they do some seriously awful retconning, I think we’ve seen the last of her. This is especially unfortunate since Christie is such a terrific actress. Seeing some extra nuance to the badass looking exterior would have added a whole lot.
Are you sad to see Phasma go, or are you okay with her having met her maker at the end of The Last Jedi? Let us know your thoughts down below!
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An Anarchist's Guide to War
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's most controversial book has finally been fully translated into English.
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Who is Freddy Lim? Age, Family, Parents, Net Worth, Biography
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Freddie Lim is a Taiwanese politician, musician and independence activist. He is the lead singer of the Taiwanese heavy-metal band Chthonic and the lead singer of Metal Clone X, a band founded by American guitarist Marty Friedman.
Freddy Lim Age, Family, Early Life
Freddie Lim was born on February 1, 1976 in Taipei, Taiwan. He holds Taiwanese nationality and is of Caucasian ethnicity. His zodiac sign is Aquarius.
Lim has forbidden the media to know details about his family, so no details are available.
Freddie Lim’s wife, what about his children?
Freddie Lim married Doris Yeh in 2004. Hence no information is available about their children.
Freddie Lim’s career, what is his occupation?
Lim served as President of Amnesty International Taiwan from 2010 to 2014. He was one of the founding leaders of the New Power Party (NPP) in Taiwan and until 2019 represented the party in Yuan in the Legislative Assembly. Lim won a second seat as an independent in 2020. Lim was elected to lead Amnesty International Taiwan in 2010 and resigned in 2014.
In 2020, he collaborated with Taiwanese author Emily Y. With Wu, he started an English podcast called Metalhead Politics to draw international attention to Taiwan’s political issues: “It’s important for people to hear what’s going on here — whether they’re metalheads or not”.
In January 2015, Lim launched the New Power Party. The following month Lim launched his candidacy for the 2016 election, hoping to wrest the Dan District Parliamentary seat from Kuomintang incumbent Chiang Nai-shin. A few weeks later, Lim handed over the campaign to Social Democratic Party candidate Fan Yun instead of running against incumbent Kuomintang legislator Lin Yu-Fang from the Zhongzheng-Wanhua Constituency.
The Democratic Progressive Party did not field a candidate in the constituency, choosing to support Lim, who defeated Lin in the 16 January 2016 election. After receiving the post, Lim was appointed to the Foreign and National Defense Committee (FNDC). In October, Lim announced the establishment of a Tibet Caucus in the Legislative Yuan, with himself as the leader of the caucus.
Central Election Commission
The Central Election Commission announced on 10 August 2021 that Lim’s recall petition had received enough support from one percent of eligible voters in his constituency to pass the first stage. On 3 December 2021, the CEC stated that the recall action against Lim collected 27,362 valid signatures, exceeding the ten percent threshold required in the second phase to trigger a recall election.
Lim’s recall election was held on 9 January 2022, the same day as a replacement vote for Taichung’s 2nd Parliamentary District, where Chen Po-wei lost a recall vote in October 2021. Supporters of the recall effort had criticized Lim for his response to COVID. -19 outbreak in his area.
A total of 218 polling stations were open during the recall vote. Although the votes for Lim’s recall outnumbered those against Lim’s recall, the insufficient turnout meant that the decision was not binding.
What is Freddie Lim’s net worth?
Freddie Lim’s estimated net worth is $1 million to $5 million.
Also read: Who is Marc DeSaulnier? Age, Family, Meet His Wife, Net Worth and Biography
What school and college did he go to?
Lim was a staunch supporter of Chinese unification as a student as he was taught through China-centric textbooks in middle school and high school.
Is he available on any kind of social media platform?
Freddie Lim is available on Instagram and Twitter. He has 56.2K+ followers on Instagram and 13.1K+ followers on Twitter.
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The Weather is a collaborative studio album by Busdriver & Radioinactive with Daedelus Daedelus released a reworking instrumental version of the album, titled Rethinking the Weather, on Mush Records on June 10, 2003. Studio album by. Busdriver & Radioinactive with Daedelus.
Later that year, he released a free EP, Arguments with Dreams In 2017, Busdriver appeared on Flying Lotus' directorial debut feature film, Kuso Discography. Touch Type" b/w "Winthorp & Winthorp" (2003) (with Radioinactive, as The Weather).
Busdriver & Radioinactive with Daedelus. Released February 10, 2003. The Weather Tracklist. 1. Exaggerated Joy Lyrics.
Features Song Lyrics for Busdriver & Radioinactive With Daedelus's The Weather album. 2. Carl Weathers Lyrics. Busdriver & Radioinactive With Daedelus Lyrics provided by SongLyrics.
Busdriver" on Daedelus's beautiful "Invention" album is more indicative of what the two can do when they try hard enough. The Weather amazes the listener the first play through because of the speedy lyricism, but quickly becomes forgettable after its novelty wears off and you realize deficiency of good beats on many of the tracks. but one artist I really know is Busdriver. Well I'm afraid I don't know much.
The Weather is a collaborative studio album by Busdriver & Radioinactive with Daedelus. It was released on Mush Records on February 18, 2003. View All . Thank you to the following people for keeping this profile up-to-date. Would you like to contribute? Register . Lists. 13 Lists . The Weather appears in the following lists: 2003 albums. 10 lists, 2,888 members.
Busdriver & Radioinactive with Daedelus Rethinking The Weather (Mush Records, 2003). This was an incredible time. After Invention I felt such possibility. Everyone really did their thing. The LP was navel-gazing but the remixes did much in the experimental side of the then-growing LA beat scene. The most striking thing about this record is the life of ‘Fair Weather Friends’, which ended up being featured on the MySpace homepage, back when that felt like front cover of the internet, a concept we’ve shed in the time since. The fact that there was a place everyone saw before getting to their own profile!


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|Tsjuder - Desert Northern Hell
01. Malignant Coronation
04. Lord Of Swords
06. Mouth Of Madness
07. Unholy Paragon
08. Sacrifice [Bathory cover]
09. Morbid Lust
Well, nowadays the Norwegian scene doesn't seem to be as great and productive as it was back in the first half of the 90s. At this time of decomposition of the scene the moment for Tsjuder, one of the most promising underground Norwegian black metal bands, comes to appear and show how the music we loved back in the first half of the 90s should be played. "Desert Northern Hell" is their new album and it is pure raw and grim black metal, with some references to the dirty thrash sound of the first half of the 80s (Bathory, Venom…). If you're searching for keyboards you should stop reading this review and forget about Tsjuder because the guitars are enough to evoke a threatening and nocturnal feeling and an intense evil atmosphere in the air. I guess "No synthesizers, no female vocals, No Fucking Compromises" says it all!
The first question that might come to the mind of the reader of this review is "do they play something new?" The answer is simple - "no, they don't play anything new and they won't lead the black metal scene anywhere innovative". What they're playing is pure Norwegian black metal, with a thrash sense at times, in the vein we all loved and they're so damn proud about it that they succeed in sounding great!
The drumming is raging and evoking a war-like imposing feeling in the air and the guitars move in the renowned fiery razor blade soundscapes burning the shrouds with their repetitive but inspired structure. The vocals are in the vein of early Bathory ("Bathory" - "Under the Sign Of the Black Mark" era) albeit with a more 90s approach, sounding very expressive and enriching the overall menacing abysmal atmosphere (by the way, the Bathory cover on "Sacrifice" is magnificent!).
"Desert Northern Hell" flows as one from its very beginning until its very last second, keeping the interest of the listener at high levels and making him want to listen more and more to their music. I can say that they succeed in this because as days pass by this album becomes more and more addictive. Every song is condemned to be an epic live one and by saying that I mean that all the songs on "Desert Northern Hell" are live show dynamites that would lead the audience anytime to endless and fierce headbanging.
The album consists of 9 compositions yet it's really difficult to choose my favorite ones since it is so damn great! The whole album is played in a fast tempo, with some mid-tempo rhythmic parts at times. The album flows wonderfully with great songs like "Malignant Coronation", "Ghoul", "Mouth Of Madness", Unholy Paragon" and the 11-minute opus "Morbid Lust" that leaves you wondering how a band can be so inspired playing something that is not new yet having such a superb and pure feeling!
I guess this is an album for all the traditional Norwegian Black Metal adorers and I am sure that Tsjuder won't disappoint you! Don't expect anything new, but be prepared for something well-played and very inspired.
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To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.
What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places — and there are so many — where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.
And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.
It’s easy in these times to let ourselves fall prey to our darker emotions. From both sides of the political spectrum, we revert to anger and hatred, letting those emotions color our view of our every day lives. These dark emotions begin to crowd in on our lives, preventing us from witnessing the good that exists even during troubled times.
Our better qualities should not be swayed by external forces. True compassion and empathy is not subject to politics or prejudices.
But, as I said, it’s easy to fall prey to the darkness, to simmer in a stew of anger and fear. God knows, I have.
But I can’t live that way. I won’t live that way.
I need the joy. I need to smile and laugh. I need to feel quiet in my inner world. I need to feel the beauty of our humanity.
Anger takes those things from me and I will not have that.
Don’t get me wrong. This is not a submission to the events currently taking place. No, my anger remains. My will to resist and fight against those things that I see as simply wrong remains as strong as ever.
I just refuse to let darkness take over my life, to change who I am– or who I aspire to be– as a person.
And that, in its own way, is a small victory.
The piece at the top is a new piece, a small 2″ by 6″ painting on paper called “Maintaining Hope.” It is part of the upcoming Little Gems show, opening February 3 at the West End Gallery in Corning, NY.


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Thousands of students across the East are in the middle of their A level exams.
The pressure to make the grade is intense - but fewer school leavers this year will be using those grades to go to university.
The latest figures published by UCAS for the month of May show that university applications across Britain are down by 7.7% on last year. But in the East and East Midlands they have fallen even more sharply; applications here are down 10.4% and 10.5% respectively.
At Leiston Community High School in Suffolk, staff believe this fall is linked to the rise in university tuition fees. The Class of 2012 will be the first year to pay the higher rate of fees of up to £9,000 a year; that's triple the current fee of £3,000 a year.
The Head of Sixth Form, Anne Marie Oaten, says university applications at her school have fallen by about 20% compared to last year. Leiston is an area of rural deprivation and nearly 40% of sixth formers at the high school receive financial assistance in the form of burseries.
She believes the rise in tuition fees is deterring her students from applying.
She told Anglia News that every class is special to staff, but it's particularly hard to say goodbye to this year because of the tough economic climate they will face outside the school gates.
Today is the last day of school for Leiston's upper sixth form and students are grappling with the dilemma of what to do when the exams are over.
Emeny Conway would like to pursue a career in the Police Service and says she would have applied for a criminology degree at university if she'd left school last year. But the rise in fees has put her off, and now she's looking at other routes into the profession.
Kathy Boycott-Brown has already decided that an apprenticeship would be a better route for her. She has a scholarship with BT in design and engineering and hopes this will help her secure an apprenticeship with the same firm.
Kathy is excited by the future, but also daunted about the scale of the challenges facing her year group.
The last day of school is a major landmark for anyone, but the Class of 2012 could be forgiven for thinking this is one of the toughest years to start making your own way.


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After the FOX presentation, many in the arena filtered out. I’m not sure why, because based on what we’ve seen from Luc Besson’s Lucy, it could be better than many in the FOX slate (aside from Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, which is gonna destroy). Scarlett Johansson can do no wrong right now.
Drew McWeeny of HitFix is the moderator for the panel, and of course, Luc Besson is in the building today for Universal Pictures’ Lucy.
Hollywood is finally catching up to Besson, in that they know women can kickass, and have been borrowing his script for it that he used in La Femme Nikita and others.
What inspired Lucy was the notion of human intelligence. Lucy took him ten years to write. He was fascinated by the theory that humans only use so much of the brain, and started to work with professors, and got crazy with it. So it’s basically a crazier Matrix-y Limitless.
Many times, he writes a screenplay and lets other people direct it if he thinks other people can make it better. For this film, no other director could do it better than him.
Besson writes action films from the POV of characters first and foremost. Need “emotional charge before action scene.” Otherwise, action films can get boring. Amen.
What makes Scarlett Johansson perfect for Lucy? He equates their first meeting to like cats and dogs, feeling each other out. They met at bar for a couple hours, and then she read the script and she was in. You need to have a connection to film someone for six months.
Besson’s international cast and flavor is complimented, and rightfully so. Besson wanted to start the film in Taipei, so he brought Min-sik Choi, the star of Oldboy, the “Asian Gary Oldman.”
Not only did Besson bring the trailer we’ve all seen from Lucy, but we also got two scenes from the film. The movie isn’t done in terms of music and FX, but we essentially see a few sequences that link many of the scenes we see in the trailer (when Lucy spreads her legs, kicks the guards ass, kills a few more guards, eats Chinese food, “Do you speak English?” and then the hospital). The second one is mostly all new, with a car chase (Lucy’s never driven before) and some more hospital sequences, leading up to the moment where Lucy has a slew of guns pointed at her in the hallway. Interestingly enough, the footage ends with a big 60% superimposed on screen, which is clearly the connective tissue of the film, as we see Lucy use more and more of her brain.
When the film starts, Lucy basically wonders, “What can I do with my life? Now she knows…”
When a brain is at 20% capacity, nothing that makes us us is there any more. They have defined every step from 9.5% to 100%. At the studio they had a cardboard chart showcasing the percentages and what she can do with each stage, and Scarlett would take notes every time she arrived on set.
For Besson, producing is the easy part. Directing is the difficult part. He started writing at 13 years old. The first 5,000 pages were shit, then it became a little better. He’s felt comfortable for ten years. Starts every day by writing for two hours. “I write with pen and paper,” he doesn’t own a computer. Old school.
When Besson made Leon, Nikita, The Big Blue, critics were negative on the film, so he’s not bothered by any of the recent poor critical receptions for his films. “I don’t care… I do films for you, and that’s it.” Cue applause.
Besson is asked if he’d be interested in directing a Black Widow movie starring Scarlett Johansson? “I’m afraid of spiders.” That’s all he said.
Besson’s known for championing the strong female, and a fan asks what inspired that, whether it was a strong female role model in his life or what. Essentially, Besson is interested in opposites. We always see the strong guy – “hasta la vista, baby,” – so he’s very interested to see the strength of men and the weakness of women. He wants to see Terminator break down crying because he misses his Mom; he’d be touched.
Random other notes:
- Besson operates the camera himself on most of his films.
- Lucy wasn’t filmed in chronological order.
- A questioner mentions that he’s the 3rd best filmmaker ever (“kill the two others”), which is nice.
And that’s it for that panel.
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Thanks to a transfer by donation from the Lopez Village Association, San Juan County Parks is now the legal owner of 1.35-acre Lopez Village Park, preserving the land as a park in perpetuity. The park is situated near the Market in the heart of Lopez Village, and provides open green space for day use with picnic tables, restrooms, and coin-operated showers. The property is valued at $262,000.
The BLM is preparing to make improvements to the facilities and parking area at the Watmough Bay Trailhead, and is seeking public comment on the Environmental Assessment, (EA) of the proposed plans. The project area is on the southwest side of Lopez Island.
The San Juan County Public Works Department will hold an informational open house about the proposed Fisherman Bay Road improvement project that spans from Military Rd. to Hummel Lake Rd. in the basement of the Lopez Fire Hall on Thursday, Feb. 21 from 1:30 to 5 p.m.
The Lopez Island Family Resource Center is offering a four-week class for adults and teens outlining day-to-day management skills to help cope with stress. “Easing the Burden of Daily Stress” runs four consecutive Mondays from 4-5:30 p.m. in the Lopez High School, starting Feb. 25. The course is free of charge.
Sue DuMond’s blossoming “Home on the Grange” series started last March. Since that time, she has held eight shows at the Lopez Island Grange Hall, offering everything from a string band to folk songs to rock and blues.


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Moll's experiment shows
Unequal transpiration from two surfaces of leaf
Relation between transpiration and absorption
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Variegated leaves of a plant were supplied with radioactive carbon dioxide during an experiment.
Leaf X was kept in the dark and leaf Y was kept in the light. At the end of the experiment, the radioactivity in the leaves was measured and found to be as shown in the diagram below. What is the most likely explanation for the level of radioactivity found in the yellow zone of Y?
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Engelmann's experiment with Spirogyra demonstrated that
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The Alaska Airlines pilot currently in custody in Portland over a Sunday evening incident — in which he allegedly tried to shut down a plane's engines while off-duty and riding in the cockpit — is being described by neighbors as "normal" and a "family man."
The Chronicle tracked the accused pilot, identified as 44-year-old Joseph D. Emerson, to a home in Pleasant Hill, where Halloween decorations were up outside and where there was no answer at the door. Neighbors told Chronicle reporters that Emerson is a "family man" with two kids, for whom he'd built a basketball court in his backyard.
Neighbor Karen Yee tells the paper "It’s very shocking," and another neighbor described Emerson as "a completely by-the-book, normal guy."
That same neighbor admitted he hadn't seen Emerson in a few years, and said, "I don’t know what’s going on in his life."
Yee told reporters, "It's very hard for us to believe that he would do anything intentionally like that. I can't fathom him doing anything that would hurt anyone."
Emerson is in police custody after the incident that occurred in the cockpit of an Alaska Airlines jet that took off at 5:23 Sunday evening, bound from Everett, Washington to SFO. The Embraer jet was being operated by Alaska subsidiary Horizon Airlines.
The pilot and first officer said they had to subdue Emerson after he attempted to cut the engines of the plane, apparently in an effort to bring it down.
Emerson had been traveling on the jump seat in the cockpit — something that is common for off-duty pilots who may be commuting to or from work.
The pilot was heard on air-traffic radio telling an air traffic controller "we got the guy that tried to shut the engines down out of the cockpit."
The pilot added that after being taken to the back of the plane, he was subdued and "he doesn’t sound like he’s causing issues." Nonetheless the plane diverted to Portland, and law enforcement was asked to meet the plane at the gate.
Passengers on the plane, who were all reboarded on another flight to SFO, were reportedly told that Emerson suffered a "mental breakdown" before he tried to interfere with the plane's engines, per the Daily Mail.
Emerson now faces 83 counts of attempted murder, in addition to 83 counts of reckless endangerment, and one felony count of endangering an aircraft.
As the Chronicle reports, the FBI, the Transportation Security Administration, the Federal Aviation Administration, and the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office are all investigating the incident.
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Sustainable Communities Act – The Right for Parish and Town Councils to Sell Electricity
The Parish Council has been asked to support a proposal, via the Sustainable Communities Act, to allow parish and town councils to sell electricity generated from local schemes.
Whilst Chippenham doesn’t have any scheme in place at the moment and no imminent plans to provide one, we believe that parish and town councils should be given permission to generate income from such a scheme if it exists. District and County councils already have this permission.
The Parish Council proposes to support this bill.
If you have any comments please contact the Clerk at firstname.lastname@example.org or 01638 720915.


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Every one of us want to be healthy and fit, so here are some interesting tips of cooking healthy food that reduce your fat and calorie intake with the below given methods of cooking.
First method Baking:
Your oven can be used for a lot more than just making bread and cakes. Cook your chicken, seafood and vegetables in this manner.The best part is that baking generally doesn’t require you to add fat to the food.
Second method Grilling:
This involves applying the food to direct heat. Grilling is healthy as it allows the excess fat to drip away from the food and requires less cooking time than cooking on a stove or an oven. It’s perfect for meat as it doesn’t reduce the tenderness or natural flavour of the food.
Third method Steaming:
This is deftnitely one the simplest and healthiest cooking techniques. Steamed rice is easy to make and tastes good. If you’re concerned about the food I turning bland, add some seasoning to the water.
Fourth method Stir-fry:
This traditional Asian method, quickly cooks small pieces of food on a high flame. Still better, it requires only a small amount of oil and keeps all the flavours of the food intact.
Fifth method Roasting :
Similar to baking, this method involves using the heat of an oven to cook the food. I For chicken, seafood and red meat, place a rack inside so that the fat can drip away during cooking.
Sixth method Sauteing:
Sauteing is usually done using a nonstick pan and doesn’t require much fat. Try using a low-sodium broth or water in place of oil.


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Overview:Chant Avedissian - Egyptian-Armenian artist Chant Avedissian - who refined his techniques in Western art schools and whose inspiration is fuelled by the pantheon of Egypt's modern Golden Age - deftly explores the boundaries between 'high' and 'low' art; politics and pop; the ephemeral and the enduring; and Egypt and the rest of the world. Avedissian's subject is images themselves - mostly appropriated from the covers of Egyptian magazines from the era between King Farouk's early days and President Nasser's death, when Egypt was pursuing the ideal of modernity. The iconic figures in Avedissian's canvases include legendary singers Om Kulthoum and Asmahan; screen sirens Shadia and Hind Rostom; heart-throbs Farid al-Atrash and Abdel Halim Hafez; and once-adored statesmen like Gamal Abdel Nasser. His voracious appetite for these bygone days, and his unerring synthesis of the themes and iconography of Egypt and the Arab world in the 1950s and 1960s, also takes in mothers, sportsmen and women, soldiers, films, hieroglyphics, rural life and advertising.
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Why does not God just pull us back into paradise by dint of Omnipotence?
By the exercise of their omnipotence, God could easily pull us out of godlessness and back into paradise. So why do they not? Suppose the goal is not just to get us to paradise but to keep us in paradise.
The Story of Adam and Eve Answers Our Most Important Questions
The story of Adam and Eve is viewed by many as a child’s fairy tale with little or no relevance to us today. Its lesson is judged too simple and, hence, too well-understood, to deserve any further serious contemplation. It is taken for granted. Few sermons are preached about it. Yet, the story of Adam and Eve provides answers to many of our most important questions about our predicament in godlessness and God’s plan to rescue us from it.
The Difference between Adam and Eve and their Children
God delivered the gift of paradise to Adam and Eve upon their creation. God, however, delays the delivery of the gift of paradise to the children of Adam and Eve. Why? Why is delivery delayed?
Adam and Eve Opted out
Adam and Eve opted out of paradise after the gift of paradise had been delivered to them. Like foolish children, Adam and Eve ran away from their home with God in paradise and took us with them into godlessness.
A Gaggle of Angels Opted Out
A gaggle of angels led by Lucifer opted out of paradise after paradise had been delivered to them.
Paradise is not a Prison, God is not our warden; We are not God’s prisoners
Paradise is not a prison, God is not our warden and we are not God’s prisoners. Even though opting out is contrary to our self-interest, we have the freedom to opt out of paradise. Adam and Eve exercised their freedom. A gaggle of angels led by Lucifer opted out of paradise as well. Both groups had paradise in hand but opted out. They abdicated paradise for godlessness.
The Illusion versus the Reality
The serpent’s propaganda conjured up the illusion that a life in godlessness was superior to a life in paradise. The opposite, however, is the reality. Paradise is the home of an immortal, omnipotent and benevolent God. We are the apple of God’s eye who loves each of us individually and who desire to shower us with gift after gift.
The Motive for Opting Out
The illusion of the superiority of godlessness over paradise persuaded them to abdicate paradise after the gift of paradise had been delivered to them.
God does not want the Children to Repeat the Mistake of their Parents
God does not want the children of Adam and Eve to repeat the mistake of their parents. Once God delivers to us the gift of paradise, God wants us to keep it.
What is the Solution to Post Delivery Paradise Opt Out?
What is the solution to the problem of post delivery paradise opt out? What is the remedy that can neutralize the devil’s propaganda?
Reality neutralizes propaganda. Reality shatters the illusion. The truth sets us free. The prodigal son will not return to the pig sty. Never. No way; no how. The solution to the problem of post delivery paradise opt out was delay. Between our creation and the delivery of the promised gift of paradise God inserted a lifetime. A lifetime is a thin sliver of eternity that gets thinner and thinner as time passes by. As time passes by, the duration of a lifetime becomes insignificant. It dwindles down to nothing. During the delay, we experience for ourselves the sourness of godlessness. Some get a spoonful of the sourness of godlessness; others get a mouthful; and, still others, including God’s dearly beloved Son, get a baptism by immersion. From our own experience in godlessness, we learn that the propaganda that the serpent gave to Adam and Eve at Eden was false, that the serpent lied to Adam and Eve and that godlessness sucks. Experiencing godlessness for ourselves reduces the likelihood that we would opt out of paradise after it is delivered to us to near zero.
Harsh but Effective Medicine
A lifetime in godlessness is harsh but effective medicine. God prescribes the harsh but effective medicine to us to make sure we keep the gift of paradise after the gift of paradise is delivered to us. We ain’t going back to godlessness. No way; no how. The prodigal son will not return to the pig sty and neither will the children of Adam and Eve.
Our Rationality, Disabused of the Illusion, keeps us in Paradise.
Our experience in godlessness informs our rationality. Our rationality, having been informed about the sourness of godlessness, tells us to stay in paradise and stay out of godlessness.
Evil’s Existence is Ambiguous Evidence
The existence of evil in the world is the premise used by atheists as evidence to prove the nonexistence of a loving God. This argument is good but specious. As strange as it sounds, the existence of evil in the world is also evidence that supports the proposition that a loving God exists. As explained above, the existence of evil is harsh but effective medicine. It keeps us in paradise and out of godlessness. The existence of evil, is therefore, ambiguous evidence. What resolves the ambiguity? The brevity of life. If a loving God did not exist, we would stew in the shithole of godlessness forever. Because a loving God exists, the time we spend experiencing the sourness of godlessness is mercifully brief. The brevity of life is the strongest evidence to support the proposition that a loving God exists.
Riches Dull the Sharp Edge of Godlessness
“And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God” (Matthew 19:24-26). Why? A rich man can shield himself from the sharp edge of godlessness. He can ameliorate its sourness. Yet, Jesus goes on to say that nothing is impossible for God. Even the rich man will eventually taste the sourness of godlessness for himself. No child of Adam and Eve escapes this experience. Each of us must consume for ourselves the harsh but effective medicine. It is prophylactic. It stops us from abdicating paradise after paradise is delivered to us. The delivery of the gift of paradise is ineluctable for those who want it. What is problematic is us keeping paradise after it is delivered to us. Experiencing the sourness of paradise is God’s solution to this problem. Given the choice between godlessness and paradise, we ain't picking godlessness. No way. No how. Rationality, informed by experience, points us in the right direction. Thank God for the gift of rationality. Thank God for the experience. Both prevent us from making a terrible mistake.


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Interplanetary Transport System – Booster
The Interplanetary Transport System Booster is one of three major hardware components of a complete architecture for the exploration and colonization of Mars, currently under development by SpaceX.
The system, formerly known as the Mars Colonial Transporter (MCT), fundamentally consists of a re-usable Booster, an Interplanetary Spaceship and a Tanker craft for in-orbit re-fueling. In the early stages of the project, the Booster system was referred to as BFR – Big F***ing Rocket, or Big Falcon Rocket.
Initial ideas for super-heavy-lift rockets based on the Falcon launch vehicle fleet were first discussed by SpaceX in 2010, but – by the time design work began in earnest in 2012 – the planned outline of the vehicle had changed fundamentally, stepping away from the Falcon but keeping a number of its technologies, especially in the re-use department pioneered by the Falcon 9.
ITS is suitable for the exploration of destinations anywhere in the Solar System both robotically and with a crew on board. The overall system can be characterized as a Two-Stage-to-Orbit concept with the Spaceship doubling as the second stage of the launch vehicle and interplanetary transfer craft, requiring in-orbit refueling prior to departing Earth.
SpaceX CEO and Chief Designer Elon Musk revealed the complete ITS concept to the world in 2016 as a fully reusable architecture for shipping cargo and crews to Mars and returning humans safely to the Earth, ultimately at affordable prices and high reliability. Depending on funding for the project as well as technical challenges, SpaceX expects ITS could begin orbital test flights before the end of the decade with the first crew departing for Mars around 2024.
The stated goal during initial development work on the MCT was the delivery of 100 metric tons to the surface of Mars. However, SpaceX designed a much more powerful architecture that could send significant payloads well beyond Mars, necessitating a name change to ‘Interplanetary Transport System.’
The ITS launch vehicle stack is composed of two stages, flying in two variants – both employing the ITS Booster as a first stage while the second stage may be either the Interplanetary Spaceship flying in a crew or cargo configuration, or a Tanker.
Per the reusable architecture, the Booster is designed to fly 1,000 missions, completing a propulsive return to its launch site after dispatching the Spaceship / Tanker on their way towards Low Earth Orbit.
The integrated ITS stack stands 122 meters tall, making it the tallest rocket ever – surpassing the mighty Saturn V by 11 meters. Its launch mass of 10,500 metric tons trumps the Saturn V’s 3,040 metric tons by a factor of 3.5 and ICT outperforms the Saturn by a factor of 3.6 in terms of liftoff thrust.
Due to the use the more energetic Liquid Oxygen – Liquid Methane propellant combination, ITS can outperform the Saturn V by a factor of 4.1 on the mass delivered to Low Earth Orbit. In a fully expendable configuration, ITS can loft a LEO payload of 550 metric tons while the reusable booster can send 300 metric tons into orbit. ITS can lift ten times the payload of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket.
|Dry Mass||275 t|
|Propellant Mass||6,700 t|
|Oxidizer||Sub-Cooled Liquid Oxygen|
|Fuel||Sub-Cooled Liquid Methane|
|Oxidizer Mass (Est.)||5,275 t|
|Fuel Mass (Est.)||1,425 t|
|LOX Temp (Est.)||66 K|
|LCH4 Temp (Est.)||93 K|
|Oxidizer Volume (Est.)||4,290 m³|
|Fuel Volume (Est.)||3,160 m³|
|Propulsion||42 Raptor Sea Level|
|Total Thrust (SL)||127,800 kN|
|Total Thrust (Vac)||138,400 kN|
|Attitude Control||Gimbaling of 7 central Raptor Engines|
|Coast Control||Reaction Control Thrusters (O2 & CH4)|
|Atmospheric Flight||3 Actuated Grid Fins|
|Tank Pressurization||Autogenous (Engine Tapoff)|
|Staging Velocity||2,400 m/s|
|Propellant for Return||470 t|
The ITS Booster stands 77.5 meters tall and is 12 meters in diameter with an inert mass of 275 metric tons, utilizing carbon-fiber components for its structural elements and propellant tanks.
In an original concept, MCT was expected to scale up the existing Aluminum-Lithium tanks of the Falcon 9 but SpaceX opted for a Carbon-fiber primary structure given its low-weight and high stability. Both tanks on the booster use a Stringer & Ring Frame structure for mechanical support. ITS makes use of the common concept of placing the oxidizer tank above the fuel tank, running the LOX feed line (over 1.5m in diameter) through the center of the Methane tank.
The selection of carbon-fiber material poses one large technological challenge which is to make the tank walls impermeable for the propellants, both in their liquid and gaseous phase and avoiding stress-cracking at the pressure levels needed for flight.
The LOX tank in the upper portion of the booster has two spherical bulkheads, sharing a common bulkhead with the LCH4 tank as has become standard practice to reduce dry mass and the overall length of the stage. The LCH4 tank appears to have a flat bottom facilitating a large manifold system for the distribution of oxidizer to the main propulsion system. The first stage holds 6,700 metric tons of propellants – approximately 5,300 metric tons of Liquid Methane and 1,400 metric tons of LOX.
42 Raptor engines are installed on the base of the ITS Booster, each delivering a sea level thrust of 3,050 Kilonewtons at a specific impulse of 334 seconds, rising to a thrust of around 3,295kN in vacuum conditions. At full throttle, ITS has a liftoff thrust of 13,000 metric-ton-force which, with a launch mass of 10,500 tons, creates an initial thrust-to-weight ratio of 1.29.
The engines are arranged in two rings and an inner cluster with 21 engines installed in the outer ring, 14 in the inner ring and seven in the central cluster. Only the seven central engines are equipped with gimbaling systems for thrust vector control, the outer engines are fixed in position, eliminating the mass of 35 TVC assemblies.
>>SpaceX Raptor – Detailed Technical Overview
Unlike the Saturn V that used five powerful engines on its first stage, SpaceX is betting on 42 Raptor engines to operate in unison to get the vehicle into orbit – a design very much resembling the Soviet N1 moon rocket that clustered 30 engines and failed miserably during all of its test flights in the 1960s & 70s. SpaceX says the engine clustering is an advantage when combined with modern computers and control systems, giving the vehicle multi-engine out capability to guarantee its valuable payload reaches orbit.
Like the Merlin 1D series, Raptor can support extremely deep throttling with stable combustion possible down to 20% of the engine’s rated thrust. This enables the ITS Booster to fly flexible ascent profiles and actively throttle its engines on the way back to a propulsive landing, requiring active control of the vehicle’s thrust-to-weight ratio.
Tank pressurization on the ITS uses an autogenous system – self-pressurization from the Raptor engines. The Full-Flow Staged Combustion Cycle of the Raptor engine makes it easy to obtain pure oxidizer and fuel tapoff gases that can be routed through pressure regulators to keep the tanks at the proper flight pressure, cutting a Helium pressurization system which – as Falcon 9 has shown – can present a number of problems.
One peculiarity of the ITS Booster design is a large spherical tank installed in the lower portion of the methane tank. According to Elon Musk, ITS cuts the Nitrogen-fueled cold gas thrusters that Falcon uses for attitude control when coasting outside the atmosphere as well as propellant settling prior to re-lighting the main engines for the propulsive return. On ITS, the thruster system makes use of gaseous methane and oxygen and the spherical tank could be a pressurized sphere holding the gaseous methane for the thrusters when the engines are not actively delivering tapoff gas.
The ITS Stage Separation System appears to use a pusher system similar in architecture to the Falcon rockets.
Analogous to SpaceX’s Falcon rockets, ITS will employ sub-cooled propellants with the sole motivation of densifying the supercold liquids in order to fit a greater mass of propellant into the limited tank volume of the launch vehicle.
Falcon (and most likely ITS as well) employs LOX at a temperature of approximately –207°C, about 10°C above the Oxygen Triple Point and 24°C below its boiling point – achieved by running the LOX through a Nitrogen bath that is kept at a partial vacuum to decrease its temperature to nearly N2 ice temperature. This will yield an increase in LOX density from 1.134 grams per cubic centimeter to nearly 1.23g/cm³ while still maintaining the LOX above its freezing point and slush density of 1.338g/cm³. Cooling the LOX to this temperature point yields a density increase of around 8%.
Densification for methane is possible as well and yields a similar increase on the order of 7%, of course depending on the temperature chosen by SpaceX which was not revealed at IAC 2016.
Methane exists in liquid form in a much narrower temperature range than LOX: it boils at -162°C and freezes at -182.5°C (ambient pressure). At its boiling point, methane has a density of 0.423g/cm³ increasing to 0.482g/cm³ at what its known as the Slush Point where half the methane exists in liquid form while the other half is already frozen.
Because frozen methane is very undesirable for propulsion, SpaceX is likely to select a temperature warmer than the methane triple point. A NASA study showed that methane at a temperature of -180.2°C maintains the fluid in a usable form for rocket engines with no ice particles, favorable viscosity, and a density of 0.451g/cm³.
However, it is possible that SpaceX would go for Slush Methane to achieve a further increase of density. This would require them to master unprecedented technology because viscous slush methane is much harder to pump and places the fuel boost- and turbopump under extreme stress.
Elon Musk stated the Raptor engines will operate at a mixture ratio of around 3.8, though tank sizes shown in technical drawings of the ITS Booster and Spaceship suggest a mixture ratio closer to 3.7. The propellant volumes shown in the table above are values calculated based on the given propellant mass and approximate densification yield & are therefore considered to be estimates.
ITS Booster Re-Use
The Interplanetary Transport System is conceptualized to be fully reusable with 1,000 uses per Booster, 100 uses per Tanker and 12 round trips to Mars with one spacecraft over a period of over 25 years.
Re-use on the booster is accomplished similar to the Falcon 9 rocket – launching the vehicle to the edge of space and accelerating the second stage so it can reach orbit while keeping a propellant reserve in the tanks of the booster sufficient for a propulsive return to Earth. The ITS Booster is designed to accelerate the Interplanetary Spaceship to a velocity of 2.4 Kilometers per second, separating near the edge of space from where the Spaceship will fire its own Raptor engines to reach Low Earth Orbit.
Following separation, the Booster uses its gas thrusters to pitch over and achieve a retrograde attitude in which it will quickly settle its propellants and fire up half its engines (all but the outer ring) to make a boost back maneuver aiming for its launch site. Next is another re-orientation to point the engines once again toward the direction of travel for a re-entry burn to slow the vehicle down when hitting the atmosphere, only firing the seven-engine cluster in the center.
Flying through the atmosphere, ITS employs three grid fins that can maneuver along two degrees of freedom to control the precise three-axis orientation of the booster – flying out any cross-track errors and controlling the downrange travel distance.
Where ITS takes it a step further than the Falcon 9 rockets is the precision of its landing. Falcon 9 has the luxury of a very large concrete landing pad allowing for quite some error in its final descent to the ground. ITS on the other hand has to maneuver back to its launch pad and precisely set itself down to be re-captured by the launch mount because the vehicle does not feature landing legs (a mass-saving measure).
A direct return to the launch pad will enable a rapid turnaround between flights. A SpaceX animation shows the vision of having a Tanker module stored close by to be installed atop the Booster within hours of its return to be refueled and re-launched in the shortest possible time to then link up with the Spaceship in orbit to begin the process of refueling for Mars.
Per the baseline design, ITS reserves 7% of its propellant mass for the boostback and landing maneuver, corresponding to 470 metric tons of LCH4 and LOX. Elon Musk stated the aim is to reduce the propellant reserve to 400 metric tons through fine tuning of the landing precision, reducing the margin available during final descent.