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“If one could make it across the Northwest [Passage] in a single season, in a rowboat, it would scream to the profound effects climate change is having on the Arctic,” writes Kevin Vallely in the opening pages of his new book, Rowing the Northwest Passage: Adventure, Fear and Awe in a Rising Sea.
An absolutely must long-read by Andrew Jacobs and Matt Richtel in the New York Times on how the food industry is targeting the poor in Brazil.
Consider the incredible and deeply disturbing reporting in this story the next time you want to try to kid yourself that something other than profits matters to the food industry.
Sturgeon River–Parkland Liberals have nominated Brian Gold, an accomplished businessman and an instructor at the University of Alberta, to serve as the official Team Trudeau candidate in the upcoming federal by-election.
All the annoying questions vegans get asked about their diet have an equally annoying answer.
The superintendent at the extremely white school in Vermont is very sorry for the ex-employee’s behaviour.
On Friday, the Education Secretary scrapped the 2011 Obama directive intended to address long-standing issues with how schools nationwide handle sexual assault claims.
Jim Frohna has been a close collaborator of Jill Soloway’s for years, tasked with bringing the most painful, powerful moments in her characters’ lives to the screen.
A look inside Katsu Naito’s new book, ‘Once in Harlem.’
What’s your favourite dipping sauce?
The show will be based on Clinton and James Patterson’s joint novel, ‘The President Is Missing.’ It’s about a missing president, apparently.
Hailing from Puerto Rico and now resident in the Magic City, curator María Elena Ortiz is bringing artists’ diverse stories to light.
Reposted with permission from EcoWatch.
By Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch
Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, BP and Royal Dutch Shell—the five biggest investor-owned fossil fuel producers in the world—over the costs of climate change.
The two Californian cities join the counties of Marin, San Mateo and San Diego and the city of Imperial Beach that have taken similar legal action in recent months, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
Darren Berrecloth has spent his life searching for the ultimate ride.
The 35-year-old from Parksville, B.C. is something of a legendary figure in the mountain biking world, having helped pioneer competitive freeriding in the early 2000s. Now, he’s on a mission to share the thrill of the downhill with a new generation of adventure-seekers.
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Sigh.I’ve addressed this repeatedly, dammit. More from my siteOn ‘Blazing Saddles’ 40th anniversary, a ‘it could never get made today’ argument I’ll almost buyGavin McGinnes: ‘Gabourey Sidibe For President!’Mel Brooks isn’t funny: My NEW Taki’s columnJeffrey Imm of REAL, the guy who thinks America’s biggest problem is Mel Brooks, stupidly writes to me
Thompson, Man., now has an unusual new distinction it can point to to bolster its claim to “Wolf Capital of the World“: it’s the Guinness World Record holder for most people howling like wolves at once.
Allan Maisie writes a rare non-annoying bit, if not in a particularly sparkling way.Loyal 5FF readers can supply their own examples — that darn nuclear war (and accompanying nuclear winter) that never happened, etc.Canadians will recall that the Liberals were declared extinct after Ignatieff, and we all laughed knowingly at the silly old “natural ruling […]
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| Toronto Mayor John Tory at the Elevate Toronto Festival in Toronto on September 12th. Photo c/o Brian Orlotti. |
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In theory it can be done, but the danger is making the hurricane worse.
Fossil footprints possibly made by a human ancestor 5.7 million years ago stolen from the archaeological site.
Scientists say discovering jellyfish also doze off emphasizes how important sleep is for our neurons.
Some blind people have learned to produce sonar clicks to ‘see’ the world.
BC. wildfires are evidence that climate change is increasing the number and size of forest fires.
Scientists trying to replicate the original studies’ findings on “Power Poses” found no behavioural effect.
Back in July, Caledon, ON based Canadensys Aerospace picked up a contract from the Waimea, HI based International Lunar Observatory Association (ILOA) to build instrumentation for the first ILO Lunar Observatory rover.
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| We live in a small world. As outlined in the July 3rd, 2014 Lunar Enterprise Daily post, “ILOA Partnering With Canadensys Aerospace Corp On ILO-1 Flagship Moon Mission,” the partnership between the two organizations goes back several years.The ILOA is also part of the Space Age Publishing Company, which shares links and stories with the Commercial Space blog. Graphic c/o Space Age Publishing Company. |
Almost immediately, and in a stunning human resources coupe, Canadensys scooped-up New Hamburg, ON based Ontario Drive and Gear (ODG) ARGO VP of engineering Peter Visscher, project manager Perry Edmundson, and senior mechanical designer Peter Woolfrey.
And yesterday, as if to celebrate those acquisitions, Canadensys announced the creation of a Waterloo, ON based “new facility for space mechanical design and advanced manufacturing.”
As outlined in the September 21st, 2017 Canadensys press release, “Canadensys announces advanced manufacturing capability in the Waterloo region,” the new facility will support the company’s “expanding space and exploration initiatives.” Of course, the expectation is that the new facility will also support ILOC efforts to build a lunar observatory rover.
And, as outlined in the July 20th, 2017 ILOA post on “The ILO Mission,” contract work is advancing through Silicon Valley, CA based Moon Express Inc for “ILO-1 Landing Technology Advanced R&D, with actual ILO-1 spacecraft development by Moon Express to begin in 2018.“
According to the post, the Canadensys contribution was a “a flight-ready low-cost optical payload for the ILO-1 mission, ruggedized for the Moon South Pole environment,” called the “Lunar Optics Program.“
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| A sampling of proposed Moon Express robotic explorers. It’s worth noting that Toronto born Moon Express CEO Robert Richards also started out in Canada, but eventually ended up moving to the US to generate funding for his company. Graphic c/o ME. |
ODG was evidently sanguine about the manpower losses. The September 21st, 2017 SpaceQ post, “Canadensys is Expanding its Operations Opening an Advanced Manufacturing Facility in Waterloo,” quoted Joerg Stieber, the chairman of the board at ODG, as stating that his company “had decided to refocus on their terrestrial extreme terrain robots.”
Of course, there was also the possibility that the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) had run out of money for ODG to research lunar rovers.
As outlined most recently in the April 10th, 2017 post, “General Fusion, exactEarth’s Missing (But Insured) Satellite, More CSA Rovers & ULA Drops Launch Costs,” those funds were substantial, but depended in the final analysis on acquiring a deal with another international partner, a situation which never materialized.
It’s also worth noting that the senior team at Canadensys, including president and CEO Christian Sallaberger, VP of space exploration Nadeem Ghafoor, chief engineer of space exploration Howard Jones and director of strategic development Jim Middleton each started off in far duller and more traditional jobs in either Richmond, BC based MacDonald Dettwiler (MDA) or at the CSA.
We all gotta start somewhere.
Here’s hoping that the Canadensys people and their previous employers are able to manage the intellectual property derived from their earlier positions so they can still be utilized by Moon Express, the ILOA and anyone else who wants to use it.
Editors Note: An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that “Canadensys Aerospace picked up a contract from the Waimea, HI based International Lunar Observatory Association (ILOA) and Silicon Valley CA based Moon Express to build the first lunar observatory rover.”
That statement was in error. Although both Moon Express and Canadensys do have a customer in common (the ILOA), there is no contractual relationship or formal partnership between Moon Express and Canadensys.
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| eveChuck Black. |
Chuck Black is the editor of the Commercial Space blog.
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I want to argue that Waugh could not have been a great satirist were he not a Catholic, and, more controversially, that his satire had its source in appropriation of the truths of Catholicism rather than in extenuation of its precepts. Most fundamentally, it was Catholicism that made “Waugh the insular and class-conscious bully” into […]
By Scott Gabriel Knowles, Drexel University
It’s not easy to hold the nation’s attention for long, but three solid weeks of record-smashing hurricanes directly affecting multiple states and at least 20 million people will do it.
Clustered disasters hold our attention in ways that singular events cannot — they open our minds to the possibility that these aren’t just accidents or natural phenomena to be painfully endured. As such, they can provoke debates over the larger “disaster lessons” we should be learning. And I would argue the combination of Harvey and Irma has triggered such a moment.
Ann Coulter writes:If Trump actually believed what he claimed to believe, he would treat the building of a wall as a far more urgent priority than sending FEMA after a hurricane.Taking nothing away from the fine people who lost their lives in the recent hurricanes, since the 2005 hurricane season, about 200 Americans have died […]
I’ve said it at this blog again and again and again:Topics that were once discussed only at “racist websites” now semi-regularly make their way into the mainstream — alas, decades too late to matter…I wrote about the Alabama photo in 2010 (most likely using hard-copy library books, I don’t remember). Since then, I was glad […]
I bought Cut when it first came out and I saw it filed in the “import” section of the local mall’s Musicland store (the same bin where I’d also discover X-Ray Spex, Henry Cow, Peter Hammill and Tubular Bells). Its punky reggae sound was very, very appealing to me straight off the bat. I’d read […]
the Soviet system would collapse by noon.RELATED — Hilariously, this was written by a guy who insists on retaining his anonymity,:The king is not going to be king very long if no one accept his right to rule. Similarly, people will not tolerate a ruling class that is populated by madmen denying reality. This is, […]
What???Take my money! More from my siteToday in yesterday: Screamin’ Jay Hawkins recorded ‘I Put a Spell On You,’ died (not in the same year)Mark Steyn chats with Mona Charen, Jay Nordinger (!)‘Bring me Justin Trudeau’s sex tape, gay or straight’Mark Steyn celebrates Earth Day (just kidding)
I’ll self-indulgently remind longtime 5FF readers that I don’t think Chainsaw is scary.The “making of…”, as chronicled in an instant classic Texas Monthly oral history, was way grosser, what with all that stinking slaughterhouse offal laying all over the broiling set. And all the damned hippies…Anyway, Joe Bob is the perfect guy to look at […]
For almost a decade, iNaturalist has been helping curious nature lovers around the world get better acquainted with their local flora and fauna through its network of natural history experts. Now, the team behind the popular online community is exploring how artificial intelligence can help improve the speed and accuracy of its crowd-sourced identifications.
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This past Monday Dan Lett at the Winnipeg Free Press wrote : “The path that Wab Kinew is walking just became incredibly steep.” Mr. Lett went on : “That’s an odd thing to say about a man who just won a landslide victory to become the new leader of the Manitoba New Democratic Party. But […]
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Justin Trudeau, Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, will deliver remarks to supporters at a Liberal fundraising event in Mississauga on September 21, 2017.
Well, we have the best trained and technologically advanced military – and nothing else (…)I’ve tried to ease up on the “As I wrote some years ago…” shtick, not only because it irritates some readers but because it sows the fatal seed in my own self-doubting breast that I’ve said it all before and it […]
This 5 Minute Fall Berry Wreath is SO easy to make, and adds just the perfect touch of fall to your front door! – – – – – – As you may know already, I’m a big fan of wreaths hung on front doors. I think they’re the perfect way to greet those who come up to your home…they’re just a nice warm welcome. And because I’m kind of obsessed with wreaths, I also like to change them up with the seasons…I have wreaths for Christmas, Halloween, Winter, Summer…you name it, I made it. This fall I decided to make a new wreath to go with my Harvest Theme Fall Front Porch. I wanted something simple and not too overpowering because I have a lot going on in this space already. So I kept things super simple and made this 5 Minute Fall Berry Wreath. Honestly, this wreath is so easy it’s ridiculous. But as I’ve learned, sometimes all we need is the inspiration to make our own project, so that’s why I’m sharing this simple wreath DIY with you. Just because something is easy doesn’t mean it’s not beautiful. All you need to do is head out to your nearest craft […]
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