![]() Starlink is the first krypton propelled spacecraft ever flown. Ion Propulsion Systems - Starlink satellites are equipped with efficient ion thrusters powered by krypton that enable the satellites to orbit rise, manouver in space, and deorbit at the end of their useful life. Singular Solar Array - Starlink satellites feature a single solar array, significantly simplifying the system solar cells are standardized, and easy to integrate into the manufacturing process. Less Mass, More Compact - Each satellite weighs approximately 260 kilograms and features a compact, flat panel design that minimizes volume, allowing for a dense launch stack to take full advantage of the launch capabilities of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket.Īntennas - With 4 powerful phased array antennas on each satellite, an enormous amount of throughput can be placed and redirected in a short time, for an order of magnitude lower cost. Starlink Terminal has motors to self-adjust optimal angle to view sky. This is fantastic news for anyone without access to high speed internet as the news takes us one step closer to realizing Starlink ambitions.Īccording to a January 7, 2020 Tweet, the end user Starlink Terminal "Looks like a thin, flat, round UFO on a stick. Version 2, which is at lower altitude could be as low as 8ms latency." Its designed to run real-time, competitve video games. In a related reply, Elon Musk confirmed the expected latency to be "Around 20ms. Can't wait to upgrade my broadband later this year!". JUpdate - Steve Jurvetson, Board Director of SpaceX and Tesla, tweeted on June 12th "Went to HQ and set up a Starlink terminal that connected to the satellites orbiting overhead. Images of Starlink terminals have been leaked - more here. Starlink has applied for regulatory approval in Canada - more info. JUpdate - Huge week for Starlink this week with 2 new developments. ![]() The estimated cost of the StarLink constellation is 10 billion US dollars and the pizza box sized end user terminal will cost approximately US$499.00. StarLink speeds in military testing have achieved downloads of 620 Mbps. In order for us to really revolutionize space, we have to address both satellites and rockets." ![]() ![]() "What we're going to do for satellites is we're going to revolutionize side of things just as we have done on the rocket side of things. In a 2018 interview, Elon Musk said the long term goal of StarLInk is to create a comprehensive global communications system that provides high bandwidth, low latency connectivity anywhere in the world. More recently, Musk tweeted that "private beta testing begins in ~3 months (August 2020), public beta testing in ~6 months (November 2020), starting with high latitudes" Total start up costs for a typical Canadian user are about C$800.Īfter the Starlink launch of 60 satellites on January 7, 2020, Elon Musk replied on Twitter that "At least 4" more launches would be required to offer basic service over parts of north America. Users in the US now have the Starlink terminals, sold for US$499 (C$649), and a monthly fee of US$99 (C$129) per month. The "Better Than Nothing" public testing phase has now begun and Canadian users are starting to see beta testing invites. StarLink The Starlink satellite constellation now has 800 satellites in orbit and the company has now rolled out public beta testing accross the US and Canada. Starlink now available in rural Canada along southern border - JanuCanadians living in the in the following rural areas can now visit sign up. We are not affiliated with SpaceX or Starlink. Please Note - The below article is presented for informational purposes only.
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![]() ![]() And then she went to the porridge of the Little Wee Bear, and tasted it, and that was neither too hot nor too cold, but just right, and she liked it so well that she ate it all up, every bit! Next she tasted the porridge of the Middle-sized Bear, but that was too cold for her. But she was an impudent, rude little girl, and so she set about helping herself.įirst she tasted the porridge of the Great Big Bear, and that was too hot for her. If she had been a well-brought-up little girl she would have waited till the Bears came home, and then, perhaps, they would have asked her to breakfast for they were good Bears-a little rough or so, as the manner of Bears is, but for all that very good-natured and hospitable. So Goldilocks opened the door and went in and well pleased was she when she saw the porridge on the table. The door was not fastened, because the Bears were good Bears, who did nobody any harm, and never suspected that anybody would harm them. Then seeing nobody in the house she lifted the latch. And then she peeped in at the keyhole, for she was not at all a well-brought-up little girl. And while they were away a little girl called Goldilocks, who lived at the other side of the wood and had been sent on an errand by her mother, passed by the house, and looked in at the window. One day, after they had made the porridge for their breakfast, and poured it into their porridge-bowls, they walked out into the wood while the porridge was cooling, that they might not burn their mouths by beginning too soon, for they were polite, well-brought-up Bears. And they had each a bed to sleep in a little bed for the Little Wee Bear and a middle-sized bed for the Middle-sized Bear and a great bed for the Great Big Bear. And they had each a chair to sit in a little chair for the Little Wee Bear and a middle-sized chair for the Middle-sized Bear and a great chair for the Great Big Bear. They had each a bowl for their porridge a little bowl for the Little Wee Bear and a middle-sized bowl for the Middle-sized Bear and a great bowl for the Great Big Bear. ![]() One of them was a Little Wee Bear, and one was a Middle-sized Bear, and the other was a Great Big Bear. Once upon a time there were three Bears, who lived together in a house of their own, in a wood. ![]() You can view your current positive feedback score and star ratings for your 'Top Product' in the stats section at the top of the overview page in your Designer Account.Ĭlick on the number displayed to see a detailed list of your statsĭesigners with star rating lower than 2.5 stars may have submitted designs placed "on hold", which means their uploaded designs are not shared with the customer for up to 24 hours after the design is submitted. This only applies to projects that have recently launched.Ī low star rating also means you'll be ineligible to submit to mini contests, which are restricted to five designers with star ratings of 2.75 or higher and a positive feedback score of at least 75%. ![]() If your average star rating for logo design falls below 2.5 stars at the time of submission, we will temporarily hold back your submission from the customer's view. ![]() If your submission does not receive a rating, it's not counted towards your score. The new benchmark is 2.5 average star rating for any project type. Please note it goes against our Code of Conduct to pressure customers into giving a high star rating or removing a low star rating.ĭesignCrowd tracks your star rating for each project type to give you an average quality score for a project type or category (e.g., logo design). With a 1 star rating indicating poor quality up to the highest rating of 5 stars. During a contest, customers are asked to rate the quality of each design submission received from 1 to 5 stars. This FAQ will be updated to reflect the new guidelines shortly.**Īs a designer, your average star rating represents the quality of your work as perceived by the customer. **We are currently making some updates to the way Star Rating is calculated to make these more accurate, for the benefit of designers. Krypton glowing at high voltage in an electrical discharge tube. Not surprisingly, these pulses are of short duration: four billionths of a second. Krypton-fluorine lasers produce pulses with 500 times the power of the entire U.S. Krypton-85 in the atmosphere can be used to detect the presence of otherwise secret nuclear weapons research and production facilities. Krypton is not very abundant in our planet’s atmosphere: For every krypton atom, there are about 8200 argon atoms, 184 000 oxygen molecules and 685 000 nitrogen molecules. It is a white, crystalline solid, stable at temperatures below -30 oC. (The meter is now defined as the distance travelled by light in a vacuum during a time interval ofįrom its discovery in 1898 until the 1960s most scientists believed it was impossible to make compounds of krypton, or any other noble gas – although see William Ramsay, above. Radon was the only noble gas he didn’t discover.īetween 19, the scientific unit of length, the meter, was defined as 1 650 763.73 wavelengths of krypton-86’s orange-red spectral line. William Ramsay received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1904, “in recognition of his services in the discovery of the inert gaseous elements in air, and his determination of their place in the periodic system.” He was responsible for adding an entire new group to the periodic table. It took another 60 years before his question would be answered. William Ramsay actually did believe compounds would be possible, writing in 1902: “I have had for a long time the idea that krypton and xenon may enter into combinations much more easily than the other gases but how to bring it about?” (3) Ramsay chose the element’s name from the Greek word ‘kryptos’ meaning ‘hidden.’įor many years after the noble gases were discovered most scientists believed that they would not form compounds. If it was not a compound, it had to be a new element. This value could only be obtained if the new gas consisted of single atoms, proving it could not be a compound. Ramsay and Travers measured the ratio of the gas’s specific heat at constant pressure to its specific heat at constant volume and found it was 1.66. He found Argon was present, as expected, but also two new brilliant lines, one yellow and one green, which had never been seen before. He placed a sample of the remaining gas in a vacuum tube and applied a high voltage to measure the gas’s spectrum. With this in mind, Travers removed oxygen and nitrogen from the gas using red-hot copper and magnesium. Ramsay knew it was highly improbable the new gas, lighter than argon, could be present in this residual sample, but the exciting idea came to him that a new, heavier, gas might just be present. In their practice work, they evaporated most of it, leaving just 100 ml. With little experience of handling liquid gases, they obtained a liter of liquid air in order to find out how to work with it. ![]() They would liquefy the argon, and then distil it into separate fractions to see whether the lightest fractions contained the new gas. Ramsay and Travers decided they would extract a large volume of argon from air. Ramsay wondered about the possibility of finding small amounts of the elusive new element hiding in one of his earlier discoveries, argon. Some years later Carl Gustaf Mosander discovered the new elements erbium and terbium in gadolinite they had been there all along, but Gadolin had not found them. For example, Johan Gadolin had discovered yttrium in the mineral we now call gadolinite. ![]() ![]() (1)Īware of the history of chemistry, Ramsay knew that sometimes one new element can hide another. And find it they did, but only after their search had first revealed another new element: krypton. They reasoned that a new element (it’s now called neon) must exist to fill this gap they were determined to find it. Ramsay and Travers considered the gap in the periodic table between helium and argon. He was aware that more new elements must lie in the same group of the periodic table. Ramsay had previously discovered helium and argon. Scottish chemist William Ramsay and his assistant English chemist Morris Travers discovered krypton in 1898 in London. ![]() That’s a dead-ball rebound to the defense.ģ. A player shoots the ball and it bounces up and hits the shot clock. “It’s just an accountant’s correction,” Kirschner explained.Ģ. ![]() In this case, the offensive team gets credited with a dead-ball rebound, since it gets the ball back. A miss on the first foul shot of a two-shot foul, or the first two shots of a three-shot foul. The NCAA uses it (in the tournament), but it’s a hard thing to sell. Now, dead-ball rebounds do not count toward team rebounds. “With the dead-ball rebound, we think it paints a truer picture of the game. The key passage reads:īenninger claims responsibility for the invention of flash stats, which are quickie stats compiled during broadcasts during times out and distributed to TV and radio broadcasters the recording of steals and the creation of the dead-ball rebound, which is a rebound given to the non-shooting team when the first of a two-shot foul is missed Let’s start with a man named Al Benninger and this 1981 article from the Reading Eagle out of Reading, Pennsylvania. The stat helps cast light on the history of basketball statistics, and tracing its invention back to the 1960s led me to a group of men who redefined the way people think about the game, and revealed the origins of everything we know about college basketball statistics. The dead-ball rebound proved to be an arcane, minor statistic something that the average fan had no reason to know or understand. “What’s a dead-ball rebound?”Ī few theories emerged, none of which were correct. Below the stuff anyone might care about, in a corner, I read the words “Dead-Ball Rebounds.” A UNC staffer came by with the first-half press packet, and one piece of statistical minutia caught my eye. It was halftime of Carolina–NC State, a game the Tar Heels would go on to win 74-55. It all began last January in the auxiliary media section at the Dean Smith Center in Chapel Hill. ![]() They hide in mangroves along straits and steal valuables from boats passing close to the shores. The first group are local taxi-boat drivers and fishermen who know the area well. In these pelabuhan tikus and in nearby cities as well, we can find two different categories of the so-called “pirates”. Author provided Who are the pirates and how do they operate? I visited in the 2000s and early 2010s the various pelabuhan tikus (literally translates as rat harbours), which are small informal and/or illegal harbours along the Malacca Straits to decipher these statistics and find out what the situation is really like. Sea-robbers usually steal salaries in cash, mobile phones, laptops and shipping equipment. The sea muggings in Indonesia are a major concern for small and middle-sized vessels. Piracy is carried out on the high seas, while these armed robberies occur in territorial waters. Indonesian-style piracy is closer to sea-thieves than Hollywood-style pirates. The Joint War Committee, with representatives from underwriting companies, still classes Tanjung Priok, Indonesia’s busiest port, as a “war-risk zone” due to “war, piracy, terrorism and related perils” in general, but without specific explanations.īut the reality of pirates in Indonesia is not a made-in-Indonesia Jolly Roger that would take sea transport hostage. Thirty-six ships were attacked in Nigeria and only nine in Somalia (together with the Gulf of Aden).Īs of the first quarter of this year, Nigeria overtook Indonesia as the country with most pirate attacks – 22 incidents compared to nine in the archipelago. The number of attacks in Indonesia in 2017 was higher than in other piracy-prone areas in the seas off West and East Africa. These include one hijacking, five attempted attacks and 33 incidents at berth or at anchor, when ships were not underway. Some 43 violent events in the sea were reported in 2017. The Malacca Straits in particular provide crucial access to transport hydrocarbons, such as oil and gas, as well as to the European and African markets for Asian tankers and container ships.įrom 2012, the archipelago nation was the most piracy-prone country in the world, according to a 2017 report by the International Maritime Bureau. Modern-day pirates still roam Indonesian waters. This attack happened in February 2018 and was reported by the Singapore-based Information Fusion Centre, made up of about 20 international navy liaison officers from European and Asian countries. Perpetrators consist of 4 persons using portable engine boat in pairs and portable propeller and at least 4 machetes. (…) Later perpetrators tied up a machinist (…). At 4.20am, 3 perpetrators climbed up tug boat by using rope and hook at about 3 miles from South Perasi Island. ![]() Let the noodles cook for 15 minutes in the soup or until tender. Before serving add the uncooked noodles and stir well. ![]() Stir well and let simmer on low for 6-8 hours.ģ. DISCLAIMER: Information shown may not reflect recent changes. ![]() Penne pasta, sautéed with shrimp, cherry tomatoes and fresh mozzarella. Add browned ground beef, frozen veggies, pasta sauce, and chicken stock to the slow cooker. Fresh tilapia dipped in seasoned eggs, sautéed in a lemon white wine sauce. Add the drained and rinsed beans to your cock pot with the undrained can of tomatoes.Ģ. 'Pasta e fagioli translates to pasta and beans,' says executive. (If you want to go vegetarian, just simply leave out the beef and add some extra beans!)ġ pound lean ground beef, browned and grease drainedġ (15oz) can Kidney Beans, drained and rinsedġ (15 oz) can Cannelloni Beans, drained and rinsedġ (10 oz) bag of frozen bell pepper, onion and celery (or substitute fresh bell peppers, onion and celery)ġ (32 oz) carton of chicken or vegetable stockġ cup uncooked (gluten free ok) elbow noodlesġ. What Is Pasta Fazool Pasta fazool, at its essence, is an Americanization of a classic Italian soup known as pasta e fagioli. Leave it to the Italians to make comfort food at its finest but SO simple to make! When you want something hearty and filling, but you just don’t feel like cooking on a cold winter night, Pasta Fazool is the answer! have it with a glass of the Cincuenta Tempranillo! ![]() This soup is packed with ground beef, vegetables, beans, tomatoes and pasta. Be close, and you cannot make a mistake.Fazool is from the word in the Sicilian dialect that means ‘beans.’ Our January Recipe is really simple, hearty and is perfect for the crock pot. Ass Italian sausage to the skillet and cook until browned, about 3 - 5 minute, making sure sto crumble the sausage as it cooks drain excess fat. Heat 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil in a large stock pot or Dutch oven over medium heat. Serve with a crusty bread, green salad, and extra Parmesan cheese. In a pot of salted water, cook pasta according to package instructions drain well and set aside.Do not add the pasta to the soup too soon! The longer the soup cooks with the noodles, the larger the noodles get. Cook the onion, leek, carrots, celery and garlic until softened. Add the pasta to the soup just before serving.While the soup is simmering, Cook the ditalini noodles until they are a-denti.Add water to the soup if it seems to get too thick. Simmer for 1 to 1-1/2 hours and then add the beans.Serve lots of freshly grated parmesan cheese and extra cooked Ditalini ion the side. Cook until well mixed and add the meatballs. This is a white, creamy version with white northern beans, a small diced potato and a small amount of Ditalini pasta added to the chicken broth.Stir occasionally until foam disappears from the baking soda. After the vegetables have cooked, add the tomatoes, tomato paste, beef broth, and the rest of the parmesan cheese, parsley, basil, oregano, rosemary, bay leaf, sugar, & baking soda. Pasta Fazool takes 30 minutes and is so easy Pasta Fazool is similar to the pronunciation of pasta e fasule, the Neapolitan dialect for Pasta e Fagioli.You may need to cook several batches, depending on the size of your skillet. While the vegetables are cooking, mix the beef, egg, onion powder, garlic powder, 2 TBS.Cook on medium low heat until they are soft and the onions transparent (Appr.We stir in a handful of hearty kale and garnish this easy soup with as much parmesan cheese as your heart desires. Add the EVO, onion, garlic, carrot and celery to a 1-2 gal. Our Pasta Fazool Recipe is packed with hearty Italian sausage, creamy white beans, loads of veggies, and a parmesan-infused broth youll fall in love with. John has been looking into the legend of the Randolph Trail gold cache. “This was a terrible idea of course, for geological reasons, if nothing else because of all the rivers they’d have to figure out how to get across,” John said.īut their choice proved fortuitous, because when the brothers reached the beaches south of Coos Bay, they saw a glistening sheen of gold in the sand – at least, that’s what the stories tell us. So they got a big jump.”īut instead of leaving the state by way of the Willamette Valley to make their fortune, like other Oregonians with dreams of gold on their way to California, the brothers made their way along the coast. ![]() “They got there long before everyone else got around the horn to show up and start digging. “People in Oregon got a real head start on the gold rush when it broke out,” John said. Whatever their name, they lived in the Willamette Valley, and back in 1849, they headed south for California. Recently, John has been researching the Randolph Trail gold cache, which was supposedly hidden 170 years ago by the Grouleaux brothers or maybe the Groslius brothers different sources have different spellings. John, an instructor at Oregon State University’s School of Communication. “I’ve been kind of on a roll of buried treasure, lost gold mine stories and stuff like that,” said pop historian Finn J.D. ![]() Marine archaeologist James Delgado, left, and beachcomber Craig Andes, right, examine a shipwreck timber removed from the sea caves north of Manzanita that may be from the long-ago famous wreck of a Spanish galleon that inspired the plot of the cult classic, "The Goonies." Talk to the right people in just about any community along the Pacific Ocean, and you’ll eventually find a tale of fortunes won, lost … or buried for some lucky soul to stumble across. But in truth, Oregon’s coast is home to many legends of lost treasure. ![]() Now you can play through all of the best parts of Unleashed without having to endure the suffering caused by Werehog fatigue and medal-hunting. We first reported on the Unleashed Project over a year ago, when Sonic Retro community members (and all-around beautiful people) Dario FF, Twilightzoney, and Chimera revealed the earliest footage of their experiments with porting stages from Sonic Unleashed into the PC version of Sonic Generations. Today, thanks to the incredible efforts of Dario and his team, they’ve released the first completed version of the project, including all eight major daytime stages from the original Unleashed ported to Generations, along with a redesigned hub world and reworked level progression. If you want a quick look at the preview build, hit the jump to check out some links! Stay up to date with the discoveries thread to see what all has been unearthed from the preview build thus far or take a look at the build for yourself in the discussion thread. N!NJA promises to release builds for other Sonic titles in the near future. ![]() ![]() Old GUI, especially for the Sonic the Werehog stages.Old menu system seen in early E3 previews.60fps! …but not very stable, lots of screen tearing and drops.While you can run the build on a modified Xbox 360 console, it is recommended to use a dev kit as you may run into crashes forcing you to shut down the console. Fast forward towards the end of the downer year that is 2016, it has brought us one thing that can shed some meaningful insight on the development of Sonic Unleashed the release of an Xbox 360 preview build.įorum user N!NJA released the build two days ago and already there has been several discoveries thanks to the efforts of others data mining information, uploading screenshots, videos and more. In addition the build also comes with debugging tools that highlights NPC and enemy behavior status, camera direction and gameplay control modifiers. The beautiful environments based on real-life locations, fast gameplay and a unique lighting engine all housed under the “Hedgehog Engine” helped achieve a major milestone for fast-paced 3D platformers. Whether you like the werehog or not, it brought a massive overhaul to the game design philosophy of Sonic working in the third dimension. Sonic Unleashed is seen as one of the biggest 3D entries in the history of Sonic. ![]() Many elements are added, changed or removed making this a very unique entry in a series I thought was getting played out.īOTW will appeal to almost any player because of the huge amount of content that can be freely played in any order. Nintendo has created the perfect mix of classic Zelda gameplay and story, and the best ideas from modern open world games. Read full reviewīreath of the Wild is a huge success as a Zelda game and as an open world game. It really is amazing if you love action adventure games, story driven games, and/or RPGs. I won't spoil anything, but you should just buy the game. Simple enough, but the characters you meet along the way and twists that happen seemingly at random drive this story above and beyond. Basically, Link wakes up from the resurrection chamber one hundred years after his failed attempt at beating Ganon. The stor y is by far one of the most compelling pieces of art in this game though. The enemies gradually get more difficult as you keep exploring, forcing you to seek out as many temples as possible to get more spirit orbs, which you can trade for more stamina or health. It's also a puzzle game, and while the starting puzzles are relatively easy, some can get very difficult if you don't know what to do. The motion controls to help aim your bow really made the game feel more real. The gameplay is amazing, and the controls- while being a little odd at first- actually turned out to be very simple. I was compelled to tell my friend how amazing it looked (even though he already knew). I first borrowed it from a friend since I had never played a zelda game before (I also had no games for my switch at the time). |
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