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November 27, 2012
By Staff
Bartell Drugs and Salvation Army's Toy 'n' Joy drive through Dec. 14, accepts new, unwrapped gifts for children up to age 14, or shoppers can chose a gift request tag item in the store and put it in the donation barrel in the store. The Issaquah Bartell is at 5700 E. Lake Sammamish Parkway S.E. Learn more at www.bartelldrugs.com.
Toys for Troops seeks donations for Christmas presents for children of service members. Drop off donations through Dec. 15 at the Issaquah Police Station, 130 E. Sunset Way, or make financial donations at www.operationbaldeagle.org.
Small Works Holiday Exhibition, through Dec. 29, artEAST Art Center, 95 Front St. N., 392-3191, www.arteast.org
Downtown Issaquah holiday lights work party, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Dec. 1, meet at Hailstone Feed Store, 232 Front St., a lunch break at noon features donated pizza from Flying Pie Pizza, call 391-1112 to volunteer
Holidays at the Hospital, featuring a pancake breakfast, free photos with Santa, a teddy bear clinic, a giant gingerbread house, "ask the doc" and face painting, 9 a.m. to noon Dec. 1, Swedish/Issaquah, a cost of $5 per person or $20 per family with a portion of proceeds supports pediatrics at Swedish is for the breakfast only, the remaining events are free
Issaquah Reindeer Festival, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Dec. 1-23 and 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Dec. 26-30, Cougar Mountain Zoo, 19525 S.E. 54th St., $12.50 for ages 13 and older, $11.50 for seniors, $10.50 for children, younger than age 2 is free, 391-5508, www.cougarmountainzoo.org
Parents' Day Out, get five hours of shopping while children ages 3-12 enjoy crafts, cooking, decorating, games and music, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Dec. 1, Foothills Baptist Church, 10120 Issaquah-Hobart Road S.E., 392-5925
Master Chorus Eastside presents 'My Dancing Day: A Renaissance Christmas,' 7:30 p.m. Dec. 1, Eastlake Performing Arts Center, 400 228th Ave. N.E., $20 adults/$15 seniors and students/younger than 9 free, 392-8446, www.masterchoruseastside.org
Downtown Issaquah Association annual Holiday Open House, featuring caroling and live music by Violet Oroboros, photos with Santa and one of his reindeer, cookie sale and raffle, and activities by Museo Art Academy, artbyfire and artEAST, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Dec. 5, Historic Shell Station, 232 Front St. N.
Washington State University Extension workshop — homemade wreaths, 6:30-9:30 p.m. Dec. 7, Preston Community Center, 8625 310th Ave. S.E., $20 per family before Dec. 1, bring your own boughs, http://snohomish.wsu.edu/forestry/wind12.htm, 357-6023
Sammamish Symphony Orchestra Holiday Pops, featuring the Beaver Lake Middle School Choir, 7:30 p.m. Dec. 9, Eastlake Performing Arts Center, 400 228th Ave. N.E., Eastlake High School, Sammamish, $16 adults/$12 seniors and students/children 10 and younger free, 206-517-7777, www.sammamishsymphony.org
Chabad of the Central Cascades and the Highlands Council present the annual grand Chanukah Celebration and giant can-menorah building, 4 p.m. Dec. 9, 5 p.m. menorah lighting, Blakely Hall, 2550 N.E. Park Drive, www.chabadissaquah.com, 427-1654
Issaquah Valley Senior Center presents 'Winter Wonderland' from 1-4 p.m. Dec. 14 at 75 N.E. Creek Way, featuring vintage holiday fashions trunk show, music by Kaitlin Nelson and Ed Werner and holiday treats, 392-2381
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VIP area upstairs -- you can just smell the money.
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Poetry Walk
February 28–April 19
Stroll through the Leon Levy Visitor Center and Perennial Garden Way to read orchid-inspired poems selected by poet Deborah Landau. Poetry will be displayed in the landscape and will be accompanied by a free cell phone audio tour.
Poetry Reading
Saturday, March 7; 2 p.m.
Deborah Landau reads poems inspired by the beauty of spring and works from her book Orchidelirium, which won the Anhinga Prize for Poetry.
Advance tickets recommended
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Orchid Care Demonstrations
Saturdays and Sundays; 2 & 3 p.m.
Join Sonia Uyterhoeven, Gardener for Public Education, as she discusses the basics of orchid care and how to choose and successfully grow these exotic plants.
Ballroom's Best: Tango, Waltz, and Cha-Cha
Saturdays and Sundays, plus Monday, April 6; 1 & 3 p.m.*
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Dancers from Ballet Hispanico's BHdos troupe lead audiences through dances such as the waltz, tango, mambo, and cha-cha—each one gorgeously costumed and choreographed. A guided instruction gives you insights on how to master the moves yourself.
Film Screening: Vanilla: The Sacred Orchid
Saturday, March 21; 3, 3:30, & 4 p.m.
In the Ross Hall
Learn the intriguing life process—from flower to pantry—of the world's favorite flavor. This scenic film examines the full year-cycle of this spice from Veracruz, Mexico. The orchid is still cultivated by the same indigenous people who have been growing it for centuries. (Run time: 26 minutes)
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Thursday, March 12; 6–8 p.m.
Create your own miniature world with air plants and orchids under glass cloches, in apothecary jars, and more.
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Divide, Repot, Rejuvenate!
Saturday, March 21 or Saturday, April 18; 10 a.m.–1 p.m.
Marc Hachadourian shows you when and how to divide and repot your orchids without trauma to your plants.
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Wednesday, March 25; 9 a.m.–3 p.m.
Learn flash photography techniques to capture the beauty of this year's Orchid Show.
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Saturday, March 28; 10 a.m.–1 p.m.
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The Nawdba, according to their oral history, had settled in Niamtougou of northeast Togo long before the German colonial period (1890-1914). Since then, Nawdba have migrated to central and southern Togo to farm in the cocoa plantations of Ghana and to seek other forms of employment in Côte d'Ivoire. Presently, there are about 25,000 Nawdba in Niamtougou also known as the home area and the rest of the population is spread out over other areas of Togo, Ghana, and Côte d'Ivoire.
The Nawdba are subsistence farmers and also raise livestock. Their cash crops are peanuts, palm nuts and palm oil, manioc, and cotton. Some Nawdba work as masons, carpenters, tailors, blacksmiths, cooks and civil workers. Some of the women have cooperatives making soap. Young men work in the fields or weave baskets and hats. Girls make donuts to sell in the market, care for children and also make and sell millet beer. There are some schools in the area. The language of instruction is Nawdba and French while all the textbooks are in French. There is a high dropout rate from school. Nawdba have a strong sense of belonging to their individual group, be it their clan, quartier or village. Each dialect group considers itself superior to the other. They celebrate carnival in February with costumes and traditional dances, and observe rituals for the whole village to ensure good crops.
The Evangelical Churches of West Africa first introduced Christianity to the group in 1937. In 1940 the Catholics came and in the 1980's the Assemblies of God Church began working in the Nawdm area.
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Age: 44-55
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I have the warm brow definer, which actually is quite a dark charcoal/brown shade. It makes my brows a bit darker than my blondish hair, but I like the shade. I was previously using a powder semi-permanent product in charcoal. This gives me a similar look, but is much easier to apply & less messy than the powder. And it lasts just as long as the semi-permanent makeup, ie all day as long as I don't accidentally rub it off.
The product gives me defined brows which adds a bit of structure to my face. Definitely a vast improvement on what Mother Nature bestowed to me as eyebrows! I apply using a firm slanted brush which I had before, different make.
The pot is tiny, so handy for travel, and it seems to be lasting really well. I've been using daily for about 3 - 4 months, and probably only used about 20% so far.
I think if you take time to get the right shade this is a makeup gem.
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I've been quite happy using my Maybelline Define A Brow Eyebrow Pencil for quite sometime. Look in my makeup bag and you will find 3 or 4 of them rolling around. But of course, I'm always curious about other products out there. I happen to like Laura Mercier's line overall but rarely shop for it because it's not in most of the department stores I frequent. I picked up her brow definer which comes in a small pot much like gel liner. The shade I chose was the lightest, "Fair." My brows are a mousy shade of brown but I didn't want to go too dark. Sadly, this shade is a bit too warm for my liking. Why do so many eyebrow products have that unnatural reddish tone??? Of course there should be an auburn shade for true red heads, but too many products that claim to be neutral or ashy read an unnatural shade of red. Better to skip brows altogether then to make them look bizarre. Because I just colored my hair red, I am able to pull this shade off so I won't be returning it. Application is fairly easy with a decent brush. What can say. Sometimes more expensive doesn't equal mo better.
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Good product - bit fiddly with the brush & pot though I prefer a pencil - although since LM changed the formula of their eye pencil Im looking for a new brand..
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I also has benefit browzing but I could tell the powder would be too light for my dark brown almost black hair so i gave it away.
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BACK FROM HIATUS: "Making the Turn" returns this week after being on hiatus for the month of June, and will run in its regular Wednesday slot for the rest of the year ... with the exception of the third week of each month, when it runs on Sunday as part of the monthly Local Golf page. All information concerning golf on the local and regional level is welcomed, and information may be sent to firstname.lastname@example.com or FAXed to (337) 857-8763.
SAVE THE DATE: Dates have been set for the City of Lafayette Golf Championships, which will be played Saturday-Sunday, Aug. 24-25, at The Wetlands and Les Vieux Chenes.
Information on the event is available at all three municipal courses, and a full story about the City Championships will run here next week.
STATE AMATEUR: Belated congratulations to St. Martinville's John Talley and Baton Rouge's Brandt Garon, who just completed his UL golfing career, for their top-10 finishes in the Louisiana Golf Association's State Amateur Championships.
Both tied for fifth at one-under 215 in the 144-player event held at Southern Trace in Shreveport. Home-course product Eric Ricard, an 18-year-old who will play for LSU this fall, won the event with a nine-under 207 score.
Kelsey Angelle of Arnaudville and UL team member Ross Davis of Baton Rouge tied for 17th at 221, while Broussard's Ryan Desormeaux also had a top-20 finish in ending up one more stroke back at 222.
Next up for the LGA is the Junior Amateur Championship, set July 10-12 at TPC Louisiana in New Orleans. Entry deadlines have already passed for that event as they have for the LGA Mid-Amateur (age 25 and over), set for Aug. 2-4 at The Bluffs in St. Francisville. Regional qualifiers for the Mid-Amateur are scheduled over the next six days at eight locations across the state, including a Monday, July 8, qualifier at The Farm d'Allie in Carencro.
VIEUX CHENES SENIORS: The team of Butch Huff, Bucky Ware, Clyde Bass and Robert Barrilleaux combined for a 10-under-par 62 to take top honors in the Vieux Chenes Men's Senior Golf Association's monthly tournament at Les Vieux Chenes.
Closest to the pin honors went to Louis Noel at No. 3, Darryl Cooper at No. 7, Jimmy Colligan at No. 12 and Don Everett at No. 17.
The July tournament is set for Thursday, July 11, with the monthly events open to all players age 50 and over. Tournaments are held on the second Thursday of each month with registration at 7 a.m. and first tee time at 8 a.m. Membership is $25 per year plus a $6 fee for each tournament which includes a burger after play, and each tournament pays six places and closest to the hole on all par-threes. Information is available at the course or at 837-1159.
SHERIFF YOUTH GOLF: Sheriff Mike Neustrom's annual youth golf tournament, held last month at Hebert Municipal, once again exposed the game to boys and girls in the area as part of the sheriff department's youth program.
The two-day event, held following a week-long youth clinic, crowned winners in four different age groups. Tanner Edney, Aaron Bird and Parker Guillot took the top three spots in the age 15-17 division, while Branden Johnson, Matthew Weber and Grant Guidry were the top three in age 12-14, Logan Lancaster, Colby Culotta and Tyler Barilleaux took the top spots in age 9-11 and Cooper Edney, Taylor Fitch and Carter Bower were the top three in age 6-8.
LSMGA TOURNEY: The Lafayette Senior Men's Golf Association held its June tournament on Sunday, June 23, at Hebert Municipal, finishing just before a four-inch deluge of rain hit the course.
A total of 38 players took part on 13 teams, and the team of Rick Beaugh, Woody Lemaire and Conley Sibille took top honors with a plus-14 score. Connie Begnaud, Don Judice and Harris Theriot were one back at plus-13 for second place, while Keith Benoit, Paul P. Broussard and Ernest Roger were third at plus-11, and Jeff Bull, Barry Louviere and Larry Markham were fourth at plus-8.
Charles Melancon at the sixth hole and Doug Rouley at No. 10 took closest-to-hole honors, while Benny Jansen had the low round among non-winners at plus-6.
ACADIANA PRO-AM: The team of Scott Backstrom, Thomas Vallot, Linda Savoy and John Sanchez combined for a plus-14 score to take top honors in the June event on the Acadiana Pro-Am Association Tour at Abbeville Country Club.
That group topped a 115-player field and was one better than the plus-13 score of Gordon Perry, George Bulliard, Jerry Albert and Donald Sarkies. Four teams were at plus-12, with Randy O'Brien, Larry Verret, Donald Guillory and Jules Hebert finishing third, Ricky Ortego, Jimmy Prados, Nolan Granger and Russel Dupuis fourth, Brody LeBlanc, Homer Bourque, Tommy Terrebonne and Tynes Mixon fifth and Daniel Rebert, Lee Nunley, Ken Fabre and Preston Byrom sixth.
Eric Indest was low amateur with a 68 score, while Benny Dronet was low "A" (+11), Sanford Suire was low "B" (+12), Jules Hebert was low "C" (+9), Doug Bulliard took low pro honors at 71 and Charles Dugas was first in pro points at +1.
The tour, sponsored by Community First Bank, returns to play on Thcrowursday, July 11, at Indian Hills in Opelousas. All golfers are welcome regardless of ability level and players may make up their own foursomes, and may begin calling 948-6536 for tee times at 8 a.m. next Tuesday July 9.
USSSA TOUR: The USSSA Junior Tour, following a successful outing last weekend with the Mizuno/USSSA Governor's Games held at Le Triomphe, returns to action this weekend when Gray Plantation in Lake Charles hosts the Mizuno/USSSA Regional Championship Saturday-Sunday.
The event is open to boys and girls age 9-18 with the 12-14 and 15-18 age groups playing 36 holes and the 9-11 age group playing 18 holes (nine daily).
Entry fee is $160 for each event for the two older age groups and $90 for the youngest group which includes both days of play and themed tee gifts. All participants must be USSSA registered and deadline for entering is today at 5 p.m. Information and entries are available online at www.usssa.com or from Robert Boudreaux at (337) 278-8431.
ARROWHEAD: The Arrowhead Junior Tour will stage three south Louisiana-based tournaments over the next four weekends, kicking off Monday-Tuesday, July 15-16 with the AJGT Crown Buick Invitational at English Turn in New Orleans.
That will be followed by the AJGT Purple and Gold Junior Classic July 22-23 at the University Club in Baton Rouge, and Friday-Sunday, Aug. 2-4 with one of the tour's major events, the Coca-Cola Stroke Play Championship at Beau Chene in Mandeville.
Entry deadline is Friday before the Monday-Tuesday events and Tuesday before the Stroke Play Championship, with entry fees $235, $255 and $295 respectively. Entries and other information are available at (318) 402-2446 or at www.arrowheadjgt.com.
COLLEGE CHANGES: For those who follow college golf, next year's NCAA Division I championships at Prairie Dunes in Hutchinson, Kan., will have a different look.
The race for individual medalist honors returns to 72 holes. The first three days of the event will still determine the top eight teams for team match play, but the top 40 and ties will also advance to an additional day of stroke play to determine an individual champion. In the format used this year, the individual champion was determined over only the first three days and 54 holes.
The bigger change for fans is the days of play. Stroke play will begin on Friday (May 23), which will send the individual championship to a Monday finish and the team championship to a Wednesday wrapup.
This is to accommodate TV, with the Golf Channel airing the event for the first time (and the men's and women's beginning in 2015), with Monday-Wednesday coverage so as not to conflict with the PGA, LPGA or Champions Tour events.
WEB.COM QUALIFYING: Ready for your shot at a spot on tour, which comes with a berth in the Chitimacha Louisiana Open?
The PGA Tour is accepting entries for the Web.com Tour's first-ever Qualifying Tournament, which consists of four stages and begins with pre-qualifying in late August. The final stage which determines spots on the Web.com Tour is Dec. 12-17 at PGA West in La Quinta, Calif.
The PGA Tour changed qualifying processes this year, no longer giving PGA Tour cards to players through "Q-School" and now awarding Web.com Tour cards through that system with all finalists earning a spot on the Web.com Tour for the following year.
Pre-qualifying sites are Nebraska City, Neb., and Hollister, Calif., on Aug. 28-30, Brunswick, Ga., and Spring, Texas, on Sept. 4-6 and West Palm Beach, Fla., and La Quinta, Calif., on Sept. 11-13.
Full information, qualifying procedures and entry information are available online at www.pgatour.com at the Web.com Tour home page.
ACES: Cell Fuselier of Eunice used a 7-iron and a Callaway ball to hole out on the 107-yard third hole at The Farm D'Allie on May 19. Fuselier, 67, has been playing for 18 years and recorded his fifth ace. He was in a group with Rod and Cline LeBlanc.
Jimmy Roy used a 6-iron to post a hole-in-one on the 162-yard 12th hole at Les Vieux Chenes last Saturday, while playing in a group with Mitch Bourque and Scott Buller.
AERIFICATION: It's a necessary evil, and Les Vieux Chenes is giving advance notification that the course will be closed on Tuesday-Wednesday, July 23-24, for greens aerification.
"This preventative maintenance is a big part of successful golf course management," said LVC head professional Todd Robertson.
"We know that some view it as an inconvenience since it takes greens out of play for a couple of days, pulling cores from the greens is very beneficial to the long-term health of each green.
"It's best done during mid-summer, at the height of the season when most greens are in prime condition. We're asking for everyone's patience while we complete the process to insure the best golf conditions possible."
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After a short stretch of freedom on $1 bail, Donald Michael Kloch Sr. returned to York County Prison Monday after a jury found him guilty of attempted homicide, attempted involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and 13 other charges.
"I am stunned and severely disappointed," his attorney, Farley Holt said, after the verdict came in Monday afternoon.
Special prosecutor Amy Eyster said the split verdict -- Kloch was acquitted of attempted rape, one count of aggravated assault and two counts of attempted homicide -- shows that the jury "thought about all the facts and evidence."
"There were lots of statements and lots of confusion," she said.
Kloch, 51, will be sentenced on May 30.
Police charged Kloch with holding a 19-year-old woman in the bedroom of his Peach Bottom Township home on May 7, 2012, after she arranged a drug deal that lost him $880.
The other allegations by the police were that he attempted to force her to perform oral sex on him and fired a shotgun when her father and a friend broke into the bedroom to rescue her.
Kloch testified there was no attempt at sex in any fashion and that he had the shotgun out to go after the dealer who ripped him off.
The woman's father and friend testified the shotgun went off twice as they wrestled with Kloch over it in the small bedroom.
Throughout the four-day trial last week, Holt tried to impeach the commonwealth witnesses by pointing out discrepancies in their various statements to investigators.
There was no reaction to the verdict except for Kloch's wife weeping quietly after the jury was dismissed. Judge Craig T. Trebilcock released the victims -- the woman and her father -- before releasing Kloch's family from the courtroom.
Eyster said she will ask Trebilcock to sentence Kloch to at least 10 years in prison.
Arrested two days after the crime and held in lieu of $500,000 bail, Kloch was released on a nominal $1 bail on Jan. 22 when the commonwealth failed to bring him to trial within the mandatory 180 days.
After the verdict, Eyster ask Trebilcock to revoke Kloch's bail. Holt said, "I'm sure Mr. Kloch would like to remain on bail."
Trebilcock said that Kloch, in his own testimony, admitted to drug use, drug transactions and that after he was ripped off in the drug deal for 40 Percocets, seemed intent on resorting to violence.
"The selected course of action was to get a shotgun and go after the person who wronged him," Trebilcock said. "The defendant (also) threatened to use deadly force against the victim and her family.
"If he would do it for $880, he might do it for something that may cost him years of his life," the judge said.
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The crime: Donald M. Kloch, 51, of Peach Bottom Township, was charged with attempted rape of a woman in his home and three counts of attempted homicide in connection with firing a shotgun in his bedroom while struggling with the woman, her father and another man on May 7, 2012.
The verdict: Kloch was convicted of: one count of attempted homicide, attempted involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, false imprisonment and unlawful restraint; three counts each of terroristic threats, simple assault, and reckless endangerment; and two counts of aggravated assault.
What's next: Kloch, whose bail was revoked, is to return to York County court on May 30 for sentencing following a sexual offender assessment in accordance with Megan's Law.
Jury did not reach verdict Friday in attempted rape/homicide trial in York County.
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Video: Marriage Equality Heating Up in Australia
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A series of internet-based ads has been launched in Australia by Equal Love 09 to inform the public about gay discrimination issues in the lead up to August 1st rallies to end the exclusion of same-sex couples from marriage. See all the ads at: http://www.youtube.com/user/EqualLove09
OPINION: Freedom to Marry and the Constitution
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David Boies discusses the lawsuit he and Ted Olson are bringing to declare California's Proposition 8 unconstitutional.
We acted together because of our mutual commitment to the importance of this cause, and to emphasize that this is not a Republican or Democratic issue, not a liberal or conservative issue, but an issue of enforcing our Constitution's guarantee of equal protection and due process to all citizens.
OPINION: Civil Rights organizations whose traditional role has been addressing racial inequality mus
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Melissa Harris-Lacewell of The Nation:
LGBT communities and black communities are not separate constituencies. They are overlapping communities full of our own brothers, sisters, daughters, friends, preachers, and choir directors. To oppose equality of any kind for LGBT individuals is to oppose equality for black people. They are us, we are them. Empathy reminds us of that basic truth.[Link]
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There's a reason the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force links the issues of African-American civil rights and gay civil rights: Coretta Scott King, Martin Luther King's widow, told them to. Mrs. King has made clear on numerous occasions (excerpts in this article) that groups that try to speak on behalf of African-Americans about civil rights often have no idea what they're talking about. [Link]
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Marriages of same-sex couples performed in other states and countries became legal in the District of Columbia at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday, when Congress completed its 30 legislative day review of a marriage law passed by the D.C. City Council in May. "I think there's tremendous significance and opportunity in Americans seeing legally married gay couples treated with respect in our nation's capital," said Evan Wolfson, executive director of Freedom To Marry, a national same-sex marriage advocacy group. [Link]
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The market for solar PV systems has shifted in recent years from 1.5 kilowatt (kW) to 3 to 5kW solar systems. This shift has occurred in great part due to a drop in the price of solar power systems, and the rising price of electricity. What are the price ranges, power outputs (kWh), and financial returns that a home or business can reasonably expect from a 5kW solar system?
5kW solar systems: Pricing
The price of solar PV (photovoltaics) has dropped significantly across the globe, thanks mainly to government incentive schemes and a massive ramping up of solar panel production in China in the past few years. The resulting competition both on the manufacturing level as well as the installation level has managed to drive down the retail price of solar PV systems by around 45% per year. This is major news, and it may not be an overstatement to say that a solar PV revolution is underway globally as well as in Australia.
In Australia, the average retail price of a standard solar PV system installation of reasonable quality currently stands at just above $2 per watt, after federal government solar rebates are taken into account. This means that at the time of writing, the cost of such a 5kW solar system is just around $11,000–less than half of what it would have been 4 years ago.
Of course, there is much variation in the market–5kW solar systems using lower quality components will come with a smaller price tag, while offerings from the premium end of the market will be decidedly more expensive.
You can receive a free and instant comparison of quotes for 5kW solar systems by filling out the form to the right of this page and then checking your inbox.
Typical power output 5kW solar system
Depending a number of factors, the actual power output of a 5kW solar power system will vary. These factors include:
-Geographical location of the system and the expected daily and annual solar irradiation and cloud cover levels there
-Orientation and tilt angle of the solar panel array
-Whether there is any shade cast on the panels
-Actual operating temperature of the panels
-Whether solar panel array capacity is accurately matched to inverter capacity
-The performance of the individual components–i.e. the panels and the inverter
As mentioned in the first point above, different areas receive different amounts of sunlight. The amount of sunshine falling on a solar panel array has a direct impact on the system's output. As a rough figure, a rooftop in Australia can expect to receive around an annual average of 4 hours of 'peak sun' (peak sun hours, or PSH) per day, although Tasmania receives less than this, and Broome, WA receives more. This is only the annual average per day, and it is important to keep in mind that there will be more sun in the summer and less in the winter months.
A perfectly efficient 5kW solar system in Sydney, for example, would produce about (3PSH x 5kW =) 15kWh of power on a day in the peak of winter, whereas in the summer output from the same 5kW solar system would be around (5PSH x 5kW =) 25kWh. (Figures are approximate only.)
5kW solar system financial returns
The financial returns from a 5kW solar installation are a bit harder to work out, and mainly contingent on whether or not a Solar Feed-in Tariff is available to the owner/operator of the system. Solar Feed-in Tariff schemes pay solar system owners a set amount for each unit of solar power that they do not use themselves and instead export to the electricity grid. Returns depend not only on the output of the system, but also how it is utilised by those whose home or business it is attached to in light of the presence or absence of feed-in incentives.
There are basically 3 scenarios that owners of grid-connected systems might find themselves in with regard to this.
1. They have acces to a Solar Feed-in Tariff, which incentivise solar system users to export power to the grid at rates that vary from state to state, but which are above the retail electricity rate.
2. They have access to a 1-for-1 'Solar Buyback' scheme in which they are paid an amount equivalent to their retail electricity rate for every unit of solar power that they feed into the grid. People in this category should simply try to reduce their power consumption as much as possible, as they can neither gain nor lose by either exporting or self-consuming their solar p0wer.
3. No generous solar feed-in incentive scheme exists. System owners in this situation should do their best to avoid exporting their precious solar power to the grid, and instead time their electricity usage to ensure that they are 'self-consuming' their solar power–i.e. use more electricity when the sun is shining, and less when it is not.
Read more: The economics of Solar Feed-in Tariffs vs solar buyback schemes.
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Zoltan is out and Matt McBrier is in.
That should fix everything
I'd love to see them trade out of this pick but.....this is what I got
1) Marcus Peters-CB-Washington
2) Danielle Hunter-OLB-LSU
3) Alex Carter-DB-Stanford
4) Jeremy Langford-RB-Mich St
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6c)-Sean Hickey-OT-Syracuse
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Uh-oh...Tomlin is unleashing heck again.
It was a reasonable move. How many would complain that the team wasn't doing anything if Mesko had stayed after his most recent performances?
I don't know a lot about McBrier,but surely he can't be any worse.
Praise Allah!!!! This has been a long time coming. How bout replacing Paulson while we're at it for giving up the blocked punt and then almost getting the very next punt blocked again. He also had a chance to recover a fumble and messed that up too.
I guess Butler just doesn't have the leg strength?
Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, hear the lamentations of their women.
hopefully it wont affect Suisham's kicks......
This move had nothing to do with Zoltans punting. Mesko was caught playing Ping Pong Monday night and Tomlin decided to male an example of him. Im not sure how many times Coach has to warn these guys before they get it.


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A third Republican has announced his candidacy for the newly created 169th House District, which is moving to southern York County from the Philadelphia area because of redistricting.
Semi-retired business owner Gene Montanarelli said he's set apart from more conservative Republicans by his pragmatic strategy to "work with Harrisburg" instead of vowing to "change" it.
"I won't change the dynamics, probably, until you elect 100 of me," said the 68-year-old, self-described moderate from Shrewsbury Township.
Montanarelli's six-year term as a township supervisor, which ended in December, was his entrance into county politics, he said. President of the Southern York County Republican Club, he said he believes in conservative fiscal policies, but has progressive social views.
A husband and father of three grown daughters, he said he supports women's rights and believes in treating everyone with respect, "whether they're straight, gay, green or black."
"Come on," he said. "It's the 21st century. If you stop and listen to people talk, sometimes you realize you're not that different."
He would carry that open mind with him to Harrisburg and work with Democrats and Republicans to find solutions instead of stagnating in disagreement, he said.
That's achievable even though he thinks legislators need to be more frugal, he said, spending money in smart ways instead of saddling taxpayers with increases as they did with a recently approved transportation funding bill.
Agenda: Montanarelli is in favor of pension reform via giving existing employees the pension they were promised but switching to 401k plans for new employees, he said.
He's also a proponent of lower taxes and thinks the state should switch from property taxes to a retail sales tax, he said. Unlike plans that switch property taxes to income taxes, people would have to buy something in order to pay the tax, he said.
The state could also save money if it stopped prosecuting people stopped with less than an ounce of marijuana, giving people criminal records for a small amount of marijuana.
"We're talking marijuana here, not cocaine ..." he said.
Montanarelli said also wants to limit legislators to 12-year terms and increase the House term from two to four years and the Senate term from four to six years so legislators can spend more time governing and less time campaigning.
Background: Originally from New York, Montanarelli moved to the township from Baltimore in 1993 and started Genesis Sales and Advertising, the company that produces the advertisement place mats seen on tables at area restaurants, 11 years ago.
If he wins the May 20 primary, he'll turn the company over to employees, he said.
Also running for the new seat are attorney Kate Klunk of Hanover and Marc Woerner, a 42-year-old Republican who is a West Manheim Township supervisor.
The 169th will include Codorus, Heidelberg, Manheim, Penn, Shrewsbury and West Manheim townships and the boroughs of Glen Rock, Hanover, Jefferson, New Freedom and Railroad. The district will have a population of about 62,800, according to the state.
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A decade ago, artist Rachel Sussman found herself on the lush island of Yakushima looking up at a colossal gnarled cypress tree called the Jomon Sugi. A trip to Japan brought Sussman first to Kyoto, where ancient temples stand only a short distance from commercial strips filled with Starbucks branches and office buildings. She felt the urge to see something different, be somewhere more remote, so she traveled to Yakushima, off the southern end of Japan, in search of the Sugi, a tree between 2,180 and 7,000 years old. But it wasn't until a year later—when telling friends about her travels and recalling the sight of this long-surviving Sugi—that she hatched the idea to trek to the far-off corners of the world to photograph organisms that have been alive at least 2,000 years.
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"When I first started, there was no list of organisms 2,000 years old or more. I first had to figure out what I was looking for," says Sussman. She began creating a list of species; once she tracked down research papers on them, she reached out to biologists. Now Sussman's journeys have culminated in a book, The Oldest Living Things in the World, a collection of her compelling photographs accompanied by narration, out this spring. In the Atacama Desert in Chile, she captures the 3,000-year-old Llareta, a plant in the same family as parsley and fennel resembling a series of boulders covered in bright green moss. In the Mediterranean Sea off the Balearic Islands in Spain, Sussman joined a team of biologists researching underwater to snap shots of 100,000-year-old Posidonia seagrass.
But an inevitable question arises: how much longer will these organisms be able to live? As climate change continues to impact weather patterns and the environment, the continued survival of these enduring yet fragile species is at risk. "I hope my photographs and essays help bring these specimens to life in a way that is more personal," says Sussman, "so that we can see the world on their terms: that their lifespan is a drop in the bucket, and what we do matters."


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A 42-year-old woman in Farmington Hills was beaten by a man with a club-type weapon on Wednesday night, hours after a 69-year-old Northville woman was attacked in a similar fashion and robbed.
Police in both cities are working together and asking for the public's help. Both women were hospitalized with serious injuries.
In the Farmington Hills incident, the woman was attacked at the Village Green Condominium Complex in the 8 Mile and Grand River area about 10:45 p.m., Farmington Hills police said in a news release. ...


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ST. LOUIS -- On paper, it doesn't look like the Blues are getting quite enough offensive support from their defensemen. But in actuality, the numbers are higher than they were over an 82-game period last season.
Last season, the Blues got 38 goals, 123 assists and 161 points from their defensive unit. That averages out to 1.96 points and .46 goals per game.
Through 11 games, the Blues have 6 goals, 17 assists and 23 points from their blueliners, which averages out to 45 goals, 127 assists and 172 points over the course of 82 games. That translates to 2.09 points and .55 goals per game.
Still, the defensemen feel they can give more than they've produced thus far.
"It's something we chatted about over the weekend," defenseman Kevin Shattenkirk said. "How can we improve in the offensive zone? Whether it's moving around a little more and jumping down into the play. That's something that I haven't really brought to the table as much as I did last year. I need to start going more. I used to be in and out and having a little more movement in there. That's something that we're focusing on as a d-core as well."
Shattenkirk leads the way with 1 goal and 6 points, Alex Pietrangelo has 2 goals and 5 points, Kent Huskins has 2 goals and 2 assists, Carlo Colaiacovo has 1 goal and 2 assists, Roman Polak has 3 assists and Barret Jackman has 2 assists.


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York County Community Foundation: will offer a training opportunity for York County nonprofit organizations 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. June 10 at York County Community Foundation, 14 W. Market St., York. Continental breakfast begins at 8:30 a.m. As part of the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging (n4a) Livable Communities Collaborative, York County Community Foundation's Embracing Aging Initiative offers nonprofits an opportunity to learn about the latest research-based developments in engaging retirees in volunteer service. Organizations are encouraged to send a team of two to three people to learn about the strategy, development and implementation of the Self-Directed Volunteer Team Model and how it can help nonprofit organizations engage the skills of older adults to achieve their business goals. Seating is limited. RSVP by email to Sandy Aulbach at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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UN monitors fault Zim on rightsComment on this story
Harare - UN monitors on Wednesday urged Zimbabwe to live up to international human rights standards, voicing concerns over violations ahead of next month's constitutional referendum and elections expected in July.
The trio of monitors, who oversee countries' respect for freedom of assembly and expression and the treatment of human rights campaigners, said in a statement that they wanted to raise the alarm amid increasing reports of intimidation and harassment, physical violence and arrests.
Zimbabwe votes next month on a new constitution drafted by the uneasy unity government of veteran President Robert Mugabe and his arch-rival Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai.
The bitter rivals were forced to form a government to avoid Zimbabwe tipping into all-out conflict following a bloody presidential run-off election in 2008.
Past elections have been marred by killings, assault and intimidation, with Tsvangirai's supporters being most of the victims of the 2008 violence, and members of his Movement for Democratic Change have again faced attacks in recent weeks.
"In the context of proposed constitutional reforms and the elections, it is disturbing and shocking to learn that civil society organisations that have been operating for years, including election monitoring groups which aim to promote free and fair elections, have been searched by police," Maina Kiai, the UN's monitor on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association, said in the trio's statement.
Margaret Sekaggya, the world body's monitor on the treatment of human rights campaigners, also sounded the alarm.
"Attempts to stifle criticism must end," she said.
Zimbabwean authorities claim Western nations with a political agenda are behind the campaign groups that have faced a crackdown.
The UN monitors also voiced their concern at police use of force against, and arrests of, peaceful protesters taking part, and handing out roses and teddy bears, at a Valentine's Day protest outside Zimbabwe's parliament on February 14.
Freedom of expression monitor Frank La Rue said Zimbabwe must ensure that "everyone is guaranteed the right to speak freely without fear of persecution, arrest and intimidation". - Sapa-AFP
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Nicolas Ghesquière Is Leaving Balenciaga
Not only is this news abrupt, but it also comes on the heels of the spring '13 show, which was one of Ghesquière's most popular to date. As of now, no more news has come in (Cathy Horyn seemed to have broken the story, but doesn't appear to have any other info), though, certainly the entire fashion world is anxiously awaiting Ghesquière's next move. (WWD)
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1. It depends on the seller try to buy one with lg logo on it.
2. Yes you will face problems with the digitizer so far as i know the upper cable is a bit different. See my post #4 about it on this xda thread cause its hard to post it on my tablet.
There are also two links from lcd+digitizer from the vs980 and the d802 there you will also find differences.
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Dr. Jonathan M. Rothberg, co-founder and chairman of RainDance
Technologies was selected to represent RainDance as a 2008 Technology
Pioneer at Davos this year.
"We started RainDance with an amazing group of
co-founders and advisors with the mission to have a profound impact on
the way life science research is undertaken, we wanted to create the
laboratory equivalent of the personal computer", said Dr.
Rothberg. "Our vision "A RainDance Professional
Laboratory System in every lab" has attracted an active
scientific advisory board including three Nobel Prize winners. It is
great to have RainDance recognized by the World Economic Forum as a
company with the potential to change people's lives
– to improve the way people do research from fields as
diverse as the life sciences and bio-energy."
While RainDance has affected the way it's academic
and industrial partners do research, RainDance is now focused on
delivering its products to the world's market in 2008.
RainDance designed the Professional Laboratory System (PLS) to be the
biochemical equivalent of a personal computer. The key to this
innovation is the novel combination of microdroplets and microfluidics
to create and route digital packets of biochemical information called
NanoReactors. The PLS is a versatile lab-on-chip, able to perform
laboratory functions at speeds and complexities not possible with
existing instruments. Like a computer manipulates bits of information,
the PLS enables the programmable handling of fluid samples for
innovative assay and screening applications.
Technology Pioneers are companies that have been identified as
developing and applying highly transformational and innovative
technologies in the areas of energy, biotechnology and health, and
information technology. To be selected as a Technology Pioneer, a
company must be involved in the development of life-changing technology
innovation and have the potential for long-term impact on business and
society. In addition, it must demonstrate visionary leadership, show
all the signs of being a long-standing market leader – and
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Encore Software, Google, Mozilla Corporation and Napster.
Twenty-three of the Technology Pioneers 2008 are US-based
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List of Falcon 1 launches
This is a List of launches made by the Falcon 1 rocket, containing details of those launches and their outcomes. The Falcon 1 was a small expendable orbital carrier rocket developed by SpaceX, which first flew in 2006, and has made five launches as of 2009. The first three launches failed, however the two most recent were successful. All launches so far have been made from Omelek Island, part of Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
First flight[edit]
|Launch sequence (maiden flight example);
time scale is in seconds.
The maiden flight of the Falcon 1 was launched on Saturday, 24 March 2006 at 22:30 UTC. It ended in failure less than a minute into the flight because of a fuel line leak and subsequent fire. The launch took place from the SpaceX launch site on Omelek Island in the Marshall Islands.
The launch was postponed several times because of various technical issues with the new vehicle. Scheduling conflicts with a Titan IV launch at Vandenberg AFB also caused delays and resulted in the launch moving to the Reagan Test Site in the Kwajalein Atoll. The first launch attempt on 19 December 2005 was scrubbed when a faulty valve caused a vacuum in the first stage fuel tank which sucked inward and caused structural damage. After replacing the first stage, Falcon 1 launched Saturday, 25 March 2006 at 09:30 local time. The DARPA payload was the United States Air Force Academy's FalconSAT–2, which would have measured space plasma phenomena.
The vehicle had a noticeable rolling motion after liftoff, as shown on the launch video, rocking back and forth a bit, and then at T+26 seconds rapidly pitched over. Impact occurred at T+41 seconds onto a dead reef about 250 feet from the launch site. The FalconSAT–2 payload separated from the booster and landed on the island, with damage reports varying from slight to significant.[1]
SpaceX initially attributed the fire to an improperly tightened fuel-line nut. A later review by DARPA found that the nut was properly tightened, since its locking wire was still in place, but had failed because of corrosion.
SpaceX implemented numerous changes to the rocket design and software to prevent this type of failure from recurring, including stainless steel to replace aluminum hardware (which is actually less expensive, although the trade off is being a little heavier in weight) and pre-liftoff computer checks that increased by a factor of thirty.[2][3]
Second flight[edit]
The second test flight was originally scheduled for January 2007, but was delayed because of problems with the second stage. Before the January launch date, SpaceX had stated earlier potential launch dates, moving from September 2006 to November and December. In December the launch was rescheduled for 9 March, but delayed because of range availability issues caused by a Minuteman III test flight which would re-enter over Kwajelein. The launch attempt on 19 March was delayed 45 minutes from 23:00 GMT because of a data relay issue, and then scrubbed one minute and two seconds before launch at 23:45 because of a computer issue, whereby the safety computer incorrectly detected a transmission failure caused by a hardware delay of a few milliseconds in the process. The 20 March attempt was delayed 65 minutes, from an originally planned time of 23:00 because of a problem with communications between one of the NASA experiments in the payload, and the TDRS system.
The launch attempt on March 21, 2007 was aborted at 00:05 GMT at the last second before launch and after the engine had ignited. It was however decided that another launch should be made the same day. The rocket successfully left the launch pad at 01:10 GMT on 21 March 2007 with a DemoSat payload for DARPA and NASA. The rocket performed well during the first stage burn. However, during staging, the interstage fairing on the top of the first stage bumped the second stage engine bell.[4] The bump occurred as the second stage nozzle exited the interstage, with the first stage rotating much faster than expected (a rotation rate of about 2.5 deg/s vs. expected rate of 0.5 deg/s maximum), thereby making contact with the niobium nozzle of the second stage. Elon Musk reported that the bump did not appear to have caused damage, and that the reason why they chose a niobium skirt instead of carbon-carbon was to prevent problematic damage in the event of such incidents. Shortly after second stage ignition, a stabilization ring detached from the engine bell as designed.[5] At around T+4:20, a circular coning oscillation began that increased in amplitude until video was lost. At T+5:01, the vehicle started to roll and telemetry ended. According to Elon Musk, the second stage engine shut down at T+7.5 minutes because of a roll control issue. Sloshing of propellant in the LOX tank increased oscillation. This oscillation would normally have been dampened by the Thrust Vector Control system in the second stage, but the bump to the second nozzle during separation caused an overcompensation in the correction.[5] The rocket continued to within one minute of its desired location, and also managed to deploy the satellite mass simulator ring. While the webcast video ended prematurely, SpaceX was able to retrieve telemetry for the entire flight.[6] The status of the first stage is unknown; it was not recovered because of problems with a nonfunctioning GPS tracking device. The rocket reached a final altitude of 289 km (180 mi) and a final velocity of 5.1 km/s, compared to 7.5 km/s needed for orbit.
SpaceX characterized the test flight as a success, having flight proven over 95% of Falcon 1's systems. Their primary objectives for this launch were to test responsive launch procedures and gather data.[7] According to Musk, the SpaceX team intends to have both a diagnosis and solution vetted by third party experts. Musk believes the slosh issue can be corrected by adding baffles to the second stage LOX tank and adjusting the control logic. Furthermore, the Merlin shutdown transient can be addressed by initiating shutdown at a much lower thrust level, albeit at some risk to engine reusability. The SpaceX team intends to work the problem to avoid a recurrence as they change over into the operational phase for Falcon 1.[8]
Third flight[edit]
SpaceX attempted the third Falcon 1 launch on August 3, 2008 (GMT) from Kwajalein.[9] This flight carried the Trailblazer (Jumpstart-1) satellite for the US Air Force,[10] the NanoSail-D and PREsat nanosatellites for NASA and a space burial payload for Celestis.[11] The rocket did not reach orbit. However, the first stage, with the new Merlin 1C engine, performed perfectly.[12]
When preparing for launch, an earlier launch attempt was delayed by the unexpected slow loading of helium onto the Falcon 1; thus exposing the fuel and oxidizer to the cryogenic helium, rendering the vehicle in a premature launch state. Still within the specified window, the launch attempt was recycled, but aborted half a second before lift-off because of a sensor misreading. The problem was resolved, and the launch was again recycled. With twenty-five minutes left in the launch window, the Falcon 1 lifted off from Omelek Island at 03:35 UTC. During the launch, small vehicle roll oscillations were visible.
Stage separation occurred as planned, but because residual fuel in the new Merlin 1C engine evaporated and provided transient thrust, the first stage recontacted the second stage, preventing successful completion of the mission.[13]
The SpaceX flight 3 mission summary indicated that flight 4 would take place as planned and that the failure of flight 3 did not make any technology upgrades necessary. A longer time between first stage engine shutdown and stage separation was declared to be enough.[14]
The full video of the third launch attempt was made public by SpaceX a few weeks after the launch.[15]
Fourth flight[edit]
The fourth flight of the Falcon 1 rocket successfully flew on September 28, 2008, delivering a 165-kilogram (363-pound) non-functional boilerplate spacecraft into low Earth orbit.[16]
Fifth flight[edit]
SpaceX announced that it had completed construction of the 5th Falcon 1 rocket and was transporting the vehicle to the Kwajalein Atoll launch complex where it was to be launched on April 21, 2009, which would be April 20, 2009 in the United States.[17] Less than a week before the scheduled launch date, Malaysian news reported that unsafe vibration levels had been detected in the rocket and repairs were expected to take about six weeks.[18]
On April 20, 2009 SpaceX announced in a press release, that the launch has been postponed because of a potential compatibility issue between the RazakSAT spacecraft and Falcon 1 launch vehicle. A concern has been identified regarding the potential impact of predicted vehicle environments on the satellite.[19]
On June 1, SpaceX announced that the next launch window would open Monday, July 13 and extend through Tuesday, July 14, with a daily window to open at 21:00 UTC (09:00 local time/4:00 p.m. PDT[20]).
The launch on Monday, July 13 was successful, placing RazakSAT into its initial parking orbit. Thirty-eight minutes later, the rocket's second-stage engine fired again to circularize the orbit. The payload was then successfully deployed.[21]
Launch history[edit]
|Flight No
|Date & Time (GMT)
|24 March 2006, 22:30
(25 March, 09:30 local)
|Engine failure at T+33 seconds
Loss of vehicle[22]
|21 March 2007, 01:10
(13:10 local)
|Successful first stage burn and transition to second stage, maximum altitude 289 km
Harmonic oscillation at T+5 minutes
Premature engine shutdown at T+7 min 30 s
Failed to reach orbit
Failed to recover first stage
Claimed to be a "Partial success" as it gathered enough data for operational flights[7]
|3 August 2008, 03:34[23]
(15:34 local)
|Residual stage 1 thrust led to collision between stage 1 and stage 2[14]
|28 September 2008, 23:15[25][16]
(11:15 local/16:15 PDT)
|Initially scheduled for 23–25 Sept, carried dummy payload – mass simulator, 165 kg (originally intended to be RazakSAT)
|14 July 2009[26] 03:35
|Previously manifested launches[24]
|Not scheduled
|was to be maiden flight of 1e configuration
|18 satellites, launch vehicle switched to Falcon 9,
|Launch vehicle switched from Falcon 1e to Falcon 9
|2014 through 2015
|Small satellites
|Not scheduled
|Launch vehicle was to be Falcon 1e
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See also[edit]
- ^ "Someone's looking out for that satellite…". Kwajalein Atoll and Rockets. 2006-03-25.
- ^ "Falcon 1 Failure Traced to a Busted Nut". Space.com. 2006-07-19.
- ^ "Demo flight two update". Space.com. 2007-01-19.
- ^ "SpaceX Confirms Stage Bump On Demoflight 2".
- ^ a b "Mission Status Center". Space Flight Now. 2007-03-20.
- ^ "Falcon I flight - preliminary assessment positive for SpaceX". NASAspaceflight.com. 2007-03-24.
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