![]() Today’s weather looks good with better than 90% favorable conditions, according to the Space Launch Delta 45’s Weather Squadron forecast. ![]() This marks the third flight of the booster while both fairing halves have flown on three previous missions each. The booster recovery attempt will be on land at Canaveral’s Landing Zone 1. Space Force has attempted to get the word out about the multiple southerly trajectory rocket launches from the Space Coast this month, which means a larger hazard areas for both watercraft such as the cruise ship as well as aircraft. Mission managers shouting “Hold! Hold ! Hold!” scrubbed the launch with less than a minute before the planned liftoff. Royal Caribbean’s Harmony of the Seas was at sea off the coast of Brevard County ahead of the launch after having departed Port Canaveral Sunday afternoon while MSC Meraviglia was shown in the port channel, according to. There were two ships that could have been the potential reason for the scrub. Coast Guard was in contact with the ship. target liftoff, SpaceX commentator Jesse Anderson said a cruise ship was approaching a no-go zone, and the U.S. Sunday’s weather was looking great, but as the live stream began ahead of a 6:11 p.m. ![]() ![]() The company will try again today while pushing a second Falcon 9 launch to Tuesday. While weather dealt SpaceX three days of delays for its attempt to send a Falcon 9 rocket up from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, it was a cruise ship down range that caused a Sunday scrub. ![]()
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Hickam said Wednesday that his attorney sent a cease-and-desist letter to the Old Globe this week “demanding they no longer use my name or image in any of their ads, programs, or other copy and also demanding they no longer attach my name to any character in their show.” Hickam and Tramon further suggest that “October Sky” has appropriated elements from their own musical. accuse Universal of trying to shut down “Rocket Boys” (a project that the complaint says the studio approved years ago), while at the same time incorporating characters and events from Hickam’s life into “October Sky” that it doesn’t have permission to use. 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From the winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature-and one of our most beloved writers-a new selection of her peerless short fiction, gathered from the collections of the last two decades, a companion volume to Selected Stories (1968-1994).įamily Furnishings brings us twenty-four of Alice Munro’s most accomplished, most powerfully affecting stories, many of them set in the territory she has so brilliantly made her own: the small towns and flatlands of southwestern Ontario. ![]() ![]() This group, called the Vidocq Unit, is a special task force that works outside the lines, utilizing resources that aren’t available to the regular FBI due to the questionable pasts of the members. City on Edge is the second in a series (so it won’t be hard to catch up!) after Hostage Taker, featuring FBI Special Agent Eve Rossi and her band of criminal misfits. I’ve been a fan of Stefanie Pintoff’s since her historical mystery novel days, so when I heard she had a new series out, I was immediately intrigued. I’ve read my share of them so far this fall here are some of the highlights of my reading and recommendations on what to pick up. ![]() ![]() I don’t know what it is about these types of novels, but cold weather makes me want nothing more than to curl up with some sort of whodunit. ![]() When the weather starts turning, my mystery/thriller reading shoots through the roof. ![]() ![]() Defeating the guardians of the prize will take more from Sunny than she has to give, and triumph will mean she will be forever changed. With the help of her friends, Sunny embarks on a mission to find a precious object hidden deep in an otherworldly realm. Now, those hard lessons and abilities are put to the test in a quest so dangerous and fantastical, it would be madness to go…but may destroy the world if she does not. With the help of her friends, Sunny embarks on a mission to find a precious object hidden deep in an otherworldly realm. Throughout her adventures in Akata Witch and Akata Warrior, she had to navigate the balance between nearly everything in her life-America and Nigeria, the “normal” world and the one infused with juju, human and spirit, good daughter and powerful Leopard Person. Throughout her adventures in Akata Witch and Akata Warrior, she had to navigate the. ![]() ![]() “In this series, Okorafor creates a stunningly original world of African magic that draws on Nigerian folk beliefs and rituals instead of relying on the predictable tropes of Western fantasy novels.”įrom the moment Sunny Nwazue discovered she had mystical energy flowing in her blood, she sought to understand and control her powers. ![]() The electrifying third book in the series that started with Akata Witch, named one of Time magazine’s “100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time” and “100 Best YA Books of All Time,” from award-winning author Nnedi Okorafor. ![]() ![]() ![]() My favourite was T he Trouble With Charlie, which had a redheaded freckled girl on the cover, the eponymous Charlie, who has a crush on her brother’s friend. These books were contraband in our convent school, where there were strict rules on what you could or could not bring in, but we did anyway and then read them under our desks, thereby justifying the case for them being banned in the first place.Īpart from the fact that they were generally about teen romance. When I was in the eighth standard (grade in American parlance), my bestie Ayesha had a stash of Americana in novel form – the Sweet Valley and Sweet Dreams series – that she used to be super generous about lending. ![]() ![]() For example, one of the greatest challenges in rural poverty is transportation. And while all poverty is bad, each type of poverty has its unique challenges. 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Challenging conventional wisdom, she boldly makes the case that the Declaration is a document as much about political equality as about individual liberty. ![]() Combining a personal account of teaching the Declaration with a vivid evocation of the colonial world between 17, Allen, a political philosopher renowned for her work on justice and citizenship reveals our nation’s founding text to be an animating force that not only changed the world more than two-hundred years ago, but also still can. ![]() Shortlisted for the Phi Beta Kappa Society’s Ralph Waldo Emerson AwardĪ New York Times Book Review Editors Choice Selectionįeatured on the front page of the New York Times, Our Declaration is already regarded as a seminal work that reinterprets the promise of American democracy through our founding text. Shortlisted for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction Winner of the Chicago Tribune’s Heartland Prize (Nonfiction)įinalist for the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation Hurston Wright Legacy Award Winner of the Society of American Historians’ Francis Parkman Prize ![]() No one has ever written a book on the Declaration quite like this one.” -Gordon Wood, New York Review of Books ![]() |