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India’s historic Moon mission lifts off successfully

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India has launched its third Moon mission, aiming to be the first to land near its little-explored south pole.

The Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft with an orbiter, lander and a rover lifted off at 14:35 on Friday (09:05 GMT) from Sriharikota space centre.

The lander is due to reach the Moon on August 23-24.

If successful, India will be only the fourth country to achieve a soft landing on the Moon, following the US, the former Soviet Union and China.

Thousands of people watched the launch from the viewer’s gallery and commentators described the sight of the rocket “soaring in the sky” as “majestic”. The lift off was greeted with cheers and loud applause from the crowds and scientists.

“Chandrayaan-3 has started its journey towards the Moon,” Indian Space Research Organization (Isro) chief Sreedhara Panicker Somanath said.

The third in India’s program of lunar exploration, Chandrayaan-3 is expected to build on the success of its earlier Moon missions.

It comes 13 years after the country’s first Moon mission in 2008, which carried out “the first and most detailed search for water on the lunar surface and established the Moon has an atmosphere during daytime”, said Mylswamy Annadurai, project director of Chandrayaan-1 .

Land ownership questions draw a big crowd in Kings County

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A grassroots land-protection group is calling on the Island Regulatory and Appeals Commission to investigate the ownership of land in the Kings County area of Prince Edward Island.

More than 200 people attended a public forum in Montague on Saturday, organized by the Coalition for the Protection of PEI Lands.

“This is a big issue within Three Rivers,” said Shane MacDonald, one of the speakers at the meeting. “A lot of people have been waking up to the actual mass of purchases of large corporations in the Three Rivers area or even just Eastern PEI”

The meeting focused mainly on land owned by two Buddhist monasteries in Kings County, as well as land owned by corporations or individuals that coalition organizers believe to be affiliated with the Buddhist movement on PEI

The coalition has concerns over what it sees as a concentration of land ownership, and the impact of rising land prices on the local community.

“Multiple properties being sold and resold to non-residents is giving us massive inflation,” MacDonald told CBC News on Monday. “There’s evidence to see that a lot was sold a year ago for $20,000 and then sold for $100,000 a year after that. That’s a

Lawyer hired for land program at UAPB

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Amy Pritchard has been hired as a consultant attorney in a program that provides educational resources and technical assistance to Black forest landowners to protect and to retain their family land for future generations.

She will work for the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff Keeping it in the Family (KIITF) Sustainable Forestry and African American Land Retention Program.

Pritchard has served as a partner for the KIITF Program since its inception in 2016. In that capacity, she has helped educate Arkansas forest landowners through the program’s in-person and virtual outreach meetings.

“As a legal consultant, my main responsibility is to provide legal education and information to family landowners and help family landowners to address and prevent problems associated with heirs’ property,” she said. “I started hearing about heirs’ property when I was a legal aid attorney and law professor nearly a decade ago. This type of property leaves families without the clear titles that allow for active management of the land, thereby limiting any economic returns.”

Challenges associated with heirs’ property status are the leading cause of involuntary land loss among Black farmers, Pritchard said. Heirs’ property refers to family-owned land passed down without a will and held by

Land Ownership Makes No Sense

06/07/202321/04/2025dansa

“There’s no such thing as a good landlord” is a rallying cry of angry renters. In the future, it might be conventional morality that is simply wrong to own land.

In our times, owning land seems as natural as owning cars or houses. And this makes sense: The general presumption is that you can personally own anything, with rare exceptions for items such as dangerous weapons or archaeological artifacts. The idea of controlling territory, specifically, has a long tenure. Animals, warlords, and governments all do it, and the modern conception of “fee simple”—that is, unrestricted, perpetual, and private—land ownership has existed in English common law since the 13th century.

Yet by 1797, US founding father Thomas Paine was arguing that “the earth, in its natural uncultivated state” would always be “the common property of the human race,” and so landowners owed non-landowners compensation “for the loss of his or her her natural inheritance.”

A century later, economist Henry George saw that poverty was rising despite Increasing wealth and blamed this on our system of owning land. He proposed that land should be taxed at up to 100 percent of its “unimproved” value—we’ll get to that in a moment—allowing other forms

Westwold property owner loses land, barn and bridge in rising river | iNFOnews

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The overflowing Salmon River at 8440 Douglas Lake Road in Westwold.

Image Credit: SUBMITTED/ Sterett Mercer

May 11, 2023 – 7:00 AM

A property owner in Westwold is losing land and structures after the Salmon River crested on May 6, and is now under a local emergency order with the TNRD.

Strett Mercer, whose primary home is in Burnaby, spent a few harrowing days at the property in Westwold over the weekend as river waters eroded his land, took out a farm bridge and threatened to topple his barn. He said two large trees fell down and were backing up the even more flow, directing more water to the bank edge.

“It was scary, I’ve never seen a river run like that,” he said. “I was with the neighbor, wondering if I should pull everything out of the barn to save it, trying to figure out what to do.”

Mercer hesitated to take action, concerned about provincial regulations around working around rivers and elements of whether the costs of trying to stop the erosion himself would be covered by insurance. He set up a security camera and returned to

Startup attempts the world’s first commercial lunar touch down

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A photo of the Moon taken from the ispace lander’s onboard camera from an altitude of 100km above the lunar surface (ispace)

A Japanese startup will attempt the first commercial lunar landing in history on Tuesday.

Tokyo-based ispace plans to land a robotic spacecraft on the Moon as part of the Hakuto-R Mission 1, which launched on 11 December 2022 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

The lander has been in lunar orbit since 21 March, with the touchdown expected to take place at 5.40pm BST.

A live stream of the Moon landing will be broadcast on ispace’s YouTube channel at 4pm, offering people around the world to follow its progress.

You can follow all the latest news and updates in our live coverage below. The live stream will also be available as soon as it launches.

Alternative landing dates have been set for 26 April, 1 May and 3 May, depending on the operational status of the mission. Different landing sites have also been proposed by ispace, with the primary target being the Atlas Crater.

Moon landing live: ispace shares photos from the lander

11:49 a.m , Anthony Cuthbertson

With ispace’s lunar lander still in orbit, the startup has

North Korea missile launch sparks confusion in Japan

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Commuters at a Seoul railway station watching a news report on North Korea firing another missile — A missile launch by North Korea sparked confusion in northern Japan, where an evacuation order was abruptly retracted

A missile launch by North Korea sparked confusion in northern Japan, where an evacuation order was issued and then retracted within 30 minutes.

Sirens blared across Hokkaido and residents were told to “evacuate immediately” on Thursday morning.

Authorities later said the missile did not land near the island and withdrew the alert.

Tensions have been growing in the region, as North Korea has already fired 27 missiles this year.

The projectile flew about 1,000 km (620 miles), in what South Korea’s military called a “grave provocation”.

The missile is believed to be of medium or longer-range, but details on which weapon was tested on Thursday morning have not yet been made public.

Meanwhile, Japanese coastguards said the missile had splashed into waters to the east of North Korea. Mr Hamada said he could not confirm whether the missile flew over Japan’s exclusive economic zone.

Schools in Hokkaido delayed their start times and some train services were suspended, Japanese broadcaster NHK reported.

Japan’s Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi said Pyongyang’s repeated missile launches pose a “grave and imminent threat” to Japan’s security.

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Texas senators soften proposed prohibition on Chinese land purchases

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Lawmakers in the Texas Senate have revised a Gov. Greg Abbott-backed bill that would restrict land ownership by entities from China and three other countries, softening the language to still allow dual citizens and legal permanent residents of the United States to buy property in Texas.

Senate Bill 147 initially sought to ban the sale of Texas land to citizens, governments and entities from China, Iran, North Korea or Russia, drawing months of outcry. The bill’s author, Brenham Republican Sen. Lois Kolkhorst, said the legislation is aimed at stemming foreign influence in Texas agriculture and other sectors. It still prohibits the purchase or acquisition of property by a “governmental entity” of the four countries, by a company headquartered in the four countries, and by a company “directly or indirectly controlled” by a government of the four countries.

The original bill was heavily condemned by Asian American groups and lawmakers, who said its broad language would have made it impossible for many immigrants, entrepreneurs and green-card holders to buy homes or other property — while doing little to advance

A Lufthansa flight headed for Germany was forced to land early after running into severe turbulence. A passenger says ‘food and people’ went flying into the

02/03/2023dansa

Tails of Lufthansa aircraft in Frankfurt, Germany. — Lufthansa said the type of turbulence encountered can occur without warning.Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images

A Lufthansa flight from Austin to Frankfurt was forced to land after running into fierce turbulence.
Lufthansa said the turbulence was severe, and was a type that can occur without warning.
A passenger told The Washington Post that they were having dinner and food going flying.

A Lufthansa flight from Austin, Texas, to Frankfurt was forced to land near Washington DC on Wednesday evening after running into severe turbulence, the airline and authorities said.

At least seven people were injured and sent to hospital because of the turbulence, the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority told Insider in a statement.

Flight 469 diverted to Dulles International Airport and landed at around 9:10 pm, the authority said.

In a statement to Insider, a Lufthansa spokesperson said the plane was hit by “brief severe turbulence” around 90 minutes after it took off from Austin.

“This was so-called clear air turbulence, which can occur without visible weather phenomena or advance warning,” the spokesperson said.

The spokesperson said some passengers had sustained “minor injuries” and that flight attendants administered care onboard before the emergency landing.

An unnamed passenger on the

Missouri football lands first commitment in 2024 recruiting class from in-state tight end

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Missouri head coach Eli Drinkwitz jogs off the field before a game against Arkansas on Nov. 25, 2022, in Columbia, Mo.

Missouri football landed its first commitment of the 2024 recruiting class on Saturday, and it came from in-state. Joplin tight end Whit Hafer announced his decision on social media.

“Thankful and blessed to announce my commitment to The University of Missouri,” Hafer said in a Tweet.

Hafer was rated as a three-star prospect at tight end by 247Sports. He chose the Tigers over offers from Kansas, Kansas State and UNLV.

He is listed in his Twitter bio as standing 6-foot-7 and weighing 235 pounds. 247Sports ranked him as the No. 32 tight end nationally in his class, and the No. 15 best prospects in the state of Missouri.

The 2024 class became Missouri head coach Eli Drinkwitz’s second in a row to have an in-state tight end as its first commitment. The class of 2023 started out with Brett Norfleet committing to the Tigers.

Residing in the Show Me State wasn’t Hafer’s only connection to the MU program. His father, Jeff Hafer, played four years of basketball for the Tigers from 1996-2000, when he bridged the head coaching tenures