#the United Mojave Council

[bellonathedragonborn]

To sum up Fallout: Three Heroes.

[warsofasoiaf]

So regarding the Fallout tv series, do you think the NCR is well and truly gone, or can it still survive? Because I always thought there was a story in askinf if the NCR can and will learn from the mistakes from the past, or just repeat the cycle.

In Fallout canon (the games, not the show), by 2 and New Vegas, the NCR is far larger than just Shady Sands and the surrounding environs - they've grown to include Vault City, the LA Boneyard, etc. With the resource crises that New Vegas has been talking about with the NCR, nuking a major capital city could easily cause the NCR to fracture into smaller settlements.

Of course, Shady Sands was nuked, and the show retconned Shady Sands to be in LA so that they could be destroyed in the Boneyard as well, which does not exactly strike me as sound stewardship of the Fallout canon. So the NCR can easily collapse just because the writers say it needs to, rather than expanding the resource crisis. Because research is hard.

The question of whether the NCR can learn from the mistakes of the past is a valid one. Caesar talks about plutocratic corruption of the NCR and despite the fact that he's a slaving expansionist, he's not altogether wrong to say that corruption in the NCR is leading it down the same path that the United States did when its leadership became the Enclave. He's not right either, of course, because Caesar's conception of "civic virtue" is a nation devoted entirely to him that falls apart after his death. More appropriately, the resource crisis that the NCR has is pushing them along the similar path to the Resource Wars of the United States. They're conscripting their younger generation and throwing them into the fire just like the United States did, in order to expand into the Mojave.

This message is muddled. Mr. House says "If you want to see the results of democracy, look out the window," but in practice, the Great War was actually fired by an autocratic world power (China) and the United States had long become an oligarchic deep state under control of the Enclave. Another issue of retcon comes with House being a member of the nefarious Business Council at the end of the TV show, which means that the House of Fallout: New Vegas makes the statement knowing full well it's a transparent lie, because writing coherent settings is hard.

Finally, the downfall of the NCR doesn't happen because of their refusal to learn the lessons of the past, it happens because Hank is big sad Rose left him for Shady Sands. Perfectly fine for the message of the Vault-Tec executive who saw other people as little more that guinea pigs for social experiments to destroy an entire civilization in a fit of pique, but that undermines the message of the NCR pursuing the same relentless jingoism that the United States to have them be destroyed. Because providing a satisfying payoff is hard.

Thanks for the question, Ikac.

SomethingLikeALawyer, Hand of the King

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Excerpt from this story from the LA Times:

The California Fish and Game Commission has formally recognized the Mojave desert tortoise as endangered.

The designation, granted Thursday, is the latest in a long series of steps to try to protect the dwindling population of the desert creature, which biologists say is heading toward extinction.

The tortoise was designated as threatened under the California Endangered Species Act in 1989 and as threatened under the Endangered Species Act in 1990. In 2020, Defenders of Wildlife, Desert Tortoise Council and Desert Tortoise Preserve petitioned to change the tortoise’s status to endangered, which would give it higher priority and funding for conservation measures such as habitat protection and recovery efforts.

The commission then granted temporary endangered species to the desert tortoise while it considered adding it permanently to the list.

A recovery plan was created in 1994, and then revised in 2011 after there were issues implementing the recovery strategies.

Between 2001 and 2020, population densities in tortoise conservation areas went down by an average of 1% per year in the Colorado Desert and Eastern Mojave Recovery units, according to a February 2024 California Department of Fish and Wildlife report.

The minimum density for the tortoises to remain viable is 3.9 adults per square kilometer, according to the report. Only 2 out of the 10 designated tortoise conservation areas currently meet that threshold.

Sadly, California’s state reptile — formally Gopherus agassizii — is hurtling toward extinction. Vehicle strikes, urban encroachment, hungry ravens, military maneuvers, disease, drought, extreme heat, wildfires, illegal marijuana grows and development of massive solar farms are all pushing the species to the brink.

The tortoises live in the rocky foothills north and west of the Colorado River in California, Arizona, Utah and Nevada. They feed on grasses, cacti, herbs and wildflowers.

They hibernate for up to nine months each year and are most active from March to June and September to October. The sleep pays a longevity dividend — the tortoises can live for 50 to 80 years.

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@royalmuses​

【 💣 】— “Ma’am. There’s a ghoul on the Casino floor claiming to know you.” The securitron unit spoke.

        The courier was sitting on the bed of the Penthouse, staring through the newly-cleaned window at the streets of the Strip below. The initial looting riots that started up when she decided to remove the credit check had died down a month ago, and now that the uneasy anarchy had been quelled, the expansion of the Strip, namely low-income housing and medical centers, were now being guarded by only a mere percentile of the massive securitron army while the construction workers continued about their business.

    “Pretty sure a lot of ghouls know me,” she said, thoughtfully chewing a mentat. They had been a godsend since she won the Hoover Dam battle-- they, along with the council of Mojave settlement leaders she had annointed, gave her the insight and unlocked potential wisdom that Benny’s gunshot had once blocked off.  “They give you a name?”

“A Dean Domino.”

     There was a brief look on her face-- a mixture of disbelief and slight anxiousness, but it soon passed as she let out a retching sound and coughed out a glob of blood into the nearby trashcan.

         “Should I send him away, ma’am?”

       “No... No, I’ll talk to him. Tell the unit speaking to him to inform him he should come up to the Cocktail lounge and I’ll meet him there.”

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As Health Conditions Worsen At Prison Holding 1,000 Detainees, Staff Fears A Riot

By Lauren Weber, Huffington Post, July 2, 2018

Staffers at a federal prison complex in Victorville, California, where the government recently sent 1,000 immigration detainees despite workers’ concerns about inadequate medical care, are speaking out about worsening conditions as infectious diseases continue to multiply.

HuffPost revealed last week that staff members were concerned about the unsafe conditions, which had resulted in 10 cases of scabies and one case of chickenpox. Now the outbreak of scabies, a highly infectious skin condition, has more than tripled, spreading to at least 38 detainees. And, according to a letter sent to the staff June 30 and shown to HuffPost, an additional detainee has contracted chickenpox.

It’s gotten so bad that staffers are calling the units the two infected groups of detainees are housed in the “chickenpox unit” and “scabies unit,” and those exposed to chickenpox will live in a separate quarantined unit for 21 days, said John Kostelnik, president of the American Federation of Government Employees Local 3969 and a case manager for the Victorville prison complex.

Rep. Mark Takano (D-Calif.) toured Victorville on Monday morning with his district director and two staffers from the office of Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.). Takano said he was appalled when some of the detainees told him they had been unable to wash their clothes, underwear and bed linens since they arrived more than three weeks ago. Several did not understand why they were being held in a prison.

“I do fear for their safety in the sense of their mental health, their human spirit, that the sense of hopelessness and depression could cause some of them to take their own lives,” Takano said.

Staff who spoke to HuffPost said that, if medical conditions continue to worsen, they fear a riot could break out--endangering the detainees, prisoners and staff--as has happened in other prisons with similar medical issues.

Staffers had raised the alarm that medical conditions were already unsafe due to understaffing at the Mojave Desert prison before the detainees’ arrival, which increased the total imprisoned population to 4,500. No additional staffers have been hired to help attend to the 1,000 detainees that arrived around June 8, and staffers say that the original intake screening procedures were rushed and that inadequate physical exams have been performed.

Inadequate medical staffing across the Bureau of Prisons was highlighted as a key issue in a 2016 inspector general’s report, and the Trump administration is currently implementing cuts to the overall BOP staff by 14 percent nationwide to reduce costs. In Victorville, that was achieved mostly by cutting vacant positions, Kostelnik told HuffPost.

According to Kostelnik, detainees still haven’t been issued shower shoes or regular shoes that are typically distributed upon arrival, which he believes has worsened unsanitary conditions. Many of the detainees also told Takano they’re unable to reach their families, including 14 men who had been separated from their children or siblings.

“They don’t understand why they’re there, they don’t understand how long they’ll be there and they complain that they’re being treated like criminals,” Takano said.

Takano said it was clear that, though the BOP was doing the best it could with what it had, the Victorville complex was understaffed before the 1,000 detainees arrived at its gates, and this was putting the bureau under “even greater strain” to adhere to the Trump narrative of the “criminalization of migrants.”

The congressman stressed the need for more community-based reporting programs, instead of locking detainees in a prison, saying it would “be far less costly and far more humane.”

“We’re not doing it right. The simple fact that these detainees still don’t have shower shoes, I can’t stop shaking my head,” Kostelnik said. “Containment is my main concern when it comes to the medical issues. If you don’t contain it, it’s not going to stop.”

There are currently only two doctors on staff--one of whom is the clinical director--for the 4,500 people incarcerated at Victorville, and the health care team is missing the several nurses and physician assistants needed to be in compliance with BOP guidelines.

“Somebody could die. Having just what we have [in staffing], there is no way you’re going to catch something unless it’s too late or close to too late,” a current medical staffer who corroborated Kostelnik’s account of the medical situation, told HuffPost. This staffer requested anonymity for fear of retaliation after staff was warned not to talk to the press.

At Sheridan prison in Oregon, they’re seeing some of the same problems, just on a smaller scale. They have had 12 cases of scabies so far and ended up delousing the entire detainee population to combat it, Ray, the union president there, said.

Ray told HuffPost that he only received a little over 24 hours notice before the detainees were bused to them. He noted that the prison has already paid out 300 percent of its employee overtime budget with half a year to go.

“Our staff work extremely hard every day to do the absolute best we can, but the lack of resources and staffing has taken a toll,” Ray said. “We’re doing less with more every single day. How soon until something bad happens?”

Eric Young, the national president of the Council of Prison Locals, voiced his concerns about these prisons being unable to house detainees at their current staffing levels.

“If you already have inadequate medical staff predominantly at all facilities and then bring in 1,000 inmates--that equates to a recipe for disaster to me,” the union president told HuffPost. “Inmates complaining about inadequate medical care results in somebody getting killed.”

He pointed to a prior prison riot at Willacy County Correctional Center, a privately run low-security prison that housed non-citizens at the end of their prison sentences. That riot, which destroyed the prison, began over a pattern of inadequate medical care and culminated in a riot after inmates saw someone die, Young says.

“When you put a thousand of these guys into an institution, [improper medical care is] not just going to be magnified--it’s going to blow up,” Kostelnik said. “It’s only a matter of time before we end up with a really bad riot or an inmate attacking a staffer, and the support staff isn’t there as they’re focused on these detainees.”

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One of my favourite parts of FNV is that at the start once you’ve buil your character and left Doc Mitchell’s house is that you can just fuck off and do literally whatever the fuck you want and basically no-one stops you.

Wanna punch a death claw? Go NNE and you go straight to Quarry Junction.

How about investigating a smooth jazz radio station? “Recommended for experienced couriers my arse I got shot in the fucking head I can take on some poxy weird machine projecting an eye and lip!”

How about I just waltz into your secure military base like I own the joint, provide medical counciling, interrogate a POW off the books bad cop style and look into an intelligence leak for you? “What do you mean I’m just a courier and I need to leave? I was shot in the head.” “Oh sorry mate. Go right ahead. By the way, patrolling the Mojave makes you wish for a nuclear winter”

I heard tell of some right reclusive bastards in another military base. Yeah, I’ll just roll out the standard courier procedure here and just fucking run to the gate while high on like three different drugs. And then I’ll help them out or whatever.

Wow, another military base, this time wi- Oh I appear to have a bomb collar around my neck. Oh dear. Nah, I’ll just lie to some elite army unit and I’ll be on my way.

A solar power plant? Oh yeah, I’ll get that running for you. No charge. “Give power to Vegas? Or to a superweapon..? Superweapon.” And you get fucking rewarded for screwing over a country!

Courier 6 has the biggest and hardest balls out of any character in FNV. If anyone wants to add more tales of their courier 6 just doing it, go right ahead.

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Meet the New Class!

It is our pleasure to introduce you to the 17 writers who will join our UNLV community this coming Fall 2020 semester! Congratulations to everyone, and welcome to UNLV!

PHD/BLACK MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE FELLOWS

Dorothy Allred Solomon (nonfiction) was born into a polygamous household to the father of forty-eight children and his fourth wife, but married a Vietnam veteran who said, “One wife is more than enough.” She took her bachelor’s degree in literature, theater and communication and her master’s degree in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Utah. Her writing has received several awards, including the 2004 WILLA, the Utah State Publishing Prize, three first prizes from the Utah Arts Council,  Distinguished Journalism Awards from Sigma Delta Chi and the American Academy of Pediatrics, and a Governor's Media Award for Excellence. Her books include the groundbreaking In My Father’s House (1984, Franklin Watts and 2008, Texas Tech University Press) Predators, Prey and Other Kinfolk: Growing Up in Polygamy, (W.W. Norton, 2003) Daughter of the Saints, (W. W. Norton, 2004) The Sisterhood: Inside the Lives of Mormon Women, (2007, Palgrave Macmillan) and coming in 2020 from Texas Tech University Press, Finding Karen: An Ancestral Mystery.

Areej Quraishi (fiction) was born in Dubai, UAE. Her fiction explores familial relationships, cultural identity, memory, and their effects on the psyche. She holds an MFA from the University of Washington-Seattle and an MA and BA in English from Rutgers University. Outside of writing, she enjoys food, trying out new recipes, teaching, graphic design, language, and dabbles in drawing and singing. Her stories appear or have been awarded Finalist spots in Entropy, Glimmer Train Press, and New Millennium Writings. She's super excited to attend UNLV and hopes that being raised in a desert has prepared her for the heat.

MFA Fiction

Mark Ranchez discovered the power of stories and storytelling at an early age. Moved from the Philippines to Hawaii in 2013, he finds himself in a constant journey into the unexpected and unknown, from which many of his stories he’s excited to write about were gleaned. By furthering his education and expertise of the craft, he aspires to someday bring these stories into life. His main writing interests involve the Filipinx experience both in the US and the Philippines. Currently he writes for The Hawaii Filipino Chronicle, an ethnic news publication based on Oahu. Hawaii.

 Shani Boianjiu (not pictured)

Marlan K. Smith joins the MFA program as a fiction writer after completing his MA in English at the University of Idaho. A veteran of the video game industry, his academic interests include contemporary and Victorian literature, speculative fiction, and horror. His short stories (written pseudonymously) have appeared in Dark Moon Harvest magazine as well as Space and Time Magazine. As someone moving to Las Vegas during a global pandemic, he accepts that he has basically become a character in a Stephen King novel.

Alycia Calvert was born in Palo Alto California, and has been trying be be close to the ocean ever since. She graduated from UNLV in 2016 with a degree in English, with an emphasis in Creative Writing. Alycia mostly writes flash fiction and is interested in the processes of mothering and childhood in memory. She is the wife to one wildlife biologist, and mother to four curious children. In her “spare time” she can be found running, biking, kayaking, nursing a forest of house plants, tearing through audio books, and half-finishing house projects. She loves learning, and is thrilled to begin her MFA at UNLV.  

MFA Poetry

Ben Socolofsky is a poet currently celebrating the mundane in Las Vegas, Nevada. He received a bachelor’s degree from Hampshire College, where he became a founding member of the Departure Collective, which organizes readings and produces chapbooks. His work has appeared in The Hampshire College Reader, WORKSHOP and Departure Anthology.

Sara Brown grew up in rural, middle-of-nowhere South Jersey on her grandparents’ two farms and on the coast. She started working at age 9 on her grandparents’ blueberry farm and then at a flower nursery while completing her Bachelors in Literature. Due to a very bad/good habit of being interested in everything, she enjoys reading and writing poetry and creative nonfiction, painting, growing plants, experimenting with film and digital photography, running and biking, and making music. She also has a chocolate problem and will ugly-cry when she has to leave her dog in NJ. Sara has spent many hours exploring the Mojave Desert while staying with her family and friends in Las Vegas and is beyond thrilled to start the MFA program at UNLV.

Benjamin Stallings is an American poet and musician who grew up in Beijing, China. He moved to America to attend Lee University in Cleveland, Tennessee, where he graduated with a B.A. in Literature and a B.A. in Writing. He performs as Dagger, playing guitar and writing songs in El Bandito Forever.

John Blake Oldenborg recently graduated from Florida State University with an M.A. in English Literature, Media, and Culture. His favorite pizza toppings are pepperoni and black olives. In his spare time, John enjoys visiting art museums and playing rogue-likes. He is scared of the screaming guy from the band Death Grips

Alice Letowt is convincing her endocrine system to behave. She is interested in light, spent two seasons working on a farm, and hopes to continue farming in the future. While practicing social distancing, she is discovering a fondness for azalea bushes. She can’t wait to stop in Kansas on her drive from Virginia to Nevada.

Harrison Bernard Nuzzo

“i stand outside me and watch myself"

- d.a. levy

 MFA Nonfiction

Michael Hanson, a Minnesota native, has chased warm weather in Hawaii, California, Hong Kong, Australia, and now Las Vegas. When he isn’t winning sailboat races, he can be found camping, reading, or carousing with the local riff-raff.

Emma Hardy is from Melbourne, Australia. Her nonfiction has been published in Voiceworks, The Lifted Brow, the Monthly and Dumbofeather. She's interested in animals, the environment and nonfiction that lends itself towards the speculative and fabulative. She's also obsessed with comedy, and performs improv, clown, sketch and occasionally stand-up.

Journalist Travis Dunn was born in New York City and grew up in New Jersey and rural Pennsylvania. He holds a B.A. from St. John’s College in Annapolis, Md. His reporting has been published by the Center for Public Integrity, WhoWhoWhy, Alternet, Belt Magazine, and the now-defunct Baltimore City Paper.

Claire Mullen is a freelance writer, critic, audio producer, and translator based in Mexico City. Her work has appeared in outlets such as The Nation, Lithub, The Believer, and Ploughshares, and she is currently a National Book Critics Circle fellow.

Patricia Heisser Ph. D is a clinical Psychologist who is also an activist and writer. She has been a play producer one of her plays “The Wedding Band”, received the Los Angeles Drama Critics Award. She consulted on casting for movies, such as "The Color Purple", "Lethal Weapon" and "Planet of the Apes" and had a television talk show on CBS," L.A. Kids" which was featured in TV Guide's' Year of the Child.  Patricia was also selected as a MS. Magazine Feminist Scholar focusing on international trafficking has testified for the United Nations on the Status of Women and Violence. She also was awarded the American Psychological Association accredited Clinical Psychology Fellowship at UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute.

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The biggest public lands bill in a decade has something for everyone

New Post has been published on https://nexcraft.co/the-biggest-public-lands-bill-in-a-decade-has-something-for-everyone/

The biggest public lands bill in a decade has something for everyone

About a decade ago, conservationists asked California Senator Dianne Feinstein to craft a bill protecting lands in the Mojave Desert from development. Feinstein joined the cause, and invited a perhaps-surprising community to participate: off-roaders, who ride their jeeps, dirt bikes, and dune buggies across these rugged desert landscapes.

“In order to achieve the political reality of passage, [the conservationists] had to bring in other stakeholders—off-highway vehicle users, public utilities, renewable energy, big mining, travel and tourism, county government,” says Randy Banis, a member of the California Desert District Advisory Council and an avid off-roader. “The only way to get people to the table is by accommodating their needs within the bill.”

That bill is the California Desert Protection and Recreation Act which proposes a swath of new protected lands including pristine wilderness, new additions to national parks, and recreational areas for off-roaders. It appears set to pass together with a slew of other public lands bills affecting areas nationwide, in what would be the largest land protection measure in a decade.

The California bill provides protections for 716,000 acres of land, including popular off-roading areas as well as wildlife habitat. The actions include designating wilderness in the Mojave and adding new land to Death Valley and Joshua Tree national parks. The desert lands are home to striking, rock-strewn expanses and iconic species, such as desert tortoise, bighorn sheep, and Joshua trees.

“We had to spend many, many months negotiating such things as the boundaries of the proposed wilderness areas,” says Ryan Henson, policy director of the California Wilderness Coalition, who helped write much of the bill.

On Tuesday, those protections were among over 100 public lands measures that passed the United States Senate by a large majority—92-8. “[The passage] shows that by working together we can expand protections for this region while ensuring it remains open for all visitors to enjoy,” Feinstein said in a press release. “The desert is a defining part of California’s landscape and we have a responsibility to preserve it for generations to come.”

The nearly 700-page public lands package, formally known as the Natural Resources Management Act, would also reauthorize the Land and Water Conservation Fund, which expired in September last year. Established in 1964, the program draws funds from offshore oil and gas leasing and invests this money in public access recreation areas. It’s protected 2.37 million acres, including thousands of miles of trails, without using any taxpayer money. “The Land and Water Conservation Fund is an overwhelmingly successful program for achieving balanced use of public lands,” wrote members of the Outdoor Alliance, Outdoor Industry Association, and The Conservation Alliance in a letter to Congress.

The package would also establish over 500,000 acres of protected lands in Utah’s Emery County, creating recreation areas, a monument, and wilderness in the red rock canyons of the San Rafael Swell. This measure follows a similar theme to California’s: it’s the product of negotiations between many interests, including outdoor recreation enthusiasts, ranchers, and local government officials. Hunters and anglers would also enjoy expanded access to federal lands under the new bill.

Other measures include new national monuments in four states, including Mississippi and Kentucky; the expansion of three national parks in Georgia; and the permanent end to mining claims around North Cascades National Park in Washington and Yellowstone National Park’s Montana border.

According to the Washington Post, the measure is viewed favorably in the U.S. House of Representatives, too, and “White House officials have indicated privately that the president will sign it.” In an era of increasing partisan divides, public lands might just be an area of common ground.

Written By Ula Chrobak

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White House updates membership of Space Council advisory group

https://sciencespies.com/space/white-house-updates-membership-of-space-council-advisory-group/

White House updates membership of Space Council advisory group

WASHINGTON — The White House has updated the membership of an advisory group for the National Space Council, replacing four original members of the committee with five people, including a former member of Congress.

In a May 15 statement, Vice President Mike Pence, who chairs the National Space Council, announced the revised roster of the National Space Council’s Users’ Advisory Group (UAG). The members serve as what Pence once called the “brain trust” for the council, providing insights and recommendations.

Among the new members is John Culberson, a former member of the House from Texas who lost reelection in 2018. He had been chairman of the House appropriations subcommittee that funded NASA, and served as an advocate for many agency initiatives, from exploration programs to a planetary science mission called Europa Clipper that will fly to an icy, potentially habitable moon of Jupiter.

Other new members include Eileen Drake, the president and chief executive of Aerojet Rocketdyne; Bruce Jakosky, a University of Colorado professor who is the principal investigator for NASA’s MAVEN Mars orbiter; Jeanette Nuñez, lieutenant governor of the state of Florida and board chairman for state space development agency Space Florida; and James D. Taiclet, Jr., a member of the board of Lockheed Martin who will become president and chief executive of the company on June 15.

Four members of the original UAG were not nominated for new two-year terms. They include Marillyn Hewson, who is stepping down as Lockheed Martin president and chief executive June 15, and David Thompson, who had been president and chief executive of Orbital ATK prior to its acquisition by Northrop Grumman. Steve Crisafulli, former speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, and Eric Schmidt, former chief executive and executive chairman of Google, are also not returning to the UAG.

The UAG has held four public meetings since being established in 2018, most recently in October 2019. The group has dealt with a wide range of issues, but is perhaps best known for its criticism of NASA’s lunar exploration plans at a November 2018 meeting, arguing that the agency’s goal at the time of landing humans on the moon by 2028 was too slow. A little more than four months later, Pence announced the new 2024 goal for a human lunar return.

Some have criticized the UAG, though, for representing companies that produce rockets and satellites rather than actual users of space. “A great group of people, but again, no real commercial operators (i.e., USERS) of space,” tweeted Matt Desch, chief executive of satellite operator Iridium, after the new UAG roster was announced. “It’s focused on SUPPLIERS.”

The White House, in its announcement of the UAG membership, did not mention when the group will next meet. A March 30 meeting that was to take place during the Space Symposium in Colorado Springs was postponed, along with the conference itself, because of the pandemic. While the conference has been rescheduled for the end of October, the administration has not announced a new time or location for the next UAG meeting.

The full membership of the UAG is as follows:

Admiral James Ellis, Jr., USN, Retired (Chair, Users’ Advisory Group) Former Commander, United States Strategic Command; member of the Space Foundation Board of Directors

Dr. Buzz Aldrin, USAF, Retired Apollo 11 astronaut

Tory Bruno President and CEO, United Launch Alliance

David Calhoun President and CEO, The Boeing Company

Dean Cheng Scholar at the Heritage Foundation

Colonel Eileen Collins, USAF, Retired Four-time shuttle astronaut, first female shuttle commander

The Honorable John Culberson Former U.S. Congressman, Texas

Dr. Mary Lynne Dittmar President and CEO, Coalition for Deep Space Exploration

Eileen Drake President and CEO, Aerojet Rocketdyne

Tim Ellis CEO, Relativity Space

Homer Hickam Board Member, U. S. Space & Rocket Center; former NASA Marshall Spacef Flight Center engineer; Author of “Rocket Boys”

The Honorable Kay Ivey Governor of Alabama

Dr. Bruce Jakosky Professor of Atmosphere and Space Physics, University of Colorado

Fred Klipsch Board of Trustees, Marian University; Chairman and CEO, Klipsch Audio Technologies, Retired

General Les Lyles, USAF, Retired Chairman, NASA Advisory Council

Colonel Pam Melroy, USAF, Retired Three-time shuttle astronaut, former Deputy Director of the Tactical Technology Office at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

The Honorable Jeanette Nuñez Lieutenant Governor of Florida, Chairman of the Board, Space Florida

Fatih Ozmen CEO, Sierra Nevada Corporation

The Honorable Harrison H. Schmitt Former United States Senator, New Mexico; Apollo 17 astronaut

Gwynne Shotwell President and COO, SpaceX

Dr. Robert H. Smith CEO, Blue Origin

Eric Stallmer President, Commercial Spaceflight Federation

James D. Taiclet, Jr. Board member, Lockheed Martin Corporation

Pamela Vaughan STEM Integration Specialist for the Arkansas Department of Education

Mandy Vaughn President, VOX Space

Kathy Warden Chairman, CEO, and President, Northrop Grumman Corporation

Stuart O. Witt Former Navy pilot; founder, Mojave Air and Spaceport; former chairman of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation

David Wolf, M.D. Four-time shuttle astronaut, Purdue University

#Space

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G | Halsey

The Government is seriously at odds with Auckland Council's decision today to build the America's Cup bases at Wynyard Basin, expressing strong concerns about wharf extensions into the harbour and pursuing a land-based solution. Jacinda Ardern talking about the America's Cup on The AM Show. Auckland Council appears to have struck a deal with Team NZ over the development of the harbour for the 2021 America's Cup regatta. The second was that they have a preference for a "clustered" approach that takes in Hobson, Halsey and Wynyard wharves and should ensure the required atmosphere generated from a central village environment in Auckland's Viaduct Basin.

G-Eazy's hottest collaborations, from Halsey to Britney Spears. Wichita County Sheriff's Office Chief Deputy Derek Meador began his career with the office in June 1996 working in the Detention Center. Halsey, 23, and G-Eazy, 28, couldn't keep their hands off each other while on stage at Jimmy Kimmel LIVE on Tuesday night in Hollywood.The destruction of our communities is not. For an album that takes place largely inside his head, it is curiously loaded with high-profile guests such as Cardi B, A$AP Rocky, Charlie Puth, Anna of the North, fellow Bay Area stars Kehlani and E-40, and his girlfriend, Halsey.

CLOSE. Chief Deputy Derek Meador retires from the Wichita County Sheriff's Office after more than 21 years. Both involved the development of Halsey and Wynyard Wharves and cost more than $100m.Singer Kehlani and rapper G-Eazy perform on the Mojave stage during. Large, high-intensity wildfires are an inevitable and natural part of life in California. Torin Halsey, Times Record News Published 3:48 pm CT Dec. 13, 2017. The Wynyard development was the preferred option of Emirates Team New Zealand, but 1 NEWS understands it is a scaled back version of their initial proposed idea. Josh ParryECHO reporter. 05:00, 14 DEC 2017. CLOSE. The Sheppard Enlisted Spouses Club members coordinated the annual drive to gather 26,000 cookies for the airmen in training at Sheppard Air Force Base. Stephen Halsey says he's been worried about going out alone after the incident. Grammy-nominated pop artist Halsey is coming to Australia for her hopeless fountain kingdom World Tour. United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank in a statement said that 58-year-old Willie Richard Minor faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

[bellonathedragonborn]

So Adrien after completing the main storyline and got the Independent Vegas ending they established a council. Which consists of:

1.) The King.

2.) Arcade Gannon and Julie Farkas.

3.) Mika (an OC that represents Westside.)

4.) An NCR representative for trade relations.

5.) Adrien of course.

6.) Yes Man.

7.) Helle (an OC Northside representative.)

[bellonathedragonborn]

So would it make sense for the NCR to ask the Independent Mojave in my world for water shipments? This is a little tidbit in my Three Heroes story.

[bellonathedragonborn]

Adrien on a Tumbleweed.

This is what I imagine Helle looking like. (She’s a member of the Mojave Council.)

[bellonathedragonborn]

So I like to imagine eventually Adrien and The United Mojave Council have enough resources and military power that they begin to expand to the other parts of the Mojave. It is their hope that they can eventually take over the Legion occupied states.

In my world the Legion split into two parts. Vulpes’s Legion and the other Legion ruled by another man.

[jaeame-blog]

G | Halsey

Torin Halsey, Times Record News Published 3:48 pm CT Dec. 13, 2017. Stephen Halsey says he's been worried about going out alone after the incident. Josh ParryECHO reporter. 05:00, 14 DEC 2017. Both involved the development of Halsey and Wynyard Wharves and cost more than $100m.

December 13, 2017 Updated: December 14, 2017 12:05am. G-Eazy's hottest collaborations, from Halsey to Britney Spears. Singer Kehlani and rapper G-Eazy perform on the Mojave stage during.Jacinda Ardern talking about the America's Cup on The AM Show. Large, high-intensity wildfires are an inevitable and natural part of life in California.

Grammy-nominated pop artist Halsey is coming to Australia for her hopeless fountain kingdom World Tour. Auckland Council appears to have struck a deal with Team NZ over the development of the harbour for the 2021 America's Cup regatta.The Government is seriously at odds with Auckland Council's decision today to build the America's Cup bases at Wynyard Basin, expressing strong concerns about wharf extensions into the harbour and pursuing a land-based solution. The second was that they have a preference for a "clustered" approach that takes in Hobson, Halsey and Wynyard wharves and should ensure the required atmosphere generated from a central village environment in Auckland's Viaduct Basin. CLOSE. Chief Deputy Derek Meador retires from the Wichita County Sheriff's Office after more than 21 years. The Auckland Council has finalised a layout for the America's Cup Village in 2021 and hopes to lodge a resource consent application in a month. The Wynyard development was the preferred option of Emirates Team New Zealand, but 1 NEWS understands it is a scaled back version of their initial proposed idea. Wichita County Sheriff's Office Chief Deputy Derek Meador began his career with the office in June 1996 working in the Detention Center. Halsey, 23, and G-Eazy, 28, couldn't keep their hands off each other while on stage at Jimmy Kimmel LIVE on Tuesday night in Hollywood. The destruction of our communities is not. For an album that takes place largely inside his head, it is curiously loaded with high-profile guests such as Cardi B, A$AP Rocky, Charlie Puth, Anna of the North, fellow Bay Area stars Kehlani and E-40, and his girlfriend, Halsey.

[jaeame-blog]

G | Halsey

Grammy-nominated pop artist Halsey is coming to Australia for her hopeless fountain kingdom World Tour. Both involved the development of Halsey and Wynyard Wharves and cost more than $100m. Grammy-nominated pop artist Halsey is coming to Australia for her hopeless fountain kingdom World Tour. The second was that they have a preference for a "clustered" approach that takes in Hobson, Halsey and Wynyard wharves and should ensure the required atmosphere generated from a central village environment in Auckland's Viaduct Basin.

The Auckland Council has finalised a layout for the America's Cup Village in 2021 and hopes to lodge a resource consent application in a month. CLOSE. Chief Deputy Derek Meador retires from the Wichita County Sheriff's Office after more than 21 years. The destruction of our communities is not.Torin Halsey, Times Record News Published 3:48 pm CT Dec. 13, 2017. Singer Kehlani and rapper G-Eazy perform on the Mojave stage during.

The Wynyard development was the preferred option of Emirates Team New Zealand, but 1 NEWS understands it is a scaled back version of their initial proposed idea. December 13, 2017 Updated: December 14, 2017 12:05am.The Government is seriously at odds with Auckland Council's decision today to build the America's Cup bases at Wynyard Basin, expressing strong concerns about wharf extensions into the harbour and pursuing a land-based solution. United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank in a statement said that 58-year-old Willie Richard Minor faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Large, high-intensity wildfires are an inevitable and natural part of life in California. Wichita County Sheriff's Office Chief Deputy Derek Meador began his career with the office in June 1996 working in the Detention Center. Halsey, 23, and G-Eazy, 28, couldn't keep their hands off each other while on stage at Jimmy Kimmel LIVE on Tuesday night in Hollywood. Jacinda Ardern talking about the America's Cup on The AM Show. Stephen Halsey says he's been worried about going out alone after the incident. For an album that takes place largely inside his head, it is curiously loaded with high-profile guests such as Cardi B, A$AP Rocky, Charlie Puth, Anna of the North, fellow Bay Area stars Kehlani and E-40, and his girlfriend, Halsey. Josh ParryECHO reporter. 05:00, 14 DEC 2017.