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Will Cousins end up being worth it? It all depends on whether he can increase his efficiency and improve on defense (especially pick and roll) this season. I think I d try to determine that first if I were the Kings, knowing I had the right to match any offer next summer. | Will Cousins end up being worth it? It all depends on whether he can increase his efficiency and improve on defense (especially pick and roll) this season. I think I d try to determine that first if I were the Kings, knowing I had the right to match any offer next summer. | ||
By the way, you used the term Maximum Qualifying Offer. Not sure if you meant this, but the CBA describes that as offering a maximum 5 year contract to a restricted free agent. If the Kings let him get to restricted free agency, it seems likely they d instead choose to match another team s offer rather than make that offer to Cousins, as that would be cheaper for them.</html> | By the way, you used the term Maximum Qualifying Offer. Not sure if you meant this, but the CBA describes that as offering a maximum 5 year contract to a restricted free agent. If the Kings let him get to restricted free agency, it seems likely they d instead choose to match another team s offer rather than make that offer to Cousins, as that would be cheaper for them.</html> | ||
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| + | == Japan aborts Epsilon rocket launch seconds before lift == | ||
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| + | <html>Japan suspended the launch of its next-generation solid-fuel rocket just seconds before lift-off after engineers discovered a technical glitch, the space agency says. | ||
| + | Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency had planned to launch the Epsilon rocket from Uchinoura Space Centre in Kagoshima, south-western Japan, on Tuesday using just two laptop computers in a pared-down command centre. | ||
| + | But the countdown was automatically stopped 19 seconds before the planned blast-off "as an emergency measure due to some abnormal positioning" of the rocket, an agency spokeswoman said. | ||
| + | "We cancelled today's launch and can't say anything about the timing of our next launch, as the cause of the trouble is still unknown,[http://www.nikenfljerseyssupply.com/ cheap nfl jerseys]," she said. | ||
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| + | The three-stage Epsilon 24 metres long and weighing 91 tonnes was scheduled to release the telescope SPRINT-A at an altitude of 1000 kilometres. | ||
| + | SPRINT-A is the world's first space telescope for remote observation of planets including Venus, Mars and Jupiter from its orbit around Earth, the agency said. | ||
| + | The Epsilon is about half the size of the nation's liquid-fuelled H2-A rocket and a successor to the solid fuel M-5 rocket that was retired in 2006 because of its high cost. | ||
| + | The small-sized rocket is equipped with artificial intelligence "for the first time in the world" that allows autonomous checks by the rocket itself,[http://projekte.akwi.at/gastrowiki/index.php/Benutzer:Rubyanne#Time_for_cricket_to_get_with_the_times_and_turn_on_the_light Time for cricket to get with the times and turn on the light], the space agency said. | ||
| + | "It also allows us to carry out launching procedures, including ignition, through only two laptop computers,[http://www.nikenfljerseyssupply.com/ cheap nike nfl jerseys]," another spokeswoman said. | ||
| + | At the control centre only eight workers were engaged in the launch operation, compared with about 150 people usually needed when the agency launches its mainstream H2-A rocket. | ||
| + | AFP</html> | ||
