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Daniel Libeskind tells the NYT what he would do on the Moon if brought along on SpaceX
By Mackenzie Goldberg
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Last week saw the announcement by Elon Musk that Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa would be the first private passenger aboard the Tesla CEO's Big Falcon Rocket. Alongside, it was also suggested that Maezawa would invite a group of artists to come along on his trip to the moon, expected to launch in 2023.
The proposal, which asks the visionary space travelers to create something after they return to Earth, has led to much speculation about whom might be chosen, and what might they create. Curious as well, the New York Times asked eight artists to put together some pitches of their own.
Among the speculative projects is a very bold bid by Daniel Libeskind to transform the moon into a perfect square. The Polish-American architect told the NYT:
I like that this project is about art rather than science. So my proposal is to turn the moon itself into an art project: It's a sphere and I want to turn it into a perfect square. That's the dream.
My son Noam is an astrophysicist at the Leibniz Institute in Germany, and we did some calculations about how it could work. We thought the best way would be to paint sections of it black, so they no longer reflect the sun's light. To account for the curvature, you'd need to paint four spherical caps on the moon's surface. That would create a kind of frame that looks square when you see it from earth.
I get that it's probably not the cheapest concept — our estimate is about $10 trillion for paint costs alone — but I like the way that it would transform the moon into a work of contemporary art. Think of how amazing it would be to watch the phases shift; the light come across the visible portion, the craters, the Sea of Tranquillity, all framed by this rigid black square. Like a Malevich or Mondrian painting hanging in the sky. Literally a lunatic project.
Libeskind's pitch is one of the more audacious ideas in the round up, perhaps matched only by the German filmmaker Hito Steyerl's idea to convince the seven other invited artists to not blast off to the moon.
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I think Danny Libeskind should go to the moon ..... preferably if he agrees never to return to earth where his designs create so much ugliness and stupidity.
Sep 26, 18 6:31 pm	·
I foresee something.... sharp and pointy.
Donna Sink
Sharp and pointy with gratuitous 80s-ish stripes? Bingo.
"Curse you, Donna Sink!" --Daniel Libeskind
And, based on personal experience, the other thing he'll do is talk non-stop on the trip until one of his fellow passengers breaks open the airlock in a quest for sweet relief.
Miles Jaffe
Send him to Mars with Musk.
One-way trip.
sameolddoctor
Take him, take him (and about 80% of other old-fart architects) with him
Sep 26, 18 10:21 pm	·
godcomplex
wish I had more hands for the circlejerk
Sep 27, 18 4:11 am	·
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lol. ok.
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April Fools!
Sep 29, 18 10:37 am	·
JLC-1
I wouldn't want to be quoted as his son.
Oct 1, 18 2:35 pm	·
the NYT has the worst architect roledex. All those worst people and a bunch of bureaucrats
Pliny the Wise
Why not use Daniel Libeskind as the FUEL for the SpaceX rocket going to the moon? That way there's no chance of him returning to earth!
Apr 7, 20 7:20 pm	·
Every comment you've made on Archinect is dedicated to bashing Libeskind. What's up?
Yeah, fess up. Bitter ex? Estranged kid? Disgruntled staff? We need to know.
Dresden, Germany, is home to one of Liebskind's works, an addition to a museum:
It is also home to the restored Frauenkirche, which was reduced to rubble by the RAF in WW II. Many of the RAF crews expressed outrage to their superiors at what they had been ordered to do despite being subject to military discipline for speaking their mind. The dark brown parts of the church are the original
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Trump Must Be Held Accountable for Inciting the Capitol Insurrection
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As the impeachment trial of Donald Trump proceeds, we speak with two historians about the importance of accountability for the January 6 insurrection and white supremacist attacks in the United States. The scenes of violence at the U.S. Capitol were "familiar" to Black people, says Ibram X. Kendi, author, professor and founding director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research. "We have consistently, over the course of 400 years, faced white supremacist mob violence." We also speak with Keisha Blain, an author and associate professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh, who says Trump must be held accountable for inciting the Capitol insurrection. "We cannot hold back and play games here," she says. "Whatever decision we make in this moment will determine the future of this nation."
AMY GOODMAN: Well, Donald Trump is the only president in U.S. history to be impeached twice. Now the question is if he will be convicted in his Senate trial. And if he is, will they prevent him from running again for federal office?
To talk more about this historic moment, we're joined by two historians, who have just edited a book that puts the white supremacists who rallied around Trump into the longer arc of U.S. history. The book is titled Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019. It brings together prominent Black writers to collaborate on what they call a "choral history" of Black American life. Keisha Blain is an associate professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh. And Ibram X. Kendi is director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research,, where he's the Andrew W. Mellon professor in the humanities. Professor Kendi is co-editor of the new book, along with Keisha Blain.
We welcome you both to Democracy Now! Professor Kendi, as you listen to and watch that video, which we have seen a number of times in the past since January 6th, though there was new video that we haven't seen, and as the days go by, we will see more video of what took place, the Confederate flags, the horror, can you put this into the context of the history you've looked at, American history for the last 400 years?
IBRAM X. KENDI: Well, first, Amy, thank you so much for having us on the show.
And for me, as someone who has lived and sat in African American history, in many ways, those images, that video, what happened on January 6th, was also familiar to me, was also familiar to Black folks, because indeed when we have exercised our rights to vote, when we have exercised our rights to take office, when we have exercised our rights to be free, we have consistently, over the course of 400 years, faced white supremacist mob violence, over and over and over again. And then, those who incited the violence, typically, over and over and over again, were not held accountable.
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: Yeah, and, Ibram Kendi, I wanted to ask you specifically about this issue of mob violence, because so many people here in the United States are treating this as an unprecedented event, but, as you mentioned, there's many examples throughout American history of mob violence by white mobs. I think of the Charleston — the burning of the Charleston post office in 1834 by a mob that was trying to seize abolitionist literature that was going through the South; the riots during the Civil War of whites attacking the Black community over the drafting of folks to fight in the Union Army; even 1962, the riots at University of Mississippi, hundreds of whites, armed, having shootouts with federal marshals protecting James Meredith's effort to desegregate the University of Mississippi. So, what do you think has touched so much a large part of America in terms of this particular — this particular example of mob violence?
IBRAM X. KENDI: I think the unfortunate fact is that those other cases of mob violence, the victims of that violence were Black folks, were Indigenous folks, were Latinx folks, were not the citadel of America. And so white Americans oftentimes did not see themselves as the victims of those mobs, even though the victims of those mobs were Americans and they should have seen themselves. And if we can collectively see ourselves through — you know, as victims of these mobs, I think we would have a better country. But the way in which we're able to do that is we gain a better understanding of African American history, which is why it was so crucial for Keisha Blain and I to put together Four Hundred Souls.
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: And, Professor Blain, in terms of the impeachment, a lot of people are suggesting that mere impeachment is not enough for what Donald Trump did, that he should instead be charged with incitement of criminal acts or possibly even sedition. Your response to that?
KEISHA BLAIN: Well, I think, quite frankly, we have to do everything possible to make sure that, one, that he does not run for office again, but also to ensure that we send a clear message that no future president can do what Donald Trump did. So, certainly, the impeachment is important, and I do think it's important that Trump is charged, because we really cannot approach this lightly. We cannot hold back and play games here, because, ultimately, whatever decision we make in this moment will determine the future of this nation.
AMY GOODMAN: And can you talk, Professor Blain, about this coalescence of white supremacists, whether we're talking about the Oath Keepers or the Proud Boys, the boogaloo bois, whether we're talking about QAnon, this moment in history, and then go back in time for us, because, obviously, as you are both just explaining, this is not new, as you so magnificently lay out in your book, Four Hundred Souls?
KEISHA BLAIN: Well, white supremacy, certainly as an idea, and even as a movement in the United States, has very deep roots. And we can see that, quite frankly, since the founding of the nation. And I think what is clear in this particular moment is that white supremacy continues to shape American life and culture, and the uprising which took place in January is just a recent manifestation of that. But we can draw the connections certainly to, you know, the KKK, which most people know, but, as you point out, there are so many different groups that we can identify, so many individuals. And I think, for me, even beyond the groups — certainly, we have to talk about the groups — I'm particularly concerned about white supremacy as an ideology and the way that it seeps into just everyday American life and the way that ordinary people accept these views and ultimately live out their lives demonstrating that they have no respect for Black people. And I think that's the danger of white supremacy, is the ideology and how it takes a hold of people.
AMY GOODMAN: Ibram X. Kendi, I'm looking at a quote from Pam Keith, a tweet: "Osama Bin Laden did not fly planes into any U.S. buildings. He just asked & inspired people to do it, drew money & resources to the effort, set the timing & launched the execution from afar. In what way was Donald Trump's role in 1/6" — January 6th — "ANY DIFFERENT?" If you could respond to this and then talk about the use of terms? As you both have described, this certainly is not the first time for mob violence, especially when it comes to African Americans. But when it hit the sanctuary of power in the United States, the sanctuary of democracy, it took on a very different — it had a very different effect when all saw it around the world.
IBRAM X. KENDI: So, if you're Donald Trump, and the only "success" — I have in quotes — that you achieved during your presidency was to cut taxes for the super rich, for people like you, and, meanwhile, your own voters, particularly working-class white men, are continuing to suffer — even before the COVID-19 pandemic — and as they suffer, you're telling them that the source of their suffering is not your do-nothing attitude, is not you continuing to pass policies that support corporate elites against their own livelihood, but that the source of their problem are those Latinx invaders, the source of their problems are the Black anarchists, the source of their problems are antifa, and then you cause them to believe that you have so much support that, certainly, you didn't lose an election, that it was stolen from you, and that this election was stolen from you just like your livelihood is being stolen from you by those Black voters in Philadelphia and Atlanta and in Detroit, you know, what do you think these folks are going to believe? What do you think they're going to do?
And then he tells them to go out and fight. I mean, and it's striking because, as Keisha said, the ideology of white supremacy mass manipulates people into engaging in violence against folks who actually are seeking to better their livelihood. And so, without question, Donald Trump has incited the violence on 1/6, but he has really incited so much more, you know, historically and currently, in this country.
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Amy Goodman is the host and executive producer of Democracy Now!, a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on more than 1,100 public television and radio stations worldwide. Time Magazine named Democracy Now! its "Pick of the Podcasts," along with NBC's "Meet the Press."
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1953-1957 The Roy Rogers Show (TV Series) (7 episodes)
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- Tossup (1956)
- His Weight in Wildcats (1956)
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- Fishing for Fingerprints (1956)
1956 Telephone Time (TV Series) (1 episode)
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1953-1956 Schlitz Playhouse (TV Series) (6 episodes)
- Always the Best Man (1956)
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- Jury of One (1955)
- The Ordeal of Dr. Sutton (1955)
- Rabbit Foot (1954)
1954-1956 It's a Great Life (TV Series) (62 episodes)
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- Old Soldiers Never Die (1956)
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1955-1956 TV Reader's Digest (TV Series) (9 episodes)
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- When the Wise Men Appeared (1955)
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1955 Stage 7 (TV Series) (1 episode)
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1953-1954 Private Secretary (TV Series) (5 episodes)
- Goodbye, Susie, Hello (1954)
- A Matter of Taste (1954)
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1954 Light's Diamond Jubilee (TV Movie documentary)
1954 The Lone Wolf (TV Series) (5 episodes)
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- The Robbery Story (a.k.a. Memo: Robbery)
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1953 Four Star Playhouse (TV Series) (1 episode)
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1951 The Thing from Another World
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1948 One Sunday Afternoon
1948 Fighter Squadron
1948 Red River
1948 My Girl Tisa
1947 Cheyenne
1947 Pursued
1946 Shadow of a Woman
1946 Cloak and Dagger
1946 The Big Sleep (film editor)
1946 Janie Gets Married
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Karen Jones Meadows as Harriet Tubman. Photo by Gerry Goodstein.
I have mixed feelings about solo shows, so I wasn't sure what to expect from Karen Jones Meadows' one woman show Harriet's Return (written and performed by Meadows under the direction of Clinton Turner Davis). But once the show got going, I just found myself wishing it would never end. Playing Harriet Tubman from age six to ninety (and other characters), Meadows' performance surges with power, catching the passionate, fighting spirit of Harriet herself. It's a power that transcends time and place and finally passes from Harriet to the audience.
Astutely written as well as performed, Harriet's Return traces Harriet Tubman's life from willful slave girl to Civil War spy and women's rights activist. It covers her early marriage, her escape from slavery in Maryland, her many rescue missions via the Underground Railroad, her meeting with abolitionist John Brown, and even the retirement home she founded later in life.
But this is much more than just a history lesson. With each episode, Meadows' Harriet emerges more clearly as a deeply human hero. She loves others to her own detriment. She tries to ignore, then understand, and finally follow the voices in her head. She aches to be a wife and mother. She learns to be fearless. She gives others a home, only to lack one herself. She's illiterate, but she has a primal wisdom. In many ways, she's a Joan of Arc figure: acting on the voices in her head, leading her people to freedom, but at a personal cost. It's no wonder many people took to calling her "Moses."
Presented through a combination of Woodie King, Jr.'s New Federal Theatre and Castillo Theatre (the latter is also the venue), Harriet's Return may be a "solo show," but it's clear that other people than Meadows and Davis were involved in production. Take, for instance, the varied costumes by Ali Turns, which signal changes in Harriet's age or position, and keep the action feeling fresh and lively. Or take Chris Cumberbatch's set, reminiscent of a primeval forest - which illuminates Harriet's struggle to emerge from the darkness of prejudice and oppression, but also recalls Harriet's vague, shadowy sense of her heritage.
Meadows' performance is electric. There were times when the audience around me couldn't keep from cheering out and applauding, such as when Harriet steps up to the porch of the Quaker woman who will set her on the road to freedom, or when Harriet realizes that running away to the North will be both the hardest and the best thing she'll ever do. I found the end of the play most moving, when Harriet speaks at the first meeting of the National Association of Colored Women and realizes that, without having children of her own, she's become a mother to thousands.
That may include the people who have just lived with her through 90 or so years via Meadows' performance. At the end of the piece, Harriet/Meadows turns the lights onto us - inviting the audience to keep fighting the good fight. "We the ones," she says: we're the ones who have and are going to change the world.
Meadows' rare gift for storytelling includes the ability to project the power of the story onto her audience - imbuing us with the strength and energy of her heroine. Somehow, somewhere along the way, we have all become Harriet without realizing it. It fits with the play's first scene, which jarred me at first but which now I understand. Harriet's Return means more than just the return of Harriet's story onstage. It means a collective return to the clear sight and fearlessness of "Mother Harriet."


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El idioma español en Trinidad y Tobago es hablado por una minoría significativa de la población, que ha crecido sustancialmente gracias a la inmigración masiva de venezolanos debido a la crisis que viene sufriendo dicho país en la última década. Otros idiomas de habla local son el inglés (oficial) y otras lenguas no oficiales como el bhojpuri, el arahuaco, el creole francés y otros. Además, el español en este país caribeño tiene un estatuto especial, se promueve su estudio y enseñanza en los centros educativos, lo que le permite sobre todo tener buenas relaciones con otros países sudamericanos sobre todo con la cercana Venezuela.

La música parang (parranda, en español) caracteriza la Navidad  de Trinidad y Tobago y se refleja en canciones tradicionales en español y danzas folclóricas hispanas. Se discute el origen del "parang". Algunos mantienen que la costumbre fue introducida por España durante la época colonial española de Trinidad (1498-1797). Otros creen que sus raíces están en los intercambios comerciales con Venezuela. En Navidad muchas bandas de "parang" cantan por todo el país y se baila al son de esta música.

Resumen general
El inglés es la lengua oficial de Trinidad y Tobago. Algunos indotrinitobaguenses hablan hindi, el cual se usa ampliamente en la música popular. El idioma más hablado es el inglés de Trinidad. Este se clasifica como dialecto del inglés o como inglés criollo (inglés criollo trinitense). El idioma principalmente hablado en Tobago es el inglés criollo de Tobago. Ambas lenguas contienen elementos africanos; el inglés de Trinidad también tiene influencias del francés y el hindi. Estas lenguas criollas se hablan normalmente en situaciones informales únicamente, y no hay un sistema normalizado de escritura.

Aunque el francés criollo fue la lengua más extendida en la isla, hoy apenas se utiliza. Debido a la proximidad de Trinidad y Tobago con la costa de Venezuela, el país está desarrollando lentamente una relación con los pueblos hispanohablantes y, por lo tanto, el gobierno exige que el español se enseñe en todos los centros de secundaria, lo que hace que gane terreno día a día. En concreto, en 2004 el gobierno designó al español como Primera Lengua Extranjera (EPLE, SAFFL en inglés), iniciada en marzo de 2005.

Las normativas del gobierno actual requieren que el español se enseñe a todos los estudiantes de nivel secundario, logrando así que en un plazo de cinco años (hacia 2010) el 30 % de los empleados públicos sean competentes en dicho idioma.

Se documenta en textos antiguos la existencia de una pequeña comunidad hispanohablante relictica hasta el siglo XX en algunos puntos de la isla, pero puede tratarse de una afirmación filohispánica debido al conocimiento del idioma por parte de los habitantes debido a las relaciones comerciales con Venezuela.

Asimismo, el país es hogar de una notable y creciente comunidad hispanohablante, principalmente venezolana, de aproximadamente unas 60 000 personas.

Véase también

 Idioma español
 Cocoa panyols
 Inmigración venezolana en Trinidad y Tobago

Referencias

Trinidad
Lenguas de Trinidad y Tobago

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OUT of a well-worn English comedy by Harold Brig-house, entitled "Hobson's Choice." which falls between the works of Arnold Bennett and J. M. Barrie in its literary style, David Lean has produced and directed a delightful and rewarding British film. It goes by the name of the original and opened yesterday at the Paris.Those who have wished for some time that Charles Laughton might have a role worthy of his skill and his perception in transmitting character will be pleased to discover that he has it in this particularly characterful film. And they'll be pleased to note that Brenda de Banzie and John Mills match him squarely all the way.For this is the ale-and-pudding story of a tyrannical papa in a Lancashire town who tries to maintain his three daughters in a state of peonage in his bootmaker's shop. It tells how the eldest of these daughters hooks and weds the humble craftsman who makes the boots and builds him up into a competent tradesman so that he is able to challenge the tyranny of the old man.Naturally, Mr. Laughton plays the latter role, and he is the windy and bibulous curmudgeon right down to the ground. From his somewhat voluminous entrance on the crest of a characteristic belch, he is the utter personification of pompous egoism and stinginess. A pinchfist of mammoth proportions and a fat-head of bloated conceits, he is wicked and funny and pitiful, separately and on the whole.Mr. Lean, who assisted on the screen play as well as directed and produced, has made Mr. Laughton's characterization something more than a big bombastic bump. He has made it Falstaffian in its facets. There is in this lumbering' Lancashire lug the evidences of black reaction in the booming nineteenth-century commercial age. This comical drunk and domestic dragon is the shell of an outworn social type. He's the shade of the mercantile master, the shape of the class-claiming clown.Every scene performed by Mr. Laughton has its distinguished points. When he is lordly and cruel in his household, he is so in a broad but vicious way. When he is boastful and brazen with his cronies, he is dappled with measly treachery. And when he is taking refuge in spiritous liquors, he is full of complete low comedy.But he has to fight for attention and for the honors in the film for Miss de Banzie is fine as his eldest daughter and Mr. Mills is superb as the man she weds. As the exponent of the petticoat influence that commands the developments in this tale, Miss de Banzie shows a thorough, shrewd awareness of the secrets that every woman knows. What's more, she is tender and very moving in her growing attachment to her man. And Mr. Mills is hilariously revealing of an humble slavey who is made to grow.Many others in the cast also are excellent-Daphne Anderson and Prunella Scales as the two other daughters, Joseph Tomelty as one of the old man's pals and Richard Wattis and Derek Blomfield as the stuffed shirts the other daughters wed. The musical score is most appropriate and the setting of a nineteenth-century town is full of smoky flavor."Hobson's Choice" is a choice to approve.


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Archives by category > Protective Systems – Naval (RSS)
RIM-162 ESSM Missile: Naval Anti-Air in a Quad Pack
Jan 03, 2022 04:56 UTC
Latest updates[?]: Raytheon won a $55 million contract modification for engineering and technical services in support of the Evolved Seasparrow Missile and NATO Seasparrow Missile Systems programs. The deal combines purchases for the US government and the governments of Japan and United Arab Emirates under the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) program. The Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile (ESSM) or RIM-162 is a medium-range, surface-to-air missile. The missile is currently in service with the US Navy and some of the 12 Nato Sea Sparrow consortium nations. Work will take place in Arizona, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Spain, Australia and Greece. Estimated completion date will be in December 2022.
RIM-162: sections
The RIM-162 Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile (ESSM) is used to protect ships from attacking missiles and aircraft, and is designed to counter supersonic maneuvering anti-ship missiles. Compared to the RIM-7 Sea Sparrow, ESSM is effectively a new missile with a larger, more powerful rocket motor for increased range, a different aerodynamic layout for improved agility, and the latest missile guidance technology. Testing has even shown the ESSM to be effective against fast surface craft, an option that greatly expands the missile's utility. As a further bonus, the RIM-162 ESSM has the ability to be "quad-packed" in the Mk 41 vertical launching system, allowing 4 missiles to be carried per launch cell instead of loading one larger SM-2 Standard missile or similar equipment.
This is DID's FOCUS article for the program, containing details about the RIM-162 Evolved Sea Sparrow missile family, and contracts placed under this program since 1999. The Sea Sparrow was widely used aboard NATO warships, so it isn't surprising that the ESSM is an international program. The NATO Sea Sparrow Consortium includes Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Greece, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, and the USA – as well as non-NATO Australia. Foreign Military Sales ESSM customers outside this consortium include Japan, Thailand, and the United Arab Emirates.
Raytheon's Standard Missile Naval Defense Family (SM-1 to SM-6)
Dec 23, 2021 04:56 UTC
Latest updates[?]: Raytheon Missiles & Defense won a $578.3M firm-fixed-price modification to procure Standard Missile-2 (SM-2) production requirements. Requirements include all up rounds, instrumentation kits, engineering services and spares; and to definitize the long-lead-material undefinitized contract action in support of the Navy and the governments of Korea, Denmark, Taiwan, Netherlands, Spain, Chile, Japan and Germany. Estimated completion will be by December 2026.
SM-2 Launch, DDG-77
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Variants of the SM-2 Standard missile are the USA's primary fleet defense anti-air weapon, and serve with 13 navies worldwide. The most common variant is the RIM-66K-L/ SM-2 Standard Block IIIB, which entered service in 1998. The Standard family extends far beyond the SM-2 missile, however; several nations still use the SM-1, the SM-3 is rising to international prominence as a missile defense weapon, and the SM-6 program is on track to supplement the SM-2. These missiles are designed to be paired with the AEGIS radar and combat system, but can be employed independently by ships with older or newer radar systems.
This article covers each variant in the Standard missile family, plus several years worth of American and Foreign Military Sales requests and contracts and key events; and offers the budgetary, technical, and geopolitical background that can help put all that in context.
Serious Dollars for AEGIS Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD)
Nov 24, 2021 04:58 UTC
Latest updates[?]: Lockheed Martin won a $114.6 million modification to exercise an option for AEGIS Combat System Engineering Agent efforts for the design, development, integration, test and delivery of Advanced Capability Build 20. The Aegis Combat System is the Navy's most modern surface combat system. It was designed as a complete system: the missile launching element, the computer programs, the radar and the displays are fully integrated to work together. This makes the Aegis system the first fully integrated combat system built to defend against advanced air and surface threats. The word "aegis" comes to use from classical mythology. Aegis is the name of the shield of the sky god and war goddess of the ancient Greeks and Romans. Work will take place in New Jersey. Expected completion will be by December 2022.
AEGIS-BMD: CG-70
launches SM-3
The AEGIS Ballistic Missile Defense System seamlessly integrates the SPY-1 radar, the MK 41 Vertical Launching System for missiles, the SM-3 Standard missile, and the ship's command and control system, in order to give ships the ability to defend against enemy ballistic missiles. Like its less-capable AEGIS counterpart, AEGIS BMD can also work with other radars on land and sea via Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC). That lets it receive cues from other platforms and provide information to them, in order to create a more detailed battle picture than any one radar could produce alone.
AEGIS has become a widely-deployed top-tier air defense system, with customers in the USA, Australia, Japan, South Korea, Norway, and Spain. In a dawning age of rogue states and proliferation of mass-destruction weapons, the US Navy is being pushed toward a "shield of the nation" role as the USA's most flexible and most numerous option for missile defense. AEGIS BMD modifications are the keystone of that effort – in the USA, and beyond.
LCS: The USA's Littoral Combat Ships
Oct 06, 2021 04:58 UTC
Latest updates[?]: Lockheed Martin won an $80 million contract modification to exercise options for littoral combat ship class design services and integrated data and product model environment support. According to the Defense Department, The US Navy plans to build a fleet of 33 literal combat ocean going warships that are also capable of operating in shallow coastal waters. Work will take place in New Jersey, Washington DC and Wisconsin. Estimated completion will be by October 2022.
Austal Team
Trimaran LCS Design
Exploit simplicity, numbers, the pace of technology development in electronics and robotics, and fast reconfiguration. That was the US Navy's idea for the low-end backbone of its future surface combatant fleet. Inspired by successful experiments like Denmark's Standard Flex ships, the US Navy's $35+ billion "Littoral Combat Ship" program was intended to create a new generation of affordable surface combatants that could operate in dangerous shallow and near-shore environments, while remaining affordable and capable throughout their lifetimes.
It hasn't worked that way. In practice, the Navy hasn't been able to reconcile what they wanted with the capabilities needed to perform primary naval missions, or with what could be delivered for the sums available. The LCS program has changed its fundamental acquisition plan 4 times since 2005, and canceled contracts with both competing teams during this period, without escaping any of its fundamental issues. Now, the program looks set to end early. This public-access FOCUS article offer a wealth of research material, alongside looks at the LCS program's designs, industry teams procurement plans, military controversies, budgets and contracts.
DDG Type 45: Britain's Shrinking Air Defense Fleet
Jul 08, 2021 04:58 UTC
Latest updates[?]: MBDA announced it will for the first time pair a CAMM (Common Anti-Air Modular Missile) missile with an upgraded Sea Viper command and control (C2) system on board the Royal Nay's Type 45 destroyers. CAMM offers both close-in and local-area air defence, and will complement Aster 30, strengthening the anti-air defence capability of the Royal Navy.
Daring Class
The 5,200t Type 42 Sheffield Class destroyers were designed in the late 1960s to provide fleet area air-defense for Britain's Royal Navy, after the proposed Type 82 air defense cruisers were canceled by the Labour Government in 1966. Britain built 14 of the Type 42s, but these old ships are reaching the limits of their operational lives and effectiveness.
To replace them, the Royal Navy planned to induct 12 Type 45 Daring Class destroyers. The Daring class would be built to deal with a new age of threats. Saturation attacks with supersonic ship-killing missiles, that fly from the ship's radar horizon to ship impact in under 45 seconds. The reality of future threats from ballistic missiles, and WMD proliferation. Plus a proliferation of possible threats involving smaller, hard to detect enemies like UAVs. Overall, the Type 45s promise to be one of the world's most capable air defense ships – but design choices have left the cost-to-value ratio uncertain, and limited the Type 45s in other key roles. A reduced 6-ship program moved forward.
Phalanx CIWS: The Last Defense, On Ship and Ashore
Jun 25, 2021 04:58 UTC
Latest updates[?]: Raytheon won a $136.4 million deal for MK 15 close-in weapon system upgrades and conversions, system overhauls and associated hardware. MK 15 Phalanx CIWS provides ships of the US Navy with an inner layer point defense capability against anti-ship missiles, aircraft and littoral warfare threats that have penetrated other fleet defenses. Phalanx automatically detects, evaluates, tracks, engages and performs kill assessment against ASM and high-speed aircraft threats. This contract combines purchases for the Navy (85%); and the government of South Korea (15%), under the foreign military sales program. If all options are exercised, work will continue through September 2026.
Phalanx, firing
The radar-guided, rapid-firing MK 15 Phalanx Close-In Weapons System (CIWS, pron. "see-whiz") can fire between 3,000-4,500 20mm cannon rounds per minute, either autonomously or under manual command, as a last-ditch defense against incoming missiles and other targets. Phalanx uses closed-loop spotting with advanced radar and computer technology to locate, identify and direct a stream of armor piercing projectiles toward the target. These capabilities have made the Phalanx CIWS a critical bolt-on sub-system for naval vessels around the world, and led to the C-RAM/Centurion, a land-based system designed to defend against incoming artillery and mortars.
This DID Spotlight article offers updated, in-depth coverage that describes ongoing deployment and research projects within the Phalanx family of weapons, the new land-based system's new technologies and roles, and international contracts from FY 2005 onward. As of Feb 28/07, more than 895 Phalanx systems had been built and deployed in the navies of 22 nations.
USN Ship Protection: From "Slick 32s" to SEWIP
Latest updates[?]: Lockheed Martin won a $14.1 million contract modification for AN/SLQ-32(V)6 design agent engineering services. The AN/SLQ-32 is a shipboard electronic warfare suite built by Raytheon and the Hughes Aircraft Company. It is currently the primary electronic warfare system in use by US Navy ships. AN/SLQ-32(V)6, the latest fielded variant of the AN/SLQ-32, incorporates receiver, antenna and combat system interface upgrades developed under the SEWIP Block 2 ACAT II program and adds the High Gain High Sensitivity adjunct sensor developed under the SEWIP Block 1B3 ACAT II program. Work will take place in Syracuse, New York, and is expected to be completed by November 2021.
The US Navy's AN/SLQ-32 ECM (Electronic Countermeasures) system uses radar warning receivers, and in some cases active jamming, as the part of ships' self-defense system. The "Slick 32s" provides warning of incoming attacks, and is integrated with the ships' defenses to trigger Rapid Blooming Offboard Chaff (RBOC) and other decoys, which can fire either semi-automatically or on manual direction from a ship's ECM operators.
The "Slick 32" variants are based on modular building blocks, and each variant is suited to a different type of ship. Most of these systems were designed in the 1970s, however, and are based on 1960s-era technology. Unfortunately, the SLQ-32 was notable for its failure when the USS Stark was hit by Iraqi Exocet missiles in 1987. The systems have been modernized somewhat, but in an era that features more and more supersonic ship-killing missiles, with better radars and advanced electronics, SLQ-32's fundamental electronic hardware architecture is inadequate. Hence the Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program (SEWIP).
Australia's Hazard(ous) Frigate Upgrades: Done at Last
Feb 18, 2020 04:54 UTC
Latest updates[?]: Saab has signed an agreement with Australia to provide combat management systems for Navy's surface ships. According to the agreement, Saab will deliver its Next Generation' Combat Management System (CMS) to Australia's new Arafura Class offshore patrol vessels (OPVs) and the Supply class auxiliary oiler replenishment (AOR) ships. Saab will also modernize the 9LV CMS currently in use in the Anzac Class frigates and will provide the software for the future tactical interface for the Hobart class air warfare destroyer (AWDs) when their current CMS is modernized.
The FFG-7 Oliver Hazard Perry Class frigates make for a fascinating defense procurement case study. To this day, the ships are widely touted as a successful example of cost containment and avoidance of requirements creep – both of which have been major weaknesses in US Navy acquisition. On the other hand, compromises made to meet short-term cost targets resulted in short service lives and decisions to retire, sell, or downgrade the ships instead of upgrading them.
Australia's 6 ships of this class have served alongside the RAN's more modern ANZAC Class frigates, which are undergoing upgrades of their own to help them handle the reality of modern anti-ship missiles. With the SEA 4000 Hobart Class air warfare frigates still just a gleam in an admiral's eye, the government looked for a way to upgrade their FFG-7 "Adelaide Class" to keep them in service until 2020 or so. The SEA 1390 project wasn't what you'd call a success… but Australia accepted their last frigate in 2010, and the 4 remaining ships will serve until 2020.
SSDS: Quicker Naval Response to Cruise Missiles
Aug 19, 2019 04:56 UTC
Latest updates[?]: Lockheed Martin won a $56 million deal for combat system engineering support on the Ship Self-Defense System (SSDS). Under the contract, the SSDS combat system engineering agent and software design agent primary deliverables will be SSDS tactical computer programs, program updates and associated engineering, development and logistics products. The contract will manage the in-service SSDS configurations as well as adapt and integrate new or upgraded war-fighting capabilities. Lockheed will perform work in Moorestown, New Jersey and San Diego, California. Estimated completion date is in December.
Right now, in many American ships beyond its Navy's top-tier AEGIS destroyers and cruisers, the detect-to-engage sequence against anti-ship missiles requires a lot of manual steps, involving different ship systems that use different displays. When a Mach 3 missile gives you 45 seconds from appearance on ship's radar to impact, seconds of delay can be fatal. Seconds of unnecessary delay are unacceptable.
Hence Raytheon's Ship Self Defense System (SSDS), which is currently funded under the US Navy's Quick Reaction Combat Capability program. It's widely used as a combat system in America's carrier and amphibious fleets. That can be challenging for its developers, given the wide array of hardware and systems it needs to work with. Consistent testing reports indicate that this is indeed the case, and SSDS has its share of gaps and issues. It also has a series of upgrade programs underway, in order to add new capabilities. Managing these demands effectively will have a big impact on the survivability of the US Navy's most important power projection assets.
CEC: Cooperative Engagement for Fleet Defense
May 10, 2019 04:58 UTC
Latest updates[?]: Raytheon won a $15.3 million contract in support of the Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC). The deal includes design agent and engineering service efforts. According to Raytheon, the CEC program provides a sensor network with integrated fire control capability that significantly improves strike force air and missile defense capabilities by coordinating measurement data from strike force air search sensors on CEC-equipped units into a single, integrated real-time, composite track air picture. CEC improves battle force effectiveness by improving overall situational awareness and by enabling longer range, cooperative, multiple, or layered engagement strategies. CEC will be designed to help the military service coordinate measurement data from sensors during strike force air search missions and facilitate battle force situational awareness. Raytheon will perform work in Florida. The scheduled completion date is in September 2022.
CEC Concept
Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC) is the US Navy's secret weapon. Actually, it's not so secret. It's just that its relatively low price means often leads people to overlook the revolutionary change it creates for wide-area fleet air and ballistic missile defense.
CEC is far more than a mere data-sharing program, or even a sensor fusion effort. The concept behind CEC is a sensor netting system that allows ships, aircraft, and even land radars to pool their radar and sensor information together, creating a very powerful and detailed picture that's much finer, more wide-ranging, and more consistent than any one of them could generate on its own. The data is then shared among all ships and participating systems, using secure frequencies. It's a simple premise, but a difficult technical feat. With huge implications.
This DID FOCUS Article explains those mechanics and implications. It will also track ongoing research, updates, and contracts related to CEC capabilities from 2000 forward.
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Q: Computer Science Theory: Image Similarity So I'm trying to run a comparison of different images and was wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction for some basic metrics I can take for the group of images.
Assuming I have two images, A and B, I pretty much want as much data as possible about each so I can later programmatically compare them. Things like "general color", "general shape", etc. would be great.
If you can help me find specific properties and algorithms to compute them that would be great!
Thanks!
EDIT: The end goal here is to be able to have a computer tell me how "similar" too pictures are. If two images are the same but in one someone blurred out a face; they should register as fairly similar. If two pictures are completely different, the computer should be able to tell.

A: What you are talking about is way much general and non-specific.
Image information is formalised as Entropy.
What you seem to be looking for is basically feature extraction and then comparing these features. There are tons of features that can be extracted but a lot of them could be irrelevant depending on the differences in the pictures.
There are space domain and frequency domain descriptors of the image which each can be useful here. I can probably name more than 100 descriptors but in your case, only one could be sufficient or none could be useful.
Pre-processing is also important, perhaps you could turn your images to grey-scale and then compare them.
This field is so immensely diverse, so you need to be a bit more specific.
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What you are looking for is a topic of hundreds if not thousands of scientific articles. But well, perhaps a simplistic approach can work.
So assuming that the question here is not identifying objects and there is no transform, translation, scale or rotation involved and we are only dealing with the two images which are the same but one could have more noise added upon it:
1) Image domain (space domain): Compare the pixels one by one and add up the square of the differences. Normalise this value by the width*height - just divide by the number of pixels. This could be a useful measure of similarity.
2) Frequency domain: Convert the image to frequency domain image (using FTT in an image processing tool such as OpenCV) which will be 2D as well. Do the same above squared diff as above, but perhaps you want to limit the frequencies. Then normalise by the number of pixels. This fares better on noise and translation and on a small rotation but not on scale.

A: SURF is a good candidate algorithm for comparing images
Wikipedia Article
A practical example (in Mathematica), identifying corresponding points in two images of the moon (rotated, colorized and blurred) :

A: You can also calculate sum of differences between histogram bins of those two images. But it is also not a silver bullet...

A: I recommend taking a look at OpenCV.  The package offers most (if not all) of the techniques mentioned above.


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The Unintended Consequences Of A Program Designed To Help Homeowners
By Shankar Vedantam • Jul 22, 2015
Originally published on July 22, 2015 2:43 pm
If you're in the news business, you believe transparency is good. And it is usually a good idea for companies and governments to let the public in on what they're doing. But new social science research suggests that sometimes transparency has unintended consequences. That's what NPR's Shankar Vedantam disclosed to our own David Greene.
DAVID GREENE, HOST:
And Shankar brought us some research from the state of Maryland. Shankar, what is this research, and how does it suggest that transparency could be a bad thing?
SHANKAR VEDANTAM, BYLINE: You know, as a card-carrying journalist, I did a double take when I saw this research, David. Michael Collins at the University of Wisconsin recently studied the effect of transparency laws on the recent housing crisis. As lots of homeowners were facing foreclosure in 2008, many states asked the companies that were servicing mortgage loans to report on what they were doing to help homeowners stay in their homes. The state of Maryland told companies, draw up a list of all the homeowners who are in trouble, share the list with us and tell us what you are doing to help these people.
GREENE: And this somehow turned out badly for homeowners?
VEDANTAM: Collins finds this transparency law caused some homeowners to be turned out of their homes. So a policy that was designed to help struggling homeowners ended up hurting some of them.
GREENE: And how did these researchers know that?
VEDANTAM: Here's how Collins found this out. It turns out the state of Maryland has jurisdiction over only some companies that were servicing mortgages in Maryland. So what Collins did is he compared homeowners who were with companies that were subject to these transparency provisions against homeowners who were with companies that were not subject to these transparency provisions.
GREENE: And homeowners with mortgages and these companies that were under this law and being forced to disclose this information, they were the ones who were being kicked out on a larger scale.
VEDANTAM: That's right. So here's what happened. When companies put together the detailed information on homeowners who were in trouble, they worked with some of these homeowners and indeed offered better terms so people could stay in their homes. So that's an example of the policy working exactly as it was designed to work. But in other cases, the very act of systematically documenting which mortgages were in trouble caused the same companies to say, look, we better cut our losses here and institute foreclosure proceedings.
GREENE: Which, Shankar, does not seem to make sense at all. I mean, these companies that already had information on the homeowners, they're just basically being told by the state government that they need to disclose this information. I mean, why would that lead them to then kick people out of their houses?
VEDANTAM: Well, that's a good question, David. Collins argues that it has something to do with a phenomenon known as the status quo bias. And let me just explain what that is. You know, when you and I are stuck in a bad job or a bad relationship, David...
GREENE: Neither of which are the case for the both of us, I'm sure.
VEDANTAM: (Laughter) But we often find it difficult to extricate ourselves from difficult situations. So the status quo might be bad, but people find they can't change the situation. They can't change the status quo. Part of the problem is that we often have so many things going on, we get distracted from attending to the serious problems that we're actually facing. Collins thinks the same thing is happening with the companies. They effectively had all the information that they needed, but they also had their head in the sand about some of the loans that they were servicing. The state requirement that they carefully document which homeowners were in trouble essentially made the problem clear to them. Here's Collins.
MICHAEL COLLINS: What's interesting is that we find that firms do the exact same thing that all of us do, which is we tend to settle for the status quo. However the condition of the world is today, the inertia it takes us to move to a different condition is mightier than it might seem. And so we tend to just do nothing.
VEDANTAM: Here's the bottom line, David. Transparency is actually only a tool. Even as the state of Maryland was using it to try and protect homeowners, companies were using the same information to make financial decisions. They were saying, look, in some of these cases, we should just start foreclosure proceedings. And the people in these homes ended up being hurt by the transparency laws.
GREENE: Imagine it would be hard to tell politicians and people in the government, though, if they see a problem, the best thing is to do just don't talk about it and don't bring it up.
VEDANTAM: So the complicated thing is that sometimes transparency is good, and sometimes it's bad. I think as journalists and as policymakers, we like to imagine that it's always good. And what Collins's research is suggesting is that it's a more nuanced conclusion than we should draw.
GREENE: Shankar, thanks as always.
VEDANTAM: Thank you, David.
GREENE: That's NPR's Shankar Vedantam who regularly comes in to talk about social science research. You can follow him on Twitter @hiddenbrain, and you can find this program on Twitter @MorningEdition. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


Saturday night my husband and I will be attending a Halloween party. I really want to bring cupcakes that say "TA-DA!" I think I have finally figured out what I am going to bake for my Halloween treats. As I have been searching the internet, I have come across more ideas for Halloween cupcakes. Some of them look very time-consuming, others look so simple. Enjoy!
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It's important to change your routine as soon as you notice even slight differences to it. I got in touch with Jacqui from Accentuate Hair and Makeup to get some tips to nourish ourselves this winter, this is what she had to say.
As your skin loses more natural oils and becomes drier and dehydrated you will need to compensate by changing your skincare routine.
Even if you are oily, you will still need to ensure your skin is well cared for and nourished. Oily skins will benefit from a lotion rather than a cream.
Drier and more mature skins will need to change to a heavier duty cream and of course eye and face serums. Remember to keep you lips nice and hydrated too, lipstick never looks good on dry lips.
Exfoliate twice a week to get rid of all the dead skin and allow your nourishing products to sink in – this goes for face and body.
Up your water intake, a well hydrated body really does plump out the fine lines and enhance your natural glow.
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Q: Can I test a (spring) controller in a library I have created a java-module which contains a Controller. The module can be used by applications based on springboot.
Obviously the java-module does not have a class annotated with @SpringBootApplication.
Is it possible to test the functionality of the controller in the java-module anyway?
Until now, I have tried multiple things, but this is the closest I've got:
Note: Imports are left out for better readability.
    @SpringBootTest(classes = {ControllerTest.TestConfig.class}, webEnvironment =  SpringBootTest.WebEnvironment.DEFINED_PORT)
    @ExtendWith(SpringExtension.class)
    @ActiveProfiles({"default", "test"})
    @Import(ControllerTest.TestConfig.class)

    class ControllerTest {
        @Test
        void test() {
            // Do a http request
        }

        @Configuration
        @ComponentScan("nl.example")
        public static class TestConfig {
        }
    }

When I run this test, I get the following error:
Unable to start ServletWebServerApplicationContext due to missing ServletWebServerFactory bean.

Using spring boot version 2.1.11.RELEASE and spring version 5.1.11.RELEASE.


Some unexpected ingredients get thrown into Kate Armstrong's (Catherine Zeta-Jones) recipe for life when the master chef unexpectedly becomes the guardian of her nine-year-old niece Zoe (Abigail Breslin) and a handsome-but-frustrating suos-chef (Aaron Eckhart) joins her kitchen staff.
Why is No Reservations rated PG? The MPAA rated No Reservations PG for some sensuality and language.
Romance happens in all kinds of locations from the tollbooth in While You Were Sleeping to a garden greenhouse in Sabrina. So it's no surprise love is heating up in the kitchen.
As an executive chef in a New York restaurant, Kate Armstrong's (Catherine Zeta-Jones) life is dictated by a long list of rules—-everything from whom she'll date to how she runs her kitchen. These regulations keep her safely distanced from all those around her. But her tightly controlled routine is shattered when her sister, Christine (Arija Bareikis), is killed in a traffic accident, leaving Kate responsible for her young niece Zoe (Abigail Breslin).
Although Kate may be a perfectionist in the kitchen, she is a long way from mastering the role of motherhood. Adjusting to her new responsibilities and juggling her demanding work, she occasionally leaves Zoe alone at home and once forgets to pick her up from school. Even finding food the nine-year-old will eat seems to be a daunting task.
Yet as unsettled as things are at home, life gets even hotter in the restaurant after the owner (Patricia Clarkson) hires a new sous-chef without Kate's approval. Nick Palmer (Aaron Eckhart) is everything the master chef is not. He brings an air of fun to the intense kitchen, singing along with opera and joking around with the line cooks. He even whips up a recipe Zoe is willing to try. And although his arrival behind the stainless steel counter initially leaves Kate boiling mad, she soon finds herself warming up to the new assistant.
Like most love stories, this one doesn't always run smoothly, especially with a high-strung participant like Kate. Luckily for viewers, the film contains little in the ways of content concerns. Brief sexual comments and profanities are used along with some depictions of alcohol use and a scene of passionate kissing, implying the couple spends the night together.
Cooking up a recipe for love, the film uses all the classic ingredients. Still, the final dish is a palatable romance that comes with few reservations for adult viewers.
Why is No Reservations rated PG? No Reservations is rated PG by the MPAA for some sensuality and language.
Kate's sister is killed during a traffic accident, and although details are not shown, the injured, grieving Zoe is seen in the hospital. Alcohol is served in the restaurant and after work, Kate and Nick share a drink. Later Kate appears to be drunk. She also hires a babysitter who leaves behind an ashtray full of cigarette butts. A couple passionately kisses and it is implied they spend the night together. Dialogue includes some sexual comments and repeated terms of Deity used as expletives.
As part of her employment requirements Kate must enroll in therapy. How effective do her sessions seem to be? What part does her attitude play?
Kate is a disciplined, controlled woman. How do those attributes contribute to her success as a chef? What life experiences may have contributed to her personality? How do those traits negatively impact her life?
How does Zoe deal with the death of her mother? Why is she afraid of forgetting her mom? In what ways can adults help children cope with tragedy?
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In Raising Helen, a young woman in the modeling business becomes the guardian of three children. In Fly Away Home, another car accident forces an estranged father to assume total responsibility for his grieving daughter.


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Virginia Dems' Exotic Vacations Will Keep Them from Codifying 'Abortion Rights'
Published by CV News Feed at December 18, 2021
CV NEWS FEED // Some Virginia Democrats had hoped to codify so-called "abortion rights" into law before their party loses complete political control of Virginia in a few weeks. However, several Democratic lawmakers have put that plan in peril because of planned vacations in Hawaii and Europe.
With the Supreme Court "likely to roll back or overturn Roe v. Wade next year, Democrats have issued dire warnings about the potential consequences, which could include at least 22 states moving swiftly to ban or severely restrict abortion access," the New York Times reported. "The party's options are limited at the federal and state levels, but many of its lawmakers have vowed to do whatever they can to protect the right to an abortion."
"Democrats have less than a month left controlling Virginia before Republicans take over the House of Delegates and the governor's mansion," the Times explained. "With the clock ticking, many in the party want to seize what they see as a fleeting opportunity: protecting abortion rights by codifying them into state law."
"But Democratic leaders in the State Senate have dismissed the idea — and not on policy grounds or over concerns about political messaging," the Times reported. "Several of the chamber's members don't want to change their vacation plans."
"One senator is traveling in Africa," according to the Times. "Others are in Europe. And the majority leader is headed to Hawaii."
Majority Leader Richard L. Saslaw spoke to the press in California, "where he was en route to the Aloha State," about his fellow Virginia Democrats' cry for help in codifying so-called "abortion rights" before Republicans take power and the Supreme Court empowers them to act in defense of the unborn.
"We discussed it," he said. "There are too many people out of town."
"The state's General Assembly does not allow proxy or remote voting, and Democrats' paper-thin majority in the State Senate requires all members to be present to pass contentious legislation," according to the Times.
The "intraparty dispute in Virginia" is just one example of the fact that Democratic leaders are becoming "wary about confronting the issue head-on," the Times reported, citing the inability of Democrats in Congress to codify Roe v. Wade into federal law.
Virginia Democrats' "21-to-19 majority in the State Senate includes moderates and one member who opposes abortion rights." The Times noted a tendency for there to be a "split" between older, more established Democratic lawmakers and younger and more radical ones.
On the national level, however, Democrats are similarly unlikely to meaningfully thwart the pro-life movement's momentum in the Supreme Court and the Republican Party, the Times reported.
The situation in Virginia is "an echo of Democrats' rationale in Congress, where their proposals stand little chance of becoming law under the Senate's current legislative rules, which require 60 votes to proceed," according to the Times. "A liberal group of senators trying to change those procedures to enact voting rights legislation has so far been thwarted by a few centrist Democrats."
Meanwhile, states have enacted 106 pro-life laws this year, "the most passed since Roe was decided in 1973, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a liberal research group," the Times noted.
In Virginia, Democrats considered taking action in November as they reeled from their electoral losses but decided against it. Then a series of Supreme Court rulings and hearings on abortion rights heightened the urgency for Democrats, with Republicans set to take the House majority on Jan. 12. Mr. Youngkin will be inaugurated as governor three days later.
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Pot holes pot holes pot holes !!!!
13:27, Sunday, last updated 08:53, Monday
Whiteway Road, Lights above zebra crossing not working
Large potholes
All of this pathway
Large pothole
09:40, 23 Jan 2023, last updated 13:24, Sunday
White Line outside Nos 11 & 11a Southdown Rd is badly worn.
Dangerous and slippery moss (including ice, mud and debris) - BLAGDON PARK WHITEWAY BATH BA2 1PQ
No lighting 032 Whiteway Road.
Potholes and bad road surface
08:28, 9 Jan 2023, last updated 16:37, 9 Jan 2023
Pothole in the road at the junction of Southdown Avenue and Southdown Road
Southdown Road entire length
20:40, 4 Jan 2023, last updated 19:55, 10 Jan 2023
Blocked drain looks like there is debris downdrain
Hole appeared in the walkway
Outside 82/84 mount road
13:16, 5 Oct 2022, last updated 23:16, 28 Jan 2023
Road name plate dislodged
Cracked Footpath
15:40, 9 Sep 2022, last updated 08:22, 13 Sep 2022
Beside 267 Englishcombe Lane
17:17, 7 Sep 2022, last updated 13:50, 26 Oct 2022
The Cherry tree has been allowed to grow too large
16:10, 5 Sep 2022, last updated 09:49, 6 Sep 2022
Overgrowing Trees - MOUNT GROVE and ENGLISHCOMBELANE
12:03, 26 Jul 2022, last updated 10:09, 8 Sep 2022
Junction from Georgian view onto Marsden road
12:21, 3 Jul 2022, last updated 14:42, 4 Jul 2022
Footpath connecting Rush Hill and Ambleside Road partly blocked by fallen tree
22:33, 28 Feb 2022, last updated 13:39, 9 Apr 2022
No dogs signs missing
Tree near hillcrest drive enterance gate into field.
15:51, 20 Aug 2020, last updated 11:29, 15 Dec 2020
Recycling not collected
Road and kerb damaged
15:35, 28 Dec 2022, 0.6km, last updated 09:36, 17 Jan 2023
High pavement steps to road outside 234 and 236 Haycombe Drive Whiteway BA2 1PR
10:36, 24 Oct 2022, 0.6km, last updated 06:58, 20 Dec 2022
Street light off Ambleside Road
12:31, 2 Jan 2023, 0.6km, last updated 14:22, 19 Jan 2023
Obstructing trees on to 54 Langdon
10:38, 8 Dec 2020, 0.6km, last updated 15:50, 16 Dec 2020
Grit bin mostly empty
Missing traffic island bollard
22:01, 10 Apr 2018, 0.6km, last updated 20:42, 11 Apr 2018
Leaning wall by public walkway.
Report; 1971651 BA2 1JJ tree replacement
12:34, 18 Mar 2020, 0.7km, last updated 14:06, 25 Jan 2023
Fallen tree obstructing the byway
22:06, 28 Mar 2022, 0.7km, last updated 15:22, 5 Apr 2022
Drain next to the tree blocked
13:06, 18 Jan 2023, 0.7km, last updated 09:21, Monday
Street light not working 002 Rush Hill Cul de Sac
18:04, 8 Dec 2022, 0.8km, last updated 14:36, 19 Jan 2023
Missing name plate of the Grove
10:56, 8 Nov 2022, 0.8km, last updated 15:42, Monday
Blocked drains weeds on curbs
19:38, 27 Jul 2022, 0.8km, last updated 11:32, 30 Aug 2022
Unused disabled bay outside 16 The Oval
17:23, 15 Oct 2022, 0.8km, last updated 12:57, 26 Jan 2023
Steps are crumbling outside 180 Haycombe Drive as i have fallen due to this and i am registered for enhanced mobility allowance (PIP) i request for them to be repaired and a handrail be put up as soon as possible please
14:33, 28 Nov 2022, 0.8km, last updated 10:37, 7 Dec 2022
Trees on public walkway overhanging private garden
15:38, 11 May 2021, 0.8km, last updated 14:24, 21 Jul 2022
Blocked Drain where Washpool Lane joins Englishcombee Road


The Parthenon was built over 2500 years ago, and it has been part of the Athenian skylines ever since. Standing atop a limestone rock almost 500 feet tall is the Acropolis of Athens [Ακρόπολη Αθηνών, or just Ακρόπολη]. The city of Athens has come to be defined by its ancient Acropolis, as well as the ancient buildings it holds on top of it.
The word acropolis means "high city" in Greek, and numerous other ancient Greek and Hellenistic cities have their own fortified acropolises. But if its one thing that sets the Athenian Acropolis apart from Corinth's Acropolis or Thebe's Acropolis it is the Parthenon. But because of the cultural and historical significance of the Athenian Acropolis it is widely referred to as The Acropolis.
The building we know and see today is actually a replacement for the so-called "Older or Pre-Parthenon" that was destroyed along with the rest of the Acropolis' buildings by the invading Persians in 480 BC. The legendary Athenian statesman, general, and orator Pericles launched an ambitious and absolutely massive rebuilding campaign of Athens, the one that gave us the buildings still standing on the Acropolis today.
he legendary artist Phidias executed its famous sculptural decoration. Unlike many other Greek—and later Roman temples—the Parthenon (its columns, steps, roof walls and sculptural decoration) is made entirely out of flawless Pantelic Marble from nearby Mt. Pantelikon.
The Parthenon is a temple in the classical Greek Doric style, meaning that its columns have simple capitals, fluted [deep grooves] column shafts, and no bases. There are eight of these columns on either end of the building and seventeen columns running along its sides. As is the case with many other Greek temples, the columns are not actually a single solid piece of marble, rather they are made by stacking massively carved column drums one on top of another aligned perfectly. This is executed so well on the Parthenon that in many cases you cannot even see the space between two separate column drums.
The Ancient Greeks worked hard to create a visually appealing aesthetic with the Parthenon. For example, a long flat line in a building (like the floor of the Parthenon) appears to bow outward or sag when viewed from afar, which meant its columns would also be distorted. To prevent this, the leveled steps that the columns rest on [the stylobate] actually curve up in the center. The stylobate on the front and back of the building is actually over 2" taller in the center than on the ends, and on the sides it is over 4" higher in the center.
To further emphasize this, the columns actually lean inwards, away from the outside viewer. It is actually calculated that if you could draw a straight line from the center of each column up over a mile into the sky, the columns would actually come together and touch one another. Each column is not the same diameter throughout thanks to an effect called entasis, where the middle of each column slightly bulges outward, to accentuate the load that it is carrying above it.
If that weren't enough the corner columns are actually thicker than the rest to make sure they actually appear the same size as all of the others. The corner columns also happen to be spaced closer to one another than the other columns are. All of this is of course rather surprising for a building that at first glance looks like a collection of straight lines and 90° angles, but then again that just might be exactly what its builders had intended.


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What Happens When a Mars Simulation Goes Awry?
In the latest HI-SEAS experiment, an astronaut on simulated Mars got a serious injury.
By Laura Yan
For the past five years, small groups of strangers have been cramming themselves into a small white dome on a volcano in Hawaii for months at a time. Their mission is to conduct experiments on a crucial piece of equipment for future trips to Mars. The equipment? The astronauts themselves. After all, humans can malfunction and fail, just as technology does. These simulated astronauts act exactly as real astronauts would: that includes eating freeze-dried food, preserving water, and sleeping in cramped quarters. In the most recent rendition of the experiment, things went seriously wrong.
In February this year, four aspiring astronauts trekked up the Mauna Loa volcano to begin their eight-month stay. Four days later, and for the first time in the experiment's history, astronauts end the simulation. It was, perhaps, the weather's fault. Four days of cloudy skies meant the crew drained the reserve battery power that provides backup to the dome's solar panels. When the crew tried to reset the battery system, one of the crew members sustained an electric shock from touching a live wire.
Previously, the most grave injury any crew member suffered were scratches and bruises from hikes. The crew knew that asking for emergency responders would mean ending the simulation. The crew members made serious sacrifices for the experiment, so before they called for an ambulance, they first called 911 to ask for advice. But as the crew debated their options, the injured crew member became increasingly ill. They could no longer stall and called for an ambulance. At last, first responders came and removed the injured crew member.
After the incident, Lisa Stojanovski, a crew member, compiled safety concerns about the habitat and sent them to Kim Binsted, the HI-SEAS Principal investigator. When Binsted couldn't promise immediate actions to address her concerns, Stojanovski decided to withdraw from the mission, ending it for the whole team. It was an unprecedented move that left the whole project in limbo. NASA and the University of Hawaii are separate reviews of the incident, and whether HI-SEAS project can continue at all. An accident on HI-SEAS perhaps isn't such a far cry from what might happen in Mars. If and when accidents do occur, the actual Mars crew will be even further from support. Check out the detailed story of what happened here.
(via The Atlantic)
Here Are the Final 9 Names for NASA's Mars Rover
Artist Lights Up the Sky With Baby Yoda 'Painting'
Weird Gas Balls Swirling Around Sagittarius A*
We're All Going to Live in Mushroom Houses on Mars
NASA Exoplanet Scale Is Ready To Weigh the Galaxy
'Super-Earth' May Orbit Nearby Proxima Centauri
15 Years Later, A Huygens Probe Mystery is Solved
What's Cooler Than Being Cool? Exoplanet GJ 433 d
Secrets of the Only Animal That Can Live in Space
Yearlong Mars Simulation Nears End on Mauna Loa
Scientists Exit Hawaii Dome Mars Simulaion
Researchers In Hawaii Simulating A Mars Mission
What Happens Once Curiosity Lands on Mars
Explore Mars as the Curiosity Rover With This Cool New Simulation
What I Learned Living Through a Simulated Mars Mission


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Canal+ 2 était une chaîne de télévision généraliste espagnole appartenant au groupe Prisa.

Histoire de la chaîne

Identité visuelle (logo)

Programmation
La programmation de Canal+ Dos est principalement constituée des programmes de Canal+ et de Canal+ Xtra mais elle contient aussi quelques programmes qui lui sont propres.

Chaîne ou station de télévision disparue en 2015
Chaîne de télévision disparue en Espagne
Chaîne ou station de télévision fondée en 1997


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