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How does one handle a bottleneck of enemies in a doorway?
As a new DM I'm still learning how to control the monsters in a battle. A situation came up last game and although it was fine and fun, I wonder if there are better strategies for a DM to avoid a bottleneck in a doorway.
Scenario: PCs were up against a door deciding whether they should go in. Hobgoblins on the other side of the door open it and an encounter ensues. However, the encounter is basically the PC at the door trading blows with the NPC at the door, while their respective allies in the back try to shoot over their friends' heads. Although you can move through an ally's space, you can't occupy an ally's square. This leads me to assume that you can't move in to an ally's square, attack from it, and move back out of the square (though please correct me if I'm wrong).
This scenario and understanding of the rules brings me to my question.
What tactics can a DM use in a combat scenario like the one above to make sure that the NPCs are all contributing to the battle? Especially if they have no ranged weapons, is there a way that they can all try to attack?
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\$\begingroup\$ I love me some bottleneck of enemies, they make nice area of effect targets. \$\endgroup\$ – Mark Rogers Nov 10 '14 at 17:20
You're seeing one of the classic military ideas play out in your game — control of chokepoints. As many other people have pointed out, the advantage to controlling a chokepoint is that you can step back and force the enemy to push a narrow front of combatants against a broad base of defenders — so the person coming through the door is taking the most attacks.
Obviously, though players (somewhat) tend to be better disciplined than most people were in real life — players are not going to rush their characters through pushed on by adrenaline and machoism to face multiple attackers, but probably back off and attempt to attack at range. This is assuming NPCs with little planning or expectation to be fighting indoors — but if they are? The game changes drastically.
NPCs fighting defensively are often buying time until reinforcements can be summoned. This means they can focus on defense, since their goal is to stay alive and keep the enemy occupied until help arrives. This may also involve using some kind of push or shove action to push the enemy back and slam the door shut. Or, maybe tripping and knocking down the enemy so their allies have to step over them to get to you.
Alternatively, they may choose to retreat from the door, throw down caltrops, or knock over an urn of burning coals, etc. and retreat to the next defensible doorway or position. Knocking over furniture to block the path might also be a worthwhile choice.
If they've already notified the reinforcements, there may be a hidden ambush in the next room, or a lot of crossbow wielders all basically waiting to see what non-ally tries to get through the door.
Or, if there's a way for the reinforcements to loop around the party's rear, they may do that, instead.
Pulling out the Wounded
You have a line of combatants. Behind them, are their replacements. When someone is wounded, an ally pulls them back and shoves them to the rear, while another person steps up and fills the gap. This requires well trained troops used to formation fighting, although, by usual D&D mythos, hobgoblins are pretty organized fighting units, so this would make sense.
Although in D&D there's no real wounding or ability loss until one hits 0 hitpoints, it might be worth remembering any surviving hobgoblins can report back intel on the group, and they can plan better — who are the spell casters? What kind of fighting styles does the group use? This is even more important when you realize that the enemies will start bringing countermeasures in tactics and defensive tools to help deal with the enemy.
Indoor Weapons
Spears are not universally good indoors, but they can make controlling a hallway or doorway a very viable option. In real life, you can get many spears lined up, two or even more lines of troops aimed in a small space. If you're using the grid rules in 5E that is more limited than real life options, but still doable.
Darts and crossbows are pretty great indoor weapons for ranged options. Short bows might also work too.
Defensive Architecture
A lot of castles throughout history had arrow slits — small openings in the walls so archers could shoot through at intruders. These mostly lined the entranceways near gates, though dungeons might have them in other places. Of course there's gates that fall shut, barred doorways and a lot of options along those lines.
There might be areas with traps that can be activated by levers or pressure plates, and the bad guys will try to steer the characters into them, or at least, use the threat of these things to slow them down and keep them at bay.
Magic and unusual options
D&D being D&D, there's a lot more options beyond what you get in real life. There's obvious spells to create webs, walls, or lock doorways, but there's a lot of other ways magic can become very tricky.
Summoning a swarm of bugs or rats to crawl (over, around) the party in the doorway, and attack or at least disrupt spellcasters.
Using darkness, or an illusion to make it look like the enemy still threatens — while they've actually retreated from the doorway and are making their way to somewhere safer.
Grease spells on stairs, or narrow walkways.
Illusions of floor hiding pitfalls, making closed doors look like blank wall space, etc.
\$\begingroup\$ Ha, you must have different players than I do, running forward into tactically suboptimal positions is a favorite PC hobby. \$\endgroup\$ – mxyzplk - Justice for Monica Nov 10 '14 at 17:09
\$\begingroup\$ Hence the "somewhat". Players do tend to learn over repeated scenarios, whereas, in real life, people who would rush into those situations got killed. There was some Japanese clan that used false retreats to lure folks into deadly rifle fire and they did this exact tactic something like in over 10-12 battles without anyone figuring it out. \$\endgroup\$ – user9935 Nov 10 '14 at 17:15
\$\begingroup\$ You could cite/link to the battle at Thermopylae as a fine example of what you are alluding to in your opening sentence. \$\endgroup\$ – KorvinStarmast Sep 10 '16 at 12:54
You are correct in your rules understanding. There are of course missile and reach weapons, though in this situation both usually will incur a cover penalty to hit. And splash weapons, and spells - but this definitely isn't a rules exercise, it's an exercise in tactics.
A bottleneck isn't necessarily bad. Keeping enemies bottled up at a chokepoint allows fewer of them to get into the fight and lets you pound on their lead guy more. It favors the defenders and those that have options other than pure melee to bring to bear.
Tactical options here for either group basically include staying there and slugging it out or backing off to open up the battlefield. And then the other group has the options of moving into the breach or not. Sometimes it ends up with both groups backing off and shooting at each other (or attempting to re-close and block the door). In many situations (the usual dungeon or keep, more-bad-guys-than-PCs setup), it's in the hobgoblins' best interest to try to slow down the action, make a lot of noise, and attract allies.
A smart tactical move (and hobgoblins, of all the humanoids, are the ones known for their tactics) is to move back a little to tempt someone to come in through the door - and be exposed to up to 5 attacks. I had a PC party that overcame the usual "charge in" mentality and decided to play more tactically, and they had a lot of success in luring low-self-control bad guys out from a room to where they're surrounded.
If one group thinks they're totally more bad ass then they might just open up way more, form a gauntlet or just spread out and try to lure the other group in for a more timely whupping. Also, spells and splash weapons tend to affect closely bunched groups, so they may try to take that into account in their positioning depending on the situation.
Both you and the players will learn as you go about more effective combat tactics. But it's OK to just say that if the party really wants to not bottleneck then they have to back off or use something that'll change the situation (flaming sphere!) and same thing for the monsters. This might also teach your PCs not to stand right outside a door and have a conversation about going in and killing whoever's in there, unless it's a really thick and soundproof door.
\$\begingroup\$ Two words...Color Spray \$\endgroup\$ – David Wilkins Nov 10 '14 at 6:41
\$\begingroup\$ Barricade the door enough to get clear shots, then use x-bows to waylay them. Easily within the realm of hobgoblins. \$\endgroup\$ – Aviose Nov 10 '14 at 19:39
There's a few options:
Don't put monsters near the door. Rather than having the hobgoblins open the door, have them hide behind cover ready to ambush the players if they come in. Put them around a corner, or make the hallway wider such that bottlenecks don't happen.
Have the monsters use tactics to break the deadlock. Grapple the character in front and pull him out, or try to push him back into the previous room. Some monsters might have natural options for this, for others just use the rules in the PHB for grappling and pushing.
Have encounters with fewer monsters. Not much point in fighting, say, a single Ogre in a doorway, and staying lined up like that against a Dragon is suicide. Varied encounters will naturally prevent this kind of thing from coming up too much.
Overall, though, I wouldn't worry about it too much. As you noted, the players still had fun, so there's no problem with having the encounter work out like this every once in a while, as long as it doesn't become a sure-fire tactic they can use every time.
It can be tempting as a DM to try and counter everything the players do, but a lot of the time, it's best to just let them get away with their crazy tactics that break your encounters. It may seem like the effort you put into the encounter is wasted or that they didn't get to experience what you wanted, but often "breaking" an encounter like this will be much more fun and memorable for the players and feel like much more of an achievement than if they'd simply fought it out normally. Of course, if the same tactic works again and again it becomes dull, but every crazy strategy should have at least a chance of working once.
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\$\begingroup\$ grappling the meat shield to bring him into the room and get the other 5 guys to lay a beat down is a good idea. I can just imagine my group as the meat shield is being pummelled and everyone is freaking out still stuck on the other side of the door. \$\endgroup\$ – Besty Nov 10 '14 at 5:29
\$\begingroup\$ @Besty worth noting that pulling someone out of formation is how you try to break a shield wall. Well disciplined soldiers close ranks and watch their comrade die, ill-disciplined ones try to do something else, have their shield wall collapse and they all die. \$\endgroup\$ – Dale M Sep 10 '16 at 3:13
This is an answer to the question:
What strategy can a DM use in a combat scenario like the one above to make sure that the NPCs are all contributing to the battle. Especially if they have no ranged weapon, is there a way that they can all try to attack?
A strategy I am surprised no one else suggested - have the NPCs take turns holding the doorway. There's no reason to have one hobgoblin standing there soaking hits for half an hour while his allies sit around, then he dies and another one moves up. Instead, have each hobgoblin take a turn being the one taking the hits.
And with D&D 5e's free movement between attacks and through allies' squares, it gets better. Note: this only works if you use the standard of having groups of NPCs move on the same initiative. Have a hobgoblin move into the doorway, attack, and move out again. Then, the next hobgoblin does the same thing. With clever positioning, you should be able to cycle the whole group through.
If you have 50 hobgoblins, they can can each attack in a single turn.
Note that attacks of opportunity are meant to interfere with this, but the PCs will only get one per round. Not really a big deal when compared with having all of your NPCs fighting. Also, you should obviously leave the last hobgoblin standing in the doorway.
If the PCs have one character holding the doorway, he won't last long against this sort of strategy. Instead, your PCs will start taking measures to prevent this situation or completely neuter this kind of strategy.
For example, a single Spike Growth spell would cause this strategy not only to fail but actually to cause the death of any group of monsters who tried it. Similar results could be achieved with a simple flask of oil. In fact, a flask of oil is even better because it doesn't just prevent swapping creatures through as outlined in this answer, it prevents a single creature from sitting in the bottleneck. So you won't just be improving your tactics, you'll be improving theirs.
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In any situation where people are clustering together Area of Effect is your friend.
Spellcasters are the obvious choice but even mundane enemies have a number of options, for example if the hobgoblins start throwing burning oil then the players are going to be reluctant to stand still.
One Hobgoblin with a tower shield in full defense backed up by others throwing splash weapons over his head is going to rapidly become painful.
Alternatively use the choke point to your advantage, have the hobgoblins step back and form up around the hole. Their archers get clear shots out - while anyone coming through the doorway gets attacked from both sides by two or more waiting hobgoblins.
If you have the resources things like backing that up with a grease spell can put the players in a really bad situation as their lead member gets pounded on while anyone trying to come to the rescue slides around on the floor.
Let the players then come up with a solution to this problem. The important thing though is that you go with whatever idea they come up with. You gave them a sticky situation, reward ingenuity in finding a way around it.
For example in similar situations in my game a (very high strength) fighter has bashed a hole in the narrow bit of the wall where the murder holes were. In another situation the low dexterity dwarf was lying down and being pushed across the grease spell, then helped to stand on the other side.
Tim BTim B
You can't willingly end your move in an ally's space, but you can break up moves between attacks and even avoid attacks of opportunity with the Mobile feat. Depending on initiative order, mobile strikes could be used to attack and then disengage so that other characters can jump in or ranged characters can have a clear line. Mobile attacks might also be effective at kiting enemies away from the bottleneck point depending on the layout.
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\$\begingroup\$ This is incorrect. It was clarified by the developers that you cannot end any part of your movement in an allies space. mobile.twitter.com/JeremyECrawford/status/… \$\endgroup\$ – Conor Pender Jul 12 '18 at 12:56
One more tactic for allowing more enemy NPCs to participate in a battle:
While the PCs are engaged battling heavily armored hobgoblins at the door, ask them to make Perception checks to determine if they notice the secret door behind them slowly opening . . .
. . . revealing a second contingent of hobgoblins who pour into the room. Or alternatively a sturdy gate behind the secret door allows the 2nd attack force to safely shoot missiles at the exposed PCs.
This seems like a slightly dirty trick, but it makes sense that crafty hobgoblins would have constructed secret passages to bypass chokepoints and outflank invaders. This also encourages players to inspect rooms for secret doors.
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Even with this vast growth in the field of metaheuristics, Scatter Search and Tabu Search have remained two of the most prominent, most successful, and most widely applied metaheuristic algorithms. Their impact can be seen in almost any field which features extremely difficult problems of a combinatorial nature, including knapsack problems, telecommunications, network design, scheduling, financial planning, DNA sequencing, logistics, and computational biology. Despite the fact that these problems typically defy standard exact solution methods, Professor Glover's work has shown that optimal solutions can often be found relatively quickly through application of intelligent search methods.
Professor Glover's contributions to the popularization of metaheuristics includes not only his original research, but also through the publication of a textbook, the founding of the Journal of Heuristics, and his role in development of the OptQuest software package by OptTek Systems, a company he co-founded in 1992. OptQuest continues to enjoy significant popularity worldwide, as do many other commercial optimization packages containing Tabu Search and Scatter Search algorithms, such as CPlex.
For his seminal work on metaheuristic algorithms, specifically the development of Scatter Search and Tabu Search, and for his work popularizing these techniques as effective solution methods for previously intractable problems, INFORMS is delighted to award the 2010 Impact Prize to Professor Fred Glover.
Arguably, over the last twenty years no single tool (or family of tools) has done more to bring operations research into the hands of students, researchers, and practitioners than Solver. Mr. Flystra, Professor Lasdon, Mr. Straver, Professor Waren and Dr. Watson share the credit for the overwhelming success and impact of Solver.
Solver was developed by Frontline systems, the company founded by Mr. Fylstra, using the GRG2 algorithms and code developed by Professors Lasdon and Waren. This code enabled Solver to accurately solve both linear and nonlinear models. These capabilities were later augmented by a Simplex method and Branch and Bound Algorithm for linear and mixed integer programs, implemented by Dr. Watson. This set of algorithms formed the backbone of the optimization engine in all successive versions of Solver products developed at Frontline by Mr. Fylstra and Mr. Straver. The most recent versions of Excel for Windows and Macintosh have added a hybrid Evolutionary algorithm, written by Mr. Fylstra and enhanced by Mr. Straver, which uses genetic algorithms, the GRG method, and the Simplex method in combination on arbitrary Excel models.
Solver's success began with Frontline's victory in a worldwide competition to supply a Solver for Microsoft Excel 3.0; this was quickly followed by contracts to install Solver in Borland's Quattro Pro in 1992 and Lotus 1-2-3 in 1996. Thus by 1996 the vast majority of spreadsheet optimization was executed using Solver. Since that time Solver has been included in every copy of Microsoft Excel, and currently enjoys an installed base of approximately a half a billion users. In addition, advanced Solver tools have been licensed to over 5,000 companies in fields such as aerospace, automotive, banking, chemical, consumer goods, defense, financial services, health care and pharmaceuticals, oil and gas, mining, utilities, and many types of manufacturing.
These successes have also made their way into the academic literature and education: A special issue of Interfaces was devoted to Spreadsheet OR Applications in 2008, and a 1998 Interfaces article about Solver, "Design and Use of the Microsoft Excel Solver" by Mr. Fylstra, Professor Lasdon, Dr. Watson, and Professor Waren has garnered over 200 citations. Moreover, Premium Solver for Education has been licensed for inclusion in over 35 textbooks and has become a core tool in MBA education.


Holmes, Gustaf, pioneer, capitalist, bank president – Astoria – born in Tveta parish, Vermland, on February 8, 1845. After turning 16, he traveled widely in Sweden and spent several years in Helsingland. In 1867, he moved to America, initially residing in Burlington, Iowa, where he held a variety of jobs. He homesteaded in Washington County, Kansas, and stayed there for six years. In 1875 he moved to Astoria, Oregon. During the first five years in Astoria he earned his living from fishing on the Columbia River and later became part owner in different fish canneries. Mr. Holmes was the manager in this business for a period of 20 years and has owned shares in two located on the Columbia River, two in British Columbia, and three in Alaska. For 17 years he spent seven to eight months out of every year in British Columbia as a director for the canneries there. He has also owned a farm in Clatsop County. He has sold off most of his cannery interests, but owns a lot of property in both Portland and Astoria, including a magnificent home in Astoria located at no. 288, 34th St. He is a member of Oddfellows and the Swedish Lutheran Congregation, where he has been a trustee ever since it was founded. He is the president of the Scandinavian-American Bank, and he has been a school superintendent. He is currently a member of the water main committee. He married Maria Kristina Johansson from Tveta parish in Vermland, in 1870. She was the widow of the brother of Mr. Holmes and they have eight children: Elenora, Alma, Ivar, Andrew, Amy, Augusta, Carl and George.


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BEDFORD, Ind. (July 17, 2017) – Radius Indiana traveled to Seattle last week with an Indiana delegation led by the Indiana Economic Development Corporation to meet with site selectors and business advisers.
This was the first trip for the IEDC and Radius Indiana to Seattle in an effort to raise awareness about the Hoosier state. For Radius, the visit adds to a series of economic development trips that it has conducted for 2017, and continues on the successful outreach program the organization began in 2016.
Jeff Quyle, Radius Indiana president and CEO joined Elaine Bedel, IEDC president, along with IEDC staffers, utility representatives, and other Indiana Regional Economic Development Organizations to share the advantages of doing business in the state.
During the two-day visit, Quyle shared information about the Radius region's assets, its logistical advantages, and interstate connectivity as well as developments in the region, particularly the new partnership involving Purdue University and WestGate@Crane Technology Park.
Radius Indiana will partner with the IEDC and Local Economic Development Organizations from the region's respective counties for future visits in Indiana and other states across the country. Ensuring that decision makers know about the area's offerings is a primary focus for Radius Indiana, the regional partnership representing Crawford, Daviess, Dubois, Greene, Lawrence, Martin, Orange, and Washington Counties.


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My father is still alive, clarifies Pranab Mukherjee's son as death rumours surface
Aug. 13, 2020 Updated 10:18 am. IST
Former President Pranab Mukherjee, who has been put on ventilator support after undergoing surgery to remove a clot in his brain, is "haemodynamically stable", his son Abhijit Mukherjee said on Thursday.
"My Father Shri Pranab Mukherjee is still alive & haemodynamically stable," tweeted Abhijit Mukherjee today morning.
My Father Shri Pranab Mukherjee is still alive & haemodynamically stable !
Speculations & fake news being circulated by reputed Journalists on social media clearly reflects that Media in India has become a factory of Fake News .
— Abhijit Mukherjee (@ABHIJIT_LS) August 13, 2020
Abhijit's clarification comes amidst consistent rumor-mongering since yesterday on various social media platforms about Pranab Mukherjee's death.
"The condition of former President Pranab Mukherjee remains unchanged this morning. He is deeply comatose with stable vital parameters and continues to be on ventilatory support," Army Research & Referral (R&R) Hospital said Thursday morning.
"With All Your Prayers, My Father is haemodynamically stable now. I request everyone to continue with your prayers & good wishes for his speedy recovery. Thank You," Abhijit tweeted on Wednesday.
Earlier in the day, the Army's Research and Referral hospital in the capital stated, "Shri. Pranab Mukherjee's health condition continues to remain critical. Presently he is haemodynamically stable and on a ventilator."
The 84-year-old Bharat Ratna recipient was hospitalised on the advice of doctors and had tested positive for Covid-19 before the surgery. The doctors attending him said that his condition had worsened on Tuesday and that he had not shown signs of improvement.
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I knew that my talk at the Southern Festival of Books was taped for C-Span, but they didn't broadcast it right away. Now they are showing it on November 8, at 5:15pm on C-Span2. It'll be almost as much fun as being there!
Now if they would only review my book….
Through the Heart of Dixie is published!
At long last, Through the Heart of Dixie: Sherman's March and American Memory has been published and is available!


Long-stay visitors and budget tourists now have another reason to travel to Ho Chi Minh City: there is a new capsule hotel in town that only costs 6 dollars a night.
Shawn Tan from Singapore said he only needs to pay less than $200 to stay a whole month at the six-story Kaiteki, which is right in the center of the city, according to a Tuoi Tre report.
The hotel of only 60 square meters on Bui Vien has 100 small rooms, or capsules, for guests who look for no-frills overnight accommodation.
Each capsule, measuring two meters long and one meter high, has its own TV, air con, headphone and wifi.
Its owner, a man from Hong Kong, told Tuoi Tre that he imported the capsules which all have enough storage space for luggage.
The hotel has always been full booked, he added.
Tan told Tuoi Tre he is staying in Ho Chi Minh City for work. The job requires him to travel a lot and capsule hotel is the best choice and helps him save a lot of money.
Tan said some rooms for rent in the city are also cheap but he does not want to clean up a whole room himself.
Capsule hotels first appeared in Japan in 1979 and have been available in many countries.
Harris Nordin, a tourist from Malaysia, said a capsule in Saigon has everything he needs.
Nordin said tourists like him go out all day and they just need a clean place to sleep at night.
He said he is happy because the shared bathrooms are large enough and always clean.
Nordin, who has tried capsule hotels around Southeast Asia, said the one in Vietnam is the cheapest, compared to those charging $10-15 a night in Malaysia and $10-20 in Thailand.
John Hayes from the US chose the hotel for almost the same reasons.
He stayed there for five days, leaving at 9 a.m. every day and only returning to sleep at around 1 a.m.
Hayes said he wanted to travel around and it's not necessary to stay in bigger hotels.
He was quoted by Tuoi Tre as saying that since he was traveling alone, one bed is quite enough.
Many females tourists are also comfortable with the capsules.
Kaiteki saves one floor for female-only capsules.
A staff member of the hotel said several Vietnamese tourists came to check the hotel but they left as they were afraid that the capsules, which are close to one another, could not guarantee privacy.


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Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital is latest to limit visitors due to flu and RSV
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital has, much like Oishei Children's Hospital, temporarily enacted an enhanced visitation policy in the face of a "severe respiratory virus and influenza season."
The hospital stated that anyone who is ill and also children under the age of five should not visit the hospital unless they are seeking treatment. That also applies to children between the ages of five and 14, who can visit under special circumstances but must be accompanied by a supervising adult.
Severe flu season leads Oishei Children's Hospital to restrict some visitors
The policy does not apply to parents or grandparents, who may visit at any time, but these adults are advised to wear a mask if they have a respiratory illness.
On top of that, anyone who does decide to visit should self-screen for contagious diseases, the hospital stated.
Health officials said recently that there have been more than 700 flu cases in the last two weeks in Erie County. This time last year, there were 100 cases.
A boy died from flu-related complications this past weekend. It was the first pediatric flu death in Erie County since 2017.
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Reservations are filling up fast for restaurants around Western New York. The owner of The Quarter says the Bills Game is a huge draw, but it also seems like many people are ready to get back to normal.
"We had over 200 bookings yesterday for the entire weekend all together, and we expect a lot more to come," says the owner of The Quarter, Brandon Carr. "I think that the city of Buffalo is just excited. We have had a very rough year, but we have such great things happening," he added, in reference to the Buffalo Bills winning a playoff game for the first time in 25 years.
Governor Cuomo frustrated with COVID-19 vaccine rollout
ALBANY, N.Y. (WIVB)-- Governor Andrew Cuomo says he's frustrated with the rollout of the coronavirus vaccine.
Cuomo says the CDC's guidelines to expand the list of people eligible to get the shot is doing more harm than good because the federal government hasn't increased the vaccine supply yet.
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Will the Syrian-Iraq Border Battle Trigger a Wider War?
"Instead of the triumph of democracy and progress, we got violence, poverty and social disaster. Nobody cares a bit about human rights, including the right to life." – Vladimir Putin
The sands are shifting in the Syrian war, from Aleppo province down to the southeastern Al-Tanf border crossing into Iraq. With the Astana4 safe zones supposedly separating the ceasefire zones from the shooting war zones, we find the Syrian coalition concentrating its offense onto ISIS and its changing militant allies.
In east Aleppo, where the town of Maskanah, SW of Lake Assad, is ISIS' last base, we find the Tiger Forces flanking widely in to the west to hook up with their forces protecting the Khanasser highway that is currently the only open supply road north to Aleppo. The Palmyra perimeter is being expanded and the ISIS pockets behind it to the southwest have been cleared of ISIS forces, leaving jihadi-cleared interior logistic lines in central Syria.
Much of this success is due to the combined operations executed with the Russian and Syrian close air support of the ground forces. One of the tactics being used is low-flying helicopters making their attack runs from behind attacking SAA forces, so they are never subjected to ground fire. This is resulting in no air losses and light ground loses, which is critical for maintaining morale in a long fight like the Syrians are in.
These clearing operations are freeing up more fighting forces for the big push from Palmyra west on the M20 road to Deir-Ezzor. Part of that preparation includes capturing the oil and gas producing assets along the way, which Syria will need for getting the country back on its feet economically. That is why ISIS' Gulf State backers supported their seizure, part of the Balkanization planned for Syria so Assad would not be holding those assets when the nitty gritty political talks eventually get started.
Will the Syrian War be decided in the desert and border crossings with Iraq
The usually quiet SE Syrian desert has become the focal point of a new conflict. With the safe zone around Dara on the Jordanian border, and the successful amnesties or transfers of over 10,000 militants to Idlib, Damascus announced Operation Grand Dawn, which it says will be its biggest anti-ISIS operation. Its goal is to clear the eastern desert areas of ISIS and militant groups and secure its remaining border with Iraq that is not in Kurdish hands in the northeast. It will include the recapture of all the oil-producing capacity in those areas.
But therein lay a trip wire, one that Damascus felt was time to cross. US and British Special Forces have been operating in that area with new Free Syrian Army (FSA) militants, so they say. We call them ISIS, as many have switched sides a number of times already, depending upon who is winning and who is paying. It is a game the US coalition has been playing all along, fighting and supporting terrorists at the same time, depending on whether they will fight Assad and not US militant and terrorist proxies like Al-Nusra.
The US fighters out of Jordan attacked a modest Syrian coalition force moving out into the SE Syrian desert to set up an observation base at a high point to be able to monitor US militant group movements. They did not ask the US for permission. The Pentagon goofed by attacking them like 50 kms away from their militant training base at Al-Tanf on the Iraqi border, claiming it was a "force protection strike". That was a bad move, because it crossed a Syrian-coalition red line and tipped the US' hand on its plan. The US wants to put as much of the Syrian-Iraqi border area in the hands of its militant proxies to enhance its negotiating position in the peace talks.
It also triggered new interest about a story that did not get much coverage earlier in the year, when Baghdad began talks with Syria on potential joint operations once Mosul had been liberated. The Iraqi army did not want to get into a never ending musical-chairs war with ISIS shifting around, in and out of Syria, or over the border to the Saudis to rest, rearm and reinfiltrate again.
Will the Iraqi Popular Militia Forces attack Deir-Ezzor from the rear?
The Popular Militia Forces (PMF, or PMU), a primarily Shia force funded by Iran as part of its anti-terror contribution to the Iraqi coalition, has been fighting a long drawn out battle in Nineveh province's desert, west of Mosul.
One of their strategic objectives has been to clear the entire area of ISIS bases, spread out among the numerous small towns and hamlets, until it reached the Syrian border to make sure the cleared areas would not be reinfiltrated by ISIS. If they could do that quickly enough, they offered Syria the option of having part of its 100,000-man, highly experienced fighting force cross over into Syria to help crush ISIS and the militant groups there for their mutual security.
The news of the US Special Operations having a base at the Al-Tanf crossing in the southeast and having the Baghdad-Damascus road blocked caught most Syrian War watchers by surprise. Next came the discovery of the US-FSA group moving north along the Iraqi border toward the Al-Bukamal crossing on the Euphrates River. It is the only other major border-crossing route where the PMU could join the SAA in a joint pincer attack on ISIS at Deir Ezzor down to Al-Bukamal, with the PMU pushing up the Euphrates River, which would have ISIS boxed in.
Was taking the Syrian-Iraqi border the plan Mattis gave to Trump?
So it seems that a strategic goal of General Mattis at the Pentagon is to compete with Damascus for control of its own major border crossings, by taking them with mercenary fighters which fill the US and Gulf coalition ranks. You might have noticed Mattis' escalating rhetoric about Russia being the US' most dangerous threat, doing a Butch Cassidy and Sundance kid number, with Trump declaring Iran the regional terrorism sponsor, when The Donald was in Wahhabi-land, no less. You just can't make this stuff up.
If the US side was so interested in fighting terrorism, why would it want to disrupt the evolving collation of the now very experienced Iraqi and Syrian armies and their regional supporters in Iran and Russia, who have both viewed Iraq and Syria as the front lines of the War on Terror? Thousands of Russian Federation terrorists have been killed and quite a few Chinese terrorists also, in Syria and Iraq.
I had predicted early on when the ceasefires first started that the US coalition would seek to win in the peace negotiations what it could not win on the battlefield with its opposition groups. It played for time to wear the SAA down while building a PR campaign that Assad was blocking the peace by refusing to leave, so it could clear the way for installing a puppet government.
This sad Syrian affair could end up as another failed US regime change that left death and destruction in its wake, over a million lives since Afghanistan. As I type, an Iraqi Popular Militia Force recon unit has reached the village of Um Geris on the Syrian border in Nineveh province, where there is a paved road south along the border all the way down to Al-Bakumal.
The shared border multiplier effect
We now have a situation where the battlefield planets are realigning. If Iraq and Syria can secure their border, they will have a multiplier effect for not only winning the current war, but to be in a much stronger position to blunt the guerrilla and terror-bombing war planned by the terrorists and their many foreign supporters if they are not successful now.
Rather than the border being a weak spot, it can give both countries secure interior lines with which to shift infantry, armor, airpower and air defense assets around as needed to meet a variety of threats, be they from the US-coalition armored force in Jordan, Saudi Arabia, or of course Turkey.
This Iraqi-Syrian effort could be the beginning of a new anti-terrorism template, showing that where a shared border exists, preparation should be made to assist each other militarily, if and when needed. The Iraqis sat and watched the Syrian war, as they were busy dealing with their never-ending car bombings, never thinking that ISIS would come over the Syrian border and almost tear their country apart.
Iraq was totally unprepared, with its head in the sand, and paid a huge price in blood and national treasure. Others should learn from this that only multi-country coalitions have resources to stand up against the scale of terror being used now, the state-sponsored kind.
Is the New Cold War getting ready to get hot?
We are beginning to see a shift away from the talk of a New Cold War, toward having to face that a new hot war may be the only solution to avoid death by a 1000 cuts in a never-ending terror wars.
For example the American people will not support US troops in any more foreign wars as the world policeman, particularly the manufactured wars where the major Intel agencies have ready made version, to be used whenever needed. All during the Cold War, staged terror incidents were commonly used.
If Trump stumbles or gets manipulated into an unnecessary and unwanted war in Syria, where a lot of American lives could be lost, he would not get a second term. Trump is not 1% of a Lyndon Johnson, who had a bad war take him down. Where the US goes into a country without permission, a UN mandate or invitation, it must be kicked out for the safety and the benefit of everyone, including Americans.
We must bring on the day when, if a US Secretary of Defense claims that the Russians on the other side of the world are our most dangerous threat when they are spending less than a tenth of the US on defense, and where they need every penny of it for defense, he should be booed off the staged as a "Fake Secretary of Defense".
Political and security leaders promoting 'fake threats" is now a new a form of terrorism in my book, and it's long past time we started calling them that. I think the fair term to describe them is "political terrorists". They have earned it. Why not assign it to them?
By Jim W. Dean
Source: New Eastern Outlook
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Title: Sentence meaning
Author: Loar, Brian
Introduction. Grice's first definition of speaker's meaning is described and stated. An important class of counterexamples lead to adopting a definition by Schiffer, which employs the notion of mutual knowledge. I.1 Signals have no semantical structure, but have meaning. The intention is announced of defining '2 means p in G' in terms of speaker's meaning. I.2 A signal's meaning consists in its being governed by a certain kind of convention. Schiffer's' analysis of 'x means p in G' is given. I.3 An account of convention by Schiffer is stated. His two definitions together do not provide a convention which governs meaning. I.4 A form of convention is proposed which is adequate for defining 'x means p in G'. It is argued that there are specifiable circumstances in which, if one utters a signal, then one's utterance accords with the convention only if one means such and such. ll Introduction. Not all signals are propositional; hence, to give their meaning, one must quantify into 'to mean that', about which there are difficulties. II.1 A theory of Quine's is described in which he accounts for a limited kind of quantification into belief contexts. It is argued that Quine's fails to make sense of a certain valid inference. II.2 It is claimed that, contrary to entrenched assumptions, there are occurrences of singular terms which are both referential and non-extensional, that is, which do not satisfy what some have called 'Leibniz' Law', which is here called the" substitution principle". II.3 The substitution principle is not a priori true. A general explanation of exceptions to it is offered. II.4 The logical form of sentences containing non-extensional but referential occurrences of singular terms in belief contexts is stated. The theory requires that, on such occurrences, singular terms have a dual role. II.5 Several points here. First, belief of things is under some uniqueness conception of them. Secondly, this cannot in general be construed in terms of uniqueness properties. Thirdly, what is required is sometimes that the believer's conception of something is as being uniquely related to him. Fourthly, a problem about self-ascriptive beliefs, and a way of representing their logical form. II.6 An apparent difficulty in extending the account to 'means' is dealt with. III.1 An account is given of certain signals which have pure indexical meaning - that is, signals which mean it is F - extending the device of Chapter 1. III.2 Qualified indexicality, as in signals which mean the E is F, requires some new apparatus, in particular, the notion of referring. III.3 A definition of referring qua, produced jointly with Schiffer, is given. III.4 'z means the E is F' is defined, extending the kind of definition used for 'z means it is F', and using the notion of referring qua. III.5 An account is given of the meaning of signals which are (as it were)" token-reflexive". III.6 How to represent complex referential embedding in the specifying of the meaning of signals. "Referential qualifier" is defined. III.7 A general account is given of what conventional restrictions there are on the references which are made on the utterance of a signal. The notion "super-reference" is defined; this captures how one's primary references are related to one's n-ary references. III.8 Incorporating super-reference, and earlier points about the relation between meaning and reference, we arrive at a general account of what is meant on the utterance of any indicative signal, regardless of referential complexities. The definition of meaning for all indicative signals. III.9 An account of the logical structure of speaker's imperative meaning. How to ascribe meaning to imperative signals, and to signals which have specific illocutionary forces. The final definition of meaning for all simple signals. lV.l It is argued that the assumption that there are separate conventions for word meanings is superfluous. The convention which governs sentence meaning incorporates a complex abstract relation which associates each sentence with each of its meanings. A general definition is given of what it is for a sentence to mean Such and such. IV.2 A problem is raised about the nature of the entities which are to serve as meanings (propositions and propositional functions.) It is claimed that the unanalyzed notion of proposition will not enable us to state recursively the relations which relate sentences to their meanings. lV.3 An identification of propositions with certain intensions - namely, functions from possible worlds to truth values - is rejected from counterexamples. Carnap's notion of intensional isomorphism serves as a constraint of any adequate account of propositions. IV.4 Propositions are identified with intensional structures, certain hierarchically ordered entities which contain both intensions and structural functions, which are functions from intensions to intensions. Propositional functions and referential qualifiers are similarly construed. IV.5 Frege's theory that the denotatum of a that-clause is the sense of its embedded sentence is shown to be compatible with the requirement that the meaning function for a language be recursively specifiable. IV.6 It is claimed that, with an important qualification which is consistent with the general program, the notion of word meaning is derivative from that of sentence meaning. An example of how this may be shown for a particular language is given. A similar claim is made about the derivativeness of logico-syntactic vocabulary, and an example of how to do it for a simple language is given. The concluding words express a certain unsupported bias concerning the nature of grammar.
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NBA Ibadan Law Week: SAN Advocates Adoption Of e-Practice In Legal Profession
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Prof. Oyelowo Oyewo, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) and the Attorney General of Oyo State, on Wednesday urged the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) to champion the adoption of e-electronic practice in the legal profession.
Oyewo made the recommendation in Ibadan during the ongoing 2021 NBA Ibadan Law Week.
He was speaking on the theme: 'The impact of COVID-19 and other health challenges on the legal profession in Nigeria: the need to embrace E- practice as alternatives.'
The SAN said the Nigerian Judiciary Information Technology Policy Document should be speedily institutionalised to enable the judiciary deliver justice and service the users of legal service efficiently through ICT.
According to him, both the bar and bench must collaborate towards the establishment of e-practice in Nigeria.
"Training of lawyers must be reformed in Nigerian Law school and faculties of law to embrace ICT.
"This will equip law students with global standard lawyering skills that will produce fit for purpose lawyers and not outdated and unproductive misfits.
"The necessary legal framework must be established to protect all persons in the value-chain of legal service delivery of E-practice," he said.
Oyewo emphasised that COVID-19 foisted on the global community a new normal way of rendering legal service through the internet.
He added that any community of legal professionals that refused to join the trend would be perceived as abnormal and be ready to pay for its consequences.
"No legal practitioner should adopt an ostrich approach of burying its head in the sand in the hope that the storm will pass away and bring back the normal for the new normal has come to stay," he said.
Also speaking, Hon. Justice John Bamgbose from the Ogun State Judiciary, said anyone not partaking in the e-practice would end up being miserable in the world.
"Work will be easier when we engage in e-practice, you will be involved with many people, share problems and get solutions faster and easier.
"If we don't get involved in it, people will take over our chance, so let's all get up and think about it, we cannot be backward," he said.
Similarly, Prof. Toyin Akintola, the Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Ibadan, corroborated the position that e-practice had come to stay.
Akintola, represented by Dr Funke Ekundayo, the Head, Department of Private and Property Law, University of Ibadan, urged legal practitioners to embrace the new practice.
He called on them including the students to embrace the development and practice for a more efficient service delivery and results. (NAN)
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(2) The appellee must serve and file a brief within 30 days after service of the appellant's brief.
(3) The appellant may serve and file a reply brief within 14 days after service of the appellee's brief, but a reply brief must be filed at least 7 days before scheduled argument unless the district court or BAP, for good cause, allows a later filing.
A prior Rule 8018, Apr. 25, 1983, eff. Aug. 1, 1983, as amended Mar. 30, 1987, eff. Aug. 1, 1987; Apr. 27, 1995, eff. Dec. 1, 1995, related to rules by circuit councils and district courts and procedure when there is no controlling law, prior to revision of Part VIII, Apr. 25, 2014, eff. Dec. 1, 2014.
This rule is derived from former Rule 8009 and F.R.App.P. 30 and 31. Like former Rule 8009, it addresses the timing of serving and filing briefs and appendices, as well as the content and format of appendices. Rule 8011 governs the methods of filing and serving briefs and appendices.
The rule retains the bankruptcy practice of permitting the appellee to file its own appendix, rather than requiring the appellant to include in its appendix matters designated by the appellee. Rule 8016 governs the timing of serving and filing briefs when a cross-appeal is taken. This rule's provisions about appendices apply to all appeals, including cross-appeals.
Subdivision (a) retains former Rule 8009's provision that allows the district court or BAP to dispense with briefing or to provide different time periods than this rule specifies. It increases some of the time periods for filing briefs from the periods prescribed by the former rule, while still retaining shorter time periods than some provided by F.R.App.P. 31(a). The time for filing the appellant's brief is increased from 14 to 30 days after the docketing of the notice of the transmission of the record or notice of the availability of the record. That triggering event is equivalent to docketing the appeal under former Rule 8007. Appellate Rule 31(a)(1), by contrast, provides the appellant 40 days after the record is filed to file its brief. The shorter time period for bankruptcy appeals reflects the frequent need for greater expedition in the resolution of bankruptcy appeals, while still providing the appellant more time to prepare its brief than the former rule provided.
Subdivision (a)(2) similarly expands the time period for filing the appellee's brief from 14 to 30 days after the service of the appellant's brief. This period is the same as F.R.App.P. 31(a)(1) provides.
Subdivision (a)(3) retains the 14-day time period for filing a reply brief that the former rule prescribed, but it qualifies that period to ensure that the final brief is filed at least 7 days before oral argument.
If a district court or BAP has a mediation procedure for bankruptcy appeals, that procedure could affect when briefs must be filed. See Rule 8027.
Subdivision (a)(4) is new. Based on F.R.App.P. 31(c), it provides for actions that may be taken—dismissal of the appeal or denial of participation in oral argument—if the appellant or appellee fails to file its brief.
Subdivisions (b) and (c) govern the content and format of the appendix to a brief. Subdivision (b) is similar to former Rule 8009(b), and subdivision (c) is derived from F.R.App.P. 30(d).
Subdivision (d), which addresses the inclusion of exhibits in the appendix, is derived from F.R.App.P. 30(e).
Changes Made After Publication and Comment. Subdivision (a)(4) was revised to provide more detail about the procedure for dismissing an appeal due to appellant's failure to timely file a brief.


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Since October of last year, the AUD/USD pair has been trading within a wide-range flat, without leaving the range of 0.70-0.73. This behavior is very typical for the "aussie": the price may fluctuate in one price niche for several months, after which it impulsively moves to the next "level" - higher or lower. Therefore, the main question now is when the AUD/USD will change the trajectory of its movement and, most importantly, in which direction.
The complexity of the situation is due to the weakness of the US dollar. If in previous years, the pair grew, as a rule, due to strong economic reports in Australia and/or due to the strengthening of the commodity market, now the growth dynamics depends on how weak the position of the US currency. The Federal Reserve is still showing a dovish attitude, and dollar bulls are forced to reckon with this fact. Short-term support for the greenback is provided by external fundamental factors (concern about Brexit, for example). But if we talk about the long-term prospects of the greenback, they look rather vague, so the AUD/USD bears should not rely on the downward trend of the pair only due to the strengthening of the US dollar.
However, this does not mean that the bearish trend of the aussie does not have any prospects. In my opinion, the AUD/USD pair has more chances to enter the area of 60 figures than to demonstrate the opposite dynamics. Blame China. The Australian economy is very dependent on the Chinese, so the slowdown in the main macroeconomic indicators of China has not passed without a trace for the green continent. According to the latest data, the Australian economy slowed down more than expected in the third quarter of last year: GDP grew by only 0.3%, while most experts expected a growth of 0.6%. On an annualized basis, the indicator increased by 2.8% against the background of a general growth forecast of 3.3%. Relative to the fourth quarter, analysts also do not harbor optimistic illusions - as many of them believe, at the end of last year, the Australian economy will show even weaker growth.
And in this context, China is "in step" with Australia: according to the consensus forecast, the Chinese economy this year will show the weakest growth over the past 30 (!) years - 6.3%. According to preliminary data, last year this figure was 6.6% after rising in 2017 to 6.9%. The December PMI in the manufacturing sector of China only confirms this trend - in the last month of last year, it crossed the "red line" in the form of the 50 mark and was at 49.4 points.
Related economic indicators also indicate a slowdown in the Chinese economy. Thus, import and export figures showed weak dynamics: exports sharply fell immediately by 4.4% on an annualized basis, while imports declined immediately by 7.6% in annual terms (the highest decline in two years). Summed up the Chinese inflation. According to preliminary forecasts, the consumer price index last year was to grow by three percent, but the real numbers were much lower - 2.1%. Similarly, the producer price index was disappointing, which in December showed an increase of 0.8%, while experts expected a slowdown to just 1.6%.
This negative trend is due to many factors, but the main reason is, of course, the US-China trade war. Now the parties are preparing a broad trade deal that will put an end to almost a year-longl conflict – but even in this case, the key macro indicators will not recover their positions in one day. Therefore, the Australian economy this year will be quite clearly feel the echoes of "military action" on the trade front.
In addition to the Chinese factor, we should not forget about other problems that have no less pronounced impact on the dynamics of the aussie In particular, we are talking about a large-scale decline in the real estate market in Australia: after many years of rising housing prices, the Australian real estate market is slowing sharply. For example, the cost of housing in the eight largest cities of the country fell by 2.5% last year – this is the first fact of price reduction since 2012. For comparison - by the end of 2017, the real estate market in these cities has risen by 11%.
The above circumstances suggest that the Reserve Bank of Australia will certainly not rush to tighten monetary policy. And if earlier, traders were guided in this plan at the end of 2019, now this date has been moved to 2020. Moreover, the growing debt burden of consumers may force the RBA to take a softer position in the foreseeable future, while the weakening of the national currency will only be a "gift" for the central bank's members.
Thus, the AUD/USD pair has an unrealized potential of decline - at least to the bottom of the 71st figure (that is, to the average line of the Bollinger Bands indicator on the daily chart).


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Top 10 Safest Banks In Middle East For 2017
The full exclusive survey will be published in the November 2017 issue as part of the publication's 26th annual ranking of the World's Safest Banks.
Global Finance has named the top 10 safest banks in the Middle East and the top 10 safest Islamic financial institutions in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region in an exclusive survey to be published in the magazine's November 2017 issue as part of the publication's 26th annual ranking of the World's Safest Banks.
Andrew Cunnigham, founder and director of UK based Darien Analytics and consultant to the International Finance Corporation (IFC) has been preparing the ranking for the magazine since 2011. He shares insights from the survey in this video.
For more information on the the world's 50 safest banks, safest banks by country, safest banks by region (Africa, Asia, Australasia, Central & Eastern Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America and Western Europe) click here. Here is the list for the top 10 winners for the safest banks in the Middle East and the safest Islamic Institutions in the GCC region.
Safest banks in the Middle East in 2017
At a time when the Middle East region continues to struggle with political uncertainty, sluggish economies and rising military tensions in a number of geographies, banks from the UAE dominated the list for the top 10 safest banks in the Middle East this year taking the top spot as well as five positions overall. Banks from Kuwait took three positions and banks from Qatar took two.
1 First Abu Dhabi Bank UAE
2 National Bank of Kuwait Kuwait
3 Qatar National Bank Qatar
4 Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank UAE
5 Union National Bank UAE
6 Al Hilal Bank UAE
7 Kuwait Finance House Kuwait
8 Qatar Islamic Bank Qatar
9 Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank UAE
10 Al Ahli Bank of Kuwait Kuwait
Safest Islamic banks in the GCC in 2017
Islamic or Shariah-compliant banking in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region has become an increasingly important factor in global finance, as scholars and economists have found ways to provide products and services that compare to Western offerings while maintaining their religious obligations. Banks from Kuwait, Qatar and the UAE took three spots each on the top 10 list.
4 Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank Qatar
5 Barwa Bank Qatar
6 Ahli United Bank (Kuwait) Kuwait
7 Qatar International Islamic Bank Qatar
8 Boubyan Bank Kuwait
9 Al Rajhi Bank Saudi Arabia
10 Dubai Islamic Bank UAE


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NASA proceeding with Saturday launch attempt for Artemis 1 moon mission
September 1, 2022 Stephen Clark
NASA's Space Launch System moon rocket on pad 39B. Credit: Walter Scriptunas II / Spaceflight Now
Confident that out-of-bounds engine temperature readings during Monday's Artemis 1 countdown came from a bad sensor, NASA officials gave the green light Thursday to move forward with another try Saturday afternoon to launch the agency's giant new moon rocket on an unpiloted test flight from the Kennedy Space Center.
NASA engineers have also adjusted the timeline for loading super-cold propellants into the Space Launch System moon rocket, allowing more time to flow cryogenic liquid hydrogen through bleed lines to thermally condition the four main engines on the bottom of the core stage.
Several days of analyses and the revised countdown timeline gave NASA managers enough confidence to develop "flight rationale" to proceed into another countdown Saturday.
Liftoff of the SLS moon rocket is scheduled during a two-hour window opening at 2:17 p.m. EDT (1817 GMT) Saturday. The 322-foot-tall (98-meter) rocket — making its first-ever flight — is the most powerful ever built by NASA, and will produce 8.8 million pounds of ground-shaking thrust at liftoff, more than any launch vehicle ever flown from U.S. soil.
The Space Launch System rocket will send NASA's human-rated Orion spacecraft on an unpiloted voyage to orbit the moon and return to Earth. If the launch gets off the ground Saturday, the Orion spacecraft will splash down in the Pacific Ocean west of San Diego on Oct. 11.
The mission is known as Artemis 1, and will pave the way future crew flights around the moon on the SLS moon rocket and Orion capsule, beginning with Artemis 2 set for launch in 2024.
NASA officials met Thursday to review the plan for Saturday's launch attempt. Officials agreed to accept a "marginal increase" in risk going into the countdown this weekend, said Mike Sarafin, NASA's Artemis 1 mission manager.
The risks stem from the thermal conditioning of the rocket's four main engines, which was the primary cause for scrubbing Monday morning's countdown. The launch team also detected, and and then resolved, a hydrogen leak in a tail service mast umbilical near the connection between the rocket and its mobile launch platform. Since Monday, technicians at Launch Complex 39B have re-torqued a line believed to be the culprit for the leak.
The tail service mast umbilical is located on the SLS Mobile Launcher deck, connecting to the base of the rocket's core stage. Credit: NASA / Spaceflight Now
There was also an intermittent leak discovered in a vent valve system near the "intertank" section during Monday's countdown, but the system sealed up on its own when exposed to cryogenic temperatures, which can cause seals to contract and re-seat themselves.
Teams also found a crack in part of the foam insulation on the core stage. The crack itself not a problem for the rocket, but managers evaluated the "very low" chance that a piece of foam could break during launch, Sarafin said. If it did, there's a small chance it could hit and damage a motor that will help one of the solid rocket boosters cleanly separate from the core stage about two minutes into the flight.
"We reviewed our risk acceptance rationale and our overall risk posture ,and we are setting up for a launch attempt on Sept. 3, Saturday," Sarafin said. "We're comfortable with our flight rationale and risk acceptance there."
Forecasters predict a 60% chance of favorable weather during Saturday's launch window. The probability for a backup launch opportunity Monday, Sept. 5, is slightly better, with a 70% chance of acceptable weather for launch. There's also a launch opportunity available Tuesday, Sept. 6, but NASA can only use it if the launch team does not proceed into tanking of the Artemis 1 moon rocket Monday.
Ultimately, the launch team called off Monday's attempt when a sensor reading on one of the four hydrogen-fueled core stage engines — Engine No. 3 — showed it was not reaching the expected cryogenic temperature during a pre-launch "chilldown" procedure.
Engineers want the RS-25 engines to be chilled to around minus 420 degrees Fahrenheit — about the same temperature as liquid hydrogen — to be at the proper temperature for the engine startup sequence. The temperature of Engine No. 3 on Monday was around minus 380 degrees, according to sensor data, giving engineers concern that not enough super-cold liquid hydrogen was was reaching the engine through a chilldown bleed line.
Four Aerojet Rocketdyne RS-25 engines on the SLS core stage when the rocket was delivered to the Kennedy Space Center in April 2021. Credit: Stephen Clark / Spaceflight Now
John Honeycutt, NASA's program manager for the huge SLS moon rocket, said Thursday engineers are now confident the temperature reading during Monday's countdown was erroneous, and the engines were at the correct temperature.
"We have convinced ourselves, without a shadow of a doubt, that we have good quality liquid hydrogen going through the engines," Honeycutt said. "There's no fuzz on that."
Honeycutt said engineers will look at five additional measurements on the engines during Saturday's countdown to assure themselves that the engines are at the right temperature, specifically moving parts like fast-spinning turbines and pumps. There's also data from the core stage itself indicating it was supplying the right amount of liquid hydrogen to the engines to chill them for ignition.
"We chill engines for numerous reasons, but the primary one is for the high pressure turbopump bearing," said John Blevins, NASA's chief engineer on the SLS moon rocket. "That high pressure turbopump bearing doesn't have to be all the way as cold as the liquid, but it's got to be cold. And if we know the liquid is going through, then we know it's about that temperature."
"We know we had a bad sensor," Honeycutt said. "That was our challenge early in the week, where we could not make the physics of the system line up with what we were seeing with that one sensor."
The engine bleed system was not fully tested during a series of countdown rehearsals on the SLS moon rocket earlier this year. A connector associated with the bleed line leaked during a countdown test in June, and the launch team bypassed the bleed system during that rehearsal.
Blevins said the launch team gains confidence about the temperature of the engines if they know the hydrogen fuel reaches the engines as a liquid, and doesn't boil off in the bleed system. If the cold liquid flows through the bleed lines for a certain of time, engineers will know the RS-25 core stage engines are at the right temperature.
The Artemis 1 launch team will begin conditioning ground transfer lines for propellant loading around 6 a.m. EDT (1000 GMT) Saturday, then start flowing propellants into the rocket's core stage about an hour later. More than 750,000 gallons of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen will be loaded into the SLS core stage and upper stage.
The "kickstart" bleed for the main engines will begin around 8 a.m. EDT (1200 GMT), earlier in the countdown timeline than before. The change will give more time for engine temperatures to reach the proper parameters for ignition.
This diagram illustrates the major elements of the Space Launch System moon rocket. Credit: NASA
The suspect temperature sensor blamed for Monday's scrub is designed to collect engineering data to show that the engines are cooling down during the countdown. The engines also have separate "operational flight instrumentation" to feed data to their advanced health monitoring systems, which provide a self-check on the engine status just before ignition and in flight.
The rocket's on-board computer takes control of the countdown at T-minus 30 seconds, and is designed to halt the countdown if the engines are not within the proper temperature and pressure parameters — called the "start box" — before ignition. The four RS-25 engines on the core stage, all leftovers from the space shuttle program, will fire up in a staggered sequence at T-minus 6 seconds.
When the countdown clock hits zero, assuming the RS-25 engines pass their automated health check, the SLS flight computer will issue the command to ignite the rocket's two side-mounted solid-fueled boosters, providing more than 80% of the thrust for the first two minutes of the flight.
Each main engine's health monitoring system is designed to detect excessive vibrations in the event of a bad startup, allowing the engine to safely shut down before causing a catastrophic "uncontained failure," officials said.
Blevins said the engine turbopump can "skid" if it lights without being properly chilled.
"Ultimately, that causes excess wear on startup," Blevins said. "That would manifest potentially as a shutdown during flight. It would be a redline. It wouldn't be an uncontained failure, generally, for that particular issue.
"We have advanced health monitoring on the engines for a reason," Blevins said. "These are … really the highest horsepower per mass devices that've ever been built. So we need that health monitoring. There are numerous things that we're looking for."
The RS-25 engines each produce more than 400,000 pounds of thrust at sea level, and will fire for eight minutes to propel the SLS core stage, the upper stage, and the Orion spacecraft to more than 18,000 mph.
Together, the core stage engines will consume 1,500 gallons propellant per second, enough to drain an average 20,000-gallon swimming pool in 13 seconds.
Even with the changes to the countdown and decent weather odds, there's no guarantee the Artemis 1 mission will get off the ground this Labor Day weekend. That's a risk with any space mission, but there are 489 launch commit criteria NASA needs to satisfy for the launch team to be "go" for liftoff of the first SLS moon rocket.
"We've got a whole host of things that could cause us to not get off on any given day, weather, range or technical, and those are the three big buckets," Sarafin said. "We talked about 489 launch commit criteria, those are the technical reasons we might not launch that day.
"We might find a combination of technical issues, or somebody being out there on the range that shouldn't be out there from a public safety standpoint, and just a cloud cell or that kind of stuff could cause us to miss the opportunity," Sarafin said. "There's no guarantee that we're going to get off on the 3rd, but we're going to show up and we're going to try and we're going to give it our best."
Ground teams replenished liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen supplies at pad 39B since the launch attempt earlier this week to help set up for two more launch attempts before the moon moves out of reach for the SLS moon rocket and the Orion spacecraft. If the rocket doesn't blast off by Tuesday, the next launch period opens up Sept. 19, when the moon's position in its orbit again makes the mission possible.
But NASA will have to roll the Artemis 1 moon rocket back to the Vehicle Assembly Building before then for more checks of its flight termination system, which would be used to destroy the rocket if it veered off course after liftoff.
The time needed to return the rocket to the hangar, re-test the flight termination system, then roll the Space Launch System back to 39B and resume launch preps would likely push the Artemis 1 launch into October.
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For Heather and Darryl: Heather I hope you find these words comforting.
I have always found them to speak to my heart and remind me that my loved ones are still with me, all around me. It is in this spirit that I pass these words along to you.
These words do speak to my heart and comfort me Cyn. Thank you so much for putting them here.
Once again I must reiterate that I did a lot of research on the authorship of this poem and I have provided what seems to be the most reliable and widely accepted information out there. I found no information to suggest that Chris de Burgh originated this poem (although perhaps he set it to music?) and in fact believe it pre-dates him HOWEVER as I have stated before, in an effort to be fair and accurate, I will gladly post any credible references that attribute him as the author if they are provided to me. Simply making a statement that someone is the author without giving any kind of research to back it up is not enough to satisfy me. Please please please if you care to add comments about whom you believe to be the true author of this poem, do not do so without providing the readers of this blog with some credible sources to back it up with!
I have been doing some further research and so far the only connection I can find between Chris DeBurgh and this poem is a Youtube video that was done as a student project. The director of the video Adrian Brittlebank took the poem and added Chris DeBurgh's song "When Winter Comes" to it. Perhaps this is where the confusion has come in. Again, if anyone has a CREDIBLE reference showing that someone other than Mary Frye is the author of this poem, please provide it.
A couple of weeks ago I was listening to a poetry programme on BBC (UK) radio. It was said on this programme by a well-known English poet that this poem was found on a scrap of paper in the belongings of a dead soldier – which could have been during the Ist W.W or the 2nd WW. It was later attributed to a woman whose name I don't remember.
Well, what I know is: the poem is by Mary Elizabeth Frye, an American poet. However,I'm not sure how credible my source is.
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A remote Big Sur home on property owned by one family for six generations is now on the market for $7.25 million.
The artist Jo Hudson lived in this one-of-a-kind residence—which was built in 1986—until his death in 2018. He's survived by his wife, Sherri Hudson Johannes, a graphic artist and jewelry designer who's now overseeing the sale of the property along California's central coast.
The living space includes a multilevel main house made of redwood and featuring exposed beams, a fireplace, and a kitchen with colorful tile. Elsewhere on the property are a guest cottage, two artist studios, a one-car garage with attached workshop, and a caretaker's cabin.
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